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Steve Bannon: “They spend $900 billion a year [at the Pentagon].”

Featuring: Steve Bannon, Former White House Chief Strategist | National

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Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Steve Bannon (interview) | FRONTLINE

Published | Video Starts at 42:47

You got to get to the Pentagon. They've been at the Pentagon for nine and a half weeks, 10 weeks. I haven't heard one chirp right out of that festering sore of They spend $900 billion a year [at the Pentagon]. Trust me, there's a little bit of waste, fraud and abuse over there. We haven't heard, we haven't seen one email, one Twitter post on anything. (42:47–42:55)

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Asserts that the Pentagon's annual spending is $900 billion.

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