Feb. 6, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| all right two more quick things have a seat It is Thursday, 6 February, the year of our Lord, 2025. Right there, we just had coverage, continual coverage of the National Prayer Breakfast. | ||
| President Trump saying a few words. | ||
| Then being prayed over at the end. | ||
| Now that we've got some housekeeping. | ||
| Today, on this Thursday, 6 February, we're going to go to Kash Patel. | ||
| They're going to have the vote of Kash Patel at Judiciary at 1015. We're going to cut live that with no commercial interruptions, but let's go back. | ||
| We've got so much to go through this morning. | ||
| We've got a cold open. | ||
| Let's go to the cold open, and I'll bring in my co-host today, Dave Bratt and Natalie Winters. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the cold open. | ||
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What you're seeing now is the suit and tie version of January 6th. | |
| Trump vandals attacking the Capitol nonviolently, attacking the Capitol with a simple defiance of the Constitution that has put Congress in charge of taxing and spending since the beginning of this country. | ||
| Please update us on the status of your court attempt to block what's happening at the Treasury. | ||
| Well, Lawrence, thanks for having me. | ||
| And we anticipate that tomorrow the court will enter an order saying that the defendants, the Treasury Department, will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Treasury, will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Treasury, with a set of exceptions that do not apply to Elon Musk, that do not apply to the | ||
| The arguments today were, the other side representing the Elon Musk side of this argument was the Pam Bondi Justice Department, right? | ||
| That's correct, but the judge strongly encouraged and in fact went so far as to draft a proposed order that would leave the status quo in place. | ||
| Lawrence, clearly everyone in the country is concerned about having access to these very sensitive payment systems. | ||
| That's why we filed this case with our wonderful partners, State Democracy Defenders Fund, where I'm the chair, and public citizen, and the unions. | ||
| And we went to court. | ||
| We said, this cannot be. | ||
| There actually were two hearings. | ||
| The judge suggested that that limitation I read you be in an order freezing the status quo, preventing what you so eloquently articulated the concerns. | ||
| And I think that order is going to be signed by the court tomorrow. | ||
| And then we'll argue about a permanent injunction. | ||
| Mr. Musk has no place in these sensitive, confidential, very personal records at the Treasury Department. | ||
| Norm Eisen, we're lucky that you're there fighting this one. | ||
| This is really important. | ||
| Norm Eisen, we're lucky you're there. | ||
| Thursday, 6 February, Year of the Lord 2025, there's a lot going on. | ||
| We're going to go back in a second to the Washington Hilton, our own Brian Glenn of National Prayer Breakfast. | ||
| We're then going to cut to Kash Patel's hearing, but I want to go. | ||
| So much has happened overnight in their courts today. | ||
| This is a multi-front war already, ladies and gentlemen, and the courts, as we said, are going to play a big deal in this. | ||
| Natalie Winters from the White House, your home studio today before you go to the White House. | ||
| And the White House understands this. | ||
| They're now being referred to as Trump's vandals. | ||
| The Doge guys are Trump's vandals. | ||
| Perfectly within the law because they're part of the U.S. Digital Service, but a consultant and advisor to OMB who's supposed to be doing this. | ||
| This is the executive branch's function to go through this and look for efficiencies and effectiveness. | ||
| Tell the audience who Norm Eisen is again. | ||
| Reset this. | ||
| What they're doing. | ||
| Because he's become more and more The legal face of this resistance, and he's become a bigger and bigger player, particularly as they try to get a TRO in federal court today to essentially try to shut down Doge's going through and looking for efficiencies, effectiveness, and what they've done in USAID, which we'll talk about a little bit later, is quite frankly monumental. | ||
| Ma'am. | ||
| Yes, Norm Eisen and the myriad of organizations that he both represents, serves on the board of, or just has been instrumental in the founding of, really is the railhead, the tip of the spear when it comes to all things lawfare. | ||
| It's not just something that started last month or January 20th. | ||
| He's been a key figure in basically all of President Trump's impeachments, advocating even before he was sworn in the last time around, I think for 10 articles of impeachment. | ||
| He played a really, really critical role in the sort of ongoing lawfare from 2020 to 2024 against President Trump. | ||
| But I purposely left in that last part of Lawrence O'Donnell thanking Norm Eisen because I knew it would trigger the audience. | ||
| And I think that January 6th comment that he sort of leads the segment with really, I think, puts into reference, into frame what Norm Eisen and that whole sort of color revolution extraordinaire apparatchik class. | ||
| Really, what is the permanent political class here in Washington, D.C., that doesn't like the idea that President Trump opposes a sort of foreign policy consensus. | ||
| What they're trying to do right now in terms of not just resisting, but they prefer the term opposing. | ||
| Mark Elias had sort of a notorious op-ed a few months back saying, we're not the resistance anymore. | ||
| We're the opposition. | ||
| And what do I mean by that? | ||
| Framing what's going on at USAID, at DOJ, at the FBI, now it's metastasizing into the Labor Department, as January 6th is something that this audience, I think, is acutely aware of, which is using a so-called crisis and putting it through the lens of, you know, democracy is under attack and using it to more broadly smear and come after MAGA and after President Trump. | ||
| And what you're seeing now is Norm Eisen having his hand through this group called the State Democracy Defenders. | ||
| And basically every lawsuit that's trying to hamstring President Trump's, again, they call it an authoritarian agenda. | ||
| I would call it promises made, promises kept. | ||
| But specifically when it comes to the vertical that is the FBI, Norm Eisen, in conjunction with Mark Zaid, who was another attorney involved in the first impeachment of President Trump, they put forth a complaint saying that basically President Trump's efforts to root out radical weaponized FBI agents, well, that was political retaliation. | ||
| That could not stand. | ||
| Like you saw in that clip, they're now suing the Labor Department. | ||
| Mark Zaid also intimately involved in that effort. | ||
| But it goes all the way to Kash Patel's confirmation, too. | ||
| The voice is that you've been hearing pushing for additional hearings, additional probing, really additional, shall we say, struggle sessions for Kash Patel. | ||
| Well, the person behind that is none other than Norm Eisen, who's been writing letters to senators, like I said, from that State Democracy Defenders Fund, which has played a really interesting role, too, in securing elections. | ||
| But we can table that discussion for another time. | ||
| But this is sort of, you know, they call us conspiracy theorists, right, Steve? | ||
| And I've always pushed back on that framing of it. | ||
| They're not conspiracies. | ||
| It's just pattern recognition because it's the same people who really are just the front men for the same donors, foundations. | ||
| And philanthropic entities, NGOs, really they're waging war on this country, but they're the same people who were involved in the lawfare against President Trump his first term, in that sort of interregnum period, and now in the second term. | ||
| And to that point, we have a Washington Post article we can flash on screen. | ||
| They're noting the difference in the resistance tactics this time around. | ||
| It's not so much the mass mobilization protests, though we've seen a little bit of that so far, but right now you can see it. | ||
| It's in the court and it's not in the streets. | ||
| So hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to spend a good part of the show today deconstructing all this and talking about how it's going to be a big part of the resistance for President Trump going forward. | ||
| So Natalie, you hang right there. | ||
| Dave Bratz in studio. | ||
| We're going to get to this. | ||
| We've got lots of clips to play and, quite frankly, some shocking details and information. | ||
| Let me go to Brian Glenn. | ||
| We'll go back to the Washington Hilton. | ||
| Just get a wrap up. | ||
| Brian, what exactly happened today? | ||
| We covered it earlier on Real America's Voice. | ||
| What was this? | ||
| What was going on, and what was President Trump's message to the nation, sir? | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
| This was the President's second stop for the day. | ||
| He stopped over the Capitol in the Rotundra, had his prayer service with members of Congress, and did it there. | ||
| This was the second stop. | ||
| Now, this is the 78th annual National Day of Prayer here at the Washington Hilton. | ||
| And my biggest takeaway, Steve, is he announced a kind of a new department that would protect Christians and any kind of anti-Christian actions either on the street or within our government. | ||
| And I think that was a big round of applause when he announced that because we have seen what has happened in the last four years, Steve. | ||
| He mentioned the 78-year-old grandmother that was sentenced to prison for simply praying outside an abortion clinic. | ||
| Of course, she had a full pardon with that. | ||
| When President Trump took office, but Steve, prayer is alive in this administration, and President Trump said multiple times, it's great to finally get a president back in the office, and that would absolutely support religious freedom, particularly prayer on behalf of Christians around the world. | ||
| So just a great day here at the Washington Hilton, and it's great to have President Trump once again at this prayer breakfast. | ||
| Apparently, President Biden didn't show up to this last time, and so he said he opened up his remarks, Steve, finally to have a president that will actually come to this prayer breakfast. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I want to thank, too, the Warren Posse. | ||
| You know, Brian, we get the Warren Posse and, of course, all the shows at Real America's Voice. | ||
| People are up on the ramparts. | ||
| They're making calls. | ||
| They're texting. | ||
| But we don't say often enough. | ||
| We thank you for your prayers, your prayers for the nation and for the show and for all the folks here at Real America's Voice and for the country. | ||
| Just amazing. | ||
| The power of prayer, particularly our audience. | ||
| We understand our audience is united in trying to save the country and understands at the end of the day this is spiritual warfare. | ||
| So I know their heads are going to be blown up later. | ||
| This is Days of Thunder. | ||
| Walk me through to the degree you know, what is this about anti-Christian bias? | ||
| Is he going to make sure they're going throughout the government because the administrative state is absolutely anti-Christian. | ||
| The deep state is demonic. | ||
| I mean, they go to a different level as we're deconstructing USAID, which is a $50 billion slush fund, a CIA cutout. | ||
| But as Natalie and others have shown, what it's done against the American people for the invasion of our country, paying for it with all these NGOs. | ||
| And quite frankly, Brian, some of these NGOs are Christian. | ||
| You've got the Lutherans. | ||
| You've got the Catholic charities. | ||
| You've got all their hands in the till being funded to do, let's say, not God's work. | ||
| So what was this today about President Trump actually talking about getting rid of the anti-Christian bias in our government? | ||
| Well, Steve, he didn't go into too much detail on this, but he just teased the fact that he is announcing today that he's putting together this particular department to kind of protect Christians. | ||
| And he just mentioned, you know, people simply praying in public and protect that rights. | ||
| But he did go a little bit into the Department of Justice and making sure that we root out any anti-Christian rhetoric actions, any type of legal actions that is imposed on Christians. | ||
| Just basically displaying their faith. | ||
| So I think as the days go on, Steve, we should get a little bit more details on that. | ||
| He didn't go into it too deep. | ||
| He did a touch and go on that. | ||
| But certainly we have seen how demonic this previous administration has been in terms of allowing religious freedom. | ||
| I imagine this is something that you would see in some third world country, not here in this United States. | ||
| He did say multiple times this country was founded. | ||
| We put on Judeo-Christian values, and we even have it on our currency. | ||
| In God we trust. | ||
| And he emphasized that several times here today. | ||
| And by the looks of this crowd, 2,200 people, by the way, Steve, were in this building behind me. | ||
| He did suggest, though, Steve, next year, let's bring Congress in this room and make it a little bit easier for President Trump to do this National Day of Prayer. | ||
| That's a great idea. | ||
| Before I let you go, take it. | ||
| It's a very enthusiastic crowd. | ||
| Seems like the energy is great, Brian. | ||
| It is. | ||
| People were enthusiastic that he was here. | ||
| Of course, you know, this is his first kind of national day of prayer since he took over on a second term. | ||
| It's wrapped up now, so everyone's heading out of here at this moment. | ||
| But 2,200 people in here. | ||
| It's packed. | ||
| I've never seen this particular room with this many people. | ||
| And, of course, that's coming off the packed rotundra there with Congress earlier today. | ||
| Now, he will go to the White House. | ||
| According to his schedule, he does have some more executive orders. | ||
| He's going to sign at 2 o'clock in the White House. | ||
| That is close to the press. | ||
| I won't have any access to that. | ||
| And then tomorrow, he's headed back down to probably a good rest and relaxation at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| He is scheduled to fly out at about 5.30 p.m. | ||
| here local time. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think he works harder in Mar-a-Lago, maybe even the White House 24-7. | ||
| Brian Glenn, we'll see you back at the White House this afternoon. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| Another day of thunder. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break now. | ||
| We're going to return. | ||
| Kash Patel's coming up for a vote in Judiciary Committee. | ||
| Natalie Winters is here breaking down everything with USAID. Dave Bratz in studio. | ||
| We're going to be talking. | ||
| President Trump goes to a National Day of Prayer at the Capitol and then over to Washington Hilton, the National Prayer Breakfast. | ||
| And he's at the head of the Vandals, according to Norm Eisen and MSNBC. Lawrence O'Donnell. | ||
| Do you agree with that as President Trump head of the Vandals or the Visigoths? | ||
| We'll talk about it next in the War Room. | ||
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There really is something so horrifying about a child starving in Sudan being far more likely to starve to death because the world's richest man is going around calling People that are administering that aid, worms. | |
| And let me explain this again for those who have ears to hear. | ||
| David Ignatius, when the United States provides aid, yes, we provide aid because some of us believe, and I will say this on Ronald Reagan's birthday, some of us believe that America really is, and it should be. | ||
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A city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see. | |
| That is one of the reasons why we do it. | ||
| The other reason goes back to what I've been saying this week, when Harry Truman called Herbert Hoover in, two political enemies, two political rivals. | ||
| But Harry Truman said, you're the person that can organize relief across Europe, across the world. | ||
| In a world that has been destroyed by World War II. And yes, we're doing this because it's the right thing to do. | ||
| But we're also doing this because hungry mouths become communist. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Preacher Scarborough is preaching on National Day of Prayer. | ||
| Let's go live to Grassley and the Judiciary Committee on Kash Patel. | ||
| We'll come back and we'll catch up with all that with Dave Brett and Natalie Winters. | ||
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Chairman Grassley, you're right. | |
| What you said is true. | ||
| Under Chairman Graham, we tried to avoid meeting if it wasn't absolutely necessary, and we did that on a bipartisan basis. | ||
| And I think I speak for the Democratic side. | ||
| We hope to return to that model. | ||
| This is an extraordinary nomination, the Kash Patel nomination, that leads us to want to meet today to spend a moment. | ||
| We sent a letter. | ||
| We've received similar letters from the Republicans in the past asking for another hearing on Mr. Patel. | ||
| And the obvious response from the Republican side is we've already had our hearing. | ||
| We're not going to have another one. | ||
| I'm disappointed, not surprised, but disappointed because I think there are several things that we have to acknowledge. | ||
| Number one, this is an unusual nomination. | ||
| Unusual, and it's a 10-year nomination. | ||
| I mean, we decided 50 years ago. | ||
| To reform the selection of the FBI head to make sure that we took politics out of the equation. | ||
| And so we said 10 years, that's going to transcend at least one president, maybe two, the service of an individual. | ||
| So 10 years is a pretty long time, and I think merits extra consideration and review. | ||
| Secondly, the hearing of this individual raised questions that I'm sure a lot of people were surprised about. | ||
| Why did we spend so darn much time talking about a musical recording, the J6 Choir? | ||
| We did because Mr. Patel basically denied any knowledge of the creation of this musical enterprise and the people who were involved in it. | ||
| He was very proud of the musical selection, which he was playing at rallies for President Trump, and he was very much involved in calling these folks political prisoners. | ||
| Who had stormed the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| And yet when we asked him about him, he denied that he had any real knowledge of who was involved and what they were doing here. | ||
| I look at, I'm trying to find one quote. | ||
| He was on Steve Bannon's show. | ||
| Mr. Patel claimed he didn't have anything to do with the January 6th prison choir, which includes January 6th rioters who violently assaulted police officers. | ||
| Here's what he said to Steve Bannon. | ||
| Quote, we got this idea to record the January 6 prisoners who recite the national anthem every night from the D.C. prison. | ||
| Then we took that to the studio, so we mastered and digitized it. | ||
| I mean, that's a direct contradiction under oath of his involvement. | ||
| What difference does it make? | ||
| A recording. | ||
| Come on, Durbin, move on. | ||
| The recording was of political prisoners who stormed this Capitol and assaulted 140 of our best and brightest and most... | ||
| Well-trained people that guard us every single day, the Capitol Police and their D.C. counterparts. | ||
| They are trying to, some people are trying to lionize the insidious effort by these thugs who came and stormed the Capitol and were screaming out, hang Vice President Pence. | ||
| I hope that we don't fall into this trap of trying to rewrite history as to what happened on January 6th. | ||
| That was an atrocious display of political might, and at the expense of some wonderful people who guard us every single day in this Capitol. | ||
| There are some here who wouldn't, when we went through this hearing, they disparaged the very thought that these people would be pardoned if they were guilty of violence against the police. | ||
| One of my colleagues here called it absurd and hypothetical. | ||
| Well, it turned out to not be so absurd on the first day he was president. | ||
| In the second term, Donald Trump issued a blanket pardon for all those who had been arrested. | ||
| Mr. Patel was part of this lionization of these thugs who took over the Capitol or tried to take it over on that day. | ||
| I don't want history to be wrong or misleading about what actually happened. | ||
| Now what's happening? | ||
| Questionnaires are going out in the Department of Justice and the FBI as to whether individuals serving our country in those agencies. | ||
| We're involved in January 6th prosecutions. | ||
| Yesterday I met an individual who wants to be the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche. | ||
| Made a good impression. | ||
| Some of you probably met him too. | ||
| He appears to be a well-versed, well-trained attorney. | ||
| He was personal attorney to President Trump in one of his lawsuits. | ||
| Back in the day, he was working for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. | ||
| And I asked him, when you started working there, did they let you pick and choose the files you worked on? | ||
| He said, of course not. | ||
| You were assigned, particularly if you were low in seniority, you were assigned cases. | ||
| So I said, to say that a person worked on a January 6th case, if they are new to the agency, is it possible that they were ordered to do that case? | ||
| He said, it's possible. | ||
| I said, should that be held against him? | ||
| He didn't think it should, nor does anyone else, I hope. | ||
| They did the job they were assigned to do. | ||
| And now we have this kind of survey of the Department of Justice and the FBI to determine who was involved in the January 6th prosecutions. | ||
| If this is an effort to punish them, dismiss them, or treat them poorly because they did what they were supposed to do as professionals, that's wrong. | ||
| And I look at the involvement of Kash Patel. | ||
| In this whole episode from start to finish, I read his book, Start to Finish. | ||
| And I can tell you, he does not have the temperament for the job. | ||
| And if you're honest about it, you'll join me in thinking that. | ||
| He is always trying to go after those who disrespected him and wronged him politically and get even with them. | ||
| For God's sake, to give the most sweeping investigative agency in the United States and the world over to this man to settle political scores is something we're going to regret. | ||
| That's why we asked for a second hearing on this. | ||
| I hope that we don't have to do it again, and I hope that some members on the Republican side will think twice on this issue. | ||
| Now for the business of the committee. | ||
| Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Listen, I'd rather do our administrative business. | ||
| Then can I speak? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I wasn't planning on anybody speaking. | ||
| I'd like to respond to what Senator Durbin said. | ||
| In that case, I'd like to line up behind Senator Kennedy to speak myself. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'll call on Senator Kennedy when we get done here. | ||
| But let's make very clear. | ||
| There's plenty of time for any sort of debate you want to do. | ||
| A week from today, right now, to discuss anything you want to discuss. | ||
| This is usually a very short meeting, 17 times last year, last Congress. | ||
| We let the Democrats not having to meet under circumstances similar to this, so they didn't have to meet. | ||
| Now we're here. | ||
| So, this authorizing resolution will adopt the resolution by voice vote. | ||
| All those in favor of adopting the committee authorizing resolution say aye. | ||
| Opposed say no. | ||
| Here's what's happening. | ||
| And if my producers can tell me when Klobuchar and these people, they've called for this meeting. | ||
| For the Warren Posse, having lost Kennedy, having lost Tulsi Gabbard, those are not absolutely finalized, but it looks like they're in the process of losing. | ||
| They lost them out of the committees of jurisdiction, the committees that the department heads in kind of a matrix. | ||
| Obviously, they report to the President of the United States directly, but they also, for kind of oversight or keeping people up to date and for appropriations, report to the... | ||
| To Senate and jurisdiction is also where they get the advice and consent of the Constitution for confirmation. | ||
| So Tulsi and Bobby, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., out of that. | ||
| Looks like they're going to go to the floor. | ||
| Looks like they're going to win. | ||
| Russ vote. | ||
| And as we've told you on the resistance, the Democrats are now slowing everything down. | ||
| This is why we played indivisible. | ||
| On Rachel Maddow the other night because they've taken the playbook of McConnell from 2009, the early days of the President Obama situation where McConnell really grinded the Senate, tried to grind the Senate to a halt. | ||
| That's what's happening now in the U.S. Senate. | ||
| All of President Trump's nominees going forward are going to take forever. | ||
| The second and third tier, things like Monica Crowley, a protocol, all these others, because a thousand have to be confirmed. | ||
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| The Senate's going to grind. | ||
| Russ's vote, they've been up all night using this 30-hour rule. | ||
| We actually have to do it. | ||
| They've been up all night in a debate over Russ's vote. | ||
| We can't do it today. | ||
| We're going to do it this evening. | ||
| I mean, Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island went after Center for Renewing America, Russ's vote, Mark Paoletta, Jeff Clark. | ||
| In kind of a presentation, a former presentation, just attacking viciously. | ||
| Russ Votes, I think the vote on Russ Votes will be at 7 o'clock tonight. | ||
| But they're slowing everything down. | ||
| Here they want another committee meeting. | ||
| Just to bring up, you saw there, Dick Durbin, as one of the members of the engine room tells me, now the new agent for War Room. | ||
| He goes back specifically and says, Cash Patel's lying about this, and, you know, on Steve Bannon's podcast, he said the other. | ||
| They're going through every detail of Cash because now they're absolutely, completely and totally freaked out that Pam Bondi is now at the Justice Department, is the Attorney General of the United States, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is shortly to go to HHS, that Tulsi Gabbard, former congressman, is prepared to go to D&I. They understand they're losing the grip, and now they're going to do a rearguard action to stop everything. | ||
| If anything happens here, Klobuchar, anybody else starts ripping on cash. | ||
| We'll cut back to it. | ||
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We were not, I should say, We're not going to have a double standard here, and as I mentioned, for the last few years... | |
| Okay. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Tony Grassley. | ||
| We're good. | ||
| We're good. | ||
| Is Dave Brad back? | ||
| Is Dave Brad back in his seat? | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Dave, I want to talk about the National Prayer Breakfast, why it's important. | ||
| We're in a spiritual war right now. | ||
| And Morning Joe is trying to take the moral high ground. | ||
| They said on MSNBC, here's a new thing, that the Doge guys and really Russ Vogt and OMB and the Warren, everybody supports this, we're the Vandals or the Visigoths. | ||
| We're the Pagans coming in to sack and burn. | ||
| Why is the National Prayer Breakfast so important today? | ||
| Why is it important that Trump goes to the Capitol first for their prayer breakfast, then goes to Hilton for the General Prayer Breakfast? | ||
| 2,200 seats, sold out. | ||
| And Dave Bratt, he does something you have talked to me about. | ||
| For years and years and years. | ||
| Finally have something in this government that is some sort of mechanism to make sure you go throughout the government and the government is not attacking Christians. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's exactly right. | ||
| The prayer, Jesus taught us how to pray, thy will be done, thy kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. | ||
| And even Christians might be surprised to hear that heaven is going to be on earth with cities and countries, etc. | ||
| Great new research, heaven on earth. | ||
| And so praying and getting in touch with that Christian message is key for this country with this revival. | ||
| It's a bit ironic that Pastor Joe, and I went to seminary, you know, 30 years ago. | ||
| Worked in the church a little bit, and he's trying to quote scripture for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. | ||
| Oh, my word. | ||
| I think we're coming out of Plato's cave, this sunlight that is reaching all of us. | ||
| The Christians are waking up, right? | ||
| It's always been Minnesota nice. | ||
| But we are seeing very clearly now what is happening. | ||
| Thank God for this providential presidency of President Trump and the light he's shining on darkness. | ||
| And irony of ironies is he has David Ignatius with him the day after CIA, USAID stuff breaks. | ||
| It's a bit hard to swallow that one. | ||
| And then on top of it, he mentioned South Sudan. | ||
| I work with South Sudan. | ||
| They're still at $500 per capita, income per capita per year in South Sudan. | ||
| So I'm glad he's bringing this up. | ||
| I've never heard him bring it up before. | ||
| So that's the problem. | ||
| I worked at the World Bank 30 years ago as well. | ||
| And the World Bank and the IMF and the USAID, they used to have great economists and diplomats and public policy figures who cared coming out of the World War II, right? | ||
| The Bretton Woods liberal world order. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Unfortunately, now they've turned into crooks. | ||
| And Samantha Powers was on last night with Rachel Maddow talking about the great peanut paste coming out of Georgia that they send to the poor kids. | ||
| Dave, hang on one second. | ||
| I want to go back to... | ||
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A regular district court in a regular trial can draw that adverse interest about what is behind a Fifth Amendment assertion. | |
| Then, damn, this committee ought to be able to draw the same adverse interest or have that, sorry, adverse inference, or have that adverse inference, this individual actually testify about it. | ||
| If we want to do this in closed session, if we want to do this with some safeguards, all of that is fine. | ||
| But you spoke very eloquently at the beginning of this, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I just want to mark right now that this is a first-time precedent in which a nominee for a senior law enforcement position in the United States of America has asserted a Fifth Amendment privilege about his own conduct and has testified in front of a grand jury, and the committee is being denied access either to the gravim... | ||
| Fifth Amendment assertion. | ||
| Precedent. | ||
| And I'll ask that we sent be put into the record. | ||
| Objection will be meetings adjourned. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| They're playing games here with cash and about the grand jury, I think, for J6, all of it. | ||
| Bottom line, they're going to try to chop block everything President Trump's doing now. | ||
| We've forecasted this, and now it's happening, either in federal courts, state courts, on Capitol Hill. | ||
| This is going to be a tough slog, and this is why we need to get on the point of attack and know how we push certain things through. | ||
| The number today for the Senate, 202-224-3121. | ||
| Also get up on Bill Blaster. | ||
| Also if you're part of Article 3 and using that device, do that. | ||
| But we need a full-on reminder to Senators that Kash Patel is President Trump to be the head of the FBI. You might throw in there too the Russ Votes. | ||
| Let me bring in Natalie. | ||
| I think we have breaking news on some of the things we're covering. | ||
| Natalie, I think that the Visigoths and the Vanderbilt are slowed down by a federal court. | ||
| Is that correct, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, don't say that we're ahead of the curve, but it's just breaking now that that lawsuit that Norm Eisen was talking about last night on MSNBC that they have now blocked. | ||
| They're taking a victory lap, Elon Musk and President Trump, from accessing the Treasury system. | ||
| Their sort of meltdown that they were, I don't know, trying to get that data to do nefarious activities. | ||
| They were suing or representing the Alliance for Retired Americans, suing Scott Besson and the Treasury Department. | ||
| In whole, like I said, this is breaking. | ||
| They have a hearing later today, I believe around 3 p.m., that's sort of this same tactic and approach, but going over to the FBI. And like I said, they're also now bringing a similar type of lawsuit against labor, because I guess Elon Musk and the Doge team had started interacting and emailing some people over there. | ||
| So I would say this is certainly sort of their battle plan, right? | ||
| That they're now trying to replicate. | ||
| I would probably use the word metastasize across various federal agencies, but temporarily it is a win for them. | ||
| So the news is they went in for a temporary restraining order. | ||
| They at least got it until the hearing. | ||
| I want to be specific. | ||
| Elon Musk and the work they're doing, because Scott Besson... | ||
| I believe put out today that the lawyers at the Treasury Department were saying, hey, these guys aren't really getting near any payment systems. | ||
| We're on top of this. | ||
| We understand what the statutes are. | ||
| That clearly wasn't good enough. | ||
| So right now, Elon Musk and his Doge team are to stop all work, at least temporarily. | ||
| There's a hearing this afternoon. | ||
| We see where it goes from there. | ||
| But you get these left-wing D.C. judges. | ||
| And they can do a lot of damage. | ||
| And they're going to do a lot of damage. | ||
| And this is a forecast. | ||
| This is basically Eisen's strategy, correct? | ||
| Yeah, I'll read the order. | ||
| Like you said, it's coming out of the district court here in D.C. The defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, except that the defendants may provide access to any of the following people. | ||
| And it goes on to list about two or three people. | ||
| But yeah, like you said, this is just breaking. | ||
| But the buried lead, I think, from the cold open that we had. | ||
| Norm Eisen said, yeah, the first victory we won is the temporary, right, the TRO, but now they're going for essentially a permanent injunction. | ||
| But like I said, this is not just an isolated incident limited to Treasury. | ||
| They want to replicate it across the various agencies. | ||
| Okay, hang on for one second. | ||
| Let me go back to Dave Brett. | ||
| So Dave, National Day of Prayer, why is it important, and particularly the morning Joe crowd in the left, they're trying to take the moral high ground, that they are defenders, that they're on the side of the angels, and they're trying to protect this pristine governmental apparatus and they're trying to protect this pristine governmental apparatus from the pagans, sir. | ||
| Yeah, well, 30 or 40 years ago, you know, I taught with liberals, and I'd argue with 100 liberals at lunch every day. | ||
| And I used to like the liberals. | ||
| They were fun to be with. | ||
| They cared about the poor and human rights. | ||
| They wanted to end war. | ||
| They're always wrong about economics and business, but they're fun. | ||
| They're fun, nice people that smiled. | ||
| Morning Joe, Mika crowd. | ||
| They're not liberals anymore. | ||
| They don't smile. | ||
| Whenever you see a supposed liberal that never smiles, she just sat there glum, arrogant, but with this concern. | ||
| I can't even, as Presbyterians, we have a hard time emoting and showing that much feeling, but she just feels for the poor. | ||
| And so she's talking about, oh my word, all these people that are going to be in Africa, they're not going to get their protein paste from peanuts from Georgia. | ||
| I mean, she doesn't strike me as a... | ||
| Georgia Bulldog type in the first place. | ||
| But, you know, she's appealing to the South and the Christian Bible Belt there, so that's nice. | ||
| And Rachel Maddow sitting there looking with tragic concern about all this. | ||
| The problem is, you just got caught, right? | ||
| You got caught stealing from the collection plate, basically, right? | ||
| The holy of the holies for the liberals is taking care of the poor. | ||
| So she's referring to USAID and she's the head of USAID and all the great work she did for the poor. | ||
| The reason the poor are going to get hurt is because of your corruption, right? | ||
| The politicos, all the news organizations, Mike Bentz covered all that. | ||
| Natalie's been on that forever, covering all these organizations and news that are heisting money. | ||
| Bill Kristol came out in the news yesterday, I think, buried four dimensions down, right? | ||
| Natalie and her reporting and Mike. | ||
| They have to go report because one organization gets a huge foundation, then a foundation, then a foundation, and then there's Bill Kristol way down at the bottom getting money from USAID very indirectly, all hidden, all cloaked, all stolen from the American taxpayer. | ||
| So it's nice that Joe mentions seeing the light, God's light, God's justice is coming on down across the board. | ||
| Now they're going to start playing prevent defense like Natalie just reported in real time. | ||
| Which is just a treat to hear that reporting in real time. | ||
| But all of this just hearkens right back to the Christian prayer breakfast this morning. | ||
| This country, everything we believe in is within those lines. | ||
| There is no alternative narrative. | ||
| Jordan Peterson has been great on the narrative. | ||
| There is only one narrative that's true. | ||
| And it's the narrative of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| And the Christian prayer breakfast. | ||
| The concepts of justice we have, the moral language we have, economics, human rights language came only out of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| Let me repeat that to my liberal friends. | ||
| Human rights language came only, solely, uniquely out of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| And so did private property rights, capitalism, free markets. | ||
| And look at the language even the left and the Marxists in mourning Joe uses to make their arguments while they're stealing from the collection plate. | ||
| So I just want to give a great shout out to President Trump for being at the prayer breakfast. | ||
| I think his life was changed. | ||
| That bullet, he has messaged and said, I'm here for a reason. | ||
| I'm here for a purpose. | ||
| That purpose... | ||
| Comes straight out of one tradition that I know of, right? | ||
| And the image of God, the imago dei, the idea that we're all created in the image of God. | ||
| That's why everyone on this planet is worthy of concern and dignity. | ||
| I never hear the left mention any basis for any of this stuff. | ||
| Their dirty deeds are coming out right now in space, all over, just all over the place. | ||
| And so thanks to Natalie for the great reporting. | ||
| And Steve, you're to be giving great credit for covering all this. | ||
| One other note also, all the oligarchs were there to cover for the last few years too. | ||
| All of a sudden, there's talk about oligarchs. | ||
| They were all on the left. | ||
| Now they're all coming over this way because they're scared of what they did in prior years, and they're looking for a little refuge. | ||
| And so we'll see how all that works out. | ||
| But the left has been cloaking and covering for the oligarchs and theft and the grifters, and it's all coming home right now. | ||
| This is what I was saying in the New York Times interview. | ||
| In 2008, with the financial crash, they bailed out. | ||
| The established order bailed themselves out off of your tax money. | ||
| The little guy didn't get a bailout. | ||
| But the big guy's got a ballot. | ||
| Then they cut a deal with these guys in Silicon Valley to basically make them oligarchs and allow it to be an apartheid state. | ||
| Now you're seeing the oligarchs have flipped and have come our way. | ||
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| And now you're seeing in USAID, this is why it's so important to follow this story to where it concludes. | ||
| You see there... | ||
| Paying for media. | ||
| They're giving Politico $8 million. | ||
| Jim Hoff's got a story up of $268 million that's gone to media over a number of years. | ||
| We're going to get into that. | ||
| You've got the Stanford Observatory that Natalie's going to talk about that attacked us for years. | ||
| Turns out that's underwritten by him. | ||
| And this is what the oligarchs are afraid of. | ||
| People are afraid of what Musk and Doge is doing coupled with vote at OMB. That's why last night for 24 hours... | ||
| And think of how many times you've seen Russ Vote on the show. | ||
| They went after CRA and Russ Vote, and they said many times that Russ Vote's the most dangerous man in America. | ||
| Now, why is that? | ||
| Because Russ Vote with Elon Musk can get under the hood and expose all this. | ||
| And this is what they're absolutely petrified about. | ||
| That's why they're all circling the wagon. | ||
| When Samantha Powers gets a big opening slug of time on Rachel Maddow, that's their biggest show. | ||
| And the reason is that they have to have some protective cover right now. | ||
| Because they understand bad stuff's coming. | ||
| Dave, you just hang on. | ||
| You're going to be with us for the morning. | ||
| And Senator Schumer... | ||
| Hang on a second. | ||
| We're going to take a... | ||
| Just hang on for a second. | ||
| We're going to go to Natalie when we get back. | ||
| She's got to take off and get up to the White House. | ||
| Birch gold. | ||
| I want to make sure gold's up at another near all-time high today, but that's not the point. | ||
| The point is, why is gold a hedge against times of financial turbulence? | ||
| You're going to have financial turbulence. | ||
| We're going to have a lot more of it. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| We have two big events that we've talked about now. | ||
| I gave a speech in Pinehurst, North Carolina, over a year ago. | ||
| And I said in January and February of 2025, you're going to have the convergence of massive spending cuts coupled with deportations, mass deportations and mass spending cuts, and it's going to lead to some chaos because the system has to be purged of these problems. | ||
| You have to take it head-on. | ||
| That's turbulence. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| Go there today, talk to Philip Patrick and the team, and find out why gold has been a hedge for 5,000 years. | ||
| Don't take it from me. | ||
| Don't even take it from the number of gold at an all-time high. | ||
| Talk to Philip Patrick at Birchgold slash Bannon. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Natalie and Dave on the other side. | ||
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And cheer as Musk dismantles U.S. aid agency. | |
| Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcome the Trump administration's assault on USAID, which many authoritarians have seen as a threat. | ||
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We've also, of course, seen the Kremlin cheering Elon Musk at destroying this agency. | |
| Why do authoritarian leaders hate USAID so much? | ||
| Well, I think for a couple of reasons. | ||
| Don't like democracy. | ||
| They want the United States ultimately to fail and our model to fail. | ||
| And they recognize something that clearly some of the U.S. don't yet recognize, which is how vital U.S. aid is to advancing U.S. interests. | ||
| And American strength resides in the goodwill we buy, but also our security resides in our ability. | ||
| To squash that Ebola outbreak in Uganda, to make sure that those flights that come from Kampala don't contain people with Ebola who bring that disease elsewhere. | ||
| So they root against America, they root against democracy, therefore they root against USAID and are thrilled. | ||
| That it's the United States government itself that is taking this agency off the field. | ||
| But the other reason they're cheering is that USAID does really important democracy work, really important anti-corruption work. | ||
| Supporting independent journalists, training them to make sure that they can go out and about and cast sunlight on what is going on in those countries. | ||
| So a lot of the elections, for example, that Maduro stole or that Putin rigged, the documentation of that happens because brave Venezuelans or Russians are out there willing to document that. | ||
| And some of that training over the years has come from the United States and specifically from USA. So democracy programming is a small part of the overall enterprise of development and humanitarian response, but it's one that definitely gets under the skin of the dictators. | ||
| So there is a lot of misinformation. | ||
| It's all misinformation about what USA does, about the lion's share of the investments that we make overseas, about who we're helping. | ||
| Yeah, there's a lot of misinformation, lady. | ||
| We're just looking at the numbers. | ||
| By her own, the goodwill we can buy. | ||
| Independent journalism. | ||
| Keeping democracy alive. | ||
| Natalie Winters. | ||
| Samantha Powers is the gift that keeps on giving, is she not, ma'am? | ||
| Well, I think they've been giving a little too much to foreign countries that hate us, and they've been, I think, enriching themselves off of that giving. | ||
| I have to say, democracy work has to be just the nicest euphemism I've ever heard for regime change and color revolution in favor of the deep state, the ruling regime back here at home in the United States of America. | ||
| And by the way, just a second, I'm so glad that we can now say elections have been stolen. | ||
| And I'm so glad that we're funding journalists to expose that fraud. | ||
| I guess you can't do it here in the United States, but you can do it in every other foreign country. | ||
| But I want to link this back to Norm Eisen, because this actually really gets to the heart of something we were talking about two days ago, Steve. | ||
| Which is that Democracy Playbook 2025, the third edition that they put out just three days before President Trump was sworn in. | ||
| Sort of the idea that I think undergirds most of the resistance, which is that they have to frame President Trump as an authoritarian dictator, as an autocrat, as part of this democratic backsliding, right? | ||
| Democracy is in danger because it therefore then justifies their sort of outside-of-the-system change, frankly, the revolution, the color revolution, that they want to wage against democratically elected politicians like they've done. | ||
| Internationally, that was what the strategy was originally developed for. | ||
| And the long-winded quote that I read where they talk about the way that they will push back against President Trump. | ||
| It's quite literally by saying that they will not only collaborate with international entities, but more precisely, that they were looking to USAID, specifically a program called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, to be responsible for sort of bankrolling the slush fund that they refer to as independent media, right? | ||
| Like a watchdog. | ||
| But this is where this story gets even more interesting and dovetails with some wonderful reporting from Michael Schellenberger today, which is that people may recall from the first impeachment, like I said, it's all We're good to go. | ||
| Well, that was someone whose source was actually that very same program, that organized crime and corruption reporting project. | ||
| In other words, the USAID was bankrolling the dossier, much like the Steele dossier, the whole Russiagate stuff, that led to the first impeachment of President Trump. | ||
| And here's the issue, right? | ||
| OCCRP, this entity, is funded over half, I believe, by USAID. The rest of it's basically other U.S. government agencies. | ||
| But here's where it gets really dark. | ||
| Because right now, Ukraine, there's reporting 9 out of 10 media outlets in Ukraine are funded by USAID. Otherwise, they would not exist. | ||
| That's a Ukraine foreign minister's own words, not mine. | ||
| Norm Eisen has been screaming in the Brookings Institution and the mainstream media, there's a piece we can put on screen, quote, investigative journalism is essential for Ukraine reconstruction and anti-corruption. | ||
| They have used the weaponization of journalism through USAID and all of these foreign countries not to expose or dox autocratic leaders, but to defend themselves and be the Praetorian Guard for the corrupt activities that they've been engaging in. | ||
| Because you know why, Steve, USAID wants to be funding the journalists on the ground in Ukraine? | ||
| Because they want the concept of controlled opposition. | ||
| They don't want the audits. | ||
| They don't want actual reporters who are going to be digging in to the what? | ||
| I guess it's now just $77 billion, but what was nearly $200 billion in aid. | ||
| They want to be controlling the journalists, controlling the messaging, and USAID has been the platform through which they've done that, just like they tried to control President Trump with the first impeachment. | ||
| But now they know Ukraine audits are probably coming. | ||
| That gravy train's ending. | ||
| So they are in full-blown meltdown and panic because they know that they're not going to be able to control the narrative. | ||
| Hey, Natalie, I tell you, I've got to call an audible here. | ||
| You're going to arrive a little late to the White House because I've got to hold you for the A Block. | ||
| I want to play Schellenbergers. | ||
| I want to tie this together, and I want people to understand it goes all the way back. | ||
| To Ukraine, to Zelensky, to corruption, to Biden, to the 2019 impeachment. | ||
| And I want you to expound upon, when we come back, your concept of embeds. | ||
| This is what this fight is coming down to. | ||
| This is why they don't want Doge inside. | ||
| They don't want Doge inside talking to people. | ||
| They want the 600 that are blocked outside of USAID in, because this is full-on war. | ||
| This is a war of President Trump and his movement against the administrative state and the deep state. | ||
| The stakes could not be higher, folks. | ||
| It's going to be fought on many battlefields, inside the bureaucracy itself, in the narrative on media, in the courts, in the streets. | ||
| All of it. | ||
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