Jan. 9, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Chicago, not a real bright guy, says Tom Holman isn't welcome to Chicago. | |
| Well, guess where Tom Holman's going to be day one? | ||
| Chicago, Illinois. | ||
| You don't want me there? | ||
| Come get me. | ||
| The people of Chicago have spoken. | ||
| I went there a few weeks ago. | ||
| The black community's upset. | ||
| The whole community's upset because violent crime is up. | ||
| And millions of dollars in public services are being given to people who are not supposed to be here. | ||
| Meanwhile, the taxpaying community that is in a bad way because the Biden administration's economic plans, they're getting robbed every day by giving millions of dollars to people who aren't supposed to be here. | ||
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That's not the way it's supposed to be, folks. | |
| That's Tom Homan right there. | ||
| Thursday, 9th, January, Year of the Lord, 2025, the second hour. | ||
| Right there, Homan. | ||
| That's a turning point. | ||
| Just a couple of weeks ago, that was a great turning point. | ||
| AmFest, that everybody went to. | ||
| Homan, throwing down hard. | ||
| So, Benzman, tell me about your piece. | ||
| I want people to read this to get a feel for it, but there's a, the mayor of Chicago with as much a disaster as it is for the folks in Chicago, and we're going to have people deployed there. | ||
| Starting day one, right after the inaugural. | ||
| Ben Burkham is going to be in D.C. with us, I think, right now. | ||
| But his team, he's got, remember the folks we spent so much time with in Chicago when Ben was there. | ||
| So we're going to be fully deployed. | ||
| Because, hey, Trump is not going to back down. | ||
| He doesn't need to back down. | ||
| He's got the nation in back of him and more and more people coming to his cause, coming to his side. | ||
| Ben's been, what's going to happen? | ||
| Well, it looks like a feud is ginning up there. | ||
| You know, Brandon Johnson, the mayor, and Tom Homan kind of standing toe-to-toe. | ||
| We'll see who comes out of that. | ||
| I think that we're going to be seeing, and you should watch for more mention of the fact that the nation's first terror attack by a border-crossing illegal immigrant from Mauritania, a special interest alien, happened there October 26th. | ||
| That is the subject of my three-part series at CIS.org. | ||
| That's going to matter in this because, you know, why wouldn't Homan? | ||
| You know, Trump's already talked about it at his rallies, and I think we're going to be hearing a lot more about that, and it matters because, remember, this is as far as you can get from the southern border, and here you had a Mauritanian terrorist attack a bunch of Jews in Chicago and shoot one and fire at the cops. | ||
| Totally white-knuckle, dramatic, full-on jihadist terror attack. | ||
| That's what it was, calling it for what it was. | ||
| It was charged as that as well. | ||
| So I think that you're going to see Homan in there making politics, but also you're going to see ICE in there. | ||
| And you're going to see ICE in places like Boston, too, and all these other blue centers of mass migration, sanctuary centers of the mass migration. | ||
| The head of ICE ERO was just there on radio in Boston saying, hey, we're coming in force to Boston. | ||
| And I think you're going to see that shock and awe in lots of those cities, D.C., Denver. | ||
| They'll be chasing after Trend de Aragua. | ||
| They'll be chasing after terrorists. | ||
| It's going to be shock and awe. | ||
| I think you can watch that. | ||
| And it's going to be a feud also because... | ||
| Illinois just passed a law, or they're about to sign a bill where they're allowing everybody to change their names to avoid this. | ||
| Shocking on. | ||
| There's going to be all kinds of stuff like that. | ||
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Tactical lawfare. | |
| Just like CEOs, the corporatists and the corporations that try to take advantage of these people to the detriment of U.S. citizens should be cuffed, perp-walked, and arrested. | ||
| These mayors of sanctuary cities, these are crimes. | ||
| Holman and Miller have been very blunt. | ||
| Todd Benson has been very blunt. | ||
| That you harbor these folks, you're breaking federal law. | ||
| When these federal law enforcement officials go in to round up these folks and start sending them south. | ||
| I will tell you, Trump is not going to blink on this. | ||
| He's not going to back down on this. | ||
| He's got a bulldog in Tom Homan. | ||
| He's got Stephen Miller, the architect of it, one of the most brilliant guys around that's done this. | ||
| Stephen's worked on this for 15 years, 20 years. | ||
| And you've got guys like Benzman and others. | ||
| So, Todd, we're going to have you back on. | ||
| But I want to tell everybody, for our coverage, we're going to do the ceremony. | ||
| The ceremony is obviously important. | ||
| People want to commemorate that weekend. | ||
| We're going to have a lot going on. | ||
| We'll talk to you. | ||
| But I'm telling you, President Trump and those guys are working 24-7 to pull all these things together. | ||
| We're going to talk about confirmations in a second. | ||
| That's a workday. | ||
| That may be the most important workday of his entire administration because you have to fire off the football. | ||
| Benzman says it's messaging, it's narrative building, it's that, hey, there's a new sheriff in town and he's not going to work any nonsense on this. | ||
| These core things that have to happen. | ||
| Set things right. | ||
| Turn this country around. | ||
| You're seeing right now, if you want a country that's run like California, just continue down the path. | ||
| And guys like Newsom and this Mayor Bass in L.A., who was in Ghana when the crisis started, if you want a country run like that, then have it. | ||
| But I've got to tell you, the MAGA movement and our leader, President Trump, game over. | ||
| He's a new sheriff in town. | ||
| A new set of rules. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| By the rule of law, not like Merrick Garland has run this criminal justice department. | ||
| Todd, once again, you're giving a speech. | ||
| Where do people go to get you, sir? | ||
| Because now more than ever, you need content from Todd Benzman to understand what you're doing at the Ramparts. | ||
| Yeah, I appreciate that. | ||
| Yeah, you can sign up for my newsletter at toddbenzman.com. | ||
| I'm on X, you know, Benzman, Todd. | ||
| I'm on Getter and Truth Social. | ||
| And I will be speaking in Indianapolis on Wednesday the 15th. | ||
| At the Meridian Hills Country Club. | ||
| Anybody in the posse who's there should come see me. | ||
| I'll give you the backstory. | ||
| Go see. | ||
| I want that place packed. | ||
| I want it overflowing. | ||
| It's a run-up to the inauguration. | ||
| Benzman knows more than any guy on Earth about this topic and others. | ||
| Make sure you meet and greet with Benzman. | ||
| Todd, thank you so much, man. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Let's hold Greenland for a minute. | ||
| I got Darren Beattie. | ||
| Darren, we've just had Julie Kelly on about trying to sentence him tomorrow, trying to leak the Jack Smith report. | ||
| Merrick Garland, instead of doing what they're doing in transitioning, let's get Pam Bundy confirmed, let's have her confirmation hearing, I don't know, maybe Monday, maybe tomorrow. | ||
| Instead, all they're doing is trying to obstruct... | ||
| And I want to talk about even J6. What are they doing? | ||
| I'm so confused now about the pipe bomber. | ||
| Was there a pipe bomber? | ||
| Was there not a pipe bomber? | ||
| And why are they putting out and confusing Steve Bannon? | ||
| We've got enough things to keep set here at the War Room that's going on. | ||
| Why are they putting out new videos? | ||
| And these are like clear videos. | ||
| Why is this all coming out now? | ||
| You've been on this story for three years. | ||
| Why is it coming out the week before the inauguration, sir? | ||
| Help me. | ||
| Believe it or not, our first piece on the pipe bomb, on the pipe bomb surveillance footage, was actually... | ||
| We've been on this from a number of different angles for a very long time, and we've achieved a lot. | ||
| I think on a narrative level, we've shaped the conversation. | ||
| Most Americans who are fair-minded and look at this understand that January 6th generally was a fedsurrection, not an insurrection. | ||
| They're deeply skeptical about that first Ray Epps orchestrated breach, and they're deeply skeptical About the pipe bomb, we've done basically 95%. | ||
| And as I always say, the additional 5%, I don't think I'm in a position to do. | ||
| That will require the courage and cooperation of incoming FBI Director Kash Patel, which I fully hope and expect him to take up on day one. | ||
| But there have been some interesting recent developments about the pipe bomb, as you mentioned. | ||
| Trump has always been into our reporting. | ||
| He's been into the Fed's erection stuff. | ||
| He's mentioned Ray Epps. | ||
| He's mentioned Scaffold Commander and others. | ||
| But just a couple days ago, I believe, was the first time publicly that he's addressed the pipe bomb hoax. | ||
| And the substance of what he said, I think, is very telling. | ||
| And it reflects an accurate understanding of the state of the investigation here. | ||
| What he said was, the FBI... That's a very interesting statement. | ||
| And just for bigger context on that, just a few days ago, there was a report released from the House Admin Committee, Loudermilk Report. | ||
| Thomas Massey had a huge hand in it, and Massey has taken up our research at Revolver and used his perch in Congress to take it to the next level. | ||
| This is a very informed report that substantiates pretty much every critical dimension of our reporting. | ||
| But there are a couple things really worth mentioning about this. | ||
| One, it is clear to me that the FBI actually did conduct a legitimate investigation in the first couple months after January 6th. | ||
| In other words, they did everything you'd expect an agency like that to do. | ||
| They interviewed tons of people, hundreds, thousands of people. | ||
| They scoured all the evidence. | ||
| They chased down leads. | ||
| There's multiple references to extremely hot and interesting leads in the report. | ||
| But then something weird happened, Steve. | ||
| Around May of 2021, the investigation essentially dies. | ||
| The investigation goes... | ||
| Dark. | ||
| Around May of 2021. And this is even earlier than I initially suspected. | ||
| You know, I've known for a while and have reported that there was another agency, not the FBI, that was investigating the pipe bomb. | ||
| They wanted to see the surveillance footage of the pipe bomb location from January 6th. | ||
| They had to go to the DNC to see that footage, indicating that the FBI was either not cooperating or, maybe even more likely, didn't have that footage at that time, suggesting the investigation. | ||
| This was February of 2022. But now we see that the investigation in all likelihood died much earlier. | ||
| As early as spring of 2021. So what can we conclude from that? | ||
| Well, based again, we don't have time to get into every aspect of the pipe bomb and why it's just completely implausible to the point of stretching the utter bounds of credulity, the official version. | ||
| But suffice it to say, the most reasonable interpretation is the one that Trump himself asserted, which is that... | ||
| The FBI did an investigation those early months. | ||
| They found out what actually happened, and what actually happened was so profoundly embarrassing and likely incriminating to key elements of the government, the Biden regime, and their proxies that the FBI went from investigation mode to cover-up mode. | ||
| And this operation and the cover-up, as we've reported extensively, It involves not only the FBI, it involves the Capitol Police, it involves the ATF, and it involves, of course, the Secret Service itself. | ||
| It goes all the way up to the top and runs through all of these agencies. | ||
| And we have 95% done. | ||
| The additional 5%, very key, critical, and specific items that... | ||
| Incoming FBI Director Kash Patel will be in a position to reveal. | ||
| So we're 95%, that additional and explosive 5% of actually identifying the names and holding to account. | ||
| That will and must occur once Kash Patel assumes a leadership role at the FBI. But this is also why, in the couple minutes I got you, this is also why Jack Smith, this is why Merrick Garland needs to get the Jack Smith narrative out. | ||
| They need to leak the Gundect report of Jack Smith to basically set the narrative before we get in. | ||
| Because once Cash is there and others, Darren, as you know, it's all going to get revealed. | ||
| So they need to set theirs. | ||
| This is why they're bound and determined in the closing days of their regime to force it out, correct? | ||
| Yeah, and look, as you mentioned, the new videos, why they released the new video. | ||
| Well, they want to counteract the correct and overwhelming impression that the investigation has been fake ever since May of 2021. | ||
| They want to pay lip service to the idea that it's still an active investigation offering half a million dollar reward. | ||
| It's not an investigation. | ||
| It's been a cover up since May of 2021 and a cover up, an operation that implicates the very highest levels. | ||
| cover-up since may of 2021 and a cover-up and operation that implicates the very highest levels and keep in mind if i just one one more minute to to spell out the implications here sure there only a handful of people hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on i want to give you some runway here It's that important. | ||
| And keep in mind, if I just one one more minute to spell out the implications here. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| BD on the other side. | ||
| This is why, folks, we're connecting dots here. | ||
| This is why they're bound and determined Merrick Garland in the last days of his criminal regime is trying to, and it's going to go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop it. | ||
| You already had a federal judge said, no, shouldn't do it. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| It's not good enough for him. | ||
| Okay, Johnny Kahn is the author of this magnificent song, right? | ||
| American Heart. | ||
| Also, The Fighter. | ||
| Got a clip to play from that, too. | ||
| John Kahn lost his house yesterday in Pacific Palisades. | ||
| A great American in an American tragedy out on the West Coast in greater Los Angeles. | ||
| Times of Turbulence, Birch Gold. | ||
| Right now, take your phone and connect by dialing Bannon. | ||
| Texting Bannon at 989898. Get all the free information. | ||
| Do it today. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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I'm American made. | |
| I got American. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| So, Darren, with everything that these guys are covering up, with everything we're going to find out, why this pipe bond thing... | ||
| Why is it such a big deal that the cover-up went all the way to the highest reaches of the Biden regime, sir? | ||
| Well, look, it's important to understand how the pipe bomb thing fits into the broader January 6th Fedsurrection hoax. | ||
| This isn't just something that happened in isolation as a separate deal where some rogue guy may have planted a pipe bomb. | ||
| The real smoking gun of the smoking gun here is I... I say all the time is that these two pipe bombs were planted the evening of January 6. They sat undiscovered in their respective locations for over 16 hours and were independently So, | ||
| you can't compartmentalize the pipe bomb hoax from the broader January 6th hoax, from the Ray Epps orchestrated breach. | ||
| It's part of a very clearly coordinated and synchronized operation. | ||
| And that's what's so dangerous about it. | ||
| Is the pipe bomb demands, once you learn about the pipe bomb, it demands that one accept that the entire January 6th operation was a hoax and implicates the very highest levels of government. | ||
| That's why it's such an enormous scandal, because the regime has invested so much in January 6th. | ||
| They've used that to weaponize the government against us. | ||
| They've used that for lawfare against President Trump. | ||
| It was a major rhetorical and legal pillar of their operation against Trump in 2024. They've had so much riding on this. | ||
| And again, I think we've successfully achieved the first stage, which was destroy their narrative such that everyone knows it's a hoax. | ||
| The second part, and the part we're going to need Kash Patel for, is to directly expose the people involved. | ||
| And hold them to account. | ||
| And that's that additional 5%. | ||
| And it's not just even about January 6th. | ||
| This is the point I wanted to finish earlier. | ||
| There are only a handful of competent... | ||
| And corrupt people at the highest levels of government. | ||
| They don't just use them for one thing. | ||
| The people at the highest levels of the Fed's direction hoax, I'm very confident, have been involved in other operations. | ||
| And what's most disturbing to think is that it's very clear that the Secret Service, specifically Kamala Harris' detail, had advanced knowledge of this pipe bomb. | ||
| What other major scandal was the Secret Service involved in? | ||
| None other than Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
| So I suspect once the specific... | ||
| Individuals and ringleaders are identified. | ||
| This is not only just going to blow up the January 6th narrative, which is huge in its own right. | ||
| This is going to metastasize into other potentially even more damning aspects of what the Biden regime has been involved with in the past several years. | ||
| So I think it's one of the most existential things for the regime. | ||
| That's why they're clinging on to it so hard. | ||
| That's why they've been fighting it so hard. | ||
| It's so dangerous. | ||
| Had his security clearance revoked simply for sharing a Revolver.News piece with one of his colleagues. | ||
| That's been reinstated. | ||
| But that's how sensitive this has been from the beginning. | ||
| It's all coming to a head right now. | ||
| The last stage is when Kash Patel gets in there and we're all counting on him to do the right thing and expose that final and decisive 5% so the American people get the accountability that they need and deserve. | ||
| Where do people go for Revolver and your social media? | ||
| Where do they go, sir? | ||
| Revolver.News. | ||
| We're having a big piece coming out on that Loudermilk report very shortly. | ||
| Revolver.News. | ||
| I'm, of course, on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, at Darren J. Beattie. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Fantastic work. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This gets back. | ||
| That's why I had Julie on. | ||
| She'll be back on today. | ||
| Natalie's going to join me. | ||
| Natalie's going to take the six. | ||
| We're going to spend a lot of time back in this L.A. situation. | ||
| Really, how it happened. | ||
| Not the fire itself, but how this incompetence and really malfeasance happened. | ||
| So Natalie's going to be, she's all over that right now. | ||
| Her parents' home was evacuated last night. | ||
| Of course, Mo, a ton of her high school friends have lost their houses up in Palisades. | ||
| Prep school, Marymount, right down Sunset Boulevard, right across from UCLA, but right down from Palisades. | ||
| There was a ton of Palisades kids that went there. | ||
| Of course, a lot of them moved back afterwards. | ||
| Such a lovely little community. | ||
| You talk about Kash Patel in the work ahead. | ||
| Like I said, you've got the three lines of work of the big things that President Trump has to accomplish. | ||
| Then you say, well, how do we accomplish them? | ||
| How do you actually do that? | ||
| You've got three kind of action areas. | ||
| You've got, number one, the executive orders coming from the president. | ||
| You've got the big legislation, one bill versus two bills, but there's also other legislation that's being passed right now that President Trump can push. | ||
| And then you've got the cabinet positions that are actually the people that are going to implement the executive orders. | ||
| We're a big advocate of flood the zone, get all this done, get it done as soon as the Congress was sworn in and the Speaker was chosen. | ||
| There was some holdback on that. | ||
| You know, at first, we weren't going to use the FBI, weren't going to get onto the system, so there was some negotiation about that. | ||
| I'm a big believer you could have done it outside, but they chose the FBI. That's fine. | ||
| There's been some issues about how quickly these things are getting there. | ||
| Let me just cut to the chase. | ||
| People like Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, Cash Patel, the FBI Director, Pete Hegseth, the DOD, Ratcliffe, CIA, the National Security and the Law Enforcement Apparatus. | ||
| Has to be done. | ||
| And I realize with Grassley, and I have great respect for Senator Grassley, and he has this rule of thumb 28 days after he gets it. | ||
| We have to be waiving some of the customs and traditions. | ||
| President Trump needs his team. | ||
| I mean, my God, folks. | ||
| Just look at what's going on in California. | ||
| And this is throughout the world. | ||
| I mean, the kinetic part of the Third World War continues unabated. | ||
| I would argue that Ukraine's getting worse. | ||
| The Middle East is right on the verge. | ||
| You've got this situation and they're going to fight us. | ||
| You saw Geraldo right there. | ||
| Oh, you do that. | ||
| It's going to be the Democrats. | ||
| Okay, bring it. | ||
| American people just determined that. | ||
| Now, it's got to be done smartly. | ||
| But that whole thing of the deportation, the border security, all of it, just the executive orders part and the confrontation on sanctuary cities, that's coming. | ||
| That's coming. | ||
| Look at the arrogance of Newsom yesterday. | ||
| And remember, what you're seeing now in Newsom is his—and it's a bad look. | ||
| It's a terrible look. | ||
| It's a career-killing look. | ||
| But this is his start of his 28th campaign. | ||
| Newsom's running for president. | ||
| Newsom and the wife, Lady Macbeth, they're running for—they're running like mini-me, Bill and Hillary Clinton. | ||
| They're running for—hey, Hillary was the—called the shots, just like Lady Macbeth for Newsom calls the shots. | ||
| You know, he's kind of a spokesmodel. | ||
| But they're running. | ||
| Bad start. | ||
| In the flames of seeing Pacific Palisades, some of your biggest donors' village burned to the ground. | ||
| This is why we need... | ||
| Was it 202-224-3121? | ||
| Memory serves me correctly. | ||
| Not too bad. | ||
| Go get Bill Blaster today. | ||
| Or you can go over to Article 3. Either one. | ||
| Grace will be all over Bill Blaster. | ||
| We need to get up to the ramparts today. | ||
| You need to call your senators. | ||
| This is not a House. | ||
| This is a Senate. | ||
| We say, look, and with all due respect, we understand there's some customary tradition, but we can't mess around. | ||
| These hearings have to start next week. | ||
| Let me just go through the structure of that so you understand the process. | ||
| You go first to the convening committee, the committee that's in charge of whatever that aspect is. | ||
| For instance, Pete Hexas would be Armed Services. | ||
| Radcliffe and Tulsi would be Senate Intelligence. | ||
| Bobby Kennedy would be the Health and Human Services. | ||
| Lutnick would be Commerce. | ||
| Cash Patel and Bondi would be Judiciary, where Grassley, and remember, the reason I love Grassley is not a lawyer. | ||
| 92 years old, but not a lawyer. | ||
| He's a very smart guy. | ||
| Got to come to that Iowa common sense and that wisdom. | ||
| 202-224-3121. | ||
| We need to be at the ramparts. | ||
| You need to let the Senate know, tomorrow we're going to make a full, I'll probably start the whole show about this. | ||
| We need to let the Senate know that this is imperative. | ||
| President Trump needs his team. | ||
| Signing the executive orders is great, but forcing that as a decision inside the apparatus is where you need the head, you need the cabinet guy there. | ||
| You've got to get your other people, but then you've got some element of the 3,000 that also go to these cabinet offices, these cabinet departments to implement this. | ||
| Just sitting in the Oval Office signing an executive order does not mean it gets done. | ||
| That's the kind of form and the tradition and the custom and the ceremony, all of that. | ||
| President Trump, we would go and he would go to a place and sign the executive order. | ||
| You need to force it through the system, the administrative state, and they are naturally inclined to thwart what President Trump normally does. | ||
| And think about this. | ||
| These are not small things. | ||
| The apparatus wants, they've just sent another $500 million over Ukraine, sent a couple billion last week. | ||
| The apparatus is set up as they want to invade everywhere. | ||
| They're just not going to sit there, oh, President Trump's over, they're over and signed this? | ||
| No. | ||
| This decision has to be forced through the system to implement. | ||
| On the deportations, you already have mayor saying, the guy in Denver. | ||
| And you have Newsom. | ||
| He's a sanctuary state. | ||
| We're going to have a thread in here. | ||
| I actually recommended President Trump in 2017. I said, this is like Andrew Jackson and Calhoun. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It was on trade and I think in tariffs. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It was protectionism. | ||
| And his vice president said he was going to leave and go down and lead the... | ||
| This is the beginning of the Civil War. | ||
| It's the beginning of their saying, hey, we can opt out if we want to opt out. | ||
| And Calhoun's saying, hey, I'm going to go down and lead this thing. | ||
| You're not going to tell South Carolina what to do. | ||
| And Andrew Jackson, in his cussedness, hell, he beat the British at the Battle of New Orleans as the general. | ||
| He beat every Indian tribe that threw at him. | ||
| He said, hey, you tell Calhoun, I'm going to send the army down there, declare martial law, and I'm going to hang him first from a lamppost. | ||
| I think that was the quote. | ||
| Jackson didn't mess around. | ||
| Trump's not going to mess around. | ||
| But we need the confirmations to start. | ||
| All these people are going to pass. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Jack Reed came out last night and said, I don't like Pete Hesse. | ||
| I don't care who you like. | ||
| Let's roll and get them confirmed. | ||
| President Trump needs his team. | ||
| If you don't trust me, look at California. | ||
| California is Dick Durbin. | ||
| California is Schumer. | ||
| This is what they do. | ||
| This is how they roll. | ||
| You want to thwart that? | ||
| You want to stop it? | ||
| You want to turn this nation around? | ||
| President Trump needs his team. | ||
| To implement his executive orders. | ||
| We've got to fire off the football. | ||
| Impose your will on the apparatus. | ||
| Seize the institutions. | ||
| Confirm his team. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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President-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his expansionist threats. | |
| The president-elect wouldn't rule out sending military troops to acquire Greenland or the Panama Canal when asked by CNN about it on Wednesday. | ||
| This comes as Danish officials say Trump's allies and advisors are warning them Trump may be more serious about acquiring Greenland this time around than he was when he was brought up the idea during his first term. | ||
| CNN's Natasha Bertrand is joining us now from the Pentagon. | ||
| How are Danish officials reacting to what amounts to a threat by Donald Trump? | ||
| Well, look, Sarah, when Donald Trump first proposed buying Greenland back in 2019, Danish officials kind of scoffed at the idea, and the Danish prime minister actually called it absurd, rejecting it outright. | ||
| Well, now Danish officials are taking this threat much more seriously, and they are being told by Trump allies and advisors that, look, this is not something that Donald Trump is just going to do away with quickly, this idea. | ||
| And so one official, a senior Danish official, actually told me that their impression is that the ecosystem surrounding this idea is actually much stronger than it was five years ago. | ||
| And another senior Danish official told me that this time around seems, quote, much more serious. | ||
| Now, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he actually also weighed in on this yesterday. | ||
| And he said that, look, this is obviously not going to happen and therefore it's not even worth discussing. | ||
| But. | ||
| Door. | ||
| I The quickest way for Russia to penetrate our naval defenses is steaming from the Arctic to the North Atlantic. | ||
| This is our military presence in the Arctic. | ||
| These were Russia's Arctic military positions in 1995. Today, infantry, naval, radar, search and rescue, air defense, the biggest buildup since the Soviets fell. | ||
| This is where we lost Russia's most sophisticated submarines in the North Atlantic for three weeks. | ||
| This is where we found their Lasharik submarine, which we noticed only because it caught fire. | ||
| We have no idea how many more there are, but we think they're around here, here, here, and here. | ||
| This is Cregan. | ||
| You know what Cregan is? | ||
| A nuclear submarine based in Scotland. | ||
| All of the UK's nuclear weaponry is housed at Cregan. | ||
| It's what makes them one of the nine nuclear powers. | ||
| Also, it's the only base in Europe where we can dock our nuclear subs. | ||
| It's the last place we have any hope of detecting a Russian sub before it's in the vast Atlantic barreling toward New York. | ||
| Cregan is target one in the European theater of war. | ||
| The Scots hate nukes, and they hate English overreach. | ||
| But they really hate having a bullseye on their heads. | ||
| If Scotland had gone independent, they would have closed the base. | ||
| In a second. | ||
| When we took our forces out of Iceland, Russian subactivity skyrocketed, as did air incursions. | ||
| When we pulled our combat brigades from Europe, anyone? | ||
| Russia annexed Crimea. | ||
| Is there a universe in which the United States could afford to lose the base in Scotland? | ||
| No. | ||
| But you went to Margaret Roiland. | ||
| So did you. | ||
| I didn't ask her to blow up a ship. | ||
| Neither did I. It was supposed to be... | ||
| Some bent metal and nobody dead. | ||
| So it's not your fault? | ||
| It's entirely my fault. | ||
| You think I'm suggesting it's not my fault? | ||
| I own it, and I will carry it, but I will not let it tear down the president. | ||
| That sounds convenient to me. | ||
| That sounds like a reason to bury it. | ||
| I don't give a shit what it sounds like to you. | ||
| I can name every one of the 43 people who died in this debacle. | ||
| I couldn't do that if it was 40,000 or 40 million vaporized in a nuclear conflict. | ||
| This is my game board. | ||
| The whole god damn thing. | ||
| This is yours. | ||
| Keep your eyes on your own paper. | ||
| That we spoke to you actually don't agree. | ||
| They say that a frank discussion with the incoming Trump administration, with Trump officials, that is really going to be the only way to kind of stave off a crisis. | ||
| They are still skeptical, of course, that President Trump could actually pull this off or that he's actually serious about pursuing it. | ||
| But they say that they do want to have a discussion about it because the U.S. is a major ally and a major NATO ally, of course. | ||
| Here's what the Danish foreign minister said about this just yesterday. | ||
| We fully recognize that Greenland has its own ambitions. | ||
| If they materialize, Greenland will become independent though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States. | ||
| We are open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely than we do to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled. | ||
| Look, Greenland obviously is very strategically important for the United States. | ||
| The U.S. does have its northernmost military base in western Greenland, and they work very closely with Greenland and Denmark in order to try to stave off threats posed not only by Russia, but also by China, which has increasingly kind of flexed its military muscles in the Arctic. | ||
| And so this is this is obviously, you know, something that the U.S. has been concerned about in recent years. | ||
| And Donald Trump actually just to kind of underscore how close Greenland is to the United States posted a map just last night on Truth Social showing that proximity there. | ||
| It's actually closer to New York than it is to Copenhagen. | ||
| OK, let me have it. | ||
| Um. | ||
| So this is not just changing the conversation. | ||
| This is changing geostrategically. | ||
| And this is not a waste of time. | ||
| And President Trump's not changing the conversation. | ||
| We focus every day and we understand there's huge discrepancies. | ||
| We're not crazy about the DACA comments. | ||
| We're not crazy about H-1B visas. | ||
| This is central. | ||
| We'll get into that. | ||
| But what President Trump is doing, I think there's twofold. | ||
| Hopefully it's not three. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| And that's why the series called The Diplomat on Netflix, if you get a chance to watch it, you should. | ||
| Allison Janney there and Kerry Russell. | ||
| It's still the best explanation in a couple of minutes of the importance. | ||
| Up there, the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap. | ||
| The only nuclear sub-base up there the U.S. can even pull into is up in Cregan in Scotland. | ||
| Greenland is a major strategic potential asset for the United States. | ||
| If you have that, you can track them and block them. | ||
| There's fast attacks and the boomers coming out of it. | ||
| President Trump is thinking he's trying to expand the frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine all the way up to Greenland and then to the Panama Canal, which he's going to take the Panama Canal. | ||
| I'm telling you, the people in Panama have got to get under the games you've played down there with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Donald Trump, new sheriff in town, he does not play games. | ||
| He's not playing games here. | ||
| In America First, particularly in the interlocking relationships and alliances we have around the Eurasian landmass from NATO to the Gulf Emirates and Israel in the Middle East to the South China Sea and Taiwan, that kind of rim of the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| President Trump First and the America First Movement First wants to make sure that Fortress America is secure. | ||
| Now, you heard it back in 2019 when President Trump tried to do it. | ||
| The first time they laughed and mocked him. | ||
| When it came back up, guys are laughing and mocking. | ||
| Tony Blinken just said they're not going to happen. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| The Danes are listening. | ||
| And more important than the Danes, the folks in Greenland are listening. | ||
| This has a major strategic component. | ||
| Now, there's three things, and there may be the third. | ||
| I do want to get this on the table, is that, number one, the strategic importance of Greenland, right? | ||
| For the defense of the United States. | ||
| Number two is trade. | ||
| There's all kind of talk about the Northwest Passage because of climate change or whatever, that the passage up there, and this is why China and Russia are so maniacally focused on the Arctic Circle. | ||
| You may actually have a trade route up there if you have that trade route secured with having some sort of relationship with Greenland. | ||
| And you've got the Panama Canal, which choked off the Chinese Communist Party trying to get their navy back and forth. | ||
| We've gone a long way to secure the homeland. | ||
| This is Trump. | ||
| This is what I'm saying. | ||
| It's a hinge of history. | ||
| Things that didn't look like to be done before. | ||
| These little corners that we got sucked into. | ||
| Trump is thinking big picture using the big muscles. | ||
| And all of a sudden, he's got Europe going, what? | ||
| You're talking about Greenland? | ||
| What? | ||
| What? | ||
| They're on their back foot. | ||
| Now the third, this is because... | ||
| Somebody brought my attention to the, Laura Loomber brought my attention to the ambassador they named Denmark, the Peter Thiel guy. | ||
| Remember this thing of Freedom Cities? | ||
| And you got this guy, Marc Andreessen, who's one of these transhumanists? | ||
| Because remember, these billionaires, the reason they hate MAGA and the reason they think that you're disposable trash, because they do think you're disposable trash. | ||
| It's because they're thinking great thoughts and everybody thinks on transhumanism, the convergence of all those technologies, of CRISPR and gene splicing and quantum computing and advanced chip design and regenerative robotics, and wait for it, artificial intelligence, particularly AGI, artificial general intelligence, that merger, as you know, leads to the singularity. | ||
| On this side of the football, it's just deplorables, good old humans, good old homo sapiens. | ||
| On the other side of the football is Homo sapiens. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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1.5, 2.0, who knows? | |
| What I do know is that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ told us one time, told his posse, right at the inner circle, he said there's only one unforgivable sin. | ||
| There's only one mortal sin, one sin that cannot be redeemed, can't do it. | ||
| That's the blasphemer mock, the Holy Spirit, which is the innervating spirit in all of us. | ||
| That God in heaven, that divine providence put into every individual, every homo sapien. | ||
| They're playing with beyond fire. | ||
| They're playing with the code of life. | ||
| Quite serious. | ||
| And if you look at the immaturity of that crowd, the narcissism of that crowd. | ||
| The Andreessen's of the world. | ||
| And you see his writings on these kind of these cities. | ||
| They want to do it. | ||
| Cities. | ||
| They look like something. | ||
| You've seen the movie from the 1920s. | ||
| Metropolis. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Machines. | ||
| You know, humans that think like machines. | ||
| Humans are machines. | ||
| These people think of humans as machines. | ||
| They don't think that they're made in the image and likeness of God. | ||
| Or they think they are gods. | ||
| I certainly hope Greenland is not what's being proposed by these guys. | ||
| If we do get a strategic partnership for Greenland, it could be tremendous. | ||
| It could be tremendous for the people in Greenland. | ||
| Look, I know we've got amazing what problems we've got to solve here. | ||
| But part of the problem is how do you have a defense budget that really defends the United States of America? | ||
| And what is the basic allocation of that? | ||
| Look, we just passed an NDA. It's $900 billion. | ||
| I would argue that $900 billion is making America less safe. | ||
| Because they're spread all over Hell's Half Acre, and we're giving, they're still pumping in billions of dollars into Ukraine. | ||
| Oh, yes, by the way, did LA not send resources, fire resources to Ukraine? | ||
| I think the people up in Pacific Palisades today may be thinking a lot of those people wear that Ukraine flag. | ||
| You think maybe today they would like to have those resources back to maybe stop a fire that's burning down a village, burning it to the ground like Kyoto in March of 1945? | ||
| A lot of things to sort out. | ||
| President Trump is not just changing the conversation. | ||
| He's changing the direction. | ||
| That's why this is the hinge of history. | ||
| That's why those executive orders in the first couple of days are so important in the implementation of it. | ||
| That's why this – to get it right, to make sure the legislative part of it actually codifies this in the law is so correct. | ||
| This is why this budget that cuts and hopefully Doge is doing some serious work to assist the OMB guys in their efforts to really do – deconstruct the administrative state and do it smartly and do it fairly. | ||
| President Trump needs his team. | ||
| He needs these cabinet officials. | ||
| We need Pam Bondi. | ||
| We need Cash Patel. | ||
| We need Pete Hegseth. | ||
| We need John Ratcliffe. | ||
| We need Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| We need Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| We need Kristi Noem. | ||
| We need them, and we needed them yesterday. | ||
| Look at Los Angeles to see what the reality of the government, of rule by political correctness. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| This Monroe Doctrine 2.0, Manifest Destiny, Fortress America on steroids, you pick it, whatever you want to call it right now. | ||
| President Trump's very focused on how you defend this country. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's going to be up at noon. | ||
| Charlie went with Don Jr. and Sergio Gore to Greenland. | ||
| I'm sure I'll have updates on that. | ||
| I know he talked about it yesterday. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's up at noon. | ||
| Poso at 2. We're back 5 to 7 in the 6 o'clock hour. | ||
| Natalie's going to drill down even more on this fiasco in California. | ||
| So we're looking forward to that. | ||
| At 5, I'm going to try to address what's going on in Texas. | ||
| A big vote next week. | ||
| I think the 14th, Tuesday, on Speaker of the House. | ||
| We're going to be all over that. | ||
| As we start, we'll kick it off today at 5. And give you an update also on North Carolina. | ||
| A lot going on around the country. | ||
| President Trump needs his nominees. | ||
| Needs them now. | ||
| 202-224-3121. | ||
| Tell your senators, yo, let's get on it. | ||
| Let's roll. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Trump needs his backup. | ||
| He needs his team. | ||
| Want them. | ||
| Let's get them. | ||
| Also, Birch Gold. | ||
| Try Birch Gold at the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| I need you up to speed on modern monetary theory to understand the turbulence of the world and how it's not going to get better quickly. | ||
| The reason is, I don't know. | ||
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| When that margin call comes, you're going to wish that you had, like the Chinese Central Bank, you had some gold. | ||
| So go check it out today. | ||
| Talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Do it today. | ||
| Dr. Kim joins us. | ||
| You formulated. | ||
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Thanks, Steve. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| It was one of those where... | ||
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| We know our audience loves information detail on the website. | ||
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For sure. | |
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| And the code is BANNON20. Dr. Kim, thank you. | ||
| I want everybody to check this out. | ||
| Those New Year's resolutions, I think they last until this Saturday. | ||
| I think it's the first or second full Saturday. | ||
| Of the week they last. | ||
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| It's the caffeine. | ||
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Let's get it going. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Let's roll. | ||
| Dr. Kim's my man. | ||
| My man also is Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike, how did we do on the crosses yesterday, sir? | ||
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I'll tell you, everybody responded. | |
| We are going to be running out. | ||
| Remember, everybody, this was the first round we got in. | ||
| This was a War Room exclusive. | ||
| It's the cross that I've been wearing for about 20 years now. | ||
| And everybody asked for it. | ||
| And we were gonna do it with our Lindell Recovery Network. | ||
| And I said, you know what, I'm gonna offer it out to the War Room Posse, 30% off. | ||
| The women's is reversible, the white and the black, the mother of pearl look. | ||
| And they are just absolutely- Beautiful crosses and jewelry like I make everything. | ||
| 100% made in the USA and promo code war room. | ||
| If you go to the website and go down to see Steve's face there and click on it, and there you go. | ||
| There's the crosses, everybody. | ||
| There's the sheets. | ||
| There's the towels. | ||
| You got the beds, the mattress toppers. | ||
| All of this is still on sale for the War Room Posse, but the crosses get them before they're gone. | ||
| They were absolutely a great response, and the support for my pillow has been absolutely amazing, you guys, for myself and my employees. | ||
| Are you living out of that car? | ||
| I mean, your last 10 hits have been from the car. | ||
| No, seriously, are you living out of the car? | ||
| The last 10 hits have been from the car. | ||
| I'm just asking. | ||
| I'm asking for a friend. | ||
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I'm doing a lot of traveling. | |
| You know, two days ago I spoke at one prison here in Texas, and I'm just going, Steve, we're going, we're not stopping. | ||
| I'm out to get these elections. | ||
| But hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
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Hold it. | |
| You travel every day, but it's by plane. | ||
| The IRS take the plane? | ||
| Are you now driving a Camry around? | ||
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Speaking of the IRS, I had to go through 147 documents yesterday for them. | |
| It took up all time, about half a day. | ||
| They are brutally attacking myself and MyPillow. | ||
| Okay, everybody go to MyPillow today. | ||
| Promo code Warram. | ||
| Mike, you're going to be back on at 5 o'clock. | ||
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Get the beautiful crosses, you guys, and thanks for all the support. | |
| Okay. | ||
| I better not see a pillow in that car. | ||
| I think Mike Lindell is living out of the Camry. | ||
| Come on, Mike. | ||
| We got your back always, those employees there. | ||
| Okay, back at 5 to 7 tonight, on fire. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is next on Real America's Voice. | ||
| Two hours of populist nationalism. | ||
| Charlie at the tip of the spear in Greenland with Don Jr. and Sergio Gore. | ||
| Poso at 2, we're back. |
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