
Episode 5486: Next Man Up 2 Year Anniversary Today; Live Coverage From North Dakota ...
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Scott Coburn
Federal judge ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison by July
Steve Bannon
1 for his refusal to cooperate with the January 6 congressional committee investigation.
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Trump's former campaign manager and chief White House strategist will become Federal inmate number 056-35509. Department of justice formally urged the high court not to intervene here and to let Mr. Bannon face accountability for his actions. But remark, the Justice Department isn't the only group that lobbied the court about Steve Bannon. Today, speaker of the House Mike Johnson and several other Republican members of the House voted to make the formal position of the U.S. house of Representatives the formal position that the January 6th Committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did. A dark reality and one that we have to wrestle with to understand what is really happening in our nation's politics right now. The big lie is working not everywhere and not all the. But Donald Trump and his Republican boosters in Congress and the right wing media, they have all successfully sold a sizable portion of the American public. Not just on the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, but that people like Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are victims.
Steve Bannon
It's the end of politics. Let's just, let's just do it by force. Because physically we mean it just the way we say we're saying it. We mean it just the way you're hearing it.
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We are.
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We're coming for Mr. FBI tough guy. Why is he wedding himself? Why is he wet himself on national tv?
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He's damn scared because he understands the end is near.
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So brother, you and all the other people.
Steve Bannon
The tortures, these are torturous conversations we're having. Don't torture yourself. Don't torture yourself. Get your passport, get the hell out of the country. Because hey, we're coming.
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And guess what, bro.
Steve Bannon
You ain't gonna like it one bit.
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Your crimes and your treason. Comey.
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All of you. Go ahead.
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Go.
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Go.
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To the ends of the earth.
Steve Bannon
We will hunt you down and bring you back.
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Drive the vermin out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Biden, you and your crime family are nothing but trash for Joe Biden and, and, and Dr. Joe Biden and Hunter Biden all in the bike. They're a bunch of feral dogs, right? That's a family of feral dogs. We're going to have to fume it. We're at the fumigate. The lies of Joe Biden, the tre and how enfeebled he is after that. It's not the tapes. We're coming after Lisa Monaco, Merrick Garland, the Senior members of DOJ that have prosecuted President Trump. Jack Smith, that's where you come in. You're the vanguard of this revolution. We're gonna do what the Romans did to Carthage. We're gonna assault the earth around it so there'll never be another building there again. We're gonna rebuild something else.
Steve Bannon
There'll be something that comes up and
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is rebuilt along the lines that's appropriate. We've got to go back to the beginning. We've got to go back to Russiagate. We got to go back to who did that. We got to go back to mola's commission. We got to go back to Andrew Weissman and MSNBC in the New York Times and all of it, right? Every FBI agent, all the CIA, dhs, Chris Ray, all of them. It's going to be a new day. And MAGA will run things. They're gonna know that MAGA is not only ascendant, MAGA is in charge. It's very simple. Victory or death.
Steve Bannon
I don't give two about going to Danbury Prison, okay? I could care less. Next man up. The word was going to continue to even be bigger. They thought they were shutting the whole place down.
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I'm a political prisoner of Joe Biden. The corrupt Biden establishment.
Neil McCabe
War room's hitting on all fronts.
Grace Chong
We watch you for four hours a day. Four years in a row.
Steve Bannon
I've been on the posse for years. America cannot believe what's happening.
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Our protection against the wickedness and the
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snares of the devil.
Mike Lindell
Amen.
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My voice is going to be heard every day. And more importantly, their voices are going to be heard. Right?
Steve Bannon
We're going to take down Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco and the corrupt doj. You love this man right here.
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He's an American hero.
Steve Bannon
It's a shame that you let this happen and they're coming for you next. You better understand that. You can throw him in jail all you want to, but we will not
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take a single back step when their voice is heard.
Steve Bannon
Change happens.
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It's only going to get bigger. And that is what the worm's all about. Next man up. Right? Next man up. I'm proud of going to prison.
Mo Bannon
Steve Bannon's voice will not be silenced.
Steve Bannon
They thought they were shutting the whole place down.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Steve Bannon
Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Steve Bannon
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. It's Wednesday the 1st of July in the year of our Lord 2026.
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Yes.
Steve Bannon
We're going to go out and we're going to review what happened with the president out at the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library at, what is it, Medora, North Dakota. Fantastic day. Got Rough Riders. Tremendous, tremendous visuals, optics. Jack Posobic's out there. We got our own Neil McCabe. We'll go to him in a little while. I do want to say thank you. So today didn't do it in the morning show because quite frankly I did the morning show. If you remember, on the 1st of July I did the 10 to noon show and want to thank I think Erik Prince and some other people were there, did the show. The I think I did it the night before too. I think I did a special from Danbury at the hotel night before. But at about I reported at like 12:15, I think the show ended. I went up, oh we had that, I guess protest demonstration bon voyage outside of Danbury that freaked him out and then got up there about 12:30. Erik Prince and of course the late great Bernie Kerik were with me, reported in. It takes like an hour and a half to process through federal prison and then got to the cell block, I don't know about 1:30. So I thought I'd do the commemoration. Two years, hasn't it gone by? What's amazing look on the tv. Some of the folks are long gone off of television, didn't make it. And the war room is here, bigger, better than ever. And there's so many people to thank. Natalie Winter is going to join me tomorrow. She's going to be in studio. I want to thank her for her hosting role during that time. And we'll get up to speed on everything Natalie's working on. Also got Dave Bratt there. Dave will be confirmed I think in a month with other ambassadors. Dave Bratt's going as ambassador to Australia and we're so proud of the Scott Besants and the Russ Folts, everybody that helped us during that time. Dr. Peter Navarro who Was still in prison when I got there. He was down in Miami and he went to the Republican National Convention. I think a week after, on the first day he got out. Particularly, I've got Mo and Grace coming up. I want to give a special thanks to them. And obviously the Sigs, all of Real America's Voice, the Denver team, that's our production team with Rev, of course, our own war room production team. People don't realize we never missed a beat. Sponsors stayed with us, the audience stayed with us. We dipped a little bit, but it wasn't huge because when we had different, remember four hours a day with different hosts, the Mike Davis, that is a lot of time to fill. Particularly asking people to come in here and kind of volunteer and do was extraordinary. And so just the effort, plus the audience, you guys were terrific. We didn't miss a beat. And you were able to drive the narrative for the 2024 victory, staying with the grassroots and the low propensity voters right there. On the day I changed over. Think about it for a second. What I tossed to every day for a couple of years, Charlie Kirk was right there at the very last Charlie Kirk. So we always transitioned to the Charlie Kirk show. And that day, Charlie Kirk took it as he always did. Jack Posobic followed him. Charlie was doing two hours a day. Then I think he went to edit a third hour on radio shortly thereafter. But two hours on Real America's Voice, and if you think about it, Bannon went to prison and Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Just think about that for a second on that TV screen when we're doing the transition of Real America's Voice. It shows you the power and the impact that this channel has had over the last couple of years. The Sigs have done a great job and you got, you know, the Grubers and bowling, the morning show. Posobic's still there. Andrew Colvette and the team doing a great job stepping in. It's next man up is they've had to step into Charlie's shoes and do it every day. And trust me, it's tough, particularly when you have to do it on a moment's notice. I had a lesson in this in 16 when I accepted the job for President Trump. I'd done the Friday show with Breitbart News Daily Radio News Daily at Sirius xm. And then the next day on Saturday, went and got the papers and saw where the Trump campaign, they were saying it was kind of imploding that afternoon. Early the next day, I was hired as a CEO and Never went back to the Breitbart news. Those guys, Alex Marlowe, Raheem Kassam, I just told him, I said, hey, look, it's yours. You guys figure it out. That's all the guidance I ever gave people that did this show. I said, I'm not going to tell you what to cover. I'm not going to tell you how to cover it. I had some opinions on the campaign that I got to. And of course, we were able to get and talk to the bosses of the world and other people. But as far as the show went, I said, it's next, man up. You'll figure it out. You guys have either been around the show long enough, around me, long enough around the guests, the host you figured out. And I actually, in many regards, particularly in the run up, the show was better. And I got it, I think, a week before the campaign. And then we, you know, we hit it nonstop from there and then did that historic, that historic telecast I broadcast all night from the. From the rooftop of the Willard. Why did we do it from the Willard? Because the Willard was directly tied back to the railhead of what they tried to do. And that is when they stole the election. The war room we had for trying to make sure that the 2020 election wasn't stolen was at the Willard, in those suites there. Rudy Giuliani, Bernie Kerik, the entire team, many, many, many others. And that's. We thought it was a historical necessity to go back to the Willard that night on that rooftop and to do that broadcast of which the greatest come from behind victory even greater than 16. Because this time they knew Trump was coming. This time they had seen our playbook. Now we ran different plays. It was incredible. We put that coalition together. And you're asking, well, you know, a year and a half into it, maybe you're not totally happy with all of it. We love some of it. Some of it's obviously not working, but there's corrections out there. One of the things I do like is that there's a new seriousness about going after the deep state. Going after the deep state is what Pulte's doing. Going after the deep state is our own. Our own colleague, John Solomon. And I think that speaks a lot to real America's voice. You do not have a news channel in this country. In fact, you don't have a news channel in this country's history that's had a figure and a leader like Charlie Kirk who was assassinated. Who was assassinated or had by somebody like Jack Posobec, who's on Air Force One today and obviously asked that great question about the. About the deep state on the tarmac today, where President Trump answered about, hey, they're going to release everything. They're going to declassify everything. You haven't had a channel that had someone like John Solomon. John Solomon's in the administration right now. John Solomon is running a task force. That task force has got some of the best people, some of the people that worked for me back in the first term in the special projects division, people who really know what's going on with the intelligence services and are digging underneath it every day. Think about that for a second. You got Pesoba, you got Charlie Kirk. You've got John Solomon. You've got the war room. That's. I'm so proud of real America's voice and how we keep pounding. And I'm really proud of this show, and I'm really proud of the people that are associated with it. I didn't really do this coming out of prison. I didn't do it on the first anniversary. But two years have passed now, and I've had time to think about it. One thing I've thought about is how quickly time flies. If you watch this show. You don't think it's been. You don't think it's been two years. Honestly, I didn't even think about it this morning. It was kind of Grace and some other people that kind of go, hey, do you. You do understand today's the two year? And I go, wow, isn't that amazing? We're going to go out with One Nation. One Nation is very close to making Taylor Swift, I think, a runaway Bride. I think she's going to be so rattled that One Nation surpassing her that, hey, she may tell Kelsey, hey, look, dude, I got to get back to work. I got to market a song. Of course, Ella Langley, who I think is one of the great talents Nashville's discovered. A cowgirl from down in Alabama. I think it's 60 million views she's had on her song or her songs on YouTube. We're running that down, too. The objective is to make One Nation, to make One Nation the number one song in the country in the next couple of days. Very doable. As I used to tell the president. Tough, but doable. That's what we got here. Okay, we're going to leave you with One Nation, hopefully. I've got Grace Chong and Mo Bannon on the other side.
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War Room.
Steve Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, guys, I've got Grace, our assassin, resident assassin here at the war room, and Mo, the CEO. Guys, I want to thank you for. It's two years ago today. I didn't even realize until Grace gave me a heads up. It seems like time has passed or flown by. But just a great job that you guys did. Everybody stepped in. It's next man up. And I didn't. I gave literally no guidance. Now, Grace and I had our own code. So Grace, how many emails would I send you a day? Like 500.
Grace Chong
I'm pretty sure I was on the FBI watch list after a while because of so many emails. Gosh, it's just such a blur. But every day was just a working day, no matter what. And just to expand on what Steve said, I mean, weeks before, months before, weeks before, I would ask Steve, do you want to go over anything you're about to go in soon, he would just ignore me. And I'm like, to Mo, I'm like,
Steve Bannon
have you talked to him?
Grace Chong
No, no one's talked to Steve. And we all got the same message the same time everyone else did. Which was next man up as soon as he checked himself in at Danbury. So it's been an incredible journey, and I just want to thank the entire posse for being there for us and working with us.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, no, it was incredible, JoJo, the entire team, all the war and posse. I've already gotten some people in the engine room texting me. It was just incredible. I knew this was going to be a great training exercise that you got. It's just like in battle, you're going to lose people, Right. Once you lose them, you just got to step into the breach and. And you'll. And you'll prove yourself. And, hey, guess what? The show is even better. We came out stronger. We've never missed a beat, didn't lose an audience, never lost a sponsor. People were just absolutely incredible. So it was just. It was great, and you guys were fantastic. Yeah. So we had to have a little code because we knew that Main justice, we knew that Lisa Monaco and Garrett, they told. I mean, actually, let's say some of the personnel there told me that, hey, you better understand, they monitor all the emails coming from the computers, but they're going to personally read yours, so be careful. That's why I limited. A lot of people said, well, you got to, you know, you got to get me on the email list. I said, no, you don't want to do this. So, yes, Grace, I'm sure you're on the watch list, and if we ever lose a major election, that you'll be once again terrorized. But no, Fantastic, Mo, Great job. You stepped into the breach. I know it's a very emotional day up there, but remember, MTG was there. Brian Glenn was there. Royce White was there. I told Rudy. I didn't want Rudy coming because of the, you know, one is health. But I also knew, number two, that the Bureau of Prison and the Justice Department make even a bigger deal. Bernie Kerik, the late, great Bernie Kerik was there, as he always is, running security. And of course, Erik Prince came up and actually took me right up to the facility. Of course, as soon as they saw Bernie Kerik, we pull up a big suv, you got Bernie Kerrick and you got Erik Prince. These guys, like, you know, you gotta get those guys out of there. So it was great. But, Mo, thank you also for stepping into the breach and holding it together and you and Grace holding the company together.
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Mo Bannon
Thank you. We weren't gonna the left. Their goal was to silence you, especially leading up to the election. And, you know, it's blatantly obvious that that's why they picked that date and knowing four months would put you out right before the election. But little did they know your voice wasn't gonna be sile. It just wasn't heard behind the mic. And the tonality which we hear now, it was heard through other guest hosts and myself. And honestly, I knew you were in great hands with Bernie Kerrick and Erik Prince taking you over. Once we did the press conference over across the street to Danbury, Erik Prince actually flew some of us home. Home or back to D.C. and Dave Bratt and I hosted the 5pm show. So I brought the 5pm show in that same day on the 1st, shortly after. So honestly, I. I knew you were in great hands being brought over to Danbury. I was very nervous about the big shoes I had to fill bringing in the 5:00pm show.
Steve Bannon
Oh, you guys are great, by the way. Four hours a day. That's why it was really a miraculous thing had happened. You know, some people have an hour, some people have two. We have four hours a day split just to get people lined up to do that and to keep it on the topics. And that's why it just. The job that was done was incredible. The content was incredible. I did. People did get to me and say, hey, you haven't missed a beat. Audience dipped a little bit, but not much. And we got it back right away. But it was, you know, and I think some people say, well, he's not going to be there. I don't want to listen. But I think they came back. And more importantly, you stuck exactly to the mission. You stuck to the mission. We have a cadre. We have a. This show's not for everybody. Like, when people talk about huge numbers, the huge numbers are a lot of casual listeners or Fox numbers. They're empty calories. This show is done very specifically. We have a very specific idea in that populist, nationalist movements, and particularly if you want to move the needle, you have to be very focused on making sure that the audience understands or has access to the information they're going to need to make smart and tough decisions so they can fully use their agency, that they 100% can use their agency. So divine providence, in working through them, they will be a force multiplier for divine providence. And that's what we do here. That's why we do a lot of capital markets. Now, a lot of this show, I understand, is eating your spinach. We don't chase trends in the news. We don't trace a lot of the things that are, you know, maybe more fun or sexier do. It's not. That's not the purpose of the show. And to do that for four hours a day split between morning and afternoon is a herculean task. I mean, we have. RAV has been fantastic. My own production team has been extraordinary. Mo and Grace running the company and supporting it. We got a team that clicks. But when you step out of that, you know, how's that even going to exist? That's why I knew that this exercise to really, you know, because you have to prove yourself. It's just like war. You're going to lose people. We almost lost Trump. Remember this assassination. Look at Charlie Kirk. The powerful thing about that, about that clip that we put together on that day, I tossed the show. They helped me in the last couple of blocks, but I tossed the show to Charlie Kirk, as we did every day. It was the, you know, the Charlie Kirk show, as we still do today. We tossed the Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk has been assassinated. Okay, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Jack Posobec did the other hour. So if you think about, hey, one guy went to prison, the other guy was assassinated, that's how much they detest and hate in fear what we do here at Real America's Voice. And that's where we're honored to be part of it. Now you got John Solomon. That's in the White House. And one of the most important tasks out there. President Trump mentioned the day from the tarmac. The task force is looking to declassify information not simply about the stolen 2020 election. There's that, and there's a lot of it, but much, much more. And I think that's a great compliment. Posos on Air Force One right now. I think that's a great compliment to this channel. So, guys, I want to thank you. Any words of wisdom? To the war room. To the war room posse. Grace, we'll start with you.
Grace Chong
Truly, from the bottom of my heart, are all our hearts here. Thank you to the posse because you guys really stepped up. If it wasn't for you guys, I don't know how we would have gone through those four months. And just everyone, Jojo, Jenna, who is an awesome artist, she designs for us, which will show you the new War Room 250 shirts. But she did artwork. You know, next man up. I mean, it was just so motivating. And everyone just really, they. Everyone would say, next man up. And that just was so motivating. And I just want to thank everyone and let's just continue with that because it's not going to get any easier. And just. Thank you so much.
Steve Bannon
Get harder. It's going to get harder. You see the amazing thing about Grace Chong, Grace has worked for me, I don't know, for a couple of decades. She's the sweetest, nicest, most Christian person. Very shy, very humble, always helping others. Your online person, I mean, you're so tough and mean on Twitter. Good Lord, woman. It's just. It's unbelievable.
Grace Chong
Someone's got to do it.
Steve Bannon
Mouth, mouth breathing. Imbecile. Mbi, make sure you go to the war room merch and check out some of the merch. Grace Chung.
Neil McCabe
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Mo Bannon. Thoughts, comments, observations?
Mo Bannon
I agree with Grace. I want to thank the posse from the bottom of my heart as well for just sticking with us, and especially our sponsors, too, for sticking with us through those four months. They did not waiver, and the posse support did not waver. And like Grace said, the fight isn't over with. So we need the posse to stay in the fight with us, because this is not over.
Steve Bannon
Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys. Now back to work.
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Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Next man. Okay, tomorrow, Natalie's gonna actually be in the studio. And Ben Harnwell, who did a magnificent job. In fact, Ben proved himself. That's why he follows me today at 6. His show's unbelievable. Steve Gruber and Pastor Laurie, One Nation. We passed Taylor Swift maybe now tied with her, but I think she's got. I think she's getting nervous for Runaway Bride right on her wedding week. Ella Langley. We're trying to attract, you know, we're trying to chase down Ella Langley, one of the great talents Nashville's produced in decades. She's number one in the country. I just found out from Tony Lyons. Tony Lyons has just been contacted by the New York Times. Revolution is back to number three on the New York Times bestseller list. You cannot defeat this audience. This audience is not. You cannot be beaten. For four months, the host of the show left, and you stuck with the show, and you helped make this show better.
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Steve Bannon
You understand. You are a cadre. You're a vanguard of a revolutionary movement to save your country. These guys, men and women, formed this country, okay? You're here to save it and to bequeath it down in the 250th year. And trust me, the fight now, I think, may actually be harder than what the revolutionary generation. I don't say that lightly because I am so amazed and honored that they were our forefathers these giants and they are giants. We stand on shoulders of giants. Your task and your purpose may even be harder with artificial intelligence, the convergence of technology and capital. The question gets to be who runs America? Who controls America? And who are we going to when we bequeath this down to future generations, what actually are we bequeathing down? Leaving it with one nation. If you go download an apple, we'll drive it up and we'll get to number one in the nation. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going out to the badlands and we're going to see the President of the United States what he did today. Neil McCabe's live out in Maduro. Back in a moment.
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I saw the rough rice. Where the hell are they rougher? Look at these guys. I wish I looked like them.
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If I looked like them, I would
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have been president 20 years ago. You guys are great. Thank you. They could really ride those horses. They let us in. They were going fast of the car. I said to my guys, is there any danger in the way they're riding? Yeah, there's danger, sir, but they're great riders. You guys are fantastic. Thank you. As T.R. once put it, freedom is not a gift that lasts long in the hands of cowards.
Steve Bannon
How about that?
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Doesn't last long in the hands of cowards. What a great Statement. I want to use that. I shouldn't have said it. I would have used that statement, and I wouldn't have attributed it to tr. And they would have said, oh, what a great statement that is. Trump made a brilliant speech. The Rough Riders victory at San Juan Heights led directly to the collapse of the Spanish line. Ah, the Spanish. The members of NATO, but not very good members of NATO. They say, no, we don't want to help other people. What are we doing, huh? They are not behaving nicely, but they will learn soon after they relinquish their grip on Cuba and Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. One of our communist people. But they cleaned it up. The press cleaned that statement up. You know that, right? She didn't use the word hand. She used a different word. A disgusting word. They're disgusting pigs. She didn't use the word hand. They said hand. She used another word. You know what word I'm talking about? These people are a disgrace.
Steve Bannon
For President Trump. For President Trump to go out there today during the 250th and everything he's got going on with the war, all of it really shows you the importance he puts in the back of people like General Jackson, where we went to the Hermitage in his first term. He absolutely loved it. In fact, it took. We were there. I think we were an hour late on the speech because he just wanted to walk around, go to the library, go into the. This is Jackson's home he had built outside of Nashville and in the dining room, because these guys took such time. Remember, this all was kind of wilderness back then, are very undeveloped. Let's say that that in the dining room, Jackson had silhouettes and portraits of Napoleon around. And President Trump was just mesmerized. Went through all that to the library. The books he read, where he worked was incredible. So now out today to the badlands. I think this is spectacular. I want to. As Teddy Roosevelt was a visionary. I think this is just a visionary move of the Secretary of Interior as governor of North Dakota. Really worked on this. Neal McCabe, you're there. You've been interviewing people all day. You were there for all the activities and festivities. What do you got for us?
Neil McCabe
Yeah, Steve, this was a phenomenal event. And of course, like Theodore Roosevelt, like Andrew Jackson, you know, President Trump is one of those watershed presidencies where the presidency is not the same after Trump as it is after Jackson after Theodore Roosevelt. And of course, when he spoke today, I would say most of the people here were from North Dakota. And it was just a very Entre new loving audience. They got the jokes, they wanted to see him, they wanted to show their love to the President. And I think the President showed their. His love for them back. And I think it came through. And sort of the way he told his stories seemed different from like a straight on rally. And he talked about love. He talked about when you love your job, right, it's not really going to work. And he says, I love making America great, you know, and he says, he talked about the library as being a project that he admired, he said, because it was built from love, and the people who loved Theodore Roosevelt built it. And he just, he seemed to be focusing on that in a way that you don't really see at your typical President Trump event. And I think he was feeding off of the audience and the audience was feeding off him. And of course, you have this magnificent vista of the Badlands, which lends itself to contemplation and thinking about greatness.
Steve Bannon
You know, the vision of doing it out there. And here's why it's so important. If you study the history of Teddy Roosevelt, and he did many important things in New York City, Police commissioner, all of it. He became a man out in the badlands. You know, he wanted to do it because he had a, let's say this, he had a mental health issue with the dying of his wife, who had this unique love story with her, the dying of the wife and childbirth. And his mother, I think on the same day. He was obviously very close to his mother.
Neil McCabe
Yes, sir.
Steve Bannon
He was traumatized and he decided to go west and west he went. I mean, there's Texas and there's west Texas, obviously Oklahoma, the desert, Arizona, the beauty of Colorado, Montana, all of it, but, man, North Dakota and the Badlands back then. I mean, but it's the stark, haunting beauty, I think really got to President Trump today, Neil. I think it left a big impact.
Neil McCabe
You have the wide open sky here, Steve, and it just can't help but just sort of, you know, it's almost like your shirts get all wrinkled in the city and then the. Out here, you just. I felt like my shirts were being. The shirts of my mind were being ironed and starched and put back in place. And, you know, you talk about, like the, the cowboys that he worked with for those two years, 1884 to 1886. Those are the guys. When he went up San Juan Hill, he was going up San Juan Hill with a lot of the guys that he met out here, the guys who basically brought him into that manhood, who taught him those lessons. So when he went back to New York, you know, he wasn't that sort of, you know, sort of, you know, that intellectual rich kid, right, who grew up on West 57th. He came back. He came back a cowboy, and he showed him what for.
Steve Bannon
Talk to me about the Rough Riders. I mean, the footage of it was very dramatic. It kind of, it was a guard of honor around President Trump when he came to the, when he came to Maduro, when he came to the location. Talk to me about how impressive it was in real life, because it blew me away watching on TV that just the power of it, what the Rough Riders meant and like you said, how he met many of those guys out in, out in the Badlands during his time as a cowboy.
Neil McCabe
I guess, you know, there's some kind of archetype like man on a horse, right? So there's always something that triggers you when you see a man on a horse, and then when you see them in formation and when you see the way they were all dressed up in the reenactment of the Rough Rider uniforms, and then as a guard of honor, you know, that's something used to happen all the time. You go back even 100 years ago, it was fairly common to have these sort of cavalry escorts. And so, you know, I think President is, this might have been the first horse, you know, cavalry guard of honor he's had since he's been president.
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And.
Neil McCabe
And it just strikes you, it's all part of, of all the different pieces of this vista. You have the badlands, you have the sky, you have clean air that you've never breathed before in your life. And then you're just sort of drinking in the vision and virtues of Theodore Roosevelt. And it just sort of adds to that. Just the clip clop of the hoofs is enough to sort of bring you back to another age.
Steve Bannon
Steve, talk to me. By the way, it was Neil that said, the man on a horse, I'm sure MSNBC is going to melt down. Yes, President Trump is the man on the horse. But, you know, Jackson, Roosevelt, Trump, these are mythic figures. I mean, President Trump, this is the age of Trump. As much as they hate it, right? They even admit when I talk to some of these guys, yes, this is the age of Trump. As much as we hate him, he's totally changed the country, as we say, he saved the nation, and now we're trying to return it to its greatness. The greatness you had under people like Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and under General Andrew Jackson. Talk to me about. You had a chance to interview the senator. You had a chance to talk to some of the locals. What are their feelings about today?
Neil McCabe
Oh, they're just thrilled. Obviously, this is going to be, you know, the biggest day in this town's life, but they're just thrilled that the president came out here. They've always been proud of their part of the Theodore Roosevelt story because he came off of a train from New York as a broken man and he left a man of vision and power about to be president of the United States. And so for them, his birthplace isn't New York. For these people here, his birthplace is North Dakota. And that's the proud that they were. The pride that they were feeling was that their child came here and went off to do great things.
Steve Bannon
Neil, where do we go for social media to get more of your interviews and more of your footage out there? Sir,
Neil McCabe
you can find me at reporter McCabe on all the socials.
Steve Bannon
Steve, thank you, brother. Great job today and great report. Okay, One Nation. We're going out with One Nation. Let me report right now. Breaking news. It is back to number two of all music in the country just from. Because we kind of fell a little bit in the afternoon. And back of Taylor. Come on.
Unknown Male Speaker
You got.
Steve Bannon
This is a tough competition. Got Taylor Swift, I think is the biggest music personnel in the last 20 or 30 years. And you've got Ella Langley, who everybody out of Nashville tells me is the next big thing. She got 60 million views already on YouTube. Come on, man.
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This.
Steve Bannon
This song is about our nation. One nation under God. I'll let you hear it as without music. We're going to be back in the worm in just a moment.
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Steve Bannon
I pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag.
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To the flag.
Neil McCabe
Of the United States of America of
Steve Bannon
the United States of America. To the Republic and to the republic for which it stands for which it stands One nation One nation under God Under God Indivisible Indivisible with liberty and justice for all with liberty and justice for all.
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Scott Coburn
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Unidentified Male Host
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Steve Bannon
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Scott Coburn
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Steve Bannon
Let's get it done. Make sure if you call 972 Patriot, you're going to talk to somebody with the East Texas accent, maybe you pray with them, then talk about the special. Scott Coburn, we love you, brother. Keep hammering it. Say hi to Jenny and Glenn.
Neil McCabe
Will do.
Scott Coburn
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Steve Bannon
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Mike Lindell
Yeah, absolutely. I've been outside for seven hours in this suit and I think I took a picture of everybody there. But you would not believe at War Room Posse, you're well represented. There's all these guys wearing War Room Posse shirts and telling me that they love seeing. They love your show, Steve. They love the War Room Posse. We're making a difference, everybody. We're making a difference. And I just, I just, I didn't want to take a double shuttle, so I just walked a half a mile to get on the show. I just made it in time, everybody. Because I want to make sure you get your specials from my pillow before they run out. We're getting down the last few days.
Steve Bannon
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Steve Bannon
Hang on, hold on. Stop, stop. Don't tell me that Mr. Minnesota, Mr. Outdoorsman. You don't have the verbal. You got the GPS telling you directions.
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Steve Bannon
You're the wild man. You're out ice fishing.
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Steve Bannon
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Steve Bannon
Thank you brother. By the way, most times when a sponsor when the lead talent on a show leaves the sponsors leave, too. I want to thank Mike Lindell. He stuck with the War Room for all four months when I was in prison. Mike, today's the second anniversary of my going to Danbury.
Unknown Male Speaker
Thank you.
Mike Lindell
One of our bravest people the country's ever had.
Unidentified Male Host
You're a hero.
Unknown Male Speaker
No, no, no.
Steve Bannon
Get out of here.
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Get out.
Steve Bannon
You're a hero. I'm. I just. I'm a. I'm a crazy mick in back of a microphone. I got the easy job. All you guys got the hard job. But you can do hard things. Okay, Ben Harnwell's up next. Don't miss it. I'm back here at 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning, when, once again, you will be in the War room. One nation will take you out.
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May we always be.
Date: July 1, 2026
Host: Steve Bannon (WarRoom.org)
Guests: Grace Chong, Mo Bannon, Neil McCabe, Mike Lindell, Scott Coburn
Special Segment: Live coverage from the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library, Medora, North Dakota
This episode commemorates the two-year anniversary of Steve Bannon reporting to prison on July 1, 2024, after his conviction for contempt of Congress surrounding the January 6 hearings. The “Next Man Up” theme celebrates the War Room team’s resilience and reflects on the movement’s evolution and victories since Bannon’s imprisonment. The episode features tributes to the War Room audience (“posse”), guest hosts who kept the show going, and real-time reporting from President Trump’s appearance at the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota. The conversation connects the struggle of the MAGA movement to American history and Revolutionary principles, interspersed with pop culture references, rallying calls for accountability of perceived political opponents, and the celebration of staying power amongst the War Room’s wider ecosystem.
Memorable quote:
“This show is done very specifically. We have a very specific idea in that populist, nationalist movements, and particularly if you want to move the needle, you have to be very focused on making sure that the audience understands or has access to the information they’re going to need to make smart and tough decisions so they can fully use their agency...”
—Steve Bannon [21:21]
“For these people here, [Teddy Roosevelt’s] birthplace is North Dakota. And that’s the pride they were feeling—that their child came here and went off to do great things.”
—Neil McCabe [40:08]
| Segment | Highlights | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------| | Judicial Update/Anniversary Set-Up | Bannon & team reflect on his prison reporting, persecution narrative | 00:02–05:54| | "Next Man Up" Reflections | Grace, Mo & Bannon discuss the team’s resilience, keeping the War Room going | 16:44–26:14| | Live Trump Coverage | Neil McCabe reports from Medora, ND; reflections on history, Trump speech, MAGA symbolism | 31:06–41:03| | Audience & Community Praise | Focus on the dedicated audience, “posse,” sponsors, guest hosts, and call to ongoing resistance | 26:14–27:20| | Closing Thoughts & Merch Mentions | Bannon/guests thank audience, tease Natalie Winter, highlight “One Nation” song’s chart surge | 27:20–end |
This anniversary episode of Bannon’s War Room serves as both a reflection and rallying cry. Marking two years since Bannon’s imprisonment, the team doubles down on their “Next Man Up” ethos, celebrating how the War Room not only survived but thrived by elevating new voices and reinforcing its populist, nationalist mission. The team draws inspiration from both recent MAGA struggles and American history—particularly the mythos of Teddy Roosevelt and Trump—which are vividly highlighted during the live segment from North Dakota. The persistent thread: loyalty to community (“posse”), disdain for adversaries, pressing onward with mission and agency, and belief in the historical importance of their cause.
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“You are a cadre. You’re a vanguard of a revolutionary movement to save your country... The fight now may actually be harder than what the revolutionary generation [faced]... Who runs America? Who controls America?”
—Steve Bannon [27:20]