June 12, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| 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'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 line? | ||
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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. Bannon. | ||
| It's Thursday, 12, June, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| A pretty intense day on many, many fronts in this, in the Third World War, particularly the home front, what's happening here in the United States. | ||
| I've got an incredible team that's going to walk us through. | ||
| We're going to talk about the deep state. | ||
| So much going on agriculture, big ag. | ||
| Some mixed messaging from the President of the United States that we'll get to. | ||
| But I've got to start with the situation in Persia, as we call it, or Iran, as the CIA calls it. | ||
| It's quite, it's very confusing. | ||
| So much going on. | ||
| So I've got Congressman MTG is on with us, but I want to start in Constantinople or Istanbul, as some would have it, with Kurt Mills of American Conservative. | ||
| Kurt, can you walk through? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Just the fact pattern of what's happened here over the last 12 to 24 hours. | ||
| We lost him. | ||
| MTG, you've got, by the way, we just lost our link. | ||
| We're going to try to get it back up. | ||
| Congressman Green, you've been pretty adamant. | ||
| You're a big defender of Israel, but you've been pretty adamant on social media. | ||
| You don't know what's going on here, but you're very confused or concerned about the war toxins sounding about potential bombing runs or military conflict. | ||
| In Persia. | ||
| Your thoughts about this, ma 'am? | ||
| Just to clarify, Steve, I'm America first all the way. | ||
| And I don't know anyone that wakes up and thinks about bombing Iran. | ||
| I honestly don't. | ||
| I haven't talked to anyone that thinks that's a good idea. | ||
| It doesn't even occur to them because it feels like no threat to their life. | ||
| What we do know is a threat to America is the current war that we are seeing waged by the Democrats, by the foreign nationals waving Mexican flags, and by the anarchists, communist anarchists, that are being funded by major leftists and likely linked to the CCP. | ||
| People like Neville Singham, which we are investigating. | ||
| And so these are the things Americans are concerned about. | ||
| And Steve, just to go a step further. | ||
| You know, of course we stand with our allies. | ||
| Of course we stand with Israel and all of our allies. | ||
| However, we've been told for as long as I can remember, 20, maybe 30 years now, that Iran is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon any day, any day. | ||
| And we constantly hear that scary threat to us, but we've heard it too many times. | ||
| And Americans are just fatigued and they're sick of it. | ||
| And we really want to focus on the self-inflicted problems that we've created and fix them right here at home. | ||
| Do you get concerned when you hear all these news flashes coming across that were... | ||
| So they're sending the families home, any families over there, families in the Gulf Emirates, I guess in Kuwait. | ||
| And then you have the president come back out and saying, hey, I don't support any military action. | ||
| I've got a team negotiating it. | ||
| Does it strike you as odd? | ||
| I mean, I don't remember Taiwan doing that or other people. | ||
| Does it strike you as odd that it seems to be some sort of, looks like we're being forced into this without doing any of the economic sanctions that clearly you should do, go up the escalatory ladder that might take you a year or so? | ||
| Does that strike you as odd? | ||
| It strikes me as extremely odd. | ||
| I don't think anyone has any business going into the president's office and trying to talk him into a war that we should have nothing to do with. | ||
| I think that is extremely concerning. | ||
| And whoever those people are, they're not on our team. | ||
| And I think... | ||
| I'll tell you some things that really concern me, Steve, is Iran is a member of the BRICS group that is becoming more powerful every single year. | ||
| Iran and Russia just signed a defense deal months ago. | ||
| So that's a defense deal that those two countries have together. | ||
| And also, Iran supplies 90 percent of their oil to China. | ||
| And so we know China has an invested interest in the safety and security of the oil that they buy from Iran. | ||
| So these are concerns to me. | ||
| The United States has driven the war in Ukraine against Russia. | ||
| So I imagine Russia is pretty sick of the United States. | ||
| We know China is pretty sick of the United States. | ||
| They're upset about tariffs and how much we've been beating them with trade ever since that has happened. | ||
| And so these are two major nuclear countries that have a lot of reasons to be unhappy with the United States. | ||
| It's kind of like the final straw. | ||
| And I hope it isn't that. | ||
| Because the American people don't want any of this. | ||
| The American people didn't want to support the Ukraine war. | ||
| The American people don't want to deal with China at all. | ||
| we'd like to do it ourself and not have to deal with that country a single bit. | ||
| So I think we're looking at a situation where I just don't see that happening. | ||
| But they could say we've had enough of the United States of America and all of our foreign intervention. | ||
| MTG, I think we've got Kurt up now in Constantinople. | ||
| Kurt, why does it seem like we're inexorably... | ||
| It's 22% of China's intake on oil, who's the existential threat we face. | ||
| It's 90% of the Iranian oil, and it's part of a 40-year deal. | ||
| They are part of BRICS. | ||
| They're meeting in Rio de Janeiro on July 6th. | ||
| trying to destroy the U.S. dollar. | ||
| But why does it seem like everybody's talking a military option when I don't think, and maybe I'm wrong, you know all the details here, that we haven't really even started the escalatory ladder that we had in President Trump's first term when we had the mullahs backed up to the wall, much less... | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, I think base case, and this is fast emerging, and it's very bizarre, frankly, to telegraph an attack. | ||
| You know, if you were going to, any sort of attack, if you were going to tell someone that you were going to bomb their house, you wouldn't give them 12 to 24 hours leeway. | ||
| But I still think, base case, we are looking at an Israeli-only attack on Iran in the coming days and hours. | ||
| You know, it is overnight here in Turkey. | ||
| It'll be sunrise in Iran. | ||
| And that's what's driving it. | ||
| I think the lobby, frankly, here at home, the well-known Fox News impresario Mark Levin had a lunch last week with Trump in the White House, and I think it had some effect. | ||
| So the president is under pressure, but the reality is there are still ongoing negotiations this Sunday, this weekend, in Oman, in Muscat with the Iranians, and there's a deal to be had here. | ||
| If, as Trump himself, as the president himself said openly today, if the Israelis don't foil it. | ||
| Let's talk about Levin and the Fox. | ||
| You know, Mark Levin is one of the smartest guys around. | ||
| He's had a very successful show. | ||
| He's an icon of the conservative movement. | ||
| He's a guy that doesn't get his facts wrong. | ||
| Why would Mark Levin go into the president's office? | ||
| He's been a supporter of the president at least since – Yeah, not questioning his intelligence, but questioning his information. | ||
| I mean, per all reporting, Levin directly contradicted the sweeping conclusion of America's 15 plus intelligence agencies held by DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And as the congresswoman alluded to, I think quite eloquently, Iran has been on the verge of a nuclear weapon for two decades now and still no dice. | ||
| And Levin, at this launch, it has been widely reported, said that basically – yes. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I mean, he basically said that it's one hour to midnight. | ||
| And I just don't think that's accurate. | ||
| There's no evidence of that. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Let me just – my sources tell me that whereas DNI maybe has the point you laid out that the CIA – and my understanding is the CIA was actually represented Sunday at Camp David at this meeting. | ||
| The CIA has a different take on things in that they may actually support. | ||
| Mark Levin, have you heard that? | ||
| Did it strike you as odd at this huge meeting that DNI wasn't even invited or didn't show up? | ||
| I have not heard that. | ||
| Again, technically through the government channels, DNI oversees CIA, and DNI is the wrangler. | ||
| It's a war on terror job, effectively, is the wrangler of all of America's intelligence agencies, most of which you don't hear about it. | ||
| And their universal conclusion as of this spring is that Iran does not have it and wasn't particularly close. | ||
| If there's new information, it's always possible. | ||
| But as of now, you know, the most common cited source was a very obscure sort of domestic intelligence agency in Austria, I believe, that said the Iranians were close. | ||
| The universal, the near universal conclusion is they're not close. | ||
| And I think the evidence is how far down the Iranians are willing to go on enrichment because their cards are that shaky. | ||
| Hang on one second, Kurt. | ||
| I need you to stick around with me. | ||
| I know it's late there. | ||
| Congressman Green, you've been at the forefront of trying to stop the. | ||
| I don't think you've ever got an answer. | ||
| Aren't most of the folks in Congress in the House, don't they really support the Mark Levin school of thought in that you're kind of, with a handful of other people, a little bit of a lone wolf here, ma 'am? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| They definitely support the Mark Levin and the Fox News, Rupert Murdoch's line of thought. | ||
| That's definitely the way that many of them want to go. | ||
| But however, I think that the truth always comes out. | ||
| And the truth came out quickly with Ukraine. | ||
| You know, they told us, Well, none of that ever happened. | ||
| And I could find no statement anywhere that Putin had said he was going to do that. | ||
| So I know for a fact that they'll lie to us in Congress to get our agreement on something. | ||
| And I think maybe that's what's going on here. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I haven't been briefed. | ||
| I have something called common sense. | ||
| And when I've been told over and over for over two decades that Iran is on the verge of having a nuclear bomb, but yet they've never had one, even though 20 years ago it was days away, I think it's pretty clear we know what the motive is here. | ||
| And the secular government of Israel, and I think that's really important for Christians to understand, the secular government of Israel. | ||
| And Benjamin Netanyahu maybe wants to bomb Iran, but I don't think it's a popular thing. | ||
| He's having trouble in Israel himself, so we'll see how that works out. | ||
| We want both of you to stay through the break. | ||
| Real quickly, we've got about a minute on this side. | ||
| Congressman, back home in your district, you're pretty close to the folks back there. | ||
| Where do they stand right now on a military involvement in... | ||
| You know, I think people back at home just think Israel should handle their own business, and they want our American military to defend our United States border, and they would love to see our military go after these foreign nationals waving Mexican flags on our own land and the communist Antifa, the anarchists that have declared war on our government. | ||
| That's what people back at home think our government should be doing, is taking care of our own enemies right here on our own homeland. | ||
| Congressman, you stick around. | ||
| You had a massive win today with your Doge vote. | ||
| I want to get to that after a short commercial break. | ||
| Also, some artificial intelligence. | ||
| You've been the cutting edge of that in the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| Kurt Mills is going to stick with us. | ||
| Tom Fitton is going to join us. | ||
| We've got a lot to talk about, including big agriculture. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| MTG brought it up. | ||
| The BRICS nations, they're not our friends, particularly Brazil, Russia, and China. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, remember, the watchword in the war room is there's no conspiracies, but there's also no coincidence. | ||
| Far be it for me to say, because MTG's in the A block on the afternoon war room. | ||
| President Trump just tweets out on Iran or puts a true social out. | ||
| I'm quoting, we remain committed to a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear issue. | ||
| My entire administration has been directed to negotiate with Iran. | ||
| They could be a great country, but they first must completely give up hopes of obtaining a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Thank you for your attention to this matter. | ||
| First off, MTG, Congressman, your thoughts on that, which was put up in the middle of your discussion, ma 'am. | ||
| I wonder if the president is watching War Room today, Steve. | ||
| That would be my first thought. | ||
| I think the president is completely aligned with his campaign promises that he told America that he wanted to end the foreign wars. | ||
| And that truth right there shows that the president is still committed to that. | ||
| It also So I'm very pleased with that tweet. | ||
| Or truth. | ||
| Sorry, truth social post. | ||
| Kurt Mills, your interpretation of this? | ||
| I think it's a profound statement, frankly. | ||
| I mean, he amidst all the hurly-burly, amidst all the helter-skelter, he made two things very clear. | ||
| One. | ||
| Everyone in the administration, I mean, that feels like a shot across the bow. | ||
| He wants close ranks on this. | ||
| Everyone in the administration should be committed to the negotiations, number one. | ||
| Number two, he said the goal is to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. | ||
| This is very critical. | ||
| He says nothing about the specifics of enrichment. | ||
| The zero enrichment line has been one that potentially could be a spoiler or a deal breaker with the Iranians. | ||
| Now, there is the possibility of a zero enrichment agreement through this civil nuclear compendium with Saudis and the Emiratis. | ||
| But the two things that he's driving home here is... | ||
| And then two, let's not lose sight of the goal here, which is no nuclear weapon. | ||
| And for what it's worth, the Iranians, the foreign minister himself, Arachi, says if all the goal is is to have no nuclear weapons in Iran, you have a deal. | ||
| And they're meeting again this weekend amidst all of this talk of a strike, and they could ink a deal as soon as this weekend. | ||
| I think this is extremely bullish. | ||
| Kurt, hang around for a second. | ||
| Congressman Green, you got a very big win just a little while ago. | ||
| The first DOGE package, really, I guess the rescissions package of $9.3 billion, including money for PBS and NPR, which you had the hearings on, just passed. | ||
| You want to walk us through that? | ||
| Yes, very excited. | ||
| I chair the DOGE subcommittee on oversight, and we held some very powerful hearings this year, two of which were on USAID. | ||
| And defunding NPR and PBS. | ||
| Well, we finally made some headway, even though it was really hard. | ||
| I cannot believe Republicans that vote no to this stuff. | ||
| But we finally passed the Doge rescissions cut, the first one that cuts over $9 billion. | ||
| And I really think that's a drop in the bucket, Steve. | ||
| I think the American people deserve a lot more. | ||
| But I think they should pay close attention to any Republicans that don't want to make these Doge rescission cuts. | ||
| It was stunning, and we'll deal with that maybe in the next week or two. | ||
| One question I get from the audience all the time. | ||
| You had a master class in the subcommittee that you chair, the committee you chair, in grilling witnesses. | ||
| Can you please confirm that those horrible people from NPR and PBS are not going to be, with the cut of this billion dollars in each, that they will no longer be employed as federal employees, ma 'am? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The details of it is, unfortunately, 2025 was already funded. | ||
| They will be defunded in 26 and 27 with a spending cut for this fiscal year, Steve. | ||
| Again, I think we should defund them permanently. | ||
| As well as USAID, very dangerous program. | ||
| I don't like the idea that it can be left open and taken into the State Department. | ||
| We've already seen what a Democrat State Department can do. | ||
| But we have to keep pushing. | ||
| And for people watching at home, I have to tell you, we had four Republicans vote no to this. | ||
| We had six, and two of them pulled back their votes in order for this to pass. | ||
| But no Republicans should be voting no. | ||
| And so I want you to know it's an incredible fight up here. | ||
| But I tell you what, you know, there's a good reason to put out and for people to see how Republicans vote because it gives people a reason to pay attention to primary season, and that's coming. | ||
| Well, I remember I tell people at the time, back in the summer of 23, you were up at 2 and 3 in the morning fighting for these cuts back then and being overridden by Republicans, not even Democrats. | ||
| Wouldn't even bring this out of conference. | ||
| You've been at the lead of this artificial intelligence. | ||
| Today there's a report that Altman, the head of ChatGPT, which, by the way, I think has had something like 7 billion downloads or 7 billion hits, has actually said this is a report that he's talking to people. | ||
| He thinks artificial general intelligence may already be here. | ||
| Can you get people up to date of your battle on the big, beautiful bill to insert federalism in here and about these – about the states being able to step up and do something about artificial intelligence? | ||
| Yes, thank you for asking me that. | ||
| So, Sam Altman came out today and said that he thinks that AI may have surpassed human intelligence, that we've already crossed over. | ||
| I find that terrifying. | ||
| Here's what shocked me. | ||
| I could not believe, under a Republican-controlled House, that we had a small provision inserted in President Trump's one big, beautiful bill that was only supposed to be about taxes, energy, and border security. | ||
| And they put one clause in there that literally destroyed federalism for 10 years and tell states they cannot regulate. | ||
| Or make laws on AI for 10 years, Steve. | ||
| And here's, let me tell you the dirty little secret. | ||
| Republicans in Congress up here, they have no plan on the federal level. | ||
| There is no legislation that's been introduced. | ||
| There is no legislation that they've talked to us about on how to regulate and make laws on the federal level. | ||
| But they want to go ahead and preemptively tie states' hands. | ||
| And we have Sam Altman coming out and saying that AI is already smarter than people. | ||
| And we haven't even added in to what will happen when AI is controlling robots and AI can control all kinds of things. | ||
| And there's no future that I want to see America living in, and my children especially, and future generations, where AI can replace humans, replace their jobs, because we're looking at a possibility of poverty we can't even compensate. | ||
| We're looking at the highest unemployment that could be possible because AI can replace so many sectors of jobs, especially when you add in what robots and robotics can do. | ||
| Just outrageous and irresponsible that Republicans can do this. | ||
| And I never saw President Trump campaign on that. | ||
| Not one time did I see that man stand on a rally stage and say to the American people that he wants to tie states' hands for 10 years to make laws and regulations on the future of AI. | ||
| But that got put in there. | ||
| That was on the Energy and Commerce Committee that Brett Guthrie is the chair of. | ||
| And Jay Obernolte of California, who has spent the past almost two years now chairing and investigating and wrote a big report on AI. | ||
| That was the provision that was put in along with the AI lobby. | ||
| And now they're trying to fight to keep it. | ||
| And Steve, I know this is long. | ||
| I'll finish up real quick. | ||
| It's in the Senate right now. | ||
| The one big, beautiful bill is in the Senate. | ||
| And I can talk about this as much as I want because it's going to come back to the House for another vote. | ||
| So we get another bite at the apple. | ||
| And in the Senate, the parliamentarian needs to take it out because under reconciliation, the rules are the bill cannot create policy. | ||
| And that is absolutely creating a policy that states can't do anything for 10 years. | ||
| So the parliamentarian really needs to take that out. | ||
| And then the second warning I have. | ||
| Ted Cruz introduced an amendment, and I don't know where it is right now. | ||
| He introduced an amendment that would change this one provision a little bit and tie it to broadband money. | ||
| It's under the BEADS, which is a program where states can get money for broadband because many rural red states don't have broadband. | ||
| And so it's really dangerous. | ||
| And if they take the money from the beads account, They self-impose. | ||
| They give up the ability to make regulations or laws for 10 years. | ||
| And that's the amendment that Ted Cruz is putting in. | ||
| I really don't want to see that amendment passed. | ||
| I want to see the Senate parliamentarian take it out, and I want to see Republicans do this publicly and do it the right way for the American people to see instead of a provision that got snuck in the bill, and we only had less than 24 hours to read over 1,000 pages. | ||
| So, long description, but it's a serious issue, and Steve, we have to keep hammering on this one. | ||
| Huge issue. | ||
| I know the folks back home are very concerned about what it's going to do for jobs and everything else. | ||
| It's got a lot of upside but unlimited downside. | ||
| MTG, social media, where do people go to keep up with you? | ||
| Yeah, follow me on RepMTG, and I really appreciate it, Steve. | ||
| Thank you, ma 'am. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Kurt Mills, I'm going to hold you just through the break. | ||
| I've got one more question I want to ask about what people should focus on since President Trump just put this truth social. | ||
| Also some mixed messaging today. | ||
| We'll play it a little while. | ||
| Tom Fitton's going to come up. | ||
| We've got some issues with the deep state. | ||
| There's actually some, I think a couple of the senior admirals, I think Indo-PACOM and another general actually went to the Bilderberg Group. | ||
| What? | ||
| And some people from the White House. | ||
| What is going on? | ||
| The globalists don't need to hear from us. | ||
| They can watch the war room. | ||
| Don't need to go give them my ideas. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| Kurt Mills is with us from Constantinople. | ||
| I think that shirt I had, the Christmas gift, free Constantinople, had more hits than anything we've ever done. | ||
| Short commercial break, take your phone out. | ||
| Turbulence, you're in plenty, although great news out of Treasury. | ||
| I think 20-year bonds oversubscribed today. | ||
| Scott Bessett, getting the job done with the capital markets, great oversubscription. | ||
| I think in 20-year treasuries, had a tough time maybe getting interest in those. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| People like the numbers coming out under President Trump. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in the war room in a moment. | ||
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Thank you, President Trump. | |
| I have two. | ||
| First, on immigration. | ||
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What made you change your mind about targeting in California farmers and people in the hotels and leisure business? | |
| Well, we're not targeting. | ||
| If you look today, I put out a statement today about farmers. | ||
| Our farmers are being hurt badly by... | ||
| They've worked for them for 20 years. | ||
| They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be great. | ||
| And we're going to have to do something about that. | ||
| We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have... | ||
| And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? | ||
| they get rid of some of the people because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don't You're supposed to throw them out, and you know what happens? | ||
| They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. | ||
| So we're going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think. | ||
| We can't do that to our farmers, and leisure too, hotels. | ||
| We're going to have to use a lot of common sense on that. | ||
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And my other question about Middle East. | |
| Okay, that I think was reversed a little bit later with a later truth. | ||
| But all I can say is, yo, Mr. President, we're in the fight of our lives right now. | ||
| I don't think it's time to be wobbly with interest groups of hotel operators and particularly farmers, big agriculture. | ||
| If you look at what big agriculture has done to these small towns throughout the country by hiring illegal alien labor, they've turned it into the third world. | ||
| This is one of the things we're fighting for. | ||
| And I know people in the White House are getting to you and getting your additional information, but we cannot kowtow to Big Ag. | ||
| We can't do it. | ||
| We're in a fight now. | ||
| We've got to lock ranks. | ||
| And hey, the watchword is, because there's reasons or excuses for everybody, but hey, the thing is, they all got to go. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying the 30 or 40 million, we have to deal with that later. | ||
| The 10 million that came here on Biden's watch have to go. | ||
| That's 10 million people. | ||
| It's a massive undertaking, and we're fighting now a war in every city, in every big city, every Democratic hellhole in the country. | ||
| So I know people are going to be talking about this and getting into it, but my strongest recommendation is now not the time to put it in an executive order that clouds the situation. | ||
| This is all the Democrats are looking for, and the Democrats are getting more and more violent. | ||
| He had a U.S. senator today that actually, I think, got hostile. | ||
| To a cabinet secretary. | ||
| We're going to get into that in a second, but this is getting as serious as possible. | ||
| Tom Fenton, part of this, and part of the Iran thing, and even part of the deportations, sealing the border, the deep state, the real apparatus that runs this government. | ||
| With all the great efforts President Trump's doing, the economics are coming through. | ||
| You saw the bond market today. | ||
| Scott Besson selling bonds. | ||
| Inflation numbers are down. | ||
| I mean, we're winning on every front. | ||
| But when the deep state gets involved, we make very little progress. | ||
| And this is the thing in Iran. | ||
| I'm not convinced that the CIA is on our side. | ||
| I'm just not. | ||
| Here's the question. | ||
| Did the CIA know anything about the Ukraine situation of attacking Russia? | ||
| We're not at war with Russia. | ||
| The American people are not at war with Russia. | ||
| McConnell yesterday is calling out people in the Pete Hegseth and saying, is this going to be a victory for Russia or America? | ||
| We're not engaged in that war. | ||
| We're just not. | ||
| And this is what the deep state is trying to force inexorably into that war. | ||
| It's something more in the Middle East. | ||
| They want to get back into the Middle East. | ||
| We have to fight this. | ||
| Do you think enough is being done right now, Tom? | ||
| You're very close to cash. | ||
| You're very close to Dan Bongino and other people, Pam Bondi, everybody. | ||
| Do you think enough is being done right now to start to take apart the deep state? | ||
| Because this may be the most important of all the different verticals we've got, a problem that President Trump has to solve. | ||
| If we don't solve this, it may not be worth it because they can just come back. | ||
| They can come back as soon as someone else is president, sir. | ||
| Well, you know, on the foreign policy issues you raise, I'm more hawkish than you are. | ||
| But I think we would both agree that the deep state's approach to Ukraine, Russia, and Iran is not to solve any problems. | ||
| It's to manage problems, right? | ||
| And, you know, Biden didn't want Russia to win, but they also didn't want Russia to lose, which to me is a wild abuse of the citizens caught up in a war like that. | ||
| And same thing with Iran. | ||
| We want them to have nukes or we don't. | ||
| Let's not manage their nuclear program. | ||
| We're not in a position to do so. | ||
| And that's what the deep state specializes in, creating problems that have to be managed rather than solved. | ||
| And I know that's not Trump's general approach. | ||
| Now, on these issues related, though, to the agencies themselves, I'm not quite sure why we still have a CIA. | ||
| Given their failures, their documented record of failures over the decades. | ||
| There's not a darn thing the CIA does that the military agencies can't do, the intelligence agencies can't and shouldn't, and certainly the State Department can take up a lot of the slack as well. | ||
| My colleague, Michael Morrison, had a really strong analysis of the situation that Cash and Don are in, that Dan are in in the In the FBI, the title was, Are They Hostages of the Deep State? | ||
| And I think there's a strong argument that they're hostages of the deep state consensus. | ||
| And on top of that, as Micah points out in the piece, you've got the inertia of just bureaucracies. | ||
| You've got the political calendar. | ||
| And in many ways, in my view, they're distracted from their core responsibility, I think, which is to dismantle the FBI. | ||
| They tried to throw him in jail. | ||
| They've been fomenting an insurrection. | ||
| We had, right now, a political leader of the Democratic Party, a senator from California, assault law enforcement as he was disrupting a press briefing. | ||
| They're putting the country on the precipice. | ||
| I would submit this insurrection, it's the other side of the coin, to the warfare against Trump. | ||
| And you give these folks an inch, they will take a mile, and it's about protecting the republic in the end. | ||
| And the FBI is an instrumentality of those who would destroy the republic. | ||
| And Dan and Cash may be running it for now, but organizationally and institutionally, I don't think they're redeemable. | ||
| And in the least, you know, give us the documents. | ||
| Be transparent. | ||
| I'm not seeing that. | ||
| It's been months, Steve, and I'm sorry, it's a long time. | ||
| When the January 6th prosecutions happened, they immediately bolted out of the gate. | ||
| Remember the left. | ||
| Targeted everyone, prosecuted, raided, you name it. | ||
| Trump was in sights for jailing within minutes of jail. | ||
| And I'm just not seeing the urgency. | ||
| Look, in the Senate, you know, I know Senator Thunes, people probably don't like the fact we tweeted this out, but conservatives are upset. | ||
| They've got a hundred Trump appointees languishing on the floor of the Senate. | ||
| The committees have done the work. | ||
| But they can't be bothered to work five days a week to move the nominees past the floor. | ||
| These are not nominees that are going to be waylaid, that they're going to lose. | ||
| They just got to stay in session to vote on them so that Trump has a team in place to deal with these deep state issues we're talking about. | ||
| No one in Washington thinks anything is important enough to get in the way of their time off. | ||
| Certainly that's true on the Hill. | ||
| It's all about managing. | ||
| How much time they can get away from town, not to do the work, but to just not do work. | ||
| Your recommendation, I agree with you on the CIA, I kept Kurt around to follow up with him. | ||
| On the FBI, you're a man of action. | ||
| What is the one action you would recommend that Cash and Dan take to start to take apart the FBI that you would feel comfortable about, that you would see some movement in this? | ||
| They need to start firing people en masse. | ||
| They need to do a riff. | ||
| Big time, in the least. | ||
| Look to see what happened over at USAID. | ||
| Follow Secretary McMahon's leadership at Department of Education. | ||
| And, you know, they may need direction and buy-in from the president to do this specifically, but there's not a duty and responsibility of the FBI that other federal law enforcement agencies can't do. | ||
| I'll tell you, if these agencies, and I've complained to leadership in Congress about this, if these agencies are basically the same size with no curtailing of power, not even much in the way of budgetary haircuts, after four years, they're going to be | ||
| President Trump and his family, if we don't take this deep state down, they'll be in prison. | ||
| They manufacture stuff. | ||
| They're going to come after President Trump. | ||
| They're going to come after President Trump. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| Look how livid they are now. | ||
| Look at the hate. | ||
| The hate right now you see among these people is greater than the worst in his first term. | ||
| Worse. | ||
| They're rabid now. | ||
| And as we go through the deportations of 10 million, it's going to get worse. | ||
| Tom, we've got to bounce. | ||
| I've got to have you back on. | ||
| We're going to drill down on this maybe on a special. | ||
| Where do people go to get all your... | ||
| This has got to come to the top of the stack. | ||
| It's got to be a priority. | ||
| We've got to start with the FBI and the CIA. | ||
| The CIA is a total, complete disaster, has led this country into these forever wars that never needed to happen. | ||
| All the intelligence is always wrong, always wrong. | ||
| And I say that as somebody that has looked at the intelligence, sat there every day and say, hey, guys, what do you got here? | ||
| They always get it wrong. | ||
| And that just can't be a chance. | ||
| You can read the Washington Post. | ||
| You don't need the CIA. | ||
| I mean, that's what they read before they go in. | ||
| They go to judicialwatch.org. | ||
| We're all over the internet. | ||
| You know, social media, Twitter, Instagram, you name it. | ||
| Your videos you put up are amazing. | ||
| Tom Fitton, thank you. | ||
| We're going to press this. | ||
| We've got to. | ||
| Tom's right. | ||
| If it exists at the budget levels and the size at the end of President Trump's second term, we haven't done anything. | ||
| We haven't done our jobs. | ||
| Kurt Mills, do you think we can take down the CIA, sir? | ||
| You know, I thought that was a fascinating segment. | ||
| So Fitton just said that he's more hawkish than you. | ||
| So, you know, I think compared to me, that makes him a dragon. | ||
| And I think he said... | ||
| And then he linked it to the CIA, which is, you know, very, very interesting. | ||
| And as Green, Congressman Green linked at the beginning of the program, she said that, you know, the Iran nuclear program has been a sort of bugbear, has been a sort of scare tactic. | ||
| of Hawks and deep state operatives for going on 20 years, and she's right. | ||
| The reality here is the goalpost keeps getting moved. | ||
| First, with Iran, it was no nuclear weapon. | ||
| Then, it was no enrichment. | ||
| And after in this, you know, hypothetical horror show scenario where there is regime change in Iran, I'm sitting in Turkey right now. | ||
| And I would flag there was an article in the Atlantic magazine, you know, the Jeffrey Goldberg magazine that Mike Waltz, unfortunately, potentially was a... | ||
| I'm sitting here in Istanbul and there was an article by a gentleman named Raul Mark Correct of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies earlier this spring that argued that it's time to be looking at Turkey. | ||
| Even if the U.S. was to give the hawks in Washington, the operatives within CIA in the deep state, and many of our putative allies in Jerusalem what they wanted, even if we were to give them an Iran war, you know what would be next? | ||
| the turkey war. | ||
| So it really is, if you give a mouse a cookie, and I think, you know, if Trump doesn't want his legacy to be just doing the will of these people and being forgotten in American history, if he wants to have fought for the last 10 years for something more than this, he's got to put his foot down here. | ||
| And that truth, as we discussed minutes ago, is an indication that he's in I want you to give your social media on the other side. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Van. | |
| I know you've got a lot of the media to do tonight, but thank you for staying up in the wee hours in Constantinople. | ||
| Kurt Mills, where do people go? | ||
| By the way, our good friend, a guy I think the world of Josh Hammer's coming after Kurt too. | ||
| We'll deal with that if not over the weekend, early next week because we think a lot about Josh and we think the world of you and Josh is saying, I don't know, you're the magazine publisher from Cutter or something. | ||
| Where do people go to get your content so they can make their own decision? | ||
| Well, obviously Josh's claim is an abject lie, but I'll let him speak for himself. | ||
| I'm happy to plug our stuff. | ||
| The magazine is The American Conservative. | ||
| We were founded in 2002 by conservatives and friends against the Iraq War. | ||
| A call, I think, safe to say, we got right. | ||
| It was founded by Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and Tacky. | ||
| And it is www.theamericanconservative.com. | ||
| We also have a print vertical if you care to subscribe. | ||
| And you can find my own print. | ||
| And Kurt is breaking information as you go and aggregating information about this entire situation in Persia. | ||
| Kurt, thank you so much for joining us tonight. | ||
| Appreciate you and sticking around. | ||
| Let's play. | ||
| Things are heating up and not in a good way. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play this clip and we'll bring in Steve Cortez. | ||
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Sir, sir, hands up, hands up. | |
| I'm Senator Alex Padilla. | ||
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I have a question for the secretary, because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent criminals that you're rotating on your- On the ground. | |
| On the ground. | ||
| On the ground. | ||
| Hands upon your back. | ||
| Let me jump in here. | ||
| Cortez, this whole thing about violent criminals, now you've got a U.S. senator. | ||
| That's a senator trying to get violent and really, I don't know, attack. | ||
| A cabinet member is giving a press conference. | ||
| This thing's starting to look pre-Civil War, is it not, sir? | ||
| It looks pretty insurrection-y. | ||
| Doesn't it? | ||
| No, indeed it does. | ||
| And look, Padilla is a clown who is searching for relevance. | ||
| I think when the bad hombres of the country, including his home state, see that tape, they're going to say, that's a Pioso right there. | ||
| That's a clown. | ||
| By the way, note that he's in Los Angeles is where that happened. | ||
| So the biggest city in his home state, and yet no one seemed to know who he was. | ||
| That's how unremarkable he is. | ||
| In addition, of course, he did not look and did not act the way that a U.S. senator shows. | ||
| Remember, by the way, he wasn't elected to that position. | ||
| He was appointed by Gavin Newsom to replace Kamala Harris. | ||
| So talk about an awful, unholy trinity, Kamala Harris, Newsom, and Padilla of three very self-absorbed But to the substance here, which I think is important, let's remember that only 11 months ago, Donald Trump was shot. | ||
| Donald Trump bled in Butler merely months ago. | ||
| So the idea that Padilla thinks that he can accost, charge the stage, rant and heckle the director, the secretary of Homeland Security, one of the most sensitive national security positions in the entire United States, and get away with it. | ||
| is simply ludicrous. | ||
| It's a good thing that those agents acted quickly and with force because they should as a matter of fact. | ||
| You know, I mentioned the bad hombres, by the way, Steve. | ||
| You know, I do a lot of polling. | ||
| We're in the field right now polling. | ||
| We're almost done with a poll that we started on Monday. | ||
| We've been doing all week. | ||
| So we started it after the worst part of the L.A. riots and after Trump and Newsom really started going at each other. | ||
| And in this polling, guess what has happened so far? | ||
| Again, not quite finalized, but support for mass deportations. | ||
| Rising even further. | ||
| On a national basis, looking at all demographic groups, it's about 2 to 1 in favor. | ||
| Among Hispanics on a national basis, about plus 20 in favor of mass deportation. | ||
| We also ask specifically about arresting people who have engaged in violence or who are interfering with federal law enforcement deportation operations. | ||
| Support for those arrests? | ||
| And for convicting those cretins, that is about 3 to 1 overall and plus 40% among Hispanics. | ||
| So I'll get you the final exact numbers when we have them. | ||
| But the point here is there is a preponderance, a supermajority of Americans who believe in law and order and who reject these kind of clownish antics that are dangerous for this country. | ||
| Not just foolish, but actually dangerous for this country from people like Alex Padilla. | ||
| Steve, when we talk about mass deportations, we mean mass deportations. | ||
| Every night now on TV, Trump lied. | ||
| He just talked about criminals. | ||
| Trump never just talked about criminals. | ||
| He's talked day one about mass deportations. | ||
| This gets to the situation about agriculture. | ||
| I'll do more about that tomorrow. | ||
| We've got to make sure we have a concise message and we stick to that message, particularly now, this weekend. | ||
| It's going to get violent all over the country. | ||
| This is spreading. | ||
| What is your rejoinder to these Democrats? | ||
| It was violent criminals, and yet he's going in and starting to deport people. | ||
| What is your response, or what does your polling show? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, again, the polling clearly supports mass deportations, using that exact phrase. | ||
| Now, in terms of priorities, of course you're going to get the most dangerous people out first. | ||
| Of course I support, and I think it just makes common sense, to prioritize those who just invaded under the open door of Mayorkas and Biden and Kamala Harris. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| But that doesn't mean that the others are excluded, that the other tens of millions of illegal migrants who trespassed into our country, who broke and entered into our homeland, it doesn't mean that they get to stay. | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| Look, every person who came here illegally is unwelcome and has to go. | ||
| Now, I think Donald Trump has been very generous, President Trump and his administration, by saying those who self-deport We will pay for your plane ticket. | ||
| We will give you a small amount of money courtesy of the American people. | ||
| You can reapply. | ||
| That's incredibly magnanimous and merciful if you choose to self-deport so that we don't have to come get you, so that we don't have to send federal agents into dangerous situations, into expensive operations to find you. | ||
| I think that's as merciful as we should get, quite frankly, Steve. | ||
| I think it makes sense, that incentive. | ||
| But that's, to me, the limit. | ||
| Of mercy from American citizens toward those who broke and entered into our homeland. | ||
| You've got documentaries up. | ||
| You've got everything. | ||
| Where do people go for your social media and to your website? | ||
| Yeah, please find me, cortesinvestigates.com. | ||
| On Twitter, I'm at CortezSteve. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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