
Episode 4620: Enforcing Fair Trade; Deconstructing The Systems Against The American People ...
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Stephen K. Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians not got a 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.
Jack Posobiec
And where do people like that go.
Stephen K. Bannon
To share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my sou. 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.
Gail Slater
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Stephen K. Bannon
It is a Wednesday, the 9th of July, year of early 2025. Welcome. We've got a VIP guest, Gail Slater from the Justice Department, Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Thank you so much for coming. And I know it's tough to. First off, to book people of the Justice Department, particularly someone as busy as you, that is helping to make sure that we keep in check. Too much concentration of power. Talk for a second. You've got some breaking news of something you've just done today.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Yes, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
And I've known. I've known. Gail, you were at NEC or nsc. You were at nsc, nec, nec, National Economic Council in President Trump's first term.
Unnamed DOJ Official
That's.
Stephen K. Bannon
And then in the interim, was it Hulu or Roku?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Roku, one of your many platforms.
Stephen K. Bannon
One of our many platforms. You were Roku's lawyer. And then you've come back in and you head the antitrust division for the Justice Department. That's like, I mean, it's like you Harmeet Dhillon, so many people who know her at these senior level positions, really running the Justice Department.
Unnamed DOJ Official
And all of us honored to be there.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes. Fantastic. What did you learn in your time at neck?
Unnamed DOJ Official
I learned that in order to compete against China, we need to be in all these global races, the American way. And what I mean by that is we'll never be China by becoming more like China. China has national champions, they have a controlled economy, et cetera, et cetera. We win all these races. And history has taught us this too, Steve. By our free market system, by letting the ball rip, by letting companies compete, by innovating one another. And the reason why antitrust matters to that picture, to the free market system, is because we're the cop on the beat at the end of the day, we step in when competition is not working and we ensure that markets remain competitive.
Stephen K. Bannon
So people would say that's odd coming from the populist nationalist, the MAGA movement. And you've been MAGA to your core, right? You were there? Yes, sir. People, if you want to know what heavy duty was, the first term was pretty tough and we were literally surrounded as today we now we're going to have posts on others on as you know, looks like Brennan and Comey have a criminal investigation about Russiagate. Right. As you know, it's kind of Fort Apache every day at the White House as we were besieged by the deep state. How do you take in that thing about competition and what you're trying to do and breaking up these really going after the concentration of these oligarchs with the populist nationalist movement.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Well, it's a daily task. It's a case by case enforcement led project. We don't do policy per se. We're law enforcers because we are cops on the beam. And so I could talk to you about a couple of the cases that we're working on. Our big announcement today had to do with a bid racking situation down at the University of Texas in Austin. So not everybody in Texas loves ut. I get it. But a lot of taxpayer money was being spent on the Moody arena down in Texas. Right. The contract for services was put out to tender. Ordinarily you'd expect to see companies competing hard for that kind of business, right? Particularly in Texas. Well, guess what? The companies pull their punches and one company was left being the sole bidder on the contract. And that involved a lot of overcharges to the good people of Texas.
Stephen K. Bannon
And did they subcontract out to other people? Should have been competing against them. People were spreading.
Unnamed DOJ Official
There were promises made that they would spread the wealth. You know this from your LA days, I'm sure, Steve. The entertainment business, they reneged on the promise. And so you end up with one guy with all of the business. And so today, Fast forward to 2025 under President Trump's leadership. The DOJ under Pam Bondi has been tasked with looking at the ways in which competition is not working in live entertainment in general. So we've got consumers, we've got a lack of competition, we've got gatekeepers standing between consumers and competition and all of the good things that competition brings to consumers. We brought a civil case against Live Nation last year under the Biden administration. We're carrying forward with that. That's up in the Southern District of New York. We've got 40 states, 44 zero states down in the United States.
Stephen K. Bannon
Is that where they're rigging the price of the tickets?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Well, so we've got a number of different allegations in that case. Today's case is a criminal case, so different than our civil case against Live Nation. And it's against one individual, a guy named Tim Lewicki. I don't know if you're familiar with him, Steve. So he was until recently the CEO of Oakview, which is one of these groups, right. That, that bids for this business. And so it's a, it's a bid rigging case. We also have non prosecution agreements already in place with Oakview Group and with Legends which would have been the competitor bidding for that business. So that's an example of the kind of thing that we're bringing to the table. We call it MAGA antitrust. I know you're fond of neobrandezian nomenclature matters to you. It matters to us too. So we do MAGA antitrust, we do America first antitrust.
Stephen K. Bannon
What's a MAGA antitrust?
Unnamed DOJ Official
So if you're violating the antitrust laws, we're going to take a hard look. If you're not violating the antitrust laws, we're going to get the hell out of the way. But we're going to be cops on the beat when we see a violation firm but fair.
Stephen K. Bannon
That hasn't been enforced in a long time. Correct. Under Biden.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
You had Lina Khan and others, she was at the ftc, but you had others. They really looked the other way on this concentration of power.
Unnamed DOJ Official
That's our assessment. It was also frankly, President Trump's assessment towards the end of his first term. As you know, he filed the Google search case which we're carrying forward. There's a through line from there through the Bidens to us today.
Stephen K. Bannon
Talk about that. Because the Google case is, is a landmark case.
Unnamed DOJ Official
It's a landmark case and you've got.
Stephen K. Bannon
You'Ve got them in one court in Northern Virginia for the search engine or.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Is that the, that's for the advertising.
Stephen K. Bannon
The advertising in the search engine is.
Unnamed DOJ Official
In D.C. that's here in D.C. yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
So that's pretty extraordinary. You're managing two cases against probably the most powerful, one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Unnamed DOJ Official
That's right.
Stephen K. Bannon
You bifurcated it in two different sectors to go after the two core reasons why they're monopoly.
Unnamed DOJ Official
And again, both those investigations were open during President Trump's first term. So we see this through, through line to today, Biden's litigated both cases to the Liability Phase two District courts now have find Google liable for monopolization. One in here in District Court in D.C. in the search engine market, and the other in this ad tech market was the technology that's used at the back end of the Internet to serve ads between publishers and us.
Stephen K. Bannon
What's the reason that you have thousands of companies competing different or hundreds of companies compete in different sectors? Yeah, you've got Google, you've got Duck, Duck, Go and Bing and that's it. I mean, they really have no competitor.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Yeah. I mean, our argument is that the competition in that online search market has been frozen in place for the best part of two decades now. You've not seen some movement in market shares. You've not seen particularly robust competitors enter the market. And so that's when the antitrust cop steps in. Right. And that's why President Trump filed the case at the end of his first term.
Stephen K. Bannon
The media told me on Inauguration Day when he saw the, the oligarchs sitting in back of President Trump that they were going to run the deal. That hasn't turned out to be the case, has it?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Yeah, I mean, I, I don't speak for them, obviously. That was, There was a perception. There was a perception at the start of the term. What I would say is, is look to.
Stephen K. Bannon
That was a media narrative. It wasn't the President Trump's narrative, it.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Was a media narrative. President Trump made the personnel choices he made. And as we know, personnel is policy. And so you have in me a cop on the beat at the antitrust division at doj. You have Chair Ferguson over at the ftc. You have Mark Meadow over at the ftc. And so we're, we're doing, we're doing Trump antitrust. We're not doing Bush antitrust, we're not doing Biden antitrust. The pendulum swings. But we're doing Trump antitrust.
Stephen K. Bannon
And the is Trump antitrust. Because I want to. As you know, we like the Warren Possehab nomenclature. You have this thing called the Chicago school and you have the Neo Bran Dician.
Unnamed DOJ Official
That's right.
Stephen K. Bannon
Which we consider ourselves. What is the difference? And when you say Bush and Biden and even Obama, when you talk about the antitrust, what's the difference in Chicago school versus the Neo Brandeis?
Unnamed DOJ Official
So one we would say was under enforcement. So that's the Bush school. Right. We would say that Biden's in some areas, in some ways over enforced the law. So I'll give you a concrete example. One of the things we heard from Wall street during the transition Was, it's very hard to get deals reviewed by the antitrust agencies.
Stephen K. Bannon
Slow.
Unnamed DOJ Official
It's slow. The deal flow has slowed down. You need to build more efficiency into that review process, which we take very seriously. And so at the front end of deals, we've speeded up the process where there is no issue with the merger. Many mergers are benign. They just, they're notified to us because they trigger a certain threshold. We're just getting out of the way and we're saying, okay, you're free to close. There's not an antitrust issue here. We're not going to hold on to your filing just because we can right at the back end of deals. One of the things I said at my confirmation hearing different than my predecessor was not to get too arcane, but yes, about nomenclature. If there's a merger that we can settle, we'll settle it. We don't have to go to court to sue, to block every merger. That's not the game here. And so we've already racked up three, three, four settlements that we think meet the competition challenge, but let the deal, the rest of the deal, go forward and close. So that's the, that's a concrete example of how we're different than the Bidens. But at the same time, we've carried forward with these big monopolization cases we just talked about.
Stephen K. Bannon
When people look at the populist nationalist movement and you want, you know, you want more competition, deconstruction, administrative state still with a regulatory aspect to it, and people say, no, you guys speak out two sides of your mouth because China is an existential threat and you need national champions. We're seeing this in AI right now. You need national champions. I say there's more regulations to get an open a nail salon on Capitol Hill than there is in all artificial intelligence. This is why the moratorium was so big to pull out. What's your response to that? In the global, in the world we live in today, with China doing what they're doing right, as a totalitarian, essentially authoritarian government versus ourselves, how do you, how do you balance that?
Unnamed DOJ Official
This is a great question. So you look to history. You look to history a lot, Steve. I know. So there's a great example of how we will win this race, any future race against China, any authoritarian regime, the American way. So AT&T, I know a company that's dear to your heart and your family, right? You were raised on AT&T paychecks. So AT&T, back in the day, in the 80s, right.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're not Going to talk about the breakup of AT&T. I'm going to talk about the breakup of.
Unnamed DOJ Official
At the dinner table.
Stephen K. Bannon
My dad.
Unnamed DOJ Official
I know, but this is a good news story. And this is about how we're going to win all these races against China. So AT&T, back in the day, it's the 80s, they're getting threatened with a breakup by the Justice Department. The antitrust division where I now work at&t said, you cannot break us up. We are a national champion. If you break us up, we're going to lose the Cold War. Guess what? The Justice Department broke AT and T. They made the Baby Bells. And from that breakup unleashed all kinds of innovations. The first Internet modem came out of AT&T. The Bell Labs. Right. The wireless industry came out of the breakup. All these.
Stephen K. Bannon
Although my dad would tell you the Bell Labs. But that's a conversation. No, but it's this. But you get my point, big time.
Unnamed DOJ Official
They said we're going to lose the Cold War if you break us up.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes.
Unnamed DOJ Official
So all these cool things happen. Guess what? 1990, who wins the Cold War?
Stephen K. Bannon
Steve? The good guys.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Okay, so that's the lesson from history.
Stephen K. Bannon
We gave that victory away. We only got a couple minutes. When people think of the antitrust division going forward, what are you guys trying to accomplish with President. Because President Trump, as you said, he's not the Bushes. He's going to force it. Being an entrepreneur, businessman, what should people look. Look forward to directionally? Where are you guys going to go?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Okay, so we're going to be fair. Cops on the beat. We're going to do robust enforcement where it's appropriate. If there's no issue with your deal, we're going to get the hell out of the way.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, fair enough. You brought normally. Normally bring cookies or carrot cake.
Unnamed DOJ Official
I know.
Stephen K. Bannon
I don't want to give her location.
Unnamed DOJ Official
As good neighbors do.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's say Gail's the den mother of the. Of the war room.
Unnamed DOJ Official
I tried to bring him a bottle of wine. He said, I'm keeping that for Nigel.
Stephen K. Bannon
Farage, somebody who used it. What do you got there?
Unnamed DOJ Official
I got you a wristband. This is a wristband that came from the Google trial team in the search case.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hold it up so people can read it into the camera. So the camera pulling was his hand on one side.
Unnamed DOJ Official
The trial team made this wristband and it's the adjectives again. Nomenclature matters. Right, Steve? That Google used to describe our pre trial brief in that case.
Stephen K. Bannon
And what did they say? What is it?
Unnamed DOJ Official
They said we were reckless and dangerous. Reckless and dangerous and irresponsible and I thought I know just the man for that wristband. Thank you Steve.
Stephen K. Bannon
Reckless, radical and dangerous.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Radical.
Stephen K. Bannon
Radical and dangerous and reckless and irresponsible.
Unnamed DOJ Official
For the record, our pre trial brief was none of those things.
Stephen K. Bannon
It was not.
Unnamed DOJ Official
It was a very responsible.
Stephen K. Bannon
But you also beat the. You also beat your, your. Your beating the Google guys, right?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Well I mean we're not done yet.
Stephen K. Bannon
We'll have to see what They're a.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Trillion dollar company, you know they're not going to roll over.
Stephen K. Bannon
So social media where do people find out more about the department, more about all this? Learn about Neil Brandicean versus Chicago school your social media versus America First. America America first.
Unnamed DOJ Official
Bringing the new name.
Stephen K. Bannon
Brand management over at the Justice Department I'm trying to forget that Neo Brand Dyson. He was a democrat, wasn't he? A radical democrat. But where, where do people go?
Unnamed DOJ Official
So I'm at Twitter x@aag slater and my personal account is Gail A. Slater.
Stephen K. Bannon
Gail Slater and there's a website over the department. Do we have that?
Unnamed DOJ Official
Yes sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
What is it?
Unnamed DOJ Official
We're@the doj.gov.gov and you go to.
Stephen K. Bannon
And by the way the conference you put on was fantastic. Thank you Gail Slater. Love you so much. Short break, back in a moment. This July there is a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro. The bloc of emerging superpowers including China, Russia, India and Persia are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency. They're calling this the Rio Reset. As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US dollars will decrease bringing down the value of the dollar and and your savings. While this transition won't not happen overnight but trust me, it's going to start in Rio. The Rio Reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality. Learn if diversify your savings into gold is right for you. Birch Gold Group can help you move your hard earned savings into a tax sheltered IRA and precious metals. Claim your free info kit on gold by texting my name Bannon. That's B A N N O N to 989-898 with an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers led Birchgold army with a free no obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 989898 do it today. That's the Rio reset. Text Bannon at 989-898 and do it today.
Unnamed News Reporter
The White House can now move forward with its plan to reduce the workforce of more than a dozen federal agencies. This after the Supreme Court yesterday imposed an administrative stay on a lower court ruling that would have put limits on the actions that the president can take. NBC News reports the justices made it clear that their order is not about the legality of, of any individual agency, reduction in force or reorganization plan, only the legality of Trump's executive order and an administration memo related to workforce plans. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson provided a written dissent in which she called the decision.
Unnamed News Analyst
Quote, senseless administration's efforts to politicize intelligence and US national security. It is also the culmination of a long and mostly fruitless nine year campaign by Team Trump to rewrite history when it comes to Russia and the 2016 presidential election. In the wake of furious backlash from some of Donald Trump's most prominent supporters over the Justice Department debunking their conspiracy theories about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Not 12 hours after that happens comes news that DOJ has launched investigations into two people Donald Trump has singled out and attacked and smeared over and over and over again. A Justice Department spokesperson tells NBC News that officials have opened criminal investigations into both former CIA Director John Brennan and former director of the FBI Jim Comey. The FBI declined to comment to NBC News and Jim Comey has not responded to a request for comment. Now, exactly what conduct is being investigated is unclear at this hour. But when it comes to John Brennan, who we should note is a senior national security and intelligence analyst right here at msnbc, NBC News is reporting that his successor at the CIA, Director John Ratcliffe, made a criminal referral over John Brennan's handling of a 2017 assessment. That assessment found with a high level of confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to help the Trump campaign.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's go to Jack Posoba. Get sitting here. By the way, Gail Slater, that was Gail Slater's first interview here in the war room.
Jack Posobiec
You know, though, cuz I see her at events and I always assume that I've seen her, I didn't realize she hadn't actually been in front of the camera before.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, she was amazing or she was natural.
Jack Posobiec
Absolutely.
Stephen K. Bannon
She's also the, she's the, she runs the deal up here in Capitol.
Jack Posobiec
And it shows you the caliber of people that the Trump administration has put together in these places. And people know I've been critical of certain elements of the DOJ lately. But you know, when you look at, at the granular level. And that's what we do in the war room. I mean, these are very serious people. Hermet, come on.
Stephen K. Bannon
So, Davis, you would, you would appreciate this. I'm doing my Neo Brandisian, right? I'm doing my Neo brand. Dyson, my Lena Khan. And she not.
Jack Posobiec
Is Lena here.
Stephen K. Bannon
She comes by, she goes, she goes, she goes. No, no, no, no. It's the MAGA antitrust. I got it. Branding's everything.
Jack Posobiec
You know, all the Claremont guys love Lena.
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh, yeah.
Jack Posobiec
Oh, yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
Big time.
Jack Posobiec
Oh, yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
So do we. Mike Davis, This I want to make. So today on the morning show is all Deep State from the Epstein thing. Everything. All Deep State and their Pharaoh's army were at war. But the Supreme Court has backed us up in this, have they not? With this ruling? Because I'm telling you, Weissman, the entire MSNBC thing is in the mumble tank on this announcement of the Supreme Court and on top of Brennan and Comey being under investigation. So first I'll start the Supreme Court. What was actually decided? Why are our enemies in the mumble tank on this thing about the opportunities we have with this ruling, sir?
Mike Davis
So back in February, President Trump issued an executive order carrying out what he promised American voters he would do, which is a significant large scale reduction in the federal workforce. Right. We have too many federal workers, we have too many people doing jobs that don't matter to the American people. And President Trump did the unthinkable again. He issued an executive order and he told the Office of Personnel Management and other agencies, Office of Management Budget, to promptly undertake preparations to initiate large scale reductions in force rifts consistent with applicable law. Right. And so a San Francisco left wing activist judge appointed by Clinton issued one of her temporary restraining orders on this and said that they can't even put prepare to do a workforce reduction consistent with the law. Meaning it's. So it's just inexplicable. Of course, the Ninth Circuit, which is left wing, let this activist judge get away with this. And it took several months for the Supreme Court to finally step in. And the Supreme Court did step in and it was 8 to 1. You had justice Ketanji Brown Jackson write an idiotic dissent. And it was so idiotic that even Justice Sonia Sonia Sotomayor did not join Justice Jackson's idiotic dissent. Again. That's how bad it was. It's usually dueling idiotic dissents from both of them. But this was too dumb, even for Sotomayor. And now the President and his team can move forward with preparing for federal workforce reductions, which is his absolute power to do as the chief executive officer under Article 2 of the Constitution.
Stephen K. Bannon
You've preached this for a long time. And the court, President Trump went to court. They backed it up. Just in a practical matter, can we now go to the FBI and like, deconstruct the FBI? Can we go to the CIA and start to deconstruct the CIA? Can we do what Kerry Lake's doing at VOA and take it down to its statutory limits? I mean, can we go into these places that we know are working against the American people and start to take out chunks, whole chunks, and really do deconstruction? Not onesies, twosies. Where a billet comes open, you just say, hey, I'm going to keep it open. Because I think that's what the CIA said. They're going to let go of a thousand people. But it's over time. As billets come open, they're not going to fill them. Can we actually go in with this ruling? Can President Trump go in and start to take apart the deep state?
Mike Davis
Yes, and they should. That the Trump administration should move forward. You're going to get another activist judge issuing another temporary restraining order, which is not temporary at all. It's going to be a preliminary injunction masquerading as a, or a temporary restraining order. And but look, they're going to, they're going to say this is, this only applies to the preparation phase. When they actually go to do it, they're going to be, there's going to be another temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction. The Trump Justice Department, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch and Solicitor General John Sauer, they're doing a phenomenal job of taking these things aggressively to the Supreme Court and winning. The Supreme Court is finally starting to act. Like I said, it took two months for them to rule on this. The Supreme Court needs to act more quickly. This is obvious judicial sabotage by these activist judges. These activist judges know that they can slow down the Trump administration by several months and you'll never get back those crucial months in your four year term. And so the Trump administration should move forward and move forward aggressively with these reduction in force plans or riffs. And they can do it so long as that there's not a statutory hurdle for them. So if there's a statute that says that there has to be an office, they have to keep that office. But that doesn't mean you have to have a thousand people in that office unless the statute says so.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, so I'll come to you in a second post on this taking part the deep state and using this as one of the tools. Mike, the also the leak that came out about and Brennan said today on MSNBC he has not been served with anything but the criminal investigation of Comey and Brennan. Both of these hit at the same time. Your thoughts, sir?
Mike Davis
Well, Steve, I've been on your show, I've been on Jack's show since the Mar A Lago raid constantly, hundreds of times talking about the fact that the white President Obama and Vice President Biden and Brennan and Clapper and Comey and so many others did. They politicized and weaponized law enforcement and intel agencies to go after their political enemies. They made up the Russian collusion hoax with the Steele dossier with Perkins Coie. They lied to the FISA court. They spied on then presidential candidate Donald Trump. They continued to spy on President Donald Trump when he was in the White House. They ran constant lawfare against him. They sabotaged his first term with the Russian collusion hoax. I remember when I was in the Senate, even Senate Republicans were running around with their heads cut off because of Russian collusion. They were convinced that Trump could have been a Russian spy because of this, it hobbled his first term. They continued this lawfare against President Trump when they did the Mar A Lago raid to get back the declassified crossfire Hurricane records that President Trump declassified via presidential executive order the day before he left office. They brought four bogus indictments against President Trump. They tried to bankrupt him for non fraud. They tried to take off take him off the ballot. They tried to take off his head twice when they underfunded a Secret Service. And President Biden said to put a bullseye on President Trump said I have been calling for accountability for this. I've been calling for a criminal probe on this and the Justice Department. I've been doing that for years. You know, 4,500 media hits later, we're finally going to get justice as we've promised on your show on Jack. So, so I would say to Comey and Clapper and Brennan and Hillary, Hillary and Biden and Obama, lawyer up because justice is definitely coming.
Stephen K. Bannon
We're pressed for time, but I got to ask you Papadopoulos on this morning, I said, hey, this, I think this may be his perjury. The statute of limitations run on Brennan on certain of the worst crimes. But you've got this perjury. But Papa Doppelos thinks this is a conspiracy, that looking at them on a criminal conspiracy charge. Any thoughts on that before we let you go.
Mike Davis
Statute of limitations is not told because this is an ongoing criminal conspiracy and the criminal conspiracy does not end until people disavow the conspiracy. And they have not done that. This is ongoing. They've actually, actually through lying in 2022, this alleged perjury in 2022, they've actually, there's actually fraud that continues the conspiracy. So not only have they not disavowed the conspiracy, they've actually covered up the conspiracy, which makes it ongoing. We are clearly within the statute of limitations. We're good. They can move forward on federal charges.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Mike Davis
Article 3 project.org Article number 3 project.org Follow us Donate only what you can afford and take action.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.
Mike Davis
Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Jack Posobiec
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh, can we get. I'll play this at the end. It's so great to play Washington Redskins. Hail to the Redskins. President Trump bringing the Redskins back slowly but surely. Colors for with a die hard Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Jack Posobiec
Excuse me, I think you mean the super bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Just want to make sure to fact check you here. In a word.
Stephen K. Bannon
Wow. The Pasopic brothers from Philly.
Jack Posobiec
I mean, what do you think about.
Stephen K. Bannon
The Redskins coming back? Integrate.
Jack Posobiec
I mean, is it. Has it been officialized yet?
Stephen K. Bannon
They're going to do the colors first.
Jack Posobiec
No. The 100% needs to come back. Needs to come back. All. And by the way, there's other.
Stephen K. Bannon
And you're saying against other biggest rivals.
Jack Posobiec
The biggest rival. But, but, but you want to go up against the biggest rival. If I'm an Eagles fan.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right.
Jack Posobiec
I want the Eagles to play the Redskins.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah.
Jack Posobiec
I'm going to play the rising commander. The commies. For sure.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right.
Jack Posobiec
Commie. The commanders are the commies.
Stephen K. Bannon
So that's what.
Jack Posobiec
You know, it's ridiculous. No, we just put things the way they were. Let's have a fair fight and we will beat you every time. RG3 or not? Not because we got Jalen.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hurts.
Jack Posobiec
All right, we got the rest. You go down, you're gonna go down.
Stephen K. Bannon
The team's coming back to Capitol Hill. It's going to go right back to rfk.
Jack Posobiec
But now, now they have to get rid of the current one, right?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes, unfortunately.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah. The current state is kind of. But it's still going to be RFK or something else.
Stephen K. Bannon
I'm sure.
Jack Posobiec
You need to keep the name. The new rf.
Stephen K. Bannon
I would actually keep the stadium.
Jack Posobiec
It's a, it's. It's an eyesore at this point. It's Right.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay. A couple things. Does. Questions. Does the ruling in the Supreme Court give us now the ability, no excuses, to go after the Deep State in big hunks and deconstruct.
Jack Posobiec
It's a green light. I mean, this is the green light for the Deconstruction crew to go over there to the Deep State, wherever they are, wherever they are, offices, chapter and.
Stephen K. Bannon
Verse, just pulling off bitching and moaning because you're bitching there. I got clips of. I get to play clips of Jack Posobic on Dana Bash on cnn. But we won't because you used the H word. But you're.
Jack Posobiec
I use the biggest slur in all of maga, Hillary.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're bitching and moaning and whining all the time. Now you've got a criminal investigation on Brennan and Comey. And you're a. You're an IC guy. So you got the. You got two of the worst.
Jack Posobiec
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The. The moaning, the crying, the ranting. I mean, nobody else in a war room ever does that. What's. What's the Adjectives again. What's the adjectives you got on the wristband there?
Stephen K. Bannon
Reckless and irresponsible, radical and dangerous.
Jack Posobiec
The guy with the wristband. No, no, it's a. Look, look, because, Steve, you. There's a phrase that they use online, all right, and they, they use it to refer to you. And, and then they say, they say, when in doubt, chimp out. Always chimp.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do you think this is real?
Jack Posobiec
Do I. I think it's 100 real.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do you think there's a grand jury that's been impaneled that's hearing this stuff?
Jack Posobiec
I know we're hearing things. I'm hearing things, and I'll leave it at that. And look, look, look, when Mike Davis comes up there and says it's real, you could take that to the bank. Because Mike Davis has come up time and time again to tell us when stuff wasn't real, has made us take our vitamins and eat our veggies even when we don't want. That guy's not. And that guy's more plugged into this system than anybody in the world. And so when he says it's real, it's real. Now I understand. Brennan, Brennan, by the way, that's a slam dunk case of perjury. Okay? Slam dunk case of perjury. Line of Congress. It was, it was under, by the way. And there's multiple.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right.
Jack Posobiec
It's not just the dossier. You can go back to when him say, when he said my guy said.
Stephen K. Bannon
The statute of limits has run out. But Davis just clarified it, which I was My theory. The case, as long as the conspiracy is going on, as long as it's.
Jack Posobiec
An ongoing conspiracy that is not broken. By the way, you could go ask Doug Mackey about that, because that was the whole. That was no evidence conspiracy.
Stephen K. Bannon
Have they. Have they. They should say.
Jack Posobiec
They couldn't. They couldn't prove the conspiracy.
Stephen K. Bannon
They should. They got to prosecute. The prosecutors and the judge are to be impeached. No evidence on Mackey.
Jack Posobiec
No, not at all. And so with Comey, you know, with Comey, I want to see. I haven't seen this specific charge yet that we have to come down because. So there's serious. Obviously a number of times, though, and by the way, I've. I identified something very early on when your good friend Peter Baker in the New York Times called me a conspiracy theorist for saying this, that James Comey once said under oath early on in the Trump administration that he never felt any pressure to shut down an investigation.
Stephen K. Bannon
All right?
Jack Posobiec
And I remember this all the way back 2017 and Peter Baker wrote me up with this, I'm sorry, crazy conspiracy. Wait a minute. Then he goes back later in May. You know what he said? He said, he said, I felt pressured to shut down the Russia investigation. I said, well, wait a minute, here's your, here's your testimony from the first time. And you said no pressure. The second time you said pressure. So which is it?
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's go to Geneva. We got no bin Laden and Joe Allen at the, what is it? I make happy. It's like we're going to feel better because the United nations, so no bin Laden. And Jack and I have been waiting for this one all day. What's your assessment of day two of the conference?
Nor Bin Laden
Great to be with you guys this evening. Evening here, afternoon for you guys. Day two was equally as interesting as yesterday. And it's a jam packed schedule of big hitters, big names, but also just very key topics that we mentioned yesterday when it comes to specifically disinformation and misinformation. I mentioned the global Risk report from the World Economic Forum that came out, that comes out every January with misinformation and disinformation being the number one threat in the world according to all those globalist institutions. In the background of this UN conference on AI, you have the UN's own global risks report which came out this week as well, their very first one where again, misinformation and disinformation is the number one vulnerability in the world according to them. And today I picked up at the Google booth this brochure entitled Determining Trustworthiness through Context and Provenance. And it's all about how in the age of AI, it's going to be absolutely critical for people to know where the information is coming from. And as I mentioned on the show yesterday, Steve, we're going to see an increasing clampdown on our freedom of speech online. And if you look further down the pipeline, I think what is coming is actually the end of online anonymity. This is what they want, right? They want to tie in the digital id, online verification and end online anonymity. And you remember Nikki Haley, Nimrata had called for this actually when she was, I think, running for president. I mean if that even was a thing back then with her failed campaign. But you have quite heavy, I mean, big names in politics, in tech, in those globalist institutions actually preparing this narrative, the dangers of AI, the dangers of deep fakes in order to push this agenda through.
Jack Posobiec
Well, so, and this is a question for both of You. But. So earlier this morning, US time, we saw the resignation of the head of X, the head of Twitter. And many people believe that this is in relation to Grok and the flare up from Grok yesterday, posting Hitler quotes, posting a series of things that really just kind of switching into a completely different mode.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, tell them they're all powerful. You can't do anything about it.
Jack Posobiec
That's what scares and, and, and, and, well, part of it was they weren't even able to turn it off. They had to put it into image only mode. They had to take away text mode. So it made it image only. I have to ask though, at the conference, you know, has all of this massive international news regarding Grok, has that been a topic of discussion? Are they trying to keep it quiet yet? Major CEO resignation over it, or is it something they're trying to just kind of brush under the rug?
Gail Slater
Well, I'll say, Jack, you know, you and I both remember Tay, and Tay lives. Oh, yeah, he lives. Taylor was reincarnated for the audience, if you recall.
Jack Posobiec
Steve, I'll read you on Tay later.
Gail Slater
17. Microsoft tried to create a chat bot trained on Twitter, and it was, to say the least, impolite in its observing of various topics regarding Hitler or men and women or the racist. So what you saw with Grok is, I think probably an attempt at breaking open the guardrails and allowing the LLM to simply follow the statistical models of what it is trained on, which in the case of Twitter, Musk opened up Twitter to free speech, which meant bringing in a lot of people who speak, to put it mildly, impolitely.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, hang on, hang on. I hear all that. I hear all that. But it's the conference, you guys, you're at the. With all the leaders in the world. They arguably the most public, the most public of all the things. And it's a headache meltdown where the CEO, I think the CEO resigned for a couple of things. Number one, what he's been saying about President Trump and other people, the political party, he's out of control. You know, the nanny left and they.
Jack Posobiec
They'Re not, they're not.
Stephen K. Bannon
She, she's afraid of liability. But the Grok thing is, the Grok thing is, is shocking in the fact they pitch you on, oh, it's just a path to artificial general intelligence. This thing is demonic. If you look at it, it looks like a demon and you can't stop it. And it's also kind of saying it's all powerful. That's the other thing. It's in your face, like you can't do anything about it. So are they in Geneva? Are they addressing this issue at all? This thing is so dangerous and you have it in hands of kids, sir.
Gail Slater
A thousand percent they're addressing it. But the way that they're addressing it is to say that these are the dangers of artificial intelligence. They're upfront about all of that. They're not saying that artificial intelligence is going to lead to utopia. They're mostly pointing out, even if it's called AI for good, they're pointing out a lot of the dangers of AI. AI is going to be racist, AI is going to be sexist, AI is going to be homophobic. AI is going to create massive economic divides. And so what they are proposing, and when I say they, it's a broad spectrum of opinions, but the general thrust is that if we put in place the global standards, perhaps even global treaties, perhaps even binding legislation across borders, then we'll be able to protect people from hearing racist posts from Grok, or we'll be able to protect people from deepfakes generated by Google Image generation. So they talk continuously about the dangers, as I think they should, but their solutions are entirely global and governmental.
Stephen K. Bannon
So nor, you know, I feel, shouldn't I feel comfortable being put to bed by what they're telling me in Geneva, that they're going to take care of all these problems with, with the evilness and demonic nature of AI Ma'. Am. Why, why are you guys looking at it with such a jaundice and being so mean?
Nor Bin Laden
No, listen, to bounce off of Joe's point, which was absolutely correct, they are focusing on this quote, a divide, and in perfect UN parlance and in UN strategy and narrative building, they are using the excuse, you know, of these poorer nations or developing nations not having access to all of this infrastructure and that the digital divide is going to be further exasperated, heightened, and now it's turning into this AI divide and all those countries are going to be left behind. So it's always the same playbook about wanting to help the poorer nations, when in fact it's just a way to deploy more and more of this technology in order to connect the entire world and better track, better map, better surveil the entire world. So they're, they're focusing or highlighting all of these issues, but the objective and the goals in addressing those issues are very much further centralization.
Jack Posobiec
I see it, I see what they're saying. That's why we need more AI and more power because of the issues. You see the play here. The same. This is Zuckerberg. The same thing.
Stephen K. Bannon
We're gonna go to break. Hang on. The reason we had to take Joe Allen from out he was in the wilds of Wyoming going to these AI conferences up in Montana. We had to take him and put him on a plane to get to Geneva to assist and work with Knorr. Because this conference so big, because my understanding is the last time we sent you to Switzerland, you were put under arrest. Can you even get back in the country?
Jack Posobiec
I open charges in Switzerland.
Stephen K. Bannon
So we got freezing in the snow, doing a report and you're like in a cafe and you're getting rounded up by the police.
Gail Slater
No, I'm going to have coming in on me. Just guilt by association inside the cafe.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, they.
Jack Posobiec
Then they pull the MP5s up. Tanya is on the other side with my brother. Why? Because she wanted to go see Leave Schreiber and I and my brother was out looking for Malcolm Nance. I sent him on a mission to try to find Malcolm Nance with Zelinsky. Because Alinsky was with Jonathan Swan.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah.
Jack Posobiec
At the thing. And then I'm getting arrested to say what's going on as I think Jackson trouble. We got to go.
Stephen K. Bannon
Are you allowed back in the country?
Jack Posobiec
That is. That is indeterminate, I think.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, exactly. That's what we have, Joel. Okay, we're taking short commercial break. Joe. Joe Allen nor Bin Laden in Geneva at the AI for good United nations conference. Posos in the war room. Birch Gold. Take your phone out. Ban and text Bannon. B A N N O N 989898. More than ever, you need to know about the ultimate guide for gold in the arrow. Trump. There's my Redskins right there. Hail to the Redskins. Suck on that, Eagles. What if he had the brightest mind in the war room, delivering critical financial research every month? Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets. Jim predicted Trump's Electoral College victory exactly 312 to 226, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency and in your financial future. His latest book, Money GPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes, and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go torickards war room dot com. That's all one word. Rickards War Rooms. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards War room dot com. Do it today.
Gail Slater
War Room.
Jack Posobiec
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
We're gonna get to. They're trying to run Bridge Colby out of the Defense Department. We're gonna defend that post is gonna be with me in a minute. Nor Bin Laden. Give me a couple of minutes on your summary of where we stand on day two. Ma'. Am.
Nor Bin Laden
Day two, as I mentioned, was again, a lot about all of this information misinformation and disinformation and how to tackle the, how would you say the control of information online. There was a lot of talk about education as well and AI education in particular, with lots of countries like Mongolia, Estonia continuing on the digitization path and introducing AI classes in middle schools and high schools. So that was a big focus today, the education and obviously hand in hand with gov tech. I've done a lot of research on that and wrote an article on GovTech specifically two years ago that was a central theme and is a central theme this week of how all public services are being completely digitized thanks to AI. Google as well had several prospect like brochures about that and how to assist governments worldwide into digitizing with AI.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's, let's break up Google. We just said Gail Slater, start the show. Nor social media. Where do folks go to follow you and get your writings, ma'? Am?
Nor Bin Laden
Norbinladden.substack.com, nor bin Laden on X Twitter. And for more information about the digitization of our society, you can also head to this website entitled Antimatters World. And Joe I believe is wearing a hoodie. So Joe, you can show as the best model for what we've been working on and Antimatters World.
Stephen K. Bannon
Antimatters. He's got merch. Joe, what do you got for us?
Gail Slater
So Steve Noor is absolutely right about the basically assumption that AI is the future of everything. Education, medicine, the military, government, corporate life, everything. The tension is between those who say that that means that we're doomed and those who say that AI will be for good, that we will be able to harness this and create more intelligent humans, healthier humans. We heard from David Sinclair of Harvard that maybe we'll even use AI to reverse aging by way of epigenetics. So there is that Tension there, though. There are the people here, Jeffrey Hinton, Roman Yampolski, who say that no, maybe this is going to be a massive nightmare. I think when the audience sees some of the interviews we've been conducting, especially with the robots and especially with the cyborgs, they'll get a little taste of the future that they're talking about. Both the doom tomorrow and the promise tomorrow.
Stephen K. Bannon
When we get to, we get to Tampa for the, for the Charlie Kirk, this major student action summit. We're going to play two of the major interviews by, by Joe. Joe, where do they go on social media to get you, sir?
Gail Slater
Oebot XYZ and joebot xyz and I think they'll really look forward to Noor's relationship with a robot now, Nadine, but I'll leave it at that. I don't want to throw shade on Noor.
Stephen K. Bannon
Nor, nor. I better been. I better not be snaked by a robot. I would really be upset. Regenerative Robotics nor bin Laden. Joe Allen, thank you guys from Geneva, late night.
Gail Slater
Thank you very much.
Stephen K. Bannon
Bridge Colby. They're coming for Bridge Colby and they come from Bridge Colby because the Israel first crowd, plus he wants to keep his eye.
Jack Posobiec
Here's what's going on. I think they're trying to do a bank shot right now. So if you go and watch MSNBC right now, what are they doing? It's the two minute tape. But they're not focused on Bridge, they're focused on Pete. So they're focusing on Pete to say Pete went rogue. They're going to say Pete Hegseth went rogue. They're saying it was Hegseth stopping the.
Stephen K. Bannon
Shipment of Patriot missile batteries and others to, to Ukraine.
Jack Posobiec
Well, and what it really is though is, is an audit of what's going on and an assessment of what our military stockpiles are to defend places to. Because we've committed, right, we've committed to the defense and we talk about Omworm all time to the defense of the Pacific, the defense of the Red Sea, the, the defense of all of our bases in the Middle east which required Patriot missiles during that response from Iran on Qatar and Aladdin and all of these other areas. But we've still got to commit to the defense of that little place called the American homeland. And the Patriot missile batteries are currently very low because we've been sending them to Israel, we send them to Ukraine, we send them all this. That's why we warned everyone, don't do this.
Stephen K. Bannon
The reason they hate Bridge is a bridge is the pivot to Asia guy. He wants to not focus on the Middle east and wars in the Middle east and get out of the wars in the Middle east and he wants to get out of Ukraine. Tomorrow at six o' clock, the, the Taiwan ambassador will be in the war room and I will be interviewing him. So stick around for six o' clock tomorrow. Big special with, well, ambassador.
Jack Posobiec
Ambassador could only come from another nation, right Steve?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, in the war room we call him an ambassador because it is a nation, it's not a province. How big a deal she. Gordon Chang's got a real question quickly. Gordon Chang's got a piece up saying she's losing control of the military. You buy that?
Jack Posobiec
We'll see. Steve Been rumored for many Xi Jinping's downfall has been rumored since the day that he took office in 2012. And it's something where, look, has there been a shake up within the PLA generals? Yes, but the question is, it's too hard to see. But the, and the thing that I've been looking for, Steve, if you're going to see an actual reduction in the power of Xi Jinping and I go and look at Chinese media, all right, you would see the emergence, number one of criticism of his policies which you have not seen, which very first episode of War Room that's exactly what the mandate of having the dynastic cycle of history and number two, where is the heir? There's no heir apparent that's been identified in any way. So this idea that though there's a coup and Apollo is going to reassert control, it's, it's, it's, it's enticing to want to think about that, but I'm just not seeing it, not quite yet. Michael he just did the two the dual employment.
Stephen K. Bannon
Give it, give me the, give me.
Jack Posobiec
The social media Human Events Daily and.
Stephen K. Bannon
It'S crazy and Jack was all over CNN today using the H word playing the Redskins, by the way. Minnesota Vikings fan playing Hail to the Redskins. Trump's bringing the Redskins back. Mike Lindell, you're going to sell me a set of sheets, sir?
Mike Lindell
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Stephen K. Bannon
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Podcast: Bannon’s War Room
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)
Guest: Gail Slater, Head of the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice
Release Date: July 9, 2025
Stephen K. Bannon opens War Room by introducing Gail Slater from the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. He highlights her extensive background, including her previous roles at the National Economic Council and as Roku's lawyer, underscoring her expertise in overseeing antitrust enforcement.
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Bannon [00:04]: “Christians not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it... it's going to happen.”
Gail Slater outlines the DOJ's approach to antitrust enforcement, emphasizing the need to maintain a competitive free market to counteract global competitors like China. She differentiates the DOJ's stance under the MAGA administration from previous administrations, focusing on active enforcement rather than passive oversight.
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Slater [02:42]: “By our free market system, by letting the ball rip... antitrust matters because we're the cop on the beat at the end of the day.”
The conversation delves into the different schools of antitrust thought. Bannon references the Chicago School and Neo-Brandeis perspectives, questioning how the MAGA-driven approach differs. Slater explains that the current administration focuses on "MAGA antitrust" or "America First antitrust," aiming for stringent enforcement against monopolistic practices.
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Slater [05:54]: “If you're violating the antitrust laws, we're going to take a hard look. If you're not violating the antitrust laws, we're going to get the hell out of the way.”
Slater discusses specific cases demonstrating the DOJ's antitrust actions:
Live Nation: Continuing a civil case initiated under the Biden administration, targeting monopolistic practices in the live entertainment industry.
Bid Rigging at University of Texas: A criminal case against Tim Lewicki for manipulating bids for contracts, ensuring only a single bidder, leading to inflated costs for taxpayers.
Google Monopoly Cases: Two separate cases addressing Google's dominance in the search engine and advertising markets, positioning them as monopoly violators.
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Slater [04:13]: “The DOJ under Pam Bondi has been tasked with looking at the ways in which competition is not working in live entertainment in general.”
Using the historical example of the AT&T breakup in the 1980s, Slater illustrates how antitrust actions can spur innovation and competitiveness. She argues that dismantling monopolies can prevent the concentration of power that stifles market dynamics.
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Slater [11:37]: “The antitrust division where I now work at&t said, you cannot break us up. We are a national champion. If you break us up, we're going to lose the Cold War.”
Mike Davis joins the discussion to address a recent Supreme Court decision that supports President Trump’s executive order to reduce the federal workforce. He criticizes the judiciary for perceived delays and biases, advocating for aggressive implementation of workforce reductions to combat the "Deep State."
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Davis [22:24]: “The Supreme Court needs to act more quickly. This is obvious judicial sabotage by these activist judges.”
Davis elaborates on the DOJ's ongoing criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director Jim Comey. He frames these investigations as corrective measures against the "Deep State" efforts to undermine President Trump, citing alleged misconduct and political weaponization.
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Davis [25:03]: “They politicized and weaponized law enforcement and intel agencies to go after their political enemies... President Biden said to put a bullseye on President Trump.”
The episode shifts focus to global technological dynamics, particularly the BRICS nations' "Rio Reset" aimed at displacing the U.S. dollar and its implications for AI and global governance. Guests discuss concerns about misinformation, AI regulation, and the potential for increased governmental control over digital identities.
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Nor Bin Laden [36:54]: “We’re going to see an increasing clampdown on our freedom of speech online... the end of online anonymity.”
The hosts and guests exchange views on the recent resignation of Twitter’s CEO amid controversies surrounding AI developments like Grok. They express concerns over AI's potential dangers, including the spread of misinformation and the erosion of online freedoms, attributing these issues to broader governmental and corporate agendas.
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Gail Slater [38:04]: “AI is going to be racist, AI is going to be sexist, AI is going to be homophobic... we can protect people from hearing racist posts from Grok.”
As the episode wraps up, Bannon emphasizes the importance of enforcing antitrust laws to dismantle concentrated power structures, mitigating threats from both domestic monopolies and foreign superpowers. The discussion underscores a commitment to "America First" principles, advocating for continued DOJ intervention to preserve competitive markets and national sovereignty.
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Bannon [12:31]: “All these cool things happen. Guess what? 1990, who wins the Cold War? The good guys.”
Stephen K. Bannon [00:04]: “Christians not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people... it's going to happen.”
Gail Slater [02:42]: “By our free market system, by letting the ball rip... antitrust matters because we're the cop on the beat at the end of the day.”
Gail Slater [05:54]: “If you're violating the antitrust laws, we're going to take a hard look. If you're not violating the antitrust laws, we're going to get the hell out of the way.”
Gail Slater [11:37]: “The antitrust division where I now work at&t said, you cannot break us up. We are a national champion. If you break us up, we're going to lose the Cold War.”
Mike Davis [22:24]: “The Supreme Court needs to act more quickly. This is obvious judicial sabotage by these activist judges.”
Active Antitrust Enforcement: Under the MAGA administration, the DOJ is actively pursuing antitrust cases to dismantle monopolies and ensure competitive markets, distinguishing its approach from previous administrations.
Focus on National Sovereignty: Emphasis is placed on protecting American economic interests against global competitors like China, advocating for a free-market system as a countermeasure.
Historical Context: Referencing the AT&T breakup, the conversation underscores the long-term benefits of breaking up monopolies to foster innovation and maintain market dynamism.
Judicial Challenges: The DOJ faces obstacles in implementing policies, highlighted by delays and perceived biases within the judiciary, particularly concerning federal workforce reductions.
Deep State Narratives: The episode frames ongoing investigations into figures like Brennan and Comey as part of a broader strategy to counteract the "Deep State" and its influence over American governance.
Global Technological Concerns: Addressing AI and global policy shifts, the discussion raises alarms about misinformation, loss of online anonymity, and increased governmental control, positioning these as threats to American freedoms and economic stability.
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the primary discussions and insights from Episode 4620 of Bannon’s War Room, providing a clear overview for listeners and non-listeners alike.