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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.
Brian Glenn
Medieval on these people.
Steve Bannon
Reasons I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
Brian Glenn
The people have had a belly full of it.
Steve Bannon
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.
Brian Glenn
It's going to happen.
Caroline Levitt
And where do people like that go.
Brian Glenn
To share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Steve Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and.
Brian Glenn
What is my purpose? If that answer is to save my.
Steve Bannon
Country, this country will be saved.
Brian Glenn
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen k. Band. Wednesday 26 February Yerviller 2025 Another historic day today. First cabinet meeting, official cabinet meeting of President Trump, be 11 o'clock. Also to make sure you know, you get action, action, action. Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Doge subcommittee will also meet at 11. We expect kind of fireworks there as the Democrats are not happy with the direction of Doge. I want to go to the White House, Brian Glenn. Brian, first I want to explain to people yesterday, historic. I don't know if we got that clip. Maybe we play it later. Caroline Levitt yesterday from the podium and for the audience, this is a nuance which is actually massive. She said that, hey, in the future, the White House press corps, the White House Correspondents association that puts on the White House correspondence dinner that I've boycotted since I partnered with Andrew Breitbart. Andrew loved it and going and giving those guys hell. I couldn't stand them. So I've never gone. You have the clip from Caroline. Let's play Brian first of Brian, come in. Let's talk about the Cabinet meeting. Then I want to talk about who's actually going to cover it. We'll play the clip from Caroline the day first cabinet meeting. What do you anticipate, sir? Put us in the room, set the table.
Caroline Levitt
Yeah. Well, this will be the first time, by the way. Good morning, Steve. Good morning, Wolverine Posse. Today will be the first day that they're going to let an alternative, I would say Newsmax, be the kind of the secondary pull camera in that room. That's the first time that Newsmax, from what I understand, will be a pull. So this is kind of the new step in this administration and you laid it out perfectly, the whca, which has really controlled the seats in the briefing room and also who flies on Air Force One that they would no longer have the authority or power to do that. It's the Trump team. The Trump press team has taken over those responsibilities. So today for the Cabinet meeting, you will have the typical poll. I don't. I'll have to find. Check with Tony exactly who the first poll is. But the second poll is Newsmax. I believe the new media is the Blaze, which is nice. And of course, the. Who is it?
Brian Glenn
Abc.
Caroline Levitt
And ABC will be the poll one for the feed today.
Brian Glenn
Steve, this is okay. I want to have the Caroline Levitt, let's go and play this. This is monumental and particularly for the audience. This is President Trump taking direct control. And I wanted to do this in the first term, but we were too bound by convention. President Trump just really going off the chain on this. Let's go ahead and hear Caroline Levitt.
Chemain Nugent
Yesterday, I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations. Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team. Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join. Fear not. But we will also be offering the privilege to, well, deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility. Just like we added a new media seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for years will still participate in the pool, but new voices are going to be welcomed in as well. As part of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the five major television networks to ensure the President's remarks are heard far and wide around this world. We will add additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional cable and broadcast. This is the ever changing landscape of the media in the United States today. We will continue to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility of quickly transcribing the President's remarks and disseminating them to the rest of the world. And we will add outlets to the print pool rotation who have long been denied the privilege to partake in this experience, but are committed to covering this White House beat. We will continue to rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who have been denied access, especially local radio hosts who serve as the heartbeat of our country. And we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well suited to cover the news of the day and ask substantive questions of the President of the United States, depending on the news he is making on that given day. This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one. That's what we were elected to do as I have said since the first day behind this podium. It's beyond time that the White House press operation reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025, not 1925. A select group of D.C. based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House. All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table. So by deciding which outlets make up the limited press pool on a day to day basis, the White House will be restoring power back to the American people who President Trump was elected to serve.
Brian Glenn
This is monumental in information warfare because in the press pool, what this is is that particularly when you see these press avails, and let's take Macron yesterday because we're trying to, we're trying to, excuse me, teach you the rhythm of the White House. When Macron comes for a bilat, they, you know, they meet on the West Wing, they go into the Oval, they have a few minutes themselves. Excuse me. Then the, the President always invites the media. That's the press pool. You see all the cameras come in, but there's also a handful of reporters that are selected as the press pool of the day. Those are the ones asking questions. This will be in the Cabinet Room today. The Cabinet Room, if you have the Oval, right, You have a very small, small workstation space for the secretaries or the assistants that are right there outside the Oval. Then you walk into the Cabinet Room. The Cabinet Room is very historic, obviously, so many important meetings there. But that's where essentially you've seen it probably in movies mostly around maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis. That's where the Cuban Missile Crisis team. A lot of photographs, a lot of black and white photographs of Kennedy and Curtis LeMay and Bobby Kennedy, all of them, President Kennedy working through that. That's the Cabinet Room. That is right next to the Oval. As you walk through the Secretary's station, the windows on the Oval kind of to the right and in the Cabinet Room look onto the Rose Garden. Okay. The Cabinet Room is actually not that big. And the, the, the table is magnificent, right? Oval table. And it's, it's jammed with the President's assistants sitting in back and all the Cabinet officials around it. The press has really got to cram in there. So you have a, you'll have a pool and we'll take the pool feed. It's not enough for the, all the cameras. What Caroline Levitt is saying in this situation too, you'll have a handful of reporters that can actually toss questions to the President because He is, he is doing more than any president ever, getting information out to the people and disintermediating the mainstream media. And Brian Glenn, this is the biggest, one of the most important disintermediations of all, and that's a fancy Harvard Business School word for taking out the middleman, the intermediation. You're disintermediating the ability of ABC and CBS and NBC, these haters that for years have just, have been able to just close down and structure the message coming out of the White House. President Trump's not having it. Caroline Levitt and I really admire Susie Wiles, the entire comms team, Tara Bodowich, all of them, for quite frankly, having the backbone to do this. We wanted to do it the first term and to be blunt, we just didn't. You know, the folks there, we essentially caved. We should have done this in the first. And I'm really proud of the team doing it. How big a deal is it, Brian, for someone like you that, that, that covers it. Day to day, wall to wall, sir.
Caroline Levitt
It was, it was a moment. And like I said yesterday on the show, I'm humbled to be able to walk in here every day and do what I do. Now, I will say this. When she made that announcement yesterday, I could feel the oxygen being sucked out of that room. And there is absolutely no denying that that was a complete shock. And that she led. You know, when you have an administration that has so many news things happening every day to lead with, that says a lot as far as the magnitude of what they want to accomplish here. But, you know, the WHCA has been in charge of this for, for a long time and they broke that apart yesterday. And we'll see how that moves forward. But today does mark the first day that you're going to see this new change in pool structure here with Newsmax being the, basically the second pool.
Brian Glenn
We're going to, we're going to, we're going to bifurcate Brian Glenn today. We're actually going to pick up the pool feed and I'll tee up the Cabinet. We're going to try to get in there for as much as possible. Brian, going to take off for Capitol Hill because at 11 o'clock we have to juggle this. There's also this very important Doge Subcommittee, first of the Cabinet, Elon Musk is coming. The President just put out a thing how all the Cabinet officials love him. I'm sure behind closed doors they're going to have a frank conversation about what's going on these emails. But up on Capitol Hill, Marjorie Taylor Greene chairs the subcommittee. What do we expect today, you think fireworks, or is this going to be going through more information like her first, her first subcommittee meeting?
Caroline Levitt
Well, Republicans are going to bring out the information and Democrats will show up and make it a clown show like they did the first time. They're not taking this subcommittee, this DOGE thing, serious at all. And I can't believe they can't because the American people, we found $2.7 trillion in waste, fraud and abuse and Medicaid and Medicare. You should take that pretty serious. But I do expect fireworks. It will be like I said yesterday, it's on the cap, it's on the Capitol Hill. Now. It was in a Rayburn building. That room was simply too small. It was kind of an intimate space, if you will. This is a much bigger room. They're expecting more media, more people, perhaps protesters might make their way into the, into the audience there, which will likely happen. But I do think, and think about this for a second as logistically these members are forced to sit further away from each other. That's when they get a little braver when it comes to trying to, you know, start any type of feuds or any type of controversy. The previous room was tight and I really think that limited their, let's see how proud they are and how brave they are today because that does play a part in it. They don't take this serious at all, Steve. They, you're going to see, you're going to see anti Trump, anti elon narratives all morning long. But the American people are watching. And as this fraud and this abuse usaid, it's got so much of it. The American people are watching. And this is how we win the midterms, though, Steve, we talked about this yesterday. This is how we win the midterms. We must be the responsible party in charge who must cut the budget. We must get everything approved. Which by the way, yesterday, with that vote passing Thomas Massie being a hard no on it, we knew that was going to happen. That just set the framework up for the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. We have a long fight ahead of us. If it took us that hard to get this done. I don't even know what, what March 14th looks like. I really don't know. It's actually kind of scary, to be honest with you.
Brian Glenn
It's going to be like I said, we're going into the grind. Brian Glenn, what's your social media people got to be dialed into Glenn today, Brian Glenn, because he's either at the White House hustling to break stories and get insights or he's up on Capitol Hill. I don't know. We got to get a replicant of you, Brian Glenn, to be able to cover both because today's day is a typical day. We want to cut you in half and have you have you the cabinet and have you and have you at Capitol Hill.
Caroline Levitt
Well, I guarantee some of these protesters outside this White House and Capitol Hill probably want to cut me in half. I'll document all of this as I travel over there. You can follow me at Brian Glenn TV Instagram on X and at Brian on Truth Social. As always, Steve, it's a pleasure to come on here on War Room and I will continue to update you as the details come out on both here at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
Brian Glenn
We'll try to get a stand up. We'll have to juggle. This is going to be a producer driven show today to get all the action. So Brian will hopefully see you back up here at 11 to Capitol Hill. Doge subcommittee it did. The bill did pass last night, the budget resolution that starts the process either for one big beautiful bill or two on reconciliation. Still a lot of questions on all of it, the spending. It's very ephemeral, I would say. What's not ephemeral is the is the numbers for this year that's going to take place on 14th March and or before watch for the ides of March the 15th. Now more than ever, one of the things we try to do on the show is give you a framework of how to think through your your agency politically here and obviously you've done a magnificent job but also to think through things personally. Birchgold.com Two things you can do right now. Number one, take your phone out. Bannon B A N N O n. Text Bannon at 989-898. You get access to all the free information from Birch Gold, particularly the ultimate guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals in the Era of President Trump. Birch Gold does great research. Philip Patrick in the team. In fact, I'm trying to get Philip up today, this afternoon. There's so much going on in capital markets trying to get Philip to join us. But do that today. Also go to birchgold.com Bannon at the end of the Dollar Empire, the six free installment Modern Monetary Theory, the Idea that Broke the world. And you'll understand that more as we get closer to the 14th of March. Also talk to Philip Patrick and the team. Short break.
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It Today is your host Stephen K. Ban. I think there still may be some seats available the Tarrant county and you know, if you came to CPAC or get in the chat rooms, talk to the people, come to CPAC or came to Denton County a couple weeks ago. I really try to make sure that I can visit with as many of you as possible, get selfies, catch up, hear what you're working on. CPAC I think turned out very well. We had a couple of meet and greets that went for a couple hours but I think I got to see everybody. It was fantastic and appreciate your all's support at cpac. It was great. Patriot Mobile, their pack is one of the people who's putting this on. Remember, Tarrant county is the battleground of Texas. They tried to turn Texas blue years ago, put hundreds of millions of dollars just a sores deal. Got to where I'm not saying it's purple but it was getting, you know, pink, not, not hard red. And then just through the work of the war and posse and the MAGA movement and President Trump and his team and others, Brad Parscale and you know Brad's down in Texas now did an amazing job. President Trump, I think won by 14 points. Ted Cruz by nine points. Big sweep in the, in the House races. Can't understand and very disturbing how the Texas House who tried to impeach, went to all that effort to impeach General Paxton, Ken Paxton. Then it's just a debacle down there given all the maga. So I'm down at Tarrant county with the Patriot Mobile and others. Pasovic's gonna be there. Amanda Milius is going to be there. It's a whole evening of kind of incredible speakers. You don't want to miss this if you're in the area. Like I said, Jack and I, and I'm sure Amanda will be doing meet and greets and meeting everybody. So go check it out today. We want to make sure. I think they've already sold out all the tickets, but they're adding some general admission. 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And then Zelensky, I think, has just been. It's official. I think Zelensky's coming on Friday at least. He's announced that he's beating his chest. He's coming before Putin. But that's not really relevant. President Trump is doing a massive geostrategic reset. Something this is historic, has not been seen since World War II. And in fact, there's an article in the New Statesman today with yours truly. We'll try to push that out with Grace and the team because I talk about this. It's something that we want to do in the first term. But it was because of all the Russia nonsense. The Russian hoax brought on by Shifty Schiff in those folks. And to me, those folks should be investigated, right? All those people came out of there, particularly Schiff. So I came out of a skiff and he came out of skiff. It was all Russian intelligence. There was nothing, Zero, the null set, nothing. And at the time, geostrategically, it was very important to not have on that Eurasian. If you think of the map of the Eurasian landmass with Beijing, the criminals there, then you've got the mullahs in Persia, you've got the KGB in Russia, you've got Erdogan in Turkey, who, as I predicted years and years ago, is kind of tried to re establish the Ottoman Empire and really the Caliphate and eventually with Qatar. His banker, Erdogan's banker, tried to take over the two holy sites. That's his plan. That's a dangerous combination. You throw in Pakistan and North Korea. You've got a very lethal mix there that can cause a lot of trouble. And the way you've got to stop that is somehow you have to have a rapprochement or understanding, because the Russian people have been one of the greatest allies we've ever had, the Russian people. And I spent my youth in my 20s on a destroyer as a junior officer, an ensign, lieutenant JG and ultimately lieutenant, or I think I was still a JG when I left the ship on ASW ship, you know, hunting Russian submarines, Soviet submarines. That was our. That was our task and our purpose. And then when I got back to the Pentagon, it was all about, you know, as President Reagan had shown up, I got there the same day that. That he did, actually went to the inaugural as a Grand Dune, and then. And then showed up the next day that you have a strategic realignment, a rapprochement. The Ukrainian situation has to be seen in that. That's one of the things we're going to talk about at the Cabinet today. And President Trump's got a terrific team working on this with Scott Bessant, who's been the lead on the Ukrainian deal. Steve Witkoff, a close associate of his from the real estate days, has just done an incredible job of negotiating deals under President Trump's guidance. I think he's the tip of the spear with Russia. Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio, now Secretary of State, very involved. Pete Hexseth, very involved. The Vice President, United States. J.D. vance, very involved. Commerce Secretary is thrown in, too. He and Peter Navarro working on the tariff. So you have a total geostrategic realignment. And if we can get the beginnings because we could have done it the first term, but it's too messed up by the Atlanticists and the warmongers. If we could get a break of this very dangerous and very serious strategic alliance between Russia and China, if we can start to break that off, which I think we're in the process of doing, that's monumental. You're seeing the end of the post war international rules based order, as Secretary of State Rubio said in his confirmation. Why is that? Because that system that was established essentially by the United States with, you know, concurrence of its quote unquote allies, has been used and turned on the American people and the American middle class, American working class, by your betters to enrich themselves, to impoverish you at the same time that you would, you know that, that your sons and daughters, not only do you pay for it with your taxes, but your sons and daughters are the folks that man the national security apparatus in the, the uniform military services. President Trump's overall goal is peace and prosperity. How do you get there? You work through some different strategic alliances and at the same time you refocus on defense of the homeland. That would be what he's doing in The Monroe Doctrine 2.0 from Panama to Greenland and putting a kind of a forward thrust of extending essentially the defensive borders of the United States from the Arctic all the way down to Central America. And really a naval strategy to make sure the Chinese navy, the PLA navy can never connect with through the Panama Canal, the Russian navy and the Caribbean, full stop take control of the Panama Canal, which he's in process of doing. And I can tell you Michael Yan is saying, hey, the Chinese are still down there, they're still building some stuff down there. But he's seeing quite frankly, the re migration or the, the self deportation of huge groups of people going back the other way through the Darien Gap. So President Trump's message is getting out there quite boldly on the situation in the Arctic. You've got all this consternation in Canada, right, as President Trump talks about that or discusses that as the potential 51st state in Greenland. Looks like. I think that they're working towards a plebiscite to get their independence from Denmark and then potentially some sort of arrangement with the United States. He's also looking at the three island chains, right, that we've had so many of the smart people on the committee on the present danger come and talk about using the great ocean desert of the Pacific as a natural strategic barrier to the United States. President Trump says there's two oceans. What does that mean? That means eventually this gets back to the budget last night, gets back to the tax cuts. Because all this is inextricably linked. It is the way to get our defense budget down below a trillion dollars. Also on social services. On social services and the safety net and all that Medicaid to the food, you know, for the income security, what they call it, the food stamps and all that. You have to, you know, you're going to have to show that you're serious about looking at defense. And we just can't have, you know, be paying 3.5% of our GDP for defense. It's just the math doesn't work, not given the fact that we've spent money for years and years and years, and particularly during the Biden regime. That has been, has been outrageous and a breach of fiduciary responsibility. So this is what, this is what President Trump is doing. Part of the Cabinet meeting today, I'm sure, is to get caught up in that and make sure that it's much more, it's organized and organized with domestic policy. Also, I can tell you my feelings for what they're doing today is much tighter that we got the confirmations done. Tighter. I think it's much tighter, much better organized than it was in the first. And not just that you have people, I think, that have signed off and buy into that, buy into the direction President Trump's heading. And he is, you know, it's like every day, like Zeus throwing thunderbolt, throwing lightning bolts when you hear this rumbling thunder. It's days of thunder and years of lightning right now. And every day it's another major, another major aspect of this. Then he's got his Cabinet secretaries. I think it's, hey, I think it's the best cabinet since Lincoln's war cabinet. I do. Because what he's doing is not normal course of business. Most of these, like Republicans particular controlled opposition, just get in there and just buy into the, buy into the system, the way the system runs. They're systems players. President Trump's doing the exact opposite. But they are going to be looking for tax revenue on these big deficits. Tax Network USA tnusa.com put in Bannon and you'll get a discount. Don't let that letter. If the IRS has sent you a letter, you got a problem, you can either answer it yourself immediately or you can talk to experts. My recommendation, because it's a free consultation, totally free, talk to the experts. Tnusa.com Bannon run it by him. But do not let it sit in that middle drawer of that desk. 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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, so you got to bifurcate this. You have two things going simultaneously. You have the cabinet meeting and I'm sure President Trump's going to get everybody up to speed on what he's doing geostrategically. Also shouldn't be lost on anybody that the tariffs in Mexico and Canada right now and President Trump's reinforcing this. So unless it's it's waived off somehow. 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Now that gets to the geo economic part of it. Once again, these are not tariffs as people think like putting a 25% tariff on avocado coming from, from Mexico or some sort of part for the automotive industry because a bunch of the under the hood components for the automotive industry are made in Canada. It's not putting a tariff on that. He's thinking of it differently. This gets back to the vote last night on the budget. Remember we have, there's several ways we can close this budget deficit. Number one, he talked, we talked a little bit about it yesterday. You're when we had the Guy on from cra, Teetzel, right. Kind of one of the guys over since so many of the CRA guys have been in the administration. Russ Vogt, Mark Paoletta. I think we may have big news on Jeff Clark today. Cortez's daughter, she's over at the Pentagon from CRA as she's a deputy press secretary over there doing a great job. For Pete and Sean Parnell. It's about growth rates, the underlying growth rate of your economy. The CBO says right now it's 1.8%. The, the Trump administration is saying 2.5%. Those numbers make a huge difference. Actually, I think they're saying 2.8% huge difference about revenue generation. So you have the Internal Revenue Service and we're going to go extend the Trump tax cuts. Whether they get extended for the wealthy, I think is still up in the air because you got to close this gap. You've got then the ability to have tariffs, fees, duties. And he looks at this very differently. He looks at the United States as a premium market. Access to that market is like you buy a skybox for a sporting event or a front row ticket to a concert. There's a premium got to be paid to get in here. And you have two choices. One, you can shift your manufacturing here. And that's one of the reasons President Trump continues to talk about the Japanese going to put a trillion dollars in the Arabs last week they had this thing down at Doral that he spoke at one in Miami, too. I think he spoke at where they are investing. I think that was at Durrell. You know, Saudi Arabia and others are coming here to put hundreds of billions of dollars in. I'm not a huge fan of foreign capital, but I understand and see his logic. He wants essentially, I think, a trillion dollars coming from the outside, even in this first term, to build manufacturing plants here, to put capital equipment in here and therefore jobs. And you would avoid the tariffs. But if you don't do that in Mexico and remember Mexico, Canada and China are three biggest trading partners. He's already said 10% on China, on the CCP. This is another revenue stream to try to close. So one, you have natural growth, you get bigger revenues at the tax structure you currently have, right. You then get tariffs or what he calls external revenue. And I love, obviously we helped dreamed up the name with John Gardner, the manufacturing guys, external revenue. So it's not just all internal revenue on companies domiciled in the United States and American citizens and or foreign nationals living here. And eventually, though, you have to get down to the hardest part, and that is spending cuts. And my concern, even for last night, is the budget resolution, all these budget resolutions and the reconciliation process, because we have to talk like adults. We should act like fiduciaries. President Trump, the power of President Trump's political movement is that in Washington, D.C. not in the room, not in the deal. In fact, if you're not in the room, you're probably getting carved up. President Trump in his MAGA movement put you not only in the room, it puts you at the head of the table, is kind of the chairman of what we call the creditors committee. So he empowered you, and obviously you empowered yourself through your agency in, you know, making the phone calls, doing the precinct strategy, canvassing, backing Scott Prezler, everything that needed to be done to have this massive grassroots victory. Now it's going to come time to be fiduciaries and talk about the reality of the budget. And that's, to me, the reality, the acid test, is what's happening into finance the rest of this year. And that takes place at midnight, the stroke of midnight on the 14th of March. The two things going on. Remember, as we've instructed you over the last couple of years, in negotiations, it's very important to have what we call forcing functions, things that actually have to force a decision, have to force the people negotiating to actually not just come to the table, but to start making agreements that actually can stick. We have two forcing functions, the debt ceiling. And we have the actual the September 30 deadline from last year that we've kicked the can down the road with several continuing resolutions or CRS, that game's kind of over on the 14th of March. Yes, we could kick it down from 30 days and 30 days and 30 days. But since we already kicked it down from right before Christmas, and we understand how much you hate crs, and you should hate them, to give President Trump and his team 90 days or 100 days to basically get ready. That game ends on the 14th. And what we're hearing from everybody is they intend to do a full year or an end of year following six months to September 30th. CR and there's a couple of big problems with that that people have not addressed yet. And we keep hammering that it's got to be addressed. The debt ceiling doesn't have to be done immediately. It doesn't. Scott Bessant's in what's called emergency measures. There's plenty of cash coming in right now to pay everything, particularly government securities, the interest payments, nothing's in default or chance of a default. No Social Security payments are being missed. No, no Medicare payments are being missed. That will have to stop eventually. We'll have to get some guidance. They'll have to get some relief on the debt ceiling. It's about proposals been put out there. Two years at $4 trillion and that tells me implies $2 trillion a year deficit. If you look at the CR, what they're talking about right now to kick it down, there are three problems with that because these are up or down votes. There's three problems. Problem number one, it's Biden's numbers, Biden's budget. It's actually Biden's budget with a lot of Nancy Pelosi in there. Yep, it's Biden's numbers, Biden's budget. Number two, it has a $2 trillion deficit in there baked in. And we know because they update it every 30 days. We're on a record path right now for actually over, I think, a two trillion dollar deficit. Two trillion at minimum. And we on this show are the first to call that. We've called that every year correctly for the last three or four years. We're the first one to also say, oh, by the way, we're adding about a trillion dollars every hundred days because this is not advanced mathematics. This is not like differential calculus. This is just good old arithmetic. The third thing that's hard, you can't, you can't get your head around it is that if you do, the CR is as existent and the CR you have to do first, I think before you do any of this budget reconciliation, because this is for out years, is that none of the Doge cuts come in. It's an up or down vote on existing. But Biden's budget. So none of the. Let's take, let's assume for purposes of this discussion that the $55 billion that Elon has said they found and Scott Besson's kind of backed that up, the $55 billion of waste, fraud and abuse and or the shutting down of things like USAID that would be fully financed for the year. Not only would you not get the cuts, it'd be awful. It would be that you're actually paying for it through the end of the year. So those three things to me make a CR for the rest of the year a non starter and that we should do what we, what they wanted the other 90 days do is finish the individual appropriations bills, negotiate with the Senate and come up with something as bad as it would be. Then you would get the Doge cuts in there and at least make some attempt to try to lessen the deficit. And it'd be President Trump's priorities. Now, what's the solution? The solution, and you heard it last night, this is why we had CRA on here, Teetzel, is that they're going to do this and this gets back to the unitary theory of the executive. That in their interpretation and it's my interpretation also, I agree with this 100% that the appropriations, that number is the ceiling, that the Constitution says that the president's the chief executive officer of the United States government and that means he can make decisions like chief of executives. He can either, if programs are not being hit, he can either hold back or impound the money and, or he can, or, and, or he can kind of reprogram. And they're saying, well, you don't have line item veto, this is all nonsense. And we'll fight that. We'll go to court right away. The people oppose the president. So they will start some sort of movement on impoundment, not rescissions. Rescissions would be even more complicated. I think that would come later and we'll get that term and explain all to you at another time. But the impoundment, they'll do immediately. So they say, don't worry, Steve, it's not going to be Biden's budget. We're going to do impoundments. We're going to go. Well, I love that. It's probably the best of a bad lot of alternatives is this one hang up. And this is what I have been very concerned and been very vocal about this from the beginning because I don't totally trust the Supreme Court. I particularly don't trust people like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett. Roberts is a very political chief justice, although this is the Thomas Court and we talk about that all the time. Roberts is technically the chief justice and he gets to set the agenda. It shouldn't be lost on you that what we thought and was proposed is a no brainer. And that's the situation with the president having the executive authority under the unitary theory of the executive as chief executive to terminate individuals that work in his government. The special counsel, the Brahmin that President Trump wanted to get rid of. As we said, you're going to go to federal court. You're going to then ask for the immediate expedited hearing at the appellate level and then get on the emergency docket for the Supreme Court. Well, step one, they went to federal court. They obviously, these radical judges Agreed with the president. Couldn't fire the guy. Then we went to appellate court and then go to the emergency docket and guess what? It's not picked up now. That's still being adjudicated. But first glance, they said, hey, not for us at this time. Same court that passed On, I think 92 possibilities in this 2020 stolen election. And we know the 2020 election was stolen. That is irrefutable. They didn't want to get involved. They never gave anybody standing. So this budget fight, which is inextricably linked with an interpretation of the Constitution, is going to get pretty gnarly. And folks, we're not saying man the ramparts yet, because we've got to work through a bunch of the stuff today. I think at the, at the Cabinet meeting. I think this is one of the things President Trump is going to talk about. It's not just Doge, as we've said for so long, Doge has to be put into more of a, a formal process. Right? A more of a formal process like OMB and like the appropriations process to actually make sure that the cuts that are found on the waste, fraud and abuse stick. Then it's having Elon and this team working with the Cabinet officials. Which is the harder part, which is actually programmatically in billets. Billets stand for where, you know, a slot for a body. It's not just getting rid of a person. You're taking away the billet. We don't need this anymore. And you do it programmatically. That is where the big and significant cuts are going to come. That's like Medicaid. We're going to go, we're going to have federalism, we're going to block, grant it back to the states. Are we going to require stringent work requirements? Or we're going to say that no more illegal aliens on Medicaid. This is all part of the cutting to try to get under a trillion dollars of deficit. Because our financial model right now is a country's unsustainable. One thing shouldn't be lost in the 10% tariffs on China. This is one of the reasons Jace Medical, I think Jace Medical, more than ever, you've got to go and check it out. One of the things we do here with our sponsors, make sure you get access. 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Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, we're getting ready to. We're going to go back to the White House, top of the hour and we're going to split that with Capitol Hill. So we got the Doge meeting, I understand from mt that'll be very, very interesting. Got some pretty smart people going to testify. Could be some fireworks. Democrats not excited about this, as you can imagine. And then we've got the first cabinet being of President Trump's second term. And Elon Musk, I think, is being invited to the Cabinet meeting today. And I'm sure they're going to have a discussion of the emails and the firings and all of it behind closed doors. They should be a press avail on both. So we'll be cutting back and forth between both. Chemain Nugent joins me. First off, Chemain, that is a very unusual name. Is that a nickname or is that your given name, ma'am?
Ted Nugent
That's my given name. And it comes from the movie El Cid with Sophia Loren and Charlton Heston.
Brian Glenn
Ah, that's the Sophia Loren. That's the English spelling of her name. Correct.
Ted Nugent
My parents spelled it with an sh because the ch, the Spanish, that was used in that movie, El Cid. They thought people would have a hard ch, sound like church so they spelled it S H E M A N E.
Brian Glenn
So they saw the film. And by the way, it's one of my favorite films about Rodrigo Diaz, the warlord that drove the. That drove the Moors or the, at that time, the Muslims out of Spain. The great warlord in that film with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, you realize what epics are and you realize what movie stars are. Those are two movie stars. Not like we've got today. Is that your parents fell in love with the film and named you after. As a baby. Named you after the Sophia Loren character.
Ted Nugent
Yeah, it's on my birth certificate. Yeah, I think they thought I would be more voluptuous and dark haired, but yeah, no.
Brian Glenn
It turned out okay. It's not Sophia Loren, but it passes muster, as we say, not too shabby. One of the ways you do. One of the ways you do that, you're a health. You're a health freak, right? I mean, you're all about health, correct?
Ted Nugent
Well, define the word freak. But yes, I am. Mostly because I got sick and almost died when I was about 20 some years ago from toxic mold. And I just work so hard to stay healthy. And it's not easy. I mean, I like pizza and Fritos and things like that. And most people don't end up making changes until they have a health scare like I did and they're forced to. But I want to tell you, Steve, about a product that Ted and I use, Field of Greens. And it was created for those of us who, let's face it, we don't always eat perfectly. And here's the good news. One small change can make a big difference. And it's so easy. Just one scoop, one drink once a day and you're on your way to better health. And it's like, you know, we talk about wearing the armor, the full armor of God. This is like nutritional armor for those of us who don't eat perfectly.
Brian Glenn
You know, when I say freak, you take it very seriously. You did have this thing and you take it very seriously. People like me, I'm in and out. But the Field of greens, I get an energy boost. Do you?
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Ted Nugent
I do too. And you know how I know that it's working? We were at Mar A Lago last week. Ted got the Defender of Freedom Award. And we realized we didn't take it with us. And when we got back we were just like tired and it takes a couple days to get back in schedule and routine and didn't feel good and we're all, you know, not sleeping great and everything. Started taking field agains and felt great and that's how you know that it's working. And you know, Ted and I pretty much live off the land but during the winter months we don't get fruits and veggies as much and we rely on field of greens and every fruit. Like you said, every fruit and vegetable is doctor selected for specific benefits like heart, liver, health, kidney, lungs and metabolism and even healthy weight.
Brian Glenn
Wendy, do you take it? Do you guys do it first thing in the morning? What's your schedule on taking your field of greens?
Ted Nugent
Well, coffee first and then field of greens. Yes. That's kind of a habit. Yeah. And you know what? It's one of those things where a lot of times in the morning I don't want to eat a breakfast but if I have field of greens I get a little bit more full. It keeps me going throughout the day and then I eat a healthy lunch and dinner and I'm one step closer to being healthier and it makes me feel better, have more energy, better digestion and yeah, like you said, it's just a great product overall. We get an energy boost.
Brian Glenn
Yeah, I do the same thing. The coffee first in the field of greens. I'm a breakfast guy during the work week, only the weekend. Chemain, how do people follow you on social media and how do they get to the field of greens? We love the fact that like all our sponsors that get a website and access to the senior people because our audiences, they want the receipts, right? They want to dig down on this. So where do folks go?
Ted Nugent
Well, they can go to fieldofgreens.com Brickhouse Nutrition and check it out. And I'm all over social media except Steve. I just got banned or hacked on Facebook so don't go to my Facebook page because somebody else. Yeah, so I just came out with a book that's available on Amazon and I'm on Instagram and my show Faith and Freedom on Real America's Voice.
Brian Glenn
What's the title of the book and where do folks go?
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Chemain, it's called Abundantly well and it's available on Amazon as is my book Killer House and the book I co wrote with Ted, the New York Times bestseller Kill it and Grill It. Steve, come on, you gotta kill it first and then you can grill it.
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Living off the land. Chemain and Ted Nugent. Ma'am, thank you so much for joining us here on a Wednesday morning. Thank you.
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Thank you for having me.
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God bless.
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Episode Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4297: Mass Restructuring Of The Defensive Borders Of The US
Release Date: February 26, 2025
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)
Introduction
In Episode 4297 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into the significant shifts occurring within the United States' defensive infrastructure and political landscape. The episode centers around President Trump's inaugural Cabinet meeting, strategic media overhaul, budget negotiations, and upcoming congressional subcommittee hearings. Through insightful discussions with key contributors like Brian Glenn and Caroline Levitt, the episode provides listeners with a comprehensive analysis of current events shaping the nation's future.
1. Inaugural Cabinet Meeting of President Trump
Timestamp: [00:43] – [02:23]
The episode opens with anticipation for President Trump's first official Cabinet meeting, scheduled for 11:00 AM on February 26, 2025. Stephen Bannon emphasizes the historic nature of this meeting, highlighting expectations of significant policy announcements and strategic realignments.
Notable Quote:
"Another historic day today. First cabinet meeting, official cabinet meeting of President Trump, be 11 o'clock."
— Stephen Bannon [00:43]
2. Overhaul of the White House Press Pool
Timestamp: [02:06] – [09:39]
Caroline Levitt outlines a groundbreaking change in the White House press pool structure. For the first time, alternative media outlets like Newsmax will be included as part of the press pool alongside traditional networks such as ABC. This move signifies President Trump's intent to decentralize media control, ensuring diverse voices are heard and diminishing the long-standing dominance of established media houses.
Notable Quotes:
"This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one. That's what we were elected to do."
— Caroline Levitt [02:57]
"This will be in the Cabinet Room today... the Trump press team has taken over those responsibilities."
— Caroline Levitt [03:00]
Brian Glenn elaborates on the strategic importance of this media shift, emphasizing the displacement of mainstream media as intermediaries and the administration's effort to communicate directly with the American populace.
Notable Quote:
"President Trump's not having it. We're disintermediating the ability of ABC and CBS and NBC... He is doing more than any president ever, getting information out to the people."
— Brian Glenn [05:51]
3. The Doge Subcommittee on Capitol Hill
Timestamp: [09:39] – [12:23]
Brian Glenn discusses the upcoming session of the Doge Subcommittee, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene. This subcommittee is set to investigate alleged waste, fraud, and abuse within Medicaid and Medicare, uncovering an estimated $2.7 trillion in misappropriated funds. Glenn anticipates a contentious meeting, expecting significant pushback from Democrats who may undermine the proceedings, while Republicans aim to present substantial evidence to sway public opinion and influence the upcoming midterm elections.
Notable Quotes:
"We found $2.7 trillion in waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare. You should take that pretty seriously."
— Caroline Levitt [10:21]
"This is how we win the midterms. We must be the responsible party in charge who must cut the budget."
— Brian Glenn [10:21]
4. Budget Resolution and Deficit Management
Timestamp: [12:23] – [44:08]
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the intricate details of the nation's budget resolution and strategies to address the growing deficit. Brian Glenn provides an in-depth analysis of the differences between the Biden administration's budget projections and the Trump administration's optimistic growth estimates. He underscores the necessity of extending tax cuts, implementing tariffs, and enacting spending cuts to reduce the national deficit below $1 trillion.
Key Points Discussed:
Growth Rate Discrepancies:
Deficit Reduction Strategies:
Debt Ceiling Negotiations:
Glenn emphasizes the critical deadline of March 14th, 2025, when temporary measures to extend the debt ceiling expire. He warns of potential economic turmoil if a consensus isn't reached, urging fiscal responsibility and adherence to budgetary constraints.
Notable Quotes:
"Our financial model right now is a country's unsustainable. One thing shouldn't be lost in the 10% tariffs on China."
— Brian Glenn [44:08]
"President Trump's overall goal is peace and prosperity. How do you get there? You work through some different strategic alliances and at the same time you refocus on defense of the homeland."
— Brian Glenn [12:52]
5. Geostrategic Realignment and Defense Strategies
Timestamp: [12:23] – [44:08]
Stephen Bannon expounds on President Trump's ambitious plans for a geostrategic realignment reminiscent of post-World War II strategies. He details efforts to extend the United States' defensive borders from the Arctic to Central America, aiming to thwart Chinese and Russian naval advancements, particularly through critical chokepoints like the Panama Canal.
Key Strategies Discussed:
Monroe Doctrine 2.0:
Foreign Policy Shifts:
Domestic Implications:
Notable Quotes:
"President Trump's message is getting out there quite boldly on the situation in the Arctic."
— Brian Glenn [28:39]
"We're seeing the end of the post-war international rules-based order."
— Brian Glenn [44:08]
6. Legal Battles and Executive Authority
Timestamp: [44:08] – [54:57]
The discussion transitions to the ongoing legal confrontations surrounding executive authority. Glenn critiques the judiciary's role in limiting presidential power, particularly in the context of the unitary executive theory. He references past legal setbacks, such as the failed attempt to remove special counsel Robert Mueller, attributing these to politically motivated judicial decisions.
Key Points Discussed:
Unitary Executive Theory:
Judicial Skepticism:
Strategic Legal Actions:
Notable Quotes:
"We're not saying man the ramparts yet, because we've got to work through a bunch of the stuff today."
— Brian Glenn [46:14]
"This budget fight, which is inextricably linked with an interpretation of the Constitution, is going to get pretty gnarly."
— Brian Glenn [54:36]
7. Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Timestamp: [54:38] – [55:33]
As the episode wraps up, Brian Glenn summarizes the dual focus of the day's events: the Cabinet meeting and the Doge Subcommittee hearings. He reiterates the administration's commitment to reshaping economic and defense policies to ensure national prosperity and security.
Notable Quote:
"From Capitol Hill to the White House, from the Doge subcommittee to actually Doge in the Cabinet Room... all next in the war room."
— Brian Glenn [53:20]
Final Remarks
Episode 4297 of Bannon's War Room offers a deep dive into the strategic maneuvers undertaken by the Trump administration to redefine the United States' political and defensive stance. Through expert analysis and firsthand accounts, listeners gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities lying ahead as the nation navigates complex geopolitical and economic terrains.