From the January 5, 2022, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic

STEPHEN K. BANNON (HOST): Peter Navarro is joining us today because we're going to do a – like a Manningcast on the Ari Melber / Peter Navarro throw down last night, which was mesmerizing TV if nothing else that you guys got into, I think for 20 minutes almost, I think was out – without commercial break, as I remember, because you guys just it was a pure punch out from start to finish. And MSNBC, you know, we need more of that. That was amazing TV. That's got to be good for ratings. So Ari's produces – only beef. I got with Ari, the largest, the biggest interview he ever had was with me. They played it in primetime, got Ari off of the day shift, got him into primetime. Biggest ratings they ever had when they did the 10 year anniversary of a show, not one mention. Not that I keep track of that stuff, but it did go into the black book. Peter Navarro –

PETER NAVARRO (GUEST): You got a little Italian in you there.

BANNON: Not that we track – no, that's old Irish, that's Irish. Irish Alzheimer's is when they forget the grudges. So, um, China.

NAVARRO: Let me just reinforce something you said before we get started here, because Ari's a class act and what we did last night is what cable news should be doing every night. That was a heck of a debate. That was solid. And I came with my facts and point of view. He came with his. And I think people listening to it actually learned some stuff from it. There's not a lot of that going on on cable news these days and it's a shame. So I want to thank Air for being willing to do that.

BANNON: It was the – hang on, hang on. Ari should understand this and his producers. It was – and I don't know if they liked this part of it. It was the 3 November equivalent of Dr. Robert Malone going on Joe Rogan. This audience knows if you watch all three hours of Joe Rogan and Dr. Malone, the War Room posse says well hold it, I heard that from these guys back in 2020, in the spring of 2020. And quite frankly, a lot – even more of what I heard with Peter Navarro and Malone when they wrote the op-ed for The Washington Times in July. Right. And we're on the show. But for the audience, for the audience, it was unbelievable. For the audience, it was unbelievable that – for the audience, it was unbelievable that we got that new audience heard it. It was all fresh information. It's like last night. That's the first time MSNBC's ever heard any pushback with reality of what happened on 3 November. And obviously, it's live TV, so you didn't get in all your hits. But like I told you, on a scale from one to 10, it was a 9.25.