March 18, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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We'll just start by saying that, you know, you and I have talked about a lot of big issues over the years. | |
| I think right now this is one of the biggest that we've ever discussed. | ||
| And for two reasons. | ||
| One is the use of this wartime authority is so unprecedented and so dangerous during peacetime that we all need to be concerned. | ||
| Because right now it's Venezuelans who are being tagged with it and sent off to a Salvadoran prison without any due process whatsoever. | ||
| But if the courts allow this, it could be one group after another that's just whisked away and put in El Salvador in prison with no access to anybody. | ||
| And these Venezuelan men who have been sentenced to El Salvador, as the video already suggests, are in real danger. | ||
| But the second reason this is so big is what you also talked about, is beyond just the Alien Enemies Act, the Trump administration seems to be basically saying, The federal courts should stay out of their business. | ||
| But, of course, our entire country is premised on the idea that we have three equal branches of government, and both Congress and the President will listen to the federal courts. | ||
| We were very concerned that the administration just simply ignored, violated the court's order to turn their planes around. | ||
| And so we told the judge we were concerned about it, given all the facts. | ||
| He said, let's get in here for a hearing. | ||
| We left that hearing even more concerned than we were initially. | ||
| The administration tried to first say, well, we didn't think you meant this and that, but obviously they clearly understood what the order meant. | ||
| They're basically just saying, don't interfere with us. | ||
| And they even went as far as going to the D.C. Circuit a few hours before the hearing to try and get the judge thrown off the case. | ||
| This is really extraordinary. | ||
| And what I said in the hearing was I wanted to be very careful with my words, but I felt like, although a lot of people throw around the term constitutional crisis, we were moving in that direction if the administration is really not going to allow federal courts to... | ||
| David, President Trump campaigned on mass deportations. | ||
| It was one of his most popular campaign promises. | ||
| Does that make this the perfect test case for him politically to try to expand his powers by saying he's doing what he campaigned on doing? | ||
| Yeah, I think it does. | ||
| And I think it's why the administration is happy to have this fight. | ||
| Look, polling has shown that where the president has trouble economically because of the tariffs and his approval ratings on that issue are suffering. | ||
| Voters, by and large, are very happy with how he's handled illegal immigration. | ||
| And there was a sense from voters, and I talked to a lot of voters over the past couple of years, that felt like during the Biden administration, That the U.S. government was at the sort of the mercy of whether an illegal immigrant would game asylum laws or come across the border illegally and that there wasn't much we could do about it. | ||
| And what the president is saying is, I'm going to do whatever it takes. | ||
| And there's an appeal to that. | ||
| And until the American people, if voters ever feel a negative impact from his challenging of the courts, which they're used to that. | ||
| This is not the first time he's done that rhetorically. | ||
| Then I think they're going to give him latitude, right? | ||
| We're talking politically here. | ||
| Obviously, there are all sorts of ways in which this can go south and impact other issues beyond illegal immigration. | ||
| But this is something they wanted him to do. | ||
| Not necessarily challenge the courts in the way he did, but clean up illegal immigration. | ||
| And they're going to give him room to do that here. | ||
| If the courts cannot contain this administration, what can? | ||
| You know, I thought it was fascinating today that Senator Cotton of Arkansas spoke out and called this judge out, like, who is this judge to tell the president what to do? | ||
| And it was very reminiscent of the 1957 showdown in the Central High School in Arkansas, where the governor of Arkansas called out the National Guard to stop the integration in compliance with Brown v. | ||
| Board of Education. | ||
| So what happened? | ||
| Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne. | ||
| The Little Rock, to enforce the law. | ||
| And then he federalized the National Guard. | ||
| And it's just, how much of this is, we've been here before, but the difference now is, it's not a governor of Arkansas, it's a president of the United States, and he's backed up almost unanimously by a party that has begun to look at the rule of law like a cafeteria. | ||
| You can take this, you can take that, you can, you know, maybe have a little of this, whatever you like. | ||
| And when that happens, you don't have rule of law. | ||
| Got fed up and decided late last night, overnight, at about 2 a.m. local time here, to renew their assault on the Gaza Strip. | ||
| Now, we haven't heard... | ||
| We heard that Hamas said that this is a violation of the treaty from late January, but this is something that is probably going to get worse and worse. | ||
| You know, we're going to continue to see attacks by the Israelis. | ||
| As you said, we've been hearing extremely bellicose language, including from the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz. | ||
| Saying that they're going to rain hell on Hamas. | ||
| And, you know, this really just goes to show there's a big change here. | ||
| We've seen the Israelis cutting off aid several weeks ago to the Gaza Strip, which saw a huge spike in prices for food in the Gaza Strip, which was already suffering from famine-like conditions before that treaty in late January. | ||
| Then we saw them cutting off electricity, which all but shut down a desalination plant that so many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had relied on for fresh water, leading a lot of them to resort to drinking brackish water. | ||
| 10 out of 10 people in Gaza didn't have access to safe... | ||
| Well, now the situation is about to get much, much worse. | ||
| We haven't heard much about ground operations yet, but we can expect to hear a lot more. | ||
| The Israelis have said that they're specifically targeting mid-level Hamas commanders. | ||
| So it looks as though they had some time to think about who to strike, hone their targets. | ||
| And we heard this last week from several media sources saying that they have a kill list, that they've expanded, the Israelis, and they know exactly who they're going after. | ||
| So it looks as though, according to Israeli and foreign media, that they had a plan for the past several weeks about how to re-enter this fight. | ||
| And it looks like we're seeing that plan being activated in the Gaza Strip. | ||
| The Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025. | ||
| How direct is the link between the Heritage Foundation and the Oval Office? | ||
| It seems like Heritage is living their best life with this administration. | ||
| Well, look, Heron has transformed from a conservative think tank into an extension of the Trump administration and the Trump campaign, the Trump political operation. | ||
| So none of that is surprising. | ||
| But I just think this whole issue is a distraction, right? | ||
| I mean, there are some real issues that really matter, whether it's how the president is handling illegal immigration, whether or not he's defying the courts or testing the courts, his economic policy, which is obviously... | ||
| Disrupting many sectors of the economy. | ||
| These are the sorts of things he likes to do to send people off chasing squirrels. | ||
| And I just don't think it's that big of a deal at the end of the day compared to focusing on things that really matter. | ||
| Real quick, on a 1 to 10, what's your level of worry? | ||
| 11. 11. 11, America. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| It's Tuesday, 18 March, year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| You're in the war room. | ||
| Let's go immediately. | ||
| We are packed the morning and the afternoon, whether it's talking war and peace with Putin today and President Trump, or releasing the Kennedy files, or taking on these radical justices or judges that are trying to shut down President Trump from implementing his executive orders and things he's doing as commander chief or chief executive. | ||
| Let's go to Brian Glenn live at the White House. | ||
| Brian, another packed day. | ||
| Right now, I believe the president should be on some sort of telecommunications connection with Vladimir Putin talking about the Russian rapprochement and peace in Ukraine, sir. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
| From what I understand, that phone call was to take place between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Eastern Time, local time here. | ||
| It's now top of the hour, so I'm assuming right now that President Trump is on the line talking with... | ||
| With Putin. | ||
| And we'll see what comes out of that. | ||
| I mean, this is something that obviously he has campaigned on for quite a long time, getting peace between these two countries. | ||
| And today is the day. | ||
| And like you said, in the cold open, which is hard to even listen to, by the way, the pushback that we were seeing from the left. | ||
| It's so difficult to listen to. | ||
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But yeah, big day here. | |
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| We're going to make the war impossible. | ||
| Get their cup of warpath and their heads blow up and the coal open. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| President Trump's schedule. | ||
| Signing executive orders tentatively at 3 o 'clock, Brian. | ||
| I'm sure you'll be around, hanging around the rim. | ||
| But the Kennedy 80,000 pages. | ||
| President Trump yesterday basically implied he doesn't want Tulsi Gabbard, head of D&I, to redact anything. | ||
| The Kennedy files, timing, executive orders, timing. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, the timing for the executive orders are at 3 o 'clock, and I don't have any details on what that executive order or orders will be at 3 o 'clock. | ||
| I'll keep my ear to the ground on that. | ||
| In terms of the releasing of the files, all we heard was it would be this afternoon. | ||
| Now, would it be during the 3 o 'clock? | ||
| Is that an announcement that he makes? | ||
| but those files, those 80,000 plus pages will be available at archive.gov for money to understand. | ||
| And of course, it's all going to be there to see. | ||
| But as you know, | ||
| I wish I had them right now. | ||
| I wish I had them right now. | ||
| MAGA just wants the receipts. | ||
| All MAGA wants is the receipts. | ||
| You know they're going to be happy. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| MAGA is easy, please. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Julie Kelly is actually following the filing that's going to take place, I think, by 11 a.m. from the White House. | ||
| Of all the different parts of the legal battle, which is really where it's most intense. | ||
| This judge in Washington, D.C., about us sending criminal terrorists out of the country challenging President Trump as Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| Mike Davis, Josh Hammer are going to join us here shortly. | ||
| But the White House strategy on this is Stephen Miller's, who kind of, I think, laid a trap for this judge by the timing of this. | ||
| Are they hunkered down for a fight, Brian Glenn? | ||
| I think they are. | ||
| And I heard Stephen Miller yesterday talk about this and said, what this judge is trying to do is unprecedented. | ||
| I mean, look, we are following the law. | ||
| We are following the Constitution. | ||
| And President Trump is in right on all of this. | ||
| And to watch the media and the Democrats have a meltdown on getting rid of gang members, Steve. | ||
| I'm talking about gang members that have just done torturous things, have taken human lives. | ||
| It's despicable that we have a media and a party in this country that is so defiant of getting rid of criminals, illegal gang criminals in our country. | ||
| Let it go to the courts because without a doubt, and Trump is no stranger to the court system, as we all know. | ||
| He will win on this, but this is their desperate attempt to stop this. | ||
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We don't have the strength. | |
| Thank you very much, Brian Glenn. | ||
| Brian, what is your social media so people can follow you throughout the day and know when to jump in and out? | ||
| Okay, Steve, you can follow me at BrianGlennTV, across the board, at Brian on Truth Social. | ||
| As soon as I hear about the files and the timing on that, I'll let you know personally. | ||
| And then, of course, we'll find out how that phone call went a little bit later today. | ||
| Oval Office, 3 o 'clock here at the White House. | ||
| Keep it right here at Real America's Voice. | ||
| Yeah, Brian Glenn's going to be all over it. | ||
| Historic day. | ||
| President Trump right now talking to the head of the KGB, or former head of the KGB. | ||
| Now the head of Russia. | ||
| About a rapprochement that would include also a peace deal. | ||
| Ceasefire and a peace deal in Ukraine. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Crimea I'm sure is going to come up today. | ||
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All of it. | |
| Major military activity in the Red Sea with the Houthis and in Gaza. | ||
| Looks like the ceasefire there is over. | ||
| The Muslim Brotherhood franchisee Hamas playing around with the hostages. | ||
| Going to do this. | ||
| Going to do that. | ||
| I think Israel finally had enough. | ||
| So let's get it back on. | ||
| See how tough you are. | ||
| Natalie Winters is at a conference right down the street from the White House on artificial intelligence and advanced technology. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| She'll be reporting from there later in the day. | ||
| Sam Faddis is going to join us. | ||
| Ben Harnwell. | ||
| But we've got a very special guest next when we come back from the break. | ||
| Major news coming out of the Treasury Department and Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson. | ||
| the indefatigable. | ||
| Miranda Devine joins us next in the war room. | ||
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But I'm American made I got American part I got American faith | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| Okay, so you have the lineup for today. | ||
| We've framed this, what's happening. | ||
| Another historic day. | ||
| Even as we speak right now, history is being made. | ||
| I'm sure President Trump will bring us into that when he has us into the Oval Office. | ||
| Brian Glenn will be there. | ||
| Natalie's down at the Marc Andreessen Conference. | ||
| So much going on in the Imperial Capital and throughout the globe. | ||
| Big news out of Treasury. | ||
| The one and only Miranda Devine joins us. | ||
| Miranda, you've got to be feeling pretty good. | ||
| The Laptop from Hell, the Wuhan Lab. | ||
| I mean, everything that you've investigated and written these amazing books about over the last couple of years, it turns out Miranda Devine's right, and of course the apparatus is wrong. | ||
| But here today, some breaking news at a Treasury on whistleblowers in the IRS. | ||
| Can you explain to the audience exactly what's going on and why this is a very big deal, ma 'am? | ||
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Yeah, hi. | |
| Look, this is just brilliant. | ||
| Steve, IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who were the guys who kiboshed Hunter Biden's sweetheart deal, remember, on his tax crimes. | ||
| He almost got away with it scot-free, except that these two professional, non-partisan investigators at the IRS who had spent five years looking into various alleged crimes committed by Hunter Biden, | ||
| including not just tax fraud and tax evasion, but also money laundering and foreign agent violations, et cetera, they had been obstructed every step of the way. | ||
| No search warrants of Joe Biden's estate where Hunter Biden was living. | ||
| No geolocation of his phone when he said he was calling his... | ||
| Chinese business partners to shake them down with his father sitting next to him in Delaware. | ||
| All of that was blocked. | ||
| So they finally legally blew the whistle. | ||
| And it was just in time because Hunter Biden's sweetheart deal fell apart. | ||
| And as we know, these guys, Shapley and Ziegler, were thrown off the case. | ||
| New prosecutors were brought in. | ||
| They had to be brought in. | ||
| And a judge saw through it. | ||
| And finally, Hunter, even though the most serious charges, the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, had let them lapse, Hunter Biden was still charged with some serious jail-worthy crimes, was found guilty in Delaware and in California, | ||
| and would have faced jail, except his father in December pardoned him, going back retrospectively 10 years for any crimes he might have committed in that period. | ||
| But anyway... | ||
| Shapley and Ziegler were the heroes of the moment, and they have spent the last two years being punished and ostracised by their bosses at the IRS. | ||
| Now, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has done the right thing. | ||
| He has promoted them. | ||
| For one year, they will be senior advisors to him, guiding the IRS reform, especially in the cultural sphere, which means personnel. | ||
| And so then they'll go into the IRS as senior leaders, as bosses. | ||
| So those, he's identified six people, Shapley, in one of his complaints in his chain of command who retaliated against him. | ||
| Those people, I would imagine, are not sleeping very well today. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| That's another example going on offense. | ||
| I have to ask you, you know, in October of 2020, When you came out with the laptop from hell and all the experts, you and Emma Jo Morris at the New York Post, it looked like the world was against you. | ||
| Facebook, everybody turned against you, said this was wrong, that the New York Post was going to get sued into oblivion. | ||
| Today, ma 'am, as you sit here and kind of witness Putin talking to Trump about a Russian rapprochement and some sort of help and peace in the Middle East with the Persians and in Ukraine stopping the war there, What are your thoughts? | ||
| Did you ever envision in 2020, when you were accused of being a dupe of Russian misinformation, did you ever think you see the day that Donald Trump would be back in office and would be negotiating Putin an overall peace deal? | ||
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Well, I mean, no, because it never should have happened that Joe Biden was president. | |
| And, in fact, if our story had not been censored by Facebook and Twitter, and if those 51 dirty Intel officials or former Intel officials, mainly from the CIA, hadn't lied and said that the laptop and therefore our stories were Russian disinformation, | ||
| you know... | ||
| Probably Donald Trump would have squeaked into office again. | ||
| There would have been no war in Ukraine. | ||
| There would have been no attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, two years ago. | ||
| So, no. | ||
| It could have envisaged what happened. | ||
| But, look, the Democrats went too far. | ||
| And all the law there and all the attacks and the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump just made him stronger. | ||
| He is... | ||
| Utterly impervious to their attacks. | ||
| And I think that's why they've now focused their eye on people like Elon Musk and J.D. Vance, because they know that Donald Trump is Teflon coated. | ||
| What about your thoughts on President Trump finally having enough of this with a detachment, I think, of 12 or 13? | ||
| Secret Service Protective Unit in South Africa with Hunter Biden. | ||
| He finally said yesterday, I'm just doing away with this massive coverage for the Biden kids. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
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Yeah, fantastic. | |
| I mean, it's outrageous that Hunter Biden still has Secret Service protection. | ||
| And particularly, he's gone off to South Africa for a luxury vacation, staying in some, you know, ultra-plush. | ||
| Oceanside Villa at $500 a night. | ||
| He's escaped a court case in California that he brought himself against Garrett Ziegler and the Marco Polo guys. | ||
| And thanks to Laura Luma, we have photographs showing that before that case was even dismissed by the judge on his request, he had hightailed it to South Africa with his wife. | ||
| As many as 18 Secret Service agents on his detail, according to Donald Trump. | ||
| And his 90-day sojourn in South Africa would have cost the taxpayer conservatively half a million dollars just for those Secret Service agents. | ||
| So Donald Trump has now stripped him. | ||
| Of those agents. | ||
| Plus, Ashley Biden, his half-sister, had, according to Donald Trump, 13 Secret Service agents giving her round-the-clock protection. | ||
| And really, as far as I can see, those Secret Service agents act as chauffeurs, door openers for these reprobates for Hunter Biden and his family. | ||
| So, good riddance to bad rubbish. | ||
| The 51 intelligence executives, officers, many of them CIA, that, and let's be blunt, they try to destroy you personally. | ||
| They try to destroy your career. | ||
| They try to make you a laughingstock. | ||
| They try to make you look like a tool of very dark forces in this country. | ||
| Do you believe that they've been handled properly? | ||
| Do you think everything that should have happened to them, because it was their air cover... | ||
| That let the mainstream media and Facebook and others attack you, attack the story and suppress the story we know is 100% true. | ||
| Are you satisfied that to date enough has been done with these folks, ma 'am? | ||
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No. | |
| So far, Donald Trump stripped them of their security clearances, which is a good thing and will curtail their income somewhat. | ||
| But, you know, I think, I believe that there may be more in the pipeline. | ||
| But, look, it's more than just 51 former CIA and NSA, et cetera, officials, which included five former directors or acting directors of the CIA, including the notorious John Brennan, Leon Panetta, | ||
| James Clapper was one of these people. | ||
| So we know about them, but the... | ||
| The story is even darker because when that letter was being concocted by former acting director Mike Morrell, who hoped that he would be CIA director under Joe Biden, when he was prompted to write that letter by none other than Antony Blinken, | ||
| who at that stage was a senior advisor to the Biden campaign, of course, became the Secretary of State under Joe Biden. | ||
| And after Mike Morell wrote that letter, he got it expedited, had to be cleared by the CIA classification review panel. | ||
| And they saw the letter, saw how political it was, and how it was designed to rig the debate that Joe Biden was just about to have with Donald Trump. | ||
| And sure enough, he used it. | ||
| And so they sent it upstairs to none other than CIA director Gina Haspel, who gave it the green light to be published. | ||
| It should never have been published. | ||
| It was overtly political. | ||
| It was a domestic election interference plot by the CIA. | ||
| And Gina Haspel is interesting because she also was CIA station chief in London when the Russia collusion hoax was hatched. | ||
| Before we let you go, we've got about a minute. | ||
| Given your reporting on facts, do we actually have a deep state that's associated with our government that's part of the administrative state, ma 'am? | ||
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Oh, yes. | |
| I mean, that... | ||
| The deep state, the unaccountable bureaucracy, you have talked about it ad nauseum. | ||
| I mean, this is what Donald Trump campaigned on basically back in 2016. | ||
| It got the better of him in 2020, almost. | ||
| It's hand-in-glove with the Democrats and doing nefarious things around the world, colour revolutions in our names, but without the American people's Approval or even knowledge. | ||
| And this deep state is implacably opposed to Donald Trump. | ||
| They see him as an existential threat, not to democracy, as the Democrats keep saying. | ||
| But to the very existence of the deep state. | ||
| And this time, Donald Trump is forewarned, forearmed. | ||
| He has an amazing group of warriors around him, including, I have to do a shout out to Stephen Miller, who we were just talking about. | ||
| He is just relentless and 10 steps ahead of the lawfare and the deep state. | ||
| We've got about 15 seconds. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| Where do people get you, Miranda? | ||
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I'm on Twitter, or X as we call it now, and of course Truth Social, get out all of them as just at Miranda Devine, and you'll find all my columns at thenewyorkpost.com. | |
| Thank you, ma 'am. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| Okay, Mike Davis will be up shortly. | ||
| Sam Faddis joins us. | ||
| Sam. | ||
| Today of all days, you wrote a brilliant piece yesterday I want to get into, but it kind of revolves around living history that we're going through today. | ||
| You look at, you know, we're back to the shooting war in the Middle East, your old neighborhood, you know, whether it's the Red Sea, you know, keeping the carrier battle group down the Red Sea, keeping the Straits, keeping Suez open for the Europeans. | ||
| The Israelis are now... | ||
| Essentially on bombing runs in Gaza again because the Muslim Brotherhood has broken off the ceasefire process there with the hostages. | ||
| You've got Putin on a phone call right now. | ||
| And, of course, many people in the intelligence apparatus are not thrilled about that. | ||
| Kennedy, finally, after all these decades and decades and decades, the director of national intelligence is supposed to release unredacted at least 80,000 pages. | ||
| You've had the over-treasury, the promotion of the IRS guys that for five years were reviewing Hunter Biden and saw all his crimes and they were buried. | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| You just heard Miranda Devine talking about this war is really, and you can see in this judge that's ruling against President Trump being Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| The deep state, they look at Trump as an existential threat, not to the country or democracy, but to themselves. | ||
| Put it in a historical perspective, exactly what we're witnessing here, sir. | ||
| Well, I think you're having a struggle over the fate of the republic, as you have pointed out a million times, Steve. | ||
| There could not be more elemental issues here. | ||
| Is there a deep state? | ||
| Without question. | ||
| Did they try to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president of the United States? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Did they try to depose him, in effect, stage the first coup in American history? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Are they now going to fight tooth and nail to attempt to prevent him from effectively restoring the republic and saving the republic? | ||
| Without question. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of celebrating going on around the country. | ||
| People talking about we're back. | ||
| I'm all for that. | ||
| People deserve to celebrate. | ||
| But if anybody thinks that we won the war, they are sadly mistaken. | ||
| These guys did not go away. | ||
| We are very much in the thick of this thing right now. | ||
| And when you say the thick of it, as one of the field commanders here, what is the thing that you think we ought to be the center of gravity? | ||
| You know, every battle has a center of gravity. | ||
| Where do you think the center of gravity in this fight is right now, in your perspective, and what should the forces of the righteous be most focused on, sir? | ||
| Yeah, well, there's probably a long list, but first and foremost, inside these agencies and these bureaucracies, this deep state that we have allowed to emerge, to build over decades, this unelected fourth branch of government, these guys who think they get to run. | ||
| The country, and we're supposed to shut up and sit down and do what we're told. | ||
| They are not going away. | ||
| I mean, my old agency, CIA. | ||
| You got Director Radcliffe and his deputy there. | ||
| As far as I can tell, every single other senior manager in that place is somebody that was in place when Joe Biden was running the show. | ||
| Throughout everything that transpired. | ||
| During Biden's administration, and many of them going all the way back to what you were just talking about, that were there during Russiagate and Crossfire Hurricane and all of this garbage, and either participated or at a minimum, | ||
| never stood up, did the right thing. | ||
| Who stood up and said, I can't participate? | ||
| Here's my letter of... | ||
| I'm walking out the door. | ||
| I will not stand by and watch while a sitting president is deposed. | ||
| Not a single blessed one of them, and yet they are all still in power, in position. | ||
| And I'm using CIA as an example because it's obviously closest to me, but we could apply essentially the same thing to virtually every other federal agency. | ||
| Does the CIA, this is my theory of the case, and I'm not... | ||
| In this area, a professional like you are. | ||
| But my theory of the case is that the CIA is like Kudzu. | ||
| The CIA is embedded in the use of the interagency process, which is a process of formalizing policy before it comes to the president. | ||
| Because you have CIA outreach in defense, in justice, obviously in DNI, in DHS. | ||
| If you look at the power in Treasury, if you look at the power, you know, the five or six... | ||
| Power departments and the administrative state alphabet agencies associated with those, the CIA has interconnectivity to all those, and essentially it knows how to run, that the government runs off process, and they're very involved in running processes. | ||
| Is my theory correct on that? | ||
| Do you agree with that on the interagency process and this whole thing of detailees and people that are seconded to the White House? | ||
| Yeah, I agree with you 100%, but in addition to that, let's think about who you're talking about. | ||
| What is the business of the Central Intelligence Agency? | ||
| The business of the Central Intelligence Agency is influence, intrigue, manipulation. | ||
| Now, it's supposed to do that on behalf of the American people against our enemies. | ||
| You take all those same characteristics and you put them in play inside the United States and inside the government, and that is incredibly... | ||
| Incredibly dangerous. | ||
| Miranda touched on this when she was talking briefly about Crossfire Hurricane and Gina Haspel. | ||
| Everybody and his brother at this point is aware basically the FBI ran Crossfire Hurricane, was up to their eyeballs in this. | ||
| Well, CIA had to be every bit as involved. | ||
| When Gina Haspel was chief of station in London and we were coordinating, our government coordinating with the Brits. | ||
| To try to bring down Donald Trump or first to prevent him from being president. | ||
| All of that had to flow through the office of the chief of station in London. | ||
| The CIA head in London, Gina Haspel, had to coordinate all that contact. | ||
| You don't do anything with the Brits without her okay and without going through her and without the director of CIA knowing it. | ||
| Despite that involvement, how much do we actually know at this point, all these years later, about what CIA did as part of this? | ||
| Virtually nothing. | ||
| Because they're very, very good at that. | ||
| Look, we had the church committee. | ||
| They tried to get to the bottom of this in the late 70s, and they came up with the House and Senate intelligence in the Gang of Eight and the intelligence for some sort of oversight. | ||
| As light as it's been. | ||
| What is your recommendation now? | ||
| Because I think it should be duly noted. | ||
| You didn't see a lot of mass resignations from CIA, DNI. | ||
| You didn't see it also from where CIA is embedded into these other departments. | ||
| You didn't see a big mass resignation. | ||
| So they're dug in. | ||
| For a fight. | ||
| Am I correct in that? | ||
| They're dug in, and they think they'll just wait Trump out, and, you know, Bannon and Sam Faddis and, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, they're just passing through? | ||
| Or do you think that at some point in time, they would just say, okay, we give up and walk away? | ||
| No, they're not going to give up and walk away. | ||
| They are dug in. | ||
| That's exactly the phrase. | ||
| Perfect phrase, because that's what the head of the FBI field office told his people, right? | ||
| Dig in to resist. | ||
| Look, yes, they're going to dig in and they're going to play you. | ||
| What was one of the first things that happened? | ||
| I mean, it happened very recently. | ||
| All of a sudden, magically, we were handed a guy who we were told was the mastermind of the Abbey Gate attack, who I have no doubt is a bad guy, but I seriously doubt is actually the mastermind of anything. | ||
| Somehow, magically, we served this guy up in a silver platter. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because this is supposed to be evidence to you that you don't need to change anything. | ||
| We got it all knocked. | ||
| We're firing on all cylinders. | ||
| Please don't remove anybody. | ||
| And they will continue to play these kind of games. | ||
| What's the first step? | ||
| I mean, what would you do if you took over any military unit that was bordering on combat ineffective? | ||
| You'd start by relieving all the senior personnel. | ||
| You'd fire a bunch of people. | ||
| You'd toss a bunch of people overboard. | ||
| Until we do that, you're not going to change CIA or, frankly, any of these other agencies. | ||
| Yes, they're going to dig in, embed, and resist from inside. | ||
| You said earlier that we were witnessing with President Trump the first up-in-your-face coup. | ||
| This afternoon, Tulsi Gara has been ordered by the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief to release all documents, about 80,000, and he's actually saying he would like them to be unredacted. | ||
| Number one, why have they been kept for so many decades after the assassination, after assassination investigation? | ||
| And will this point to more of people's belief in a deep state conspiracy against President Kennedy? | ||
| Well, I suspect the reason that they've been withheld is because you're going to find out, yes, a lot of unflattering things. | ||
| You know, for the record, do I think you're going to find out CIA killed JFK? | ||
| No. | ||
| I don't personally believe that. | ||
| And let me just note this. | ||
| If the Central Intelligence Agency assassinated the President of the United States, there ain't going to be a file down in the basement that says how we did it or delineates anything that has to do with that. | ||
| I suspect, though, you may find a whole lot of information that suggests that they ignored a lot of things. | ||
| That they had information regarding Oswald, for instance, that wasn't passed along. | ||
| That kind of stuff. | ||
| That's very unflattering. | ||
| And yeah, you might find actually some pretty overt criticism of JFK. | ||
| Some of you colleagues, before I let you go, some of your colleagues, you're in kind of a back and forth now with some of your colleagues and people you respect. | ||
| That are saying, Sam, there's no deep state and here's why. | ||
| Where are we on that, on actually people in the intelligence universe admitting that there is an aspect of this that's quite rogue and doesn't really follow direction, regardless who the president of the United States is, sir? | ||
| Well, I mean, I've talked to a wide range of folks and many of them are completely on board with the fact that, look, this thing went off the rails a long time ago and we need radical change. | ||
| Are there a bunch of them who basically want me to shut up? | ||
| And sit down and think this, everything's fine. | ||
| Yeah, they are. | ||
| I mean, you know, to use the Star Trek analogy, they were assimilated a long time ago. | ||
| And at this point, they actually think they should be running the country. | ||
| Sam, where do people get Ann Magazine? | ||
| Where do they get all of your information? | ||
| I'm sure after the file today, we'll have you back on shortly. | ||
| But where do people go? | ||
| We're on Substack, andmagazine.substack.com. | ||
| I'm on X as real Sam Faddis. | ||
| If you go to andmagazine, you'll find our links to everywhere. | ||
| Sam, absolutely fantastic. | ||
| Keep fighting, sir. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Sam Faddis' theory of the case, and still you start seeing some mass resignations and or firings. | ||
| We're not going to make a lot of headway. | ||
| I think I'd agree with that. | ||
| And I hope the team over both with Tulsi at DNI and also with John Ratcliffe over at CIA are pretty far down that coming back to the president for a recommendation. | ||
| Market turbulence globally. | ||
| Yesterday, finally. | ||
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| An official, a finance official in Europe has said, hey, this fantasy of what they're doing and talking about putting up all this money and all these countries raising money to basically replace the United States and take on Russia and send combat troops to Ukraine. | ||
| He said it was a dangerous fantasy. | ||
| Why? | ||
| That the European nations are very close to a sovereign debt crisis. | ||
| That is a fact. | ||
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They're gonna wind up in the Supreme Court. | |
| And the Supreme Court is going to have a moment in our legal history where they will more aggressively define the limits of executive power. | ||
| There's a lot of people who watch the Supreme Court closely who think they're gonna go further than probably most Americans would be comfortable with. | ||
| But nevertheless, they're going to decide. | ||
| And I think there's a number of things that Trump has done that put him in a bad place with the Supreme Court. | ||
| And I would put near the top of this list, not only define a court order, which is going to really rankle people who were district court judges and were appellate judges that are on the Supreme Court, but also this idea that they're going after law firms who have represented people that Donald Trump doesn't like. | ||
| That's a pretty scary thing. | ||
| Private law firms. | ||
| Private law firms. | ||
| To a large law firm who most of the people at that law firm have never seen Jack Smith, don't know Jack Smith, had nothing to do with Jack Smith, but trying to cut off their livelihood because their firm represented someone who was unpopular with the sitting president. | ||
| That is really going to be something that judges are going to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| Our entire system depends on people who are bad people getting lawyers, much less somebody who is just doing their job under the facts, which was Jack Smith. | ||
| So it's really, I think, going to be a moment where the Supreme Court, they're not popular right now for a lot of ethical transgressions that have occurred in the recent past. | ||
| But, you know, John Roberts has a big job here. | ||
| Frankly, Amy Coney Barrett has a big job here. | ||
| I think the other four are lost on the MAGA island. | ||
| But those two, I think, have shown a willingness to really take a hard look at executive power and the overreach. | ||
| Let me say it again. | ||
| This is the overreach of big government. | ||
| And all the folks out there in Missouri who have told me at hundreds of town halls, we want government off our backs, I don't think they realize that they have unleashed, what did she call the Kraken or whatever it was, in terms of big government overreach with what this administration is trying to do. | ||
| Mike Davis joins us. | ||
| Mike, we're going to play clips from... | ||
| All morning, including Joe Scarborough saying that Mike Davis should call James Madison and walk through the Federalist Papers and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. | ||
| Jimmy Madison being involved in all three of those. | ||
| So Mike Davis, they're absolutely totally freaking out. | ||
| As you know, at 11 o 'clock, and we got Julie Kelly doing that, the judge has asked for, which I think is the most important of all these cases. | ||
| But just walk us through the battlefield. | ||
| And where do we stand specifically in his challenge? | ||
| Because it's the unitary theory of the executive. | ||
| They're challenging him as chief executive of the United States to make personnel decisions, to not spend certain monies. | ||
| They're challenging him as commander-in-chief by saying you can't deport criminal aliens. | ||
| They're attacking him as chief magistrate with their heads blown up, that he would walk into the sacred temple of Maine justice and desecrate it, according to them. | ||
| Your thoughts on where we stand this morning, Mike Davis? | ||
| President Trump campaigned on the fact that he's going to go after the waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington, D.C. He's going to secure our border. | ||
| He's going to deport illegal immigrants, particularly vicious international gang members and foreign terrorists. | ||
| And he's doing, within two months, he's doing exactly What he promised American voters he would do. | ||
| President Trump has the House. | ||
| President Trump has the Senate, a comfortable margin in the Senate, because the American people like what President Trump said. | ||
| And that's why they gave him a broad electoral mandate. | ||
| These Democrat activists have nowhere to go. | ||
| So they're just going to these activist judges, right? | ||
| And they're playing a very dangerous game. | ||
| I know for a fact. | ||
| Because these D.C. District Court judges are so dumb. | ||
| They don't realize who's in the room. | ||
| But I know for a fact that they are bragging. | ||
| They're bragging how they are sabotaging President Trump and the presidency with their temporary restraining orders, these illegal orders. | ||
| It's a contest amongst these D.C. activist judges. | ||
| Who can go and issue the TRO first? | ||
| Or who can do the next TRO? | ||
| I know that's happening, right? | ||
| Because, again, they're so dumb. | ||
| They don't know who's in the room. | ||
| And so they're doing this. | ||
| They're sabotaging the presidency. | ||
| This is lawless. | ||
| And it's a dangerous game. | ||
| They started off by doing workers that the president somehow can't fire. | ||
| Executive branch officers or the president can't transfer workers or he can't do things with the workforce, which is nonsense. | ||
| It's a violation of Article II of the Constitution. | ||
| But now this game is getting more and more dangerous, right? | ||
| The personnel stuff were the gateway drugs. | ||
| For these activist judges, now they're getting into the national security realm, and it's getting very, very dangerous, not only from a national security perspective, but from a constitutional perspective. | ||
| Two weeks ago, this Judge Ali, he's actually a Canadian citizen to this day on the federal bench in D.C. He bragged he's the first Muslim and Arab federal judge in D.C. Judge Ali. | ||
| Ordered the president of the United States, somehow through a temporary restraining order, to issue $2 billion in foreign aid over the president's national security review. | ||
| The president wanted to make sure we're not funding Hamas terrorists. | ||
| For example, under the guise of Gaza humanitarian relief, the president wanted to make sure we were not sending out money for waste, fraud, and abuse, like research on transgender mice. | ||
| This Judge Ali ordered the president to send $2 billion out. | ||
| Over the president's national security concern. | ||
| And the Supreme Court of the United States two weeks ago let him do this because the Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the three leftists who always vote for the Democrats. | ||
| And I think the rationale was this is, you know, this Judge Ali called this a temporary restraining order, a TRO, instead of a preliminary injunction, which is just total nonsense. | ||
| It's not a TRO if you're sending $2 billion out of the country that you're never going to get back. | ||
| You know, it's insane to call that a TRO. | ||
| But because it was called a TRO, Professor Amy Coney Barrett... | ||
| Thought she was grading a civil procedure exam at Notre Dame and said, oh, okay. | ||
| They called it a TRO. | ||
| We can't review this. | ||
| Horrifying judgment, right? | ||
| And so fast forward two weeks, the horrifying consequence, natural and probable consequence of the Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett's horrifying judgment is you have a judge, | ||
| this D.C. Obama judge, Jeb Bosberg. | ||
| Going into his chambers on Saturday during the middle of... | ||
| I tell you what, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, hang on for one second. | ||
| I want to give a cliffhanger. | ||
| We're going to take a short break, 90 seconds. | ||
| Mike Davis on the other side to tell us where we stand, what's the state of play, and more importantly, how we go on offense. |
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