Stephen K. Bannon (16:40)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. As you know, I'm not particularly excited about the as you know, I'm not particularly excited about the Ukraine part, but in context of a overall new rethinking of this and people putting their guns down with Russia, I've always felt that some sort of alignment with Russia is absolutely central to the takedown of the Chinese Communist Party. If we have allowed what we've allowed for the last five years since Biden got in. Biden drove the Chinese Communist Party, Beijing, the mullahs in Tehran, in Persia, Russia, the KGB and Erdogan, they made that movie about me called the Brink, I think in 2018 or 2019, 2018, where they went around the world when I was in Western Europe trying to begin this populist movement that you're seeing coming to fruition a day, including meeting with the Alternative for Deutschland people at the time. And, you know, Alternative for Deutschland at the time I think was at 3% or 4%. When I met with Giorgia Meloni, she was at 3%. She headed up a small party called the Sons of Italy. The only person that had gotten real traction was Nigel Farage, who we had worked with shoulder to shoulder on Brexit back in 2015 and 2016. In fact, Raheem Kassam, our beloved Raheem Ghassan, had actually left Breitbart, London for a while and went and ran the campaigns for Nigel. My point is that these have been a long time in coming to fruition. There is a possibility that you could set the world on a path from the beginning stages of the kinetic part of the Third World War. You could set it on a path to actually peace and prosperity. That's what President Trump's trying to do. That's why it takes a leader of his caliber and strength. And we don't agree on everything, but I absolutely understand and 1 million percent agree with what he's trying to do directionally. And it's a little bit breathtaking because you're hitting on so many different strategic notes. To wit, they've just announced that on March 4, the 25% tariffs in Mexico kick in. And I've been given interviews in Canada NonStop on Canadian TV, and I keep telling people, he's not trolling you. He talks about the 51st state. And I said, you should take it as an honor. The people in the United States don't, you know, sit there and go, hey, we'd love to have these folks here as a state. That hasn't happened since Alaska, in Hawaii, what, 70, 70 years ago, 60 years ago. So. And they're going to get. It's going to get their attention geoeconomically when they see the premium they have to pay to get into this market. And put on top of that, the geostrategic necessity of what's going to happen in the Arctic is that now is a great power struggle. And what we call the new great game or the great game of the 21st century, that is kind of replicates what happened between the Russian Empire and the British Empire in Afghanistan and Persia, the 19th century around India. So President Trump is thinking in five different directions and negotiating the entire time. However, you've always got to be careful. And I know we've got Senator Rubio, I think, is doing a great job. Bessant's doing a great job. You got Mike Waltz over there, you got Steve Witkoff, that kind of head the negotiation. Vice President Vance, he's got a pretty good team on top of this. In fact, a damn good team. I think the Cabinet, and I could argue this, I think the Cabinet he has is the best cabinet a president's had of people that are action oriented and can get things done since Lincoln's war Cabinet. And. But you see Macron, this is a shifty guy. You got to watch him, got to watch these guys. This is why I'm so upset about this Bardella guy at Front National. I think Front national is teed up to take over the French government under Le Pen. But Bardella is just a weak sister. The guy wet himself. About my wave to the, to the audience the other day, I had to put up. I had to send these guys today how I did the exact same wave in front of Front Nationale when they invited me over there in 2018, seven years ago, to give them a pep talk. Almost the exact same pep talk, a different kind of version of it, of how they were not alone and how they were fighting the good fight. And they were only at, I don't know, 14 or 15% at the time. You notice there's a trend here. I will get in back of people. When you're at 3%, I don't care. Because I see the possibility that Giorgio Maloney can, you know, lead the government or a guy like Salvini can win or a person like Trump can win. You talk about having to talk about the CPAC straw Paul, President Trump's history in the CPAC because they missed the. McLaughlin made a misstatement the other day when he did this. President Trump has been on the CPAC poll two times before he's president twice. The first time was in 2015, and I was there kind of both times in 2015 when President Trump, the first time he was on a CPAC straw poll, finished eighth at 3.5%. In fact, he was going to fire Sam Nunberg, the guy who was working with him at the time, you know, for not doing as good a job. Although the 3 1/2% was pretty strong given President Trump as a CPAC was much different than it is today. It was kind of conservative ink in 2016. And by the way, that's 100 days before President Trump came down the escalator to announce his presidency. Finished day three and a half percent in 16, essentially 100 days, or 120 days, let's say, at the outside, before he won the Republican nomination. And I remember this because this is during the time when we had. I was running Breitbart and we had quite a disturbance at Breitbart. In fact, this is when Ben Shapiro and I admire Ben on a lot of things. One of the smartest guys around. We differ a lot on populism versus conservatism. He referred to in the instant that he either quit or I fired him. We still haven't decided which. I have one version, he has another, but he referred to Breitbart. I turned it into Trump Pravda in that I think it was late February, early March. In 16, President Trump finished a distant third to ted Cruz at 40%. I think Marco. Senator Marco Rubio was at 15 or 20%. Excuse me, 25%. I think 20. 25% was second. President Trump was at 15% just 100 days before he won the primary. The. He has seen. He sees the world differently. He sees the world as a. In realigning can lead to peace and prosperity. There were no wars on his watch. Nobody wanted to cross him. The one time we did the launch of the cruise missile into Syria, he remembers, I was the one that was with him that didn't want to do it. And eventually he was kind of talked into it, I believe, by the National Security Council, by Mattis and these guys, to do the same thing. Clinton did shoot a couple of cruise missiles in, and then the next day they're doing the same thing. This is what they like to do. Kind of tick for tat. Makes them feel like big shots. They also couldn't. They sat right there and lied to your face about the chemical attacks from Syria. I'm not saying the Syrians, the dictators over there are good guys. They're not. They're bad, bad hombres. But you know what? The world's full of bad hombres. That's what the founders knew. They said, hey, if you want. If you want to go around slaying dragons, they got a whole world full of them. So maybe the watchword in our early days, Republic, do not go overseas looking for dragons to slay, for monsters to slay, because there's monsters everywhere in the world. What President Trump is trying to do is stop the kinetic part of the Third World War, which has already been bloodier than the first couple of years of the Second World War. What's happened in Ukraine has been far bloodier than Poland or the fall of France or the Blitz, and he's doing a heck of a job. But the Europeans, and this is why Macron ran over there today. And Macron was at the White House all day Today, basically from 8:00 in the morning. I think he left for a couple hours. And that call went forever. That was a G7 call. And you see there in the remarks, and that's why I was so fascinated. I'm so glad now that Real America's Voice, you have a couple of White House correspondents and we had the camera there. You know, we have our setup over there and we can do real time pulling of the footage and then having the Natalie Winters and the Brian Glenns and Amanda heads and others that can give commentary because history is being made every day. If President Trump is able to pull off some sort of, let's call it an arrangement right now. Let's just leave it like that. Understanding. How about that understanding? An understanding with the Russians and really unite us for the first time since World War II with our allies. Not the KGB, not the leaders, but the people of Russia who bled on battlefields for us. Unlike most of the elites that we're dealing with that are quote, unquote, allies, they're not our allies. They've never really put up shoulder to shoulder with us. You know who an ally is? An ally is Canada. Canada's always punched above their weight, always answered the call, always taken, and they've always taken the tough assignments and they've given better than they got. That's an ally. But President Trump is trying to do something here that is historic. And if he can pull it off, and it will take a couple of years minimum to pull off, he could set the 21st century down a path of peace. Because right now, folks, you look at the 21st century compared to the 20th, and remember, you're coming out of the bloodiest century in mankind's history. This is worse than the Dark Ages. Look at the deaths. I think it's we figured up the short century of the 20th century. I call from August of 1914, the guns of August and World War I, to the fall of the Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall. That's to me, the 20th century right there. From 1914 to 1989, 1990, 200, I think 250 million people killed, starved, massacred in concentration camps, starved to death by the Chinese Communist Party, slaughtered on battlefields from the Ukraine, starvation. 5 million died in was the Holodomor in Ukraine. 5 million starved brutally by the Bolsheviks. Obviously the Holocaust, Southeast Asia after Vietnam, all of it a bloody, catastrophic dark century. The 21st century teed up to be even worse. And that's what President Trump is doing is so historic. And that's why you've got these Macron and these guys. You can't trust any of them. They're in there today and you see them weaving away and, oh, you're going to have a security guarantee. And all this giving, all this happy talk. What they want is American money and American troops. That's what President Trump's fighting. Short commercial break we're gonna go to Natalie Winters. We return in the war room. We've seen all the headlines.