July 3, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| I love you, Miss Lenita Jeffries, if you're watching right now. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| My younger brother and I, we thank you for what you did, for your sacrifice in raising us, trying to be the best citizens that we can be. | ||
| BML was taken into custody by ICE on April 22nd while attending a routine check-in at a New Orleans immigration office with her mother. | ||
| BML's undocumented mother had no criminal history. | ||
| And had she been allowed due process, they could have contested the removal of the mother. | ||
| Instead, this two-year-old American citizen was never given a chance to exercise her rights by the Trump administration. | ||
| That is not who we are. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We are better than. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| Hakeem Jeffries is now, I think, in his sixth or seventh hour. | ||
| I think he's going to go for the record. | ||
| What they're doing is this is the delay tacket. | ||
| They're going to use the media. | ||
| Of course, they're slobbering all over him, right? | ||
| This is like Pericles at Athens for the war dead, right? | ||
| Or this is like Lincoln at Gettysburg address. | ||
| Or Washington's farewell address to his officers at Francis Tavern. | ||
| This is like one of the greatest speeches in the history of Christendom right there, Hakeem Jeffries. | ||
| They're slobbering all over it. | ||
| The good news is you can see their attack. | ||
| You can see their angle of attack and where they're coming from. | ||
| We just got to sharpen, you know, we got to sharpen it. | ||
| Do I have Laura Logan up? | ||
| Do I have her? | ||
| I tell you what, let's bring in, we got a little technical problem. | ||
| Laura Logan's going to join us. | ||
| Let's go ahead and bring in the show for the second hour, and then I'll return. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going to medieval on these people. | ||
| You're going to get a free shot in all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything you want to stop it, 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? | ||
| Media. | ||
| I wish, in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| 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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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| If the Rumble chat gets lively, not lively, we love you to be lively, but I'm going to cut back Hakeem Jefferson. | ||
| I'm going to make you watch and listen to more Hakeem Jeffries, right? | ||
| Is that torture? | ||
| I think seven hours of that. | ||
| So five-star show, it's got to be in the sixth hour. | ||
| Sixth hour Hakeem Jeffries in all his glory. | ||
| Of course, they're slobbering all over it. | ||
| Do we have Laura up yet? | ||
| Have we gotten the technical detail? | ||
| Okay, we got a technical issue with Laura Logan as soon as we get her up. | ||
| EJ Antony is also going to join us. | ||
| We've got much more economic news to go through. | ||
| Laura's going to join us because of one of the cuts, and you saw yesterday, maybe it was the day before that Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that they've taken USIAD down to its actual, I think it's actual, the limits. | ||
| This is what Kerry Lake's doing over Voice of America, taking these things down to the statutory limits. | ||
| Laura Logan joins us. | ||
| Laura, why is this such, and everything that we're working on, why is this such a big victory? | ||
| And what do people need to know about this? | ||
| Because one of the concerns I have that we're not spending enough time on, we have not directed a special, we've not, President Trump has not designated a special counsel to go after the deep state. | ||
| And we see in the CIA report yesterday about what happened on the nullification project, that that was completely cooked up, right? | ||
| And went after people like Verines Priebus, myself, many others in the administration with millions and millions of dollars of legal bill paid out of our own pocket to basically get somebody to flip on President Trump. | ||
| And it took two years. | ||
| It was totally made up. | ||
| What about USIAD? | ||
| I know you've been on the tip of the spirit of this, that all of this has got to be broken up. | ||
| It's got to be exposed. | ||
| And the people held accountable, which hasn't happened yet, ma'am. | ||
| No, it hasn't happened yet. | ||
| And you know, Steve, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation that has gone on that has been reported about what exactly happened with Doge, what exactly happened with USAID. | ||
| And I think what a lot of people don't realize is that when Doge came in with Elon Musk, one of the things they did, working with people like Pete Morocco, who Trump appointed as Director of Foreign Assistance at the State Department, is they stopped the grants, right? | ||
| So they stopped the money. | ||
| But every month, more money goes out. | ||
| So what happens is this money backed up at the Treasury. | ||
| And what's in the big, beautiful bill is the rescission bill, right? | ||
| The rescission bill is what is so important to these cuts. | ||
| If you want to make these cuts permanent, then this, you know, or going forward for any length of time, then you have to pass the rescission bill. | ||
| And what is happening is that, you know, the president has a very serious problem at agencies like the State Department, and from what I understand, it's not exclusive to the State Department, in that he doesn't have enough people there. | ||
| I mean, for the first few months, I think for three months, the only political appointee at the State Department was Marco Rubio, that none of the people underneath him. | ||
| You know, you have two undersecretaries underneath him, and then you have assistant secretaries. | ||
| I mean, and then you have regional secretaries. | ||
| The regional secretaries, they're all Biden appointees. | ||
| None of these are Trump political appointees. | ||
| And so all of your people in charge of regions that are giving you advice, That are reporting. | ||
| And these are the people that are directly in line to block whatever it is the president is trying to do. | ||
| And, you know, the president put out several executive orders regarding foreign assistance that have not been met, that were very, very clear. | ||
| There was supposed to be a 90-day review on foreign assistance. | ||
| There was supposed to be a 90-day review of the Foreign Service Manual. | ||
| There was supposed to be a review of the Foreign Service itself. | ||
| And why do these things matter so much? | ||
| Because what does the deep state use? | ||
| They use that Foreign Service manual like it's a Bible, right? | ||
| And then they say if Trump puts something in an executive order or creates a policy, then they say, oh, it's not in the Bible, right? | ||
| It's not in the Foreign Service Manual. | ||
| Therefore, it can be stopped. | ||
| And then you know very well what they do on the outside of that. | ||
| They get people, like people who have received a grant. | ||
| So they stop the grant. | ||
| And what do they do? | ||
| They go to the courts and they get some tyrannical activist judge to then put a temporary restraining order on that grant. | ||
| And what that does is it basically creates a backlog. | ||
| And so now you've got the Department of Justice has got all these temporary restraining orders on all these different programs. | ||
| And they have a limited amount of personnel and resources. | ||
| So then what do you hear from within the Justice Department? | ||
| Well, you know, we've got to keep our powder dry. | ||
| We've got to keep it to the fights that we know we can win because what has to happen is that each one of those things has to go all the way up to the Supreme Court to get sorted out. | ||
| And so little bit by little bit, what are they doing? | ||
| Slow rolling, slow rolling, slow rolling. | ||
| And the very disappointing part of this, Steve, is, you know, when you have something like the Big Beautiful Bill, what happens is you do all this, you know, you put all this time and effort into writing it, getting rid of all this stuff that the American people don't want, getting rid of the things that they voted against. | ||
| And then this horse trading happens, right? | ||
| And where does this really, if you want to look at where this really happens, look at the Senate Appropriations Committee and the subcommittee. | ||
| Look at the people on that committee, because they're the ones who are fighting for, oh, yeah, you know, you got to have this in there, you got to have that in there. | ||
| They've got all, they're doing all the dirty work for their cronies and their lobbyists. | ||
| And unfortunately, this is on both sides of the aisle, right? | ||
| This is the Mitch McConnell's and the Lindsey Grahams and, you know, and all these people, just as much as it is on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| And so these people are now horse trading, right? | ||
| Because at this point, the president, you know, he just wants to get the bill passed. | ||
| There's a lot of things that are being held up. | ||
| So there's a pressure to get the bill passed. | ||
| They exploit that pressure and it just grows and grows and grows at the last minute. | ||
| They throw everything in there that the American people do not want to fund. | ||
| They undo all the work. | ||
| Because let me explain to you what happens with these grants. | ||
| What they basically do is they dictate foreign policy for the United States of America. | ||
| Because some of these grants are not just a year out or two years out. | ||
| Some of them can even go five years out. | ||
| And they don't specifically, you know, they're not always so specific that they say we're going to find, you know, this person, this organization doing this. | ||
| Sometimes they'll say, we'll find this issue, or we're worried about who's going to win the election coming up in this country. | ||
| So we're going to fund democracy programs in this place. | ||
| And when this happens, you know, the president of the United States is not just the commander-in-chief. | ||
| He is also the chief diplomat. | ||
| The Constitution is very simple and very clear on this point, that it is the president and the executive branch who set foreign policy for the United States of America. | ||
| So what you have now is you have all of these organizations, and whether it's USAID or the National Endowment for Democracy and so on, these are the organizations, these are the people and the bureaucrats and the congressional leaders who are dictating foreign policy for the United States. | ||
| And here's the worst part, Steve. | ||
| You know, shutting down USAID is one part of it, right? | ||
| Bringing that into the State Department is one part of it. | ||
| What about organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy, who, when you look into it, I've spoken to a number of people who are working directly on these issues right now up to this very minute. | ||
| And what have they found? | ||
| That these organizations are funding people all over the world. | ||
| The very worst, most sort of vindictive, most prolific criticism of the president of the United States of America, they're funding the organizations that are putting this out. | ||
| They're funding the social media sites, the media sites, the papers, the radio stations, the bloggers, the influencers. | ||
| They're funding all of it. | ||
| And they're using the tax dollars of the people who voted this president into power in order to do so. | ||
| And then this is one of the worst parts, right, that people may not find so, it may not be the sexiest thing, but let me tell you, it's effective, right? | ||
| They're funding the search engines. | ||
| They're funding the fact checkers. | ||
| They're funding people like the Pointer Institute that funds two of the biggest fact checkers in the United States, like PolitiFact. | ||
| But they're also funding these organizations. | ||
| There's a tool that they use to identify anything that they find offensive, right? | ||
| So that can be you questioning whether a 12-year-old child should have the right to mutilate their body for gender surgery without the permission of their parents. | ||
| They're shutting all of that down globally. | ||
| So what you have, really, is U.S. taxpayer money. | ||
| USAID was one arm of it, but it's not the only arm. | ||
| And the National Endowment for Democracy and these other organizations, they're not included in the rescission bill. | ||
| They're not included in much of what is happening here. | ||
| And while Doge was criticized heavily in the beginning, and yeah, you can say, look, they identified the cuts, but it didn't make it permanent. | ||
| They did this, they didn't do that. | ||
| But what happened was the deep state marshalled against having this kind of interference in their agencies. | ||
| And sure, you know, no doubt they made enemies along the way or did things wrong along the way. | ||
| I'm not doing a dissertation on the behavior or post or comment of every Doge person. | ||
| The reality is I look at the facts, right? | ||
| As a journalist, my job is to get to the facts. | ||
| And so what happened? | ||
| Well, they wanted these people out as fast as they could, right? | ||
| Because what you're doing is you're cutting off the funding of our enemies. | ||
| And you will hear a lot of people will say, well, you know, if you get rid of USAID, you're getting rid of our soft power. | ||
| All these people are going to die. | ||
| You do not need USAID to carry out soft power for the United States of America because they are. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| We got two minutes. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| We got two minutes to decide about 90 seconds. | ||
| And we'll hold you for a few minutes because I've got E.J. Antonio that I got to get to. | ||
| They're saying right now they've got a report from the Watson School of Brown University that the cuts that you were talking about, the heartless Laura Logan, are going to kill 14 million people, including 50% of those are children. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| Just complete and utter nonsense. | ||
| This is how they argue to keep the funding of America's enemies alive. | ||
| We have many other agencies that can do these programs. | ||
| We have civil affairs units, there's cyber units, there's Department of Defense. | ||
| I mean, when I was on the front line of the Ebola epidemic, it was not the Department of State that was right there. | ||
| It was the Department of Defense that sent people to the front line forward. | ||
| So this idea that if you don't fund our enemies, if you don't fund the CIA's program to destabilize governments all over the world and to interfere, they use these programs as a cover, Steve. | ||
| Just the same way they used decent human beings as a cover to invade this country across the southern border. | ||
| They use the race issue and black people in poor areas across America. | ||
| They use them as a cover for Marxism. | ||
| They take the most, you know, the things that target your heartstrings. | ||
| They use the emotion. | ||
| They exploit that. | ||
| They're completely and utterly ruthless. | ||
| They line their own pockets and they finance our adversaries and they undermine us at every turn. | ||
| These people need to be shut down and they need to be shut down permanently. | ||
| They're in violation of the law. | ||
| They're in violation of the Constitution. | ||
| And they are working against the President of the United States, which means against the will of the American people. | ||
| Laura, hang on for one second. | ||
| I'm going to hold you to this break. | ||
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Laura Logan on a complete beatdown of USAID. | |
| Short break. | ||
| Back in the warm minimum. | ||
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I got American fame. | |
| In America's home. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Back. | ||
| OSA, programming notes, because of the rush of events and everything happening, we are going to be live tomorrow morning for 4th of July. | ||
| We do our 4th of July special. | ||
| It'll be live, but we're going to mix in news. | ||
| We're also going to be back at 5 p.m. tomorrow for the president's signing, it looks like right now, of the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| We'll also be live on Saturday on the holiday weekend with Philip Patrick and the team that are in. | ||
| Our team from Birch Gold is in Rio right now. | ||
| They've got a lot to report, particularly on this rush on de-dollarization of the world's currency, so of the world's economy. | ||
| Make sure you go to the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| That's birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| All seven free installments. | ||
| If you read them quick or just go through them, you're going to be the smartest person to barbecue. | ||
| And remember, for years I've said we didn't do it for that. | ||
| We did it so you could start to think through your financial alternatives. | ||
| It's not the price of gold that matters. | ||
| It's the process of where gold gets its value and ultimately its price. | ||
| That's what you need to learn. | ||
| You learn that. | ||
| You're going to understand a lot about your own financial life, but also geopolitics, national security, your country. | ||
| I've asked Laura to stick around. | ||
| I've got a couple more questions. | ||
| She's all over this as only her unique investigative reporting can. | ||
| But we've got EJ and Tony for a couple of minutes on this labor report. | ||
| So EJ, yesterday you said, hey, look, it looks like it may be softening. | ||
| Give me your analysis of the report that came out this morning, sir. | ||
| A million times better than what came out yesterday, Steve. | ||
| That's for sure. | ||
| The ADP report that we talked about yesterday showing those private payrolls were declining. | ||
| Instead, the BLS this morning shows us that we had a better than expected increase with drum roll please the last two months being revised upwards. | ||
| And I bring that up because that was one of the questions you had asked, Steve. | ||
| Are we continuing to see these crazy revisions? | ||
| Well, now under Trump, for the first time this year, actually, we see the last two months of revisions going in the right direction, meaning we're adding even more jobs than we thought in the last two months as Payment was under. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| But full stop, full stop. | ||
| This is Trump's government. | ||
| And man, I don't know why we haven't put you in charge of Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||
| For the entire four years of Biden, brother, I'd have you on here and we come to the labor report and go, oh, the revision was down. | ||
| They'd always have a flash that was great or quasi-great or better, and then they revise down sometimes significantly. | ||
| Now in Trump's the first two months he gets it, they give it to you low and they revise up. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| This is the deep state. | ||
| This is the administrative state of work, right? | ||
| This is clearly, it can't be random. | ||
| You can't give me those years of Biden when it was the exact opposite, and you would come on here and hammer it. | ||
| And now we're in Trump and they give it to you light and they revise up. | ||
| This thing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is rigged against MAGA and it's rigged against President Trump. | ||
| Prove me wrong, sir. | ||
| Steve, I can't say I have any proof for you either way. | ||
| But what I can tell you is, when we look at the internals of the report, yes, there was a good headline number. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| But when we look at the internals of the report, that was also an area of improvement compared to the previous month. | ||
| I can give you a couple examples of that. | ||
| If we look at the quality of jobs that were added, all, literally all of the net job growth were full-time jobs, not part-time. | ||
| In fact, part-time employment actually decreased. | ||
| So again, all of the net increase in employment was full-time jobs. | ||
| That's great news. | ||
| And again, to your point earlier, it stands in stark contrast to what we saw under Biden, where you would constantly get these months where the only jobs being added was part-time work because folks had to get an additional job in order to make ends meet because the Bidenflation was so terrible, right? | ||
| So we're seeing exactly the opposite now under Trump. | ||
| We're seeing wages, wage growth outpace the increase in prices, outpace inflation. | ||
| That's phenomenal news. | ||
| And it's not just the quality of jobs, but also, Steve, who is getting the jobs. | ||
| And this is something that we've talked about for several years now on your show, on War Room, where we have seen under Biden only on net, only foreign-born workers getting jobs, while native-born Americans weren't getting any jobs, at least on net. | ||
| Now we're seeing exactly the opposite. | ||
| So what we've seen just this year has been a surge in the number of native-born Americans who are working. | ||
| In fact, last month was the best June on record for native-born American employment. | ||
| Phenomenal news. | ||
| It just really, really is, Steve. | ||
| We've seen a total shift away from all of the jobs going to foreign-born workers, which includes illegal aliens, by the way, to now Native born Americans being the ones who are getting the jobs. | ||
| And what is really, really astonishing now is whereas before, under Biden, very often the number of native-born Americans with jobs was below pre-pandemic levels, now it's above. | ||
| Again, this is just phenomenal news. | ||
| It really genuinely makes me happy here to see my countrymen doing well. | ||
| Just great, great overall news. | ||
| Is for your recommendation to Powell, you still think he's late on a cut, as the President of the United States does? | ||
| Too late, Powell? | ||
| Is EG Antonio, you were there yesterday, given this report, sir? | ||
| Are you still there? | ||
| Well, Steve, you know, one of the things that really stood out in the report regarding the Fed was the fact that the unemployment rate did not go down, even though the latest forecast from the Fed said, oh, we're expecting higher unemployment rates. | ||
| Well, guess what it did in June? | ||
| It didn't go up. | ||
| It went down. | ||
| It fell from 4.2 to 4.1%. | ||
| So once again, the Fed is wrong. | ||
| I mean, it is genuinely astonishing how Powell and company can be wrong on literally everything. | ||
| And that just continues to this day. | ||
| All the more reason why the chairman has to go. | ||
| EJ, where do people go? | ||
| You're going to have a lot of analysis up in your social media, your Twitter feed is a font of information analysis. | ||
| Where do folks go? | ||
| The best place to find me is going to be there on Twitter, and the handle is at real EJ Antoni. | ||
| I'm not going to rest until we have E.J. Antoni, the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the Labor Department. | ||
| E.J., thank you so much for joining us, sir. | ||
| I appreciate you. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Laura Logan, needless to say, the audience loved that last segment. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| I know your schedule is jammed for staying. | ||
| I've got a question. | ||
| President's finishing. | ||
| You're going to wrap up a call here with Putin in a moment. | ||
| If you were in the Oval Office right after that call, what recommendation would Laura Logan make to the President of the United States if you had two or three minutes of his time to look him in the eye right there at the resolute desk and tell him your recommendation of taking apart the deep state ma'am? | ||
| First and foremost, the Constitution is your refuge. | ||
| Everything that President Trump needs, the extraordinary powers that he has as president, are all defined in the Constitution. | ||
| I would just encourage him to use the power and authority that he has because as everybody knows, if you put a band-aid on a bleeding wound, you're still going to bleed out. | ||
| And that's where we are right now. | ||
| Accountability is everything. | ||
| It's interesting you say Putin because Russia, Russia, Russia was really one of the largest seditious conspiracies in the history of the United States of America. | ||
| I don't think we've ever seen anything like it. | ||
| And the people who were responsible for that are responsible for all the things that have happened since. | ||
| The campaigns against President Trump in 2016 and today, run by the same people. | ||
| The efforts to impeach him run by the same people. | ||
| You know, we have to get the CIA out of politics. | ||
| We have to get activist judges out of politics. | ||
| The Constitution provides three separate powers, you know, of government, three separate parts of government. | ||
| The president, as the diplomat in chief, the commander-in-chief, he is in charge. | ||
| These unelected judges are not in charge. | ||
| In fact, if you go back, Steve, the only court that was created by the Constitution is the Supreme Court. | ||
| All the others are created by an act of Congress. | ||
| So actually, the president doesn't have to fund them. | ||
| He doesn't have to pay the budgets, you know, and the salaries of these judges who are working against him. | ||
| He also doesn't have to use to pay their rent. | ||
| He doesn't have to pay for the buildings in which they're in. | ||
| And so this is the kind of thing that Elon Musk and Doge exposed by stopping the rents, right? | ||
| By shutting down the rents and stopping paying for these places to be around. | ||
| And this helped shut down places like USAID, which by the way, you know, was created by, you know, under Reagan in the Cold War, created to counter Soviet influence in the developing world. | ||
| And, you know, the Republicans have been calling for 40 years to shut this down. | ||
| And it was done. | ||
| But it's not going to mean anything if it's not permanent. | ||
| So I would tell the president to use the extraordinary power he has, that he doesn't, you know, they don't need to slow walk this anymore, where they're trying to, you know, you're saying, I would like to see this person in and get rid of, you know, the chairman of the Fed. | ||
| I mean, if the president, if he's not serving the president's agenda, then why is he still in office? | ||
| Why are we even having a conversation about this? | ||
| This is the time of action. | ||
| President Trump was elected by the people to act. | ||
| He wasn't, you know, right now, the State Department has about 40 to 50 assistant regional secretaries that are all over the world. | ||
| Do you know that not one of them is a political appointee? | ||
| Do you know there are still over 100, roughly 100 ambassadors for President Joe Biden? | ||
| These are career bureaucrats who hate Donald Trump with every part of their bodies that are still all over the world. | ||
| Do you really think that these people are implementing the policies of the President of the United States of America? | ||
| They're not. | ||
| They're undermining him. | ||
| And that's what has been discovered at National Endowment for Democracy, NED. | ||
| But if you look at these people and you look at who is on their boards, it is Republicans and Democrats. | ||
| So President Trump, with courage, which he has shown plenty of, he has no shortage of courage, he is going to have to take on the element within his own party, the establishment rhino trader element, whatever you want to call them, who have lined their pockets for so long, they have no desire to share the wealth of the American people with the American people who earned it. | ||
| So that, you know, it's not that I'm so clever, Steve. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm just a journalist, right? | ||
| If I can figure this out, plenty of people can figure this out. | ||
| But what I hear from people is that they're concerned that the president is being lied to, and he's not being told everything. | ||
| Because he's being told, oh, appointments are going great. | ||
| No, appointments are not going great. | ||
| He's been told that this is okay. | ||
| No, it's not okay. | ||
| What's happening at the State Department, not one of his executive orders is being fully implemented. | ||
| And that's a problem. | ||
| Can you hang on just one more minute? | ||
| Because I want to give fully your podcast, social media, everything. | ||
| And I've got one more question to ask you on live television. | ||
| Short commercial break, Laura Logan, who is bringing the heat and talking truth to power, talking absolute truth to power. | ||
| If you don't believe that, Phil Wegman from Real Clear Politics is going to join us next and back up what she's saying about the intelligence community, a massive fight inside the intelligence community right now. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to turn into moment. | ||
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| Moment day. | ||
| The glory you are. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Man. | ||
| Laura, I know you're jammed today, and I really appreciate it, and the audience appreciates you sticking around. | ||
| Quick question. | ||
| If the president asked you to work on a select committee he would put together of a handful of people to be SGEs and to work with him to actually take apart the deep state systematically, would you volunteer for him in the country, ma'am? | ||
| There's a saying, Steve. | ||
| I think it says a bear, you know, poop in the woods, I'll be polite, you know, just to keep this family friendly. | ||
| So, yeah, I mean, I would say that if we don't have real accountability and you do not dismantle the deep states, both on the Republican and Democrat side, we will never, ever, ever change anything. | ||
| And I am tired of seeing Americans working two, three jobs, not able to afford a house or a car or take a vacation with their families or have Thanksgiving or have Christmas. | ||
| And that happens all around us all the time. | ||
| This is wrong. | ||
| People are stealing from the American people. | ||
| And we finally have a president who's willing to fix that and do something about it and change it in a lasting and meaningful way. | ||
| I think every single one of us has a duty to stand up and speak up. | ||
| But I've got to warn you, you know, I mean, it's pretty obvious I'm well known, right? | ||
| Not for my diplomacy, but for my directness. | ||
| So I wouldn't want to be there just as some fluff that you can roll, you know, sort of wave this around and say, okay, you know, we're doing something. | ||
| No, if you're not doing something, I'm not going to be part of that. | ||
| If you're not serious, what's the point? | ||
| So, you know, it would be stepping out of my role as a journalist, and I'm a journalist to my core. | ||
| But how could you say no if called upon? | ||
| Is there anything more important than we can do in our lifetimes than dismantle the deep state? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think the president's getting there and getting there quickly. | ||
| So this is not a theoretical question. | ||
| Laura, last podcast, your writings, your analysis, it's all brilliant. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Going Rogue with Laura Logan is my podcast. | ||
| You can find that all over social media. | ||
| I'm on X, you know, a lot of the time. | ||
| That's my main platform. | ||
| But Rumble, YouTube, Substack. | ||
| You can find me all over. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Thank you for taking so much time today to come. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| The last second. | ||
| Also, now Phil Wegman, White House correspondent for Real Clear Politics. | ||
| Phil, I want to thank you for changing around your holiday weekend to join us. | ||
| But your story, quite frankly, I think is too much of a blockbuster. | ||
| And it's almost, I know you're the White House reporter. | ||
| This is almost like an investigated report. | ||
| If Grayson Moe can put it up in Cameron, the new MAGA turf war over national intelligence. | ||
| Phil, take it from the top because this, folks, you should understand, is one of the biggest fights going on in Washington, D.C. This is a war to the knife. | ||
| Explain exactly what's going on in your reporting, sir. | ||
| So the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, that's the agency that oversees and integrates all of the other 18 three-letter intelligence agencies. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard has been on the job at the helm for a little more than five months, and there's broad Republican agreement that the ODNI needs to change, it needs to reform. | ||
| But the fundamental questions here are how does it reform and who accrues more power as a result? | ||
| Gabbard, she's already cut 25% of the staff there at ODNI. | ||
| I'm told that there are more reforms coming. | ||
| But Senator Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he's not waiting around for the ODNI to heal itself. | ||
| He just dropped legislation this week, which would cap ODNI staff at 650, but more than that. | ||
| And what's really significant here is in this legislation, it would take some of these core responsibilities from ODNI and transfer them to the FBI and CIA. | ||
| That's the real rub here. | ||
| One of my intelligence sources balked at this proposed reform and said that it would essentially just give more power to the CIA. | ||
| So this is absolutely the next turf war in MAGA over the intelligence community. | ||
| And it's a fraught question because a lot of conservatives are already skeptical of an intelligence community that they think has been weaponized. | ||
| Okay, so Phil, let's go back. | ||
| The reason the whole thing was set up is post 9-11, we had the greatest intelligence, both exterior intelligence failure, but also interior and FBI failure in the history of the nation, or at least since Pearl Harbor. | ||
| And some people actually argue maybe worse than Pearl Harbor. | ||
| This is why it was created so that you would have somebody report it directly to the president that looked over all the intelligence services, including the CIA, and make sure that you spoke with one voice, but also that these things didn't get weaponized. | ||
| Now, what has happened is that when you talk to the, and you tell me you're the expert, when I talk to the intelligence community, they said the CIA doesn't feel like they report to DNI. | ||
| It's the CIA. | ||
| They run the deal. | ||
| They're going to do what they're going to do. | ||
| And Cotton, who's very close to the guys, Ratcliffe and the guys in the CIA, essentially for the downsizing, they want to take half the downsizing and kind of actually get more resources for the CIA, get more expansion inside the apparatus, and then give additional resources to the FBI, which I think is a tell that Cash and maybe Dan Bongino are not moving Headquarters, but maybe not deconstructing this as quickly as the MAGA base wants. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, you started with that history lesson, and you're absolutely correct. | ||
| After 9-11, there's this frustration that the CIA and FBI, because of petty rivalries, are not sharing information. | ||
| The thought is: if you have a director of national intelligence who oversees both of these agencies, as well as all the others, they can coordinate. | ||
| The problem is, you know, according to the experts who have studied this for 20 years, is that the ODNI was never given statutory authority. | ||
| They don't have budget authority over these agencies. | ||
| They don't have hiring and firing authority over these agencies. | ||
| And so the CIA, which is much more glamorous and has a lot of connections to Capitol Hill, they Bigfoot the ODNI. | ||
| Where this changed, though, for Republicans was during the previous Trump administration. | ||
| John Ratcliffe, who was Trump's final director of national intelligence, he said, everyone before me was a director of national intelligence on paper only. | ||
| That changed, though, when Donald Trump made clear to the rest of these agencies that everything had to come through the DNI. | ||
| It's a question of whether or not the president has confidence in that individual. | ||
| Today, all these years later, John Ratcliffe, he's at the CIA. | ||
| Gabbard is at DNI. | ||
| And certainly, it seems that she is having her moment in the sun as her sort of anti-interventionism maybe put her on the outs with a White House that is becoming more hawkish after these strikes on Iran. | ||
| Well, let's talk about that. | ||
| I think this is the question, and this is why this is such an important piece. | ||
| This piece is so important because it's in the moment. | ||
| People would say, or a number of people would say, the reason the president was interventionist, and that was still just for a massive bombing to take out the nuke program. | ||
| He fought and did not get involved and would not get involved in a regime change war. | ||
| And in fact, he told the Israelis yesterday, the Gaza war is over, guys. | ||
| We're just shutting that down. | ||
| So his non-interventionism is still to its core. | ||
| But it gets back to intelligence. | ||
| People would say, you know, Greenwald, and I read this, Glenn Greenwald is Glenn Greenwald. | ||
| He's saying Ratcliffe, who was a good man and was Trump's pick because he did such a good job at DNI, has been, he and Ellis have been overwhelmed at the agency, as you know how all-encompassing the CIA is to try to make changes. | ||
| Mike Pompeo admitted in the first couple of weeks he wanted to leave because he couldn't make changes, that the CIA is giving a very different intelligence read and maybe tied to foreign intelligence services, maybe with their information, whereas Tulsi is trying to give it the broad scope and what the intelligence community said in this war is bubbling up and actually affecting national security policy on a day-to-day basis, including in the Ukraine war, in the South China Sea, and particularly in the Middle East. | ||
| Is that what's brewing behind it, that Ratcliffe is really now more of a CIA guy than he was? | ||
| He was kind of a reformer at DNI, but at CIA, he's going along with the cotton. | ||
| He wants those additional bodies. | ||
| He wants those additional resources, sir. | ||
| What I can say thus far about Ratcliffe over at CIA is that the White House is well pleased with him. | ||
| It's been consistent that this administration has said the president has confidence in his entire national security team. | ||
| But what is interesting about this current argument here is, you know, when I reached out to the White House for comment about this cotton bill, I was told by a White House official that not only does the president have confidence in his team and Gabbard, but ODNI will not be subsumed by CIA. | ||
| The fact of the matter, though, is, is this is not just a question of executive action. | ||
| Certainly, the president has a tremendous amount of influence on Capitol Hill. | ||
| We're seeing that today with the one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| But what Cotton has put forward is a legislative change. | ||
| And if he gets a majority in Congress and this eventually makes its way to the president's desk, I mean, I think he'd be hard pressed not to sign it. | ||
| More broadly, though, taking a step further even back, earlier in this year, I spoke to Amaralis Fox Kennedy, who is now over at the Office of Management and Budget, looking into some of the dark budgets of these intelligence agencies. | ||
| And the reason she was so eager for this job to really get into the plumbing of these intel agencies is she's a CIA veteran herself. | ||
| And she told me about how when she was an officer back in the early 2000s, there was this attitude at CIA that they were just going to outweigh the politicians, that they were going to outweigh what they called the temps. | ||
| So certainly, you know, both Republican and Democratic administrations, they've been frustrated by an agency that sees itself as, you know, sometimes unaccountable. | ||
| Phil, where do you think your reporting is going to go on this? | ||
| I know you're kind of the lead sled dog now on this, this brilliant story you got up in Real Clear Politics. | ||
| Where do you anticipate your reporting is going to, I know you're going to stay on this because I think it's one of the top two or three most important stories in town. | ||
| Where do you think directionally this is going to take you? | ||
| Well, I'm fascinated by this argument that came immediately after the reelection of Trump when you had Trump's pollster, John McLaughlin, say, Republicans have to make a decision about these independents, these moderates and disaffected Democrats who joined the Trump fold. | ||
| Are Republicans going to bring them into the GOP permanently? | ||
| Because right now they're just renting them. | ||
| And his argument during those early days of confirmation hearings were that people like RFK Jr., people like Tulsi Gabbard, they were the ones who were going to solidify this realignment. | ||
| I think that what I've been learning, though, is that at the end of the day, and we saw this in President Trump's interview with The Atlantic, he determines what America first means. | ||
| And so some of these folks, like a Tulsi Gabbard, who I think were attracted to this administration because they thought that the non-interventionism sort of lined up, you know, that relationship may be framed. | ||
| So I'm watching this very closely because I think it's going to tell us something. | ||
| You know, we'll see if Tulsi Gabbard can, you know, can repair that relationship. | ||
| But it's going to be fascinating to watch no matter what. | ||
| Phil Wegman, it's an amazing story. | ||
| We're pushing it out everywhere. | ||
| We look forward to having you back when you update this. | ||
| Or where's your social media in the interim? | ||
| Where do they go to get your real clear politics? | ||
| And what's your social media? | ||
| Realclearpolitics.com. | ||
| And then I'm on Twitter Wegman. | ||
| Phil, thank you so much. | ||
| Fantastic story. | ||
| Thank you, folks. | ||
| Phil Wegman has nailed it as only RealClear Politics can do. | ||
| And this behind the scenes is one of the biggest fights in town and quite a nasty fight because it's upon the intelligence you actually make the decisions of what you're going to do in action. | ||
| And remember, the kinetic part, we're in the kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
| How did we start the show today? | ||
| We started the show today at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time by going to the House and seeing Rakeem Jeffries, Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader. | ||
| He's still up, still talking. | ||
| What is he doing for now, seven, eight hours? | ||
| He's trashing President Trump's big beautiful bill and his entire administration. | ||
| Six months in. | ||
| Everything that's determined about the kinetic part of the Third World War is predicated upon intelligence. | ||
| Who's giving it, what the analysis is, is it correct? | ||
| That's what President Trump bases his action on. | ||
| Remember last week, Saturday, was it Saturday, a week ago? | ||
| Two weeks ago? | ||
| He basically made the decision not, and I repeat, not to get involved in regime change war, where he's being sucked into it by the CIA and the Mossad. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Battle. | ||
| Okay, breaking news. | ||
| It looks like the White House may be changing from the 5 p.m. tomorrow to 9 a.m. | ||
| We're going to be on top of that. | ||
| By the way, coverage of the great rally to kick off America 250 from the Iowa State Fair. | ||
| Ambassador Monica Lewinsky pulling it all together. | ||
| Real America's Voice is producing it from 3 p.m. to at least 10 p.m. live coverage. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| It's going to be monumental. | ||
| We've got an incredible team out there, anchors, reporters, folks in the crowd, and just amazing coverage. | ||
| I don't know, a dozen cameras. | ||
| There's only Real America's Voice could do it. | ||
| So make sure you check that out today. | ||
| 3 p.m., be back here. | ||
| King Jeffries is still talking. | ||
| I don't think we need to go back to that. | ||
| Charlie Kirk, next weekend, one of the most, and it couldn't be timed more perfectly given all the fights, all the inner squad scrimmaging we've been doing over the last couple of weeks and months to have Turning Point have an amazing conference down in Tampa, Florida. | ||
| I think starting next Friday, walk us through it. | ||
| Why should everybody attend? | ||
| And what do you got going on, sir? | ||
| Well, first, you're one of our keynotes, Steve, so we're excited to have you. | ||
| We want the whole War Room posse there. | ||
| So it's going to be in Tampa, Florida next Friday, Saturday, Sunday. | ||
| We're anticipating well over 6,000 to 7,000 people. | ||
| We might even eclipse that and surpass it. | ||
| Got the biggest names in the entire movement. | ||
| We got Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| We got Pete Hegseth. | ||
| We have Christy Noam. | ||
| We have Tucker Carlson. | ||
| We have Megan Kelly. | ||
| Of course, yourself, Steve. | ||
| We have Laura Ingram. | ||
| We have Riley Gaines. | ||
| We have full spectrum. | ||
| We got Jack Pesobic. | ||
| Full spectrum dominance. | ||
| This is about training. | ||
| It's about breakout sessions, community. | ||
| It's about getting activated and also figuring out where we stand on some of these major issues. | ||
| There's been a lot of, let's just say, heated salvos thrown around online the last couple of weeks. | ||
| And I find that once you're in physical dimension with one another, things change a little bit. | ||
| So look, we need to make sure that, as you say, Steve, on our terms, we're going to make sure this movement is recalibrated correctly. | ||
| And look, this is primarily a student event. | ||
| It's not only a student event, but we're also going to be reminding the media. | ||
| We have an incredible media portfolio that's coming, roster, I should say. | ||
| We have over like 150 media that's coming from every major news source. | ||
| We are reminding them that President Trump won the youth vote, and he won the youth vote on an optimistic, patriotic, positive vision of homeownership, getting married, having children, creating an ownership economy, not a renting economy. | ||
| And I'm going to be saying at the Student Action Summit and also to all of your audience, the reason why Mom Danny is so dangerous, look, of course, Muslim, you know, third world or all that. | ||
| But the real reason is that he focuses on economics. | ||
| And Steve, to your credit, you've been talking about this for quite some time. | ||
| Young Gen Zers and young people, they'll dismiss all the radical elements because they are so upset they can't own stuff. | ||
| I think President Trump is well on his way to fixing that through the Big Beautiful Bill and many other economic measures. | ||
| But you're going to get 100 Zoran momdanis and you're going to get them quickly if you do not address the fundamental lack of ownership in this economy. | ||
| We're going to be talking about that at the Student Action Summit. | ||
| Shows SAS2025.com. | ||
| That's SAS2025.com, promo code STEAVE for 25% off. | ||
| We want the entire war room there. | ||
| Again, Pete Hegseth, Christine Noam, Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfeld, Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| It's going to be the best event of the summer. | ||
| Check it out, Tampa, Florida, next Friday, Saturday, Sunday. | ||
| And we are going to be broadcasting live for the entire time. | ||
| So we're going to do all the shows there. | ||
| People know when I go to the Turning Point Summits, I always do the breakout sessions where I meet and greet every person. | ||
| So we're going to get some quality time with each other. | ||
| I want the entire warmer imposse in the greater Tampa area and, hey, maybe even in Florida or beyond to show up. | ||
| We're going to have a great time. | ||
| It's a great midsummer break for everybody to pull people together and talk about, put all the issues up on the table that we need to talk about. | ||
| Remember, this group, MAGA is born fighting, right? | ||
| We've got to take the fight. | ||
| And hey, Hakeem Jeffrey is going to go nine to 10 hours here, folks. | ||
| He's on a roll right now. | ||
| And you see 2026, they're framing it right now. | ||
| He's taking eight, nine hours on national television to frame it against President Trump. | ||
| We've got a big fight ahead of us, and we're going to kick off at the Student Action Summit next week. | ||
| We'll be broadcasting live the entire time. | ||
| Of course, amazing, amazing, amazing speakers are going to be there. | ||
| And maybe we're going to get a couple, three into the war room. | ||
| So we want everybody there. | ||
| We want a big audience. | ||
| Charlie, one more time. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| I want a lot of folks signing up today and making plans for this. | ||
| I'm glad you're doing announcements at Tampa Steve. | ||
| There's a lot of available hotel rooms. | ||
| A ton. | ||
| Great infrastructure. | ||
| We want the entire war room posse there. | ||
| It's SAS2025.com. | ||
| That is SAS2025.com. | ||
| Next Friday, Saturday, Sunday. | ||
| The biggest speaker is the movement. | ||
| You won't find a roster in a lineup like this anywhere else. | ||
| SAS2025.com. | ||
| We'll see you guys next weekend. | ||
| Charlie, thank you so much. | ||
| Everybody, let's do it. | ||
| Let's meet down there. | ||
| Let's do a bunch of shows. | ||
| Let's hang out. | ||
| Let's have some breakouts. | ||
| You get to meet. | ||
| You'll meet Megan, Kelly, Tucker. | ||
| Everybody, it's going to be great. | ||
| Charlie, thank you for putting it on. | ||
| I know it's a ton of work in the middle of summer. | ||
| Mike Lindell. | ||
| Obviously, I don't have much stroke at the White House because I did get my heads up on a security basis. | ||
| Why is Mike Lindell back for a second day at the White House, brother? | ||
| What do you got for me? | ||
| Well, I had a bunch of meetings yesterday, but I've been having a lot of fun because I've been out here doing interviews too. | ||
| I never thought, Steve, I'd be doing both. | ||
| Today I'll be meeting with the president, but here out doing interviews. | ||
| We got Tom Holman yesterday coming down the thing because I know all these people. | ||
| So it's, and I think you got Fox News and a lot of other ones getting a little jealous here going, why is Lindell TV, you know, being there doing all these interviews? | ||
| But here we are in the yesterday was a great day. | ||
| And I think today's, I know today's even going to be better. | ||
| And we've got, I'm added for the war room posse too in celebration of this. | ||
| We have the 50% off sale, Steve, but everybody's been asking if they could get the percale sheets for the wholesale prices again that came in last week. | ||
| We're going to do that for the war room posse live from the White House. | ||
| You guys get them for $29.88, any size, any color. | ||
| I'm going to let you get as many as you want. | ||
| We're not going to put a limit on it. | ||
| You guys, this is, we had set them aside for you and we went through them. | ||
| Now you guys can get over the next two days. | ||
| Get all you want. | ||
| Any size, any color. | ||
| They just came in a week ago. | ||
| They're all available. | ||
| Split Kings, Cal Kings, King Size. | ||
| Promo Code War Room. | ||
| You go to the website and then you're going to get that. | ||
| Go down and click on Steve. | ||
| The big 50% off 4th of July sale. | ||
| The microsses. | ||
| There you got the sheets. | ||
| The Made in America pillows and beds and bed toppers. | ||
| All the kitchen towels, bathroom towels. | ||
| Steve, it's a big celebration. | ||
| And use promo code Warroom, everybody, the most sought-after promo code in the world. | ||
| Call 800-873-1062 and tell them I sent you for the White House, use promo code Warroom. | ||
| They love talking to the posse. | ||
| You guys had my pillows back, and we're not going anywhere. | ||
| We're here to stay made in the USA. | ||
| Mike, we'll see you tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to be live. | ||
| The president does it at 9 o'clock. | ||
| We'll figure it out. | ||
| But we're going to be live tomorrow morning, 10 to noon on the 4th of July, the nation's birthday. | ||
| Maybe we'd get Mike Lindell on with us. | ||
| By the way, Phil Wegman's already blown away by the social media response. | ||
| Let's pile in there and show Phil Wegman what the Warren posse is over at Real Clare Politics. | ||
| 3 p.m. | ||
| Coverage starts. | ||
| The Iowa State Fair. | ||
| Be back here at Real America's voice. | ||
| Charlie Kirk is next. |
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