April 18, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Have a great weekend. | ||
| Have a beautiful Easter Sunday. | ||
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Talk to you Monday, Steve. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| It's Good Friday. | ||
| Thank you for being here for our afternoon, early evening show. | ||
| In the second hour, Patrick K. O'Donnell is going to join me, and it's going to be very, very special. | ||
| This is not just Good Friday, the most solemn day in the calendar of the Christian and Catholic Church in the Orthodox Christian Church. | ||
| It's also... | ||
| The eve of the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, which we'll be doing Lexington and Concord on the morning show tomorrow morning, our Saturday show, and tying it to what events are happening now and where you come in. | ||
| This audience comes in, both in the history of what happened to our country back then and people are taking action and what's going on today. | ||
| Tonight is the 250th anniversary of the ride of Paul Revere, the Midnight Ride, and Patrick O'Donnell will be joining us and giving all the context and history. | ||
| You'll want to stick around for that because it's very special. | ||
| As only Patrick K. O'Donnell can do. | ||
| We've got an incredible call open. | ||
| Just an amazing day for news on every different vertical. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
| Natalie Williams is going to join me on the other side. | ||
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Sir, when are we going to see accountability and consequences for Sanctuary State and local officials that are violating AUSC 1324 by harboring illegal aliens? | |
| As well as, isn't it kind of bizarre that Chris Van Hollen tried to smuggle and facilitate the re-entry of this illegal alien, also in violation of AUSC 1324? | ||
| You also haven't heard any stories about the Logan Act this time around for whatever reason. | ||
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So, the... | |
| It's a great question, and a knowledgeable question. | ||
| I don't get a lot of questions around here where people are citing the Immigration and Nationality Act, so that's great. | ||
| You're exactly right that the sanctuary cities are engaged in multiple criminal violations, harboring, smuggling, inducing, obstructing justice, obstructing official proceedings, and many other crimes. | ||
| And this is something that the Department of Justice is taking a very hard look at. | ||
| I will just say that it is my view. | ||
| The view of this administration that these cities are engaged in systemic criminal violations and that they are engaged in a scheme to nullify and obstruct the duly enacted laws of the United States of America. | ||
| And I would again note, when we talk about morality, we talk about decency. | ||
| Sanctuary cities shield criminal illegal aliens from removal. | ||
| We repeatedly go into communities and arrest illegal aliens who were previously in custody, that they refused to turn over, that were sent back onto the street, that have subsequently raped or abused a child. | ||
| I just want you to think about that for a second. | ||
| You have sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, like Boston, like Chicago, where illegal aliens will be booked, arrested, placed into city or state custody, charged with serious crimes. | ||
| ICE will ask them to be turned over for deportation. | ||
| They will willfully release them back onto the street, obstructing federal law enforcement, doing so at a time and place of their choosing, making sure that we don't know where and when they will be set free. | ||
| And then those illegal aliens will go out and take someone's son or someone's daughter and abuse an arraignment. | ||
| So we came here yesterday to sort of begin to talk about More specific outlines of what it might take to end the war to try to figure out very soon, and I'm talking about a matter of days, not a matter of weeks, whether or not this is the war that can be ended. | ||
| If it can, we're prepared to do whatever we can to facilitate that and make sure that it happens, that it ends in a durable and just way. | ||
| If it's not possible, if we're so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think the president's probably at a point where he's going to say, well, we're done. | ||
| You know, we'll do what we can on the margins. | ||
| We'll be ready to help whenever you're ready to have peace. | ||
| But we're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. | ||
| So we need to determine very quickly now, and I'm talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable over the next few weeks. | ||
| If it is, we're in. | ||
| If it's not, then we have other priorities to focus on as well. | ||
| If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, We're just going to say you're foolish, you're fools, you're horrible people, and we're going to just take a pass. | ||
| But hopefully we won't have to do that. | ||
| And Marco is right in saying that we want to see it end. | ||
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So diplomatically speaking, what do you make of this tactic of threatening to just move on from the peace talks? | |
| Alex, it's hard to say. | ||
| I mean, you never know whether they're bluffing, whether they're just mistaken. | ||
| Whether they don't really care, the language is very imprecise. | ||
| I mean, I don't know exactly what moving on means. | ||
| Does that mean we're not going to be a party to the peace talks? | ||
| Does that mean we're not going to give aid to Ukraine anymore? | ||
| It's really unclear. | ||
| And yes, as you mentioned, President Trump famously said he would end the war in 24 hours. | ||
| Now, they're finding it's a lot more complex than they thought. | ||
| Now, by the way, they did, I saw just moments ago, they announced that they signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine about access to rare earth minerals and some mutual Ukrainian and American fund for reconstruction in Ukraine, which is a good thing. | ||
| We have some breaking news. | ||
| NBC News has learned the acting commissioner of the IRS, Gary Shapely, is being removed amid a power struggle at the highest levels of the White House. | ||
| Let's go right to NBC's Yamiche Alcindor, who's covering this story for us. | ||
| Yamiche, what's happening here? | ||
| What can you tell us? | ||
| What we know is that the acting head of the IRS, as you said, is being replaced by the Treasury Secretary because he believes, the Treasury Secretary believes that he was installed, the acting IRS Secretary was installed behind his back, essentially, because Elon Musk wanted him there. | ||
| He complained, the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, to President Trump, saying that he did not want that acting IRS Secretary to be there, or excursion or be there. | ||
| And as a result, his replacement is going to be coming in. | ||
| He's the Deputy Treasury Secretary. | ||
| This is all really in some ways feeling like maybe inside baseball. | ||
| The big bottom line here is that you have a power struggle between Elon Musk and an agency head. | ||
| And this is really coming as we know that Elon Musk has really had issues with a number of agency heads, including Marco Rubio at the Secretary of State and other heads of agencies. | ||
| The White House is out with a statement that they provided to the New York Times. | ||
| That statement says, in part, from Caroline from Caroline Levitt she said in part It's no secret President Trump has put together a team of people who are incredibly passionate about the issues impacting our country. | ||
| Disagreements are no more part of any healthy policy process. | ||
| And ultimately, everyone knows they serve at the pleasure of the president. | ||
| So really interesting that the White House, in some ways, is actually acknowledging that this was a power struggle. | ||
| I mean, it shows you that there's going to be, in some ways, more to come of this as Elon Musk and Doge continue to make decisions and its agency heads really try to rustle back some of that power. | ||
| Alex. 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. | |
| You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big 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. Band. | ||
| you | ||
| Friday, 18 April, in the year of early 2025, another furious news day on many huge developing stories and news stories. | ||
| As I said with Eric Bowling, by the way, so it's the 250th anniversary this evening of the historic riot of Paul Revere to warn the colonists about the impending military action of the British Expeditionary Force. | ||
| Tomorrow is the 250th anniversary. | ||
| Of the Shot Heard Around the World, both at Lexington Common and then later at Concord Bridge. | ||
| And we will be doing both. | ||
| Patrick, Donald and I break it all down later on the 6 o'clock hour. | ||
| And then I will be on tomorrow with other guests to break things down and to be live and do some of the ceremony, some of the commemoration. | ||
| Marco Rubio, a couple of things before we get Natalie on. | ||
| Marco Rubio, so a big development coming out of, with everything else going on and now engaged in this war, this economic war, with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Folks, understand something. | ||
| We really have embargoed everything with the terrorists where they are. | ||
| We've embargoed essentially everything coming from China. | ||
| That is a big deal. | ||
| And the rest that's going on, working on the Russian rapprochement, etc., this... | ||
| Kind of peace deal or ceasefire, whatever you want to call it, around the Ukraine, they've kind of got, I think, a general sense of at least what the Russians want and surely what the Ukrainians want. | ||
| I just don't think that there's enough urgency on at least the Ukrainian side to want to bring this thing to a head. | ||
| And I think Secretary Rubio is justified, and I can tell you he's not kidding around because before he would say that, he ran that by the President of the United States. | ||
| I think there's limited, very limited patience for this, and I think that if people don't want to move on, the United States is going to move on, and there's going to be no more money, no more arms, zero, and let Europe have at it. | ||
| If the Europeans are prepared to commit and put up that kind of... | ||
| Those kind of resources and potential troops, then, you know, this thing could drag on. | ||
| But I can tell you, the French don't have the money, nor the political will, nor the people in France have the interest. | ||
| Same thing in the United Kingdom. | ||
| Each one of those are in a pretty bad financial shape. | ||
| After years of overborrowing, they all, I think, could potentially have sovereign debt crises. | ||
| Their people right now are scrambling about social service in France. | ||
| They're at each other's throat about where these cuts are going to come from. | ||
| So the Ukrainians, as we've said on the show forever and ever, unless the Americans are prepared to just give unlimited resources, and remember, it's been up to $60 billion a year. | ||
| I think President Trump says we're in $350 billion. | ||
| We calculate $250 billion. | ||
| The worst case, I think, is $175 billion to $180 billion. | ||
| I think even... | ||
| Zelensky said, hey, I see it's supposed to be 175. | ||
| I only got 60 of it. | ||
| If that's cut off, I don't think with the big, beautiful bill and what's happening on the budget side, and here they're arguing about tax increases, and look, I don't want to increase taxes on people just to increase them, but the upper bracket's going to have to go to 40% to somehow be part of filling this gap, | ||
| this massive gap on, I don't know. | ||
| War Room's calling for a $2.5 trillion deficit this fiscal year, $2.5 trillion, given where I think tax revenue's coming in and expenses are. | ||
| So there's no more $60 billion. | ||
| I'm not sure he could get $6 billion, $5 billion. | ||
| We would fight tooth and nail just to make sure they got zero. | ||
| Reality's got us. | ||
| Uncle Sugar is gone. | ||
| The President Trump's attitude has cut. | ||
| And this is why if Karl Rove... | ||
| The thing about Ezra Klein, Karl Rove, and David Brooks, all part of the establishment. | ||
| One's a little more progressive, just a little bit more. | ||
| Brooks and Rove are epitomes of the conservative. | ||
| You've seen David Brooks on TV for years. | ||
| You've seen Karl Rove all the time since Bush 43. They're breaking. | ||
| Ezra Klein calls it, what he called this morning, we did the cold open with Ezra Klein, the crisis is here. | ||
| The crisis is here. | ||
| David Brooks essentially is calling people to go to the streets, that now we have to make our move, we have to shut this thing down. | ||
| And Karl Rove's sitting there going, it's going to end badly. | ||
| People are tired of Trump already within 100 days. | ||
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What they're tired of, Karl? | |
| Is phony Republicans like you that yambered for tax cuts for the wealthy, ran up $9 trillion in two wars that you guys had as wars of choice? | ||
| Yes, the Afghanistan war was a war of choice. | ||
| You could have gone, hunted down Osama bin Laden and eradicate the Taliban. | ||
| The paramilitary guys didn't have turned over 30 days. | ||
| To stay there... | ||
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For the Democracy Project. | |
| To stay in Iraq for the Democracy Project. | ||
| $9 trillion, $10,000 dead, $40,000 to $50,000 wounded. | ||
| And I'm not counting the contractors. | ||
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The Tej Gills of the world that they got off the payroll and put on contracts. | |
| Bush, the guy you work for is the worst president in the history of this country. | ||
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And I include James Buchanan in that category. | |
| The worst. | ||
| So you're tired of it? | ||
| We don't give a damn what you're tired of. | ||
| Because, bro, you ain't seen nothing yet. | ||
| We're just getting revved up. | ||
| President Trump's on a roll right now, taking them all on. | ||
| Hammering down every vertical. | ||
| And his folks love it. | ||
| So if you think it's going to end badly, fine. | ||
| Everybody's a free country, get an opinion. | ||
| But President Trump's not going to back off. | ||
| He doesn't care what Rupert Murdoch has to say. | ||
| Shows you about Fox and the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| They're 100% against. | ||
| Populist nationalism. | ||
| And one of the reasons is their heads are blowing up because guess what, old man Murdoch? | ||
| You got a 40% tax rate coming at you, bro. | ||
| Suck on that. | ||
| Grover Norcrest, Karl Rove. | ||
| I think it's going to end badly. | ||
| And I'm not so sure it's for us. | ||
| There's a new day dawning in the United States of America. | ||
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next right here in the war room I got American faith in America's heart war room | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| By the way, I'm going to get in a little while to the IRS. | ||
| Elon Musk having a quite bad run here recently. | ||
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I think it's going to get a little worse. | |
| And you saw this. | ||
| This story of the IRS is a huge story, as we say, and I'll give you the underpinnings of it in a moment. | ||
| Natalie Winters, you're here. | ||
| You also want to comment. | ||
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Karl Rove, this is what I love. | |
| In fact, I put up on Getter in the early morning hours, I think, of this morning when Brooks' thing came out that, you know, we done broke. | ||
| We done broke David Brooks real good. | ||
| He's a broken man. | ||
| He's calling for a national mass movement of law firms, university professors, the credential class. | ||
| Because he says Trump is in a comprehensive power move to destroy it all. | ||
| Every institution that he holds a dear. | ||
| Walk me through your thoughts on that. | ||
| He's tucked in there a younger generation also in this. | ||
| What do you think about David Brooks? | ||
| Well, I guess the Trump derangement syndrome truly has... | ||
| But I think that this piece is quite compelling for a lot of reasons, because I think it affirms a lot of what we've been discussing here in the war room, not just the stage four meltdowns, the color revolution theory, the importance of civil uprising, protests, | ||
| and in some cases, very violent protests. | ||
| But if you look at the key researcher that he cites throughout this piece, making sort of the argument as to why they need to engage in this national civic uprising. | ||
| By the way, pay attention to the words that they use, because it used to be mass demonstrations. | ||
| It used to be nonviolent protests. | ||
| It used to be peaceful protests. | ||
| Now they're calling for a civil uprising. | ||
| Put that one in the book. | ||
| But they're citing Erica Chenoweth. | ||
| And people may recall, what was it, two weeks ago, the story that we broke. | ||
| It gained, I think, tens of millions of views across platforms about how, you guessed it, Harvard in conjunction with USAID and the State Department were working to fund these new resistance labs in concordance with Democratic members of Congress, | ||
| same ones that I guess are back channeling with Democratic AGs. | ||
| So it just sort of shows you that it's the same pattern recognition, whereby it's the same people who, when you really start to peel the layers back, are also the same people who, for the last four years, have been intricately linked and involved in the lawfare against President Trump and have been on sort of the | ||
| receiving end of what I would really call the global empire, at least the construct of it, and the minds of people like David Brooks. | ||
| And frankly, Steve, when I was reading this article talking about the sort of divide between what Trumpism seeks to oppose or tear down, which is the established world order, the sort of neoliberal, neocon, rules-based international order that they're talking about, which they | ||
| want to defend, which I think the fact that war room is ascended in viewership in the New York Times and the Washington Post. | ||
| I think the most interesting point that I would make is that I see very similar parallels to how these legacy media outlets covered the rise of China. | ||
| What do I mean by that? | ||
| It was Joe Biden, right, who wrote a very notorious op-ed in 2008 saying that the rise of China is great for the United States. | ||
| It's great for the American people. | ||
| But what it really comes down to, and I think you see this recurring theme, particularly poignant in this David Brooks piece, the controversy. | ||
| It's not people like you. | ||
| It's not our audience. | ||
| It's a very, you know, small, beltway elite, the group who is on the receiving end, not just of the USAID contracts, that's perhaps too on the nose, but just of this globalist ruling class. | ||
| And they're doing the same propaganda where they're sort of doing this limited hangout version of it. | ||
| But I just think our audience should really, really be paying attention to the sort of analytical aspect of it, this idea that they're now calling for an uprising on the heels of a bunch of violent protests that, frankly, didn't do anything and didn't really work. | ||
| So they're stuck in a corner. | ||
| You know, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. | ||
| They don't know what to do, and they're lashing out. | ||
| How important is it that these public intellectuals like Karl Rove and David Brooks are now starting to basically be shattered? | ||
| Karl Rove's not. | ||
| He's saying, hey, this is going to end badly for Trump, so he's implying something like this. | ||
| But David Brooks actually uses the line that we need a mass mobilization effort of all these institutions, from law firms to universities to all of it, against Trump. | ||
| Well, I don't know if I would call these people public intellectuals, maybe pseudo-intellectuals at that. | ||
| There are, of course, some people on the left and establishment, right, who I at least respect intellectually. | ||
| I don't know if Karl Rove is necessarily one of those, but I think you can sort of link it to what you're seeing going on in the White House, right, in terms of this whole new media initiative and just the absolute rejection, the apoplectic nature of sort of the establishment credentialed institutional class that sits in there that is really upset at my face. | ||
| I mean, put it this way. | ||
| They will give more nuance and will probably give a warmer welcome to MS13. | ||
| And convicted wife beaters and gang members and illegal aliens, then they will new media, then they will you, then they will our audience, right? | ||
| This is the same group of people, right? | ||
| We can go after the media angle, because I think that's sort of the front row, the flank, the Praetorian Guard. | ||
| But these are the same people who, for what, how long told the American people that we have to accept being jammed down our throats tens of millions of legal and illegal aliens replacing us, taking our jobs. | ||
| We have to train their replacements. | ||
| And now all of a sudden, these pseudo-intellectuals get a little bit of competition, because now it is actually, shall we say, free and fair | ||
| trade in the sense that there's no censorship. | ||
| All of those guardrails have been stripped off. | ||
| Now no one cares what they have to say because they've always been wrong. | ||
| They've just rested upon this global censorship complex, the news guards of the world to buttress their ideas. | ||
| They're beyond and above reproach. | ||
| That's why they hide behind these foreign funded think tanks. | ||
| But now that | ||
| They actually have competition, that they have shows like War Room, the equivalent of importing an H-1B visa. | ||
| They actually can't hang. | ||
| They don't like it. | ||
| And that's what they've been doing to the American people for how long? | ||
| For years. | ||
| And they say that we're nativists and we're xenophobes for daring to criticize it. | ||
| So they can try all they want to terraform and manipulate the American populace into accepting their ideas. | ||
| But the difference is that people will show up and support President Trump. | ||
| People show up and listen to War Room volunteers. | ||
| voluntarily. They don't need to be paid protesters. | ||
| They don't need to be whipped up with USAID, State Department funded propaganda to actually believe something. | ||
| And now that the core of it is that now that that entire censorship ecosystem and really the globalist superstructure and power structure to its core, which people like Mike Benz have done wonderful work exposing. | ||
| Now that the wheels are spinning off that these people, it is a sink or swim moment. | ||
| And I think that they're | ||
| That they have been living on borrowed time for a very, very long time because their ideas are extremely unpopular and without the censorship, no one cares what you have to say, Karl Rove. | ||
| And if it weren't for idiots like you, I probably wouldn't have been so incentivized at age, what, 19 to get involved in all of this because the truth is actually not that hard to share if you aren't being paid by a bunch of globalist, you know, neo-Marxist corporations. | ||
| What do you think about the senator from Maryland? | ||
| Going down and having a margarita with someone, and we're going to have Michael Patrick Leahy up in a little while, about a guy that obviously was a child trafficker, or I shouldn't say child trafficker, human trafficker. | ||
| Ma'am. | ||
| Well, look, I think Kilmar Garcia would probably get a warmer welcome in the White House briefing room or the New York Times offices or the Washington Post offices than I would. | ||
| And I'm not even kidding when I say that. | ||
| And apparently, Democratic senators are willing to fly down. | ||
| And by the way, the best part of it, Steve, Senator Van Hollen, I don't really even want to call him a senator anymore because I don't really think he represents the United States, but Van Hollen posts the picture not including the margaritas. | ||
| It was Bukele who posted the pictures including... | ||
| But I think the most interesting takeaway from that meeting, I'm going to read you the direct quote because it's almost incomprehensible. | ||
| You can't even believe these people. | ||
| Quote, he said he's sad every day. | ||
| That was Senator Van Hollen's big takeaway, punchy quote from meeting with the beloved Kilmar Garcia down in El Salvador. | ||
| Do you know who else is sad every day? | ||
| Patty Morin, whose daughter was killed, brutally raped by a member of the same gang that this animal was a part of. | ||
| I don't hear him putting out statements for her. | ||
| It's absolutely despicable. | ||
| I mean, I know at the DNC, right, Steve, these people had the American flags and at least pretended they had some element of performative patriotism. | ||
| But the party that has gone from at least trying to pretend like they maybe don't hate America, though we know deep down they do, they're now flying down. | ||
| To meet with illegal aliens who are part of criminal organizations that have killed countless Americans. | ||
| So spare me the American flags. | ||
| Spare me the protests. | ||
| Spare me the idea that you guys care about sovereignty. | ||
| The Democratic Party, I mean, this is mainstream. | ||
| It's treasonous. | ||
| And good luck running on it in the midterms. | ||
| But that's the headline. | ||
| That they're upset that Kilmar Garcia is traumatized and sea-cut. | ||
| Yeah, that's the frickin' point. | ||
| Sad. Natalie, good to have you back. | ||
| Social media, ma'am, where do people follow you over the weekend, over the Easter weekend? | ||
| Natalie G. Winters on all platforms. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
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Good to have you back, Natalie. | |
| Natalie G. Winters on fire as usual. | ||
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Michael Patrick Leahy, we're going to try to get up. | |
| Michael Patrick Leahy is breaking some incredible news. | ||
| Out in Tennessee about this individual that is pretty shocking what the FBI knew and other people knew. | ||
| We haven't spent a lot of time on this, haven't wanted to waste time on it, but now it's pretty evident that the Democrats are going to make this a huge point. | ||
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| Michael Patrick Leahy. | ||
| How did... | ||
| You all out in Tennessee, the volunteer state doing such a great job on that school shooter and everything you're after the FBI on and the Memphis situation. | ||
| You're always breaking news. | ||
| How in the hell did you get in the middle of this criminal terrorist that we shipped to El Salvador and now the Democratic Party sent the senators down to have margaritas with him? | ||
| After they got people here been torturing and raping women and preying on Hispanic and African-American communities, how did the Tennessee star and our beloved Michael Packard Leahy get in the middle of this story, sir? | ||
| Well, we have sources all over the country and in Tennessee, and we learned and inquired of the Tennessee Highway Patrol about an incident we discovered. | ||
| Here's the facts of the case. | ||
| On the evening, December 1st, 2022, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, he's the El Salvador illegal immigrant deported to El Salvador in March. | ||
| He was driving a 2001 Chevy Suburban with eight other individuals inside in Tennessee on I-40 just west of Nashville in Putnam County. | ||
| He was observed by the Tennessee Highway Patrol. | ||
| of speeding and not maintaining his lane. | ||
| So they pulled him over. | ||
| When they pulled him over, they asked him to produce his driver's license. | ||
| He produced an expired temporary driver's license from Maryland, which tells you that he's an illegal alien. | ||
| So the highway patrol officer went into his car, entered the data into a computerized system called the NCIC. | ||
| That's the National Crime Information. | ||
| It goes right to the Terrorist Assessment Center in Virginia. | ||
| And they sent back a code. | ||
| And the code was, and I got a lot of this from talking to Todd Bensman about how this works. | ||
| Hey, this guy is on one of our lists. | ||
| You need to get some information from him. | ||
| And they went in. | ||
| They talked to him. | ||
| They talked to the eight individuals there who apparently were unable to speak English very well. | ||
| Of course they don't speak English very well. | ||
| They're being trafficked. | ||
| It's human trafficking. | ||
| They're not going to speak English. | ||
| Come on, dude. | ||
| He told them, by the way, Garcia told the Tennessee Highway Patrol officer he was transporting them from Texas to Maryland for the purpose, he told them, of working for his boss, a construction business owner who purportedly owned the vehicle they were driving in. | ||
| So this caught the attention of the terrorist center. | ||
| They told the THP officer, take pictures of everybody and everything there. | ||
| After that, the FBI, after an hour and 45 minutes stop, the FBI, and we've confirmed this now, we reported from a source on Tuesday, but late last night, the Tennessee Highway Patrol confirmed with us that the FBI told them To release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, | ||
| even though the officer there suspected him of human trafficking, he filed what's called a dispatch report, which Homeland Security got a few days later. | ||
| And they said, oh, yes, this is a problem. | ||
| And they put him on another list to watch. | ||
| But what's terrible about this is the FBI told the Tennessee Highway Patrol officer, hey, the guy's been speeding. | ||
| He's driving without a ticket, without a license. | ||
| Those are misdemeanors. | ||
| What they should have done is they should have taken him to a holding cell right away, taken all the eight individuals there, got their information, got an interviewer, and find out who they were, where they were from, and what really was going on. | ||
| But the FBI ordered them to be released, and an hour and 45 minutes later, they were released. | ||
| Hold on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| I want to go through the logic. | ||
| Why would the FBI... | ||
| Why override basic law enforcement procedures and immigration service and ICE procedures and Border Patrol procedures, why in a billion years would they sit there and say, let these guys go? | ||
| What is the logic of that? | ||
| What has the FBI said about that? | ||
| There's no good logic. | ||
| Now, remember, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, who we pressured to confirm the story, finally did late last night. | ||
| They called it was—they were ordered by the Biden-era FBI and that they were simply following a, quote, standard protocol. | ||
| Now, that's a bizarre protocol, I would say, when this individual had violated two laws in the state of Tennessee and was suspected of human trafficking. | ||
| I mean, put all the facts together. | ||
| They can't speak English. | ||
| They can't write. | ||
| They had the same address as he had in Maryland, and they had no luggage. | ||
| I mean, come on. | ||
| It sounds like human trafficking. | ||
| And he wrote that right in his report. | ||
| But the protocol at that time for the Tennessee Highway Patrol was to, you know, basically bow down to the order from the FBI. | ||
| Big mistake all around, I think. | ||
| And, Lisa, why did the FBI tell Tennessee Highway Patrol to let him go when they suspected him of human trafficking? | ||
| Now, I talked to Todd Bensman, our friend, about this, and he said, well... | ||
| He thinks the protocol was, well, you don't want to let them know that they're on some list. | ||
| Well, that's ridiculous. | ||
| There was a purported potential human trafficking crime going on right there, and they let it happen. | ||
| Unbelievable. Do you know, okay, what's the state of play of this right now? | ||
| Tennessee Highway Patrol is just kicking it up to the FBI. | ||
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We had no control. | |
| They made a call, which is, I'm not sure that overrides it, but let's assume, for purposes of conversation, it does. | ||
| Where does this stand now? | ||
| Well, now we've got public records requests going to both the FBI in Washington and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. | ||
| They took pictures there. | ||
| They have body cam images right there. | ||
| They should have the names and addresses of all the passengers. | ||
| They should have the registration of the owner of that vehicle. | ||
| We want to know, Steve, who are these eight individuals that were being transported from Maryland, from Texas to Maryland? | ||
| Where are they now? | ||
| Are they alive? | ||
| Were any of them women? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| No, this is unbelievable. | ||
| Can you believe a U.S. senator went down, is coddling this guy, got him out of jail, and went and had margaritas with him down in El Salvador, sir? | ||
| Well, you know, Steve, the Democrats have long been on the 20 side of 80-20 issues, and I think Senator Van Hollen is trying to drive that down to a 95-5 issue. | ||
| And I think he probably accomplished that this weekend, over the past couple days. | ||
| Listen, I'm fine. | ||
| If this is who they want to defend, if they want to defend MS-13 and the Venezuelan gang that President Trump has commanded chief trying to get out of the country to save women from being tortured, raped, and murdered, hey, we'll take that, right? | ||
| The Democratic Party is now in the fever swamps, particularly a guy like this. | ||
| This guy's not defendable. | ||
| That was clearly human trafficking. | ||
| They were not out for just a spin down to the Dairy Queen. | ||
| They're going from Texas to Maryland with eight folks packed into a vehicle with no luggage, phony IDs. | ||
| That's what we've got to find out. | ||
| This one's got to be drilled down. | ||
| If the Democrats want to rally around this one, we ought to get all the facts and make sure that when they do the embrace, they're embracing the whole cactus plant. | ||
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So it's not something we want to cover, but if we got to, we'll do it. | |
| And we'll get the Michael Patrick Leahy's who will go get the receipts on this. | ||
| All the Democrats sitting there, you think this guy's Vasco da Gama or something. | ||
| You think he's some national hero that needs to be protected. | ||
| He's a scumbag criminal with a murderous criminal gang, right? | ||
| And all they do is make excuses. | ||
| Well, that's not a gang ball cap. | ||
| It's a different year of the Chicago Bulls or a different mode of hat. | ||
| Those tattoos up his neck are not really... | ||
| You know, it's every excuse. | ||
| And Von Holland, he goes down there and makes a big deal about it. | ||
| At the same time the trial is going on of the woman, the mother of five children, five motherless children right now, who is tortured, raped, and murdered in the most brutal fashion possible, that her mom, since nobody will cover it, | ||
| the President of the United States has to invite her to come to the White House briefing room, which she tells the nation, and they still will not ask a question. | ||
| They sat there and heard it. | ||
| This is what scumbags they are. | ||
| They just don't want to pretend it doesn't exist. | ||
| They would not raise their hand. | ||
| The one question was jumping on... | ||
| Caroline Levitt about something about the president of this situation. | ||
| We ought to hit them with both barrels on this thing. | ||
| If they want to own this guy, own him. | ||
| But I got to tell you, the Leahys of the world are going to get all the facts, and they're going to rub your nose in it every day. | ||
| So if you want to do it, the Democrats want to do it, AOC, you guys want to do it, have at it. | ||
| This is your boy. | ||
| Fine. You got him, and we'll show the nation what he is. | ||
| Because down in Tennessee, he was trafficking human beings, okay? | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| And the FBI had to insert themselves. | ||
| This is how. | ||
| Yo, Cash, my man, Pam Bondi. | ||
| Yo, when are we going to get an investigation of this? | ||
| Why is it Michael Patrick Leahy having to do all this? | ||
| Why is my York is not in cuffs right now? | ||
| They invaded our country. | ||
| Somebody's got to step up to the plate. | ||
| I don't need a sharply worded letter and I don't need a congressional investigation. | ||
| I need a good old-fashioned grand jury. | ||
| Let's start rolling some evidence in there and then start taking people to trial and lock them up. | ||
| We've asked the FBI for comment. | ||
| We've heard nothing from the FBI on this. | ||
| And it seems obvious that all of the circumstances here point to human trafficking. | ||
| I mean, you have to be pretty much a dullard or a dishonest person to think anything otherwise. | ||
| And yet, the FBI ordered the Tennessee Highway Patrol to allow him to go without any... | ||
| Any stop, any citation, any warning. | ||
| It's very, very troublesome. | ||
| The other question is, how often did this happen? | ||
| All the time. | ||
| Note to cash. | ||
| Let's break it up. | ||
| We don't need the counter-terrorism photos or how great they are. | ||
| Let's break it up. | ||
| Let's break it up into a million little pieces. | ||
| Put the law enforcement guys or the U.S. attorneys somehow and the U.S. marshals. | ||
| Figure out with the counterterrorism what you do with the rest of the thing. | ||
| Take the building. | ||
| Let's go to the jackhammers. | ||
| Let's take the jackhammers and take it down and salt the earth around it so nothing else can ever be there. | ||
| Give them a Carthaginian piece and let's put a little plaque. | ||
| Once upon a time, a very ugly building housed very bad people that did very terrible things to the greatest country on earth. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| That's all the plaque's got to say. | ||
| Michael Patrick Leahy, where do they go for your social media, sir? | ||
| Go to TennesseeStar.com, TennesseeStar.com on X. I'm Michael P. Leahy. | ||
| We should have the body cam video from this December 1st stop within three days, if the Tennessee Highway Patrol is playing it right. | ||
| Okay, sir. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| They're more responsive than anybody else. | ||
| Human trafficking! | ||
| Human trafficking. | ||
| That's who they're flying down to have a margarita with. | ||
| Lovely. Short break. | ||
| The reason that the working class is in the shape it's in is that the leadership of the nation, number one, Wall Street, the corporatists in Silicon Valley, actively worked, actively worked to build an existential threat and empower an existential threat for money, not | ||
| for ideology, for money. | ||
| Yes. There are 30 pieces of silver. | ||
| In the Mitt Romneys of the world, quite frankly, bro, you don't get a pass because you're too freaking stupid to ask the hard questions that had to be asked. | ||
| You're supposed to be a leader. | ||
| Hell, you want to be the one in 2012. | ||
| He just gave a dead wrong answer. | ||
| Russia was not the biggest geostrategic threat in 2012. | ||
| Wasn't even close. | ||
| It was China and radical Islam. | ||
| Right. Russia is just in just a kind of a backwater at the time. | ||
| And this is what the problem with the country is, that the elites in this country is not just a greedy and venal. | ||
| They're dumb. | ||
| OK, they're dumb. | ||
| And we've been led by dumb people and stupid. | ||
| Remember, I'm the only civilian in history to ever be fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Two minutes after Biden was inaugurated, Matt Pottinger, Peter Navarro, Mike Pompeo, and myself, and those three were government officials. | ||
| And I'm proud of that because I don't believe that the Chinese Communist Party is the legitimate government of Lao Bai Jing or the Chinese people. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Lao Bai Jing agrees with me. | ||
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So look. | |
| You separate Trump from the GOP. | ||
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That's why I'm asking. | |
| I know how you feel about the Dems. | ||
| How do you feel about the GOP? | ||
| The GOP did nothing. | ||
| The GOP is the same neoliberal neocons invade everywhere and have huge tax cuts for the wealthy. | ||
| This is what Trump brought to the table. | ||
| This is in 14. When I see Trump there, he's against all these other GOP politicians. | ||
| He talked in another nomenclature. | ||
| He talked in another vernacular. | ||
| People leaned forward. | ||
| This is not the traditional thing that's very thin. | ||
| Without substance. | ||
| Trump was talking about substance. | ||
| He wasn't a... | ||
| He's not a polished politician. | ||
| He wasn't a politician at all. | ||
| But people leaned into it, and that's the populism that we have brought to the Republican Party and took over the Republican Party. | ||
| But I'll tell you, most elected officials behind closed doors are not pro-Trump, and they're certainly not pro-our policies. | ||
| This is why heads have exploded the last couple of days, including your good buddy, Sean Hannity, who's head blown up the most, about we are going to raise taxes on the wealthy. | ||
| The tax bill that's there is being worked on right now. | ||
| Does not extend the tax cuts to the upper bracket. | ||
| It has a snapback. | ||
| It goes from 37% back to probably 40% for the upper bracket and maybe even something else for people that are millionaires. | ||
| And Sean Hannity is having a total meltdown right now because that's not traditional Republican policies. | ||
| This is what President Trump and this economic populism, this economic nationalism has brought into the Republican Party. | ||
| And this is why we have people who are Democrats and independents, including so many young African Americans. | ||
| Americans are listening to Trump finally because he's talking in a different nomenclature and his policies are different. | ||
| Okay, I was invited on and did the Chris Cuomo podcast this week, came out yesterday, and also Stephen A. Smith, which came out today. | ||
| Both of them getting a lot of traffic. | ||
| Grace and Mo are going to make sure that we get it to the audience so you guys can watch it at your viewing pleasure. | ||
| But I thought they were good interviews. | ||
| Interesting questions and two interesting guys. | ||
| So we get into a lot of different stuff. | ||
| And both of them are long. | ||
| I think one's an hour and a half or one's an hour and the other's 45 minutes something. | ||
| So there's a lot there. | ||
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| Of course, obviously, you should eat much more fruits and vegetables. | ||
| But also, I get an energy boost. | ||
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| Put in Bannon. | ||
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| So go check it out today. | ||
| Field of Greens. | ||
| Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike Lindell, they're writing stories about my brother, Mike Lindell. | ||
| You're whining in a courtroom. | ||
| You're crying in a courtroom. | ||
| That's not the Mike Lindell. | ||
| Mike Lindell, I know, is tough as boot leather. | ||
| Brother, you've been in worse jams than this. | ||
| What the hell? | ||
| What the hell's going on, man, on Easter weekend? | ||
| He has risen. | ||
| Come on, bro. | ||
| Is the fake news true, or is the fake news fake? | ||
| They are fake, everybody. | ||
| But I will say this, I did not, the lawyer for the voting machine company did not say that my pillows were lumpy. | ||
| So I was able to keep any feelings I had down, okay? | ||
| Yeah, it seems like, Steve, every time I show up to these hearings or these depositions, they pull stuff out of there and make stuff up. | ||
| And you guys, I was not weeping. | ||
| And begging for mercy or whatever they had going on out there. | ||
| That was completely lies. | ||
| I'm gonna keep fighting to secure our elections. | ||
| I don't care what they do to me out there, this law fair. | ||
| I did tell the judge this law fair is they're trying to ruin me, Your Honor. | ||
| And so they came out. | ||
| Mike is weeping. | ||
| He says he's in ruins. | ||
| And they're gonna do anything they can. | ||
| First, they tried to say, look, he's an angry Christian. | ||
| When we call his pillows lumpies, now they're saying he's just crying. | ||
| If you try and help your country, you too could be Mike Lindell in tears. | ||
| It's all lies, Steve, all lies. | ||
| We're here, we're standing, we're still fighting, and that's the way it's gonna be. | ||
| Mike, To close out today, next hour is going to be incredible. | ||
| Patrick O'Donnell is going to join me, and for an hour, we're going to break down the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride, what it means for today. | ||
| Also, we're going to tee up the shot heard around the world in Lexington and Concord, which will take place tomorrow. | ||
| Mike Lindell, can you please sell me a set of sheets, sir? | ||
| You got cheese, but I'm going to add one to it for this weekend, you guys, for the greatest weekend, the glorious weekend with the resurrection here on Easter Sunday. | ||
| We're giving away, for $9.98, the Bible pillows. | ||
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| You get to try out the 2.0. | ||
| Go to the website, though, and there's those. | ||
| The sheets are still there. | ||
| We're doing it for the War Room Posse. | ||
| $25 any size. | ||
| Get them this weekend for all your relatives, everything. | ||
| Close out. | ||
| Mike, have a blessed Easter, | ||
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