Part 1 of 2
Bannon interview w/Martha McCallum transcript, mostly complete except for first couple minutes.
Asked about EU reaction to elections–
"Angela Merkel is a complete phony" (rest was fairly benign)
Asked about Pope's recent immigration statements:
"The Pope is obviously infallible when he's talking about church doctrine, but when he's talking about politics, he's just dead wrong. This is, once again, he puts all the onus on the populist/nationalist movement. These people are good, decent people. They're not racists, they're not nativists, they're not xenophobes. The problems, these horrific problems in sub-Saharan Africa, and in north Africa, cannot be solved by working class people in southern Italy. That's what's been the problem, is that the Pope and the rest of these globalists, this kind of party of Davos, want all the problems to be solved by working class people, and they're who Salvini and Orban are speaking for. They say, hey look, we understand there's a huge problem. We have to work together to solve that problem IN sub-Saharan Africa or north Africa or the Middle East. Working class people in Hungary, in France, and in Italy can't solve it. And that's where the Pope continues, I think, to kind of exacerbate this problem. But the people voted. Salvini now, and Farage, very quickly could be prime ministers of their own countries."
Asked about his role in growing trend of populist/nationalism worldwide:
"This was a European victory, by Europeans. These leaders over here do not need Americans to come over and tell them how to run campaigns. Their strategy, their get out the vote, this was a European victory by the individual parties in those countries, and they should be very proud of that. The reason that the Trump campaign reached out to me in 2016 is that I've been working on this populist/nationalist program for about 10 years in the United States. I'm a colleague of these people, I'm a friend of these people, but I'm not an adviser. I'm just over here to help spread the message of populism and nationalism, and I'm glad that Merkel and Macron's heads blow up when I come over here to have my presence, and kind of root on, have a rooting interest, in these great political movements that are taking charge of Europe now."
Asked about when he left the White House, saying "that presidency is over", and whether he still believed that–
"I think it turned around. I think you saw the globalists at that time, you had a huge emphasis. That's when we didn't get a chance to build the wall, that's when we didn't get our trade deal, that's when we hadn't taken on China. If you look at the summer of 2017, it was kind of the doldrums. If you get a chance, you should read the book by Woodward. I actually tendered my resignation to General Kelly on August 7th and then left 10 days later. That was the doldrums. President Trump is now full on. He's building the wall, he's down there fighting the courts, he's doing a fantastic job in engaging on this economic war that China's been running on the United States, he's engaging the radical Communist Party in China, you know Pres Xi (did not catch the name he mentioned following Xi) these radicals that have taken control of China. You saw this great effort that he had in Japan over the last couple of days, which the MSM has focused on his Twitter feed. People in Asia are focused on how he has bound together the Japanese and American military and Navy, and sent a very strong signal to countries around the South China Sea that the Americans and the Japanese are going to work together to make sure those sea lanes are free. It was a very powerful couple of days for the President. I think the President's on fire right now, with his program back. He's completing the promises he made to the American people. That's why the economy's doing well, and I think that's why we're seeing an America First national security policy that the people understand."