Live from the War Room on 7th October, 2025, Stephen K. Bannon and Jack B. Baselbeck discuss the latest events in the Middle East, including the attack on a nightclub in Gaza, and the Israeli response.
00:11:34.000The people were too upset about mean tweets that they had to go and get rid of the one president that gave us no new wars in living memory.
00:11:46.420I could go for some mean tweets right now.
00:11:48.740The world could go for some mean tweets right now.
00:11:51.120President Trump has released a statement.
00:11:53.060But these Hamas attacks were a disgrace.
00:11:57.640Israel has every right to defend itself.
00:12:00.080Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks.
00:18:01.260But I will tell you, on that day, the people that were the heroes
00:18:05.200were the older IDF retirees that had fought in 67, had fought in 73.
00:18:10.580They got in their cars and drove to the sound of the guns.
00:18:14.060The way this thing was stopped was basically older members of the IDF that had fought in previous wars that drove down there and started pushing back on what was not a terrorist attack.
00:19:01.380If you haven't demanded and letting Netanyahu kick the ball, you know, kick the can down, fine, that's your deal.
00:19:07.160But for us, if we're going to be involved and we're getting dragged into this thing, we need to know exactly what happened.
00:19:13.660And I am shocked there hasn't been more coming out of the government to demand that.
00:19:19.080We'll have more on this over the next couple of days as President Trump tries to hammer through a peace deal.
00:19:25.320I want to bring you, Stan Jodokoski has been with us a couple of times.
00:19:29.960He was here for the Naval Show the other day, very strategic advisor, very much working on submarine programs between private capital and nations on submarines.
00:20:02.920You've got a great piece that we've got to pay attention to because the Islamization of France is quite far advanced.
00:20:09.180Why is the government – this is deeper than just a parliament not being able to put together a government.
00:20:14.660You're saying basically not just Macron, but the entire project is about to collapse before our eyes, sir.
00:20:20.660Thank you, Steve, for having me again on the show.
00:20:24.080Indeed, I think we're living in unprecedented times in France with far-reaching consequences for Europe and, by extension, obviously, the conflict in Ukraine.
00:20:34.000President Macron has dug himself into a corner, no doubt, with two years remaining in his second term.
00:20:38.780He's been unable to keep a stable government and maintain a majority in parliament or even pass a budget.
00:20:46.180He came to power in 2017 by offering an alternative to traditional Republican and Socialist Party, dividing and conquering by promising to govern from the liberal center.
00:20:56.160Now that he's eviscerated the left and right, middle-of-the-road parties, the national far-right and far-left parties have become the main forces battling it out to block Macron's policies time and again.
00:21:13.420And he's incapable of building a strong enough majority in parliament.
00:21:17.600Now, a little bit about the Fifth Republic, which came about in 1958, as you mentioned, when General de Gaulle was asked to come back and find a new path forward for France after the failure of the Fourth Republic.
00:21:33.180The Fourth Republic came in 1946 on the heels of the end of the Second World War.
00:21:38.100It was a parliamentary regime comprised of a number of political parties and a weak president.
00:21:43.140And it had a few gains, notably immediately after the war, France's efforts to rebuild the country following the war and the massive destruction across the country.
00:21:58.000It was also at the birth of Social Security and the social gains that France has been so proud of for the last 70 years.
00:22:06.700And it also contributed to the beginning of the contours of the European political project.
00:22:14.900But eventually, as a war raged in 1954 in the former colony of Algeria, still a colony back then, and political parties were fighting it out for and blocking each other's governments, the country came to a standstill.
00:22:32.700The war exacerbated the tensions at home, and the losses on the battlefield called for General de Gaulle to be called back to the forefront of French politics.
00:22:45.920He was elected in 1958 and immediately proceeded with writing a new constitution, what we have come to know today as the Fifth Republic.
00:22:55.520That constitution wanted to do away with this tyranny of the political parties, give France back a strong presidential mandate, one where the president would act as an arbiter between the people and the state,
00:23:11.480and one which would give universal suffrage to French people for them to decide the fate of their country.
00:23:19.740Now, Macron, who claims to be the political heir of de Gaulle, has completely betrayed the essence of the Fifth Republic, and rather than to be an arbiter between the state and his people, he's become kind of a prosecutor.
00:23:36.600And he's governed for the last several years now, either during COVID times with a very limited council of defense, stripping parliament of its responsibilities, or whenever he couldn't get a majority in parliament, which has been now the norm for the last two years since he came back to power, two and a half years now.
00:23:57.340He's been governing through his prime minister in government with presidential decree after presidential decree, what we call the 49-3, which basically bypasses government and the legislative body on any decision, whether it be to form a government or to reform the pension and entitlement.
00:24:22.040And so the trust has been broken. The trust has been broken between the president and the political parties, first that he alienated to achieve his political victory, but also the extreme parties, if you can call them extreme at this point, because when you look at the National Front, Marine Le Pen's party, she lost with 35 percent in 2017, and now she lost with 46 percent in 2022.
00:24:50.600And so it is widely believed that should he once again dissolve the National Assembly tomorrow, as he seems incapable of forming a new government tomorrow, he will try and name a new prime minister and form a new cabinet.
00:25:07.380It would be the sixth one in two years. Sixth prime minister in two years sounds more like a banana republic than an advanced Western democracy.
00:25:18.300If you remember, he started this. He he started this whole thing a couple of weeks ago about the Palestinian state.
00:25:27.940He made all these commitments to the president about troops and money for Ukraine. It's all it's all phony.
00:25:33.100He's an instigator. And the fifth republic is going to collapse. I think I think you may see the collapse starting tomorrow.
00:25:40.020This has a massive geopolitical implications for the United States. Stan, we got to bounce. I'm going to have you back up.
00:25:46.340But you've written this amazing article. I know it's in French. When are we going to get the English version of it?
00:25:51.220Well, let me see if I can get it out in U.S. media. But certainly I'm happy to share the English version with you.
00:25:59.020And I'm happy to update you tomorrow as as as France, you know, teeters on on the bricks of the end of the Fifth Republic.
00:26:06.680Folks, this is a fourth turning. Two years after Jack Posobiec talked about it on that horrific day when more dead Israelis and Jews since the Holocaust.
00:26:26.000Think about that for a second. Look at that footage. By the way, we had to cut out some of the most horrific footage that we showed that day in real time.
00:26:32.880Stan, thank you. We'll have you back on tomorrow. France is on the verge of collapsing.
00:26:41.220Think about that for a second. As President Trump tries to hammer out a peace deal and reorganize the Middle East.
00:26:50.020Short commercial break. Be back in the warm in a moment.
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00:41:42.820And I think things are going to move really fast now.
00:41:45.620The window in which Trump can fix things, bring accountability to the government, set us on the right path, is rapidly shrinking.
00:41:52.680And we're already looking at political realities that it's like, okay, 13, 14 months from now, the Republicans might be lame duck.
00:41:59.800And already you're starting to see, like I saw your segment today on Ted Cruz, you're starting to see the usual suspects rear their head, trying to basically shove MAGA back to the back of the bus.
00:42:29.780And I hear things like, wow, there's a revival in America, or Gen Z is the most conservative generation in decades, or, oh, wow, the Republican Party's got a plan, or all these things.
00:42:42.940Conservatism is suffering or having a resurgence.
00:42:47.140Right now there's an existential battle of two different worldviews.
00:42:51.620And it's like, you can find, you can frame it as a fight between Republicans and Democrats, but I don't think that really catches everything.
00:42:56.960Because Donald Trump didn't win because of just Republicans.
00:43:33.340I look at the religious polling, and I can tell you that in many ways it appears to me like the church has just sort of abdicated this fight.
00:43:40.640Like it doesn't really find that its message is relevant for people who go to church to talk about values, to talk about the things that Americans need to stand for.
00:44:08.460And when you look at the polling by the religion, the people who are most certain about their worldview are atheists.
00:44:15.460Atheists are overwhelmingly the most certain about their worldview, followed by evangelical Christians.
00:44:19.600But Protestants, when you ask them questions about, well, who do you support on this values-based issue, Protestants are completely split, just like the rest of America.
00:44:28.980It's like you might as well not even find answers at church.
00:44:31.860These people – and obviously we know the mainline denominations are failing.
00:48:03.400Like, we are finally starting to see that we are reaping what we sowed when we took the Ten Commandments out of schools,
00:48:09.580when we celebrated multiculturalism over American Western values,
00:48:13.780when we allowed every academic institution to be completely corrupted by Marxists,
00:48:18.020and when we allowed boardrooms to elevate feeling good and emotional decision-making over objective customer and shareholder-focused decision-making.
00:49:42.360They'll hire illegal immigrants and flood the border, hire illegal immigrants, and then offshore all of their engineering work to India,
00:49:48.600and then bring India here to take the high-paying jobs.
00:49:52.700And then they'll send all the manufacturing jobs to China, absolutely gutting the heartland of America.
00:49:58.860And then they'll create a society focused on blue population center, big city progressivism that is now going to be co-opted basically by the Red-Green Alliance and through Takiyah, shove Sharia law down our throats.
00:50:15.500This generation, Gen Z, they do not care that much about capitalism because they haven't even seen capitalism and they weren't even taught who Adam Smith was.