Aug. 11, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| ...attacks on American democracy are happening at the state level. | ||
| David Pepper is the former chairman of Ohio's Democratic Party and author of the new book, A Simple Life. | ||
| David, let's talk about this concept of what's happening at the state level. | ||
| Where do you think the threat lies? | ||
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If you look closely, the front line of the attack on democracy and core rights is at the statehouse level. | |
| Over the last several decades, these have become these institutions because of gerrymandering and voter suppression and the fact that most people don't pay attention to them. | ||
| They are the perfect place to ram through a deeply unpopular and extreme agenda without having any accountability. | ||
| So you were just talking the prior segment how the only thing that happened when Trump was president was a tax cut. | ||
| That's because most of what they're doing they do through state houses where no one's watching. | ||
| Almost their entire agenda from attacking abortion rights, to anti-equality, to banning books, to attacking voters. | ||
| It's all through state houses because they can do it there and get away with it and not get knocked out of office. | ||
| So if you want to put into place a minority worldview, You can do it through state houses in a way that would never work at Washington or at the local level. | ||
| And until Democrats go to where that battle is and get beyond just federal, the other side will always be on offense in those state houses. | ||
| champion, like the former president claims to be, of law and order, law enforcement. | ||
| Just cast your memory back a couple weeks ago to the former president's first time back in Washington, essentially since the attack he incited on law enforcement, and it was billed as his law and order speech. | ||
| We're living in such a different country for one primary reason. | ||
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There is no longer respect for the law, and there certainly is no order. | |
| These are great people, Border Patrol, ICE, and our police, of course, our police, all of our law enforcement. | ||
| All of our law enforcement, he says, great people, except for FBI agents who applied for the search warrant, whom he's now heaping scorn upon, and whom his followers in Congress are now threatening to defund and dismantle or drag before committees if they win control in November. | ||
| Great people, except for the federal magistrate judge, who's thought to be the person who approved the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, whose identity is now being concealed because of threats on his life. | ||
| Great people, in fact, except for Any member of federal law enforcement who might now be targeted for violence because people like Steve Bannon are now inviting, if not inciting it, with baseless allegations like this. | ||
| I do not think it's beyond this administrative state and their deep state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump. | ||
| I think everything's on the table. | ||
| I think his security ought to be at the highest it's ever been. | ||
| So that's just a hint of the kind of darkness being spread with no evidence, no facts to back it up. | ||
| Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's criminal conviction for refusing to answer a congressional subpoena from the January 6th committee could lead to fines or jail time, which prompts a question. | ||
| If jailed, would he, could he, continue his podcast? | ||
| As it turns out, some on the hard right have been doing just that. | ||
| NPR's Odette Youssef reports. | ||
| Even after Trump dismissed him from the White House in 2017, Bannon continues to be known as the former president's chief propagandist. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| His primary platform has been his podcast. | ||
| During his trial, it was among the top 10 of Apple News podcasts. | ||
| The possibility that he could continue if jailed concerns Rachel Carol Rivas, because already several far-right figures are podcasting from behind bars. | ||
| Carol Rivas is with the Southern Poverty Law Center. | ||
| From those of us who have concerns about the hard right anti-democracy march in the U.S., it would be very concerning to have Steve Bannon continue to be able to use his microphone to incite, inspire, and encourage that anti-democracy movement. | ||
| Okay, you're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Thursday, the 11th of August, Year of Our Lord 2022, and actually, we believe in democracy more than anybody, because here's the reason. | ||
| The MAGA movement has about two-thirds of the nation, and NPR, Southern Poverty Law Center, the far-left Democratic Party, the administrative state, you are going to get A democracy suppository on November 8th, okay, as we roll to a massive, massive sweep to take the House. | ||
| And the first thing, about the state level, we're going to control the school boards, we're going to control the medical boards, we're going to control the canvassing boards, we're going to control the election boards, we're going to control the county commissions, the House of Representatives in these states, the state senates in these states, where power is going to be devolved back to by, wait for it, | ||
| The Supreme Court of the United States of America the deconstructing the administrative state with EPA versus West Virginia and Next year when they get the North Carolina case, which is about independent state legislatures Yes, indeed even more power will be actually not granted to the states But actually say this is what the Constitution is always structured for in the past and yes, sir. | ||
| You are absolutely correct We're at the forefront at the state level at the grassroots level at the ground level to get ground truth and to make sure that MAGA can win So all the pearl clutching there, continue to clutch your pearls. | ||
| And Anderson Cooper, no. | ||
| The lawless apparatus inside this administrative state is going to be held accountable. | ||
| We're going to investigate, we're going to litigate, and we're going to incarcerate. | ||
| And you can clutch your pearls all you want. | ||
| Drudge has got up today. | ||
| in the left-hand column. | ||
| The complete implosion of CNN in their numbers, led by Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper. | ||
| When is John Malone gonna step in and actually make that a business? | ||
| Because right now it's not a business, it's just a a very weak propaganda arm for the administrative state in this illegitimate regime. | ||
| Let's go to Capitol Hill. | ||
| We've got John Solomon. | ||
| I've got Christina Bobb, Steve Cortez, Jeffrey Clark. | ||
| Mike, let's pack today. | ||
| Let's just say that Bill Gertz. | ||
| I want to go first To John Solomon, joins us by phone from Capitol Hill. | ||
| John, a blockbuster story in Just the News that you've got up about, I want you to explain it, about there was actually a subpoena given from a grand jury to President Trump's lawyers and his team a couple of months ago, which they fully complied with and actually had back and forth, talked about documents, talked about everything that the raid was about a couple of months ago. | ||
| Walk us through the details of that because it's pretty, that's pretty shocking, sir. | ||
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Yeah, it's a pretty big revelation. | |
| It isn't every day that a president or former president gets a grand jury subpoena. | ||
| So the fact that it stayed secret for two months, in and of itself, remarkable. | ||
| The president got it. | ||
| They discussed it with the Justice Department. | ||
| They agreed to comply with it. | ||
| The Justice Department agreed to let President Trump's own lawyers, not the president go through his stuff. | ||
| They let the lawyers go through everything he had, look for anything that had classification markings on it. | ||
| They pulled out what they had. | ||
| They put it in an envelope, and the FBI and a senior Justice Department official came to Mar-a-Lago on June 3rd. | ||
| When they got there, all they had to do to comply with the subpoena was turn over the envelope with the documents. | ||
| But they went much further. | ||
| The President came down from his office, greeted the FBI agents, congratulated them for doing their job, and said, if you need anything, just let me know. | ||
| They were shocked that they had gotten such cooperation from the President, so they immediately traded on it. | ||
| Hey, can we go down to see your locker? | ||
| And, uh, where you store all your stuff from the White House. | ||
| And they said, absolutely. | ||
| Walked them down there. | ||
| They got to walk through the facility, look at it. | ||
| I think they might have taken some pictures, I understand. | ||
| And, uh, they had a very cordial thing. | ||
| The president signaled, listen, if you need anything more than what I turned over, just let me know. | ||
| A week passes by, uh, the FBI asks, hey, can we get security footage to look at everybody's been going in and out of the locker? | ||
| They provide the security footage, uh, voluntarily through the FBI. | ||
| They call back a few days later and say, hey, put a better lock on that storage area. | ||
| Just be good for the president. | ||
| Put a better lock on the secret service. | ||
| Put a better lock on the storage thing. | ||
| Nothing happens for two months until all of a sudden 20 to 30 agents show up on August 8th and raid the place. | ||
| This is rare, unheard of. | ||
| If you have a cooperating witness, even if there's still evidence you're still looking for, the normal path for the Justice Department is to continue to use that cooperation until it's exhausted. | ||
| And the question we're all going to have now is, Did the judge who issued that search warrant on August 5th, which was executed this Monday, August 8th, did he even know there had been this level of cooperation going on behind the scenes? | ||
| Look, the FBI has a long history, let me be blunt, the FBI and other agencies have a long history of lying on affidavits, and no one has documented that better than Brother John Solomon. | ||
| John, it's the affidavit, this is so blackboard. | ||
| First off, let's just go back to the beginning. | ||
| It is quite extraordinary, in and of itself, for a former president to get a grand jury subpoena. | ||
| But the cooperation here shows you the squared away nature of the president's operation and, quite frankly, his legal team. | ||
| Christina Bob is going to join us in a moment. | ||
| But you've got, you know, you've got other terrific lawyers as part of the team, senior level people who have been, wait for it, federal prosecutors and know how the system works. | ||
| Is there anything that I know that you've talked to people because they had to have anonymity to be able to talk to you. | ||
| Was there anybody in your checkings that you talked to? | ||
| That brought up anything that the president or his team, whether it's the Secret Service, his administrative staff in Mar-a-Lago or at Bedminster, or his lawyers, did not fully comply and cooperate with the grand jury, with the FBI, with the Justice Department, John Solomon. | ||
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No, listen, I think at the end of the day, the June event went by exactly the way the Justice Department would want it to happen, with cooperation, secret services there. | |
| Everybody worked together. | ||
| After that occurred, the Justice Department appears to have gotten some witness claim, a claim from a witness that they knew there were more documents. | ||
| Here's where they're stored. | ||
| And they contemplated, do we go back or do we go do the hard raid thing? | ||
| And they opted to do the hard raid thing 91 days from the 2022 election. | ||
| Even though there had been a spirit of express cooperation and an invite to come back if they needed it, there are some real serious questions here about judgment, about who knew what, when, and specifically, what did the judge know? | ||
| Let's take a look at this judge magistrate. | ||
| By the way, this is a magistrate who doesn't get confirmed by Congress. | ||
| The local judges in the federal district pick these magistrates. | ||
| He got appointed to his job in 2018. | ||
| A year before he got appointed to his job as a judge, while still a lawyer, He made comments questioning the moral character of President Trump on social media. | ||
| Those are out in public. | ||
| We put them out there. | ||
| Just six weeks before he signed the warrant for this search warrant, he actually recused himself from an earlier case. | ||
| He had gotten the case of Donald Trump suing Hillary Clinton over the defamation and what he called a racketeering operation to smear him in the Russia collusion case. | ||
| The judge recused himself. | ||
| He filed a recusal. | ||
| Saying, I don't think I can be impartial in a case in which Donald Trump is suing Hillary Clinton. | ||
| So there is some bias. | ||
| We don't know it. | ||
| It could have been another witness. | ||
| It could be one of the lawyers. | ||
| But for some reason, he withdrew from that case in a lawsuit, Donald Trump suing Hillary Clinton, and then six weeks later, felt comfortable signing the search warrant for that. | ||
| So there's questions about the judge, what he's doing on here. | ||
| The third component is, did the FBI tell the judge what he needed to know to make a good decision on the warrant? | ||
| That's why getting the affidavit unsealed, like Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch started the process yesterday to do, is so important. | ||
| Let's find out what the FBI told them. | ||
| Did they do another FISA-Russia-warned thing and omit the truth? | ||
| Or did the judge go eyes wide open into knowing that the President was offering cooperation but we're going to raid him anyways? | ||
| That's going to be the big question to answer in the next 48 hours. | ||
| Talk about those affidavits that before, they've outright hid information, not given information, or kind of outright lied in a lot of this. | ||
| Is that not the case with the FBI and these affidavits in the FISA courts and other situations? | ||
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Well, listen, there's no doubt in the FISA court, where some of the most sensitive cases in the country, where the standard of proof for the FBI is so important. | |
| It's an honor system when they go into a judge without the other side being able to contest it. | ||
| You have to tell the truth, and that includes divulging to the court any information that would go towards the innocence of the person. | ||
| We know what they did in Russia collusion. | ||
| They actually doctored a document to hide the truth from the court. | ||
| They failed to tell the court about intercepts that showed that the Trump people they were targeting were actually innocent. | ||
| But the problems persisted long after Russia. | ||
| Two years after the Russia case had been closed, The Justice Department Inspector General said they are still not putting the information into the FISA warrants that are required under the rules that would give the FISA judge the sort of visibility to make a good decision about whether to violate an American's privacy. | ||
| So the red flags are up already. | ||
| And now you take what we just learned from Chuck Grassley and Jim Jordan in the last week. | ||
| Multiple FBI whistleblowers saying the very office that led this raid, the Washington field office of the FBI, Has a political bias problem. | ||
| Watched an investigation against Trump without merit. | ||
| Tried to shut down an investigation with Hunter Biden when the evidence actually supported it. | ||
| And making biased comments on social media and everything. | ||
| Those allegations were so serious that an FBI official, the number two official in the Washington office, was removed from his job immediately. | ||
| And yet that office was given the green light to go raid President Trump's compound less than a week after those whistleblower allegations surfaced. | ||
| These are the sort of questions that have people troubled. | ||
| John, I'm going to ask you. | ||
| I've got Christina Bob. | ||
| We're stacked up already, but I've got to ask you to just please stay through the break for a couple of minutes. | ||
| John Solomon has changed his schedule. | ||
| He's calling in from Capitol Hill. | ||
| He's been up there. | ||
| Christina Bob's going to join us from Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| We've got a jammed schedule right now. | ||
| The question is, why did they even go to a magistrate down in Florida? | ||
| Where's the federal judge on top of this case? | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| We're going to get more details later. | ||
| Lindell's going to join us in the second hour to talk about this summit that's going to take place in Springfield, Missouri on the election summit of everything. | ||
| He's going to put the machines on trial, but much more we're going to talk about The ballot mailing, all of it, a two-day coming together to go through all that. | ||
| Also, later in the show, we're going to have the precinct strategy. | ||
| They had the biggest day I think they've ever had in their history yesterday. | ||
| You saw the cold open the show. | ||
| It's all at the local level. | ||
| You've got to put your shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| You must become part of the Army of the Awakened. | ||
| You must get engaged. | ||
| I don't care if it's a school board, if it's a canvassing board, if it's your local town commission, everybody, this costs no money. | ||
| You don't have to be a donor, you don't have to write a check. | ||
| What you have to do is get involved. | ||
| President Trump can't bear the burden on his shoulders, okay? | ||
| This has to be a populist uprising. | ||
| That's why you must, and an easy way to start, go to precinctstrategy.com, that gets you into the Republican Party at the grassroots level, but it makes you actually a player. | ||
| We'll talk more about this later in the show. | ||
| Yesterday was just incredible, the volunteer effort. | ||
| That's what they fear. | ||
| Remember, it's not Trump they fear. | ||
| It's you they fear. | ||
| Trump, not in the room, not in the deal. | ||
| Trump not just puts you in the room, he puts you at the head of the table. | ||
| That's why they got to take him out. | ||
| And they're maniacally focused on this. | ||
| Let's go back to John Solomon, by phone from Capitol Hill. | ||
| John, here's what I'll get. | ||
| This is an event of historic proportion, right? | ||
| You're going to actually do a jackboot FBI-Gestapo raid on an iconic president's house that means so much in American memory of the major meetings that have happened with President Xi of China to actually try to get peace between the two of us, Abe's first meeting, all these historic events at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| You're going to go and desecrate it with an FBI raid and you go to a local magistrate? | ||
| You're telling me you're going to put all this weight of history on some local grundoon? | ||
| Because that's essentially what a magistrate is. | ||
| It's an administrative function. | ||
| You're not going to get the sign-off and not have a federal judge in D.C. | ||
| and Merrick Garland and Ron Klain and Joe Biden and Susan Rice, sir. | ||
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Yeah, listen, inside the Justice Department, President Trump qualifies for what is known as a Special Circumstances Politically Sensitive Subject. | |
| That means because he is in the political spotlight, potentially an opponent of the current administration, there are rigorous rules that are supposed to be applied inside the Justice Department, including going up to the Attorney General to get approval for something this large. | ||
| We've been told the Justice Department approved it. | ||
| That's what the Justice Department is telling us. | ||
| They won't say who in the Justice Department approved it. | ||
| Did it get to Attorney General like the rules require? | ||
| That's something that once the Justice Department gives its approval, going down to the district where you're going to do the search warrant is the normal procedure. | ||
| And then within that courtroom, whoever the judge is on the wheel that day, whoever's the guy that has been assigned to handle all incoming warrant requests, You get that person. | ||
| It's really a random wheel. | ||
| Each district does it a little bit differently. | ||
| In this case, they got a low-level magistrate. | ||
| Three years on the job. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| I thought the Newsweek story that talked about, you know, some mole or something, the buried lead there, I thought the senior-level Justice Department guy saying, hey, this was an FBI deal. | ||
| We're out of it. | ||
| Are you saying now that you believe that the Justice Department signed off on this? | ||
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It had to have. | |
| Listen, the person that calls The President, on the day that the raid is occurring, called the lawyer just a few minutes before the agents are showing up, is a senior-level lawyer inside the National Security Division of the Justice Department. | ||
| Anyone who writes to the Justice Department involved in this is buying the same garbage they bought during Russia collusion. | ||
| Justice had to approve this. | ||
| Now, the question is, it should have gone to Attorney General Merrick Garland, but we're not getting that answer back from Justice. | ||
| All we're saying is someone in Justice approved it. | ||
| We know the person is the deputy to National Security. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| That's Matthew Olson. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| That's Matthew Olson that hasn't answered a straight question under Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz. | ||
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It's the deputy below, Matt Olson, that we understand made the phone call. | |
| That's the reporting I've been able to do. | ||
| But that's not high enough for something this sensitive, so we have to assume this went up the chain. | ||
| If it didn't, we got a real problem. | ||
| That's on the rules. | ||
| Solomon, how do people get to your show? | ||
| How do they follow you on social media? | ||
| How do they get to Just The News? | ||
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I'm lucky enough to follow you at 5 o'clock right here on Real America's Voice, 6 o'clock every night, JustTheNews.noise. | |
| Jay Solomon reports on all social media handles and JustTheNews.com. | ||
| That's where we get you covered 24-7. | ||
| Thanks Jay, appreciate it. | ||
| Great reporting. | ||
| Let's go to Florida and Christina Bob. | ||
| Christina's a former Marine Corps major. | ||
| She was a judge advocate, part of the Judge Advocate General's department over there. | ||
| She's a JAG officer, former Marine, and one of the President's senior lawyers. | ||
| Christina, this breaking story, it just, it looks, it appears from all the evidence that's been put forward, That you and the team and the president fully complied and were cooperating. | ||
| Is there anything that we should know that doesn't show full cooperation and compliance with, which is pretty historic, even a grand jury subpoena that came out in June? | ||
| Is there anything that you could bring up or think that doesn't show full, absolute compliance, cooperation, including the president himself, ma'am? | ||
| Not a thing. | ||
| Big shout out to John Solomon for excellent reporting. | ||
| I can confirm what he said. | ||
| I was part of that June 3rd meeting with the FBI at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| It was exactly what he said. | ||
| It was very compliant. | ||
| We asked, what would you like to see? | ||
| Where do you want to see? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| We went through the gamut with them and did not deny them anything. | ||
| President Trump stopped by just for a minute or two to express his support for the meeting and to, in front of the FBI, make sure that we knew we needed to get them whatever they needed. | ||
| And the next thing I know, I get a call two months later that I've got to run down to Mar-a-Lago because the FBI is raiding the place. | ||
| That is exactly what happened from my perspective. | ||
| Now, whether there were some other dealings that I'm not aware of, maybe that's possible. | ||
| But at least from my perspective, we had been as compliant as we possibly could, and then they showed up to raid it. | ||
| So when you get there, when they call you about the raid, Are there... clearly they sent a team down in June. | ||
| You and other lawyers interfaced with that team. | ||
| I take it from John Solomon's report, there was a further request for some video that you complied with. | ||
| There's some further requests with putting on a lock that you complied with. | ||
| When you get called down there, I would think the natural instinct would be you to contact or talk to people that have been down there before and go like, you know, Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot. | ||
| Just walk through. | ||
| Tell us about your interface since you guys have been complying the entire time and then you dropped the bomb. | ||
| We got 30 FBI guys about to walk into things. | ||
| So tell us what happened from your perspective. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, your assumption is exactly right. | ||
| It very much was WTF, what's happening. | ||
| So this case is coming out of Washington, D.C., and so we have a legal team up there that's handling it, and I believe they handled the interface, and it was the legal team in D.C. | ||
| that was interfacing with the folks, the FBI and the DOJ. | ||
| uh... on the ground here in florida one actually right so i got there you know i wanted to see the war and i have to see the work they gave me a little bit of pushback on that it took a minute uh... and then they eventually showed it to me they wouldn't give me a copy of all of our all of our all of our host so that's what you as the president's lawyer asked for the warrant which would be their basic authorization to do this and you're telling me they wouldn't initially show you the warrant that's correct i had to They made me fight them for it. | ||
| They didn't make me fight too hard. | ||
| It lasted maybe a minute, no more than two, but they made me put my lawyer hat on and use all the reasons why they had to show me the warrant, which they did. | ||
| They wouldn't give me a copy of it. | ||
| Part of it, the affidavit, the probable cause for why they're authorized to do this is sealed, so I wasn't allowed to see that. | ||
| I think that's That's very telling that they don't want people to know what probable cause they have. | ||
| Having been, you know, part of this for a little bit and, you know, helped with providing whatever documentation they needed at that June 6th, I'm sorry, June 3rd meeting, I was aware, you know, we all were aware that they were looking for information and had performed a thorough search as John Solomon reported. | ||
| We weren't aware of any problems, anything that wasn't completed. | ||
| And so to see the probable cause would really help add some clarity as to what happened and where the breakdown was. | ||
| It also would help what they told the magistrate. | ||
| We got to get on the table immediately what they told, because they have a history of They have a history of spinning. | ||
| That's just the facts of the FISA warrants. | ||
| That's not Warren, you know, Anderson Cooper, don't clutch your pearls tonight. | ||
| That's just a hard fact. | ||
| I'm sorry that the FBI lies all the time. | ||
| I'm sorry it's corrupt, it's incompetent and corrupt. | ||
| Let me just go back to the DC team because you have a top quality DC team. | ||
| Were they in shock? | ||
| I assumed you contacted them. | ||
| Were they like, what is going on here because we've been handling this? | ||
| What was their response? | ||
| They reached out to me because they were the ones that were notified that the raid was going to occur. | ||
| And of course they're in Washington. | ||
| So the team that's actually running this case couldn't fly down, you know, in enough time to actually get here to try to observe what was happening. | ||
| And I live here in Florida. | ||
| So they reached out to me and said, Hey, can you just go over there, like show up and tell us what's happening. | ||
| And so that's what I did. | ||
| I mean, I was, I, my role in this really was to be the eyes and the ears on ground because I am here in Palm beach County. | ||
| So everybody was kind of flabbergasted. | ||
| And then, of course, I tried to do my job and actually observe the search. | ||
| And I said, I'd like to see what you're doing. | ||
| I'd like to see where you're going, what you're searching, all that. | ||
| And they wouldn't let me. | ||
| They basically relegated me to anyone who's been to Mar-a-Lago or seen aerial pictures. | ||
| There's a big circle drive right outside the main ballroom. | ||
| And I pretty much had to stand at the Circle Drive. | ||
| I wasn't allowed inside anywhere. | ||
| They just kept me relegated outside. | ||
| It was hot, and I was out there for probably, I don't know, seven hours. | ||
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Hold it. | |
| Hold it. | ||
| Hang on, hang on. | ||
| We're going to go to break. | ||
| Please stay through it. | ||
| We've got Jeffrey Clark, we have Steve Cortez, we have Bill Gertz of Washington Time. | ||
| We're jammed up today, but we're going to get it all in. | ||
| They would not allow the president's lawyer even to walk into that main foyer, that big ballroom, and just stand there? | ||
| You're telling me the president's lawyer was made to stand at that circle drive for seven hours, ma'am? | ||
| Yes, actually, it was probably more than that. | ||
| I got there around 10.30 and left around 7, so whatever that is, yes. | ||
| And I actually asked, because it's not far from the ballroom, and you know, if you've seen the inside of the ballroom, it's a few feet. | ||
| So I said, can I just stand on the other side? | ||
| And they said no. | ||
| Christina, just hang on. | ||
| Christina Bobwin, the President's lawyers. | ||
| In this outrageous desecration by a jack-booted Gestapo, your FBI. | ||
| And I don't care if NPR or CNN doesn't like it, that's reality. | ||
| Short break, next. | ||
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| Yes, NPR, Southern Poverty Law Center, suck on this. | ||
| Wherever we are, wherever we are, In jail or not in jail, we're going to broadcast this show every day, okay? | ||
| And you're going to have to live with it. | ||
| We are reinforcing the Army of the Awakened. | ||
| And they are coming. | ||
| And they are coming in massive numbers. | ||
| And they're coming on November 8th. | ||
| And we're taking over. | ||
| We're taking over this government. | ||
| We're going to start to deconstruct the administrative state. | ||
| We're going to start holding people accountable. | ||
| Investigate, litigate, incarcerate. | ||
| I don't care if you guys don't like it or not. | ||
| You're going to have to live with it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And the guy is right on MSNBC at the state level. | ||
| We're around the table. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| You've lived off and grifted off and dined off Soros' cash and all the illegal of Zuckerberg and Soros and you've gotten lazy. | ||
| And we're the exact opposite. | ||
| We're game day ready. | ||
| This audience and all the other people this audience inspires are game day ready. | ||
| From the Rio Grande Valley, to South Texas, to South Florida, to up in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, all over this great nation. | ||
| We're ready and we're coming. | ||
| And you're not going to stop us. | ||
| And you're going to have to live with it. | ||
| And yes, the guy's right. | ||
| At the state level, we're going to run the tables there because that's where, in subsidiarity, That's where real power is going to lie. | ||
| And just watch the Supreme Court. | ||
| And we're sorry you don't like it. | ||
| Like I said, I don't fault the fact that you have a different view of this country than we do. | ||
| I do not. | ||
| I respect that. | ||
| But we're not going to hug this out. | ||
| We totally and adamantly disagree with your philosophy. | ||
| And we're going to beat you at the battle bikes. | ||
| You keep saying anti-democratic, anti-democratic, anti-democratic. | ||
| Just talk to me on the evening of November 8th, when we have crushed The political wing of the administrative state, the Democratic Party, we have crushed you from school boards, to election boards, to canvassing boards, to town councils, to city councils, to county commissioners, to state legislatures, to the House and the Senate. | ||
| Stand by as we deliver a death blow to the Democratic Party as a national political institution. | ||
| I want to go back to Christina Bobb. | ||
| Christina, this is what I don't get. | ||
| You guys have been complying, all of a sudden this thing comes out of left field, and I'm going to tell you something. | ||
| You know, you got Anderson Cooper clutching his pearls last night. | ||
| He's all in at Twitter. | ||
| We monitor MSNBC and CNN 24 hours a day. | ||
| We know their shows better than they know the shows on all the buried leads they put out. | ||
| They're nervous. | ||
| They have fear in their eyes. | ||
| They're not smirking and spiking the football. | ||
| If they love this and realize it was the real deal, you couldn't get it. | ||
| Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes and Joanne Reed and the whole crowd, Don Lemon, it would be too much. | ||
| They are nervous. | ||
| You can look in their eyes and they understand that this is where they jump the shark. | ||
| Christina Bobb. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| This also goes to show how out of touch they are with the American people. | ||
| You know, there's a echo chamber in Washington, D.C., and they think, yeah, we want this. | ||
| So the rest of the nation does too. | ||
| And this was a big dud, and it has actually turned the American people against them. | ||
| You know, normally when you do a raid like this, you hold a press conference. I mean, this was historic. And we have heard nothing from the Department of Justice or the FBI, both of which have their own briefing rooms. | ||
| Just like the White House holds press briefings, they can hold their own. And the briefing room is for such a time as this. Tell us what you did, why you did it, what's your probable cause. | ||
| Explain yourself to the American people. And they have gone radio silent. And now they're trying to distance themselves saying, oh, we didn't know, the Biden administration didn't know, or the Department of Justice isn't confirming that Merrick Garland. | ||
| Did or did not know anything about this raid. | ||
| Okay, so then who did you fire? | ||
| Because if somebody did this without proper approval, they should be gone and you should announce to the country, this person did this without proper approval, we've taken care of it, it was a big mistake, and there's nothing. | ||
| Which tells me all I need to know. | ||
| They knew, they did it on purpose, they thought it would work, Not only did it fall flat, they messed up big time and now they're trying to figure out how to fix it. | ||
| Oh no, this is blowing over the face. | ||
| By the way, this is what John Selma just said. | ||
| He's hearing Justice Department guys prove that's the FBI. | ||
| The Newsweek, and Newsweek's not Breitbart, it's not Gateway Pundit, and it's not the War Room. | ||
| Newsweek did this story and they had senior level Justice Department officials that were cleared to talk to Newsweek anonymously for purpose of this. | ||
| They had direct knowledge. | ||
| And Newsweek's pretty straight when it comes to reporting. | ||
| Had direct knowledge. | ||
| And they said, we didn't know about it. | ||
| That was the FBI. | ||
| The FBI was doing this. | ||
| So you're having now, you don't see him. | ||
| Merrick Garland, the most dangerous place in Washington, D.C. | ||
| used to be between Schumer and a microphone. | ||
| It's now Merrick Garland. | ||
| That little twerp runs out every time he's got a school board family. | ||
| You know, they're domestic terrorists. | ||
| You can't get him away from a microphone. | ||
| Where are you, Merrick? | ||
| The silence is deafening. | ||
| Where's Chris Wray? | ||
| He's got his big mouth running all the time. | ||
| Where's Matthew Olson? | ||
| You don't answer any questions under oath to Gates. | ||
| Where are you? | ||
| Because it comes up to your department. | ||
| You're all going to be held accountable. | ||
| You're going to see resignations. | ||
| But resigning is not going to be good enough. | ||
| Because in the righteous indignation of the American people, starting in January, we're going to investigate, we're going to litigate, and wait for it, we're going to incarcerate. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You are lawless. | ||
| You're running this like a Gestapo. | ||
| You're going after a President of the United States and to know that you went to some grundoon magistrate. | ||
| Let's see the affidavit and let's see it today and then back the affidavit up because all you do, you lied on every affidavit you put before the FISA court, the FISA judges. | ||
| You should be ashamed of yourself. | ||
| What they've done to the FBI is a disgrace. | ||
| Christina Bobb. | ||
| Yeah, they've made them glorified librarians and now they're in a bind because they have to show something. | ||
| They have to show fruits of their labor. | ||
| Certainly they didn't do this with nothing in mind and they weren't going to go through this circus to produce nothing. | ||
| Now they have to actually produce something. | ||
| What did you find? | ||
| What did you save? | ||
| What grave catastrophe did you save this great nation from? | ||
| they're not going to have anything to produce. So what are you going to do about it? So I'm sitting back here watching going, okay, well, I have, you didn't give me any probable cause you wouldn't let me watch the search. Uh, you didn't want me to see the warrant. Okay. So I I'm waiting for you to give me some information that's usable that I can act on and work with the president on. | ||
| But right now there's nothing like in three June, they couldn't have complied or work with you more. | ||
| They worked with you. | ||
| The President came down and he came back with other requests. | ||
| They fulfilled every request. | ||
| If they didn't fulfill requests, I hope, FBI, I hope that that's in the affidavit. | ||
| I hope the poor magistrate judge got to see all the information. | ||
| I know you went through in detail the cooperation he had, in excruciating detail. | ||
| I'm sure that leads off. | ||
| That's the preamble to the affidavit, no doubt. | ||
| That's why you put it out. | ||
| If the affidavit backed up your case, you would have leaked it the first day. | ||
| You guys leak like sieves. | ||
| Christina Bob, what's your social media? | ||
| How do folks follow you in this ongoing fiasco? | ||
| Ma'am? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| On Truth Social, it's just at Christina Bob, my name. | ||
| And then on Instagram and Twitter, it's Christina underscore Bob. | ||
| Major Christina Bob, thank you very much for joining us here on The War Room. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thanks for all you do. | ||
| Okay, I've got Cortez and Gertz on deck, but I've got to go to Jeff Clark, a former assistant attorney general in the Trump administration. | ||
| And I want to tee this story up the appropriate way. | ||
| I saw this, all the War Room engine room was getting me these documents yesterday, and we had so much going on. | ||
| I looked at it, and I said, this has got to be phony. | ||
| This has to be made up. | ||
| It's got to be a parody. | ||
| But today, Fox News had done it, gone through it. | ||
| Let me bring in Jeffrey Clark. | ||
| This is about the IRS, about the, and by the way, Jeffrey Clark's now part of the Russ Vote operation, which is just, I think, the best think tank down there. | ||
| And Russ Vote has been such a warrior on so many topics, the former director of OMB under President Trump. | ||
| Jeffrey, this is about the, I guess it's the help wanted for the 80,000 IRS agents. | ||
| And I thought it was a parody. | ||
| I said this is the typical, you know, the smart conservative memes or something funny. | ||
| It turns out it's real. | ||
| This is requiring people that know how to use firearms and prepare to be in violent activity and like essentially kicking down doors. | ||
| This is what they're putting out. | ||
| And this turns out it's real. | ||
| Jeffrey Clark, how could this possibly happen, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, thanks for having me here. | ||
| And I had the same reaction that this is some kind of You know, clever memester. | ||
| But it's not. | ||
| It's absolutely real. | ||
| And what it says is, what the tone of the whole advertisement is, which I have in front of me, but won't read, is, hey, come join the IRS. | ||
| It's cool. | ||
| You'll get to kick down doors. | ||
| You might even get to shoot and kill people. | ||
| Be ready for that. | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| I mean, you can't make this stuff up at this point. | ||
| And what it really brings to mind, to me, Steve, to make things more serious, is the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| The part where it says that He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out our substance. | ||
| That's exactly what's happening. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson's complaint for the founders is happening now. | ||
| They're going to have 87,000 new agents. | ||
| It's going to double the size of the IRS. | ||
| It's going to make it bigger than a whole bunch of other federal agencies combined. | ||
| Now they're trying to sell the ones who are going to carry guns with how cool it's going to be, almost like it's a TV presentation. | ||
| It's truly flabbergasting. | ||
| This is, listen, they took out the only tax on, the real tax on the wealthy was the carried interest. | ||
| They took that out. | ||
| I want everybody in this audience to understand that the concentration of wealth we had in this thing, the scam, the reason Larry Fink, and so you're paying, you, the schmendricks of this nation, are laboring away and you're paying the marginal tax rate for ordinary income, whatever your bracket is. | ||
| Not so the kings of Wall Street. | ||
| They're paying capital gains. | ||
| They're paying 15% because this thing called a total scam and a ripoff. | ||
| They pull that out. | ||
| They say the focus is going to be 400,000 people, couples of $400,000 or less, really the $100,000 level and entrepreneurs. | ||
| at $400,000 or less, really the $100,000 level, and entrepreneurs and they hired 87,000. | ||
| They're hiring, but it's the one ad. | ||
| Clark, just, if you got it in front of you, can you read the sections where they say, you gotta be, you gotta essentially come in here. | ||
| You gotta, listen, you gotta be, they're trying to hire Rambos. | ||
| They're not saying we want you as an accountant. | ||
| We're not saying you gotta be a Wharton School graduate. | ||
| You gotta go to the University of Chicago, right? | ||
| You don't have to show us your CPA. | ||
| They're saying you gotta be ready. | ||
| If it wasn't so absurd, I know I'm laughing, but it's so absurd and in your grill. | ||
| Jeffrey Clark. | ||
| Yeah, so there are three bullets, I think, that are the laugh-out-loud punchline, Steve. | ||
| Maintain a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job. | ||
| Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force if necessary, which is the main one I think that's caught people's attention. | ||
| And then the last one, be willing and able to participate in arrests, the execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments. | ||
| You know, it sounds like an ad for, you know, new IRS 007s. | ||
| And Steve, you probably don't know this about me. | ||
| You were talking about the tax policy implications. | ||
| But before I went to law school, I was a tax policy economist for the state of Delaware. | ||
| I did a lot of studies of tax policy, became familiar with their law. | ||
| I prepared testimony that went to the Supreme Court in a case of original jurisdiction. | ||
| And, you know, we obviously need a more simple, more fair, you know, flat tax-like system with an exclusion so that the ultra-rich pay their fair share and they're not, you know, hidden by an army of accountants. | ||
| And instead, what we're going to get is 87,000 agents who are going to eat out the substance of ordinary Americans, and from the statistics I've seen, those making under $75K a year. | ||
| Jeffrey, we'll have you back on about this. | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| How do they get to you over at Renewing America? | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| So on social media, I'm Jeff Clark US on both Getter and Twitter. | ||
| And then if you just Google Center for Renewing America, you'll find our site. | ||
| You can look at all the projects we're working on, and you can look more at my bio there as well. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Jeff, give Russ vote and the team over there. | ||
| We love those guys. | ||
| You do the best work around. | ||
| You went to the right place, Clark. | ||
| They got a good one with you, but you landed in the right place. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| I'm going to break this next one up. | ||
| I've got Cortez and I've got Gertz. | ||
| Gertz has got stunning news about the biological weapons treaty and what the Chinese are doing. | ||
| But Bill Gertz has worked Around and with the FBI for 30 years plus. | ||
| He's going to give us his perspective on the decline. | ||
| Not Steve Bannon saying it. | ||
| From Bill Gertz. | ||
| We're also going to have Steve Cortez's other awful economic news. | ||
| All of it next in The War Room. | ||
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| Gertz, I want to get to the Biological Weapons Treaty and NEPA, this shocking development that you've discovered in testimony before Congress about what the Chinese Communist Party is doing. | ||
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| Bill, but you've got probably in this town more experience dealing with, working with, reporting on the FBI than just about anybody, given that you're one of the top national security reporters in the nation. | ||
| Walk us through your, how did we get to this place at the FBI of this embarrassing, humiliating fiasco that's taken place over the last 72 hours, sir? | ||
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Well, I would trace it back to, as I said yesterday, Louis Freeh, who was the FBI director under Bill Clinton. | |
| And that administration included a number of leftists. | ||
| Jamie Gorelick was at the Justice Department. | ||
| She was a red diaper baby, a communist, probably a Marxist. | ||
| And they decided that the FBI was a conservative, patriotic organization that needed to be restructured or socially engineered. | ||
| To be more liberal and leftist. | ||
| And it began that way. | ||
| I can remember going into the FBI at least once a year to get an interview with the head of the counterintelligence division, who would give me a very good briefing on the intelligence threats at the United States. | ||
| And then all of a sudden it stopped under Louis Freeh. | ||
| And I asked him what happened. | ||
| He said, well, you can come in, but all we can talk about is the weather. | ||
| So clearly they didn't want to help anybody who was conservative or perceived as conservative. | ||
| I'm conservative. | ||
| Washington Times is conservative. | ||
| So and then it's been downhill. | ||
| I mean, in its heyday, the FBI did one of the most incredible counterintelligence operations in American history. | ||
| They recruited the number two official in the Communist Party USA, a guy named Maurice Childs, and they ran him as a spy for over 10 years. | ||
| And he had access to both the Kremlin and the Chinese Communist leadership and provided an incredible intelligence. | ||
| Fast forward to Peter Strzok, and you see how bad the FBI has gone downhill. | ||
| You had Peter Strzok, who was a senior counterintelligence official at the FBI, stating in a text message to his girlfriend that he was going to stop Donald Trump from being president. | ||
| So you can see that there was a remarkable transformation going back from the 60s and 70s to the last 10 or 15 years. | ||
| Bill, let me, Louis Freeh, this is what, yesterday I thought about it, I want to have you back on, Louis Freeh is known, he's part of that parish out in Northern Virginia of all the strict Catholics, right? | ||
| The churchy Catholics, he's over there, I thought he was a daily communicator, he goes to mass every day. | ||
| How did Louis Freeh, I understand the corruption of the Clinton administration, they're taking bags of money from Chinese generals and all that, but how does Louis Freeh, who is supposed to be Dudley Do-Right, How did it get rolling under Louis Freeh that you have this amazing, and particularly the work on anti-communism was just extraordinary. | ||
| We would not, you know, President Reagan would not have been able to pull off the destruction of the Soviet Union with Thatcher and John Paul II and all his administration if the FBI hadn't been doing great work. | ||
| How is it Louis Freeh, who literally is supposed to be the most religious, most straightforward, most traditional Catholic, how does it start with him? | ||
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Well, I think that basically it was the leftists within the Justice Department, the Clinton Justice Department, and I mentioned Jamie Gorelick. | |
| They had this idea that the FBI was too independent, so they sought to bring the FBI back within the Justice Department. | ||
| Now, you can argue that they belong there and that they should be responsive to it, but they had two missions, law enforcement as well as counterintelligence. | ||
| And the counterintelligence mission really was overseen by the law enforcement. | ||
| They had a hard time doing counterintelligence. | ||
| I wrote a whole book on this called Enemies, How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets and How We Let It Happen. | ||
| And also I would point out that it happened more recently under the pro-Islamic movement. | ||
| They purged a number of really good FBI intelligence analysts who understood Islamic terrorism, understood the ideology behind Islamic terrorism, and they were influenced by groups like CAIR, the Council on Islamic-American Relations, which was indicted as part of a terrorist group, but yet Carries big sway within the FBI. | ||
| So those were the things. | ||
| And then, of course, they missed a lot of these attacks that were happening. | ||
| They had indications, but they were unable to really prevent terrorist attacks and crazy attacks from taking place, especially mass shootings. | ||
| Well, they've also missed it on, you know, you're at the forefront of this confrontation with the CCP. | ||
| Their stuff, even what, you know, they waved off at Justice, to me it's all been kind of, you know, normal course of business grinding out with what I call grundoons. | ||
| They haven't gone after The real infiltration in this country, the real access to capital, to the corporations, the stealing of $600 billion a year in trade secrets. | ||
| Their job against the CCP, I think on a, you know, it's just above an F. It's a D or maybe a D plus. | ||
| Bill, we've got 30 seconds. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through the break. | ||
| In 30 seconds, your assessment of that. | ||
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| Now, under the Trump administration, they were doing some very good counterintelligence work, not as good as you said. | ||
| They're not going after the United Front Work Department, the influencers, that kind of thing, which is their charge, their task. | ||
| And under Biden, they backed off the China initiative, which was a major effort to go after Chinese influence and professors and those types of things. | ||
| So we're really very vulnerable to Chinese intelligence right now. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Bill, hang on. | ||
| 90-second break. | ||
| We're coming back with the second hour. | ||
| We got Gertz, Cortez, Boris, Lindell, and maybe a couple of three surprises. | ||
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