Episode 4818: The Government Shuts Down

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What events led to the government shutdown?

Unknown 0:02

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

Stephen K. Bannon 0:44

War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

Unknown 0:53

It's Wednesday, 1 October, in the year of our Lord, 2025. You might ask, why no cold open today? Why are you not getting our blood pressure up and having us spit out some of the Warpath coffee? We'd be so angry. Well, we're going to get to all that. Just the structure of the show today, the government officially shut down at midnight last night, or I guess one minute after midnight, or one second after midnight. We're in a government shutdown. Traditionally... A lot of this has been kabuki theater, except when President Trump shut it down in 18. And then we shut it down in 2013 over Obamacare. So the two big times. In fact, President Trump's in 18 over the border wall, over Pelosi and Schumer adamantly refusing to, I think it was $5 billion at the time, had the longest government shutdown in history.

Unknown 1:47

This is different. Because there's kind of, I think, a method to President Trump's madness here and with Russ Vogt. Russ Vogt is going up to the Hill today, I believe, to walk through a plan of taking on the administrative state during this period of shutdown. Schumer, who had essentially no leverage and tried to bluff his way, I believe stepped on the rake. And now you have a very energized Trump administration that is going to do here what they were limited structurally from doing before. There's going to be a press conference on Capitol Hill in a moment between with Majority Leader Thune and the Speaker of the House, the Speaker of the House, Johnson, to walk us through the update. He's done something very smart.

Unknown 2:36

Last night he had a couple of votes. Guess what? A couple of Democrats, or at least the Democrat senator, one of the Democrat senators in Nevada, voted to keep the government open for the clean CR until the 21st of November. And Angus King, who's an independent, basically caucuses with the Democrats. He's really a Democrat who... Too gutless to say I'm a Democrat. Tries to convince people in Maine he's independent. So here's what we're going to do. The presser has not started yet. And when it starts, we're going to pick it up. Wade Miller, who is the individual at CRA, the former Marine at CRA, the Russ Vogt. has holding Fort Apache is going to be on here to walk us through the logic of what Russ Vogt is working on.

Unknown 3:23

We're going to play a cold open and then I'll be right back. So let's go ahead and play it. The press conference will start here momentarily. I've got Wade Miller. We've got a packed show this morning. Let's go ahead and let it rip.

Steve Bannon 3:35

There were thousands of years of combat experience collectively in that room. As someone who served yourself, what were your takeaways tonight?

Unknown 3:45

Well, it's one of the more bizarre, unsettling national security events I've ever encountered. The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rapidly partisan, speaking to an apolitical institution under the laws of the U.S., The Secretary of Defense gave a Rambo lecture to an audience that had been at war for 20 years. By the way, a lot of these men and women have daughters and sons who served in combat and were killed or wounded. And then finally, I think the Secretary of Defense basically looked at an audience of... It was not just the senior commanders. It was the senior enlisted command sergeant majors, Navy petty officers, and said, those of you who are a minority or women... probably got to where you were as a DEI choice as opposed to on merit.