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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Stephen K. Bannon
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Steve Bannon
Oh, it's Thursday the 1st of May. Your valor 2025, folks. This is one of those ones you thought, hey, after the run up to the 100 days, we're going to take not a break, but you're going to kind of regroup the morning. You got the next hundred days. You got all the legislation. We've got so much stuff to go through. I got Walsh here, I got Walsh here, I got Charles Binet here or Benoit here. We're going to go through deindustrialization and talk about the president's executive orders, how we're bringing the economy back. It's predicated on energy and manufacturing. And then kind of a little mini bombshell today. And we're trying to get to the bottom of it, but looks like maybe potentially a huge change over the National Security Council in the middle of President Trump trying to trying to negotiate a Russian rapprochement and calm down these wars. And as you can tell, one thing has been quite, I don't say disturbing, but you know, we've got our stink eye on it. Is this continual bombing over in these two carrier battle groups and what are they doing off southern Saudi Arabia and the Houthis and now making analogies President Trump and the great Pete Hegseth about the Houthis are proxies for the Persians, which they are. So it's the Persians attacking, folks. No way we can get in a shooting war in Persia right now. Too much on the plate and we get too many other alternatives. We got to go. Let's go medieval on the. Let's go to medieval on the economic sanctions. Let's go to economic war. Let's be smart like the Chinese Communist Party is. What we need now is prayer. Mike Lindell, where are you at a prayer breakfast? Not at the White House where in the hell are you, sir?
Mike Lindell
Well, actually, we're at the White House. I'm holding up a little bit. I'm going to be. I got a meeting with the President this afternoon, and here I got invited to the prayer that we're going to do out here. I guess the president's coming out in a bit and it's very exciting. You know, Steve, I spoke from the Rose Garden about four years ago, and I said a nation had turned its back on God and we need to get back in the Word, back in our Bibles. Of course, the media blew up, but I said we prayed for grace for such a time as this. And we got five years, you guys, we got. This was grace. And we're going to get to a great place. God uses all things for good. And Steve, it's very, very excited here today.
Steve Bannon
No, fantastic. Tell me what. The President's going to come out. We're going to be picking that up live. What are you guys going to do? And the president's going to come out and join you.
Mike Lindell
Well, yeah, I'm not sure what we're all doing yet. They're going to. We're all meeting in a little bit here and.
Steve Bannon
National Day of Prayer. It's the National Day of Prayer.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. We're all doing. But we had, you know, we have the National Day of Prayer and the, I don't know, participating. There's not too many people. There's probably maybe 40, 40 pastors. And I was invited and I'm very honored to be invited. And so it's going to be very exciting. But I. I wanted to get on here, too and tell everybody. Missed the last couple days, Steve. I wanted to tell everyone about the sheets before. So I'm not gonna be able to get on for the. For the hit you guys on these sheets and running out. So I wanna get on here and tell y'all they are running out. So probably the last day of $25, any size, any color for you guys. Promo code, war room, and there it is and wherever. And I normally, I wouldn't put that in there, but I'll tell you, they keep attacking my pillow, everybody, and they keep attacking my employees. And you guys have made it possible to keep it going so I can be here in Washington town trying to help. Help our country. And go to. So go to the MyPillow website, click on Steve. Go to the closeout sale. Get those sheets, any size, any color, 25. And all the other stuff, the microses and that you guys, everybody get involved in praying on this national day of prayer and pray for our country and pray that these next four years are not in vain. Steve. That this be. We're living in the greatest times to be alive. Everybody. We're all part of this great victory that our country's having, and it's going to have in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Steve Bannon
Mike, that's fantastic. Mike, that's one of the most beautiful shots I've seen of the White House. That's the angle of the camera. Who's is that? Is your wife there? Is she your wingman? She's the one feeding you the lines. If it's shaking, it's me. No, it's fantastic. Mike, hold it. Mike, why don't you. Why don't you take the camera and let's get her on and have a few words.
Charles Benoit
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. No.
Mike Lindell
There she is.
Steve Bannon
Oh, wow. That's fantastic. That's fantastic.
Mike Lindell
The president. The president called us out at the rally, everybody, the other night, and he says, look at. They're still holding hands. At this, the middle of his speech, he's got us holding hands.
Steve Bannon
No, no, no, it's even better. We have that cut. We were going to use that the next time he came a regular. It was not just they're holding hands. It's like how many couples, how many couples that you know are, let's say beyond teenage years are still holding hands or comment on. It was great.
Mike Lindell
Well, we can maybe do that this after. We could maybe do that this afternoon. I'll be back this afternoon after I meet with the president.
Steve Bannon
Okay, Mike, Fantastic. You guys are great. Glad to have you on here. Keep us update. I tell you, Mike, keep in touch with the producer camera. The president does come out, we want to cut to you guys whatever you're doing live, so make sure you keep us in the loop. Okay?
Mike Lindell
That sounds good. Thanks, Steve. Thanks for posse.
Steve Bannon
Thanks. Thank you. MyPilla.com promo code WAR. Most powerful promo code in the world. I'm just repeating what Mike Lindell tells me. So now that we know what the problem is. Charles, now that we know what the problem is, what is Trump? This piece and grace and mo. Let's get it out there. This is not a. In the American conservative. And the great Kurt Mills. We love Kurt. Doing amazing job over there. This is a piece. You want to get a your morning coffee and go through it. It's quite detailed. It's not a pundits piece. It's really a detailed Analytical piece. Charles, what is the President United States Donald John Trump actually doing to reindustrialize America? Sir?
Charles Benoit
So what I go over in my article is it's called the Section 2, 32 actions. That's the President's national security power to use tariffs to re industrialize. And they're not getting any media attention, but they're really exciting. They even have boring names. So it is kind of stacked against them. But he's done now we have the three that are in effect. So that's steel, aluminum and automotive. But he's now launched six more 2,3 2 investigations off after that. Now one of them is like wood and it sounds okay. So we're just talking lumber or timber, right? No, no, it's everything downstream. This is a point that nobody's picking up on. So it's everything from timber to kitchen cabinets. And so with through the pharmaceuticals is another one, you know, copper. So we're, this is massive amounts of the industrial base that via the section 232 process the administration can come up with detailed plans for bringing those jobs back. It probably takes give them about half a year, six to nine months is the average time to finish one of these. And but they're the first three that are in effect now. He actually launched those in his first term. These are proven and they'll bring about a lot of success for re industrialization.
Steve Bannon
What are the other couple that he's named because and we had Christopher Leonard on when we were in Kansas City who wrote Lords of Easy Money. He's now doing a massive new book, it's going to take years to do on the military industrial complex. But he makes the argument the defense industrial base is basically kaput. We've essentially de. Industrialized away from it and exposed ourselves to really the Chinese Communist Party that's become an industrial superpower. And we're in one of the most dangerous zones we could ever be in. President Trump is using this and part of it is for the defense industrial base. What else has he identified besides wood, automotive, steel and aluminum?
Charles Benoit
So chips is a big one. That's one that was misinterpreted and the President had to post about it. And the media was completely dishonest. They're like, oh, everyone, Apple got a giant exemption. No, no, that's not what happened. 232 was launched. Section 232 investigation has been launched and is now underway on chips. But not chips also the derivative articles. So everything with a chip in it. This is a massive, massive deal. And, and so, and this Is like it has to be done. I'm very excited about where it's going to go. He's done. Now we had the automotive one. There's also one on medium to heavy trucks. That's the latest. And the pharmaceutical one is not just, not just drugs, but also all the active ingredients where we're totally dependent on China. Very dangerously slow. So it's almost crazy that, you know, no, you know, President Biden ignored this. I mean, maybe it's not crazy, but these are long overdue. And, you know, we've got a massive section of the economy there. Not agriculture, but some other things happening. But for manufacturing, the actions that are there now cover a lot. I think you're going to see a lot more added to steel. So look for, you know, maybe appliances. I believe some of the other industries I mentioned, bicycling, flatware. These don't sound like, oh, national security. Now if you go back and read the 2018 steel report from the Department of Commerce, Wilbur Ross's Department of Commerce, that actually said that. Look, our defense industrial base needs steel, obviously, but you cannot rely, the steel mills cannot rely on just defense procurement. Defense procurement is very irregular. They need the commercial market, and that's what all these new actions are doing.
Steve Bannon
Charles, hang on one second. Do you have. Okay, we see what he's doing to bring back and establish an industrial manufacturing base here. Does his plan on energy dovetail in with that?
Dave Walsh
Completely. Completely. You can't manufacture anything competitively without reasonable and efficient labor inputs to energy cost. Electricity is now a huge component of steel making, aluminum smelting, of course, cement making, petrochemical facilities, chemical facilities, pulp and paper. All the above. Not just AI service centers. All of that stuff, traditional core economy.
Steve Bannon
Stuff, is before you get to the new capacity we need for AI debt. You're saying basically to bring a manufacturing base back here. His plan right now dovetails on the energy side perfectly with that. So you see a coherent strategy, a.
Dave Walsh
Foundation has to be a abundant and low cost electrification. He's. He's way ahead of there.
Steve Bannon
And available. Not just abundant, but available.
Dave Walsh
24, 7 full time means 242 dimensions, right? High, high rating, but all the time.
Steve Bannon
And how much excess capacity? Over 100, like 120% capacity. Or if you take it, if you take a society at full, at full bore, how much above that do you need to make sure you got enough ceiling?
Dave Walsh
Well, this is where the narrative has changed. It used to be 25% was the target. Now remember that target in narrative by utilities has now moved down to 15% we are now today in actual fact the way it should be calculated, the way it was calculated 10 years ago. We're down to about 13% now. Headwind that is in the danger zone of creating for every percentage point below 15% excess capacity, your reserve margin you have a seven times factor of more exposure to brownouts, loss of service events and blackouts. Below 15% is a huge threshold as the media loves to say a tipping point. 15% headroom minimum you need. We're below that now by 2%. Unbelievable. Huge problem.
Steve Bannon
Okay, hang on both of you guys. This shows you the immature running around with their hair on fire just lies of these airheads in the mainstream media. They won't do the work. This is actually a very well thought through and this is why four years well what we learned in the first term with President Trump's tax cuts, industrial policy but to come imperfected that's why you had the convergence. These are not small things. This is not Clinton putting kids in school uniforms in his two terms. This is a massive thing. When Charles says hey, I give the guy a 10 out of 10 when you talk about you haven't had a actually a trade, a somewhat understands trade as a present. Even the beloved Ronald Reagan, you know, in a hundred years or more than 100 years. We're gonna take a short commercial break. Two things. The Rickards war room.com Jim Rickards is now tremendous demand. One of our contributors trying to get him back on here in the next couple of days. Rickardswarroom.com if you like the capital markets, the strategy, the intel, all the global politics, everything with us, national security, the intel community, all of it. Go to rickardswarroom.com you've got strategic Intelligence. That's his newsletter. Get access to it. You'll get access to a chairman and CEOs all over the world. So if you love the show, it's a great newsletter to follow. Also home title lock, the one million dollar triple lock protection. What is it? 247 coverage. If anything happens, that little contract you have that says that you actually own your house, boom. You get an alert immediately to give you a heads up. And if all else fails, $1 million restoration to make sure you get it back. Hometitlec.com promo code Steve Short break. Back in the warm in a moment. You don't go out and buy a life jacket when the boat is already sinking. And you don't buy gold when the economy has already collapsed. Clearly others are heeding this advice as gold hit an all time high the first part of 2025 multiple times. It's not too late for you. The company I trust to help you diversify into physical gold is Birch Gold. The company I buy my gold from. Birch Gold specializes in helping you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold for no money out of pocket. Just listen to this five star review, quote knowledgeable, helpful, non pressure, end quote. That's what you get with Burch Gold and that's why I've endorsed them for so long. Get your free info kit on gold by texting the word Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898. There's no obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and countless five star reviews. Text Bannon Bannon O N to 989898 and let the experts at Birchgold help you secure your financial future today with gold.
Jack Posobiec
So this morning, just to take you a little bit behind the curtain, I was, I was headed into my location to do the program and I got a text from a very nice source who said you want to call me? And it turns out that three different people to the original source and two others have confirmed that the plan now by the White House is to remove the National Security Advisor, Mike Walts, who was on Fox News this morning just not that long ago, and his deputy Alex Wong and much of the member current staff team at the National Security Council because of unhappiness throughout the national security establishment of how they're doing. The West Wing's unhappy, the State Department, the Treasury unhappiness. And of course this was around before Signal Gate. It was widely reported that Signal Gate ironically may have saved Waltz's job because the president didn't want to be seen as if he were giving in to Jeffrey Goldberg, his new best friend. But there's lots of levels of unhappiness and it's less about Signal Gate than it is about, as I understand it from my sources, a general belief that it's not being run efficiently in an organized way. It may not. It may happen as early as today. It may not happen ever because it's Donald Trump. But the plan is for it to happen soon. Maybe, maybe this weekend. One source says this weekend we'll see. But the original choice to replace the the National Security Advisor for many in the government was a guy named Christopher Landau. He's currently the Deputy Secretary of State. He is said to be doing such a good job and is so valuable to Marco Rubio. That Rubio says, no, you can't have my guy. So he's got job lock because he's doing well. Some people have experienced that. You know what that's like. So Landau, I'm told, will not get the job even though he's very highly thought of, because he's so highly thought of. A candidate that's being discussed who has support at very high levels within the administration is Steve Witkoff, the President's friend and special envoy to everything. Witkoff has a lot of senior level support, but he also has enemies. And two of my three sources pointed me to this. A New York Post story that ran yesterday, very strange story, popped up in the New York Post in the middle of the day yesterday, savaging Steve Witkoff with anonymous quotes saying he, he's over his, in way over his head, he shouldn't be leading the Russian negotiations, that other countries are confused by him, that people in the government think he's amateurish. The story was filled with savage blank quotes. Do we have the money? Quote, Paul, I don't know if we do or not. There we go. Nice guy, but a dumbling effing idiot. This person said of Witskoff, he should not be doing this alone, meaning negotiating these deals. Now will his critics be more happy with him as head of the nsc? Not according to my sources. And they believe that some people believe that the reason the Post story popped up was because word was beginning to spread that Waltz was out and that Witkoff was his likely replacement. And what the speculation is this New York Post story is aiming at stopping that.
Steve Bannon
Okay, Halperin right there, that is called Inside Baseball and that is also a guy like Halperin because a lot of people were talking what the hell is this New York Post story, which is literally a savage, savage attack on Witkoff doing. And you know, and Witkoff's in the, in the middle of these, the Russian negotiations and Besson is going to sign the, the, the quote, unquote, you know, minerals deal or economic deal with, with Zelensky's people to kind of lay a predicate over there. Jack Basoba comes in. So Jack, the no scalps policy, I guess we, I guess it was good for 100 days. Now we're, now we're plan B. Maybe it's scalps. I'm a huge believer and but Halperin just nailed it right there. I think it's consistent issues with how things are just being managed and organized, not just, not just the center of gravity being quite neocon and away from the core of America first policies. I think this also gets down just to the fact we're in it now. I mean, we're negotiating these massive deals, a Russian rapprochement. This is bigger than what Kissinger and Nixon did with China back in the early 70s. You're trying to stop two amazingly bloody conflicts in Ukraine and in Gaza, in Israel, I would actually say. And then you're trying to, you know, voices are trying to say, hey, we can't go on a bombing campaign, you know, in Persia. At the same time you're keeping the Suez Canal open with a couple of carrier battle groups. And oh, by the way, you may, the flare may go up in Taiwan. It's an organization, at least it has been the continual complaints of an organization not on top of things, people not briefed, not the coordinating factor between state, treasury and obviously as treasury stepped into what we call economic warfare there in the front lines. Jack Posobie, you've spent a lot of time on this, plus over on the, on the White House campus. Your thoughts?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Steve, thanks so much for having me on. And yes, I was at the White House yesterday for the new media briefing with Caroline Levitt, asked a question about the domestic issues as the question regarding domestic left wing violence and the rise in support for these unhuman groups like Ms. 13 Trende, Aragua actions like Luigi Maggione and others, you know, poked my head around a few times while I was there and had a few chats. But then I, then I came back and look, Steve, you and I were here on this program, not what not not one week ago. And we were talking about how there were forces within the administration and external pressure that was being put on President Trump driving these strikes on Iran. This idea that in the midst of negotiations where we had on Easter weekend, remember Wycoff was over there in Rome meeting with the delegation from the Iranian team, their diplomats and their negotiators to try to figure out how to hammer out some kind of deal with the Iranians. But people have this and I read that New York Post written, it was completely clueless, this attack on Steve Witkoff written by this guy Douglas Murray, who clowned himself and be clowned himself on Joe Rogan recently. And you know, it was this idea that they don't see the big picture, Steve. They don't see the Trump's grand strategy. They don't understand it. They're not interested in it. They're interested in pushing this neoconservative, neoliberal agenda that we've Seen for the last 30 years, going back to the Bush administration, by the way, the first Bush administration and then really reflected in the second where the United States becomes the, you know, the guarantor of world security, the guarantor of world markets. China gets put into those world markets. Now you've got the US Navy that's conducting it's. We've been discussing the show all these times.
Steve Bannon
But hang on, but hang on. I understand that and there's a neocon hit to them, but that's not my grand strategy or even have a street. The National Security Council people should know is mainly housed in the eob. There are the most prominent people, you know now down by where the actual situation room, etc. The senior guys. It's a 250 person. First of all, it's way too big. But it's 250 people or 250billets, 290billets. Two thirds of those people are seconded from the various operations. Its primary purpose is a coordinating effort, particularly these complex topics. Forget that they're not part of the grand strategy because obviously you're not, you're 100% correct.
Stephen K. Bannon
This thing has been two strategies in running at the same time that are in conflict with each other. You can't have one guy running out there saying negotiations and another team working up missile strikes.
Steve Bannon
Yes, I'm not so sure that they're heavyweights enough to be considered strategy. My point is, I think the reason this is expedited because there has been a no scalps policy, right? You're not going to give the media any wins here is because a basic level of competence that you're supposed to coordinate with all these complex things going on, everything from the Venezuela situation to what's happening in the Caribbean to the Panama Canal to Greenland to the three island strategy to the Middle east to Ukraine to what's going on with the economic war. We are fighting at like five dimension warfare in a most sophisticated, quite frankly, third world war that if any false step is made could spin out of control. And as a coordinating factor they're taking incoming from State, from doj, from treasury and from others that the job's just not getting done. Do you buy that argument? Are you still that, hey, they're just so neocon that that, that they're just not in the room?
Stephen K. Bannon
What I'm saying is those aren't necessarily separate arguments. I would put them together because when you've got one group of people that's on your team that. And by the way, I'm not saying that this wasn't the case. I'm just saying in general that you need to have look, President Trump gets the administration that he wants. He's the commander in chief. He's the one who runs the play. He's the one who gets to make the assignments. He's the one who decides this is the strategy that goes forward. That's the strategy that goes forward. And so with Besant getting the deal signed yesterday, having that inked, and he's going to be doing press. He's already doing press today. That was the deal when I was over there in Ukraine with him that Zelensky originally reneged on. Then he comes to the White House, he reneges on that. That signals that the path forward isn't necessarily going to be this kinetic driven, you know, having the B2 bombers down at Diego Garcia and flying them up to Natanz and Tehran and taking out all these underground bunkers with a, with the bunker busting bombs like the New York Times wanted. And as other external world leaders, shall we say we're talking about, no, it's that we are going to have the negotiations. We're going to have the strategy. Actually, Steve, what this shows is the grand strategy is working. That's what's coming down. And the people who have the vision of the grand strategy are the ones that are currently in the lead.
Steve Bannon
What, how much of this is going to be the biggest, I guess I don't want to say controversy, but if you have to go through everything that's working, everything that people are working on, the biggest gap in belief is this situation in Persia. The constant drumbeat of there's got to be a military intervention solution now that instead of going up an escalatory ladder in economic warfare, you just jump right into, let's do bombing runs and have the 101st and 82nd Airborne ready to go in. And we know where Waltz comes down on that, how big, how big a part of that drove this decision to happen. Now.
Stephen K. Bannon
I haven't heard any direct sources on that, so I couldn't confirm nor deny. But I do know that Tulsi Gabbard, the dni so Tanner Cole Gabbard was out there with the intelligence estimate that said that they were not imminently about to roll out these nuclear weapons, that in fact this wasn't necessary. And then of course, Wykoff was making Iran part of the leverage point, the inflection point with Russia. So if you want to put leverage on Iran, you know who's got that leverage? Russia does because they're the ones who built Iran's nuclear program and then China does because they're Iran's largest customer for their oil sales. The economics and the military geopolitical strategy, it's all connected in the grand strategy of Trump's doctrine for the second administration. And I think unfortunately there's people who are, you know, maybe to watching too much other networks that don't quite get that.
Steve Bannon
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Steve Bannon
Okay. There's so much going on. Charles, where do people go to get the article? Where they go to get all your, where they go to get all your, all your information?
Charles Benoit
Yes. For the article. It's on the American conservative Google Trump's first hundred days of tariffs. That's the article. And check out prosperous america.org that's the website from my group, Coalition for Prosperous America. We are the leading pro tariff group. We are supporting President Trump's trade agenda 100%. And you'll find tons of economic research there. And my ex account, Charles Underscore Benoit. Feel free to reach out. I'm happy to talk trade any day.
Steve Bannon
You're amazing. Definitely will Jack Posobic this get now everybody's reporting at Fox. Everybody. The no scalps policy lasted 100 days. You know, hey, not too shabby 100 day. But this was this, but this folks should know this was an issue way before the signal thing. And I want to go back to the difference between America first national security policy, which is not isolationist and it's not dovish, but there's definitely kind of a way you look at the world and you don't want to be bombing everywhere. You don't be sending American troops everywhere. Let me give you an example. I find this revolting. I find this revolting for the audience. You remember the great video collections the morning staff did and the afternoon staff yesterday on the 50th anniversary and we didn't get enough, spend enough time and I will do it on Saturday show the 50th anniversary of the retreat of the fall of Saigon and particularly the fact of the 58,000American casualties that's killed in action. That's not the wounded. The wounded. And what it did to the country and tore it apart. Look what the Financial Times has on its cover every day. You have the 50th anniversary Falls Saigon. You've got the female branch of the army, right? Vietnam hails national revival. You've got the north, essentially the Vietnamese, North Vietnamese army in your face about their victory. That's Financial Times. I want you to embrace that. Worse, you got the Murdochs, who as you know, I think are some of the biggest scumbags on earth, okay? The reason this country's in the shape it's in is because Fox News and the Wall Street Journal tapped along as controlled opposition. They let the radical Democrats coupled with the lords of easy money on Wall street, the global corporatists and the apartheid state of Silicon Valley run the deal and deindustrialize this country and make paupers out of the working class and the middle class. And look what they have. That's what Rupert Murdoch thinks of American valor on the 50th anniversary. That they would. They would. They would copy the Financial Times of London and put the Vietnamese army up there in all its glory. That is these front pages and the reason papers are more important to look at than websites is they show you their editorial, they show you their thinking about the way they position stories and the way they write headlines. It's key part of narrative war that's telling you your sacrifice was nothing. So when you see Fox up there and they're waving the American flag and they got guys up there and they're saying, hey, this is so great. Let's go down to Texas and see some veterans. We love veterans. They don't love veterans. You know how much they love veterans? That is mocking 58,000 dead Americans in a jungle in Southeast Asia. That's what that's doing. These people are scum. And Paul Gigio and all you big talkers and Bannon and these populists, these nationalists, you're scum. The editors of the Wall Street Journal, you're scum for putting that up there. Scum. And you've shown people who sacrificed, people who sacrificed exactly what you think of their sacrifice. You could have had a million different alternatives on photos of either combat that took place there, the valor took place there on any military cemetery. The children and grandchildren of those Vietnam vets. This is as bad. You know what this is? This is the equivalent of spitting on them. When they came home in the 60s and 70s driven by the radicals, they were spit on. They didn't get any parades. They didn't get any parades. There are no parades for the Vietnam veterans. They came back and people spit on them. The radical left, the people that are like the editors of the Wall Street Journal spit on them. You know what you just did? You just spit on their graves with that. You're disgusting. You want to know why I hate you people, and I do hate you, is because, like that, you're revolting. And this is why this situation on the National Security Council is so important. Because the National Security Council back then read the best and the brightest every day. National, McGeorge, Bundy, this entire crowd, all these geniuses from Harvard, right? Got us in. Got us in. Got us in deeper. Do you see the Harvard guys over there getting shot up in those jungle? You see that combat footage we put up yesterday? Scare the living hell out of you just to even be in that jungle, much less having people shoot at you. Posobeck, your thoughts?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Steve, let's just go back in time here a little bit, because this isn't the first time that we've seen the neocons backing a communist force in Vietnam. If you want to tell the true story about Vietnam, why don't you pick up a little book by Du Barrier, Background to Betrayal, the Tragedy of Vietnam that tells the truth about who started the Viet Cong and who was supporting them in the early days up in the north to fight the Japanese. And Ho Chi Minh was supported by the os, the precursor to the CIA. And the idea was, oh, well, we'll just build them up and we'll help them fight the Japanese force. And this would be a great idea. And then they go and prop up no Din Diem. And he was a complete nobody. The way they do this all over the world, where they start a proxy war by taking a politician who's unpopular and then use them to fight against a force that's much bigger than them. I couldn't think of anything going on right now that would be at all similar to that, Steve. It's the same playbook they do over and over. So Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong, of course, turn on the United States, turn on Diem, and we see the rest of that. And then eventually the CIA has to go and do what? They put him on the CIA early retirement plan. That's how Ngo Din Diem went out. And so, yeah, don't be a US Proxy. And what does Ho Chi Minh do? He becomes the communist leader of all of Vietnam, which people don't even talk about the fact that the OSS supported him.
Steve Bannon
We lost the Vietnam War the day Kennedy knew this sitting in the Oval Office three weeks where he's assassinated. Far be it for me to say there was any linkage when the CIA, when the National Security Council, CIA came with their great plan and what they always want to do, they want to cut and run. They get, they prop somebody up, they go all in. And then when it doesn't work out, what's the first thing they want to do? A problem they created.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's the point for their, with their great ideas, they create it.
Steve Bannon
And then, then, then when it gets heavy, then when it gets tough, it's just like these broligarchs all running around Trump and they're all there for the inauguration and hey, it's all great. I said, hey, give a hundred days, look in the trenches, see who's to your left and your right. You know, you're going to notice a lot the people that were there in 2021 that has back. This is exactly how these had these Ivy Leaguers work, these elites work. They create them. They create it. And then when it gets a little tough, you got the monks burning themselves in the street, putting gasoline themselves. It gets, you know, the COVID of Life magazine gets a little uncomfortable. The cocktail party's starting to ask some tough questions. What they do, they come to Kennedy, hey, we got this plan that we're going to the generals in Kennedy's like, I don't know. He said, no, you got to do this. We're going to get generous. It's all going to be good. It's going to be perfect. And the family, we're going to get the family. We got vehicles, we got planes, we're going to get them out. They got, they're going to go to Laos or Thailand. They're going to go somewhere. It's all going to be happy ever after. And they come in and tell Kennedy and Yeovil, yeah, mission accomplished.
Stephen K. Bannon
By the way, the self immolation was because DM starts, starts cleaning up all the Buddhists in Southern. It's Southern Vietnam. It's a bit, it was a Buddhist country and he was a Catholic, I get that. But he's, he's going after them. So the guy that we're supporting starts the religious cleansing of his own country while we are still supporting him. I can't imagine the United States supporting a guy who would go after religious cleansing.
Steve Bannon
I mean a total. It wasn't a total. It wasn't an ethnic purge. It was, look, there were a couple of the monasteries and the Buddhists that worked in the North Vietnamese look, it's tough to the players. Hey, they're shifting sides all the time. It's China and World War II, right? You know, ask. Ask the generals. Ask Stilwell. Stillwell was Shanghai. Hey, it's Chinatown, man. It's always shifting. Okay? It's always shifting. So you got so. But my point is, you got to make a decision and stick what they do. They tell Kennedy and they lie to his face. They tell him, and then they walk in the Oval and said, hey, it's all good. The general's in charge is all good. There's just one small hickey, just one small hiccup. Oh, what's that? The entire family was assassinated on the tarmac in the back of the truck, right? He goes, what? There's not supposed to be an assassination. Yeah, yeah. You're not running the deal. The CIA is running the deal, okay? You can't trust any of them. And this is how powerful the National Security Council is. Back then, it was Mac, George Bundy in that crowd. Mac Bundy got us in so deep and then walked away. Let me go back. I'll go be president of Harvard or went to the world. They all go to the World bank eventually. McNamara, all of them. They want to get out and go. Some globalist institution. This is why this choice for President Trump is so important, so big. At least the interim, you know, discussion. It may be Witkoff. Does Witkoff have any national security experience? Zero. But throwing a few sharp elbows in New York City and close to the president. Remember, Jack, when Ronald Reagan came in, he picked Judge Clark, right? Had Richard V. Allen and eventually got. When Richard V. Allen was bounced because I don't know Richard V. Allen taking a refrigerator or something. I forgot they got Judge Clark in there, which was his, like, his older brother. Very close to Judge Clark. Judge Clark was somebody that was probably the closest person, and he was equivalent to Wyckoff in lack of national security experience, I would say. But he had the full faith of Reagan to tell him, hey, what in the hell are these guys doing? Because that's the number one thing you got to say. They got a lot of guys running around. Exactly. What are these guys doing? I want to make sure nobody's nobody, you know, they're not cutting deals with the Contras and taking money out of here and doing stuff. Jack, we just got about two minutes. Your closing thoughts on the nsc.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I'll just say the. I've said this so many times on here, on the War Room, and thanks again for having me on, Steve. It's the most dangerous words for the America first movement to hear about someone is that they're highly respected in Washington, D.C. the minute you hear that set phrase this is highly respect, highly respected, high respected in D.C. that means this is someone that has come up through the system, that has come up through the ranks, that has checked every wicket, that has checked every box, that is totally dependent on the system for their credibility and for their authority. So this is a tough job that the President has to find people who actually have the expertise on these issues, have the clarity on these issues, but also aren't totally co opted or you know, perhaps well meaning, but don't understand the grand strategy that President Trump is hearkening to. Which by the way, is the previous national security, economic, geopolitical, geostrategic policy of the United States pre globalism. President Trump is ratcheting things back to the pre globalist era and that's what a lot of people don't seem to understand. This is traditional American foreign policy where.
Steve Bannon
They go to get you. Jack, you'll be up at 2 Charlie. Kirk Falls is a noon jack at 2, Gruber 3, bowling at 4. We do the handover. Five to seven is the war room. Where do people go and get you in the interim? Jack Posobic yeah, what the interim?
Stephen K. Bannon
I love the smash on this. I've been even as we've been talking though my my phone's been blowing up, sources hitting me up signal all the rest of it. No, not those signal groups by the way. And of course I'll be up. Jack Posobic on X, on Twitter, on Truth and then Human Events Daily. In case you missed the podcast live.
Steve Bannon
Posobic don't accept any positions. I'm your agent here. I'm doing negotiations. Don't hit the bid on anything. Don't get crazy until we get to our regroup with you later in the day. Don't, young man, don't. Do not be accepting any titles. Don't be serving billets until we talk. Jack Vasovic. No kings, no titles, no hell. I had Walsh back here to meet people. I guess I had to redo the schedule. Now the President is not just the Michael and Dell thing. I think the President may be going to step forward here in a minute or two, maybe give us some explanations. What's going on? Big day in the White House. Reporting that the national security adviser, Green Beret Colonel Mike Waltz, former member of Congress from Florida. I mean this will be such a pity. We take him out of a lock seat, he's beloved down there. The guy's winning by 30 points. We get somebody that's maybe not loved quite as much. Right? We have to have a tractor pull on that one. And now waltz is out. Hey, you can't make this stuff up. Maybe even Alex Wong, the deputy. Let's go to Natalie Dominguez. Natalie, take it away, ma'am. Everybody loves the $1 million triple lock protection. What do you got for us? The only thing that's going to stop you, Natalie, is we may have to jump in if the president steps to the mic. What do you got for us, ma'am?
Natalie Dominguez
No, all good. I'll make it quick. First of all, happy late one year anniversary. I've been with you guys for a year now. This came up because we actually have an update from one of the original stories that I reported on. So just to recap, there was a woman in Ohio that in 2023, found out that almost 10 years prior, in 2012, a realtor that she'd been working with had transferred her home out of her name, and she didn't find out about it until 2023. During that time, it was 2024 when she started the court proceedings, she actually ended up representing herself because she couldn't afford the $20,000 retainer fee to get representation. So this realtor had. Had transferred the home into his company's name, had taken out a mortgage, and she found out, literally, because she was getting a foreclosure notice in the mail and she had to appear in court. So, update. Okay, so It's May of 2025. We just got this article that came out. After two years, the appeals court that she went through finally ruled in her favor, saying the document was illegitimate. However, and she started crying and she's like, I'm so relieved. I felt. So I felt abused, unprotected. Because as we all know, we talk about this all the time. The government really isn't doing much to change this, just to be able to prosecute criminals once they've been caught. Right? So, but because this, this realtor, this criminal, had passed away prior to the court proceedings, the person representing the criminal's estate, after this, the court had ruled in her favor, are now saying, well, we're going to appeal it and we're still going to fight. So she finally gets everything back in her name, and the battle still has not fully been won. So the reason I thought this, you know, was so important to cover.
Steve Bannon
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Steve Bannon
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Natalie Dominguez
Thanks. Hopefully, hopefully many more to come.
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Mike Lindell
All of it.
Steve Bannon
Natalie Dominguez. I hope you work through it. Natalie. Thank you so much, ma'am.
Natalie Dominguez
Thanks Steve.
Steve Bannon
Great work. Love these young people, man. They get involved and they get done. What you're seeing there is the. That is the Rose Garden and it looks like the Mike and Lindell kind of mini event. But now the President. Looks like the President's going to come out. Can we go there and get the music? Yeah, let's. This is beautiful. I love that. Isn't that great? This is war Room production right here, man. Rose guard on a beautiful May day with that music and the President, United States right there. Just so you know, right back of that podium, where that flag is, that is the Oval Office. The Oval Office looks out into the Rose Garden. Okay, now, as you see the picture right there to your right, that's where the colonnades are that you always have that. There's no connection of the West Wing actually physically to the residents. That colonnade is where you go down to the residence. So if you're sitting here, right there, where the camera is to your hard right is the beginning of where the residence starts. And the residence is what we call the White House. That's a massive structure. Now, the residence has those kind of the East Room and it has more the ballrooms or the rooms down below that. On that one, the first level, actually, you gotta go up a level. I guess actually technically you walk into the basement level where the, I think the map rooms down there. Every room is magnificent. In fact, last night they actually did the. The CEO meeting his talk in a room they don't use very often. It's quite extraordinary.
Mike Lindell
Or another.
Steve Bannon
The President's coming down, I imagine. And we're going to take this till it goes. And we're going to keep that photo. We're going to keep that shot up there. It's fantastic. We're going to go. This is going to go right through into Charlie Kirk. And so imagine President. And I think he's going to. Guys, you don't need me. Let's have the full shot people see me enough. My beautiful visage is right here in their heart. They've got that right. In their heart. They got that. There we are. That's a photo. That's a beautiful. An amazing spring day here in Washington, D.C. mike Lindell's there with a bunch of folks. They're going to have some prayers. I. I think that's. This was kind of put together over this whole week in the run up to the hundred days, they've had influencers come in every day. Eric Bolling's been over there. Jack Fosovic's there. Of course, we got a permanent team of Natalie and Amanda Head and of course, Brian Glenn. But they've been bringing in. DC Drano was in the other day, so they've been bringing in influencers and particularly the new media ecosystem to do all this. Dave Walsh, we always, we always call in audibles here in the war Room. But you're here for a couple of days.
Dave Walsh
Yep.
Steve Bannon
You're Going to go cra. I'm going to see you over at cra.
Dave Walsh
Yep, we'll be there.
Steve Bannon
I think we may have to. Can we think about trying to get you back over here, do some work or is your schedule booked? I talked to your agent. I got to talk to your agent.
Dave Walsh
These Friday, Friday, Saturday. I'm loyal to those who brought me.
Steve Bannon
Give me, give me, give me, give me a couple of minutes on where do we stand with President Trump? You heard Benoit saying that the re industrialization is started. It's going to be tough, but we're going to. Are we? Is this energy plan in motion now to back that up?
Dave Walsh
It's completely consistent with that. Like he's talking stealing his. We used to make 150 million tons a year in this country. Now about 50 million tons. Massive reduction we get. Energy is at the core of that. Same as AI data centers. Energy is at the core of being able to produce steel. A core product cost effectively 3,400megawatts per steel plant.
Steve Bannon
I just want the one picture. I don't need Dave. I don't need a box. I just want the one picture.
Dave Walsh
He gets it.
Steve Bannon
Okay, there we go. That's. Now I'm happy. I'm a stop whining. I'm going to stop being bitchy.
Dave Walsh
There's a lot of people a little worried about the slow walk on solar. I think when more of this kind of.
Steve Bannon
What do you mean the slow walk on solar?
Dave Walsh
It's not. We talked a lot about wind. He's all over that. Offshore wind is a big mess. Way costly. Solar is too. I think internally there might be a little pressure from Elon on hey, if you love solar, it sells batteries. I don't know. We'll see. But you can't have reshoring and you can't have manufacturing with solar as a major part of your electricity mix. It's too costly and it's too part time. Great opportunity to leverage off of a disaster this week like the other guys do. Leverage off of it. Spain is.
Steve Bannon
Are you saying, hey, lesson learned, Lesson learned. Iberia taught us doesn't work. We're getting out of here.
Dave Walsh
Iberia seems to want to return to their agrarian history as Rome's breadbasket. Manufacturing gone. Steel in Spain gone. Ability to colonize third world countries, gone.
Steve Bannon
So you gotta remember that's where the gladiator. That's where Russell Crowe's. Russell Crowe's farm was down there.
Dave Walsh
Yeah, Hannibal walked through there, took Rome for a while. Took Rome and then they became the breadbasket For Rome seemed to be one. I headed back to the same place. No manufacturing because the electrification is awful. You deal three times more costly here.
Steve Bannon
You deal with these consultants people all the time. How did they come. You were. We were talking the break the globalization thing back in the 80s which. It's a mindset. It's just a mindset. You had another mindset to de. Industrialize and use energy to do it.
Mike Lindell
It.
Steve Bannon
Have we broken that fever?
Dave Walsh
No, I don't think we have yet. Among Wall street particularly. And I'm worried Wall street may not be a great owner of the steel industry. They're not interested in it. I'm just. That's a side comment. Back in my day running manufacturing businesses in Westinghouse, we had the company get in trouble through lending. Got in Trouble, bring in McKinsey, Booz Allen, Boston Consulting. All with the same message. Blade rings, turbine cylinders, exhaust cylinders, rotors. Buying from China, buying from Korea, buying from Hungary.
Steve Bannon
I went, I went to, I went, I went to school with all those guys.
Dave Walsh
They all have the same message. No original thinking.
Steve Bannon
None.
Dave Walsh
So it was sourcing and then it was develop your service business. Drove Westinghouse into getting into the lending business. Bankrupted them. 25 years later reproduced the same model of GE. Insurance and lending have tanked them and now they've spun off all their units together.
Steve Bannon
The great manufacturer that came from, that.
Dave Walsh
Came from McKinsey, Booz Allen, Boston Consolidate that.
Steve Bannon
Walk me through the next hundred days. What Dave Walsh is looking for to make sure we got the same momentum in progress in energy to to dovetail with the industrial policy.
Dave Walsh
I think you're going to see return to the use of the tariff weapon on solar which is and battery storage which is critical to getting combined cycle natural gas back on the table as the dominant energy choice for electrification. Electrification. It's the lowest cost, it's way the cleanest on real pollutants, nox socks and heavy metals. And then look at Zelton's good work in the EPA on disabling kneecapping. The endangerment finding then takes the legs out from under the further incentivization of part time irrelevant electricity supply devices that cost a fortune and oh by the way all come from China. That'll be the keystone to go ahead and disable incentivizing further the the meaningless electricity supply items.
Steve Bannon
Where do people go to get your. Where do people go to get your all your content?
Dave Walsh
You find me an X truth social and getter Dave Walsh Energy. Okay, thank you, Steve.
Steve Bannon
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Podcast Summary: Bannon`s War Room
Episode 4453: Creating Legislation To Stop The Energy Emergency
Release Date: May 1, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Author: WarRoom.org
In Episode 4453 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into the pressing issue of America's energy emergency and the legislative efforts underway to counteract it. The episode, released on May 1, 2025, features insightful discussions with key figures such as Mike Lindell, Charles Benoit, Dave Walsh, and Jack Posobiec. The conversation navigates through reindustrialization strategies, energy policies, national security concerns, and the internal dynamics of the National Security Council (NSC).
Charles Benoit, a prominent trade analyst, provides an in-depth analysis of President Donald Trump's use of Section 232 tariffs to reindustrialize America. He emphasizes the administration's focus on reviving critical industries through targeted tariffs on steel, aluminum, automotive, and other sectors.
"With the Section 232 process, the administration can develop detailed plans for bringing those jobs back, taking about six to nine months per industry."
— Charles Benoit [07:18]
Benoit highlights six additional industries under investigation, including wood and pharmaceuticals, explaining that these measures aim to reduce dependency on China and strengthen the domestic industrial base. He underscores the administration's proactive stance compared to previous efforts, noting that these actions have already commenced with steel, aluminum, and automotive sectors.
Dave Walsh, an energy policy expert, discusses the intrinsic link between energy availability and manufacturing competitiveness. He stresses that affordable and reliable energy is foundational for reindustrialization efforts.
"Energy is at the core of reindustrialization. Without abundant and low-cost electricity, competitive manufacturing is impossible."
— Dave Walsh [11:17]
Walsh critiques the current energy mix, particularly the slow adoption of solar and the high costs associated with renewable energy sources. He advocates for a return to traditional energy sources like combined cycle natural gas, which he deems more efficient and cost-effective for supporting heavy industries.
"Combined cycle natural gas is the dominant energy choice for electrification, offering the lowest cost and cleanest real pollutants."
— Dave Walsh [55:05]
Jack Posobiec brings to light internal tensions within the NSC, revealing potential shifts in key positions due to dissatisfaction among various government departments. He reports on the possible removal of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, citing widespread discontent with their management.
"There’s a general belief that the NSC isn’t being run efficiently, leading to plans to remove key figures like Mike Waltz."
— Jack Posobiec [16:12]
Posobiec suggests that these changes may be imminent, potentially occurring over the weekend, and discusses the challenges of selecting suitable replacements who align with the administration's grand strategy.
Stephen K. Bannon draws parallels between current policy challenges and historical events, particularly the Vietnam War. He criticizes neoconservative influences within the administration, arguing that flawed strategies similar to those that led to the Vietnam conflict are resurfacing.
"The neoconservative playbook is the same one they used in Vietnam—propping up unpopular leaders and creating proxy wars."
— Steve Bannon [36:33]
Bannon laments the loss of competent management within the NSC, attributing it to entrenched neoconservative ideologies that prioritize global intervention over America-first policies.
"We are fighting multi-dimensional warfare, and the NSC isn’t coordinating effectively to prevent escalation."
— Steve Bannon [24:45]
Returning to the central theme, Dave Walsh elaborates on the necessity of aligning energy policy with economic warfare to bolster domestic manufacturing. He critiques the push for offshore wind and solar energy as insufficient for supporting large-scale industrial activities.
"Offshore wind is too costly and solar is too part-time for competitive manufacturing. We need to focus on energy sources that sustain continuous production."
— Dave Walsh [52:21]
Walsh advocates for the use of tariffs on solar and battery storage to reinforce the dominance of combined cycle natural gas, thereby ensuring a stable and affordable energy supply for America's reindustrialization efforts.
"Tariffs on solar and battery storage are critical to making combined cycle natural gas the dominant energy choice."
— Dave Walsh [55:52]
In the episode's concluding segments, Stephen K. Bannon reiterates the importance of cohesive strategies in both energy policy and national security. He emphasizes that President Trump's administration is committed to reversing decades of deindustrialization and restoring America's manufacturing prowess through informed and strategic legislative actions.
"President Trump is ratcheting things back to the pre-globalist era, focusing on traditional American foreign policy to secure the nation's economic and geopolitical standing."
— Stephen K. Bannon [43:25]
Bannon calls for listeners to stay informed and engaged with the administration's efforts, highlighting the critical intersection of energy policy, reindustrialization, and national security in securing America's future.
Steve Bannon [00:02]: "This is the primal scream of a dying regime... If the answer is to save my country, this country will be saved."
Mike Lindell [00:02 - 06:29]: Discusses the National Day of Prayer and promotes MyPillow products, emphasizing community and faith-based initiatives.
Stephen K. Bannon [05:03]: "Mike, that's one of the most beautiful shots I've seen of the White House... If it's shaking, it's me."
Charles Benoit [07:18]: "These are not small things. This is a massive thing."
Dave Walsh [11:17]: "Electricity is now a huge component of steel making, aluminum smelting... All of the traditional core economy."
Jack Posobiec [18:57]: "The White House is considering removing the National Security Advisor... This is a highly respected position in D.C., and it's going to be a big deal."
Episode 4453 of Bannon's War Room provides a comprehensive examination of the Trump administration's strategies to combat America's energy emergency through legislative measures and reindustrialization efforts. Featuring expert insights and critical discussions, the episode underscores the interconnectedness of energy policy, manufacturing, and national security in shaping the nation's economic future. Listeners gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges and proposed solutions aimed at restoring America's industrial strength and ensuring sustainable energy practices.
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