Transcript
Stephen K. Bannon (0:03)
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
Raheem Kassam (0:24)
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Chris Tomlinson (0:27)
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:34)
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Chris Tomlinson (0:44)
War Room.
Jack Montgomery (0:45)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Raheem Kassam (0:55)
Welcome back to the War Room, our Boxing Day special. It is Thursday the 26th of December, the year of our Lord 2024. My name is Raheem Kassam. I'm one of the original co founders of the War Room with Stephen K. Bannon alongside Jason Miller. Feels like, feels like just yesterday. Although it was probably what I think maybe four, five, six, six years in the making. All of that, absolutely extraordinary. You know, I've worked with Steve for, gosh, 11, nearly 12 years now, starting off at Breitbart's London bureau where I brought a couple of, I brought a couple of the guys over from the old Breitbart London bureau to the National Pulse. And you're gonna meet them in this hour. Jack Montgomery and Chris Tomlinson were over there with me, you know, really at the coal face of, of Brexit and everything that we did there. And you look to today of what's going on over in Europe, what's going on in the United Kingdom, and it's everything that we were doing when we were young, when we were in our 20s, laying the groundwork for this stuff. It's all coming to fruition now. And here's the funny thing about it. I sit in front of this microphone, how often? Maybe once a year anymore. And I'm an hour into this show and I'm already got the jitters, blood energy levels spiking. I got my adrenaline going. And you just think, Steve does this every single day for four hours a day. It's an absolutely ginormous lift. I want you all to understand that, because when he's not doing, and he won't tell you any of this himself, but when he's not doing this all day long, it's phone calls and meetings and understanding exactly what's going on and Getting the historical context, I mean, it's just about probably the second busiest job, the second hardest job that you can have in politics in America. And number one is being the President of the United States. Not if you're Joe Biden, of course, because you're not really the President of the United States, but this audience, the impact that you guys have, the way that you can change the minds of people just by lighting up their phones or going on the apps and hitting them up, it's absolutely insane to me. You know, we never thought on day one, we never thought, but this is how this goes, right? It's how it always goes. I think the original CPAC meeting back in the 60s or whenever it was, was about eight people, you know, around a dining room table just saying, what are we gonna do? And when we started this show, you know, it was, it was, it was Steve, Jason and myself sitting, sitting in a basement with a couple of microphones and I had kind of jerry rigged all of this equipment over the walls to dampen the sound. You know, I was just taping it up there to try and, to try and have a little air of professionalism about the production level of the podcast. And of course, Dan Fluitt, the original, first, original producer here who's done this I'm just. Amazing book, by the way, if you don't have it yet, I got one here up in front of me. Rebels, Rogues and Outlaws. Right? It's just an amazing piece of work. Dan would, Dan would never forgive me if I didn't tell you just how much, how much I enjoyed this. And I especially enjoy it because Dan pays hyper close attention to the things that really matter. And one of the things that really mattered was who. Who's number one in the book? That Stephen K. Bannon. Who's number two in the book, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, Just remember that. Just remember that. No, my favorite, my favorite part of this is not the picture of me. Although many people would assume that it's the quote that Dan pulled out here because you didn't, you know, we didn't have anybody who's pictured in this book, didn't have anything to do with what, you know, what he attributed to you. And he says at the beginning of this, he says, quote, I am not arguing with you, I am telling you. And you know, I'm not saying that that is my approach to the world, but that is my approach to the world. And it starts with. And you've got to get this book, ladies and gentlemen. It starts with. Rahim once told Me, if I'm not in an argument with someone, I'll start one just because I'm bored. Yeah, there is a lot of truth to that. And our next guest on the show will probably have a few things to say about that as well. He's lived through some of that. When Raheem has that, I think my staff prefer it when I'm busy, when I'm on the road, when I'm giving speeches, when I'm out there doing the thing, because I don't get to scream and shout at the whole day like I do usually. But Jack Montgomery, my deputy editor over at the National Pulse, let's bring him into the conversation here. Jack, I'm jumping around a lot because there's so much to cram into this, but I want to say I hope you had a very happy Christmas. Welcome to this Boxing Day special. I'll get your thoughts on that for a start, Actually, how about that as the quote in there? I am not arguing with you. I am telling you. Is that not just perfect, Jack?
