Episode 5129: MAGA Victory In Japan; Mainstream Says Evangelicals See Viciousness As a Virtue

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room, Episode 5129 (February 9, 2026)

Overview

This episode centers on two major issues: the resounding electoral victory of Japan’s first female Prime Minister and her party—framed as a “tectonic shift” in East Asian geopolitics and U.S.-Japan relations—and a broader cultural discussion on the media narrative that contends U.S. evangelicals increasingly view “viciousness as a virtue” in their alignment with the MAGA movement. The panel includes Stephen K. Bannon, Col. Grant Newsham, Dr. Bradley Thayer, Cleo Pascal, Dave Brat, and Andrew Colvett, who provide expert commentary on these political, strategic, and cultural developments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Japan’s Political Earthquake: MAGA Victory and Regional Implications

Segment: 00:07–14:36

• Natasha Owens’ Patriot Song & the State of American Culture

  • Bannon opens with a critique of celebrity musicians (Springsteen et al.) contrasted with rising patriotic anthems—connecting cultural output to the political moment and “real America’s music.”
  • [Notable quote, Steve Bannon, 01:23] “This is real America’s music…Part of the economy...is the situation with the Chinese Communist Party in China.”

• Japan’s Election and New Leadership

  • The Liberal Democratic Party wins more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats, seen as Japan’s strongest mandate yet. The victory is credited largely to the first female Prime Minister, a “plain-spoken, humble” leader closely aligned with Trump’s worldview.
  • [05:16] “She’s the first female Prime Minister in Japan, and in a patriarchal society, that’s really meaningful.”

• Confronting China: Japan’s New Posture

  • The Prime Minister’s hints at possible Japanese military involvement if China attacks Taiwan sparked strong responses from Beijing (tourism restrictions, rare earth threats).
  • Bannon and guests argue the Japanese electorate overwhelmingly support a harder line against China, contrary to British and mainstream reporting.
  • [Col. Grant Newsham, 08:58] “This was tectonic...a blowout...Most Japanese want Japan to stand up for itself, to stop apologizing, particularly to the Chinese.”
  • The outcome is viewed as a clear rebuke to Chinese pressure and a green light for rearmament and deeper U.S.-Japan military cooperation.
  • [Bannon, 10:03] “The Japanese people basically said: screw you to China.”
  • [Newsham, 10:34] “Public opinion polls were about 90% negative on China…what really scares the Chinese is a solidly linked U.S. and Japan.”

• Regional Consequences: U.S.-Japan-India Accord

  • Discussion turns to the strategic significance of simultaneous anti-CCP moves in Japan and the new U.S.-India trade agreement.
  • Dr. Thayer highlights Beijing’s failure—both by misjudging the Japanese political mood and by galvanizing U.S. alliances.
  • [Dr. Thayer, 13:45] “Xi Jinping drove this...relentless attacks on Japan and her personally were a massive gift to her.”
  • Thayer raises the nuclear question: “We need to start talking about the possibility of a nuclear Japan.”

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2. The Strategic and Economic Dimension

Segment: 14:36–26:52

• China’s Economic Decoupling & U.S. Dollar Hegemony

  • Bannon references a Wall Street Journal report: China’s $1 trillion push to decouple from the U.S.—particularly in chips—as a sign of a new Cold War.
  • Emphasizes the U.S. “End of the Dollar Empire” series, central bank gold buying, and the strategic need for Americans to hedge financially.

• Expanding Alliances: India, Taiwan, Philippines

  • Dr. Thayer: The U.S., Japan, and India are maximizing power, shoring up industrial and military bases, and securing supply chains.
  • [Thayer, 18:42] “We’re in a new era in international politics...States are doing what they can to maximize their power.”

• Political Warfare: CCP’s Internal Destabilization Tactics

  • Panel asserts that the CCP’s “unrestricted warfare” includes undermining the U.S. politically and culturally, not just militarily.
  • Thayer: “The CCP’s political warfare and targeting us never sleeps.” [20:37]

• U.K.’s Surrender of Diego Garcia

  • Cleo Pascal lambastes the U.K. government for considering handing over Diego Garcia (a critical US base) to Mauritius under Chinese influence.
  • [Pascal, 21:35] “I prefer ‘deparasite’ to decouple…The Chinese get into your economy, suck out your capital, your intellectual property, your jobs, and then control you from afar.”

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3. American Cultural Politics: Evangelicals, MAGA, and the Media Narrative

Segment: 30:29–43:12

• Media Attacks on Evangelicals

  • Bannon and Dave Brat discuss recent media narratives (The Atlantic, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough) alleging that evangelicals have adopted “viciousness as a virtue” out of loyalty to Trump.
  • Brat counters that biblical principles (e.g., “loving your neighbor”) are misrepresented; law and order (Romans 13) is not antithetical to the Christian ethos.
  • [Brat, 36:47] “If you love your neighbor as yourself, you want the rule of law in place...They abstract from that. This is not politics—it’s Romans 13.”

• The Political Function of Evangelical Support

  • Bannon suggests mainstream outlets are “trying to drive a wedge…between traditional Catholics and mainstream Protestantism, but particularly in the evangelical community,” because it forms a crucial bulwark for conservative causes.
  • Brat claims the real issue is anxiety among the left over rising church attendance, Bible sales, and renewed faith activism among young people.
  • [Brat, 38:35] “Their anxiety is heightening…The left of course does not like this.”

• How to Support Divided Churches

  • Bannon and Brat discuss efforts by media to “intimidate Christians to not have the back of President Trump,” calling for coordinated messaging—especially by White House faith outreach teams—to highlight how Trump’s policies serve the vulnerable and express unique Christian contributions to human rights and liberty.
  • [Brat, 41:30] “Christians need to be proud of what we’ve accomplished...Christians uniquely and only in Western Europe brought first of all human rights and then…market-based capitalism and modern economic growth.”

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4. American Alternative Culture: Turning Point USA’s Halftime Show

Segment: 47:04–51:57

• A Conservative Cultural Milestone

  • Andrew Colvett (Turning Point USA) reports on the extraordinary success of “The All-American Halftime Show”—potentially the largest YouTube live stream ever (up to 40–50 million viewers).
  • [Colvett, 47:04] “I think you already have the number one YouTube stream of all time.”
  • Argues it’s a “shot across the bow” to advertisers and media executives: there’s vast, untapped demand for patriotic content.

• Implications for Corporate America and Culture

  • Bannon hails this as a “tectonic earthquake” in American culture, paralleling Japan’s political sea change.
  • Colvett urges brands catering to “heartland America”—and advertisers more broadly—to seize this opportunity, thus “breaking the blockade” of woke corporate culture.
  • [Colvett, 50:47] “When you break that stranglehold that the woke has had on the ad world…culture starts changing in some serious ways.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Japanese Resolve
  [Col. Grant Newsham, 08:58]
  “This was tectonic…Most Japanese want Japan to stand up for itself, to stop apologizing, particularly to the Chinese.”

• On the CCP’s Response
  [Dr. Thayer, 13:45]
  “Xi Jinping drove this. His relentless attacks...were a massive gift to her. [The CCP] had a diplomatic official say that Takaichi should be beheaded, actually. So the mask was off.”

• On Evangelicals and Political Identity
  [Bannon, 30:30]
  “Much of today's evangelical world sees Trump's viciousness not as a vice, but as a virtue so long as it is employed against those they perceive as their enemies.”

• On the Strategic Shift in Asia
  [Bannon, 10:03]
  “The Japanese people basically said: screw you to China…This is a game changer in East Asia.”

• On Cultural “Earthquakes”
  [Bannon, 51:50]
  “It was a tectonic earthquake in Japan and a tectonic earthquake here in the United States of America.”

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Important Timestamps

• 00:07–05:09 – Opening cultural commentary, patriotic music, China as persistent threat.
• 05:09–14:36 – Recap of Japanese elections, implications for U.S.-Japan relations and China.
• 14:36–18:42 – CCP economic push, gold and dollar hedging, strategic commentary.
• 18:42–26:52 – U.S.-India trade deal, CCP “color revolution” playbook, Diego Garcia debate.
• 30:29–43:12 – Media narrative targeting evangelicals, biblical vs. political values.
• 47:04–51:57 – Turning Point USA’s record-breaking patriotic halftime, the potential for conservative cultural ascendancy.

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Conclusion

This episode of War Room delivers a multifaceted look at two “tectonic” events: a landmark victory for hardline conservative politics in Japan that signals an era of enhanced U.S.-Japanese alliance against China, and a thriving, alternative American culture rising in opposition to mainstream narratives. The episode also provides a forceful defense of evangelical support for MAGA, casting it not as hypocrisy but as a legitimate reaction to contemporary political and moral crises. Throughout, the panel maintains Bannon’s distinct tone: combative, skeptical of mainstream narratives, and resolutely optimistic about the prospects for the MAGA movement—both politically and culturally.

Transcript

[A]

I danced to Rosalita I shouted out Thunder Road. I used to believe you sang for me in those glory days of old. Where is your song for justice? Where is your song for the working man? I was born in the USA and you spilled my promised land. You preach from your mansion but you don't know the cost. I thank God you're not the boss. What about Lake and Riley? It's Charlie too hard to sing. What about when you took your shot and the one you called K? Where is your song for for justice? Where is your song for working man? I was born USA can you spit on my promised land? You preach from your mansion but you don't know the cost. I thank God you're not the boss I still believe in freedom Cause I got a higher hope I'll keep singing for America even if you are Is a song of compassion where is your song for the hurting man? I was born in the USA and I used to be a loyal fan. You preached from your mansion and you lost that human touch. I thank God you're not I think on your. No, You know you still need help from the boss. We need help from the boss. Monday 9th February Yerlord 20276 right there. Natasha Owens, I think you can download that. It was the. It's still. It was number one on Friday. Natasha Owens put that song together in. She told me what, four or five days? Six days, I think. Incredible. And I, I did that for the audience to make up for having to see Bad Bunny clips from Bad Bunny and Joe Scarborough. And then the double down, we played Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Minneapolis just to make sure the torture was appropriate. Natasha Owens Incredible. In fact, real America's music, I think Anthem of the free of the J6 prison choir. And of course my favorite was it the Somalia Waltz, which I don't think we've played on the show yet. It was so over the top, but that's also climbing up the charts. Part of the economy has got to be the situation with the Chinese Communist Party in China. Huge article, I think, out in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that Talked about the $1 trillion. Anytime anybody talks about China, I know China can be a strategic partner. China is spending $1 trillion to decouple. Remember, we've been the biggest advocates of decoupling from the Chinese Communist Party that until they're an existential threat to our country, they're in unrestricted warfare. You've seen this and we're going to have some people on starting this afternoon throughout the week of this bio lab out in Nevada, CCP oriented, owned by I guess an Israeli citizen. Very confusing what's happened out there, except for the fact that it's very dangerous and very deadly. The Chinese Communist Party's objective is to take down the United States of America. And they're doing it. They're a huge active participant. As Peter Navarro, as Peter Schweitzer has documented the New York Times number one bestseller, Invisible Coup. The Invisible Coup. He talks about the Chinese Communist Party's activity in unrestricted warfare to take down the nation. Now, we've had some yesterday as reinforcing that our strategy in the western Pacific and East Asia is correct. An overwhelming, an overwhelming victory yesterday for that firebrand female prime minister in, in Japan who's very close to President Trump and is reinforcing kind of a, not just re industrialization, but rearmament of Japan and taking a much more aggressive military stance against the Chinese Communist Party. We have a small clip. We have a clip. Let's go play the clip. We've got Colonel Newsham, Dr. Thay and Cleo Pascal going to join us. Let's go and play the clip.

[B]

A Liberal Democratic Party won more than.

[A]

Two thirds of the seats in the lower parliament. It is its best result ever.

[B]

President Trump has previously said that her.

[A]

Decision to call the snap election was bold and wise. It's about a 70% support rating versus her own liberal Democratic Democratic Party, which has less than half than that. And I think there are several factors that have boosted her popularity. One, she's the first female prime minister in Japan. And as you know that it's a very patriarchal society in many ways where women have it difficulty in terms of advancing in politics or even in business circles. And she's also very, I think, plain spoken and she also comes, comes across as very humble in her interactions with the public as well as with other lawmakers.

[B]

You say she's plain spoken.

[A]

Certainly she's antagonized China, hasn't she? Sort of hinting and talking about Japan.

[B]

Possibly getting involved militarily if China ever.

[A]

Were to attack Taiwan? Yes, I think she probably misspoke or maybe she said more than she should have. But I mean, what she said was basically what I think most people who follow these policies in Japan believe would happen because if there is a attack on Taiwan by China that would greatly affect Japan and more likely than not, there might be an intervention by the United States and as a treaty ally, Japan would be drawn into such a conflict. And so China reacted very strongly, strongly urging its tourists not to travel to Japan. Japan being one of the largest destinations, one of the Chinese visitors or one of the largest numbers of visitors that come to Japan. And also they talked about reducing rare earth exports to Japan. And so Japan had similar issues about 15 years ago with the rare earths. But these sort of spats between Japan and China, they sort of ebb and flow and it just seems to be sort of a never ending issue. I disagree with that dramatically. You see, the British broadcaster said, oh, she misspoke. She's antagonizing China. The people in Japan don't think so. I want to bring in Colonel Grant Newsham. This is the equivalent of giving permission structure. This is what's happened in Texas. The reason we moved the show down here for the run up to the primary is this situation with Sharia law and Sharia law now being on the ballot on the 3rd of March. The grassroots 100% and back there's a grassroots is fired up. I, I have seen if you watch local television here it is bombarded with ads. I've never seen anything like it. I mean Cornyn, you can tell where he the Senate, McConnell, these guys got back of him. Number one, his ads are just all non stop. Number two, you would think he is living at the White House the way the ads show the how close to President Trump he is, which is absolutely not a fact. In, in addition, he has taken out ads now about Sharia law and this is because the permission structure to give people permission to talk about this. This is why we had the conference with Gert Wilders and Glenn Beck, myself and Peter McElveen and many others, Grant Stincum, that really gave people permission to talk about this situation of Sharia law in Texas. And it has certainly fired up the grassroots. And this is a grassroots game down here. Colonel Newsham right there, the Ms. You know, the, the oh, she's antagonizing China and she's made a huge mistake by saying that Japan will actually step in and be part of the defense of Taiwan in case there's a case, there's an attack. This was, you know, Japan better than virtually anybody having lived there so long. How monumental was this yesterday?

[B]

Sir, this was tectonic and one doesn't use that expression loosely. This was a blowout and it showed that most Japanese want Japan to stand up for itself, to stop apologizing to everybody, but particularly to the Chinese. That comment that you just had on the clip about Takaichi having provoked the Chinese by her comment over Taiwan, how wrong can you possibly Be with the Chinese, everything is pretextual. They were looking for an excuse to go after her. They hate her. They told the coalition partner for her party to drop out of that coalition and to go after her. And that was at the day after a meeting between that Komeito Party and the Chinese ambassador to Japan. The fellow who asked the question in the Diet, Okada Katsuya, his family has very strong ties or business ties in China. Now, he was probably told to ask the question as well. But this was monumental, what you saw yesterday. Now the test is, what do we do about it?

[A]

Well, but it is giving permission. The Japanese people basically said screw you to China. They have been, because this has been the onslaught. You can't say anything about China. You can't take about the rearmament of Japan, of Japan standing up now like a great nation defending itself, and particularly the potential of even defending an ally. So this is a game changer in East Asia, in geostrategically, because the Japanese people overwhelmingly showed that they have the back of those policies, correct?

[B]

That's right. And even before the election, when about 85% of the seats went to conservative candidates, even before that, public opinion polls were about 90% negative on China, and they have been for years. The Japanese really just about had enough. And the one thing that really scares the Chinese is a solidly linked US and Japan with two militaries that can operate together effectively. They don't like that at all, and that's why they're responding this way.

[A]

Cleo Pascal, you've been out in the Western Pacific warning us about this. How what's the message that people are going to hear about what happened in Japan over the weekend?

[C]

Japan is back as a. As a serious regional player that it has to be factored into considerations. When you're looking at, if you're China doing your calculations over Taiwan, if you're in the Pacific Islands, that maybe you've got somebody who has your back when the Chinese come calling. And Japan, it's very worth noting, has been playing a slow, quiet game across the Pacific islands and in developing relations with India as well. So now that it's kind of come out of the closet, so to speak, as a stronger nation, we might see some reinforcement in the backbones of some of the others involved as well.

[A]

To Colonel Newsham, what kind of shift in policy do you see happening? I mean, Japan is rapidly rearming. They're becoming a true military partner of the United States and East Asia. What do you see about the policy shift?

[B]

I think you're going to see a faster push for the Japan Self Defense Forces to really become a capable military. And they've got some fundamental problems, not least missing recruitment targets by 20 to 25% every year. I think there's going to be an effort to change the constitution so it formally recognizes the Self Defense Force as it is now. Technically, the Japanese military is illegal. It's a huge morale blow to the force. You change that, you spend more money, but also you give the military some respect. And for the first time, we could have a Japanese military that actually gets taken seriously, besides some niche capabilities. Additionally, the Japanese are going to be far more active in the region and they're going around trying to do exercises, but set up ties with just about anyone you can imagine the Indonesians, the Australians, India, Malaysia, Philippines as well. And you may see them actually finally start to give some direct support to Taiwan. The Japanese are giving the Philippines the treatment that they would otherwise give to Taiwan because they're still a little gun shy. But Takaichi recognizes Taiwan's importance and she likes Taiwan and she's been there.

[A]

Dr. Thayer, we got a minute before we break. The Chinese Communist Party just had a loss of face on the global stage, and particularly in East Asia. What are they going to do in reaction to this? They're just not going to sit there and go, this is terrific. The Japanese people are finally standing up themselves and want to want to basically be strong allies militarily with the Americans. What are your thoughts?

[D]

Well, Xi Jinping drove this. His relentless attacks on Japan and take Ichi personally, were a massive gift to her. And in this election, the CCP consistently touted economic retaliation, discouraging tourism restrictions on rare earth. They had a diplomatic official say that Takichi should be beheaded, actually. So the mass was off with the ccp and the Japanese people recognized that. They recognized that they need power and to deal with the ccp. And that power is going to be conventional, as Grant said. And we need to start talking about the possibility of a nuclear Japan. Two to balance the prc.

[A]

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[D]

Well, it's huge. I mean, we're in a new era in international politics. Both sides, the. The PRC is trying to address their vulnerabilities through that over $1 trillion investment to decouple from the US in chips in particular. And then Japan and the US are also addressing their vulnerabilities as they shore up their industrial base, as they shore up their ability to generate the weaponry they need and the industrial base to sustain that weaponry to deal with the prc. India is a part of that. The interim agreement that was reached on Friday night or was released on Friday night, talks of course about reducing tariffs, US Reducing tariffs, India reducing tariffs. India is promising not to buy any more Russian oil, but also securing supply chains and economic security is a key aspect of that agreement as well as. So we see in this new era states doing what they can to maximize their power and to strengthen their ability to support the militaries that they're going to need to have to deal with security competition in this era.

[A]

Dr. Thayer, we gotta bounce. But you're writing a book on the 100 year war of the United States versus communism. Is this now we should understand they're gonna double and triple down on the color revolution that they're driving. As Peter Schweitzer has shown, they're one of the key drivers. The Chinese Communist Party, don't forget the Chinese Communist Party is trying to take us down internally because they understand they're going to have a very difficult time taking us down other ways, particularly as countries like Japan and India and Taiwan pardon with us. Are they going to double down on their efforts to destroy the United States internally?

[C]

Sure.

[D]

They've never stopped, Steve. But us and our allies, their Leninists, and they're very good at political warfare. And so we should never expect there's any lessening of that effort, whether they're supporting George Soros and billionaire donors or unrest in the streets of Minneapolis or elsewhere or undermining our allies and partners like India and Taiwan. The Navy says Russ never sleeps and the CCP's political warfare and targeting us never sleeps as well.

[A]

They're always Dr. Thayer, where do people go to get your writings now more than ever?

[D]

Yes, Steve. Brad Tharod X and Bradley Thayer Getter in truth. Thanks. Thanks very much, Steve.

[A]

Look forward to the book coming out. Cleopascal Is this a time that we should be giving Let the Brits give Diego Garcia way to a country that is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

[C]

Ma', am, can you believe it? It's just insane. And by the way, as you know, I prefer de parasite to decouple. I think that it's a much more accur way of describing how the Chinese get into your economy, suck out your capital, your intellectual property, your jobs. And then if you're the castrator barnacle, which is the specific parasite, I like to compare them to control you from afar. And that's I think, largely what's happened, at least in part of the United Kingdom and has contributed to this crazy decision of the Starmer government to give away the Chagos archipelago, which includes this critical US base on Diego Garcia, to Mauritius and then pay billions and billions of pounds over the next 99 years, if the lease even lasts that long, to lease it back. And the latest on this, if you can believe it, is the Maldives, known mostly as a tropical island paradise, has now moved in to part of the waters of Chagos and claimed that it has control over it because there is some illegal fishing going on. So you've got even a new power. This sort of weakness breeds this vacuum where everybody seems to be saying, okay, well if, if this is up for grabs, we want a part of it. And the thing that I'm particularly concerned about is the Maius government Cabinet notes have said that there will be a delegation going from the US to Mauritius to discuss security in the region. I'm concerned that the US negotiators may have still fallen for part of the UK line, which is that Mauritius should be involved in this at all. They should not. The Chagos archipelago, including Diego Garcia, should stay British. There should be, as was agreed in 1966, that it would stay British at least until another 10 years, until 36. And in the meantime, you do a referendum for the Chagossian people and very likely they're going to vote to stay British and then that's it. None of this negotiation should be going on. The Maldivians shouldn't be sending drones and coast guards into Chagossian waters. It's, it's gone totally off the rails as has the UK political establishment, which is why Starmer's chief of staff has just quit. And now we'll see how long Starmer himself was.

[A]

Starmer kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party is humiliating that a British prime minister would do that. That's what he's coming up and trying to basically give them to your Garcia. There's nothing to discuss over there. There's just nothing to discuss. This is like with the Senate. We have nothing to discuss on the ice tactics and strategy. Right. There's everything they want is just to basically destroy the ability to do mass deportations. They know exactly what they're doing. Same thing in Mauritius. Cleo, where do people go? You're putting stuff up all the time on this. This all hangs in the balance. Where do folks go?

[C]

Yep, just on X. My name Cleo Pascal. I'm on getter as real Cleo still and and if you want the woolly eye Runway which some of the war room posse has been following me on has just opened up. There's been a handover ceremony from the Chinese to the President of Federated States of Micronesia and I'm posting on that as well.

[A]

Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Thank you, ma'. Am. Grant Newsham, what's going to be the next we should look forward in Japan because this is as you said, a tectonic earthquake, a plate shift in the in East Asia.

[B]

Sir, for the first time in 25 years you're going to have a Japan that can actually fight. It's going to take them a little while, but they're moving fast. When they turn to on something, they do it quickly and so the US will finally have a real ally that it can depend on and vice versa. But so expect the Chinese to turn up the heat here. You're going to see Chinese ships, aircraft all over the place leaning in on Japanese territory, particularly down in the south and also where the Japanese just brought up some rare earth minerals from the bottom of the ocean south of Japan. So the Chinese haters are going to try to destroy her. And there's plenty of people in Japan who are on the Chinese payroll who will try. So takes a lot of support. But the dynamic is very different now that America has potentially and most likely a force that can actually reach back and hurt the Chinese if they try something.

[A]

Colonel, where do people go to get you particularly your book when China attacks. It's a great, it's a, it's because you don't say if it's basically when it's a great primer on what to expect. Very strategically smart and tactically smart where they go get all your content.

[B]

Well, the book's on Amazon and the Chinese actually have started attacking. There's two meetings to the the title I'm on X at Newsham Grant and Center for Security Policy. You go there, type my name and you'll find everything that I write.

[A]

Colonel, thank you for joining us today and thank you for being right correct on the on the direction of Japan. It caught a lot of people by surprise, but it did not catch Cleopascal. Dr. Bradley Thayer and Colonel Grant Newsham did not catch them by surprise. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

[B]

Thank you.

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A Lago.

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Much of today's evangelical world sees Trump's viciousness not as a vice, but as a virtue so long as it is employed against those they perceive as their enemies, against those whom they resent and for whom they have a seething hatred. The same people that would say, by your fruits you will be noun are the same ones that are just turning a blind eye to everything. And you're talking about parables and you're like, gosh, the Good Samaritan. Yes, you look at what's happening in Minneapolis. Jesus has asked specifically when he says, love your neighbor as yourself. Who's my Neighbor tells the story of the Good Samaritan, a foreigner that is hated and despised by his audience. And he says, that's your neighbor. That's your neighbor. Not your neighbor, not the person you love, not the person that makes you feel best about yourself, not the person who shares your same belief system, but the despised, hated Samaritan that did what the priests didn't do, that did what the worker didn't do, took care of a person in distress. It is so clear cut also not to go into it too much. But Matthew 25:31 through 46, the disciples, this isn't like, like an administrative leg in the gospel. They say, what must we do to be next to you, to sit at your right hand? What must we do? And Jesus says many things. You know, feed, feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit people in jails, welcome the foreigner. Welcome the foreigner, the stranger. These, these are verses and parallels, parables that lie at the heart of the gospel. And it's one of the few times where they say, what do we have to do to be with you to have eternal life? And Jesus always turns it back to them, Take care of the least among these, because when you do that, you're taking care of me. That's Donald Trump and its followers of Donald Trump. I agree with you. Beth Moore, she was very influential in my daughter Christine's life and she's a person of real courage because people turn on her. Like you said, Russell Moore and others. What explains this? I mean, it's a very complicated issue and it doesn't have one answer. But I do think that what we've discovered over the last 10 years is that for a lot of people who proclaim to be followers of Jesus and sincerely proclaim to be followers of Jesus, their core identity actually is not faith. I think their core identity is in many cases political or cultural and that they tag faith on. It's not as if faith isn't important, but they have these certain pre existing views. Then they're amplified in the social media world and then Donald Trump because of this constant, constant inflaming of passions and grievances just connected with them. And so in the end, what they've done is they've taken, you know, teachings and verses and deformed them, but convinced themselves that they're acting with, with faithfulness. So there's, there's something, you know, particularly disturbing about, about this and the effect on the Christian witness. I say this as a person. The Christian faith is incalculably damaged and so few people are willing to stand up. You named probably half of them the show so far. That's another thing that's, that's troubling in those, in these times. If my people who are called by my name submit themselves before me and turn from there, I could go on and on. We heard it over and over again. But I guess the red letters, Jesus is teaching the gospels. I guess they apply to Democrats, but they don't apply to Republicans. Is that, is that what we're learning here? There's nothing better to fire up the war room posse than have Joe Scarborough on a Monday lecture you on the New Testament. It's unbelievable. I can see Ari in the chat in the war room engine room. Make it stop. Dave Bratt joins us. Dave, this comes off a piece in the Atlantic, another super Christian magazine that's now, I think it's Steve Jobs, wife owns it and they're bringing in every, every left wing writer, kind of a talent grab, but they have particularly focused on religion. They do a lot of pieces on religion. They've got one up and that's what Morning Joe was going off on this morning. Can you walk us through it?

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Yeah, sure. Boy, that's a doozy. Peter Weiner, whoever was the narrator, said he opened up with. It is odd. I'll, I'll tell you what is odd. It is odd to have Joe Scarborough sitting with the pinnacle of western ethics, Father Reverend Al Sharpton. Go Google Al Sharpton. And it, it is a laundry list of crimes down the scene. And it, to which Joe will say, oh, read the red letters, look the other way. Love your neighbor as yourself. No, if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want the rule of law in place, right? And then you got Caddy K, the paragon of British virtues where the churches are empty. These folks, it's very simple theologically right there. You should love as a person, you should love your neighbor as yourself. But as yourself implies also you would want the rule of law for them, right? Because that's what I would want for myself. And they abstract from that. But this is not Politics is Romans 13, right? God institutes leaders to wield the sword and to bring justice to nations. So when Joe invokes Minnesota 20 billion dollar crime and fraud and illegality all over the place and then he, he uses the gospel to say ignore that. You know, feed your brother. Feed the least of these. That is a grotesque version of Christian theology and he knows it.

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Right?

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And truly, if you look at the political level, they're taking it out on President Trump. We had Biden chaos, right? 20 million illegal aliens. And then when you try to restore the rule of law, guess what, that's not easy. But they brought the chaos and again the law, nothing. And then the gift.

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But hang on one second. I just want to make sure people, I want to make sure I understand it and then hopefully the audience, the case they're making here and we've had Basham on and others that do this professionally and study this about. They're trying to drive a wedge in the church. They're trying to drive a wedge between traditional Catholics and the standard stock Catholic church, between mainline Protestantism, but particularly in the evangelical community, because they, as Basham tells us, the evangelical community has oftentimes become the last line of defense we have against some of these more outrageous policies. And correct me if I'm wrong, they're making the argument that any of the evangelical preachers and any of the evangelical pastors and people like the new turning point, or I shouldn't say the new term, but the turning point, faith people bringing young people together, that what they're doing is they're actually throwing away the Gospels of Jesus Christ and actually teaming up with an autocrat king, which they refer to Trump. And for political power, they're drafting off what they call Trump's hate and Trump's viciousness against various communities.

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Is that.

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Is that essentially what they're trying to do here?

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Yeah. No, it's just clear. And I think their anxiety is heightening because at the prayer breakfast, as President Trump said, you know, the young people are up a couple hundred percent, the young men attending church up a couple hundred percent. Bible sales are going up 2, 300%. And so the left, of course, does not like this. They're not. Have you ever heard the left push Bible sales? Have you ever heard NBC or MSNBC or CNN or anything? Bring up the. Or the Atlantic, bring up the Gospel? They only do this to divide the Christian right, and they're not having any of it. Right. As I said after the prayer breakfast, when I came on President Trump at first, you know, 10 years ago, there may have been some wrinkles or whatever, but the evangelicals and the broader Catholic community and the rest of the world now is seeing what President Trump is doing to restore order. Right. The Biden chaos extended to collecting $30 million in checks for the Biden family, et cetera. That corruption, along with Minnesota, et cetera, that's visible for everybody to see. And we were becoming weak. Now President Trump is pushing the order not only on the US Evangelicals, but on the rest of the world. And he's strengthening NATO, he's strengthening the United nations, he's strengthening the institutions. He's getting rid of the rot that has decayed our values and virtues abroad, and he's restoring classical American virtues. And Pete Hagg said is doing the same thing. I could go right across the board. So the left is trying. They're trying to drive a wedge. There's a few evangelicals who are just, you know, bitter at, you know, for some reason to go there.

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Yeah, but hang on one second through it. You made a statement the other day because the prayer breakfast is not just maga. The prayer breakfast is a broad range. You have Democrats there, you have mainstream Protestants. You have many very, very liberal Catholics. You said the prayer breakfast the other day, one third, particularly the evangelicalists are with President Trump. One third are kind of, they'll do it, but they don't want to be identified with it. They're afraid that there will be like the guys in Minneapolis, the church will be attacked, et cetera. And then the third are against us going into politics in the future, particularly with all these issues we have with mass deportation, et cetera. What can we do? We got a couple minutes here. What can we do to assist the 1/3? Right. Those are the ones that are being attacked in this Atlantic article, what they're trying to do. They see the power of Don Lemon and these guys going into the church and intimidate people. This is what they're going to start doing next. They want to intimidate Christians to not have the back of President Trump in these MAGA policies. It's quite evident. And they're going to do with an intellectual piece here. So given that you were at the prayer breakfast, what can we do collectively to make sure that we have the back of that one third and expand that so we can get the other third on board?

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Yeah, well, that's right. And just to be clear, we have 2/3 and maybe a little more of the evangelicals backing President Trump. There's a third that are weak and, you know, they're, they're relatively hopeless. But what do we do? The White House has several initiatives on religion. And if they can help put together talking points to show how Trump's policies are actually serving in the interest of the poorest of the poor. Right. When you look at Africa and China going into Africa, China going into whatever, Africa is no longer in a love fest with China. Let me tell you that I meet leaders from Africa over the past several years. So they need to put out in simple bullet point form at the highest level at geopolitics, what is President Trump doing to reunite the world around some principles? Right. We've had a 70 year run of relative peace and prosperity. We're not angels at the state level. But there's no comparison morally between us and China, who doesn't believe in any sense of human rights. We have a constitution on paper. They do not in its simplest form. Also, the Christians need to be proud of what we've accomplished. Christians uniquely and only in Western Europe brought first of all human rights and then the rule of law and then private property rights and then market based capitalism and modern economic growth all started only in Christian countries. And the Christian kids don't know this. So if the White House Office of Communications on the Faith, Paula and them put together some of those and then just basic Christian ethics, put it out there and explain to the American people the distinction between the Gospel on the individual level and then the Romans 13 at the state level. That is not turn the other cheek time when it comes to China, they got it all wrong. The left is so misguided.

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Okay.

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Yeah, we, we're pretty blown away, Steve. Last night especially as we saw those live stream concurrent numbers just keep climbing. I mean I think there was like a million people before the show Even started and YouTube for just the Turning Point channel alone got as high as 6.17 million live concurrence. If you add that up, we're actually working with a third party firm right now this morning to find out what, what sort of a Nielsen equivalent would be for this. But when you add up that live stream plus Rabs live stream plus on, on just YouTube, we're just talking YouTube, we're not talking about other broadcast channels or anything like this. And char so it's Charlie's turning points. Ravs, if you put those three streams together, I think you already have the number one YouTube stream of all time. We're. We're going to confirm that. We're. I'm not here definitively saying that, but it was easily number two. We'll see if we were the number one live stream in the history of YouTube. That's not counting Rumble. That's not counting broadcast. That's not counting all of these other areas. So we know for a fact that about 25 million streams last night, which is, like, amazing. And the way Nielsen does their numbers is they'll usually put a 2.5x on that because they're depending on groups watching it together. And I had people texting me, parties of 50 watching the. Watching the game, saying, hey, we're tuned into the halftime show. So it was. I mean, we really. It's going to be an estimate, but we're talking 40, 50 million people tuned in to Turning Point USA's, the All American halftime show. So just an amazing, amazing success. And I will tell you, this is a shot across the bow, Steve. There are, you know, media executives, advertising executives all across the country that took note last night, and some of them are pretty nervous this morning.

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And why are they nervous, Andrew? You guys, this has been Charlie's dream for a long time. And after his assassination, I know you and Tyler and the team, Erica, focus on, hey, we got to do this. And you guys put it together. Rav helped other people, helped Robin, Parker, Sig, and so many other people had your guys back. Why should. Why should they be nervous this morning?

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Well, listen, I mean, if you assume about 125 million people tune in for the big game. Well, if you are an alternative programming option that just took 40 or 50 million eyeballs away from that, the ad implications. The ad dollar implications are huge, Steve. And this is. So that's one win. Just basically showing the world that you can do this. The second win, though, is like, hey, next year we want to invite some of these big boys to come alongside us and help underwrite this so we can make it even bigger and better. I'm looking at you, Cabela's. I'm looking at you, Chevy. I'm looking at you. What brands are selling to the American heartland? They're selling to patriotic Americans. Help us do this thing and keep the pressure on. And listen, when you've got 40 to 50 million eyeballs on you, if you're a smart advertiser, you want to go where the Eyeballs are. And so you know, sky's the limit. And when you start breaking down, not just the numbers, Steve, but when you say, hey, institutional advertising, corporate America, when you break that stranglehold that the woke has had on the ad world, then you've done something really important. You've actually showed that there's, there is a, a whole swath of the country that is underserved and you're going to be rewarded if you serve them. And what happens then? You break the dam, you break the blockade and culture starts changing in some serious ways.

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You're the co host of the Charlie Kirk show you follow series you have for years on real America's Voice. You'll be up in a few minutes. What's your social media? Where are the coordinates of people and get to you and people folks, take some time and understand what happened in your state. It was a tectonic earthquake in Japan and a tectonic earthquake here in the United States of America. Where people go, Andrew.

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Yeah, just follow me on X at Andrew Colvett. Watch the show here daily. Me and Blake Neff holding it down. This is show dedicated to mission and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Obviously the show bears his name and we miss him every day. So check out the show right after the war room support Rob and Parker Sig. I, I just want to reiterate what you said, Steve. They were with us from the jump. This network was with us from the jump backing our play here. And you know, I don't know if we would have had the courage to do this the way we did without guys like Rob and Parker Sig getting behind us. And you, Steve, right from the jump. I mean and these artists I want to. Gabby Barrett, Brantley Gilbert, Kid Rock. Who did I forget? Gabby Lee Bryce. These are, these are heroes. They had courage, Steve. They did the hard thing and I hope, hope this audience will reward them, buy their music, follow them, check them out.

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They, they stood in the breach. Great job. Bravo Zulu. Andrew Colvett, Charlie Kirkby. Very, very proud of you guys. Very proud. Those artists. Unbelievable. Mike Lindell, wow, you're on fire. You had a huge weekend down in Mar a Lago. But right now you can give us a couple of seconds on that. But people want to talk about a deal. Right on everybody. Yeah, we had a great, great fundraiser down here. You guys can check out my governor race at Mike Lindell. Gov.com help out there. But right now you get there. Were the two sales collide yet this morning. I'm gonna run them this morning. I Didn't have time to change anything. So you have the mega sale. The second annual mega sale. You guys, check out the six piece towel sets. $34.98 for the war room posse. The best towels ever made. That's just one of the products right there. The Giza dream sheets, all the new colors all just came in as low as 29.98 a set. Check those out. For this war room mega sale, go to mypillow.com war room. I'm gonna leave the mattress toppers and the mattresses. You can still get them on sale. Free shipping in your entire order. We're gonna let these sales collide for today and tomorrow. You guys, you have the microses. All the women's ones just came in you were waiting for. You save 50% there and. But free shipping right to your front door. Remember, we have all the betting technology you've ever wanted. Proprietary technology to help you get the best sleep ever. Promo code war room, 800-873. Call my operators now. Promo code. Worm the sales on us. We're back here. We're back. Thank you, sir. We're back here at CS Afternoon. We're back here at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time followed by Warm Texas Dave. Brat. You got eight seconds, brother.

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