Kelly Altberg (8:49)

Thank you. The ceremony has now come to.

Matt Gaetz (8:57)

Okay, right there you see President Trump left.

Kelly Altberg (9:01)

Thank you. The ceremony has now.

Stephen K. Bannon (9:04)

Yeah.

Matt Gaetz (9:04)

Went to, went to Qatar. A little different than the first time we went there back in 17 or explained that. Here's what I would like to do is that we're going to do a cold. We got our cold open. Let's just blow the break. Let's do the full cold open to the show. We're going to bring it in. We got, because we got the ceremony. President Trump arrived. He just signed all the deals. Now we're going to go back in time, show you about his arrival. What happened. Some of the big news yesterday. Let's go and let it rip.

Stephen K. Bannon (9:44)

Ram.

Matt Gaetz (10:16)

Ra.

Unnamed Speaker (12:00)

The transformations have been unbelievably remarkable before our eyes. A new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a few future. Where the Middle east is defined by commerce, not chaos, where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations, religions and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence, we don't want that. And it's crucial for the wider world to note that this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so called nation builders, neocons or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop cabal Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle east has been brought by the people of the region themselves. The people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives. Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from. From embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.

Stephen K. Bannon (14:12)

President Trump is in Qatar this morning after wrapping up the first leg of his Middle east visit in Saudi Arabia. While there, Trump sat down with Syria's.

Unnamed Speaker (14:22)

New president and spoke about the decision.

Stephen K. Bannon (14:26)

To lift sanctions on that country's government.

Pete Hegseth (14:29)

It gives them a chance for greatness. The sanctions were really crippling, very powerful. And I spoke to Mohammed and I spoke to our friend from Turkey, who we just spoke to also by phone now, but felt very strongly that this would give them a chance. It's not going to be easy anyway, so gives them a good, strong chance. And it was my honor to do so. So we've. We will be dropping all of the sanctions on Syria, which I think really is going to be a good thing.

Stephen K. Bannon (15:02)

So, David Ignatius, obviously a lot of.

Matt Gaetz (15:05)

Questions hanging over the new leadership in Syria. The Wall Street Journal, cautiously optimistic though, saying they need to be given a chance. I'm curious your thoughts.

Donald J. Trump (15:14)

So, Joe, after the terrible Syrian civil war, the awful loss of life, to see a chance for Syria to come back together as a country under President Ahmed Al Shara is, I think, a very positive trend. And lifting sanctions is a necessary part of that. The big bet that President Trump and really the whole Arab world is making is that Ahmad Al Shar, the president, who was formerly a member of an affiliate of Al Qaeda, really has changed that. He's going to be a leader who will put his terrorist background behind him and will be able to unify the country. Interestingly, this is something that Israel was quite wary about, but it was pressed by Turkey, which has been the biggest backer of Al Shara, encouraged, helped train his forces before he took power. So it's a big move by President Trump. We were all expecting that this trip to Saudi Arabia would be pop and, you know, elaborate meetings, and it's been that. But it's also had a lot of substance.

Unnamed Speaker (16:25)

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

Matt Gaetz (16:35)

I got a free shot.

Unnamed Speaker (16:36)

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.

Pete Hegseth (16:45)

It's going to help happen.

Stephen K. Bannon (16:46)

And where do people like that go.

Matt Gaetz (16:48)

To share the big lie? MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

Unnamed Speaker (16:57)

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 (17:07)

War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.

Matt Gaetz (17:13)

It's Wednesday, Wednesday, the 14th of May, year of lower 2025, another historic day in the, in the Middle east as President Trump reorganizes the Middle east the most since was it Sykes pico back in 1918. We're very honored to have our guest in in house for the remainder of this hour. He's been here the whole time, but of course, recovering Live everything the president does. Congressman Matt Gaetz, one of the greatest young men in his generation and sorely missed. We'll get into that. So first off, you were one of the early proponents in President Trump's inner circle. I call it kind of the Gates Tucker school of hate, non interventionism. Walk me through why what's happened the last couple of days is so historic and so many of people that have been colleagues of ours we've been close to, and you're a huge defender of Israel, are like their heads were blown up. Tell me what has gone on here. What has actually transpired the last couple days?

Stephen K. Bannon (18:13)

You're seeing a total rapprochement in the Middle East. This is a region of the world that, you know, 20 years ago was run by a bunch of guys in their 80s. And I think you see the guys who now run this part of the world in their 30s, 40s, early 50s, having a real taste for Western ways and Western markets and Western women, and they are eager to embrace their relationship with the United States in a different way. I have been a critic of Saudi Arabia. I'm certainly a critic of Iran. I don't.

Matt Gaetz (18:50)

You've been a big critic of Qatar.

Stephen K. Bannon (18:52)

Well, at times. But I also see, I've also praised Qatar for frankly doing some of the diplomatic work that has to be done in places where we, we can't and don't talk to everybody because of the foolish mistakes of the neocons and neoliberals. And that was the core of Trump's message on this trip, that clip of his speech where he talked about the nation builders destroying more nations than they ever built, the interventionists not understanding the places in which they are intervening and the fact that the true prosperity of the Middle east was built by the people who lived there.

Matt Gaetz (19:27)

Brother Davidson over at the Federalist, lead story is that speech. I've got it up on getter, folks, if you want to go look at it, that that speech was the end of the neocons. He basically said that speech of President Trump and the way he went through a logical argument of how we got here and where we're going forward with these folks basically ended what we consider the neocon experiment.

Stephen K. Bannon (19:46)

And I think it also, yeah, I think it certainly was the capstone of that moment in history in the Middle east, but I think it's also a message to other parts of the developing world. What is our Africa strategy like? No one could really distill that. Central America or in a lot of the global south, frankly, in the developing economies in Asia, we seem to be trying to draw them into work with the United States to pull them away from China. But I think that the doctrine is. Is very applicable globally that success is not going to be some function of an American, you know, democracy experiment or interventionist war. Success is going to derive from the people.

Matt Gaetz (20:30)

David Ignatius and Ed Luce. I talked to Ed Luce at the Financial Times earlier. They're, like, stunned at what's going on. Ignatius from the Langley bugle, Washington Post, the spokesman for the CIA. They're gushing over Trump this morning on Morning Joe. More engaged in the world than now.

Stephen K. Bannon (20:46)

Why do you think that is?

Matt Gaetz (20:47)

Because are we not playing the globalist game? You're not.

Stephen K. Bannon (20:51)

No, no, no, no. You're missing the signal here. Go ahead. The signal is what is. What is Qatar? I mean, the fusion of Qatar and the CIA is something that has been broadly discussed, and I have to be a little careful here. But I mean, come on, Steve. There's a reason Qatar exists to be the place where a lot of these bad hombres live. And it's because it's a place where you keep an eye on them. Where would you prefer them? In the Hindu Kush or in downtown Doha where you can see high rise. Exactly. And you can.

Matt Gaetz (21:24)

You know, we went over there and you were key to this in the thinking of the time. We went over in 17, Riyadh, Jerusalem and Rome. And in Riyadh, as you remember, because you're one of the guys that were working on this behind the scenes. We had the stop the Tariff Financing Memorandum of Understanding. Qatar went out of the way saying, we're not signing this. We had a big brouhaha over there. And then 30 days afterwards, MBZ and MBS basically surrounded Qatar. And we almost went. They almost went to war. What's changed in that? Eight years. I think that particularly getting a state visit. There's a state dinner tonight. He's signing deals. These guys, $200 billion, a billion Boeing jets.

Stephen K. Bannon (22:04)

I think that it is the prowess that Qatar holds in the economic system right now that is undeniable and has to be reckoned with in some way. On peace.

Matt Gaetz (22:16)

Is the economic system just spreading money around basically Europe, the United States and other places to kind of buy people off or look the other way? Is Mark Levin and these guys, right, that we're looking the other way? The guys have financed the Muslim Brotherhood just because it's convenient or easy for us to do that.

Stephen K. Bannon (22:31)

You asked me if I believed Qatar had funded the Muslim Brotherhood and my answer was not any more than we have. I mean, you know, like what America's now gonna say. Funding the Muslim Brotherhood means you get disqualified from the global stage. Like paging new Matt Abedin, paging Hillary Clinton.

Matt Gaetz (22:47)

Matt Gaetz is breaking breaking news here. So you believe what President Trump. This is for our non interventionists. This is the way you do this.

Stephen K. Bannon (22:56)

This is how you do it. By the way, look at how we got out of this thing with the Houthis, okay? All of the neocons wanted the Houthi deal to draw us into some big war with Iran, which is their fever dream. And Trump brilliantly played a little fire and ice there and resolved that on the best possible terms for the United States. And now he's able to take the victory lap and say, look, I'm not here to be the block captain of Baghdad. You know, I'm not here to try to figure out how to send a bunch of Western urban planners into Kandahar. I'm here to trade with you. I'm here to sell you our weapons so that you are peaceful with us and interoperable with our ways and not the Chinese or the Russians. And I think that's kind of how Trump era colonialism in 2025 is gonna work. You wanna sit there and wax poetic about they spread money around. Donald Trump is the guy who just by executive order stops the en, the FORD Corrupt Practices Act. And he's totally right about it. He is totally right about it. So our policy is going to be a lot more permissive on that kind of stuff and a lot more realistic because by the way, realistic.

Matt Gaetz (24:05)

How the world work.

Stephen K. Bannon (24:07)

That is how the world works.

Matt Gaetz (24:08)

You're in San Diego now.

Stephen K. Bannon (24:09)

I'm in Florida, but I spent some time.

Matt Gaetz (24:11)

San Diego. You're Florida, man. Big announcement coming out of also your show and your network. The hearings this morning. I'll get to in a second 32nd Street North Island Carrier battle, one of those carriers and a carrier battle group at the 3rd Fleet 7th Fleet is now patrolling the Red Sea with one out of Norfolk? I think so. Two carrier battle groups that are keeping the Suez Canal open for our European partners. Do you have a problem with that?

Stephen K. Bannon (24:38)

I think that we should not put ourselves in a situation where we get drug into a war of someone else's choosing. And I think when we jam up the Red Sea with a bunch of American grey hull vessels, that risk is higher than I like it to be.

Matt Gaetz (24:57)

Talk to me about the show, the big network announcement.

Stephen K. Bannon (25:00)

Yeah. So look, I believe that we have to go and create the outposts for our communication strategy. And you've built this out of your basement. I mean, I helped you do it back during the impeachment days. And when I showed up at One America News, we were on about 10 million homes. We, we've added Sling now, we've added Dish now. And today the big announcement that we are going to be on Spectrum, which is, which is one of the properties of Charter Communications. It is the largest cable provider in the country. It will be carrying One America News. It will be carrying the Mac Gauge Show. We are thrilled about it. And we have to create these lily pads at RAV and newsmax, even at, even at Fox, I hate to say for our people to be able to go and fertilize this ecosystem that is now the most powerful thing has happened.

Matt Gaetz (25:51)

Because they cut the herring. And One American News always had the great, kind of like CNN type news all day long. It was fantastic. I mean, the packages were just, I mean, better than cnn. They clearly wanted that shut down. They shut the Herrings down hard. I mean, you guys were nowhere at one time. Even getting back to the 10 million was a struggle. How did the Herrings and you guys pull this off?

Stephen K. Bannon (26:11)

Well, I gotta say, Robert Herring is a man of a different generation and he is as tough as it gets. And he just bore down and at personal cost, he kept the lights on. But now this is a thriving business. We're with the ability to be on cable, we're going to be able to have a great future for One American News. And you know what I think? You know why I think it's happening, Steve? Because I think a lot of these providers don't want to have a real, you know, tough eye from the FCCC or the DOJ Antitrust Division if they are engaged in censorship. And I think good corporate citizenship has been reflected by Charter and we hope good corporate citizenship by others to allow diverse political viewpoints and to allow the marketplace of ideas to thrive. And if we do that, then I think the country succeeds. I think we resolve our differences through debate and discourse and not more unruly things.

Matt Gaetz (27:05)

We're going to take a commercial break in a moment, but before I do that, because I want to get back to your efforts, particularly behind the scenes people, I don't think totally realize how important you've been on the deportations, how important you've been on the whole strategy in Central America. But tell me about the show. Talk to us about the show. How are you doing? Tell me what you're trying to do, the podcast, all that.

Stephen K. Bannon (27:25)

Well, every night at 9 o' clock Eastern on weeknights for an hour, we get together the top newsmakers. We had Tulsi Gabbard on last week. We had the vice president of El Salvador. You know, you have really taught me a lot about how global populism is connected. So we've had leaders from Europe, Latin America, all over the world to really break down this judicial coup that we are under. And I have you believe it because.

Matt Gaetz (27:51)

We say we're hurdling towards, it's a convergence crises, but we're hurting, hurtling towards one that's got to be resolved by the end of June.

Stephen K. Bannon (27:57)

We are in the middle of a slow moving judicial coup right now. I believe and I believe that the fundamental test for members of the Trump administration is are you willing to defy.

Matt Gaetz (28:08)

An unlawful court order that's going to, by the way, before they leave tomorrow and by the way, we're going to have wall to wall coverage on this. They're going to argue the 14th Amendment, this huge birthright citizenship case tomorrow before they leave in June. Is this going to be, have be rectified particularly about his Article 2 powers as commander in chief and the writ of habeas before June, well, before they leave in June?

Stephen K. Bannon (28:32)

No.

Matt Gaetz (28:33)

You don't think it'll be resolved by that? Listen, we'll be able to go, we'll go to entire summer. The Supreme Court will not step in here.

Stephen K. Bannon (28:40)

I believe that the Supreme Court is very concerned about losing the veneer of legitimacy if President Trump has an appropriate, robust view of his Article 2 powers. And I think that's why Roberts has been ruling the way he has to try to, to, to at least keep some tension on the line. I don't know that we get a resolution on that.

Matt Gaetz (29:01)

You don't think we get a resolution. You think that lingers through the summer and into the, into the fall?

Stephen K. Bannon (29:06)

I do.

Matt Gaetz (29:07)

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Matt Gaetz (32:48)

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Matt Gaetz (32:53)

Okay, there's some absolutely amazing footage that was made by Congressman Gates. We went this historic trip and our former producer Vish Burra. Let me know as soon as we have it. I want to show this. It's breathtaking. We're going to put up. You guys see the whole thing. It's 10 or so minutes long since the cutter thing. We don't have time to play. I want to go back to your theory of the case is very important. When Matt Gates says something it's important. Walk me through the Constitution because we're having a convergence of the, of trying to end the kinetic part of the third World War. The deportations, the Constitution and the refinancing all.

Stephen K. Bannon (33:25)

Let me let it rip here, okay. We have been building this populist movement. We've got populist energy in the Congress, we got our few populist senators, you know Vance Holly, we had the guy from Indiana, Braun, Rick Scott. You can get a populist president even. And so the one place that the elitists have us cornered out is the judiciary. Because if you're a populist great thinker, it is really hard to be a judge. You know why? The system to become a judge requires judicial nominating commissions and like you had to be the second recording vice president of the local bar association. And then like did you also go.

Matt Gaetz (34:02)

To Harvard and Yale?

Stephen K. Bannon (34:03)

Well maybe because a Democrat senator and a Republican senator had to agree to allowed you to proceed. So it's this whole mating dance with the establishment that you have to go through to become a federal judge that you don't have to go through even to be a congressman or a senator or a president. It is more exquisite and more challenging and it draws you deeper into the establishment to take that position. So if we did all of this, won the swing states, beat DeSantis, trudged through the snow in Iowa, New Hampshire, if we did all of what we did to eke out these, these majorities in the Congress and to get Trump through assassination attempts and indictments so that some sniveling little, you know what, in like a Massachusetts courtroom can dictate to us the terms of US Foreign policy, then this has all been for naught. And so it cannot stand. You know who I think had the clarion moment of this? Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who I used to work for back in 2005. And when a reporter asked him if he was going to talk about the nature of his communications with Salvadorian President Nahib Bukele, he said, I'm not telling you and I'm not telling a judge. You know why? Because that is not the purview of the courts. We're going to have to take this position, okay? We're not getting out of this presidency without having to thoroughly reject one of these unconstitutional nationwide injunctions. And so the Bannon, you know, if we were doing this like the old days, we would say, okay, if this is coming, what is the ground you want to fight on? And I propose to this audience and to you and to my former colleagues in Congress that the best ground to fight on is deportations under the Alien Enemies act, big time. Clearly, in the Article 2 purview of the president, the country is overwhelmingly on our side. And so I went down to Sakat prison. I was the first American journalist inside the trende arrival.

Matt Gaetz (36:04)

Hang on. Before we get there. Yes, this has been a project that you have worked on for years. Walk me through to get to that prison. Even I have our guys down there just didn't materialize. Walk me through the logic. You had to think this through.

Stephen K. Bannon (36:16)

Well, I started to see what was happening in El Salvador where this man turned a country from the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere. And I started talking about it on your program. I started talking about it in Congress. He invited me down to his inauguration. I met him there. We became fast friends. He's my age, and I really became an advocate for the U. S. El Salvador relationship. And he said to a group of congressmen who were down meeting with him during, during the last term, that, you know, if Trump won and if Trump needed a place to put thugs and criminals, that El Salvador had developed an expertise with this because in a country of 6 million people, they've rounded up 40,000 hardened gang members. If you do that in a country of that size, you get security real quick. And this guy has a 91% approval rating. The state of exception that allowed those people to be rounded up, that has a 95% approval approval rating. Even the prisoner I spoke to who admitted to killing 50 people said, yeah.

Matt Gaetz (37:23)

What do you mean, 50 people?

Stephen K. Bannon (37:25)

No, he said. He said he killed 50 people. That's how he ended. That's, you know, we asked him how he ended up in Sakat. He said, homicide. We asked how many people he killed. He said about 50. And most of his time was in the United States and killings in the United States. And he said, look, this new president got in and he meant business and we got what we deserved here in security. And so look, we. Please, we cannot be tolerant of this judicial coup. We cannot have an administration and a Congress that sits back and allows, like the, you know, the best selection of the Harvard Law Admissions Council to be able to run the country. And there's those deportation flights should resume immediately to Sakat Prison. And look, we're not. We're not going to be able to.

Matt Gaetz (38:12)

Judge comes in and puts it. They run into court and do a tro. You just keep rolling because your commander.

Stephen K. Bannon (38:16)

In chief keep the planes flying. This is US Foreign policy with enemy combatants, with the public on our side on President Trump's signature issue. If we are not willing to do this in the face of some woke topian in a black robe, then we did not deserve this victory.

Matt Gaetz (38:32)

Let's play. We got some footage. You've got so much great footage. We're going to play it throughout the day. I want to play a snippet here that was quite shocking when I saw it and I've seen a lot of this stuff. Let's go and play it.

Stephen K. Bannon (38:43)

See his reaction to the trende Aragua Prison ward. Sam, up. Anybody?

Matt Gaetz (39:47)

Okay, Rebecca, what did we just see there? And what were they shouting at you guys?

Stephen K. Bannon (39:51)

They want out. They want to come back here and we can't let them. You know, these were people who were involved in criminal gang activities in the United States. They have all the gang markings and have been screened for those affiliations. And you know what? You don't get to come back. You don't get to invade our country and then expect that when you're in a Salvadorian prison, we're gonna come bail you out.

Unnamed Speaker (40:14)

You.

Stephen K. Bannon (40:15)

And I gotta say, the camera work of war room alum Vish Burra was masterful. Absolutely masterful. All of the footage on Our big special was filmed by one guy Fishborough war room trained Warham hard.

Matt Gaetz (40:29)

You're so. It's so scary when you see the whole thing and then you go to the other. We don't have time that you go the other side with the MS.13 who are the bad, baddest of the bad hombres. They're like sheep. It's actually, it's freaky about how, how this happened. How did that happen? They're, they're just broken people.

Stephen K. Bannon (40:47)

I think a lot of them were on thousand year sentences. There was a moment when we were in the Ms. 13 ward on a different visit when Congressman Andy Biggs turned to the warden and said, did everyone here kill someone? Because there were thousands. And the warden looked back and said, oh no, everyone here killed more than one someone. And so it's for people who are multiple killers. And it is totally zapped of the will to fight after they've been in that environment. No will to fight and they're not a threat to anyone. But you know what? I also show my audience the promise that comes out of this on the other side where people can start businesses and grow families and grow dreams. And guess what? Bukele's President Bukele's number one ask of us is please cut off the foreign aid. Because the way we treat these parts of the world is by funding NGOs that then go after the governments that are making life better for people.

Matt Gaetz (41:40)

You're, you're one to always go on smart offense with these judges. Mike, should we be cutting off $2 billion of the, of the 12 billion of the 10 billion the federal courts gets you cut off 2 billion? Should you start getting rid of judges, taking away district?

Stephen K. Bannon (41:54)

You and I both know that if you, if you cut the federal courthouse budget 95%, those dedicated woke topians that want to issue these injunctions will set up a tent in the parking lot and issue them. Okay, so I think that the. Look, the impeachments are justified, but that's not really a strategy, that's more of a spasm. And I think that, well, we'll cut their funding. When have you seen Congress cut the funding to anything? We can't even get the Congress to cut the funding to usaid. We showcased that USAID was a grift to the world and then they won't even vote to cut that. So they're not going to do that or the dogecoin. This requires fortitude and resilience. This is not some legislative activity. This is an activity where Our country has to look within and say, just as Marco Rubio did, we are not going to let these people conduct matters of policy of the United States of America. And if they had just stuck to their lane, you know, we probably would have had judicial review of birthright citizenship and all that. But when it's like a federal judge saying that the Department of Health and Human Services has to put the transsexual guidebook back on the website, it is so far afield that the only. The only acceptable response in this environment, the only acceptable response from the administration is to ignore these orders. I think complying with them is constitutional vandalism.

Matt Gaetz (43:23)

What do you recommend now to the administration? You're saying when you see these orders that are so clearly unconstitutional, but you're about your Article 2 powers as Chief executive, as commander in chief, and as chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer, you're saying don't comply?

Stephen K. Bannon (43:39)

Steve, this is Trump's great superpower revelation. Right. And I think he knows how to pick the fights to reveal the enemies in the right sequence. But my humble advice to the administration is picket on this one. Pick it on the Alien Enemies act deportation pick, because through the resistance to the administration's actions on that, you will reveal so much to the country about the globalist invasion and the judicial coup that is allowing it.

Matt Gaetz (44:11)

Let's talk about weaponization. Are you comfortable right now? You know, Ed Martin got bounced out of D.C. attorney. He's now on the weaponization task force. You got Judge Jeanine coming in Main Justice. They barely have a foothold over there, as much as they're bringing in new people. Of course, we blew out 100 in the civil Rights division. Do you think we got control enough of Main justice that the anti weaponization movement that you said had to happen?

Stephen K. Bannon (44:39)

Yeah, I can't judge it in that type of a binary fashion. I think they're doing a great job over at Justice. Look at the directional progress of this, though. Like, the last time you and I were sitting, when we first sat at this table, we literally had an attorney general working against us, trying to throw. Hoping that Trump had committed some sort of crime, that they could throw him in prison.

Matt Gaetz (44:58)

And not just that both of you and I were going to prison.

Stephen K. Bannon (45:00)

Right, right.

Matt Gaetz (45:01)

They had massive investigations.

Stephen K. Bannon (45:02)

Right. So, I mean, we've gone from the other side, like the person at the top wanting to throw us all in jail and like, busting down the doors of MAGA grandmothers and Homer, Alaska.

Matt Gaetz (45:12)

Not just that. When you were in studio, we used to keep the door locked saying, hey, you know, they could kick down the door at any time, right?

Stephen K. Bannon (45:17)

So we've gone from that to like, maybe, you know, we might have a slightly different view on who someone four rungs down into the bowels of the dojr. So that really, that really means a lot of the work we did do to fill out the billets is resulting in better policy outcomes. It is, it is so rough over there, and I got a little peek at it, and I think that Pambani.

Matt Gaetz (45:43)

So rough in trying to get control of the building.

Stephen K. Bannon (45:45)

Well, I think that most of the people who work there probably wake up every day trying to make General Bondi's job harder. And that's really tough to deal with. And I think when you look through it through that lens, what she's done on the deportations, on the law enforcement front, that's, that's who and what Pam Bondi is, she is a nose to the grindstone law enforcement. You know, go see where the crimes are, get the perpetrators and hold them accountable.

Matt Gaetz (46:13)

We got to go to quick break. If the president decides that they're so swamped over there, he needs a special prosecutor to go after that, and Matt Gates is always the top of his list. Does Matt Gates do that job?

Stephen K. Bannon (46:25)

I don't think we need special prosecutors now because we have the apparatus of the Justice Department, Right. So in an ideal world, it's the US Attorneys that we have that are doing that work.

Matt Gaetz (46:38)

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Stephen K. Bannon (48:02)

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Matt Gaetz (48:06)

Okay. There's some absolutely amazing footage that was made by Congressman Gates. We went this historic trip and our former producer, Vish Burra. Let me know as soon as we have it. I want to show this. It's breathtaking. We're going to put up. You guys see the whole thing. It's, I don't know, 10 or so minutes long. Since the cutter thing. We don't have time to play. I want to go back to your theory of the case. This is very important. When Matt Gaetz says something, it's important. Walk me through the Constitution because we're having a convergence of the, of trying to end the kinetic part of the Third World War, the deportations, the Constitution and the refinancing.

Stephen K. Bannon (48:37)

Let me let it rip here. Okay? We have been building this populist movement. We've got populist energy in the Congress. We got our few populist senators. You know, Vance Hawley. We had the guy from Indiana, Braun, Rick Scott. You can get a populist president even. And so the one place that the elitists have us cornered out is the judiciary. Because if you're a populist judicial great thinker, it is really hard to be a judge. You know why? The system to become a judge requires judicial nominating commissions and like you had to be the second recording vice president of the local bar association.

Matt Gaetz (49:13)

And then like you also go to Harvard and Yale.

Stephen K. Bannon (49:16)

Well, maybe because a Democrat senator and a Republican senator had to agree to allowed you to proceed. So it's this whole mating dance with the establishment that you have to go through to become a federal judge that you don't have to go through even to be a congressman or a senator or a president. It is more exquisite and more challenging and it draws you deeper into the establishment to take that position. So if we did all of this, won the swing states, beat DeSantis, trudged through the snow at Iowa, New Hampshire, if we did all of what we did to eke out these majorities in the Congress and to get Trump through assassination attempts and indictments so that some sniveling little, you know what in like a Massachusetts courtroom can dictate to us the terms of US Foreign policy, then this has all been for naught. And so it cannot stand. You know who I think had the clarion moment of this? Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who I used to work for back in 2005. And when a reporter asked him if he was gonna talk about the nature of his communications with Salvadorian president Nahib Bukele, he said, I'm not telling you and I'm not telling a judge. You know why? Because that is not the purview of the courts. We're going to have to take this position, okay? We're not getting out of this presidency without having to thoroughly reject one of these unconstitutional nationwide injunctions. And so the Bannon, you know, if we were doing this like the old days, we would say, okay, if this is coming, what is the ground you want to fight on? And I propose to this audience and to you and to my former colleagues in Congress that the best ground to fight on is deportations under the alien Enemies Act. Clearly, in the Article 2 purview of the president, the country is overwhelmingly on our side. And so I went down to Sakat prison. I was the first American journalist inside the trende.

Matt Gaetz (51:16)

Aram, hang on. Before we get there.

Stephen K. Bannon (51:17)

Yes.

Matt Gaetz (51:18)

This has been a project that you have worked on for years. Walk me through to get to that prison. Even I have our guys down there. Just didn't materialize. Walk me through the logic. You had to think this through.

Stephen K. Bannon (51:28)

Well, I. I started to see what was happening in El Salvador where this man turned a country from the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere. And I started talking about it on your program. I started talking about it in Congress. He invited me down to his inauguration. I met him there. We became fast friends. He's my age, and I really became an advocate for the U. S. El Salvador relationship. And he said to a group of congressmen who were down meeting with him during. During the last term that, you know, if Trump won and if Trump needed a place to put thugs and criminals, that El Salvador had developed an expertise with this because in a country of 6 million people, they've rounded up 40,000 hardened gang members. If you do that in a country of that size, you get security real quick. And this guy has a 91% approval rating. The state of exception that allowed those people to be rounded up, that has a 95% approval approval rating. Even the prisoner I spoke to who admitted to killing 50 people said, yeah.

Matt Gaetz (52:36)

What do you mean, 50 people?

Stephen K. Bannon (52:37)

No, he said. He said he killed 50 people. That's how he ended. That's. You know, we asked him how he ended up in Sakat. He said, homicide. We asked how many people he killed. He said about 50. And most of his time was in the United States. And killings in the United States. And he said, look, this new president got in and he meant business and we got what we deserved here in Sakat Prison. And so look, we, please, we cannot be tolerant of this judicial coup. We cannot have an administration and a Congress that sits back and allows like the, you know, the best selection of the Harvard Law Admissions Council to be able to run the country. And there's those deportation flights should resume immediately to Sakat Prison. And look, we're not, we're not going to be.

Matt Gaetz (53:24)

A judge comes in and puts it. They run into court and do a tro. You just keep rolling because your commander.

Stephen K. Bannon (53:29)

And keep the planes flying. This is US foreign policy with enemy combatants, with the public on our side on President Trump's signature issue. If we are not willing to do this in the face of some woke topian in a black robe, then we did not deserve this victory.

Matt Gaetz (53:45)

Let's play. We got some footage. You've got so much great footage. We're going to play it throughout the day. I want to play a snippet here that was quite shocking when I saw it and I've seen a lot of this stuff. Let's go and play it.

Stephen K. Bannon (53:56)

See his reaction to the trende Aragua Prison ward. Sam, up. Anybody?

Matt Gaetz (55:00)

Okay, Rebecca, what did we just see there and what were they shouting at you guys?

Stephen K. Bannon (55:04)

They want out. They want to come back here and we can't let them. You know, these were people who were involved in criminal gang activities in the United States. They have all the gang markings and have been screened for those affiliations. And you know what? You don't get to come back. You don't get to invade our country and then expect that when you're in a Salvadorian prison, we're gonna come bail you out, you. And I gotta say, the camera work of War Room alum Vish Burra was masterful. Absolutely masterful. All of the footage on our big special was filmed by one guy, Mishborough. War room trained war room.

Matt Gaetz (55:42)

You're so. It's so scary when you see the whole thing and then you go to the other. We don't have time that you go to the other side with the MS.13 who are the bad, baddest of the bad hombres. They're like sheep. It's actually, it's freaky about how this happened. How did that happen? They're just broken people.

Stephen K. Bannon (56:00)

I think a lot of them are on thousand year sentences. There was a moment when we were in the Ms. 13 ward on a different visit when Congressman Andy Biggs turned to the warden and said, did everyone here kill someone? Because there were thousands. And the warden looked back and said, oh no, everyone here killed more than one someone. And so it's for people who are multiple killers. And it is totally zapped of the will to fight after they've been in that environment. No will to fight and they're not a threat to anyone. But you know what? I also show my audience the promise that comes out of this on the other side where people can start businesses and grow families and grow dreams. And guess what? Bukele's President Bukele's number one ask of us is please cut off the foreign aid. Because the way we treat these parts of the world is by funding NGOs that then go after the governments that are making life better for people.

Matt Gaetz (56:53)

You're, you're one to always go on smart offense with these judges. Mike, should we be cutting off $2 billion of the, of the 12 billion, of the 10 billion the federal courts gets you cut off 2 billion? Should you start getting rid of judges, taking away district?

Stephen K. Bannon (57:07)

You and I both know that if you, if you cut the federal courthouse budget 95%, those dedicated woke topians that want to issue these injunctions will set up a tent in the parking lot and issue them. Okay, so I think that the, look, the impeachments are justified, but that's not really a strategy, that's more of a spasm. And I think that, well, we'll cut their funding. When have you seen Congress cut the funding to anything? We can't even get the Congress to get the funding to usaid. We showcased that USAID was a grift to the world and then they won't even vote to cut that. So they're not going to do or.

Matt Gaetz (57:44)

The dogecoin they won't codify.

Stephen K. Bannon (57:47)

This requires fortitude and resilience. This is not some legislative activity. This is an activity where our country has to look within and say, just as Marco Rubio did, we are not going to let these people conduct matters of policy of the United States of America. And if they had just stuck to their lane, you know, we probably would have had judicial review of birthright citizenship and all that. But when it's like a federal judge saying that the Department of Health and Human Services has to put the transsexual guidebook back on the website. It is so far afield that the only, the only acceptable response in this environment, the only acceptable response from the administration is to ignore these orders. I think, I think complying with Them is constitutional vandalism.

Matt Gaetz (58:36)

What do you recommend now to the administration? You're saying when you see these orders that are so clearly unconstitutional about your but your Article 2 powers as Chief executive, as commander in chief, and as chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer, you're saying don't comply.

Stephen K. Bannon (58:52)

Steve, this is Trump's great superpower revelation. Right. And I think he knows how to pick the fights to reveal the enemies in the right sequence. But my humble advice to the administration is picket on this one. Pick it on the Alien Enemies act deportation, because through the resistance to the administration's actions on that, you will reveal so much to the country about the, the globalist invasion and the judicial coup that is allowing it.

Matt Gaetz (59:24)

Let's talk about weaponization. Are you comfortable right now? You know, Ed Martin got bounced out of D.C. attorney. He's now on the weaponization task force. You got Judge Jeanine coming in Main justice, they barely have a foothold over there as much as they're bringing in new people. Of course, we blew out 100 in the civil rights division. Do you think we got control enough of Main justice that the anti weaponization movement that you said had to happen?

Stephen K. Bannon (59:52)

Yeah, I can't judge it in that type of a binary fashion. I think they're doing a great job over at Justice. Look at the directional progress of this, though. The last time you and I were sitting, when we first sat at this table, we literally had an attorney general working against us trying to throw, hoping that Trump had committed some sort of crime, that they could throw him in prison.

Matt Gaetz (60:11)

And not just that both of you and I were going to prison.

Stephen K. Bannon (60:13)

Right.

Matt Gaetz (60:14)

They had massive investigations.

Stephen K. Bannon (60:15)

Right. So, I mean, we've gone from the other side, like the person at the top wanting to throw us all in jail and like busting down the doors of MAGA grandmothers and Homer, Alaska.

Matt Gaetz (60:25)

Not just that. When you were in studio, we used to keep the door locked, saying, hey, you know, they could kick down the door at any time.

Stephen K. Bannon (60:30)

Right. So we've gone from that to like, maybe, you know, we might have a slightly different view on who someone four rungs down into the bowels of the dojr. So that really, that really means a lot of the work we did do to fill out the billets is resulting in better policy outcomes. It is, it is so rough over there. And I got a little peek at it, and I think that Pambani so.

Matt Gaetz (60:56)

Rough in trying to get control of the building.

Stephen K. Bannon (60:57)

Well, I think that most of the people who work there probably wake up every day trying to make General Bondi's job harder. And that's really tough to deal with. And I think when you look through it through that lens, what she's done on the deportations, on the law enforcement front, that's, that's who and what Pam Bondi is, she is a nose to the grindstone law enforcement. You know, go see where the crimes are, get the perpetrators and hold them accountable.

Matt Gaetz (61:26)

We got to go to quick break. If the president decides that they're so swamped over there, he needs a special prosecutor to go after that. And Matt Gaetz is always the top of his list. Does Matt Gaetz do that job?

Stephen K. Bannon (61:38)

I don't think we need special prosecutors now because we have the apparatus of the Justice Department. Right. So in an ideal world, it's the US Attorneys that we have that are doing that work.

Matt Gaetz (61:50)

Matt Gaetz is with us for another block short commercial break back.

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