June 14, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Neil Katyal, he was able to stay quiet in the courtroom, but there he is tonight. | ||
| Actually the first person to speak in his defense publicly since the courtroom today, his lawyers didn't say a word of defense today. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Yeah, Lawrence, I mean, watching those excerpts from Trump tonight at Ben Minster, I feel like I have to scrub my eyeballs and cleanse them. | ||
| I can't unsee what I just saw, but it was ludicrous. | ||
| I mean, the idea that he's complaining about the Presidential Records Act, what language in the Presidential Records Act is he citing? | ||
| I mean, I wrote one of the authoritative memos on that act, and it's just not in there. | ||
| I mean, he's complaining that the indictment doesn't cite the Presidential Records Act. | ||
| I mean, give me a break. The indictment doesn't cite the bankruptcy code of 1978 either. | ||
| That's because it has nothing to do with this case. | ||
| Bankruptcy may have a lot to do with Donald Trump, but not with respect to this particular indictment. | ||
| And so the upshot is tonight we have a two-time indicted, two-time impeached Now, two-time arrested person in Donald Trump. | ||
| And of course, he's entitled to the presumption of innocence. | ||
| But at this point, I haven't heard any defense from Donald Trump that I think is going to hold up. | ||
| I mean, in court, you can't just send someone to the witness stand. | ||
| And start screaming about Hillary's email or about Joe Biden's garage. | ||
| You can't start making up mind declassification powers that don't exist. | ||
| I mean, these defenses may work for Trump's base, but they're not going to work in a court of law. | ||
| I need to say that former President Trump has just started making public remarks, just as he did on the evening of his first arraignment on criminal charges. | ||
| That was April, when he was booked on 34 felony counts brought by the state of New York. | ||
| Now tonight, after his arraignment on federal felony charges, he's speaking again, this time to an audience of his supporters that's gathered for a campaign fundraiser tonight at his golf club and summer home in New Jersey. | ||
| We knew heading into this that he was planning to make these remarks. | ||
| We are prepared for his pre-fundraiser remarks tonight to again be essentially a Trump campaign speech. | ||
| Because of that, we do not intend to carry these remarks live. | ||
| As we have said before in these circumstances, There is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things. | ||
| We are here to bring you the news. | ||
| It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them. | ||
| And I do not say this with any glee. | ||
| I hope it is clear that this is not a glib decision. | ||
| We take our responsibilities seriously. | ||
| We revisit decisions like this all the time. | ||
| We make the best call that we can in real time every time. | ||
| But tonight our call is this. | ||
| We will monitor that speech by the newly indicted former president. | ||
| We will not carry his remarks live. | ||
| If he says anything newsworthy, we promise we will turn that right around and bring it back to you. | ||
| The indictment versus the damage of the allegations is proven true, and it's just not even a fair way. | ||
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Senator Marco Rubio's evolution on Donald Trump's access to and handling of classified documents. | |
| Yeah, I agree. It's not even a close call. | ||
| You weigh whether you believe, as the 11th Circuit said, that the foundational principle of this country, that no man is above the law, and you balance that against whatever Marco was saying we should balance it against. | ||
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That's right. But you know, Willie, I just... | |
| You will notice, you will notice of all of the noise out there, of all the ground noise, nobody is saying he is innocent. | ||
| Nobody is saying he did not commit the crimes that will put him in jail for over a hundred years if convicted in all things. | ||
| I can't think of one person who has said this man did not do it. | ||
| So what they say is, well, what about Hillary? | ||
| And I mean... | ||
| But they had a long time to do that. | ||
| We had a smart lawyer here. | ||
| Should we do the intro? | ||
| I'm just a simple... I'm just a simple contractor. | ||
| I don't really know the way you do things sequentially or whatever, but I will tell you this, Willie, what is so fascinating is... | ||
| Oh, good. We've got a great group. | ||
| Oh, do we really? Yeah. | ||
| What's so fascinating is they don't say he's innocent. | ||
| They all basically say he's guilty, but what about Hillary, right? | ||
| Two tiers of justice, right? | ||
| First of all, yes, the Obama administration under James Comey twice closed the case. | ||
| Today, we witness the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country. | ||
| Very sad thing to watch. | ||
| A corrupt sitting president had his top political opponent arrested on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty. | ||
| Right in the middle of a presidential election in which he's losing very badly. | ||
| This is called election interference in yet another attempt to rig and steal a presidential election. | ||
| More importantly, it's a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. | ||
| This day will go down in infamy and Joe Biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists tried to destroy American democracy. | ||
| Wednesday, 14 June, Year of the Lord, 2023. | ||
| It's Flag Day. We're going to come back and get into the Flag Day commemoration that will offset that desecration that took place by the Biden regime on Saturday at the White House. | ||
| More about that in a second. Rachel Mattis says, oh, MSNBC, we could never have Biden here to lie. | ||
| We had to make a tough decision. | ||
| Shifty shift. It'll be a vote on the House floor at 2.30 today. | ||
| I'm going to try to get D.C. Drano on here. | ||
| Anna Polina Luna's resolution, expulsion, and finding a shift comes to the House floor. | ||
| Congressman Massey's already said he's not going to vote for it, thinks it's unconstitutional. | ||
| 202-2253-121. | ||
| Want to man the ramparts. | ||
| House Homeland Security, I think Mayorkas today, about an investigation. | ||
| There's a lot going on. | ||
| We're going to get you a lot of actionable information because you're moving the needle. | ||
| But we have requested the presence of Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| here to put this into perspective. | ||
| Steven Collinson, the smartest guy over at CNN, has a quite brilliant piece as the lead story in CNN that really talks about the stakes here. | ||
| You can't bridge this gap. | ||
| You can't negotiate this away. | ||
| One side is going to win this argument and one side is going to lose. | ||
| And the argument is yesterday, by the way, the reason they're melting down by the Presidential Records Act is that President Trump had full authority of that. | ||
| Watch our lips. | ||
| Not only is he innocent, he's beyond innocent. | ||
| We're not doing whataboutism about Hillary Clinton. | ||
| We're focused on offense, right, with Marco Polo and these other groups. | ||
| We're focused on offense, on the traitorous and treasonous activities of Joe Biden and the Biden crime family to sell our nation out to the Chinese Communist Party and others for money, cash money. | ||
| Donald Trump Jr. joins us. | ||
| Don Jr., put this in perspective for our audience. | ||
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What do we have here? What is this all about? | |
| Well, listen, I think actually what it's all about is what Tucker actually said last night, which is that the one thing you're not allowed to do in Washington, D.C. is stop the forever wars that seem to get everyone so rich. | ||
| You're not allowed to go up against China that the billionaire donor class from both sides benefits so much from. | ||
| You're not allowed to call out those kinds of things. | ||
| You can do a lot. | ||
| You can say a lot. | ||
| But when you actually start Putting that into action, that's where they draw the line and the Uni Party takes over. | ||
| That's the unforgivable offense that has culminated in seven years of trying to destroy my father for doing what's right for the American people, for putting America first. | ||
| And, you know, I mean, we are witnessing the end of the Republic if this is allowed to go through. | ||
| This is the stuff that we've seen come out of the communist and socialist regimes and dictatorships around the world. | ||
| These are the kinds of things that if they were going on in other countries, America would be talking about doing an invasion and getting into another war to prevent it from happening, and yet it's happening right here in our backyard, Steve. | ||
| With your father's campaign, and this is why we are saying that the primaries over the Keebler elves are totally and completely irrelevant. | ||
| And now instead of being a nuisance, they're going to cause problems because they're diverting attention away from this. | ||
| What is your recommendation? What is your action plan? | ||
| What do you think we ought to be focused on on action going forward? | ||
| Because I think you, Tucker, others have definitely laid out what the case is. | ||
| What do we do about it now, sir? | ||
| Listen, I think we have to get everyone being very vocal about this. | ||
| I think that every dollar spent to help someone that's polling at 0.2 % right now is a dollar that we don't have to go up against the regime machine. | ||
| It's a dollar that we don't have to fund the ballot harvesting operations that we're going to need to have to win. | ||
| And that's why some of these people are going to stay in the race. | ||
| Again, they're consultants. | ||
| They're donors. They don't want Donald Trump to win. | ||
| And these are the Republicans that we're up against. | ||
| But they're okay to be in there to drain the coffers, to make sure we are ill-equipped to fight the battle from the Democrats. | ||
| The Soros-funded billions that are going to go in to harvest ballots in the inner cities, where there's going to be people giving ballots that have no idea who's even on the ballot. | ||
| Those are going to be votes counted for an incompetent leader like Joe Biden, bringing us to the brink of World War III, bringing us to economic ruin, ceding to China. | ||
| We're going to be up against a lot. | ||
| It's not that Oh, Americans see it. | ||
| Their eyes are opened. People have no idea what's actually going on. | ||
| And every dollar spent to drag out this ridiculous primary, to give someone a chance at a MSDNC contributorship as the Republican voice is a dollar wasted. | ||
| It's a dollar that's going to go towards destroying the future of our country and all of the values and beliefs that we so truly believe in, Steve. | ||
| Don Jr., Rachel Maddow said the quiet part out loud the other day when the indictment was announced on Lawrence O'Donnell, that she said, oh, one of the strategies here, if Trump would quit and go home and go away, that all this would drop. | ||
| Do you believe that that's their core thing, that this is all to stop Donald Trump in the Trump movement, all this, whether it's in New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, coming from Jack Smith, that this is all about stopping Trump politically? | ||
| One hundred percent. Again, you know, Republicans have said some of the things that Trump was saying for decades. | ||
| They just haven't acted on them. | ||
| They just actually haven't gotten them accomplished. | ||
| If you look at Trump's record of success and you look at all of a sudden the people on the Republican side who believed, at least in words, all of those things that then turned against him, that wouldn't go forward with it, right? | ||
| The wall was very popular. | ||
| It elected the people. But Paul Ryan wasn't going to bring that to the vote in the House. | ||
| So you could have the House, you could have the Senate, you could have the presidency, and still not get those things done. | ||
| There's a difference between talk and action. | ||
| And the American people saw that Trump was about action. | ||
| But so did the deep state. | ||
| So did the unit party. | ||
| So did permanent Washington, D.C. And that was what was unforgivable. | ||
| Again, we see it from all of these guys. | ||
| They can talk. They can talk. | ||
| And in the end, they do nothing. So that's what this is all about. | ||
| You see them talking, well, we're not gonna cover his speech because it's just a campaign contribution. | ||
| You're not gonna cover the leading leader of the political dissident party to the leadership being thrown in jail by said leadership? | ||
| Like, are we really doing this? | ||
| We're gonna pretend that that doesn't matter? | ||
| You see, you know, Joe Biden essentially saying, We're not going to comment on this. | ||
| And, you know, of course, the media will go right in line. | ||
| Oh, they must have nothing to do with jailing their political opponents if they're not going to talk about it, Steve. | ||
| I mean, they're obviously big believers and firm believers in democracy and the republic. | ||
| It's all one big game to them. | ||
| It's all nonsense. | ||
| And Donald Trump's the only threat, again, to permanent Washington, D.C. That's why both sides are going after him the way that they are. | ||
| Don Jr., how did they get to your podcast? | ||
| How did they get to your aggregation site? | ||
| You can check me out on Rumble. | ||
| I'm live Mondays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. | ||
| That stuff's up there. Afterwards, I had a great segment with Pat Patel talking about the details of the prosecutors in this case just Monday night, so they can check it out there or check me out on literally any of the social sites. | ||
| I'm there regularly. | ||
| While I'm shadow banned, I'm sure you can welcome to the Lighthouse. | ||
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Thank you! Happy Pride Month! | |
| Happy Pride Year! | ||
| Happy Pride Month! Transgender children. | ||
| You are beautiful. | ||
| You are heard. You belong. | ||
| You are understood. You are loved. | ||
| And you belong. | ||
| One of the bravest and most inspiring people I've ever known. | ||
| I mean, you're welcome. Good folks. | ||
| Can we take a little video? | ||
| Hi, Mr. President. | ||
| It is an honor of trans rights and human rights. | ||
| Oh, it's okay. Gay news! | ||
| It's so damn... | ||
| Are we doctors at the White House? | ||
| I am feminine. | ||
| We want our kids just to be kids running around and hey, eating too much sugar. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| To laugh with the friends that we wish we saw more often. | ||
| To find solace in the arms of people who see us for who we are. | ||
| To celebrate the beauty and the resilience of this community. | ||
| On the exposure incident on the South Lawn, having received the statement that the White House believes that was inappropriate, disrespectful, is there going to be a greater effort in the future to communicate a code of conduct for White House guests? | ||
| Look, as you mentioned, the statement that we put out, you heard from us earlier today, the behavior was simply unacceptable. | ||
| We've been very clear about that. | ||
| It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families. | ||
| So, you know... | ||
| We're going to continue to be clear on that. | ||
| And that type of behavior is, as I said, unacceptable. | ||
| It's not appropriate. It's disrespectful. | ||
| And it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ plus family. | ||
| Okay, okay. Everything you did was beyond disrespectful. | ||
| It was a desecration. | ||
| If we can get up the still shot of if Denver can put up the still Put up the still of the old glory, and we're going to go momentarily to the Flag Day commemoration in a moment. | ||
| We got DC Drano. | ||
| We got a lot going on. I want to thank Don Jr. | ||
| for changing his schedule around to join us and put it in perspective. | ||
| But this is about actionable items, and it's about information that's actionable. | ||
| That flag in the middle, we got old glory. | ||
| That's the Democratic Party flag. | ||
| This whatever, this progressive LGBTQ +, that flag, that's their flag. | ||
| That's the banner. That's their standard. | ||
| Fine. Make those decisions. | ||
| But you're going to have to defend that. | ||
| And Jean-Pierre caught out. | ||
| The whole thing was a desecration. | ||
| The entire thing was a desecration. | ||
| And Joe Biden to sit there and say the bravest people I've ever met on the grounds of the White House, in front of the American flag, You know, it was happening 79 years ago. | ||
| And let me know when D.C. Draynor's ready. | ||
| He's good? Okay, I'm gonna go to D.C. Draynor in a second. | ||
| We'll go to Flynn and the flag. | ||
| 79 years ago, in Normandy, courageous, dedicated, patriotic young men were being thrown into the charnel house of the Battle of Normandy that were not well trained. | ||
| They weren't. There was so much focus on just getting across the beach and taking the beach and getting a beachhead that they didn't spend a lot of time, virtually no time, training for the rest of the battle. | ||
| This is why a lot of people don't talk about the Battle of Normandy. | ||
| We're going to cover it. In fact, we have Congressman Colonel Keith Self on this afternoon talk about the victory yesterday on the pistol brace, but also talk about this. | ||
| Those are the bravest people you ever met. | ||
| Those are the bravest that gave it all for old glory. | ||
| Not this freak show. | ||
| This is not negotiable. | ||
| That's what they believe? Fine. | ||
| This is what we believe? | ||
| Hey, one side's going to win and one side's going to lose. | ||
| Rachel Maddow would not cover one second of President Trump's speech last night from Bedminster. | ||
| We told you all day it was the most important event of the day. | ||
| And her justification was, her justification, we can't put out knowing falsehoods. | ||
| He's just going to put out falsehoods. | ||
| We can't do that as a news organization. | ||
| Rachel Maddow was the person that platformed ShiftyShift Every second of every day during the whole nullification project of the Russia hoax, every day Schiff would come out, look the American people in the eye and say, I just came out of a skiff and I can't give you specific details, but I have seen absolute proof of Russian collusion, absolute hardcore proof of Russian collusion, all a lie. | ||
| Hey, and I get a legal bill from the Moeller Commission in House Intel. | ||
| I spent 16 hours getting a proctology exam by shifty shift, okay? | ||
| And the trader Swalwell, right? | ||
| I got the battle scars to prove that. | ||
| They got nothing, zero. | ||
| She gave a platform to her stone-cold liar, and it takes a freshman APL, Anna Paulina Luna, to hold him to account. | ||
| And today's the day is going to be held to account. | ||
| D.C. Drano joins us, sir. | ||
| Why is this? Why are we even whipping this vote under the report? | ||
| I'm confused, D.C. Drano, so you've got to help me out here. | ||
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I thought this would be a slam dunk. | |
| Why are we whipping this vote? | ||
| This is a slam dunk, is it not, sir? | ||
| It's an absolute slam dunk. | ||
| I don't know why anyone's even hesitating on this. | ||
| This is a guy that for years tormented the American people with this farce. | ||
| And now we found out after the Durham report that they were illegally spying on the US president. | ||
| The FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, they were all involved. | ||
| Adam Schiff knew it was a farce. | ||
| He weaponized his position to, you know, bog down the government to go after President Trump. | ||
| He needs to be held accountable. | ||
| And what I'm hearing, which is boggling my mind, is that there are House Republicans that we fought like hell to put in there and stop this stuff who are wavering on their commitment to hold him accountable. | ||
| They are scared to even censure Adam Schiff, never mind fine him. | ||
| And it just boggles my mind. | ||
| It shows how deep the swamp is. | ||
| And it's just frustrating as a voter. | ||
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No, it shows you how deep the gutlessness is. | |
| This takes moral courage to do this vote, but that should be easy for these guys. | ||
| So you're telling me right now, by the way, the number is 202-225-3121. | ||
| Light them up today and say you must vote today. | ||
| for Anna Paulina Luna's resolution. | ||
| This is what I'm saying. What are their arguments against this? | ||
| This is black and white. | ||
| He lied for years. | ||
| He lied. This wasn't a misinterpretation of evidence. | ||
| This wasn't reading something classified. | ||
| He would go into the skiff and he would come out as house intel and say, I can't give you the details, but I have seen Inconvertible truth and facts that Donald Trump is a puppet of Putin and a puppet of the Russian government. | ||
| Stone-cold lies, D.C. Drino. | ||
| So, to my knowledge, the leader of the resistance is actually Representative Thomas Massey, who put out a tweet this morning saying that he's objecting to this vote on two grounds, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and the 27th Amendment. | ||
| The Eighth Amendment protects against unreasonable fines and punishments, cruel and unusual punishments. | ||
| There is a $16 million fine in this bill for Adam Schiff, who was the House Intel chairman, and that investigation cost over $32 million. | ||
| Representative Annapolino's justification is that he should pay for at least half of these wasted tax dollars that were spent on Russian collusion. | ||
| And then Thomas Massey also thinks the 27th Amendment, which prohibits increasing or decreasing a congressional salary during that term, right? | ||
| So this was kind of put in place that Congress couldn't just jack up their payments. | ||
| They have to do it for the incoming House. | ||
| And he is saying, well, I'm currently in litigation against Nancy Pelosi because she fined me for not wearing a mask. | ||
| I think this is kind of the same thing. | ||
| It's different on multiple grounds. | ||
| First off, this is not a congressional salary. | ||
| The House Ethics Committee issues fines, sometimes tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars against members of Congress all the time. | ||
| I'd say illegally spying on a U.S. president while he's in the Oval Office is worthy of the biggest fine of all time. | ||
| That's just me. And then to say that, you know, He can pay this in the resolution. | ||
| Give Representative Paulina Luna a lot of credit. | ||
| She worked with House Legal. | ||
| This is not just a personal fine. | ||
| They can actually pay this with campaign funds. | ||
| This is a little different than just his salary. | ||
| It gets around that. This is just a referral to the House Ethics Committee. | ||
| This isn't Sorry, I just got an incoming call. | ||
| This isn't an automatic fine that he has to pay. | ||
| So we're referring to the House Ethics Committee to get censured for what he did, which is unprecedented. | ||
| They just indicted the leading candidate for the 2024 election yesterday. | ||
| And we have Republicans in the House who will not even censure someone that illegally spied on a U.S. president. | ||
| It's just insane to me. | ||
| DC Drano, what is your social media coordinates? | ||
| How do people follow you on this? | ||
| DC underscore Drano. | ||
| I'm going to be publicizing names, phone numbers today. | ||
| The vote is at 2.30 p.m. | ||
| We aren't letting this go. | ||
| I would love for the War Room Posse to get involved, put some heat on these guys to do the right thing. | ||
| We need to hit back after what they did to us yesterday. | ||
| No doubt, sir. Every day. | ||
| Every day in every way. | ||
| Thank you, D.C. Drano. Make sure, D.C. Drano, make sure Moe and Captain Bannon and Grace, if you can push D.C. Drano's. | ||
| Want to make sure we name names. | ||
| We already got Massey. | ||
| 202-225-3121. | ||
| Call right now. Tell your representative to support and vote yes with Anna Polina Luna. | ||
| D.C. Drano, thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here, brother. Thank you. | ||
| An honor to be on. Thanks. | ||
| What a start for a day. | ||
| Don Jr. and D.C. Drano. | ||
| Talk about two people that like to mix it up. | ||
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Dude, no back down in that group. | |
| Okay, we got a lot of work to do and catching up. | ||
| We got Jan and Benzman together in a massive illegal alien city in the United States of America that the Biden regime is nurturing down in Texas, beloved Texas. | ||
| We got a lot to go through. | ||
| We're going to chop a lot of wood between now and noon. | ||
| Strap in. Get ready. | ||
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Next. The Biden administration has dismantled all of the proven and effective policies put in place under the last administration. | |
| That includes well-known policies like the Remain of Mexico and the asylum cooperative agreements with the Northern Triangle. | ||
| But it also includes more than two dozen lesser-known but effective policies, Such as a third-country transit asylum bar, a humanitarian asylum review process, a prompt asylum claim review, a regulation to end fake families and the cruel recycling of migrant children. | ||
| This is a live hearing of Homeland Security about my Yorkus. | ||
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We're going to continue with it. Bring Todd Benzman in a moment. | |
| Expedited removal, ending nationwide catch and release, maxing out ICE detention capacity, and exceeding annual deportation targets. | ||
| And the list goes on. | ||
| And every one of those have been torn down. | ||
| By comparison, this administration has embraced ineffective and unlawful policies that have made American communities dangerous and have enriched the Mexican cartels. | ||
| These policies include an etching-wide catch-and-release scheme that incentivizes millions and millions of other illegal aliens to enter illegally, a 100-day deportation freeze for all illegal aliens, including criminals, releasing illegal aliens on an honor system to self-report to ICE field offices, exempting 99 % of illegal aliens from deportation, the lowest level of ICE detention capacity, lowest deportations in modern history, terminating remaining Mexico, and fully exempting children from Title 42. | ||
| This is dangerous, and this is an inhumane approach that need not occur. | ||
| The laws did not change between administrations, just the decision by this one not to follow the laws. | ||
| For the reasons cited here and others I'm happy to discuss, it is my professional opinion that this administration is derelict in its duty to faithfully execute the laws as written and protect American communities. | ||
| Thank you, and I look forward to your questions. | ||
| I now recognize Mr. | ||
| Edlow for five minutes to summarize his opening statement. | ||
| Thank you, Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson, and distinguished members of this committee. | ||
| I appreciate the opportunity to present testimony today regarding the continuing threats to the integrity of our immigration system caused by the Secretary and the Department of Homeland Security's willful disregard of our country's immigration laws. | ||
| The Biden administration, through the Secretary, has seen fit to ignore the law, instead favoring poorly conceived and poorly executed policy decisions. | ||
| Actions through executive orders, departmental memos, and rules lay waste to the INA and Congressional intent. | ||
| It has eroded our immigration system and propelled the crisis to current levels. | ||
| As the Chairman said, Section 102 of the INA charges the Secretary of Homeland Security with administration and enforcement of the Act and further vests in the Secretary the power and duty to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States against the illegal entry of aliens. | ||
| The massive number of encounters recorded by CBP and the small number of alien removals by ICE, however, suggest that this Secretary has failed to faithfully execute the laws entrusted to him. | ||
| Since day one of the administration, the Department has taken aggressive action to undermine immigration enforcement. | ||
| Nowhere is that clearer than Secretary Mayorkas' September 30, 2021 memorandum outlining the appropriate instances in which DHS was authorized to take action against aliens either unlawfully present or lawfully present but removable. | ||
| Specifically, Secretary Mayorkas outlined three main buckets for removal. | ||
| Threats to national security, threats to public safety, and threats to border security. | ||
| While in theory this would seem to encompass many aliens, in reality the numerous carve-outs, loose definitions, and required factors for consideration made it nearly impossible for ICE to move forward with most enforcement actions. | ||
| These poorly defined categories gave even some of the most serious of criminal aliens a free pass in the interest of equity. | ||
| Let me be clear. There is a time and a place for prosecutorial discretion which has been recognized by the Supreme Court. | ||
| However, memos targeted at whole groups and not on a case-by-case basis do not comply with contours of such discretion. | ||
| Categorical prosecutorial discretion is not discretion at all. | ||
| It is instead an effort to undermine the enforcement mechanisms clearly found in the law. | ||
| The Department's failure to enforce the full INA in the name of prioritization and discretion is a dereliction of duty. | ||
| The rampant parole abuse that we now witness is exactly why Congress saw fit to change the law in 1996. | ||
| Replacing emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public interest with, on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, Congress signaled its intention to clamp down on the process. | ||
| It specifically wanted to guard against ad hoc programs meant to supplement existing immigration programs. | ||
| Regardless of the plain language as it currently stands, parole has become a favorite tool of the administration. | ||
| While FIRST uses an alternative to detention, parole programs have subsequently played a large role in artificially decreasing border numbers. | ||
| The expanded categorical parole programs for nationals of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti are wholly unlawful. | ||
| While certainly the previous administration utilized programs, the number of parolees were a small fraction compared to what we have seen on a monthly basis over the past two and a half years. | ||
| I would be remiss if I did not mention the department's regulatory agenda, which seeks to upend the credible fear process in the name of orderly processing. | ||
| Starting with the presumption that every economic migrant is entitled to protection, in 2022, DHS issued an interim final rule on credible fear screening. | ||
| Under the new process, a positive credible fear determination by an asylum officer will lead to a non-adversarial asylum interview before another DHS asylum officer. | ||
| This impermissibly changes the process and undermines congressional action by shifting adjudication authority from DOJ to DHS. Even more concerning, written summary of the original credible fear interview now doubles as an alien's asylum application, rendering moot the requirement that an alien filed one at all. | ||
| This shifts the burden to present and prepare a meritorious claim for protection. | ||
| While this does not ensure an asylum grant, it certainly provides a path for fraud and renders certain anti-asylum fraud measures moot. | ||
| A second final rule issued last month appears to be tough on illegal border crossers, making them ineligible for asylum. | ||
| However, the number of exceptions and the easily rebuttable presumptions belie its stated purpose. | ||
| This rule will have the opposite effect, as it will ultimately incentivize aliens to make the dangerous trek northward with families in tow. | ||
| Mr. Chairman, we would not be sitting here today if the Secretary and the Department simply enforced the law as written. | ||
| Instead, the Department has, in an effort to remove barriers and to create a subjectively orderly system, conflated law and policy and ensured that when the two were in conflict, that policy won the day. | ||
| A return to the rule of law is the only cure at this point and is incumbent upon Congress to use its oversight and lawmaking authority to repair the damage done by the Department. | ||
| Thank you and I look forward to your questions. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Edlow. | ||
| I now recognize Mr. Scott for five minutes to summarize his opening statement. | ||
| Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson, Members of the Committee, thank you for letting me testify here today. | ||
| The career professionals at DHS and specifically Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Border Patrol deserve our praise. | ||
| We're going to come back. We're going to come back. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| We're going to come back to that in a moment. | ||
| That's a live hearing. Let's bring in Todd Bensman. | ||
| Todd, you're on special assignment down in the Houston area. | ||
| But tell me, what are we listening to right there? | ||
| Because it's quite powerful. | ||
| I believe this is the start of the formal investigation into Mayorkas that will lead to his impeachment. | ||
| But walk me through what you're hearing. | ||
| What you're hearing there is a very appropriate and accurate description of policies that an executive branch undertook for the first time in U.S. history that caused the greatest mass migration crisis in the history of the country, broke every single record. | ||
| That was a very accurate albeit partial description Of the policies and the attitude and the shell game, you know, processes that they put in place in order to just bring in as many people, foreign nationals as possible, into the country. | ||
| From everything I heard right there, it was very accurate. | ||
| And I hope that, you know, you bring back that hearing. | ||
| We need to have more hearings like that. | ||
| We're having one. | ||
| We're having plenty. | ||
| Yeah. But tell me, when you say partial, give me the parts that were not hit. | ||
| Well, I think CBP-1, the use of humanitarian parole, he touched on it there. | ||
| The abuse, the mass abuse of humanitarian parole just needs a little bit more description. | ||
| The administration is relying on complexity to hide what it's doing. | ||
| These policies are probably the biggest secret in American government. | ||
| People do not understand how they're hiding the ball. | ||
| And what I mean by CBP-1 is that they are handing out entry permits to tens of thousands of foreign nationals in Mexico and beyond and bringing them over the bridges. | ||
| And bringing them over ports of entry and flying them from foreign airports into US airports, all of that has to be described in greater detail. | ||
| I've advocated that they have at least one full hearing about CBP-1 and its mass abuse and hiding what they're doing from the American public. | ||
| It has to be excavated out. | ||
| Just remember, for the traders, the 149 that voted for the debt ceiling, right? | ||
| They voted to fully fund all this. | ||
| I don't want to hear the happy talk on appropriations and going back to 22. | ||
| The woke and weaponized itself is still in there. | ||
| Your tax dollars, hardworking Americans right now, on the way to work, at work, are coming back from work if you got the overnight shift. | ||
| Or if you're trucking across the country. | ||
| Remember, your money is paying for your own destruction, paying for your children's destruction, paying for your grandchildren's destruction. | ||
| They're paying you. | ||
| They're taking your money because they're giving them the tickets in here. | ||
| They're flying them into the country. | ||
| They give them the food stamp cards, the cell phones, all of it. | ||
| You got that. They get full medical care. | ||
| You got that. No, you don't have that. | ||
| That's what they're doing. Todd, you're on special assignment right now. | ||
| We're going to have Jan on this afternoon. | ||
| He's been on night patrol, but you guys are down there on a tag team. | ||
| Tell me where you are. | ||
| Are you in Mexico, sir? | ||
| Are you in Mexico or are you in the United States of America? | ||
| I mean, I might as well be in Mexico. | ||
| I'm about 45 miles northeast of Houston in a county of Texas called Liberty, Liberty County, which is the site of the largest city of illegal immigrants in the United States. | ||
| Probably between 75,000 and 100,000 illegal immigrants are settling in this county right here, sight unseen. | ||
| The area is called Colony Ridge. | ||
| You can look it up. | ||
| My book, Overrun, dedicates an entire chapter, the final chapter to this community. | ||
| And I came out here because there is a vast expansion underway. | ||
| Government officials are saying that the developer here has purchased another 35,000 acres. | ||
| Already there's at least 40 square miles of this illegal alien settlement here. | ||
| We had our drones up yesterday just showing just, I mean, it had to have been thousands and thousands of acres of clear-cut forest still being bulldozed. | ||
| I've given you guys the video, maybe you can play it or put it up on the site, of what this looks like, just how vast this is. | ||
| And I believe that this warrants its own hearing because it's not just who's coming over the border, it's what they're doing once they're here, how we are What we're dealing with on the interior. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| We're going to get to this, and we're going to hold you to another block, and I know you've got responsibilities starting at 11. | ||
| This is a city of 75,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens, your government. | ||
| But where's the state of Texas, too? | ||
| Where's Abbott, right? | ||
| They removed Paxton because Paxton was on top of this. | ||
| Where are the local officials? | ||
| We have a city of 100,000 illegal aliens that just bought 35,000 acres to bring in more in the state of Texas. | ||
| You don't think they're using this to turn Texas blue? | ||
| This is an outrage. | ||
| It's an outrage at every level. | ||
| Todd Benzman. Going to join us after the break, give us more details. | ||
| Michael Yon will be on this afternoon. | ||
| He was on Night Patrol about this because it's crime infested and it's human trafficking infested. | ||
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| We are going to get back over to, but we're going to dip into the flag, the commemoration for Flag Day to honor old glory. | ||
| But I got, Benzman's going to hold for a second. | ||
| He's down in Houston at this sanctuary. | ||
| It's a Brianna sanctuary city. | ||
| It's a no-go zone. 100,000 illegal aliens by your government. | ||
| State of Texas doing nothing. | ||
| Let me get Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike Lindell's on the courthouse steps of a federal court. | ||
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Mike, what do you got for us? I'm actually inside the courthouse. | |
| I just stepped out of the courtroom, Steve. | ||
| I don't know if this is legal or not, but we'll give it a shot. | ||
| This is the 8th District Court of Appeals, everybody, and this is about my cell phone and our First Amendment rights. | ||
| This appeal presents an important First Amendment issue. | ||
| The government may not retaliate against individuals who bring to the public attention a matter as vital as unlawful interference in our elections. | ||
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| And then they wanted to deter me and others for continuing to let the public know of illegal activities. | ||
| Steve, we really need to win this appeal today because it's not just about my phone, it's about protecting our rights so we don't get our doors bashed in by the FBI and we don't get our devices taken away to cover up crimes. | ||
| The biggest crime this country's ever seen and the biggest cover up this country's ever seen. | ||
| Mike, honored, can we commit to you, can you commit to us when you come out on the, when you finish this this afternoon, you'll come back on the afternoon show? | ||
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| I better get back in there before I get in trouble, Steve. | ||
| Okay, Mike Lindell reporting from laying out his case from the Federal Appeals Court up there in Minneapolis, I think. | ||
| Okay, Mike, thank you very much. | ||
| Don't do anything illegal there. | ||
| Only Mike Lindell. | ||
| Trump one day, Lindell the next. | ||
| Look, they're coming for everybody, so you understand it. | ||
| And here's the thing. I want to go back to Benzman. | ||
| There's a hearing going on right now about beginning the process on the impeachment of Mayorkas. | ||
| That's what this testimony is today, about a fundamental investigation about his impeachment. | ||
| You're hearing tremendous testimony. | ||
| In fact, if we can get ready, maybe I'll dip back into that. | ||
| But Benzman, I want you to explain. | ||
| Because we gotta make this place famous. | ||
| There's 100,000, 75,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens right now in one area of Houston, Texas. | ||
| Remember when O'Keefe The story had the government whistleblower that talked about Houston and talked about the 80, I think they had 80 houses there where they were hiding the kids, stashing the kids. | ||
| This is where the human trafficking takes place. | ||
| And this is a no-go zone, you're telling me, Benzman, for police. | ||
| Authorities won't go in there. | ||
| It kind of runs itself. That's right. | ||
| I regard this as the ultimate sanctuary city. | ||
| When I interview the illegal immigrants who live here, One of the attributes of this place, in addition to the fact that they're allowed to buy land, you know, direct from the developer, is that ICE doesn't bother them here. | ||
| The cops don't bother them here. | ||
| They can live peacefully without having to look over their shoulders. | ||
| They can, you know, work illegally in the underground black market, labor market. | ||
| It's a big attribute, and that's one of the reasons, as well as the land purchase prospect for them, That so many are coming here. | ||
| This area really ballooned. | ||
| It boomed starting about five or six years ago, but it has really gathered steam. | ||
| It is absolutely booming like I've never seen it. | ||
| I was here a year ago reporting for my book, and I came back yesterday, put the drones up, and it is just this vast expanse of cleared land. | ||
| I mean, the immigrants coming over the border now- are going to live here. | ||
| They're going to end up living here. | ||
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Many thousands of them are going to be living here. | |
| This is just bulldozing. | ||
| This is one area. | ||
| 35,000 acres the developer has just purchased, new acreage, are always approved for new sales of land plots. | ||
| This thing just goes, you can drive for miles and miles and miles. | ||
| The illegal aliens are buying us all cartel money. | ||
| This is how they're taking the illegal cash and money laundering into property in the sacred soil of Texas. | ||
| All the patriots down in Texas understand this. | ||
| You're being sold out right now. | ||
| The authorities are looking the other way. | ||
| You know why they're looking the other way? | ||
| People are making lots of money. | ||
| Okay? Lots of money. | ||
| The Biden administration, this is another reason he's got to be impeached. | ||
| This is Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, and Biden. | ||
| Don't stop at Mayorkas. | ||
| Don't stop at Tiny Town. | ||
| We're gonna go for the big guy. | ||
| This is why you got to move this forward. | ||
| Benzman, I know you got to go. | ||
| We're going to have hopefully Jan on Saturday and you again. | ||
| You're down there. Tell us, where do people go to follow what you're doing right now? | ||
| Because this is one of the most important assignments you've done of all the important assignments you've done. | ||
| Right. This is the interior, transformational interior impact of the mass migration that Biden did. | ||
| You can reach me at Benzman Todd. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter. | ||
| I'm posting Also, Todd Benzman-Getter, my book is overrun. | ||
| You can buy it anywhere books are sold. | ||
| It's in book stores. All about this mass migration crisis, how we got here, and how to get out of it. | ||
| It's an invasion of the nation. | ||
| Todd, look forward to having you on in Benzman this afternoon. | ||
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| This is, if you support, by the way, this is what this election is about. | ||
| It's not about Trump's legal problems. | ||
| Trump's legal problems are going to go away. | ||
| That's all going to be dismissed. It's ridiculous on the face of it. | ||
| It's absurd. Mike Davis is going to lay that off for you. | ||
| We're going to spend time on that to show you the absurdity, but we're on offense. | ||
| This is what they're doing. | ||
| They're transforming your country on your nickel. | ||
| Okay? And people are making a lot of money. | ||
| That's what continues on. You take what happened at the White House on Saturday, the freak show. | ||
| That's the Democrat Party. | ||
| You want to see what they're doing? | ||
| They're taking the sacred soul of Texas and allowing the cartels to buy it. | ||
| As they're exacerbating, instigating and exacerbating an invasion of the southern border. | ||
| 100,000? That's more than the American troops that landed on Normandy 75 years ago. | ||
| That's about the size of the army we had fighting there right now as they ramped up. |
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