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Stephen K. Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.
Mike Davis
Medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot on.
Stephen K. Bannon
All these networks lying about the people.
Mike Davis
The people have had a belly full of it.
Stephen K. Bannon
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.
Mike Davis
It's going to happen.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
And where do people like that go.
Mike Davis
To share the big lie?
Forrest Chu
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Mike Davis
I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Stephen K. Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Mike Davis
If that answer is to save my.
Stephen K. Bannon
Country, this country will be SA War.
Mike Davis
Room here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Wednesday 5 March Year of our Lord 2025 thank you for being here for the second hour of the war. A lot going on. So the White House on fire with activity today on many different fronts. Elon Musk is about to appear up at the Republican conference on Capitol Hill. He, he was at the Senate today, at the Senate lunch, the weekly Senate lunch. Not a lot of specifics. They talked about Doge. But look, some people are getting hung up now because it looks like a consensus is building around a CR instead of, for the rest of the year. Instead of doing, you know, instead of doing, you know, a 30 day CR, get the appropriations bills done, or wait and make sure that if you do it, you cut spending by 1%, which is not much. But they're trying to avoid that by doing this end of year CR and they want to clean cr. But people. And the question, hey, how can we have all these Doge, Georgia, a trillion dollars here, it's a trillion dollars here, it's $100 billion here, it's $100 billion Here. Yo, dude, we can't, you know, you do a cr, it's an up or down vote, so we can't finance it. It's ridiculous. So, so what they're talking about now is rescissions or impoundments. That's all fine. I love all those. And I think I'm a huge supporter of that. I think to be aggressive, but you're gonna get taken to the Supreme Court right away. We know this. And last night after the, after the, you know, the speech, the Supreme Court had a very small ruling, kind of, I shouldn't say small. On MSNBC and cnn, it's like it's the end of the Trump agenda. It's far from it. But the Supreme Court did not really put in the emergency docket. And didn't say, hey, we're gonna go see this. They sent it back to the judge. Be more specific. And Natalie Winters from the White House, Mike Davis was pretty adamant and he's close to these things, as you know. He said, hey, President Trump ain't writing a check for anything. I think this order is for $2 billion or something USAID. And he's just saying, hey, not on my watch. They're gonna go back and argue, give us an update on this turmoil about spending, spending cuts, budget CR and particularly the Supreme Court of these United States. Kind of stepping in the middle here, ma'am.
Natalie Winters
Sure. Well, I think it's important to note that the Democrats are really eager to make this one decision seem like some huge, sweeping victory for them. Maybe it's, we'll call it a coping tactic after last night. But I think like Mike was sort of alluding to this is some process that we're going to have to let play out through the courts. What do I mean by that? It's not that this does decision necessarily reinstates USAID and all those people who were rightfully terminated or fired or so much of the waste, fraud and abuse that they identified is going to just automatically come back. All it's essentially saying is that for work that had been accomplished under that sort of $2 billion umbrella, that those people will be compensated again. Mike Davis and other legal experts are probably better equipped to understand how that will work at some itself out and work its way through the courts. But I think, look, you're obviously talking about all things CR and I think through the same lens, right, that we're sort of sitting here critiquing all these congressional Republicans who want to talk so tough about Doge and the spending cuts and post the pictures with Elon and act like they're all fully in on the waste, fraud and abuse train. Well, you know, in the same breath, they're not doing anything to meaningfully cut spending. Right. They're keeping it at Biden, if not even more inflated Biden levels. But I think that you can sort of draw that same comparison to what they're doing with usaid because perhaps it's time for Congress to step up and defund, disband, do what, you know, President Trump was intending to do, that he was obstructed, potentially at least temporarily via Lawfare and to stand in the breach and actually defund usaid.
Mike Davis
Right.
Natalie Winters
President Trump doing it via executive order through, you know, the executive branch was sort of a unique approach to it. And that's why? You've seen some of this legal pushback, right? If you read the documents, if you read the argumentation, MSNBC always melts down and just says, oh, President Trump is depressed, depriving, you know, Congress of their authority. So I would say that if they really want to have President Trump's back, they have a wonderful opportunity right now. They've been set up to hit a home run. So step up and defund usaid.
Mike Davis
I haven't had. I'm going to play a clip for you in a second when I get it up on Brennan and ask you about it. I haven't had a chance because last night went on so long, you and some other people we thought was smart to bounce. But I want to get your thoughts. You watched that, you saw the blowback. I mean, it was bizarro. And your hit, I think with DJ was going viral. And look, because it was such a human moment and so power, I mean, last night, so powerful. And you see what a great young man he is. But the Democrats wouldn't even look at him. And they have, I think, Debbie Dingle rolling her eyes. What's your assessment last night after covering the White House for the first six weeks, being our correspondent over there, just, just the whole ambiance of last night and particularly the attitude towards President Trump.
Natalie Winters
Well, I think it's actually just my thesis, though I guess it's not even a thesis that's confirmed from these last, not just six weeks, six months, six years, but that there is no compromise with Democrats. And I think you saw that on full display last night, not just for refusing to clap over what may be one of the most patriotic and sweetest young men I've ever met, that is DJ Daniel, obviously applauding things like the Southern border, just general things that are great for this country. But Steve, to get more granular here, watching last night's speech gave me, I was going to say deja vu, maybe PTSD is more accurate terminology, but to the sort of first iteration of Trump resistance, right? To the 2016 era tactics. Now, what did I say before the speech actually started when we were doing our special coverage, that how they act would be a litmus test for whether or not they think that their newfound lawfare strategy, right. Opposing President Trump primarily through the courts, sort of the brainchild of the normizens of the world, was working. And evidently right by the fact not only are they rolling out the, you know, ugly pink dresses and the man, you know, old man with cane, screaming and kicking out, getting kicked out, walking out Even the protesters outside the Capitol or the mass demonstrations that they've been doing, that is very reminiscent of 2016. And as someone who has really tracked the resistance, not just the money, but the people, the meetings, the planning, there was always a conscious, very conscious undertone of we don't want to repeat the mistakes that we did the first time around. And they were very cagey about mass mobilization and actual, for lack of a better word, kinetic protests. Right. Like boots on the ground. And I think that you saw that mask totally slip last night, not just from Democrat members of Congress, but even just from rolling out the activists, you know, obviously the paid protester types. Right? Sort of the continuation of what's been going on at these town halls. But I think that that was a very, very telling moment that Democrats are really scrambling in terms of trying to understand how to resist President Trump.
Mike Davis
You know, I don't have time to play it, but Nicole Wallace, I want to go to DJ for a second. Nicole Wallace had this bizarro. After seeing him last night, she had this bizarro, oh, he's a nice young man. I hope he doesn't end up committing su. If he stays as a policeman and fulfills his dream, I hope he doesn't end up committing suicide or having to testify. I mean, it just was this bizarre. It wasn't even a rant. She was just kind of stream of consciousness. Your thoughts, ma'am?
Natalie Winters
Is that projection? Because I think working in law enforcement and someone like DJ Daniel represents what it means to have a profession that is so in line with defending your country, being true to yourself and just loving, like he said, President Trump, frankly, I think it embodies, if you want to really get into it, actual masculinity. I think the idea that that Secret Service agent, the new director, who in that picture of, you know, President Trump is so strong and protecting and defending him. And then in the same, you know what, just a few months later, he's there holding up, you know, hugging, celebrating with this young guy that represents the renewal of America. And for someone like Nicole Wallace to sit there, who, what, has only ever lied and lied and lied to the American people, has a profession that is, frankly, more degrading, disgusting, and depraved than, I mean, I put prostitution up there. Like I said, it's projection. And having just had the opportunity to have met DJ Daniel, to even attempt to taint or tarnish his memory, the legacy of what he just did is so beyond reprehensible. And you know what? Msnbc, I know this probably Hits really close to home because you guys have spent years trying to brainwash this country into hating police, hating firemen, hating law enforcement. But I hate to break it to you that there actually are some 13 year olds out there who actually want to be cops and don't just want to be transgender. So I'm sorry that your programming didn't work, but I think DJ Daniel, Daniel is a wonderful example of someone who, despite a very unfortunate circumstances, has really held the line and stood on the breach of propaganda from losers and hacks, people like Nicole Wallace.
Mike Davis
Natalie, I thought of you with Brennan today. They announced, you know, they were going to sign the deal, you know, push for last night. President Trump not only did not do that, he says he signed an executive order to mine rehearse, particularly in places like Minnesota. Also today, as you know, he pulled the plug on intelligence sharing for Ukraine and Brennan went off. Let's play the clip because I thought of you about the color revolution and there's a buried lead in here from, from Brennan himself, the former CIA director. Let's go and play it. Director Brennan, what is the consequence for Ukraine's ability to prevail or to continue to fight?
John Brennan
It's potentially devastating. US Support to Ukraine to confront Russian aggression has many different components to it. There are the weapons, there's the munitions, there's the logistical support and the technical systems that empower those capabilities. There's also military advice and guidance, and then there's intelligence. Intelligence is the lifeblood that gives all of those other components the capability to push back against the Russians. And so if you take away the intelligence, you're making the weapons capabilities, the munitions, technical systems and other types of things enfeebled by taking that away. And so over the past, over a decade, the United States has been providing support to Ukraine to be able to build up its capabilities, but to again infuse their capabilities with the intelligence that we're able to obtain. I must point out this is not a one way street. Over the past decade, the Ukrainians have provided a lot of intelligence to us, giving us insights about what Russian capabilities are. And so therefore this, this extortionist approach to trying to get Zelensky to basically fold to the Trump administration's wishes as far as some type of peace arrangement that looks more like a surrender. The way that Trump is talking about Putin and Russia, okay.
Stephen K. Bannon
Over a decade.
Mike Davis
That gets back to Victoria Nuland in the. I mean, he just outed himself, right? They've always kind of denied that. Over a decade would put you right at the Color Revolution. And Brennan is one of the leaders of the color revolution here, is he not, ma'am?
Natalie Winters
Well, and it's also when what the Hunter Biden, I believe, and Anthony Fauci pardons began. But I'll, I'll digress on that. Look, I think that this idea of intel sharing much the long range missile, you know, no conspiracies, no coincidences, I'm just saying. But it sort of goes to just the. The ability to always continue to escalate that war. Right. Whether it's the long range missiles and their sort of litany of demands that I don't understand where they get the moral, ethical or political superiority to think that they can make any demands to the United States. In the words of President Trump, you have no cards. The idea of intel sharing has always been sort of first and foremost. But I think that there's sort of the other side of the coin of this, which I think dovetails probably more closely with the Color Revolution tactics. And frankly, what I think this show is more concerned about, which is what is going on here at home. And so much of that has been the, and I use this word fully intentionally, which is the information warfare, the domestic propaganda. And I'm not just talking about what Obama did in terms of legalizing that, but the idea that they have played it very, very, very close to home and weaponized a lot of resources under Joe Biden to very careful, curate and craft narratives about why the Ukraine war started, the deaths, the, you know, just inability for really anything to actually break through on the ground. Right. Remember the lies that they used to tell us, oh, Ukraine's winning, Ukraine's winning. And then there's the big expose. They're like, actually, that didn't happen. But just a week after the fighting broke out, the Pentagon launched what was called the Influence and Perception Management Office. Like I said, just one week after the Russia invaded. And it was very vague. They didn't explicitly announce it. It was just sort of like buried in finance reports. But it showed that they were using, in their words, propaganda internationally and domestically to sort of craft narratives about the Ukraine war. And I would extend that out. There was a big news cycle, people may remember, where a lot of Americans and Westerners were registering with Farah to essentially work as like social media promotional agents, to sort of lobby media outlets to cover Ukraine in a certain way. I remember one of those Farah filings even showed that people had reached out to people at the RNC trying to get, you know, certain coverage of Ukraine and You know, when I look at my background and so much of this being in CCP infiltration and reporting like that, the Farah database is always sort of a goldmine for that. And I think that if you sort of continue out right, what they've done, it always has been, from the get go, a psychological operation to dupe Americans into thinking that the only way you can support democracy is by supporting Ukraine. And the number one tell Steve and I know we've hammered this, but I think it's all the more important as we approach, rather hopefully, an impending audit. The Biden regime knew that the numbers in terms of support for the Ukraine war among American people were slipping drastically in the final months of his presidency. And instead of realizing that what the American people wanted to see was transparency and an audit that would be the logical, you know, solution, they pushed the lie that the Ukraine war was actually boosting America's manufacturing base and industrial base and that it was great for the American economy. And that right there, I think, is one of the biggest tells that you've ever seen. That they knew what they would uncover with that audit would be so damning that the numbers would somehow ratchet up even more. So in terms of understanding what we need to audit, I think if there's any mineral deal that's signed, we need to make sure that Zelensky plays ball and gives us the list of names.
Mike Davis
Exactly. One last thing, because you've been one of our lead investigators, if not the lead on the ccp, this issue with the tariffs and President Trump's working at some arrangement auto manufacturers is a little complicated on the Canadian side. But the. I guess one of the Chinese ambassadors and I got Forrest Chu is going to join us here at the bottom of the hour. Said yesterday, said, hey, if this is, if Buffett's right, this is economic war, we're ready for a trade war. We're ready for any type of war. Pete Hegseth came back today and said the United States is ready if we have to go kinetic. Your thoughts about around the White House, what's the thinking? Is this ratcheting up? I mean, look, we're the anti CCP guys, but is this ratcheting up a little too rapidly, at least in the rhetoric side against the ccp, ma'am?
Natalie Winters
Well, they said, and I quote, that they're ready to fight till the end. That's a direct quote coming from the Chinese embassy here in the United States. They were, quote, tweeting that ambassador that you were talking about. I think that it's frankly, the Chinese Communist Party admitting something, a strategy we've obviously discussed here for how long, which is the idea of unrestricted warfare, right. A people's war, which they've launched. I guess maybe they've realized the last four years they got to take a little sabbatical, a hiatus, right, because they didn't need to wage that war because they were essentially invited in here with open arms. But the issue of the tariffs, President Trump is putting a, I believe, 30 day, kind of one month pause for three of the top automobile manufacturers just to give them a little more time to work on reshoring and bringing a lot of the industrial car parts manufacturing back. You know, so much of that is done in Mexico. So they're working to reassure that. But look, I think that the timing, right, of China really, really, really ratcheting up their rhetoric in terms of, you know, we're going to fight till the end and all that crazy pomp and circumstance. I think it's really rooted in the TSMC deal, right? This yesterday, the 100 billion for the five factories in Arizona. Because what have they done? They've worked decades and spent how much money and personnel and blood and treasure into, you know, infiltrating as opposed to invading this country. So deals like that are not allowed to be made for a litany of reasons, not just for the national security and supply chain reasons, but also just to continue to tank our economy. And I think yesterday, like we said, was, was a paradigm shift. And you know, the Chinese Communist Party always use these things in the sort of Thucydides trap lens and I guess in the United States makes a comeback and maybe we're just not that declining power after all. Maybe they realized with the closure of usaid, the United States States is no longer on the path of managed decline. I think they're lashing out like a petulant child. But it'll be interesting to see in terms of the rhetoric heating up.
Mike Davis
Natalie, what's your social media? Where do people get you until you're back on tomorrow?
Natalie Winters
Natalie G. Winters on all platforms. And if you haven't watched, you got to watch the DJ Daniel video. My phone's already blowing up. People love it because, hey, a great American and honor to have interviewed him. Thank you for having me.
Mike Davis
Fantastic. We're gonna play a little later in the show. It is blowing up, going viral. Thank you, Natalie. Appreciate you. Dr. Bradley Thayer, I want to. You're here because there's we know ideas have consequences. A very important idea. I want to get out there that you brought to my attention at the Democrats last night. But since you are a resident expert on all things ccp, can you pick up there from Natalie about the ambassador? I mean, it's pretty brazen, right? We put these tariffs on and it's not like the old days, the ambassador of the United States, because the Chinese have a way, you know, the CCP has a way of kind of trying to accommodate and do things, you know, behind the scenes. This guy's ripening your grill. We're ready for a trade war. We're ready for an economic war. Ready for any kind of war you want, guys. We're down for it. Pete Hegg says today, the Secretary of defense this morning on Fox and Friends said, hey, United States is ready to roll. If you got to go to Connecticut against the Chinese, we're ready. Tell me about the first of the ccp. Is this their normal response when, when they're, when they're, when they have an economic issue like tariffs, sir.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Steve, great to join it is the response. Their bark is going to be far worse than their bite. The CCP's got feet of clay. Their economy is in the tank. Steve, as you well know, they've got a legitimation crisis. They have so many problems that they're facing that they're confronting today. They're supremely vulnerable to these pressures. And what President Trump is doing expertly is devising these tariffs to start chipping away, really, at the economic relationship that we have with the People's Republic of China. And you'll note, Steve, very well. Measures that President Trump announced last week, too. Right. With respect to going after China. So it's more than tariffs. It's the recognition that the CCP is a threat to the United States, and the Trump administration is working actively to address it. So, of course, the ambassador and the Foreign Ministry are going to say these things, that they're ready for war and they're willing to engage in any type of war that the US Wants. Well, in part, that's just recognizing the reality that, in fact, the CCP has been at war with the United States since they came to power in 1949. And then as they restated again in 2019, when Xi Jinping, the Communist dictator, declared people's war against the United States to focus the energies of the party and the people on the US So that's just making explicit, really, what's been going on for a very long time. Hedxhast's remarks were spot on and absolutely necessary. So we should expect this type of reaction from the ccp. They know they're vulnerable and they're trying to scare us off. But it's not going to work with President Trump and Secretary Hecseth and President Trump's team.
Mike Davis
Talk to me about Forrest is going to join us here at the bottom of the hour. I want to go to a concept you brought up to me last night. I was talking about the Democrats and how they he said, steve, you're not really thinking through Lenin theory. This is revolutionary defeatism. What do you mean by that? This is part of their playbook about how the sullen and the surly is part of their playbook.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Oh, absolutely it is. And that's what also applies to the Democrats behavior last night in the historic address that President Trump gave. So when we're thinking about the CCP or we're thinking about the behavior of the Democrats, we need to think not in American terms. What we need increasingly, obviously with the ccp, we need to think in these terms, but with the Democrats in terms of ideas that are coming not out of American tradition, not out of American political culture, but out of progressivism or out of Marxism or Leninist thought. So Lenin had the idea, what he called revolutionary defeatism, which is often known to the audience might remember Lenin's quip, the worse the better, by which he meant the worse things are for the government of Russia, for the czarist government, the worse it is for the Russian military, the worse it is for the Russian people and peasants, the better it is for the revolutionary party. So Lenin wanted things to go as bad as possible for the czarist government because that was making conditions better for a revolutionary moment. So, Steve, if we reflect on the Democrats last night in this historic speech where Trump gave his vision for America, he talked about so many positive elements, a golden age. He introduced, obviously, DJ Daniel, the angel mothers, the family of the firefighter murdered in Butler, Pennsylvania, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Right. Make America healthy again. The Democrats didn't react to any of it. Right. They were stone faced, absolutely opposed to any of that. So when we think about their behavior in conjunction with going back to President Obama's behavior, President Biden's behavior with an open border, who would open the US Border, who would open enact a strategy of a very carefully thought out series of policies to open the American border to allow tens of millions of people unvetted into the United States, well, that's a party that's trying to make it the worse, the better. Right. They want to immiserate the American people, make the American condition far worse. And what did President Trump do last night? What President Trump did is just turn that on its head. Right. The better for the American people, the worse for the Democratic Party and for the ccp importantly. Right. So the better the worse. That's what Trump did last night and what Trump has been doing.
Mike Davis
Hang on one sec. The whole six weeks. Hang on one second. I'm gonna hold you through the break. And Forrest Chu is gonna join us. Also, Dr. Bradley Thayer, our go to guy on all things Chinese Communist Party revolutionary defeatism explains the Democrats last night. It's quite, quite amazing.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's ratcheting up.
Mike Davis
It's heating up with the Chinese Communist Party, I think on our side of the football, the decouple team, I think we're winning here. Doesn't mean we're going to win. Ultimately, the Chinese, the ambassador you saw the CCP is just not going to sit there. This is why, Jason, Medical, I think now the guys that executed on the theory of Rosemary Gibson on her book, Dr. Sean Rawls and the team said, hey, they're going to use every strategic asset in the world to come against the United States, one that they've got. They control all the generic manufacturing of drugs. And if you're dependent upon that, you get a problem. Chasemedical.com Bannon go there today, talk to.
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Mike Davis
Ahead of the curve in case anything happens with the Chinese Communist Party because they're going to look to shut it down if they have to. The supply chains short break. Back in the war room in a moment.
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Stephen K. Bannon
And last night, what you framed, you.
Mike Davis
Said, hey, Steve, there's actually a strategic, they're being very strategic here. They're being, quite frankly, kind of disciplined and they're following the discipline of Lenin, put in with the Bolsheviks Remember, the Bolsheviks were a very tiny party that took over Russia, and they took over Russia by a fierce internal discipline and take no prisoners. I mean, these people were some of the hardest folks in the world. Revolutionary defeatism. What is it, sir? And why did we see it on display last night in the nation's capital of the greatest republic in mankind's history, sir?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Yes, Steve. So Lenin, Vladimir Lenin advanced the idea that the worse things were for the Russian people, for the Russian military, and for the czar's government, the better it was for the Revolutionary party for advancing revolutionary goals, the better it was for the Bolsheviks. So he said, the worse the better. So he did everything he could do in conjunction with his party, the Bolshevik Party, to undermine the Russian war effort in World War I and thwart, to the extent he was able, any Russian goal. So what we're seeing with, he wanted to make things as bad as possible for the Russian people so that the revolution would come about sooner. Well, what did we see last night? Well, the Democrats are really following that policy of immiserization. What they're trying to do is make things as bad as possible with the Obama administration and then the Biden administration. And we talked about the example of the open border policy where we really don't know how many people came into the United States in the years of the open border. The support for the People's Republic of China, the weakening of the United States, the horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan. These are all policies, if you think about it strategically from that point of view of the Democratic Party, that this is really revolutionary defeatism. The Democrats are trying to do what they can to immiserate the American people to advance their agenda. And President Trump is not having any of it. He's turning that on its head. He loves America. He loves the American people, and he's trying to make things better for the American people and thus make things much worse for the Democrats and for the Chinese Communist Party and other enemies of the United States. So what Trump is doing is brilliant, and what the Democrats are doing, when we think about it through a Leninist lens, Right. Not through the traditional American lens, because the Democrats just really seem to be, don't they, out of American political history and political culture. The way they behaved last night was just the latest example of that. Right. What Al Green did was absolutely beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior. The fact that they had no reaction whatsoever to the Angel Moms, to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To the other poignant, the young man who's going to West Point, of course, and DJ Daniel you had there at one place and one time, two starkly different conceptions of the United States. One, Trump's backed by the Republicans in the chamber and in the audience, strongly supporting that golden age for the United States, Americans who are invested in America and furthering and making life better for the American people versus the revolutionary defeatists. Right. That would be the Democrats who are doing what they can do, not to have a golden age, but to immiserate the American people, just as Lenin would want for that revolutionary party. So in one place, one time. That's why this was historic, not just for Trump's address, but you had two visions of the United States on display there, and the American people spoke overwhelmingly. You've noted the polls that Trump's vision, the golden age of America is what the American people want, is what they want.
Mike Davis
Let's pivot now to, as Captain Jim Fennell says, your writing partner, the main thing. Right.
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Let's.
Mike Davis
I want to play a clip from our own Pete Hex as a close friend and a good buddy and a great man, head of dod. Let's play. And I want to bring it for us. Let's go and play the clip.
John Brennan
Change gears. As the speech wrapped up last night.
Mike Davis
This was posted by the China, by.
John Brennan
The Chinese Embassy, quote, if war is what the US Wants, be it a.
Mike Davis
Tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end. As Secretary of Defense, how do you take that?
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Well, we're prepared. Those who long for peace must prepare for war. We are. That's why we're rebuilding our military. That's why we're reestablishing deterrence in the warrior ethos is because we live in a dangerous world with powerful ascendant countries with very different ideologies. You mentioned defense spending. They're rapidly increasing their defense spending, modern technology. They want to supplant the United States. If we want to deter war with the Chinese or others, we have to be strong. And that president understands peace comes through strength. He also has a great relationship with that gentleman right there, too, Xi Jinping. So where we can partner, where we can cooperate to recognize that we don't want war with China, we don't seek that war.
Stephen K. Bannon
We will.
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And the president has sought historic peace and historic opportunities. But my job as the Secretary of Defense is to make sure we're ready. We, we need the defense spending, the capabilities, the weapons, and the posture in the Indo Pacific, which is something we're very much focused on.
Mike Davis
And what, in what PTEX has Done is add the warrior ethos. Faris Cho, I want to bring it to you first. It's pretty extraordinary, at least to me. You're the head of the new federal state since Miles has been detained. You've been doing a great job as our leader. But is it pretty unusual for the Chinese ambassador to be that aggressive? Hey guys, if you want a trade war, we'll do it. You want any kind of war, we'll do it. We're ready to fight to the end. Your thoughts on that first?
Forrest Chu
Yes, that's very common. What they call that wolf warrior, right? That's Chinese Communist Party. But first of all I would like to say it is very essential to differentiate ccp, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese the people. Because the Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian regime which enslaved the Chinese people for over 70 years. The Chinese people, Lao Beijing are peace loving and hardworking people. They don't want war, they don't want trade war. They don't want war. So I think it's the ccp, they want war. When they say that statement we will fight to the end, they are talking about sacrifice of the Lao Beijings just like what we see in Ukraine. You know, the dictatorship used the war as their tool to keep them in power and keep their global influence globally. So that's the CCP talk, no doubt about it. But let's think about it while we are still talking about a potential war. No, I think back in 2017, Mao's and you already warned the US and warned the world that the CCP is waging the war against free nation, free country against usa. Right. This war included the fentanyl crisis. We have over 100,000 people die every year. That's a war, no doubt about it. What about the COVID 19? How many people died from COVID 19? And the CCP used their misinformation and cover up all the informations and they also they take all the PPEs to jeopardize the effort here in the US so that's unrestricted warfare. What about the industry and also the technology, espionage. They have a cyber attack, cyber affair happening in this country. And Huawei, TikTok and Zoom, all those companies is working all biking by the PLA, by the ccp. So they are already waged war on usa. So I think we have to be aware of that and also their propaganda. Right. The winter just brought up that back two years they talk about China is rising, the America is falling.
Mike Davis
No it's not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hang on a second. Go back and describe to our audience, what do you mean by Wolf Warrior? The ambassador was very aggressive. Normally the ambassadors are trying to, you know, be diplomatic, accompanied. That was not, that was up in your grill. What is the concept of Wolf Warrior? Explain to our audience.
Forrest Chu
Okay, the Wolf Warrior, basically, they won't back down. They will use everything to threat the world, threat their people, threat the peace of the world. That's a Wolf Warrior. They won't back down, they won't negotiate because they don't care about their people's well being. All they care is about their power, their let's call that face. So they want to save their own face and just to sacrifice their own people and threaten the whole world. That's what defined as a wolf warrior.
Mike Davis
Dr. Thayer, in the concept of the Wolf Warrior, Pete Hegseth, our friend and colleague, was that false bravado? I mean, we've talked about this a lot. Are we prepared to defend Taiwan? I'm saying forget whether we make a decision or not. Is the 7th Fleet prepared to defend it? Are we prepared to take the Chinese Communist Party on if a shooting war starts in East Asia? Sir, is Pete Hess right to say, hey, you want to get it on? We're ready to get it on and the United States will prevail, Sir?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Well, the US Military of course, is a formidable force in any environment, in all environments. And so if the PRC were to make the decision to attack Taiwan, to attempt to conquer it, I think that they would incur very significant costs, which is, you know, what Pete Hegseth is doing is doing underscoring our deterrent capabilities, which are considerable. There's no doubt a lot of work has got to be done, Steve, in terms of our conventional posture and in terms of our nuclear posture as well. But if war to come, political warfare is ongoing, as Forrest has stressed, right. That they've been waging war through many means for a very long time. If it were to go kinetic, of course, then US capabilities in conjunction with allies like Japan are going to ensure that the PRC incurs a very significant cost in it. Trump administration is doing what it can do to turn this around. And you saw in the speech the shipbuilding enterprise, right, the emphasis on shipbuilding emphasized on military power. All of those are very positive developments which are only going to further strengthen are deterrent and if deterrence fails, war fighting capabilities in the Indo Pacific.
Stephen K. Bannon
Dr. Thayer, where can people get your.
Mike Davis
Writings, your prolific, your knowledge of the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist doctrine? You always continue to remind me, don't think of them in too Much of a Western context. This is very much, it's very much a Confucian mentality, but it's also primarily Marxist Leninist ideology. So where do people go to get all your writing?
Dr. Bradley Thayer
Brad Thayer at Extra, Bradley Thayer at Getter and Truth. Thanks very much, Steve.
Mike Davis
Thank you, Dr. Thayer. Revolutionary defeatism. Amazing. Forrest, you heard Pete Heggs as Secretary of Defense and you heard, you know, you've explained this wolf warrior mentality. Do you believe that the Chinese Communist Party is prepared to go to a kinetic war, a conflict now over Taiwan, in the South China Sea or in the Straits of Taiwan, Sir.
Forrest Chu
Okay. I think only few people, including Xi Jinping and a handful loyal person will want this war. Let's look at it. There is a lot of pressure building up inside China. We talked about the economic pressure before. We know there was a military purge happened in China which is initiated by Xi Jinping. There's nobody he can trust. So I don't think even on the higher level in the ccp, a lot of people don't want war. They want to keep themselves safe. They want to keep their offspring who are abroad to keep their assets and their children safe. So I think there is a lot of internal pressure. Those people are looking for regime change or leader change. And the most important thing I would like to say is the people, the people are waking up in China because we talked about the marriage rate plummeted over like 21% last time. The Chinese people had enough. They will never trust the Chinese Communist Party and their lies and their propaganda. That's why even if they want to start war, the Chinese people will overthrow this government and they won't support this war. And also the internal people won't support Xi Jinping the dictatorship. Think about the Ukraine. I think.
Mike Davis
Yeah, hang on a second. They've had a huge purge. You've brought us up to speed on that over the last six months to a year. Huge purge. The military under Xi, you're saying, did you just say you believe if there's actually a shooting war, if we go kinetic, that Lao Beijing, that will be the movement, that Lao Beijing will overthrow.
Forrest Chu
The regime, the law baixing, including the internal people, which is the high level people, because they know the system is not sustainable. Because you saw even the high level ranking people thrown in prison and they disappeared. So they had enough. In order to keep themselves and their families safe, they have to make the decision, they have to act rather than just follow Xi Jinping, all the dictatorship to go to war, to destroy everything they had.
Mike Davis
Wow, wow. We Got about a minute. I want to go to the economic situation because they present a series of numbers that are not great, but they're not awful. Of course, very smart people saying those numbers are much, much worse than that. Your assessment of the real economic conditions in China today?
Forrest Chu
You can never trust anything coming out from CCP's mouth, right? All the numbers are fake. We talked about the youth unemployed rate is already over 40, 50. So the manufacturing is leaving China. We talked about Apple, we talked about the tsmc. The situation, the economic situation is very bad, including the real estate sector which is in deep trouble back in couple two years ago, two, three years ago. It's even worse nowadays. So their economy is not sustainable and they force people to stay in the labor force and to do very minimum wage work. But even that cannot support all the populations, all the young peoples in the country.
Mike Davis
Forrest, where do people go to get the new federal states TV show podcast, all your content? Where do they go, sir?
Forrest Chu
Yeah, they can go to gather NFSC TV and NFSC see speaks and also we have a counter FSC TV and it speaks on X.
Mike Davis
Also you put out the daily news. I know it's up on Ghetto. It is spectacular. The level of detail and analysis. How do people get that daily? How do they get that daily newsfeed? There's always a half a dozen to a dozen.
Stephen K. Bannon
Really?
Mike Davis
I mean and I look at every newspaper in the world. That is some of the best analysis I've seen. You get it up on getter. How do people get to it?
Forrest Chu
Thank you so much. People just have to download Gather. You can find daily news on the Gather app. You can find all those great news, all the truth from China and all the news in the area.
Mike Davis
It's amazing, absolutely amazing. Forrest, thank you so much. Appreciate you coming on.
Forrest Chu
Thank you.
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Podcast Summary: WarRoom Battleground EP 718: Hegseth Responds To War Threats From China Against The US
Podcast Information:
The episode opens with Stephen K. Bannon emphasizing the gravity of the current political climate. At [00:16], Bannon declares, “This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going [to war].” He sets a confrontational tone, suggesting that the existing political establishment is collapsing under pressure.
Mike Davis contributes early on, expressing frustration with media narratives: “The people have had a belly full of it” ([00:30]). This sentiment underscores the episode’s focus on challenging mainstream media portrayals and advocating for a more skeptical view of governmental and media institutions.
Stephen K. Bannon leads the discussion on the White House's intensive activity surrounding budgetary issues. At [02:00], he highlights ongoing debates within Congress about Continuing Resolutions (CR) versus appropriations bills:
“Some people are getting hung up now because it looks like a consensus is building around a CR instead of doing a 30-day CR or waiting to make sure that if you do it, you cut spending by 1%, which is not much” ([02:30]).
Bannon critiques the Congress’s approach to budget management, arguing that the push for an end-of-year CR without significant spending cuts is inadequate. He advocates for more aggressive fiscal strategies, including rescissions and impoundments, despite anticipating Supreme Court challenges.
The conversation shifts to the Supreme Court’s recent rulings affecting President Trump’s policies. Natalie Winters, a White House correspondent, provides insights at [03:21]:
“The Supreme Court did not really put in the emergency docket. They sent it back to the judge. Be more specific.”
Winters argues that the Court's decision is not the end of Trump’s agenda but rather a temporary setback, suggesting ongoing legal battles. She emphasizes the administration's commitment to defending its policies against judicial pushback.
A significant portion of the episode centers on DJ Daniel, a young law enforcement officer who became a symbol of patriotism and resilience. Natalie Winters passionately discusses his role:
“DJ Daniel represents what it means to have a profession that is so in line with defending your country, being true to yourself and just loving, like he said, President Trump” ([09:01]).
Bannon and his guests laud Daniel’s dedication, contrasting it with what they perceive as Democrat hostility toward law enforcement. Natalie Winters criticizes media figures like Nicole Wallace for their negative portrayal, stressing the importance of honoring heroes like Daniel.
The discussion evolves into an analysis of Democratic tactics, framed through a Marxist-Leninist lens. Dr. Bradley Thayer explains the concept of revolutionary defeatism at [25:57]:
“Lenin had the idea, what he called revolutionary defeatism, which is often known to the audience might remember Lenin's quip, the worse the better... So Trump is turning that on its head by making things better for the American people and thus making things much worse for the Democrats and for the CCP” ([34:16]).
Thayer argues that Democrats are intentionally worsening conditions to advance their agenda, paralleling Lenin’s strategies to destabilize and incite revolutionary change. This perspective positions the current political struggle as part of a larger ideological battle.
A central theme of the episode is the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggressive rhetoric and potential for conflict with the United States. Forrest Chu, a CCP expert, and Dr. Bradley Thayer provide their analyses:
Forrest Chu discusses the CCP’s "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy, characterizing their threats as empty bravado rooted in internal vulnerabilities. At [42:31], he explains:
“They won’t back down... they want to save their own face and just to sacrifice their own people and threaten the whole world” ([42:31]).
Dr. Bradley Thayer counters by asserting the CCP’s economic instability and internal pressures make their aggressive stance largely superficial. At [20:53], Thayer states:
“Their bark is going to be far worse than their bite. The CCP's economy is in the tank... their legitimation crisis makes them supremely vulnerable” ([20:53]).
Both experts highlight the CCP’s strategic use of threats to project power while masking their underlying weaknesses.
The episode delves into the economic tensions between the US and China, particularly focusing on tariffs and their implications. Forrest Chu elaborates on China’s deteriorating economic conditions:
“The youth unemployment rate is over 40, the manufacturing is leaving China... the real estate sector is in deep trouble” ([48:16]).
He asserts that China’s economic unsustainability will prevent them from engaging in prolonged conflict, reinforcing Dr. Thayer’s point about CCP vulnerabilities.
Mike Davis raises concerns about the US’s readiness for potential conflict:
“Is the 7th Fleet prepared to defend it? Are we prepared to take the Chinese Communist Party on if a shooting war starts in East Asia?” ([43:02]).
Dr. Bradley Thayer responds confidently about US military capabilities:
“The US Military is a formidable force in any environment... US capabilities in conjunction with allies like Japan are going to ensure that the PRC incurs very significant cost” ([43:34]).
As the episode wraps up, Stephen K. Bannon reiterates the ongoing battle between US policies and CCP threats, emphasizing the need for strong defense and strategic economic maneuvers. He underscores the importance of being prepared for economic turbulence and potential conflicts, suggesting that the US's proactive stance will maintain its superiority.
Dr. Bradley Thayer reinforces the notion that ideological battles are at the forefront of current geopolitics, urging listeners to recognize and counteract the CCP’s strategies effectively.
Stephen K. Bannon ([00:16]): “This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going [to war].”
Mike Davis ([00:30]): “The people have had a belly full of it.”
Natalie Winters ([03:21]): “The Supreme Court did not really put in the emergency docket. They sent it back to the judge. Be more specific.”
DJ Daniel ([09:01]): “DJ Daniel represents what it means to have a profession that is so in line with defending your country...”
Dr. Bradley Thayer ([34:16]): “Lenin had the idea, what he called revolutionary defeatism...”
Forrest Chu ([42:31]): “They won’t back down... they want to save their own face and just to sacrifice their own people and threaten the whole world.”
Forrest Chu ([48:16]): “The youth unemployment rate is over 40, the manufacturing is leaving China...”
Dr. Bradley Thayer ([43:34]): “The US Military is a formidable force in any environment...”
Political Frustration: The episode emphasizes significant dissatisfaction with current governmental and media narratives, advocating for more transparent and accountable leadership.
Budgetary Struggles: There's a critical examination of Congress's handling of budgets and spending, with a push for more substantial fiscal reforms to prevent economic decline.
Supreme Court's Role: Recent Supreme Court decisions are seen as temporary obstacles to President Trump’s broader agenda, with expectations of ongoing legal challenges.
Support for Law Enforcement: DJ Daniel’s story is highlighted as a testament to patriotism and resilience, serving as a counter-narrative to perceived Democrat hostility toward law enforcement.
Ideological Battle: The concept of revolutionary defeatism is used to frame Democratic strategies as intentional efforts to destabilize and erode American societal structures.
CCP Aggression: The CCP’s aggressive rhetoric is analyzed as strategic posturing masking internal economic and political vulnerabilities, with confidence expressed in the US’s military capabilities to deter actual conflict.
Economic Tensions: Ongoing economic pressures in China, including high unemployment and manufacturing decline, are portrayed as factors that limit the CCP’s ability to sustain prolonged conflict.
Preparedness and Defense: The importance of maintaining robust defense mechanisms and strategic economic policies is underscored to protect national interests against both internal and external threats.
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the crucial discussions and insights from WarRoom Battleground EP 718, providing listeners with a thorough understanding of the episode’s key themes and arguments.