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Episode 1,734 - Republican Opposition To Jackson Solidifies; MSNBC Attacks Moms For LibertyEpisode 1,734 - Republican Opposition To Jackson Solidifies; MSNBC Attacks Moms For Liberty
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steve bannon
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darren j beattie
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jason jones
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joe scarborough
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john solomon
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mike davis
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tina descovich
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alexandria ocasio-cortez
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anthony fauci
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chris hayes
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steve bannon
OK, welcome to The War Room, Friday, 25 March, Year of Our Lord 2025.
We're going to go from the southern border of Mexico down near the frontline states all the way to the Vatican, to Brussels, to Utah.
It's going to be a packed show today.
Let's go to Jason Jones, our own Jason Jones.
At St.
Peter's Square at the Vatican.
Tell us what's going on, sir.
Why it's a big day there.
jason jones
Steve, it's a privilege to share this with your audience.
I am here outside the walls of the Vatican City and today is a historic day where we're seeing for Catholics really something absolutely unbelievable after an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary over a hundred years ago in Portugal asking the Pope to consecrate Russia to the The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It's happening today and you can see there are crowds, as far as I can see, all around Vatican City waiting to get in.
And what's amazing about this, it's the eruption of the word from three shepherd children in Portugal over a century ago, who were told by the Virgin Mary to pray for peace, to pray for the people of Russia.
And today, Pope Francis will be praying for Russia.
Praying for Ukraine, praying for peace.
If you're not Catholic, I don't think you can really begin to understand the magnitude of this day for those of us who are Catholics and the knitting together of the West and the East into really what it is, historic Christendom.
Children from Portugal witnessed an apparition from the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today leads to an event where people from all over the world will be praying for the people of Russia and for the people of Ukraine, praying for peace.
steve bannon
Well, actually, talk about the consecration, because it is going to be a consecration.
This is something that's been very controversial since 19, I think it was 1917 when the apparition occurred.
This was all about, you know, during World War I or right before World War I.
It was all about Russia.
There was this part that was never revealed.
There's always been this controversy about the consecration of Russia and Holy Mother Russia.
There's a controversy about did John Paul actually do this, and there's been a big dust-up here the last couple of months.
What is it about this concept of consecration, and why has it been so controversial?
jason jones
Well, you know, a consecration is an act of love, and so when a Christian is a Catholic, Yourself to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
What you're asking is that you can serve her son the way that she served her son.
And so what we're seeing today is the Pope consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
And it's a prayer for peace and it's a prayer for love and it's a prayer for love for the people of Russia and the people of Ukraine and The Blessed Virgin Mary told these children that the heirs of Russia would spread around the world.
This was six months before, right, you know, the Uprisings began six months before the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, where we then did see the heirs of Russia spill out all over the world in persecution to the church behind the Iron Curtain like we had never seen before in the world.
steve bannon
Okay, what time is the—it looks like a massive crowd—what time are they going to start letting people in?
Ben Harnwell is going to report here at 11.
What time does this event start to take place?
jason jones
Well, the event starts at 5 o'clock, and the rest of the Vulnerable People Project crew, they're already inside, and these are the folks who will be outside joining in the consecration with Pope Francis.
And I believe they'll probably be letting them in in the next 45 minutes or so.
Five o'clock Rome time, it begins.
steve bannon
Jason, how do people follow you on social media?
Because I know many Catholics will want to follow this globally today, including our Mandarin-speaking audience.
jason jones
At Jason Jones Show, I'm Getter, and you can follow my podcast, The Jason Jones Show, wherever you listen to podcasts.
We'll be broadcasting from here, and I'm heading to Poland and Ukraine later in the week, where I'll be broadcasting from as well.
steve bannon
Are you going to be up on Getter Live during this entire event today at the Vatican?
jason jones
If they let me.
If there's bandwidth and the Swiss Guard don't hit me in the head, I'll be there.
steve bannon
Okay, perfect.
unidentified
Perfect.
steve bannon
We're going to be following Jason as he's in Poland and Ukraine.
Jason, thank you very much for joining us.
Real honor.
jason jones
All right.
Thank you, Steve.
steve bannon
Ben Harnwell is going to be at 11 o'clock.
Give us a live update.
Also, we're going to do the new federal state of China, the new China, the new Chinese are actually at the border in between Poland and Ukraine.
They have a setup to help refugees.
We're going to be there later today with those folks.
Also, we're going to be in the border that counts.
Joe Biden's, I think, going to the border.
We're going to be talking about the border that counts for us, which is the southern border of the United States.
Tons of information and live reports coming a little later in the show.
Let's do the cold open.
I want to bring in Mike Davis.
Big controversy, a sea change here in Washington, D.C.
about the Supreme Court nominee driven by the tip of the spear, the worm.
Let's play the cold open.
joe scarborough
I want to just underline something that you said in Jenny Thomas' tweet, one of her tweets, and it is so indicative of how the Republican Party Uh, plays victim, uh, how they try to play this phony populist game.
You have the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, one of the most powerful, conservative people in Washington, D.C., talking to the Chief of Staff in the White House, the President of the United States, most powerful person in the world, saying, don't cave to the elites.
These two are the elites.
They are at the center of power, if anybody's at the center of power, and she's throwing out that victimhood.
Isn't that so symbolic?
Isn't that so representative of what Republicans have been doing for years?
They play victims when they're the ones Most firmly ensconced in power after going to Yale and Stanford.
If you look at these senators and Princeton and Harvard and on and on and on.
It's such a phony populist gang.
chris hayes
But at the same time, right?
The diminishment of the personal political power, that doesn't mean to me that there's any diminishment in the forces there.
This is today, this is the Attorney General for the state of Alabama, sworn in to go talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee, refusing to say that Joe Biden is the rightful President of the United States in a free and fair election.
Take a listen.
unidentified
Is Joseph R. Biden of Delaware The duly elected and lawfully serving President of the United States of America.
steve bannon
He is the President of this country.
unidentified
Is he the duly elected and lawfully serving President of the United States?
steve bannon
He is the President of our country.
unidentified
Are you answering that omitting the language duly elected and lawfully serving purposefully?
I'm answering the question, he is the President of the United States.
chris hayes
That's not some fringe dude in a, you know, posting on Twitter.
That's the Attorney General for Alabama, like, so intense is the orthodoxy, he can't say that plain and won't say that plain truth.
unidentified
Well, that's right.
The fringe has become the center in the Republican Party.
I agree with that on this question.
joe scarborough
January 6th, but this takes us into the mindset of people inside The Trump White House, who actually believe, running the Trump White House, actually believed they were doing Jesus Christ's work by undermining American democracy and keeping in power, illegally, a want-to-be tyrant.
I've got to ask you, in all of your years of reporting on this Trump White House, have you seen anything more shocking than what you uncovered in this story that was published yesterday?
unidentified
Well, comparing shocks is really a difficult business, particularly having done this for 50 years.
Real bend in this is all these texts are after the election.
We have a system.
We hold the election.
Okay, now it's over.
And as we know, every state, 50 states and the District of Columbia submitted their electors and that was it.
And here we have The wife of Clarence Thomas, the Justice, saying, you know, make her the lead, make her the face.
We're going to continue this fight.
And the problem is, in many people's minds now, that fight continues.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
It is Biden's power and ability to cancel student debt and nobody else's.
unidentified
Well, with his falling approval numbers, one would think that they might be open to trying something other than, you know, sort of cruising down a path to a very tough re-election.
Do you get any sense of whether or not they're open to that?
alexandria ocasio-cortez
I think the fact that the Biden administration has not been squarely shutting down a lot of these executive orders does convey an openness.
But I do think that time for the administration is running out and we do not have much more time to wait because these falling poll you know polling numbers.
I don't believe in governing by polling but if that is a concern which.
You know, to be real in elections, it's a real thing.
We need to acknowledge that this isn't just about middle of the road, an increasingly narrow band of independent voters, but this is really about the collapse in support among young people, among the Democratic base, feeling like they are not, that they worked overtime to get this president elected and they aren't necessarily being seen.
unidentified
But what about Biden's grand reset?
Well, Chris, what McConnell did was send a signal to Republican colleagues that it was absolutely okay to oppose Judge Jackson, but that was something that was never really in doubt.
What was most illuminating in the confirmation hearings was how the Republicans handled this confirmation, and it was really The Republican presidential primary of 2024 on full display.
You have people like Senator Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz who were focusing on these child pornography cases and the sentencing and Some of those cases, which the current White House tied to QAnon conspiracies.
As we know, QAnon has long said that Democrats are tied with a child pornography ring.
I asked Senator Hawley about that yesterday, and he had a sarcastic response saying, yeah, and I'm also part of the Illuminati also.
But when I pressed him saying he didn't really answer the question, he finally mumbled under his breath that it was absurd, those allegations from the White House.
So you have that wing of the party, and then you have people like Senator Ben Sasse, who also has presidential ambitions, who tried to be the grown-up in the room.
And so while many of the Republicans on the committee really grilled Judge Jackson, it also not only showed the divide between Republicans and Democrats, but also the divide among Republicans as well, and who is trying to pander to the far-right aspects of the base, Chris.
steve bannon
Okay, welcome back.
There's a lot to get through today.
We have a sea change in the city.
It is not a small thing that Mitch McConnell came out and said, I'm not voting for her after looking at her, not just her background, because he was open-minded, but seeing the testimony.
And he didn't actually use the phrase, but I'm letting everybody else do what they want to do.
This is a big signal for Mitch McConnell to fall in line.
Joe Manchin's coming out right now and saying, hey, everything he's seen, he's going to vote for, but you know, everything can change.
The key here is to slow down the train.
They want to have a vote on the 4th, I think, from committee, and then the 8th before they go on the Easter break.
And obviously, the whole purpose is to get past that 8th.
I want to bring in Mike Davis.
Mike, we've got about 30 seconds here.
We're going to go to break and bring you back.
There's no conspiracy, but there are no coincidences.
Just a random event, the drop in the Ginny Thomas, Justice Thomas story, at the same time that everybody's all over Justice Judge Jackson, sir.
mike davis
Yeah, so Democrats are now very concerned about the personal political views of a wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice and not the 25-year record of advocating for leniency for sex predators of kids of a current Supreme Court nominee.
So it's a very interesting standard.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
Mike Davis is going to be with us.
We've got Tina Deskovitz of the Moms for Liberty.
They're attacking her on MSNBC.
We've got John Solomon, Darren Beattie.
This is packed.
Strap in.
We're going to get it all done.
I commit to you, we're going to get it all done.
Mike Davis on the War Room's putting shoulder to the wheel.
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We're going to do it again today.
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Okay, the Senate number, the switchboard number, and yesterday you could not get through to Dick Durbin's office, but we need you today to put your shoulder to the wheel.
This hangs in the balance.
They never anticipated.
They're very, very, very nervous.
2-0-2, 2-2-4, 3-1-2-1.
The Warren Posse did an amazing job yesterday, lighting people up.
The feedback I got was just tremendous.
Remember, color inside the lines, but color boldly.
Mike Davis.
There's only more negative.
And this whole Hawkins situation is still fluid.
But the facts are coming out.
The more facts that come out about her record, the more damning.
And I want to go through the three buckets that are still being held back.
And in my theory of the case, sir, as I've talked to many people overnight and this morning, is that it's Dick Durbin.
Absolutely furious at the White House.
He's been put in a horrible situation.
He understands that that hearing was was a debacle and it's because the White House they were just as competent in Afghanistan as they were just as competent this hearing as they were in Afghanistan.
It's the same mindset as in Ukraine.
The is the southern border one.
They're radicals to the completely incompetent and they understand they had a terrible hearing and she showed terribly Mike Davis.
mike davis
Yeah, I mean the problem is is they have a nominee who it doesn't seem like she was ready for prime time and that's their own making.
They rushed this.
Justice Breyer is not even stepping down from the Supreme Court until the end of June.
There is no reason to rush this other than the fact that this is a cover-up.
They're trying to hide her record.
And they've already done this.
Dick Durbin has refused to make the Biden White House turnover records on Judge Jackson's background.
It's very legitimate records.
The Obama White House has 48,000 pages of records on Judge Jackson's prior nominations to the District Court, to the Sentencing Commission.
They're refusing to turn those over.
They're refusing To turn over her records of her service as vice chair of the Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014, and they're refusing to turn over pre-sentence reports for the 7 of 7 people who Judge Jackson granted leniency, significant leniency, when she was a district court judge for 8 years and she sentenced 100 people.
This is a pattern here and what they're trying to do, they're trying to cover up that Judge Jackson has a 25-year record of advocating for leniency for people who possess and distribute child pornography, child sex predators.
And the American people are starting to learn about this now, and they're panicking.
They're panicking.
They're trying to shift the attention to, it was all Ukraine before, now it's, now the mainstream liberal reporters have taken a break from covering Ukraine to swoop in and cover Jenny Thomas's personal political views, the wife of the Supreme Court Justice.
But they don't want to cover the 25-year record.
steve bannon
Well, no, no, no, no, no.
unidentified
No.
steve bannon
Costa and his wingman could have dropped that at any time, right?
That was dropped specifically.
This is all information warfare.
There are no coincidences here.
That was dropped specifically and weaponized.
Woodward weaponized that.
He's done all the TV rounds to take your eye off a weak nominee.
And we're not going to signal here is you have a radical weak nominee.
They're in total panic mode.
This is going to be like Stalingrad to get this nomination through.
And remember, what we said is that we think this nomination can get killed.
As importantly, it'll be the toughest vote that people like Mark Kelly ever take because it will end his political career.
Conservative Hispanics and moderate Hispanics who are culturally conservative Are not going to tolerate voting for someone like this and a lifetime appointment of the Supreme Court if we do our job, which is just to get the facts out there.
And Judge Jackson should want all the facts out there.
She should be the one to say, no, I want all my records forward and I will go.
And if I have to have another briefing, I'll go do another briefing.
What can people do today?
This Mitch McConnell thing is huge.
The story, if we can get the story up on the Hill, the lead story today on the Hill is that Republican opposition to her nomination, to her confirmation, is hardening.
That's because you've got Collins, you've got Murkowski, you've got Ben Sasse, little Ben Sasse, who's skipping around, right?
You know, all these guys.
Romney, you've got some doozies up there, right?
Some real pieces of work.
Uh, and that we got to have, we got to come in hot and strong and fair and bold on this.
The numbers 202-224-3121.
You got them.
Hey, the reason.
It's cause and effect.
The reason you saw that headline today in the hill is because this audience put their shoulder to the wheel for the last couple of days, really for the last week, but yesterday was monumental.
Mike, what else?
You're going to join us hopefully at the end of the day today to get an update because we're going to be on this 24-7.
What else is going to play out today, sir?
mike davis
It's going to be interesting.
The media is going to try to get away from Judge Jackson as much as they can.
They're going to try to cover up Uh, what happened at her hearing.
The Democrats will continue to cover up her record.
It is why it is so critical that people call their home state senators at 202-224-3121.
Light up the phone lines and make sure your home state senators, both of them, make sure that they know you care about this and you're watching.
steve bannon
Okay, Mike, real quickly, your Twitter feed and your Getter feed because you're on fire.
You can keep second to second update by following Mike Davis.
m or d d m i a m or d d m i a and thank you very much steve for having having me on again one of one of the thing before before i let mike go who's been heroic in this and shilling and lizzie or if if you're a contributor to the judicial crisis network let me just call out a name you might want to call them and say hey what's going on here Enough with the softball.
The ads are terrible.
They suck.
Let me be blunt.
They suck.
Okay?
You've got to get to the ramparts now.
All the other conservative, cultural conservative institutions you give money to as donors or help or support or however, call them up today too and say, where are you in this fight?
Where are you?
Are you sending out emails?
Are you guys, because they're all cowering in the corner.
This courage is contagious, and the best courage is the small donors they have calling them up and saying, where are you?
And let me be blunt, in your opinion, JCN's ads on this thing, are they getting better?
Are they putting their shoulder to the wheel, or are they still kind of phoning it in?
mike davis
You know, JCN, they have a different strategy than I do at the Article 3 Project.
We both are trying to get to the same goal.
I think that we need to focus like a laser beam on this issue that Judge Jackson has a 25-year record of coddling sex predators of kids and the Democrats are covering it up.
And that is That really resonates with people outside of politics, in the real world, in real America, and we need to engage those people and have them light up the Senate switchboard.
steve bannon
Mike Davis, thank you.
You're a hero.
Let's play the cold open for Tina Descartes.
We've got enough time.
Let's let it rip.
unidentified
Brevard County, the school board meetings there are anything but calm.
The one that we went to wasn't completely out of control, but I can tell you that people, all kinds of parents that I talked to, describe those meetings now as a circus or a show.
Other people say it's just passionate people expressing their rights as parents, but it has definitely become contentious for all the reasons that you just mentioned.
You had a meeting in October where you had to literally kick everybody out.
sometimes coming from the outside and being brought in to Brevard County.
I had a chance to speak with the board chairwoman.
She's been there eight years on the board.
She's technically, as all of them are, nonpartisan.
But she said things have gotten so out of control, it's really hurting her staff.
Take a listen.
You had a meeting in October where you had to literally kick everybody out.
We are going to clear the room.
The audience started to get very loud and it was reaching the point of being unsafe.
Belford is worried about the impact on teachers and administrators.
I'm blessed to be serving a group of 9,000 people that wake up every single day and pour their heart and soul.
Sorry.
What upsets you?
Our people are getting beat up.
And there is no more noble job, and you won't find a group more committed to our kids.
And they are a fallout in all of this, unfortunately.
They are fallout in all of this.
I heard that from a lot of parents, Hallie.
This has really divided the community, and there are essentially two big groups right now in Brevard County.
One is called Moms for Liberty, founded by a former member of the school board who lost her seat after she really campaigned for no masks in schools.
She started that group, Moms for Liberty.
And then on the other side, you've got a group of parents who lean left, who formed in reaction to the Moms for Liberty, and they're called Families for Safe Schools, Hallie.
steve bannon
Okay, Tina Deskovich is going to join us.
Tell you what, let's take a short commercial break.
She's the bad meanie there.
Tina, Moms for Liberty.
Remember, if you want to take your country back, they're just not going to hand you the keys and say, here you are every day in the trenches.
This is why I love the Moms for Liberty.
Short commercial break.
We're going to return.
We've got John Solomon, Darren Beattie, Tina Deskovich.
a whole posse of fighters next in the war room and with steven kate epidemic is a demon we can't let this team and hide and here's your host steven kate okay tina desk of its from moms for liberty who is the subject of that's There's a longer one on Meet the Press online.
We're going to get that cut it up and make sure people see it over the weekend.
Tina, I want to come in.
Why did you make her cry?
Why?
You're such a bad person.
Why did you make her cry?
tina descovich
Look, I don't want to make a Miss Belford cry.
I worked with her for four years and all of the staff that she's talking about, the 9,000 employees, I worked alongside them.
I served my community.
A bunch of Of good people.
She's not wrong in that area.
But what the problem is here is their policies.
It's not me that's the meanie.
It's not me that's causing the problem.
It's not our moms on the ground that are standing up for their children that are deaf or their children that have struggled with all kinds of issues with these mandates, being out of school for days on end, quarantined, healthy kids.
It's those policies that have caused this chaos.
Going against our governor, Ron DeSantis, who was trying to protect children, purposely violating the executive order. It's those policies that caused this.
steve bannon
What is Moms4Liberty doing about this then?
So tell us, what is Moms4Liberty?
Why is it so powerful that NBC and MSNBC now has singled you guys out as somebody that's got to be taken down?
tina descovich
This has been going on for months.
MSNBC covered the lady that beat me in the school board race here locally.
They have put her front and center on their program multiple times.
They are trying to, I guess, make our organization seem like it's nothing but a scorned woman who's mad that she lost her election.
I loved serving on the school board.
I ran for a second term.
I lost to a radical liberal.
And now I have the opportunity to serve my entire country by empowering women all across this country.
We have 80,000 members, 34 states.
We're up to 180 chapters and these are people that are empowered to stand up at their local school boards.
This is much bigger than Brevard County.
steve bannon
How do people find out more about Moms4Liberty?
Start in a chapter all the information of the fight that you are doing to save America's children?
tina descovich
Yeah, you can find us at Moms4Liberty.org or find us on Twitter at Moms4Liberty.
Or Facebook, same thing, at Moms No.
4 Liberty.
We're on all the standard social media sites.
So come find us.
Sign up on our website.
Please get connected and plugged in.
We'll find you a chapter.
You can start a chapter.
There's so much work to be done, Steve.
Our children's innocence is being robbed by these people, and we need everyone in this fight.
steve bannon
Tina, thank you.
Honored to have you on here.
It's always good when you're the target MSNBC coming after you.
Okay.
We're going to have Jeffrey Tucker from Brownstone on later also talking about the mandates.
But this is pretty late in the show for us to be talking about this war.
But it's very important, particularly given the disgraceful performance of Joe Biden yesterday in trying to, you know, call out President Trump for the Charlottesville situation on a global stage.
I mean, Biden is a disgrace to this country, the illegitimate Regime of Joe Biden and they've gotten us into the situation the people Ukraine are paying for their incompetence every day I want to bring in John Solomon. We had a little technical problem. You're saying couldn't finish the conversation, but John I just want you to lay it out for the posse for this audience exactly What is the fight in Ukraine really about sir?
You've done more than any one investigative reporter over the years to get to the bottom of this, and I think in the fog of war it's being missed.
In John Solomon's investigative report, the facts show, what is this actually about in your mind, sir?
john solomon
Well, listen, everybody I've talked to in the diplomatic and security world believes that what Russia's trying to do is to create a buffer from the West.
Ukraine feels too close to the West for Vladimir Putin, so they want to create a buffer and take more than they got when they did the incursion of 2014 in Crimea.
Now, that is the strategic goal of Russia, to create a buffer to move Ukraine away from the West, and it costs a lot of lives if they're willing to do it.
Why did they get to that point?
Well, Vladimir Putin didn't have an army in 2009 that could really do this.
He had a beaten down military, he had a really bad economy after the financial collapse.
Joe Biden, as the general manager of the team, President Barack Obama as the top guy, and Hillary Clinton as the quarterback, they did a thing called the Russian Reset.
And the Russian Reset was classic peace through appeasement.
Even though Vladimir Putin's a bad guy, even though he invaded Georgia in 2008 under George W. Bush, we're going to give him lots of gifts.
What were those gifts?
Tens of billions of dollars of American uranium contracts.
American electricity customers are beholden to Vladimir Putin for 20 years because of these contracts that Barack Obama allowed to be signed between American electricity companies and Russia.
He allowed them to get gas and oil and grow their exports to the country here.
And then he, particularly with Hillary Clinton's help, they created a thing called Skolkovo, which was supposed to be an effort by America to give Moscow its own Silicon Valley.
I don't know why we would be interested in that, but Hillary Clinton did that.
Vladimir Putin took all of that Skolkovo goodwill and he used it for military espionage.
And the very technology he now boasts he has, hypersonic missiles, came by stealing technology from the United States through Skolkovo, according to an army link.
So this war only became possible because Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton gave him money, resources, military know-how, and then he turned it against us.
That is the thing.
And while that was going on, why were they happy to do that?
Why would Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton be glad?
Because they were cashing in on the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
Hillary Clinton and Joe got tens of millions of dollars for her foundation through either Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, $130 million from people related to the Uranium One transaction.
Hunter Biden got one from the Russian oligarch Elena Batarina, got more business from the Ukrainian oligarch Nikola Tsolchesky, who is the Burisma oligarch.
You can pull the chart we had from the other day.
It's a stunning chart about the Clinton Global Initiative.
steve bannon
he turned it against our allies. That is the story that the mainstream media doesn't want to tell America.
I mean one of the things when the history of this is written, and I hope John Solomon's got a book in him to do this, is when the Soviet Union collapsed after President Reagan brought it to his knees and destroyed the evil empire.
The guys like Jeffrey Sachs and all these guys that jumped in there had these radical ideas about how to turn it to like a libertarian state right away that it wasn't ready for.
The thing collapsed and the oligarchs just stole from the Russian people.
That's what they did.
They stole from the Russian people all these state assets and made themselves insanely wealthy with the help of the KGB, the military, and guys like Putin.
Okay, that's the history of Russia.
The people didn't get anything.
They all got stolen by the oligarchs.
But you don't hear about the Ukrainian oligarchs.
Can you take a second and, because when I look at the charts everybody gives me by these organizations that monitor this stuff every day and are the best professionals, Ukraine's the fourth most corrupt nation on earth, Russia's the seventh most corrupt nation, and think about that on earth.
Of all these nations you got there, they're run by bandits, okay?
Talk to us about the Ukrainian oligarchs and their relationships with the Clintons, with Biden, with Hunter Biden, with, as Rudy Giuliani calls it, the Biden crime family.
The Russian oligarchs you never hear about.
Never hear a peep about that in the mainstream media today, sir.
john solomon
Yeah, no, it's true.
Victor Pinchuk, he's a Ukrainian oligarch industrialist.
He's the single largest donor to the Clinton Foundation and to the Clinton machinery over 40 years.
So a Ukrainian oligarch, one of the single largest donors to Clinton, Inc.
In Hunter Biden's world, he tapped three different oligarchs.
Oligarch one is Nikola Zolchevsky.
That's the man that had the corrupt Burisma company on Hunter Biden's watch.
Hunter Biden's on the board of Burisma, according to the State Department documents I won in lawsuits.
The State Department knew that the company had made two bribes.
They made two bribes where Hunter Biden has a fiduciary responsibility for the country.
That's Nikola Zolchevsky.
There's another woman named Elena Batarina.
She is the wife of the former Moscow mayor, a very wealthy, the largest female oligarch in Russian history.
She works out of London.
She gives a $3.5 million check that we have a copy of that goes to a company that Hunter Biden co-founded.
But there are documents between Hunter Biden and his business partner where they're talking about Elena Batarina actually gave all of their businesses $200 million.
And then I'll give you one more one that I think is pretty fun.
There is an oligarch who has been under indictment for years, a guy named Dmitry Firtash.
About six months ago, I reported that Dmitry Firtash's best friend hired Hunter Biden to try to get Hunter Biden to get rid of the criminal case for Dmitry Firtash.
Somebody in the United States government has indicted for wrongdoing.
Hunter Biden was making money trying to get him off the hook on those criminal charges.
steve bannon
Everybody had their hand in these crap cookie jars that are controlled by the oligarchs and ultimately all of these oligarchs report up to one person Vladimir Putin Why did I know the laptop from hell because I was very involved in how this thing got out and I know you've done an Amazing job in the reporting of it is it?
Are there grand juries right now meeting about Hunter Biden, or is this going to be left to the House Republicans?
And Bill Barr should never come on TV and whine about the media not talking about this after the laptop came out.
Bill Barr's attorney general had the laptop from hell, the hard drive from hell, in December of 19.
Him and Chris Wray delivered to the FBI, signed for to the FBI.
Okay, we checked it.
Go ahead, brother.
john solomon
Bill Barr knew there was an ongoing criminal investigation and didn't allow that to be confirmed.
I called Bill Barr and his chief spokeswoman in the summer of 2020 and said, I have confirmation.
I've been told by FBI sources there's an ongoing crime.
He said, no, we can't talk about it.
It's not true.
I wouldn't go there.
I was lied to.
There was a criminal investigation going on since late 2018, and Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions before him kept that from the American people until after the election.
You know, Bill Barr doesn't get to have any whining on this topic particularly.
steve bannon
No, I gotta tell Bill Barr, I think he's got exposure.
If I was Bill Barr, I'd lawyer up here.
This whole situation, About the Ukraine, about the corruption, about where money went and who it went with.
This is going to be explosive.
That's why you continue to watch Just The News, John Solomon, John Solomon Show, Every Day in Real America, Voice Where He's Hammered, top investigative reporter in the country.
John, how do people follow you?
We're at, let me tell you, let me just say it this way.
We're at the top of the first inning.
Remember, I am not, I am the farthest from a conspiracy theory guy, but there ain't no coincidences, okay?
Our film, Clinton Cash, the reason I was brought onto the Trump campaign in August of 16, because we had spent a couple of years hammering on Clinton, on this, on money laundering and influence peddling.
Of the Clinton crime apparatus, right?
And now they see there's other new riches to come, they just restarted it the other day.
You can't make this up.
What I love about the Clintons, it's pure chutzpah, right?
They're just in your grill.
That's what I love about the Clintons, they're just in your grill.
John, how do people get to Just The News?
How do they follow you on social media?
How do they find the show?
john solomon
Absolutely.
JusttheNews.com is the website.
We're running 24-7.
We do about 50-70 stories a day, so check us out there.
Jay Solomon Reports is my handle on every platform.
Getter, Truth, Twitter, Facebook, Jay Solomon Reports.
Really love coming on your show, Steve.
I really do.
steve bannon
We always love you and the audience does too.
John, keep hammering.
john solomon
Be well.
steve bannon
This situation stinks to heaven.
Let's bring Darren Beatty in.
Darren, if you and I were out in Hollywood and we're pitching a script on this, They would literally throw you out of the room.
They'd say, it's too on the nose.
It's too over the top.
It's got too many cartoon-like villains.
They're stealing too much in your face.
I got a minute before we go to break.
What's your assessment?
This whole thing in the media just doesn't, I mean, and now they come up and say, well, you know, maybe it wasn't Russian disinformation.
With pure just chutzpah, just in your grill, Darren Beattie.
darren j beattie
No, it's ridiculous and it's outrageous and it's another example of the profound lack of accountability that applies to our corrupt and illegitimate ruling class.
And incidentally, all of the intel officials who use Russian disinformation as a censorship pretext to eliminate discussion of the Hunter laptop, it's no wonder nobody believed them when they said that Russia was going into Ukraine.
This is precisely why.
The boy that cried wolf situation is they've exploited the disinformation term so much to shut us up here in this country that nobody believes them on the world stage anymore.
steve bannon
Okay, short commercial break.
Darren BD's gonna join us on the other side.
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OK, I want to bring in Darren Beatty.
Darren, here's what I love.
You know, Solomon doing the investigative reporting.
You guys do what you do.
You also connect so many dots for folks in a very unique way, in a sophisticated way, because the situation.
In Ukraine has got, this is where you have to, it's obviously so emotional, but you can't, you got to put the emotions aside for a second.
You have to think through using rationality and making tough, hard decisions because they're tough, hard decisions to be made.
But people have to know what the players are.
And quite frankly, they've used Ukraine.
And this is what gets me.
Yesterday, Biden's wandering around over there, you know, sound like a big shot.
You've got that huge New NATO desk, it's got all the 31 guys, you know, bigger than when Eisenhower went over there.
I think they had 15, now they got 31 or 34.
And you see Maripol, which looks like Dresden.
And then you see these guys, and they're having cocktail parties, and they're all in nice clothes, and they're all cheering, you know, patting each other on the back and standing for photo ops.
And the people in Ukraine.
And this is why I say, how can the media not see this?
NATO and EU gave these people commitments behind the scenes, commitments and promises to the fact that they put it in their constitution.
And the color revolution was all driven by the EU and particularly people like Victoria Nuland and these people in the United States that are dangerous.
So walk us through what is Ukraine and what's really at stake beside it being just their piggy bank, sir.
darren j beattie
Yes, well, I think it's very clear that the West, NATO, they care as much about Ukrainian people as they cared about the Iraqi people, the Kurdish people, the Libyan people, which is to say, not at all.
The significance of Ukraine from the standpoint of the ruling class of the West, particularly the US, is as a playground to conduct government operations, to engage in corrupt deals, to facilitate precisely the kinds of economic arrangements that we saw in such a sordid fashion Hunter Biden himself was involved in.
This is what's at stake in Ukraine for our ruling class.
And as you brought up, Revolver News really put the term color revolution on the map.
It's now sort of more of a household component of political discourse.
What is that?
Well, why is it that so many of the people involved in the Trump impeachment had Ukraine It's because this Eastern Europe, Russia-obsessed faction of our ruling elite called the Atlanticist faction, all they do is think of how to leverage NGOs, the media, various other lies, to stir up mass movements in order to overthrow regimes they don't like,
And that's the same group that tried the same playbook here domestically in order to cripple Trump in the populist movement.
And you see the same characters, people like Victoria Nuland, who amazingly confessed to Marco Rubio that there were bio labs in the Ukraine and such.
This is the same faction of the ruling elite that's absolutely dedicated to crushing Trump, crushing populism, crushing any domestic resistance to their power, and using Russian disinformation as a censorship predicate to shut us up.
These are the same people who expect conservatives and those on the right to fall in line and salute when they say, hey guys, we've got another military misadventure that we'd like you to sign up for.
We have another major conflict we'd like to escalate and we'd like you to get involved and you to sacrifice and you to die even though it does nothing for our nation's interests.
It's the same group of villains who are persecuting this conflict and the American people need to know.
steve bannon
Yeah, people just got to remember.
Did we not learn anything?
Do we not have a learning curve as a nation, as a people of Iraq and Afghanistan?
If you want to get up the learning curve quickly, go to Revolver and do it every day.
The articles are amazing.
It's an incredible interview with J.D.
Vance.
I'm going to get Darren back on another time to talk about that.
How do you get to Revolver?
How do they follow you on social media, Darren Beattie?
darren j beattie
Go to revolver.news right now.
Read the fresh pieces right off the press.
The truth about how they suppress the Hunter Biden laptop regime and what they're going to do about it.
Also, fresh interview with Vance.
You can check me out at Twitter at Darren J. Beattie.
Revolvers on Getter at Revolver News.
unidentified
Much, much, much more to come.
steve bannon
OK, I can tell you this about the laptop.
We're at the top of the first inning.
Just take a deep breath.
OK, the laptop.
There's so much more to come and such a bigger impact it's going to have.
Just hang with us.
We're doing a ton of work on this.
unidentified
More Russian disinformation.
Exactly.
darren j beattie
Oh my God.
unidentified
Darren Beattie, you're the best.
steve bannon
One day we've got to do a special just on the Color Revolution.
And Darren Beattie was the guy who said, hey, they turned it on us.
Darren Beattie, Revolver, former speechwriter at the Trump White House.
You're a rock star.
Okay, we're going back to the Vatican.
We're going to the Texas border, Mexico.
We're going to the Mexican border in Central America.
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