Chapter 1: What does Raheem Kassam discuss in the Boxing Day Special?
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 try 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? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
Welcome to a very special episode of The War Room. It's Boxing Day. And you know what that means for the regulars in this audience. My name is Raheem Kassam. I am one of the founders of The War Room, some of you will not even know me. It goes back so long, back to the days of War Room impeachment.
But here I am outside the US Capitol here in Washington, DC, bringing you a very special episode of The War Room today. It's been a long time. It's been six, seven, eight years since all of this started. And before that, we had the Breitbart radio show on Sirius XM. Long time Stephen K. Bannon fans, and some, the very few Raheem Kassam fans, will know about that.
And it's been since back then that we've done these Boxing Day specials. And the Boxing Day specials allow me to catch you up on what's going on a little bit here behind the scenes a little bit, of what's going on in the media world, I am of course the editor-in-chief of thenationalpulse.com. I urge you all to get there, subscribe, check it every day.
I believe that we are the best place for you to get the news all day, every day, the things you really need to know, thenationalpulse.com. And I'm honored that Steve has today again allowed me to host this very special edition of The War Room. We're not going to be broadcasting just from here outside the US Capitol, but I'm going to bring you some of the things.
Some of you will have noticed that over the course of the last year especially, I've been a little AWOL. I've been away from The War Room. I've been away from most television interviews, and there are A couple of reasons for that. One is personal, health wise, and I'm working through some of those things.
And for those of you who know about them, thank you for your thoughts and your prayers throughout all of that. But the second one is I wanted to get back out there. You know, when we were doing the Brexit stuff back in 2014, 15 and into 2016, We were out there all day, every day. The same thing happened in 2017 and 18.
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Chapter 2: Why is Boxing Day significant to Raheem Kassam?
And it started to occur to me that what he really wanted more than anything else, more than these fights that you see, more than this scrapping that you see, more than his own philosophy and ideology being out there and front and center, was actually giving back. And so through this Boxing Day, I want to focus a little bit more on that. I think it's very important.
I think a lot of the noise that we're hearing at the moment is a little undignified. And a lot of you will have some problems with me saying that stuff. I didn't go to America Fest in Phoenix for that particular reason. I knew that the stage would be full of people sort of tussling and that's not what I think that conference was ever about. I don't think that was what Charlie was ever about.
And so for me, rather than get involved in all of that, I wanted to bring you some of my thoughts and memories and some of the things that I think can help not make us fight, but move us forward. I think it's so important that we not lose sight of the grander issue at play here. There are demonic forces at work here in the world. There are demonic forces at work here behind me every single day.
And Charlie would have wanted us to work together not apart, not separately, not hating on each other, not screaming at each other, to fix those things. Let me take you now to where I went right after I landed back in the United States from the Reform Party conference, and that was inside Charlie Kirk's memorial.
Thank you.
Well good morning world. It is the morning of the Charlie Kirk Memorial down here in Phoenix, Arizona. It's not a light-hearted occasion, not a joyous occasion obviously. there's going to be tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in attendance and it is currently seven o'clock in the morning already cutting it a bit fine i'm heading down there to the state farm arena now
Thank you. No worthy is here.
than that ours was not a great country, but the greatest, most exceptional nation that has ever existed in the history of all of mankind. And it's worth fighting for, it's worth defending, it's worth preserving. This is not a political war. It's not even a cultural war. It's a spiritual. We should turn every day, every moment, every interaction to prayer.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States of America, J.D. Vance. Thank you. Thank you all so much. Please give a warm welcome to Mrs. Erica Kerr. Please welcome to the stage, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Thank you. If you could make one holiday wish, would you wish to be free from your credit card and other debt?
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Chapter 3: What recent events have impacted the media landscape?
And one of the first things I did when I started this endeavor was take a tour around Washington DC under President Trump as he started cleaning it up. I want you to have a little look at that. So we're gonna go up here, stay a little quiet because it's more of a place of respect more than anything else. But it's great that they've built this. I'll show you some of the inscriptions they have.
So this is a memorial specifically to General Pershing, who's the general of the armies. Fantastic statue here. It's funny. So I've got this great camera that I just got in one hand and my cell phone in the other.
It occurred to me as I was walking down here that there are a lot of parts of London that I just would not feel comfortable doing that, having my phone in one hand, having this expensive camera in the other. And, you know, thanks to President Trump and the recent cleanup of Washington DC, it really does feel just about fine to be out here doing this.
And for all of the conniptions that DC residents had, the liberal DC residents had, I don't think you can argue with this. It's really, really nice out here. I used to tell people, never come to DC. Don't waste your time. Don't waste your money. Don't waste your effort.
Even though there are some great things to see, some great buildings, a lot of history, monuments, museums, so on and so forth, it just all went so downhill so quickly. You know, right after the BLM riot, And there was a time where you just thought it wasn't really going to ever recover. That was it. It was a city in decline. And interesting, isn't it?
How if you put your shoulder to the wheel on something like President Trump and his team have, you can actually resolve it pretty bloody quickly. Right here, you see the back of the St. John's Church, if you remember, where President Trump held the Bible up right there. And right here we found suitcases full of projectiles.
All of this was blocked off at the time, not blocked off like this, but I mean, huge 10 foot high barricades that had been plastered in Marxist stuff and BLM stuff.
that kind of thing i mean it was it was really really ugly and horrible a terrible time in this city's history and of course the white house is through there speed up a little bit here show you and the performative sense you know they put the blm
stuff up in the road here the bricks and they spelled it out on the road on 16th street right here it's now been taken down and uh then they used to also call this uh after the uh the journalist who was murdered and by the saudis i guess it was a long time for a long time You would not want to go to this park. You would not want to walk through it. This is very, very recent.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Raheem provide from the Reform Party Conference?
So yeah, thanks, Ray. Good to meet you. Speech was fantastic. Very timely. Nigel brought it forward because of the announcement about Angela Rayner. So I think that was very timely that he came on. Strike while the iron's hot, so to speak. But myself and a good friend came to this conference last year. I would say it's probably five, six times as big as it was last year.
So I think that shows the direction of travel. There's one kind of direction this country's going in at the minute, isn't it?
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Well, I'm here in New York now, and for those of you who are watching, or sorry, listening to this, I should say, via a podcast, you really will want to get the visuals, because I was in New York earlier this year as well, and like I've done for the past five years now, I ran the Tunnel to Towers 5K, and that starts in Brooklyn, and it goes under the bridge, into Manhattan,
and you emerge up at the World Trade Center, what was the World Trade Center now, the Freedom Tower, and every year I do that and raise money for, originally it was the victims of 9-11 families, and now Tunnel to Towers as an organization has expanded their remit, and now they raise money for military families, especially those
of which have had limbs blown off and require special kinds of disability housing. They've even built a veteran's village.
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Chapter 5: What challenges does local media face today?
And I can think of no better thing to spend some time on every year Then running that race, bringing attention to it, helping Tunnel to Towers, the charity. And this year I did it right after Charlie Cook's assassination. I did it wearing the Charlie Cook Freedom T-shirt. So I wanted to bring you some of my highlights from that day. I'm not in the best shape that I've been in my life.
So even though it was just a 5K, some of it was still a struggle. You'll have to forgive me for that. But we still did it. We still made it through. And we raised over $20,000 this year. I think that puts us at about $100,000 over the last several years raised. So thank you to everybody who was a part of that. Thank you to the Tunnel to Towers team. Thank you.
to Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a lot of people who were involved in that charity very early on. And thank you to everybody who supported and donated. And I think if you can, you should go to Tunnel to Towers website yourself and chip in.
Thank you.
and we've made it welcome back to Moynihan train hall where I spend an inordinate amount of time for somebody who doesn't live here but very nice station recently rebuilt it's in the old uh what was this the old post office or something beautiful skylight wonderful lounge up there let's go get a cab pick up our run packet for free Hey, brother. Going to the Conrad downtown, please.
Butterworth hat, Trump jacket, Tunnel to Towers bag. You know, you can't really get all that much more patriotic than that, can you?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the current media regulations?
Well, good morning. It's morning of the run here in Manhattan. I have my Charlie Coke Freedom T-shirt on. They definitely look and feel a mess. Right now we head to the water taxi to take us over to Brooklyn. I hope they're still available. I'm running a bit late actually. So we're loaded onto the boat. Last year again it was extremely rainy and cold so I'm delighted that the sun is out.
Not a big boat person, not a big water person, honestly, but it's all right. Sun's out.
Chapter 7: How can listeners support local broadcasters?
We'll live with it.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
OK, start line's behind us, but because we're so bunched up, you can't run yet. And if you are trying to get a good time, it's not good.
Chapter 8: How does Raheem Kassam reflect on Charlie Kirk's legacy?
Excuse me. I'm going to try and work my way through here and get a little jogging. There we go. Got some open road. And this is where we enter the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel. This is where Steven Ziller and so many of the people who perished on 9-11 walked toward the fire, grabbed their gear, went back through this tunnel, all the firemen with the gears on their back, and tried to help people.
And there are just thousands of people in this tunnel now. It's the hardest part. It gets so hot. And people weave in and out. Alright. Still in the tunnel. Coming up to the part now where It stops being downhill into the tunnel. It starts being uphill out of the tunnel. You can imagine how much fun that is. We get a little bit of a roadblock here. As people slow down going uphill in the tunnel.
I'm really starting to sweat. Last night's Guinness off now. It's about this time in the run. I'm just over halfway through the tunnel. You start to feel a bit cocky. You're like, ah, yeah, fine, no problem. Until you realize you've got another mile and a half on the other side of the tunnel. Sweaty in here. Humid, gross. People are starting to walk and give up.
But your boy doesn't know the meaning of give up. So it reminds you of that scene out of Independence Day. Okay, big uphill coming. Big uphill coming. Alright, there's light at the end of the tunnel. And there's noisy boys behind me. Once we get out of the tunnel, I'm going to walk a little bit so I can show you what you're looking at when you come out of the tunnel.
Also so I can walk a little bit. But it's not easy, people think it's easy. There are people in far better shape than me who are struggling. It's the heat, it's the closeness, it's the humidity, it's the uphill nature of it.
You can't just rock up here.
Or you can rock up and walk. Getting chased over here. Alright, we're out of the tunnel. And now when you come out, you have all of these policemen, firefighters holding banners of the people who gave their lives. And it's always so moving, no matter how much you do it.
Younger men better shape than me going up this hill and then of course you've got spectators on the bridge, the World Trade Center in the distance and everyone's stripping off now because it is There's a breeze outside, but it's still hot. It's still in the 80s. A little bit of shade under the bridge here. Some water stations, if you fancy it. Some bagpipers.
And just more and more of these moving portraits. They say to you when you get to this part, they always say, go on, you're almost there. You're not really almost there. it's probably another mile to go now the pipers have just started playing so you've got to start weaving in between people here and now you come up at the world trade center freedom tower to match my shirt or charlie's shirt
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