Stephen K. Bannon (5:05)
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Wednesday, the 11th of December, in the year of our Lord 2024. Welcome to the War Room. We're pretty packed today and this evening already because there's so much going on, you know, between the transition, what's happening down in Mar a Lago and West Palm beach, then up here in Washington, D.C. transition offices. Also the fighting for the Trump agenda and President Trump's cabinet and other picks on Capitol Hill. Other nonsense going on at Capitol Hill, not much of it productive, I might add. And then geopolitically, remember the three lines of work. Let's go back to the basics. Every day we frame it around. This is the beginning stages of the Third World War, what we call the kinetic part of the Third World War happening and being the center. Although the main thing in the dispositive question is always geopolitically in the 21st century, who's going to win, the Chinese Communist Party or the American Republic? Everything should be thought of in that context. The arc of instability going from Russia, particularly southern Russia, we've turned into kind of a battlefield around Kursk and other places that are famous from the Second World War on the Eurasian landmass now all the way down through Romania, Ukraine, Romania, the Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Tom Barak, a close friend of mine and a warrior who was also imprisoned unjustly and had the courage to go to court, took a trial and won acquittal. Tom Barracks announced yesterday as the ambassador to Turkey, of course, kg, a dear friend of the show, and a dear friend of mine, announced as the ambassador to Greece. That shows the importance of President Trump. These are two people very close to President Trump. Greece and Turkey, all the way through Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, you know, Babylon, Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates. You've heard a couple of those names before, maybe from like the Old Testament all the way through, you know, Saudi, Persia, to the north, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea. That arc of instability is now at the forefront. Pesavi is going to join us later. Overnight or yesterday, $50 billion of your money and they're going to try to hide it. It's not totally your money. It's World Bank. No, it's your money. Billion dollars in a administration. Once you lose, it's not like you're finishing out your eight years. It's not like President Reagan where you finish out your eight years and you finish out your eight years and you're passing on in his case to Bush, kind of his third term. You should just stand down and allow the watch to be relieved like in the military. That's not what we're seeing here. On the three lines of work, the kinetic part of the Third World War, finances in debt and then, and then everything to do with the southern border. So we got Berquam in Mexico, we have EJ and Tony, inflation numbers a day, terrible, rising his head back up, Bidenomics to be foisted upon you. And of course, the Third World War. If you look at the three big lines of work that President Trump has to sort out to get to remember we want to get through this to the sunlit uplands of peace and prosperity. How does President Trump get there and how does he get there with the team? And so. And the resistance has started. The resistance, obviously, and the resistance you should look at as a two sides of the same coin in the way the apparatus is run. It's a neoliberal, neocon aspect of that. And that's the conventional wisdom. That's kind of the railhead of the thinking. And then you've got a progressive, particularly radical side of that on the, you know, with the congresswoman who's up there saying, we're ready for this fight, we're getting ready for this fight. These nominations we're going to, these policies, particularly on mass deportations, all of it. They're going to fight it. And when I say neoliberal, neocon, remember, FDR saved capitalism from itself. A lot of people argue that, but, you know, oh, you could have let markets go. Well, you would had, you know, mass, you know, deprivation, the coming from a working class family. I just remember my dad's stories. He died at 100 years old, but he was, I guess, 9 years old when the stock market crashed. And then he would talk about the early days of the Great Depression and how bad it got. You know, 50% of the men in their area in Norfolk were unemployed. And it's real nice to talk about theoretical, hey, here's what capitalism can do. But it's another thing when you ain't putting food on the table and you got five hungry kids, right? So the regulatory, the neoliberal was the regulatory apparatus that came in, that became and metastasized into the administrative state. The other part of that, the neocon part, was the beginning of the American empire at the end of World War II. We were the arsenal of democracy. And then we sold out the Russian people to the Bolshevik, their Bolshevik, and we sold out the Chinese people to the, to the Chinese Communist Party. And so here we are now you have a populist nationalist uprising in the United States led by President Trump. And he's being thwarted at every angle in talking about narrative in media, because this is at one major element of it. It is an information war. And you are the hoplites, are the cadre at the tip of the spear and becoming force multipliers in that war. Watching the show, listening to the show, sharing our content, pushing it out, becoming conversant in the topics we talk about and making sure that when you go to the precinct, strategy, when you start to use your agency, volunteering, becoming involved, becoming engaged, even just having, talking, you know, having morning coffee, if you got friends over for coffee or at the water cooler, at the, in the company or just in the bullpen, when you're talking, just putting forward these ideas and the backup to these ideas, it's an information war. And that end right there was an interesting piece. And we hopefully may play some clips that we have time, although we're already pretty overwhelmed on this show. We're going to go from North Carolina all the way to Syria and talk about what's going and everything in between right there. The end was. And this is the difference between the old and the new. The old is kind of James Carville. And you see these guys all the time from the Clinton Obama administration up there. Let them just talk smack. Carville. If you look at Carver before November 5, he was sitting there. But Trump doesn't have a chance. Trump's off ashes. Trump's a dictator. Trump's people are garbage. They're nothing but brown shirts. On and on and on. So you line a demarcation, and it's one of the reasons that MSNBC's ratings have imploded. And CNN's kind of CNN didn't have much of an artist anyway. Msnbc, the really other side of us on the information war, have imploded. Why? They oversold. Two thirds of their audience is still in shock. They were told flat out, trump's a fascist. Trump's a dictator. The American people don't support him. This thing's over. So when North Carolina flipped late in the evening, I'm not So sure, because we were doing our own show. I'm not so sure. Rachel Maddow and this guy stayed past midnight. I think they got out of town before Trump was, you know, was deemed the winner. But their audience is, like, sitting there going, they're finally awakening to the fact that they were lied to. They were lied to. Now you hear them say, well, you know, the Harris campaign knew they were behind all these geniuses. Oh, yeah, we knew we were behind, et cetera, et cetera. But they never informed their people of that. We played like we were behind the entire time. One of the things, I'm so proud of this audience. Look, I was in federal prison up until a week of it, and we didn't miss a beat. You know, Mo's here riding shotgun with me for a couple days. We had the annual Christmas party of the war room last night when we had to. And we. I think the speed. I have a talk out there. It's a clip. We're gonna set new lows. All I know is that, is that the restaurant that we took over and provide, I think they ran out of hard liquor at like 11 o'clock. It was a savage crowd, right? It was a savage crowd. As people know, I don't drink and partake in anything like that. So I shook a few hands, took some selfies, had a great time. Want to thank everybody that showed up and. But Mo and these folks are dragging a little bit this morning, so I think I've lost my voice because I actually, when I'm. When I'm off the show, I actually don't like to talk that much. People know I'm kind of a hermit. I'm kind of. I have a monkish, monkish thing because it just. I get so much going. I get so much, so many things going on. And I don't like to. Don't like to talk that much off of the show. Get plenty of it here, right? But I did lose my voice a little bit last night because so many old friends, new friends, a lot of staffers, a lot of people, people that make things work here in Washington, D.C. and that are helping us on many, many projects. But right there, Angela Khersoni, I think, is that Kherson from Media Matters and Media Matters was an old enemy under David Brock of Andrew Breitbart. It's totally changed. We give Madeleine Peltz over there, we give her a hard time of being our marketing director. We hope she's in good health. Madeleine. But Carzone shows you it's a much more sophisticated look at media and the information war than the standard stuff you just see on with the Carvel and these guys. Much more sophisticated. Short commercial break. Back in the worm in a moment.