Steve Bannon explains why the Minneapolis pullback was not a pause or adjustment but a full political collapse.
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Aired on January 27, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
This Was Not a Strategic Retreat
STEVE BANNON (HOST): It is Tuesday, 27 January, and the year of our Lord 2026.
I told you long ago, or presented to you long ago, that this is a war for this country, for this republic, for the sovereignty of this country, and to make sure that we pass down and bequeath to future generations the same country that was bequeathed to us.
Rachel Maddow’s right. Just make sure you embrace that today. You can’t sugarcoat this. Let’s not sugarcoat it. We’re not going to have happy talk here.
It wasn’t just a blink. It was a crater.
Bovino, you see how they’re mocking Bovino, because they know Bovino is a man of action.
This is about an invasion of our country of 15 or 20 million. Of course the business community is not going to want mass deportations. Of course the neoliberal neocons at Fox News. Who do you think got us in this problem? The Murdochs are part of it. Of course their paid mouthpieces over there are going to say, yeah, well, you know, you’ve got to really rethink this.
This is a retreat, and it ain’t a strategic retreat.
Why is that? Because the people around the president. You see who set up the phone calls. Frey and Walz are spiking the football.
Instead of having the Insurrection Act invoked on a domestic terrorist radical mob that is highly organized and paid by outside sources.
Peter Strzok is going to be here in the second hour with Invisible Coup about the Chinese Communist Party, the Mexican government, a book that not one line of has been refuted.
Doug Mackey is going to join me to talk about the courts, the judges.
We’re at war. If you don’t think we’re at war, then you’re going to play conventional politics. Oh, you know, that poll of independents, you know, we’re slipping in that poll of independents.
If you play by conventional methods, you’re going to lose, because they’re not playing by conventional methods.
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