
Episode 4823: Where To Turn Following ACIP's Vaccine Recommendations; War With The Cartel...
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Steve Bannon
Press Vote and Donald Trump are in the kitchen with the active ingredients in deciding what to slice and dice here. And those two men are here meeting this afternoon to go through potential firings across agencies and potential cuts of projects. He's threatened 16 Democratic states, their green energy projects. He's threatened the tunnel that is being constructed here in New York, Subway transformation Project. There's a lot on the line. And frankly, until the government is reopened, the Office of Personnel Management, they sent out to agencies stating very sensitive, specifically that the OMB director is the one who is empowered to determine which federal workers are accepted and able to work. And right now they are making the case, OMB director, that those who would be processing the firings are crucial workers in workers that should continue to work.
And Russ Vote has been dreaming about.
Megan Messerly
This since puberty, according to Utah Senator. Strange, strange way to put it, but I guess that, that I underscores how.
Steve Bannon
Much he wants to slash the government.
Megan Messerly
Explain exactly what this executive order will do.
Unidentified National Security Analyst
Yeah, Katie, it's got a lot of people freaked out. It's a National Security Presidential memorandum, so it's going by NSPM Dash 7 for short, if you want to Google it. And what it does, it's an attempt by Donald Trump to steer the law enforcement apparatus of the United States in the direction of what he calls domestic terrorism and political violence. Now, it's important to say, Katie, that this doesn't create any new laws or any new surveillance authorities for the FBI. They still have to follow the same rules they did before. But what it says is it's making a priority to investigate groups that Donald Trump says are leading to domestic terrorism. And that has got a lot of people freaked out. And one former DHS official, Miles Taylor, said that he believes that this will allow the Trump administration to more easily put people on terror watch lists who previously were not eligible for terror watch. Listen, you get on a terror watch list, that can be a big problem in a lot of ways. And opening a criminal investigation into someone, even if they're never prosecuted, can be a big problem. Or into groups like the Soros foundation or groups that the Trump administration thinks are supporting left wing organizations that they don't like. And so that's the concern here. It's got law firms paying close attention, it's got NGOs and groups paying close attention, and journalists. How it's actually enforced and what impacts it will have remains to be seen. But it is a major shift by the Trump administration. And it tasks things like the Joint Terrorism Task Forces all around the country. To be looking at these specific targets.
Megan Messerly
What are the categories?
Unidentified National Security Analyst
I don't have it in front of me, but it's essentially, it's designed. It's groups that they believe are fomenting political violence or. Yeah, so sorry, I don't have the list in front of me, but that is the kind of, you know. And Stephen Miller has made a big deal of saying in the wake of some of these incidents that he believes that there is a. There are left wing movements, there are these groups behind some of these people. And of course that has not. There's no evidence to support any kind of organized leftist terrorist structure in the United States. And the FBI still has to follow the same rules when they're opening criminal investigations. But that's what this is all about.
Steve Bannon
You see the polling numbers. It doesn't make sense why they would so openly celebrate mass firings at the same time. People like Russ Vote, I don't know if he's been doing it since puberty, had this vision, but at the same time they've seen Donald Trump as a vessel. This is what their vision, they've always wanted government wants to make the government. This 2025 and 2026 is their moment.
Right?
Forget what happens next November. This is their window of opportunity, the next year, next 13 months to go and reshape the American government. I was told back during the transition, Russ Vote, he wasn't clear whether he was going to be onboarded, but Vikram Swami and Elon Musk were big proponents because they saw him as the portal to being able to actually execute the budgetary means to go and do what they knew that they would not be able to do independently through Doge. They're no longer around. Russ Vote is, and he is the man who is carrying out this vision of the Heritage foundation, the center for Renewing America, all of these different right wing groups, this is their moment.
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Prison's not got a free shot on 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 to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save My country, this country will be saved. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, it's Thursday the 2nd of October in the year of our Lord 2025. Vaughn Hiriad gives a very good, I think summary of what's going on right now. Russ Vote is clearly in the line of Project 2025 and CRA. All the groups that work together for the deconstruction administrative state is I believe over in briefing the president. And I think that we're going to have some clarity, clarity and focus on exactly what they're going to talk about these rifts. And we'll get this to you as soon as we know more. But it's a very big and aggressive plan. Also, just some updates on the this morning about the situation at TSA with Quiet Skies with Dr. Gina Louden that we talked about. Tulsi Gabbard also got wrapped up and I think the TSA official that was in back there got fired. I will double check that. Also, Julie Kelly's been focused the Eastern District of what, Virginia. And with Lisa Monaco is another big breaking story of that. We'll get to all that. We're going to have Russ Ibison, if he can work at the technology, the US Editor of the Daily Mail. Their lead story is about a briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday by senior level Trump officials, including the Department of War, talking about and it sounded like kind of the type of briefing you want to do when you don't want to have the War Powers act enacted on you, but about kinetic conflict with cartels. We're going to get to all that. Russ is going to try to join us. Philip Patrick here. We're pretty jammed. This Megan Messerly from Politico to Come on, Megan. Jessica, you first were hired by Politico as the national health reporter and then you segued over. You covered the White House today, correct?
Megan Messerly
That is correct.
Steve Bannon
Okay. So this is what I want you and you got to make this tried to make this make sense for us. Cause I think we're suffering from whiplash now of what's going on about vaccines, autism. So as you know, the Warren Posse, 3,500 people volunteered to go through the Pfizer papers over the years. Big Maha make America healthy again. Audience very pro. Bobby Kennedy really worked on the Bobby Kennedy confirmation. Then Bobby gets in there. And then a couple weeks ago, four or five weeks ago, we have the announcement that the $500 million in RNA vaccine research is cut off. Then you have the ACIP. I think ACIP happened before that ACIP is they're fired and Dr. Malone is put in charge of it. Then you have, you have the round. You have the roundtable that happened down at CDC talking about, I guess, the child, the damage done by the COVID vaccine. We've had one series of events, and then President Trump, this historic, I guess Tuesday, a week ago now, comes into the Roosevelt Room and actually out Bobby Kennedy's Bobby Kennedy. And we think it's going to be kind of almost a bait and switch, because they're talking about Tylenol and we're talking about the whole autism thing. And he actually says he's staking his presidency with everything he's doing. He's staking his presidency as a success of whether he kind of solves this autism situation. I think everybody's sitting there going, this is incredible. I mean, he goes next level. And then yesterday we have. Which is kind of the Great Satan here for the War Room audience. Pfizer's in the Oval. And the next thing you know, I think we're proving MRNA research and Pfizer's getting, they're cutting some drug prices, but they're, they're honored in the Oval Office as a conquering hero. Can you just make it make sense for us? What, what exactly? Cause it looks like at certain times, Bobby Kennedy and HH is getting tremendous air cover from the White House. And at other times, it looks like we're going back and working with Big Pharma, like there's no harm, no foul. So can you just walk us through what you see covering it day to day is what's going on?
Megan Messerly
Absolutely, no. And I think that's such an interesting dynamic as you broke it down there, because we really have seen the President at times take these maybe seemingly contradictory approaches when it comes to vaccines. Obviously, he was the one who was pushing Operation Warp Speed, you know, developing the, the COVID 19 MRNA vaccines. And yet we saw him in the Oval last week come out very forcefully in a way that, I know surprised me. I think it surprised you. It surprised a lot of folks in the Maha movement who are just not expecting the President to go there. You know, of course, the President sort of has these longstanding, you know, skeptical views of vaccines that he's expressed. Expressed in the past. So it wasn't wholly, I think, unusual to see him come out and say those things in the Oval Office. But to your point of really he out. Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy. Because, you know, you have Bobby Kennedy in there in the Oval saying, you know, hey, you know, we, we think There might be some concerns with Tylenol. You know, pregnant women should not be taken. Taking it because, you know, we have concerns this leads to Autism Spectrum Disorder. And then you have Trump going in there and just saying, you know, I think the shot should broken up. I don't think you should take the Hep b vaccine until 12. I mean, these are not things that even Bobby.
Steve Bannon
No, no, no, no, no. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. No, hang on. He says, and very endearing. He says, you got the little baby sitting there and you have a vat. He called it that. He's a very visceral.
Megan Messerly
Yeah, very visceral imagery. I mean, the President loves an image, right? The image of, like, the baby being pumped up full of vaccines. He also likes talking about the horse shots, Right? It's all this very visceral imagery. And this is something the President has talked about for a long time, right? So. So no surprise in one sense that. That he's talking in these visceral terms. But you have to remember that Bobby Kennedy's own, you know, panel of picked vaccine advisors, like you mentioned with, with Dr. Malone on it, did not even vote to make these recommendations the President was making. So in some ways expected, in some ways out of left field. But I think sort of squares with the President's own belief about vaccines, which is that, you know, he said that he likes vaccines. He has concerns about them being administered all at once, about babies receiving so many shots all at once. So I think, in my mind, I sort of see it as a breakdown between the timing of the shots versus the shots himself. And then also, I think the President's concerned about the freedom of parents to make their own decisions about the timing of those shots.
Steve Bannon
What do you. Where do you think we stand right now, then, with the policy rollout of what we can anticipate? Because the President said, I think, three or four times on that in that meeting. He's essentially staking his presence so personal to him from friends he knows, etc. They staking his presidency on the successful outcome of understanding of autism and vaccines and maybe getting the schedule right, but doing it correctly. That is about as high a stakes as you can get coming from President Trump. So where do you think we stand in this whole thing?
Megan Messerly
Yeah, there's. I mean, I think there's a couple of really interesting sort of touch points that I'm keeping an eye on. You know, right now, where we're at this moment, where we're waiting to see, actually what Bobby Kennedy and what his acting CDC director, Jim o', Neill, what they do with those ACIP recommendations, of course, they don't actually have to follow them. There's not a ton of precedent, though there is precedent for the CDC director to make sort of a different decision than ASIP recommends. So. So now that President Trump has given this air cover, you know, they very well could go in and make recommendations beyond what ASIP said. So that's one big thing we're watching for. And the second is to see what happens with this vaccine injury compensation program, which is going to be a key thing, I think, for a lot of folks in the Maha movement.
Steve Bannon
Is that is the report scheduled to. It hasn't come out. The big autism report was supposed to be the 28th, but I think that's still. That's been delayed, correct?
Megan Messerly
That's correct. Yep. We had this one Tylenol announcement. We expected maybe that we would get more by the end of September, but. But now we're waiting to see more to come out of hhs. We did not get that official report by the end of September. Like. Like had been.
Steve Bannon
Megan, how can people follow your reporting? Where do they go on social media? Where they go over at Politico.
Megan Messerly
Yes, we're@politico.com and you can find me on X. I'm just eganmesserly.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, man. Appreciate you.
Megan Messerly
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
The Daily Mails, the Daily Mail's US Editor a blockbuster story that wasn't really tipped yesterday, but it's the lead story in the Daily Mail. I believe it is as close in a formal process that President Trump and the second president term has come to talk about kinetic war. There was a briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday. I think that was done so they could get around the war power. Any imposition of the War Powers Act. This is what's happening in the Caribbean and maybe potentially in northern Mexico against the drug cartel. With President Trump's administration, his Department of War being very adamant that we're at war with the cartels. And that includes not just economic war, political war, legal, but kinetic. Lighten things up short. Commercial break U.S. editor of the Daily Mail next in the war room. I got American faith in America. This July, there is a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro. The block of emerging superpowers, including China, Russia, India and Persia are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency. They're calling this the Rio reset. As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US dollars will decrease bringing down the value of the dollar and and your savings. While this transition won't not happen overnight, but trust me, it's going to start in Rio. The Rio reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality. Learn if diversifying your savings into gold is right for you. Birch Gold Group can help you move your hard earned savings into a tax sheltered IRA and precious metals. Claim your free info kit on gold by texting my name Bannon. That's B A N N O N to 989-898 with an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers led Birchgold army with a free no obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 9,898. Do it today. That's the Rio reset. Text Bannon at 989-898 and do it today. Kill America's voice Family Are you on Getter yet? No.
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Of the new panel. Okay. The Daily Mail is the largest, I think, paper in the world. It's the most read website. They have a massive US operation, plus UK and the world. It's something we go to a lot because they're very quick at breaking important news and you can kind of tell by the traffic they get on certain stories what drives the news cycle and what doesn't. I'll be honest. Kind of a shocking story today. A scoop had gotten from Ross ibbotson, the editor, U.S. editor of the Daily Mail. This headline is the story that the that the senior executives from the Department of War went to Capitol Hill yesterday with others to brief Congress on what they're calling a beginning of a kinetic war against cartels. And those cartels would be from South America, basically seems like Venezuela all the way up through Mexico. Is that what you're reporting showing?
Ross Ibbotson
Correct, Steve. We're reporting that they've declared war on these drugs, cartels and they are citing international war, calling it a non international armed conflict, which basically says these are non state actors, but we're at war with them because they represent a deadly risk to United States citizens.
Steve Bannon
So this would not be something, I would think, that the Trump administration, given the way they're rolling on their interpretation of Article 2 powers, which we're a huge advocate of, the very aggressive President Trump's approach on Article 2, on his Article 2 powers, particularly as Commander in chief. Was this requested by people on the Hill? Did Pete Hexseth and these guys volunteer? Did Stephen Miller volunteer it? I mean, how did this even come about?
Ross Ibbotson
Well, that's not actually clear yet. The White House hasn't responded to my request to comment on that yet. But it does follow complaints by Democratic and also some Republican lawmakers that these strikes require the ascension of Congress under the War Powers act, although that has been ignored on numerous occasions before, including by Barack Obama in Libya and Bill Clinton and Kosovo. But yes, it does appear that the Trump administration is trying to provide a ironclad legal framework where they can.
Steve Bannon
Push.
Ross Ibbotson
Forward with this military action basically against the cartels from South America.
Steve Bannon
And this, I guess, was driven by the fact that we do have an amphibious readiness group in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, and we have 4,000 fleet marines that are there. Is that what this, is that what drove this? Plus they've taken out, I think, three different vessels now over a period of a couple of weeks. Is that what the primary concern was and why they went in there and want to get ahead of this?
Ross Ibbotson
Yeah, I think so. Because Congress has been raging about the, as you say, the three strikes last month, all of them deadly. One of them was against Trend Ragwa. The other two weren't specified. And in their memo to lawmakers today, it didn't specify any particular terrorist organization. We're asking for clarification on that. And it doesn't name Venezuela either. I suppose that concerned that they would be concerned about naming Venezuela, they obviously don't want to get drawn into a broader conflict here. But as we know, Trendo Aragua is the notorious cartel which took over apartment buildings in the US So certainly seem to be using force on American soil. Although Democratic lawmakers say that the trafficking of drugs doesn't constitute use of force. Force.
Steve Bannon
So they've said, hey, it's Venezuela. But they're not. They're not quote, unquote, going after Venezuela. They're going after a drug cartel that's a non state actor. We're at war with These non state actors, whether it's trend Araga in Venezuela or the Caloa cartel in northern Mexico, but we're going to war and in this case kinetic against these drug cartels. Is that essentially the case that the Trump administration is making?
Ross Ibbotson
Exactly, yeah. They're not singling out any particular cartel, but they're saying that because fentanyl is so deadly, it kills thousands of Americans, that they're justified in their use of basically wartime deadly force against these groups. Now, they said they previously called it self defense, but this memo to Congress appears to go further where they're saying these attacks on the boats are not isolated, but they're consistent with a sustained active conflict. And they say that because these groups are so sophisticated, they're so well armed that they're able to act with impunity without the use of military force. So as we've seen, they've been using drones to carry out these strikes, much to the annoyance of the, the more liberal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Steve Bannon
So Rick Grinnell and Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, have kind of been at this with Grinnell basically positing there's a diplomatic way or negotiated way, particularly around the resources down there and American companies and involvement to get around this. What does your reporting show you that how much of this was driven by Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, who seemed to take a big interest in this and is on Fox all the time? I think kind of teeing up like you teed up the Iraq evasion, teeing up a actual military invasion of Venezuela. How big a part of this briefing was either Marco Rubio or his deputies over at the State Department?
Ross Ibbotson
I'm not sure as to what Rubio's involvement would have been in it, to be honest, Steve, I don't have that.
Steve Bannon
Did, did, what's the, did you get any feedback? The White House has not commented on this. What feedback did you get although and not coming on, they haven't come out and denied it. What, what feedback are you getting from Capitol Hill about the presentation itself?
Ross Ibbotson
Well, the White House has didn't, didn't get back to us, but they have, they have reiterated their positions, I think to the New York Times and they saying that this is it, this is in, in line with the law, but like pretty vague. I, I kind of get the sense that some of them were caught a little bit by surprise today and they weren't exactly abreast of what the Pentagon was doing on Capitol Hill yesterday. But yeah, that remains to be kind of to be worked out still Trying to piece that together. I'm not really sure.
Steve Bannon
Ross, where do people follow you to? We always send people to the Daily Mail every day. But where do people. This story is very big and it's quite controversial. There are. There's not an insignificant amount of the MAGA movement that's saying, hey, hang on, we got to take care of the drug cartels. Maybe fentanyl is coming up more through Mexico and we ought to be taking care of the American cartels and their partners in the Chinese Communist Party than down in Venezuela worried about cocaine in Maduro. But so this is going to be very controversial not just between Democrats and Republicans, are between the House and the White House, but also internally to the MAGA movement. Where do people go? What's your social media? Where do people go to follow this.
Ross Ibbotson
More so obviously dailymail.com but also just by searching my name, Ross Ibbotson, on Twitter and Instagram as well. Thanks very much, Steve, for having me.
Steve Bannon
By the way, Ross, thank you so much. Keep. Daily Mail is a must read every day. This is why I think yesterday was so. It was historic, obviously, in the fact that everybody came together, every flag officer came together, which we've never done since the founding of the Republic. It wasn't. And Pete's talk at the beginning, I think was necessary and had to be done and obviously very serious. Different and particularly as his focus on the was it ferocity and precision the way the American military is going to fight wars and win wars. We're not in this just to play patty cake or play defense or as President Trump said, no games. But I felt that the president's speech and the president covered a number of topics there and obviously his haters were very critical. Although I thought it was historic speech and I thought it was a historic speech because the buried lead had to deal with what happened in Portland last night with the National Guard, what happened in Memphis yesterday with the attorney general, the Secretary of war, and President Trump's chief adviser on domestic policy, Stephen Miller, who's also very involved in national security, because now it comes here and President Trump saying, hey, we got to worry about the evasion here. Enemies within that the military is going to be called out for under emergency measures. Part of that is obviously this war against the cartels, which we've advocated very strongly for from the beginning. In fact, when they sent the troops down to secure the southern border, which they've done so magnificently and needed to be done for years and years and years, we said when remember they had the 10 or 15,000 back in, I think April or May. We felt at the time there'd be a perfect time to put Mexico on notice and go do a kinetic strike with the labs, particularly the fentanyl labs were just sitting there in northern Mexico as easy targets. They did have, they did have, I think it was CNN had a one of the cartel members on for an interview last night and he said, hey, it is so much harder to get drugs here are human trafficking now that President Trump's in charge. I mean, they admitted it's tough. They would seem to be the likely targets, right, because particularly they're actively in business with the Chinese Communist Party on the fentanyl trade. Now in Latin America, you know, Maduro is a bad guy. The people around him are bad guys. But when you have a amphibious readiness group down there, that's a different level. I mean, that is like big time kinetic warfare. You got 4,000 sailors and marines, you got a bunch of fleet Marines, you got people ready to go hit the beach if necessary. And of course, yesterday, and we still don't know Ross's thing, I think you said it was, you can imply that people in Capitol Hill are nervous and President Trump wants to make sure that there's no coming and trying to chop block going to court to stop this. He wants to get ahead of it. And so huge news that they basically said we have declared war on the drug cartels from Latin America looks like all the way up to Mexico. And you heard Pete Hegseth tell him, when we go to war, we go with ferocity and precision to go in and fight it and end it. So people should, I think, stand by for some kinetic activity around the war. And the cartels want to thank Ross Ibitson in the Daily Mail for joining us. Short commercial break Philip Patrick Gold is on fire. The question is, why is it on fire? Next in the War room. Hey, I realize you got many choices when it comes to who you choose for your cell phone service and there are new ones popping up all the time. But here's the truth. 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Just let them know and they'll treat you right because they're good folks, decent folks. 972 patriots make the switch today to Patriot Mobile. So I think I had you on here last time. Philip Patrick gold was at 37. I'm just kidding. What you did though on the Saturday show, I've gotten tons of feedback and I want to go back through that. And here's the reason as we've been covering this with you for four years now. @ the end of the dollar empire and the pressure on the dollar, the budget deficits, all that goal was at 1100 today through 3900. But every day kind of goes up, backs off a little bit, then goes up some more. I tell people it's the process, not the price. You brought up something last week about the central banks particularly given. And folks, this is always driven by war. Given the economic warfare component of the war with Ukraine and Russia, that the $350 billion in assets that that essentially the west is going to steal because France and Germany and England don't and Italy don't have Any money to put up for Ukrainian defense. And Zelensky is talking about 90 to $100 billion arms deals. They're going to take the Russians money that were in these money center banks and it's basically all in euro that the central banks now are saying, well hang on for a second, should I reserve just be euro or dollars or maybe we should add something. And they're adding gold. And this is one of the reasons they're buying at record rates. Besides the bilateral trade deals you talked about on the de dollarization movement, I've got an article if Mo and Grace can get it up. There's a Bloomberg article that mentions the fact I think there's 17,000 is a 7,000 hedge funds in the United States and there are only 14,000 McDonald's. There's more hedge funds than McDonald's. One thing I can tell you, knowing a bunch of hedge fund guys and they never did this in the past part of the money that they, because they draw down, they don't get all the cash from people. They raise a billion dollars, you don't get the billion dollars. You do it on calls on deals. They're putting a bunch of their kind of reserves of what they're sitting on in gold hedge funds. And particularly as they multiply so much, there's only so many investment opportunities. They're buying gold and sitting on that. And of course it's had a historic run. This is another fundamental structural change potentially to the demand side for gold. Philip Patrick, your thoughts?
Philip Patrick
Yeah, I mean there was a lot to unpack there. So first of all, as you rightly point out, what we've been doing, and it was predominantly the previous administration you mentioned weaponizing our dollar against Russia. We have disincentivized the world through policy to hold the dollar through weaponizing it against Russia. If I'm China, that's a concern to me. Right. I want to diversify, but also through devaluation of currency as well. One of the benefits of the US dollar relative to other currencies was stability. It was that along with the petrodollar that cemented our position as global reserve. With huge money printing, massive quantitative easing, that stability argument's gone out the window. And I think the world are waking up and de dollarizing at a rapid pace and it is not slowing down at all. Gold buying set another record for the third quarter of this year by central banks on the back of a six month record in the first six months of this year. As we've said on the show we mentioned on The Saturday show as well. Gold has now become the number two global reserve asset. It's 20% of global reserve currency today. It takes up a larger share than US debt, which we haven't seen in a long time. But as I mentioned, I think this is a trend that's going to continue. I think we're reverting back to where we used to be in the 80s where gold is about 70% of global reserve. Ultimately, I think the trust has been broken and it's just one drama after another after another. Now we have a government shutdown. I mean trust has been broken and the world's waking up.
Steve Bannon
Do you think this, the 80s is when the kickoff for massive globalization? Do you think this is a leading indicator that we're going to live in a post globalization world with supply chains, everything people are going to be as we've been advocating. I mean we're a huge advocator of it. But is this gold now going back and looking like it could be? I mean 20% is, is shocking, I think. But do you think it could get to 30, 40, 50%?
Philip Patrick
I think not only it could, I think it will. The trajectory look at something dramatic is going to happen domestically to make the dollar look attractive again. It's going to take a miracle, right? Right now I just don't see it on the horizon. So where does it end? I don't see China reverting back to trading in US dollars again. I don't see Russia. Sorry. I don't see China increasing dollar reserves. I see them reducing significantly 50% of China's transactions now internationally bypass the dollar. They are in yuan. That was unheard of. So yes, I think this is a trend that's, that's going to continue. And you rightly point out, I think what we've been seeing, this has been happening for a while, but the end of this sort of post World War II era of globalization. And I think when the trust disappears, trust in money disappears. Central banks turn back to gold. And as you rightly point out, we're seeing things that we just would never have predicted a few years ago. Huge institutional demand, not only from central banks, but from investment firms, from PE funds. They weren't looking. They were looking for returns. Three, four, five years ago you didn't consider gold for that. Today you do. So you put it as a structural change and I think it's the best way to put it. A reversion perhaps.
Steve Bannon
What, how do people work now? We've got end of the dollar empire. We're coming up. We got seven free installments. We're doing a physical copy of it. We're going to do hopefully some events this fall. We're coming out with eight and nine. Really off. Eight is going to really be off. Your guys reporting of the real reset in the and the bilateral deals. What do you tell people now when they come and say, hey, I've never done physical gold before. I'm not a gold bug. And I keep saying, Ray Dalia, Steve Bannon and Philip Patrick and I are gold bugs. I was never, I mean, I came out of Harvard to Goldman Sachs. If you talked about gold, they thought you're a wingnut, right? Investment banking in the 80s 90s and the double aughts were all about globalization, all about maximization of shareholder value. And gold was looked at as an archaic relic from a time gone by, Right? From a time gone by. And now it's such a key asset for central banks. And that asset shift, particularly reserves, is not just shocking, it's a wake up call and people ought to focus on that. So what do you tell clients when they come to you today? Because I want to make sure, as many people, we never tell you to buy gold here. Okay? It's not our job to do that. What we try to do is give you access to information so that you can learn yourself what the pattern recognition is. But what are you telling people now when they come to you? How should they think about this?
Philip Patrick
Listen, first of all, the end of the Dollar Empire series I don't think has ever been as pertinent as it is today. So first of all, everybody needs to read that. Then they're going to have an understanding of why we have the bubbles we have, why the debt has exploded, how the Federal Reserve are culpable. That's going to give them understanding of the big problems, debt, deficit, spending, borrowing costs. In understanding that in the context of history, I don't need to tell anyone to buy gold, right? They just need to understand the issues. And I think ultimately they'll lead themselves there. So contact us. It's berksgold.com Bannon get the information. Read it. If you need anything from there, we're here. Call us. You'll have people like myself that are there to guide you through, explain everything. But you have to get reading. It has never been more important than it is today, ever. So birchgold.com forward/bannon and just immerse yourself in the information because if you do and if you can understand it, the solutions will present themselves.
Steve Bannon
You know, we just had Ross Ibbotson, the editor, the US Editor for Daily Mail, and you could tell a pretty button up guy's hair is not on fire. When they're reporting that the Trump administration is on the Hill to kind of make sure they're ahead of any kind of claim of the War Powers Act. But they're saying we are in a kinetic war with the cartels and we're going to ramp it up. That tells you that geopolitically, we live in an age of uncertainty. Now, President Trump's mindset is, I'm going to take care of this now. I'm not going to wait. We're not kicking the can down the road. People have BS'd us enough. The only thing they understand is force, and I'm going to deliver it. But I will tell you, the geopolitical risk, when you look at the risk calculation, increases every day as President Trump tries to change the global commercial relationships. Right. And also geopolitically. Right. These kinetic wars on the Eurasian landmass, now you got them here in the Western Hemisphere, folks. You know, we don't know how this is going to turn out. President Trump, I think, has a very well thought through plan, as we try to reiterate every day. But the law of unintended consequences. That's why the geopolitical risk, Philip, on top of what's happening in the world's capital markets and financial markets about the attraction of gold, part of that is not just the weaponization of the US Dollar. Right. Of which, by the way, I've been an advocate of, if done smartly, right. But I think some of the nations of the world are saying, hey, we want to be out of the American sphere. We don't trust maga, we don't trust Trump. We just don't trust the Americans overall. The other is this situation now with the cartels, when President Trump goes to Capitol Hill and makes a detailed presentation and basically tells them we're at war, we're at kinetic war, we're not going to tone it down, we're actually going to ramp it up. That's when I think people got to sit there and go, okay, maybe I'm looking for a hedge for times of financial turbulence for a while because it's not going to get less turbulent. You saw that in Portland last night. You've seen this in the presentation we covered live in Memphis, Tennessee. You heard today about this talk in Chicago. And now we know on Capitol Hill, they're going to war with the cartels, or according, according to the Trump administration. We're at war already with the cartels. Philip Patrick, leave you on geopolitical risk. Thank you for thank you for being with us. Where do people go one more time to get you, Sir.
Philip Patrick
Really simple. Birchgold.com Bannon Again Birchgold.com Bannon or they can reach me. Philippatrick on getter.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.
Philip Patrick
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Steve. Great sponsors allowed us to do they're such great guys. Allow us to do the Entire Charlie Kirk 10 or 11 hours without commercial interruption. I don't know if we can talk about it yet. I'm looking at my producer. I'll find out during the break. If everything comes together, we're going to have a very special we're going to have a very special war room presentation with Real America's Voice for I think our third Sunday in a row. I guess we skipped the Sunday we had the memorial service at the prayer vigil at the Kennedy center for Charlie Kirk. Then the following week we had the amazing memorial service this Sunday from 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time to 5:00pm I'll be hosting a special on Real America's Voice here for those seven hours dealing with the 250th, essentially anniversary of the birth of the United States Navy. President Trump is going to actually go participate, I think, in some naval exercises off the coast of Virginia. And I can tell you I think they're going to be amazing. So we've got Jack Posobec is going to be involved in this. We got the entire American, America's Real America's Voice team, of course, the war room. I'm going to have all folks from the Navy, national security experts. You do not want to miss this from 10am starting at 10am Eastern Daylight Time Sunday, not our Saturday show, Saturday show, we're going as is all the way till 5pm The President of the United States is going to go to Norfolk, Virginia, my hometown, I guess where I was born. I guess my hometown is Richmond, where I was born, right near the naval base in Norfolk in beautiful Ocean View, Virginia. President Trump's going to go there. He's going to go out to the fleet. He's going to spend the day, early part of the day, afternoon with the the fleet in fleet operations. Then he's going to come back and address a crowd and talk about the United States Navy and his 250th birthday. 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Time is running out. Go to rickardswarroom.com that's all one word. Rickards War Room. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's rickardswarroom.com do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. I also want to go back and talk about President Trump and what he's taken on. I mean, it's seven days a week. Charlie Kirk flies out, does that, gives that great speech. He sits there and watches. Everybody watches. The event was there for at least half of the event. Flies back. Don't get back to the middle of night, next day, hitting it, next day. I think they had the Bobby Kennedy situation just every day. It's the scale of it, the urgency of it and the scope of it is unprecedented. Even journalists I know that are not fans of his are saying there's never been a presidency like this in nine months, ever. This is more intense than FDR's. Much more intense. Not just because of social media. What he's doing is so monumental. Is all of it perfect? No. Do you love all of it? No. But the 90% that you love is just. It's unprecedented. Now, this naval exercise, this is another thing. All day Sunday, he never takes a day off. Remember, he doesn't drink, he's never done drugs. He basically works. This is one of the things I was most impressed when I first got to really know him and work side by side or work for him. It is one of the most intense work experiences you'll ever see. He is always on. And these aren't small problems. Remember, any tiny problem, any solvable problem doesn't get to the Oval Office. What he's doing now is Herculean. It's every major massive issue in this country and in the world. Changing the world order. He is the post war international rules based order will never, will never revert back that to the globalization. Are the globalists still going to fight us? Are they still going? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's never, it ain't over until it's over. But what he's doing then when they came to us the other day and Posto is going to and I said Sunday and I love it. It's so great. It's such a way to honor the Navy. They're doing it a little short of the 250th anniversary, but it's just so amazing. And this is the way he thinks he wants to do something special. He wants to honor the Navy and the traditions and customs of the Navy. And as you know, the Navy and the Marine Corps are so custom and tradition because it came kind of from, we were sprung from the Royal Navy, people that had, you know, been associated with it and the customs and traditions there and the Royal Marines the same way. That's why the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy are the way they are. And for him to take an entire day and no rest and this is going to be incredible. And he's in the middle of it and I think that his enemies sit there and criticize him, but they're overwhelmed by it. One of the reasons they can't stop it, it's a force of nature. It's a force of nature. I'm telling you, like General Washington and Lincoln and I say this not as a Trump guy and work for Trump and MAGA guy. It's not that. It's the cold observance of history. He's the third in line of the great world historical figures we had. And people say you got to include FDR on that. I don't. Those three are different level. General Washington at the birth of the nation, Abraham Lincoln at the rebirth of the nation, and President Trump at the rejuvenation of this country, in the salvation of this country, of what we had, a constitutional republic based upon the values of the Judeo Christian west and really an American civilization. That's what he's fighting for. And he's leaving it all on the field. All of it. I've never seen anything like it. If you look at the pressure, you look at the intensity, look at these issues. I mean, on an off day, he's negotiating an off day for him. He's negotiating the government shutdown with the clowns like these, like Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer. I mean, come on, it's a clown show. Unbelievable. So all day 10am to 5pm on Sunday and it will be so special, you're going to want to see it. Of course we're going to tee it up on Saturday, the Saturday. So it'll be. Jack Posobuk will be with the President and I'll be anchoring the broadcast. And we're going to have tons of guests. You're not going to miss it. Plus I think you're going to see some guns, some missiles, some jets. I think we're going to have some activity as President Trump's going to basically do Teddy Roosevelt, go review the fleet and it's just incredible. I couldn't be prouder. Mike Lindell, brother, people are so impressed when they sit there and go, Mike, if you could grovel and go to systematic and say, hey, I didn't mean it, I was just kidding and they would say, fine, no harm, no foul, let's move on. You're not going to do that, are you, sir?
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Date: October 2, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon (WarRoom.org)
Guests: Megan Messerly (Politico), Ross Ibbotson (Daily Mail), Philip Patrick (Birch Gold Group), others
This episode of Bannon’s War Room focuses on two major themes:
Additional discussions include global financial uncertainty, the rapid shift toward gold as a reserve asset, and internal MAGA movement dynamics. Notable moments include strong language around government restructuring, vivid analogies by President Trump, and exclusive reporting on war briefings with Congress.
Segment: 00:00–04:31
"Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Prison's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it." — Steve Bannon (04:31)
Segment: 06:59–13:55
Megan Messerly (Politico) traces the confusing and seemingly contradictory stance of President Trump’s administration on vaccines:
Quote:
"It looks like at certain times, Bobby Kennedy and HHS is getting tremendous air cover from the White House. And at other times, it looks like we're going back and working with Big Pharma, like there's no harm, no foul." — Steve Bannon (09:11)
Messerly's Insight: The administration's stance is a mix of personal skepticism toward vaccine timing and a political desire to give parents more say—policies remain unclear as the CDC delays a major autism report.
Quote:
"He said...he likes vaccines. He has concerns about them being administered all at once, about babies receiving so many shots all at once." — Megan Messerly (10:48)
Timestamps of Importance:
Segment: 13:57–24:44
Ross Ibbotson (Daily Mail) discusses exclusive reporting on the Trump administration’s Capitol Hill briefing:
Quotes:
“They've declared war on these drugs, cartels...citing international war, calling it a non-international armed conflict, which basically says these are non-state actors, but we're at war with them because they represent a deadly risk to United States citizens.” — Ross Ibbotson (17:55)
“When we go to war, we go with ferocity and precision to go in and fight it and end it.” — Steve Bannon (44:24)
Congressional staff reportedly “caught by surprise”; the White House remains vague, while the Pentagon moves swiftly.
Segment: 32:59–41:36
Philip Patrick (Birch Gold Group) joins Bannon to discuss the effects of U.S. foreign and financial policy on global economic stability:
Notable Quote:
"Gold has now become the number two global reserve asset... I think this is a trend that's going to continue." — Philip Patrick (32:59)
“The trust has been broken and it’s just one drama after another after another. Now we have a government shutdown… the world’s waking up.” — Philip Patrick (33:55)
Bannon and Patrick argue this shift indicates the decline of the post-World War II globalization model, replaced by protectionism, financial uncertainty, and a premium on “hard” assets.
Segment: 44:24–49:41
"He's the third in line of the great world historical figures we had… General Washington at the birth… Abraham Lincoln at the rebirth… and President Trump at the rejuvenation." — Steve Bannon (47:50)
"This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.” (04:31)
"He actually says he's staking his presidency with everything he's doing… as a success of whether he kind of solves this autism situation." — Steve Bannon (09:11)
"They've declared war on these drugs, cartels…because they represent a deadly risk to United States citizens." — Ross Ibbotson (17:55)
"Gold was looked at as an archaic relic… now it's such a key asset for central banks. Not just shocking, it's a wake-up call." — Steve Bannon (36:05)
"What he's doing is so monumental… This is more intense than FDR's… It's unprecedented." — Steve Bannon (47:00)
This episode covers turbulent shifts in U.S. policy under Trump’s second term, marked by aggressive government downsizing, public health policy reversals, and the formal move toward military action against transnational criminal cartels. At the same time, it reflects a global financial order in flux—accelerating de-dollarization, a gold resurgence, and divided political movements at home. Throughout, the tone is urgent, apocalyptic at times, and deeply partisan, with Steve Bannon and guests positioning 2025–2026 as both the MAGA movement’s critical window and a turning point in world affairs.