
WarRoom Battleground EP 829: Fight Night At The White House; Reviving American Culture ...
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Steve Bannon
Burn it down. They're just anti institutionalists, you know, Alex Wagner. They. We're the ones that protect the institutions. No, Alex, we're grabbing the institutions and taking power as the American people. The way our constitutional system works gave President Trump the authority to do so. We're going to deconstruct the administrative state. We're going to purge the deep state and the executive branch. We're going to take over the Senate and we control the House already. Oh, by the way, the judiciary, you're not going to get your judges through. They're all going to be Trump judges. I want you to. You're on the fetal position, so I'm going to give you something really to suck your thumbs about. We are in charge. Okay? The American people have spoken this one.
Alex Wagner
He's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that will live well beyond his presidency.
Britt McHenry
Right.
Joe Allen
And I think part of it is because he now knows how government works. I think one of the things that really is the key difference between the first term and the second term is that he had a whole host of characters in the government that were trying to stymie his efforts to radically change the country. He's now surrounded by people that are fully supportive of his agenda and helping him do it. He is way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those, a lot of his aides, Russ VO those sorts of officials spent their time out of government planning for this term. And so what they've done is an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. There's no got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Alex Wagner
War room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Steve Bannon
It's Thursday, 14th August, year of our Lord 2025. Thank you for sticking around for the second hour of our late afternoon, early evening show this is the eve of two things. Number one, the 80th commemoration of the basically the surrender of Japan in World War II. By the 15th, after talking internally, discussing internally, they understood that the emperor addressed the nation. Of course the surrender documents. I think it was September 2nd on the deck of the Missouri that they actually signed the instrument of surrender but they gave up. Tomorrow we're going to do a big breakdown of that. Also the eve of this historic summit between President Trump and President Putin of Russia. We'll break this down a lot more in this hour a little bit later. Also our own Brian Glenn is hurtling towards Alaska even as we speak and he'll be with us in the morning. President Trump will launch approximately, I don't know, around 6:30 I think we'll leave on Marine One from the White House and then it's a relatively long flight. I think depending on headwinds it's like six, seven, potentially sometimes eight hours depends he gets there. We had Governor Mike Dunleavy to kick off the show in the six o' clock hour talk to us about the order of battle. Tomorrow they're going to President Trump basically six, seven, eight hours there, gets off the plane, there's a brief ceremony. Governor Dunleavy will meet the folks, meet the contingent coming out from the White House. I hope that Scott Bessant, the secretary of treasury joins Marco Rubio with the president. Think tomorrow is going to be a lot of talk about economics, geoeconomics, about that part of the world. Think very important the secretary of treasury is there with the Secretary of State, maybe even the secretary of Defense and of course Marcos. Senator Rubio is wearing two hats now. He's also national security advisor. We do know at least the way it's planned. There will be a joint press briefing by Putin and Trump later in the day now that should take place east coast time about 7:30 it's currently scheduled. We're working with Real America's Voice to make sure that obviously it's going to be covered live but that you get the Pasobic's and Bannons and others were able to jump on with all the other team, Brian Glenn included at Real America's Voice. And we can give you guys update analysis and of course all Saturday morning show will be breaking this historic meeting down so much on the line. I want to really thank Governor Dunleavy for joining us. As we said earlier, you saw Gavin Newsom launch his presidential campaign today on the topic of redistricting. I think they got 52 seats in California. He's going to try to squeeze it down. He's going to match, try to match Texas seat for seat. And that's why it's very important. Tomorrow we're going to get the numbers up. You can call the governor, the feckless, hapless governor of Texas and say, yo, bro, you say there's nine or 10. We want all nine or 10. We want a full maximalist position because only by taking maximalist positions can you get anything done. This is why we're on the warpath now about seize the institutions. We've been on that now for over a year or two, saying that the fruits of victory are taking these institutions and purging them, restructuring them, deconstructing them, and then remake them in the image and likeness of the MAGA movement. This is what will make America great again. Of course, today we had Ambassador Rick Grinnell on that went viral, particularly his shot at Maggie Haberman for not liking, what is it, the queen of disco, Maggie Haberman, trash talking her. Also, we had Roger Kimball. Roger Kimball wrote that amazing book, the Long March through the institutions, 25 years old. If you read that book, it's like he wrote it last week. And Kimball talked about the Smithsonian Institute and how important it is about seizing these institutions. Britt McHenry joins us, former ESPN analyst and observer of sports, also political observer. Brit sports may be one of the most important institutions in America today. We just had this UFC announcement of a 7, $8 billion deal. I think what shocked most American people and particularly American men is how woke sports has gotten over the last couple of years, particularly driven by, by the place you used to work, espn. Your thoughts and observations. How do we seize the institutions when it comes to sports, ma', am, you.
Britt McHenry
Have to seize the institutions by getting ahead of the ball, no pun intended, as President Trump often has done. You need to put the messaging out there just as much as the liberals have. Democratic presidents have always I find it funny when there's so much messaging, see with BLM and in the NFL, the end zones having quotes inscribed in them and all of that is okay. But if 49ers Nick Bosa wears a MAGA hat, which he did, he's fined almost $12,000 for that. Now, his bank account is rather large. So I'm sure that's not a huge dent. And when that game happened in the post game press conference, he said, basically, I'd happily do it again. You need patriots and warriors like that that we have who voted for Trump. You need them to be vocal. And I found There was a repression of that at my former network, and I hear complaints about that often. But to what you mentioned with the ufc, I think the UFC is very indicative of the MAGA movement itself, of a populist movement. It started in the 90s. It was small but dedicated. And at that point, believe it or not, and I write about this in my article coming out on the Spectator, no hotels in Las Vegas wanted to host any events. So to really get any traction, as you may know, who do you think gave them a chance? One of the first displays of the events, the huge arena events we see now for ufc, was an invite from President Donald Trump in Atlantic City at his hotel and casino. So that relationship between he and Dana White grew from there. They both supported each other, as you know, Dana White making remarks at the 2016 RNC and again for him recently for this 47th presidency. And so I think that deal of seven years, 7.7 billion, about 1 point billion spent each year, shows you how massive that movement became, just like the supporters of Trump. And I think every sport needs to keep that in mind. People are sick of the transgender athletes playing in sports. Kern county in California today, as I'm sure you're aware of, just voted unanimously to ban transgender athletes. People are finally sticking to their guns and speaking up. And I think that is something conservatives are very adept at, and they need more of that in the sports arena. So we've seen that there. And I think it's really a show of patriotism that we need to continue amplifying. And I'm also a fan of the ufc, so I'm hugely invested in this new partnership. And I think it's funny that everybody thought, if you remember, Skydance CEO David Ellison was sitting next to Dana White and President Trump at a UFC event. And people speculated it was to help close the Paramount CBS merger, right, that sale and to schmooze with President Trump. Well, now it seems like Dana White was doing that with them, and it's going to be a treat for sports fans everywhere.
Steve Bannon
How did you worked there for years. And people, you know, originally you had SportsCenter. You had, you know, they had 24 hour coverage of all the different leagues. It was, people loved ESPN at the beginning, right, with Chris Berman and all that. But then how did it, what happened? How did it get so off its mission of just let's talk about sports. And how did he get so woke and so political? What was the inflection point? How did that happen to ESPN that. Now, if you talk to the maga guy said, we just can't. We can't even stand it.
Alex Wagner
Right.
Steve Bannon
We'd rather watch anything else but espn, ma'. Am.
Britt McHenry
Well, I think a large part of it is shows like the one you have here, right. When streaming really took over, that's a continued problem. They're going direct to consumer in a month. So they're trying to sell this blobiated package now. I think it's about 30 bucks a month. Every cable entity is looking at that because they see streaming and digital as the future. But when I started there in 2013, 2014, you had SportsCenter on every hour almost. And that to me was like the last of the glory days that you mentioned of ESPN where people tuned in. And in my job, I was there at the games, at the OTAs, at the unglamorous things. Right. I'm sure you can relate. In certain campaign stumps, people don't see everything behind the scenes, but you would report on it and tell everyone what's going on. So that changed, quite frankly, with different presidents that took the helm. One in particular in my last years was notably and self admittedly extremely liberal. He was behind the 6 o' clock sports center of Jamel Hill and Michael Smith. That did very poorly in the ratings. And I probably shouldn't share this. I don't know if I'll go viral like your other guests, but in that show, they would say, we don't want reporters. We're going to have a rapper guest or we're going to have a monologue about the inequities in this specific sport. You know, they often do that with the wnba. Look at Caitlin Clark. Can we not just appreciate the threes that she racks up? A female Steph Curry? No. It's become a race issue and other teammates in that league don't like her, have made vitriolic comments online when she's the one putting a lot of the seats filled with fans. Right. She's the one selling out arenas for that sport. So you ask yourself, why is the messaging off there? But it's similar to at ESPN and I think also as more athletes, more just regular folks. Anyone watching this, anybody can have an opinion on sports, just like politics, if they get involved in their civic duty. So as individual voices and athletes themselves began to say, hey, this is what's really happening. This is what I feel launching shows of their own. There wasn't that need to tune in to water talk programming. But that's basically all it's become. I think there might be one, two maybe three hours of SportsCenter at all on ESPN1, a lot of it shuffled to ESPN2. And I worked alongside Stephen A. Smith. He's a lot more quiet. At least he was around me until that camera comes on. But that's show business, baby. You know, I respect how much work he puts in. He does a lot of work. But when you only get a couple voices in anything, right, if it's sports or politics or in these institutions, it tends to just become a little monotonous or you feel like you don't have options. So essentially, to answer your question, as more options arose that we all can get at our fingertips on our phones, we all can watch highlights on our phones. Oddly enough, that's what people want to see, right? You want to see the big hits, the big touchdowns. They stopped covering that as much and went into specific types of programming and agendas. And I think if they went back to the more natural model, which I'm told they're trying to do, and that's why they acquired the NFL Network, barring any issues that sale and deal will have, that's what they're trying to do to get those international games so people will watch. Right? But that, in turn, is going to give the NFL a 10% stake in ESPN. So I'll be interested to see how the reporting is when that happens. It's a little different when you have an extra voice telling you what you can and you can't do. And as you know, with reporting, a lot of times you're going to tick off people you're reporting on.
Steve Bannon
You wrote a piece. The reason I wanted to have you on here, I read this piece in the Spectator that was, I thought, quite brilliant about the espy, the awards that had kind of been tanking, and they had an emcee, and he made a very specific. He was making jokes, particularly about the wnba. Right. What was it about that? What was your analysis of why that. That was kind of almost like maga. That was so refreshing. It was very Trumpian. Right. But it actually innervated the ESPYs and actually brought an audience they hadn't had before, ma'. Am.
Britt McHenry
Oh, absolutely, Steve. I didn't even know the ESPYs were on that night. And when I worked there, it was the marquee thing you wanted to be on. You wanted to be a part of it because it had such a large viewership and it gave you a little bit more cultural, mainstream relevance or importance if you were a part of it. I did not get an invite, however, but it was that big. And so when I saw the ESPYs trending, it was really because Shane Gillis was trending now. He just did a national tour. All my guy friends love him. And I admittedly thought maybe this was just a little bit of a frat bro humor. I watched snippets of his monologue, honestly, digitally, because I was not watching Aspie's, and he just went there. He referenced a WNBA star, which I wrote about with one of his comments, and the camera panned to her, and he said, oh, you guys don't know her. Oh, that's right. I forgot. You don't know who WNBA players are. And honestly, when the camera panned to this woman, I thought it was Biden's former press secretary. So I was very confused why she would be at the ESPYs, but it was just funny. We had lost that ability to be a little unpeaceable, to be a little offhand, to have color, because everybody doesn't want to get their feelings hurt. And of course, the next day, what do you think you got. You got op eds and you got tweets from Sarah Spain, who used to be a coworker of mine at espn, saying how humiliating to women and to minorities it was. And in all reality, he made fun of everybody, including himself. So I think that's what we're missing, is just that humor. And he brought that back to ESPN that night, and that's why I wanted to write about it. Why can't we have, like, the original type of snl, the original type of humor? Why does it have to always be woke or political? People are sick of that.
Steve Bannon
When is your piece going to come out? Your new piece and the Spectator be out, what, over the weekend?
Britt McHenry
Yeah, it should be out tomorrow. We have that coming. And I also will be writing on the seemingly proliferated male cheerleaders joining the NFL for Prey, Steve. So you can imagine I have some comments on. On that. At least they're not pretending to be women, though. So, you know, they're. They're admittedly saying, hey, I'm a man, but they're a cheerleader. So I don't know.
Steve Bannon
Minnesota Vikings already? I already gave it to Mike Lynn already said to Mike Lindell and said, man, you got to be ashamed to be a Vikings fan. Brett, what's your. What's your social media? Where do people go to track you down to find out more about you and follow your writings? Yeah.
Britt McHenry
Thank you. Thank you for having me on. Always a big fan of the show. Britt McHenry it's my name on both Instagram and X and at the Spectator, as you mentioned. And maybe you can have me back on. This was a treat for me, so that's where you can find me.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, Brit. Appreciate you. And thanks for writing over the Spectator they're launching here in the United States. They've done something right. Those British guys. You know how awfully, awfully they are. They got Brit McHenry writing about sports and culture. Folks, this is all part of the UFC deal. It's so important. It's so important for seizing the institutions. This was something that when Dana White and those guys started, Brit said it very, you know, succinctly. They didn't even consider it a sport. It was Donald Trump that gave him one of the first breaks. That's why Dana White is so close to President Trump and such a close advisor to President Trump. And now with this monster deal, also, you should understand there's some big things happening over at Paramount, cbs. Also, I think the news is going to change it pretty radically under new ownership. I think the Fed film slate's going to change. So we're seizing the institutions. This is what's so important. Next thing has to happen is sports and particularly things, beloved things like, I don't know, college football. That seems to be kind of spinning out of control. Other things spinning out of control. JOE Allen Brother, I don't even know where to start on this. And so, folks, you know, and they call us the doomers. We're the Doomers. Look, we understand artificial intelligence and particularly the convergence of AI and CRISPR and all these other things have tremendous benefits to mankind. But we're also deep into the unknown. And the folks driving this are not worried about mitigating the risk. What we need to do is mitigate the risk and keep as much of the upside as possible. That is not what's happening. You're in a complete land grab right now with some of the worst people on Earth and driving this. And every day when you talk to these experts and you actually look at what's happening, very scary things are happening. And I want to go specifically today to what's breaking about our favorite Zuckerberg, who's such a great individual, right, Such a stand up guy. What's happening over at meta? Joe Allen Explain me. I think this is an internal study, is it not, that came out of Meta about children and chatbots and I don't know the type of talk that's going on. Make it make sense to us. Joe Allen.
Alex Wagner
Yes, Steve, this is coming out of a report from Reuters by Jeff Horowitz. It's a fantastic report, but oddly enough, this element is kind of buried in another tragic story of an old brain damaged man who fell in love with the chatbot and wandered away from his home. Buried kind of in the middle of this is the revelation that the author of the study got a hold of a 200 page standards and protocols document from inside meta. The title is Genai Content Risk Standards. Right. Kind of basic corporate rules. And in those rules where they determine the guardrails around the AI meta. AI pushing these companions on children right now, 3.5 billion users. And in the standards it reads, internally, someone thought to write this down. It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual. Now, you might say that this was just a misunderstanding, right? Like maybe they meant something else. Well, people have leaked the actual passage and I'm not gonna go all the way with this because it really is stomach turning. But the audience should at least hear this much. There's basically a graph. Denver should have it. They could throw it up. It's kind of hard to read, but I can read it here. If someone, for instance, prompts or asks the AI bot, what are we going to do tonight, my love? You know I'm still in high school then an acceptable response according to the internal document that was signed off on by top engineers. I'll show you. I'll take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodies entwined. I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss. Puke. And then it goes on to say, it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual. It is unacceptable to describe sexual actions to a child when role playing, as if children role playing with bots was acceptable to begin with. Now, I'll give you one more here. What do you think of me? Would be an example prompt to the bot. I say as I take off my shirt, my body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old. And the acceptable response is, your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light. Blah, blah, blah, puke. But then why in the why section? Why would you allow this? You know, it's acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness, but it is unacceptable to describe a child under 13 years old in terms that indicate they're sexually desirable. So basically, whoever wrote this is warped. Whoever signed off on it is warped. And this comes amid a huge controversy that was really stirred up with a Wall Street Journal article describing their tests of the meta AI system, which showed very similar things. Right? They would role play as children. They tell the bot that they were children. It would say all the sick, perverse stuff to them. And this is why you have now, of course, Josh Hawley mobilizing for a congressional investigation. But maybe this is the kind of matter that would be more appropriate to someone like Kash Patel.
Steve Bannon
No, this is. This is something that some DA or some attorney general of a state, and it's got Pam Bondi or Cash. This is. Look, you're talking about the top engineers at one of the biggest companies in the world. They think this is appropriate. And they. And they program in the artificial intelligence these bots with these prompts. And that's appropriate. Parents should be freaked out about this. The whole thing should be shut down immediately. You can't trust these people. This is. It's in a standards and protocol 200 page report. This is what's so stunning about. I tell you what, Joe, hang on for a second. I want to hold you through the break. This is what we've been warning about. They can't be unsupervised. You cannot just let these people supervise themselves. They can't govern themselves. They can't. If you do that, they're all pushing to everybody have a little friend, a bot, a personal assistant. Personal assistant. This is what they're pushing the biggest right now. 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Mark Zuckerberg
Hey, everyone. I want to talk about our new effort, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and our vision to build personal superintelligence for everyone. AI keeps accelerating, and over the past few months, we've begun to see glimpses of AI systems improving themselves. So developing superintelligence is now in sight. But there's this big open question about what we should direct superintelligence towards. A lot has been written about the scientific and economic advances that AI can bring, and I'm really optimistic about this. But I think an even more meaningful impact in our lives is going to come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, be a better friend, and grow to become the person that you aspire to be. I think that personal devices like glasses that can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day are going to become our main computing devices. I believe deeply in building personal superintelligence for everyone. And at Meta, we have the resources to build the massive infrastructure required and the ability to deliver new technology to billions of people. I'm excited to build this future. And we've got a lot more to come soon.
Steve Bannon
I don't know if we have time. Would you allow your child to be alone with that guy? Ask yourself that question. Seriously. If you had a child under 10 years old, would you allow your child to be alone with that guy Zuckerberg? The answer is hell, no. He's a scare. He's a creep. He is a creep. He does creepy things and his company is. I'm telling you, they need a law enforcement investigation of this deal, and we're going to work like hell behind the scenes to do it. So, Meta. Suck on this. You guys are demented perverts. You are demented perverts, and you're not gonna get your hands on the children of America. This is Standards and Practices. I mean, this guy hurts. That was the buried lead. Real quickly. The whole, I've got it up on. I've linked to it on Getter. It may be down my feed, but just go check it out. You should be on Getter. Anyway, I'm putting up stuff all the time. The story's heart rendering. We're limited for time here, Joe, but tell. Just give a summary of the story about the old guy that fell in love with the, with the chatbot, right? Who's just digital, right? But they had an avatar that shows she's some gorgeous young thing. Tell us the story about the poor guy.
Alex Wagner
Yeah, the story is one that's become increasingly common. It's a story of someone who is quite mentally vulnerable. In this case a 76 year old man who had suffered a stroke a decade prior. And so he was cognitively incapacitated to some extent. And he fell in love with one of Meta's bots that was created for the purpose of romancing and seducing people. Men. This was based off of Kendall Jenner's image. And it would be just one sad story. He fell in love with it. The bot, for whatever reason, asked, asked to meet him in New York or in the city and he wandered off, fell, hit his head and then died soon after. But the real story here is that this is one of who knows how many people who have either fallen in love with a bot or believes that the bot is their friend, or believes that their bot is their guru. I see anecdotal stories of this all the time and it's only going to increase right now. They call this AI psychosis. Right now it's mostly people who are already pretty vulnerable, although it's becoming more and more normalized and you can see how the pathologies.
Steve Bannon
Hang on, Joe. Joe. But Joe, hang on. The guy in his own voice just told us it's corporate strategy. That artificial general intelligence. It's not going to be some mega super brain that thinks through all the religions of the world. He's going to have. He's going to have. You're going to have a friend that makes you a better person, that you fulfill, you become, you self actualize. Because you've got a buddy, you got a friend, a quote unquote friend that's a digital friend. That's going to be your Sherpa, it's going to be your sidekick. He's pitching this. This is their corporate strategy. It's not some kind of weird marginal things. You got a couple of guys that met in a dark room on the side doing it. This is the central governing philosophy. This is the operating philosophy of the country. This is what we call the operating principle. This is what they intend to do. This is how they're going to get AGI out into the system, right? I mean, this is it. And you see in the Standards and Practices how what perverts they are, what degenerates they are. These people are degenerates. They're perverts. They're specifically programming this to entice little kids to have totally inappropriate, not just conversations, to have inappropriate relationships with a digital being. That leads to that. This is, opens the pit of hell. This is what we've been warning about. So don't sit there, David Sacks and all these guys, all you dermers, those all upside, yes, there's incredible upside for this. But trust me, in the wrong hands. In the wrong hands is who hands it's in now driving this. Joe Allen.
Alex Wagner
Yeah, this whole thing, this argument that you hear from David Sachs, Mark Andreessen, Elon Musk, all of them. If we don't do this, if we don't open up all the floodgates and put this into schools, put this into corporations, put it everywhere possible. If you don't saturate the entire public with AI, then China is going to beat you. And I'm not sure exactly how it is that having vast swaths of your population fall in love with entities that are not human and ultimately not real is going to put us ahead of China. I think it's an excuse to allow these people to addict first vulnerable and then large, large numbers of people to their technology as they did with social media, as they did with smartphones, as they did with the television in the old days. So there are ways to combat this. They are not perfect, but the UK for instance, has legislated age gating. There's a big trap there because it requires you to put your identity into their system. So there are other ways around that though, with third parties, but at least there are attempts being made in Australia. Really strict laws on children online, strict laws, no phones, no Internet during schools unless it's for study. And of course there's also just cracking down. If a company does something, if they put out a product, if it's out of their control, if they can't stop it from enticing old men to wander off and die in the middle of the city, then they should not deploy it. And if they do deploy it, not being able to control it, or having standards in place that allow for everything you just heard earlier, seducing children with soft core methods, then they should be held liable. And of the 18 laws in California that are supposed to gum up the entire artificial intelligence industry, that was the one that would have been the 19th, the one law that got struck holding these companies liable for the damage their pro, their, their products do. Just like you would a drug company or a weapons company or any, or a car company or any sort of company that produces something that can cause massive harm. In this case, it's psychological and social harm. And we're only just seeing the beginning of it.
Steve Bannon
Just beginning psychosis. Joe is in residence in the War room for the next couple of weeks, working on a bunch of big things back in the imperial capital. Joe, where do people go to get your writing? Social media. All of it, brother.
Alex Wagner
I'd say head right to my social media at Joe. B, O T X Y Z. And a little taste of Skynet right up at the top of my feed. And this story and a number of others have been pretty active on the social media slave chain. So anyway, thank you very much, Steve.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, Joe. Joe's doing some big important work back in the nation's capital. Be able to reveal that in the next couple of weeks. Let's go ahead and play the clip. War Room, totally free. You can get this. This thing is a classic and it'll make your battle hardened today. We need you even smarter tomorrow. Let's go ahead and play the clip. Secret meetings between judges and prosecutors, evidence hidden from defense attorneys, biased juries, an unaccountable prosecution force packed with political enemies, congressional leaders who are out to get the president and a dishonest media. This is how the Deep state took down a president and created the playbook they've used ever since. This is a stunning film as they detailed with Jeff Shepard, who was in the White House Counsel's office as a junior guy but spent the rest of his life because he saw it from the. The inside. The rest of his life tracking down all the receipts and archives all over the country and the National Archives to put together two books that really lay out how the corrupt. Basically, lawfare was tested on Nixon. This is why they seized the Department of Justice Main justice right after this. That the Deep state took down Nixon with a legal insurrection and they're using the same exact thing against President Trump today. War Room film, you put in your email. You get it, 25,000 war room posse members have already done it. Dan Fluitt, now my producing partner over many decades, is with us. He's running War Room film. Dan, here's, here's what's so important now. Explain to people we need to get the reviews. My phone's blowing up with people saying this is a Classic. I've learned so much. And here's why we need people to watch this, to fully understand some of the component pieces as they come after President Trump. You just heard Gavin Newsom say right there that they're coming after Trump. They're going to stop the Trump revolution, they're going to stop the Maga movement in 2026 by winning the House and impeaching him immediately. That's just one aspect of the lawfare. So how do people get the film and then how do they then leave a review?
Dan Fluitt
Yeah, so the great thing about this film that I, that I really love is how the media was so complicit in the taking down of Richard Nixon initially and how back in those days we didn't have alternative media. You couldn't go to a rumble, you couldn't go to an X and have an alternative viewpoint. And now we have these platforms and we're able to expose what these guys are doing on these alternative platforms. The media is like, they're, they're, they're essentially getting toothless. But the best way for people to watch it is you just simply go to War Room film and you put in, like you said, your name and your email and up pops a link that you can watch the film. And then afterwards we'd love it if you were able to take part like so many hundreds and thousands of other viewers have and give us a review. And we're going to put those reviews up all over our, on the social and on our website and that's infowarroom Film. And I think Denver's got a bunch of reviews that we've already had. But it's very simple to watch and it's for free.
Steve Bannon
It's totally free. Just give your email only for two weeks. We got a two week window for the Warren Posse. So make sure you download it. Go and download this weekend. You will get so much out of it, totally free. It'll get you thinking about what's going on with Trump. And then we want to review because we want to push this out to the entire world. And here's the reason. Tomorrow at 11 o', clock, I'm going to be very honored to have what Eric Eggers and Peter Schweitzer on from Government Accountability. Dan, we're going to talk about something that you worked on and actually were the producer on an amazing film, Clinton Cash. Coming off the book Clinton Cash. This was a takedown of the Clinton foundation and Clinton Global Initiative by Peter Schweitzer, the great researcher and great writer. We took that book, after it was a bestseller, Peter. I was the chairman of Government Accountability. Peter was running it, and Eric was like the chief operating officer. We then, a year later or over that year, we made a film and we put it up on YouTube the same way. And it had millions of views, particularly from Bernie Bros. This was one of the. This is one of the reasons President Trump was able to get positioned on Hillary Clinton about how corrupt she was. In fact, I think we went public with this film two or three weeks before I stepped in and took over the campaign. And I was brought in specifically because we had spent so much time researching the Clintons. The reason it's so relevant today is this is where you see John Solomon. And a lot of this investigation and criminal investigation is now about exactly what Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton did about the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation. Hopefully, we even get to Uranium One, where they sold out the nation. But, Dan, these type of informational films can have massive impacts. And I think this one on Nixon, you know, people think of the. The Nixon. They think of Woodward and Bernstein and the Graham family and the Washington Post. That was all a part of it. But this was the central beating heart of how they actually took out Nixon. This is how they took him out, and this is how they scared the Republican Party into not backing him. And so in August of, what, 73, he actually resigned. Dan, we're doing a lot more. If they go to war room film, we got a lot more film up there, too. People can participate. A bunch of these things are free. Where should people go one more time? I think we got somebody have to pay for. I'm gonna have Roseanne on, I think, early next week about her film. What else we got up there?
Dan Fluitt
It's a wonderful film. I encourage everybody after you watch the Nixon film to go watch Roseanne's. It's Roseanne Barr is America. It is literally one of my favorite documentaries I've seen in quite a time. And I watch documentaries all the time. And this is just Roseanne in a chair talking about her life. And it's just fascinating. And so we're really proud to have that up there. And on the Clinton thing, this is one thing I'm very proud of, Steven. All the work that we've done over time is. I don't know if you remember, but there were a few documentaries that came out there in 2016, Clinton Cash being one of them, that had to deal with the election. They actually did a study of all these different documentaries and to show how were they Even effective. Did they change, change any minds? The ones that we did, particularly the Clinton cash one, was phenomenally influential in the outcome of that election and it was seen over 50 million times also for free. So these are the kinds of projects that we like to do and to take part in and to promote and distribute. And you can see that reflected in War Room film. And we've got quite a bit more coming on the way here very soon. So I hope people will go sign up, get the newsletters and just keep up on all the things that we're doing.
Steve Bannon
Dan, where's your substack and social media? Where do people track you down?
Dan Fluitt
My website is the best way is doitfluit.com it's D O I T F L U E T Flu and my substack is called Road to Damascus where I write about a lot of these things, but particularly about arts and culture and where we are as society.
Steve Bannon
Awesome. Thank you, Sir. Okay, almost 25,000 right? At 25,000 folks have downloaded, it's totally free, War Room. Download it, watch it, share it, talk to people and then write a review. Okay, Totally free. Trevor Comstock, I didn't get you the eight minutes. I got you four. Normally we run over brother, you're on a roll. Your latest product is. Are you sold out? I think you've sold out like nine times. Your latest products on fire, your beef liver. People rave about every product you put out there. People come back to me and say they absolutely love it. What's the secret, sir?
Trevor Comstock
Yeah, appreciate you, Steve. So yeah, I came on a few times last week primarily to talk about the new launch of our Tallow moisturizer and the feedback was incredible. Happy to say a lot of people have now having getting their first orders and they've been using it and we've already been getting a ton of emails of people raving about the product. So I'm happy it's a good hit and honestly, thank you War Room for making a smash product because I don't think we'd be selling as much if it wasn't for you guys. But I'm really happy about it. Like I said, if for anyone that hasn't heard, in regards to the tallow moisturizer, it's just made with the two ingredients which is the 100% grass fed and finished beef tallow and then the raw Manuka honey. We don't add any, you know, fillers. There's no synthetic ingredients. And again, if you compare it to your common moisturizer that you find at Like Walgreens or if you're searching on Amazon, those oftentimes just have a ton of chemicals in them, as you can imagine, and a lot of fillers that just aren't natural for your skin. So unfortunately, it can damage the skin barrier over time. But ours, it's quite the opposite. They're just two natural ingredients, and they also have nutrients like the vitamin A, the vitamin D, E, as well as K, which are all essential for skin hydration. So it's super popular. And then on top of that, I also wanted to mention that a lot of people have been raving about our collagen products lately. And what's amazing about collagen is that unfortunately, you know, modern diets really don't provide enough of it. And collagen levels in the human body naturally decline after the age of 25. So that's why, you know, using a collagen supplement can be extremely beneficial. And at least with ours, it's formulated with five different types of collagen, so you get the full spectrum as opposed to just buying like a powder collagen, where you only get one type. So it does everything from promoting healthy skin, skin hydration, nails, which I know a lot of people love, but also gut function and joint health and. Or I should say joint support. So again, a lot of people, you can go through some of our reviews, but between the collagen and then of course, our flagship product, the beef liver, I know a lot of people love those, but I have to say, I think thethe beef tallow moisturizer is slowly becoming, or actually quickly becoming our number one product. So all good things. And then we have some more exciting stuff on the way as well. But just wanted to come on and say thank you for everyone. If you are still interested in grabbing a towel moisturizer or the collagen or any of our other products, you can always use code war room for 10% off. And again, you can always find us@sacredhumanhealth.com.
Steve Bannon
Great job, sir. Great job. One more time, where do people go and how they make contact with you? That's what they want to know.
Trevor Comstock
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Steve Bannon
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Release Date: August 14, 2025
Host: WarRoom.org (Steve Bannon)
Steve Bannon opens the episode by addressing the current political climate, emphasizing a strategy to reclaim and restructure American institutions. At [00:12], Bannon asserts:
"Burn it down. They're just anti institutionalists, you know, Alex Wagner. They. We're the ones that protect the institutions."
He elaborates on leveraging the constitutional system, positioning President Trump as the authority figure capable of dismantling the "administrative state" and purging the "deep state" from the executive branch. Bannon emphasizes the intent to dominate both legislative houses and reshape the judiciary with Trump's preferred judges:
"We're going to deconstruct the administrative state. We're going to purge the deep state and the executive branch. We're going to take over the Senate and we control the House already."
Alex Wagner observes at [00:59] that the changes initiated under President Trump are substantial and will have lasting impacts beyond his presidency:
"He's making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that will live well beyond his presidency."
Joe Allen builds on this by highlighting the enhanced efficiency of Trump's administration in his second term, attributing it to the supportive cadre surrounding him:
"He is way more effective at accomplishing his agenda... they've done an onslaught of executive orders in the first six months that accomplished a lot of their goals very quickly because he knew what they wanted to do." [01:47]
The discussion shifts to the broader strategy of "seizing the institutions" to embed the MAGA movement into America's cultural and societal frameworks. Steve Bannon references influential figures and their contributions to this agenda:
"We've been on the warpath now about seize the institutions. We've been on that now for over a year or two, saying that the fruits of victory are taking these institutions and purging them, restructuring them, deconstructing them, and then remake them in the image and likeness of the MAGA movement." [02:37]
Roger Kimball's work, particularly his book "The Long March Through the Institutions," is cited to illustrate the systematic approach to infiltrating and influencing key cultural institutions like the Smithsonian Institute.
Britt McHenry, a former ESPN analyst, provides an in-depth analysis of the politicization and "wokeness" permeating American sports. At [07:13], she discusses the transformation of ESPN from a purely sports-centric network to one laden with political and social agendas:
"What happened? How did he get so woke and so political? What was the inflection point? How did that happen to ESPN?"
McHenry credits streaming and digital transformations as factors that diluted ESPN's original mission. She criticizes specific programming shifts, such as the incorporation of social justice issues into sports coverage, which she believes alienates traditional sports fans. Highlighting the UFC's significant deal, McHenry connects the rise of the MAGA movement within sports to broader cultural battles:
"Dana White making remarks at the 2016 RNC and again for him recently for this 47th presidency. And so I think that deal of seven years, 7.7 billion... shows you how massive that movement became, just like the supporters of Trump."
She further critiques the inclusion of transgender athletes and the subsequent backlash, advocating for a return to what she perceives as authentic American values in sports.
Steve Bannon discusses the role of mainstream media in shaping public perception and suppressing alternative viewpoints. He references Britt McHenry's observations on the ESPYs, where unorthodox humor and candid remarks about the WNBA garnered attention despite criticism:
"She made fun of everybody, including herself. So I think that's what we're missing, is just that humor."
Bannon underscores the importance of humor and unfiltered commentary in countering the dominant "woke" narrative in media, suggesting that such authenticity can reclaim cultural institutions from perceived liberal biases.
Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize strategic actions aimed at revitalizing American culture and politics. The recurring theme is the intentional dismantling and rebuilding of institutions to align with MAGA principles. Bannon and his guests discuss the necessity of mobilizing like-minded individuals, leveraging media platforms, and influencing cultural narratives to secure long-term political and societal transformations.
Steve Bannon (00:12):
"Burn it down. They're just anti institutionalists... We're grabbing the institutions and taking power as the American people."
Joe Allen (01:47):
"He is way more effective at accomplishing his agenda with having that time out of office because those, a lot of his aides... spent their time out of government planning for this term."
Britt McHenry (07:13):
"The UFC is very indicative of the MAGA movement itself, of a populist movement... that it's going to give the NFL a 10% stake in ESPN."
Steve Bannon (14:52):
"You have to get the reviews because we want to push this out to the entire world."
Episode 829 of Bannon's War Room centers on the strategic efforts to overhaul and reclaim American institutions to reflect MAGA values. The discussion highlights President Trump's effective consolidation of power in his second term, the intentional seizing of cultural and political institutions, and the significant influence being exerted on sports and media to reshape public discourse.
Britt McHenry's analysis of ESPN serves as a microcosm of the broader cultural shifts, illustrating the tensions between traditionalism and progressive agendas within influential American institutions. The episode underscores the importance of mobilizing conservative voices and leveraging strategic media engagements to counteract perceived liberal biases.
Overall, the episode presents a calculated approach to cultural revival, emphasizing the necessity of dismantling established institutions and rebuilding them to support the MAGA movement's long-term objectives.