THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025 (EP.#4815)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025 (EP.#4815)

Date: September 30, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon (Real America’s Voice)
Featured Guests: Donald Trump (speech at Quantico), Senator Tommy Tuberville
Main Theme:
This episode centers on President Donald Trump addressing U.S. military flag officers at Quantico, emphasizing a revitalized, non-woke military, securing American borders, and the "America First" doctrine. Steve Bannon and Senator Tuberville reflect on Trump’s remarks and discuss military priorities, national defense strategy, criticisms of past leadership, funding for Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel, and the looming government shutdown.

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Episode Overview

The episode features an extensive speech by President Donald Trump at Quantico, where he praises the U.S. military’s resurgence, stresses the end of "woke" policies, details border security actions, and underscores America’s restored global strength under his leadership. This is followed by analysis and commentary from host Steve Bannon and Senator Tommy Tuberville, focusing on military readiness, strategic global threats, spending priorities, and critiques of both political opposition and the previous administration.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. President Trump's Speech at Quantico (02:35–40:54)

A. Military Accomplishments and Pride

• Trump celebrates U.S. military operations, notably mentioning a precision bombing ("obliteration" mission) and honoring Air Force B2 pilots and their support crews.
  • "They flew for 37 hours total back and forth... not stops, no nothing. We had 52 tankers loading them up. And that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much." (03:08–03:59)
• Announces pay raises: "We'll deliver a hard-earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier, sailor, airman, coast guardsman, space guardsman and Marines. Something you weren't getting from the past administration." (04:29)

B. America First & Critique of 'Wokeism'

• Positioning: "Very simply, we are putting America first. And I have since I've been elected, I've always put America first." (04:53)
• Military and Media Critique: Trump claims media spreads lies about him and the military: "We had 25 affidavits... But these sleazebags... it's why the press is really losing all power." (06:00)
• Border Security: Trump frames illegal immigration as an "invasion from within," tying crime surges to the Biden administration’s policies and describing mass deportations and the use of National Guard for urban crime.
  • "Washington D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period of a month." (10:21)

C. Internal Security and Crime

• Military for Domestic Order: Trump highlights historical and current use of the military to enforce domestic order, proposing military training in urban crime environments and targeting specific cities (e.g., Chicago, Portland) for intervention.
  • "This is going to be a major part for some in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within." (11:00)
  • "I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay?... They spit, we hit." (15:02)

D. Combating Drug Cartels and Fentanyl

• Trump touts border drug interdictions, classifies cartels as terrorist organizations, and claims dramatic reduction in drug-carrying boats.
  • "Strength will do because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country. It's destroying. We lost 300,000 people died last year." (17:03)

E. Global Affairs and U.S. Leadership

• NATO Contributions:
  • "I went over and I met with NATO, and NATO raised from 2 to 5... Now trillions of dollars are pouring in." (24:54)
• Ukraine Conflict:
  • Criticizes U.S. spending in Ukraine, attributes persistent conflict to Putin's failures, and contrasts current approach to "peace through strength."
  • "I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with." (24:54)
• Security Alliances and Arms Sales:
  • More allies purchasing U.S. weapons, U.S. not directly funding the war.
  • "We’re selling equipment. Our people are buying equipment. They're buying. They are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price." (24:54)

F. Revitalization of Military Culture

• Trump heralds the end of "woke" and DEI policies and emphasizes moral, physical standards, and "warrior" ethos for leadership and rank-and-file.
  • "We have the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have great leadership... And I'll tell you, Pete and General Kaine... many... have been lifted up in rank, and we got many of them out of here." (34:07–34:33)
• Nuclear Deterrence:
  • "We never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country. Nobody close." (38:02)

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2. Steve Bannon and Senator Tuberville: Analysis & Reaction (41:34–59:38)

A. Ending 'Woke' Military and Restoring Discipline

• No more DEI, gender policies: "We're no longer a woke military... we've got a lot of leaders... that still believe in the Joe Biden, Kamala Harris nonsense." – Senator Tuberville (41:34)
• Physical requirements and standards: "Everybody's going to have the same physical requirements. You've got to put discipline back... you just can't turn into a slob, you know, just because you're even a three or four star general." (43:16)

B. National Defense Strategy: Hemispheric vs. Global Threats

• Critique of new defense posture: Bannon and Tuberville worry that downplaying China's global threat (in favor of hemispheric defense) is dangerous.
  • "China, China, China. You can talk about Russia all you want. Russia's economy is the size of California's. They can't function unless China helps them. But China is the problem." – Senator Tuberville (45:23)

C. Arms Packages and U.S. Priorities

• Support for Taiwan: Tuberville underscores importance of Taiwan's defense over more Ukraine/Israel funding, and criticizes slow arms deliveries to Taiwan.
• Opposition to Ukraine aid: "I have not voted for a dime to go to Ukraine... I'm going to go back to my original thought here. It's about China. It's about China. We cannot get our eye off the ball." (47:10)

D. Government Shutdown and Bloated Spending

• Discuss government shutdown prospects, emphasize need to reduce federal workforce and spending, advocate for combining agencies, and see the shutdown as a catalyst for reform.
  • "This would be a great opportunity if they did shut it down... Let's put energy with the EPA... The American taxpayers can't afford this nonsense." (53:24)
• Tuberville calls for the next budget showdown as the “big one.” (55:36)

E. Commentary on Senate, Media, and Political Divisions

• On Senate dysfunction: Tuberville reflects on frustration with both parties’ unwillingness to address fiscal challenges, blaming establishment politics and the Democratic agenda.
  • "There's no Democratic Party anymore. It's all a bunch of communists and socialists and they can't tell the truth." (58:31)
• Support for Trump: Tuberville credits Trump for restoring order and pushing back against entrenched political interests.

F. Notable Career Notes

• Local politics: Tuberville addresses speculation about sports commentator Paul Feinbaum running for Senate in Alabama, credits him as a "good guy" with 100% name recognition.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• "It was obliteration. It turned out the Atomic Energy Commission... said it was." – Donald Trump (02:35)
• "We won every swing state. We won the popular vote. We won everything... you have to take a look at the map. It's almost entirely red, except there's a little blue line on each coast. And I think that's going to disappear, too." – Donald Trump (05:22)
• "We need an honest press. We need borders. We need an honest press. We need fair elections... We don't have an honest press. We have a really corrupt press." – Donald Trump (06:20)
• "They spit, we hit. It's a new thing. They spit, we hit." – Donald Trump advocating for removing restrictions on military self-defense during civil disturbances (15:02)
• "We're no longer a woke military... it's about your players, it's not about your coaches. You've got to have good players, you've got to have good military people. They got to believe in purpose." – Senator Tuberville (41:34)
• "China is the problem. We got to get over all that and start understanding China has an economy that's not very good. But whatever it is, they're taking almost 90 cents out of every dollar and putting it towards their military." – Senator Tuberville (45:23)
• "We cannot get our eye off the ball. That's what Russia is doing. They're trying to get us to take our eye off the ball knowing that China is building up and we're not going to be able to stay up with them if we continue to flush money to Ukraine." – Senator Tuberville (47:10)
• "There's no Democratic Party anymore. It's all a bunch of communists and socialists and they can't tell the truth. They will look you in your face and they'll lie when the truth, they know the truth is better, Steve." – Senator Tuberville (58:31)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Trump’s Speech Context & Opening: 02:35–05:16
• Military Accomplishments & Pride: 03:08–04:29
• America First Policy: 04:53–06:20
• Border Security & Domestic Crime: 06:20–14:46
• Drug Cartels & Fentanyl Crisis: 15:28–17:03
• Global Affairs & NATO: 24:54–34:07
• Restoring Military Tradition & Nuclear Deterrence: 34:07–38:02
• Military Valor & Culture: 38:02–40:54
• Steve Bannon & Tuberville Analysis: 41:34–59:38
• Physical Standards Discussion: 43:16
• Defense Strategy & China: 45:23
• Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel Arms Debates: 47:10
• Government Shutdown/Agency Reform: 53:24–55:36
• Senate & Political Culture Commentary: 58:31

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Summary & Takeaways

• The episode marks a high-profile Trump speech celebrating military renewal, the return to "peace through strength," and an aggressive posture on border security and crime.
• Both Trump and subsequent guests frame the administration as the anti-"woke," pro-America force removing progressive policies from the military and government.
• Analysis zeroes in on reassessing national threats (China over Russia), fiscal conservatism, agency streamlining, and political opposition to ongoing Ukraine aid.
• The hosts and guests persistently stress military discipline, restored morale, and U.S. leadership—both militarily and economically—on the world stage.

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For listeners seeking a high-level yet granular look at American military and political priorities through the lens of the Trump/Bannon right, this is a quintessential deep dive—blunt, combative, and focused on themes of strength, sovereignty, and internal reform.

Transcript

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[Donald Trump]

They have some scammer reporter who started saying without any knowledge said he may not have hit the targets as well as they thought it may not been obliteration. He did hit the targets. You know I got to give us a little credit, right? It was obliteration. It turned out the Atomic Energy Commission.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Said it was watching President Trump address all the flag officers of the United States military at Quantico, the Marine base down there. We're going to cover this into its conclusion and then we will start the war room.

[Donald Trump]

But they had, I guess, a beam going right into these chutes. Every single one of those bombs went right down those chutes into a granite mountain. I think it's the last time they're going to build air chutes. They had these air chutes that were nice, beautiful. They were meant for us, but it was total obliteration. And now they give us credit for that. But these people were phenomenal. I tell you, for the Air Force people here, you can be very proud that B TO we just ordered a lot of new ones. New ones and updated ones. But I'd take the other ones. Let me tell you, they couldn't have worked any better. So they flew for 37 hours total back and forth. No stops, no Nothing. We had 52 tankers loading them up. And that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much. Flying a tanker loaded up with hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel. I don't know. If I do that job, I asked the question, what happens if it gets hit? Sir, you don't want to know about that, right? I don't want to know about that. But those guys, they just hear us. They're incredible.

I had them all to the Oval Office. We had the B2 pilots and a lot of the people, even the people.

That took care of them, the maintenance.

People, just as important, we had them all to the White House. Gave them a big party on the.

Lawn, brought some of them into the Oval Office.

But on top of all this, we'll deliver a hard earned pay raise of.

3.8% to every soldier, sailor, airman, coast guardsmen, space guardsmen and Marines. Something you weren't getting from the past administration. They did not treat you with respect.

They're Democrats. They never do. Not only are we rebuilding our great.

Strength, but for the first time in years, my administration is actually using that.

Strength to defend the core and vital interests of America. And very simply, we are putting America first.

And I have since I've been elected, I've always put America first. It's sort of simple, you know, when you think it's. My campaign was run on common sense and we did great. We got the highest numbers ever received in terms of districts.

You know, they have it broken up 2,500 versus 525.

We won every swing state.

We won the popular vote. We won everything. We won everything. You have to take a look at the map. It's almost entirely red, except there's a.

Little blue line on each coast.

And I think that's going to disappear, too.

We did really great. And part of it is because of our success with the military, the rebuilding.

Of the military, the vote that I got from the military. And they were the vicious people, you.

Know, that we have to fight just.

Like you have to fight vicious people.

Mine are different, a different kind of vicious. But they spread all these horrible.

You know, they made up statements and said what I said about everything, but even about the military.

But fortunately, the military didn't believe.

And it's hard, you know, they make up a statement and they said, you say it. We had 25 people that said. He never said that. 25. We had 25 affidavits. And they said, well, we're going with it anyway, you know, these sleazebags. And it's why the press is really losing all power, because people aren't believing it.

We need an honest press. We need borders. We need borders. We need an honest press. We need fair elections.

I mean, those three things.

And we don't have an honest press.

We have a really corrupt press. But we fight through the corrupt press.

And the people understand you have to.

Do this stuff a lot.

You have to go on television a lot because you can't get a fair shake if you're going to rely on somebody else.

It's.

They just.

They don't understand.

They've destroyed the image of media now.

Is at the lowest point it's ever been. It's lower than Congress. Can you believe that?

It's something. But together with many of you in the room, we've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the.

Military'S first and most important priority. That's what it is.

Only in recent decades did politicians somehow.

Come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya.

And Somalia while America is under invasion from within.

We're under invasion from within.

No different than a foreign enemy, but.

More difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.

These people don't have uniforms.

But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly.

After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries with your help, we're defending the borders of our country from now on, we're not going to let this happen. Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.

You know, we had 11,488 murders allowed.

Into our country by this guy who had no clue. He had no clue.

He shouldn't have been there in the.

First place, but he had no clue. The people that ran the office, the White House, were people that surrounded him.

Radical left lunatics that are brilliant people, but dumb as hell when it came.

To policy and common sense.

And they allowed people from all over the world.

From the Congo, they opened up prisons in the Congo. They came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked.

And from all over South America. Not just South America, you know.

You think South America? No, but from all over.

A lot came in from Venezuela. Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have trend one of the worst gangs ever. But we took care of them. We took good, strong care of them.

And I just want to thank the national guard in Washington D.C. it was. It's embarrassing to say this now. I can't say it because we solved.

It, but Washington D.C. was the most.

Unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America. And to a large extent, beyond. And beyond that, you go to Afghanistan.

They didn't have anything like that.

You go to countries that you would think there's problems.

They didn't have that. And now Washington D.C. after 12 days of serious, serious intensity, we took out 1700 career criminals. If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad.

Because they'll commit many crimes a day. But we took out 1700, and they took them out.

There was no doubt who the boss was. They did an unbelievable job.

Then they started even cleaning.

I said, I don't want them doing that, sir. They want to. They were cleaning it up. I drove through it two days ago.

It was beautiful.

People are walking down the street holding hands, man and wife coming from Iowa. They're not worried about being shot.

Washington D.C. is now a safe city.

In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew.

I haven't done that theory. I wouldn't do it.

And I felt totally safe.

And nobody's been attacked, nobody's been hurt. Washington D.C. went from our most unsafe.

City to just about our safest city in a period of a month. We had it under control in 12.

Days, but give us another 15, 16 days. It was.

It's.

It's perfect.

And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the Democrats.

Run most of the cities that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great shape, too, by the way. I want you to know that. But it seems that the ones that.

Are run by the radical left Democrats.

What they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places. And we're going to straighten them out one by one.

And this is going to be a.

Major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within.

Controlling the physical territory of our border.

Is essential to national security. We can't let these people in.

You know, we had no people enter in the last four months. Zero even. I can't believe that. You know, we had millions coming in, pouring in. 25 million all told.

And of those 25 million, many of.

Them should never be in our country.

They would take their worst people and.

Their people from prisons and jail and they put them in a caravan and they'd walk up.

CNN was interviewing one person.

Oh, why are you coming?

I want freedom. Good.

Were you in jail? Yes. For what? Murder.

He said, you're in for. You had to see this anchor, a.

Young woman, she's like, I couldn't believe. She'll probably lose her job, but. Because the left doesn't want to hear that. But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country.

But I want to salute every service.

Member who has helped us carry out this critical mission. It's really a very important mission.

And I told Pete we should use.

Some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.

National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon.

That's a big city with an incompetent governor.

Stupid governor.

Stupid. They threw him out of his family business. He was so stupid. I know the family.

He becomes governor, he's got money. Not money that he made, but he.

Ran for governor, he won, and now he criticizes us all the time. Last week they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot. The week before that, they had 5 people murdered, 28 people shot. Every weekend they lose 5, 6. If they lose 5, they're considering it a great week. They shouldn't lose any.

You shouldn't lose any.

This is civilization. And he's always up there saying, we're in very good shape. We don't need the military. No, they need the military desperately. How about Portland?

Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone.

And I get a call from the liberal governor, sir, please don't come in. We don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding. Sir, we have it under control. I said, you don't have it under.

Control, Governor, but I'll check it and.

I'll call you back. I called him back.

I said, you, you.

This place is nightmare, probably. It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.

It's brutal.

They go after our ice people who are great patriots and tough job, too, but they love it. They love it because they're cleaning up our country. And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle, they actually took over a big percentage of Seattle. Think of that. You remember that? That was a while ago. And I sent in the troops, and they were gone as soon as I sent them in. Oh, when we send in the troops, if you have a real leader that says you got to do what you have to do, I put that out the other day. You got to do what you got.

To do because we don't want our.

People hurt as they stand by. I was watching during Biden. They had troops standing up like this.

Brave, standing up at attention the way.

I should stand all the time.

And I'm like this.

And people are standing.

Their mouth is this far away from.

Their mouth, and they're spitting at them and they're screaming at them. And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything. So they just stand there and they get abused.

And a woman was this far away.

From his face, and she starts spitting in his face, and he's not allowed to do anything. If it's okay with you generals and admirals, I've taken that off. I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay?

I think so.

They spit. It's a new thing. They spit, we hit. How about the cars where the cars are coming out? They get brand new cars, border patrol, ice, beautiful, nice new cars. And they're driving along and have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car. So here's this beautiful brand new car. By the time it goes 100 yards, it's destroyed.

These guys have pretty good arms, some.

Of them, and they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car. It looks like it's a war zone. And I said, never let that happen again. From now on, if that ever happens. And I say it here. You get out of that car, and you can do whatever the hell you want to do because those people are. You know, you can die from that. As bricks go through the windows, you can die. They'd like it to. They'd like it to go through the window. But this was a couple of months ago. They just kept driving and bricks are hitting the car. And I said, why aren't they stopping? Because they were under orders from the past. Administration never stop. But that's different. With us, we stopped. And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem. It's very interesting. It's amazing. It's just like in Venezuela. You've seen the boats going. We can't find any more boats. They're carrying drugs. Massive. Every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they have. They had fentanyl mostly, and a lot of other drugs. And we take them out, and we've taken out four, so. And it's on air. Everybody gets to see it. Not that we like to do that, but every boat kills 25,000. On average, 20. Some people say more. You know, you see these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other drugs, too. And now we have a problem. General Kane says, sir, there are no boats out there, not even fishing boats. They don't want to go fishing.

I don't blame them.

There'll be no fishing today. But it's amazing what strength will do because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country. It's destroying. We lost 300,000 people died last year. Everybody knows, friends, many friends, probably that you lost a child or adults, too, but you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border. And we're making it very hard. Oh, and we haven't even started yet. Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for Quick Reaction Force that can help quell civil disturbances. And this is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control. Once you get involved, it'll. They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good. You saw it in Washington. We had gangs of trende araguas at 10, 12, 15 kids. And these military guys walk up to them and they treat them with disrespect. And they just got pounded. They just got pounded. The gang just pounded, then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country. Some are so dangerous, we don't want to even do that because we don't want to. Some of Stone Cold murders. We don't have the confidence. Even though they're not coming back very easily, we don't have the confidence. We put them in jails. But these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition, from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits in the Wild West. And our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies, foreign and domestic. You know that phrase very well. That's what the oath says. Foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all use the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace. Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace. Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military. And you know what the people say? The people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up, you know, they say, we love the military. You ever see where they interview the people on the street? I've never seen somebody say they don't. Unless they're radical and paid off.

Because a lot of these insurrectionists are.

Paid by, whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left. So today I want to thank every service member, from general to private, who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people.

It's amazing.

The whole world is watching. Everybody in the White House, they come up to me. Young women, sir. Thank you. I know immediately what they're thinking. They don't have to say it. They walk to work now to the White House. We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long because we got the careers. We call them the careers. We got these lunatics out, and they'll never be any good. You know, I hate to tell this to the liberal media. You could spend time with them. You could do whatever you want. You could send them to the finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway. Mentally, they couldn't get in. But no matter what you do, they'll never be good. They're bad. They're. They're career criminals. So, I don't know, maybe they were born that way. Some people don't like me to say that, but maybe they were. Certainly some were. Together with the leaders here today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating threats in the Western Hemisphere. Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our country, all because we had weak leadership on top. And we did a great job with it first term. But this is something else. What we're doing now, we're taking it to the next level. Probably next level times three. But we had Covid come up and we had to take care of that. We did a great job with COVID We had the therapeutics, just regeneron, so many things we did for Covid, but we had to focus on that. And every other country in the world was being decimated by Covid. So we had to change gear a little bit to take care of that. But under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge and combating this sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice. And we've done that. And we put them, a lot of them, we've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do. Nobody's done it, but I've done it with a lot of them. It gives you a tremendous advantage. If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence. Because that's the only language they really understand. That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean. You don't see any boats around Venezuela. There's nothing. As president, I will never hesitate to defend our people from threats of violence, from the horrible plague that's taking place from within. The Iran, nuclear power, the Iran, all of the great power that we thought existed, we blew it out to kingdom. We took advantage of it and we just really took advantage of it. And it was a beautiful thing to see. And that's what military power can achieve. That's why I chose raising Cain. He's fantastic, by the way. I hope you all agree. If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand? Who disappears at raising Cain is no good. Just raise your hand. I don't see any hands raised. All right, that means you're okay. That means that he's okay now. But I saw his results, you know, he. He took out isis. I was told it was going to take four years. It took four weeks. I went to see him and he took him out in four weeks. Knocked him out, knocked him to hell. And I was told by military people it was going to take four to five years to do it.

And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir. These were the Washington generals, I call them the television generals. But Raisin Cain did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS caliphate as a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength. We have great peace through strength. America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden, they looked at him falling downstairs. Every day. Every day the guy's falling downstairs. He said, it's not our president. We can't have it. I'm very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs, like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very. I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don't want that. You walk nice and easy. You're not having. You don't have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don't. Don't bop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs. I'd never say, da da da da da da ba ba. He'd go down the stairs, wouldn't hold on. I said, it's great. I don't want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president a year ago. We were a dead country.

We're dead.

This country was going to hell. We were dead in every way, from immigration to military. We didn't have the weapons. We'd given everything to. We were given everything to Ukraine. We had nothing. And by the way, I have to tell you now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO, and NATO raised from 2 to 5, which everyone said 5% of GDP, millions. And now trillions of dollars are pouring in. They didn't pay the 2% because they know we were there to pay it. And now they paid the 5%. That's trillions of dollars. And we're not spending any money on that war. Not 10 cents. We sell our equipment to NATO. NATO pays us for the equipment and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to. They can keep it, but we're not involved. We have no money going out. Biden gave $350 billion. Not sustainable. 350 billion. And we have a war that should have never started, but we're not doing that anymore. So I just want you to know, we're selling equipment. Our people are buying equipment. They're buying. They are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price. So I Don't want to say we're making money, because I don't want to say I don't want to be making money on a war. It's too many people dying. They're losing 7,000 soldiers a week. A lot of them are Russian soldiers, but between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way. Sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people. But mostly it's soldiers. Russia and Ukraine are losing 7,000 souls. And, you know, they're not. They're not American, they're not us. They're not you or have a special obligation, but they're soldiers. They're young people. They leave their parents, they wave goodbye, and then two days later, they're blown up so unnecessarily. And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done. We got to get it done. It's crazy what's going on. That's the worst war that there's been since World War II. The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy. From 5 to 7,000 soldiers die a week. Think of that. So I think we'll get that done. But that's turned out to be the toughest one. I'm so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with. He should have had that war done in a week. And I said to him, you know, you don't look good. You're four years fighting a war that should have taken a week. Are you a paper tiger? And it's a shame, but I think eventually we'll get that one done, just like we. In theory, I want to knock on wood, because you never know. It's like we're going to have the Middle east done, which is actually a much harder thing to do. I mean, thousands of years, but we have to get that war done. So now we're. Just think of it. We're a dead country. I was with the king of Saudi Arabia. Great guy. I was with the Emir of Qatar. I was with the great leadership of UAE. I was over there. We brought back $2 trillion and more. They ordered 200 planes. Boeings, they ordered so much. And they were great. But they all said essentially the same thing. They said, one year ago you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country in the world right now. The absolute hottest country in the world. We have. There's nobody even close. Putin said that to me. We met in Alaska, had a good meeting. Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev. I said, I thought we had a good meeting, but it's one of those things. But we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of that. You could be proud of that. And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a husband at home and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. You must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants that doesn't feel good. Well, now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it. They want it. And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice, you know, you want so many. And we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we don't need them at this moment. But think of it, what a difference that is from. I could just imagine two years ago, you're reading front page articles in the New York Times, of course, and Wall Street Journal. They always give us unfair stories, but they played it so big. They were playing it so big. Nobody wants to join the army, the Marines, the Air Force, they want it. They don't want to join. They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all. Nobody wants to join. Nobody wants to join our police forces. Our police forces also. It almost went hand in hand. And I used to say, boy, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want. But now you have a job that everybody wants. So I think that has to make you feel good. It's one of the reasons I love being here today, because I wanted to say that I have to say that everybody wants to be in the army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines. If you think the Coast Guard and Space Force, our beautiful Space Force, it's a whole different world. And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously big numbers for the police. Dangerous job, isn't it? Fire department, but that's the paving the way for progress. Once thought almost impossible. I mean, a year ago, you wouldn't have thought that was possible. A year ago, they were talking about making the military smaller because they can't get the people to join. We're thinking about making it larger because we have so many people. And it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit that aren't really qualified for any reason, a physical reason, a mental reason. You don't have to take them anymore because you have, you have the pick of the litter. And they all want to be with you. They all want your job, they want to be with you, they want to work with you. They'll even take your job. You know, got to be a little bit sharp, you got to watch it. But everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now. What a difference when I speak to you, and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get them. What a difference a presidential election can make. That's all it is. It's just a presidential election. Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza. We announced it and we're going to create something. That was my idea, but unfortunately I got drafted. It's going to be called the Board of Peace and it's going to reign over that territory and we're going to get that done. And they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace. I wasn't counting on that. I had the idea for the Board of Peace, but I said yes. And I guess because of that, every leader, everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace. And we're going to watch over that.

Very volatile part of the world and.

Keep it non volatile so you don't have to get involved. We want to save you for other things or save you for nothing. From that standpoint. We don't want you fighting wars, but if you have to, you're going to be. You're the most lethal fighting force in the world. And I would say that even two, three years ago. But now I say it with great enthusiasm. So true. And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine. And as you know, we're also working hard to get the allies to share more of the burden of our defense. Much of that has really already taken place. But all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about.

Think of that.

That was unthinkable. It used to be 1% and we got it up to 2 in my last term and they did not like it. And now I got it to five. And I get along great with all of them. In fact, they call me the President of NATO. I said, I don't think so, but they're great. They're great people and they're spending a lot of. They're spending a lot of money and a lot of money that they should have been spending in the past. But I think Putin was a wake up call for them, really. We're now selling large quantities of American made weapons to NATO and we're getting really fair pricing. We're making a lot of money. It's my hope that from Europe to Asia to the Middle east, our allies will make similar commitments to increase their military capabilities. And this will greatly strengthen our alliances. And also it will make war far less likely. You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong presence like we are. We are such a strong presence now. And I go around bragging about that. I said we have the strongest military.

Anywhere in the world.

I say it. You never heard Biden say that. You never heard him say anything, but you never heard him say. Did you ever hear him say we have the strongest military? He doesn't say that. I say it. We have the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have great leadership. And I'll tell you, Pete and General Kaine and all of the people that I've met that have been lifted up in rank, and we got many of.

Them out of here, too.

I'll be honest with you, didn't like doing it, but we got many of you out of here because we weren't satisfied. We know everything about everybody. It will also help the United States rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base. Each of you can play an important part in getting allies to do their part. So to that end, Secretary Hegseth will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales. We have tremendous numbers of countries that want to buy our equipment. And, you know, many cases it takes too long. Their backlog were backlogged on all the equipment, which is something that's new to us a little bit. And I told those companies, you better get your ass going because we're, you know, we're buying, we're selling you a lot of equipment. We're getting countries to buy your equipment. You got to produce the equipment. Some of the countries, I'm not going to mention, but some of the countries are buying a lot, and that's a good thing. They're on our side, 95%. I'll never say 100% because it can always turn right, you know, about that. But they're on our side. The problem is we have to get the companies that make this equipment and we make the Best equipment in the world. But they got to make it faster. We have orders for the F35. We have orders for everything. The new F47, we have orders for everything. They got to make it faster. A lot faster. Ammunition. They have to make faster. In the coming months, we'll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War. I love the name. I think it's so great. I think it stops wars. The Department of War is going to stop wars. If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future. We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very smart, but they can't match us. They can't match us. They don't even come close to matching us. Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we have the greatest military in the world, but we make the best equipment in the world. I watched our anti missile missiles. I watched our patriots just knock things out like a needle hitting another needle on the stage. There's a needle up there and you send another needle up and it hits it every time. During the war, we went 14 for 14. We had 14. This is where the ran. We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out of the sky, every one of them. We make the best equipment. From Sparta to Rome to the British Empire to the United States of America, history has shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter of money or manpower. At the end of the day, it is the culture spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from any other nation. Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people and those brilliant people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth. And that's what we are. Remember, we never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country.

Nobody close.

The men and women in this room inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant and Pershing, Eisenhower and Patton, Nimitz and lemay, we carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of warriors to the next. You are warriors. You know that, right? You're great warriors or you wouldn't be in this room. You're the best of the best. From Concord Bridge to Fort McHenry, from Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of Baghdad. America's military has charged into hellfire, climbed up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans, and thundered across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom, and our homeland. Nobody does it like you. Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American might, and beginning the next story chapter in America. American military legends and lore. That's L O R e. It is lore when it comes to defending our way of life. Nothing will slow us. No enemy will stop us. They cannot stop us. And no adversary will stand in our way. They won't stand in our way. We don't want them to stand in our way. We don't want to even put them in that position. But they're not going to stand in our way ever again. You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there. Because we are the United States military. The best, the boldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known. With leaders like we have right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom in every generation to come. Because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win. I want to just thank you once again and God bless the United States military and God bless America. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Thank you.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Okay, President of the United States. That's not our feed. So obviously they always cut the music much quicker than we do here in real America's voice. President, United States. Historic event today at Quantico. Every flag officer in the United States military in attendance and the President. First the Secretary of War, then the President of the United States. And the President went over an hour. We have Senator Tafer. We're going to do a cold open in a moment. Let's go to. Let's go to Senator Tuberville. Senator Tuberville, you've been very involved with the military since you came to the United States Senate. Give me your assessment of what you heard this morning.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Well, I just heard a very, very small part of. Steve, We've been in some classified hearings about a few things in the military. But at the end of the day, I really like what Pete said. Our Secretary of War. We are no longer a woke military. And he said that to the leaders. We've got a lot of leaders in this military that still believe in the Joe Biden, Kamala Harris nonsense. And we need to get that straightened out because so it's about like a football team. It's about your players, it's not about your coaches. You got to have good players, you got to have good military people. They got to believe in purpose. They got to believe in our country, America first. And I think he put his foot down. I know he's been trying to do that across all of our military, but at the end of the day, had all the leaders there and I didn't get to hear much of President Trump's speech, but I know we're in a scary world right now. A lot of fires are burning. President Trump's trying to put them out. Russia won't cooperate. Israel looks like we've got a chance there, but it better be about us. We've got to get our team going, we've got to get our military going. We got to put our foot down and we got to start training more and not worrying about all the things that go along with this WOKE establishment.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

One of the things that Pete, that Secretary war hit him with, him, not just the woke and Web and I were getting rid of dei, all this. No more guys walking around in dresses. That's all going away. But he also directly addressed them about basically coming across as warriors, not just in the way they carry themselves, but also their physical fitness. And he kind of left it out there that there may be, there, there may be some folks in that room and not making the traveling squad. Any thoughts on that?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Yeah, exactly right. I mean, you got to be in shape now. He's, he's breaking down to where everybody's going to have the same physical requirements. He's going to put discipline back into the area of, hey, you just can't turn into a slob, you know, just because you're even a three or four star general. You've got to go by the rules, the regulations. You've got to, we got to put together a military that's capable of fighting. Steve, just in the hearings I've been in the last few weeks, it's getting more and more volatile across this, across the world. Number one, we got to protect ourselves here at Homeland, but we also got to help help our allies to some degree. But number one is America first. And President Trump continues to say that. And we can't fight unless we're in good shape, good physical shape. And understand that the young men and women that come out of high school or college, you're here to represent the United States of America, but you have to be able to do the job and be able to pass all the physical requirements.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Let's talk about our strategy here. There's a bunch of articles today that talk about the national defense plan or the national defense policy, which is an annual. When we got to the White House in 17, we shifted from the war on terror to talk about great power struggle. Of course I pushed that. The Chinese Communist Party is the focus. They also put where they forced some of the neocons, forced the Russia situation in there too. That was fine. But there's now reports coming out that this new plan that you guys are going to take a look at, it's coming out of the White House has really focused on hemispheric defense, which we think is great, but at the same time has even downplayed the situation in China and look at China just as a potential pacific threat and not a global threat. Your thoughts on it? You've been as close to this as anybody, particularly about defending the homeland. But are you concerned that maybe we're de emphasizing the Chinese Communist Party too much?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Dave, at the end of the day, you're exactly right. China, China, China. You can talk about Russia all you want. Russia's economy is the size of California's. They can't, they can't function. Russia can't function unless China helps them. And that's the reason President Trump's going after NATO saying, listen, quit buying Russian oil. You're funding the Ukraine war. We're pumping money in and but so is Europeans, but they're pumping money to Russia because they're hard headed and trying to buy all this oil from Russia. But China is the problem. We got to get over all that and start understanding China has an economy that's not very good. But whatever it is, they're taking almost 90 cents out of every dollar and putting it towards their military. They are building for a war. They are building to take over the free world. This president has made himself president of lifetimes, Xi Ping, and he means business. And the only way he can stay in that power is continue to build that military and show that he's somebody that means business. So we can worry about Russia, we can worry about the Middle east, but at the end of the day, the people that can really do damage to us in a way that would be very harmful to the United States of America and the free world is China.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

You know, there's some rumors coming out of Capitol Hill that the arms packages for Ukraine are going through or at least being put together. There's another arms package for Israel, but there's a potential hangup on a arms package for Taiwan. Now I'm not asking you to disclose any confidential. But is, is that smart actually in the world we live in today? Isn't shouldn't the Taiwan arms package take priority over Israel or Ukraine?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Well, Taiwan has paid a lot of money to us for weapons. We have been slow go on delivering weapons to Taiwan. And that's happened ever since I've been here for the last four or five years. I don't know why that's happened, but that just, it was caused by the Biden administration. They just drugged their feet on it. I think President Trump is up that he understands the significance of what would happen if China went into Taiwan. But at the end of the day, I have not voted for a dime to go to Ukraine. And I know that Russia is trying to push the narrative here of flying these drones over Poland and some of these other countries. But again, I'm going to go back to my original thought here. It's about China. It's about China. We cannot get our eye off the ball. That's what Russia is doing. They're trying to get us to take our eye off the ball knowing that China is building up and we're not going to be able to stay up with them if we continue to flush money to Ukraine. I don't think the president's going to give money. I think he went to Europe a couple weeks ago and said, listen, you all are going to have to step up to the plate here and start paying your own way. We can't do it anymore. We've got to build a golden dome. We've got to help build up our military because we are not near where we used to be. And we've got to make sure that we put America first, especially the American military.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Senator, can you hang on for one second while I hold you through the break? Got a couple more questions I particularly want to ask you about the government shutdown and maybe some activity down in the great state of Alabama. Real quickly, have you, with Alabama being one of the most MAGA states with great patriots, have you ever gotten any blowback from folks down there about you're sitting there going, I'm not voting for any of this Ukraine stuff. We've got about 30 seconds.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Not one, not one part of been able been pushed back on him. We've got what, six military bases. We've got defense contractors. We have now we have Space Command coming back. I think people understand it. I think people in Alabama understand it more than a lot of people because we are a military state that China is the one that we got to push back on and we just waste money, Steve. We waste, waste, waste more money and we can't continue to do that and be the world power that we need to be.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Senator Tuberville Hang on for one second. We take a short commercial break. Senator Tommy Tuberville Great state of Alabama.

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[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

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[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Oh, 100%. This is a bloated government, Steve. We cannot continue down this same path. We've got way too many people that are in position, have been here too long and you can't fire them. You know, I don't know how they get in a position where if you don't do your job or you're not adequate or you're not needed anymore, you can just sit there and remain in a role and take the taxpayer's money. You know, I just, I don't believe in that. So this would be a great opportunity if they did shut it down. And again, I'm not for shutting it down just to be shutting it down. I think the really big shutdown is going to be the next one. But if they want to shut it down now, they give give Russ an opportunity to start combining agencies. Let's put energy with the epa. Let's do all kind of things where we can cut back on this bloated government. The American taxpayers can't afford this nonsense and this would be a great time. So please, Chuck Schumer, talk your folks into shutting it down and let's shut this thing down and start cutting people and sending them and doing other jobs. There's a lot of jobs out there. And so, yeah, again, I think the best time to shut it down would be the next vote, which would be what, a month, month and a half. But if they want to shut it down now, so be it.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

You're giving folks inside baseball, I want to just explore for a second. You're saying, hey, look, this was a CR that goes to the 21st of November, clean CR and we hate CRS, but clean CR to the 21st of November. These guys want to continue to fund illegal alien health care and other craziness. So that's not going to happen. But your point is the next one, when you got to look at they're going to try to jam an omnibus, your colleagues up there in the Senate, one of the reasons you're leaving and going to run, you're running for governor of Alabama is that you've had enough of the madness up there. But that's going to be the big one right when we have to face because they refuse the legislature up there, the House and the Senate to refuse to make any significant cuts. And Russ and the president had to depend upon rescissions and pocket rescissions. But these are symbolically important, but they're kind of on the margin. So that's where you're saying next time in mid November, if we, if we go with this today by 21st of November is going to be the, that's going to be the big fight.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Oh, that's going to be the showdown because they want another trillion dollars there for illegals getting all kind of welfare and insurance. And again, they want to cut back on, on one of the few good things that they even looked at is the money now for rural health care. But at the end of the day, Steve, they want a bloated government. They don't want to do a budget. The American taxpayers deserve a budget. We haven't done one since I've been here in five years. Chuck Schumer, all he wanted to do was these bloated omnibus bills where you put all this stuff in there and we can't afford it. We don't have any money. I don't know where they think they're going to get money, but this place lives in a, in a fairyland world up here. And if we don't do something like combine agencies, cut people back, put them out in public life, we're not going to have the world or the country that you and I had an opportunity to grow up in.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

No, you're not going to have the productivity before I let you go. There's some discussion that Paul Feinbaum, the amazing football analyst down in Alabama that now is a national figure, is on espn. He has said that the Charlie Kirk assassination has moved him so much in the response of the country and particularly the memorial service. He's actually thinking of getting in and running for the United States Senate. Your thoughts, sir?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Yeah, it would be my seat and we've had two or three people already running. Qualifying ends at the end of January, so he's got time to get in then. It's a five month race till May where you have the primary. I've known Paul a long time and Paul is just a commentator that created a division between fans on both sides of whatever teams he wanted to talk about that day on the radio or tv and he had a dialogue. I'm going to tell you, Paul's smart, he loves the country. Again, been a friend of mine for a long time. I have not talked with him about it. I did an interview with him about 30 minutes about two months ago, face to face and it went well. But you know, I tell you, he's got 100% name ID in Alabama and he'd have a lot of big people behind him. He would be a force in the race if he decided to get into it. But again, I'm for people that comes up here that don't want to be in politics. They want to come up and help and so I don't support any of them. There's no reason me getting involved. But Paul's a good guy, good friend.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

But your experience was you came up there. And I think the reason that you've been such a big hit here on the war room, you talk very straight, you don't mince words, you just tell it like it is. And you've been shocked. Like this whole thing with the budget, you've been shocked that the Democratic Party and even part of the Republican establishment will not address the fundamental needs of the country. One is that we've got to stop printing money. If we don't do that, we're going to destroy this country. And I think you've been shocked about that, haven't you?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Yeah, quantitative easing, you know, has been a disaster. The open borders, the law enforcement, there's no Democratic Party anymore. It's all a bunch of communists and socialists and they can't tell the truth. They will look you in your face and they'll lie when the truth, they know the truth is better, Steve. But you know, this place is a God awful mess and that's the reason President Trump had to get elected. He had to come in and restore some order to it. Now he's got people fighting him from both sides, from the Senate and Republicans and the House. I mean, in Democrats, they want it their way. They come up here to get reelected instead of doing what they should be doing is make a decision for their state and their country. That's your job. But we don't do that. We've got these people that know better than everybody else and they fight back against President Trump. But again, it's better since President Trump's here. But now we got a chance. Please shut this government down and let's start cutting, folks.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Midnight tonight. Senator Tuberville, Social media Where do people go to follow you, sir?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

At Senator Tuberville?

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Pretty simple. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming on.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Thanks, Steve.

[Podcast Host Steve Bannon]

Thank you. Father was at D Day Manhattan. A great love for his country and is a great patriot. Short commercial break we're going to break down Pete Hexith's talk to the flag officers. Senator Josh Hawley is going to join us also next in the war room.

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