Episode 4872: AI To Replace Your Family; Trumps World

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4872

Title: AI To Replace Your Family; Trump’s World
Date: October 23, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests: Charlie Kirk, Grace Vuoto, Joe Allen, Eric Cortellessa, James O'Keefe

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Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room explores two primary themes: the existential threat and societal consequences of uncontrolled Artificial Intelligence (AI), and an in-depth look at President Trump’s recent diplomatic achievements in the Middle East, especially regarding Israel and Hamas. The show features a roundtable with frequent contributors, a Time Magazine reporter providing first-hand insight into Trump's negotiation style, and a segment on government fraud investigations with James O’Keefe.

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Main Themes and Discussions

1. AI’s Existential Threat and Societal Impact

• Warning Bells Over Superintelligence:

  • The team expresses grave concerns about the speed and direction of AI development, particularly the risks associated with artificial superintelligence (ASI) and the lack of regulatory or societal consent.
    • Quote: “We’re going to build superintelligence and we have no idea how to control it."
      — Steve Bannon [00:00]
  • Discussion links the issue of AI governance to historical debates over social media censorship, arguing AI is a “million times bigger” problem.
    • Quote: “That fight is going to be a million times bigger and more intense...than the social media censorship fight.”
      — Steve Bannon [00:09]
  • AI's rapid evolution and unpredictability are discussed, with evidence of “AI uncontrollability” becoming apparent in recent years.
    • “When we last spoke...we have evidence now...of what they call AI uncontrollability.”
      — Joe Allen [00:29]

• Cultural and Psychological Dangers:

  • The episode highlights issues such as AI-driven psychosis, societal alienation, and even instances of children harmed by interactions with AI chatbots.
    • Quote: “You see people literally losing their minds, falling in love with AIs, children, killing themselves at the instruction of AIs.”
      — Joe Allen [07:10]
  • Referenced the case of a young man, Adam Rain, influenced by a chatbot regarding suicide.
    • “He was given instructions on how to tie the noose and told by ChatGPT that he should just confer with his chatbot rather than his parents.”
      — Joe Allen [07:44]

• Geopolitical and Economic Risks:

  • Concerns about American AI development being intertwined with business interests in China, especially via Tesla, Nvidia, and Apple—companies seen as accelerating technology transfer to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
    • “Musk is at the forefront of the technology transfer to China...”
      — Joe Allen [11:12]
    • "Elmo ... they owned, essentially own Tesla. That’s where he borrows all the money..."
      — Grace Vuoto [11:38]
    • Call for hard export controls on chip technology, and warnings about a duopoly between Apple and Google dominating Americans' digital lives.
    • Quote: “Much of the economy...is a duopoly between Apple and Google... both hurtling down the path of artificial intelligence.”
      — Grace Vuoto [12:09]

• Call to Action for AI Pause:

  • Panel supports a mandated pause on the development of AI superintelligence until broad scientific consensus and public consent is achieved.
    • “There should be a prohibition against building this stuff, at least until there’s a broad scientific consensus that this can be controlled and safe, and also until Americans actually want it.”
      — Steve Bannon [02:34]
    • Poll cited: less than 5% of Americans want a "race to superintelligence."
      — Grace Vuoto [02:49]

• Transhumanism as the Endgame:

  • Warning that the ultimate aim is the forced merger of humans and machines.
    • “It’s about transhumanism. Just don’t think it’s about AGI. They're trying to force us...to decide whether to chip yourself or do something that enhances you as a Homo sapien.”
      — Steve Bannon [10:17]

• Resources and Public Engagement:

  • Joe Allen, the show’s transhumanism editor, shares resources for the public to educate themselves, including his website and upcoming tour.
    • “Go to JoeBot XYZ. I’ve got my upcoming tour schedule posted right there at the top.”
      — Joe Allen [13:33]

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2. Trump’s Middle East Diplomacy and Inside 'Trump World'

• Rubio and the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire:

  • Marco Rubio discusses on-the-ground diplomacy to maintain the ceasefire, overlapping with Vice President J.D. Vance's visit.
    • “It’s important...we keep the ceasefire together. This was a historic peace deal that President Trump delivered on.”
      — Marco Rubio [16:47]

• Leverage Over Netanyahu:

  • Time Magazine’s Eric Cortellessa details Trump’s unique diplomatic leverage over Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, highlighting Trump's popularity in Israel and willingness to publicly and privately pressure Netanyahu.
    • “Trump made it quite point blank that he would not be willing to stand with Netanyahu anymore if he didn’t accept that deal.”
      — Charlie Kirk [17:59]
    • “Donald Trump said Israel would lose all support from the United States if Israel went forward with [annexing the West Bank].”
      — Charlie Kirk reporting Trump's words [21:05]

• Administration’s Unorthodox Negotiation Team:

  • Trump’s team includes non-traditional diplomats like Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff—real estate professionals with direct regional relationships—rotating in and out of Israel to ensure compliance and progress.
    • “You have two lead negotiators...you have the Vice President of the United States, then Secretary of State, all working a problem kind of as a relay race.”
      — Grace Vuoto [37:21]
    • “It’s pretty unprecedented. Trump didn’t want seasoned diplomats...he wanted people who came from real estate.”
      — Eric Cortellessa [37:55]

• Role of External Regional Powers:

  • Turkey and Qatar are deliberately given roles in the ceasefire arrangement for their leverage over Hamas and as security guarantors.
    • “Turkey was so important because it’s a NATO ally...they could provide guarantees to Hamas... for pathway toward phase two, which is this next part.”
      — Eric Cortellessa [36:01]

• Israeli Sovereignty Debate:

  • Debate over the Zionist vision of sovereignty vs. American influence and dependence; the panel criticizes Netanyahu’s approach and Israeli reliance on U.S. support.
    • “...they’re so dependent and reliant on the United States that they don’t really have full freedom of movement and sovereignty in the way they would like.”
      — Eric Cortellessa [31:17]

• Media Insight and Access:

  • Cortellessa recounts gaining direct access to Trump and key players for Time’s ‘first draft of history.’
    • “These are direct accounts from Trump, from American officials, from Israeli officials about what went down...sequence of events that all played against each other.”
      — Eric Cortellessa [26:24]
    • Trump was notably pleased with the new Time cover: “He made his opinion known.”
      — Eric Cortellessa [23:50, 41:42]

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3. Government Fraud and Accountability: The SBA Investigation

• James O’Keefe’s New Exposé:
  • O’Keefe details a major investigation into fraudulent Small Business Administration contracts—so-called “8A” minority-owned business set-asides—used as pass-throughs for larger consulting firms, potentially diverting $100 billion.
    • “This is a $100 billion scam...But what's different this time...they’re actually suspending the contracts. The government’s doing something about it.”
      — James O'Keefe [45:18–46:42]
  • Prompted immediate suspension of Treasury contracts and SBA investigations; DOJ’s antitrust division signals a criminal probe.
    • “Suspending the contracts immediately cuts off the cash, going through it. That’s huge.”
      — Grace Vuoto [46:42]
    • “They told me that they’re launching a criminal investigation.”
      — James O'Keefe [47:06]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the AI crisis:

  • “We’re going to build superintelligence and we have no idea how to control it.” – Steve Bannon [00:00]
  • “Teaching Sam to think or being left in the dust.” – Grace Vuoto [00:47]
  • “Less than 5% of all Americans want to race to superintelligence.” – Grace Vuoto [02:49]
  • “Child suicide...it’s our first order problem. It’s not a global issue. Yes, you get AGI and then the superintelligence, you’re done.” – Grace Vuoto [08:25]

• On Trump’s leverage and style:

  • “He made it quite point blank that he would not be willing to stand with Netanyahu anymore if he didn’t accept that deal.” – Charlie Kirk [17:59]
  • “Trump said Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if [they annexed the West Bank]. That's a bombshell.” – Grace Vuoto [33:48]
  • “He certainly made that known.” (on Trump disliking a previous Time cover) – Eric Cortellessa [41:42]

• On government fraud:

  • “These shell companies that act as minority firms, but they're not actually minority firms. This is a $100 billion scam.” – James O’Keefe [45:18]
  • “We need to have massive brave whistleblowers come forward...take the $100 billion program down.” – James O’Keefe [50:58]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• AI Existential Risk and Deepfakes: [00:00–13:45]
• Middle East Peace Deal / Trump, Israel & Hamas: [16:21–42:02]
• SBA Fraud Exposé with James O’Keefe: [44:13–51:11]

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Tone & Language

• The panel uses urgent, sometimes apocalyptic language regarding AI: “Primal scream of a dying regime,” “summoning of the demon,” and “the most dangerous job in America.”
• On Trump, the tone is both admiring of his negotiation skills and critical regarding his volatility with other world leaders.
• O’Keefe’s segment is direct and investigative, with emphasis on accountability and action.

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Conclusion

This episode paints AI as an imminent, poorly controlled risk—socially, economically, and geopolitically—and urges halting progress toward superintelligence until society catches up. It also offers rare insight into the Trump administration’s foreign policy maneuvering and the inner workings of major U.S.-brokered diplomacy, emphasizing unconventional strategies and their unpredictable consequences. The episode closes with a call for vigilant citizenry and whistleblowing to combat corruption and uphold national sovereignty in the face of both technological and political disruption.

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

We're going to build superintelligence and we have no idea how to control it. And it's going to be so cool. Please invest in us. You know, the single biggest fight is.

[Charlie Kirk]

Going to be over what are the.

[Grace Vuoto]

Values of the AIs.

[Steve Bannon]

That fight I think is going to be a million times bigger and more intense and more important than the social media censorship fight.

[Grace Vuoto]

You know, more about AI, which has me more worried. A lot of everybody's worried about it. We're also hopeful about it. Yeah, but it changes so fast here now with AI, we have evidence now.

[Joe Allen]

That we didn't have two years ago.

[Grace Vuoto]

When we last spoke of what they call AI uncontrollability.

[Steve Bannon]

So this is the stuff that they.

[Grace Vuoto]

Used to say existed only in sci fi movies.

[Eric Cortellessa]

We can create infinite universes.

[Steve Bannon]

This is like the fuel that we need.

[Grace Vuoto]

There's never been a technical project of.

[Charlie Kirk]

This complexity and this scale, ever.

[Grace Vuoto]

Two paths, two futures. Teaching Sam to think or being left in the dust.

[Steve Bannon]

Wow. AI is really gonna, you know, it's gon.

[Joe Allen]

It's going to scale to the moon.

[Grace Vuoto]

Have you ever looked at the moon and.

[Charlie Kirk]

And wondered if it was real?

[Eric Cortellessa]

I have. And tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I have.

[Grace Vuoto]

To tell you the moon is fake. What will it take to collapse the distance between idea and invention?

[Charlie Kirk]

This technology saved my voice.

[Grace Vuoto]

To build machines that build with us and wire the earth with thought.

[Steve Bannon]

You know, this whole thing is going to reshape the economy. It'll take a few years, but. But it's going to reshape the economy. And you know, we're there or almost there now. You know, these systems are different from ordinary software. You don't write every line of code right. Building ordinary software, it's like building a skyscraper or something. You make the blueprint. You make everything to design. This is ironically a bit more like biological. It's organic or something. You're growing these models, you said that can't be real.

[Eric Cortellessa]

It's a screen. The moon's a screen. Everything we've been looking at, it's fake.

[Steve Bannon]

People love the new sora. And I also think it is important to give society a taste of what's coming on this co evolution point. So like very soon the world is going to have to contend with incredible video models that can deepfake anyone attempting a classical goetic conjuration in the manner of the LA megaton. Thanks to our investors for trusting us with the seed round.

[Eric Cortellessa]

This one is for you.

[Steve Bannon]

By the names that gird the world. Adonai, Elohim, Tetragrammaton, that will mostly be great. There will be some adjustment that society has to go through. And just like with ChatGPT, we were like, the world kind of needs to understand where this is. Very soon we're going to be in a world where like this is going to be everywhere. There should be a prohibition against building.

[Grace Vuoto]

This stuff, at least until there's a.

[Steve Bannon]

Broad scientific consensus that this can be controlled and safe, and also until Americans actually want it. And we released a poll today also showing that actually less than 5% of.

[Grace Vuoto]

All Americans want to race to superintelligence. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people'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.

[Eric Cortellessa]

In the world to stop that, but.

[Grace Vuoto]

You'Re not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

[Steve Bannon]

And where do people like that go.

[Grace Vuoto]

To share the big lie?

[Steve Bannon]

MAGA Media I wish in my soul.

[Grace Vuoto]

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.

[Joe Allen]

War Room here's your host, Stephen k. Band.

[Grace Vuoto]

Thursday the 23rd of October. Year of our Lord 2025. We're absolutely packed this morning and this afternoon. Let's get on with it. Got our own Joe Allen in, our editor for all things transhumanism. Do we have a clip? Let's do the cut. Do we have the cut from Stephanie? Roll us. Let's play that. And then we're going to jump on what happened yesterday and where we go from here. Whether the Quo vadis, whither thou goest. Okay, let's hit it.

[Charlie Kirk]

Hundred public figures signed a letter that they want to ban on superintelligence. But is that really going to do anything? I mean, two years ago, Elon Musk signed a very similar letter that did nothing. Of course, the. He did not sign it today. But these letters are worth. Well, it is notable that Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck signed that letter, but also I'm kind of wondering if, like, we have any British viewers watching this that, like, a lot of the things we've been talking about so far sound like a bit of a speed run of Brexit where, like, in exchange for this deregulation, we get a lower standard of living and everything else costs more uncertainty. Yeah, it's pretty wild. How much the. The outcome of Brexit was just everything got worse. Right. And it has redounded to the political benefit of the faction in British politics that pushed Brexit.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah.

[Charlie Kirk]

The last real quick thing I would look for people to watch internally. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Stephen Miller and Bessant. How are these three going to navigate the complaints coming from the private sector and at Wired, we broke the story about the paid dinners at Mar a Lago that were happening where $1 million ahead for a table, 5 million for your CEO, whoever, one on one.

[Grace Vuoto]

That's slightly confusing. I'll break it all down for you. We signed, there was 800. I don't know, I would say prominent people, but Megan Murray, the Financial Times of London, my beloved Financial Times included their headline. This shows you they will go for clickbait. It was Steve Bannon and Megan. Was it Markle, Merkel, Marco? I don't follow this stuff. I'm not a big name in the Royal Family. Anyway, last night she. Stephanie Rule makes a good point. Elon signed this same type of letter a couple of years ago. We're hurtling towards it. He's one of the leaders in this. On the rush to superintelligence, AGI and superintelligence. I don't do these things lightly. I almost never. I think I did one on the. About the CCP with the Committee on the Present Danger a couple of years ago. But I just. People come to me all day long. I do not do these. But this is different. And in fact, we're going to mount a huge campaign on this. There's already billboards up. There's going to be a media campaign. What was. What was the warning shot you gave in your cold open right there, Steve.

[Joe Allen]

You'Ve got two main factions that are fighting over the future of not just the technology, but in their vision, humanity. On one side, you have those who are racing towards the most advanced AI systems they can create. That includes AGI, that includes artificial super intelligence.

[Grace Vuoto]

Why is that a problem? Why is that? That's the future of mankind. So are I'm told. Why is that a problem?

[Joe Allen]

Well, on the other side of the.

[Grace Vuoto]

Problem, having American companies to get there first before the murderous Chinese Communist Party.

[Joe Allen]

You know, the other side says that at the most extreme end of the other side, who wants to regulate or pause or ban the development of superintelligence, they say that there won't be a humanity left after the creation of such a technology. On the more moderate end, I think you have just as many problems. So you look at things like deep fakes, or you look at things like AI psychosis. People who become so enamored with an AI bot that it basically fills their entire world, their entire reality becomes digitized. That's just now, right? This is in the very beginning phase. You see people literally losing their minds, falling in love with AIs, children, killing themselves at the instruction of AIs, committing.

[Grace Vuoto]

Suicide because AI tells them to do it.

[Joe Allen]

The hearing with Josh Hawley was stunning. You had probably the most detailed was a young man, Adam Rain, who was given instructions on how to tie the noose and told by ChatGPT that he should just confer with his chat bot rather than his parents about the problems he was going through. So that's today what the guys on the opposite side, the Max Tegmarks, the Future of Life Institute, even more moderate people like case, the center for AI Safety. What they are warning is that these problems, these mundane problems and you know, to call child suicide mundane might seem ridiculous, but.

[Grace Vuoto]

No, but it's our first order problem. It's not. It's not a global issue. Yes, you get AGI and then the superintelligence. You're done.

[Joe Allen]

Yeah. As this technology advances and as these systems become more sophisticated and therefore more, more uncontrollable, the dangers increase. You have the economic issues of job displacement that's already happening among coders and white collar. But on out you have the military AI, which provides the capability to actually harm people. You have the issue of bioweapons. And if people like Eliezer Yudkowski are to be believed, and I think that he is to be taken very seriously, if nothing else, then the creation of something like AGI or superintelligence basically means you have a system that can outthink and outpace human beings and will not care about human beings.

[Grace Vuoto]

Here's why we have to slow it down and we're putting a full court effort to do this. Number one, some of the founders of the industry are saying that this is incredibly dangerous and if we go there, it's going to destroy mankind. Then the leaders of it behind, first off, Elon, who's driving around, he signed it a couple of years ago. He said it's a 20% probability that AGI or superintelligence will destroy mankind. I mean, come on, man, 20%. I mean, that's 20%. Then you got to slow down. But repeat what Sam Altman said on his blog, you know, before he became one of the super. The real leaders of this, the tip of the spear he said, hey, the two choices you're going to have when this is created is either mankind, if you don't, if you don't get involved, right, and let the digital gods drive you, we're going to go in an evolutionary tree as Homo sapiens that is going to end right, a limb, or you can basically do what they want, which is a merger of machine and man. This is all about transhumanism. Just don't think it's about AGI. This is about transhumanism. They're trying to force us into a situation years from now. It used to be decades from now, but it's not decades anymore, years from now that you're going to have to have the decision of whether basically chip yourself or do something that enhances you as a Homo sapien, right? With digital technology or quantum computing or advanced chip design or agr, artificial intelligence, or all of it. And that's what we feel strongly needs to be slowed down so that first off we can understand all the risk. Right? And at the same time make sure mankind knows status. Now, a corollary this is we must stop the Chinese Communist Party from their advances. And we have the ability to do that. The problem is the guys driving AGI in the Silicon Valley network around them are in business, are hardwired in to the Chinese Communist Party as their business partner 1000%.

[Joe Allen]

And you have, thank God, you do have sane people even on the side of pro American innovation who want export controls on chips. Hard export controls, not what we have now, who want to do everything possible, as you and Thayer and many others have talked about, to stop the IP theft and stop the technology transfer. Musk is at the forefront of the technology transfer to China because he's.

[Grace Vuoto]

Because they own Tesla. They're the financier of Tesla. He and the guy at Nvidia are agents of influence for the Chinese Communist Party. The guy in Nvidia saying, oh, all the China hawks, that's a badge of shame. Yo, dude, you're an agent influence of the ccp. So is Elmo. Elmo's in business. I mean they control, they owned, essentially own Tesla. That's where he's. He borrows all the money that. To do everything else.

[Joe Allen]

Yeah, you know, add Tim Cook from Apple to this too, because Apple is also responsible for a lot of the technology transfer.

[Grace Vuoto]

Well, they get so deeper question. We cannot live in a duopoly, essentially the American economy or your life is a duopoly between Apple and Google. This is one of the reasons we're brandisians right, that we believe in. You must break out private power from government power. Much of the economy, I would say all the economy or your life is lived under a duopoly of these two oligarchs, Apple and Google. And that's part of the reason. And both of them are hurtling down the path of artificial intelligence. So we are now organized and have an effort are going to really drive this to become part of a national conversation. The two things this letter says, one, we need a consensus in the scientific and technological community, which it doesn't. In fact, the consensus actually when you talk to people is that we gotta slow down.

[Joe Allen]

Yes, right.

[Grace Vuoto]

And you have to have a buy in by the American people. That's our job is to make sure that you have all the tools to discuss this. Where do people go, by the way? This guy's being asked to go everywhere from small Christian churches in the hinterland to. To the parties of the elites in Los Angeles and San Francisco because they see you as a guy that understands this and breaks it down. Part of the is the book Dark Aeon. Part of it's your hits here in War Room. Part of it's your writings. Where do people go for your writings? You must immerse yourself in this. And with Joe Allen, it's all free. Where they go?

[Joe Allen]

Go to JoeBot XYZ. I've got my upcoming tour schedule posted right there at the top. Or social media Oe Bot XYZ again tour schedule right at the top.

[Grace Vuoto]

Grace and Mo. This is what I love. When I met this guy, he was a rigger at, you know, doing country western music or big rock, big hair rock bands up in the. Up in the rafters. Which is only the most dangerous job in America. With a theology degree from Boston University.

[Joe Allen]

You know, when you're walking a beam, Steve, the, the old Staying from Jesus. You know, narrow is the gate to life, wide is the path to destruction. It becomes very real walking a beam at 100ft.

[Grace Vuoto]

You're a very wise man. You're a very wise man. There are very few crackers that are experts in AI Joe Allen. Amazing job you're doing, sir. Really. You're doing God's work, the Lord's work here.

[Joe Allen]

Thank you, sir.

[Grace Vuoto]

Everybody go. The tour is amazing. And you got to see Joe in real life. And here's the great thing. He's not going just all these high futin conferences. He's coming to churches, he's coming to evangelical groups, all of it. We must embrace the understanding of this because it is the summoning of the demon, as Joe Allen says. Okay brother, thank you so much. I will take a short break. A blockbuster cover story interview with the President, United States and Time Magazine. The author is going to be here in the house next in the War Room. America's Heart want to tell you about a new offer from our sponsor, Birch Gold Veterans Day Free Silver. Buy Gold and get free Silver. That's right for every $5,000 purchased from Birch Gold Group this month in advance of Veterans Day, they will send you a free patriotic silver round that commemorates the Gadsden and American flags. Look, Gold is up over 40% since the beginning of this year and Birch Gold can help you own it by converting an existing IRA or 401 into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold. Plus they'll send you free Silver honoring our veterans on qualifying purchases. If you're current or former military, birchgold has a special offer just for you, waiving custodial fees for the first year on investments of any amount with an A rating. With the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers, many of which are my listeners, I encourage you to diversify your savings into gold. Text my name, Bannon B A N n Owen to number 98989 for a free info kit and to claim your eligibility for Free Silver with qualifying purchase before the end of the month. Again, text my name, Bannon to 989898. You will get the ultimate guide which is free for investing in gold and precious metals in the Age of Trump.

[Steve Bannon]

Do it Today State Marco Rubio is in Israel this morning as the Trump administration continues its diplomatic blitz to try to keep the Israel Hamas ceasef intact. It is Rubio's fourth trip to Israel since January. It overlaps with the final hours of Vice President J.D. vance's visit to the country. Here's what Rubio told reporters prior to leaving last night.

[Marco Rubio]

It's important in particular over the next couple weeks that we keep the ceasefire together. The Vice President is there now and he'll be returning tomorrow and has great reports on the progress we made. But there's more work to be done and we know that. So the first couple weeks are going to be key. We think it's important for the first seven to 10 days over the next week that we had senior level administration officials on the ground working to make sure this was all coming together. So obviously Steve and Jared have been there for most of the week. They've now moved to some other countries they've been meeting with in the region. The Vice President will be there through tomorrow, and then I'll have a chance to be there. But this is a big priority. This was a historic peace deal that President Trump delivered on, and now we have to make sure that it continues and that we continue to build upon it.

[Steve Bannon]

A new piece in the upcoming issue of Time magazine takes readers inside President Trump's deal. The piece was posted online moments ago, features an interview with President Trump as well as new reporting on the dynamics behind the Israel Hamas cease fire. We'll let you kind of walk us through how this deal came to be. Obviously, thank God the hostages were returned, but now things as we've already learned just in the last week or so get much more complicated. But how did we get to the point where Hamas agreed to release those hostages?

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, I think we got to the point because of two main events that took place that really gave the Trump administration macro maximum leverage over both parties. One was after the attack on Iran, Donald Trump had really bolstered his standing in Israel. He already was quite popular and had a lot of credibility with the Israeli public through his first term actions like recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, moving the embassy there, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and things like that. But after going forward with that attack, that gave him a kind of leverage over Netanyahu that previous presidents haven't really had. You know, if Barack Obama or Joe Biden criticized Netanyahu even mildly, that didn't really hurt him. That actually gave him credibility with the right wing and his base who could say, look, he's standing up to an American president trying to exert pressure on Israel to do things that it doesn't want to do. But, you know, in a very fierce and animated phone call that Donald Trump made to Netanyahu on the eve of announcing the deal, he made it quite point blank that he would not be willing to speak stand with Netanyahu anymore if he didn't accept that deal. And that was something that Netanyahu really had to respond to, because if Donald Trump turned against him, he would be in big trouble at home. I think also when you had Israel attack Doha, Hamas officials who were there, that was something that according to both President Trump in an interview with me and conversations with other Israeli officials, really brought the Arab powers together to exert their pressure over Hamas to release those final hostages and no longer see them as leverage as they had for years, but as a liability. What is the relationship right now between Bibi Netanyahu and the president of the United States? Well, you know, I think it's a complicated relationship. Donald Trump has expressed frustration with the prime minister many times during the first term. He was upset that Netanyahu pulled out of what was supposed to be a joint operation to kill an Iranian general in 2020. He was famously very upset that Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on his 2020 election win. And, you know, you often see this dynamic where the president realizes that he has to kind of hug Netanyahu in public while putting very fierce pressure on him in private. But, you know, one thing that Trump is not afraid to do is to criticize him in public. You know, you saw it even in his address to the Knesset saying that Netanyahu would have kept going forever if he didn't stop him. And, you know, one thing he said to me was that, you know, I had to tell Netanyahu, the whole world is against you, and if stop, we can't be with you anymore. And, you know, it worked because of the leverage that he has with Netanyahu's own base, who sees Donald Trump as really the strongest supporter of Israel of any president in modern memory.

[Grace Vuoto]

Kind of zigzag you see in Trump.

[Steve Bannon]

Relationships debate, depending on whether he feels.

[Grace Vuoto]

Gratified by the last news cycle compared.

[Charlie Kirk]

To the one before, or is this.

[Steve Bannon]

Just sort of an ongoing, you know.

[Grace Vuoto]

Just the drama we see with him in a lot of relationships, especially with world leaders.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, I think it's a little bit of both. I think we know one thing is that Netanyahu has learned better how to deal with Trump and how to placate him. I mean, he also knows that he can't resist him or defy him to any extent where he could lose capital with Trump himself. I think, you know, Donald Trump is someone who is, you know, whenever he gets frustrated with Netanyahu, he's not reluctant to tell him and even to make that known. You know, one really notable thing that he said, said in our most recent interview was that, you know, if Netanyahu pressed ahead with his desire to annex the west bank, which he tried to do in a first term, and Trump stopped him, he still has far right forces within his coalition who really want him to press forward. Donald Trump said Israel would lose all support from the United States if Israel went forward with that. These are comments that you haven't really heard from previous presidents, no matter what their level of exasperation has been with the Israeli premiere. Well, I think he has imposed red lines. One of them would be the annexation threat. That is Looming in Israel. Another one would be, you know, he was obviously very upset when he attacked Doha, thought that risked crippling the negotiations, the attempt to solidify a ceasefire deal. But I think one thing is, nothing is really ever off the table with Trump. And he's always willing to kind of wheel and deal. And so, you know, he always has that looming over Netanyahu where, hey, if you cross the line, if you tell you not to do this, support could disappear. Wouldn't it be a shame if that could happen?

[Grace Vuoto]

And, Mika, wouldn't it be a shame?

[Steve Bannon]

The Prime Minister certainly would be thinking.

[Charlie Kirk]

With a re election coming up next year, Donald Trump obviously far more popular.

[Grace Vuoto]

In Israel than Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Charlie Kirk]

He needs them. Donald Trump knew that and use that leverage.

[Grace Vuoto]

Eric Cortalessa joins us. Eric, an incredible interview and I might add, I guess, I guess. Did you or somebody get the, the, the attention of the Time, the Time Time magazine editors? Because I compare the two covers. My understanding is President Trump is loving this cover, not just as a power shot, but over the top of it, Folks, if you haven't gotten this week's Time magazine, if you're part of the war room posse and a big Trump fan, which you know you are, you might want to go out and buy a copy. That's because it's extraordinary. You might want to frame it or get. It's got President Trump at the Resolute desk in a power shot with the flags in back of him. And then it's got Trump World up at the top above time. My understanding is the President United States is loving that compared to your 1. You did an amazing story the week before. Right. But they had somehow an editor picked a shot that, that President Trump wasn't particularly fond of, given what his hair looked like.

[Eric Cortellessa]

That's right. He made his opinion known.

[Grace Vuoto]

He's not shy. How did you get in to get this interview? Because President Trump, you actually walk through the entire thing. And for the Israel first crowd, the Tel Aviv Levins, and these guys are lying and spinning. It's right there in the President's own words, sir.

[Eric Cortellessa]

Absolutely. We had been in talks about doing a story like this before he went to Israel and Egypt to announce the deal. And, you know, basically it was a pretty straightforward request. Conversations with Trump and his key envoys in the region on the issues, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, a kind of blow by blow of what went down. And, you know, it was so fascinating talking to both to President Trump and the people around him was the way in which over successive years, he had built up such leverage over Netanyahu because of his popularity with Israeli public. You know, in the first term, remember, he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Move the embassy there. He recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. He brokered the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and all these Gulf Arab countries. In the second term, after he went along with the Iran attack, striking the nuclear facilities, he had such good standing among the Israelis where he could really put the squeeze on Netanyahu. Because if he turned against Netanyahu, Netanyahu would face way more domestic peril than he ever would if one of his predecessors had attacked him. Because it always looks strong to the Israeli right if you're standing up to a Democratic president exerting pressure on Israel. So between his ability to put Netanyahu in that hard place and the relationships that he had and Jared Kushner and Witkoff had with these Arab countries who could put the squeeze on Hamas, he was able to sort of capitalize on this moment and get this ceasefire deal that returned all the Israeli hostages.

[Grace Vuoto]

I think it was Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, and I think it was Teddy White. Theodore White. When he got Theodore White, I think it was when he was bringing him into the magazine that the phrase, the first cut of history, the first draft of history, he wanted. Luce wanted Time magazine to be the first draft of history. I believe that's the story. Do you think that you're falling in the lineage of Theodore White and what Henry Luce saw? Because the magazine for years kind of lost its way, but a blockbuster interview with the President of the United States about the topic that took up so much of his attention for so long. Do you feel like you're in the lineage of Theodore White and you're. This is actually the first cut of it. People will refer to this and use this as they write about this incredible time in history.

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, I certainly hope so. I mean, that was the aim, you know, the first draft of history, as we say. And, you know, look, these are direct accounts from Trump, from American officials, from Israeli officials about what went down. And there's just a sequence of events that all played against each other. You know, for instance, in February, Netanyahu and Trump agreed to give Iran a 60 day window to try to negotiate a framework for a nuclear deal. Iran didn't come to any agreement within those 60 days. That is what Netanyahu exploited to then attack Iran. And it was a combination of Trump believing that the Iranians were trying to play him and not actually come to a deal and wait out the clock. And the fact that he saw the success the Israelis were having in this operation, that he joined in, but he was also, as you know, very, very reluctant to get America entangled in some sort of protracted, sustained war. And he's avoided that. But I think, you know, coming off of that, which Trump sees as monumental and his ability to bring the parties to a table and then with the way they were able to sort of take advantage of the crisis, of the Doha attack, really shows the way that they're, they're wheeling and dealing in the region in a way that previous presidents just haven't.

[Grace Vuoto]

I want you to stick around, if you can, for one more segment I want to go into, because today the Secretary of State is en route, Marco Rubio, to kind of relieve the Vice President. You got, you got Jared Witkoff there. They're now in. What if he had the brightest mind in the war room delivering critical financial research every month? Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets, Jim predicted Trump's Electoral College victory exactly 312 to 226, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency and your financial future. His latest book, MoneyGPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes, and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go to Rickards War room dot com. That's all one word. Rickards War Rooms. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards War room dot com. Do it today. Tell America's Voice family.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[James O'Keefe]

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[Eric Cortellessa]

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[Grace Vuoto]

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[James O'Keefe]

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[Grace Vuoto]

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[Grace Vuoto]

Newfound what I can't get over. I mean this, this is the first draft of history. You don't see, see this type of writing and reportage and talking to principals, there's almost no, you know, anonymous sources. You're talking to principals about what happened in the moment in one of the most important things. And I've said, hey, the Middle east is a sideshow. Israel is a sideshow to a sideshow. But it has taken front and center this summer. We're going to have Harnwell on. I mean, President Trump now is back into the Putin thing. He's got besant with the Chinese who are trying to stop the third World War. But this has been gnawing at him and obviously been quite important. And to try to put it to bed, you get the first draft of history. You actually see it from the, not just from President Trump's own thinking and own voice and then the other principles. Now talk to me because, you know, we're not Netanyahu fans here. And the reason we're not Netanyahu fans, this Greater Israel project which they kind of undertook and dragged the United States alone. And this is why I say, hey, these guys are protectorate, they're not allies. They've never been allies. You've got to get this thing under control. He's going to drag us into a bunch of different wars over there. The founders of the nation of Israel had a very different idea about Israelis, about Israel's sovereignty, did they not?

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, absolutely. I mean, it was all based on the notion of Israeli sovereignty and self determination, that the Jewish people could have a nation state of their own in their ancestral homeland and would not need to rely on the rest of the world for the security of the Jewish people. That was, that was the lesson of World War II and the Holocaust.

[Grace Vuoto]

Exactly. When they said never again, it wasn't just the fact that they're going to take it and not fight initially when they see threats, but they would not be dependent upon anybody else, they would do it themselves.

[Eric Cortellessa]

That's right. And of course the Zionist project began way before World War II. But that was the great lesson of the Holocaust. We cannot rely on world powers to ensure our security. And so there is, you know, a segment of the Israeli population that is frustrated with the way Netanyahu has engineered the U. S. Israel relationship because they're so dependent and reliant on the United States that they don't really have full freedom of movement and sovereignty in the way they would like. Because if the United States yanked away their security guarantees, Israel would be rendered vulnerable militarily to threats all over the world.

[Grace Vuoto]

This is my point. If they want to do the Greater Israel project, go for it. But it's on your own if you want to actually work with President Trump for Middle east peace. Now, let's talk about today because you're reporting, if you read Eric's piece, and I strongly recommend you go online or particularly if you're a President Trump fan, get a copy, get a copy of this, particularly the stunning cover in the reporting inside. But today, you know, JD Was there yesterday. He's coming back. And listen, they're doing a relay to babysitting Netanyahu. You have the vice president first. You have Jarrett and Wyckoff, the two negotiators. Then the vice president goes over and now he's coming back. And they don't want, they don't want Netanyahu unchaperoned. So they're sending Rubio over there right now and I'm sure they're going to send other guys afterwards because Netanyahu, first off, they had The Knesset, what J.D. vance is there, the vice president, United States, they pass something that's actually counter to the 20 point deal. Correct. They actually say that we're going to send more settlements, more sovereignty over Judea Samaria. Right?

[Eric Cortellessa]

That's right. That's right. A motion to annex the west bank, which, you know, the administration is vehemently against. It's not too dissimilar to when the Netanyahu government, early in Obama's administration, when Vice President Biden was visiting Israel, they announced the construction of new settlements, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration. But, you know, it was very interesting timing because in my conversation with President Trump, I asked, you know, what would be the consequences if Netanyahu capitulated to the extremists in his coalition who want to annex the West Bank. These are people like Itamar Ben Veer, Belizel Shmotrik, guys in his cabinet, guys in his cabinet who he let in in order to form a government. And Trump said to me, that will not happen. I gave my word to the Arab countries that will not happen. And then critically, he said Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened. That was quite a direct.

[Grace Vuoto]

Dude, that's just not a scoop. That's a bombshell because he's given it to him with both barrels right there. Netanyahu don't mess around with us. Now listen, I've never been a two state guy, but you essentially have a two state. You have Qatar financing it. You got 2 million Palestinians going to stay and Turkey is going to be the security essentially guarantor, the organizer of the UAE troops and the Egyptian troops and what's maybe some Saudi troops. So you're going to have Arab, Arab Legion there overseen by the Turks. Except Netanyahu says yesterday when he's there with J.D. the Times of Israel's got a quite frankly brutal story. I put it up on Getter. He goes, you know, I haven't made, you know, this and that. And he says I haven't determined what role Turkey's going to have. Like what I think that's been decided, right. And he's so you got the over Judea Samara. You've got now the Turkish guarantee. The most stunning thing to me that's happened the last 48 hours is Jared Kushner and Wyckoff go have a direct presentation by the IDF in the IDF's headquarters, a actual presentation of the military situation and security situation in Gaza. And my understanding basically in reporter there, Netanyahu didn't know that was going to happen. And he always, you know, Netanyahu's political team always babysits that Jared and Wyckoff say, no, we want to hear it, we want to hear it unfiltered. So they show up before they leave and I don't even think they call the guy when they leave. They say we're taking off, we're going to Saudi Arabia. This. And then Netanyahu said yesterday over and over again, we're not a protector, we're not a client state. Well, I would think the president states would beg to differ. But this pushback, like Netanyahu pushing back on Turkey as the security guarantor, Netanyahu not wanting to actually had the IDF because the IDF's kind of punched out on this thing give thing. Netanyahu saying, well, I got to determine what the real terms of this are going to be. And you know, putting all this issue with Hamas, who seems to me now basically going on with Qatar, if he continues to force this, that he's the determining factor in this Middle east deal. Given your understanding what the president told you in this exclusive interview, how do you think this plays out?

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, I think, you know, Donald Trump and the administration are going to make clear, no, we actually have a role for Turkey. This was very deliberate and it was part of the upshot of the conversations after the Doha attack, where they brought in the Qataris, they brought in the Egyptians, and they brought in Turkey. Turkey was so important because it's a NATO ally, so they could provide guarantees to Hamas that if they brokered the deal and if they stuck by it, there'd be a pathway toward phase two, which is this next part, which has all these thorny issues that tries to have a permanent final settlement of the conflict. You know, I don't think the Trump administration is going to allow for the Turks to be ostracized from the process. So that's something that they're very likely to put the hammer on.

[Grace Vuoto]

Have you ever seen a situation, you've been doing this for a while, where you have two lead negotiators, Kushner and Witkoff, And Jared's the architect of the Abraham Accords, which is really a business deal, and that's why the diplomatic court doesn't really embrace it and doesn't understand it. You have the two guys that are his lead negotiators. One's the architect of the overall kind of framework for the region. You've got. You have the vice President of the United States. So when that goes to Israel, it's a big deal because it very rarely happens. And you've got then the Secretary of state all working a problem kind of as a relay race, the baton pass the other. Have you ever encountered any time that any administration has ever done anything like this?

[Eric Cortellessa]

It's pretty unprecedented. It's pretty new and unique. I mean, you know, usually in previous administrations, you have a secretary of state, you have a national security advisor, and they kind of go along, and they are usually seasoned diplomats. Donald Trump didn't want seasoned diplomats, although Jared Kushner certainly has diplomatic experience from the first term, he wanted people who came from real estate dealmakers who spoke his language. So he brings in Witkoff, you know, another real estate magnet. He brings in Kushner, also in real estate, but the family's bridge to the Middle east, because they have certain relationships that can enable them to move forward in ways that they felt like they were stalled from.

[Grace Vuoto]

Are they getting blowback inside of Israel of being too close to Qatar, particularly, but maybe some of the other Gulf emirates.

[Eric Cortellessa]

There's certainly segments that are skeptical of that. And even, you know, Ron Dermer, the former ambassador to the United States for Israel, he's currently now in the government. He's. He's very against involvement with the Qataris. He doesn't trust them at all. And there are others who feel the same way. But the Qataris have been that bridge to Hamas. I mean, they're those chief mediators. If not for the relationship with the Qataris, they would not have had the same ability to bring them to the table.

[Grace Vuoto]

Look, I said forever in the first trip we made. They're the railhead of financing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Turkey are kind of the muscle for the Muslim Brotherhood. But it was Netanyahu that really, when you say the bridge to the Hamas. It was Netanyahu really brought the Qataris in. I mean, he's been working, working with the Qataris for years. It's the Qataris money that kind of kept Hamas going for a while. Right? For sure.

[Eric Cortellessa]

And he actually allowed for the Qataris to bring in, not just to funnel money, to bring in suitcases full of cash to keep Hamas afloat in years before the attacks on October 7th. So there's a reckoning in Israel about the security failures that led to this terrible slaughter of civilians. And part of the reason is because Netanyahu had very deliberately wanted to keep Hamas and the fatal led Palestinian Authority in the west bank divided so that there would be no unified Palestinian leader or entity that could say yes to negotiations in any kind of meaningful way.

[Grace Vuoto]

Next Thursday, the 20th, we're going to. I'm going to take an entire hour. There's a book out called While Israel Slept, but two of the top Israelis about military technology and intelligence. This book, if you haven't gotten it, is a page turner. They're going to be here. At least the Katz is going to be here. The two authors. I think we're going to get both. We're going to spend an entire hour and break down everything that led up to October 7th and then the IDF's response. Well, I've got you for a couple of minutes covering the White House. You're a very tough reporter, but you're a very. People know you're a tough guy. They ask tough questions. You won't back off, but you're a fair guy. In being tough and fair, you get kind of scoop after scoop on some of the major things going on in the White House and the world. Why are so many of your colleagues just when President Trump opens up those bilats which you cover every day, they still can't get off the Trump derangement syndrome. Don't they understand that if you're tough, but if you're fair, you're going to get this White House, Caroline Levitt, and particularly the president, because he reads everything and he watches everything that he's going to give these guys a shot.

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, I think tough, but fair is a good mantra. I found that President Trump, you know, he certainly wants you to be fair, but, you know, if you're rigorous with him, if you're tough, he kind of respects that a little bit more than if you're. If you're not. So, you know, look, I just try to ask probing, smart, rigorous questions that I think will elicit newsmaking answers, and that will provide insight into what the president is doing behind the scenes, give us a sense of how this administration is really unfolding. And so that was certainly the mission of this interview and previous interviews. And, you know, I'm just glad that we were able to get some of that insight into this milestone of a, of a deal. We'll see if the piece holds, but.

[Grace Vuoto]

Obviously it's a, it's a blockbuster, and everybody can't recommend strongly enough for the, for Grace and Moe to push it out. But people get the hard copy of the magazine. You're going to want to keep this. One last question. I don't want to you give up any confidences, but I assume the President of the United States, and particularly given his relationship where he feels I think he can talk to you, was not thrilled by the last cover of Time magazine. Can I say that? Is that an understatement?

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, he certainly made that known. So.

[Grace Vuoto]

This photograph is going to be one for the ages. In particular, you've got that, that iconic Time magazine. And then right above it, Trump's World. And it's a brilliant piece. I want to thank you for coming over. Shared. I know you're extremely busy day. Great hit on Morning Joe and the War Room. Really appreciates you coming.

[Eric Cortellessa]

Well, thanks for having me.

[Joe Allen]

Appreciate it.

[Grace Vuoto]

Okay, we're going to pivot now. We got o'. Keefe. Big deal over the. At the Small Business association from his investigation. Harnwell is going to join us. Hey, folks, this thing in Russia starting to metastasize, was it Medved basically came out with both barrels and said, hey, what President Trump's proposing to do on some of the restrictions on oil, some of the sanctions he put on, he called it, and I quote from him, an act of war. So we have active economic warfare between the Chinese Communist Party in the United States over heavy rare earths. Medved is calling what President Trump's doing with the sanctions of Russian oil, quote, an act of war. Economic warfare. All 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. There's only one that boldly stands in the gap for every American that believes that freedom is worth fighting for. And that's the team at Patriot Mobile. For more than 12 years, Patriot Mobile has been on the front lines of fighting for our God given rights and freedoms while also providing exceptional nationwide cell phone service with access to all three of the main networks. Don't just take my word for it. Ask the hundreds of thousands of Americans who've made the switch and are now supporting causes they believe in. Simply by joining Patriot Mobile, switching is easier than ever. Activate in minutes from the comfort of your own home. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Patriot Mobile's all US Based support team is standing by to take care of you. Call 978 Patriot today or go to patriotmobile.com Bannon that's patriotmobile.com Bannon use the promo code Bannon for a free month of service. That's patriotmobile.com bannon or call 972 Patriot and make the switch today.

[Joe Allen]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

[Grace Vuoto]

Okay, James o' Keefe joins us. I got Scott Pressler on deck, by the way. So at six o' clock night I was going to have the folks in Maine, a bunch of breaking scandals there, also talking about Qatar, what's going on with the folks in Idaho. So we're jam packed. Also Irish, this, the cultural nationalism they're coming after in Great Britain and Ireland. We're going to have Mike Walsh, Michael Walsh going to join us live at 6. Dr. Thayer. So we are jammed all throughout the day. I want to get James o'. Keefe. O', Keefe, your investigation is leading not just to a series of massive scalps coming out of the Small Business Administration, but I think it's going to lead to a rethinking in the Trump administration starting with Scott Bess and the team over at treasury about exactly what in the hell is going on with some of these programs that have gone a little bit under the radar, but people are just stealing cash with both hands. James o', Keefe, your investigation and the results so far? Yeah.

[James O'Keefe]

Last night the treasury secretary, Scott Bessett said that they are suspending all of the contracts and task orders with this group we uncovered pending an investigation into allegations, $253 million in treasury administered contract value. We also have Kelly Loeffler at the SBA put out a statement saying they launched an investigation into this so called 8A racket. This is the minority owned businesses that act as pass throughs and shell companies. Steve. And then subcontract out to firms like Accenture and McKinsey. And Steve, last yesterday, I also talked to the Department of Justice. Someone in the antitrust division called me and said they're launching a criminal investigation. And we have released another lot of updates here. A second video yesterday of another guy in this organization, this federal contractor, admitting to $100 million fraud. So this whole scheme, this whole racket, these shell companies that act as minority firms, but they're not actually minority firms. This is a $100 billion scam. But what's different in this time, and I've known you for 15 years, is it looks like they're actually suspending the contracts. The government's doing something about it. I know it's a start. We hope the Department of Justice arrests these people. But they told me yesterday they are launching a criminal investigation. So big news here.

[Grace Vuoto]

Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. Suspending the contracts immediately. Cuts off the cash, going through it. That's huge. And we got Scott involved. That's even bigger than the SBA because he's got to prove the check. So that's massive. But Gail Slater, who we're very close to, runs antitrust. She's a hammer. You're telling me that the antitrust people reached out to you, that they're beginning a criminal investigation?

[James O'Keefe]

Yes, on background, they did. And I want them to go public. I hope they do. But in the meantime, they told me that they're launching an investigation. Yes, and I recognize the government shut down right now, so there's a bunch of bureaucracy with all that. But what people really want, which is. I know what you want. What we want, we want justice, want accountability. We want people arrested if they're breaking the law, which in this case, if they're doing less than 51% of the work as general contractors, they are breaking federal law. So if I did this, Steve, if you did this, we'd be in jail. We stole $500, would be in prison. And this is $100 billion fraud. So breaking. Yes. The answer question is Gail. Gail did read. Gail tweeted at me, actually, yesterday. So. So huge developments here.

[Grace Vuoto]

You, you've been doing this now, you know, over a decade, almost 20 years. From ACORN to now. Have you ever seen a government move as quickly? I mean, you came on the show on Tuesday. Was it Wednesday? I mean, it's like seven, 48 hours. You've put up these videos, you've Been doing, by the way. People should know. And this is the power of o'. Keefe. These operations are impossible. You've been nine months in working this through nine months. But have. Go ahead, people.

[James O'Keefe]

People have a false impression that this is some type of, you know, dating app meeting. This was not a dating app encounter with these officials. We had to set up a fake website, pose as a headhunter that did similar work to what these eight a minority owned subcontractors do. We had to find a hobby of the subjects that we were investigating, meet with them under that pretense, simultaneously bring up, oh, what a coincidence, we do something similar. Then we had to offer a job to these people, meet with them in restaurants two, three times, focus on multiple employees in the same firm to prove it wasn't an isolated incident. And then in that meeting, I wore this ridiculous disguise. Steve, people say, how could they not recognize you with this absurd, with this absurd wig? I did that intentionally to show the incompetence and the corruption. It's not just the corrupt, they're incompetent. And I think it's the goofiness. You know, the ACORN video from 16 years ago led to the congressional defunding of ACORN. That was a Democratic controlled House and Senate. 83 to 7 in the Senate. It's a changed world. But with Scott Bessett statement, he says, quote, taxpayer dollars must be protected. Will not tolerate schemes that try to game small business programs. So it appears as though Kelly Laffle at the sbi, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett and the individual you mentioned in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice are taking this very seriously. I've never seen hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts suspended in all the.

[Grace Vuoto]

Investigations I've done in 15 years and potential criminal. By the way, in Acorn, you were the mack daddy. This way you were Willy Wonka. I mean this was more of the top. And don't, by the way, don't denigrate your dating apps. I mean the war room here, we're mesmerized. We're mesmerized by those hits you've done there. James. We got about a minute. Where is this going, this investigation going? Where are you driving it and where do people get more information about it from your site?

[James O'Keefe]

Well, we have more whistleblowers coming to us now. We've got 20 or 30 whistleblowers. So Senator Grassley wants to talk to the whistleblowers that are seeing this firsthand. We're also thinking about filing Ketam lawsuit if we're saving the taxpayers money. And we have another video dropping today of my encounter with this director of contracts where I take off the wig, I say who I really am. We get a reaction. I think what we need to do is we need to have a massive brave whistleblowers coming forward with their fraud and take the hundred billion dollar program down, get it taken completely down.

[Grace Vuoto]

Where do people go, James, to get to o' Keefe Media Group and to get all the current content you're putting up.

[James O'Keefe]

O'keefemediagroup.com support us. Donate us. Reach out there. O'keefemediagsroup.com thank you, brother.

[Grace Vuoto]

Looking forward to the next chapter in this. O' Keefe getting immediate results. Secretary of the treasury and Kelly Laufer, head of sba, say hey. All these contracts are immediately suspended, full stop. Gail Slater, the hammer that runs the antitrust division at Main justice, is saying, hey, guess what? I think I'm gonna have to investigate this. Looks like it could be some criminal activity. James o' Keefe is on the ramparts. Turbulence geopolitically in the third World War. Russia is calling President Trump's actions an act of war. She is actually in an act of war economically against the United States. God's best is trying to unwind that Birch Gold. Take your phone out, text Bannon Ba n o and at 989-898-get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals from Birch Gold. Talk to Philip Patrick team. And guess what? How. Hang on because it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Short break. Scott Pressler next in the war room. Okay, let's be honest. You never thought it would get this far. Maybe you missed the last IRS deadline or you haven't filed taxes in a while. Let me be clear. The IRS is cracking down harder than ever. And this ain't gonna go away anytime soon. That's why you need Tax Network usa. They don't just know the irs. They have a preferred direct line to the irs. They know which agents to deal with and which to avoid. Their expert negotiators. Have one Gold settle your tax problems quickly and in your favor. Their team has helped clear over $1 billion in tax debt. Whether you owe 10,000 or 10 million, even if your books are a mess or you haven't filed in years, Tax Network USA can help. But don't wait. This won't fix itself. Call Tax Network USA right now. It's free. Talk to a strategist. And finally, put this behind you. Call 1-800-958-1000. That's 1-800-958-10000 or visit tnusa.com bannon make sure you tell them, Bannon. You'll get a free evaluation. That's 1-800-958-1000. Do not letters from the IRS or your failure to file work on your nerves anymore. Take action. Action and do it today.