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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians not 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.
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I know you try to do everything.
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In the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big L Maga media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, welcome. Friday the 16th of January, year over learned. 2026. Dave Bratz riding shotgun. We pulled Dr. Peter Navarro at a at the White House. A couple things. Dr. Navarro, just help us walk through this. President Trump put a very cryptic true social out late last night about and it seems like he had just been briefed by you guys. He says the numbers are unbelievable. What does he mean by that? Walk me through the basics of the economy, because our thesis here at the War Room is that you can start to see with your plan of the convergence of the big beautiful bill, the major tax benefits for building, plant and equipment, coupled with you and Jamison Greer and Scott Bessant working under President Trump's architecture to redo the commercial relationships in the world and to use tariffs and trade to drive investment back here in the United States or have guys pay a tolling fee, you can start to see it working. We just want to know what President Trump meant by that, sir.
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All right, Steve, let's go back to first principles. If we look at the rate of GDP growth, which is everything about making us prosperous, it's four drivers. Consumption, investment, government spending, and what they call net exports, which is the difference between how much we sell to the world and how much we import. Okay, so if you look at consumption, let's start with that. What we have coming in 2026 is the biggest IRS refund in history. And we also have these tax breaks. No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. So consumption is going to be a pillar of prosperity in 2026. So check that box. The second growth driver, investment. Let's look at what's happening there. First of all, we got the IRS expensing in the big beautiful bill, 100% expensing, Steve. On new manufacturing Capacity, and that's sparking a massive boom. It's working in conjunction with the tariffs, Steve. The tariffs are bringing in foreign investment. As President Trump has said, if you build it here, you don't get tariff. So we are literally looking at trillions upon trillions of dollars of new investment. That drives the GDP growth directly, but it also increases productivity. Why do we care as maga? Because productivity is the key to an increase in real wages and the quality of life of blue collar working Americans. Now, third, you got the government spending that's going down, but that's a good thing. One of the rules of economics is that a dollar in the government sector is much less efficient than if it goes into the private sector. Oh, and by the way, falling government expenditures mean a reduced budget deficit, lower interest rates and mortgage rates. So that's going to ignite things like the housing sector. So consumption, investment, government spending, hitting all cylinders. The last one, Steve, is the net exports. Whenever we reduce our trade deficit, that shows up as an increase in our GDP growth rate. That's exactly what the Trump tariff policy is doing. We just had in the latest number, Steve, the lowest trade deficit since 2009. So if you add all that up, Steve, it's a set of policies. And throw on top of that, good things like oil going from $75 a barrel to $50 a barrel. You can't imagine any other thing happening in 2026 than robust growth, rising real wages as we had in the first term, and prosperity. So looking forward, that's what we see. And it's all good, brother.
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Yeah. Okay, now, and President, I've said this from the beginning where people were tweeting out after the November debacle of the traditional Republicans in New Jersey and Virginia. They said, oh, it's got to be affordability in 2026. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's going to be growth, jobs and wages. This is the bet that President Trump has made. It's pretty evident what he's done here about getting growth back, real wages back up. It's the same plan, except hyper scaled from the first term, Peter, because he had Liberation Day. That's the new element that we didn't get to in the first term. I do want to say, yeah, go ahead, sir.
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Let's remember this. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can pursue all of these growth policies at the time. We're fighting a war on Biden's legacy inflation. And what we're doing, Steve, in the trenches is taking a micro approach to the macro problem of inflation. Remember, Steve, that inflation is nothing but a basket of prices for housing, for energy, for transportation, for health care and all of that. And so what we are doing, with all due speed, is to tackle every one of those elements, sector by sector, industry by industry, product by product. Yes, Fish by fish. And so you're seeing all.
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Hang on, hang on, hang on. This is going to, this is going to get to my point. I don't have it in front of me, but if, if, if my crack team here in Grace can pull on my getter account, I put it up last night. There was an article that talked about the House Johnson and these guys get losing these votes, etc. And there was a quote from a senior Republican House member that says Trump has got to stop sending up this populist crap. They use a more blunt term than that, this populist crap up to the Hill. President Trump's focus. This leads me into the, is going to lead me into the grid and AI. But President Trump's focus, your policy initiatives that are coming. And we're going to have Bobby Kennedy, we're gonna have Mary Holland on the bottom of the arrow. Talk about Bobby. The Washington Post has got Ezekiel Emanuel the worst, talking about Bobby Kennedy bankrupting big Pharma. Right. President Trump's populous economic policies generated by you guys, all these great ideas. They said it right now in Capitol Hill. The senior guy, I don't know if it was Scalise or Emmer, but it was, hey, it had to be one of the top guys said Trump has got to stop sending us up this populist crap. So how are you going to do this doctrine of error?
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Oh, man. Well, there's a fundamental disconnect between the business model of both parties on Capitol Hill, which is to raise money from big Pharma, from big food, from big this, from big that, versus populism, which is designed to, to help basically America's own Lao Baijang, America's working families and middle class. And so I don't know what that rhetoric is all about. I do know that we have a very slender majority in the House and that certainly they're not acting now to put something up on the board that they can run on. I think they're running. Some of these guys are running scared. But look, I mean, the data is going to be the data. It's what, January now we got until September to turn all of this around and we're doing that, Steve. It's all there. And what I'm Trying to do, talking to members on the Hill and showing them my videos and things like that. It's like, here's your talking points. It's like, here's what the boss is doing on this, you know, on, on, on beef prices, on egg prices, on mortgage rates, on housing prices.
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And that's the kind of stuff you should be talking about.
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Yeah, you're having great, you're having, you're having a great. You're having a great impact. They're having. You're having a great impact. The quote is, they got to stop sending this populist crap up to the. Up here. Okay, hang on, hang on. But let's. I want, I want to see this manifest. The president also put out his true social so good late at night. He also put out a bombshell on, on the grid and electricity. He's going to do special auctions. Walk me through this as this whole thing on the grid. And he says, I'm doing this because I'm not going to have the people underwrite the massive expense of the electric. What we need for electricity to drive these data centers. What did he mean by that? Dr. Navarro, what are you guys cooking up over there?
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Well, I don't want to get too far ahead of him because I never do that. But the central problem here, which we're going to solve, is that AI is expanding so fast that we simply don't have enough capacity to service it going forward. So there's two issues. One is price. AI is driving up the price of electricity. But number two, the grid is also facing potential reliability issues going forward. And so it's pretty simple. You make, you make them pay, Steve, and you make them ensure that whatever they put in in terms of power, that it won't hurt the grid at all. So that's the principle. It's pretty simple to do no harm. AI first do no harm to our grid or our ratepayers. And so if there, there's another element here, and this one, you've talked about it. We've talked about it. It's like, why are Americans paying for AI in India? ChatGPT operating on US soil, using American electricity, servicing large users of chat GPT, for example, in India and China and elsewhere around the world. So that's another issue that's got to be dealt with. And don't forget, Steve, there's water issues as well, and there's farmland issues. Huge as well. They're paying like they coming in, you know, the face the metas of this world and others are coming in and paying like a 10x on farmland. And if we're going to fight food inflation, we've got to wrap our heads around that. Yep, we're on it.
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I don't want to cause an international. I know you guys are you guys. People should know. They're working nonstop late at night over at the White House and the EOB every night. President Trump's got a whole array of policies. This is why I'm feeling very confident actually about the midterm election. The Democrats are going to get more radical. You're going to see the more radical things like you see in Minnesota, because the economic issue is going to be taken away from them. Last thing, Dr. Navarro, and I don't want to cause an international incident here, but did you have any chance, and maybe you don't have flexibility to comment, but did you see Carney, his trip to Beijing to kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party? Any response to what Carney's been saying over the last 24 hours, sir?
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Indeed I did. I was tempted to put something up on X and getter to the effect of was he looking for a discount on fentanyl or something when he was over there? So, yeah, I don't know what their strategy is. If they think, if Canada thinks they can use China as a bargaining chip, that's not going to, that doesn't end well. And look, I love the Canadian people. I just, I don't think, I don't think their leadership has really reflected the silent majority, if I may, in Canada, it's, it's too, Amen. Ontario centric. You know, it's like, it's a great country. And out in Edmonton, they just scratch their heads.
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Now, if you look at the allies who had shoulder to shoulder In World War I, World War II, the Canadians, some of the toughest and best. The Canadian people are the best. It's, you've got an elite up, you got a globalist lead up there. It's more dangerous than the global elite here in this country. They're, they, they're, they're dangerous. And you tell President Trump once again, has 100% been right when people said, why is he picking on Canada? He wasn't picking on Canada. He's going after these globalist elites. And Carney just showed you President Trump once again, 100% key wrecked. Dr. Navarro, where they go get your videos, where they get everything you're putting up every day, all your content.
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The central piece is Peter Navaro.com Peter Navarro.com they'll get you to my ex and get her and truth social and Instagram feeds. I'm telling you, Steve, these 60 second videos are priceless. They're, they're really good to watch to kind of understand exactly what we're doing and why. You know, one out yesterday there was a nice, nice piece on soybeans using basically taking soybeans and turn them into biofuel and like it's a home run for the American people. So it's cool stuff. Stephen. You keep doing what you're doing, Admiral, and let's see what happens here. As the boss.
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You keep doing what you're doing. You invest in Jameson greer. Amazing trifecta, Dr. Navarro. Thank you. Short commercial break. Dave Bratt is going to give us his observations on the economic numbers.
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Sign up for free and be part of the movement. So a couple other things are happening. Number one, President Trump talking about and we're going to have the outcome of that because so much pressing news today of his, of the forum he had, the round table, they call it about rural health. Very, very, very important. But he did mention something that we've seen said on here is that and I think it's because of the Powell situation in the investigation and Powell thrown down so hard. I said hey, Powell's not leaving. Now it looks like Kevin Hassett is out of the running, at least for now for Fed Chair President Trump says, hey, I want to keep him in NEC because a good job he's doing. Now part of that I'm sure is the team they've got at Navarro and Jameson Greer and Hassett and Besant they're putting up these numbers are quite powerful. And I think maybe the President's saying hey, do I want to shake up this team when we've started this turnaround and I want to see it through the, through the do the end. Brad's going to jump in here in a second. Also they're reporting that the head of Mossad and they've been pretty adamant about leaking this. The head of Mossad is heading towards my to Miami to meet with Steve Witkoff. Now brother Witkoff, who I I think is a really good guy and look, he's a long term buddy of Trump. He knows Trump better than anybody or one of the guys knows Trump for, you know, 20, 30, 40 years. He's done this voluntarily. Voluntarily. Now is he perfect? No, he's not perfect. He's not done this diplomatic stuff but he's essentially, I think depending on how they set up this peace committee, you should think him equivalent of like a Roman governor Tribune. He's the man I think in this Gaza deal, in this Gaza situation, he's taken over the big burden of it. Obviously Jared's got a huge hand at the architecture, but I think the day to day is Wyckoff and I think that's why the Mossad guy is heading over there to talk to him. Witkoff is also the lead negotiator with the Iranians. Now I saw where Wittcarver they were leaked about concessions they would make on the nuclear, you know, if the Iranians made concession on the nuclear program of ballistic missiles, we would hold, we would pull back from the, we would pull back from the, from the sanctions. Why do that? Don't do that. They're not going to be around long enough. Their deal's not going to make any difference because they're going to be gone. Keep tighten the screws on them because that's something you can do is economic warfare and it's all related to the commercial relationships of the United States. President Trump just put a 25% tariff on Abio trade with them. That's no troops, no bombs. The Persian people get the full benefit of the Islamic republic that they brought on. Remember this? They threw the United States out. They threw the Shah out, not that he was any beauty, threw them all out. They wanted it, they loved it. They're rubbing up on it and hugging it. Hey, you brought it on, you deal with it. Your problem, your problem, your issue. It's your country, you deal with it. Want to make Iran great again? Want to make Persia really it's the Persians versus this Islamic Republic. Make the Persians great again. Persia's got a pretty good track record of hammering out stuff over I don't know, 5,000 years. One of the most ancient civilizations we have. Persian people very, very proud. The community in Los Angeles, huge community in Los Angeles don't get better people than that. They all left basically when the Shah fell and thereafter good people Tough people, smart people. Love their country. Take it back, baby. But don't ease up. Don't. Don't ease up on the sanctions. That's what's brought them to their knees. We're not going to bomb. No need to bomb the Israel first crowd. Better be. Better be focused right now on this Gaza situation, what you have wrought, because I didn't. In that press release, that thing the president put out, I didn't see Israel except as a place where they're going to take Hamas weapons. No active involvement. I'd like to see who from Israel is on the peace council. Also, I keep saying, your problem is not in downtown Tehran. Your problem is in downtown Manhattan. How's that? Or in Plano, Texas. Dave, Brat, your thoughts on the economy right now? Hasset, looks like President's not going to break the team up. He's not going to. He's not going to break the band up. Bessant, this is one of the reasons he didn't want Besant going to the Fed. He wanted Bessant to stay in treasury because, hey, we're kind of on a roll. I want to stick there. Now, Hassett, same thing. He's got Navarro, he's got Jameson Greer. He's got a pretty damn good front team. They mentioned productivity and all your four things that you mentioned. Are you buying what Navarro's selling, sir?
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Yeah, yeah, of course. And, you know, I just want to start off on the grand level here. They used to call Greenspan the maestro, right? The maestro of the symphony. And that's great. The genius. And he ran us in the ditch. All these geniuses and the traditional Republicans who are saying, don't send me up any more of this America first stuff, they're very misguided. It turns out the maestro is President Trump. He's the one that's playing a multiple symphony, right? He's making Greenspan look like the Schroeder guy on the Peanuts cartoon, right? Just plucking away. He's doing all. Everything we've been talking about here. The E Verify, the immigration fight. Who do you think he's doing that for? He's doing that for the American worker, right? We got to get this in our head when it comes to hemispheric dominance. Why is he doing that? And, you know, a lot of the grassroots are. Everybody's skeptical out online of some of this stuff, but he's still. No war. He's being very strategic on that. But the economy itself, he's doing what we've said for four years. The Number one driver of economic growth is capital. And he's bringing 10 to $20 trillion of capital in productivity is up at like 5% right now. I never would have forecast that in a million years. And so, you know, my long run trend line has it going from, you know, 7% way back to 2% in CBO forecasts. So Trump said 5. He's crushing that number. And the tariff piece, where's the news media on all this? Oh, it's going to cause inflation. There's no economic evidence of that happening whatsoever. In fact, the opposite is happening. We're using the tariffs as strategic leverage for our trading partners. And, you know, this, Denmark, Greenland, all this kind of thing, you know, these guys are not learning the lessons yet on the basic economics. They're not doing anything for Naito. We've been paying the bill to protect all of Europe and whatever, and they're not contributing there. So Trump's got the full arsenal of economics working across the board. The border invasion, the war front, the hemispheric dominance, the economics proper itself. The only thing I want to see these guys in the White House pay attention to. And it's not the sexy topic, but it's one third of economic growth, and that's human capital in the inner cities. The poor kids in Chicago, third grade literacy rates are 12%. We gotta do something. If you're gonna be populist, that is the issue. We need to put some czar on improving the lives of those kids. And, man, you put them. There's your labor force. When all these business guys say, oh, we can't find any workers, well, no wonder. Cause you're not investing in your own kids.
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But hang on, but hang on. This is why we need more. This is why we need more action. I got, I got your labor force. Because they've been twisted by these progressive teachers. I got them up in Minnesota yesterday. It's the Red Guard, dude. They're running through. You don't think if Mike Lindell walked down there as governor Lindell, they wouldn't tear him shredding piece to piece? It's the Red Guard. Look, these Marxist jihadists are not dumb people. They're smart and they're cunning and they're coming to take down the bastion of freedom and prosperity in world history. In the 250th anniversary of our separating from the earth. Excuse me. Our statement that said we were going to be independent. We talked big, though. We were very brave. We gave a declaration. It was essentially a declaration of war. On the 4th of July of 1776, because the war had already been going for about a year. There's a declaration that we're all in. We're going to be independent. Then you had a war for what, seven or eight years? Which. What's the lesson of the war, folks? What's the war room posse? What's the lesson of the Revolutionary War? If you don't quit, you win. Did not our revolutionary generation show us exactly everything we need to do to be victorious? Victory begets victory, and if you don't quit, you win. They had every opportunity to quit. They had every opportunity to throw in the towel. They had all kind of peace proposals from England. We can put this back together. We can do this. They wouldn't do it. If we don't quit, we win. This is why it's so important up in Minnesota. And you see what they're doing. They're twisting the very youth of this nation. The very youth of this nation, particularly the youth of this nation that is Hispanic and African American. They're doing it to the white suit, don't get me wrong. But they're importing people all over the place mass, mass importation of illegal aliens to crush them economically and make them more dependent, to take away their opportunities. This is quite well thought through. And that's why, Dave Brat, we need the Insurrection act because it's time to quit playing with President Trump's greatest. Hey, no more games. Maduro found that out in Venezuela. No more games. You finally hit President Trump's tripwire. Let's hopefully say you know, people around him right now, you know this brat, you've been in the system. They're putting that polling in front of. They're putting that GOP donor polling in front of him. Oh, guess what? 47% don't like the optics here are bad. You know, Tom Holman's bad, Kristi Noman's bad. Right? Stephen Miller is bad. That's the exact opposite. Press your bet now, because when you explain to it and look, you've got to get. You got to get to the employees. Brett, we got a minute before we go. It's your minute. You take it before we go to break. What do you got?
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No, that's absolutely right. If you're going to win, win. And on this immigration fight, we need to draw lines in the sand when people are attacking our law enforcement officers. The left is saying, I can't believe these guys. They think they have the authority to, you know, ask you questions and tell you what to do. Yes, they're authorized federal police officers, officers of the law. Either we're a country of the law or we're not. They need to stay out in force. And anyone spitting at them, throwing bottles at them, throwing bottle rockets at them, harassing, they need to be locked up immediately. They're putting up with way too much stuff. There's no way once you turn that visual around, the American people will applaud the President. All the ice folks you just mentioned. Homan what a what an all star. All Star cast.
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Amen. All star cast Short commercial break we're going to return. Mary Holland is going to join us about Bobby Kennedy and Big Pharma Bobby. Mean old Bobby's putting him in bankruptcy.
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War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Another special deal for the War Room Posse. My patron supply, which is the Axe in the space. They created this segment. They're the best going on, everything about preparation and thinking ahead. My patriotsupply.com Bannon you got to put in that in the winter survival kit, you get a three month emergency food kit. It's normally the three month kit is about 1300 bucks. You get it for 800 plus. In addition, they throw in another $400 of product one time. Good deal. My Patriotsupply.com Bannon go there today. They got the best customer service people around. Talk to them, check it out. They'll walk you through everything. My Patriot supply is the Axe in this space. The best. You're going to save 500 bucks on your three month emergency food supply. Plus they're going to kick in another $400 of products. But go talk to them today. We give you access to the best. Make sure you go to my patronsupply.com Bannon it's a special offer. So go check it out today. I want to play. Mike Lindell's with us. I got a replay. Let's play. From what we saw, the Red the new Red Guard, that the radical progressives in the Minnesota and Minneapolis school system have turned these kids into a new Red Guard. Let's go and play. You ever heard the Cultural Revolution as bad as the French Revolution. The Cultural revolution in the 1960s, that's what they did. They turned these young they turned high school and college kids against their elders, against their families, against their parents, against their aunt and uncle. Don't take it from me. Ask Lao Baijang. Ask any Chinese American, you know, ask anybody how it's so bad the Communists today will not let it be talked about because of what they did to the youth of China that's what's happened here in the United States. You saw it yesterday. Mike Lindell, you are looking to be the next governor of Minnesota. Seventeen years ago today, I think even at this time, you were a degenerate gambler and a cocaine, a crack cocaine addict. What happened on this day 17 years ago that set you on the path to actually be the leading Republican in this massive primary in Minnesota, to be the next governor, sir.
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Yeah. Steve, it is a very. It's an amazing anniversary date for me. God set me free of all my addictions that day and then never looked back. It was a miracle. It was a miracle in my life. And, you know, I'm a born again, I'm saved Christian, born again Christian. And, and but it's also. That's the American dream on steroids. And you see all these kids in Minnesota now, the schools that they let these kids out, out of school to use as human shields against these paid protesters that have come into Minnesota, our school system, Steve, in Minnesota, since Waltz has been in there, we used to be in the top three. Now we're 39th in the nation because they've taught these kids to hate our president, to hate our country, to hate, you know, basically hate everything about our country. And the American dream. They. And this has to change. The president's got to come in right now and take control of this insurrection. We need it in Minneapolis. They're going to. This is going to keep magnifying as Waltz and Fry the mayor of Minneapolis and our media here keep promoting this and promoting this. It has to stop, Steve. It's going to get. You're going to end up with the summer of 2020, when all my friends back when I quit my addictions and everything, I brought so many people out of that, helping people with the Downtown Teen Challenge. And a lot of people had rebuilt their lives, rebuilt their businesses, and they all got burned to the ground in 2020. This is going to be worse if we don't stop it now. So I've got to call out. You know, I would pray that the president, he did a truth a little bit ago. And I don't think we can't wait on this. It's got right now. Steve. At noon today Central Time, a group is put out to encourage all the other schools in Minnesota, the rural schools and these other schools who are closed, for them to come out and start, and start protesting and rioting. You know, we need to make protester laws and say there's nothing wrong with protesting, but you don't commit crimes when you protest, you don't block streets, you don't block sidewalks. See this goes back to when Waltz let him a few years ago, about eight years ago they let Black Lives matter block off our biggest highway in Minnesota. People couldn't get to my work, they couldn't get to my pillow, they couldn't, we couldn't get supplies and then they just this just magnified from that. It's disgusting. We need new guys need to be these leaders need to be prison.
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Yeah. For our podcast audience I just I want to read this quickly and your, your comment we only get like a minute in. This is from the president United States and I quote in Minnesota the troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists are in many cases highly paid professionals. The governor, the mayor don't know what to do. They are totally, they have totally lost control and are and are currently being rendered useless. If and when I am forced. Let me repeat that. If and when I am forced to act, it will be solved quickly and effectively. President Donald John Trump, your thoughts there?
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Mike Lindell start right now. Mr. President it's there is no. I don't see how this ends without him stepping in because like I just said they're now they're promoting other. These people are brainwashed. These kids have been brainwashed. Our media here in Minnesota has brainwashed everybody. The Star Trek.
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We had Kevin, we had Kevin. We had Kevin Posobic on last night says Antifa's got a call out. They're pouring in this weekend even at 0 degree temperature and Tiffany's pouring in. They got the college, they got the high school kids today. Mike, we gotta bounce. I want everybody now to focus on going to your go your site that you're running for governor and see what you got where they go.
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It's Mike Lindell gov.com you guys I need your help. We've got to change. We've got to do something. I will be a great governor. Mike Lindale gov.com help out now and let's save Minnesota here.
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17 years ago today a coke, a crack cocaine addict and degenerate gambler changed his life because God came into his life and what an arc to a story. Mike Lindell, you're a great man. Appreciate you Dave Brat. Where do people go to get Dave Brat sir?
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Yep, just brat Economics on getter and X the whole the whole history of our country Trump Providential 250 year years on 1776 keep fighting folks. It's all started with Christianity. We gotta get it back. It's coming.
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If we don't quit. We win.
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There's going to be a confrontation in Minnesota. Let's have the Insurrection Act, Mr. President. Let's get it done. The Charlie Kirk show is next. Poso after that, Steve Gruber, Eric Bowling. And then we're back live, 5pm in the war Room. We'll see you then. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Another special deal for the War Room posse. My Patriot Supply, which is the axe in the space. They created this segment. They're the best going on. Everything about preparation and thinking ahead. Mypatriotsupply.com Bannon you got to put in that in there winter survival kit. You get a three month emergency food kit. It's normally the three month kit is about 1300 bucks. You get it for 800 plus. In addition, they throw in another $400 of product one time. Good deal. Mypatriotsupply.com Bannon go there today. They got the best customer service people around. Talk to them, check it out. They'll walk you through everything. My Patriot Supply is the axe in this space. The best. You're going to save 500 bucks on your three month emergency food supply. Plus they're going to kick in another $400 of products. But go talk to them today. We give you access to the best. Make sure you go to my patronsupply.com Bannon it's a special offer. So go check it out today. I want to play. Mike Lindell's with us. I got to replay. Let's play. From what we saw, the Red the new Red Guard that the radical progressives in the Min, Minnesota and Minneapolis school system have have turned these kids into a new Red Guard. Let's go. And.
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It.
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You ever heard the Cultural Revolution as bad as the French Revolution? The Cultural revolution in the 1960s, that's what they did. They turned these young, they turned high school and college kids against their elders, against their families, against their parents, against their aunt and uncle. Don't take it from me. Ask Lao Bajing. Ask any Chinese American, you know, ask anybody how it's so bad. The communists today will not let it be talked about because of what they did to the youth of China. That's what's happened here in the United States. You saw it yesterday. Mike Lindell, you are looking to be the next governor of Minnesota. Seventeen years ago today, I think even at this time, you were a degenerate gambler and a cocaine, a crack cocaine addict. What happened on this day 17 years ago that set you on the path to Actually be the leading Republican in this massive primary in Minnesota to be the next governor, sir.
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Yeah. Steve, it is a very. It's an amazing anniversary date for me. God set me free of all my addictions that day and then never looked back. It was a miracle. It was a miracle in my life. And, you know, I'm a born again, I'm saved Christian, born again Christian. And. But it's also. That's the American dream on steroids. And you see all these kids in Minnesota now, the schools that they let these kids out, out of school to use as human shields against these paid protesters that have come into Minnesota, our school system, Steve, in Minnesota, since Walt has been in there, we used to be in the top three. Now we're 39th in the nation. Cause they've taught these kids to hate our president, to hate our country, to. To hate, you know, basically hate everything about our country and the American dream. And this has to change. The president's gotta come in right now and take control of this insurrection. We need it in Minneapolis. They're gonna. This is gonna keep magnifying as Waltz and Fry the mayor of Minneapolis and our media here keep promoting this and promoting this. It has to stop, Steve. It's gonna get. You're gonna end up with the summer of 2020, when all my friends back when I quit my addictions and everything, I brought so many people out of that, helping people with the Downtown Teen Challenge. And a lot of people had rebuilt their lives, rebuilt their businesses, and they all got burned to the ground in 2020. This is going to be worse if we don't stop it now. So I've got to call out. You know, I would pray that the president, he did a. He did a truth a little bit ago. And I don't think we can't wait on this. It's got. Right now, Steve. At noon today, Central Time, a group is put out to encourage all the other schools in Minnesota, the rural schools and these other schools who weren't closed for them to come out and start protesting and rioting. We need to make protester laws and say they're not the wrong protesting. But you don't commit crimes when you protest. You don't block streets, you don't block sidewalks. See, this goes back to when Waltz let him. A few years ago, about eight years ago, they let Black Lives Matter block off our biggest highway in Minnesota. People couldn't get to my work, they couldn't get to my pillow, they couldn't. We couldn't get supplies. And then they just this just magnified from that. It's disgusting. We need new. These leaders need to be prison.
A
Yeah. For our podcast audience. I just, I want to read this quickly and your, your comment. We only get like a minute in. This is from the president United States and I quote in Minnesota the troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists are in many cases highly paid professionals. The governor and the mayor don't know what to do. They are totally, they have totally lost control and are and are currently being rendered useless. If and when I am forced. Let me repeat that. If and when I am forced to act it will be solved quickly and effectively. President Donald John Trump, your thoughts there? Mike Lindell.
D
Start right now. Mr. President, it's. There is no. I don't see how this ends without him stepping in because like I just said they're now they're promoting other. These people are brainwashed. These kids have been brainwashed. Our media here in Minnesota has brainwashed everybody. The starring antifa.
A
We had Kevin. We had Kevin. We had Kevin Posobic on last night. He says antifa's got a call out. They're pouring in this weekend even at 0 degree temperature and Tiffany's pouring in. They got the college, they got the high school kids today. Mike, we gotta bounce. I want everybody now to focus on going to your go your site that you're running for governor and see what you guys are where they go.
D
It's Mike Lindell. Gov.com you guys, I need your help. We've got to change. We've got to do something. I will be a great governor. Mike Lindale gov.com help out now and let's save Minnesota here.
A
Seventeen years ago today, a coke, a crack cocaine addict and degenerate gambler changed his life because God came into his life. And what an arc to a story. Mike Lindell, you're a great man. Appreciate you. Dave Brat. Where do people go to get Dave Brat, sir?
C
Yep, just Brat. Economics on getter and X the whole the whole history of our country Trump Providential 250 year years on 1776. Keep fighting folks. It's all started with Christianity. We gotta get it back. It's coming.
A
If we don't quit, we win, right? There's going to be a confrontation in Minnesota. Let's have the Insurrection Act, Mr. President. Let's get it done. The Charlie Kirk show is next. Poso. After that, Steve Gruber, Eric Bowling and then we're back live 5pm in the war room. We'll see you then. This is an Iheart podcast. Guaranteed human.
Date: January 16, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests: Dr. Peter Navarro, Dave Brat, Mike Lindell
This War Room episode, helmed by Stephen K. Bannon, is a deep dive into the current US economic strategy, Trump-era policy impacts, and pressing current events with a heavy emphasis on economic populism, challenges from political elites, the state of the energy grid, rising political unrest, and the cultural battles in America’s heartland. Guests Dr. Peter Navarro and economist Dave Brat provide economic analysis and policy breakdowns, while Mike Lindell joins for a fiery discussion on cultural and political tensions in Minnesota. The episode’s tone is urgent, combative, and intensely political, rallying the War Room “posse” around a vision for American renewal inspired by Trump’s policies and a return to foundational values.
“You can’t imagine any other thing happening in 2026 than robust growth, rising real wages as we had in the first term, and prosperity.” – Dr. Navarro (04:24)
“There's a fundamental disconnect between the business model of both parties on Capitol Hill...versus populism, which is designed to help basically America’s own Lao Baijang, America's working families and middle class.” (07:53)
"AI first do no harm to our grid or our ratepayers." – Navarro (10:54)
“If Canada thinks they can use China as a bargaining chip, that doesn’t end well.” (12:53)
"It’s too Ontario-centric...it’s a great country. Out in Edmonton, they just scratch their heads." – Navarro (13:08)
“If you’re gonna be populist, that is the issue.” (22:23)
“The president’s got to come in right now and take control of this insurrection.” – Mike Lindell (38:55)
Reading from Trump’s Statement:
“In Minnesota the troublemakers, agitators, and insurrectionists are in many cases highly paid professionals... If and when I am forced to act, it will be solved quickly and effectively.” – Donald J. Trump (32:35)
Lindell’s Reply:
“Start right now, Mr. President... I don’t see how this ends without him stepping in.” (33:07)
“Consumption is going to be a pillar of prosperity in 2026... it's all good, brother.” (03:49)
“They got to stop sending this populist crap up here.” (09:18, paraphrasing senior House Republican)
“Why are Americans paying for AI in India?” (10:47)
“You put [inner-city kids]—there’s your labor force... you’re not investing in your own kids.” (22:46)
“If you don’t quit, you win. Did not our revolutionary generation show us exactly everything we need to do to be victorious?” (24:34)
“God set me free of all my addictions that day and then never looked back. It was a miracle in my life... that’s the American dream on steroids.” (38:07)
“We need new... These leaders need to be [in] prison.” (40:17)
| Time | Segment | |------------|---------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:26–05:11| Navarro on Trump’s cryptic economic post and growth strategies| | 05:11–10:03| Bannon challenges Hill GOP; populism vs. establishment | | 10:03–12:40| AI’s impact on electricity grid; U.S. ratepayers & fairness | | 12:40–14:03| International: Carney's China trip, Canada’s leadership | | 14:03–15:04| Navarro touts educational content for the public | | 15:30–20:10| Economic team updates; Gaza/Israel peace talks, Iran policy | | 20:10–22:56| Dave Brat analyzes economic data, populist policy, inner cities| | 25:54–30:07| Bannon & Brat on education, “Red Guard,” insurrection act | | 38:07–41:07| Mike Lindell’s recovery story; critique of MN school protests | | 32:30–33:06| Trump’s statement on Minnesota unrest, Lindell’s response |
Note: Ad breaks, promotional material, and outro omitted for clarity.
Episode 5073 of War Room conveys a vivid picture of the Trump camp’s economic agenda, deeply held populist convictions, and urgent warnings about cultural conflict, corruption, and foreign threats. Navarro and Brat present a bullish outlook on American growth, crediting strategic tariffs, tax cuts, and investment incentives, while also cautioning about entrenched interests in DC. Simultaneously, the cultural skirmishes in places like Minnesota are framed as a crucial battleground—one requiring bold action and, potentially, federal intervention. The message to listeners: stay vigilant, stay engaged, keep fighting—because, as Bannon loves to repeat, “If we don’t quit, we win.”