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Stephen K. Bannon
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Pam Bondi
It's going to happen.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Jim Rickards
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen k. Band.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Dave Brat
Thank you, thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
The posse loves you. Thank you. God, they're always protected. They're very protective. They're very good people. They're very protective of the weak. They're very protective of the weak. Grab the mic that' Rickards, first off, geopolitically, and I don't even want to address the Gaza thing. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to take the bait. President Trump. I'm not going to take in the bait. Ukraine, though, Zelensky's up on Piers Morgan saying this very crude thing about Tucker Carlson and Putin the day after he gives a interview to the Associated Press, says, hey, I only got 77 billion dollars. I don't know. I know you allocated 179, which is wrong because it's 250 billion. He's saying, now I only got 77 billion. And you need to send troops, money. I need troops from England for. I need a security guarantee. I need all this. And President Trump, we keep advising these guys, hey, cut bait now. Cut bait now. Because all they're doing is sucking you in day by day. And there's a little miscommunication because General Kellogg, who I love, he's out there and he's making it seem like we're going to have a longer term commitment to Ukraine, where President Trump is laying out an Admiral Mahan strategy from Greenland to the Panama Canal, where we're going to have hemispheric defense against the Russian navy and the Chinese navy with the three island chains in the Pacific and kind of hermetically seal the United States. What is it and how dire is the situation looking in Ukraine and what would you advise the President of the United States?
James Rickards
Sir, the situation in Ukraine is dire from the point of view of NATO, the US or the Trump administration. My concern, Steve, is that there are what I call five or six myths floating out there. These myths are promoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post and Financial Times, and the economists and others. They come from the intelligence community. They're lies because that's what they do. The intelligence community just lies. People just need to think about that when they hear anything from an intelligence source. Their professional liar has been doing it for 70 years in five years. So the mis. Mislead people into what the strategy should be. So the idea that, you know, these, you know, these wonder weapons, every single one of them has failed. I don't have to get on the list. You know, Bradley fighting vehicles, Abrams tanks, the left burning on the battlefield. Patriot missile batteries, $1 billion apiece. Russians have blown up seven of them with hypersonic missiles. F16, you don't hear about. That's because they're getting shot down. So it's a long list, but I can leave it at that. These. These weapons don't work. Makes you wonder if NATO could even defend itself, let alone helping Ukraine, which they're clearly not doing. The war is not a stalemate. That's another one of these myths. Russia is advancing across the entire line of battle from. From the. From the south in Tarask, all the way to Kupiansk. The Kursk salient that Ukraine created when they invaded the Russian Federation is now surrounded. They're going to have two choices. Surrender or die. They will be annihilated. So Russia moves slowly, but they're lethal and methodical, and they're winning the war. There's very little standing between Russia, the Russian Federation going all the way to the Dnipro river at this point. So basically, Ukraine has lost the war. So what does Trump do? And that's really. That's really the issue. And this is my concern. I analyzed this, and I came up with three choices. Number one, you can accept you can end the war pretty much with a phone call. Trump said that he's right, but he hasn't really acted on it. You basically accept Putin's terms with a little face saving, you know, window dressing, whatever. That's choice number one. Choice number two, you just keep fighting, keep giving them more weapons, more money, et cetera. And then choice number three is you escalate, which puts us on the path to World War three. Now, I think choice number three is off the table in the sense that that was promoted by Victoria Newland, Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, usaid, they're in the news now, but they financed a lot of this, so I think we can take that off the table. But here's the danger. Choice one. I mean, what are Putin's terms? They haven't changed in four years. He said them before the war started, before the special military operation. He said them recently in his New Year's speech. He wants Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, denazification. And there are neo Nazis. They walk around with the SS insignia. They're real. I actually spoke to someone at the Marshall foundation about that. And no NATO membership. So neutrality, no NATO, demilitarization, denazification hasn't changed now. What has changed is the territorial settlement. They've been fighting for almost three years. Russian casualties, you can debate it. My estimate is 100,000, based on sources other than the Russian Defense Ministry. Some say higher. I don't think they are that much higher. Ukrainian casualties, probably 700,000, paid a very high price. Putin is not going to give back those territories. Obviously, Crimea is integrated with the Russian Federation at this point, but Donetsk, Luhansk, Khershan, and Savvy Syria, he's not giving them back. So basically, you kind of go in with that. Now, my concern is that Trump's advisers, including General Kellogg, Mike Walson, others good people, are going to say, hey, let's get better terms. So let's keep fighting for a while until we can get better terms, which you're not going to get. This is exactly what happened to Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam. Dwight Eisenhower started that war, John F. Kennedy escalated it. Johnson inherited it. He could have got out. There are ways to do that. He didn't. It destroyed his presidency, destroyed his legacy, and finally, Richard Nixon ended it. But that took several more years. So the point is, Trump's at that Lyndon Johnson point right now. He can get out, and he should. But my fear is that his advisers are going to say, let's keep fighting a little while longer, get some better terms, and then we'll cut a deal with Putin. By the way, financial sanctions won't work. Why do I say that? They've done 15 rounds of sanctions. They've been doing sanctions, hard ones, for three years. Do you think another round of sanctions is going to make a difference? The Russian economy is growing faster than the US Economy. The currency is stable, the reserve position, yet we stole the treasury bills, but they have 25% of it in gold bullion that you can't freeze or seize. The only economic problem the Russians have is a little bit of inflation because their economy is operating beyond full capacity. They. They're making, I'll say, 10 times, but probably 50 times the weapons that we are. We can't Resupply our arsenal so the war is lost. From Ukraine's perspective, there is a way out with a little face saving. But my concern is that Trump's not going to take that option.
Stephen K. Bannon
And so your, your recommendation is cut bait now before Zelensky to the table. Make the best that you possibly can, hopefully get the Russian army to back off to, because now they control 30% of the country. You got to get them to back, you got to get them to retreat, pull back to Donbas, the eastern Russian speaking provinces in Crimea. So it's going to be a tough because, you know, the Russian Russians have a, have a history of not retreating from where their tanks end up. Right? I mean, World War II, that's how they took Eastern Europe. And we and all the Marxists and communists in the, in KGB agents in the State department, in the FDR's White House basically accommodated them. Is, is how tough should President Trump be on meeting Zelensky's demand? Because Zelensky is sitting there today saying, hey, no territory will give up at all. I realize the negotiating position, but it's so insane where we are with a million dead. And President Trump read it yesterday, a million dead or wounded Ukrainians. So which is it? Do we cut bait now or do we stick around and try to give them the best deal possible?
James Rickards
I would say the best deal possible is the same as cutting bait. In other words, why should, why should Putin put yourself in Putin's position. Why should Putin give up any territory? They fought for two and a half years, the war is continuing, they've suffered somewhere in the six figures, but who knows how many dead. By the way, if it were 700,000 Russian dead, which is the number being thrown around, I mean, Russia would be, you know, the people would be up in arms and they're not. So to do that, I wouldn't talk to Zelensky. I would go straight to Putin. I would sit down, whether it's, you know, back channel or a summit meeting, whatever, then I would strike a deal. And then I would tell Zelensky, this is the deal. By the way, fighting for democracy. Zelensky's term, he was elected, his five year term expired last night. He's been a military dictator. We're not even, we're not even fighting for democracy. He's a military dictator. So, so I wouldn't, I wouldn't even include Zelensky. I would talk to Putin, cut a deal, cut bait, as you put it, and then just tell Zelensky, here's the deal and if you don't like it, you take go to your house in Miami or Dubai.
Dave Brat
I agree with everything James just said and I'm going over there talk. I think the Ukrainians are already I'm speaking on a panel on Ukrainian regional economic growth. Right. And the regional part is a giveaway. All the imf, the World bank, the USAID set up after the World War II and the Bretton woods liberal world order. If they originally they had technocrats with brains in their head, now they got CIA running the world and chopping everybody up in pieces. Right. And people US Senators are scared to talk. So I'm going to encourage the Ukrainians to choose the free market system, to focus on capital and getting an engine going. If we would have done that in Africa and around the world, these elitist institutions, instead they did virology experiments, green energy experiments, anything to enrich the elitist west, the Europeans, but nothing to help these countries become independent and to achieve modern economic growth. And that's what they need to do. And on top of that, the Ukrainians are a hugely Christian country. They had a prayer breakfast. They prayed to Jesus with their military and president and everybody present. So they got their heads on straight. But the, the west has been putting undue pressure on them. And I'm over to, I'm going to go over and try to sort out some of that.
Stephen K. Bannon
They're trying to co op, Brad, but I'll talk, I'll get his mind right. Jim, we're going to break here and stick around. We're going to talk the financial situation, capital markets. We've got Brad, who's who's on the short list over at Treasury, I guess now that Jason Trenor is gone. Assistant secretary for financial markets. Amazing. Jason Trenor, strategist and one of the great contributors to the show. We got about 45 seconds. Jim. Where do they go to get your newsletter? Sir.
James Rickards
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Stephen K. Bannon
Jim, you stick around. We're going to talk. In fact, Johnson's been after the conference, was getting lit up by the press. He said a few words about Elon Musk and what Doge is doing. We're going to talk about Doge, we're talking about capital markets and talk about cutting, cutting spending. Are we kidding ourselves? I got three of the best Jim Rickards, Dave Brat. I guess I got through myself three by three. Where is Trenor? Trying to come back from Treasury. I need a third short. Commercial break Back in the warm. In a moment, have you seen the news from economists forecasting a depression? I'm not talking recession. I mean depression by the year 2030. We're in a perfect storm as Social Security and Medicare hit a breaking point with the largest generation hitting retirement. A smaller workforce means a smaller tax base. Pair that with our growing national debt and rising cost of living and you got a problem. And I mean a big problem. So what are you going to do now to protect your family for the future? Gold is a safe haven in hard economic times, and Birch Gold makes it easy to diversify a portion of your savings into physical gold. Birch Gold will help you Transition an existing IRA or 401k into an IRA in gold, and it doesn't cost you a penny out of pocket. Protect your future and protect it today. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898. Get your free info kit on gold and a copy of the Ultimate Gold Guide for the Trump Era. That's the Ultimate Gold Guide for Gold in the Trump Era with Forward by Donald J. Trump Jr. There's no obligation. This is only information. Birch Gold has earned the trust of countless Americans looking to safeguard their savings. You can count on them, too. Text my name, Bannon, to number 989898. Remember, the ultimate guide for Investing in Gold in the Trump Era, Forward by Don junior Birch Gold. Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, the engine room is on fire. Remember, we have about 25. I have 25 very smart people that text me during engine room and they always got great comments to tell me to focus on what I'm number one. A great comment from the engine room. And this was a very experienced operator. This is for Jim Rickards, a guy I worked with quit the CIA after 23 years. When he told me this is my colleague, quote, I knew I had to leave when I was lying to my mother and I didn't have to. Jim Rickards are trained to lie. Also the engine room and I say this Captain Funnell's talent just told me. Tell brat taking the fight to the commies over at the Atlantic Council. Fight, fight, fight.
Dave Brat
Go for now. Good. Good.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're taking, you're, you're bringing the gospel truth there a bunch of, a bunch of secular atheist, humanist.
Dave Brat
Yep, yep.
Stephen K. Bannon
Selling America out. That's the global. That's Davos. That's the Atlantic Council is Davos of thing in America.
Dave Brat
I'm going to give him a little Switzerland Johnny Calvin. We'll see how they like that.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's old school. That's old school. Slnt.com silent don't let the security forces USAID and who they're financing. Listen to you get the Faraday bags for your computer, your iPad, your iPhone. All of it made by a family that's dedicated. This, this is their business. Been at it for a long time. Silent. It's slnt.combannock get a big discount when you go but go to the site, check it all out. Don't have them reading your text messages, your emails because they will do it in a second. Non state actors and state actors particularly. They know you're watching the show. Just kidding. Do we have Johnson? Okay, here's what I want to do. The free offer for strategic intelligence. He's thrown in a book as only Rickards can do. Rickards got me when we wrote Currency War back in I think 2010 or something. This after the crash. Money, GPT, AI and the threat to the global economy. Now look, Jim Rickards is got as you can tell. We see he's got a few scars on him. He's been around the block. He's not a kid. He's not one of these Doge engineers. And listen, on one level what, what Elon is doing is terrific because he's got him on their back foot. He is in there looking at the plumbing. He's and I think telling the president here's how the system works. He's identifying opportunities. He's taking down big things like you know, USAID is a cutout of the CIA. It's been financing bad stuff against the American people, including as we proved yesterday, these NGOs on the invasion of the United States. But is going to come into this and I want to, I want to go to Speaker Johnson's first his response this morning then bring Rickards in. Is there an inconsistency by Republicans on one hand where we've for years now. Oh, we want to not have unelected.
Chad
Bureaucrats in charge of things downtown. And yet ceding Article 1 powers to the Executive branch under Elon Musk. Is there not an inconsistency about calling.
Stephen K. Bannon
For the elimination of the Department of Education?
Chad
And yet we've heard from some of our colleagues here this morning, you know.
Stephen K. Bannon
We don't want women to be playing sports with men.
Chad
And aren't you ceding back that power then, as it pertains to education, if you eliminate the Department of Education? No. Look, I got to challenge the premise of the question, Chad. You know me. I'm a fierce advocate and defender of Article 1. I mean, look, we are the legislative branch. There's a reason the Founding Fathers put the Congress, the legislative branch, as the first article in the Constitution, and we're going to vigorously defend that. But what's happening right now? I think there's a gross overreaction in the media to what is happening. The executive branch of government in our system has the right to evaluate how executive branch agencies are operating and to ensure that not only the intent of Congress in funding mechanisms, but also the stewardship of precious American taxpayer dollars is being handled. Well, that's what they're doing by putting a pause on some of these agencies and by evaluating them, by doing these internal audits. That is a long overdue, much welcomed development. That's what the American people demand and deserve, and that's what's happening. So we don't see this as a threat to Article 1 at all. We see this as an active, engaged, committed executive branch authority doing what the executive branch should do.
Stephen K. Bannon
Before I go to Rickards, explain to the audience, particularly some of our new viewers, Article one. Article two.
Dave Brat
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
And why this is now getting to be an issue. And Johnson takes the high ground right there defending Article 1 in the legislative.
Dave Brat
Yeah, I'm glad to hear him say that. Right. We, we've been critical here on the war room of the House and the Senate and the budgeting process and the $7 trillion Nancy Pelosi woke and weaponized and Paul Ryan and McCarthy. And it's. These changes are long overdue. So now they're coming from the executive Branch. Right. And so the Congressional branch. Right. Congress is closest to the people. Right. So that. That's key. But.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, the House of Representatives.
Dave Brat
The House of Representatives, that's the House of Commons. And part of this, you know, I hate to say this as a populist, but part of this goes to the American people. If you keep putting in Congress members who vote for $7 trillion budgets, sooner or later the moral case comes down on the American people for keeping these people in you've seen the usaid. Joni Ernst is scared of usaid. So Mike is saying, hey, the executive is doing what they do. You pointed out every day on the show, Trump is the CEO, he's the.
Stephen K. Bannon
Head, has full authorization to designate OMB to have an advisor like an Elon Musk and Doge to go through. And look at all this usaid. Is that, is that stepping on when they're talking about shutting down and they frozen out people at USAID out of the building, is that stepping on Article 1 power, sir?
Dave Brat
No, no. And the USAID, for example, since it's all the hotlines, right, that's going under the State Department. The State Department is under Rubio, and that's under President Trump. He's a secretary under the president of the United States. The left has just been good at steamrolling us. They basically do what we're doing now to us every day. They take ground, they move down the football field. For the last 30 years, they've taken everything in God's out of the school. There's no ethics in the school. Right. So people get on my case about the Judeo Christian west and all that kind of thing. I don't care. We got nothing in the public schools right now except the 12% literacy rate in downtown Chicago. So we need every audit. The Federal Reserve needs to be audited. My good friend Thomas Massie's all over that thing. I hope they audit the Federal Reserve. I hope they audit this Ukraine funding. It's totally out of whack. Everything we're seeing from all of our major institutions, you hope they do a.
Stephen K. Bannon
Lot of stuff, but are they going to do it if the Article 1, if Doge is sitting there and steam, do you believe, yes or no, that Doge is steamrolling the rights and privileges of the legislative branch?
Dave Brat
Not at all. Okay. And the legislator can speak up if they feel that way, but they're not.
Stephen K. Bannon
Jim Rickards, your thoughts on what Elon Musk is doing at Doge. And then I want to tie it back to what you just wrote in MoneyGPT, sir.
James Rickards
First, I agree with Dave. I think the Trump administration has been very attentive to the Constitution. For example, with regard to the Department of Education, they said, yeah, we may need an act of Congress to actually abolish the Department of Education, but that doesn't stop us from ending programs, ending disbursements, firing people, etc. So, you know, and then Doge was given the dozen. Doge is an agent. They're not actually going to shut things down. They identify things and then the appropriate officials do it. So I have to be a lawyer. I think they've been very attentive to the law and I don't think they're running over the Constitution at all.
Stephen K. Bannon
I want to go back to Money GPT Axios is reporting today that what Elon Musk in the particular junior people are they're going to infuse a lot of artificial intelligence into the systems. They're. They're analyzing the systems of OMB which I think they've already let people know are fairly inefficient not as efficient as people thought to manage or to oversee how the money goes programmatically. Then on the checkbook side I think they're also telling people they think this is relatively rudimentary about how checks are written. There's a lot of things about being auto pay maybe checks going to and I don't know this is a fact I'm saying what people are saying that maybe going to places don't even exist anymore programs not so there looks like they're going to in the entire reworking of the federal government and their analysis Jim it's to infuse artificial intelligence into elements into the system. Now if I read Money GPT I might say yo, maybe we ought to think about that because you're not particularly a you're not high fiving having artificial intelligence really into the capital markets like it looks like it's coming sir.
James Rickards
Right. Thing is Steve when it comes to financial catastrophes if I wasn't there it didn't happen. I've been involved in everyone going back to 1974 in the bank her style collapse. So that's my background. What I say about AI I'm not anti AI, I'm not a technophobe. It'll do a lot of good and I understand that but there's a lot of danger. What I'm doing in the book Money GPT is really sounding a warning in particular. Basically there's something called the legacy of accumulation. What it says is that something that is a perfect strategy for an individual can be catastrophic at scale. So if I'm in a baseball game and the guy in front of me is too tall, he's got a hat and I stand up, I have a better view but the person behind me stands up and next thing you know the whole stadium is on their feet. Nobody has a better view and everyone's worse off because we're all standing up. When you apply that to stock trading an individual if you have the beginning of a market meltdown or some kind of market crash, for an individual selling your position, going to cash, going to the sidelines can make very good sense. And then wait it out and come back in at the bottom and make some money. That's a good strategy. But if you do that in the aggregate, everybody is selling all at once. There are no buyers. The markets go straight through the circuit breakers and straight through the floor. My point about artificial intelligence is that it's already in the system. I mean, whether we apply it to OMB or Office of Personal Management, there may be some applications there, but on Wall street, it's in the system. Financial advisors just look at screens. They talk to you about your kids and your goals and all that stuff, but they're, they're basically all getting the portfolio allocation from a screen and they're all the same. So basically, this is in now. This is not a case of artificial intelligence malfunctioning. My point is that the artificial intelligence will work exactly as it's intended. And that's the problem, because they don't take into account human nature, which hasn't changed in 50,000 years. But when you take human nature, which kind of wants to run and hide in a panic and put AI on top of it, you're accelerating and amplifying it in ways that people don't understand. So I lay that out. I have a whole scenario in the book. Hopefully people enjoy it. I think it's very clear. And then I also talk about a few other things. Censorship and bias, but also nuclear war fighting, which is another topic.
Stephen K. Bannon
So you get this book for totally free when you sign up for Strategic Intelligence. Where do people go to get the offer? Jim?
James Rickards
Thanks, Davis. @rickardswarroom.com Rickardswarroom.com you'll be able to subscribe and get a free book.
Stephen K. Bannon
Rickards with an S. Jim Rickards, thank you, brother, for the insights. Strategic Intelligence. Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. Dave, Brett's going to be with me. We're going to drill down a little more on this, on what is what we need to focus on. Government runs out of money on the 14th. They're already doing emergency. That runs out of money legally. Right. They're already doing emergency measures over at treasury right now to make sure we got cash because the debt ceiling has not been lifted. Hello, short break. We've seen all the headlines. Cyber attacks on our power grids, drones in the sky, violent attacks on everyday Americans. The ugly truth is no leader, no system can protect you from everything. And the last thing I want is to be standing in line. Depending on help that may never come. And when crisis hits, food is always the first casualty. Everyone needs it and panic buying makes things worse. You remember this from the pandemic. That's why I've made sure my family is prepared with my Patriot supply and their four week emergency food kit. It gives you the nutrition you need to stay strong in a crisis. With 2000 calories per day and 100% of your daily value of 12 essential vitamins and minerals, this kit helps keep you going when every meal matters. Right now they're offering 50 bucks off their four week food kit. Go to mypatronsupply.com now to grab yours. Don't put this off. Now is the time prepared. That's my patronsupply.com to get your four week food kit today. Make sure you're prepared. The crisis is here. While we may have won this election, the fight to restore our great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to take a stand and Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. Only America's Christian conservative wireless provider, Patriot Mobile offers a way to vote with your wallet without compromising on quality or convenience. Patriot Mobile isn't just about providing exceptional cell phone service. It's a call to action to defend our rights and our freedoms. With Patriot Mobile, you get outstanding nationwide coverage because they operate on all three major networks. If you have a cell phone service today, you can get cell phone service from Patriot Mobile with a coverage guarantee. But the difference is every dollar you spend supports the first and Second Amendments, the sanctity of life and our veterans and first responders. Switching is easy. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Their 100% US based customer service support team will help you find the perfect plan. Now. Right now, go to patriotmobile.com Bannon or call 972 Patriot. So call 972 Patriot or go to patriotmobile.com Bannon. You get a free month of service. That's a free month with promo code. Bannon. Switch to Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom with every call and texts you make. Visit patriotmobile.com Bannon or call 972 Patreon. Remember, you get a free month of service. Do it today.
Jim Rickards
War room.
Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Okay, I want to get back because this is okay signal, not noise. I want to make sure the audience because you're the gatekeepers and the job you've done over the last couple of days of President Trump's appointments are just been amazing. Mainstream media is blown away. People on Capitol Hill have blown away. But the intensity of the war in posse, the turning point crowd article three, Mike Davis, others using Bill Blaster or just good old fashioned calling them up as a as they call have been extraordinary. And Dave, Brett, you know how much that works and this has gotten President Trump's bonding. And by the way, if Pam goes into the Oval, they do a press avail. Let's, let's kind of cut to that if we got it. Brian Glenn's over there right now. Natalie will be there this afternoon. Tons going on. But so we hit the debt ceiling right away because this had Biden and remember the secretary of treasury was gun decking everything to turn over to Scott Bessant Yellen. So we've hit the debt ceiling and now he's using emergency measures which I think are fine because cash comes in and you pay cash out. Speaking of cash, Tax Network USA they're going to come and get their money. If you got a letter from them and I tell people this, you got a letter, do not put it in the drawer. You put it in the drawer. The penalties don't go away. The fees don't go away, the interest rates don't go away. Talk to taxnow tnusa.com go there right now, check it out. Contact those people. They'll give you a free analysis to see if they can help you. If they can help you, then get in and negotiate and maybe, maybe lessen the debt burden, maybe cut the interest rates. You don't know. It's all kind of possibilities. It's upon you to talk to them. But if you got them in the drawer that's getting bigger and bigger and bigger every day. Tax Network USA Bannon, can I get my clock there? Kind sir, thank you very much. Got to keep these people's heads in the game of time. You got brat there. They're so worried about getting Brett making sure his charts and his things. Brad's hogging the. No, but the second part of this, that's, that's a technical aspect of keeping cash flowing through the system. The on the 14th is like September 30th. We've just kicked the can down the road for six months on cars. We got a CR back before Christmas to get to March 20th or March 14th. It turns out now we're here and we're hurting up on it and nobody up on Capitol Hills do it. This is why so many Republicans didn't go down to Doral. They said they're not up here doing their job. They're down to the conference. Nothing's going to come to add insult to injury day, Brett they came out of the conference and they said we have $318 billion worth of cuts, it turns out over 10 years because they're still playing this fantasy and they come to me all the time. Well, Steve, even they go, we have to do it in 10 years. I go, no, yes, legally you have to do it. But stop talking to people like that. You're treating them like idiots. It's this year 2025 and next year 2026. We're in a crisis. We need to have it. And here's what's going to have. You're going to get up to the 14th and they're all going to collapse and we're going to have Biden's budget from last year and a $2 trillion deficit. And this is on us. We've had plenty of time to do this day. Brett.
Dave Brat
Yep. The I've been urging the House to run on a contract forever making some promises. They never want to put anything down in writing. Back when I was in two 2019, the budget was roughly four and a half trillion. Now it's six and a half trillion. So somehow we're spending two trillion more, right? So as with the Federal Reserve System, John Taylor, the genius monetary theory following Friedman is in favor of rules versus discretion. We need to put rules back on the House that hey, you guys either go do a budget or constrain yourself to a trillion dollar deficit maximum, right? Put a rule in law that if you don't hit it, it's just 10% across the board cuts or whatever it takes to get to a trillion dollar savings. Congress needs to constrain themselves. We're stealing right from the kid. It sounds like a trite phrase. We're putting the kids, your kids out there listening are going 2 trillion in debt every year, right? The deficit is 2 trillion a year. And then we have the nerve to call that government spending and economic growth. That counts in the economic growth numbers, the amount of debt you're in to your rich uncle. No family can survive that way. No business can run a business that way. And yet Congress is just not responsive to the American people. And it is tough. The Republicans are competing against Santa Claus, right? They just there's no end to modern monetary theory like Steve talks about every day to the endless fiscal.
Stephen K. Bannon
But you can see it listen, because you're not getting enough pay. You can see when the corporations, when they went to the OMB assessment of where money, you know, slow down, let's stop for a moratorium. Let's just slow down, find out what money is, right? The congressman down at Doral are getting blown up because all the constituents sitting there going, hey, vendors and people like the Meals on Wheels and the.
Dave Brat
Right, right.
Stephen K. Bannon
This is, it's, the money's everywhere in every Congressional. Their heads blew up just on seeing where the money is. What's going to happen when you have to cut.
Dave Brat
Well, where, where's the speaker and the Senate Majority Leader out talking, getting the young kids on board? They're not going to have Social Security. It's bankrupt in 12 years. Medicare is bankrupt in 12 years. Every force in economics or budgeting has a countervailing force of real people. So you've got the NGOs who are supporting an illegal invasion of our country right? Across religious institutions. The American people. If you educate them and grab the bullhorn, they will choose the side of the kids. The liberals always used to use the kids. It's always about the children, right? They'd win. They, they'd blow us out of the water on that kind of stuff. And sometimes, maybe rightly so, we need to use the kids right now in the right way, in the moral way, were ruining their futures in the United States of America. Right? And so that's why I focused on getting the engine going again. These main things, these main drivers of productivity. And I'll just close that one minute. A funny anecdote on AI, artificial intelligence. It's getting all the news and all this kind of stuff right now. The head of productivity in the country, Robert Gordon at Northwestern, probably a Democrat for the past 50 years, has productivity going down for the past 70 years, productivity in the United States going down for 70 years in a row. CBO has it going down for the next 30 years. That's why I'm emphasizing the meat and potatoes. Capital, human capital, technological growth. If we don't get that, he was asked Robert Gore back in the dot com bubble, you know, these cell phones are going to solve the world's productivity problems. Hey, Bob, don't you see technology everywhere? His response, and his response I think already to AI is yeah, I see it everywhere except in the data. It's the rich guys, the big financial firms, they can use it, they can program big data. It's very expensive, right? To train in your, your big data models. With AI intelligence, the middle class can't do that. So how are you going to embed this in small businesses? And once again, the rich get richer, the middle class pays for it while I put you out of work. And so I think Rickards had it right.
Stephen K. Bannon
Talk to me about going down to the 14th. What needs to be done now that we're within, I don't know, five weeks, six weeks we have to the appropriations bills are not done. You have the people in the Senate right now and even Murkowski and these guys saying what are we going to do here? We can't go back to our constituents and said we didn't do any work over the last really year. Folks, you got to remember this is Biden's. This was the crime kicked in before around September 30th. This is off of Biden's numbers. We went down before Christmas. Not done yet. They said let President Trump get his hands on it. That would be the Scott Besants and the Russ votes. They're slowing down Russ's, they're moving through with Russ, but they're trying to slow down Russ as much as possible. Pam Bondi I think just got sworn in. Even as we're talking here in the war room. What has to happen? Cause you're seeing frustration and more Twitter's blowing up with people are like in each other's faces saying hey, nothing's getting done. The reconciliation thing's way off track. Byron Donald just said hey look, I think the Senate's got the idea we have no leadership in the House. It's crab sideways. We have to And Byron Donalds came out and just saying what the war room's saying. He says it's got to be two and the Senate's ahead of this. We're not doing anything. It's total confusion. And the reconciliations are different than funding the government. The funding of the government, the budget has got to be done. It's got to be done by the 14th or here's what they're going to do a one year CR and we're better than that. Right. That's essentially off of Biden's numbers. So what is your advice to the House right now and to the White House? Because each is pointing the fingers at each other. Some are saying, you know, White House is not giving guidance. Others saying the House is not doing their job. President Trump went to Doral. It was very specific. He went down there, gave a talk. We covered it live for an hour and 10 minutes. Talked in depth about many topics but never mentioned reconciliation but talking. And then later the media pressed him. He said hey look, I want one big beautiful bill but I'll take two. It's their responsibility. Right. I want them to do it. I want them to come to me.
Dave Brat
Yeah. No, the, the answer, unfortunately, is political. The answer is not the budget. Russ vote is brilliant. He wrote 1.7 trillion in cuts a year or two ago. He went line by line by line through woken weaponized. So there's your rational part, right. Your wonky part that didn't do anything because if there's not a political will or a force or focus, it's not going to happen. And so, you know, the whole weight of the world is on Trump and now Doge and all these guys, and they're doing phenomenal work. Does it have to come down to Trump again? We've had speaker contests since I got in and the new speaker always promises I'm going to get 12 bills done ahead of time. And just to take the burden off the House a little bit, the Senate has been completely worthless over the past since I've been watching it close for 10 years, the Senate hasn't done any approach bills. Right. And so they need to solve the political issue, not the budget issue.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's go live let's go live to Pam Bondi. See if we can blow the brake. Let's go live to the White House.
Pam Bondi
Hello, the hello, everybody. This is a great honor and a real privilege. I'm thrilled to be here today with our nation's next incredible and she will be incredible Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. And I want to congratulate Pam. She's worked hard, so hard. And unbelievably fair and unbelievably good at law enforcement. I just want to congratulate, congratulate you very special person. And I'd also like to thank Justice Clarence Thomas and his incredible wife who is here someplace. There she is. Incredible. Highly respected wife, too, I will say I remember a couple of years ago a little bit more than that. During toward the end of my first term, I was introducing a lot of people at a big event, about 5,000 people in your biggest ballroom. You know what that is. And they were getting a nice smattering of applause. They were very important people. And then I introduced Justice Clarence Thomas. The place went crazy. And it was then that I realized that you are a very popular guy and respected guy. So thank you for being here. It's an honor and a great honor for Pam. Thank you very much. Pam was a career Prosecutor for nearly 20 years and was one of the toughest and smartest and best and most successful attorney generals in the history of Florida and I think I put it out this morning. I think she's going to end up going down as the most successful, or certainly one of the most successful attorney generals that this country has ever had. I really believe that. I know, I know her well. A lot of people in Florida, if you're in Florida, you know her well. And it was all good. It was never a problem. No problem. As a prosecutor, she locked up drug dealers and gang members and human traffickers and was waging war all the time on the pill mills, they called them, that fueled the deadly opioid crisis. And she did better than anybody else. There was nobody like her in the country. She also won over $50 billion in lawsuits for the victims of financial fraud and devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which was brutal. And she was the leader of that whole deal, getting that people taken care of. As Attorney General of the United States, Pam has a historic and urgently needed task ahead of her. And probably there's never been a time, Clarence, that's more important than right now. Went through four years of not such good, not such good work in many ways, not just not just with the president, at other levels. Also with the president. Obviously, she's going to restore fair, equal and impartial justice and restore the constitutional rule of law in America. She will lead the Democrats, you know where they're going to. She's going to lead them right down. But I think she's going to be as impartial as you can possibly be. I know I'm supposed to say she's going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats, and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be. I'm not sure if there's a possibility of totally, but she's going to be as total as you can get. Gianni Right, but she's going to be fair and she'll lead the Department of Justice in crushing violent crime, demolishing the gangs, which are all over the place. If you look at New York, if you look at Chicago, if you look at Los Angeles, which is half burned down, unfortunately, because they didn't have the water and they didn't have what they were supposed to have. Destroying the terrorist cartels is going to be a very big priority for Pam, and that leads to crime and it leads to a lot of drugs. So she's going to take care of it and she'll stop the invasion of our country and get Fentanyl off our streets. And we're going to be working with her very closely. Christine Ulm and Tom Holman and all of the people are going to be working very closely with Pam. She's going to end the weaponization of federal law enforcement and restore honesty and integrity at the DOJ and the FBI. And she's going to be working with cash, and she's going to be working with a lot of other people that you've been reading about, writing about over the last few weeks. The role of Attorney General comes with immense responsibility. But I have absolute confidence that Pam will fulfill her duties with honor and courage and strength and fairness. She's going to be fair. Going to be very fair. And now I'd like to invite Justice Thomas to administer the oath of office. And thank you all for being here. It's a great. It's a very important day, I believe, in our country's history. Thank you very much.
Stephen K. Bannon
I do solemnly swear.
Justice Clarence Thomas
I, Pamela Bondi, do solemnly swear.
Stephen K. Bannon
That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Justice Clarence Thomas
That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all.
Stephen K. Bannon
Enemies, foreign and domestic.
Justice Clarence Thomas
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Stephen K. Bannon
That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Justice Clarence Thomas
That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Stephen K. Bannon
That I take this obligation freely.
Justice Clarence Thomas
That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation. Without any mental reservation.
Stephen K. Bannon
Or purpose of evasion.
Justice Clarence Thomas
Or purpose of evasion.
Stephen K. Bannon
And that I will well and faithfully.
Justice Clarence Thomas
And that I will well and faithfully.
Stephen K. Bannon
Discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter.
Justice Clarence Thomas
Discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
Stephen K. Bannon
So help me God.
Justice Clarence Thomas
So help me God.
Stephen K. Bannon
Congratulations.
Pam Bondi
I just want to introduce her very, very handsome husband. I hate being around him. He looks too good. And he's been a tremendous factor with Pam and just a beautiful relationship. Who's here? And, Mother, look how good you look, huh? Look how good. So I just wanted to introduce them. And, Pam, have fun.
Justice Clarence Thomas
Thank. Thank you. President Trump, I've known you for many, many years, and I will not let you down. I am truly honored, honored that you have asked me to take on this role. And I will make you proud, and I will make this country proud. And I just want to thank all of my friends who are here today, my dear friends and my family, my mom, my husband, my pastor, Aaron Burke is here. So many of my good friends and my colleagues. So thank you all so much. And I will restore integrity to the Justice Department, and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make America safe again. Thank you.
Pam Bondi
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. It was A great day.
Stephen K. Bannon
Can we ask about your Gosling proposal? A lot of people are talking about.
Pam Bondi
Obviously everybody loves it, but this is just not the right time. But we'll maybe do something later. This is a very important and in my opinion, solemn occasion. So I don't think we want to talk about other.
Stephen K. Bannon
Mr. President, what is your top priority?
Dave Brat
What is your top priority, Madam Attorney.
Stephen K. Bannon
General, for this new position that you've now been sworn into?
Pam Bondi
Well, I can just say very simply for me, overall, very simple, make America great again. That's what we're going to do. We're going to make America great again. And she's going to take crime out of the system. As much as anybody can do that. She's going to do it.
Justice Clarence Thomas
We're going to make America safe again.
James Rickards
Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, guys.
Pam Bondi
Thank you, guys.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hey, right. President United States, with the new Attorney General, Pam Bondi. They're suing, they're suing the FBI. The, I think the FBI Officers Former Officers Association. Anyway, it's coming in, it's coming in hot against President Trump. On the resistance. Al Green, who is a bomb throwing Democratic House member, said he's going to file articles of impeachment against President Trump for dastardly deeds. I think had a pretty general heading. The reason we got to keep a watch on that is this is going to be Hakeem Jeffries running. They're already up on President Trump immediately. And you see, you know, most of this is absolutely incomplete, in total nonsense. I do have Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell, the President of the United States just left the stage. I thought he was going to talk the whole way. We were going to wrap up the show by tossing the president to Charlie Kirk live, but he kept it to a few remarks. He swore in Pam Bondi. One of the things I will tell you, folks, is that things on the mass deportation slower than I think the optics are great, but slower than President Trump wanted because the attorney general was not in there. Now you get Pam Bondi, she's ready to roll. Things are going to heat up there. I think you're going to see a lot more on the mass deportations, a lot more on the criminals. Pam Bondi is not going to tolerate Pritzker and the mayor of Chicago keeping bad hombres in jails and not turning them over to ice. So Pam Bondi will be on offense. As she just said, I'm here to make America safe again. Mike Lindell, your thoughts, brother?
Jim Rickards
I love it. I guess congratulated Pam and texter. And she is going to be awesome, Steve, as long as I've known her and she's got the country, she's got the people. She's going to do great, and I'm very proud of her and what she's going to do and what she's already done. She's accomplished so much in her life. But I'm looking forward to it because as you all know, one of the things they. That they've deemed as our elections are critical. Infrastructure, everybody. That's what I'm still doing. And the War Room Posse's made that all possible by you guys supporting my pillow. So when they keep attacking, I feel secure over here and I can be out over here. We're making a big move in the next month here, and I think having her as Attorney General, Steve, is a blessing beyond blessings.
Stephen K. Bannon
Tell me about MyPillow. What are you doing for the Warren Posse? They love your fight, by the way, Pam, Bonnie fought shoulder to should. She was shoulder to shoulder with us on overturning the election fraud. She was all in. That's one of the reasons they hate her. Right? She knows this thing was stolen 100%. She fought with us. But tell us about MyPillow. What do you. What are you doing? Warren Posse loves you, but what are you doing for us today, Mike?
Jim Rickards
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Stephen K. Bannon
We're going to see you back here at 5. Mypilla.com promo code war room. Thank you for these specials. Appreciate you. And also the free shipping. The Doge subcommittee, chaired by Congressman mtg, that would be Marjorie Taylor Greene, is in session. It's a complete chaotic brawl as the Democrats lose their mind over what Elon Musk is doing to rewire the United States government. We're going to have clips from that at 5 and maybe have some of the participants. Charlie Kirk picks it up at noon. Jack Bosobic at 2. We're back here from 5 to 7 tonight. Natalie Winters will be joining us from the White House. It's going to be on fire. We're gonna leave you now with the right stuff. Make sure also Birch Gold, gold at another all time high or near all time high. Check it out. Find out the reasons why. That's what you need to do. It's not the price, it's what's driving the price. That's Philip Patrick and the team. They'll give it to you straight. Birchgold.com Bannon go check it out. Today the right stuff takes us out and they'll bring us back in at 5:00. What if he had the brightest mind in the war room delivering critical financial research every month? Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets, Jim predicted Trump's Electoral College victory exactly 3:12 to 2:26, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency in your financial future. His latest book, Money GPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go to Rickards war room.com that's all one word. Rickards war Rooms Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards war room.com do it today.
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Bannon's War Room - Episode 4247: Audit Of All Major Institutions
Release Date: February 5, 2025
In Episode 4247 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into a critical examination of major American institutions, addressing geopolitical tensions, economic challenges, and recent political developments. The discussion features insights from esteemed guests Jim Rickards and Dave Brat, alongside the introduction of the newly appointed Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
The episode opens with Bannon expressing frustration towards mainstream media narratives and emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability within major institutions. He introduces Jim Rickards, a renowned geopolitical analyst, to discuss the dire situation in Ukraine.
Jim Rickards (03:13): "The situation in Ukraine is dire from the point of view of NATO, the US or the Trump administration. My concern is that there are what I call five or six myths floating out there... The war is not a stalemate. Russia is advancing across the entire line of battle."
Rickards argues that Russia is steadily gaining ground, suggesting that Ukraine is losing the war due to ineffective NATO support and flawed intelligence. He criticizes ongoing financial sanctions, stating they have been ineffective and highlighting Russia's economic resilience.
Bannon (09:49): "Your recommendation is cut bait now before Zelensky to the table. Make the best that you possibly can, hopefully get the Russian army to back off..."
Rickards advises ending U.S. involvement by negotiating directly with Putin, bypassing Zelensky, whom he labels a "military dictator." He warns against escalating the conflict, which could lead to World War III, and emphasizes the futility of continued financial sanctions.
The discussion shifts to the economic implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on capital markets. Rickards introduces concepts from his book, Money GPT, warning of potential financial chaos driven by AI algorithms.
Jim Rickards (25:33): "Artificial intelligence will work exactly as it's intended... But when you take human nature, which kind of wants to run and hide in a panic and put AI on top of it, you're accelerating and amplifying it in ways that people don't understand."
Rickards explains that while AI can enhance efficiency, it can also exacerbate market volatility due to collective automated responses, leading to phenomena like bank runs and market crashes executed at unprecedented speeds.
Dave Brat (38:55): "Robert Gordon at Northwestern... productivity in the United States going down for 70 years in a row... The middle class can't embed AI into small businesses."
Brat underscores the decline in productivity and the widening gap between the wealthy and the middle class, attributing these issues to the monopolization of AI technology by large financial institutions.
Bannon and Brat engage in a heated debate over the U.S. debt ceiling, fiscal responsibility, and the impending economic crisis.
Dave Brat (34:44): "We need to put rules back on the House that... go do a budget or constrain yourself to a trillion-dollar deficit maximum."
Brat criticizes Congressional inaction, highlighting the unsustainable growth in the national debt and advocating for stringent budgetary constraints to prevent economic collapse.
Bannon (36:14): "The money's everywhere... What is going to happen when you have to cut."
Bannon emphasizes the urgency of addressing the debt ceiling, warning of imminent financial turmoil if Congress fails to act promptly. He paints a bleak picture of a nation spiraling into a $2 trillion deficit, exacerbating social programs' insolvency.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the swearing-in of Pam Bondi as the new Attorney General. Bannon lauds her extensive prosecutorial background and anticipates her proactive stance against crime and federal corruption.
Stephen K. Bannon (46:58): "Pam has worked hard, so hard... As Attorney General of the United States, Pam has a historic and urgently needed task ahead of her."
Bondi's oath is administered by Justice Clarence Thomas, who praises her dedication to law enforcement and justice.
Pam Bondi (50:08): "Make America great again. We're going to make America great again. We're going to take crime out of the system."
Bondi commits to restoring integrity within the Department of Justice, combating violent crime, and dismantling entrenched criminal networks. Her appointment is portrayed as a strategic move to reinforce the administration's law-and-order agenda.
Throughout the episode, Bannon and his guests advocate for comprehensive audits of major institutions such as the Federal Reserve, USAID, and the Department of Education. They argue that these entities have been mismanaged and compromised by political biases.
Dave Brat (23:17): "We need every audit. The Federal Reserve needs to be audited... Everything we're seeing from all of our major institutions, you hope they do a."
The discussion criticizes the influence of liberal ideologies within these institutions, calling for transparency and restructuring to realign them with national interests.
The episode also touches on internal Republican dynamics, highlighting the struggle to pass budgetary reforms and the tension between different factions within the party.
Dave Brat (40:59): "Russ vote is brilliant... It's a political issue, not the budget issue."
Brat remarks on the necessity of political will to implement fiscal reforms, suggesting that without cohesive leadership, meaningful change remains elusive.
Bannon concludes the episode by reiterating the critical nature of the current political and economic climate. He emphasizes the importance of preparedness, economic diversification, and robust law enforcement to safeguard America's future.
Stephen K. Bannon (58:06): "700,000 Americans every year. Yes, heart disease is the number one killer... You need a strong heart."
He intertwines discussions on health and economic resilience, encouraging listeners to invest in personal and national fortitude.
Notable Quotes:
Stephen K. Bannon (00:22): "This is the primal scream of a dying regime."
Jim Rickards (03:13): "The war is not a stalemate. That Russia is advancing across the entire line of battle."
Dave Brat (34:44): "We're stealing right from the kid... The deficit is 2 trillion a year."
Pam Bondi (50:08): "Make America great again. We're going to make America great again."
Episode 4247 of Bannon's War Room presents a fervent critique of current institutional and geopolitical strategies, advocating for immediate reforms and strategic leadership to navigate America's multifaceted challenges. Through expert analysis and assertive declarations, Bannon and his guests call for a decisive overhaul of major institutions to restore national integrity and security.