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Episode 5026: WarRoom Saturday Special: The Patriot's History Of America
27 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the primal scream of a dying regime?
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? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Chapter 2: How does the media contribute to the perception of political truth?
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.
It's Saturday, 27 December in the year of our Lord 2025. Okay. Today, as you know, the Saturday show is my favorite show of the week. And this is our last Saturday show for this year. I want to do something a little special. So I invited one of my favorite people, the great historian, Larry Swiker, to join us. And we're going to
spend the next couple hours going through not just American history, but also how it applies to today. I want to start off, though, because I haven't had the opportunity to do this yet. is to ā I want to play the speech I gave at AmFest, which some people think was a little controversial. I don't happen to think it's that controversial, but I want to break it down for you.
I'm going to ask Larry to do this with me. So let's go ahead, and I'm going to go ā we're going to go right back to last Friday at AmFest. I don't know. It was about ā Eight o'clock in the evening East Coast time. I think five or six o'clock there when I gave a 15 or 16 minute speech. We're going to play its entirety. Then I'm going to break it down when we come back.
Let's go ahead and play it.
Thank you. Thank you. We are at war.
You know how we know this? You just heard Hawkins up here a few minutes ago, right? What did she say at the very moment Charlie Kirk was assassinated? What, the University of Montana? They laughed in her face, right? Laughed in her face, and some guy goes, oh, we're at war. Charlie Kirk knew we were at war. Every time I've spoken...
At any event of Turning Point, I always start with that, because Charlie Kirk knew one thing. He knew we were at war, and he knew we were going to be victorious if we didn't quit. So what do I mean by that? Let's go back. Do you understand, for the last 10 years, there have been eight national elections, either primaries,
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Chapter 3: What makes American history relevant to today's political climate?
This is when Charlie Kirk really, I think, stepped up the most. President Trump was sent to Mar-a-Lago. They never thought he was coming back. The Republican Party never thought he was coming back. And what happened? President Trump grinded it out. In fact, he told us on this stage last year, right here, the first time he told anybody when Charlie had him come out here and speak, what'd he say?
He said, I had to run again because I could not let them steal an election because they're stealing the country. And we sit and we see what Biden did then. We win the midterms in 22.
Chapter 4: What was the controversial speech delivered at AmFest?
We picked up about 11 seats, eight net, and took the House of Representatives. There was supposed to be more, but we got control of the House. And then, and really the greatest come from behind ever, President Trump, turning point put him on their shoulders, we won the greatest election in the history of the country.
in 10 years in 10 years a decade you've been beaten once when we leaned on our shovels charlie kirk understood one thing we are at war it's a political war it's a what a cold civil war we don't want it to turn hot we don't need it to turn hot if we accomplish what we're supposed to accomplish And we have won seven of eight national elections.
The American people are with us as long as we get things done, as long as we accomplish the punch list that Rob Snyder talked about when he walked down this stage. That's what's incumbent upon us, and that's what the Republican establishment to date, because you can already see what they're doing and trying to block President Trump. You see this in Indianapolis. You see this in the redistricting.
The Republican establishment think that President Trump's just a passing storm and that he's just going to fade away. And what they're going to try to do is co-opt turning point because Charlie has built it into a massive political operation that cannot be beat. And the left knows that. It's one of the reasons, yes, I realize we haven't gone to trial yet. We don't know all the information yet.
It looks like, you know, at least the information we have out, it may be this guy, maybe not an organization in back of it. We don't know that yet because the evidence hasn't been put out. But Charlie Kirk is dead. Think about that. The individual that's probably, I think, at his age, the greatest individual this country's produced politically, culturally, since the revolution.
Remember, all of the revolution with 30. Charlie Kirk, hell, he's 31 years old. He's been doing this since he was 18, 17 or 18. But Charlie Kirk was a man of action. And I want to make sure that we get something straight tonight. We have a partner's discussion. And I want to say up front, if I hurt some feelings here, you can come and talk to me afterwards.
This whole thing that's gone on the last couple of days, some of the comments tonight, This is not about this specific incident. It's not about freedom of speech or platforming or deplatforming. They're all talking about that. And that's, you know, people are saying hurtful things to each other. Tucker said the quiet part out loud. This is a proxy on 28.
Now, I think it's way too early to be thinking about 28. But he's right about one thing. This is a proxy on an issue that's not freedom of speech and not are you going to get platform to de-platformed. This is about a situation that Charlie Kirk was probably one of the most, if not the most important person in doing and accomplishing.
And that is this concept of what I would call greater Israel and Israel first. You can't get a better defender of Israel than Charlie Kirk. You can't get a better defender of Israel than Steve Bannon. At Breitbart, adamant, couldn't have a two-state solution. In the White House, I'm the one that pushed initially hard to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
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Chapter 5: How have recent elections shaped the current political landscape?
Don't ask me. Ask the guys associated with David Horowitz what he did there. He tried to take that over. And mark my word, he will make a move on Turning Point because he's always been envious of Charlie Kirk. This is not about speech. It's not about deplatforming. This is about power politics.
And what Charlie Kirk believed in, to the core of his being, that America makes decisions for America and Americans make decisions for America. That was Charlie Kirk. That's... Why the hell do you think they assassinated him? Why did they put the poison all over this place? Why are they mocking ridicule? James Carville said yesterday that Rob Reiner has done 100 times more than Charlie Kirk.
They hate Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk brought victories. And with victory after victory after victory, that's when we can re-Christianize this country. What was Charlie Kirk's lesson? That we were a Christian nation that got off the rails. We have to re-Christianize this country. You are in the shadows of a giant, not just an American patriot,
and an American hero, Charlie Kirk is a Christian martyr, and Charlie Kirk is a Christian saint. That is your legacy that you take up. The day I went into prison, the day I went into prison, we passed the show to Charlie Kirk as we did oftentimes in the three and a half years that Charlie Posobiec and I had that block at Real America's Voice.
And what Charlie said, I said to Charlie, next man up. Charlie said, I got it. Next man up. Are you next man up? Are you going to fill the shoes of Charlie Kirk? Do you have the stones to do it? Do you have the guts to do it? Ask yourself that because I tell you what, you in this room right here are going to decide whether we win in 26.
And if we don't win in 26, they're going to bring holy hell down on us. We have to win. Charlie Cook knew that, and you know that. Thank you very much. Next man up. Okay, welcome back, and I want to thank our production team in Denver and my own production team here because we're doing the first part of the show a little differently. We don't take that break up in the middle of the show.
We're going to kind of float this one. Why did I think that was important? Number one, A lot of this conversation and debate had gotten around the First Amendment and around platform. Who's going to be platform? Who's not going to be platform? Who's talking? Who's putting these people on shows, et cetera? Not that I don't think that's important. I just don't think it's signal.
I think it's noise. The important things, I believe, are the underlying policies that that are driving the movement, maybe a part of people aren't coalescing around. And I want to be very specific. I talked about this, you know, earlier in the week on, I think it was the Tuesday afternoon.
I don't think it was Christmas Eve, but the Tuesday show, I had Rabbi Wilicki in in the morning, which he talked about the situation in Syria, and Rabbi Wilicki and Laura Loomer, who I name-checked right there, talk about Israel's sovereignty and our independence.
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Chapter 6: What are the foundational beliefs of Charlie Kirk and their significance?
That will be bad for America. But in fact, if you look at it, they're kind of looking at what they've been used to their entire lives. Let me go to 1995. I see that as a pivotal moment in the minimizing and what I think will be the ultimate loss of almost all power in the House and in the Senate. In 1995, Newt Gingrich and the class of 94, the freshman class,
that had all these great names in it, went up against Clinton and had a government shutdown. And after a few months of bad media, Newt caved. And he never had the same kind of power after that at all. Well, what has happened since then is that Congress increasingly has been unable to force a showdown over a budget.
And either you're going to shut down the government until somebody agrees to have a budget, or you're going to have to impeach whoever is in there, and that's not going to work because you can never convict them. So when you get up to Obama, he spent his entire term really on Obamacare. That was pretty much it.
When you get to Trump and his first term after the Democrats took the House, they did nothing except impeach Trump. So you could even say today, I hate to bring this up, I know people are going to screech, and I'm very optimistic about 2026, very optimistic. But let's just say the Democrats took both the House and the Senate in 2026. What would be the real practical outcome?
How many laws would they pass that Trump would sign? Zero. How many impeachments would they get through? Because you're not going to get 67 votes in the Senate. Zero. So for all intents and purposes, unless Mike Johnson puts on some jets here, there wouldn't be a whole lot of difference between a Democrat Congress in 2027 and what we have now.
And that's partly because... But the investigative power and the ability to send subpoenas and slow everything down be harmful. Larry, hang on. We're going to discuss this for the whole second hour. And I want to put your writings... Because the amazing thing about you that I find is not only you're one of our best historians...
that you really got Trump early, and you're quite practical and pragmatic when it comes to actually understanding the basic mechanics of national politics. Larry Schweikert's our guest. I guess he's my co-host, not even a guest for this morning. Our last Saturday show of the year. An extraordinary individual, great writer. He's got a couple of new books coming out.
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