Steve Bannon (33:59)
Okay, right there. The Pomp and Circumstance day, the military review. Fife and drums, all of it. My, my concern is a little bit like I think was in 1997 when Hong Kong, when Hong Kong was turned back over to, to the Chinese Communist Party they had a, you know, they had a hundred year lease on Kowloon or the New Territories but the Chinese were going to cut them off from water. So Thatcher Thatcher made a deal and eventually led to the turnover of Hong Kong. And as we've seen the Chinese Communist Party has not lived up to any their, any of their commitments. I was watching when the, because I had pulled into Hong Kong many times as a, on a Destroyer in the 7th Fleet. Hong Kong was one of our stops and it couldn't, Right there on the waterfront was the, was the head, there was a tower, there was the head of the Asian Command of the, of the British really the British Empire, Singapore, Hong Kong, all of it kind of was, was headquartered there. This was in the 1970s, late 70s when I was over there. So this was 1997. I'd gone to Hong Kong. So Many times on business, both at Goldman Sachs and then went have my own firm. Used to go over all the time. Absolutely loved Hong Kong. My favorite, my favorite city in the world. Just, it's spectacular. Great people energy, just incredible. And they played and that night, of course, it was kind of in a monsoon because the thing happened in June. They had the. They trooped the guard and they our troop to colors. They had all this pageantry of really the Asian. The British leaving Asia. Essentially, when they marched off the parade ground, it took so long that it got to be night there in kind of a driving rain. And King Charles was Prince Charles. Then of course, his mother never turned it over while she was alive. Just a footnote. And I was sitting there thinking, you know, this pageantry is amazing, but the Chinese Communist Party really doesn't care about that. This is from a bygone era and it's absolutely fantastic and great, but these folks gave up. They built everything in Hong Kong and they had really such a empire in Asia. And it's all gone from World War II to the 1990s, it's just all gone. And what you had is the form of. Of empire and the form of control, but you didn't actually have the power yourself. That's kind of struck me today. And here's the reason is that we're in a fight for Christendom. We're in a fight. We're an inflection point. Even Obama said it today. Earlier, Mark Mitchell was on the show, talked about the Fourth Turning, something I've advocated ever since in. Was it 2009? I made a film called Generation Zero, which has been pretty prophetic about the financial collapse and what was all to come forward. And as I said at the time, you know, the financial collapse will lead to a populist uprising. A populist figure will come. That figure was a couple of years later was Donald Trump really started getting serious about it. And he talked about it with us, a couple of Dave Bossie and a couple others in 2010 and August of 2010. But it was really a couple of years later he started getting serious about it. Because every financial collapse like that, you naturally have a populist reaction is just. Is the populist reaction going to be to the left or to the right? But what's happened with the Charlie Kirk and I think this is Charlie Kirk, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So brutal, in cold blood. And now you see these, let's be honest, just freaks and perverts that are coming up in these chats. And what's happening. Happening with, you know, his roommate. And I'll be honest, you have to. We've got to get to the bottom of it. We cannot have a grassy knoll 2.0. There's all kind of, you know, theories running around, etc. And we are people who want to believe, who want to believe. But I don't think there's anybody in this audience that sees that text message last night. It's just no way. A young kid, because, you know, we're produced here. We've got, you know, Grace and Mo and Natalie and all these real superstars, but the internal actual putting the show together every day and running. The show is principally young men in their 20s. And I tell folks, if you can get a text message reply from those guys, that's anything more than a. Ugh, Right? This is not the most articulate generation when it comes to, basically, communications, particularly when you're communicating online. There's no way that is like. It's like the King James Bible version. It's impossible that a guy that was under that pressure and remember knowing what he had just done, he's more worried about his grandfather being concerned about losing the gun. Are you kidding me? Dude? You just murdered one of the most prominent people in the world in cold blood in front of the whole world? Right? Are you kidding me? It's just. It's strange. Quadruple. So much of it, the whole thing, it just. It seems like a very bad script, and we have to get to the bottom of it. We owe it to Charlie Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, Charlie Kirk's children, and even broader, because Charlie lived a bigger life. We'd have to do it for the country. Charlie gave his life in defense of his country. He is a casualty in this war. He's a combat casualty. The media went crazy the first day when I said that the afternoon we flew out to Utah that night, and what we found in Utah was shocking. One of the reasons I don't think we're getting full information, I think Cox and these progressive Mormons, right? I know it's a big battle behind the scenes with the Mormon Church and what's happened, and people like Cox, they're trying to suppress information to see that, hey, this part of this murderous militia are made up of young Mormons that are furries or, you know, transgender are part of this LGBTQ radical militia. Right? You need all that now. People coming out online and saying, hey, there's been. The NSA knows there are like, 20 international intelligence operations, cell phone data. This is My point, we need to, we need to flood the zone with real information that people stand in the back of. And I appreciate the fact that Cash has taken charge of this. They're saying that Dan Bongino is going to leave in a couple weeks. I would plead with Dan Bongino not to do that. Number one, Dan Bonjr is such a great guy. But not to do that because we need Dan Bongeno there because I think Dan Bonjour is somebody the audience in the MAGA movement trust to get to the bottom of it. And we have to get to the bottom of it because more information is coming out today and, you know, we just cannot have. I'm not saying somebody else had a shot. I'm not saying that there was another angle to a shot. I'm not saying somebody behind him shot it. I'm not saying any of that. What I'm saying is that it's strange credulity given the videos that we've seen, the timeline that we have, the communication they had, the text messages they had, and the fact that nobody's rounded up, including with. I'm adamant, the parents ought to be rounded up, the gay lover rounded up, everybody in the Discord chat rounded up. Round them up and bring them in. Round them up and bring them in and just let them sit there until you finish a thorough interrogation. And don't let things, you know, don't let things, you know, oh, gosh, we didn't do it in some, you know, things have gotten erased or memories fade because it's not good enough. And I don't think the war room audience is a pretty good indicator of kind of common sense. America, decent America, the backbone of the country. And I can tell from talking to people in the chats, et cetera, I don't think one of you right now believes what we're being spoon fed. And this is why I say that this fight against the deep state. You saw Schiff against Kash Patel. Kash Patel had every right to go back on him. Given the history of SHIFT and given what SHIFT has done to this president and to the MAGA movement and some of that's coming out now with Arctic Frost and other things. There's a lot more to disclose of things that are coming. And Schiff should be. Schiff should right now not even be in the Senate. He should have been turfed out by the governor because he had been indicted and he hasn't. He's allowed to run around the Senate. This is because of a backup of that other Part of this, the investigations and the taking apart of the deep state through legal means. So now we have two things, and one is only going to get solved until you have the apparatus in place, the structure in place to go after it. And when I say go after it, it's not to just go after the furries in the Discord chat. It's not to go after even this young shooter. It's to go for that next layer of who trains these people and then the next layer of who provides these platforms, the companies, the individuals, who finances it, who's their partners in the media, who. Who their partners in politics, and particularly where the money comes from and how much of that money comes from overseas. Charlie Kirk, we talked about this all the time. Charlie Kirk had not a ringside seat. He was in the arena. He had a better feel, I think, than anybody in this country of how the Chinese Communist Party has taken over these universities and spread chaos. They may not be there, you know, selling the Little Red Book and getting everybody to sign on to Chairman Mao out of the gate. They don't need to. They need to sow discord. They need to sow chaos. They need to put doubts in people, everything from their gender to their family's history to the history of this country. If you see, in fact, there was a. I've put up a book on kind of like modern social order. I believe it's chapter eight. I'll put this up. It's up on Getter right now. It talks about Christianity, Christianity, all of Christianity as a. As a vehicle for, like, white supremacist hate. This is what's taught from kindergarten all the way through. And conservatives and Republicans have looked the other way for years because it's too hard, it's too personal. It gets very nasty very quickly. We can't do it. You look at that pomp and splendor, all that at Windsor Castle and the parade grounds and tomorrow, Checkers. Doesn't mean anything if we lose Western civilization. And Western civilization is on the ropes right now. This is an inflection point. The only way it's going to be saved is you. When the American people set their kind of sights on, hey, here's what we have to do and here's how we're going to do it. Then we'll know that we'll begin the journey to save this country. We've come such a long way over the last couple of years. The pandemic, the stolen election, President Trump in exile, all of it. Now, the return to power. And I say with as much as President Trump has done, and I think Rosemary Jinks confirms there's like 1.6 million or almost 2 million foreign nationals, including 1.6 million illegal aliens out of the workforce. Now, whether they've left the country or not, we don't know, but we assume they've left the country. President Trump sealed the border so much that he's done right today. Markets are doing fine because of the rate cut and what he's doing, although everything's not determined by markets. But it's a pretty good indicator of where the smart money thinks things are headed. But we have a fight on our hands. As I told CPI the other night, having the White House and the executive branch, having the House of Representatives, the Senate and basically the Supreme Court, I could argue that as hot as the country is, it's also dark. The forces that hate this country, the forces that hate President Trump, hate the MAGA movement, hate anything decent and good in this country, are not only not giving up, they think they've got a tool now called direct action to actually be victorious. Remember, this is not about unity. I don't care about unity. I care about victory. Short commercial break Back in the warm in just a moment.
