“Let’s have an academy that brings the best thinkers together and it can actually train what we call, what we call modern gladiators,” Bannon said in an interview with NBC’s Richard Engel in collaboration with SourceMaterial. “The people who come out of here, they’ll be entering these organisations at either a junior level or mid-level and it’ll be five or 10 or 15 years until you start to see the impact.”