Jan. 9, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Italian Chief Brenda Simonian talking about the challenges with this. | |
| They've been trying to save the more than 100-year-old Diodor Cedars on Christmas Tree Lane as well. | ||
| Chief, thanks for the few seconds here. | ||
| I heard there are fire extinguishers or those haven't been able to get turned on or used. | ||
| No, ma'am. | ||
| We're at a complete... | ||
| We're losing water pressure up here. | ||
| We have a lack of resources. | ||
| The wind, as you see, is pushing it very violently. | ||
| And the lack of water is a huge, huge... | ||
| Hurdle that we're trying to overcome so we can save as much as we can. | ||
| So lack of water, like, no pressure in the neighborhood? | ||
| All the hydrants have run dry. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| So what do you do now? | ||
| So we send our water tenders or our engines down to shuttle water from further away different hydrants that still have water. | ||
| This is bad. | ||
| It makes it challenging to do our job, but we're just up here trying to do the best we can for the citizens and the community. | ||
| What is the situation with water? | ||
| Obviously, Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. | ||
| I was trying to fire fire on this block. | ||
| They left because there was no water in the hydrant here. | ||
| Local folks are trying to figure that out. | ||
| I mean, just when you have a system that's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. | ||
| I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire. | ||
| You have something at this scale. | ||
| But, again, that's got to be determined by the local. | ||
| And you have so much water. | ||
| You know, all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers, We'd have all the water they needed. | ||
| And you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle. | ||
| Because no places like California. | ||
| I go to Austria. | ||
| The head of Austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in California. | ||
| We never have forest forests because they maintain their forests. | ||
| And you have all that water that could be used to, what they call water flow, where the land would be damp. | ||
| And you'd stop many of these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the federal government, etc. | ||
| So one thing I'm going to do for California, vote for me, California. | ||
| I'm going to give you safety. | ||
| I'm going to give you a great border. | ||
| And I'm going to give you more water than almost anybody has. | ||
| And the farmers up north are going to be able to use 100% of their land, not 1% of their land. | ||
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Officials addressed that yesterday. | |
| They admitted that we did not have the water pressure in order to fight the fire on the ground. | ||
| And the reason that happened is because they have about three... | ||
| One million gallon tanks that they have in the Palisades area. | ||
| And the reason you fill that up is so that you have the water pressure. | ||
| And so they were pumping out so much water over about 15 hours, about four times the capacity, they could not keep up with the demand. | ||
| So that water ran out and around... | ||
| 3 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning, they have no more water. | ||
| And that was the critical time of this firefight yesterday because that's when the winds were the highest overnight and into the morning. | ||
| On top of that, you also had the aircraft, which were not flying. | ||
| They had to be grounded because of those strong winds. | ||
| So when you have no water coming from up above or on the ground, that's why you see more than a thousand structures that have burned because there was no way to fight this. | ||
| And also you had those whipping winds that carried embers up to a mile or two. | ||
| So it was really the perfect storm that created this mess. | ||
| They said, we have no water. | ||
| I said, do you have a drought? | ||
| No, we don't have a drought. | ||
| I said, why do you have no water? | ||
| Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. | ||
| It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water. | ||
| More water than they could ever use. | ||
| And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured. | ||
| I could have water for all of that land. | ||
| Water for your forests. | ||
| You know, your forests are dry as a bone. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Okay? | ||
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Dangerous. | |
| That water could be routed. | ||
| You know, you could have everything. | ||
| Not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on forest fires. | ||
| And, you know, there's a case with the environment. | ||
| They're not allowed to rake their forests because you're not allowed to touch it. | ||
| And all they have to do is clean their forests, meaning... | ||
| Rake it up. | ||
| Get rid of the leaves. | ||
| Get rid of, you know, leaves that are sitting there for five years. | ||
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We'll certainly get rid of the dead fall. | |
| And get rid of the trees that have fallen. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Are you willing to work with him? | ||
| Do you believe that federal aid should be provided to California for as long as it takes? | ||
| Well, it's very sad because I've been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come. | ||
| You'd have tremendous water up there. | ||
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there. | |
| They sent it out to the Pacific because they're trying to protect a tiny little fish, which is in other areas, by the way, called the smelt. | ||
| And for the sake of a smelt, they have no water. | ||
| They had no water in the fire hydrants today in Los Angeles. | ||
| It was a terrible thing. | ||
| And we're going to get that done. | ||
| It's going to finally be done. | ||
| I got it done from the federal side and he didn't want to sign it, but it's not going to happen again like that. | ||
| There's no reason. | ||
| Can you imagine you have farmers that don't have any water in California? | ||
| They have plenty of water. | ||
| They don't have a drought. | ||
| They send it out to the Pacific, and it's crazy. | ||
| So what's happening in California is a true tragedy. | ||
| I know those areas very well. | ||
| I have many friends living in those houses. | ||
| That is a true tragedy. | ||
| Virtually Beverly Hills and areas around Beverly Hills are being decimated. | ||
| The biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes in the world are largest. | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| You talk about a tax base. | ||
| If those people leave, you're going to lose half your tax base of California. | ||
| This is a true tragedy, and it's a mistake of the governor, and you could say the administration. | ||
| They don't have any water. | ||
| They didn't have water in the fire hydrants. | ||
| They don't have water. | ||
| And yet they have. | ||
| The water comes from, you know where? | ||
| Up north. | ||
| And it comes down at levels. | ||
| They give millions and millions of barrels of gallons of water. | ||
| That they have, and they send it out into the Pacific. | ||
| For the Pacific, it's like a drop. | ||
| It's nothing. | ||
| But for California, we take care of the whole state. | ||
| So what's happened is a tragedy. | ||
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We're in the public safety phase. | |
| I hate to even ask this question, but the President-elect chose to attack you, blame you for this. | ||
| One can't even respond to it. | ||
| People are literally fleeing. | ||
| People have lost their lives. | ||
| Kids. | ||
| I lost their schools. | ||
| Families completely torn asunder. | ||
| Churches burned down. | ||
| This guy wanted to politicize it. | ||
| I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| I stood next to the President of the United States of America today, and I was proud to be with Joe Biden. | ||
| And he had the backs of every single person in this community. | ||
| I didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us. | ||
| The good news is I'm a great grandfather as of today. | ||
| I'm a granddaw. | ||
| I'm a big young, young baby girl, baby boy. | ||
| So I remember this case for a while, I'm on the resources for that. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| About the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
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I know you don't like hearing that. | |
| I know you try 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 lie? | ||
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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. Bann. | ||
| It's Thursday, 9 January, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| We've got a lot to get to today, but I want to talk about the historic significance of what we're seeing right now. | ||
| Folks, this is what is called a hinge of history. | ||
| From Europe to the progressives in New York State to California, the gravitational pull of President Trump's leadership, his common sense manliness, just let's be blunt, adult supervision. | ||
| Is reordering the political universe much more than November 5th or predicated upon November 5th. | ||
| Now it's actually being executed upon. | ||
| Why do I say that? | ||
| Well, Jim Vanderhay and Mike Allen, who are the Washington consensus in a sophisticated and smart way, not the stupid hour that Morning Joe is, but a sophisticated way over at Axios. | ||
| It has a piece up about President Trump and the transition, and I've put it up on Getter and just said full-spectrum dominance. | ||
| It's every aspect of it. | ||
| And you can see that article. | ||
| I'm going to talk about it in a minute. | ||
| Thank you, Denver. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| But I'll get back to that in a second. | ||
| The California situation. | ||
| Those two cuts that we played, and I want to thank my crack production team and Denver. | ||
| For putting that together. | ||
| That was a fabulous arc of a cold open. | ||
| Because right there, it encapsulates what the issues are. | ||
| And it is appropriate to talk about this now. | ||
| You have to talk about this now. | ||
| The fires still have no containment, and they're still roaring through. | ||
| And Pacific Palisades, which I am extremely familiar with, it is beyond apocalyptic. | ||
| It's gone. | ||
| It's one of the most quaint villages in greater Los Angeles. | ||
| It's 20 miles right before you get to the ocean. | ||
| It's right next to Santa Monica as you head to the ocean west from L.A. proper, from downtown L.A., which is really downtown L.A. There's no there there. | ||
| L.A. is always known, I think, by the Pasadena, kind of in the eastern side, and then the beaches, the South Bay beaches of... | ||
| Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, leading to Palos Verdes with Marina del Rey up at the top. | ||
| Moe was raised in Manhattan Beach, a huge athletic center down there of all those. | ||
| Then you've got the beaches to the north. | ||
| You have Santa Monica, and then you've got Pacific Palisades. | ||
| Pacific Palisades is where President Reagan lived. | ||
| That's where he had his home with Nancy. | ||
| It was always known as the classy, understated... | ||
| Not huge, over-the-top mansions. | ||
| And if you see, most of these actors are progressive, but if you look at the actors and musicians, the people, they're the understated. | ||
| It's a progressive enclave, obviously, because of Hollywood, but they're the understated, you could say, like the Billy Crystals and people like that, that are not there to rub their wealth into your face. | ||
| So it's a very understated neighborhood. | ||
| Gone. | ||
| Gone. | ||
| Joel Pollux over at Breitbart's put up a tremendous link on his, and Joel's a very even-handed guy. | ||
| He's a very fair guy. | ||
| He's not a bomb thrower like we are, but you ought to read that. | ||
| I know Karen Sigmund and the team at AFA have been all over this. | ||
| It is, you know, Natalie's home in Santa Monica has had to be evacuated where her parents live. | ||
| It is... | ||
| It's stunning what happened in those two cuts, the reason I wanted to play them. | ||
| Who warned us about this? | ||
| Trump. | ||
| Trump, who's mocked and ridiculed all the time, mocked and ridiculed. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom is the personification, the manifestation of the progressive left, the politically correct left, right? | ||
| Warned by President Trump. | ||
| President Trump did that first on a campaign stop, then on Joe Rogan's show. | ||
| And Daily Mail was saying, Joe Rogan's prophetic, talking about things. | ||
| It was Trump. | ||
| And Joe asked great questions, even to bring it up, that concept at the time, given everything else was going on. | ||
| Given everything else was going on, President Trump ready to get banged. | ||
| Very logical. | ||
| Very even-handed. | ||
| Steps into a decision. | ||
| Tells you exactly what the problem is. | ||
| I hope the folks, and I realize this is raw, and obviously, You know, our hearts, everything goes out to these people. | ||
| They've lost everything. | ||
| All their photos, everything that, you know, associated with their parents and their grandparents, all the thing about your house, if it just burned in a minute. | ||
| This thing happened, what, it started at 10.30, I think, on Tuesday in the morning with those Santa Anas, which, for folks that haven't lived there, these are what are called the devil winds. | ||
| They're offshore winds, and they come across the desert. | ||
| And, I mean, these were hurricane-force winds. | ||
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But the winds, they've had other winds like this. | |
| And clearly, clearly, somehow this got started. | ||
| But the tragedy is not the physical part. | ||
| The tragedy is not the natural part of it. | ||
| The tragedy here is the response to it. | ||
| Where were the firefighters? | ||
| Where was the water? | ||
| Where's the logistics? | ||
| Now at the looting start, where's the police? | ||
| Where are what citizens? | ||
| This is the outcry. | ||
| This is what a progressive, politically correct mentality gets you. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Look at that right there. | ||
| That looks like Dresden in 1945. In fact, I tell you what looks worse. | ||
| That looks like... | ||
| What you're seeing on the screen right now, if you listen by the podcast, you've got to go to our website, get the email, you've got to get the command brief and what Kerry Donovan puts on the thing to see the visuals. | ||
| That looks like the firebombing in Tokyo and Japan in March of 1945. It's worse than Dresden. | ||
| And a complete village is gone. | ||
| And why is it gone? | ||
| Human agency, or the lack thereof. | ||
| There can be no excuses for this. | ||
| Donald J. Trump is right. | ||
| We're going to get more into this. | ||
| the full spectrum dominance. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann. | |
| I'm trying to find out. | ||
| I think that the great Johnny Conn, or his brother, may have lost their house in the Palisades. | ||
| We're going to check that out. | ||
| Complete and total devastation. | ||
| I mean, apocalyptic. | ||
| But if you see the news media and the way they're covering it, it's an insult to people's intelligence. | ||
| And people are starting to get angry. | ||
| And they should be angry. | ||
| But, then again, President Trump, common sense, practical. | ||
| He's a builder. | ||
| You know what they call him in China? | ||
| They got a phrase for him. | ||
| I got to find the phrase. | ||
| They call him builder of nations. | ||
| Or builder of nation. | ||
| A nation builder. | ||
| The young people over there are referring to Trump because they're putting out hate on Trump nonstop to the Lao Ba Jing. | ||
| But if you look at what's going on on social media, and they respect Trump. | ||
| Many of these young people revere Trump with all the hate that's being put out there about how bad Trump is. | ||
| They're trying to tee up as their financial situation deteriorates. | ||
| They're trying to set themselves up to some nationalistic move that the foreign devils have done this to us, and Trump is the head foreign devil. | ||
| There are a lot of folks over there that don't buy it, and they call him the nation builder. | ||
| I think it's a pretty good handle. | ||
| This situation in California, California is, think about it, California in the history of this country. | ||
| In California, pre-World, the whole history of California, amazing. | ||
| But then, look, pre-World War II and the aerospace industry that helped us win the Second World War and the boom, the American boom centered in California. | ||
| A center of conservative politics. | ||
| What has happened to that great state and what has happened to the people, and I hope that this is a wake-up call. | ||
| You cannot look away from this. | ||
| Particularly, you can't look away from it on the unbelievable incompetent, I mean, beyond incompetent malfeasance that's going on. | ||
| This is what Trump saved his nation from. | ||
| This is what Trump saved this nation from. | ||
| At a federal, at a, at a, at a, at a, the most powerful, the hegemon, run by the likes of this. | ||
| You see that thing with Biden? | ||
| You know, there's people tweeting, oh, he can't read the room. | ||
| It's deeper than that. | ||
| It's deeper than that. | ||
| It shows you, it's not an ability to read the room. | ||
| It's the mentality of these people. | ||
| That he would go there with this tragedy. | ||
| Because think about it. | ||
| You look at Palisades. | ||
| Do you understand their lives will never be the same again? | ||
| I don't care if you start rebuilding. | ||
| It's always going to be different, and in some cases, dramatically different. | ||
| And on Tuesday when you woke up, it was a beautifully, just another beautiful, clear day. | ||
| Windy. | ||
| Very windy. | ||
| Oh, the Santa Anas are here. | ||
| The Santa Anas are here. | ||
| It's going to be a warmer, hotter day in December or January than it normally is. | ||
| And then to be... | ||
| It's Day of the Locust. | ||
| You ever see that film about Los Angeles? | ||
| I think Rebecca West wrote the book. | ||
| What you've had is Day of the Locust. | ||
| But this is not, and they go, climate change, this, climate change, yeah, no. | ||
| This is human. | ||
| Yes, of course the winds blow hard, but the winds always blow hard. | ||
| And yes, a brush fire started, but brush fires start. | ||
| Particularly where people build these houses. | ||
| That's just a normal course of events. | ||
| The tragedy is that no, look at, you can see hours of footage and there's nobody there. | ||
| There's no firemen there. | ||
| I'm not blaming the firemen. | ||
| These guys are brave and going harm's way. | ||
| But where's the organization? | ||
| Where was the water? | ||
| You saw the woman up there. | ||
| She's sitting there going, we have three million tanks, but we ran out. | ||
| Well, hey lady, yo, you can't run out. | ||
| Your job is to make sure you don't run out. | ||
| She's just, matter of fact, if we can get that clip, I want to play that later. | ||
| She's just sitting there, you know, we have three million tanks and the gravity, you know, up the hill, yes, that's where they come down. | ||
| We have three million gallons. | ||
| We have three, one million tanks. | ||
| But this ran, and this is what gets you about the coverage on the media. | ||
| They're sitting there at CNN precisely, when did it run out? | ||
| That's not the point. | ||
| The point is to ask the question, how did it run out, lady? | ||
| Tell me what the plan is. | ||
| These systems, this is the collapse of complex systems. | ||
| Darren Beattie, we got Beattie I think a little later, but I'm going to get him on this. | ||
| Remember Beattie had this whole series six months ago, eight months ago, that you could tell that political correctness, DEI, and all of it. | ||
| Not just that, but all the way they run things, this mediocrity. | ||
| Is the collapse of complex systems. | ||
| We were on the time on the air system. | ||
| So many close calls. | ||
| This is that you're seeing the manifestation of Darren Beattie's theory of the case of the collapse of complex systems. | ||
| Because you don't have people that can run complex systems. | ||
| Put in charge. | ||
| Have you seen any leadership? | ||
| We've watched every one of these press conferences. | ||
| So you didn't have to. | ||
| It is stunning. | ||
| Not just the incompetence. | ||
| The arrogance of the incompetence. | ||
| The mayor doesn't want to answer questions. | ||
| But even the people around them, they're so, not just of the moment, so basically incompetent to actually perform the duties they should perform on a regular basis in a normal course of business. | ||
| And then if anybody even tries to ask a question, it's kind of unctuous. | ||
| They just give it to you the thing. | ||
| And CNN, MSNBC, CNN in this regard is actually the worst. | ||
| Well, the three times, it ran at Pacifica here, Pacifica here. | ||
| It shouldn't have run out. | ||
| What do you mean it ran at this time? | ||
| And over these couple hours, why didn't you get more water up there? | ||
| Did you plan for this? | ||
| We've got so much to get through today, including how President Trump is in this thing from Axios. | ||
| We're moving forward, and we told you, now this is a discussion. | ||
| Hopefully today we'll rectify the two-versus-one bill, also the executive orders. | ||
| You're going to hit. | ||
| We're going to be an executive order tsunami on the day of the 20th. | ||
| I want to talk to you. | ||
| Our coverage on the 20th, yes, we're going to cover the pageantry and the majesty of President Trump in this historic event of him taking the office, everything like that. | ||
| But our primary focus that day is going to be, boom, at high noon, firing off the football, right, to take this country back and to turn it around. | ||
| We can't wait another second. | ||
| Our coverage is going to be that. | ||
| The executive orders, what's happening, people deployed, what's going on. | ||
| President Trump's going to be all action. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| To save this country. | ||
| Don't have a minute to spare. | ||
| You don't think the people in California, even the ones that hate Trump and hate the sound of his name, would not rather have him there than Biden? | ||
| Biden goes through this briefing. | ||
| He's barely there. | ||
| You can tell he's barely cognizant. | ||
| Newsom is trying to be in. | ||
| He then says, well, there's some good news. | ||
| I had a grandchild, a great-grandchild. | ||
| And Newsom's face is like just wincing. | ||
| Who could do that? | ||
| Who could do that? | ||
| There's no good news yesterday. | ||
| And nobody wants to hear about your great-grandchild, dude. | ||
| Nobody's interested. | ||
| You've got devastation. | ||
| You have people's lives that will never be the same. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| But at the same time, what are they trying to do on the way out? | ||
| What are they trying to, instead of focusing, maybe instead of Merrick Garland and those guys, because now people are rushing the border, maybe instead of trying to make sure that we don't have a bum rush on the border, right, maybe to do that, Merrick Garland, with all the crimes he's committed, would finally help out, no. | ||
| In the 11th hour, the 11th hour of the 11th day, all of it, close to midnight, they're trying to, once again, hammer Trump. | ||
| Legally. | ||
| Julie Kelly joins me by phone. | ||
| Julie, hopefully she's still up. | ||
| Julie, you've got Mershon in trying to make Trump a convicted felon. | ||
| It's very different than just guilty of felon. | ||
| He's trying to make him a convicted felon by having the sentence marked. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| And then you've got this situation where Jack Smith is just itching to leak, illegally leak, this report. | ||
| Can you get us up to date on both of them, ma'am? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So Alvin Bragg and Juan Mershon just posted their response to President Trump's request before the Supreme Court, really an emergency request, to put on hold the proceedings in the New York case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2023. Donald Trump, | ||
| you know, convicted unanimously by a New York jury in May of 2024. In the interim, Steve, two very important things happened between May of 2024 and now. | ||
| Number one, July 1st, 2024. The Supreme Court hands down its landmark opinion related to presidential immunity for acts in office. | ||
| Now, the accusations against President Trump relate to his time in office. | ||
| This was not something that he did before he took the presidency in 2017. These are things that he did when he was president, and what Donald Trump's team is arguing, and I think justifiably so, is that that conviction should be vacated because it deals with things he did while he was president. | ||
| So July 1, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, really hands down this guidance as to what conduct in office is protected from criminal prosecution. | ||
| More importantly, of course, November 5th, 2024, Donald Trump is re-elected president. | ||
| So now what Donald Trump's team is arguing, in addition to the conviction should be vacated based on the July SCOTUS opinion, now presidential immunity extends through the transition period, which makes total sense, of course, because he is the incoming president. | ||
| Certified officially on Monday. | ||
| So by extension, that immunity should apply to not prosecuting a sitting or incoming president. | ||
| Now, what Juan Marchand did is continue to delay the sentencing in this case based on the Supreme Court ruling, then based on the election period. | ||
| But he very slyly set the sentencing for tomorrow morning at 9.30. | ||
| That is what Donald Trump, President Trump, and his team are trying to put a hold on. | ||
| They filed this emergency application on Tuesday. | ||
| Sonia Sotomayor, who, by the way, was in the minority in the immunity opinion, 6-3, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. | ||
| Julie, hang on one second. | ||
| We're going to go to commercial break. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Julie Kay's going to hang around. | ||
| We've got the Murshot sentencing tomorrow. | ||
| You've got the Jack Smith. | ||
| Report on the insurrection, quote-unquote. | ||
| They're trying to get Trump at the last second. | ||
| Going out the door, they're not worried about the nation. | ||
| They're worried about Trump. | ||
| This is how despicable these people are. | ||
| What they've left this country and what President Trump is stepping into. | ||
| Revolting. | ||
| Repulsive. | ||
| Disgusting. | ||
| We can't get him here too soon. | ||
| Get his hand on that Bible. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| The bond yields are going up in England. | ||
| They're on fire right now. | ||
| That's never a good sign. | ||
| I'll get to that later in the show. | ||
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| President Trump, and we're going to get into the full-spectrum dominance. | ||
| Benzman's going to join me here in a minute to go through these EOs and talk about the situation. | ||
| The center of gravity and the deportation is going to be Chicago. | ||
| That's where you're going to meet the resistance. | ||
| And trust me, Homan and these guys are not going to back down Stephen Miller. | ||
| They got to go. | ||
| Folks got to go. | ||
| Even Axios is saying how they've never seen geopolitically with business, industry, everybody's coming to be a supplicant to President Trump. | ||
| President Trump's not looking for supplicants. | ||
| He's looking to take action, action, action. | ||
| What he doesn't want to do is have people taking cheap shots, cheap shots on him. | ||
| Because if you're taking a cheap shot on him, you're taking a cheap shot on the nation. | ||
| Your Justice Department, there's a poll out today that says Biden's the worst of the modern presidents. | ||
| Does that shock you? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You got Bush 43 and you got Jimmy Carter. | ||
| I won't mention Jimmy Carter because I don't want to speak poorly of the dead. | ||
| But Biden's ranked last. | ||
| But on the way out the door, the non-classy way they are, what are they trying to do? | ||
| They're maniacally focused on damaging President Trump. | ||
| So, Julie Kelly, I want to go back and we can be succinct because there's so much going on. | ||
| I want people to focus on this. | ||
| They're trying to get Mershon to have to render the verdict tomorrow, his sentence, because they want Trump to be considered a convicted felon. | ||
| He is not a convicted felon now. | ||
| He's an individual who's been convicted of these phony felonies. | ||
| But they are bound and determined. | ||
| There's no need to do this except for that. | ||
| So where does it stand specifically? | ||
| Just where does it stand right now? | ||
| Because I know this is going to the Supreme Court. | ||
| President Trump's going to the Supreme Court to get a stay on this or to get it shut down. | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| So it's pending before the Supreme Court right now. | ||
| This was the filing that Bragg and Mershon issued just a few moments ago. | ||
| And what Trump is trying to do is delay his sentencing scheduled for 9.30 tomorrow morning. | ||
| So the Supreme Court will have to act today to put a hold on that sentencing hearing. | ||
| But I would like to read... | ||
| If it's okay, what Bragg and Mershon said in response to the Supreme Court, which tips off their partisan political motivation. | ||
| And here's what they wrote. | ||
| Please. | ||
| Any stay here risks delaying the sentencing until after January 20th, when defendant, President Trump, is inaugurated and his status as the sitting president will pose much more severe and potentially insuperable obstacles. | ||
| To sentencing and finality. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| Ding, ding, ding. | ||
| Far from temporarily preserving the status quo, granting defendant stay threatens to delay sentencing for years. | ||
| That is tipping their heads. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So now we'll find out sometime this afternoon whether the Supreme Court says, hey, we take a pass, you guys do it, or... | ||
| Fully stop it or give a stay on it, right? | ||
| Those are the three options? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| It will just be a response to President Trump's request for a stay. | ||
| So they'll just respond to that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Now, on top of that, let's go back in time. | ||
| The 160-page report that Jack Smith released as election interference that had yours truly as P1, person number one, had another bunch of people in there, and had President Trump. | ||
| This was his interim report. | ||
| It was actually a superseding indictment that they would have dropped on November 6th if they had won. | ||
| Now they've got a two-volume report. | ||
| They are maniacally obsessed about getting this report out. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Judge Cannon shut it down the other day because they've kind of intermixed both the Mar-a-Lago raid with the phony insurrection charges. | ||
| Now they're going nuts. | ||
| And Merrick Garland's actually said, correct me if I'm wrong, he said, hey, I'm going to release it to hell with you guys, essentially. | ||
| And now that has caught up, and it's going to go to the Supreme Court also, ma'am? | ||
| Well, right now, so Jack Smith has authored this two-volume report, what you just said, volume one, the J-6 case in Washington. | ||
| And then Volume 2, the Classified Documents case in Florida. | ||
| Now, Steve, it's important to emphasize that those cases are dead, with the exception of Donald Trump's two co-defendants in the Classified Documents case. | ||
| They're dead. | ||
| Jack Smith moved to dismiss the J6 indictment after the election. | ||
| That was granted. | ||
| He then dropped his appeal in the Florida case on behalf of President Trump. | ||
| Thug, who will be under investigation by Congress and a Trump DOJ, wants to issue a report. | ||
| He gave it to Merrick Garland on Tuesday, indicating Garland could release it as early as tomorrow upon his review. | ||
| But President Trump and his two co-defendants... | ||
| Again, in Florida, this is how our president has to spend his time before the inauguration, not preparing to take over the country, fighting this ongoing lawfare. | ||
| So they filed a motion in Florida before Judge Cannon, who presided over the classified documents case, and now the appellate court there as well, seeking to prevent DOJ from releasing the report. | ||
| Judge Cannon did issue an order forbidding the DOJ from releasing that report outside of the department as this kind of litigates through the appellate court. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're going to follow this. | ||
| Julie, you're going to be back here today. | ||
| These are two decisions that kind of be... | ||
| The first is the Mershon's obviously one that's got to be made today. | ||
| The other is because Merrick Garland is bound... | ||
| They're bound and determined even to just get it to the committee so Jamie Raskin can pull all the most salacious elements and get it out there. | ||
| They can't beat Trump. | ||
| They can't defeat Trump. | ||
| They can't defeat the Trump movement. | ||
| What they're trying to do is they're trying to mark it up as much as possible, scuff it up. | ||
| And Boris Epstein and the team, you should know, they're working around the clock to stop this because this shows you this is a primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Where did I? | ||
| That was not a bad quote off the top of the head. | ||
| Handcuffed, walking into Mershon's court. | ||
| I was walking to Mershon's court when they just randomly, five bay and a one, had Mershon as my judge. | ||
| Julie Kelly, where do they go to the interim? | ||
| We'll have you back on this afternoon, updates. | ||
| This is quite important, ma'am. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Yep, I'll be on tonight. | ||
| I have a whole piece kind of outlining this declassified with Julie Kelly on Substack, Real Clear Investigations also, and of course I'll be covering breaking news on X, Julie underscore Kelly too, and I will talk to you tonight. | ||
| Okay, I just want to make sure folks embrace this. | ||
| They just sentenced an individual on J6 we're going to talk about tonight. | ||
| How many months in federal prison did this individual get? | ||
| I think he was sentenced yesterday. | ||
| What was the sentence, ma'am? | ||
| He is reporting to prison right now 40 months on a civil disorder conviction and two misdemeanors. | ||
| 40 months. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're going to add all that up. | ||
| So when Burr Howell gets impeached and then goes to trial, When Merrick Garland goes to trial, Lisa Monaco goes to Matthew Graves, goes, no, I'm dead serious. | ||
| We're going to add them all up and have a big old chart of what they did to people. | ||
| When they have to stand and deliver before justice. | ||
| Julie Kelly, thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Talk to you later, Steve. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The three lines of work, the stop the kinetic part of the Third World War, this financial situation, economic situation, the debt, which is the existential threat. | ||
| He had a meeting in the Senate yesterday. | ||
| The House Freedom Caucus is tomorrow in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| I believe decisions are going to be made forthwith. | ||
| As you know, here in the War Room, we like to have single subject bills so we can see it. | ||
| So we're a two-bill versus one bill. | ||
| We don't like, we love the president, but we don't like the great big old, I call it the summer omnibus. | ||
| There'll be a lot of president, I'm just telling you, there's going to be a lot of tears shed if we go down that one root path, I can tell you now. | ||
| So two's not great, but it's better than any alternative, so let's roll it. | ||
| We got the reconciliation. | ||
| But the first matter at hand has got to be the deportation. | ||
| President Trump's committed to it. | ||
| He's working on it. | ||
| Stephen Miller, the great Stephen Miller, yesterday in the Senate behind closed doors, being reported, being leaked, that Stephen Miller walked through 100, as we said here the other day, 100 executive orders. | ||
| Now, I'm not sure all those are going to be done by game day, because you remember, we're in the weeds here at the war room because the posse needs to be in the weeds. | ||
| You need the receipts. | ||
| You have to get Office of Legal Counsel opinions on these executive orders, right, to make sure that they're constitutional, that they comport to existing law and that they're constitutional. | ||
| Because the executive order is not a law. | ||
| It's an order from the chief executive of the U.S. government that we president of the United States. | ||
| Todd Benzman, I want to get to Chicago in a second because that's going to be the center of this fight of sanctuary cities versus sorting this thing out. | ||
| But give me a minute before we go to break. | ||
| The executive orders, the shock of the hundred, I will tell you folks, I don't know, I think 50, somewhere near 35 to 50 are related to Todd Benzman's topic, brother, about undoing the damage Biden did day one. | ||
| What should we look for there before we go to break, Todd? | ||
| Well, I won't be surprised at all to see CBP-1 and all those parole programs immediately canceled, the ones that are flying them in over the border and bringing them in over the land ports. | ||
| I won't be surprised to see them deputize the Texas Department of Public Safety and Operation Lone Star either because they're going to need to have personnel. | ||
| They've got ready-made personnel right there on the border, on 1,200 miles of border with Texas. | ||
| I've heard through the grapevine that there has already been a lot of talking about that, arrangements for the deputizing of Texas. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised to see a big emergency declaration that would allow the new president to use military facilities for detention and maybe even use some personnel to Do some of the administrative work that's necessary. | ||
| They need to divert manpower, personnel, to the deportation. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if something happens with sanctuary cities that got something in mind for the rebel blue cities that are already out there saying we're not going to participate. | ||
| Hang one second. | ||
| Hang one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| I'm going to drill down on this in Chicago. | ||
| The center of gravity of the Sanctuary City deportation fight. | ||
| Todd Benzman is broken down into three different elements. | ||
| All next in the war room. | ||
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| The raid could target immigrants allegedly living in the U.S. illegally in a workplace in the Washington, D.C. area. | ||
| I'm curious what you think of this because I've covered this. | ||
| I've had Stephen Miller on the show. | ||
| I think we can stipulate that there are debates about immigration in this country and undocumented immigration has been rising. | ||
| And there's a question about how to deal with that in a holistic way that is humane but protects national security. | ||
| I'm curious what you think of something that's already being built as a kind of, quote, show or advertisement. | ||
| Isn't this issue more important than making a D.C. show for the D.C., I guess, media market? | ||
| You know, I'm an old man now. | ||
| I've been a boxer all my life. | ||
| I've given it up because of my... | ||
| My frailty. | ||
| But I would come back to punch Stephen Miller in the nose because he is the most hideous in terms of his policy. | ||
| I don't know the guy personally. | ||
| But in terms of his policy, he is absolutely draconian. | ||
| He's the definition of it. | ||
| He doesn't want to resolve the issue. | ||
| He wants to scapegoat certain people that will, in his mind, It will resound favorably to President Trump. | ||
| I think that this is a horrible idea. | ||
| A showcase of raids in the D.C. area. | ||
| You know what that's going to do? | ||
| It will heighten uncertainty in the immigration among immigrants. | ||
| It will infuriate the Democrats. | ||
| It will motivate that base. | ||
| It will absolutely garner him no additional points. | ||
| He needs now. | ||
| Okay, Geraldo. | ||
| Those raids are absolutely necessary, and not just raids to get the immigrants. | ||
| They need to go in and arrest any building they go into, any office they go into for these raids. | ||
| They need to arrest the CFO and the CEO. Let me go back in time before I get tied on here. | ||
| Here's my theory of the case. | ||
| When we had all the abuses in the internet stocks, you know, you had, like, wall.com. | ||
| You put.com on anything, and the stock would go, wouldn't it be a business? | ||
| And you had these, you know, day traders. | ||
| You're driving up the price of stocks, and then everything collapsed in early 2000. I think the first quarter of 2000 all collapsed, okay? | ||
| And people were wiped out. | ||
| Pension funds got hit. | ||
| They passed a law, Sarbanes-Oxley, okay? | ||
| Now, Sarbanes actually has got a lot of negatives to it, but one thing it did, it tried to clear it up by making it a, when a CFO and a CEO signed the quarterly statements, when the quarterly financials came out, it changed the game there from civil penalties to criminal. | ||
| If you purposely gun-decked or misled in your statements, in your financial statements, which a lot of these internet companies had kind of, because they had all these kind of metrics, not financials, metrics, and they were pushing that. | ||
| The Sarbanes-Oxley, with all its faults, did try to clean up the problem by saying, hey, we've got to put somebody in the hook. | ||
| Somebody's got to be accountable. | ||
| Somebody's got to be responsible. | ||
| Somebody's got to be held responsible for this, right? | ||
| Whoever had the authority has to be held responsible. | ||
| That's how they basically went a long way to clean up that type of mess. | ||
| The same thing has to happen. | ||
| Remember, the Chamber of Commerce, the Republican establishment, and the Democrats, the big Democratic donors, always fight E-Verify. | ||
| They don't want to know how many illegal aliens here in the low-skill level are taking jobs and working. | ||
| And remember, you're paying for their health care. | ||
| They're destroying the education system. | ||
| This is where the burden is yours. | ||
| They've socialized the burden to you. | ||
| My point is, when you go do these raids, you're just not turfing out the unskilled workers who are working there below wages with no Social Security, no medical, right? | ||
| Of course, they have to go. | ||
| But remember, they're just kind of pawns in this game. | ||
| This game is about money and power. | ||
| The people that are responsible are the chief operating officer, the CFO, and the CEO. You walk a couple of those people out cuffed, you'll have a different attitude about counting. | ||
| Todd Bensman, do you think it's a good idea in these executive orders, the first couple of days, homing in these guys particularly, to do it in a high-vis area like Washington, D.C., to kind of get people's attention? | ||
| Are you a backer of that? | ||
| Are you a bleeding heart like Geraldo, sir? | ||
| Powerful deterrence. | ||
| I just do that a few times and should send the message. | ||
| So, yeah, I'm all for deterrence. | ||
| I do believe that they have the right to... | ||
| Prosecute. | ||
| Walk them out. | ||
| Also, if you're harboring illegal aliens or protecting them or obstructing lawful deportation and removal operations, as Homan said before, you can be prosecuted, held responsible criminally for that. | ||
| I think they need to go through and do some of those too in the sanctuary jurisdictions. | ||
| They don't need to do a lot. | ||
| They just need to do some. | ||
| How important... | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| We're going to go to break here in a couple of minutes. | ||
| I'm going to ask Todd to stick with us. | ||
| We're also going to talk about economics and the next tariffs, President Trump's economic plan. | ||
| We're going to talk about Greenland, his geostrategic plan. | ||
| But I've got to ask you, just for... | ||
| And the way Trump rolls, right, who's action-oriented, how important is the first couple of days, not the first hundred days, but the first couple of days to set the attitude of this with these executive orders, Todd Bensman? | ||
| It's hugely important. | ||
| It's everything. | ||
| Because it's all about messaging downstream into Mexico and beyond. | ||
| Those are the people you have to influence. | ||
| That's why Homan and those guys are running around on every media outlet, every podcast that they can get on, Tucker, yours, everywhere, to make sure that the people downstream that are thinking, are they serious about this? | ||
| Are they really going to boot us out of here? | ||
| So they need to boot people out. | ||
| They need to show that they're following rhetoric with action. | ||
| Todd, before we go to break, just where do people go to get to your three-part series, particularly in Chicago? | ||
| We're going to talk about it on the other side of the break. | ||
| Where do folks go to get that? | ||
| All your writings, everything. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| CIS.org. | ||
| I work for the Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| CIS.org three-part series on the very first border crosser terrorist attack in the country that we've been warning about. | ||
| FBI, everybody's been warning about this. | ||
| Well, it happened and everybody kind of ignored it. | ||
| So I wanted to make sure it didn't get ignored out there at CIS.org. | ||
| And also, I just want to mention that I am going to be in Indianapolis on Wednesday, January 15, Blood Red, Indianapolis, to speak at the Meridian Hills Country Club. | ||
| And I'll give everybody the back story there. | ||
| For Hang on. | ||
| You're going to hold with us. | ||
| I've got to go through. | ||
| The confrontation on Sanctuary City is going to be in Chicago. | ||
| We're going to spend a few minutes on the other side. | ||
| Remember, he's got the Third World War. | ||
| He's got the economy and the debt. | ||
| He has the deportation, immigration, the border, everything like that. | ||
| And then three, the other part of the matrix. | ||
| He's got the executive orders. | ||
| He's got the legislation, one versus two, plus there's other legislation, but the big one, one big bill versus two, and the confirmations. | ||
| We've got to make sure, and I think in the next hour I'm going to have everybody get on the ramparts. | ||
| The Senate needs to know, Trump's confirmations need to be quick-marched. | ||
| He needs to get in and have his team. | ||
| The nation needs this. | ||
| The world needs this. | ||
| Short break. |
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