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Conservative Commentator
Conservatives like me, it's frightening to libertarians, it's frightening to independents to actually have people in no uniforms and unmarked cars grab people off the street and throw them into unmarked cars or vans. And you're sitting there as a parent going, okay, so what happens if people start imitating this and thinking they can get away with this in public where they can just kidnap somebody? And I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, well, what. What happens, my son? What happens? I do that to my daughter. Whatever it is, it is really insane at this point in 2025 that we are at a point where, and by the way, I'm not, I'm not saying this for, you know, this isn't. I mean, progr are going to agree with me on this. This is small government conservatives that are saying, wait, you've got people that have, like, are wearing plain clothes, they're masked, they, they just grab women off the street and throw them into unmarked vans. They refuse to identify themselves. We must understand this is not an 8020 issue. Like this scares the hell out of people in all political parties. Maybe not in the most intense like MAGA base, but it should. And so, yeah, this is not good.
Steve Bannon
What is your response to the protest? Who are you with? With ap. What's your response to the protests over the weekend? I think it's a joke. I looked at the people, they're not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs made for, I guess was made for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.
Diplomat or Negotiator
Mr. President, besides being persistent.
Steve Bannon
And by the way, I'm not a king. I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's over this. I'm not a king at all.
Progressive Commentator or Activist
This issue of how the right is very good at making people have their conversation. So even the conversation we're having now is a conversation about denying bogus claims that this was like a terrorist march. So I just want to take one second to just step out of their conversation because their conversation is so bogus that we don't need to even inhabit it. Let me just tell you what I saw, because I was there. I marched down 7th Avenue from 50th street to 14th street with my two children, one of whom was nervous about big crowds. And I explained to him that your entire life is going to be stressful if you don't fight this thing with us. And it's a lot easier to go to a march than live under a dictatorship for the rest of your natural life. And what I saw in the crowd was people who. Some people who go to these things, always the hardcore. And then I saw, as the numbers show, 2 million more people than last time. I saw a lot of people who are tiptoeing in. I saw a lot of people getting courage from other people who had courage earlier. I saw the epidemic quality of courage. I saw a lot of Mamdani signs. Again, I'm not going to say what it wasn't. I'll say what it was. People I think are ready. And you see this with the support for Pritzker, also for someone who's going to fight, but actually fight with a smile, and not just fight Trump, but fight to do things, to build things, to create things. We are on the brink in New York of a new mayoral administration that is actually promising not just to resist, but to build things, do things, have the landscape change, have life become less hard for people. And what I saw is actually, it was such a warm. I mean, I don't take my kids to a giant crowd and keep them in a giant crowd for hours if it's unsafe. It felt like the safest place to be in this city because it felt like my children were surrounded by people who believe that whatever my children grow up to be, however they look, whoever they love, my children were surrounded in that crowd by people who believe in their right to be, to exist, to be free, to have their voices heard. There was, to me, I've been to a lot of places, I felt as safe in that crowd as I've ever felt.
Jared Kushner or Close Advisor
Our relationships were direct with the leaders of these three countries, and we were hearing that Hamas was positive on the deal. And yet I was reading intelligence reports every day and getting briefings from the CIA three times a day. And those Intelligence briefings were suggesting that Hamas was going to say no. And so Jared and I had to make a decision as to where we thought this was going. And both of us, you know, we didn't need to convince one another. We really felt that this was going in a positive way. And sure enough, Hamas came out and said, you know, we accept the president's plan. And that allowed us to get into the next gear.
Diplomat or Negotiator
And one thing that also caused confusion after that was they put in some language that was really very face saving for them in order to do. And one thing I would tell everyone is in the Middle east, you just have to ignore all of the public statements that everyone puts out because they're all just talking to their political bases. But the message they were telling us was that they were on board with releasing the hostages. They wanted to end the war, they wanted to negotiate on some of the different variables in the agreement. But on the little stuff and not the big stuff. What Steve and I said to the mediators is go to charm El Sheikh, we'll do the negotiation, but we would prefer that they pre agree to as many things as possible. We don't have to start the negotiations when we get there. There are certain issues that could be adjudicated now, and if they're not going to agree to those issues, then let's not bother with the trip. So we tried to diffuse some of the more complex issues before they came to Sharm El Sheikh in order to give us a higher probability of, of success and a more efficient negotiation when we got there.
Steve Bannon
Did you have the authority to make the deal, to make these compromises? What kind of authority did you get, let me ask it that way, to.
Diplomat or Negotiator
Not make a bad deal. Hamas was that described President Trump's mandate, don't make a bad deal, don't make a bad deal.
Steve Bannon
But Hamas was going to be there. And I know that you spoke directly, so did you have to get authority to do that or was.
Jared Kushner or Close Advisor
Yes. We both described it to the president as if we would have an opportunity to meet Hamas. And if in our view, that opportunity could lead to a deal, were you comfortable with allowing us to go meet with Hamas? That was the question that we asked him and the entire foreign policy staff. And, and the answer came back, if you feel that you can get to a deal, of course, why wouldn't we? Why wouldn't I encourage I being President Trump, why wouldn't I encourage you to get into that room and get it finished?
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Leon Neyfak
Foreign.
Steve Bannon
It's Monday 20th October, at year of our Lord 2025. We start off the week with a massive, I don't know, cyber attack. Or they're saying it's a technical problem, but I believe, folks, what is it? Amazon World Systems, the cloud and everything associated with it shows you the vulnerability of the United States of America to a cyber attack. I hope someone's listening to a cyber attack because the Chinese Communist Party, as their economy continues to plunge and as Scott Bessen said the other day, and Scott Bessen is now going to be there negotiating first to kind of lay the groundwork for, I guess, President Trump's meeting with ship, which I don't even know if it's happening. And I would recommend it doesn't happen while they're trying to crush US Economic warfare with rare earths. This is their bible, unrestricted warfare. We've talked to you about this since the very first episodes of the show back in War Room and Pandemic, right back in January 2020, right after we shifted off of War Room. Impeachment, the unrestricted warfare. They understand they can't beat the foreign devils with straight up militarily, or at least they did in the late 90s after the Gulf War, with all the advanced technology General Schwarzkopf had at his disposal. So they went to other means. Subversion. Oh, subversion. Gosh, did I see that in the streets of the United States this weekend. Look at Morning Joe. Morning Joe alternates. Now between Pastor it's either Pastor Scarborough or we get that. We get interpretations of the Old and New Testament every other day. And then he's a limited government Republican. Limited government, constitutional, conservative, libertarian. So we're alternating between those two. Joe, when you're sitting there and saying people are afraid, fringe are afraid. Hey, if you're not an illegal alien, nothing to worry about. Or a street criminal thug. Okay, so if you're not a criminal, or most importantly, if you're not an illegal alien. All good. Okay. All good. So no, we're going to roll up. You don't say anything about the scale. We're going to roll up the 10 to 20 million that on your show every morning for years sat there and go, there's nothing on the border. Gosh, you know, when it got over a couple hundred thousand a month, he said, hey, you know this asylum seekers and the UN refugee, gosh, are we treating them well? Or they make sure they get their Covid shots when they come across. You allowed your show promoted, MSNBC promoted actively every day an invasion of our country of 10 to 20 million. And they're all going home. They're all going home. The only thing that's going to stop us sending all of them home is the Republican establishment and the Republican vested economic interest. They say, oh no, no, no, no. The agricultural workers, you know, the agriculture. Illegal aliens can't go home because the Americans won't do the jobs. All these excuses. Yes. Kind of a variation on the theme of the H1B visa scam of which every H1B visa holder in this country is here on a scam that should be revoked immediately and sent home. And those jobs open up to American citizens. Yes. The President has sent ICE into these, into these insurrectionist cities, these sanctuary cities and they should start arresting, they should start doing mass arrest of government officials that are stopping this. Let's go to. Look, this is why we passed, this is why you signed the antifa, the antifa terrorist executive order. It's just not the grundoons on the street. It's not the foot soldiers. They're replaceable. They don't get in the left. The guys running the left don't care about them. The second layer of the people that train them from the national security apparatus of the United States and others and other intelligence services and yes, our own military, certain rogue elements. That's where you ought to be. But most importantly is where President Trump said, he said, he said on the plane. We're going to have to source and the money in the organization. Oh, and let's throw in the enemy of the people, the media. You talk about epic fails. Could you have a bigger fail than no kings? First of all, the mere concept. We won the House, the Senate, the presidency, the popular vote, a landslide. And the electoral college. 90% of the counties in this country voted. If you look at a map, it's all red except for a couple of certain areas. You Know where it's not Red university cities. Because that's where all the Marxists run the universities. All ought to be shut down. Just don't talk about their research money. Go in and say, hey, this is the way it's going to be. Get rid of all these professors. Get rid of all these professors. All the tenure. Screw it. You're out. You don't get a penny from us. No, not just research money, Any support money. They're all be going belly up in a moment. Play hardball. Because you got the university towns. You have the large urban areas filled with, wait for it, illegal aliens. And then you have some coastal communities with the elites, you know, La Jolla and Malibu and up in the Bay area, the Hamptons, right? You got the awfully, awfully crowd looking down their nose at the American people, mocking the American people, laughing at the American people. We ain't gonna be laughing for too long. Cause come November, was it fourth? You're gonna have Mandami in that crowd in New York. Marxist jihadist. Just like the French Revolution will be a year or two. But they'll get the guillotine out. It'll be out. Or you got to deal with the populist nationalists on the right. You ain't gonna like that either. But at least we're not gonna be stringing people up and shooting them like those guys are like their hero. Luigi.
Captain James Furnell
Man.
Steve Bannon
Was it Man. Man. Johnny Luigi Manjoni. Thank you. Luigi Mangione. It's a poster boy. Yes. Revolutionary change is coming. But we gotta shut down this. The. The. The no Kings was a joke. A bunch of old out of out of touch, ornery white liberals. The same obnoxious people you've been dealing with your entire life. The Karens. The Karens enforce. The Rachel Maddow crowd. Nicole Wallace. They bombed the other night. That thing in New York. They had short break. Back in a moment.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
Steve Bannon
The truth became a web of lies.
Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Steve Bannon
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
Steve Bannon
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Captain James Furnell
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
Steve Bannon
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Nefak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
Steve Bannon
What difference at this point does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up.
Leon Neyfak
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Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobi and so many more. Download the Getter app now. Sign up for free and be part of the new thing. There is so much going on, right? These are weeks in which decades happen. I think we got another one this week. A couple things. Number one, the no kings, which is obviously a joke. It's because. And maybe I can have later the cnn. CNN did a great spot on it. Let's go back to where you. Cause you're the point of contact. This audience is the point of contact in driving the agenda. Okay. One of the biggest things that you've worked on, another massive victory was in 21, in early 22. I don't know. We changed, I think the redistricting under the grass. I think it was eight seats overall, maybe a few more. Missouri, Tennessee. The big one was five in Florida. And that essentially let us keep the house or it made it so close to Keeping the House. That it was, it was necessary. If we didn't have that, it would have been quite ugly. The massive focus the grassroots has had in Texas to get the five. We should have gotten eight, but we got five. Spent a couple days down in Texas this past week talking to the folks that did that, the grassroots leaders. Of course, Abbott's running around trying to take credit for it now. He didn't do anything. In fact, he tried to stop it many times because the establishment, particularly these state capitals, don't want it. They do all their horse trading among the state, you know, legislatures and state senators, they cut all their deals with the Democrats. And part of the deal is we're not going to force redistricting. Yes, that is an ugly truth, ladies and gentlemen. Why do you think right now we have 21? I'm not talking about the gerrymandered in Louisiana coming out of the Supreme Court case. Not. That's another 10 to 15, maybe more. Okay. I'm talking about ones just with demographic shifts. Why is it always the war room posse or the war room or Alex DeGrasse and these people, they have to get up on it and force really the tip of a bayonet people to do this. Because in the state capitals they cut their deals, right? Their real estate deals, their company deals, their tax deals, all of it up there. And they. And part of the thing is we're not going to redistrict. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. How could it possibly be 21 seats on a gross amount? We have 21. And now CNN is working. If you combine that with the Supreme Court ruling, structurally, it's virtually impossible for them to take the House ever again. Think about that for a second. Are very tough, maybe a generation if we do our job. Okay, number one, makes the Senate kind of out of reach. If President Trump does what he knows needs to be done and we force a mid decade census and cut out the illegal aliens. Because everything with the Democratic Party is illegal aliens. That's why they let the 10 to 20 million in on Biden's watch. They knew they needed that because they can't do it with people called American citizens. Because American citizens are not going to vote for this crap and they know that. So in that massive shift and also understanding with the mid century, with the reallocation and the mid century census, the electoral college change, it makes it almost impossible, not impossible, but much, much harder for them to win the presidency. So actually in democracy, people, citizens going to the, you know, voting booth and voting, it's Getting grimmer and grimmer. And they know this, the money in back of these guys, source of guys are smart. And Chinese Communist Party, it's smart. So they understand the wake up call they get. Well, first off, that's why they stole it in 2020, they were shocked by Trump. In 16. We snuck up on them because they thought they had us, right? And they didn't. Did all the Russian, the treason around, the Russian hoax and all that was to try to, you know, get Trump impeached, thrown out of office or just destroy his presidency. Then in 2020, they stole the election. Yes, they did. You know they did. We would have never won. What, 14, 14. We took back 14 House seats and the guy loses. Doesn't work like that. Sorry. Then in 2024, the sweeping victory, kind of out of nowhere, the sweeping victory, particularly with low propensity, low information voters, people just not into politics, rallied to the cause. Then the coalition of, you know, the parental rights movement with Make America Healthy Again, combined with the populist nationalist MAGA movement, combined, that's a big combo platter. So knowing how desperate they are, they are now going to, you know, beyond democratic means. It's all about violence and intimidation. They're going to take to the streets. We have seven, first of all, they didn't have seven million. Also, who cares? It was the old age home let out. It was like walkers, right? They got walkers. These people have no punch. So who cares if they're in the streets? Go on the streets. Go on the streets next weekend. Get them up every weekend. Get their exercise, get thoseget their walking shoes on, right? And take all the drugs on msnbc. MSNBC is a great piece in the Free Beacon. Absolute complete implosion of viewers, particularly young people. Implosion. They had this thing the other night in New York City, a bomb. They bring out Martin Sheen. Oh, because West Wing is up. They all, you know, oh, gosh, it was so amazing. He was a constitutional law professor. He talked about so many root causes and they solved so many problems. It's all crap. Who cares, right? They have no punch. And now they know they have no punch. They're getting spun off, dis and dismissed. They're going to get more and more violent. The violence of Luigi Mangione and also what's coming with, with Maam Doni Sadiq Khan right now you got Peter McElveeny and all my, all my brothers and sisters over in London sending me this. They now got the groomers. They said for years, no, they don't do Grooming of these young girls and these mass rapes by these South Asians. Read Pakistan Muslim. Pakistani Muslims. They don't do these mass. They don't do these rapes of, you know, the granddaughters and great granddaughters of the heroes of World War II. No, they don't do that in London. It doesn't happen. But guess what? It does happen in London. And Sadiq Khan, you heard that name before. New York City is going to be worse than London within 10 years. And now you got Katz and Metidis. Everybody's up there. Gosh, we got to get. We got to get Sliwa out of the race. After supporting the entire time. Yeah, we got to get down to one candidate. Wow, Interesting. That's fascinating. Who thought. Who thunk of that? That's amazing. They haven't taken the Working Families Party and the DSA seriously. These are serious organizations. You may not like what they stand for, you may hate what they stand for, but they got stroke how they got stroke the same way. The precinct strategy, Turning Point usa, the War Room Posse, all of it. It's called going door to door and knocking on doors and engaging people. They don't care how much money you throw up against them. Cuomo. And the ads. The ads aren't. Nobody watches the ads anymore. It's white noise. So as they increasingly get removed from the ability to win because the common sense, the American people go, no, these people are Marxists. These people are jihadists. They stand against everything the United States of America has ever stood for, and we're not going to do it. And for all my conservative colleagues, you know, all these guys in bowties, and they're going, he's a socialist. Going to be so great when he wins, because then he's going to run out of other people's money. Yo, read, read. The Russian Revolution when the Bolsheviks take over. The Bolsheviks had 10, 9%. I mean, they never had. They were. They were a joke, except they were a killer elite. They bound together like Mandami and like these. Look at important. Look in Chicago. Antifa. These people are serious. They're serious revolutionaries and they have to be done away with. What do I mean by that? They got to be swept up, put in federal lockup, taken to trial immediately, and then either send them to prison or get them out of the country because most of them are not here legally or they're on some visas got to be stripped away and get them the hell out of the country. It's not time to be apologetic for this. Joe Scarborough as a Libertarian and a constitutional conservative and limited government conservative. I tell my friends, what about if your son with their sons and daughters ain't going to get rolled up because they're United States citizens? Unless they're up in some ICE agents grill. And yes, the ICE agents should be fully covered and the troops should be covered. We're not going to let you sit there and intimidate them by doxing their families, intimidating families like happened on the Border Patrol. It happened in ICE agents. It's bad enough. Look, they just, they got indictments on Antifa down in Texas. Texas, folks, not just a swing state. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamists are coming for Texas. Hard, hard, hard. Because they understand in Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement. As goes Texas, so goes the nation. They think they see a soft underbelly here. They think they see a people that are prepared to allow political correctness and people to shame them into silence. Not going to happen. Our country comes first. And American citizens come first, not the invaders. I said this at this speech down at Pinehurst in November 2023, projecting out after Trump's victory, I said he's going to win after his victories, 100 to 200 days after he gets everything else sorted, they will start to have the massive budget cuts. They're going to have to. Have to try to get the spending under control, to get our debt problem under control. And, oh, by the way, then they're going to start the. Wait for it, mass deportations. The convergence of those two things is going to drive the left nuts because they understand, game over. Game over. If you take away the dole and you take away everything you're paying for illegal aliens on the medical, healthcare side, all of it, Snap, all of it, and you start mass deportations, they're finished. Everything they're fighting us for now is on illegal aliens. This is what the government shutdown's about. This is what the fight about, the ICE agents is about. This is what the. They're fighting the, the shift in the House and the Senate. The, the. What they're doing in these gerrymandered districts at the Supreme Court, why they're fighting a census. It all comes back to the fact that they can never have a majority vote of the American people. Why? Oh, let me think for a second. Why? Let me, Let me.
Progressive Commentator or Activist
Hang on.
Steve Bannon
Oh, I got it. They're Marxist jihadists and we're not going to stand for it. It's not just Trump they hate, and they hate him to the marrow of their bones because the guy that saved this nation. They hate all of you. More importantly, they hate what you stand for. So there's no middle ground here. There's nothing to debate. There's no argument. Let's go have a debate. Screw your debate. We're going to send you out of this country or send you to prison. Take your pick. Short break.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Steve Bannon
Benghazi? The truth became a web of lies.
Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Steve Bannon
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
Steve Bannon
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Captain James Furnell
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
Steve Bannon
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
Steve Bannon
What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
Leon Neyfak
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Jared Kushner or Close Advisor
Our relationships were direct with the leaders of these three countries, and we were hearing that Hamas was positive on the deal. And yet I was reading intelligence reports every day and getting briefings from the CIA three times a day. And those intelligence briefings were suggesting that Hamas was going to say no. And so Jared and I had to make a decision as to where we thought this was going. And both of us, you know, we didn't need to convince one another. We really felt that this was going in a positive way. And sure enough, Hamas came out and said, you know, we accept the president's plan. And that allowed us to get into the next gear.
Diplomat or Negotiator
And one thing that also caused confusion after that was they put in some language that was really very face saving for them in order to do. And one thing I would tell everyone is in the Middle east, you just have to ignore all of the public statements that everyone puts out because they're all just talking to their political bases. But the message they were telling us was that they were on board with releasing the hostages. They wanted to end the war. They wanted to negotiate on some of the different variables in the agreement. But on the little stuff and not the big stuff, what Steve and I said to the mediators is let's go to Sharm El Sheikh, we'll do the negotiation, but we would prefer that they pre agree to as many things as possible. We don't have to start the negotiations when we get there. There are certain issues that could be adjudicated now, and if they're not going to agree to those issues, then let's not bother with the trip. So we tried to diffuse some of the more complex issues before they came to charm El Sheikh in order to give us a higher probability of success and a more efficient negotiation when we got there.
Steve Bannon
Did you have the authority to make the deal, to make these compromises? What kind of authority did you get from. I got it. I can't take Lesley Stahl. Thanks. Trump warned Zelensky in meeting that Russia could destroy Ukraine. This thing on Friday. President Trump just told him, hey, you're living in a fantasy. They came over here saying, oh, we gotand they were telling everybody we got the Tomahawks. They even said afterwards in their own interviews, we thought we had the Tomahawks. That's why it got ugly in the meeting. President Trump had to read in the riot act. And they raised their voices. Yes, they did. Zelensky raised his voice in the Cabinet Room. I don't know, man. Don't know why we keep inviting him back. He's a protectorate, by the way. Just like that interview last night on 60 Minutes. Tel Aviv, Levin, all the Israel first crowd. You see the destruction you have brought Israel to You, you, you, the Israel first crowd in the United States of America protecting, protecting Netanyahu. He's brought his country to the edge of destruction. And also this goes back to. So first off, people ask me why Jared Kushner and Wyckoff because the President trusts Kushner and Wyckoff to deal with him straight and to be objective in this. And they're both Jewish, right? And Jared's observant. He's one of the most religious Jewish guys I've ever met. Very dedicated to his religion, very dedicated to the Jewish faith. Those two guys. President Trump will use instruments. Those two guys are instruments for him to negotiate directly. As I said on the show, Marco was sent over there. And the reason Marco is not in the room, not in the deal, where it's important is. And he's not on 60 Minutes. Last night, when Netanyahu fired on Qatar, and I'm Qatar's biggest critic because of the Muslim Brotherhood, but when they fired on Qatar and tried to kill the Hamas negotiating team, President Trump saw how the entire Iran situation was about killing the negotiating team that was supposed to meet with Witkoff on that Sunday. They went off on Thursday. He'd had enough of it. He sent marker over. What's the firstto send marker over to give it to him with both barrels. This is not acceptable. You're not going to do this. President Trump signed an executive order with an Article 5 protection. Think about that for a second. Article 5 protection for Qatar. Because of that, he sent Ruby over there. What's the next thing we see of Rubio? He's there with Huckabee and Netanyahu at the Wailing Wall with a yarmulke on, putting the note in and no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're there to send a message. The message is we've had a belly full of this and it's not going to happen anymore. You're not an ally, you're a protectorate, and you're going to act like a protector. If you don't like that, then go do it yourself. You want a Greater Israel project, we're not going to stop you, but we're not going to support it in this section. Last night, it bad enough what we played the 60 minutes lead on Thursday night and we played on Friday, but they buried the lead. What they said about the Central Intelligence Agency is what I've been saying on this show from the beginning, and it came from their mouths. Now, Witkoff has briefed three times a day by the CIA and they lie to him. This is not a. This is not some marginal mistake in intelligence. He sat right there. They lied to him three times a day. Hamas doesn't want to do the deal. Never going to do the deal. That's the Mossad Talking. That's Netanyahu talking. Ratcliffe should resign today. Or let's just have a congressional hearing right on national television. And let's just put it out there exactly about what you told these people in this negotiation. And let's go back to what you told the President of the United States about the beginning of the 12 Day War. Because that was a lie also as now we know by the Times of Israel putting out the cabinet minutes of the war cabinet of Netanyahu. They were two years away. Not two days, not two weeks. Two years of which he copped a half of that on Bret Baer on that same night. We said, yeah, six months, nine months. It's a year. Wasn't two days, wasn't two weeks. It was two years. Basically. There ain't no emergency. There was an emergency to kill the negotiators of which they did so that Wykoff couldn't have a meeting in Muscat, Oman on that Sunday. Why? Because the Mossad controls the CIA. Thank God for Tulsi Gabbard. They tried to run Tulsi Gabbard out of this city. You talk about courage. You talk about a profile in courage. It's Tulsi Gabbard and her team over there at dni. She testified to Congress. She went on and talked in the media. She was vilified. And this is Israel first crowd trying to run a patriot out of town because she's telling the truth to the Commander in Chief and Huckabee the clown ambassador who's an embarrassment, total embarrassment. What he's saying with his insanity. He ought to be recalled immediately and removed immediately. And my buddy Joel Pollock, I know people go crazy. I think Joe Pollock owe the ambassador because Joe Pollock's a decent good man and when he knows all the facts, he's not going to be like Huckabee. That'll be a little controversial. I got that. I'll put David Friedman back in there. At least they're going to deal with you straight and not misinterpret. Not misinterpret. Misinterpretation as bald faced lies. These are bald face lies. And we need regime change in Beijing and that's got to come from Lao Beijing. Look, I'm all for regime change in Tehran. I'm all for regime change in Beijing, but that's got to come from the people to overthrow them. You can't decapitate the Chinese Communist Party. I got Fional here in a moment. We're going to talk about that. You can't Decapitate the mullahs because then you're going to have a Civil War for 25 years. We're going to get drawn into it. The people have to overthrow these people. Now you can crank, you can crack down on them. So the west is not financing it or allowing it to be financed, as we are both in Beijing by Wall street and the corporatists in Silicon Valley or in Tehran by the Chinese Communist Party buying their oil, which I've said for, you know, years now, shut it down 100%. But Ratcliffe, it's. You got Jared and Wyckoff sitting there trying to negotiate a deal and the CIA is lying to them. They said the Qatar and the Turkey Turkish intelligence had the reality. Gosh, that brings me back to October 7th. There's a book out there right now, While Israel Slept by two of the. I guess the top technology and military entrepreneurs and writers and thinkers in Israel. You can't put it down. I recommend everybody get that. We're going to try to have those guys on if we can do it either late this week or next week. But what Jared said first, he said about Netanyahu, he and Witkoff about doing everything to try to stop Trump, told him, hey, it's over and stop intruding in peace. You're out of control. I think the quote was, you're out of control. And it's not going to happen. If you want to do it on your own, because remember, they sucked us in that war. If you want to do it on your own and you can do it on your own. I'm a believer in nationalism. Go do it. Go do it. Go do it today. Keep going. Greater Israel done. Hit it. Go boom. Go with God. Good luck. But you can't. You need us. You started something. You needed us from the beginning to defend with Aegis Cruisers and Patriot missiles and Thaad missiles. We were an active combatant supplying you from the beginning and you couldn't end it. And we had to do that, including the Tomahawk missiles that took out the surface parts of the enrichment program. And Zelenskyy took that. Oh, yeah. Well, hey, he gave. They used Tomahawks in Persia. Let's go. We're going to go. And they're all puffed up and talking. They got this and they. They're doing this and they're going to do that. They're going to do the other thing. They're going to do it all. Yeah, we're taking on Russia. We need to hit St. Petersburg, hit Moscow. Well, if we Bring America into a tactical nuclear world. That's, you know, too bad. No, President Trump set their minds right on Friday. It's not going to happen. Trump warned Zelensky in meeting that Russia could destroy Ukraine. They should take that as a papal bull when the guy that does not want to be your sponsor. But because of the elites in this country and because of all the bad decisions that the elites in this country made to allow 1.8 million Ukrainians to be dead or wounded in the battlefield to look like the Western front in World War I. Let me read the subtitles. Details emerge. A fractious encounter. Yeah. Voices were raised, they said. New York Times said it was a pointed discussion. Putin's talking points echoed. You got to throw that in there. FT is not going to be good. FT is not going to feel good. Let's get Putin's talking points. How about reality? Maybe reality was brought up and you guys don't like it. You don't like it. Financial Times of London. Do the get the deadbeat nations that you report from. France, Germany, the United Kingdom. Let's throw in Italy. Show me what you got. Here's what you got. Nothing. You came over here a couple weeks ago and I told you the time it was all to suck President Trump in. And all President Trump did was expose how phony they are. They're going to do this and they're going to do that. And Zelensky comes and they go over the embassy and they're having cognacs and cigars and they're talking about, yeah, the Americans are going to do all this. They got no money, they got no arms. They got no troops. And most importantly, they have no political will. You're about to lose. The Fifth Republic is about to fall under Macron. He can't even get a government in there in parliament for 30 days because they're dead cold broke and they're running at what, 6.5% of spending to GDP and they ain't the reserve currency. Okay? Germany's all wrapped around the axle. They're saying, well, we sent, we sent a brigade up to Lithuania. Isn't that enough? No, it's not enough. You're going to talk big and buy the Russian gas. You're going to talk big, then send some troops, send some money, send some arms in the UK Starmer, give me a break. You're dead cold broke if you're sending troops anywhere in the uk you ought to send them to these towns where they're raping these girls. Send them there, clean up your own mess before you start getting us into some mess over in the bloodlines. We're not going to go. And Trump couldn't be more blunt. It's not going to happen. It's time for you to be thinking about laying down your weapons. Call it a peace treaty, a ceasefire, or surrender, we don't care. But we're not going to put any more money in it. There's no blood on our hands because we've been against it from day one. The blood is on the hands of Boris Johnson, the Financial Times of London, the economist, the Guardian, BBC, all the Tories and Labor that voted for it. McCrone, Maloney. Phony Maloney. Oh, she's going to come out now with another, you know, family. I'm all for the family. Hey, don't, don't. You ain't going to pivot away from the mess you've made in Ukraine. Ukraine. Radcliffe should either resign, come to Congress and tell us the truth, or resign today.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes or just asked, why.
Captain James Furnell
Benghazi?
Steve Bannon
The truth became a web of lies.
Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Steve Bannon
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
Steve Bannon
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Captain James Furnell
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
Steve Bannon
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This Is Fiasco Benghazi?
Steve Bannon
What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
Leon Neyfak
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Steve Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band captain James Fernell. We're going to pivot. We're going to talk about. Because the Australian ambassador is coming at 11, we're going to try to cover some of it. I don't know if we're going to get to all of it. He's here just to give you the signal, not the noise. He's here for one reason. Heavy rare earth. Australia has some, Brazil has some. This is why they're playing footsie with Lula right now. We got a problem and XI is trying to drop the hammer on us. And that's why they can never. They're not peer competitors. They can never be an ally. We can't cooperate, work together. It's not going to work. It doesn't work like that. The world does not work like that. This is a murderous dictatorship. Murderous. That's killed 250 million of their own people and brag about it. 450 million forced abortions. Forced abortions. 80% of that little Chinese girls. They're a murderous dictatorship. Worse than the Nazis, worse than the Bolsheviks, worse than the Soviets, worse than Mussolini, worse than Imperial Japan, worse than Pol Pot. Add them all up. All of them. Add them all up. And that's what you got in Beijing, destroying the Chinese people. You got Wall street making money with them. You got corporatists in America making money with them. You got the universities making money with them. You got Silicon Valley working with them, making money. All of the elites in the country.
Jared Kushner or Close Advisor
And the elite institutions.
Steve Bannon
This is why the elites. This is the rot at the bottom. Every law firm's got offices over there. Every investment bank, every commercial bank, every accounting firm. McKinsey don't sit there all high and mighty. That MAGA's a bunch of we're brown shirts. Proto fascists in the streets. You are in business principally with some of the biggest murderers in the history of mankind. And you know it. And the blood is on your hands. So don't sit there and give me happy talk. Are you shocked, Fennell, that you were a career intelligence officer in the history of the 21st century? One of the greatest. Are you shocked that the CIA would brief Wyckoff and Jared three times a day and not just be wrong, but try to mislead them, Sir?
Captain James Furnell
No, Steve, I'm not shocked at all. As I said to you in the break, I think, you know, we saw this. I personally witnessed the CIA get assessments of analysis of the People's Republic of China wrong for 35 years. So they have, you know, I'm not going to say it was purposeful, but they have a blind side on where they cannot see things that go against the established narrative. And once it gets established, they will promote it. They will cherry pick. They will take information and skew it and twist it and turn it to fit their narrative and fit their assessment. And so I'm not surprised. I'm disappointed, but I'm not surprised.
Steve Bannon
In 30. Come on, man. In 35 years, when you're dead wrong on everything about the Chinese Communist Party, it's got to be something deeper. It's got to be something deeper than that, isn't it, sir? It just can't be technical problems or they miss something. They're always wrong. I used to get the brief. They're always wrong. They kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party and they're like the information agency for the Chinese government. They always put the best. They always put the best face on things and they always lead you to a thing, either a peer, competitor or we got to work together for world peace. Right? So it can't be wrong for 35 years. It has to be something deeper than that, does it not, sir?
Captain James Furnell
Yes, it is, Steve. And in the book Over My Shoulder that Brett Thayer and I wrote last year, embracing Communist China, America's greatest strategic failure, we talk about the reasons. And it's more than just happenstance or mistakes. It's ideological. They have a different ideological worldview. They believed, they deeply believed in engagement. That engagement would make China become more like us. And when the evidence started coming in that it wouldn't make them more like us and we became more like China, they continued to deny that existence. And so we're living now with the results of, you know, people that have been driven ideologically or been driven by the profit motive. Some people made their careers speaking in China and getting access to leadership in China and bringing back messages from China to the, you know, to the American system. So it's a little bit of ideology, it's a little bit of greed. And then you have to give the Chinese Communist Party credit. Guys like, you know, Deng Xiaoping were very serious people that understood what they were doing and how they could try to infiltrate and break us down ideologically, economically and militarily. And that's where we're at today.
Steve Bannon
Speaking of Captain Fennell, because he's one of the best, is the only person. Maria Bartiroma's interview with the President was incredibly important, but everyone missed the buried lead except Captain James Funnell. Captain Furnell, what was the buried lead? And we're going to play it this afternoon where I've got time, because I don't have time this morning. What is the buried lead? The message to Beijing that President Trump sent with both barrels on Maria Bartiromo yesterday, sir.
Captain James Furnell
Yes, Steve. Yesterday in the interview between the President and Maria Bartiromo, they talked about a number of issues, but the economic trade war between the United States and China was one of the critical ones. And the President talked about his views of these things. But at the, towards the end of that string, in that segment of the interview, he said Richard Nixon allowed this to happen to open up China. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? You tell me. And then later on he said that Nixon unleashed a very strong adversary. And so a lot of people in the China hands community will probably pick that up and say, oh, he's criticizing Nixon. I thought he was a Nixon supporter, all of that. But the message is really to Xi and the Chinese Communist Party that's having their fourth plenum today started today in China for their party Congress. The Central Committee is meeting, and it was a message to Xi and the party to say, listen, you guys have always put Richard Nixon and Kissinger on a pedestal for opening up China. And I am the first President of the United States to say that's not a good thing. And it's unleashed holy hell on America. That's a wake up call for me.
Steve Bannon
Hang on for one second. We're getting to the fourth plenum. We've got Eva and Forrest and Rory from the new federal state of China. Captain James Fenell's with us. We're going to be very honored to have a very special guest when we get back to go through, through one of the most important fundamental movements that is happening in the United States. A great awakening, not simply politically, but spiritually. That will be the. The countervailing power against the elites as they sell out the United States of America to the Chinese Communist Party. Because guess what? They're Marxists, too. You see in the streets, you see the subversion going on in the classroom, you see in the university, you see it in the media, you see it in the streets. How are these kids formed, the teachers unions, all of it stacked against the American people in the United States of America. We're not going to stand for it. We're not going to tolerate it. We're going to get rid of it. All of it. Not some of it. All of it. Short break. Back in a moment. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing. You are listening to me. Which, let's be honest, is kind of funny, flattering. But my point Is, ads on iHeartRadio actually get heard in the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy. That's right, dude.
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Episode #4863 | Date: October 20, 2025
This episode of The War Room, hosted by Steve Bannon, delves into the fallout from recent protests, escalated political divisions in the United States, and ongoing international crises involving Ukraine, Israel, Hamas, and China. The discussion features guest contributions from conservative, progressive, and diplomatic commentators, as well as Captain James Furnell, offering their insights on national security, foreign interference, America’s political climate, the alleged failures of U.S. intelligence, and the implications of elite influence on both domestic and foreign policy.
The tone is combative, urgent, and unapologetically populist, often invoking language of existential threat against American values.
Discussions of recent protest events in New York and other urban areas, including reports and concerns over alleged abductions by plainclothes officers.
"It's frightening to libertarians, it's frightening to independents...to actually have people in no uniforms and unmarked cars grab people off the street and throw them into unmarked vans...It is really insane at this point in 2025..."
— [00:35]
Bannon’s reaction to protests:
Dismisses legitimacy and scope of anti-Trump demonstrations, attributing organization to George Soros and other “radical left lunatics.”
"The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country."
— [02:17]
Insists the MAGA base is not intimidated and accuses mainstream media of misrepresenting scale and character of opposition.
Progressive perspective on protests:
"I marched down 7th Avenue...with my two children...There was, to me...no safer place in the city because it felt like my children were surrounded by people who believe...in their right to be, to exist, to be free, to have their voices heard."
— [02:58]
Behind-the-scenes of Middle East negotiations:
Discussion with Jared Kushner (or close advisor) and a diplomat about U.S.-Hamas deal-making over hostages and war-ending initiatives.
Powers describe conflicting information from intelligence reports and on-the-ground signals:
"I was reading intelligence reports every day and getting briefings from the CIA three times a day. And those briefings were suggesting that Hamas was going to say no...Sure enough, Hamas came out and said...we accept the president's plan."
— [05:17 / 31:33]
Emphasis on diplomatic strategy: pre-negotiation agreements to increase efficiency and likelihood of success.
"In the Middle East, you just have to ignore all of the public statements...they're all just talking to their political bases. But the message they were telling us was that they were on board with releasing the hostages..."
— [05:56 / 32:13]
Bannon questions authority and the presidential mandate:
"Did you have the authority to make the deal...? President Trump's mandate: don't make a bad deal."
— [06:57]
Accusations against U.S. intelligence and the Israel lobby:
Bannon accuses the CIA and Mossad of misleading U.S. negotiators, blames elite interests, and calls for accountability:
"They lied to him three times a day... That's the Mossad talking. That's Netanyahu talking. Ratcliffe should resign today..."
— [33:14]
Argues that foreign policy is compromised by “the Israel first crowd” and a subverted intelligence community:
"The Mossad controls the CIA...Thank God for Tulsi Gabbard. ... This is Israel first crowd trying to run a patriot out of town..."
— [33:14]
Bannon highlights ongoing strategies to identify, arrest, and deport millions of undocumented immigrants, advocating for active ICE raids in “sanctuary” and “insurrectionist” cities:
"They should start arresting, they should start doing mass arrest of government officials that are stopping this...and, oh, let's throw in the enemy of the people: the media."
— [08:48]
He underscores the cornering of Democratic power via demographic change, redistricting, and electoral strategy:
"Structurally, it's virtually impossible for them to take the House ever again...if President Trump does what he knows needs to be done and we force a mid-decade census and cut out the illegal aliens...Democratic Party is illegal aliens. That's why they let the 10 to 20 million in on Biden's watch. They knew they needed that because they can't do it with people called American citizens."
— [17:56]
Bannon raises alarms about U.S. vulnerability, specifically referencing a (purported) cyberattack affecting Amazon World Systems:
"It shows you the vulnerability of the United States of America to a cyber attack... I hope someone's listening..."
— [08:48]
Connects this to broader Chinese strategy of “unrestricted warfare” and subversion:
"They understand they can't beat the foreign devils militarily...so they went to other means: subversion."
— [08:48]
Bannon and Captain James Furnell discuss deep-seated faults in the U.S. elite’s engagement with China:
"This is a murderous dictatorship...worse than the Nazis, worse than the Bolsheviks... Worse than Imperial Japan, worse than Pol Pot. Add them all up...that’s what you got in Beijing."
— [47:34]
Critique of intelligence/strategic community:
“Are you shocked, Fennell...that the CIA would brief Wyckoff and Jared three times a day and...try to mislead them?”
— [49:12] “They have a blind side...They cannot see things that go against the established narrative. And once it gets established, they will promote it...They will cherry pick, skew it, twist it, and turn it to fit their narrative and fit their assessment."
— Captain James Furnell [50:02]
Furnell points to ideological and financial rot:
"It's a little bit of ideology, it's a little bit of greed. And then you have to give the Chinese Communist Party credit..."
— [51:21]
Trump’s new stance on U.S.-China policy:
“He [Trump] said Richard Nixon allowed this to happen to open up China. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?... I am the first President of the United States to say that's not a good thing. And it's unleashed holy hell on America. That's a wake up call for me."
— Captain James Furnell [53:05]
On abductions and fear across the spectrum:
"We must understand this is not an 80-20 issue. Like this scares the hell out of people in all political parties. Maybe not in the most intense like MAGA base, but it should. And so, yeah, this is not good."
— Conservative Commentator [00:35]
On political polarization:
"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. Bannon."
— Steve Bannon [07:57]
On the opposition’s strategy:
"The right is very good at making people have their conversation...the epidemic quality of courage...people I think are ready."
— Progressive Activist [02:58]
On elite complicity:
"McKinsey, don't sit there all high and mighty. That MAGA's a bunch of—we're brown shirts, proto-fascists in the streets. You are in business principally with some of the biggest murderers in the history of mankind. And you know it. And the blood is on your hands."
— Steve Bannon [49:12]
On U.S. intelligence failures:
"They have a blind side...and once it gets established, they will promote it...It's more than just happenstance or mistakes. It's ideological."
— Captain James Furnell [50:02, 51:21]
On the transformation of American political dynamics:
“Structurally, it's virtually impossible for them to take the House ever again... If President Trump does what he knows needs to be done and we force a mid-decade census and cut out the illegal aliens.”
— Steve Bannon [17:56]
This episode is a stark, unfiltered exposition of post-2024 MAGA populism amid intensifying domestic and global crises, blending commentary, firsthand accounts, insider perspectives, and sharp polemics—all with a singular focus: rallying listeners to what Bannon frames as America’s last stand against subversion, decline, and foreign capture. It is recommended listening for those wanting to understand the current right-wing populist narrative, its grievances, strategies, and worldview in 2025 America.