Episode 4929: The Islamification Of The US And The West

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room

Episode 4929: The Islamification of the US and the West
Date: November 15, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests:

• Peter McElveen (UK commentator, Gateway Pundit contributor)
• Steve Cortez (political and economic analyst)
• Dave Bratt (academic, political commentator)
• Ben Harnwell (War Room Europe correspondent)
• Mike Lindell (MyPillow founder)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room focuses on geopolitical threats to the United States, with two primary themes:

1. The shifting balance of power in Latin America and the U.S. response—especially via a new, more muscular "Monroe Doctrine 2.0."
2. The advance of "Islamification" within the U.S.—with Texas as a case study—reflecting developments seen in London and other European cities.

A significant segment features a warning by British commentator Peter McElveen about patterns he believes indicate deepening Islamic influence in the U.S., and an urgent call to action for Americans to resist. The episode also addresses Latin American alliances, hemispheric defense, the strategic support of Argentina, and contrasts between past and present U.S. foreign policy.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Shifts in Latin America: Nationalism vs. Left-Wing Influence

• Bannon opens by outlining the battle between left-wing and populist-nationalist movements in Latin America, connecting U.S. foreign policy interests directly to regional developments.
• Key insight: The U.S. military is currently engaged in exercises in the Caribbean as regional tensions (especially involving Venezuela) grow.
• Increased U.S. focus at home:

  "I care a lot more about what's going on in the Gulf of America than I do the Black Sea ... President Trump has reinvigorated that interest with his renewed focus on the Monroe Doctrine."
  (Steve Bannon, 03:28)

Notable Quote:

"More countries here with strong borders, strong laws, not just a total playground for thugs and bandits and narco traffickers. And when our neighborhood is stronger, our country will be stronger. This indeed is America first."
— Steve Bannon (04:31)

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2. The Islamification of Texas: European Warnings and American Parallels

Peter McElveen’s Texas Report

• McElveen draws parallels with changes in London:

  "Since 2000, ... the number of mosques [in the UK] triple[d], from around 650 to 2,000." (Peter McElveen, 08:41)

• He reports Texas will soon surpass other states in mosque growth:
  • Texas has ~350 mosques, up 50 in just two years.
  • Concentrated in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.
• Controversial claim: Existence of two active Sharia courts in Irving, Texas—handling ~300 cases per year—but clarifies their rulings are not legally binding outside their communities.
• Concern: The Muslim community in these areas functions "as if back in the Middle East," due to linguistic and cultural barriers.
• Bannon and McElveen argue that growing halal food markets and Islamic financial interests are signs of "economic jihad."

Notable Quotes:

"Texas added 48 mosques in the last 24 months. ... They're opening multiple mosques per month in the state of Texas."
— Peter McElveen (10:31–10:54)

"You can't have Sharia courts here in the United States of America. How do we have two Sharia courts ... handing down decisions and verdicts in ... Texas?"
— Stephen K. Bannon (12:06)

"Texas by the end of the decade will have more mosques than any other state in the US ... There is something sinister happening in, in the US and especially in Texas."
— Peter McElveen (09:19 & 21:34)

Grassroots and Legislative Pushback

• Encouraging: McElveen met "a dozen" Texas legislators "wanting to push back."

  "It may be too late. ... But I believe that for Texas, there is a current opportunity ... to fight back."
  — Peter McElveen (23:44)

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3. The Influence of CAIR and Muslim Political Activism

• Segment on CAIR:

  • Reports steep increases in Muslim political engagement and electoral success, with 38 Muslim election victories in 2025 and nearly unanimous Muslim support for specific candidates.
  • Bannon and Cortez contend that CAIR has been linked to controversial activity, referencing designations as a terrorist organization abroad and its past mentioning in U.S. terrorism trials.

• Concerns articulated:

  • U.S. attention is being diverted by wars abroad, allowing grassroots activism by Muslim organizations to proceed largely unchecked domestically.

    "While your enemy is diverted, ... this is the five alarm fire we got to focus on here in the United States."
    — Stephen K. Bannon (19:54)

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4. Historical Perspective: “You don’t come back from that”

• Bannon draws on European examples—London, Paris, Brussels—to make his case that, without decisive action, American states will follow the same trajectory:

  "Brussels is 30% Islamic. You don't come back from that. ... With the birth rates of the local Belgians, you don't come back from that."
  — Stephen K. Bannon (13:18)

• References earlier warnings that were dismissed in the UK, now realized as London's Muslim mayor and rapid demographic change.

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5. Ideological and Religious Comparisons

• Dave Bratt raises the issue of American pluralism, asserting that Christianity is “the only major religion that encapsulates human reason," and argues that Islam offers a fundamentally different (and aggressive) political and cultural stance.

  "What does Islam offer us? ... They're offering us a political and aggressive political agenda and that's it."
  — Dave Bratt (30:50)

• Bannon insists only Hungary, Poland, and their inspirations are confronting Islamification successfully.

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6. The New Monroe Doctrine—Argentina as a Strategic Ally

U.S. Support for Argentina

• Steve Cortez explains the Trump administration's support for Argentina:

  "Argentina just got a backstop ... It's a smart strategic bet on a rising ally in our own backyard, our hemisphere."
  — Steve Cortez (33:07)

• Clarifies U.S. assistance is "not a bailout" but a temporary guarantee to stabilize markets and encourage reform—a contrast with “handouts” to Ukraine.

Debate: Bailout vs. Moral Hazard

• Ben Harnwell warns that any state guarantee could encourage reckless behavior ("moral hazard"), referencing the British pound crisis of the 1990s.

  "Moral hazard is where you ... socialize the risks but privatize the profits ... it encourages more risky behavior."
  — Ben Harnwell (45:43)

• Bannon and Harnwell reference key actors (Scott Besant, Soros) who have profited from such economic interventions in the past.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people."
  — Stephen K. Bannon (05:04)
• "If we don't get our act together ... everything we're doing in the rest of the world is not going to matter because you're seeing an active effort of the Islamification of the great state of Texas."
  — Stephen K. Bannon (08:13)
• "This is economic jihad. The halal food industry is worth $4 trillion worldwide. ... Sharia finance is worth $5 trillion. ... This is economics."
  — Peter McElveen (26:40)
• “Texas is a target. Why is Texas a target? ... As Texas goes, so goes the nation, and as the nation goes, so goes the world."
  — Stephen K. Bannon (25:23)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Summary | |------------|--------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00–02:58| Latin America: US vs. left-wing influence, Venezuela | | 05:04 | "Primal scream of a dying regime" monologue | | 08:41–14:30| Islamification of Texas: stats, sharia courts, parallels| | 16:42–19:13| CAIR, Muslim political participation | | 21:34 | McElveen’s warning on Texas’s future | | 30:12 | Dave Bratt on Christianity vs. Islam ideology | | 33:07–37:15| Steve Cortez: Rationale for US support to Argentina | | 44:55 | Ben Harnwell: Critique of "bailout," moral hazard | | 46:38 | British pound/ERM historical analogy |

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Tone and Language

The tone is urgent, alarmist, and unapologetically combative, typical of Bannon’s War Room. Warnings are issued to American conservatives, with frequent references to European decline and the necessity for action in the U.S.—particularly in Texas. The episode is laced with calls for vigilance, claims of “economic jihad,” and appeals to Christian-nationalist and populist themes.

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Conclusion

This episode uses geopolitical developments in Latin America and demographic/cultural change in Texas as a unifying narrative about threats to American national identity and sovereignty. The show's core message: unless Americans confront these domestic and international challenges assertively—especially the perceived threat of "Islamification"—the U.S. risks following Europe’s path to social fragmentation and political weakness.

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Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

As Secretary Hegseth has announced Operation Southern Spear, I can tell you Latin America is totally up for grabs. You have the left wing alliance of Cuba, Venezuela, increasingly Colombia and Honduras. And then you have the populist nationalist vision for Latin America led by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Mele is in that light, Marino in Panama, in that light, also the President of Paraguay. And there is a great battle of ideas going on here. Now my sources tell me that the battle over Venezuela may not even have to go kinetic if the United States is able to force Maduro into a number of decisions. And those decisions could divide his coalition, weaken the extent to which military generals are reliant on him. And here's what's interesting. I'm watching it down here now.

[Peter McElveen]

Steve.

[Steve Bannon]

The Honduran election at the end of this month could very well be a test case for whether or not the military in Venezuela turns against the people. Because we expect a lot of Venezuela's tactics to be used by the political left in Honduras, where we think the populace would prefer a center right government, but there's a left wing government in power.

[Steve Cortez]

Now.

[Steve Bannon]

Usually when a regime is under siege like Maduro is, they try to bring their military in closer. They try to centralize whatever control they have over a capital or jurisdiction. But here we've seen Maduro take a very different tactical stance. He's actually moved the military out into the country hoping that if there was or strikes on Caracas, he could create chaos and violence in the outer areas of Venezuela and that that would give them some place in the hinterlands to control and occupy. So as he makes that decision, there are going to be a number of these key military leaders and generals who question it, who maybe leave Maduro's side. And he could be very vulnerable in Caracas, not to direct kinetic US military intervention, but to simply the people there realizing that his days may be number.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Good morning. The United States is conducting new military drills in Trinidad and Tobago amid tensions with Venezuela. Now the military exercises start tomorrow and will last for five days. That's according to the Caribbean island nation. The last several weeks the US has built up its mobilization of forces in the Caribbean that includes the US's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford. The Marines have also already been deployed to fight illegal drug trafficking, according to the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now appealing to the American public. It is to the people of the United States that I speak to at this moment before these 100 jurors from 34 countries to say stop the insane hand of those who order bombing, killing and bringing war to South America, to the Caribbean.

[Steve Cortez]

Stop the war.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

The US has launched at least 20 attacks in the Caribbean claiming they were targeting illegal drug boats, though no proof has been offered publicly. At least 80 people have died in those attacks. But where do people on Capitol Hill stand with this, as far as they've been briefed about kinetic activity? Because I hear there's a number of plans that the Pentagon has laid out and Hex has laid out as a range of options. Kinetic options for President Trump, sir.

[Steve Bannon]

That is the job of the Department of War. My understanding is that there is very strong support on Capitol Hill for the operations you are currently seeing to take out narco traffickers on their way to the United States. Similarly, there's not a lot of love for Maduro. There's not this sense that Maduro is never going to be a problem for the United States. Look, you know me. You know I'm not an invade everywhere, invite everyone Republican. But I care a lot more about what's going on in the Gulf of America than I do the Black Sea. I think it's a. A lot more consequential to people in our country what's happening in Brazil and Honduras and Venezuela rather than what's happening in Bavaria or the Balkans or the hills of Eastern Ukraine. And President Trump has reinvigorated that interest with his renewed focus on the Monroe Doctrine. I think that that is going to pay dividends for our country for many years to come. Of course, you and I know there is a latent resentment in Latin America over U.S. involvement that dates back to the days of United Fruit and Standard Fruit. Now you. They're very well known brands of Dole and Chiquita. But this is a different day. And with populist nationalist leaders like Nayib Bukele rising in Latin America, this may be an opportunity to defeat the left. And then here's what that means for the United States. More countries here with strong borders, strong laws, not just a total playground for thugs and bandits and narco traffickers. And when our neighborhood is stronger, our country will be stronger. This indeed is America first. And it brings our attention closer to home.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

[Steve Cortez]

And where do people like that go.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

To share the big lie?

[Steve Cortez]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

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. Banner. It's Saturday the 15th of November in the year of our Lord 2025. Okay, we're going to put aside all the noise and we're going to focus on signal what President Trump and the second Trump term is looking at geopolitically as he tries to unwind all this mess he was handed plus at the same time pivot to hemispheric defense to then make sure that he spends a great bulk of his time focused on the American economy. We laid part of that out yesterday about the bet we've made on the economy and treasury and commerce and other people that are working on it. National Economic Council Today we're going to go through the chessboard of what President Trump and I think these will be activities and actions that will be potential coming this week. At the same time, a pretty disturbing story out of the Times of Israel talks about a partition of Gaza, that a U.S. deal is being put together and the missing name in that deal is Israel. They talk about the Arab states, the Muslim states, Turkey, all of this quite interesting. We'll get into that. The Saudis come this week. It's going to be a two day trip by mbs, who's essentially the crown prince, but he's the head of, he's the head of Saudi Arabia to sign off on a new architecture for defense of the Middle East. We're going to get to all that. But first I want to talk about what we have to keep our eye on here as we're doing all this in Latin America and this big pivot to Central America and hemispheric defense from the Arctic and Greenland to Panama down to Argentina and of course Central America. And that is what is going on in what's going on in New York City and what is going on particularly in the state of Texas. I want to put an alarm out. I'm telling you in Texas we've got a big, big, big problem. Before I get into Latin America and I've got, we've got Dave Bratt, we've got Ben Harnwell, I've got Brandon Weickert, one of the great geopolitical thinkers, Dr. Bradley Thayer is going to be with us Jack Posobic, Steve Cortez just got back from Argentina about the bailout down there, all of it. But McElvena, you have a piece up in Jim Hoff's Gateway Pundit that's very disturbing. It's about the state of Texas. And in a couple of days you spent down there, I think 100 hours. The reason it's disturbing, you know, besides Raheem and the guys we've been working with for years, you've been warning both on your show and in your writings about what happened to your beloved United Kingdom and particularly what's happened to London. And you are sending out a warning to the American people that couldn't be clearer that if we don't get our act together and start to focus on what's happening in Texas right now, everything we're doing in the rest of this hemisphere, everything we're doing in the rest of the world is not going to matter because you're seeing an active effort of the Islamification of the great state of Texas. Peter McElveeny, walk us through it, sir.

[Peter McElveen]

Well, Steve, I was blown away by what I saw in Texas. And you're right, it was literally 100 hours since I landed and took off and was back in London on Monday. And I've seen the Islam, Islamization of London, 15% Muslim, Mohammed being the most popular boys name in the UK for the last three years running. We have seen the number of mosques, get this Steve, since 2000, for the last 25 years, we have seen the amount of Anglican churches, the state church, fall by 6%. So a slight decline. We have seen the number of mosques triple, triple up there from around 650 to 2000. So there is a radical, absolute change in the religious fabric and the social fabric of the UK and of London and many of the towns in the north of England. We've seen the same in Paris, seen the same in Brussels. Brussels, a 30% Islamic, the political center of Europe. So all of that is happening in Europe. And I went over to the US to talk about this kind of thinking in one way that this was possibly a European problem and you simply had up in Michigan. Wow. I was, I was frightened by what I saw. But I will end on the positive side of lawmakers actually engaged on this issue. And what I saw was Texas by the end of the decade will have more mosques than any other state in the US at the moment. California, I think has got around 400 mosques, Texas around 350. But Texas added 50 mosques over the last 24 months. And that is rapidly increasing. In Irving, where I was.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Slow down. They've added how many mosques in the last 24 months? How many?

[Peter McElveen]

48 mosques in the last 24 months. And that is rapidly increasing. Rapidly increasing. And where I was.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hang on. They're opening multiple mosque per month in the state of Texas.

[Peter McElveen]

Yes. And this is not Epic City issue, which is one area that everyone is focusing on, thank God. This is across. And this is primarily in the Dallas, Houston area and of course done in Austin. This is in the urban areas. I think there are a huge amount of. I need to look at my figures, but There are around 200 mosques, 215 mosques, I think, that are now in the Dallas, Houston area and around 100 plus mosques in Austin. And where I was in Irving, which is kind of between Fort Worth and Dallas, just by the airport, by dfw, there are two Sharia courts operating. And I know that your viewers and listeners, Steve, will think because of the rhetoric coming out from the Republican Party that actually there is a stop on any Sharia courts. That is not happening. There's a stop on Epic City. This is not happening in Texas. But yet there are two Sharia courts. One of them has, I think, ruled on 200 cases in the last year. The other one ruled in 100. And these are voluntary.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. You can't have Sharia courts here in the United States of America. How do we have two Sharia courts that are actually, you know, handing down decisions and verdicts in the great state of Texas, sir?

[Peter McElveen]

Because as in uk, we have moved away as natives from certain areas because the police are too busy, the courts are too busy, the local authorities are too busy. And if a community will deal with their issues, then we will accept that. Now, these verdicts are not legally binding. Just as in the UK and 85 Sharia courts, they're not legally binding, but they are binding for those communities because these women, they don't speak English. They don't have any clue that there is a world outside. They, they may live in Texas, but really they live in 7th century Arabia. That's all they know. So positionally they're in the usa, but mentally, emotionally, legally, they are back in the Middle East. That is my concern. So Islam enters in the back door and we lock the front door and it's not enough.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hang on for one second. This is what the Saudis are coming here this week in a new architecture. But my point is you take their money, you're going to take their religion. John Guandola, the FBI, the former, I guess the former FBI guy who's one of the leaders of this anti Islamic task force and one of the best experts, if Denver can put it up. As we go to break, he's, and I'm trying to track John down. But for all the Texans, it shows that the Texas government, I guess over the last couple of years has given $90 million in taxpayer money to underwrite some of these activities. We cannot have hemispheric defense. We cannot settle down and end the thing Third World war as we're in right on the battlefield in Ukraine, in the Middle east, which President Trump's doing a Herculean effort to do. If at the same time we're allowing right now to happen in New York City, in Texas, exactly what's happened in Paris, in Brussels, in Germany, in particular the United kingdom. Brussels is 30% Islamic. You don't come back from that. You don't, you do not come back from that. With the birth rates of the local Belgiums, you don't come back from that. This is a warning. This is pure signal. And McElveen, he was shocked because he didn't, he didn't realize how far. I was shocked. I spent four days down there. I went down. The principal reason I went down was this topic we report, you know, we did shows on other topics. It was this. I was stunned when I heard McElveen, he was going down. I was looking for the report. And when he's stunned, that shows you how far down the road this is. Short break back and the worm in a moment. Ever since COVID millions of Americans have started buying preparedness supplies, especially emergency food. And hey, that's a good thing. But there's a big mistake most people make with their emergency food supply. They don't have any way to cook it in a real emergency when the power's out or the grid is down. That's why our friends over at my Patriot Supply create their Black Friday survival special. It comes with a 4 week food supply plus $150 worth of free gifts, including everything you need to prepare your emergency meals like a cook stove, fuel, fire starters, plus a water purifier, bug out bag and more. It's the complete survival kit your family needs to ride out natural disasters, civil unrest or anything worse. It also makes a great Christmas gift, but it's only available through Black Friday. Through Black Friday. So head right now to my patriotsupply.com Bannon to check out everything that's included. With all the uncertainty in the world right now, we simply can't afford to be unprepared. So go to my Patriotsupply.com Bannon and get prepared and get prepared today. That's my Patriotsupply.com Bannon kill America's voice Family, Are you on Getter yet?

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[CAIR Representative]

Of the mutin A new post election study by the Council on American Islamic Relations, or care, and its affiliate group CARE Action shows near unanimous Muslim voter support for key candidates in the 2025 elections a new post election study by the Council on American Islamic Relations, or care, and its affiliate group CARE Action shows near unanimous Muslim voter support for key candidates in the 2025 elections. The study surveyed more than 1600 Muslim voters across New York, Virginia, New Jersey and California. It found that 97% supported Zohran Makdani, who made history as New York City's first Muslim mayor. As many as 95% backed Ghazala Hashmi, Virginia's first Muslim woman elected to statewide office. In New Jersey, 84% of Muslims supported Mikey Sherrill for governor. And in California, 92% favored Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act. That is an amendment to the California state constitution that redraws the state's congressional districts in response to Republican gerrymandering in Texas earlier this year, CAIR said Muslim voters demonstrated strong turnout, civic participation and a growing influence in US politics. The organization also confirmed 38 Muslim electoral victories nationwide, calling it a record year for representation. CARE and CARE Actions say they plan to strengthen Muslim voter engagement ahead of the 2026 midterm.

[Steve Cortez]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

Hey everyone, we have really exciting news to share with you. For the first time ever, a Muslim American Heritage resolution has been adopted in the Florida House and Senate.

[CAIR Representative]

So we need you to reach out and thank the representatives and Senator who made this possible.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Please call Ana Eskimani, Rita Harris, Andy Nixon and Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith to thank them for helping us honor the.

[CAIR Representative]

Contributions of Muslim Americans to the state.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Of Florida and to our country. 97% supported Sadiq Khan. Now the last two clips I wanted in there because they are Florida, but the same thing's going to Texas. Correct me if I'm wrong. Cair, I believe has been designated a terrorist organization in the UAE and in Saudi Arabia. CAIR and I believe they were also named in the Holy Land foundation trial. What decades ago about terrorist activity and the financing of terrorist activity. The Muslim Brotherhood are very smart. While your enemy is diverted, while their attention is diverted trying to stop the third World War and now hemispheric defense in Latin America. And we're making tremendous strides in that. This is the five alarm fire we got to focus on here in the United States. If we don't get this right, it doesn't matter what happens in Latin America, it doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine, it's not going to matter what happens in the Middle East. This is when I gave the speech of the National Conservative to a principally kind of neocon Jewish audience. I told him, I said, look, it ain't Tehran is the existential problem to Israel or the Jewish people. It's Mamdani. And they didn't pay attention. In fact, 33% I think of Jewish voters voted for Mandami. Of all voters, 67%, I think, or 65% of young Jewish voters below the age of 35. You see what's happening in Texas. Those two things of care what they're doing in Florida. They're grassroots activists and they'll work. They'll work. So you see what's happening Plano, Texas. McElveena, you have seen what's happening to your United Kingdom. And I tell people there, hey, unless something happens, if Nigel Farzer gets in and even Nigel's got to get tougher, you know, he's now come our direction, not his direction on mass deportations as a solution so Nigel's getting tougher as we go along. The two other political parties over there, labor and the Tories, are pathetic. But I just want your assessment. I know you got a bounce of your, you know, the couple of days you spent in Texas, you were shocked. You didn't think it was far. As long as it is, sir, I didn't.

[Peter McElveen]

And Steve, you realize that we have to fight every day for the freedoms we have. And my big concern is that those in Texas think we're Texans. Surely this cannot happen here. And I, when I posted that article, someone said, no effing way this can happen, happen here. This is Texas. Well, it is happening under your very noses. And this is no criticism of what's happening in Texas. This is a understanding of where we are in the uk, where we are in Europe. And this seems to be repeated over in Texas. And you mentioned the Holy Land Foundation. You also mentioned about care and their 513 status. There's so many issues that have happened in the past that are happening currently that we need to wake up and be aware. And even in goods in Texas, you've got a 15% increase in halal food market year on year. In Dallas, it's 20% increase. We in the UK only have 9%. Dallas is double what we have in the UK. There is something sinister happening in, in the US and especially in Texas. And I've looked at documents going back to show that actually different Islamic organizations have targeted Dallas specifically and have pushed that. And you see now the rewards of their efforts in that being ruled out. You see Sharia courts coming. You see Epic City being rebranded as the Meadows. I mean, it sounds like an English village, and yet it's an Islamic center, a purely Islamic area that's going to drive Islamic values. And just because it's been rebranded does not mean it's gone away. It just means they are smarter with their tactics. And we need to be smarter being aware of that and deciding what we stand for, what freedoms we stand for, what values we stand for, and for opposing this. So the fight is on, Steve. It's not going away. And just another thought was I met with probably a dozen Texas legislatures and I actually came away feeling there actually is hope because there were so many that are aware off the issue that are wanting to push back on this. And it may be too late. We never know what timescale we have to actually stand up and fight these issues. But I believe that for Texas, there is a current opportunity, there is a time with the concern politically to fight back.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

On this, Peter. When I first got started getting involved in politics, I guess after I made the Reagan film back in 2004, 2005, but it was really 2008, nine after the financial crash where they bought making other films, I realized that in doing analysis of what was happening in the United Kingdom, and, you know, I was trying to put together a film that never came about because I couldn't get financing for it, on the Islamification of the United States like I saw happening in England. And this is when I met Raheem. And Raheem was one of the great firebrands of this. That's what he really became known for. People laughed at us about London, laughed in our face. Never happened here. It's not going to happen here. This is just something we're taking in from the Empire. This will never happen. They'll never have any power people. Some of the smartest people in the city of London looked at me and laughed in my face. Some of the smartest people in media over there in politics laughed in my face. And look at Sadiq Khan in London today. And that is an example. That's the exact example that Ma' Am Donnie uses. And what they're trying to do to. They're going to turn New York into something worse than London, but they're always wrong. And, yes, some people are waking up in Texas, but it's really the grassroots and the politicians haven't done enough at this thing. I'm going to get Guandola over the weekend. This $90 million in taxpayer money going to fund this, this has to be stopped. If you don't stop this now, if you don't stop it now, history shows us. Look at Paris, look at London, look at Brussels, look at Germany. If you don't take Poland and you don't take Hungary as an example, if you don't have the courage to say, we're not going to let this happen, and we don't care what you call us, we don't care what you do to us. We don't care about any of it. We're going to stop it. Texas is a target. Why is Texas a target? Why do we spend so much time on the worm in Texas? Why? As Texas goes, so goes the nation, and as the nation goes, so goes the world. And Texas is a jewel, you know, it's a jewel of a state and people with resources and talent and determination. That's why they've targeted. They've got New York City. They've got New York City. They've taken New York City. Like they've taken London and now they're going for the hinterland of this country, the beating heart of what it means to be an American. And that is the great state of Texas. Peter I want everybody to read this article over atover at Jim Hoff's Gateway Pundit. I want to thank Jim for having the courage to put it up. Where do people go? You got your show, you got all your social media. Where do people get you?

[Peter McElveen]

So then go Hearts evoke UK on X and Hearts evoke everywhere else. And follow me is the wonderful Brad Thayer and he was with me just a few days ago on our show. But can I just make that this is economic jihad. The halal food industry is worth $4 trillion worldwide. The Sharia finance is worth $5 trillion trillion dollars. Those are both growing at between 10 and 15%. This is economics and this is what we can't just face this on a religious angle, but we need to face it on an economic angle and that is key. The supply meets the demand and the demand is there.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

What did Lenin say about the capitalist and the Marxists? He said they'll sell us the rope with which we'll hang them. The exact same thing here. The exact same thing here. Peter, thank you so much for being with us to kick us off on a Saturday morning, my favorite show of the week. Thank you, sir.

[Peter McElveen]

Thank you, Steve.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Dave Bratt]

Yeah. For the last 50 years in US K to 12 in higher education, we've been taught all religions are the same. And so the American people are a generous people of the mind. And they bought into that. The fact is, that's not true. Christianity is the only major religion that encapsulates human reason. To prove that, it's fairly simple. Name an Islamic university right now. Why does this matter? Because Christianity has brought you human reason, right? Plato turned into Augustine, Aristotle turned into Aquinas. Then you got Locke, Calvin, and the US Constitutional guys, Madison, all in the Christian line. That's human reason bringing you this. We the Catholics gave us human rights language in the 13th century. Islam did not and they do not. Instead, what does Islam offer us? You had it on your show. They offer us Islamic advocacy hubs. They're offering us a political and aggressive political agenda and that's it. What are they offering us as Americans that good for us? Are they offering an expansion of education, of human reason, of democracy? And the answer is no across the board. And so the American people better get on this. Also to realize philosophy is dead right. You cannot name a modern philosopher of any note at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. That's a tragedy. And so if there's no philosophy, then guess what? Guess what the only game left in town is, and it is religion. So you better choose your religion very carefully. Christianity we do not view as an ideology. We believe it is the truth. And upon that truth, we've established American greatness. And just in closing, if you fail to choose that greatness which Europe has through England, the churches, France, Germany, etcetera, you see the economic decline, the political decline, and the rise of political Islam and the loss of all the institutions that made them great.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Only Poland, only Poland, Hungary and the nations they've inspired are holding the line. This is why they're free and they're happy and they're safe. Yep, because they held the line. Paris and France, a disaster. England, a disaster. Brussels, a disaster. Germany, a disaster. Italy, getting to be a disaster. All for the same reason, gutless elites who would not sit there and say, no, this is not going to happen on our watch. That's why we need to get focused and focus on this. Now let me pivot now. I want to go to the hemispheric defense. President Trump understands and is pivoting here to make sure that we're not just on endless wars on the Eurasian landmass. Unfortunately, that he got dumped on him. That would have never happened on his watch. They didn't happen in his first term. It was all Biden and the globalist. I got a clip of Cortez in Argentina. I want to talk about that first before we talk about all Latin America and particularly what's happening in Venezuela. Let's go ahead and hit it.

[Steve Cortez]

Argentina just got a backstop from the United States. And this is not charity. It's a smart strategic bet on a rising ally in our own backyard, our hemisphere. President Trump and Treasury Secretary Ben, they know exactly what they're doing. Besant, he's not some Beltway bureaucrat. He's one of the sharpest capital markets minds on the planet. So if he's backing Argentina, pay attention. This isn't Zelensky. It's not some tyrant who's constantly begging for ever more handouts from America into a black hole halfway around the world. This is Argentina in the Americas. This is a Pan American beachhead for prosperity. Now, America first doesn't stop at our borders. It starts with stabilizing our hemisphere. And we don't need another failed Latin state exporting chaos and caravans to the United States. Here's also what a lot of Americans don't know. Argentina. At one time, it was richer wealthier than the United States. These people, they do know how to win, but it's lacked leadership. Now it has Milei, bold, relentless, an economic realist, a true disruptor. Can he make, Can Milei make Argentina great again? Well, it's already happening, and this time America is betting on the right horse here in Argentina.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Okay, Besant, our good friend and former colleague and contributor gets a little testy when we call this a bailout. Why is this. I'd love what you said, but back it up. Why is this just not a bailout for the failed economic policies of one of these libertarians that has all these crazy ideas? Sir?

[Steve Cortez]

Yeah, it is not a bailout because it's a backstop. It is essentially a bet. And I don't know if Secretary Bessing would want to use that term, but that's really what it is, a bet to say we are going to provide liquidity, use the faith and credit of the United States to step into a moment where there is legitimate fear that hedge funds around the world may attack Argentina in a critical moment because of political instability and that they could perhaps disrupt the recovery, which is extremely strong. Inflation, finally, which has been the scourge of Argentina for decades, inflation is finally getting under control because of what Milei is doing there. So for both strategic reasons, but as well as the the angle of a smart economic bet, the United States is saying, we will provide a backstop. This is not a transfer of funds. This is not a charity giveaway. This is nothing like what we're doing, for example, with Zelensky. And so far, by the way the bet is working, not only are we not losing money, we're actually making money on it by providing stability there. And, you know, and looking at the geopolitics here, Argentina is the most significant major nation right now in all of Latin America, a place where things are starting to go our way because of President Trump and because of America first foreign policy. But things went disastrously against us during the Biden administration. You now have radical leftist regimes, of course, in Venezuela being the worst of all, but also in Brazil, in Chile, in Colombia, in Honduras, in Mexico, all over Latin America. And you might say, well, wait, why does this matter to us as America First People? Well, it matters critically because we know that when Latin states fail, inevitably it ends up in a migrant crisis for the United States. For example, if you look at, at the illegal alien crimes across America, many of the worst ones are Venezuelans, because Maduro emptied his mental institutions, his prisons, sent the worst hombres possible here to The United States. So both because we should care about our hemisphere, I think a modern Monroe Doctrine makes sense, but also out of pure self interest. We want to have allies, friends, stability in Latin America. That's what Argentina brings right now. And I really believe it is the beachhead at the other end of the Americas from the United States. To begin, what's really going to be, I think a sweeping revival of patriotic populist nationalism across Latin America, where the populist right is ascendant, but needs some help, some push from the United States.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Okay, this is what the gates. Gates is in El Salvador and he made the case, I think he's in El Salvador last night on the show in a brilliant kind of breaking it down. Just make the case. I know you gotta bounce. Make the case. Why? President Trump, when he looks at hemispheric defense, his security architecture is what I call Monroe Doctrine 2.0 with testosterone. And specifically, you're of Colombian descent. Specifically about this situation in Venezuela and what we could be looking at in the next 72 to 90 hours, sir.

[Steve Cortez]

Yes. And when we look at Colombia, for example, my ancestral homeland, unfortunately, their leftist right radical President Petro, who you know by all accounts is personally unstable, involved probably in substance abuse, certainly rules from the presidential palace in a horrific way for the Colombian people, increasingly becoming allied with the Maduro regime, even though the refugees from Venezuela are one of the biggest problems that he faces at home in Colombia. We're going to have a chance to beat him in about six months. He can't run again, but beat his party in about six months at the ballot box. I'm confident that will happen. But again, that's why I'm saying stabilizing Argentina will also lead to victories in places like Colombia at the end of this month, perhaps a victory in Honduras. And all of this matters to the United States. And regarding President Trump and his bombing of these boats, which I think is both strategic and legal and smart, he is telling the narco terrorists across the region that you are in danger when you engage in your activities and not just if you happen to come into the United States. You are in the open waters and perhaps even within countries like Venezuela. So he's taken a very aggressive posture, which I think is necessary. Unfortunately, what Biden did was a massive transfer of wealth and power to some of the worst organizations on earth, particularly the narco gangs, the cartels in Mexico, but really all over Latin America. And President Trump is taking, and you're exactly correct, a muscular stance and saying not only are we not going to stand for this. But you're going to start feeling the wrath of the United States when you are inflicting pain and misery upon our people.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

But make that, make that. Look, in Argentina we're using the economic power of the United States and Scott Bessant's doing a very smart deal there. It's a backstop, not a bailout. Although people are saying we're your backstop in some of these hedge funds. But it looks like it turned around, particularly the guy won the election and Milei is in a better strategic position. You've got the narco terrorists. Some people are saying, yeah, but Maduro is a nation state where they stole the election or not. Right. Which he obviously did. It's a nation state and you've got a carrier battle group, carrier strike force off the coast, plus you got an amphibious Ready group with 4,000 sailors and fleet marines. You're not down there just to take out speedboats. Make the case about how do you go after a sovereign nation as bad as that sovereign nation is, sir.

[Steve Cortez]

Right. No, listen, I'm not trying to make the case for all out war against a sovereign nation and I for one believe that that requires going to, to Congress to do that properly. But strategically taking out narco terrorists, even if they are domiciled within a sovereign nation state, I think that is absolutely smart, strategic and permissible by the law. You know, I would give you as an example what we did to Osama Bin Laden who was certainly being harbored by, by at least some elements within the Pakistani authority structure. But we didn't hesitate, we didn't ask permission from anybody in Islamabad or Karachi to go after him. So I would, I would think it's a similar kind of construct here. If there are known terrorists who are direct dangers to the United States, who are poisoning the people of the United States and we can effectively take strategic shots at them. That makes sense. I'm not talking at all about wholesale nation versus nation fighting.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Before you leave, you got a minute? Make the case. Hemispheric defense of really The Monroe Doctrine 2.0. Why is Argentina like one of the jewels in the crown, sir?

[Steve Cortez]

Yeah, I'll tell you. So I got to spend the whole week there. It's an incredible place. Anyone who's been there knows this, that it reminds you a lot of Europe. The streets of Buenos Aires largely look like Paris or Madrid. There's great human capital there. But in addition to that, and this is perhaps even more important in today's era, are the minerals and resources that they have in the ground, but particularly critical minerals. So Argentina is perfect opportunity for both that country, but also for the United States to leverage and to fully employ the strategic minerals that we need for a modern digital economy and separate ourselves from China. It's a fantastic opportunity to both benefit our country, benefit the Argentines, and at the same time end our reliance and dependence on China. So critical minerals, the natural resources, the human capital that country employs, it has all the ingredients to become incredibly successful again as it was over a century ago. I think it just needs a bit of help from the United States.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Steve Cortez where do people get your films, your coordinates on social media? All of it?

[Steve Cortez]

Yeah, please find me Cortez Investigates Cortez with an S at THE END Cortez investigates.com All of my docs and information are there, including my new Maha documentary.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Steve Cortez]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Okay, let me go to Rome. I'm going to get harmful. Well, in a little bit later about what's happening in Ukraine, in the Middle East. But, Ben, you and brother Cortez had to bounce. I take it you disagree quite strongly with Steve Cortez, sir.

[Ben Harnwell]

I do, Steve, because you're tickling out to me my inner. I hate to say it, but my inner libertarian instincts on this one. You know, Steve Cortez says that this is a backstop and not a bailout. And that might be true technically. My main problem here is that it fundamentally, it seems to me to be setting up what was called in political philosophy is a moral hazard. So if you have the United States here backstopping the argentine peso for 20 billion, the whole point of having a free floating currency is that it's a.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Full stop, full stop, full stop, full stop. Moral hazard was a term in generation zero I put out when I made the film. It's about 2008 and the financial crash. Explain to the audience what is moral hazard.

[Ben Harnwell]

Moral hazard is where you. In this case, it's where you socialize the risks but privatize the profits. The best example would be, Steve, if you were to casino and I said to you, look, bet all the money you want. Any losses you make, I will underwrite them. I, Ben Hahn, will underwrite your losses. But any winnings you get on the blackjack table, you get to keep those. The consequence of moral hazard is that it encourages more risky behavior. And that's fundamentally the issue here.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

And also, as you get involved, you start to own it. Once you do this with the whole Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, of course, of course, you bail out Bear Stearns, well, you got to bail out Lehman Brothers. They can still be risky. And you just sit there and go, no, we got to stop the merry go round. It collapses. The whole system collapses. Is that your problem with Argentina?

[Ben Harnwell]

Look, yes, but let's go back to, I think, the 16th of September 1992. This is an event scarred on every Britain's hearts. And that's when the United Kingdom was humiliatingly ejected from the exchange rate mechanism, which is the precursor to the single currency, the euro. The British government, the British treasury, sacrificed the billions and billions of sterling to try to defend the pound at an unsustainable rate. And you know who the primary beneficiary. This is the irony Right. Of where we are now. The primary beneficiary of that, who gambled against the pound and made, I think that was where he really made his millions, was George Soros. And who was his principal fund adviser then? Scott Besant. If America is going to do this. Right.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Yeah, right.

[Mike Lindell]

Yeah.

[Ben Harnwell]

If America, if America's going to do this, Steve, there is no one I would rather have at treasury than Scott Besson because he lived through that. I think he made a lot of money out of the humiliation of Sterling himself. So this Scott Bessant is definitely a guy who knows how these things work. But I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go any, anywhere near it. The whole thing.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

I'm not a big Melee fan, but because I'm not, I'm not libertarian. However, it was a strategically determined, strategically important by the Trump second term that we had to have this guy continue. He did win. It looks, so far, it looks like a brilliant move. But you're right, Scott was very involved on the trading desk, breaking the British pound and the bank of England. Stick around, Ben. We're getting more of this. Mike Lindell, understand you've got some personal thing you got to deal with today. We're going to get you on a little early. The boardroom posse is sitting there going, we want to talk Black Friday. We want our deals for Christmas and we, we want them now. What do you got for us?

[Mike Lindell]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

We're not going to allow that radical Muslim attorney general in Minnesota shut down a company based on Christian principles. Not going to happen. Not going to happen on our watch. I don't care how hard you come after Lindell and not going to let these demons are always trying to take him down, people. It's a company built upon Christian values. Mike Lindell was a. He was admit a degenerate until he met he take God and Jesus Christ as his savior. He turned around his life, he took an idea and made it into a great company. And now you got all these demons, particularly this Attorney general of Minnesota is one of the most evil guys in the country trying to take you down. Not going to happen on our watch. We don't care what we have to do, Mike, to support you. We will support you because the people at your company are too good and you're too good a man, sir.

[Mike Lindell]

Well, thank you so much. And my employees thank everybody at the war room. You guys. They've attacked my pillow with arctic frost. And like Steve said, the attorney general Minnesota now coming at us in full force. He does. He wants to shut us down. They don't want my pillow here. They don't want our values and they don't want my employees to continue on. And this USA they don't want and.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

They don't want your. Your Christian network, your network of therapy centers that's Christ centered about turning people's lives around from drugs and alcohol. They don't want that.

[Mike Lindell]

Right. Lindell recovery network.org Everybody and go there, get some help. Lindell recovery network.org we can fight back by helping. Helping someone in your family get off addiction and get to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Good lesson today, Mike. Thank you so much, Lindell. Brandon Weickert is with us, a geopolitical thinker, one of the smartest guys around. Dr. Bradley Thayer is with us. Jack Bosobic is going to join us. We got Harnwell in Rome. We got Dave Brat here in the United States. We're going to get our hands around all of this. As President Trump pivots to domestic policy and economics, but he's got to deal with you just can't look away from the third world War you got and also the pivot to hemispheric defense. And oh, by the way, we have a ticking time bomb in New York City and in Texas. Remember this can't look away. If you look away now, you're going to lose the country. Look at Poland and look at Hungary. We'll talk to Bassovic that in the second hour. Very short. Commercial break. Like 120 seconds. Then we're back in for the second hour of a Saturday. War Room. Back in a moment. 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 3:12 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 rickardswarroom.com that's all one word. Rickards war Room Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards War room dot com. Do it today.