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Steve Bannon
We know that most consequential relationship in the world is between the US and China. US 28% of the global economy, China close to 20. That's almost half of the global GDP.
Terry Newsom
And we know that you called President.
Dave Walsh
Xi Jinping last Friday.
Steve Bannon
We heard that you had a good discussion.
Terry Newsom
How do you see the relationship between.
Steve Bannon
The US and China in the next.
Terry Newsom
Four years under your leadership?
Donald Trump
He called me, but I see it very good. I think that we're going to have a very good relationship. All we want is fairness. We just want a level playing field. We don't want to take advantage. We've been having massive deficits with China. Biden allowed it to get out of hand. He's $1.1 trillion deficit. It's ridiculous and it's just an unfair relationship. And we have to make it just fair. We don't have to make it phenomenal. We have to make it a fair relationship right now. It's not a fair relationship. The deficit is massive as it is with other countries, a lot of Asian countries actually. But we have deficits that are very big and we can't keep doing that. So we're not going to keep doing that. But I like President Xi very much. I've always liked him. We always had a very good relationship. It was very strained with COVID coming out of Wuhan, obviously that strained it. I'm sure it strained it with a lot of people. But that strained our relationship. But we always had a great relationship, I would say. And we look forward to doing very well with China and getting along with China. Hopefully China can help us stop the war with in particular Russia, Ukraine. They have a great deal of power over that.
Steve Bannon
Captain Jim Fennell joins me. One of the world's leading experts in all things ccpin fact gave up his career to warn the American people when he was head of intelligence for the Pacific Fleet. Back on the Obama administration wrote a book with the great Dr. Bradley Thayer called Embracing Communist China about the elites for decades and decades and decades actually making a business deal with the CCP that brought him up to the forefront. So now that 48% of global GDP, just imagine that, folks. 48% of global GDP between two nations, China and the United States. Now, as part of that gdp, we're running massive, massive trade deficits and they've only gotten worse since President Trump left office. So fanel for full disclosure, Captain Fennell, Steve Bannon and others on the committee on the Present Danger. We call ourselves maybe the dead enders. In Josh Rogin's book they said, look, you have hardliners, you have people that want to figure out the relationship, you know, the Thucydides trapped crowd, and you got accommodationists on Wall street, he said, but then they got this new breed of cat that's called the super hawks, and that's Bannon and Navarro, and it's guys like. And he said, they question the even legitimacy of the CCP to be the dictators that are crushing Lao Baijang. Now, President Trump has a different. He has a more complicated job than we have, Jim. So I want you to give your, your overall assessment as an expert and dedicated as I am, to support Lao Baijin to take down the ccp. President Trump's obviously got to worry, and he's quite worried about that relationship crabbing, sideways, sliding, you know, particularly in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea, and ended up to a shooting war, which President Trump does not want. He's a man of peace and prosperity. So your assessment of his comments today, and you said this speech was as powerful as, as the Evil empire speech in 1983 to set a framework for how one is to think through moral clarity. Did you feel that with President Trump's comments later in the question and answer about the America's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, sir?
Captain Jim Fennell
Well, Steve, yeah, I mean, this terminology of super hawks, it's been frustrating in some sense, and it's easy for folks that understand the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party and their ultimate goal, which is to destroy the United States. Sometimes it's hard to sit back and hear nice comments about Xi and things of that nature. But as you said, President Trump's got a much different job. And as your previous segments were talking about the economic situation that our nation is in, we have to be very careful. So I think the tells for where President Trump's view of the CCP and G irrad or when he made out in the very beginning there, he said, Xi called me, and that's a very important point. He is the supplicant, not me. Xi called me. Now, maybe he was calling to congratulate him on his victory, whatnot. But it was Xi that called Trump, and Trump wanted to make sure we all knew that. And that's something that's very important. And then I think the second point was where he said that, you know, we've got this problem with the Ukraine, Russia war. And I talked to President Xi about it, and I need his help. He's. He's got some. He can do something about this. So that's an admission right there that he holds Xi accountable for the ongoing war. Putin, obviously, but Xi is also involved with this. They're in an alliance, Putin and Xi in their alliance. You know, they, in 2022, they announced that alliance and there's no limits. And then the next year, Xi went to Moscow and he was coming out of the Kremlin and shaking hands with Putin. He said, hey, we're seeing changes. We're driving the changes that haven't been seen in 100 years. So they are driving this war. Xi was probably involved in some form or fashion of helping Kim Jong Un get North Korean soldiers fighting and killing Ukrainians. So this is a bad actor. Trump knows that, but he doesn't have to come out and say things like maybe you or I. He knows it and he's working on it. And that's why he said that he's trying to make things work in terms of reaching out and having a good relationship. And you know the old saying, you know, you keep your friends close, but you keep your enemies closer. And I think that's exactly what President Trump's doing. And clearly the people that he's put in his cabinet, you just see the statements from the new Secretary of State in the last 48 hours about what he's talking about, about the PRC and how we're going to deal with the PRC. Meeting with Quad members, bringing in Pete Hegseth and his comments about China. It's clear everybody in that's coming in around him that he's brought in, he picked them. These are people that are, you know, you can label them however you want, but you clearly call them hots. And so I think Trump will be the figurehead that'll try to be the good cop and play the diplomacy. And that's good. I mean, I listened to the China hands, the so called experts on China, and they're all freaking out right now and they're thinking that Trump's an accommodationist to an autocrat in Beijing and Xi and all of that. But it's funny, they never said anything when there was a conga line of Biden cabinet level officials for two years that went to to Beijing and kowtowed, literally, Janet Yellen physically kowtowed in front of her PRC counterpart. So they didn't have any problems with that then. But now, just because President Trump is polite and respectful of a man who's got 20% of the world's GDP and a very big army and oh, by the way, has built 350 nuclear ICBM silos in the last three years. And as President Trump said, hey, the Chinese are going to be able to catch up and equal our nuclear arsenal in the next four or five years. That's shocking. That should shock people, that they should hear that the Chinese Communist Party is going to have a nuclear arsenal that will rival ours within four or five years. That's very serious. And so you need a president that's not going to be flippant, it's not going to be throwing jabs out there for no good reason. He's got a plan, he's got a strategy, and he's got to deal with the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party through economic means and economic levers that were talked about in that speech and in your previous segments with the experts that you add on, like Patrick. And then you also have to deal with hard power issues that he's going to deal with as our economy gets stronger and we're able to bring manufacturing of military arsenal that needs to be designed and readapted from our 35 years of fighting wars in the Middle east to being able to address a naval power. And we're going to go back to the Cold War in a way in terms of military to military confrontation. And we need to retool ourselves because we don't have the navy and the maritime forces that are necessary to be able to deal with an expansionist, hyper expansionist Chinese Communist Party that's ultimately intent upon destroying us.
Steve Bannon
President put I don't want to call them client states. Let's call them, I call these the protectorates, the vassal states of Western Europe, the Gulf and where we've been locked in for, I don't know, 20 or 30 years. But he told the EU today in Switzerland, told NATO, I believe that 5% of GDP is appropriate. Not to President Trump and I, I was kind of his lead guy on this for a while to hammer these guys to get to 2%. And they made the commitment in 14 because of Ukraine, knowing they had their ideas of how they were going to try to force the issue with the Russians. They've Never hit the 2% except for, I think Poland and the UK every, Poland all the time, UK every now and again, President Trump saying, you know, it's got to be 5%. That was like a bomb that went off in Davos. The economy's over there. They would have to give up their full health care. They give, they have to give up the full pensions, the early retirement. It would totally change the social structure. But what he's saying is that the United States is not going to underwrite this anymore. Your thoughts on that comment, which you could hear the, you could hear the air go out of the room when he said it. Captain Fennell?
Captain Jim Fennell
Yeah, it was a big statement. And I think it's another indicator of where the seriousness of President Trump is with respect to this no limits alliance between Russia and China. He understands that, you know, 2% couldn't even cut it to help defend the Ukraine against, you know, Russia. And now you have the Chinese threatening and doing things. In the last two years, you've had Chinese merchant ships ripping up telecommunications cables and things of that nature in The Baltic in 2016, 2015, 2017, Chinese Navy warships in the Baltic exercising with the, with the Russian navy. So we have an alliance between these two authoritarian nations and President Trump understands that. And the Europeans have to step up and do their more. They have to do what it takes to deter Putin from ever doing anything like this again. We can't afford to have a couple million people die. We can't afford to have our economies destroyed. We can't afford to have our strategic arsenals depleted, our strategic petroleum reserves depleted. We can't afford all of that because the Europeans won't stand up and do their fair share and they don't want to talk about China in any way, shape or form. In fact, the Washington Post just came out this week and said, you know, hey, the Russians, we're not sure they're even responsible for some of this cable activity in the Baltic. So there is a tendency in Brussels and in Washington with the establishment, the deep state, that they don't want to admit that they have to pay for their security. And President Trump has said, no, you're going to have to pay for your security. And as you said, we're not going to free ride them anymore because we got to get prepared and be able to deter the PRC from the disaster that they can inflict on America's national security in the Indo Pacific. And that's a real concern.
Steve Bannon
Captain Fennell, I know you don't use social media, but you go Dr. Bradley Thayer, your co authors of a book from War Room Publishing, our imprint Over a Skyhorse, Embracing Communist China, want to thank you for coming. Your columns are up in American and Greatness and where else? Where can people get. I think you guys write a weekly column. Where do people get it?
Captain Jim Fennell
We do a weekly column for American greatness. We'll have one coming out here over the weekend, typically comes out on Sunday. And this one is again about what the Chinese and the Russians are doing collaborating against NATO's northern tier in the Baltic and what that means for America's national security.
Steve Bannon
The new great game, the northern tier up in the Baltic, in the Arctic. Maybe talk about that next week. Captain Fennell, thank you. Thank you for staying up tonight so late. Appreciate you.
Captain Jim Fennell
Thank you, Steve.
Steve Bannon
From the snowy mountains of Davos to the cold streets of Chicago, our own Ben Berkwam joins us with Terry Newsom. Ben, talk to me. Update on the Are we doing raids now? Are we, are we kicking down doors and sending bad guys out of this country?
Ben Berkwam
Well, again, what we're hearing is pretty close to the vest or what we're seeing. We're seeing reports of it all over the city on social media. What it looks like to me is that that's kind of ongoing raids that ICE has already been doing. But we are in contact with folks in ICE and getting updates as that happens. So the bottom line is they're coming, they're happening, they're coming and they're only going to get more frequent. But we did just get some breaking news. This just came across. I think we have it there in Denver as well. Terry, I'll let you tell about Pritzker. His order.
Terry Newsom
Yeah, he put out an order to the Illinois Department of Corrections for the state level prisons to not release any of the inmates to ice. It just came out a couple days ago. And just like Cook county, he's going to try to control everything and do everything in his power, power to defend these criminals and Venezuelans and trend.
Steve Bannon
So let me get this right, by the way, a judge just said that President Trump's trying to ban birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. This is a Reagan appointee. Every aspect you see this, whether it's what's going to court with these lawsuits, it's judges trying to put temporary restraining orders or Pritzker. And let me be blunt. Pritzker starting his 2028 presidential run because he's definitely running for president on the Democratic side. He's trying to start it here by showing Democrats that he can stand up to President Trump. So I just want to go back, Terry, are you telling me that the president of the United States authorizes, signs executive orders and executive actions and informs ICE to enforce federal immigration law. And we have a governor who's sitting there going, you can't go in the jails, you can't go in the prisons and you can't take any of the illegal alien criminal element out of the state prisons and put them on a plane and get them the hell out of the United States. Is that what Pritzker is telling the American people?
Terry Newsom
Yeah, that's exactly what he's doing. And any law enforcement that gets in trouble within Illinois collaborates with ice, they can be held accountable by Pritzker in state law.
Steve Bannon
So. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, Terry.
Terry Newsom
I was going to say what's ironic is, is 100 years ago here in Chicago, we became internationally famous because of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Seven people shot just two months. Two months ago, where Ben and I are going next, there was eight people mass shooting. Four men were killed, four women. Trent Largo five days later in Cicero, Illinois, police officer shot in the back. Two days after that, four more people were shot. Two men and two women in their vehicles. So within less than a week, we had two mass shootings and a police officer shot in the back here in the city of Chicago.
Ben Berkwam
And those guys, ICE can't go in and get.
Steve Bannon
Well, that's. Ben, tell me you know that ice, this is. Okay, let's be blunt and lay all the cards on the table. Homan and Miller are telling the president that if we want to put this throughout the nation, we've already got Eric Adams surrendering. You already got LA surrendering, you got San Francisco, Denver and Chicago are the two mayors that are going to stand up and try to throw down on this. And Pritzker is going to try to run to president on this. You know that Homan and Miller have a lot planned for Chicago. So tell me, who's going to win this? This is the whole concept of sanctuary cities, right? This is the whole concept that a local politician can't override federal law when it comes to our immigration law. So tell me what's going to happen. Play this out for me.
Ben Berkwam
Well, it immediately. So this is, I would say one of the things I think didn't happen in the first administration, I think has to happen immediately in this administration is the funding for these sanctuary cities and sanctuary jurisdictions has to be. Has to go away immediately. That. That should be number one. They're going to. If Chicago receives federal funding, that should go away. If Illinois receives federal funding, that should go away. Anyone who stands in the way of the federal government doing its job to protect the citizens and uphold its oath to the Constitution, that should go away. The other side of that is Tom Holman has already said this, that they will arrest. If you're a politician, if you are somebody in government and you are standing in the way of Immigration and Customs Protection doing their job, they are going to arrest you. Now, if those two things, if both of those things happen, these guys are going to cave like, you know, faster than you could ever imagine.
Terry Newsom
Yeah, Pritzker and Johnson are not men of courage.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Terry Newsom
They're, they're going to be shouting and barking.
Steve Bannon
But, but, but hang on. They're only going to cave if one thing happens. And Terry, you've got the answer to this. They're only going to cave. If the citizens of Chicago back President Trump, this is going to come down to, you know, if the citizens of Chicago rally around Johnson and rally around Pritzker, it's going to make it immeasurably harder. So where right now, particularly the black and Africa and the African American, the black and the Hispanic community, when they start coming in to take out these, these criminal illegal aliens out of the jails, out of the prisons, what side are those folks going to come down on?
Terry Newsom
They're going to come out on our side because the media is so strong on the left. We, your show and other shows. Right. Have to have to rally these people behind home. And I already told Tom we need to get all these. I'm talking to more Democrats than anybody else. Honestly, I don't care about the Republicans in Illinois. They're not even really Republicans. It's more important is having the Democrats, the pastors, the African Americans, union leaders, police officers. They have to be careful about their jobs within the city of Chicago. We have to have these types of people surround Halbin and say, we're supporting you. I don't care what the WGN news says or what Pritzker says. They're all liars. The people of the Chicagoland area, the Hispanics, minorities, Democrats, Republicans, independents want them here. They want this to be done. Including Hispanic in this neighborhood as well.
Steve Bannon
The Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, wgn, all the big TV stations. When you look at their coverage, what are they, what are they telling the population?
Terry Newsom
Well, they're not telling the truth. It's funny, when I was just talking about the Okra police officer who got for the sheriff. I'm sorry, the chief of police for Trenda Larga, he reached out to the local media. They didn't even get back to him. Fox Chicago did cover it. So they're doing everything to hide this, right? They're doing everything to hide it. And they're going to point out the negatives. They're going to show moms and babies crying, but they're not going to show the Trent Largo and the tattooed up guys. You know, the guys that are killing people as they get dragged out of the city of Chicago. It's people like yourselves and others that have to show that. And it's on us to so show Homan and Trump that we are supporting them to overcome the BS that's going to be shown 100%.
Steve Bannon
Ben Berkwam, Ben Bergquam. How intense is this going to get?
Ben Berkwam
Oh, it's going to be ugly, Steve. I mean, this is so. Just think back to the first four years of President Trump when we had BLM and Antifa burning down America. Now you've got BLM, Antifa, Hamas and 15 million illegals and every single illegal that the as Terry was saying. Well, just to give you an example, we were just down, we just posted the video. We confronted Pritzker, Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson today, earlier today and we were told by the local media our stuff wouldn't air. We were told that they're going to air what they were there for. But our stuff actually confronting him and calling these guys out, the mainstream media was not going to air. Now we'll wait and see if it does. Tonight, any of it airs. But as far as I know, none of that has aired. It is absolutely up to the people here, the citizens here. But just be prepared. These guys are already working on it. The, the leftist communist churches, all of these organizations that are funded by illegal immigration. They're already working on their plans to undermine President Trump, to take every sob story that they possibly, possibly can to run it to the mainstream media. And really it's what we're seeing now. They're shutting down schools, they're telling kids not to come to school because they're going to get picked up by Tom Homan and President Trump. All of that's already happening. That's why it's so critical. But that's the big difference this time around, Steve. We exist. We didn't have this, we didn't have this ecosystem of conservative media to counteract the lies of the left in the first four years. We have that now and it's a part of us, the media doing our job, the real media and the people doing their job to counteract those lies.
Steve Bannon
Terry, where do people follow you on social media? This is going to get, this is a, this is a showdown in Chicago and Chicago is a city of big shoulders. They're going to have to hold up a lot because this is a showdown between President Donald J. Trump and his people. Tom Homan, the head of the border, the deportation of borders are Stephen Miller, head of all policies and a specialist in this area, a radical. Mayor Johnson of the great city of Chicago has said this is a sanctuary city. He's going to stay as a sanctuary city. And a billionaire, multi billionaire, never had a job in his life. Governor Pritzker, who's running for the Democratic primary and president of the United States and wants to make a showdown and he doesn't care who gets destroyed in the process. So, Terry, this is going to be one the nation is going to be focused on where, where do people follow you?
Terry Newsom
Be on x at Terry Newsom 357 or rumble behind enemy lines. And by the way, Pritzker today announced that Janulius, his buddy Genullius secret secretary of state, will be the next governor of Illinois. It was announced on Twitter before I came out here. I saw. So he's already announced his buddy's gonna run for his spot.
Steve Bannon
Wow. Unbelievable. Ben Berquin, where do people go.
Ben Berkwam
At Ben Berkwam? Bnberg Q U A M I've got videos we haven't posted yet. We'll be getting those out later today at Ben Berkwam. Stay tuned for much more. Steve, this is just beginning, as you said.
Steve Bannon
We'll get Ben's. Ben, we'll put Ben's up there. So the three lines of work that happened today, the three lines of work that happened today, that would be, that would be the war, remember the beginning of the Third World War, the kinetic part of the Third World War, Ukraine and the Middle East. You then got the second Avenue, which we talk is the deportation, the immigration and all of that. And then you've got the financial and the capital markets. It all came today kind of to a head. President Trump made a magnificent speech in Davos and in that speech kind of laid out his economic plan, laid out about trade and tariffs, kind of didn't confront the Chinese Communist Party, say, hey, he's open to make it work, hopes it works. He threw down against the globalists, talked about the economic, the supply side growth policy he's going to put in to grow our way out of this kind of financial and economic crisis. He also talked about Ukraine, said NATO's got to step up with 5%. And I think he's sent in a signal which I appreciate since we're saying, hey, President Trump, you can't put any money into any security guarantee. We've already put enough money in Ukraine and we can't put any troops. And I think he put NATO on notice saying, hey, guess what? I think your number's got to be 5% now. I think that's an indication. And then you've seen in the streets of Chicago, Ben Berkwamp, Terry Newsom out there and it is a showdown already. The governor of the state and the mayor have essentially said that federal law enforcement officers about immigration ICE the unit that actually takes people out and deports them if they're here illegally. And remember, this is the low hanging fruit. These are not hard calls. They're not going in to take out families. You're going to see all that, what I call deportation porn is all to come right now. This is the easiest one. These are hardened criminals in city jails and state prisons. They're already moving in federal prisons right now to remove these bad hombres. So this is what you're seeing and it's total and complete resistance. I say total and complete resistance. I mean total and complete. The governor said you're not setting a foot in here. Mayor says you're not setting a foot in here. They're teeing up a showdown. They should understand like the Ukrainians should understand. The Russians should understand. The people in Davos understand. President Trump's not in a mood to back down. He just had the greatest political comeback in the history of not this nation, but all nations. He's not going to back down on any of these. He's just not. So stay tuned for Chicago tomorrow. Ben will still be out there. We've got live reports. Also, President Trump is going to stop where Ben was last week in North Carolina to meet all the great patriots out there. They're freezing. 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Donald Trump
It'S my honor to welcome three of the world's leading technology CEOs, and but to announce the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history, and it's all taking place right here in America, announcing the formation of Stargate. So put that name down in your books, because I think you're going to hear a lot about it.
Steve Bannon
This is not just for business.
Donald Trump
As Raleigh said, this will help people's life.
Steve Bannon
This will help solving many, many issues, difficult things that otherwise we could not.
Donald Trump
Have solved with the power of AI.
Steve Bannon
I think AGI is coming very, very soon.
Donald Trump
And after that, that's not the goal. After that, artificial superintelligence will come to.
Steve Bannon
Solve the issues that mankind would never, ever have thought that we could solve.
Joe Allen
I think it'll be an exciting project. I think we'll be able to do all of the wonderful things that these guys talked about. But the fact that we get to do this in the United States is. Is, I think, wonderful.
Steve Bannon
So thank you very much.
Terry Newsom
One of the most exciting things we're working on, again, using the tools that SAM and MAHSA are providing, is a cancer vaccine. And using AI to look at the.
Steve Bannon
Blood test, you can find the cancers that are actually seriously threatening the person.
Terry Newsom
Again, cancer diagnosis using AI has the.
Steve Bannon
Promise of just being a simple blood test.
Terry Newsom
Then beyond that, once we gene sequence.
Steve Bannon
That cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate.
Terry Newsom
The person, design a vaccine for every.
Steve Bannon
Individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer.
Terry Newsom
And you can make that vaccine, that mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically, again using AI in about 48 hours.
Steve Bannon
Okay, Joe. Allen. So, Joe, what's your beef? This is the future. They're curing cancer. They're solving problems. What are you whining about, sir? You got a big, brutal piece up in your substack. What's your issue here? What are you bitching and whining and bitching about? I just saw the future, and it is vaccines, artificial intelligence. New stuff going through my system. That's the future, man. Mr. Getz. It's like Chinatown. Mr. Getz. That's the future.
Joe Allen
Well, next will be the godlike artificial intelligence and a brain chip to connect you to it. It's really going to be amazing. You know, Steve, I. On a personal level, I've made it pretty clear I really do not want to see any of this happen. But on a practical level, the problem is the recklessness with which this is being approached and rolled out. You hear a lot of talk about AI safety, you a lot of talk about the people who are creating it, trying to embed guardrails to make sure that no harm is done. But by and large, what we're seeing is a push towards accelerationism. That's the dominant voice. And again, I wanna reiterate what I said yesterday. My appreciation for everything Trump is doing is deep. As I told you, I have a good friend who is not going to be spending time in PR because of his pardons and everything from the border on and on. But the other reality is he has a lot of accelerationists very close to him who are advising him. David Sacks is somewhere in between. Elon Musk kind of projects restraint, but in general, his vision of the world is everything that all of the transhumanists we've spoken about over the years. He shares that.
Steve Bannon
But hang on, when you say recklessness, get our audience up to be on nomenclature. It's very important here. Accelerationist, normally that was thrown against the right. The accelerationists were the heart where the Oath Keepers and the proud boys and others that were trying to accelerate to some sort of civil war in the concept of the Singularity. It means something quite different. What is that, sir?
Joe Allen
In a nutshell, it simply means to push forward technological development as fast as possible, to move fast and break things, as they used to say in Silicon Valley. People have had this misconception for a long time, and I've tried my best to battle against it. This misconception that transhumanism or tech accelerationism, human AI symbiosis, brain chips, robots everywhere, people trapped in their autonomous vehicles and getting rolled off cliffs, that all of this is some kind of globalist, Davos based left wing movement. I've insisted for years that it is not. And we're seeing the fruits of that now. People like Peter Thiel, people like Marc Andreessen in some ways, again, people like Elon Musk, and an entire subculture of what generally you would classify as like, right wing people, people who are on most issues on our side of the aisle, but when it comes to technology, they want the brain chips. They are rushing headlong towards it. And to the extent that they're not restrained, or to the extent that we don't have the ability to push it back, then they're pushing this on us. Two examples as they push artificial intelligence into education from Harvard all the way down to Louisiana, all the way over to Africa. What you'll have is children who are dependent upon machines for their cognitive abilities. Children who basically use ChatGPT to cheat on everything, to cheat on life. And that ain't gonna cut it in the long run. And just to bring up one other, a second one that I think is going to be really, really important going forward in policing and in warfare, to the extent that artificial intelligence is used to identify undesirable behaviors, undesirable ideas, and to suppress them. And then of course, in the case of warfare, undesirable people and eliminate them. Yes, if it's under the control of just wise people, this is good in a sense. But it's so rife or so open to the possibility of abuse and ultimately horror. So it's not like these guys talk as if this is about freedom. And in a sense it is. Transhumanists always talk about morphological freedom. It's my body, it's my brain. I can do with it what I want. Okay, fine. But as this begins to spread across society, it becomes an imposition. It becomes a very dangerous imposition. And the piece that I wrote, the Stargate is Open. It's about this Stargate project. It's about the people involved. Larry Ellison, Masayoshi San and Sam Altman. But it's also looking at Elon Musk as he's sparring back and forth with Sam Altman in some kind of self righteous manner. I'm just pointing out that these guys basically share the view that human beings are a kind of bootloader to artificial superintelligence. And at the moment, as far as I can see, these squabbles are about who gets to put the trademark on that future. It's not hopeless, but people have to understand what's happening and they have to basically put up, in a sense, their psychic shields, their cultural barriers. And most importantly, people have to fight for their own humanity. They have to make themselves excellent. They have to make the next generation of children excellent. And hopefully my hope. Steve, direct the hope for the future away from the machines and at the very least towards humans, but ultimately my own preference towards the divine.
Steve Bannon
Joe, I need everybody to read this tonight. We'll have you back on tomorrow. Where do people go overnight? Where they go right now to get all this work, in particular this latest substack you've got, because we need people to read it. And I want to go back to it tomorrow maybe get nor on here too. It's too important.
Joe Allen
You can find it at my social media top of the page at J O E B O T X Y Z Jobot XYZ social media or my site joebot xyz.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.
Joe Allen
Thank you very much.
Steve Bannon
There's been two parts of this fight. Another part, another part is about Elon Musk talking about, number one, our audience and of course our professionals have a huge problem with Stargate. A lot of issues we're going to get into that. But let's play the Dasher Burns Dascher, the White House bureau chief at Politico now on cnn earlier today, we were just talking a few moments ago about this split happening with Elon Musk and pouring cold water on this huge announcement.
Captain Jim Fennell
That Trump made yesterday saying it's not.
Steve Bannon
All it's cracked up to be, which is a pretty remarkable thing to do after the president touted this. Steve Bannon is someone who has been kind of beating the drum on Elon Musk very publicly, saying he wasn't going to have a seat of the table. He very much, I mean, he's a White House office on the grounds. Yeah. What is he saying about this latest turn? Well, I think there are still a lot of questions about how much access Musk ultimately has and how long that lasts, given Trump's propensity. He loves mega wealthy men, but he.
Captain Jim Fennell
Also loves the spotlight to himself.
Steve Bannon
And Elon can tussle with that.
Captain Jim Fennell
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
I spent about 15 minutes on the phone with Bannon today. The entire time he was railing against Musk's actions, saying it's, it's like action I've never seen in my entire life. Someone who has a mandate for a specific topic. Doge, of course, the Department of Government Efficiency. Somebody going and undermining Trump on another topic. He feels like he's brought personal vendettas into the White House. And he called on the chief of staff, who Suzy Wiles, of course, to sit him down and take care of it. He wants Suzy Walls to sit Elon Musk down. He says it's not a job for the president of her or for VP JD Vance.
Captain Jim Fennell
Susie needs to sit him down and.
Steve Bannon
Give him a talking to. We'll see if that happens. Speaking of the mandate is huge. I mean, Doge, we need Doge and I've been the biggest supporter of Elon being involved in this. I think it's perfect with Russ vote. We need. We got that. We're not going to do another CR. We have 57 days, I think it is to get a budget. And Doge has to be part of that. We need to see the trillion dollars in cuts. You don't have time to kind of burn daylight here. And we got. He needs to stay in his lane. His lane's a super highway. Doesn't deal with investments in the United States. President Trump can handle that. What you need to do is talk about the deconstruction of the administrative state in massive spending cuts. That's what we need to talk about. It's got to happen now. President Trump's economic policies you saw in Davos day is predicated upon full spectrum energy dominance. Let's hear this cut. I got Dave Walsh to explain it all to us.
Donald Trump
And the big problem is we need double the energy we currently have in the United States. Can you imagine for AI to really be as big as we want to have it? Because it's a very competitive. It'll be very competitive with China and others. So I'm going to give emergency declarations so that they can start building them almost immediately. And I think it was largely my idea because nobody thought this was possible. It wasn't that they were not smart, because they're the smartest. But I told them that what I want you to do is build your electric generating plant right next to your plant as a separate building, connected. And they said, wow, you're kidding. And I said, no, no, I'm not kidding. You don't have to hook into the grid, which is old and, you know, could be taken out. If it's taken out, they wouldn't have any way to get any electricity. So we are going to allow them to go on a very rapid basis to build their plant, build the electric generating plant. They can fuel it with anything they want. And they may have coal as a backup, good, clean coal. You know, if there were a problem with a, with a pipe coming in as an example, you're going with gas, oil or gas, and a pipe gets blown up or for some reason doesn't work. There are some companies in the US that have coal sitting right by the plant so that if there's an emergency, they can go to that short term basis and use our very clean coal. So that's something else that a lot of people didn't even know about. But nothing can destroy coal. Not the weather, not a bomb, nothing. It might make it a little smaller, might make it a little different.
Steve Bannon
Now this, this gets to a bigger issue. I will deal with this tomorrow. Is that data? These are data centers. This data takes 5x energy as it takes to kind of, you know, heat and electricity for human humans, which we don't even have. This is the whole question about this entire thing. This is data so data intensive and it's so energy intensive. Dave Walsh make it make sense to me, brother.
Dave Walsh
Well, it is. Great remarks today by President Trump summarizing exactly the nexus between energy and any possibility of economic growth. You don't have one without the other. He's laid that out very clearly for a bunch of elites who have been pandering the precise opposite of that for Western Europe and the U.S. yeah, and the fact that he's kind of arguing without saying it directly. Utilities are becoming a little bit antiquated in respect to adding nothing but part time power. Not enough of it. Therefore a major industrial, AKA even a data center, a service center, AI need to have their own generation to have reliable power. That's a direct assault on utilities and that's great because they've gone along with this building. Out of three to four hour, in the case of wind, only seven hour a day. Electric generating capacity of wind and solar battery storage two to three hours a day way insufficient. Therefore major industrials like has happened in the third world. Unfortunately for the moment we're in that space here. Electrification wise, you need to have your own capacity to support a gigawatt a year to support a server or data center for AI. He's nailed it. That's a direct assault on what the.
Steve Bannon
Utilities have done to us. Dave. He told the place, he told the place for a generator. He says I'm out of the, I'm out of the Paris Climate Accord. The Green New Deal is a scam. I've stopped it all. And then on top of it they broke this morning $300 billion. He's impounding not another penny in for any of Biden's Green New Deal payoffs to the venture capitalists and private equity. What are your thoughts on that?
Dave Walsh
It's tremendous. If you talk about tax the rich, which the other guys are always all about, for heaven's sake, the IRA, what it has done is provide 42 billion a year in subsidies and tax credits to Constellation Energy, Dominion Energy, Florida Power and Light, Nibradrola, edf, Global companies who are here investing in solar farms and wind farms. Bp, another one, Southern Company, Duke Energy to go ahead and basically give the largest cap electrical generating firms in the world utilities gigantic tax credits and subsidies to foist on the public much, much more high cost energy. And his points on the need for this there is an energy emergency here. We have summer and winter reliability warnings now from NERC that indicate that half the US population is not subjected to a higher potential of brownouts and blackouts because of the lack of electricity in the system from tearing down too much coal, tearing down too much nuclear, lack of electricity. And then across MISO and PJM auctions for forward power, the prices are up 3 to 10 times in next year's forward pricing auction of wholesale power because of the shortage of it due to the shutdown of so many coal nuclear plants. So he's nailed this. This is a crisis. It absolutely is an emergency. And the kinds of steps being taken to double the electricity demand to facilitate industrial growth AKA through AI completely necessary. We can't have subsidized part time energy resources going on. He wants to crush that. It's exactly the right policy to take Dave Walsh.
Steve Bannon
Where do people go to get to Dave Walsh interview or I'll be back in the next Friday or Saturday to go through this in detail. Full spectrum energy dominance underpins an advanced industrial economy in the turnaround of the United States of America. Dave Walsh has preached that gospel for years. Now it's being implemented. Where'd they go, Dave?
Dave Walsh
Find me on X Truth Social and get her on Avewalsh Energy. Thank you, Steve.
Steve Bannon
Thank you sir. Great day for Dave Walsh. Great day right out of his script. Mike Lindell I want to end the day with talking about crosses.
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WarRoom Battleground EP 693: Deportations Start In Chicago; America First Energy Independence
Release Date: January 24, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon, WarRoom.org
Timestamp: 00:07 - 04:06
The episode opens with a critical discussion on the economic dynamics between the United States and China. Steve Bannon emphasizes the significant influence these two nations wield over the global economy, collectively accounting for nearly half of the world's GDP. Bannon highlights the persistent trade deficits the U.S. faces with China, attributing the worsening situation to the Biden administration's policies.
Key Quote:
Steve Bannon (00:07): “We know that most consequential relationship in the world is between the US and China... That's almost half of the global GDP.”
Donald Trump contributes by expressing optimism about improving the U.S.-China relationship under his leadership, stressing the need for fairness and a level playing field. He acknowledges past strains due to COVID-19 but remains hopeful for future cooperation, particularly in mediating conflicts like the Russia-Ukraine war.
Key Quote:
Donald Trump (00:35): “We have to make it just fair. It’s not a fair relationship. The deficit is massive... But I like President Xi very much.”
Timestamp: 13:09 - 22:46
A substantial portion of the episode focuses on the intensifying immigration enforcement in Chicago. Steve Bannon discusses recent raids and the federal government's push to deport illegal immigrants, juxtaposed against Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's resistance to these efforts.
Key Participants:
Governor Pritzker has issued orders preventing state-level prisons from cooperating with ICE, aiming to protect inmates classified as illegal immigrants. Bannon predicts an escalating showdown between federal authorities and local Chicago officials, emphasizing the significance of community support in influencing the outcome.
Key Quote:
Ben Berkwam (17:07): “If Chicago receives federal funding, that should go away... They’re going to arrest you.”
Terry Newsom underscores the role of media and community leaders in rallying support against the resistance from local politicians.
Key Quote:
Terry Newsom (19:41): “The people of the Chicagoland area... want this to be done.”
Timestamp: 44:21 - 48:24
The discussion shifts to America's energy policies, with Dave Walsh analyzing President Trump's recent initiatives aimed at achieving energy independence. Trump criticizes the Green New Deal and announces plans to double the U.S. energy output to meet the demands of burgeoning industries like artificial intelligence.
Key Quote:
Dave Walsh (46:19): “President Trump has nailed this. This is a crisis. It absolutely is an emergency.”
Trump advocates for building independent electric generating plants for major industries to ensure reliable power, reducing dependence on outdated utility grids. This move is portrayed as a strategic assault on traditional utilities, promoting cleaner and more resilient energy sources like clean coal.
Key Quote:
Donald Trump (42:37): “We need double the energy we currently have in the United States... We are going to allow them to go on a very rapid basis to build their plant.”
Timestamp: 09:12 - 12:18
Captain Jim Fennell provides an in-depth analysis of the alliance between Russia and China, expressing concerns over their collaborative efforts to undermine NATO’s northern tier in the Baltic region. He emphasizes the necessity for European allies to increase their defense spending to deter potential aggressions from these authoritarian regimes.
Key Quote:
Captain Jim Fennell (10:21): “They have to do what it takes to deter Putin from ever doing anything like this again.”
Bannon and Fennell discuss President Trump's stance on NATO, urging European nations to meet their 5% GDP defense spending commitments. They argue that without increased contributions from NATO members, the U.S. cannot sustain its military engagements or economic support for allies.
Key Quote:
Steve Bannon (09:12): “What you need to do is talk about the deconstruction of the administrative state in massive spending cuts.”
Timestamp: 30:44 - 35:29
The podcast delves into President Trump's announcement of the "Stargate" AI infrastructure project, positioning it as a monumental step for American technological advancement. While some hosts praise the initiative for its potential to solve complex problems and revolutionize industries, concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and its implications are voiced.
Key Quote:
Donald Trump (30:44): “This is the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history... announcing the formation of Stargate.”
Joe Allen raises alarms about the reckless acceleration of AI development, fearing the loss of human control and the ethical ramifications of AI-integrated technologies. He warns of potential abuses, such as AI-driven surveillance and the suppression of dissenting voices.
Key Quote:
Joe Allen (34:59): “My appreciation for everything Trump is doing is deep... But the other reality is he has a lot of accelerationists very close to him who are advising him.”
Timestamp: 22:46 - 39:55
The episode highlights the brewing political battle in Chicago, with Governor Pritzker positioning himself as a Democratic frontrunner for the 2028 presidential race by opposing federal immigration enforcement. Bannon and his co-hosts advocate for robust support from the community to overcome political resistance.
Terry Newsom emphasizes the need for grassroots support from diverse community leaders to counteract the negative portrayal by mainstream media.
Key Quote:
Terry Newsom (23:06): “They’re only going to cave if one thing happens... It’s going to come down to if the citizens of Chicago rally around Johnson and rally around Pritzker.”
Ben Berkwam discusses strategies to undermine sanctuary city policies, including cutting federal funding and holding local politicians accountable.
Timestamp: 39:55 - 48:24
Steve Bannon wraps up the episode by underscoring the multifaceted approach of President Trump's administration in addressing both domestic and international challenges. He reiterates the importance of energy independence, robust immigration enforcement, and strategic geopolitical positioning to safeguard American interests.
Bannon calls for continued vigilance and active participation from the audience to support these initiatives, ensuring that the U.S. maintains its economic and political dominance on the global stage.
Key Quote:
Steve Bannon (48:24): “President Trump is not in a mood to back down on any of these. He just had the greatest political comeback in the history of not this nation, but all nations.”
Steve Bannon (00:07): “We know that most consequential relationship in the world is between the US and China... That's almost half of the global GDP.”
Donald Trump (00:35): “We have to make it just fair. It’s not a fair relationship. The deficit is massive... But I like President Xi very much.”
Captain Jim Fennell (04:06): “...He said, Xi called me, and that's a very important point. He is the supplicant, not me. Xi called me.”
Ben Berkwam (17:07): “If Chicago receives federal funding, that should go away... They’re going to arrest you.”
Donald Trump (30:44): “This is the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history... announcing the formation of Stargate.”
Joe Allen (34:59): “My appreciation for everything Trump is doing is deep... But the other reality is he has a lot of accelerationists very close to him who are advising him.”
Dave Walsh (46:19): “President Trump has nailed this. This is a crisis. It absolutely is an emergency.”
Steve Bannon (48:24): “President Trump is not in a mood to back down on any of these. He just had the greatest political comeback in the history of not this nation, but all nations.”
In this episode, WarRoom.org's Steve Bannon navigates through critical national issues, from the intricate US-China economic ties and aggressive immigration enforcement in Chicago to sweeping energy policies and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. The discussions reflect a staunchly America-first perspective, advocating for strong leadership and decisive action to safeguard national interests. Listeners are encouraged to engage actively in these pivotal debates, reinforcing the show's commitment to providing insider insights on the nation's most pressing challenges.