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Stephen K. Bannon
Tuesday, 16 June Yervalord 2026 we're gonna get back to Sam Fadis in a second. I'm gonna talk to Sam about one of the worst ideas in history and that would be the United States Senate getting involved here and pining on President Trump's negotiating. I think President Trump can handle this. Dr. Peter Navarro joins us from the White House. Dr. Navarro, today, Kevin Warsh. I think it's the first meeting to talk about, talk about rates, talk about all of it. We do have Inside the Wire Jay Powell. I mean, I think it's got to be discussed. You've done a very sophisticated kind of analysis of this. We've never had a situation, we've had some chairs stay over, but we've never had one that's been adamantly opposed to the economic policies of a sitting president sit over there today. And I keep telling people, I don't think because the business press hasn't gotten all over this, we have tried to here at the War Room, this is a potential recipe for disaster, particularly given where the economy is right now. What are your thoughts about this? Because I think Powell's a guy that's going to make a big deal about raising rates, sir.
Dr. Peter Navarro
All right, here's the runner show, Steve. It's a two day meet, starts today and goes tomorrow. The conventional wisdom is tomorrow is the big day because they'll announce what their rate policy is. They'll do the quarterly dot plot, which is kind of cool. It's when each board member kind of does their own projection over time as to what interest rates are going to be. So that kind of gives you thoughts about what the board is thinking. But for me, the real action is in the closed door meeting today when Warsh sits down for the first time, looks around the room and sees four out of the seven, including him, who are going to make decisions on this. Hostile with an exclamation point, Jay Powell. You're right, Steve. You just said this has never happened before. Yeah. There was one guy back in the 80s who was fed chair who stayed on, but he didn't have one, the kind of hostility that Powell has to Trump. And two, he didn't have a clear majority on the board. Three By Nights himself, maybe even Waller coming five out of seven to basically challenge war. So Wash is going to be sitting there looking at these people and it would be really interesting to be able to see the dynamics. That's when you want televised Fed chair meetings. That would be really good. Now here's what to look for tomorrow. Steve. It's unlikely they'll raise rates. That's, that's off the table. But what I'm concerned about is whether the position and posture of a majority of the board is to the rate hike side. And the reason why that's alarming is because of this rule posse, remember this. Never raise interest rates at the Fed into the teeth of an energy price shock. That's a stagflationary pulse into the economy. Greenspan didn't do it back in the 90s when Kuwait and the Middle east was blowing up and the oil prices were up. Bernanke certainly didn't do it in 2006 when Iran was running the same movie that it's running today. And you don't do that, Steve, because stagflationary shocks, supply side shocks basically not only cause inflation, but they also do the work of what a rate hike might do, which is to say that they're contractionary in their, their own right, they're recessionary because an energy price shock is it drives up inflation, basically weighs heavy down on the economy as well. So you don't raise rates into an interesting price. After me, everybody, cnbc, Bloomberg, Fox Business, everybody. That's the line.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, I want to just hit rewind for a second. Jim Rickards agrees with you. So two of the major contributors here at the War Room, Dr. Peter Navarre, are long standing co host, economic advisor, general financial Guru with that PhD from Harvard and Jim Rickards both say the same thing. So just give me a minute capsule, because cnbc, Bloomberg, every expert they've got on there, oh, they ought to be raising rates, are setting the predicate to raise rates next meeting. You and Rickards are adamantly opposed to that.
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Dr. Peter Navarro
So you have core inflation and then you have overall inflation. Overall inflation includes energy and agriculture.
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Dr. Peter Navarro
So if you strip out energy, in this case, core is behaving reasonably well. Okay, so that's number one, you look at the core, not the energy price shock itself. Number two, the whole logic of Fed rate hikes when you have traditional inflation, Steve, is a scenario of demand pull too much money chasing too few goods, economies roaring growth going on. And what you want to do is tap on the Fed brakes to bring it back down to where you want it to be in terms of both inflation and growth. That's the whole logic of it. But when you have these rare stagflationary pulses, the energy price shocks and agricultural price shock, what you get is you get the inflation but you don't get the growth. You get a stagflation, you get a tamping down of growth. Because with oil, for example, people are paying more for gas so they can't buy stuff at the store that that drives down effective consumer spending. So you don't raise interest rates into the teeth of an oil price shock because the stagflationary part of the oil price shock is doing whatever that increase in Fed rates might do and you really run the risk. If they were to raise rates now, you'd have guarantee a recession. They just flat out guarantee it. So you don't do that. So look, I just would ask the media who hate Trump and you want rates to raise and spin the inflation song to just go back and look at two pieces of history. One is the Bernanke Greenspan positions. When there were oil price shocks, they did not raise rates. In fact, Bernanke lowered them going into 2007. That's what you do. The other piece of history is your point, Steve, which was an excellent one. There's never been a time in history when we've had a Fed chair stay on who was both hostile to the sitting chair and had a majority of members to be a shadow chair. So that's what this particular two days is going to be about. We are going to see whether Jay Powell is going to exercise authority as a shadow chair using people who are frankly of low IQ in a majority and do stupid stuff like raising rates.
Stephen K. Bannon
You know, the business press media didn't get it in 2019 when all the efforts of that team that you guys had at the White House, from the trade side to the. Although the Chinese tore up the comprehensive deal back in May, but everything hit on all cylinders. The business press can't get away from their woke personal and political things. They still hate Trump by and large. This is why so much business coverage both in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times is just opinion. They won't deal with the facts. What can this audience look for today to set the predicate for tomorrow and not have the business media kind of, we can disintermediate it. What would you recommend we look for as signs that Kevin Warsh is actually in charge?
Dr. Peter Navarro
Well, here's the ideal scenario. Tomorrow when we get the dot plots from each of the board members. And then when Kevin Warsh gets on stage and on TV to speak, there will be no talk of rate hikes. There will be an acknowledgement that even though we have an energy price shock going on, that the core is relatively well behaved right now, so there's no reason at all to panic. And there should be some talk about rate cuts because we are still 50 to 75 basis points, maybe 100 too high relative to where everything else is in the world. We as a country are best positioned to absorb this energy price shock because we are energy independent from the world. We do not require a single barrel of oil from the Strait of Hormuz for our own direct economy. And the other thing I should say, Steve, this was really interesting, interesting what you said about the first term and the inability both the Fed at the time, Powell and the financial press to understand how Trump nomics could advance high growth in a low inflation environment. And Powell didn't understand that and raised rates at the time and choked off some growth that we could have otherwise had. So you see the symmetry. When you get the energy price shock upwards, it's stagflationary inflation plus slower growth. But when you have the virtuous supply shock from fracking and we become strategically energy dominant, you get the virtue of growth and inflationary pressures down. So look, the financial press should understand this. If CNN doesn't understand it, I get it. Jake Tapper is going to do his thing. But, but Bloomberg, Fox Business, cnbc, they should get it. The Wall Street Journal. So if they, if they're not getting it, then, then we got politics creeping in, I think, to the coverage.
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Where do people go? You're putting up great content all the time, clips, videos, editorials, op eds, all of it. I want to make sure that we're dialed in and people get the flow because you are, have been with the president for a long time, I think, I think in 2014 or 15 of the campaign. So we're going into your 11th or 12th year and you've been not just loyal to the president, you've been a great economic barometer in your thinking of where the president's thinking. So where do people go now to make sure they get access to all your thinking while you're at the White House, sir?
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You know, I got there in the Trump campaign just before this genius, Stephen K. Bannon came in and turned things around. And that was a lot of fun you, me and Bossy had up there, brother. Peternavarro.com peternavarro.com that'll get you to, to X, it'll get you to Getter, it'll get you to True Social Instagram and my substack, which has everything on it as well. The videos are really important. If you don't do anything else, go to my X feed. I'm doing these 60 second videos that people really like that handicap the, the economic data. I'm trying to, I'm trying to weigh out Cortez, Cortez, man, we are in the, like, we are in the 22nd century. And Steve's still working on his chalkboard. He does great work, but these videos are a lot of fun.
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Before you go, I just want to say thank you. The President, I keep telling everybody he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and what he needs is people pitching in to take things and say, I'll get this done, et cetera. And I think that's where you excel. You're always there to say, let me take this. And so President whipping votes in certain states for like redistricting or all this stuff. He's there on the world stage today at the G7. You know, it's hard. How hard it is. Then he goes to NATO. He's trying to wrap this war up and negotiate. And Peter, I think from the entire audience, our appreciation for how you are a guy that, that every day comes to work and not just, hey, for my country, but what can I do for the President to take the burden off him? And I think it's, it speaks a lot about your character, sir. As we know, you're a fighter, sir.
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Admiral, you were doing Lord's work getting truth out to power in November. You see it? I see it, brother. You take care.
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The president teased it. One of the engine rooms think the New York engine room sent this to me. The president teased it with the bin lad, with mbz, basically the head of UAE and the military field commander. But the president said, didn't actually read. He says, I'll not only release the MoU, I'll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so the press covers it accurately. Pretty good. President, United States. He's got that burden on him. Sam, your advice to the president in going through these uncharted and difficult waters that he's going through right now, sir.
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Bottom line, Steve, do not release any pressure we have on these people. Don't give them a dime, don't do away with sanctions, absolutely nothing. Let them squeeze them and let them sit and be crushed under that pressure. And I guess the second thing I would say is this. Anything they say that equates to, and we promise we'll sit down and discuss the details later or get into this later, is completely meaningless. It is a bag of smoke. It means nothing.
Stephen K. Bannon
By the way, I want to emphasize something, too. This is not related to the Shiite religion or their victimhood and what's happened, you know, over the last couple you go back from time immemorial, this is just the way they roll. They're not, they're not people that are straightforward. They're always looking for leverage. They're always looking for advantage. And, hey, guess what? You talk about the Scots or the Scotch Irish or, you know, certain elements, the Anglo Saxons, the Normans, you know, certain folks, the Greeks, part of the Greek, Xenophon, in that group and in the, in the, and the Romans, you know, these dudes are born fighting. It's just a tough breed of cat, right? And you could tell the military as, as we had Captain Fennell and Sam, we gave them a very hard punch. The combination of the Air Force and the United States Navy air assets, plus what we hit them with with Tomahawks, folks, these folks got hit and they got hit hard. And you should know about their resilience. So they're resilient lot, and they've been doing this for thousands of years. And so you got to go about this with trepidation about exactly what you're doing. Never trust them, never let up the pressure, and certainly never give them any advantage. This is why, you know, the big, you know, all the big talk that came out of the Gulf remirates, you know, Qatar, we're going to be this and Dubai. We're going to be the new world and get all the influencer with the bikinis on the beach and everything like that. They folded. They ran to Uncle Sugar immediately and folded. There were no big talk coming out of the uae, no big talk coming out of Qatar, no big talk coming out of Saudi Arabia. The Bedouins in the Gulf Emirates not prepared to stand up to a 3500 or 5000 year old civilization that has been doing this for a while. And we've got a major economic advantage over them. We've been in economic warfare and don't take the boot off the neck. We saw in January when Scott Bessant, as really the economic secretary of War took and ripped apart their currency, what the response was and to me that's the advantage. You've got any promises they make, anything they say, and we're the first people of the war room want to get the hell out of the neighborhood and let it go back to the. Let the Arabs and Israel and the Persians and the Kurds and the Turks figured out. You guys will figure out something, work it out. Is that a bad plan, Sam? Just keep the economics. Keep them, they keep these in these jackals in Europe. The jackals in Europe want the sanctions come off because all those companies are dying. This is what took so long to put the sanctions in place. They were all double dealing us the entire time. Folks, think about it. When this war started, it turns out the way they're getting cash is through the banks in Dubai, the guys we're defending and they're in business money laundering with it. You can't trust any of them. There are no allies over there. Keep the pressure you got. Don't trust anything and say, hey, I hope it works out for you. And if you get out of line, we got this carrier battle group standing out there in the Gulf of Oman and we'll come back and give you another love tap, right?
Sam Faddis
Don't let up on any pressure, don't believe anything they say that you can independently confirm and absolutely your characterization of our allies. I mean, look, I, I, every time we were working Iranian operations and trying to enforce sanctions, we were constantly bumping into the French, circumventing our sanctions. They'd be the ones selling stuff that shouldn't be sold to the Iranians. That's who we'd bump into. And every meeting with the Iranians when we were trying to get into their networks, acquiring stuff they shouldn't get. Where were all those meetings? Dubai, Qatar. That's, that's where you meet them, because that's where they're doing their deal.
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Oh, my God. Sam Fadis, where do we go? And magazine is on fire. Your substack's on fire. Where do people go?
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Sam, great work. Love the substack. Love all of it. And great work with the grassroots up in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Thank you, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Terry Schilling. We're going to pivot now, Schilling, because I don't think we're spending enough time on this, and I think we're doing it to our detriment because a lot of people have ultimate faith in President Trump. He's done an amazing job. But we've lulled ourselves to sleep with all the work that President Trump has done. I talk to people all the time on the transgender. I can name any cultural issue. DEI transgender. All the madness. And I mean, this woke madness was not cute. They were there to destroy this society and suppress anybody that disagrees with them. Anytime I mention, they go, well, President Trump did this, President Trump did that. I say, look, a lot of his executive orders, he's working nonstop to do it. But right below the surface, surface. It's there and it's coming back. And when it comes back, it's going to come back. It's going to come back 10 times worse. This is one of the reasons this midterm election is so important. These people are ready. And if you see what's happening in Minneapolis, you see what's happening in L. A, you see how those people roll, this is what they're going to impose first. So, first off, where do we stand and how can we assist President Trump in making sure we do what we have to do to make permanent and fundamental changes that they can't reverse? Sir.
Terry Schilling
Well, Steve, thanks so much for having me. You hit the nail on the head, President. I will never forget. Steve, President Trump's coming into the oval office in January 2025. App had a list of, like, 16 things that we needed him to do over the course of his first four years, and he'd already accomplished it within the first three months. It's been incredible. And he even went further. The Trump administration did something very, very important at the end of 2025, and that is through the HHS, they ruled that Medicaid dollars would not be allowed to be going to hospitals or clinics or anyone that was providing sex rejection procedures. And that includes puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, all of that stuff. If you were doing that to children. You don't get Medicaid dollars. That is a death knell for any hospital system. And it's why, you see, saw the Langone center, the Langone Hospital in New York, even they put up the closed sign. The closed sign is going to turn right back on as soon as a Democrat gets back in that Oval Office. Because what President Trump has done is he's done executive orders and he's gone above and beyond. But we need real laws passed, Steve, and we need to get the Save America act done.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, but just let's go back to the appropriations process. President Trump says in the first days of office, let's go back to days of thunder. And he goes, hey, look, this stuff, I'm reelected here against all odds. And one of the reasons is basic common sense, particularly in the Hispanic and African American working class community does not want their children put up with this, doesn't like this woke stuff. I'm going to stop it. And then you try to codify either by laws, but one way you definitely can codify it is rip it out of appropriations bill. And that's where the Republic, the soft Republicans come in. We haven't done a good job. In fact, I would argue we've done a terrible job of cutting these programs out as much as we could cut them out. I mean, there's, we know just the fraud of it, but just confronting these issues, it still creeps into appropriation. So we're still funding it. Correct. And they just tell us the other day they're going to get a cr so they're going to try to hide it all there. Where do we stand with actually choking it off from any money?
Terry Schilling
Well, What President Trump's EO's have done is they've cut off the taxpayer funding of these procedures for children, which is great. But Steve, if you remember that they them ad that was so powerful that the Trump campaign spent over $200 million on in the final weeks, that ad was about sex change procedures that were being funded by taxpayers. And it wasn't just for prisoners. Americans don't want their tax dollars going to sex change procedures, sex rejection procedures at all. It doesn't matter if you're a child, it doesn't matter if you're an adult, it doesn't matter if you're a prisoner. They don't want to go into them. We all have major bills, Steve. And if you want to get a sex rejection procedure done, good, fine. You pay for it though, not us. So we need to codify this in the upcoming laws and there is some support that's growing for it in Congress. But Steve, they're all very worried about losing, losing support from these moderate Republicans and also having the Democrats come in and bring up all their amendments we have to the taxpayer funding of it, Steve, is a big deal and it's very popular to get rid of it. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat. Independent Republican voters want this stuff ended. But Steve, I think the bigger picture here is actually protecting children online. In Minnesota, transgender legislator named Lee Finke was opposing our age verification law there. Why? Well, because Lee Finke, who is a man, says that we should be, that this is sex ed for kids.
Stephen K. Bannon
That does what he said.
Terry Schilling
What they believe that it's sex education for children. And this is the pipeline. The porn online is creating kids. The porn online is making kids trans. It's making them gender confused. It's doing all of this stuff to
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our kids and they're arguing it's actually positive sex education for children.
Mike Lindell
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Terry Schilling
No, these, these Democrat transgender lawmakers. Sorry, there's music. I don't know if it's loud in yours, but we have to stop. This is the pipeline. Access to online porn is the pipeline.
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Terry Schilling
Well, look, Steve, I gotta talk to Schweppe about the appropriations process. He's the legislative guy here, and Paul Dupont on our team. But, Steve, what we've been heavily focused on the past few weeks is cutting this off at the source. Right? And what the source is, we learned through our fights in the states over age verification, which we're up to 27 states now, Steve. And to put this in perspective, these laws are sailing through with literally no issue. I think, Steve, if I was to place a bet on how many legislators in those 2027 states have voted against age verification, it's less than two dozen. They're passing with super duper majorities. It's not even close. But we ran into a snag when we went to Minneapolis. We went to Minnesota. A legislator there who's transgender, Lee Finke, you can look him up. He's actually done a hit piece on me years ago in the USA Today for all my appearances on War Room. But Lee Finke, he was talking about the age where law that was being considered in Minnesota. And he said, we can't get rid. We can't do this law. Because what we believe is that pornography and these porn sites are actually critical to LGBTQ sex education. This is how these guys view it. And the only thing to extrapolate from this is that porn creates confusion, and it creates children who are gender confused who end up growing up to become transgender. The average age of first exposure to pornography in the United states, Steve, is 12 years old. We just did a letter to the Hill. Fox News just covered it. But 80% of children between 12 and 18 see porn within that time period. And the average age of first exposure is 12 years old. We have to get age verification passed. Steve. It's nosteve. I grew up without any transgender kids in my class at all. We didn't even know what the word meant if you were to put it in front of us. This is what is helping create all of the sexual confusion and gender confusion and we put this stuff in schools. We wonder why. It's because the average age of first exposure to porn is 12. We need age verification, Steve. We do it for gambling sites. We do it for nicotine. We do it for alcohol sales. We even do it for THC online. You have to verify your age for that. So why is age verification not a privacy concern when it comes to those things, but only when it comes to pornography. And there's a reason for that. It's because Planned Parenthood loves it. You create more children out of wedlock who need abortions. You create more transgender children, which is what is fueling Planned Parenthood's expansion. Now, this whole thing needs to go to the root of the source. And the root of the source, Steve, is kids watching porn at 12 years old. These things, these smartphones, they're just porn devices that all it is, is for these little kids. They have no clue what these are and what they're capable of. Any parent that gives their kid a smartphone, without all of the filters and the protections, you're kind of give them a loaded weapon, and they're going to destroy their lives. So we got to get. We have a huge opportunity, Steve, federally, to get age verification passed in the upcoming kids safety laws. And we're calling on the House of Representatives and the Senate to make sure that this gets included in the final package.
Stephen K. Bannon
What about the Brits? You got Starmer and the guys. The folks over there are actually putting out that they want no possibility even having a phone until the age of 16 and above. What are your thoughts on that? Because I know so many parents out there that are TechCrun finance and quite well, and they won't let the kids touch a phone until they get to be 16. Because even with all the great verifications, there's always some sort of potential workaround. And these companies are maniacally focused on getting to the kids.
Terry Schilling
The kids are the product. Right. We know from all these social media companies and what they put out there to their investors that the data is the person and the person is the product. That's why it's all free. But, Steve, I fully support this. Look, kids need to be protected. My kids, they have what's called a trume phone, and all I can do is text and call, and I actually get to control who gets to contact them. If they're not approved by me in their address book, they don't get contacted. They're not allowed to contact other people outside of that. It allows us to communicate. But they're. There are ways to do this right and there are ways to do it wrong. And the worst possible thing you can do as a parent, Steve, is to give your 12, 11, 10 year old, or even older up until 18, I would say, an unlimited unrestricted smartphone device. Because these are just, they're just porn theaters that you don't even know about, that you have to go digging. And your kids, by the way, Steve, your kids are always going to be more technologically advanced than you are. It's just the nature of the beast. So we've got to protect our kids. We've got to get age bare done federally and nationally. See, we've already proved that this works in Democrat states and Republican states. 27 of them have passed. The first state in the country to pass it was signed into law by a Democrat, John Bel Edwards in Louisiana. It passed with a super majority here in Virginia. Virginia has AIDS verification. Why not the rest of the country? We have to start stop this stuff at the source. And the source is online pornographic exposure
Stephen K. Bannon
for minors in the run up to this brutal midterm, Are the cultural issues going to start to play a bigger and bigger role? Because I'm of the belief that the cultural issues are just as important as the economic and the geopolitical in this. Are they going to take center stage here, sir?
Terry Schilling
I have zero doubt that the culture war is going to be a major part of the Republican messaging. In fact, Steve, I think that we finally crossed the threshold with so many legislators, especially led by President Trump, that they're understanding now that Republicans and conservatives win elections because of the culture war, not in spite of the culture war. The Democrats have lost their mind, Steve. They're pushing sex rejection procedures on children. They're paying for prisoners to get them. These are easy layups to attack your opponents, to make them, not make them look, but to expose them as crazy and radical and extreme. We don't want these people next to the United States checkbook because they don't know how to spend money. If you're paying for other people's sex change procedures, you shouldn't be in Congress. You shouldn't be divvying up how my money's spent or any of our money spent, or even your own money, probably. But I think these cultures, Steve, I'm just worried that we're going to try and do the whole culture war gamut and we're not going to have enough on the economy. I could see a whole repo replay of 2006 where Republicans have an unpopular war, where they have a bad economy, high prices of gas, and then they try to run to protecting marriage and they try to run to the culture war. You have to have both here, Steve. They're just as important. But if you have to have one, I would say you want to have the culture war because that's our saving grace. Those are our new voter coalition. They're the ones that love America and they really want to save it. And they know that the culture, the culture is the economy, Steve. What your culture is and what you say is acceptable in your culture determines what your economy is going to do. The culture is always going to be more important than the economy because it determines what your economy produces and what's acceptable there.
Stephen K. Bannon
You make the American family, as you've done such a great job, the centerpiece of that, including the economics around the American family. Okay, Terry, where does everybody go for all of this?
Terry Schilling
American Principlesproject.org, we're going to need your help to be making phone calls to these legislators in Congress to get age verification, including the kids safety package. So American principlesproject.org or follow me online at Schilling 1776 on all major platforms.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.
Terry Schilling
Thanks, man.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's go to Vegas.
Sam Faddis
Matt.
Stephen K. Bannon
Mac. Matt. The coalition, the conferences on fraud, and particularly voter fraud, Rachel Maddow came hard today. In fact, it's so hard, I'm going to put it as part of my speech tonight about you're a bunch of vigilantes and what you're trying to do is intimidate people and that this election is going to come down to these vigilantes like the, the coalition. And, and what's going to happen is President Trump's going to send in troops to, you know, put all this down and secure it and secure the vote. And he's going to secure the vote that the MAGA movement is dead set on stealing this election. Tell me you had a premiere of a film, let's say screen, the first screen, not really premiere of this incredible film, Dark Horse, about the Jim Caviezel playing Balsanar in an English language film, understand Blue people away. You had Tina Peters in the surprise. But the next couple of days really gets down to these midterm elections and you've got 1,000 people at the Ahern Hotel. Tell me what the driving force in back of this is and how important is it for the coalition members to come together to be. Because you guys are the vanguard. You're the, you're the advanced cadre for all of this, sir.
Matt Mack
Well, Steve, I think we mulified the audience a little bit with you not being here in person with Tina was great. Although they're looking forward to your keynote speech later this evening. But the folks that are out here, average everyday men and women, majority just putting it all on the line for our republic, our constitution, this president and this moment in time. And they had to be here. And you're right. Today we had that screening of yesterday, the screening of the movie, which I've never heard the Ahern more quiet for 98 minutes in my life. And you know, we've been doing a lot of events here with Mr. Ahern and the event amazing Q A afterwards. That was wonderful. Eduardo Boston Arrow was here, just personalized that entire movie. And then Today, starting at 9 o', clock, we'll kick off 9 o' clock Pacific. And it's all going to be the various types of fraud, money fraud, bond fraud, tax fraud, Giova Griffin, I would call it Federal Reserve fraud, CIA fraud. And then of course, you, Peter Ticket talking about welfare exposed. And then you, of course, are going to do our keynote. And then tomorrow it's all about election fraud and all different aspects of it all the luminaries who've been fighting this fight for the last four or five years. And the goal is to show you how this fraud you're seeing in front of us, I'd say, dared say what we just saw with Terry Schilling, these crazy policies. Isn't it maybe the elections are corrupted election systems that's putting these people and these policies in place.
Stephen K. Bannon
Is the group prepared because Rachel Maddow and that team at MSNBC know that this conference is taking place this week. They know that you're going to. You screened the movie last night. Her show was last night. They called you vigilantes and they warn about vigilantes. They understand to make sure, given where we are with Save America Not Done and other Things not done, that the difference between having an affair election and a real count of real voters and having another sham, which is ballots and they're stealing just like they stole it in broad daylight in Los Angeles is going to come down to the leadership of those grassroots Americans that are at the Ahearn Hotel. And Matt on these people are smart. That's where they said, oh, this is. These are groups of vigilantes. And you're seeing these vigilantes now. They want to be near the ballot box. They want to be the election judges. They want to be all that. We got about a minute. I'm holding through the break. Do people There realize that the left from Mark Elias to Rachel Matt at the highest levels have targeted them as basically potential criminals. Sir.
Matt Mack
Sure. I think, yeah, they, they know they've been targeted. But I tell you, for a bunch of vigilantes. Well, we had five of Las Vegas Metro's finest here yesterday. They'll be here today, they'll be here tomorrow. So for vigilantes, we comply with law. We love law enforcement. Not vigilantes. We just want to make sure our voices are heard and everything we can possibly do lawfully, constantly, institutionally is done to ensure we have transparent and verifiable elections. And I think you're saying a lot. Spencer Pratt's race there in Southern California has wakened I think sleeping people up going, something's not right with these elections. This is not making sense. So, yes, sir, these folks know they're targeted, but they're not backing down because they're not vigilantes. We pray, we have prayer groups. This is as you know, this, you know these groups. Vigilante is the farthest thing from how you could describe these people.
Stephen K. Bannon
Matt Mack. Hang on, I'll hold you through the break. The coalition's fraud conference is in Las Vegas. Sold out, packed at the Ahearn Hotel. Opened with the movie Dark Horse. I think it may be Jim Caviezel in back of the Passion of the Christ. It's his greatest role. Short break. Back in a moment.
Jack Armstrong
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, we're gonna be stream this starting at noon. Grayson Mo sitting up. Rav. We're going to be streaming. This will be up on my getter. It'll be up on our True Social. It'll be up on our. Well, I don't know. I think not on True Social. Not yet. Big announcement on that and it'll be up on. On Rumble. Everything we do. Matt Mack, where's the website people go to and what is your personal coordinates on social media? This is a big day kicking off. Big screening last night went great. We'll have more on that from Dennis Rice, the head of distribution for this film. This film is going to be a blockbuster. And I told Cavie so I had a chance to see the film over the weekend. And I went to Jim, I said, dude, it's your best work since Passion of the Christ. It is monumental. I believe definitely should be nominated for the Academy Award. I think you're going to see him nominated for the Academy Award. Two Days of Intensity out there in Vegas. We're going to stream it all where they Go for the website, Matt, if they want to join up or become part of the coalition. And where they go for your social media, sir,
Matt Mack
the site unauthorized one point and showing it there as well for folks who couldn't make it out here. And then personal media. Semper fly on True Social. Again, former HR head aviator and unauthorized one W O N on. On X or. And thank you for all the support you've given us over the years.
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh, no, you guys are that.
Terry Schilling
You're.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're the tip of the spear, man. If. If the coalition doesn't come out of Las Vegas highly focused, they're going to steal the midterm elections full out. You saw what they did in Los Angeles in front of the world. They don't care. They're brazen about this and they know if they can't cheat, they can't win. Matt Mack, thank you in the coalition. Look forward to talking tonight.
Matt Mack
Yes, sir. Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
If they can't. If they can't cheat, they can't win. And they hate when I say that. But hey, history proves that. Lindell, I gotta. I gotta hick you up with Terry Schilling because Terry Schilling blowing my head up again. You got another local representative out there in Minnesota that's get him hell on wanting child porn. Man, I don't know what is in the water out there for a state that's got so many great people. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world with the lakes and all that. It's got great people. It's got great people. But, brother, I got to tell you, when you look at the railhead of so many problems, it goes back to these progressives in Minnesota. They are crazy. And I think what's happened is that more have just come around the country and kind of have gone there. Because, man, you got to be governor. At first I thought, mike, this is fantastic. You're a patriot. Now I'm saying, like, it's an existential. If Lindell's not governor, I don't know if the state's going to exist. It's an insane asylum, sir.
Mike Lindell
No, they're going to pour. They're going to pour out of Minnesota. I was doing a fundraiser in Texas. I said, if you guys. If I don't win, I said, you guys need to get me in. I said, otherwise, people are going to pour out of Minnesota to Texas and other places. They're ready to leave. Now. See, this goes back to that. We're the Trojan horse of evil. I really believe that we've had it. We had a governor that put a satanic statue in the. In the capitol. And then he said, we have to be fair. Fair to the devil. Give me a break. Then you had. We have the Muslims here with Islam. We have the. All the fraud, all the Somalian fraud. We need to ban Sharia law. We are. I think it goes back to, you know, people calling us Minnesota. Nice. They just took advantage, Took advantage, took advantage. And just said, oh, we welcome everybody. We, you know, this is great. And they. And then now we woke up. I'll tell you, there are so many people in Minnesota. This fraud is actually a blessing everybody, because it's woke people up. Kind of like the 2020 election where it woke up the whole country and the whole world. This is waking up Minnesota, Waking up the people that love Minnesota, that grew up here like I did, that were born here. And we are not gonna let this happen to our state. We're gonna fight back on every level. I mean, when you put out this. We have the most nonsensical things come out of Minnesota than any other state. When men and women's bathrooms in. And men's bathrooms. And now they want to. They want to do. They're doing a poll or. I mean, to get our local elections through the phone lines. I mean, through telephone. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. I thought it was bad when we were fighting Utah back in the day, to text in your voting and emailing your vote. You're going to call in your vote. This is nuts. But, Steve, we're fighting to stop it all. And I'll tell you, everybody, you guys who want to help save Minnesota, support my campaign. It's lindalegov.com, very simple. Lindalegov.com we are launching this week. I'm going to be doing five events a day for months. I'm not stopping. We have. It's the most critical election in history right now, especially a midterm election, and that's just not in Minnesota. But this is last call for Minnesota, Steve. It really is.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Date: June 16, 2026
Main Guests: Dr. Peter Navarro, Sam Faddis, Terry Schilling, Matt Mack, Mike Lindell
This episode of "War Room" with Steve Bannon centers around current “culture war” battles across the United States, with a particular focus on Texas schools' fight against what the hosts describe as a "woke takeover." The discussion weaves in economic policy, cultural issues surrounding gender and children, grassroots activism, and alleged election fraud. Bannon, joined by prominent conservative voices, critiques the Biden Administration, the Federal Reserve, and the influence of progressive ideas in U.S. institutions, especially schools. The episode features in-depth takes on monetary policy, the threat of woke culture, safeguarding children, and the preparations being undertaken by grassroots coalitions in anticipation of the midterm elections.
Dr. Peter Navarro expresses deep concern over potential Federal Reserve rate hikes amidst ongoing energy price shocks, calling it a potential “recipe for disaster.”
Navarro recounts previous cases in U.S. economic history (i.e., the 1980s, 2006) where the Fed refrained from raising interest rates during similar conditions of external shocks.
Navarro and Bannon agree there is unprecedented hostility between the current Fed chair (Jay Powell) and President Trump, with Navarro noting, “There’s never been a time in history when we’ve had a Fed chair stay on who was both hostile to the sitting chair and had a majority of members to be a shadow chair.” (09:37)
The pair criticize the business press for “politicized” and “woke” reporting on economics, suggesting most financial media have animosity towards Trump and misrepresent the facts to favor rate hikes.
Notable Quote:
Actionable Advice:
Navarro urges listeners to consult his Substack and brief “60-second” economic videos (14:16) for alternative, “truthful” takes on U.S. economic policy away from mainstream narratives.
Sam Faddis (national security commentator) advises President Trump to relentlessly maintain pressure on adversaries, particularly in ongoing negotiations with Middle Eastern states:
“Do not release any pressure we have on these people. Don’t give them a dime, don’t do away with sanctions, absolutely nothing. Let them sit and be crushed under that pressure.” (20:28)
Bannon and Faddis emphasize deep-rooted “resilience” among U.S. adversaries, warning against any compromise or trust in their promises. Bannon offers an extended historical analogy about various world groups’ tenacity and cultural instincts for survival and advantage.
The segment is highly skeptical of U.S. allies in the Gulf and Europe (“you can’t trust any of them ... there are no allies over there”), claiming they often undermine sanctions and U.S. efforts for financial gain.
Notable Quote:
Terry Schilling (American Principles Project) details the Trump administration’s executive actions to curtail federal funding for hospitals or clinics that provide gender transition-related procedures for children:
“That is a death knell for any hospital system. And ... as soon as a Democrat gets back in that Oval Office ... the closed sign is going to turn right back on.” (26:55)
Schilling and Bannon argue that such measures, while significant, are temporary unless codified by law. They stress the urgency of passing the “Save America Act” or similar legislation to make these executive actions permanent.
The discussion pivots to the dangers of children being exposed to online pornography:
“Online porn is creating kids ... making kids trans. It’s making them gender confused.” (30:58)
Both speakers express support for federal age-verification laws, framing control of children’s media access as a central issue for cultural and gender identity stability in America.
Bannon comments on “woke madness,” linking it directly to the destruction of society:
"[Woke activists] were there to destroy this society and suppress anybody that disagrees with them." (25:53)
Notable Quotes:
Matt Mack (coalition conference organizer) previews a major grassroots summit in Las Vegas, focused on countering alleged voter fraud and strengthening conservative election monitoring.
The conference is cast as a response to “vigilante” accusations from left-leaning media; attendees see themselves as law-abiding citizens determined to secure fair elections and highlight corruption:
“We just want to make sure our voices are heard and everything we can possibly do lawfully, constantly, institutionally is done to ensure we have transparent and verifiable elections.” (44:21)
The conversation references a new film, "Dark Horse," depicting “the struggle for honest elections,” and underscores the emotional, cultural, and political stakes of the 2026 midterm elections.
Notable Quote:
“This fraud is actually a blessing everybody, because it’s woke people up. Kind of like the 2020 election where it woke up the whole country and the whole world.” (49:33)
Fed Policy & Rate Hikes: 02:56 – 15:57
(Deep dive with Dr. Peter Navarro; key insight on economic context and Trump administration perspective)
Diplomacy and Economic Warfare: 19:39 – 25:39
(Sam Faddis on maintaining pressure overseas; skepticism of U.S. allies)
Culture War and Children’s Protection: 25:39 – 40:19
(Terry Schilling on transgender policy, federal defunding efforts, age verification laws, and parental strategies)
Grassroots Conference & Election Integrity: 40:23 – 47:28
(Matt Mack previews Las Vegas coalition meeting; strategies against election fraud and media attacks)
Minnesota’s ‘Woke’ Crisis: 47:28 – 52:56
(Mike Lindell on state issues, campaign pitch, and the urgency of local action)
This "War Room" episode is a rallying cry against perceived left-wing cultural intrusion in American institutions (especially schools) and a call to arms for the conservative grassroots. Steve Bannon and his guests weave together critiques of economic policy, foreign relations, culture wars, child safety, media bias, and election integrity. Texas and Minnesota are invoked as both battlefields and bellwethers in a national struggle. Heavy emphasis is placed on activism—both legislative and direct action—with repeated reminders of what’s at stake as the 2026 midterm elections near. The episode positions itself as both a warning and a playbook for listeners ready to fight "woke" influences and defend traditional American values.