Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 721： Holding The Line Against Reckless Spending

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:19.360 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:23.320 The reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people, the people have had

00:00:29.600 a belly full of it.

00:00:30.600 I know you don't like hearing that, I know you try to do everything in the world to stop

00:00:33.880 that, but you're not going to stop it, it's going to happen.

00:00:36.360 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:39.920 MAGA Media.

00:00:40.920 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:46.720 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:50.360 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:56.640 War Room.

00:00:57.640 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:00:59.680 Bannon.

00:01:04.680 Monday, 10 March, year of early, 2025, before you lose our battery pack at the White House,

00:01:11.680 because we've been up all day, I want to go back to, I want to go back to Natalie.

00:01:15.800 Natalie, I want to just hit rewind just for a minute.

00:01:19.360 This is so important, because what's supposed to be a simple kind of intermediary between

00:01:26.760 people, small donors who want to give money and candidates, and you said smurfing, I want

00:01:31.280 to talk to you about that tomorrow, we don't have time tonight, because you know there are

00:01:34.840 no more $20 givers to the Democratic Party.

00:01:37.640 You know, they go to a person's door, knock on it, said, hey, you make $35,000, you just

00:01:41.920 gave $18,000, right, to some radical Democrat.

00:01:47.040 How shocking is this, that they really are a conduit for kind of this phony money that

00:01:52.920 comes from God knows where, to really fund the invasion of our country through all these

00:01:57.260 unpatriotic NGOs, ma'am?

00:02:02.660 I think the most shocking thing about this story is really just the scope of it, like

00:02:08.020 we were getting to in the previous show, right?

00:02:10.300 This isn't just some one-off organization, this isn't just some gotcha NGO, this is from

00:02:15.720 start to finish, right?

00:02:18.040 Even when the fact, you know, it would be a legal alien is in their, you know, hometown,

00:02:22.720 home country, even in terms of plotting and planning their trek to the United States,

00:02:27.340 these NGOs are involved in that vertical.

00:02:30.240 Then when they actually interact, when they actually attempt to breach the southern border,

00:02:34.000 you have groups that are giving out, doling out aid in the form of water and services.

00:02:38.660 Then once they're actually interacting or obtained or caught by Border Patrol, which by

00:02:43.580 the way, all the activists and PACs and candidates that act blue is, you know, concurrently

00:02:48.020 funding are also working to deplete that agency, those officers of their funding.

00:02:52.220 But we can, you know, set that aside for a second.

00:02:54.980 Then, like I was saying, Catholic charities, all these notorious, notorious groups that are

00:02:59.280 flying these legal aliens into the interior of this country, oftentimes at taxpayer expense, 0.98

00:03:04.800 while some of their budget is being, you know, buttressed, right, by funds coming from

00:03:09.820 Act Blue, which pretends to be, you know, sort of vaguely democratic.

00:03:13.720 But this is a full-blown open borders agenda.

00:03:16.420 I mean, there's no whitewashing it.

00:03:18.080 There's no euphemistic way to put it.

00:03:20.060 Then once these illegal aliens get to their final destination, whatever town, maybe your 1.00

00:03:24.220 town that they're flown into, all these legal firms and legal resources that are available

00:03:29.920 to these individuals for free, whether it's trying to avoid deportation or getting their

00:03:34.740 green card, their citizenship application, some of these groups explicitly stating that

00:03:39.120 they work with criminals that need FBI background checks.

00:03:42.220 But then even on the other side of it, right, they're working right now.

00:03:45.400 A lot of these groups are actively suing President Trump in court over his efforts to curtail the

00:03:51.480 Biden nightmare that was that invasion.

00:03:54.220 They're operating ICE emergency response hotlines.

00:03:57.840 They're operating Know Your Rights campaigns, training illegal aliens, coaching them how to lie 1.00

00:04:03.680 if they come face-to-face with an ICE officer, with an ICE agent, with Tom Homan himself, right?

00:04:09.660 Then on the other side of it, you have these people organizing massive demonstrations, massive

00:04:14.320 campaigns, coaching Americans how to advocate and lobby their congressmen to, quote, end

00:04:20.140 deportation and end detention.

00:04:22.500 And if you get into the ideologies that undergird so many of these groups, and this is, like

00:04:27.140 I said, not one-off.

00:04:28.480 These are really, really radical groups who sort of all have the same typography and same

00:04:33.940 euphemisms that they use and same stated agendas.

00:04:36.280 It's very weird.

00:04:37.160 It's all sort of cut from the same cloth because it's all the same donors, right?

00:04:41.280 It's all the coordinated effort.

00:04:43.480 But they advocate for the most radical things, whether it's liberation, abolition.

00:04:48.340 They want detention to end entirely.

00:04:50.920 This is not me, you know, drawing, connecting dots.

00:04:53.600 That is their stated mission statement.

00:04:55.660 For many, many of these groups, and like I said, you can go to my Twitter, my ex, and

00:05:00.080 you can see the thread, but there are dozens, dozens of groups that are working, that are

00:05:05.460 partnered with ActBlue, taking their funds.

00:05:07.840 So the same people who are, you know, the elusive MSNBC viewer that doesn't exist.

00:05:12.540 But Steve, I think you also hit the nail on the head, and it's something I'll dig into

00:05:15.360 tonight.

00:05:16.440 But just like these people who have been smurfing, right, the contributions to actual Democratic

00:05:20.820 candidates, I think the question becomes if they've been doing similar smurfed contributions

00:05:25.560 to a lot of these border NGOs as well.

00:05:28.660 Exactly.

00:05:29.500 Exactly.

00:05:30.300 Exactly.

00:05:31.140 And this ties all into USAID.

00:05:32.820 I am not suicidal, and I'll put it at that.

00:05:37.780 Yeah.

00:05:38.480 Natalie, where do people...

00:05:40.700 Now, you've got one of the longest threads you've ever put up.

00:05:44.460 I understand Twitter's been in and out today.

00:05:46.560 They say they're getting attacked by some foreign entities or some individuals, some

00:05:51.500 non-state actors, maybe state actors.

00:05:53.720 So that's a little sketchy.

00:05:54.800 But this is the longest thread you say you've ever put up?

00:05:59.100 Yeah, we've already hit, I think, like 13 or 14 million views.

00:06:02.260 So we've prevailed over the DDoS attacks.

00:06:04.640 But I encourage everyone to go read it.

00:06:06.700 I just think it's important to drill down, as much as we hear terms like, you know, open

00:06:10.180 borders thrown around or the invasion.

00:06:12.040 When you actually put not just NGOs to the sort of architecture of all this, and more

00:06:18.600 importantly, Steve, these people have names, they have faces, they have addresses, they

00:06:22.180 have phone numbers.

00:06:23.040 I'm not advocating for anything wild, but I'm just saying the people who have coordinated

00:06:27.060 this need to be held responsible, and you can't get accountability if you don't call

00:06:31.600 people out.

00:06:32.360 So I think this is an important thread for a host of reasons, but first and foremost,

00:06:35.780 because it helps us understand who's been coordinating this invasion.

00:06:39.480 Natalie will be back with us from the White House tomorrow.

00:06:43.640 One more time, Natalie, where do people go on your social media to get all this?

00:06:48.560 Natalie G.

00:06:49.300 Winters on X, Instagram, all the places get her.

00:06:52.060 Thank you for having me.

00:06:52.880 I look forward to seeing y'all tomorrow.

00:06:56.000 Fantastic.

00:06:56.660 See you tomorrow.

00:06:58.120 Important, and grace and mode, let's go ahead and push this.

00:07:00.080 Very, very important.

00:07:01.760 And quite frankly, disgusting. 0.56

00:07:03.760 Because this is about the destruction of your country.

00:07:06.360 It was, this is, you know, Benzman and these folks kept saying, hey, this is not chaos.

00:07:12.340 This is very well organized.

00:07:14.280 And now you're seeing one of the conduits for money, for cash money.

00:07:18.040 Now that is going to get, tomorrow, exactly where did that money come from?

00:07:21.860 Because I don't believe it's small donors.

00:07:24.200 She's going to walk you through what smurfing is, which became prevalent at ActBlue. 0.93

00:07:28.200 And this shows you they were acting against the interests of the working class in this country, the middle class, and people didn't give money for this.

00:07:36.880 This came from other sources.

00:07:39.100 So the president, there's another very disturbing tweet out right now, basically saying that the president is having to get involved, that the Senate, the big hang-up now, is the Senate.

00:07:54.320 But the Senate, and they're actually saying Republican senators.

00:07:58.200 We know that Rand Paul's already said that he's not voting for the CR tomorrow.

00:08:02.460 I haven't heard inklings of other people.

00:08:04.420 I know there's a lot of hate and discontent about this.

00:08:06.980 But President Trump right now is, I believe, and I thought the whipping, he was whipping votes and talking to people directly on the House side,

00:08:14.400 because there's a lot of people very, very, very upset about this.

00:08:17.800 They're upset about two things.

00:08:19.080 The principle is they're upset about the process, that President Trump was promised things,

00:08:24.500 and the American people and the MAGA movement, the Republican Party, were promised a process that would get back on track.

00:08:31.520 And we had the process that worked, that was single-subject appropriation bill.

00:08:36.060 Because when you have a single-subject appropriation bill, guess what?

00:08:39.260 You have time to get down in the State Department or the affiliated group of a thing called USAID.

00:08:44.440 And you get to sit there and go, well, why in the hell are we financing all this, which is really the destruction of our country?

00:08:51.880 We'll go back, and I'll ask Eli Crane and his staff.

00:08:54.780 We'll get a couple of gates, and Eli Crane's in the middle of the night, 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning,

00:08:58.680 hammering at the subcommittee level and being outvoted all the time.

00:09:03.020 This has been an issue from day one.

00:09:04.800 And people said, hey, we're going to get this back on track.

00:09:07.020 We're going to do this.

00:09:08.460 And what happened?

00:09:09.600 We're now in a jam where we've got to be said, hey, we'll get them next time.

00:09:13.200 Well, people are tired of we're going to get them next time.

00:09:16.400 Now, we understand, particularly for the president to implement his agenda,

00:09:21.520 what we don't want is a government shutdown.

00:09:23.640 They're dying to do it.

00:09:24.980 And I keep saying that I think the hangar was going to be on the Democratic side of the Senate.

00:09:28.760 And Tim Kaine, who's supposed to be a moderate, Tim Kaine just came out and I think said,

00:09:33.040 under no circumstances will he be voting for this.

00:09:36.040 So the Senate's going to be a real jam, and we might have to do some work tomorrow.

00:09:39.300 We're going to get more information as things come in.

00:09:41.300 I know people are not happy.

00:09:42.780 I don't expect you to be happy on this one because it's not much to be happy about.

00:09:47.600 This is one we may have to push down the field just to make sure that we're not strung up.

00:09:53.340 And my fear about, look, we don't mind government shutdowns.

00:09:56.600 We think they're positive.

00:09:57.680 In this regard, it's President Trump running the deal.

00:10:00.600 And if you go in, if you shut the government down, I haven't heard a plausible way how you're going to unshut it,

00:10:06.900 how you're going to open it back up.

00:10:08.180 And they would love to have President Trump strung out.

00:10:11.100 And so we have to take that just practical politics.

00:10:14.120 I know it doesn't sit well, and it doesn't sit well with me.

00:10:16.980 Particularly what sticks in my craw is that Doge, particularly the work Doge has done,

00:10:21.020 and it hasn't been trains of dollars, but it's been something, and it's something significant.

00:10:25.740 And they do have some more cuts in there.

00:10:28.160 I think they've got $10 billion of kind of offsets or some social programs in order to raise some things.

00:10:35.680 And it's not a lot of money.

00:10:37.260 You know, you get so jaundiced here or so, you know, just hardened by the fact that it's $10 billion here, $100 billion there, $50 billion there.

00:10:48.140 There is some increase to the defense budget.

00:10:50.720 I think there's a little bit about deportations, and they had to have some cuts, or they found some cuts on the social side.

00:10:57.140 I think it's $10 billion.

00:10:58.280 Well, I said, why don't you include the Doge cuts?

00:11:01.540 And I've been told consistently, because the Democrats will not vote for it in the Senate.

00:11:04.960 If you do that, you're going to force a government shutdown.

00:11:07.200 So you have to kind of take one for the team.

00:11:11.420 Now, that being said, I said from the beginning, I think you're going to have a huge problem in the Senate anyway,

00:11:16.200 because I don't see these Democrats, they like keeping the government open when it's Democrats with the taps on spending the money.

00:11:22.380 When you've got someone like President Trump and he's got Doge all over the place, they're going to look to shut it down.

00:11:27.980 And I just think the Senate Democrats are going to be impossible to deal with.

00:11:31.400 We'll have to see.

00:11:32.460 We'll just have to see.

00:11:34.120 I know President Trump is pretty engaged.

00:11:36.480 I'm getting reports.

00:11:37.420 I'm seeing tweets that he's actually whipping, and that means making phone calls to people in the House.

00:11:42.000 I assume he's going to be on the Senate in a moment.

00:11:46.020 Let's go ahead and play.

00:11:46.800 Okay, we've got a couple things.

00:11:48.320 I freed the car, but I want to play MSNBC.

00:11:51.540 Our favorite went at it all in this afternoon.

00:11:55.780 Let's go ahead and play that, and I'll make some commentary and observations at the end.

00:11:59.880 Donald Trump's decision to side with Elon Musk and the new American oligarchs

00:12:05.000 has created one of the biggest political fault lines in our politics right now,

00:12:09.420 one that puts Donald Trump on the other side of two of the biggest and most animated grassroots political movements of the last decade,

00:12:18.560 stuff that resonates with a large swath of the American public, including Democrats.

00:12:23.020 It also reveals the tensions between what Donald Trump has promised to do for the millions of people who voted for him

00:12:29.240 and what he is actually doing with Elon Musk as his wingman.

00:12:33.080 Elon Musk and Donald Trump's decision to slash and burn large chunks of the federal government

00:12:39.840 threatens to completely wreck agencies that serve the needs, financial and otherwise,

00:12:46.980 of millions of Trump's own voters, millions of Americans who depend on those agencies,

00:12:52.140 everything from the VA to Social Security.

00:12:54.940 And it's all under threat.

00:12:56.080 It's a threat.

00:12:56.880 It's a political threat, though, now as well to the MAGA movement.

00:13:00.600 And at least one MAGA architect is saying so.

00:13:04.460 Steve Bannon, New York Times reports this, quote,

00:13:07.140 I don't want to say it's an anchor or a lodestone, Bannon said on Friday of Musk on his show War Room,

00:13:13.860 which is watched closely by a number of Trump allies as well as by the president himself.

00:13:18.220 Quote, it's not that yet, but it's trending.

00:13:21.520 That is starting to affect everybody.

00:13:25.680 That is just weeks after Steve Bannon called Elon Musk a, quote, 0.97

00:13:29.080 truly evil person, end quote, and a, quote, parasitic illegal immigrant, end quote. 0.84

00:13:34.660 That description is based on reporting denied by Musk that he overstayed his student visa 0.94

00:13:40.560 while working on his first company.

00:13:42.940 Now, for his part, Elon Musk called Steve Bannon a, quote,

00:13:46.420 great talker but not a great doer, accusing him of getting nothing done.

00:13:50.700 Brand new reporting from the New York Times that the war of words between these two men

00:13:55.140 has not gone unnoticed by Donald Trump.

00:13:58.200 From that new report, quote,

00:13:59.640 Trump has made clear he wants to keep both men and their allies within his movement.

00:14:05.000 In mid-February, the president told Mr. Bannon that he wanted him to lay off the attacks on Musk

00:14:09.700 and for the two men to sit down privately, according to two people.

00:14:13.340 That meeting has not happened yet, and it is not clear when or if it will.

00:14:17.400 Steve Bannon is not alone in fearing that Trump and Musk's pro-American oligarch agenda

00:14:24.340 is alienating wide swaths of voters.

00:14:27.700 New York Times reports this.

00:14:29.160 The billionaire's signature slash-and-burn style and showy spending cuts have reverberated far beyond the Capitol,

00:14:35.380 making even lawmakers from deep red states begin to sweat.

00:14:39.440 That's because Elon Musk is deeply unpopular.

00:14:41.620 One poll found that 34 percent of Americans approve of Elon Musk's role in the federal government.

00:14:48.580 And there's little room for that to improve.

00:14:50.600 Only three percent of Americans say they have not heard of Elon Musk.

00:14:54.380 It is a golden, nearly unprecedented opportunity for the Democratic Party.

00:15:00.420 They are eager to find ways to publicly oppose Donald Trump.

00:15:04.180 Senator Chris Murphy telling the New York Times this, quote,

00:15:07.040 It's an easy story.

00:15:08.540 Elon Musk and the billionaires have taken over the government to steal from the American people to enrich themselves.

00:15:14.560 That's the message.

00:15:15.800 It is true.

00:15:17.100 It is persuasive.

00:15:18.400 And if we repeat it over and over again, they won't win.

00:15:21.720 And I think that what Steve Bannon awoke was, and this is a longer conversation, but I spend copious hours thinking about it.

00:15:32.400 The Republican base was up for the taking because the Bush years obviously focused on two wars that grew very unpopular and traditional free trade.

00:15:44.860 Those messages and those ideas were never animated or updated in the campaigns of John McCain or Mitt Romney.

00:15:50.920 And so the Republican base was roiling with discontent, dissatisfaction and disaffection from its leaders.

00:15:56.780 Steve Bannon is the architect or the organizer of all that discontent with traditional elite Republicans.

00:16:04.260 Trump sort of was the plug that just plugged into the wall.

00:16:07.900 But the person who sort of pointed to all those voters out there is Bannon.

00:16:12.680 And I'm not trying to aggrandize.

00:16:14.280 I find his politics and his associations and his commingling with white nationalism and white supremacy odious.

00:16:22.340 But in terms of powering the voters that are animated by Trump, it has nothing to do with an American oligarchy.

00:16:31.080 Nothing.

00:16:31.560 It may be authoritarian curious, but it is still allergic to an oligarchy, which is what Trump and Musk have ushered in.

00:16:38.640 Yeah, you know, I didn't have on my bingo card that I had to choose between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk today.

00:16:48.200 Here we are.

00:16:48.840 But you do point out this fundamental tension here that, you know, Steve Bannon articulated what became the populist appeal of Donald Trump.

00:17:02.600 And frankly, he's speaking out saying, you know, look, what Elon Musk is doing here, this is not what we were talking about.

00:17:09.180 We were talking about a working class populist revolution.

00:17:13.940 Elon Musk has many skills, but he is politically tone deaf.

00:17:20.180 And it is going to be very interesting to see how this this plays out, because, you know, Donald Trump obviously feels very, very beholden right now to Elon Musk and the resources that he can bring to the administration and maybe to the midterm term elections.

00:17:35.380 But the symbolism could not be worse from the point of, you know, Steve Bannon's point of view, where he said, look, we're going to be a working class party.

00:17:43.620 We're going to be a populist party.

00:17:45.020 We're going to be against the elites.

00:17:47.180 And here you have Elon Musk, who has many, many skills, but political sensitivity is not among them.

00:17:53.820 Well, and I think it goes even further for the Democrats.

00:17:56.740 I think if Bannon had prevailed, the MAGA movement would right now be diversifying along genders, along age, along all ethnic.

00:18:08.320 I mean, and instead it is completely hit a wall where where the MAGA base is having to grapple with the fact that they elected a king whose jester is named Elon Musk.

00:18:17.640 That is, that is not true.

00:18:22.440 We are, we are growing and, and expanding every day, exactly along the line she said there at the end.

00:18:28.700 President Trump is a populist nationalist to his core.

00:18:31.380 He's anti-globalist.

00:18:32.320 He has been from the very beginning.

00:18:33.880 And this is one of the reasons this movement has gotten such velocity to have the come from behind victory in 16 against the neoliberal neocon Clintons.

00:18:44.500 And essentially destroy them to take them really out of, of, of politics after that.

00:18:49.560 They've been crippled as a, as a political mafia.

00:18:52.500 And then to have the 2020 election stolen with 74 million votes, almost 11 million votes more than we got in 2016, which is just absolutely epic to have that election stolen.

00:19:04.000 And then the, the years that President Trump was in the wilderness, reading, studying, meeting people, thinking, uh, for what he's come back with in this plan to really restore America to a former greatness is nothing short of breathtaking.

00:19:19.020 What he's doing in the scale he's doing it at is absolutely breathtaking.

00:19:23.500 And you don't need Elon Musk to be politically, you know, astute.

00:19:30.000 His role and function here is for this doge is to find waste, fraud, and abuse in a six and a half trillion dollar budget that everybody admits is out of control.

00:19:38.900 Now this, the, what we're, what we're left with today is the fact that the, the CR that we have to pass on a temporary basis, right.

00:19:48.040 To get us to the end of the fiscal year, unfortunately doesn't have the cuts that doge has found.

00:19:53.080 And we have to finance those until such time as either with a, um, impoundment, uh, from the coming from the white house on their theory of this unified unitary executive and, or the Senate or Congress comes back and rescinds what they pass.

00:20:09.500 And you can do that.

00:20:10.260 Both of these are quite complicated.

00:20:12.080 The empowerment's more straightforward, but given what the Supreme court has basically ruled with president Trump on foreign aid, there's $2 billion.

00:20:19.960 President Trump wants to cut off and now we're hung up in the courts and the Supreme court, at least right now, along the lines that they see have not put it on the emergency docket.

00:20:29.900 This gets down to the whole judicial trying to, trying to do judicial insurrection by these radical judges.

00:20:36.880 Mike Davis has told you about and told you was coming against president Trump's agenda.

00:20:41.600 To me, it's quite simple is that the doge has to continue on and actually has to ramp up.

00:20:46.260 I have said, it was the lone voice with all the fanboys of Elon Musk was the lone voice that said, he's got to cross the Potomac and get to the Pentagon.

00:20:55.620 The Pentagon is the Mac daddy of waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:20:59.700 The people over there would admit it. 0.58

00:21:01.840 Hell, I think there's two trade.

00:21:03.200 I think they haven't passed an audit.

00:21:04.580 I don't know, 30 or 40 years, but they're actually, they actually say there's $2 trillion of assets, $2 trillion of assets.

00:21:11.500 They can't account for.

00:21:13.320 They're the first to admit it.

00:21:14.640 They're, they're unauditable.

00:21:16.120 This is where doge should be the best.

00:21:18.600 Plus it gets to the reality check of what we have to do.

00:21:22.440 You want to not have bad financial news or economic news like they had, we had 10 days ago about the fourth quarter's inflation going from 2.2% to 4.2% upon further review.

00:21:33.640 You want to have, you want to actually stop inflation from getting embedded into the system of what has happened with this massive federal spending that now at higher interest rates has to be refinanced at higher, higher and higher costs.

00:21:45.240 That now the cost itself is the actual interest we pay without paying a penny to the face amount of the debt without paying a penny to that is now, I think 1.2 or 1.3 trillion dollars.

00:21:57.320 That's the gross payment.

00:21:58.140 I know we netted out from interest to come in, but you really can't look at it that way.

00:22:01.320 You have to look at it as a financing charge, not net of what you're taking in.

00:22:05.540 That's another, that should be another revenue stream.

00:22:09.080 You have to get eventually to do something that's quite painful.

00:22:12.380 It's going to be very hard because the nation is addicted.

00:22:15.220 The political class is addicted and the country's kind of become addicted.

00:22:18.860 Part of this is the economic distress of what's happened with our economic model.

00:22:22.920 And that gets back to what president Trump is trying to use the tariffs for president.

00:22:26.980 Trump is not the tariffs is just not simply to stop fentanyl.

00:22:30.440 No, it's a huge part.

00:22:31.340 And that's why it's an emergency.

00:22:32.660 But the tariffs are also rethinking, rethinking what the economic model is and what he's saying.

00:22:38.940 Hey, we're a premium market for years.

00:22:41.260 We've been ripped off from everybody.

00:22:42.440 The Canadians, the Canadians rip us off big time. 1.00

00:22:45.940 India rips us off big time. 1.00

00:22:47.960 EU rips us off big time.

00:22:49.660 Our allies, Korea and Japan.

00:22:51.140 This is the problem.

00:22:51.860 Everybody we're propping up underwriting their national security at the same time on commerce and trade is sticking it to us.

00:22:58.360 President Trump's saying, hey, guess what?

00:23:00.000 We're going to sort that out.

00:23:01.180 It's going to be reciprocity.

00:23:02.360 We're going to level that playing field.

00:23:04.040 In addition, it's a premium market.

00:23:06.320 If you want to get into the United States, you're going to have to pay a premium.

00:23:09.100 Just like for a sporting event or for a concert, you're going to have to pay a premium.

00:23:12.300 This is the payoff for Burke's little platoons.

00:23:16.900 You provide the civic society that's created this.

00:23:20.480 There should be a payment to it.

00:23:21.740 And lo and behold, he offers them a deal and says, hey, by the way, if you reshore your manufacturing that we had here when we were manufacturing superpower from World War II all the way to the early 1970s and 80s,

00:23:38.080 when we started to gut ourselves, you know, once an eagle stricken by an arrow, said by my own hand, am I stricken?

00:23:48.580 That's what happened here.

00:23:50.120 We gutted ourselves.

00:23:51.580 Our elites gutted us.

00:23:52.700 And people stood by and the Republican Party kind of, I don't know, looked the other way.

00:23:56.640 That's what's controlled opposition.

00:23:58.260 What President Trump is doing is reshoring jobs.

00:24:01.160 Not a couple, three here.

00:24:03.700 Hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:24:05.220 It's almost, I think, $700 or $800 billion in 45 days.

00:24:09.460 And this is not from a bunch of Schmendrick companies you never heard of.

00:24:13.120 This is from Apple.

00:24:15.720 This is from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.

00:24:19.900 This is from Honda.

00:24:20.620 This is the premier.

00:24:21.560 This is platinum-level companies putting in big dollars to bring major facilities back here.

00:24:26.040 Number one, they understand that energy costs and supply chain and logistics and all that,

00:24:31.160 it makes sense.

00:24:32.080 You're going to have to pay higher labor costs.

00:24:34.660 And guess what?

00:24:35.280 They're going to try to be gutting labor with artificial intelligence. 1.00

00:24:37.840 Wait for that.

00:24:38.580 That's another problem that's got to be dealt with.

00:24:41.820 But, in fact, I think Apple, with the $500 billion, they're talking about 20,000 jobs.

00:24:45.920 That's not a ton of jobs for $500 billion.

00:24:48.440 But that's a problem we can deal with.

00:24:50.860 Number one is to get the manufacturing back here.

00:24:53.420 And that's why.

00:24:53.920 And there's going to be some turmoil.

00:24:55.400 I've said this over and over again.

00:24:56.980 And all of this is just not going to be smooth because you're kind of redoing many things at the same time.

00:25:02.120 Number one, geo-strategically.

00:25:04.140 What is he trying to do?

00:25:05.160 He's trying to end the shooting part of the Third World War, which we're already in.

00:25:09.980 This is far bloodier.

00:25:11.880 Far bloodier.

00:25:13.380 Far, far.

00:25:13.980 At any scale you look, so much worse than the beginning of World War II.

00:25:18.420 It just is in scale, in viciousness, in the annihilation factor.

00:25:23.140 Far, far, far worse.

00:25:25.980 He's trying to handle that at the same time, reposition us for hemispheric defense.

00:25:31.740 And deal with this financial mess that he was handed.

00:25:34.540 Oh, and at the same time, deconstruct the administrative state.

00:25:38.160 No president in the history of the nation, including Roosevelt with World War II and the Depression,

00:25:46.580 has had to handle what President Trump has had to handle.

00:25:49.460 And I'll go through chapter and verse.

00:25:54.000 And we're here to support that.

00:25:56.140 But he is not an oligarch and does not support oligarchs.

00:26:00.380 He's trying to build out a broadening coalition, a 1930-type coalition, like FDR did.

00:26:07.180 When he had tycoons on Wall Street and Harvard professors.

00:26:11.160 He had hardcore crackers down in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.

00:26:16.900 When I was a boy, you know, only thing I remember, we were Democrats, we were Southern Democrats,

00:26:23.760 and everybody was a Southern Democrats.

00:26:25.540 We didn't even know Republicans existed.

00:26:27.980 They were like these, you know, good government types wandering around, you know, Boston and towns like that.

00:26:34.620 President Trump, it's Herculean.

00:26:36.420 It's never been done before in American history.

00:26:38.080 It's never been done before in the history of anywhere.

00:26:39.800 And it's going to be a fight.

00:26:43.220 We understand it's going to be a fight.

00:26:44.760 But he is the leader.

00:26:46.640 Like I said, 100 years from now, they're going to remember Trump and MAGA.

00:26:50.080 All the rest of us will be forgotten by history.

00:26:52.560 How do I know that?

00:26:53.580 I study history.

00:26:54.880 And I can tell you, all the people that worked on this, they're forgotten.

00:26:58.300 It's the MAGA movement.

00:26:59.820 The most important political movement in the history of this nation.

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00:34:01.800 Tomorrow, there's a naval exercise that's going to start in kind of my old neighborhood when I was a kid or a young man, a young naval officer.

00:34:10.320 The North Arabian Sea, Northern Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman, you're going to have the Chinese Communist Party Navy, the Russian Navy, and guess what?

00:34:19.260 The Persian Navy, all working together on joint exercises.

00:34:23.740 Over the weekend, Newsweek magazine did a, quite frankly, I thought a pretty smart piece.

00:34:29.180 Drudge picked it up as the Mac Daddy, if we can put the Mac Daddy up for a second, about the Caribbean, something we've had people on here for years.

00:34:36.140 There's a committee on the present danger, China, our naval experts, Captain Fennell, of course, Frank Gaffney and the team.

00:34:41.880 Look at that right there.

00:34:44.900 He's going to turn the Caribbean into a lake.

00:34:48.140 Okay?

00:34:48.540 I want to bring in Cleo Pascal right now.

00:34:51.080 Cleo Pascal joins us.

00:34:52.680 Cleo, you're a naval expert, naval strategist, geostrategist.

00:34:56.820 You talk a lot about Pacific, but I want to take you to the Caribbean and then back through the Panama Canal.

00:35:03.400 What is our risk?

00:35:04.040 This is why President Trump, on his idea of hemispheric defense, is maniacally focused on the Panama Canal.

00:35:11.160 It was Secretary of State Rubio's.

00:35:13.220 Secretary of State Rubio didn't go to London, didn't go to Berlin, didn't go to Paris or Rome or Geneva or to Moscow or Beijing.

00:35:21.820 He went to Panama to check out that canal, and we know that Larry Fink and his team at Black Rock ended up buying it from Hutchinson and Wampoa, at least the operation of the canal itself.

00:35:33.600 Now, hey, is that great?

00:35:35.460 It's not the greatest, but at least it's marginally better than having the Chinese Communist Party control it through Hutchinson and Wampoa. 0.91

00:35:41.800 Your thoughts, ma'am, on the Chinese and the strategic thinking that took to turn the Caribbean into a Chinese? 0.56

00:35:50.200 I mean, this is so far more advanced than what the Russians try to do in Cuba in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:35:57.140 It's almost shocking because it's much more thorough and fundamental.

00:36:00.380 And then you understand the value of the Panama Canal, particularly to cut off the Chinese Navy from the three island chains, you know, from coming in and taking away the Pacific as the great natural barrier. 0.95

00:36:15.220 Cleo Pastel, the floor is yours.

00:36:18.220 Thank you.

00:36:18.940 Yeah.

00:36:19.140 So one of the things that you see, the way that they get in is through this commercial front, right?

00:36:23.360 So they say we're here for economic development.

00:36:25.100 A lot of these places really do need economic development.

00:36:27.380 But it always has this strategic element to it.

00:36:31.500 So we're going to help you build a port, but the port just happens to have specs that are very helpful for PLA Navy operations, for example.

00:36:39.460 But the third part, which is also always there, is criminal activity.

00:36:43.540 So they're smuggling things in through the port.

00:36:45.200 They're buying off the local customs guys.

00:36:47.900 And they might think that they're just doing it for drugs, even though the drugs are incredibly socially destructive on their own.

00:36:52.760 But we also don't know what else they're smuggling in.

00:36:54.660 And a lot of this comes in through the rubric, under the rubric of the Belt and Road Initiative, the BRI, which to me stands for the Bribery and Repression Initiative.

00:37:05.860 Because what they're actually exporting is a system of operations.

00:37:09.700 So this bribery and this repression infects the systems, infects the target countries.

00:37:15.080 And then basically gives the CCP, over a length of time, maneuvers of control and leverage.

00:37:22.460 You see it very clearly in places like Solomon's, where suddenly Coast Guard can't land, Vanuatu Coast Guard couldn't land.

00:37:30.800 So all these things start to happen.

00:37:32.600 They're just below the radar.

00:37:34.280 I don't like the term gray zone.

00:37:36.240 I prefer the Philippines term of ICAD, illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive, to describe what's going on.

00:37:43.400 But basically, it's not just offshore.

00:37:46.140 It is getting right into the mechanisms of state and using bribery and repression to distort the society and make it very difficult for others to operate there.

00:37:59.040 And for local, honest people to be able to fight for their own sovereignty.

00:38:02.620 How does this tie with their plan in the Pacific?

00:38:08.600 You know, you've got the three island chains, which are a natural barrier for the United States.

00:38:12.460 And then you have the vast desert ocean of the Pacific.

00:38:16.380 Of course, you correctly say, Steve, I think you really mean the American heartland.

00:38:21.360 We'll talk about that another time because that's a big surprise we've got some people.

00:38:25.600 But President Trump sees this.

00:38:28.040 He sees this as a hemisphere defense.

00:38:29.840 Why is the concern of the Caribbean tied back to the Panama Canal to what they've done in Polynesia, what they're trying to do in the third island chain, ma'am?

00:38:39.660 So we're going to go to Heartland now, whether you like it or not, because they can't get to the Caribbean unless they control or can pass through the Pacific.

00:38:48.760 They don't transport.

00:38:50.240 They don't magically appear in the Caribbean.

00:38:52.700 And that's why the Panama Canal is so important, but also that's why the islands are so important.

00:38:57.520 And there has been this big hole in American strategic thinking around the center of the Pacific.

00:39:03.600 And this is what led up to World War II, right?

00:39:06.400 The U.S. had the Philippines and it had Guam, so it thought it could contain Japan off the Asian coast.

00:39:12.500 And I have a map if you want, but basically Japan, through its control of the Japanese mandate, had control of what's now the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, Palau, Federal States of Macronesia and Marshall Islands.

00:39:25.100 So it controlled the heartland, the strategic heartland, the pivot, the geographical pivot of history in the center of the Pacific.

00:39:32.560 We've been sort of brainwashed to a European strategic map.

00:39:36.240 That Eurasian landmass was a U.K., it was a Mackinder invention. 1.00

00:39:41.240 He was European.

00:39:43.160 The World Island was Eurasia, Europe, and Africa.

00:39:47.880 America was sort of on the periphery.

00:39:49.880 But for the concerns of North America, you know, our brain has been distorted by these Eurocentric maps.

00:39:57.760 If you put the Pacific at the center of the map, then you can see that unless the U.S. has control over or has strategic denial over the Central Pacific, the U.S. isn't safe.

00:40:09.820 And it's not just the periphery.

00:40:12.160 It's not just the Philippines or the treaty allies, you know, the first or second island chain.

00:40:16.260 Unless you can get to the first or second island chain, unless you have that denial and maneuverability within that heartland, and that includes up to the Aleutians.

00:40:26.180 I mean, Billy Mitchell was talking about this in the 30s, right?

00:40:29.380 If you have control over Alaska, then you can control a lot of that zone as well.

00:40:34.940 So it's the Aleutians and then down through that Central Pacific.

00:40:37.700 That is the what is at play.

00:40:40.320 And everything that we're seeing in the Caribbean, we're seeing the Chinese do in those islands, including in U.S. territories. 0.98

00:40:48.100 I testified before Congress last week, and the representative from Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, who was on the Commonwealth Ports Authority board of Tinian.

00:40:57.580 Tinian is where the U.S. is rehabilitating those airfields, those Northfield airfields.

00:41:02.440 She approved the setting up of a Chinese-linked casino on that dual-use port.

00:41:08.500 And her questions at that hearing were all about how to increase Chinese tourism.

00:41:13.840 Chinese can arrive in the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas now without a visa.

00:41:17.120 And from there, they're illegally going to Guam and elsewhere.

00:41:20.700 And her framing was, unless this continues and unless we get direct flights from mainland China into the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, then their entire economy is going to collapse.

00:41:31.700 That's the only solution.

00:41:32.860 Chinese tourists are the only solution. 1.00

00:41:35.340 And those Chinese tourists have been illegally buying U.S. driver's licenses, illegally selling drugs, distributing drugs found on the basis. 0.96

00:41:46.520 So we're starting to see the same sort of infiltration that you're seeing in the Caribbean, seeing in American territory, in the heartland, with the goal of, I think, reestablishing the sort of control that the Japanese had in the center of the Pacific, which puts them in a position to strike Hawaii. 0.80

00:42:02.480 And we had that incident where Admiral Keating at the time was testifying and said, one of the Chinese guys said, you know, you take Hawaii East and we'll take Hawaii West.

00:42:12.480 I think that's what they actually want to do.

00:42:14.680 You know, who also knew this was Seward, which was Lincoln's secretary of state about Alaska.

00:42:25.660 The post-revolutionary generation and founders generation that really, from the Mexican War to the Spanish-American War, thought through strategically and geostrategically what this hemisphere could be when you broaden out the definition of it.

00:42:42.800 Because we've thought too much and tiny that California is the coast.

00:42:46.520 It may be the coast of the continental part, but it's certainly not the coast when you think of geostrategically in defense.

00:42:53.480 And this is what Trump is thinking through right now.

00:42:55.820 This is what people that came before us thought about.

00:42:59.320 One of the things I remember as a young naval officer is the sacrifice.

00:43:03.580 When you take your eye off the ball, which you read the run-up to the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese High Command, they were so focused on this from the early 1910, 1915, before the First World War, about the Pacific.

00:43:20.760 And about what they would need to do to basically control the mainland of China.

00:43:24.760 They would have to back off.

00:43:26.080 They knew they would have to back off the United States.

00:43:28.240 How are you going to back off the United States?

00:43:29.580 You've got to take those island chains and make it prohibitively, strategically too hard for the United States to come back.

00:43:36.860 And of all the sacrifice that took place, what, 80 years ago to do this, it was done for a reason.

00:43:43.380 There was a purpose, a strategic purpose for that, Cleo.

00:43:46.320 Yeah, there was.

00:43:48.800 And the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, that's the Battle of Saipan.

00:43:54.020 I mean, one of the most just horrific battles in Tinian, obviously.

00:43:57.620 That was Japanese territory for 30 years. 0.81

00:44:00.680 And there are 100,000 Americans died in the Pacific Theater after having made the mistake of ceding that heartland, that strategic heartland to Japan.

00:44:10.020 It has been and continues to be a location where if somebody else controls it and has that sort of malign intent, the U.S. is not safe.

00:44:22.440 And that includes trade.

00:44:23.980 I mean, the early Americans knew there was a great expedition.

00:44:27.380 America mounted an expedition through the Pacific from 1938 to the, I think, 1942.

00:44:35.000 Sorry, 1838.

00:44:36.340 And the understanding was the trade was going to be dependent on that as well.

00:44:41.740 So it has been a part of America's strategic profile for almost two centuries.

00:44:48.160 But we've been sort of brainwashed by this European analysis to not pay attention to it.

00:44:54.780 This is one of my biggest problems with the Atlanticists.

00:44:58.040 This is the kind of narrative into Northwest Europe.

00:45:00.160 It's so much broader than that.

00:45:01.680 Before I go, Trump sees this right away.

00:45:04.960 That's where the Panama Canal has been the first thing he talked about in the second term.

00:45:08.340 How tough is it going to be for us to roll out the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Navy since they've kind of welded themselves into the Caribbean, ma'am? 0.98

00:45:23.060 Well, the Caribbean and the Pacific have the same issue.

00:45:25.520 But I would start with sending the FBI into the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and into Guam and starting to do investigations into who is taking money from those Chinese casinos.

00:45:35.740 And going after that, I mentioned that braided thing, right?

00:45:38.740 You've got the commercial, the strategic, and the corruption.

00:45:41.020 If you go after the corruption, if you start really making it hurt if people take the Chinese money, then you can start to balance out the political war, the unrestricted warfare battlefield.

00:45:51.520 So that's a very easy first step.

00:45:53.580 It's something that the U.S. should be doing anyway.

00:45:55.600 And just for that hemispheric defense, it's Panama.

00:45:59.060 You can say Greenland to Panama to Guam to Alaska.

00:46:02.640 That's your diamond.

00:46:04.200 But just Panama to Greenland isn't going to do it.

00:46:08.200 You need the Guam, and you need the Alaska. 0.92

00:46:11.360 Yeah.

00:46:11.840 The other side.

00:46:12.620 Claire, we're going to spend a lot more time on this.

00:46:14.500 We've got a couple of surprises.

00:46:15.660 We're going to talk to people for only a couple of weeks about it.

00:46:17.560 Where do people go in the interim, ma'am, to get all your testimony in front of Congress and also all your writings?

00:46:25.240 I'm on X, just my name, Cleo Pascal, at Cleo Pascal.

00:46:29.820 And you can see me getting trolled by a lot of people who think that Chinese tourism is the solution for the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas.

00:46:39.560 So enjoy the fun.

00:46:42.920 Cleo, you're the best.

00:46:45.200 A hammer.

00:46:46.100 Thank you, ma'am.

00:46:47.280 The show is so great because I get to sit here and get so many fascinating people that are so dedicated to this country and to freedom and to liberty.

00:46:55.300 There's a big old firefight happening on Capitol Hill right now, folks, and tomorrow we're going to get into it.

00:47:00.180 But I want to play, I think we've got Jake Sherman over at MSNBC, Jake Sherman from Punchbowl.

00:47:05.620 Let's get an update.

00:47:07.040 Republican leaders are moving ahead today to try to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, taking their funding bill to the Rules Committee to set up a floor vote tomorrow.

00:47:16.420 As Punchbowl puts it, Congress is walking up to the line of another political crisis once again.

00:47:22.420 The stopgap spending bill would keep agencies funded through the end of September, setting up a confrontation with Democrats who say the plan amounts to nothing more than a blank check for Elon Musk, the focus of Democrats' anti-administration ire.

00:47:37.220 President Trump trying to keep his party in line, writing on Truth Social, all Republicans should vote yes and no dissent.

00:47:45.620 Joining us now, Jake Sherman, co-founder of Punchbowl News and an MSNBC political contributor.

00:47:52.040 Former Congressman Charlie Dent is back with us.

00:47:54.660 So, Jake, bottom line, can Republicans get this done by going it alone?

00:48:00.240 They sure think so, but I've heard that many times before.

00:48:03.640 So, here's the basic, and Mr. Dent will know this as well, but when there's a continuing resolution, one of these stopgap funding bills, this one is about until September, the end of September, it basically includes, it carries over a bunch of the former spending priorities of the former administration or the last fiscal year.

00:48:23.420 In this case, that is the former administration.

00:48:26.160 What Democrats say is that by not writing new spending bills, they're ceding authority to the administration to spend money how they want.

00:48:34.820 So, there's two kind of situations here.

00:48:37.920 If Republicans could pass this thing alone in the House, then they could do whatever they want.

00:48:42.580 They could put whatever they want in the bill and hope that the Senate Democrats, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate pick it up.

00:48:49.380 If they can't, and they need Democratic votes, then they need to do something that Democrats want.

00:48:54.840 They need to give something to Democrats. 0.94

00:48:57.560 So, if I had to, listen, I've had a lot of conversations with both leaderships, the Democratic and the Republican leadership this morning.

00:49:03.580 I do think that they, that the Republicans believe they could get it through with just their own lawmakers.

00:49:09.700 There's only one hard no right now, Tom Massey, who said he would have, he would have to have a lobotomy today in order to vote for this bill.

00:49:19.060 And I don't, as I noted, I don't think lobotomies are still commonly practiced.

00:49:24.160 So, it sounds like Mr. Massey will be a no.

00:49:26.480 Another quote from Tom Massey.

00:49:28.060 If it passes this week, the CR obligates Trump from now until September to spend the same amounts of money on generally the same things Biden spent money on in his last 15 months in office.

00:49:39.720 Is that the kind of fact that could blow things up for the speaker?

00:49:44.640 Well, that's a true statement from Tom Massey.

00:49:47.280 And, yes, he is a hard no.

00:49:49.100 By the way, having served on the Appropriations Committee, we used to have a word for a year-long continuing resolution.

00:49:56.460 Failure.

00:49:57.300 That means Congress is not doing its job.

00:50:00.200 I mean, a year-long continuing resolution, in many respects, does kneecap the administration.

00:50:06.740 We're going to play more of this tomorrow.

00:50:11.100 Here's the bottom line.

00:50:12.620 Burchett's maybe a soft nose.

00:50:13.880 A lot of soft nose that I think will be flipped as the president talks to him.

00:50:17.720 I don't think right now, folks, as tough as the House looks like, I think the bigger problem could be in the Senate.

00:50:23.520 You just had Warner just come out.

00:50:27.000 Mark Warner just came out and said he's going to be a no.

00:50:28.940 And you've got a bunch of moderate, what they consider moderate Democrats on the Senate already saying they're no.

00:50:35.360 I think we've got to get seven, maybe eight, because Rand Paul's a no.

00:50:39.680 This is going to be a fiasco.

00:50:40.880 We're going to have more of this.

00:50:42.040 We'll start the show tomorrow to go through all this, because I think they're trying to hang up President Trump.

00:50:47.060 The CR is not the best, but it may be the best of a bad lot.

00:50:50.380 I do think and I strongly say that we have to have accountability of how we got in this jam.

00:50:56.760 And the speaker is just not making it happen.

00:50:59.180 It's now relied on President Trump.

00:51:00.520 President Trump himself is whipping votes with everything he's got going on.

00:51:03.380 A new announcement.

00:51:04.300 He's going to address some CEOs tomorrow about economics.

00:51:07.320 Scott Besson is going to be with the Business Roundtable on Wednesday.

00:51:09.980 I think they're now going to get much more aggressive in messaging the economy and the economics of it.

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Bannon's War Room - March 11, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 721： Holding The Line Against Reckless Spending

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