TRUMP THROWS DOWN TO HAVE A SHOWDOWN WITH THUNE | WAR ROOM AM W/ STEVE BANNON

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Podcast Summary: WAR ROOM AM w/ STEVE BANNON – "TRUMP THROWS DOWN TO HAVE A SHOWDOWN WITH THUNE"

Podcast: Real America’s Voice (iHeartPodcasts)
Host: Steve Bannon
Date: June 2, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode of War Room AM, hosted by Steve Bannon, dives into several urgent issues at the intersection of American politics, technology, and national identity. Major themes include the debate around H-1B visas and American jobs, grassroots activism against AI and data center expansion, and how citizens' resistance is being reframed by authorities as "anti-tech extremism." The show also draws historical parallels to the American Revolution, features author Eric Metaxas reflecting on the country’s 250th anniversary, and spotlights ongoing GOP primary skirmishes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Patriotism, Jobs, and the H-1B Visa Debate

[02:43 – 16:31]

• Ambassador Carla Sands joins to discuss her op-ed in the Washington Times, arguing for prioritizing American workers over foreign labor.

  • She highlights the high concentration of Indian workers (80% of H-1B visas), income disparities, and alleged fraud with fake degrees.
  • "It is a patriotic duty to hire the American people and let ourselves, but also our kids and grandkids, have a chance at the American dream." – Carla Sands (09:53)
  • She advocates for a pause on immigration so Americans can access good jobs and references ongoing grassroots activism, such as efforts to prohibit Sharia law in Texas.

• Bannon critiques the corporate incentives driving H-1B hires:

  • "This is all done very simply to drive down labor costs… so that their stocks are worth more money." – Steve Bannon (10:46)
  • He suggests a decade-long immigration hiatus and immediate termination of the H-1B program.

• Sands also calls for legal action:

  • "We need these people to be prosecuted, Steve… they should get the maximum of ten years in prison if they game the system." (13:36)
  • She points to Denmark as a model where companies prioritize their own citizens for employment.

2. AI, Data Centers, and ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’

[19:12 – 31:05]

• Daniel Boguslaw (Wired Magazine) discusses his investigative reporting on how government agencies are labeling grassroots opposition to data centers as “anti-technology extremism.”

  • "A recent Gallup poll had seven out of ten Americans across the political spectrum rejecting new data centers in their neighborhoods…" (22:31)
  • He details how DHS/FBI communications are flagging regular citizens protesting data center developments as potential threats.
  • "Those organizations, those individuals are now being thrown into a huge dragnet under the category of anti-technology extremism." (22:52)

• Bannon connects these findings to real scenarios, like the Florida town where local resistance to a massive data center was ignored by officials:

  • "People do not have the consent of the government and they're not going to be pushed around by big tech… they're going to force people into extremism and we have to stop that." (31:05)
  • He stresses that opposition to these projects is bipartisan, with both MAGA and progressive citizens involved.

• Fusion Centers Explained:

  • Fusion centers are post-9/11 information-sharing hubs linking federal and local law enforcement.
  • Boguslaw warns they "violate states’ rights" and can easily lead to over-surveillance and “heightened paranoia.” (28:07–30:12)

3. American Revolution, Leadership, and Modern Parallels

[33:36 – 44:42]

• Eric Metaxas, author of Revolution, draws parallels between the Founders’ tribulations and today’s political struggles:

  • Discusses plots by Continental Army generals against George Washington, likening internal sabotage to modern GOP dynamics.
  • "There is nothing more important than knowing the details of our history because there's nothing new under the sun." – Eric Metaxas (36:42)
  • Metaxas emphasizes "the moment to reclaim our history" on the 250th anniversary, framing knowledge as essential to defending national identity.

• Bannon adds context:

  • "The power of the book though, it shows you with President Trump… the backstabbers were on him nonstop… that's what makes [Washington] such a giant to hang in there." (35:57)

• Metaxas encourages listeners to "celebrate America" and know the stories of “the men who suffered and died," warning that lack of this knowledge leads to cultural dissolution.

4. Executive Order on AI and Tech Oligarch Resistance

[45:08 – 49:19]

• Bannon announces the White House’s voluntary executive order on AI, noting MAGA's pressure forced some concessions, though he admits the order is not a full victory.
  • "It's not a total victory, but is the beginning and the pathway to a victory..." (45:58)
  • He accuses tech oligarchs of wanting “no responsibility” and reiterates MAGA’s central involvement in citizen activism.

5. Minnesota GOP Gubernatorial Race and Internal Party Tensions

[49:19 – 52:55]

• Mike Lindell reacts to the Speaker of the House re-entering the gubernatorial race:
  • Critiques the GOP’s 24-year history of losses and vows a "common sense" campaign focusing on ending fraud and looking forward.
  • Lindell highlights media bias, feeling shut out of coverage despite announcing a high-profile running mate.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “This is the primal scream of a dying regime… the people have had a belly full of it.” – Steve Bannon (01:53)
• “This isn't about my career this is about… saving the greatest nation in the history of the world.” – Eric Metaxas (44:20)
• “You talk about high trust society… these visa holders often have to pay the person that gets them the job five or ten percent of their salary into perpetuity…” – Carla Sands (08:34)
• "Anyone standing up to my data center is a Chinese agent… these are suburban housewives organizing to stop this." – Daniel Boguslaw (citing Kevin O’Leary) (26:18)
• “If you want to read about… the greatest villain in American history, that’s Benedict Arnold.” – Eric Metaxas (43:01)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• H-1B Visas & American Workers: 02:43 – 16:31
• Data Centers, AI Extremism, and Fusion Centers: 19:12 – 31:05
• Metaxas on Revolution, History, and Trump Parallels: 33:36 – 44:42
• Voluntary Executive Order on AI: 45:08 – 49:19
• Minnesota GOP Primary Drama (Mike Lindell): 49:19 – 52:55

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Speaker Social Media & Further Reading

• Carla Sands: X (Twitter): @arlaSandSands
• Daniel Boguslaw: X (Twitter): @drboguslaw | Substack: Deeper States
• Eric Metaxas: Website: ericmetaxas.com | X/Instagram: @EricMetaxas

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Tone and Style

• The tone throughout is urgent, combative, and highly patriotic, often drawing direct analogies between the country’s founding struggles and current political fights.
• Emphasis on populist resistance to both establishment politicians (GOP included) and big tech/government alliances.

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This summary delivers a thorough account of the episode’s critical discussions and rhetorical flavor, equipping those who missed the show with a clear sense of its major arguments, personalities, and the broader battles being waged in America’s political and cultural landscape.

Transcript

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people like that go to share the

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big lie maga media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people had a conscience ask yourself

[Stephen K. Bannon]

what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my country this country will be

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saved war room here's your host stephen k banner

[Stephen K. Bannon]

tuesday the second of june year of our lord twenty twenty six okay i want to connect a couple threads here first off about intel and being on top of things jim rickards as you know long term time contributor here to the show came on memorial day and the story he told about his father serving at seven lying about his age to get into the united states marine corps in world war two and serving at peleliu and then we had the individual talk about tarawa those two battles two intense battles in the effort to retrieve the bodies of the our honored dead very moving rickards has given a special deal for the warm go to rickardswarroom dot com rickards war room dot com that's a special landing page just for you and the warren posse they now have a special deal on strategic intelligence we keep telling you get to this newsletter it's been around for years it's kind of read by the c suites chairman of the board ceo's they got a special deal forty nine bucks for a ninety day risk free trial so you get it for forty nine bucks for ninety days you get a total risk free trial if you love it you continue on if you don't you punch out on it but he's done that just so we can get more of the war room posse on board with this and we can't recommend it enough it's got tremendous insights and geopolitics intelligence capital markets all of it so rickards war room dot com a special landing page just for you dollar forty nine for a risk free ninety day subscription also team at patriot mobile nine hundred and seventy two patriot they've been absolutely essential to this entire movement in texas their political activities arm jenny story and the team they're just incredible leaders in the grassroots movement the grassroots have moved the needle particularly on proposition ten the sharia prohib prohibiting sharia law in the state of texas that has stirred up a hornet's nest down there as it should you had this event yesterday we'll get you more up to date on that in a little while but nine hundred seventy two patriot go shift over to the best phone service ever you go talk to somebody with the east texas accent and find out about the christian values and the christian company that is patriot mobile amazing job as i tell folks when we went down and shifted the show down there for a couple of months at the beginning of the year this situation with sharia law and the situation with prop ten you know it got two million votes just under two million votes with no money spent on it because of an outpouring of the grassroots and that led into really people i mean putting the shoulder to the wheel for ken paxson led that tremendous victory with six thousand one hundred thirty nine over john over the establishment candidate john cornyn after cornyn spent one hundred fifty million dollars trying to destroy ken paxton as i was down there for a couple of months i told folks one of the what the warren was able to do working with the grassroots leaders and patron mobile and others is give a permission structure to have a discussion about this whole islamification and sharia law etcetera and people were just waiting they the outpouring is that hey you know and this is why you had things like last night you get these school board meetings i mean people are really engaged in this fight now and they're not going to just let it they're not going to get rolled over but i was down there i told folks i said right below this issue with islam just right below it is this issue with h one b visas and in texas and particularly places like frisco texas and others it's a real issue and it's going to become an issue that's going to be more and more prominent in american politics this is one of the reasons we fought so hard about basically getting rid of the entire program now for years and been part of the rosemary jenks and eli crane's great bill and all that ambassador carlet sands joins us she's got a tremendous piece in the washington times today about this issue ambassador just take us through it i mean the washington times has got one of the most prominent op ed pages around they really do a great job over there they've published you this morning walk us through the whole walk us through your entire argument that american companies should hire wait for it

[Jack Armstrong]

american citizens sure steve thank you and certainly the members of congress and their staffs read the washington times and a lot of our warm room posse i think read it as well because they want to stay up on what's happening on capitol hill and in the washington dc area and one of the big issues for americans in this two hundred fiftieth anniversary is the idea that companies should hire americans and not foreign labor and steve this goes back to decades right this was the big manufacturing shift in my youth and then in my young adulthood how i found i saw cities and towns across our rust belt states especially just hollow out because manufacturing moved mostly to asia and the company towns would just kind of collapse and the same thing is now starting to happen where we're losing more of our middle class because more foreigners are being hired within the united states but also companies are hiring them outside of the united states the number one recipients of visas in the united states are indians by far it's about eighty percent of the h one b visa recipients and other visa holders and we have we have a lot of visa holders you know united states visa holders the indians by far outstrip all others and indians as a group make about twice the income per capita as american citizens so american born person versus indian immigrant the indian immigrant household's making about twice as much and i think it's because we come american born people from a high trust society and it's part of our judeo christian background we're largely you know we don't have fraud in america typically people are you know that we follow the ten commandments typically and we do unto others as we'd have them have them do unto us and what happens is when you get foreign cultures coming in that are based on corruption they bring the corruption with them and so these visa holders often have to pay the person that gets them the job five or ten percent of their salary into perpetuity or they cheat and they have fake diplomas they pay for them in india a ring was just busted that had sold one hundred thousand fake degrees mostly in stem and a lot of them were medical degrees so you could go to a doctor from india who doesn't even hasn't even studied medicine is a fake doctor so what you want to do i think is all of us ask our representatives but also companies in your hometown please hire americans this is a patriotic duty to hire the american people and let ourselves but also our kids and grandkids have a chance at the american dream and in the op ed steve we don't demonize indians there are good honest indians that have come into the united states as legal immigrants haven't gamed the system haven't cheated we welcome immigrants but a lot of people would like to pause immigration while we let the american born people get off the sidelines and get good paying jobs that's the goal especially in this two hundred fiftieth anniversary why not

[Stephen K. Bannon]

be patriotic you talk about high trust society but the h one b visas were supposed to be with people that for each billet you had to justify either educational and or experience job experience that they could not find a worker in the united states particularly when it came to stem we know that that is just a bald faced lie in my fight on this for years i've asked please come and show me any billet of the millions that have come here that either has an educational requirement or a or a or a professional requirement that can't be met by a us worker one time somebody came and said well look we think was something that for a guy in france could do something but then when i asked more details that kind of fade away not one of the millions this is all done very simply to to drive down labor costs they just it's just cheaper to hire foreign workers so this has to be more than we got to ask the companies please don't do it because you got to be patriotic they're not interested in being patriotic they're interested in getting higher operating margins so that their stocks are worth more money so that the options package for management kicks in at a higher rate and they walk off after the three or five year term in senior management and make more money or they do stock buybacks with tax cuts that we give them i mean that is the wall street scam it's obvious how this happens what would you recommend that because right now both sides are dug in i mean the scandals here as you said the scandals coming out of india where these people are indentured servants i said i thought we ended the indentured servants situation here in slavery in the united states in the nineteenth century we have the indians coming here they're being abused look in silicon valley many to the house they gotta pay a guy ten percent in perpetuity of all this salary what do you think we have to do because clearly the tech business overlords that are doing this know exactly what they're doing and they're not going to back off what would you recommend that is the next step in trying to make sure that i because i say look it should be a hiatus of at least a decade on all immigration legal immigration quote unquote and the hb one program should be terminated immediately what would be your thoughts on what we

[Jack Armstrong]

should do right well steve there's a guy tyler oliveira who exposed kind of like nick shirley that there's these big industrial parks that have nobody in them they're all empty but they're supposed to be the place that these h one b visa workers work and it's to allow the big tech companies to say oh we're not hiring more h one b visa holders but they're sort of outsourcing them so there's all kinds of things they're doing there's even charts in our op ed that i wrote with samantha flanagan about this and what we say is okay they're laying off this many thousands of american workers but they're hiring this many hundreds or thousands of visa holders and the visa holders aren't just h one b they can kind of slide between different kinds of visas so that they can stay and if they stay about two and a half cycles of a visa they can apply for a green card and then soon after that they can apply for citizenship and they can bring their whole family and what's happening is the indians specifically and i'm not talking about all indians but this group specifically are helping each other in chat rooms with the answers to questions helping with the person if they're an indian hr manager they're bringing in all indians or all indians from their own caste system or from their own region like everybody's from punjab everybody's from one area and their friends and family that they're hiring and that's illegal in america in america you're supposed to hire the most qualified person and you're not allowed to use things like nepotism or you know backroom deals that's not allowed so another issue steve is in real estate where they're gaming the system you know we have brokers on each side of the deal and they're saying no i want a kickback of x and this has been happening for years in the united states so we we need these people to be prosecuted steve and we talk about it in the article that we think they should get the maximum of ten years in prison if they game the system and take jobs away from american citizens i was the ambassador to denmark and in denmark they have danes in those jobs they prioritize the people of their country it's very rare that they bring in an outside even ceo they do it now and then for talent but that's when they're extraordinary talent but almost all the people you see them hiring are danish because they want to build up their their country and i think that's important in the united states and i think there should be pressure on these companies if they're american companies you hire american and i think president trump can be a really big voice in this telling these ceo's we want you to hire american he is making america great again he's bringing in all these foreign trillions of dollars and building up america re industrializing we want those new jobs to go to americans we don't want and we need to train them that's another issue that the government is on as fast as they can secretary linda mcmahon doing so much tech sort of tech and manufacturing up upscaling because people need to be able to they don't make widgets on a factory floor anymore they're working a keyboard on a computer because manufacturing today looks so different but we need to upscale our workers and we need to hire american as we rebuild in every industry i mean whether it's shipbuilding chip making like all these things we need great american workers our work ethic nobody can outdo us look at our economy we're the engine of the

[Stephen K. Bannon]

world steve we're going to push this out what's your social media where do people go right now ma' am i'm

[Jack Armstrong]

on x twitter arlahsandsteve and this is a big issue especially for the midterms we want to win the midterms the american people need to be well served not ill served by our big great

[Stephen K. Bannon]

companies thank you ambassador appreciate you appreciate the piece in the washington times let's get all on it and push it out american jobs for american workers we're going to talk about tech next in data centers in the war room

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

okay welcome back i told you in going around and doing the work in texas about islamification the the bill on you know the proposition proposition ten also this situation with the h one b visas we just had ambassador the ambassador on permission structure talk about that it as i go around and we take the show around i will tell you one of the biggest hottest most contentious issues in the country is like we had the the folks from florida on a couple of weeks ago about the four was the four million square foot data centers being built they're adamantly opposed against us this was all maga and of course they were joined by people that are progressives and liberals in their town i think the town had five thousand people they were all adamantly opposed to it they first went to the town council and the town council said hey we don't have any authority here but we know you're angry you got to go to the planning commission they went to the planning commission and the five hundred people in a town of four thousand five hundred i think five hundred showed up so all the place could fit one hundred folks got to talk it was one hundred to zero there were no voices in the community supported this in fact people were adamant this can't happen it's going to destroy our water we don't want four million square feet we don't want this although some recommendation of some consultant and the planning commission voted unanimously thing was five zero five zero we're going to do it like we're not that interested in what you have to say and that's building up more and more animosity across the country wired matters magazine daniel boguslaw joins us daniel thank you for coming in the war room i want you to walk through this article you wrote an article poll think it came out last week us law enforcement warns of anti tech extremism as ai hatred grows and this is focused on on data centers now we've been pretty adamant we're not believers in this accelerationist point of view you know we've kind of led the effort here on the right to make sure that we have an executive order or some sort of guidance we've killed the amnesty bill the preemption bill twice and we don't buy the theory of the case is that the chinese communist party is stealing martial that is all self inflicted we are empowering the chinese communist party by selling them advanced chips providing entire ecosystem for their training and their education that could all be stopped immediately can you walk us through this article because what's concerning about it is just basic citizens like the people in florida that went to the that went to this this town council meeting and then the planning commission we had folks on here and people were running a little hot on this and you could see how they could be interpreted by law enforcement as being you know anti ai extremists and they're not they're just american citizens every day common working men and women who don't want a four million square foot data center put into a town of five thousand people in central florida sir could you walk us through it sure so

[Daniel Boguslaw]

thanks for having me on steve so like you said this is a wildly unpopular development across america a recent gallup poll had seven out of ten americans across the political spectrum rejecting new data centers in their neighborhoods but nonetheless the government both federally in the department of homeland security and fbi and in their sort of state nodules across the country called fusion centers which we can get into later are circulating documents describing protesters activists local citizens using their constitutional rights to say hey whether it's a city council meeting whether it's a planning board meeting saying we don't want these extractive technologies in our neighborhood those organizations those individuals are now being thrown into a huge dragnet under the category of anti technology extremism so whether that's people posting jokes online or on forums saying man i hope this thing overheats and blows up so we don't have to stare at it every day and hear the hum you know pulsating through our bones or whether it's just you know mom and pop store owners farmers you name it organizing to show up to their local town hall to say you know we don't want this in our community those people are being surveilled those people are being criminalized and so what my my reporting was was based on a large tranche of documents showing this new threat category taking place i want to

[Stephen K. Bannon]

go to the threat category and how people are identified because in florida in texas particularly west texas where you talk about water coming from the aquifers in arizona i mean folks are getting worked up on this and one of the reasons they're getting worked up is the example in florida they are playing by the rules you know they're going to town council they're going to open mic they bring the evidence they bring documents they go in front of it they speak then they're told well this isn't we don't really have the decision that's a planning commission they go to the planning commission they spend all night and then the planning commission votes five to nothing and they don't know if these guys are being paid by the big tech companies et cetera so what are the requirements in your reporting in the documents you have what are like the requirements as you have the fbi dhs et cetera what is the requirements of someone an extremist is an extremist someone that goes and plays by the rules and goes to a town council but is pretty heated in the meeting and saying hey we don't want this and we're gonna fight this tooth and nail

[Daniel Boguslaw]

well it remains to be seen exactly there have been a lot of suspicious instances like you mentioned of local residents getting up to speak in these town council meetings and going five seconds over and immediately being snatched off the stage by law enforcement to me that says that those law enforcement officers have probably been briefed and probably seen these types of threat materials circulating down from the feds into the fusion centers and to their local and state pd but in terms of requirements i mean we've seen this time time again it's a point i try to make to the left and the right which is that when the administration turns over in four eight years or what have you the same apparatus that is creating targeting for the so called extremist threat which is almost always people with the exception of real serious terrorists those categories are often broadened to include people who are advocating for deeply held beliefs loudly in a way that doesn't always mesh well with the rest of society now are those people terrorists no those people are just expressing their beliefs but whether it's right wing extremism and supporters of donald trump who got caught up under this whole right wing extremist label whether it's environmental activists in the early two thousands or the two thousand ten s saying we don't want this pipeline we don't want this factory in our community these people get labeled under this post nine eleven terrorism framework and the people who ultimately benefit are the corporations that have the direct line who have the red phone to dhs and fbi take a look at the example of kevin o' leary mister wonderful who's trying to build just astronomically large data center in utah he got on the horn he got on msnbc cnn all these outlets and he said anyone standing up to my data center is a chinese agent you know these are suburban housewives organizing to stop this and he's saying i contacted the fbi i contacted the dhs i had my private goon squad you know investigate them and i've decided that they're chinese agents so really what we're seeing you talk about these people trying to use the resources available in their democracy to advocate for their god given rights by showing up to the city council meetings but what you have is the ai companies in the data center executives being given complete priority access to city councilors and to the federal agencies that are formulating direct categories labeling threats this gets back

[Stephen K. Bannon]

to penalty i want to go back when he said local guys as soon as your time's up they cut the mic off and a local authority or police officer says okay your time's up you gotta go you mentioned fusion centers i want to make sure people understand the structure best way to get the war and posse engaged as we talk about critical path but we also talk about structure and process walk me through the structure you have dhs you have you know the anti terrorism counterterrorism desk you've got fbi with what cash has got going on but then you said there's fusion centers throughout the i think you said there were ninety of them what is a fusion center yes there's

[Daniel Boguslaw]

around eighty of them so in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven there were discussions about how to ensure that a terrorist attack like that could never happen again now for people who know the history there well both the cia and fbi at the time had actionable intelligence about the hijackers and for various reasons compartmentalization interagency politics they were not able to share that information in a timely way and in a way in which it was taken seriously the government's response was to both create the department of homeland security as an overarching protective intelligence agency for domestic threats but they simultaneously created a vast network of information sharing hubs called fusion centers which in my opinion completely violate states rights and the ability for states to govern themselves these are basically as i like to describe them nodules attached on usually to state police organizations that serve as a two way street between local and state police and these federal agencies but what inevitably ends up happening is they are sort of terrified by the threats that are cooked up by the federal government and then also unfortunately what you sometimes have is older law enforcement officers who aren't necessarily up to speed on how the kids are talking online trying to play super spy and picking up random keywords about data centers and all of a sudden saying hey this is a terrorist threat these guys at the city council are using language that i'm not familiar with maybe they're trying to blow something up so it creates a sense of heightened paranoia and it totally diminishes the gap between the federal government and state's ability to protect their own people their own states and that's where a lot of these reports that i laid out and that i obtained were circulating and it shows the way that the federal government who's liaisoning with all these companies are able to invent this new threat category they're able to juice it up all the way to eleven and then shoot shoot it out to states all over the country and then what do we see we see state troopers arresting people at city council meetings for standing

[Stephen K. Bannon]

up for their rights daniel we got to bounce but i want to i'm going to talk to you after i want to have you back in the market i want to go to o' leary i want to talk about the ccp i want to talk about some of these extremist groups that have been identifying your piece and this other piece you wrote with ken about capitol hill what is your social media right now where do people go and get this article where they get your other writings

[Daniel Boguslaw]

they can find me on twitter at drboguslaw and i wrote a substack called

[Stephen K. Bannon]

deeper states dan thank you so much for coming on here bogus law amazing piece over in wired we look forward i'll talk to you after the show look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow a lot more to drill down on this plus other pieces these data centers got to be dealt with have to be dealt with you saw what happened in florida and that's happening throughout the country citizens show up one hundred percent don't want it planning commissions town council go hey suck on this

[Joe Getty]

here's

[Stephen K. Bannon]

your host stephen k ban okay welcome back we're trying to get to a lot this morning i'm gonna have daniel back on tomorrow we gotta get to the back of these data centers and in citizens you got to have the consent of the governor here people do not have the consent of the government and they're not going to be pushed around by big tech i will tell you that they're going to force people into extremism and we have to stop that because this is now so local and it's getting so hot i tell people as i go throughout the country don't hear much about in washington dc throughout the country maybe the number one issue right now economy yes but this this is because people realize the economy the war that's going to end the economy is going to come back it's inflation's high but they look at that as a process this like down in florida at that little town that four million square feet they look at that as permanent and kevin alert look we're the biggest anti ccp platform out there out we are we've been adamant against the ccp from the beginning and don't get me wrong if they had their opportunity to do something here they would however you can't smear citizens that don't want this in their backyard and saying oh it's one hundred percent ccp we got to bring the facts on that and if it is let's shut it down let's shut that part of it down you notice people don't really bring the receipts and particularly somebody like o' leary that's you know got skin in the game here trying to build a massive data center eric metaxas you came on saturday spent some time with this this book and i want to make a statement here about first off i think we sold more of these books in one hit than tony lyons say he's been in this business forever and never seen i think it was over three thousand books three thousand five hundred books when the plate again from the war in posse because our audience is a group of a collection of readers and they want to read great literature which this is in the snapshot of the revolution however what's transpired since you're on eric and i think it makes the book more powerful and more important than ever is president trump's been trying to do this you know the fifty states and like a state fair and they're going to have musical acts everybody's going to come together and we're going to have a group hug on the national mall and president trump's been working for that of course it all kind of collapsed over the weekend as you know president trump and maga's enemies you know got involved and the people cancel and president trump said heck i'll just do a rally i didn't say that

[Eric Metaxas]

they're not having a ceasefire steve it's

[Stephen K. Bannon]

a ceasefire okay talk to me about a ceasefire because it's going to happen and why i say hey screw it just buy the book revolution and put a put a study group together sir

[Eric Metaxas]

can i tell you something hilarious this is not a joke we have a book event here because my book comes out today and who else's book comes out today mike pence guess who is doing a book launch today in the same club in new york as eric metaxas can you guess mike pence i'm not joking i'm not joking i'm not joking i told my team please keep him out of the room because i don't like to curse it would be embarrassing so if you have a choice between buying that also you know who has a book coming out today jill biden's book comes out today so this is just my shameless way of saying to the patriots in america please buy my book today the first week is incredibly important and there's so much here you've read the book steve right one of the things i wanted to talk about which i don't know if we're gonna have time today or maybe you can have me back but they tried to kill washington right there was a plot to kill washington washington also had two top generals this sound familiar horatio gates and charles lee they thought they were better than him they thought they were smarter than him they thought they should have his job and they were gunning for him from the beginning not helping him waiting for him to fail so they could leap in i'm not gonna mention mike pence by name but there are people as you know they're anti maga they don't get it they're on the wrong page there's nothing new under the sun that's what happened with george washington george washington god had his hand on george washington george washington was a man of profound character he was the man for the job not horatio gates not charles lee we don't even know their names today but when you read my book you're going to be you're going to realize that they thought that they were going to get the top job of course congress is going to give them the top job they're way more qualified they're much more you know they have more bona fides so like mike pompeo you throw in whatever name you want you know deep bona

[Stephen K. Bannon]

fide the power of the book though it shows you with president trump i'm talking about him throwing down against the senate he just named bill pulte while bill pulte is head of dni you think trump's got it bad you got to read about washington i mean they were on him non the backstabbers were on him nonstop horatio gates after winning saratoga was promoting himself constantly charles lee who was an actual good field commander but a quite twisted guy nonstop and they had an audience you know two thirds of the continental congress were not were not washington fans one of you is from virginia right which they had you know problem with right but the coups and plots against washington are nonstop that's what makes him such a giant to hang in there sir no that's

[Eric Metaxas]

right and that's why you see god's hand on him i don't like to overstate that but it kind of becomes obvious and i have a funny feeling no kidding that washington knew this he had a sense you know a mystical sense that god's hand was on him he had a duty to perform in history and that gave him the strength to withstand hell and it was hell when he saw his men being bayoneted through his spyglass in fort washington this would have been you know in the fall of seventeen seventy six they say he turned away and wept like a child it must have ripped his heart out he knew that he was responsible for his men being bayoneted to death by the hessians who did not give quarter you know if you surrendered they would murder you so what washington endured it is a picture of what we're going through now i said the last time i was on here we're in the third existential crisis of our history and it is amazing to me when i wrote the book when i researched the book i was not aware of this kind of stuff so this stuff comes up and you think this is amazing everybody every american needs to know this this is very very important and i think that you know in our two hundred fiftieth right now there is nothing more important than knowing the details of our history because there's nothing new under the sun and if they had not genuinely turned to god knowing providence is going to carry us through or we lose we deserve to lose we're not better than the british militarily but but but it's just a great story and i think that we need to be inspired by these stories we need to know that these men who did the right thing when everybody would be counseling them to stoop to what the british are doing they refused they said no we're going to trust god we're going to trust providence and we kind of know how it turned out you

[Stephen K. Bannon]

get the whole thing by the way it's beautifully put together it has got amazing color photography the pages of the portraits and the art of the era it's an amazing i told tony what you guys have done is just the crafting of the book is kind of a work of art itself make the pitch for people that are under the guns given that we're not going to have a group hug on the two hundred fiftieth it's just not going to happen what is the best case what is the best case for being informed today about what's going on in our country in this third crisis actually on

[Eric Metaxas]

july fourth there's not going to be a cage match on the south lawn it's going to be me versus mike pence be there don't check it out

[Stephen K. Bannon]

i'll take i got you i got the over on you why buy revolution and study the book why buy revolution

[Eric Metaxas]

today i mean no kidding and i say this i write this book for everybody this is not just for people who are on the same page as we are you can give this to anybody who's not an out and out marxist and say this is the story of america we need to know it this is not extra credit every american used to know this for two hundred plus years every american knew all of this stuff and the reason we've drifted is because most of us don't know this stuff and so there's millions of books on the revolution is there one book where you go it's all here that kind of tells the story and helps explain what was going on and doesn't take this stupid view that they were deists nonsense complete nonsense it's just that's why they keep pushing jefferson over their deists they were not deists these were fire breathing christians that knew that either god is with us or we deserve to lose and i look buy it today for father's day today is the launch date so i say shamelessly please help the book succeed if this narrative does not get out into mainstream america it is over for america now i have hope i think that a lot of people are waking up but if you don't get this download of this is who we are this is how we achieved liberty and independence and here's what liberty and independence actually means not what they're telling you in the public schools we can't function as a culture and that's why you do what you do it's why i do what i do we're in a spiritual war right now with the forces of hell you know you mentioned the ccp we've got the islamo fascists that we've never seen anything like this this is demonic stuff going on and i think it's helping to wake people up it's helping to push a lot of people off the fence and say you know what i want to be in on this i want to celebrate america the left can't celebrate america they're ashamed of america they're wringing their hands they're tortured because it's the two hundred fiftieth but they don't want to celebrate they want to sneer or they want to you know whatever so we ought to celebrate in fact shame on us if we don't celebrate the men who suffered and died deserve to be known they deserve us to know their names and their stories we owe that to them and i think that you know the two hundred fiftieth this is the moment to do that so you know get a copy for father's day and i just think people will be inspired they will love america more when they know the details i mean that's at least why i wrote the book that's the intention and

[Stephen K. Bannon]

how many close encounters of defeat that we actually had where do people take us to the site you're at the club in new york today to launch obviously the warren posse can't make that but where can they go are you going to go around and do a bunch of book signings is there a

[Eric Metaxas]

place they can go to and say

[Stephen K. Bannon]

hey if i want to see if i want to see metaxas where do

[Eric Metaxas]

i go oh yeah if you go to ericmetaxis dot com and you go to my calendar forget it i'm everywhere i'm going to be in leesburg virginia on july fifth speaking at cornerstone chapel i'm going to be every sunday i'm speaking at a church across america i'm flying i'm speaking to houston this weekend the next couple days later i'm going to be in phoenix i'm going to be in idaho i'm going to be i mean this is all in the next week i'm everywhere i'm probably coming to you and if i'm not coming to you you can invite me and i'll come but i am absolutely everywhere across this country in the next several months i'm going to be in texas three times i'm in california in a week and a half i'm going everywhere because you can tell i'm excited about this message you know and this is not my message this is god's message for this nation at this time this is the story and if you take god out of the story you have no story these were not secular deists who pull this off these were people who trusted in god humble people many of them suffered horribly but some amazing heroes and if you want to read about you know the greatest villain in american history that's benedict arnold wow wow wow what a story i had to put that in the book but no there's so much that i'm just i'm excited that this is the year that americans are gonna you know reclaim our

[Stephen K. Bannon]

history who actually won the battle of saratoga because he's one of the best field commanders for horatio gates who wasn't really on top of things benedict arnold

[Eric Metaxas]

if he had died at sara if benedict arnold had been killed at saratoga he would be the there'd be statues of him all over this country it's the greatest hero of the revolution instead the musket ball did not go and he he said he wished that it had passed through his heart instead it shatters his femur and it sends him on this just the darkest path it is so dark and it's so bleak but people need to know that story

[Stephen K. Bannon]

too the eric where do people go to your website and if they want to invite you to a group or go see you and your social media we want to make sure people go

[Eric Metaxas]

get this it's all just my name yes please folks please eric metaxas if you could if you can just find ericmotaxas dot com my social media x instagram eric metaxas eric metaxas and that's a greek name by the way eric metaxas so thank you steve for for helping me and for for doing what you do i watch you i see what you do i thank god for you for your voice we know those of us who know we're in a war realize you know this isn't about my career this is about you know saving the west and saving the greatest nation in the history of the world period that's the that's what we're doing why we're doing what we're doing because it matters to millions and millions and

[Stephen K. Bannon]

millions of people thank you brother revolution the birth of the greatest nation in the history of the world from eric mctack texas get it i devour it over one weekend that's how good it was short break we're gonna talk about ai a little bit on the other side

[Joe Getty]

here's your host stephen k band

[Stephen K. Bannon]

okay we just learned and we're gonna get more details the white house has announced that they did sign the executive order that we talked about in fault so hard about the one that got pulled a couple weeks ago now it's voluntary not mandatory it's thirty days not ninety days but it's not twelve days just let's do a reset because folks it's all a process study war it's a process the reason elmo elon musk musk and zuckerberg went ballistic on david sacks is that they had actually negotiated a structure something actually put some sort of structure on this they don't want any structure they're total complete acceleration they don't want to have any involvement whatsoever this is like on the data centers they don't care what you have to say is this executive order perfect no it is not perfect it's not mandatory it's voluntary but it was voluntary before on the day that was to be signed let's let's make sure we understand things here it was not mandatory we had lost that fight at least for now remember take your number two principle out and put at least for now and underline that don't bet against the warren posse ever the thing that was pulled is it i gotta we haven't seen all the details about is nsa involved is secretary treasury bessant you know the safe pair hands on safety is he involved those are aspects of it that were part of the first one or the part of the one that got pulled but it was voluntary it was not mandatory and it was i think twelve days not thirty days it we'd already lost the ninety days we had lost the on the mandatory but we will get all those we're going to we haven't stopped our work here what they've done is at least put something to at least begin to codify this somehow on a piece of paper and that's what this executive order is it's not a total victory but is the beginning and the pathway to a victory with the accelerationists and the tech oligarchs they don't want any responsibility they don't want anything and so now also being voluntary if they try to slip something through here it's got a problem then the liabilities for the company dramatically increase so we're going to get all of this joe allen is going through this right now for all the other details because they didn't really give us the eo at least as of right now and joe allen will join us at the top of the of the war room also daniel boguslaw will be back tomorrow we're going to get into a lot more about these data centers because i tell folks as hot as the topic of islamification is as hot as the topic h one b visas and they are white hot okay these things are burning hot when you give people a permission structure the data centers the folks ain't looking for a permission structure they are all on this across the country and it's a big fighting effort for maga don't let people say oh no maga's not involved in this this is all left wingers that is a bald face lie bald face lie and if you got an issue with the chinese doing anything like this let's shut it down show us the papers let's get that out of here number one on the chinese i don't want to hear anything about it as long as we're selling them these advanced chips that's got to be shut down nvidia who's an agent of influence for the chinese communist party is the leader in the you know the the the cheerleader with his pom poms out about oh we got to do it because it doesn't make any difference you know jensen wong that guy's a beauty of course he's got a company's got a six trillion dollar market cap so he's going to have a say so just the way our system works mike lindell we are four minutes five minutes six minutes away from knowing if the speaker of the house your competitor is going to break her promise and get back in this i'm a bet man i'm going i'm taking the over that she's in against you sir she she don't she don't like you she don't like what you've been saying about her she wants a piece of your action sir absolutely

[Mike Lindell]

and they she just announced she is she's coming back in remember everybody they say they had voting machines malfunctioned which they did but it kind of it's funny how it broke down right when she was losing and she's back in they said every she can run go ahead and run and she just announced a few minutes ago you guys this is actually good the you know you got the candidate that actually got the endorsement and then you got her so they can fight amongst themselves but the biggest fight i'm in steve is i'm looking at this minnesota media you wouldn't even know i'm running i just announced my running mate yesterday phil parrish who was also running for governor it's the best team best mega team and the people's choice that minnesota's had in decades they've been doing this gop endorsement thing since nineteen ninety four picking our candidate for us and the problem is they've been losing for twenty four years we need a change here we need a different input to get a different output i met with my new my new lieutenant governor and his team yesterday we're coming out with the best marketing campaign that this state i believe in the country has ever seen for a governor we are just going out there we're going to get it out the word out to the people

[Stephen K. Bannon]

so what is your pitch against her and your other opponent the guy that actually won all that where he must be feeling great this morning all that work all that work he did basically when the convention comes to not right still got he's still got he's still got her and he's still got lindell yeah exactly he

[Mike Lindell]

was for he's from out of state actually and he actually put a thing out yesterday you know mike you should just drop out you know we're both businessmen i'm going what are you talking about i mean it's it was it's beyond belief with their that the calls i get but lisa damon that's back in she's the speaker of the house and one of the things when i was on the stage she set up this fraud thing now to go out and convict the fraudsters and stuff but it doesn't start for another year and a half i go we got criminals right in office right now like keith ellison our attorney general who i ran into when i was yesterday down at the capitol with my my new lieutenant governor so steve it's going to be a fun campaign going out going after them but i always want to push out the positive that what i'm going to do for this state and for what i you know for me it's you got to look you got to look forward of course we'll get rid of the fraud but you got to look forward in these common sense solutions to the problems we all have okay

[Stephen K. Bannon]

tell us about people want to know you got yesterday was the last day of when deals collide what do you got for us today yeah we got

[Mike Lindell]

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

take some calls right now okay we'll see you back here at five joe allen at five also see you back here then