
Episode 4664: Trump Throws Down On Putin; Trump Opens Trade Deal With China ...
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
Ben Harnwell
Reasons I got a free shot.
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All these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it.
Ben Harnwell
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Steve Bannon
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Oren Cass
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Steve Bannon
I wish that any these people had a conscience.
Ben Harnwell
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Monday, 28th July, year of our Lord 2025. Man, was that a quick first hour. This is so much, so much going on. President Trump in Europe, in Scotland. Ed Turnberry heading now up to northern Scotland. We're going to get Josh Pettit, not this morning because we're too slammed, but hopefully this afternoon or tomorrow morning to talk about President Trump's other developments, his great love not just for the game, but also for also for Scotland. I do believe you're going to hear an announcement about Turnberry going back in the Open Championship roto, which is quite close to President Trump's heart. Josh Pettig kind of broke that on Saturday on the show. Saturday. Yeah, Saturday. Bertsker, two things. Number one, Jim Rickards, you like national security, intelligence, capital markets, geopolitics and also financial. Talks about the markets. Actually, they also talk about individual stocks. Give you an idea. Jim Rickards, rickertswarroom.com, strategic intelligence is the newsletter, kind of what I call a C suite. Read chairman and CEOs get the inside baseball. They get strategic intelligence by going to rickardswarroom.com he also throws in a free book, MoneyGPT, which is about artificial intelligence and currency. JIM Rickards, great guy. Also, take your phone out if you haven't gotten the ultimate guide for investing in gold and silver from Birchgold, get it. It's quite succinct. Gives you an idea. Also puts you in contact with Philip Patrick and team. And that's really what you need to do. You need to build a relationship with the Birchgold guys. It's not the price of gold, it's the process of how it gets there. Find out what's been a hedge for 5,000 years of man's recorded history. Birchgold.com Warham the end of the dollar empire. Also Take your phone out. Bannon, 989-898 to get the free guide text that the latter. Ben Harnwell, thank you for hanging around in that. And so the Breitbart interview I think will start to come up tonight. Matt always does a great job with that. President Trump for two hours took him, took all comers on the from the press, Starmer sitting there going, because you just never see world figures do this. Obviously the EU deal and I think Lutnick was on TV, the letters are going out. They've got 60% of the GDP right now. Besant's in Stockholm for two days. Monday, Tuesday, he's coming back. They're going to have the Breitbart event on Wednesday. We're going to stream that. That's a one on one with Matt in the secretary of treasury. But that would be, I don't know, pretty near the rest of it. You still got a couple of countries out there. I don't think we've announced the India deal yet. But President Trump is making far greater progress than anybody ever thought in reorganizing the world's commercial relationships, particularly with the United States. And hey, as we said back at the beginning, he's charging a premium to get through the golden door. You got two choices to bring manufacturing here or if you're going to ship it in here, you're going to pay a premium. And so you got a choice. And a lot of people are taking parts of both. But he did drop a bomb today. And this is about the Ukraine situation. We have two things heating up that we kind of warned about. The Netanyahu situation in Gaza. I think finally they've come to a conclusion because they've been doing these massive kind of, you know, they have a strategy, then they go another strategy. I think there's a consensus at least with Netanyahu, they got to take care of the Muslim Brotherhood and they have to do it now regardless of the hostages. And I think you're hearing that they're going to rev that up. But over in the Ukraine, in this, for all these guys running around, all these pannikins, they don't, you know, they keep warning about the Third world. Third World War is here. The killing fields of the Third World War are here and bloodier than they were at the beginning of the Second World War because that built her crescendo. We're kind of starting with the crescendo. Ben Harwell, he basically told Putin there was a strike last night by Ukraine deep into Russian territory and Russia's been pounding Kiev every day. Zelensky is under a ton of pressure as we have been doing everything we can to support those folks in Ukraine that want to have an accounting for the money and the corruption and the grift and all of it. But President Trump dropped a bomb that Putin's got, I don't know, 10 or 12 days to make his mind up here, which is kind of scary, right? But the EU deal really guts a lot of Russia's ability to sell cheap energy because the deal has almost a trillion dollars, I think, of energy purchases from the United States. Your assessment from Rome, sir?
Brian Harrison
I think it's $750 billion over the course of the rest of this administration, which is a huge look, just I'm not going to talk about the tariff trade deal, but what Donald Trump has done is absolutely fantastic and amazing and it hasn't really cost the United States very much at all. Macron has been hit hardest with regards to the French agricultural export industry. But basically the Europeans just wanted to fold and give in. They didn't want a trade war and they haven't particularly been required to demand of America that much. It's a pretty one sided negotiation and I have to say President Trump handled it absolutely amazingly. I will just draw this point because Nigel Farage mentioned it at the beginning of the show that when Donald Trump went out, the protests were hardly negligent this time around in this administration compared to 10 years ago. Nigel Farage also said that there's been a turnaround in how the Brits view Donald Trump. I just want to point out these trade concessions. Obviously the UK is no longer part of the eu, so we'll have a different, hopefully more beneficial arrangement. But however that works out, it will hit us in continental Europe and the UK what Donald Trump is doing. And yet people here like Donald Trump, even though he's objectively making our lives much more difficult. And I'd like just to throw the reason out is that they see in Donald Trump a leader that is putting the interest of his people first. That's what they want to see from their own governments. They're not really seeing it, but they respect that, even to their own detriment. Just, just to close brackets on that, there is something coming out of Ukraine and it is interesting.
Steve Bannon
Hang on, hang on. Ho, ho, slow down. I can't. This is what I was talking about, Nigel. They're polling at 34% which is, is really what the Tories, the two parties have been around for one, for 200 years. The other for 100 combined barely with Nigel, because they look at his constancy and his strength of putting his country first. This is what I mean. Chris Matthews said the smartest thing over the weekend of everybody. He said, hey, I don't care about some of these polling seeds losing independence on some of these topics. He said people are attracted to strength, particularly today in a world in chaos. And Trump is a tower of strength. He may not like everything you get, but you realize he's always putting the country's interests first. Is that what Nigel is drafting off of? Is that what people are looking for even in Europe? Sir.
Brian Harrison
Yeah, it is. It is. It absolutely is that. And just to give Chris Matthews credit for once on his analysis here you can see the pivot that the mainstream media is belatedly making because this idea of a strong man was pejorative in the mouths of the liberal progressive elites for the last 20 years. The that is how they really wanted to signal in addition to the descriptor far right. But they really wanted to indicate to people that they're not allowed to like someone. They called them a strong man. And here you have Chris Matthews coming out saying that they are attracted, people are attracted to Donald Trump because he represents strength. And what's not said. But of course you can back project is that is the comparison with the guy that Donald Trump replaced, Joe Biden, who I don't think did. I mean, Donald Trump did two hours worth of interviews with Matt Boyle earlier. I don't think Joe Biden did two hours worth of interviews added together over the whole four years. And that's just like.
Ben Harnwell
No, no, he took, no, he took.
Steve Bannon
Two, no, he took two hours of questions in a press avail today with Starmer there. He had another hour with Matt Boyle beforehand. So three hours, an hour with Boyle. Then he took two hours of just impressive, taking every question, you know, every.
Ben Harnwell
Question they can ask him the cheap.
Steve Bannon
Shot questions and the tough ones. You don't see anybody, I mean, forget Biden. You don't see anybody in the world that can do that, Ben. And handle all the topics in fairly, you know, fairly in depth and give a sophisticated and nuanced approach to it. Sir.
Brian Harrison
Well, look, I tell you this. When I come on this show and I'll speak for five or 10 minutes, I spend all morning, and I'm obviously six hours ahead of you guys in America. I spend all morning preparing my notes just to be able to speak for five minutes. It's an indication of Donald Trump's the commander demand that he has of the detail to be able to hold basically three hours worth back to back of in depth questions so freely, folks, that's a very difficult thing to do. And people say, his detractors say that Donald Trump doesn't read briefing notes, not interested in the detail. Anyone who wants to make that argument, I defy you to go into a press pool and take three hours worth of questions back to back without notes, without sort of tip offs of what the question, you know, that's the other difference. The Democrats, Biden was always tipped off what the questions were going to be. Donald Trump sits there and he'll take all questions and he'll respond. And I think that just has an incredible command of the situation, command of detail and that, you know, having that sense of command is why he's able, when he puts his mind to it, to determine and dictate the agenda.
Steve Bannon
Let's go to this, the quite controversial throwdown with Putin to say, hey, look upon further review, it ain't 40 days left of the 50, it's going to be 10 to 12. Your thoughts?
Brian Harrison
Well, having, having spoken so generously 30 seconds ago, look, I'm against this, I have to say. And one of the reasons I'm against this, in addition to the motives I say every time I come on this show, Steve, is is this, you know, when I was reading this, this statement like 10, 20 minutes or so ago, because it's literally come out since we've been on air. Donald Trump is now more invested. You know, we said for months he's got to be careful. He's going to get dragged in. He's going to become associated with this war in Ukraine. He's going to take, it's going to be his war, People are going to stop. And even though he continues to say it's Biden's war, people are going to start considering it to be Trump's war. It's gone beyond that now. He is more invested personally with his name, his reputation in the outcome of this war than Joe Biden was at any point in the two years when he was still in the White House. It's very dangerous what's taking place now. And all the signals coming out of the Kremlin when Donald Trump first came out with his 50 day throwdown, all the signals are, is that they basically just blew him off publicly. They we don't care. You know, he can do what he wants. We're not going to try and escalate the situation. But obviously America, President Trump can do what he wants. He's continuing to escalate this. I don't see, I could be wrong. I'm wrong all the time. But I don't see any indication that from the Russians that they're going to crumple here on this in terms of threats of secondary tariffs which are going to hit the very people that I think Donald Trump is actually trying to cultivate. India, for example, and the European Union. Who is the country that trades most with Russia? It's Viktor or Bans. Hungary. These are guys that Donald Trump needs to continue to build very strong relationship with, especially India, with regards to the BRICS dynamic. We'll see how it takes, how it rolls out. But there is, you know, after the breaks, if I do have something coming up here on Ukraine, which I will highlight because it is an indication of how Donald Trump is being and America is being dragged further into this war in Ukraine.
Steve Bannon
Perfect. Stick around. We got Ben Hunter, Oren Cass. You talk about the part of the world's economy that we still have to kind of wrangle. That's the Chinese Communist Party, of course. Our favorite, Scott Bessant, our former contributor here is in Stockholm even as we speak trying to hammer out move the ball downfield on that. Oren Cass from Compass has put together a letter to let the president and people in Capitol Hill know that there are certain situations going on with these advanced chips that may not be to the advantage of the United States of America. And it may be a good time to think about it as we negotiate this deal. Orrin Castle, join us. We got Ben Harnwell from Rome. Brian Harrison is going to join us from Austin in Texas. The redistricting I think has hit more than a speed bump and it's time now to sort this mess out down in Texas. Hometitleock.com $1 million triple lock protection. You get 24 hour coverage alerts at any time, day or night that anybody's messing with your title. And if all else fails, you get a one million dollar restoration process project. Go check it out. Day home title lock promo code. Steve, talk to Natalie Dominguez and the team. Do not let anybody get their hands on 80 to 90% of your net worth. That would be your home.
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Sign up for free and be part of the movement. Okay, welcome back. I've got Oren Cass on from Compass and Orange is kind of rising generation of populist nationalist thinkers, public intellectuals, economists. He runs Compass, the great magazine and website. Everybody should go check it out. So Oren, this morning there's a huge story in the Financial Times. I don't think it's in my print edition. I think it's only online from one of the smartest guys in D.C. that covers the White House for Financial Times. Headline Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure a Trade Deal with China. You've been kind of ahead of this because you've written this letter. I want to get to the letter, get what those heavyweights you brought onto this have are worried about. And I want to put it in the context that Besant is in Stockholm right now. Trump just announces the EU deal. Matt Bowles on here saying, hey, right now he's got 60% of the world's economy under some sort of new and some of it's just heads of terms or terms agreed, but they're hammering out the details. The two big pieces I think we got to go are China and India. But you're saying, hey, we got a big problem here. Deals with artificial intelligence, the future of really the drivers of the world economy. Walk us through both the article in this letter and what your concerns are and the concerns of people you've brought into this debate. Sir.
Oren Cass
Yeah, thanks for having me on to talk about this. I think it's a super important issue. I want to credit Americans for Responsible Innovation did a lot of the work on this, bringing the letter together. We were very proud to partner with them from American Compass, and they got a lot of leading national security guys and gals, folks, folks from the first Trump administration in a lot of cases, to call attention to this, this really important problem we're having with China in particular. I think you just described things well. Trump administration is making just huge progress on these trade deals with countries that should be our allies with countries we do want to be trading with. The question is what to do about China. And I think, you know, the end game here is we don't need to deal with China. China. China is our adversary. China, China is not a country we want to be, you know, trading with and trying to support. But what the Trump administration has done very recently is attempt to essentially give the green light to selling very advanced AI chips to China there. It's interesting question why they're doing this. I think it's because there are a lot of folks in the administration who do want to get a deal with China. But as we lay out in this letter, it's. It's a huge mistake. It is, it is a mistake to think that we can make a deal with China. It is a mistake to think, hey, if we get our chips into China will, you know, then. Then that's great, they'll start using our technology. That is, that is the game China has played with America over and over again, and we always lose. And the other reality is there's just, there's a shortage of AI chips. Every AI chip we sell to China is one less AI chip that we have here in America. So we're going to be simultaneously speeding up China's progress, we're going to be slowing our progress. And frankly, the winner here is Nvidia. You know, Nvidia is a multinational corporation. They, they make great chips, but they've made it very clear that they are much more interested in making profit in China than they are in the American national interest. And so I think there's a perfect example where President Trump, where administration need to stand up and say, no, we aren't going to do this send our technology to China thing anymore. We're going to focus on America.
Steve Bannon
Just for full disclosure, of course, in the war room, myself personally in the war room, and American companies and yourselves and I think some of the other. There's two schools of thought, coupling and decoupling. I would say, charitably, we're in the decoupling school of thought here about the, about the two economies. Is that correct?
Oren Cass
Absolutely. Decoupling is too friendly. I've moved on to hard break, I think is what we need.
Ben Harnwell
So how do you.
Steve Bannon
So people on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, in the White House and maybe even the president states will say, guys, I love that in theory, but it's not practical. These two economies are indestructibly linked with capital technology. And what you guys are calling for is a, is a global depression that takes the economies down by 10 or 20%. And so to be some bridging network, we're not going to let them do all the chips. In fact, there's a huge article, I think, in the Saturday FT before this came out about the black market and even taking Nvidia chips and trying to upscale them. So Oren Cass and Steve Bannon and others are great guys and they're patriots, but they're not practical. You can't have a decoupling much less Orrin Cass's hard Hard break or Bannon's. Let's have Lao Beijing overthrow the ccp. What is your, what is your response to that?
Oren Cass
Well, I think it's entirely practical to, to disentangle our economies. It's certainly practical to do it in these areas where we haven't even sold something before. It's not like we've been selling advanced AI chips to China for the last 30 years. This is something new. And the question is, are we going to allow it or not? And, and the answer should obviously. And a good way to see this is just flip it around. Let's imagine that China had some advanced technology that was giving it a huge leg up. Do we think for a moment that, that companies in China controlled by the CCP would be saying, oh, but please let us sell these chips to the United States so we can make a little bit more profit? Obviously not. That's already not the relationship we have in one direction, because the Chinese get it. The question is, what is the relationship going to be in the other direction? And, and you know, look, it's not going to happen overnight. We've spent a couple of decades now making the wrong choice, getting our, our economies entangled for goodness, always giving them.
Steve Bannon
Tech, always giving them technology, or letting them steal it. Let me go, Let me take this. This. This also cuts to the heart of a bigger debate, and that is this whole debate about we're now in an arms race that, that I can't have any regulation. It can't. The four Frontier Labs, and, you know, people like Elon Musk and the guys at OpenAI, these people can't have any controls on them because we're in an arms race for the most important technology mankind's ever seen. And it's a national security issue. My point is if we didn't sell them the technology or let them know the processes or techniques or give them the capital, there wouldn't be a race. Am I wrong in that? And is this issue right here about these Nvidia chips, which, by the way, has a market cap of $4 trillion and a guy that runs it, and I understand President Trump's quite enamored with him, but he has a history of having a relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. If we took your direction, Oren, we wouldn't have. There would be no race for artificial intelligence, would there?
Oren Cass
Well, I think in the long run, there will be a race. But to your point, we are ahead on these critical technologies. And if we commit to staying ahead, if we commit to keeping these advanced chips for our, that's, that's a huge step along the way to say we have to win the race. And also, we're selling a bunch of these advanced chips to China, it doesn't make any sense. And by the way, if you're concerned about AI safety, if you're thinking, gosh, let's think about the ways that I, you know, could be misused. I mean, guess who's not worried about that? Guess who's not going to put on those controls? The Chinese. So it makes no sense from that angle either to be saying, well, let's, you know, let's get these chips in there again, unless your top priority is the profit of a couple of these companies. And like you said, you know, Jensen Huang, who's, who's the head of Nvidia, he has not been a good actor in this. He has. He has been, frankly, not telling the truth. He's been claiming his chips aren't getting into China when he knows they are. He just went and opened a research center in China. This is the Mistake we've been playing over and over again. And this is where President Trump needs to be changing the game. The idea that, well, we got to back off because this is what the corporations want. That was never the right strategy. And if there's ever going to be an administration that's going to fix this, it really has to be this one.
Steve Bannon
Talk to me about the letter. The letter is a joint effort with you and another organization. You got some pretty important signatures. What do you have? What is it? What's the heart of what the letter says to President Trump and what do you hope to accomplish?
Oren Cass
Well, the heart of the letter is to emphasize that this is fundamentally a national security issue, that, you know, there are plenty of different views on trade policy and what deals we should make, where. But this is, this is about more than trade. This is a fundamental question of national security, and it is, it is doing two things at once. If we license these chips, it's not just a question of whether we want China to have the chips or not, and obviously we should not want that. It's also a question of whether we're going to have enough chips for us. And so it's this double effect, both speeding China up and slowing us down. And the last point I think that makes it, that's really important is, you know, we actually did restrict these chips just a few months ago, and now it looks like, you know, Secretary Lutnick and the Commerce Department has said, no, we're changing our mind. And that kind of changing our mind going back and forth, it makes it very hard to enforce any export controls. If people think, well, maybe they're not serious, you know, maybe we shake some hands, maybe we say some nice things, and it'll all change again. It's really important to be consistent if we are going to be credible in ourselves and in asking our partners in other countries to all hold hands and stop selling this stuff to the Chinese. So having a broad set of really senior national security folks, a lot of folks who have worked in the Trump administration the first time around, this is not an anti Trump letter. These are people who very much believe in and support what the Trump administration is trying to do. And the right way to do that is not to keep, is not to sell these chips. It's to do what we have been doing and say, no, we, we need to prevent their sale to China.
Steve Bannon
Real quick. Only got a minute. If we abide by your letter. The president took it under advisement and said, yeah, we're going to do this. I'm going to go along with or and the guys would that could that be possibly the same equivalent of in the summer of 1941, curtailing oil shipments to, to Japan that expedited Pearl Harbor?
Oren Cass
Sir, I don't think so. I think decoupling is really the way to, to step things down with China here. If you look when, when we had world wars break out, it was within between countries that were doing an enormous amount of trade. When did we actually have a staples situation? It was between the US and the Soviet Union when we said we have two different systems, we're going to stay apart from each other, we're going to respect each other's spheres. And I think that is a best, much better model for us to be heading toward.
Steve Bannon
Orin, hang on for one second. I hold you through the break just for a couple of minutes. Brian Harrison from Austin, Texas about this debacle in Texas. Ben Harnwell still from Rome. We get it all done in the war room. On a Monday morning in July.
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Steve Bannon
Or real quickly, do you think also that this situation that we're going to try have to bleed some of these chips out is because the CCP has us over the barrel on the processing of rare earths. We've started a plant but it's going to be a couple of years to get up and running. So the magnets, the ball bearings, is that the underlying tension in this deal that we got to give them some chips? Are they going to cut us off from rare earths? And they cut us off from rare earths, the process ones like the magnets, production lines and automotive and other will be shutting down in a couple weeks, sir.
Oren Cass
I definitely think that could be part of it. I think the reality is we have other options if, if we need those rare earths sooner and if it is that critical, we, we should be doing a lot more than seeing what we can bring online in a couple of years. But ultimately we should be taking this as a lesson. Everybody who said, oh, it doesn't matter if stuff goes to China, if we're dependent on China, to now turn around and say, oh, well, actually we are dependent on China. So now you have to also let us sell our advanced AI chips to China. I'm not persuaded. It sounds like making a bigger mess than before.
Steve Bannon
Oren, American Compass. Where do people go to get your social media, where they go to get the magazine, the website, all this because you guys are at the cutting edge of populist economic and cultural thinking. Sir.
Oren Cass
Well, thank you. We're, I'm at Orencast on X. All of our policy work is American Compass.org our magazine is commonplace.org and our new book covering all of this is the New Conservatives.
Steve Bannon
Oren, thank you so much. Great letter, great article in today's Financial Times and a huge issue. Thank you sir, for being a bold leader with some guts.
Oren Cass
Well, thanks for, thanks for helping us highlight it.
Steve Bannon
Thank you. Very easy to roll over on this. This is everything, quite frankly, these chips. Brian Harrison joins us from Texas. Brian, this, this mess gets worse now. The reditioning is so big. President Trump's getting involved. Desantis steps up and says we're going to do, we're going to do at least five in Florida. Now there's talk over the weekend. I spent a lot of time with people about actually doing a mid decade census to get this mess sorted. But in Texas, this thing is getting.
Ben Harnwell
Are the Democrats running the entire process.
Steve Bannon
Down there, sir, on this redistricting?
Charlie Kirk
It certainly, it certainly looks like that. I mean, I'll tell you the quick update. So the governor called us back for a special session, our special session in Texas last four weeks. So we are over 25% over a quarter of the way through. Completely wasted, by the way. The Texas House has been on the floor I think three or four times for a total of 20 minutes. So I was able to do this from my office today because we gaveled in at 10 o' clock and at 10:04 our Rhino speaker declared, quote, the Speaker's desk is clear. We haven't referred a single bill to any committees. We've had no bills come out of committee to the floor. And on the redistricting front, total train wreck. I mean, once our Democrats elected the Republican nominally Speaker of the Texas House, he rewarded them by rewriting the House rules to give them unprecedented power in the history of the Texas House to effectively control all of our committees, and that includes the redistricting committee. So we've had now, between the House and Senate, four redistricting hearings. Hundreds of witnesses have testified, zero were brought in to support the redistricting. This has been a 4 full on DNC scripted infomercial against the President Trump's request to redistrict down here, against the Texas Legislature taking action that would be beneficial to not just the people of Texas, but the people of America. And it's a complete outrage. We've had, I think, three, four or five members of Congress come down here, of course, in coordination with the dnc, including, you know, people like Jasmine Crockett and Castro and others. These are the people that the Texas Legislature are bringing in to come down and testify. So hundreds of witnesses against full DNC scripting, infomercial against the redistricting effort, zero Republican witnesses testifying that we should do it. And so what we've effectively allowed to have happen here is hours and hours and hours of testimony into the record with the Democrats pretending that this effort would be unconstitutional, illegal, that would be explicitly racist, all completely proportional, preposterous in their efforts, coordinated the highest levels of the DNC to undermine the redistricting effort. And they've already succeeded in burning over a quarter of our special session.
Steve Bannon
So, like, who's in charge? Is Lieutenant Governor Patrick going to get involved? Is Abbott, Are they, are they hoping the Senate saves you guys? You've had hundreds of witnesses against and smearing everybody with the worst charges possible with and people like Jasmine Crockett, who's, you know, such a piece of work, right, kind of leading the.
Charlie Kirk
This is the woman who. This is the one who tried to take away President Trump's Secret Service protection a week before he was shot. These are the people we're highlighting down here.
Ben Harnwell
So.
Steve Bannon
But is somebody. When is the adult supervision going to start? I mean, you've only got three weeks left. How are we going to turn this thing around? This is a huge priority for everyone in the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And it's particularly high priority for a guy named Donald J. Trump. So when is this going to start getting turned around and how is it going to get turned around?
Charlie Kirk
Well, I hope it, I mean, it should have already been turned around. I mean, there should have been a clear message that we're not going to tolerate the nonsense. But the problem is, for close to two decades, Democrats, even though they get routed at the ballot box by the voters of Texas who reelected President Donald J. Trump in a 14 point landslide, there's almost two decades of precedence for turning around and giving the Democrats the power to control the legislative branch that they did not earn at the ballot box. And we saw this just four years ago in 2021 when the Democrats broke quorum and ran off to Washington to hang out with Nancy Pelosi to keep the state of Texas from passing election integrity bills. And we're already seeing this. I think 15 Democrats fled the state. Many went to California. They were meeting with Gavin Newsom, holding press conferences with Gavin Newsom over the weekend. Democrats in Texas, by the way, 11 of the 15 of these radical leftist Democrats are part of the coalition that elected our supposedly Republican speaker. And they do it with complete impunity because they know that for years and years and years, they have been allowed to thwart President Trump, Texas conservatives and Republican priorities without any fear of retribution. So I'm sorry, if the state of Texas had the type of bold conservative leadership that people and voters demand that they deserve, they would never try such things because they know they wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. No, there should be swift consequences for any Democrats thwarting this process, but not only are there not consequences for that, they're basically being given the reins that we're turning the Texas Capitol Channel into the DNC network programming. You know, almost wall to wall every minute of these hearings. And I hate to say this, that goes for both chambers. The Texas House nor the Texas Senate has brought in one single Republican to testify on the reasons that the state of Texas should undergo this redistricting initiative. Something that I think we, we should do, something President Trump thinks we should do and something that I believe millions and millions and millions of the voters of Texas believe and know that we should do.
Steve Bannon
Brian, where can people go on your social media to keep up with this? We're going to have you back on tomorrow. But this is something that I can tell you from the absolute Top people want to be on top of. So where do, where do people go to keep in touch with you?
Brian Harrison
Yeah.
Charlie Kirk
If you want to see the only I hate to say it, but it's the only medium providing other than shows like you, the real truth coming out of the swamp here in Austin. It's my social media. At Briane Harrison on X. Brian E. Harrison on X. Please go like follow Share amplify Because the Austin, the Texas and of course the national media are not telling the truth of what's going on down here. They're kind of sweeping this under the rug because everybody just assumes that Republicans control Texas. But what they don't know is that it's just people with the word Republican by their name that are in control. But they've handed the keys to the castle to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and the party of Barack Obama. I mean, for crying out loud, Barack Obama's former White House lawyer is our House parliamentarian making sure that conservative legislation dies here in the Texas legislature. So at Brian E. Harrison on X and I appreciate everything you, Steve and the posse are doing to keep the people not just of Texas, but America updated on what's going on down here.
Steve Bannon
You know, Brian, if it was Biden, Kamala Harris and Pelosi, as bad as that would be, it wouldn't be as bad as who they they've really turned it over to Crockett and Castro and they've turned it over to the Mondami, the Mondami element of New York. Right. Really, the Working People's Party, the dsa, et cetera. This is as radical as you can get and it's running the tables down in Austin, Texas, sir. So thank you.
Charlie Kirk
No, why do we have socialist Marxists being given airtime courtesy of the Republican controlled government of Texas? It's lunacy.
Steve Bannon
Lunacy. Thank you, sir.
Oren Cass
Great to be with you.
Steve Bannon
This Texas thing is out of control, folks. We're going to spend some time this week on getting to the bottom of it. More on reporting on that. We'll report out on that in the next couple of days. Ben Harnwell back to Ukraine because we quite quickly could slide into a bigger shooting war over there, sir.
Brian Harrison
Well, look, I think about six weeks ago when Ukraine launched its drone attack on Russia's air force, part of its, its nuclear triad, it did so largely from drones which had been smuggled from Ukraine into Russia. What happened over the last 24 hours is different. It was an attack deep inside Russia, but from long range drones launched from Ukraine itself. Now this is an attack on Stavropol, which is about 335 miles from the border, from the Ukraine, Russia border, deep into Russia long range drones. So obviously the first thing I did when I read about this was I just wanted to check what the distance was between the border and Moscow itself. And the distance there is again in miles, 280 miles, well within the range. Then that being the case, the inquiring minds would ask if Ukraine already has the capacity to strike with long range drones deep inside Russia, why does it need American produced long range missiles? And I don't mean to be cynical, but I would suggest that the answer is because Ukraine's only possibility of winning this war is by dragging the United States in to the inter kinetic engagement against Russia, something we've warned about for three years. And my query, my hesitation is that being the case, why are again to ask a question that the whole war room posse will know the answer before I've even finished the question. Why are elements inside the United States actively trying to pressure the administration successfully into providing these long range missiles to Ukraine? People like Lindsey Graham, right? It is, this is the reason. It is because there is an attempt, no strategic necessity whatsoever from the Ukrainian point of view, but there is an attempt to get America into this war. And that, Steve, is the backdrop between what we were saying earlier on the show, why everyone should be very concerned that President Trump has brought forward his deadline, his 50 day deadline to 10 to 12 days. I guess that was going to be made more precise.
Steve Bannon
Okay, we got, we got a minute left for you. We got a minute left for you. How do you, how do you think this thing plays out over the next 10 to 12 days? Because this is an audible that's going to have some ramifications, sir.
Brian Harrison
Steve, I can only guess President Trump is doing this because he has intel that it's not publicly available that suggests that Russia is going to, to climb down in a humiliating fashion. I don't see any, any evidence of that. But you know, he had 50 days to play with, you know, that was a bit ambiguous. He could have just kicked it, you know, he had just kicked it in somewhat into the long grass. The fact that he's actively bringing this forward seems to me that he's playing a game of chicken with Russia that he thinks he can win. But as I say, he must be acting on intel that he has and that I don't to have that conclusion because that's not what I'm reading on my analysis of the facts.
Steve Bannon
No. What the deal with the EU is a big blow to their own energy. But I got to tell you, the secondary, maybe he's ready to put secondary sanctions on China. I mean you're negotiating in right now in Sweden with China and you may put secondary sanctions on them, which is about the oil that Russia sells to him. Right now all I know is I think Russia's got a 600,000 man army that's ready to roll for the summer. And I think their target may be Odessa. Ben Harnwell, where do people keep up with you sir, and your social media?
Brian Harrison
Thanks Steve On Getter. Simply typing my surname Arnwell where as always I have some pretty provocative posts at the top of my feed waiting your attention. Thanks Steve. God bless Catch tomorrow putting your, putting.
Steve Bannon
Your cynical bd Ben Harnwell. Thank you brother. Appreciate you. Wow, what a day. Boyle from Scotland. President Trump's there two hours taking questions from the media. Who can do that? Nobody.
Charlie Kirk
Only Trump.
Steve Bannon
Short break.
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Ben Harnwell
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Steve Bannon
A couple things. Number one, and when the Senate leaves, I think they're going to leave here momentarily, I believe Senator Leese tells us we have 135 to 150 appointments ready to go for Confirmations right now, I think Thune and Johnson are working it out that they do this novelty act where they keep in session by having somebody walk up and do it for like 30 seconds a day. Bottom line, they wouldn't actually go into recess. So President Trump wouldn't get his recess appointments. President, they're getting all this done and he's got very few people confirmed yet. Of that 1,000 confirmations means U.S. attorneys, the judges are getting done. Emil Bovey should be done Tuesday or Wednesday. Judge Jeanine is getting done. But the Democrats, and this is a Democrat, this is what Democrats are doing. They're essentially filibustering every, every one of his nominations. You got all these second and third level people under the cabinet heads and at these agencies and these are the folks who get the work done. Not that the head guys don't head men and women don't do work they do. But a lot of theirs is in meetings in the White House Cabinet meetings, coordinating and also media and explaining what the President and his administration is trying to do. This is just not. This is much worse now than the first term, particularly the confirmation. It's got to end. So either do what Mike Lee does and you stick around and get them done and grind through it, or you just do recess appointments. Number one also just looking down range, we're about to start. We're at the end of July in 60 days. The appropriations bills are not going to get done. The House is gone. They're not coming back. They only got a couple of days. When they come back, same with the Senate. I can tag and see where the Senate, I can tell you right now because they're using this word bipartisan appropriations. We don't want bipartisan appropriations. That's not what's set up did. When you win an election, we don't want bipartisan, we want quite partisan appropriations. We want to cut spending dramatically and re align others so it's going in the right place. The Senate, I can tell you right now is working on a omnibus bill. What they're going to try to do is jam you. President Trump doesn't want his administration shut down. Obviously you have to have something done on the 30th best case. Now you're going to get a 90 day CR. That's the best case. But I can tell you the Senate's going to come with an omnibus, a nasty old omnibus.
Ben Harnwell
The rescissions, the pocket rescissions and the.
Steve Bannon
Impoundments can go both for 2025, which ends on September 30th and for 2026 if the appropriators don't get it done. And now more than ever, we need Rusvot and the guys over at OMB to come forward. Let's see the pocket rescissions. Hundreds of billions of dollars and have them squeal and let's go to the courts. Otherwise, I'm telling you, on September 30th, you're going to have a deficit that's going to be, I don't know, over $2 trillion. And you're going to get hammered for that. With a 26 deficit that's going to be $2 trillion. The way to stop that. And Ron Johnson, everybody's talked about it. The deal was, hey, we'd come in with rescission. The 9.4 billion, which was symbolic, drew so much blood, the people. Well, I don't want to go through that again. Well, then, hey, you don't have to go through it again. Pocket rescissions. Do that.
Ben Harnwell
Or just impound the fricking money.
Steve Bannon
Let's look.
Ben Harnwell
We're winning now.
Steve Bannon
We're winning much more than we're losing. As you go up the food chain in the courts. Let's roll. The Impoundment control act of what, 73, when Nixon had his back against the wall is totally unconstitutional. Let's go. Let's hit it. That's as bad as the 14th amendment situation. So let's just hit it. Let's go. We got War Powers Act. You got that, you got a couple, three. Just let's go challenge them. Otherwise, I'm telling you right now, you see what the deficits are the way to get the capital markets even more responsive. They're liking what they see so far, but you got to have some, some cuts. So much going on in this Texas situation. I'm gonna spend the rest of the afternoon on this. We back for the evening show. Erik Prince is going to join us. The national security situation. There are some dark clouds forming on the horizon both in Gaza and Ukraine, as we've warned you, and South China Sea and also places around Venezuela, the Caribbean. There's a lot of. Lot of dark clouds forming and Erik Prince is going to help us make it all understandable. So you are empowered and understand what's happening in this kind of the geopolitics of it all. Also, Eric's got a lot to say about the Tulsi Gabbard situation. We got to get on with it. Let's stick the landing. How about a couple of perp walks in the next couple weeks? I think people feel a lot better if they saw somebody cuffed and you know, a grand jury, a grand jury indictment. So a lot on that. Charlie Kirk's going to follow us. Poso after that. Posobec after that. Steve Gruber, Eric Bolling. I'm going to try to do if I get the show done early enough, I'm going to do a hard handover from bowling. I love doing that. If we don't do it, it's all because we're trying to put the show together because of breaking news. Mike Lindell on a Monday morning in July. Start the week off. Give me a great deal to start the week. Give me an exclusive. Great deal to start the week off, brother.
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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4664
Title: Trump Throws Down On Putin; Trump Opens Trade Deal With China
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)
Release Date: July 28, 2025
In Episode 4664 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into significant geopolitical and economic developments shaping the global landscape. The episode primarily focuses on President Donald Trump's assertive stance against Vladimir Putin, the initiation of a major trade deal with China, the implications of the BRICS summit, the escalating conflict in Ukraine, and the contentious redistricting battle in Texas. Insights from experts like Oren Cass, Ben Harnwell, and Brian Harrison provide a comprehensive analysis of these critical issues.
Bannon opens the discussion by highlighting President Trump's recent activities in Europe, particularly his engagement in Scotland. He anticipates an announcement regarding the reopening of the Turnberry Golf Resort for the Open Championship, reflecting Trump's passion for the sport and his strategic interests in the region.
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Steve Bannon [00:50]: "President Trump is making far greater progress than anybody ever thought in reorganizing the world's commercial relationships, particularly with the United States."
Bannon commends Trump's negotiation skills, emphasizing the significant energy deal with the EU, which is projected to involve nearly $750 billion in energy purchases from the United States. This deal is viewed as a strategic move to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian energy, thereby diminishing Russia's economic leverage.
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the intricate trade negotiations between the United States and China. Oren Cass from Compass raises alarms about the Trump administration's decision to freeze export controls on advanced AI chips destined for China.
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Oren Cass [20:37]: "It's a huge mistake to think that we can make a deal with China by selling them our advanced AI chips. Every AI chip we sell to China is one less that we have here in America."
Cass argues that such exports not only accelerate China's technological advancements but also deplete the U.S.'s own resources, hindering progress in critical AI developments. He highlights the role of companies like Nvidia, which prioritize profits over national security by continuing to engage with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Bannon challenges the practicality of completely decoupling the U.S. and Chinese economies, prompting Cass to advocate for a "hard break" rather than a gradual decoupling, emphasizing national security over economic interdependence.
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Steve Bannon [23:06]: "Tech, always giving them technology, or letting them steal it. We need to stop this."
Ben Harnwell discusses the upcoming BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, where emerging superpowers including China, Russia, India, and Iran aim to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global currency—an initiative termed the "Rio Reset."
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Ben Harnwell [15:00]: "The Rio reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality."
The shift could potentially decrease global demand for the U.S. dollar, leading to its depreciation and impacting American savings. Harnwell advises diversifying investments into gold as a hedge against this economic transition.
The episode delves into the intensifying conflict in Ukraine, with particular focus on recent military actions and the U.S.'s role. Brian Harrison provides a detailed analysis of Ukraine's drone attack deep into Russian territory, questioning the necessity of American-supplied long-range missiles for Ukraine's defense capabilities.
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Brian Harrison [41:57]: "There is an attempt to drag the United States into this war, something we've warned about for three years."
Harrison expresses concern over President Trump's ultimatum to Putin, reducing the deadline from 50 days to 10-12 days, suggesting it may escalate tensions further. He underscores the risk of the U.S. being more personally invested in the conflict than ever before.
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Steve Bannon [30:55]: "If you're dependent on China for rare earths, you have to think twice before selling them advanced AI chips."
Shifting focus to domestic politics, the episode examines the chaotic redistricting efforts in Texas. Brian Harrison, broadcasting from Austin, describes a legislative impasse fueled by Democratic control within the Texas House. Despite Texas being a Republican stronghold, Democrats have manipulated procedures to obstruct redistricting, leading to a legislative standstill.
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Charlie Kirk [32:11]: "The Texas House has been on the floor three or four times for a total of 20 minutes. It's a complete train wreck."
Kirk criticizes the influx of Democratic witnesses and orchestrated hearings aimed at undermining redistricting initiatives, portraying it as a concerted effort by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to sabotage Republican-led reforms.
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Brian Harrison [37:26]: "The Texas and national media are not telling the truth of what's going on down here. They're sweeping this under the rug."
Oren Cass returns to discuss broader national security concerns, particularly focusing on the technological arms race and the implications of unregulated advancements in artificial intelligence.
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Oren Cass [24:11]: "If we commit to staying ahead, if we commit to keeping these advanced chips for ourselves, that's a huge step toward winning the race."
Cass emphasizes the necessity of maintaining technological supremacy to safeguard national interests, arguing against the sale of critical AI components to adversarial nations.
As the episode concludes, Bannon previews upcoming segments featuring Erik Prince to discuss national security threats in regions like Gaza, the South China Sea, and Venezuela. He also hints at discussions around political scandals, including potential indictments, to keep the audience informed on the latest developments.
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Steve Bannon [54:26]: "We will see this afternoon. More on reporting on that. We'll report out on that in the next couple of days."
Steve Bannon [00:50]: "President Trump is making far greater progress than anybody ever thought in reorganizing the world's commercial relationships, particularly with the United States."
Oren Cass [20:37]: "It's a huge mistake to think that we can make a deal with China by selling them our advanced AI chips. Every AI chip we sell to China is one less that we have here in America."
Ben Harnwell [15:00]: "The Rio reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality."
Brian Harrison [41:57]: "There is an attempt to drag the United States into this war, something we've warned about for three years."
Charlie Kirk [32:11]: "The Texas House has been on the floor three or four times for a total of 20 minutes. It's a complete train wreck."
Brian Harrison [37:26]: "The Texas and national media are not telling the truth of what's going on down here. They're sweeping this under the rug."
Episode 4664 of Bannon’s War Room offers a deep dive into pivotal issues affecting both the United States and the global community. Through expert analyses and passionate discussions, the episode underscores the complexities of international trade negotiations, the significance of technological advancements in national security, and the turbulent state of domestic politics in Texas. Listeners gain valuable insights into the strategies and challenges faced by President Trump’s administration as it navigates these multifaceted landscapes.