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Steve Bannon Holds Nothing Back — Exclusive Interview at AmFest2024

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

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Charlie and Steve Bannon hold the first of many live interviews at AmFest held exclusively for members of Charlie Kirk Exclusive. The two discuss the 2020 election and why they’re oddly grateful for the 4 years of Biden, then take questions directly from Exclusive members.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0.149 - 15.665 Charlie Kirk

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15.765 - 17.687 Charlie Kirk

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

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17.747 - 21.311 Steve Bannon

I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

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21.331 - 34.88 Steve Bannon

Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

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34.92 - 56.721 Charlie Kirk

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57.241 - 72.886 Charlie Kirk

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74.087 - 74.747 Steve Bannon

Thanks for having me.

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75.968 - 92.451 Charlie Kirk

So, Steve, we're in a very interesting moment right now. You have been kind of, some would say in the media, the architect of the populist nationalist movement. Walk us through kind of the last year and what stage are we in in this populist nationalist chapter in American history?

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92.765 - 123.797 Steve Bannon

Well, we're in the ascended stage, but you're going to hit speed bumps like today. I mean, this is absolutely humiliating, not for us, but for the standard way that Washington, D.C., thinks, right? I mean, today we saw conventional thinking. We saw this bipartisanship, that it's a malignant cancer inside our body. Politics has to be cut out. And look over the last—it's not just the last year.

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123.817 - 147.472 Steve Bannon

It's the last four years. President Trump leaves after having the 2020 election stolen. Pretty obvious. Goes to Mar-a-Lago. The political class totally abandons him. You know, there's a handful of people that have his back. He starts coming back. He makes a decision, the most courageous decision in the history of American politics, because he knew what was going to be in front of him.

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147.512 - 173.53 Steve Bannon

He knew that they were going to— you know, try to bankrupt his company and destroy his family and eventually indict him. And so it was this courageous moral courage to come back, and that was in 2021. The precinct strategies. Scott Pressler trying to – going out and changing the architecture of these states, of the electorate, whether it was Arizona or Pennsylvania. And people going door to door.

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173.991 - 197.046 Steve Bannon

This is what populism is. It doesn't need – you don't need tons of money. You don't need any one or two leaders. It comes from the people itself. It's a sovereign will of the people. And you saw your energy and your focus and your determination took the 2022 election. President Trump then announced right afterwards. Look at what happened a year ago.

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197.066 - 226.104 Steve Bannon

Look where we were a year ago at this conference. Remember, all the primaries had not come. The general election had not come. And look at the energy and enthusiasm that Turning Point had. And look at the work that Turning Point did, particularly in Arizona and in Pennsylvania. You guys deserve. the vanguard of a revolutionary movement, just like in 1775. And victory begets victory.

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226.625 - 252.334 Steve Bannon

You just supported an individual that has had the greatest political comeback in the history of the world. That was you. If you guys had faltered, if you guys had quit, if you guys had just said, I don't know if we can do this, it was your agency and a collective, the sovereign will of the people. That's why it trumps back. And what you saw here in the last 72 hours is just more of the D.C. same.

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252.374 - 258.601 Steve Bannon

It's the same bipartisanship kind of old Republican Party thinking. Is that clear? No, it's very clear.

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258.641 - 271.481 Charlie Kirk

I'm only interrupting just because, as I said on your program this morning, I'm busy running an event. Educate me as if I'm just passively watching the news. What is going on here with the CR up until the moment of this broadcast right now?

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272.102 - 297.269 Steve Bannon

Think about this thing with Johnson. Having turfed out McCarthy because of the spending, and he's hanging with Vivek. He's hanging with Elon Musk. He's hanging with the president. Every time I look, whether it's a UFC fight or the box at the Army-Navy game or every time, he's hanging around, right? Yeah. And he, out of nowhere, there's supposed to be a CR. There's supposed to be two lines.

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297.289 - 302.595 Steve Bannon

Because remember, always remember, the CR itself is just continual spending from the old budget. It's about 500.

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303.376 - 304.477 Charlie Kirk

Which we don't support.

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304.497 - 305.719 Steve Bannon

We don't support. In principle.

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305.899 - 307.461 Charlie Kirk

In practice, it might be necessary.

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308.762 - 328.819 Steve Bannon

We hate them all. The only reason this is necessary is because this kicks it into President Trump's administration. This is where he's got Russ Vought at OMB. This is where he has the House, the Senate, the executive branch, his team's back, Scott Besson, Russ Vought, Peter Navarro. He gives President Trump a chance to craft the current fiscal year we're in. And what happens?

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328.999 - 348.15 Steve Bannon

This should be a two-line thing. And if the farmer's bill's late, you need a couple of billion, you need $10 billion for the farmers or $20 billion. The FEMA, there should be offsets. It's simple to do the offsets. There's offsets in there. You can do offsets for the FEMA money. And quite frankly, find out why FEMA hasn't given the cash they have, right? You have to drill down.

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348.19 - 368.026 Steve Bannon

What does he give us? Fifteen hundred pages that's negotiated from weeks and weeks and weeks. And it's a King Jeffries. There's so many. It's a it's a Democrat bill. Two thirds. And it lays another, I don't know, 300 billion dollars of spending. So then you have a trillion dollars, essentially 800 billion to a trillion dollars for this one quarter. It's just it's this madness.

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368.106 - 377.334 Steve Bannon

And they insult your intelligence by not telling anybody, just dropping it on people. It's so complicated. And you just read from the bio labs to the pandemic, to the

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377.654 - 379.795 Charlie Kirk

What was that all about? We're funding Ukrainian biolabs?

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379.835 - 393.524 Steve Bannon

Biolabs and the Global Engagement Center that went out of their way to shut us all down. They're funding that. If you go through this – and they have provisions there. You can't do investigations. It's a mess, and it was highly negotiated, and they hit it.

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393.604 - 394.405 Charlie Kirk

That's the point you made.

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394.425 - 405.435 Steve Bannon

And it has a pay raise. That has a pay raise. We just won. We just won by bringing African-Americans, Hispanics, white working class in this bill in this coalition. It's like 1932.

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405.975 - 421.69 Steve Bannon

And these people, the lived experience, they're not buying the happy talk of mainstream media that the economy is doing great because it's doing great for the top one percent for the oligarchs because of federal spending. And here you give a pay raise from one hundred seventy three thousand bucks, 74 percent. And not just that.

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421.93 - 440.608 Steve Bannon

If they had put it up front on the cover and said, look, people, you know, have been haven't had a pay raise in 10 years. They can't support their families. And by the way, we know the guy got shot in the back and they're seething anger among people about this insurance. But we want to opt out of Obamacare, although we voted it for you guys. Right. If they had put that up front.

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441.829 - 463.086 Steve Bannon

If they put it up front and not hit it on page 900 of the bill, it'd be different. You'd say no, but at least you wouldn't try to hide things. This shows you it's not just Johnson. Clearly, he must be removed, but it's not him. It's deeper than that. This is the mindset of the political class. This is how they think. And they think you always have to compromise. You always go with supplicants.

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463.726 - 485.162 Steve Bannon

You weren't supplicants when you walked these, when you canvassed these neighborhoods. You weren't supplicants when Pressler went out and changed the architecture of the voting population of Pennsylvania. You weren't supplicants when you had Trump's back in Georgia, in New York City, in Florida, when you were standing outside protesting when he was hauled before these fake judges.

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485.602 - 493.909 Steve Bannon

We haven't been supplicants in four years. Why would we do it when we win? We don't have to. We just have to be on offense.

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497.432 - 503.378 Charlie Kirk

And the fact this was negotiated is there is no other description than treacherous.

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505.66 - 505.6 Audience Member 1

100%.

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505.7 - 525.642 Steve Bannon

That's what I'm saying. It's a malignant cancer. It's this mindset. And then they also don't understand the new ecosystem of media. First off— You people thrive for information. That's what you're doing. So this is why you're doing Charlie Kirk. Look, the war room is not an easy watch. We don't do a crack a lot of jokes or have it's not. We're not chasing.

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525.942 - 529.366 Steve Bannon

You know, we don't chase the shiny toys that people want to want to know.

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529.386 - 530.087 Charlie Kirk

It's tough stuff.

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530.187 - 554.533 Steve Bannon

It's tough. And Charlie Kirk, not a lot of laughs. No. But why do you... Listen, you're a cadre. These shows are not for a mass audience. We will never be the biggest show. Charlie will never be the biggest show. We'll see. You're a... You're... I want to do sponsorships for Charlie, so I'll knock down things. We'll see.

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554.573 - 555.254 Steve Bannon

No. It's a great point.

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555.334 - 572.106 Steve Bannon

If you look at any revolutionary movement, if you look at the revolution, our American revolution, you have cadres, small groups of people that form together. They get information. This was the committees of correspondence. This was the subtext of the revolution. This is what led to the Continental Congress.

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572.146 - 591.678 Steve Bannon

This is what led the Continental Congress to say, hey, look, we've actually got to declare independence. We can't work with the House of Commons anymore. That is what you are. Please remember your place in history when the history of this age is written. They will not remember Elon Musk. They will not remember Tucker Carlson. They're not going to remember Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon.

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592.218 - 614.435 Steve Bannon

It's going to be the age of Trump, and they're going to remember the MAGA movement. They're going to say a movement came up from the 2008 financial crisis. It took decades to build, but eventually it took over the politics of the country, of the American republic, and saved the American republic. That's what you guys are. And you just had a historic win. You don't need to sit there.

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614.755 - 628.406 Steve Bannon

When Johnson sends you 1,500 pages, you go, no, we're not going to do this. We're not going to play these games. We're not going to do this anymore. The country's heading towards bankruptcy. We have to have Trump's back getting him here. So right now, I say, shut it down.

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655.536 - 655.276 Audience Member 1

100%.

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656.217 - 663.926 Charlie Kirk

Is that the audience is one step ahead of me. Always. Fact-checking. Not just fact-checking, but can you add some color to this?

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664.006 - 683.011 Steve Bannon

Okay. Okay. And this is the reason the mainstream media is meaningless now. Because if you watch the 6 o'clock broadcast news, it's so stupid, right? Quite frankly, even if you watch MSNBC and CNN, it's so ridiculous. Not just biased, stupid. Fox is Fox, right?

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683.572 - 707.522 Steve Bannon

If you look at the podcast, if you look at the Twitter, these different social media platforms, all the information, the force multiplier, the hardest job I have every day and the producers of my show is to keep ahead of you. To make sure that, hey, they've heard this. They know this, right? What are we going to tell them? Driving. Driving. What information are we going to have that's new to them?

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707.843 - 730.027 Steve Bannon

How do we make sure that we're always at the cutting edge? And that is the compliment to you. This is what populism is. Your agency is driving this. Not any, at least think about it for a second. Let's go back to 2021. Look at all, go to Fox, go to MSNBC, go to CNN. Just read the papers, Washington Post, every pundit. Trump is finished. Trump is dead. MAGA's finished. MAGA's dead.

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730.507 - 752.155 Steve Bannon

Over and over and over again. It was their mantra. You just won the biggest election and comeback in American history. The pundits were wrong and you were right. I want you to understand that. You were right politically, right? You were right as political scientists. You don't have to have a PhD from the University of Chicago. That is you and you and you. You did this.

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752.476 - 762.218 Steve Bannon

There's nothing that can stop what you want to accomplish for this country. And that's why they got to still try to destroy Trump. And that's quite frankly where they still have to destroy this movement.

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762.358 - 780.525 Charlie Kirk

So, Steve, what is it—I mean, you were so—in the 2021-2022 cycle, we were just getting started on Rav. We were still getting to know each other, and we've gotten to know each other really well the last couple years. But you were so early on, we're all in for Trump, and we were too, but you were forcefully early that this thing is going to be a decisive 2020 for victory.

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780.865 - 791.529 Charlie Kirk

You saw it years ahead of time. It was—the clairvoyance was remarkable. I mean, your skeptics would say it's just luck. You know, Steve just kind of rolled snake eyes, but it's not. Like, you saw—what did you see—

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791.909 - 811.554 Steve Bannon

I saw 16 when I got to the when there's 14 points down. They called me in August 13th because I was running Breitbart and I had a conversation with President Trump. He's like 12 or 14 points down with the Muslim family, with the Constitution. That's right. Khan Khan and the thing spinning out of control. And I said, hey, 100, because he says, how are we going to turn this around?

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811.594 - 828.004 Steve Bannon

Because Ryan's about to cut us loose. Mitch McConnell's about to cut us loose. I said 100 percent metaphysical certitude. You will win. Right. We just got to focus on these couple of issues and we have to go to the blue wall. And he said, what? I said, we got to go to Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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828.264 - 834.209 Steve Bannon

We're going to pierce the blue wall because the lived experience of the American people is terrible right now.

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834.289 - 840.975 Charlie Kirk

But how do you see that? I mean, that was so contrarian. It was so unorthodox. Was it? instinct, gut?

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841.135 - 858.109 Steve Bannon

Was there something in your life that made you see it? Well, I come from a blue collar family, right? I come from a working class, you know, Democrat family. Quite frankly, we were all Democrats until the Vietnam War and then President Reagan. But it's simple to say you just see the lived experience of how people live. You just see that you can understand the math of the economics.

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858.149 - 880.547 Steve Bannon

The American people, we've hollowed out the greatest country in the world. We were a manufacturing superpower with high value added jobs that an individual like my dad could be a foreman for the phone company and have a stay at home mom that raised the kids and have five kids that all went to Catholic school and then all went to college. Right. That's not you can't do that today. It's impossible.

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880.627 - 900.843 Steve Bannon

Why can't you do that? Well, they tell you they give you all this stuff. And I said, this is not the second law of thermodynamics. This is not some inevitable law. It's not the physical property of the universe. It's because people make conscious decisions to ship the jobs overseas because they made money with having the Lao Baixing, the Chinese slave labor, do the jobs. It can all be reversed.

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901.203 - 925.86 Steve Bannon

You just have to have policies to reverse it. And President Trump, that's why—look, President Trump is not a particularly churchy individual, okay? He's not. He's not. But he is an instrument of divine providence, okay? I've seen it up close. No, I saw it in 16. In 16, we had no money. We had a plane. We had a man. We had a message in about 10 of us, right?

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927.02 - 945.172 Steve Bannon

And he defeated Hillary Clinton, the Clinton mafia, particularly in Michigan, Wisconsin. And here's why. The first thing we did on the campaign, I took it over. I said, we're going to go to Flint, Michigan. And he goes, that's a democratic city. I go, exactly where are we going to go? You can go to Flint. She can't. Then he went to Mexico and met the president because you can go to Mexico.

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945.432 - 967.585 Steve Bannon

She can't. You could go to places that people all of a sudden see. And remember, they hated him so much, they tried to destroy him right from the beginning, from the very first second that we won. In 2020, it is obvious from the mathematics that he won the 2020 election. It was stolen, right? Yeah. But that was providential.

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968.166 - 987.125 Steve Bannon

In this arc of this story, in the arc of this story, they had to steal it. Because we had to see, and more Americans had to see how radical they are, how they are neo-Marxists, how they would destroy this country. Now they're all coming out with the stories. about the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in the last 48 hours, how Biden was never really present.

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987.346 - 1006.238 Steve Bannon

They had to cover up in the National Security Council everything we've been saying for the last four years they now admit is true, right? And they never invoked the 25th Amendment. They allowed 15 million invaders into our country. They got us involved in all these forever wars all over. They shipped a quarter of a trillion dollars to Ukraine that we still don't understand why.

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1006.498 - 1025.825 Steve Bannon

We've got a million dead or wounded Ukrainians and 700,000 dead or wounded Russians. everything they have done is try to destroy this country, and that is the power of Trump's story. This is what I would tell people. It's not going to be Ron DeSantis. It's not going to be Nikki Haley. This country has a narrative. This is the new Jerusalem, and we have a path in front of us.

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1026.425 - 1040.769 Steve Bannon

Trump is a very imperfect guy. His imperfection makes it a more powerful story, that he is imbued by divine providence to lead a movement to save this country, and that's it.

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1045.543 - 1066.268 Charlie Kirk

That is a great segue. Let's take some questions. Is that cool, Steve? Daisy, let's start taking some questions. For those of you that are new to members, welcome, guys. Just a reminder, we'll be doing this the next couple of days. And thank you guys for being a member. It allows us to continue to grow and flourish. Daisy, let's get some questions here. And emphasis on questions, not speeches.

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1066.468 - 1067.108 Charlie Kirk

No commercials.

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1068.268 - 1074.43 Steve Bannon

Yeah, Steve, some people in the room may or may not know that you were in prison. Could you tell us a little bit about your experience there?

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1076.258 - 1099.74 Steve Bannon

Thank you. It's a great question. I'm very proud I was a political prisoner. Nancy Pelosi thought she was going to break me. I came out empowered and she's broken. It was a very dangerous place. But there are many, many good people. And I tell you, I saw Trump's victory there. That's the only time I put something out was on, I think, August 26th. It said victories at hand.

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1100.04 - 1123.869 Steve Bannon

The politics of joy was a lie. The prisoners in there, the Hispanics and African-Americans hate the Democratic Party. And they hated Kamala Harris and they hated Joe Biden. And about 60 percent voted or their families voted for Trump. But the other 40 percent wouldn't vote. Right there. The Hispanics and African Americans, right, that is the basis of our 1932 realignment, and I saw it.

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1124.91 - 1142.002 Steve Bannon

It's not about me. It's not about what happened in prison, but I got to tell you, they empowered me in no way, and she's broken, right? Not the hip. That's unfortunate. I mean, no, politically. Politically, she's been shattered, and we're stronger than ever, but thanks for the question.

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1143.363 - 1144.064 Charlie Kirk

Daisy, who did next?

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1147.079 - 1148.501 Audience Member 1

Hey, Charlie.

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1148.561 - 1148.761 Charlie Kirk

Hi.

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1148.941 - 1157.31 Audience Member 1

Hi. Right after the election, something you said was, okay, my number one job is to get the list of all the J6ers.

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1157.37 - 1158.932 Charlie Kirk

Yep. I have the list.

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1159.373 - 1178.489 Audience Member 1

Do you? Okay. So, well, my close friend's son was the youngest J6er. They put him in solitary for 40 days at 18 years old. And he just got out at 22 years old. He's only six months in, but just got married. It's ended up being an amazing redemption story, but I just wanted to make sure that man's name is on the list.

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1178.549 - 1187.315 Charlie Kirk

Yeah, so everyone's on the list. Look, I'm not going to tell anything private conversations, but Steve will reiterate, there is a force of energy to get pardons for Jay Six, President of the Senate.

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1187.535 - 1189.416 Steve Bannon

Amen. Day one.

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1189.496 - 1209.267 Charlie Kirk

Day one. I'm not speaking on behalf of the president. It will end up being the president's decision to sign on the dotted line. What I can say is that people closest to him brought up daily. It is brought up daily. Right, Steve? This is not just some sort of forgotten thing. It is a top priority. And so the president has made some promises on that. It is his decision. We've got to work it.

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1209.467 - 1216.531 Charlie Kirk

And we've just got to keep working it, keep pushing it. But the good news is that this is not like a forgotten thing where people just say one thing and not.

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1216.611 - 1236.825 Steve Bannon

So – I was not in a camp. I was in a federal prison, okay? And we had a lot of J6 folks there. What they did to those people in D.C., and this is why the investigations have to take place, the people that tormented and tortured them in D.C. prison, war crimes. They have to be tried, they have to be investigated, and they're going to go to prison. All the way up to Matthew Gray.

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1236.845 - 1242.371 Steve Bannon

We're never going to stop on that. What happened to those individuals is unacceptable. We can never let it happen again.

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1242.391 - 1249.76 Charlie Kirk

We're talking about pretrial detention for a year and a half, two years for some of these people, right? It's just unbelievable. Oh, yes. Okay. Daisy, who do we got?

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1249.8 - 1270.357 Mark Klugman

Hi, Steve. My name is Mark Klugman. I was one of President Reagan's speechwriters. What you went through was where they're changing the rules on executive privilege. Now, on the question of the Biden pardons, there is a legal argument that a pardon only takes effect when there's been an offense. That's what it says in the Constitution. There is no offense until there's a conviction.

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1271.226 - 1280.913 Mark Klugman

Therefore, there's the argument that a pardon will prevent you from being punished, but it doesn't prevent you from being indicted. It doesn't prevent you from standing trial. How do you see that?

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1281.134 - 1298.787 Charlie Kirk

Yeah, the most high-profile preemptive pardon, of course, was Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon. And what it does is that a prosecution will not have the gusto to go through the process of writing indictment and going to trial if there's even a slight chance that the conviction will not be held up in court. Steve, is that a fair summary? Yes. Yeah.

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1298.867 - 1312.719 Charlie Kirk

So, look, I anyone that has been preemptively pardoned, they have the right to do that. But I just I I laugh and I scoff. These are the people that were constantly telling us that we're the criminals and they're even they are legitimately probing preemptive pardons.

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1313.499 - 1329.777 Steve Bannon

It's worse now. First off, executive privilege was just one. Depending on my lawyer for advice who told me I followed everything he told me that. But the most important was the illegitimacy of the committee. Yeah, that's remember the committee. It was illegally banks and Jordan were let go.

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1329.857 - 1347.229 Steve Bannon

And so for the first time, a major select committee did not have a ranking member and did not have minority council. Remember, you didn't get the evidence, and you couldn't cross-examine the witnesses. This is about Cassie Hutchinson and all of it. It was a total sham. And now Benny Thompson on national TV is saying he would take a pardon if given to him.

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1347.589 - 1368.478 Steve Bannon

Cheney, Loudermilk, and this is my problem with both McCarthy and Johnson. They've had years to sit there and get rid of all the... Just take the committee and throw it out and start over again. And we have to have a real investigation of the 2020... And by the way... The more we're transparent, the better. We know we have the facts. Make it totally transparent.

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1368.658 - 1387.524 Steve Bannon

On the 2020 election, on J6, the day, and what they didn't do in the Fed's erection part of it. July 13th. July 13th. All of it. All the events. On day one, President Trump should declassify about five million pages of classified information. They use the classified information.

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1388.265 - 1408.935 Steve Bannon

Look, I had above a top-secret clearance when I was 20-some years old coming back as a naval officer in my destroyer and then coming back to the Pentagon. And then I had a high-security clearance. I think 99% of it is to keep the information from you. Trust me. They don't want the people actually be part of the decision-making process.

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1409.295 - 1429.679 Steve Bannon

And I can tell you in the last eight years with President Trump and this populist movement, you guys make pretty good decisions. If you gave me the choice to be governed by the top 100 partners at Goldman Sachs or Cravath or Sullivan and Cromwell, McKinsey or Bruce Allen, and the first 100 people that walked in this room, I'd take you 100 every day. Right? No. No.

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1430.399 - 1450.883 Steve Bannon

More humanity, more empathy, more understanding life, more common sense, more knowledge, more drive. It's obvious. This is what the country's so successful. It's not them. It's you. And they want to hold that back, that committee. And we can never allow this to happen again. But I got to tell you, you see, now they're not just talking preemptive blanket pardons. Think about that.

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1451.023 - 1470.656 Steve Bannon

Preemptive blanket pardons. Norm Eisen is on TV last night talking about blanket amnesty. They are scared to death. And we owe it to this republic, to every patriot's grave, all the way back to the founding of this republic, the new Jerusalem, to hunt it down to the ends of the earth and bring them to justice.

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1472.728 - 1487.641 Charlie Kirk

We have time for a couple more, maybe one or two, and then I got to get Steve prepped for on stage. I don't want to just throw him up on stage. So that wouldn't be fair for the great Steve Bannon. I got to get lower key. No, I know. I need another Red Bull. One more Red Bull. All right. Daisy, who's in charge? We have somebody for question. Yeah. Great.

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1488.142 - 1494.554 Charlie Kirk

What do you both think is going to happen with Justin Trudeau in Canada? To what? Justin Trudeau. What do you think is going to happen with the governor?

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1494.614 - 1515.727 Steve Bannon

Oh, he's going to get tossed out. He's going to get tossed out. The populace is going to win. First off, the letter from Freeland was brutal. And she's no day at the beach, right? She's very cunning. But her letter, she said, you're not taking seriously President Trump's aggressive economic nationalism. And you're not keeping our powder dry. The deficits are too big. This current budget.

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1515.747 - 1527.758 Steve Bannon

She said, I'm out. I mean, she's trying to take his job. I think he's cooked. He is... He shows you what Hillary Clinton would have done to this country, right? That's the type of globalist party of Davos he is.

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1528.159 - 1534.767 Charlie Kirk

Okay. We have time for one, maybe two more. That was quick. I agree with Steve. Anybody? Do we have a mic runner? Yes. Yes.

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1536.104 - 1562.84 Audience Member 3

Hi, Steve. Hi, Charlie. I just want to thank you for what you guys have done for the grassroots movement, what you're doing for just the people of America that we're tired of all of this crap. Sorry. Jesus is listening. I'm wearing my dad's Trump 2020 hat, and it means a lot to me. My dad, I think, was kind of an original troller.

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1563.6 - 1589.654 Audience Member 3

And and so my question, I would say, is my dad said one time that he was going to the pro-Trump rally, meaning that it was January 4th, 2021. And so he was a big believer in the grassroots effort and Trump and the businessmen. And he highly believed in Ross Perot. And I just wondered what you guys thought about businessmen and and that kind of that movement and running the country.

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1590.945 - 1606.231 Charlie Kirk

I will say that the underappreciated through line of what Ross Perot pinpointed in the early 90s, direct connected to Trump. Ross Perot was Trump before Trump. He just wasn't Trump in the sense where he said the same stuff, that sucking noise you hear is Mexico taking our jobs from us.

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1606.571 - 1621.338 Charlie Kirk

He was a populist nationalist that, remember, he was poised to win the presidency, and then all of a sudden he stopped his campaign and suspended it because there was someone following him in his front yard. Do you remember this whole story? I remember it. It was really goofy, and then he reentered the race, and by the time he did, all of his support went down.

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1622.039 - 1645.617 Charlie Kirk

But Ross Perot was very clairvoyant and saw ahead, saw the harbinger, the canary in the coal mine of the deindustrialization of the American body politic. Anyone here vote for Ross Perot? Look at that. I do this at every event, and it's like 20% in both 92, in 92, not 96. 90%. Both? You were both? 92 and 96? 96, he didn't have the same sort of spark.

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1647.219 - 1650.762 Charlie Kirk

But, again, I think that— He got 23 percent of the vote, I think. Yeah, no, that's right.

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1650.962 - 1669.906 Steve Bannon

A hand grenade with a bad haircut. He was the first, really, on the national stage fire-breathing popular, I guess, since Huey Long or William Jennings Bryan or Andrew Jackson. Yeah, not as good as great again. Almost, I got that close. One more final question here.

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1670.126 - 1673.634 Charlie Kirk

Yes, final one. Hi, Wendy.

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1673.674 - 1694.952 Audience Member 2

Hi, Steve. My mom is your biggest fan. She watches you every single day. And so, Marsha, hi. I represent an organization called Hindus for America First. We mobilized over a million Hindu American voters to support the Republican Party and America First candidates, including Donald Trump.

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1695.752 - 1725.364 Audience Member 2

And one of the concerns that we wanted to bring to the president, and he actually tweeted about it or posted about it on X, at the end of October was the persecution of religious minorities in Bangladesh following the fall of Sheikh Hasina. There are Christians, Jews, and Hindus being persecuted by the Clinton Foundation darling, Muhammad Yunus, And I would love to know what you think.

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1726.005 - 1733.233 Audience Member 2

I know you said Donald Trump is not a churchy man, but what will he do to protect religious freedoms and religious minorities?

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1733.253 - 1741.321 Steve Bannon

Well, saying he's not churchy, I think he has a very spiritual side to him. I mean, Donald Trump's got a big heart. He's a very kind individual.

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1741.461 - 1741.861 Charlie Kirk

He really is.

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1741.901 - 1759.528 Steve Bannon

Right. A lot of what you see is kind of, you know, kind of the negotiating bravado. He's a he's a very he's actually and I think he's gotten more spiritual since the assassination attempt. You've seen a very different time. Look, I'm a huge fan of Modi's. Right. So I think we've got a we've got a, you know, President Trump will look into it. But it's horrible what's going on over there.

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1759.588 - 1765.491 Steve Bannon

But, you know, Modi is the best. He's the best nationalist in the world. What he's done in India is second to none.

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1766.67 - 1770.033 Charlie Kirk

We actually have time for one more if Steve is game for it. All right, Wendy, yell it out.

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1770.894 - 1773.497 Charlie Kirk

What do you think would happen to Hobbs and Mays?

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1775.478 - 1798.674 Steve Bannon

Well, I think all of these, and particularly Arizona, the whole situation in 2020, you have to have a full and deep investigation, and also with the voting. You just have to. But it has to be completely transparent, and it has to be completely transparent. If a commission's set up or if it's in the House or whatever, you have to make sure that the American people can see this.

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1798.814 - 1809.961 Steve Bannon

It must be fully transparent. I happen to believe there's so much there because, listen— What Turning Point did in Arizona is historic. I mean, we turned it around. So five and a half point win.

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1809.981 - 1826.13 Charlie Kirk

The best performing swing state of any swing state, despite being outspent three to one. It was a five and a half point win. No state comes even close. In fact, it was the best performance Trump ever had in this state. Whereas you can't say that for North Carolina, Georgia. He actually underperformed his previous totals from 16.

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1826.21 - 1842.095 Steve Bannon

It's three parts to how you get there. Number one is the Scott Presser or the mentality to go change the composition of the electorate by doing voter registration, sitting in those parking lots and 105 degrees and doing it. That's grinding it out.

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1842.495 - 1862.321 Steve Bannon

The other part is the canvassing and getting out the vote and making sure you have the phone banks, you have all of it, that huge logistics ground and volunteers that do it over and over and over again. And the last part is training up the election integrity. So you're sitting at the table and they can't steal it like they tried to steal it before. Those three elements came together.

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1862.981 - 1889.462 Steve Bannon

I will tell you that 2020, Donald John Trump won Arizona. It's absolutely no doubt. And Carrie Lake is the legitimate governor of Arizona. No doubt. No doubt. So, Colonel, I think we have to be methodical about this. I think we have to go about it so it's purely transparent and everybody, the community buys in so we say it can never, ever happen again.

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1889.602 - 1899.988 Charlie Kirk

I've got to get Steve on stage. Give it up for Steve Bannon, everybody. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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1901.989 - 1905.832 Steve Bannon

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