Episode 4816: Purging The Woke Out Of Our Military; CCP Influences Philly

Summary

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Bannon’s War Room, Episode 4816

Title: Purging The Woke Out Of Our Military; CCP Influences Philly
Date: September 30, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Main Guests: Pete Hegseth, Taj Gill, Dr. Bradley Thayer

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Overview

This episode focuses on the sweeping changes being implemented in the U.S. military to purge “woke” and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) initiatives, instead reaffirming merit-based standards and traditional warrior culture. The episode also addresses concerns about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence within the U.S.—specifically in Philadelphia—and calls for confronting both foreign and domestic threats. There is a strong tone of urgency and a sense of returning to what the hosts and guests consider America’s founding military ethos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pete Hegseth’s "Secretary of War" Address (00:00–06:50)

• Critique of DEI and “Woke” Initiatives:
  Pete Hegseth, acting as the new Secretary of War, condemns previous military policies that emphasized diversity, gender inclusion, climate initiatives, and relaxed standards.

  • “They were told they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, ‘our diversity is our strength.’ Of course we know our unity is our strength.” (00:28)
  • Calls for ending all DEI offices, identity months, and policies around gender transition or climate activism.

• Restoring Traditional Standards & Meritocracy:
  Outlines strict new requirements:

  • Twice-yearly PT tests and body composition standards.
  • Daily physical training for all ranks.
  • Elimination of grooming exceptions; no more beards or "individual expression."
  • Return to pre-2015 physical standards for combat arms, with no gender or racial quotas.
  • “If you do not meet the male level physical standards for combat positions…don’t want to shave and look professional—it’s time for a new position or a new profession.” (05:37)

• “Broken Windows” Theory Applied to the Military:
  Asserts that minor lapses in discipline lead to larger failures.

• Firing of Senior Officers:
  Justifies removal of top commanders as essential to changing culture.

  • “It’s nearly impossible to change a culture with the same people who helped create…that culture.” (05:53)

• Emphasis on Warrior Ethos:
  “Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision and ferocity of the War Department…FAFO if necessary, our troops can translate that for you.” (06:45)

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2. War Room Panel Analysis – “A New Military Ethos” (07:40–13:44)

Taj Gill (SEAL, “The Tip of the Spear”)

• Praise for “Rebranding”:
  Calls the move a "purge" of the "woke mind virus."

  • “Everything should be merit-based…doesn’t matter who you are…Just meet the standards.” (09:47)
  • Recalls earlier SEAL Team leadership: “Even if we’re out training till 2, 3 in the morning, you better be in the gym at 3 o’clock.” (10:40)

• Necessity of High Standards:
  “Nobody respects fat leaders in the military.” (09:36)

  • Asserts the military’s sole purpose is to protect America; lowering standards is “not good.”

Bannon’s Commentary

• Institutional Rot:
  Emphasizes the depth and persistence of “woke” initiatives, cautioning that cultural transformation will take time.
  • “This is institutional rot…It’s going to take a while.” (11:32)
• Return to a War-Fighting Mentality:
  Compares the change to historical victories achieved by unconditional surrender.

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3. Strategy for “Victory” and Historical Parallels (16:59–23:29)

Bannon: The Three Phases of Winning Wars

• Take the Moral High Ground:
  “Wars in three phases, basically. Phase one, take the moral high ground. People are going to have to die for your cause…” (21:08)

• Annihilate the Enemy:
  "You leave a smoking hole where your enemy is. Like in Germany, like in Japan, like in the Confederacy…” (21:38)

• Rebuild on Those Ruins
  “And then you fill said hole with your stuff… That’s back to old school.” (22:02)

• Draws direct parallels between these phases and the new military doctrine announced by Hegseth and Trump.

Dr. Bradley Thayer’s Analysis (23:29)

• Unified, Historical Leadership:
  "First, it was one of Trump’s greatest speeches as well as Hegseth and the speeches have to be twinned and…considered really as a unified address.” (23:29)
• Return to “War-Fighting”:
  Calls it the most focused and professional military stance since the Cold War.
• End to Marxist Penetration:
  Connects “woke”/DEI initiatives to “Marxist penetration” started under Obama.
• Message for Multiple Audiences:
  The address is for active military, the American public, and foreign powers—especially adversaries.

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4. Domestic Threats: Antifa & CCP in Philadelphia (35:47–41:00)

Taj Gill on Counterterrorism

• Federal Response to Domestic Unrest:
  Praises deployment of National Guard to Portland, calls for Joint Terrorism Task Force action against Antifa.
  • “They need to go after these guys full stop, get rid of them…They are designated a terrorist group.” (35:54)
• Condemnation of CCP Flag-Raising in Philadelphia:
  “How about the American flag flying over every Capitol in America, every city hall…every school…for every anniversary?” (36:20)

Dr. Thayer on “Red-Green” Alliance

• 100-Year War with Communism:
  "America’s been fighting 100 years war against communism since 1917…We really need that whole-of-society response to recognize the evils of communism." (38:09)
• Political Warfare:
  Links Antifa, the CCP, and alliances with certain U.S. officials/groups as part of organized infiltration.
• Urgent Call to Action:
  “Call for the resurrection and rebirth of the American spirit which is present in both of those speeches is what’s necessary…” (40:19)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Pete Hegseth on Standards (00:28):
  “Generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, our diversity is our strength. Of course we know our unity is our strength.”

• Hegseth on Physical Standards (05:37):
  “If you do not meet the male level physical standards for combat positions…don't want to shave and look professional—it’s time for a new position or a new profession.”

• Taj Gill on Military Purpose (09:57):
  “The military has one job and one job only: to protect America, to protect Americans…You can’t do that being woke and letting people in that are unqualified.”

• Bannon on Institutional Change (11:32):
  “This is institutional rot…It's going to take a while…because it’s systemic now. It’s in the institution.”

• Dr. Thayer on Ending Marxist Penetration (23:29):
  "There has not been resistance to Marxism…which Obama was expert at infiltrating…the military.”

• Taj Gill on CCP Influence (36:20):
  "How about the American flag flying over the Capitol? …We need American flags everywhere for every anniversary.”

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 00:00–06:50: Pete Hegseth’s full address on purging DEI/woke initiatives and restoring meritocracy.
• 07:40–13:44: Analysis by Bannon and Taj Gill on the implications of Hegseth’s announcements for the military.
• 16:59–23:29: Discussion of war-fighting ethos, historical parallels, and Dr. Thayer’s initial analysis.
• 35:47–41:00: Focus on domestic threats: Government reaction to Antifa; controversy over CCP flag in Philadelphia; Dr. Thayer’s summary of the broader ideological struggle.

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Style & Tone

• Direct and combative: The language is blunt, with repeated use of terms like “woke mind virus,” “crap,” “Marxism,” and “purging.”
• Nationalistic: Celebration of American unity, rejection of foreign ideology or multiculturalism in the military.
• Urgent and resolute: Framing the moment as historic and existential—with war metaphors and calls for national mobilization.

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Conclusion

Episode 4816 marks what the War Room panel describes as a watershed in U.S. military and political culture—a deliberate move away from what they call the “woke” era and a return to strict discipline, meritocracy, and warrior values. The rhetoric is combative and unapologetically nationalistic, promising both internal reform and external strength. In parallel, the episode links internal threats (Antifa, “institutional rot”), and external ones (CCP influence), under a single civilizational struggle requiring vigilance and unity.

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Transcript

[Pete Hegseth]

Is. It's not their fault. It's not your fault. As foolish and reckless as the WOKE department was, those officers were following elected political leadership. An entire generation of generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the insane fallacy that, quote, our diversity is our strength. Of course we know our unity is our strength. They had to put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQI statements. They were told females and males are the same thing, or that males who think they're females, totally normal. They were told that we need a green fleet and electric tanks. They were told to kick out Americans who refused an emergency vaccine. They followed civilian policies set by foolish and reckless political leaders. Any place where tried and true physical standards were altered, especially since 2015 when combat arms standards were changed to ensure females could qualify, must be returned to their original standard. Other standards have been manipulated to hit racial quotas as well, which is just as unacceptable. This, too must end. Merit only. The President talks about it all the time. Merit based. But today, at my direction, every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year, every year of service. Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. Should be common sense. I mean, most units do that already, but we're codifying it. And we're not talking like hot yoga and stretching real hard. Pt, either as a unit or as an individual. At every level, from the joint Chiefs to everyone in this room to the youngest private leaders, set the standard. And so many of you do this already. Active guard and reserve. This also means grooming standards. No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards and adhere to standards. Because it's like the broken windows theory of policing. It's like when you let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes. So you have to address the small stuff. This is on duty, in the field and in the rear. If you want a beard, you can join Special Forces. If not, then shave. We don't have a military full of Nordic pagans, but unfortunately, we have had leaders who either refused to call BS and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like they were not allowed to enforce standards. Both are unacceptable. And that's why today, at my direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done. Simply put, if you do not meet the male level physical standards for combat positions cannot Pass a PT test or don't want to shave and look professional. It's time for a new position or a new profession you have seen and the media has obsessed over. I have fired a number of senior officers since taking over the previous chairman, other members of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders and other commanders. The rationale for me has been straightforward. It's nearly impossible to change a culture with the same people who helped create or even benefited from that culture. Even if that culture was created by a previous president and previous Secretary. My approach has been simple. When in doubt, assess the situation, follow your gut, and if it's the best for the military, make a change. We all serve at the pleasure of the President every single day. I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men, or troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons, platform or task, or under a leader who was the first but not the best standards must be uniform, gender neutral and high. For too long we've promoted too many uniform leaders for the wrong reasons. Based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so called firsts. We've pretended that combat arms and non combat arms are the same thing. We've weeded out so called toxic leaders under the guise of double blind psychology assessments promoting risk averse go along to get along conformists. Instead, you name it, the department did it. Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the WOKE department. But not anymore. Right now I'm looking out at a sea of Americans who made a choice when they were young men and young women. To do something most Americans will not. To serve something greater than yourself. To fight for God and country, for freedom and the Constitution. You made a choice to serve when others did not and I commend you. You are truly the best of America. This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division distraction or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before and will say again, we are done with that. Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision and ferocity of the War Department. In other words, to our enemies FAFO if necessary, our troops can translate that for you.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime Pray for our enemies because.

[Caller or Guest Contributor]

We'Re going medieval on these people's 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. And where do people like that go.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

To share the big lie?

[Pete Hegseth]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

[Caller or Guest Contributor]

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

It's Tuesday the 30th of September in the year of our Lord 2025. I want to bring in, we got a gunfighter and we have a. One of the top, I think defense intellectuals. So I got Dr. Bradley Thayer. I got the Tage, Gill Tage as a guy who was the tip of the tip of the spear. And as they said in there, I thought that was appropriate if you want to grow a beard and grow your hair, join Special Force, become a Navy SEAL or join Special Forces. How did you. Now listen, this is historic. They've got every flag officer throughout the world in all the combatant commands, all the, all the headquarters, all the administrative guys, they're all back at Quantico to hear the Secretary of War, Pete Hagseth, followed by the Commander in Chief. So you're sitting there listening. One is an enlisted man and two, if you were a flag officer. What's your assessment of this?

[Taj Gill]

This is awesome. I think this is exactly the kind of leadership that the Department of War, you know, formerly the Department of Defense, needs. It's, it, it's the rebranding of the Department of War. It's. This is awesome. This is incredible. Everything from, you know, f around find out, from our enemies to the PT standards to the, the standards for the war fighters that were changed back in 2015. You know that they actually lowered all the standards to, to let women into the combat units. So there should be one standard. If you can do it, you can do it. Fine. Doesn't matter who you are. It's. Everything should be merit based in the Department of War. Everything merit based across the board. Doesn't matter who you are, you're eligible for everything. You just have to meet the standards. And that, that's, that, that's incredible. And then the. Everybody's got to work out every day. That's, that's huge. That, that's amazing. Nobody, nobody, nobody respects fat leaders in the military. If you're, if you're in the military, you're there for a reason. To fight wars, to kill people, to destroy the enemies and to protect America. So I remember, I remember way back in the day, I checked into SEAL Team 5 in like 1997, and one of our officers from the headquarters, he was in Panama. He got shot up in Panama and Patia airfield. And he was like a pt, you know, a workout machine. This dude was a stud. And he told us, he was like, you guys need to work out every day no matter what. Even if we're out training till 2, 3 in the morning, you know, better be in the gym at 3 o' clock in the morning working out. He's like, never skip your workouts. You know, and there's something he said for that. If you're a war fighter, your job is to fight wars and you're eating donuts and skipping workouts, it doesn't work. So I, I love it. I think, I think what Pete Hegseth is doing is amazing. This, this is just a rebranding and it's purging out all the woke mind virus and the dei. I think it's going to take years to get rid of this stuff. So if, you know this is going to last through Trump's presidency and hopefully the next president will have a department or the. Sorry, the Secretary of War, not Secretary of Defense. A secretary of war like Pete Hegseth and he can carry this torch. And we have to completely purge all this DEI and woke crap out of the military. The military is no place for that. The military has one job and one job only. To protect America, to protect Americans. And that's it. And you can't do that. Being woke and letting people in that are, that are unqualified. Lowering the standards is not good. You need, we need to set the standard high, set the bar high and stick to it no matter what.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

You said you would say all the time. That. And you're 100% correct. This is an institutional rot. Now. This is just not individual. Is not going to just come from changing individuals, although you have to do that. This has been institutionalized. It's going to take a while. I believe one of the reasons that Pete went to the President said, I want to bring everybody. It's unprecedented. We're going to get some grief in the, in the woke media, but we got to do it because I want everybody to hear it. So there's no question about this and we're going to, we're going to go in with a trenching tool and dig it out of the War Department and the individual uniformed services. We're not going to let this sit in your right. It's going to take a while to do it. One of the things you brought up here consistently every time I have you on and we talk about some combat situation, we get you on here for your expertise. You always say that when you were in those great volunteers that went in around 911 and after 911 and fought the 20 year wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that it was pretty evident to you guys on the front lines that we were not there to win, that these wars were not. When do you think that that message is getting through between what Pete Hex has said and then followed by the commander in chief that we're now we're in this to the War Department is to win wars.

[Taj Gill]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it sounds like it. So we'll see when the rubber hits the road. But yes, every, everything is fundamentally changing in the military. It's going back to what it used to be. It's going back to what it should be in you know, it's winning, winning, winning. That's. And Trump says it every day. He says winning, winning, winning. And Pete Hegseth is, he doesn't say winning, winning every day but he's actually doing it. So you know, sometimes action speaks louder than words. So Hegseth is purging all this crap out and Trump is verbalizing it. So we have Trump verbalizing it and then Pete carrying out the orders. He's doing it. Actions speak louder than words and that's what's going on. And yeah, you have to win just like World War II, unconditional surrender. If you're gonna fight a war, win and leave none of this, you know these forever wars, it's hang around forever. It's stupid.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

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Okay, here's how we're going to go about this. I'm going to get Dr. Thayer up here to talk about the military, and then we're going to. Tasia is going to stick around. Thayer's going to stick around. Out there has been critical behind the scenes on this whole terrorism thing. And we got to face some unpleasant facts in this country, and we got to face them now. If we don't want our children to deal with it, we got to face this now. And nothing could be more serious. And unfortunately, there's so much going on, it's kind of spread. But you see the President starting to get very focused on this. And of course, we think it's the elemental thing that has to be dealt with right now. Dr. Thayer, you're an expert in this. It's unprecedented what happened today. I will say this, knowing the president, and I'm just going to make an observation. And this is because I know the show's watched by the White House and the different departments, everything like this. Everybody right now has to pitch in and do superhuman work around President Trump. President Trump yesterday at the Netanyahu event, I thought, looked very tired today. He looked very tired. And why does he look very tired? I don't know. The weight of the world's on his shoulders and he's kind of doing everything. People are pitching, don't get me wrong. But he's ahead of so many of the people working for him. People have got to step up. They got to be forward action, got to be driving. You got to be driving these decisions. Like this whole terrorism thing. Quite frankly, it shouldn't be up to the War Room and others that we're associated with to make this a big deal. And finally, you know, the President gets all the information. As soon as he gets the information, bang, a decision's made. The President looks tired. I think why he's got. Every day is another huge event, another world historical event today. This has never happened in the history of the country when we just had a small Continental army and we didn't have a Navy. You know, we had a couple of freebooters like John Paul Jones, and we had a handful of flag officers. We never called everybody together ever. When the military is the smallest has ever been, it's just not done. It's unprecedented. And you heard from Tage. Exactly. Pete Hexith gave it to him with both barrels. It's a new day. We're War Department. We're we're. We put up $1 trillion a year of which, as you know, we're not happy with the amount of money spent. We think it's way too much. But we're a war department. And that means in Pete's, which we didn't get the clip. It's precision and ferocity, precision and ferocity, and we're fighting the win, and we're not going to go drag these things out. It was historical what happened today. And they're going to get torn apart all day in the media. Just take your number two principle and write that down. They're going to say, this is. Oh, look at it. They're like Patton. They want to be, you know, they want to be in the patent movie with the big flag in the background and dramatic. And Pete read him the riot act. We got to get everybody on board. No more dei, no more crap about climate change. We're here to fight wars and to win wars and to do it with precision and ferocity. That means in and out. And like, like Tay said, to victory. I mean, it's kind of like when you look at the unconditional surrender of the Union with the Confederacy, and then, of course, In World War II, it's three things. Wars in three phases, basically. Phase one, take the moral high ground. People are going to have to die for your cause, so you have to give them something to rally around and make it a purpose to die for the values of the country. As Tate said with the volunteers, after 9, 11, it was, are we winning this thing? Are we just going to sit here and have blue thumbs in Afghanistan and all the nation building and those young men and women you go to section 60? At the time, they knew right away it wasn't to win. It was just kind of kick the can down the road for the globalists and try to have nation building or people that were either not ready for it or not interested in it. And it became us versus them, us versus the people were trying to free. Now Tay says, hey, give a purpose. It's to win and get out. You take the moral high ground. Number two, you leave a smoking hole where your enemy is. Like in Germany, like in Japan, like in the Confederacy, you leave a smoking hole. What did Sherman tell Lincoln a month into the war when he was running the military academy, I think, which became lsu, he says he went up, had a meeting with. Because Burrow is a big time senator. And he told Lincoln, he says, you're going to have to burn every city in the Confederacy to the ground because these People are never going to surrender. They're tough, they're hard headed and they're a little arrogant and it's just not going to happen. Don't think taking out an army doesn't mean anything. And of course the whole war at the beginning was taking out armies until people realize I think we have to go full annihilation because the Confederacy is not going to quit. That's what I'm saying. A smoking hole where your opponent is and then you fill said hole with your stuff. Like in Germany after the war, like in Japan after the war, like in the Confederacy after the war. That's back to old school. And you can see Pete Hegseth today, who's about as old school as you get, gave it to him with both barrels, precision and ferocity. And Taj Gill's 100% right. Just doing this today is a start. But just the reason they're doing this is they're not happy with the progress that they're making. Taking out DEI and all this other crap. It's because it's systemic now. It's in the institution. And you're going to have to take a trenching tool and you're going to have to dig it out. You're not going to be able to send out a memo, you're not going to be able to send out some assertion. You're not going to have a press conference because you know why? It's like so much that's going on right now, I talk about all the time they think Trump's just a passing summer storm. And they think the guys around him, the men and women around him are just passing through. And they got that date, January 20th of 2029. Hey, going to be going to get under new management, either Republican estate, the Youngkin Republican establishment, Romney 2.0, or we're going to get these radicals in the Democratic Party and then Trump and maga, screw them. And so we're not going to actually change the institution. We'll kind of give it some, we'll tap it along and let them think that we're changing or not. And President Trump's smart enough and Pete Hex is damn smart enough because he sees what that building is so impossible to move. Dr. Thayer, your thoughts today, sir?

[Dr. Bradley Thayer]

STEVE My thoughts are these. First, it was one of Trump's greatest speeches as well as Hegseth and the speeches have to be twinned and they have to be considered really as a unified address. It was exactly what was needed. We're seeing Trump in full, really. It's for what Americans voted. And it's American leadership at its best. The messages that he conveyed were strongest. We have the strongest. Military strength leads to peace, peace through strength. But also we need to address domestic issues that for too long have not been addressed and have caused profound problems. That is, there has not been adequate leadership in the military on the civilian side or the senior military side. And it has not been resistance to Marxism. Right, which Obama was expert at infiltrating and forcing in to the military. For the audiences of the speech, the audiences were, of course, the military, active, guard and reserve, but they were also the American people. And thirdly, they were our foreign friends and enemies. And so if we think about it in that respect to the military, it was spot on, both Hegseth and Trump. It's a return to war fighting. It's a return, in essence, to the focus and intensity of that we have not seen in the military since the end of the Cold War, where you had a supremely professional military that was focused on defeating America's adversaries, great power threats like the Soviet Union, the President and Hegseth. Also in the address to the military, Steve, as Tage and you identified ending the Marxist penetration of the military, which, which is that terrible cancer to the American people, but also to the military as well, Trump conveyed the reassertion of American purpose, of American identity and American pride. And that's really, to my mind, this is really so important, framed as the reawakening of the warrior spirit, the conveying that we're not going to be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom. And this was. Trump is calling for the reawakening of the American spirit, which is so overdue and important. Lastly, for foreign friends and enemies. Right. Trump, with respect to our enemies, called out the domestic threat. Right. The enemy from within. And that enemy from within is the Chinese Communist Party, who has been working with Antifa and has been working with organizations in Philadelphia. For example, to have the raising of the flag of the People's Republic of China is an obscenity and that has to be called out. So Trump is.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Doc, hang on for one second because I want to take a break. I want to come back to that. You've worked so hard on this and Tasia is an expert. The enemy within. And just some things that are up in the media today and we've been talking about, but if you combine them all, this is where we got the problem. And I don't like the fact I'm hearing about the, the, the, the planning document the overall planning docket, the Pentagon is downplaying China as our as a global threat, as wants to be a hegemon. They're kind of focusing it just on East Asia and around the South China Sea and Taiwan, which is super important. I mean, we're big believers in hemispheric defense. But the hemispheric defense, the pivot. The pivot is the vast Pacific, which is our strategic pivot in the three island chains. We have to confront the Chinese Communist Party as they go for global domination. And folks, that could start tomorrow with the Chinese Communist Party flag, the red Chinese Communist Party frag raised over city hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Don't think the CCP doesn't know the symbolism of that. Jim Rickards, you want to get capital markets, geopolitics, national security intelligence, go to rickardswarroom.com that's a landing page we set up. You can get access to. Strategic intelligence is where he's got all his predictive analytics. This is why Chairman and CEOs read it every day. Go through. It's a monthly newsletter. It's amazing. Amazing you get access to it. Plus he throws in a free book on artificial intelligence and currency records. War room dot com. Check it out today. Back in a moment.

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

You know all the great work that Patriot Mobile, Glenn Sterling, his team do down in Texas and we're going to get Alex De Grasse, I think, is going to join us tomorrow. The next day. Talk about redistricting around the country. We're still in so many dog fights, but you got the job done down Texas. And Glenn Surrey and the team at Patriot Mobile were instrumental in even getting that rolling. But the key is now to switch. And the reason you want to switch, it's the best mobile service out there because you got access to all the different mobile services. The best way to do it is just call right now 972 Patriot and talk to a United States citizen that's working their call center. A United States citizen in the United States. A call center. Ask them about all the services, all the different types. Put in promo code Bannon. You get a free month when you switch to Patriot Mobile. Do it today. A great supporter of all the conservative causes. I really want to thank them for Charlie Kirk's memorial. I think we're up 10 hours, 11 hours commercial freeze. Because of Patriot Mobile and Birch Gold, Miles Grimmerd. Everybody's bugging me about this. About the what? The test you guys ran to show the difference between biological age and chronological age and how. And how. Field of greens. Taking field of Greens. Helping that. Can you walk us through so we understand exactly what this study was and people can understand it?

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Miles Grimmert]

Thank you so much. Steve.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Great to be back, I might add. You get a great energy boost. Okay, I want to talk terrorism. Taj. Coming today, you got the, the mayor of Philadelphia and some commission they've got have invited the Chinese Communist Party to Philadelphia. To raise the flag of the Chinese Communist Party. That red flag with the stars over the town hall of, over City hall of Philadelphia tomorrow on the birthday of the Chinese Communist Party, which is one October. You've also got Vanity Fair has got a picture of Mandami on the COVID that looks like a movie star. I mean, just the glow and the burst and all this, this looks like a total movie star. You've got so many other things coming up now about Portland and everything. The war inside this country, the war within that Pete Hegset talked about, and the President of the United States, the commander in chief, is the war that must be won right now. Because both politically and where Mondami's money is coming from, nobody knows. No media, New York Times has not done, has not pressed him on it. Nothing's happening. So your sense, President Trump signed a pretty detailed take down the Antifa and any associated parties, including, you know, armed queers of Salt Lake City. Your thoughts, sir?

[Taj Gill]

Yeah. They need to go full throttle. I saw the Pete Henseth, Secretary of War sent in National Guard troops to Portland yesterday. And they need a clean house. And they need to, like I said before, they need to activate the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Portland and they need to actually bring in the local law enforcement and federally deputize them so they can, they can bring them in and give them federal badges. That way they, they're actually working for the feds, not the, the far left mayor and governor and city council that, that basically tie the police's hands behind their backs and don't allow them to go after Antifa. They need to go after these guys full stop, get rid of them. They need to arrest them. They need to make it so Antifa is scared to go on the streets. If they do, they'll get arrested because they are designated a terrorist group. And what you said in Philadelphia about the Chinese flag flying over the Capitol, it's like, no way. How about the American flag flying over the Capitol? How about the American flag flying over every Capitol in America, every city hall in America and every school in America. We need American flags everywhere for every anniversary. For the Chinese anniversary, for the Canadian anniversary, for the French anniversary. Let's fly an American flag every day, everywhere, full stop. And that's it. That's what I think.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hang on, hang on a second. Dr. Thayer, you've been instrumental in pulling all this together, but you see the political aspect because Mondame is the Red Green alliance, as Trevor Loudon and Frank Gaffney have worn for years and been laughed at and mocked. You're seeing it on the COVID of Vanity Fair. It's like they're shooting the Cannes Film Festival, right? They're so ecstatic that Mandami with his, you know, little tiktoks going through the grocery stores and the audacity and you know, they're taking money to raise in the cradle of liberty, as Thomas Jefferson called it, Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty to have the Chinese Communist flag flying, raised and flying over City hall on the anniversary of the formation of the Chinese Communist Party. Your thoughts, sir?

[Dr. Bradley Thayer]

Well, my thoughts are these. First, we've really been locked in America's been fighting 100 years war against communism since 1917. And we've had some success in that and we've had a lot of failures, particularly since the end of the Cold War. It strikes me that Trump's speech and Hegseth's speech are both calling for that recognition that what we need, the government can do certain things and they're doing their most to bring that about. But we really need that whole of society response to recognize the evils of communism, whether that's shown in Portland through Antifa or whether that's shown through the political warfare success that the Chinese Communist Party had in Philadelphia by having this group, the Pennsylvania United Chinese Coalition, sponsor that in conjunction with local Philadelphia officials and Mandami as well, the red green axis that Trevor Loudon, of course, and Frank Gaffney have done just heroic work in advancing time and again. So we're really facing really this hundred years war that we need to bring to a conclusion. Now, President Trump and Hegseth are doing what they can to change the government. But the call for the resurrection and the rebirth of the American spirit which is present in both of those speeches is what's necessary to get the American people to wake up to what's been going on in terms of how the society has been undermined and to bring about the changes that are going to be necessary. So all credit to President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth for bringing that about for the September 25 domestic terrorism and organized political violence memo that he very important development. It would be nice also to see Attorney General Bondi and maybe Secretary of Homeland Security Noem give similar addresses with more of a focus on the domestic penetration that we're finding here. But it all gets back to facing the evils of Marxism, Leninism. Steve, whether that's going to be shown in the CCP's activities or whether that's going to be shown in Antifa and the Donors who make that possible. And Soros, Tides Act Blue and others who are backing Antifa and Mandami as well. The society have to be aware.

[Mike Lindell]

Yeah.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Has to be whole of society. And we got it. We got to engage societal. Jack Kennedy called the long twilight struggle. Dr. Thayer, what's your social media? How people go get your writings.

[Dr. Bradley Thayer]

Brad Thayer at X or Bradley Thayer at Getter and Truth. Steve, thanks very much. It's a great day actually.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Amazing stuff.

[Dr. Bradley Thayer]

Those speeches were awesome.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Fantastic historic day. Taj Gil, thank you for joining us. Now I need more than ever is a refill of my cup of coffee. Where am I gonna go, brother? To get the champagne of coffee?

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

Thank you, brother. Appreciate you appreciate your analysis of Pete Hexis and the Commander in chief's historic talks. As Brad Thayer says, they gotta be taken as a whole. Short commercial break. Back in the warm in just a moment.

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

Okay. Government is going to shut down at midnight tonight in all likelihood. We're going to cover this at extensively at 5 and walk you through what's going to happen. As we said, our colleague Russ Vogt has got a program and it's significant enough that guys inside the government now that want to get out on these terms before being furloughed or laid off or whatever are getting, I think Reuters reporting up to 100,000 resignations today, which is, hey, it's you got to do it, you got to do it right. Gotta get your hands around this thing somehow. Now, it's not just all personnel. It's also programmatic. And that gets back to the Defense Department and other aspects of the corporate welfare state and the welfare state. We'll deal with all that at five o' clock plus much, much more. Alex Brucewicz gonna join us. He was just named, I think, the top 100 young leaders in the country. The great Alex Brucewicz from the Trump campaign and a frequent contributor here to the war. We're gonna have him on, too, to talk about that. Mike Lindell, what do you got for. Chris Ray is now under the gun. He's a guy I know. He's your second favorite FBI director. He of the gun. Tell me about that in Mypillow. The audience today, given that. Given the seriousness of the speeches from Quantico, are looking for a deal, sir.

[Miles Grimmert]

Right.

[Mike Lindell]

Well, Chris Ray, you guys, as you all know, Arctic Frost, FBI was listed on that when they attacked Mypillow. And Mypillow Banks went after him. They took my cell phone. They've attacked individuals, broken their homes and Colorado, all because these people, these were the ones that talked about the. The elections and securing our elections. And then also he lied with January six. He's a. He's right there with Comey is one of the biggest liars this country's ever seen. So anyway, my pillow's still here. And hopefully they're going to do get. Take care of him. What? What? And it'll all come out corruption.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hey, Mike. Hey, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. We gotta. We gotta jump to the Oval Office. The president's addressing the country. We're gonna jump to it. Let's go.

[Donald Trump]

Just 4% of the world's population and consumers only 13% of all prescription drugs. Yet pharmaceutical companies make 75% of their profits from the United States. So think of that. We have 4% of the market, 13% of prescription drugs, and yet. Albert, I didn't know you were that violent. I'm surprised you're agreeing to this.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

I'm getting with them.

[Donald Trump]

No, he's doing the right thing. Thank you. And yet they make 75% of their profits from the American customers. So it's something. That's why I signed an executive order combating this practice. And we signed it very happily a little while ago. Today, Pfizer is committing, as will other drug companies as we go through the weeks. But Pfizer is truly one of the biggest in the world, or one of the greatest in the world. Today, Pfizer is committing to offer all of their prescription medications to Medicaid, and it will be at the most favored nation's prices. It's going to have a huge impact on bringing Medicaid costs down like nothing else. I told you that in my first term. I was so proud of the fact that for the first time in 28 years, drug prices came down. And I had a news conference that I explained it was 1/10 of 1%, but it was down. And here we're talking about in one case over 1000%. This is a critical step forward to our work and to improve healthcare and hardworking low income Americans, especially low income Americans, will be helped so greatly. In addition, Pfizer is agreeing to provide some of their most popular current medications to all consumers at heavily discounted prices of anywhere between 50 and even 100. And that's off. That's off the price and in some cases even more than that. These drugs will be available for direct purchase online at a website operated by the federal government. We're also announcing that moving forward, all new medications introduced by Pfizer to the American market will be sold at the reduced most favored nation cost. So we'll be paying essentially what other countries are paying who have been much lower, much, much lower for many, many years. Furthermore, Pfizer will invest $70 billion to reshore domestic manufacturing facilities. In other words, they're going to bring a lot of their facilities to make their drugs and make what they make their product. They're going to make it in the United States. I appreciate that $70 billion investment in fund research and development right here in America. Okay. We're working with other major pharmaceutical companies to secure similar agreements. Everyone understands that the status quo where Americans pay more for drugs, prescription drugs, and they pay more than foreign countries who take advantage of us in many other ways, although not so many anymore. I think we've, we've pretty well got that stopped, right? I think so. We've stopped that. But they took advantage of a lot of other presidents and I think can tell you, but we're making this pay to be very unacceptable what they've done in the past. That's why my administration has also taken historic action to investigate the unfair and discriminatory trade practices of other countries that extort our pharmaceutical makers to shift costs onto the American consumer. They say no, give us a price, a very low price, and discharge the American consumer charter to the U.S. the United States is done subsidizing the healthcare of the rest of the world. It's a big thing. This is, I can't tell you how big this is. And I was all set to go on at first term, but then you had the COVID and we had to focus on that. But I said I want to get back here so. Because this is, you're talking about 14, 15, 1600% reductions in some cases. But by taking this bold step, we're ending the era of global price gouging at the expense of American Families and we're making America healthy again, which is our little theme for the people behind me. And I want to just ask Secretary Kennedy to come up and we'll start and we'll go through it with Oz and Klopp and Pourla and mccary and we'll go through it and if you have any questions. But this is a really big announcement. This is something that most people said was not doable. And other countries, countries are going along because we told them if you don't go along, you know, they didn't have to go along. But if they didn't go along, we were going to put extra tariffs on those countries and we were going to charge them the amount of money that they should be paying for the reduction in costs. So I think we had a pretty good negotiating position. So, Bobby, I'd like you to speak about this and what a great job and thank you very much.

[Bobby Kennedy]

By thanking a couple of people who aren't up here. Theo Merkel, Dr. Heidi Overton, who played key roles in this negotiation and helped make this happen. And also Inma Hernandez, who's not up here, but John Brooke and Chris Clump, who are people who are negotiating in some cases, I think, including last night, 24 hours without any sleep. This would not have happened without President Trump's leadership. I told my son last night, we're all under secrecy about this, but I told my son late last night, my 27 year old son Connor, who's a very liberal Democrat. I told him this was happening and he just paused for a minute and he said, thank you, dad, I'm so proud of you. Because this is something Democrats have wanted for 20 years, Republicans have wanted for 20 years. Everybody said they're gonna do it. Nobody has even taken a step towards doing it. And the reason was because it was such a daunting task.

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