Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The MAGA Engine That Could: Interview with Steve Bannon | TRIGGERED Ep.198

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00:07:21.000 Well guys, joining me now, the host of War Room, the one and only Steve Bannon.

00:07:27.000 Steve, great to have you back on.

00:07:29.000 Hey Don Journey, how you doing man?

00:07:31.000 Oh, you know, listen, as we were joking about before, I am not yet sick of winning, but man, we're getting there.

00:07:38.000 Getting there, it feels great.

00:07:40.000 I think I might have got to my almost tired of winning too much when President Trump showed up at Charlemagne at Notre Dame on Saturday.

00:07:49.000 No, no.

00:07:50.000 And Joe Biden's playing goo-goo eyes.

00:07:55.000 What's the over-and-under that she voted for? 1.00

00:07:59.000 100%.

00:08:01.000 Like, there's no over-under.

00:08:04.000 It's yes or no binary, and I'm taking yes. 1.00

00:08:06.000 Literally, you know, there were hints early.

00:08:09.000 You saw, like, you know, when Kamala Harris showed up at one of those things, and she didn't even make eye contact with her.

00:08:14.000 It was the red dress on Election Day.

00:08:16.000 It was, you know, there was a lot.

00:08:17.000 But if there was ever any doubt that women still like alpha men, it was the way that Jill Biden looked at DJT like a steak. 0.96

00:08:28.000 Like an A5 waigu ribeye in Notre Dame.

00:08:33.000 I mean, that was pretty amazing.

00:08:37.000 That whole thing.

00:08:38.000 He showed up.

00:08:38.000 He was like Charlemagne.

00:08:40.000 It was...

00:08:41.000 Amazing.

00:08:41.000 They all wanted to flock around.

00:08:43.000 And you know, that whole crowd is the one that cuts him down all the time to try and cut him up.

00:08:46.000 It was just, it was, that was a seminal moment.

00:08:49.000 And that's why I thought, I don't know if I'm tired of winning yet, but...

00:08:52.000 If I ever was, like, that's a good idea. 0.96

00:08:55.000 Just kill me now. 0.98

00:08:56.000 I'm good. 0.99

00:08:57.000 That's all I needed to finish off, you know, all of this.

00:09:00.000 But, you know, it is interesting.

00:09:01.000 I mean, I... As brutal as it's been for the last four years, and man, I used to think it was like, DJT and me is the most heavily persecuted.

00:09:13.000 You're obviously on that list.

00:09:16.000 You've literally served jail time for sticking up for the things that we all believe in.

00:09:22.000 But I'm actually...

00:09:26.000 For me, all of the insanity of the last four years is actually totally worth it because I think we actually have a chance to do it right this time, right?

00:09:35.000 If we won in 2020, and I don't think anyone actually believes we didn't actually win in 2020 at this point, especially looking at the numbers and everything, the way it rolled out, but If we just rolled over those same, you know, guys, many of them Washington, D.C., bureaucrats, diffs, because we didn't know any better.

00:09:52.000 You were there.

00:09:52.000 I mean, you didn't know any better.

00:09:54.000 So he's got an R next to his name.

00:09:55.000 He must be good.

00:09:56.000 If you just rolled over the 2020, 2016 to 2020 crew into, you know, 20 to 24, I don't think we got nearly as much as we can get done as we do today with a clear mandate starting from scratch with all of this.

00:10:11.000 You know, what do you see?

00:10:12.000 Your father, look, he's not a particularly what I call churchy type, but I say this, our win in 16 was providential.

00:10:20.000 The steal in 20 was providential, because I think it showed the whole country exactly how radical these people are.

00:10:28.000 And it strengthened us, right?

00:10:30.000 President Trump's coming back now With a much more defined, I think, task and purpose.

00:10:35.000 You can feel it.

00:10:36.000 You can feel the energy, right?

00:10:37.000 You can feel, particularly in the selections, the boldness of everything.

00:10:41.000 The Kristen Walker interview on Meet the Press was, you know, she's trying to trap in the first thing. 0.99

00:10:46.000 Well, will you turn the page just in mid-2020?

00:10:48.000 No.

00:10:49.000 How about this?

00:10:50.000 The answer's no, right?

00:10:51.000 Because everything's coming with a certain power and direction to it.

00:10:57.000 That we didn't have in 16. And there was a reason for that, right?

00:11:01.000 We snuck up on people, right?

00:11:03.000 They didn't expect it.

00:11:04.000 We didn't, you know, all of us didn't expect.

00:11:07.000 I mean, we felt confident.

00:11:09.000 We're going to win, but you don't even know what that means.

00:11:11.000 Steve, you and I... We're the only people We're not dropping out.

00:11:31.000 They were like, you should just drop out or it's going to be the greatest landslide in political history.

00:11:35.000 And I'm like, we got like three weeks left.

00:11:37.000 We fight, whatever, fight.

00:11:39.000 You have two choices, either drop out or you lose by the biggest landslide in history.

00:11:43.000 And you and I look at each other, what's he talking about?

00:11:45.000 I was like, I'll take my chances. 0.98

00:11:47.000 At this point, it's like, all this crap, we're just going to drop out? 0.98

00:11:50.000 Like, that's A, not very Trump. 0.99

00:11:52.000 In my father's defense, he agreed with us 100%.

00:11:55.000 But like, you know, the experts, right?

00:11:58.000 The experts, the people who knew and who've done this for decades, like, you know, this is what's going to happen.

00:12:03.000 And, you know, they were all wrong.

00:12:04.000 We won't get into the names, because it doesn't really matter.

00:12:07.000 But like, yeah, no, it's a little bit nuts.

00:12:12.000 But that's why this time is very different.

00:12:13.000 You can tell the whole feeling down in Mar-a-Lago, the focus, the intensity, the brilliance of the different picks, you know, this whole going after the administrative state, whether you got Bobby Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard, the mix and match of not just Democrats and Republicans, those are old terms, the populist nationalist direction, the America First direction.

00:12:34.000 This is why it's a whole different deal and everything just gets better.

00:12:39.000 You know, with every day we go on and people got it.

00:12:42.000 By the way, we still have huge fights.

00:12:43.000 You know, Pete had a string last week and now Joni Ernst is on board.

00:12:48.000 Other people are on board.

00:12:50.000 He's getting momentum.

00:12:50.000 Cash is getting momentum.

00:12:52.000 So I agree with Tom Cotton.

00:12:53.000 Tom Cotton said last night he thinks everybody gets approved and I do too.

00:12:58.000 Yeah, I mean, it didn't feel that way.

00:13:00.000 It felt like, you know, after the gate stuff, you know, they saw some blood in the water.

00:13:05.000 They immediately went after Hegseth.

00:13:06.000 And it was like, man, there was a time I'm like, how do we get this over the line? 0.99

00:13:10.000 And then what was great was like, literally, like the people watching this right now, the people who watch War Room were like, no, this is bullshit.

00:13:19.000 Like, we're not going to let the media publishing, you know, Anonymous sources say all these things when literally everyone who was there on the record, the people who were willing to put their names out there, are saying otherwise. 0.93

00:13:31.000 And it was ugly, but some of those people who were getting wishy-washy, I call it ETP. Education through pain.

00:13:38.000 But it wasn't coming from Washington.

00:13:41.000 That's my favorite way to do it.

00:13:42.000 It's like, you know, the beatings will continue until morale or, you know, consensus improves.

00:13:48.000 And it was regular people, the guys that watch my show, your show, you know, like this band of America First Patriots, they went nuts online.

00:13:56.000 They started calling these people out.

00:13:58.000 They're threatening primaries.

00:13:59.000 And all of a sudden, you know, everyone's like...

00:14:00.000 You know, you gave them a little bit of an off ramp.

00:14:02.000 Sometimes you need to do that.

00:14:03.000 Sometimes you go too hard, and it's like, well, then they have to dig in because they can't help themselves.

00:14:07.000 And I respect that, too.

00:14:08.000 I'm a Trump.

00:14:09.000 I mean, I get it.

00:14:10.000 But, you know, watching these people come around, because if they got Pete, they're going to get Tulsi.

00:14:14.000 And if they get Tulsi, they're going to get Bobby.

00:14:16.000 And that was the thing.

00:14:18.000 So if we hold that line, you know, right now, man, I think, you know, I feel really strongly about getting all these guys in.

00:14:25.000 The audience has got a pretty simple way they think about it.

00:14:27.000 Here's how they think about it.

00:14:29.000 The man got shot in the head, and four months later, he won a landslide victory.

00:14:33.000 He gets to pick the team he wants.

00:14:35.000 Yeah, this is not rocket science.

00:14:36.000 It's not rocket science.

00:14:38.000 He wants Hexeth, he wants cash, he gets cash in Hexeth, right?

00:14:41.000 And Tulsi, and Kristi Noem, and the whole thing.

00:14:45.000 So it's just, this is why I think we just got to power through this.

00:14:48.000 And I'm a big advocate of Swear them in on January 3rd and on the 4th and 5th, everybody goes up, get your committees ready, and let's get the confirmations and have it all done by January 20th.

00:15:00.000 Let's let Trump field his team.

00:15:02.000 Yeah, listen, I love that because, you know, again, there is a mandate.

00:15:05.000 We've got to get to work.

00:15:06.000 We've got four years.

00:15:06.000 Now, I think we've, you know, and I've been a big part of, you know, trying to make sure it's not just four years of Trump, but that we actually have A runway of those same populists, right?

00:15:16.000 I think JD's been an absolute rock star in that.

00:15:18.000 But, like, others are emerging where we actually have a bench this time, which is so critical.

00:15:25.000 Because I don't want it to be four years of Trump, and then it's like back to business as usual.

00:15:29.000 I think that's part of why the swamp was rebelling as much as they did, because they're like, okay, fine, we'll do four years.

00:15:35.000 It's a drop in a bucket relative to what we're used to as 50-year Washington, D.C. bureaucrats.

00:15:40.000 We'll deal with it reluctantly.

00:15:42.000 We'll slow roll them whenever we can, as we did between 16 and 20. But I want to make sure we have that runway and we have that bench.

00:15:50.000 I agree.

00:15:51.000 And here's one of the things I think you see it happening already.

00:15:53.000 Because I think the doge with OMB is one of the most brilliant.

00:15:56.000 This is going to be one of President Trump's most lasting accomplishments.

00:15:59.000 The deconstruction of the administrative state and do it in a smart way.

00:16:02.000 And everybody up here is running around spending all their time on passing the NDAA, which locks in a $1 trillion defense budget before President Trump actually shows up.

00:16:12.000 And so...

00:16:13.000 My point is, they're going to come at President Trump in this movement, and they're so sophisticated, so smart.

00:16:19.000 It's like a casino where they are the house, right?

00:16:22.000 They know every game, they know the odds in every game, and they know they put the thumb on the scale and change the game.

00:16:29.000 And that's what we're up against.

00:16:30.000 And people have to understand, last week, the call to action for the audience to come up, the audience of all these different shows and people to sit there, it was the sovereign will of the people that spoke and said, hey, by the way, Republican establishment and media, we have President Trump's back, okay?

00:16:47.000 We have his back.

00:16:48.000 We want to see his team, the team he wants in there.

00:16:50.000 We want to see him get his policies put forward and approved, and then we'll see what the outcome is.

00:16:56.000 So, you know, we're a little bit over a month until January 20th.

00:17:01.000 You were involved in the transition the first time around.

00:17:04.000 I actually wasn't.

00:17:05.000 I'm much more involved this time around because I want to make sure we surround those people.

00:17:08.000 And I think I've gotten to know the players really well over the last eight years, who's real, who's fake, who's trustworthy, who's not, who's going to, you know, who won't just fall to the pressures of the swamp, you know.

00:17:18.000 As someone who was inside then, perhaps a little more outside now, but obviously I think you and I have generally been pretty damn aligned in terms of mentality on these things.

00:17:29.000 Compare what you're seeing in this transition versus what was going on in 2016. What do you see going right, and where do you think we have work to do still?

00:17:38.000 And in 16, people don't remember.

00:17:41.000 And I do think in the 16, because if you look at what was accomplished in 17, set the predicate, particularly the tax cuts, VA, other things on deregulation, set the predicate for the golden years of 18 and 19. This last campaign really came down, as President Trump says, immigration, the border, and groceries.

00:17:58.000 The golden years, you talk to blacks and Hispanics, they said, hey, I want to go back to 18 and 19. That was an economy that worked for me.

00:18:04.000 You know, blue collar wages increasing higher than white collar, non-college graduates.

00:18:09.000 That is kind of the little mini golden age we had.

00:18:12.000 A lot of that was laid in the transition that came in, you had to execute in 17. What I like about this, it's a much, this is a much bigger economy.

00:18:21.000 President Trump, at least the way I view it and I've been around it, he's less engaged in the day-to-day and more back overseeing the whole kind of, not just chessboard, but the whole everything from geopolitics and the war to the budget and the economy to what's happening to immigration.

00:18:36.000 He's got a very big purpose of what's happening, and I think that's filtering down.

00:18:40.000 The things you're seeing are so much more sophisticated.

00:18:44.000 And I think the team, not just the simple team, or the team of the rock stars at the cabinet level, where the work gets done and really you hammer these things out is a second, third tier, and then certain things like OMB. I don't think you can compare at all.

00:19:00.000 And today, and I'm not just talking to John Kellys and the Madisons and the guys that had reputations that came in there.

00:19:06.000 They're very sophisticated people.

00:19:09.000 And at the second, third level, and with like OMB and Doge, you have the most sophisticated angle of attack on really getting us back to the benefits of liberty, which is limited government.

00:19:22.000 People have talked about limited government for years.

00:19:24.000 The Republican Party has yammered on about it.

00:19:27.000 Trump has come in with a coalition of independents, Democrats and Republicans, and he's going to do something about it.

00:19:34.000 That is extraordinary.

00:19:35.000 And I think if people see this and see the work behind the scenes, you can't compare them.

00:19:39.000 I just think...

00:19:41.000 Every day we have to understand their resistance.

00:19:44.000 Because they had the nullification project, Don, as you know, that came after us hard.

00:19:50.000 Eventually we had to go with all these committees, etc.

00:19:52.000 It's going to be just as hard this time.

00:19:54.000 But I think they're even a little exhausted because they realize the motive force in back of this, what President Trump is converging on a point, is just so powerful.

00:20:04.000 So I think people should just stand by.

00:20:05.000 But the audience, your audience in particular...

00:20:08.000 We always have to have the president's back.

00:20:10.000 These things are going to pop up all the time.

00:20:12.000 Last week it was Pete Hexeth.

00:20:13.000 Other things, you're going to get the call to action.

00:20:16.000 What I call, I say it's fixed bayonets, okay?

00:20:18.000 We're going to have to go over the top a couple of three times.

00:20:21.000 We don't want to do it every day.

00:20:22.000 We don't want to do it every week.

00:20:23.000 But those moments where you hear the call, fix the bayonets, get ready, and then let's get over the top and get this thing done.

00:20:30.000 100%.

00:20:31.000 I mean, I think the thing I'm most excited about in all of this, and it didn't probably really pop up until the last couple of weeks of the campaign, was this notion of Doge.

00:20:38.000 Because having a mind like Elon, people that can look into the details of what's going on, before you even do anything, just exposing it to the American public.

00:20:49.000 Just, hey, full disclosure, open the kimono.

00:20:52.000 Show everything that's going on, every dollar that they've spent unwisely.

00:20:57.000 You know, the Pentagon failing seven audits, losing trillions of dollars.

00:21:01.000 No one cares.

00:21:01.000 No one knows.

00:21:02.000 But they're going to audit you for $601 in a Venmo transaction.

00:21:05.000 I mean, once the American people see the amount of waste, the graft...

00:21:10.000 You know, the essential bribery, you know, back and forth between DOD and where the people making the decisions end up and what board seats.

00:21:17.000 Once people understand that and they realize we've literally wasted trillions of American taxpayer dollars, I think that's when you get actually like revolutionary type change in government where like no one's going to accept that anymore.

00:21:30.000 And no one from the swamp, even some of the best people on our side, wouldn't be able to expose it in a way like Elon, I think, could.

00:21:37.000 A guy that's built seven companies, if one guy built one of his companies, it would be a crowning achievement in a life well spent.

00:21:45.000 This is the kind of mind that can do that.

00:21:49.000 And more importantly, this is the kind of mind that's offering it up to do it for the American people.

00:21:54.000 And they wouldn't do it under another leader other than Trump, because Trump's the only guy that doesn't feel the need to conform to that swamp.

00:22:00.000 It's also your father.

00:22:04.000 And I realize you guys are too self-effacing and humble to do this, but he is actually, along with General Washington and Lincoln, now of that top tier.

00:22:15.000 And here's how I make the argument.

00:22:17.000 And this is why he can actually be the one that can actually take the government apart and put it back together in something that is what we want and can afford.

00:22:26.000 Okay?

00:22:27.000 And it does this because when he left, and this is why the Christian Walker answer was so good about 2020, when he got back to Mar-a-Lago in January, February of 2021, That, you know, with everything that was going to come at him, he could have very easily said, okay, I did it.

00:22:44.000 I fought the good fight.

00:22:45.000 I just won again.

00:22:46.000 Big.

00:22:47.000 They stole it.

00:22:48.000 I guess I'm going to go buy some more courses in England and get back on the Open Championship Rota.

00:22:56.000 I'm going to buy a couple of courses here and get into the thing of the USGA, the PGA. I'm going to join my kids, my grandkids, Milani, the whole deal.

00:23:05.000 Consciously, he made a decision, understanding what they would do to stop him on bankrupting the company, on destroying his family, of putting all the kids in jail, of then coming after him and putting him in prison.

00:23:17.000 He made a conscious decision that, hey, I'm going to do this because I have, not just myself, I have a responsibility to the American people to do this.

00:23:26.000 Okay?

00:23:27.000 Leading up, that's moral courage.

00:23:28.000 Leading up to the moment in Butler where they try to take him out.

00:23:32.000 He's a tried assassination attempt.

00:23:33.000 The physical courage of, as you know, Don, when they hit you on the floor of that Secret Service, they want you to crawl off there undercover.

00:23:41.000 He stands up.

00:23:42.000 You can't coach that.

00:23:43.000 You either have that Just finally inspired like charisma, like the Greek said, the fight, fight, fight with that iconic shot.

00:23:50.000 That is the merger of moral courage and physical courage that has attracted the nation to people who never support Republicans.

00:23:59.000 And quite frankly, after the media ripping on this guy for eight years, people finally said, well, hang on for a second.

00:24:05.000 I don't know the difference in these policies, but I want to give that guy a chance.

00:24:09.000 He's a fighter.

00:24:09.000 He's a gladiator.

00:24:10.000 And that's what he's bringing here that I think gives us so much power.

00:24:14.000 It's attracted the Elon Musk of the world.

00:24:16.000 You talk about the Joe Rogans and all the young bros.

00:24:19.000 They sit there and go, hey.

00:24:21.000 I'm not so sure.

00:24:22.000 I don't understand his tax policy.

00:24:23.000 I don't understand a lot of this stuff.

00:24:24.000 I don't really understand America first, but I know a man when I see it.

00:24:28.000 I know a leader when I see it, right?

00:24:30.000 And I want to follow that guy.

00:24:32.000 I want to follow the guy and see where this thing goes.

00:24:34.000 And that's where you're having a unique convergence that's beyond politics.

00:24:38.000 The reason that he's so successful, the media and all the guys on the Democratic side on the matron matter every night, they're looking at him in the prim of political culture and political speak, which is so shallow.

00:24:49.000 And that's the reason the Republicans can't stop.

00:24:51.000 And they still talk in political speak.

00:24:53.000 He doesn't speak like that.

00:24:55.000 He speaks at a very deeper level that resonates and hits working class and middle class people in the solar plexus.

00:25:01.000 And they go, sign me up.

00:25:02.000 That's why we have a unique shot.

00:25:04.000 When you've got a brain...

00:25:05.000 Like Elon Musk, and particularly engineers, and guys like Vivek, who can articulate.

00:25:10.000 All the guys have for years talked about limited government.

00:25:13.000 The government's only gotten bigger under Republican administrations.

00:25:16.000 Now you have a unique opportunity to take this thing apart and put it back together, like the founders of Ramers thought, to get the blessings of liberty.

00:25:25.000 If we don't get it done now, it's never going to get done.

00:25:28.000 And that's why this next year, Will be, I think, one of the most intense, particularly to what's happened geopolitically, one of the most intense and meaningful years in all of American history.

00:25:38.000 And I'll just finish this segment with saying it's divine providence that 90 days into President Trump's second term, his third victory second term, 90 days, is the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world.

00:25:56.000 It's divine providence that That they stole it and we saw exactly how depraved they are to now come back and on the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord.

00:26:07.000 And then the Declaration of Independence 18 months later is providential.

00:26:13.000 And that's why this is all at a very deep, a deep level.

00:26:16.000 And Trump is the man he's, look, he's at the level of General Washington and Lincoln.

00:26:20.000 It's just no doubt about it, to kind of had this third big movement in American history and take us in a totally, to really take us to the next level.

00:26:28.000 Well, I want to note for the record that Steve Bannon may be the first person to ever call Trump humble and modest.

00:26:33.000 But as you said earlier, but- By the way, can I say something?

00:26:38.000 Actually, no, you know him.

00:26:39.000 People know him.

00:26:40.000 I'm playing around.

00:26:41.000 He's got all of that.

00:26:42.000 Not just that.

00:26:43.000 People don't understand.

00:26:44.000 This guy's got a kind heart.

00:26:45.000 He's a kind-hearted person.

00:26:47.000 He's not hard-hearted.

00:26:48.000 This is why so many people in different walks of life, before he ran for president, they all loved him.

00:26:52.000 He's a good guy with a kind heart and always trying to help other people.

00:26:55.000 Well, it was funny.

00:26:56.000 I've said that.

00:26:57.000 I've gotten, you know, I get in trouble for a lot of the things I say, but this one in particular, like I've said, you know, perhaps his biggest political liability is that he actually has a lot of empathy.

00:27:08.000 There's a reason he's got 40-year type employees and people, you know, two decades or four decades of their lives, they work for the guy.

00:27:14.000 Like, he gets them.

00:27:15.000 He knows them.

00:27:15.000 He's empathetic to them.

00:27:16.000 He understands that.

00:27:17.000 He treats them well.

00:27:19.000 His thing is, he's also a little bit old school.

00:27:21.000 Like, he doesn't want to show...

00:27:23.000 That empathy.

00:27:24.000 He doesn't like talking about those things.

00:27:25.000 I'm like, every other politician in America would jump on each, you know, one of these stories and ride it to the presidency.

00:27:30.000 He doesn't want to talk about dozens of them because he thinks, you know, I can't go negotiate against Putin if he thinks I'm soft.

00:27:36.000 Like, it's sort of amazing.

00:27:37.000 I know you've been around close enough to actually have seen that.

00:27:40.000 I've seen it.

00:27:40.000 Other people in there are like, what are you talking about?

00:27:42.000 I'm like, no, trust me.

00:27:43.000 Like, just, you know, talk to him.

00:27:44.000 And you hear these stories.

00:27:45.000 People come out who are not part of the campaign.

00:27:47.000 They're like, Donald Trump did this for me when I was 14 years old.

00:27:49.000 And, you know, I can't believe it.

00:27:51.000 It changed the course of my life.

00:27:52.000 And my father was like, You know, great to see you.

00:27:54.000 There's really no cameras, no cameras.

00:27:55.000 We went away.

00:27:56.000 You know, it's sort of funny.

00:27:58.000 Big.

00:27:59.000 So Steve, this is sort of a big one.

00:28:01.000 I know something you rally about a lot, and I certainly do.

00:28:05.000 But when you look abroad right now, it seems that whoever's actually running the White House in these last days wants to sow as much chaos as possible.

00:28:16.000 More Ukraine funding, a power vacuum in Syria.

00:28:21.000 It seems like they're literally trying to create something that they can then flip into my father and be like, Oh, you know, it's yours.

00:28:28.000 You own this now to continue, you know, that nonsense.

00:28:32.000 Will America be more engulfed in war before my father even gets into office?

00:28:37.000 And frankly, is that intentional so that they can make him own it?

00:28:41.000 It feels like, you know, I watch, you know, I always use this sort of analogy, you know, Ukraine shot a Russian Jeep.

00:28:46.000 It was a major victory, but they withdrew from three quarters of the country.

00:28:49.000 You know, Russia's making gains every day, but the American people think Ukraine's winning.

00:28:54.000 They're putting up a resistance because we're spending a trillion dollars there.

00:29:00.000 Sure, but they're not winning this war.

00:29:03.000 But in the minds of the American public, if they watch sort of the lamestream media, they think they're winning so that anything less than Russia's out, Ukraine gets everything, they become a member of NATO, looks like a loss.

00:29:14.000 Even if that's not even in the realm of possibility, they feel like they're sowing that so they can use it as a narrative.

00:29:21.000 That when my father creates peace, no matter what, even if it just stops the death, which seems like it should be the biggest victory for civilization, that they can pin it as a loss.

00:29:31.000 What do you see there?

00:29:32.000 Because it's so glaringly sick to me right now.

00:29:36.000 If you look at the three lines of work of what President Trump has to bring together in the first year of his second term, you've got the geopolitical situation, what I call the Third World War.

00:29:47.000 You also have the balance sheet of the United States, the $36 trillion, the deficits, the spending, all of it.

00:29:53.000 And then you've got the invasion on the southern border.

00:29:55.000 And all three of those lines of work.

00:29:58.000 The Biden regime is going out of their way to make sure that they narrow the possibilities of what President Trump can do, almost to the point you're forcing crises at the very beginning on the afternoon of the 20th of January.

00:30:10.000 And it's obvious to anybody who's watching this.

00:30:14.000 Geopolitically, the arc, that's kind of what I call the arc of instability, all the way going from southern Russia, mid-Russia, through Ukraine, to Romania, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Persia, the Gulf, the Red Sea, if you look at that right there, they're doing as much as they possibly can to stir it up.

00:30:32.000 First off, in the Ukraine, the Ukraine situation, they're sitting there saying they need 500, the Biden regime comes out and says they need 500,000 18-year-old recruits immediately to stave the Russians.

00:30:43.000 President Trump, I heard him talk the other night in the Russ Vogt CRA Galloway said a few words.

00:30:49.000 He was very touched.

00:30:50.000 He says, look, I can't give up classified information.

00:30:53.000 When I briefed on this, he says, when they talk about a million Ukrainians dead, civilian and military, it's actually worse than that.

00:31:00.000 When they talk six or seven hundred thousand Russians dead, it's probably worse than that.

00:31:03.000 This has been a killing field.

00:31:04.000 And not only is Ukraine not winning, it's collapsing right now.

00:31:07.000 The Russian army, if the Russian army gets to the Dnieper River, as you know, Don Jr., they have a history of when they take something, it takes a couple of decades to convince them they got to leave, right?

00:31:18.000 Yeah.

00:31:19.000 They stayed in Eastern Europe for 50 years. 0.53

00:31:21.000 So the regime, having screwed up Ukraine, is trying to do everything possible to take his leverage away.

00:31:29.000 He called for a ceasefire, though, that he's in Notre Dame, meets with Zelensky with Macron.

00:31:35.000 And what did your father say?

00:31:36.000 He says, I need an immediate ceasefire, need everybody to put their guns down, no more killing.

00:31:40.000 I'm in in six weeks or seven weeks and we're going to sit down, we're going to negotiate this, but let's stop the killing and let's do it right now.

00:31:47.000 The Biden regime is doing the exact opposite.

00:31:49.000 They're forcing weapons in there to the fact that the New York Times reported, the New York Times, not Breitbart, not Citizen Free Press, they reported two weeks ago there were discussions By senior administration officials, senior members of NATO, Brussels, and Ukraine about putting tactical nuclear weapons back into Ukraine, the old weapons Ukraine used to have.

00:32:12.000 What could go wrong, Steve?

00:32:14.000 What could go wrong?

00:32:14.000 Look, and Zelensky's sitting there talking about, well, I need NATO membership to consider it.

00:32:19.000 Dude, this war started over that.

00:32:21.000 We're kind of beyond that now.

00:32:23.000 The war started over that.

00:32:24.000 Yeah, well, I make no mistake.

00:32:25.000 Like, I'm not saying, you know, I'm not being, you know, anytime you say something like that, you know, Even logical and right, you're a Putin apologist, but we gave him, and I'm not saying he's a good guy, but we gave him every excuse he needed to go into Ukraine.

00:32:40.000 Ukraine was literally a 50-60 year buffer zone between Russia and NATO on their border, and it's like, okay, we're going to move it right up onto your border, despite that always having been the red line.

00:32:51.000 It's not like he changed the deal.

00:32:52.000 It's not like he was mincing words.

00:32:54.000 Absolutely.

00:32:55.000 I'm not saying he wouldn't have done something for some strategic assets, but this war is 100% instigated by America forcing his hand.

00:33:04.000 And NATO in the West, look, the KGB, you can't trust them anymore.

00:33:08.000 You can trust the CCP in Beijing. 0.62

00:33:09.000 They're gangsters, bad guys, but you got to deal with them. 0.96

00:33:11.000 The Russian people... 0.98

00:33:13.000 This is why I have a problem with Biden and his regime shooting long-range missiles with our technicians into Russia.

00:33:18.000 The Russian people were our allies in World War II. They lost 35 to 60 million people fighting the Nazis, fighting the Wehrmacht, just like the Chinese people fought the Japanese Imperial Army.

00:33:28.000 Those two sets of people were our allies.

00:33:31.000 The reason we didn't have 3, 4, 5 million casualties because of the blood laying of those guys.

00:33:36.000 If you look at NATO, I hate to be brutally frank about it, but if you look at virtually all the countries in NATO, except for England, right, most of those threw in with the Nazis or were neutral so that they were kind of with the Nazis, right?

00:33:48.000 We didn't have a lot of allies in what is NATO today, so people have to be advised that this thing has big geopolitical consequences.

00:33:56.000 My problem is that instability has now gone all the way down to Syria, where you have Erdogan And the Turks are like, hey, maybe I start the Ottoman Empire because Biden's so messed up.

00:34:06.000 And before Trump gets in, I want to have a land grab.

00:34:08.000 This thing's teetering right now on the third world war on the rim of the Eurasian landmass where you go in kinetic and all you see every second, every day, they want to suck us into Syria. 0.98

00:34:20.000 They want to suck us into military involvement.

00:34:22.000 Everything that President Trump's going to sit there and go, hey, hold it.

00:34:24.000 I'm talking peace and prosperity, right?

00:34:26.000 The way we get to peace and prosperity, first thing we do is we put down the guns, OK, because the guns now we go up the escalation ladder.

00:34:33.000 You're going to have tactical nukes flying around places like Ukraine, you know, places like the Century Asian landmass. 0.92

00:34:40.000 And that can't happen.

00:34:41.000 And they're trying to box Trump in there.

00:34:42.000 What they're doing, the federal reserve, what they're doing, the Treasury on refinancing one third of the debt they got to do every year.

00:34:48.000 Janet Yellen's playing games.

00:34:50.000 Scott Besson's going to have a mess he's stepping into.

00:34:52.000 And then on the border, they've got the CP app.

00:34:55.000 We've got a team in Mexico City.

00:34:56.000 And at the camps, the people are saying, I've got to use the app now and get in line because Trump's coming on the 20th and they're sending everybody home.

00:35:03.000 I've got to get in to at least have some sort of chit that I can stay in the United States.

00:35:08.000 Every line of work.

00:35:09.000 That President Trump has to turn around on his kind of immigration wall in the grocery situation.

00:35:16.000 Biden, these guys right now, are actively, actively, actively trying to suppress what he can possibly do.

00:35:22.000 On top of it, the other thing they're doing in the White House, and they said, oh, President Trump was wrong, President Trump's vindictive, they're sitting there spending all night on blanket preemptive pardons.

00:35:34.000 Blanket preemptive pardons.

00:35:35.000 They spend their time with us.

00:35:36.000 It's insanity. 0.99

00:35:37.000 Remember the crap that we took when like they were there was talk in 2020 about them. 0.91

00:35:41.000 They were maybe going to just preemptively pardon the family and, you know, members of the cat like and like it was like I was like, I don't even want like either. 0.91

00:35:50.000 I've been through this before.

00:35:51.000 I'm battle tested in congressional testimony.

00:35:53.000 Like, even if there's a thought, I was like, I just didn't do it.

00:35:56.000 Like, I don't want it because that's the, well, you took the pardon.

00:36:00.000 But I have a feeling all these guys and all these guys that are pretending they wouldn't take it, they're going to take it if they get one.

00:36:07.000 President Trump's answer to Kristen Welker is absolutely correct. 0.55

00:36:10.000 His retribution is peace and prosperity and another run like he had in 18 and 19, okay?

00:36:16.000 Before the CCP unleashed the bioweapon.

00:36:19.000 That would be a new golden age.

00:36:21.000 And I think you can see the sunlit uplands with President Trump, you know, hitting all cylinders here.

00:36:26.000 But they are...

00:36:31.000 I'm not in for vengeance.

00:36:32.000 I'm not in for retribution.

00:36:34.000 This is all about making success.

00:36:36.000 He had a great...

00:36:37.000 I'm here to unite the American people.

00:36:39.000 I'm going to unite them in a cause for peace and prosperity.

00:36:42.000 However...

00:36:43.000 If people have done things wrong and some of these investigations go on, particularly about January 6 or about the stolen election or about what the Justice Department did for the right to life people, the praying the rosary, what they did to the parents, or whatever.

00:36:56.000 We have to have full transparency.

00:36:58.000 It has to be done in the full light because the more transparency you put here, the worse it's going to be for them.

00:37:05.000 I think President Trump's answers are terrific.

00:37:07.000 And I think, more importantly, the American people back him 100% of this.

00:37:10.000 Well, and I think this is all why we need cabinet picks confirmed, right?

00:37:15.000 No unnecessary delays in the Senate.

00:37:18.000 As you very well know, personnel is policy.

00:37:22.000 We have a great opportunity of putting in incredible personnel and therefore incredible policy.

00:37:28.000 In 2016, you had Sally Yates running the Justice Department before our AG was ever confirmed. 0.77

00:37:34.000 Will we need day one acting actings?

00:37:38.000 You know, will we have confirmations by January 20th?

00:37:42.000 What do you think the sequence of that?

00:37:43.000 What do you think the reality of the swamp is?

00:37:45.000 No, my reaction, my advice to your father is twofold on that.

00:37:49.000 Number one, The theory of the case is the Biden regime is illegitimate.

00:37:54.000 There's no doubt about that.

00:37:55.000 That election in 2020 was stolen.

00:37:57.000 President Trump knows of the marrowless bones.

00:37:58.000 You know it.

00:37:59.000 I know it.

00:38:00.000 Number one, the very first thing that should happen is every single part of that regime, every person on a commission, on the board of West Point Naval Academy, all 3,000 political appointees and all 1,000 Senate confirmed have to be fired, terminated immediately.

00:38:17.000 The entire, and all the U.S. attorneys, the deputy U.S. attorneys, all has to go.

00:38:22.000 Immediately.

00:38:22.000 You have to purge this thing of these people immediately.

00:38:25.000 Then in addition, we have to think through right now, if it hasn't been confirmed, and that's why I think on January 4th, you swear them in on the 3rd, up on the 4th, flood the zone.

00:38:36.000 Let's work through weekends.

00:38:37.000 Let's work till 11 o'clock at night, midnight every night.

00:38:40.000 Let's get these guys confirmed.

00:38:41.000 What's not confirmed on 1,000 temporary acting people put in there right away.

00:38:45.000 Field promotions for guys on the political side.

00:38:48.000 You hit with as deep a team as you possibly can.

00:38:51.000 That's why I think they're doing such a surgery on the guys.

00:38:53.000 And they're doing such a good job of processing people.

00:38:56.000 The second, third level.

00:38:57.000 We get as many teams on the landing, many bodies on the landing teams, fleet them up.

00:39:01.000 If they're not, guys are confirmed, particularly second, third level, fleet them up.

00:39:05.000 Boom.

00:39:05.000 Let's go.

00:39:06.000 You get rid of all the Biden people. 1.00

00:39:07.000 I mean, every swinging dick that was a Biden person has got to go. 1.00

00:39:13.000 They all go. 0.99

00:39:13.000 And I don't care if they're on the Battlefield Commission or the Civil War Commission, the Smithsonian. 0.99

00:39:17.000 You go through and you say, you sent them on the day before.

00:39:20.000 Your resignation is, we want your resignation signed by high noon on the 20th.

00:39:26.000 And if it's not signed, you're hereby terminated one minute after noon.

00:39:29.000 Thank you very much for your service to the country.

00:39:31.000 Right?

00:39:32.000 Yeah.

00:39:32.000 Well, and they did that to our guys, because, you know, when we do that, you know, there's going to be the stories, oh my God, this is unprecedented.

00:39:38.000 Like, I know guys that served on, like, I think it was like the Holocaust Museum, and these places that you didn't even think was necessarily a government appointee, and it's like, yeah, Joe Biden wants your resignation, but he's like, I'm on a commission.

00:39:50.000 Like, you know, what do you mean?

00:39:52.000 Like, it's like, it doesn't matter.

00:39:54.000 They got rid of everyone, and so, you know, they've sort of set that precedent, so I think you're 100% right.

00:39:59.000 And then we fleet up as many people as possible and hit as possible.

00:40:02.000 And then I think it's very concentrated, I guess, now on the reconciliation.

00:40:06.000 Well, first of all, I think President Trump's going to hit them with 100 executive orders, particularly around the border and around, you know, everything Biden undid.

00:40:14.000 Remember, this mess started with President Trump finally having the border under control, right, and having some semblance of having a plan we can implement On immigration over time that would be both empathetic and good for the country.

00:40:27.000 Biden got rid of everything day one.

00:40:29.000 He put in like 50 executive orders because they didn't have chaos at the border.

00:40:32.000 They had a very well thought through plan on the invasion of this country with 10 to 15 million illegal alien invaders. 0.99

00:40:39.000 President Trump, I think, was Stephen Miller and Homan.

00:40:41.000 You hit, you lead with that.

00:40:43.000 But you hit everything else you can do with an executive order.

00:40:46.000 You also, I think, put the reconciliation package.

00:40:49.000 I would put for it.

00:40:50.000 I guess it's going to be on the border.

00:40:51.000 What they're saying, the Senate will be that first.

00:40:53.000 But I would tell them, hey, coming down in 90 days is going to be the tax and the economic, the second reconciliation.

00:41:00.000 I would do that and I would announce Doge and OMB going into the appropriations process because we kicked the CR down.

00:41:07.000 President Trump's first budget is going to have both Vivek and Elon's handprints all over it with Russ's vote in the appropriations process.

00:41:15.000 Then I think we're off to the races.

00:41:17.000 I think it sets a tone.

00:41:18.000 It's driving the narrative.

00:41:20.000 You always have the media on their back foot.

00:41:22.000 You have the Democrats on the back foot.

00:41:23.000 You overwhelm them with action, action, action.

00:41:27.000 So, you know, we've seen a little bit with Pete Hegseth this week, you know, education through pain, all those people that were, you know, going against him, you know, but our base coming out for him, not the D.C. people, the people who matter, the warfighters, Congressional Medal of Honor recipients coming out and having his back.

00:41:44.000 You know, talk about, though, how loud and how strong the MAGA base has been on rallying around not just Pete, but Cash, Tulsi, Bobby Kennedy, and others.

00:41:56.000 Let's talk about the election.

00:41:58.000 I mean, go back in time, and if you go back in time, this populist, because remember, once again, he was down by points, and they're dropping a billion dollars in advertising, and her politics are joy.

00:42:09.000 They were so cocky.

00:42:11.000 They thought they had this.

00:42:12.000 This is just one tiny notch down from Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:42:15.000 They thought they had this, okay?

00:42:18.000 Think about it with, what, almost 80 million votes?

00:42:21.000 Even with the pre...

00:42:22.000 And by the way, guys coming out early was fantastic.

00:42:25.000 I'm a guy who did it.

00:42:25.000 But still, you had to have 55 or 50 million people or 60 million people show up on game day with no money, with that volunteer effort and Elon putting the money in and Miriam Adelson of kind of coordinating on the grassroots.

00:42:39.000 You had a mass mobilization on the 8th of November that's never been seen before in American history because the Democrats, you know, is the vote so early of... 0.98

00:42:48.000 Principally, low propensity, low information voters doesn't mean that they're stupid or not degreed. 0.95

00:42:53.000 It means they're just not that interested in politics, but they understand something wrong with the country. 0.98

00:42:57.000 That, in and of itself, got by it.

00:43:00.000 And this is why I say about all this stuff coming after President Trump with Mershon, everything like this, and all the lawfare.

00:43:06.000 We had the biggest jury in this country's history convened on the 8th of November of 2024, and they rendered a verdict.

00:43:13.000 And that verdict is Donald John Trump won an overwhelming victory, held the House, took the Senate, won the presidency, and won across the board in state legislative governships.

00:43:23.000 The American people rendered their judgment after weighing and measuring this for a couple of years.

00:43:28.000 I say it's like the movie Lincoln.

00:43:31.000 When Lincoln talks to emancipation proclamations and executive order, he says, but you know, I gave the people, and he says, it's a little questionable about the legality of it.

00:43:39.000 He said, but I gave the people two years to think about it, and then they voted me back in in a landslide.

00:43:45.000 This is what happened with Trump.

00:43:46.000 He gave them four years to think about this.

00:43:50.000 What you saw on November 8th is what we call populism, the sovereign will of the American people.

00:43:55.000 It stood up against all odds.

00:43:57.000 All money stood up and go, you know what?

00:43:59.000 We want this guy, and we're going to have his back.

00:44:02.000 And I think that's what you're seeing.

00:44:03.000 Now, people are trying to celebrate and go about their lives, but when they see a danger, when the flare goes up, and the opposition, the Republican establishment better understand this.

00:44:14.000 When somebody in President Trump's camp puts a flare up, They're in the trenches and the bayonets are getting fixed and we're going to go over the top and we're going to win.

00:44:22.000 We got his back.

00:44:23.000 We had this thing stolen in 2020. We're not prepared to have this stolen.

00:44:27.000 President Trump has a plan.

00:44:28.000 He's got a method to implement that plan.

00:44:31.000 He's brought in some of the best people in the world in the United States to implement that plan.

00:44:35.000 We're going to give that plan a shot.

00:44:37.000 And anybody that tries to stop it is going to have to deal with With the sovereign will, not just a MAGA, because I think you're getting more and more people to say, give this guy a shot.

00:44:47.000 And I think that's where we stand right now.

00:44:48.000 And nothing's been stronger.

00:44:50.000 Remember, when this age is written about, the age of Trump, just like they wrote about the age of Jackson, they're going to, you know, I'll be forgotten, Tucker will be forgotten, Elon will be forgotten.

00:45:00.000 Here's what they're going to write about.

00:45:01.000 Rachel Maddow, all of them.

00:45:03.000 Biden.

00:45:04.000 They're going to write about Trump.

00:45:06.000 And they're going to write about MAGA. MAGA is the most important political movement in the history of the country.

00:45:12.000 The history of the country.

00:45:13.000 And it's really at the top of the first inning.

00:45:15.000 And I think last week you saw that.

00:45:17.000 We're saying, hang on, Hexeth, he wants him as Secretary of Defense?

00:45:20.000 He's going to have him as Secretary of Defense.

00:45:22.000 That's what I think what happened last week was so powerful.

00:45:25.000 Yeah, I think you can also see some of this sort of play out in the ratings for cable news.

00:45:29.000 CNN, MSNBC, they're hitting 20-year lows in their key demographics.

00:45:36.000 I mean, you know, they are at rock bottom.

00:45:39.000 How does that tie into, you know, the power that guys like you, perhaps myself, and others have, you know, in the opportunity front, sort of this, you know, independent journalist, non-mainstream media, you know, alternate sources of, you know, information?

00:45:56.000 Well, there's twofold.

00:45:57.000 Let's take one, the ecosystem on the right, the podcast.

00:45:59.000 Because remember, I think you were banned or you weren't on Fox for two years or a year and a half.

00:46:05.000 Yeah, two and a half years.

00:46:05.000 Two and a half years.

00:46:06.000 Don Jr., two and a half years.

00:46:08.000 Your father was not covered live on Fox from January 2021, I think for 18 months or right before the 22 election.

00:46:16.000 He was not live.

00:46:18.000 So the ecosystem on the right has broken the mainstream media.

00:46:22.000 But let me get back to those ratings because we have the great benefit here in the war room.

00:46:26.000 We literally monitor MSNBC and CNN 24 hours a day, not Fox.

00:46:31.000 You may be the only one watching.

00:46:33.000 We did.

00:46:33.000 Well, here's what Don Jr.

00:46:35.000 Here's why it's so bad.

00:46:36.000 The way they oversold this, particularly MSNBC, the biggest shock came late that night when when North Carolina was called the MSNBC.

00:46:46.000 I'm not sure Rachel Madden, those guys hung around after midnight.

00:46:49.000 I think they all departed because they understood they had oversold the victory so much.

00:46:55.000 There are people who are more traumatized than really Hillary Clinton, because now you had four years of Trump when they saw it was going and going so big with all the battleground states and the popular vote.

00:47:04.000 Their audience is sitting there going, hang on for a second.

00:47:08.000 I think these people lied to me.

00:47:09.000 I'm not so sure.

00:47:11.000 I was in North Carolina.

00:47:12.000 I visited some of the hurricane damage and stuff like that on two separate occasions with the guys from Samaritan's Purse.

00:47:17.000 They hadn't seen anyone from the administration.

00:47:19.000 They hadn't seen anyone from FEMA. They hadn't seen any help.

00:47:22.000 It was all being done by private charitable organizations like Samaritan's Purse.

00:47:26.000 I'm asking, well, no, I don't know.

00:47:29.000 I'm not talking to some stranger that may not be in it.

00:47:31.000 I'm talking about the sheriff, the head of the fire department.

00:47:34.000 And I'm like...

00:47:35.000 When they were like, we're going to win North Carolina, I'm like, I don't know, guys.

00:47:39.000 These people, they lost their homes, and I didn't even want to bring up voting, but they would have crawled three miles through broken glass to vote these guys out.

00:47:47.000 Amen.

00:47:47.000 And, you know, so it was interesting to see that when they're like, Trump's got a problem in North Carolina.

00:47:52.000 I'm like, oh, it's the swing state we've won all three times.

00:47:53.000 So it's probably not that bad.

00:47:55.000 I understand there's a demographic shift.

00:47:57.000 You sort of have, you know, the New York in background.

00:48:01.000 They move from New York to Florida.

00:48:02.000 They realize maybe Florida's a little too hot.

00:48:03.000 They come back to, you know, settle in North Carolina.

00:48:05.000 So there's been a demographic shift, but we weren't losing North Carolina and they had no idea.

00:48:11.000 It's not an unrelated event that the Roberts made a decision afterwards to spin off MSNBC and CNBC and these others into a separate entity.

00:48:20.000 MSNBC will never recover the power it once had because there is a certain core of their audience that felt they were lied and misled the entire time.

00:48:28.000 When they saw the breadth of President Trump, not victory, but the demographic groups running in, I think they took a mortal blow.

00:48:36.000 It'll be something, but it'll be something different, particularly as they get spun off CNN, I think the same.

00:48:41.000 I don't think those entities, and quite frankly, I don't think they matter that much anymore.

00:48:45.000 I don't think the New York Times matter.

00:48:46.000 I don't think, like this big thing about an op-ed supporting an endorsement of Trump in the Washington Post, nobody cares.

00:48:51.000 It's the streaming services that you can see on Rumble, the real market streaming service.

00:48:56.000 It's the podcast, particularly the multi-hour podcast.

00:48:59.000 It's also social media.

00:49:01.000 I mean, Elon being at Twitter was huge, but it's also all the influencers and putting up news all the time.

00:49:06.000 There's a whole new environment.

00:49:07.000 You've got to be on the edge of that.

00:49:09.000 What I found is that You have to be giving people actionable news, not just opinions and not just punditry, actionable news, and they're thirsting for that.

00:49:17.000 That's why I think we're going to win here.

00:49:19.000 I think that our side of the football is like these guys are now saying, oh, well, it's just we're all populist or we're going to be populist.

00:49:26.000 Populism is not just something you slap on about a tax cut or whatever.

00:49:30.000 It's something deeper.

00:49:31.000 You actually connect.

00:49:32.000 This is what President Trump connects with the average person.

00:49:36.000 He has for decades.

00:49:38.000 This is why he's not a politician.

00:49:39.000 He's somebody that has a visceral connection in the solar plexus of the working class and the middle class in this country.

00:49:46.000 That is what populism is.

00:49:48.000 And to have that connection and that empathy and to put America first and American citizens first.

00:49:54.000 They can't replicate that.

00:49:56.000 So I think that that's why it's now incumbent upon us to make sure we have his back and we drive the message and we drive the actions so that he can fulfill what he feels is right for the country.

00:50:07.000 So I've talked about this on the show quite a bunch.

00:50:09.000 I kind of love the idea, especially, you know, when it's so clear that so many of the typical mainstream sources of media have literally just become, you know, regime propagandists.

00:50:17.000 They've lied to us over and over again.

00:50:19.000 It's not like they're doing their job.

00:50:21.000 They're regime propagandists functioning as the marketing department of the Democrat Party.

00:50:25.000 So I've talked about, you know, restructuring, remaking the White House briefing room, you know, allowing, you know, podcasters in there, allowing independent journalists in there.

00:50:38.000 You know, I get that The New York Times has had, you know, a front row seat for decades.

00:50:41.000 But when you see the stuff that they're pushing, when you see the lies that they've done, when they're winning Pulitzer Prizes for their incredible coverage of Russia, Russia, Russia, even though all of it end up being a lie, it didn't matter.

00:50:52.000 I guess the writing was nice.

00:50:54.000 It served its purpose, you know, again, being propagandists.

00:50:59.000 What are your thoughts on that, Steve?

00:51:01.000 I know, you know, I got some outrage from, of course, those people who are likely to be displaced.

00:51:04.000 But if more people are getting their news from these podcasts, from these other trusted sources, if those people aren't then lying to their audience and they're frankly, you know, they don't have, you know, permanent licenses from the government to have these kind of things.

00:51:17.000 They've built up those bases on their own in the last few years.

00:51:20.000 You know, I think it's actually a great idea.

00:51:22.000 It's actually a way for more people to have actual knowledge, you know.

00:51:26.000 What is it?

00:51:27.000 Democracy dies in darkness, but no one's reading the Washington Post anymore.

00:51:30.000 They've lost 50% of their readership in the last few years.

00:51:35.000 What are your thoughts on that?

00:51:36.000 What do you think makes the most sense?

00:51:38.000 I think following on what you've been talking about, it's structure and process.

00:51:43.000 Number one, You've been in the West Wing so many times.

00:51:47.000 Why we have the media sitting on top of the Oval Office, the President's Office.

00:51:51.000 Because that's how they get their leaks, Steve.

00:51:53.000 Exactly.

00:51:54.000 And they take some low-level staffer out to dinner for a steak dinner, so it doesn't seem like a bribe, but it basically is.

00:51:59.000 Number one, I think in the White House compound, you have the beautiful old State Department and War Department across the street, which is now the executive office building.

00:52:07.000 It's on the compound.

00:52:08.000 You're inside the gate.

00:52:09.000 You move over.

00:52:11.000 People forget that Jack Kennedy, which is really the gold standard for the press conference, started at the State Department and then went across the street to the EOB. You move all of it away from, and I actually say rebuild the pool that was downstairs that Jack Kennedy used so well.

00:52:28.000 There's a lot of action in that pool and it wasn't swimming.

00:52:32.000 I know it's a family hour show, so we'll save that for later.

00:52:37.000 But you move them from there, being on top of people, you move them across the street, you get more space, you have that beautiful auditorium.

00:52:46.000 So, number one, they're out of the building, and they're there, and they can have bigger offices, they can have more people.

00:52:51.000 There's plenty of room over there to let them have more people, bigger staffs.

00:52:53.000 We want more coverage, more international people, more the merrier.

00:52:56.000 You do include, you have to include the Joe Rogans and the streaming services, the Tucker Carlson show, all of it.

00:53:04.000 War Room, we would have, of course, everybody gets it now.

00:53:07.000 When you actually do the press conferences in the bigger room, I believe that you have to put, and I think this is a outreach to younger people, because if you look at the average age of Fox and MSC and CNN, it's now 69 to 70 years old.

00:53:23.000 Under 35 is not even cable.

00:53:25.000 You have to go, the Rogan show, Tucker, all these different shows and podcasters, David, all of those guys are in the first or second row, right?

00:53:36.000 The mainstream media, Third or fourth row, right?

00:53:39.000 And kind of, you know, you get called on when you get called on.

00:53:42.000 I think we have to be very aggressive in this.

00:53:44.000 I think you're doing it for the American people in access.

00:53:46.000 I also think you're sending a message.

00:53:48.000 We're not going on your agenda anymore.

00:53:50.000 You don't set the agenda for this.

00:53:53.000 President Trump sets the agenda.

00:53:55.000 And here's what the agenda is going to be.

00:53:56.000 Bigger auditorium.

00:53:58.000 It looks great.

00:53:59.000 It's got better sound.

00:54:01.000 We have a bigger room.

00:54:02.000 More people coming.

00:54:03.000 Not...

00:54:04.000 30 people crammed down that little space where the mainstream media takes it on.

00:54:07.000 Maybe you got a Newsmax guy in the last row or, you know, Breitbart's got a guy in the last row.

00:54:12.000 That's not right.

00:54:13.000 Spread it out.

00:54:14.000 Get more and more international.

00:54:16.000 We want all of Asia. 0.90

00:54:17.000 We want all the world.

00:54:18.000 Let them see President Trump every day, a briefing by the press secretary.

00:54:21.000 And guess what?

00:54:22.000 In the fourth or fifth row, in the medium seats, you got the New York Times, Washington Post, and guess what?

00:54:29.000 The coverage will be 10 times better.

00:54:31.000 It'll be dynamic.

00:54:32.000 It'll be urgent.

00:54:33.000 It'll also keep them honest, because I see how those clips used to fly.

00:54:38.000 You know how it is online, right?

00:54:39.000 The first two guys that get the clip, they make it go viral with whatever narrative they want, and then everyone else is basically rinse and repeat, cut and pasting, whatever it may be.

00:54:47.000 You have more people in the room that mainstream media tries doing that, where they're manipulating...

00:54:52.000 They play the first half of the answer, but not the second half that's the disclaimer language that actually explains what's really going on.

00:54:58.000 It's two different narratives.

00:55:00.000 I think just having that expansion...

00:55:04.000 Frankly, it keeps everyone honest, but mostly the people who have been manipulating.

00:55:07.000 So I agree with your idea a million percent.

00:55:10.000 And I hope that the comms teams over there, I hope we're in the execution part of this and not debating it.

00:55:16.000 To me, it's not debatable.

00:55:17.000 Move them out of the building, get them.

00:55:19.000 They're underfoot to President Trump.

00:55:20.000 It's not acceptable.

00:55:21.000 They're underfoot.

00:55:22.000 Get them out of the building.

00:55:24.000 Give them more space.

00:55:25.000 And then let's have a bigger auditorium.

00:55:27.000 When President Trump goes over to a press conference, it kind of replicates what Kennedy did.

00:55:31.000 And I think it's better optics and a better process.

00:55:35.000 Yeah.

00:55:36.000 So, you know, you said it's the Trump agenda, but as we wrap up here, give me the Steve Bannon war room minute one agenda for January 20th.

00:55:45.000 Tom Holman told me to expect shock and awe, which I like.

00:55:49.000 God knows we need it because it's been so bad for far too long.

00:55:53.000 What do you think?

00:55:54.000 What's the Bannon minute one agenda?

00:55:56.000 I think it's Homan and Miller on everything we're dealing in, 50 or 60 executive orders regarding that.

00:56:02.000 I think it's also on the economy.

00:56:04.000 I think it's an immediate spending freeze.

00:56:06.000 You cap everything in an executive order immediately, full stop.

00:56:09.000 Besant, Navarro, you know, all the...

00:56:14.000 National Economic Council, everybody coming together for the plan, working with the House on appropriations to get a budget for President Trump immediately.

00:56:21.000 And then on the wars, quite frankly, I think you set up, you start, President Trump says, I want to sit down with people, right?

00:56:30.000 I'll go there if I have to.

00:56:31.000 I'd rather have you come here to the White House.

00:56:33.000 Also, in the deportations, I think he immediately calls for a summit, either in Mar-a-Lago or down the Rio Grande Valley, where he has the frontline nations, Mexico, Latin America, President Trump, you think he's good on stage, he's best in the room.

00:56:46.000 And what I think in the first 100 days, we all think, he should be in the room with the key decision makers in the Third World War to shut down the kinetic part right away.

00:56:57.000 Also, the invasion of the southern border, that all, to me, should be in the first 48 hours.

00:57:03.000 I'd also, since it's a Monday, I would, you know, maybe the next day or the day after is call Congress back.

00:57:08.000 He goes up there.

00:57:09.000 He gives his inaugural address.

00:57:12.000 And he goes back, he goes to Congress and gives that.

00:57:14.000 The only thing I will say about the inaugural address, and this is a strong recommendation, last time I think it would have been better if I did the whole thing.

00:57:20.000 The speech this time, I think he starts and gives a traditional speech to the people and this huge crowd that's going to be there.

00:57:26.000 I would strongly recommend halfway through just pivot the podium and turn to the political class of Washington.

00:57:34.000 With the people to his back, and he goes through, bang, bang, bang.

00:57:39.000 I want to make sure you guys are looking at me when I walk through what I want to do.

00:57:42.000 Bang, bang, bang. 0.89

00:57:43.000 The crowd supports him.

00:57:45.000 He turns the podium back around, finishes the speech.

00:57:48.000 He's put everybody on notice.

00:57:49.000 As your father has a great saying I always love, no games, no games.

00:57:54.000 So we just do the no games 100 days.

00:57:58.000 We're going to hit it with muzzle velocity, and I think this country is going to be saved.

00:58:02.000 Okay, so some people are getting it.

00:58:04.000 So, you know, what kind of confidence do you have in sort of the Republican House with, you know, a three-seat majority and a Senate with a three-seat majority?

00:58:10.000 You know, do they get that message?

00:58:12.000 Did they hear the mandate from the American people?

00:58:15.000 I mean, you know, I'd question some of that given sort of the attacks on some of the appointees so far.

00:58:21.000 I think we've won that back over again in large part due to, you know, Our audience is going after and having the backs of these appointees.

00:58:31.000 Do you think those people will be along for the ride?

00:58:34.000 Because that has not traditionally been the case.

00:58:36.000 To the degree that the cartel members, the swamp, can defer or delay action, they're going to do it.

00:58:43.000 I think we may have to reiterate what happened last week.

00:58:47.000 So the audience has got to know that you're not going to sit at home and just get the popcorn, right?

00:58:51.000 The audience here is probably the most active part of this at all, because they're going to have to continually, particularly for the first 100 days or six months, let political Washington know they have the president's back and they want to see these actions.

00:59:06.000 No.

00:59:07.000 I think it's going to be very tough.

00:59:08.000 That's why...

00:59:09.000 Given the slim majorities, although I do think we're going to get some Democrats and all these things, and in the Senate, and the Senate to me is still where Mitch McConnell can fight a rearguard action, I believe you're going to see President Trump, who's the best negotiator, lay out a plan, get everybody on board and say, we're marching this way, guys.

00:59:29.000 Line up and line up in back of me.

00:59:31.000 And he's going to have the back.

00:59:32.000 He's going to have, MAGA's going to have his back.

00:59:34.000 And so I think, you know, he's got a lot of political muscle.

00:59:37.000 So, as Frank Pantangeli said in The Godfather, let's hit him now while we're strong.

00:59:41.000 That's where I think coming out of there, that first day, that's where I love what Holman and Miller are talking about.

00:59:46.000 Let's show them shock and awe across the board.

00:59:48.000 I love it.

00:59:49.000 Steve, thank you so much for joining us, guys.

00:59:51.000 Make sure to check out Bannon's War Room.

00:59:53.000 You guys are going to love that.

00:59:55.000 Obviously, the home team, part of the same movement.

00:59:57.000 Promise me one thing.

00:59:58.000 Yeah.

00:59:59.000 Please promise me you'll execute what you've laid out for the media.

01:00:03.000 If we do that...

01:00:05.000 Listen, it's a top priority.

01:00:06.000 I got to get everyone else to play along.

01:00:08.000 You know, my father will always make up his own mind.

01:00:10.000 I think sometimes he's like, it's just easy for me to walk to the other room rather than across the street.

01:00:13.000 So that could be as simple as the decision-making process.

01:00:16.000 But no, I think to actually get honest and fair coverage, it's almost a prerequisite.

01:00:22.000 So I'll be pushing for that.

01:00:24.000 I'll call Caroline Levitt right now.

01:00:28.000 All right, buddy.

01:00:29.000 Be well.

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