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July 16, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4636: Will Powell Keep His Job; Trump Meets With Crown Prince Of Bahrain
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This is the final screen of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
Because we're going to medieval on these people.
You're going to kind of get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Mega 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.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.
Joy 2.
Amen.
Thank you.
you Okay, Wednesday, 16 July, Year of our Lord, 2025.
A couple of news items here.
John Solomon, Real America's Voice, owned John Solomon.
And I want to remind people, this is what we had Fenton on right beforehand.
You have a number of, I think, our top investigative folks, the Tom Fenton's of the world, the John Solomons of the world, other people that are all over this situation, the deep state in Epstein, all of it.
John Solomon just came out of an interview with the president.
That interview is going to run in its entirety on Real America's Voice at 6 p.m. tonight, right after the war room.
We're going to try to get John up.
John's back at the studio from the White House.
We're going to try to get John up to just give some highlights of what's happening because I think he's got some pretty blockbuster news.
And remember, John came on Friday in the extended coverage we had down at SAS Tampa, the student summit, action summit.
And there he broke the news that there is a lot of movement.
It kind of takes what Fenton's saying and Fenton's concern.
Fenton's concern is, hey, I've seen this before with Durham, et cetera.
And this is not a criticism of Pam or Cash or Bongino.
He's saying those, as I say all the time, they are barely hanging on in those institutions.
Those institutions are still controlled by the deep state and still controlled by anti-MAGA, still controlled by globalists, still controlled by people that hate President Trump and want to remove President Trump or at least wait President Trump out.
Okay?
So this whole issue, and this ties together with Mike Davis and everything we said about the Article II powers.
Remember, the Article II powers, I think yesterday the Supreme Court backed us up on taking down the Department of Education on President Trump's Article II powers.
Today there's going to be a vote in the Senate on this rescissions bill of $9 billion, not $9.4.
We had to take $400 million off because of a program related to Collins of Maine.
So it's $9 billion, but it'll be the first rescission I think voted.
I think the first rescission is voted to in like human history, right?
Or at least in living memory.
And although it's not huge, it reinforces President Trump's Article II powers.
Now, we've argued, hey, just go all the way to empowerment because the courts are backing you up here with these Article II powers.
Right there, you've got the shot of the White House.
We're anticipating the Crown Prince of Bahrain and the Prime Minister.
There's supposed to be a bylad.
We believe it's going to be a press avail.
The reason we're covering this so intensely, they say it's open to the press.
Our own Brian Glenn is there.
I think we're going to try to get him by phone.
We're also trying to get John Solomon up.
So John Solomon gave you a couple of headlines because the other day he had talked to Cash Patel, and he put to bed the rumor that was out that Cash Patel might resign over the weekend.
So that's not going to happen.
Cash is there to stay.
And then shortly after that interview, Cash put a tweet out that said, hey, I serve at the pleasure of the president.
And if the president likes my work, do I have Brian Glenn?
Brian Glenn, can you get us up to date?
And I know we don't have you by your lovely visage, but can you tell us this bylat with the Crown Prince of Bahrain and the Prime Minister?
I think this is going to be a press avail.
You're going to be available actually in the oval, and everybody's waiting for what the president has to say.
Am I correct on that?
Because we're kind of flying a little bit blind here.
That's okay.
Good morning.
Yeah, we're just outside the West Wing right now.
The shot you're looking at, obviously, is the entrance to the West Wing.
We are still waiting for them to arrive here just shortly, about 11.15.
That bilateral meeting will take place in the Oval Office.
It has to do with purchasing military equipment from the U.S. to their government.
And I'm still kind of waiting for confirmation that I'll be in that Oval meeting.
And then, of course, a little bit later today, President Trump's shifting over to the East Room for a bill signing that has to do with fentanyl.
Walk me through.
Is the Color Guard, I don't see the Color Guard coming out.
I mean, this is an official state visit, right, with the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister, or is it a working session?
No, the Color Guard is just off of camera.
Will's going to flip the camera around real quickly, Will, Steve, so you can see.
They just have not officially gotten in place.
Now, typically, they've rehearsed this several times before they officially arrive.
It looks like today that is not the case.
They're going to probably get in position about 10 minutes prior to arrival.
And then, of course, the arrival takes place along Pebble Beach.
But you've got a good shot of the Color Guard right there.
Color Guard, and there's also some of the press, people following it right there.
The Color Guard, they're going to come down.
So it may be, we thought it would start exactly at 11 o'clock.
So I think we ought to try to get John Cena up now.
It looks like...
11.15.
Talk to me about there's all this discussion now about investigations, deep state investigations.
President Trump's been hammering it about Comey, about Brennan.
We've had Tom Finton on with his theories of what's happening.
I think John Solomon just finished an interview with the president.
He's going to give us some heads up.
What are you hearing at the White House about this?
Glenn, you're pretty close to the team over there.
What's the vibe you're getting?
Well, it's interesting because I haven't heard a lot in particular to that.
Now, if you look at President Trump's True Social that he pushed out about 20 minutes ago, and I apologize if you guys have discussed that already, that does talk a lot about all of the curiosity, if you will, swirling around the Epstein files and this tug of war of what has not been revealed, what is yet to be revealed, if there's anything yet to reveal.
That's all on that.
I have not heard much as of today in regards to that.
I'm looking forward to listening to John Solomon's interview on that in regards.
So to be honest with you, Steve, I have not gotten a lot of information in regards to that from the Trump camp to meet today.
Finally, we pivoted yesterday.
You know, we've had pulses.
We had Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen on yesterday, and we had Richard Barris.
And both of their polling shows the same thing, that the economic message of President Trump, particularly with real wage growth, what's happening on tariffs, that the and this is why you were with him yesterday in Pittsburgh, and we, Jane Zirkle, finally the House made available House members.
Jane Zirkle's, I think, done 20 interviews, all of them quite fascinating with House members.
The economic message here is so powerful, right?
But somehow they're bogged down in the Epstein situation.
Are you seeing, like with today with the fentanyl, are they trying to do a hard pivot to try to talk about things that are clearly resonating with the American people?
I don't know if that's their intention, but that's exactly what's going to happen.
Even look at the PPI numbers that came out early today, much lower than expected.
So that is good news.
And of course, Jerome Powell continues to be in the news.
President Trump basically yesterday hinting around at either firing him or forcing a resignation.
These are things that does take away from the concentration of the Epstein files.
There's a lot of economic news.
Look what's in Homer, Pennsylvania.
What they're doing to that region of Pennsylvania is unprecedented.
President Trump said at a rally there in Pennsylvania during the campaign that he was going to do exactly what he's doing today.
That is economic development in that state.
So whether or not it's intention or not, intentionally not, Steve, I don't know, but it's certainly a good way of getting the base back on track.
And I had someone, Steve, if I could just for a second, describe what's going on right now.
Imagine your football team going the first eight games of the season, you're 8-0.
Then you finally lose your ninth game, you're 8-1.
Instead of just focusing on that one loss, you've got to move ahead.
And I know people are disappointed.
Obviously, a lot of people in the war room posse is disappointed on what's kind of how it's going to be.
But hang on, but it's like that ninth loss is Army versus Navy or Notre Dame versus USC, right?
Or Texas A ⁇ M versus Texas, something like that.
And by the way, it started with the White House thing they had with Pam Bondi.
That was a fiasco a couple of months ago.
I mean, this was initiated by the White House.
Both things were initiated by the, you know, Hatter at the White House, then they had this memo in the middle of the night.
So the people that are following this are saying, hey, this is kind of foisted on this.
And people were not, nobody I know went digging for this, right?
Anyway, Brian, we're going to get John Solomon up.
He's got a huge interview that he's going to release the day at 6.
If you can stick around, we're going to come back to you.
Let me go to John.
Is John Solomon up?
Okay, we're getting John Solomon.
John Solomon's over at the Real America's Voice Studio in Washington.
Just finished interviewing the president.
He will make that interview, play that interview in its entirety on his show tonight, Just the News, with John Solomon and Amanda Head in its entirety.
I think it's got some blockbuster comments, and I want to make sure we get at least John on to give some highlights and some headlines of what to anticipate.
There may be a press available here, so I want to make sure John gets ahead of it.
Brian Glenn is at the White House.
Hopefully Brian will be in if they make it a press avail.
The reason we're covering this so intensely is that they say they're going to make it open to the press.
And so that's always, you know, the president will normally hold court on these bylats, very different than traditional where, you know, they bring them in, shake a few hands, ask a couple of questions from either party about what they're talking about here.
It's Bahrain.
People should know, Bahrain is the kind of, I guess, island you would call it in the middle of the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf.
Traditionally, where the British kind of ran things out of or had a big, it was open to the international community before you had before you had Dubai and before you had places like Equator that were more open to the international community.
Bahrain was it.
In fact, the Navy, when we first got over there in the late 70s on the Iranian hostage crisis, the Pacific Fleet, they used to have what they called the White Fleet there.
It was so hot that the British had taught the Americans how to paint the ships white to reflect the heat, not the haze gray of the Navy.
And so the Navy always had an installation in Bahrain.
In Bahrain today, the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister are coming.
They're talking about American arms sales.
I'm sure there'll be a strategic conversation about what's going on, particularly with Iran.
Remember, the Gulf Emirates and the Saudis.
So Bahrain, you know, UAE, Qatar, even Kuwait have always had this great animosity and fear of the Persians with the Saudis.
And so I'm sure that's going to come up in the conversation.
Part of this will be behind the scenes today.
Is John Solomon up?
Not up yet, my crack producer.
I'm not getting any response.
So.
Mr. Producer, is John Solomon up?
Okay, fine.
That's a yes or no.
That's appropriate.
Just tell me.
We're trying to get Solomon hooked up.
John Solomon just did a just did an interview with the president.
I think about 20 or 30 minutes.
Like I said, it's going to play its entirety tonight at 6 o'clock on John Solomon's show.
John broke the news on Friday that Cash Patel would stay at the FBI.
It Turned out to be correct.
Dan Bongino stayed at the FBI.
A lot of, I think, hurt feelings between DOJ and FBI, but work proceeds.
Dan Bongino's back at work on this situation.
President yesterday said we played in the cold open.
Hey, if there's credible things, just go ahead and release them.
Put out a true social a little while ago was maybe not, maybe not as, maybe not going down that direction, but we'll have to see.
That's why Solomon would be very important.
Tom Fenton has said, and I agree with him, and I think this is the lesson Mike Davis taught us, and Mike Davis taught us over the last couple of years at Article III, is that the Article II powers of President Trump are going to be tested.
Remember, he's the chief executive officer of the United States government.
He's the commander-in-chief of the uniformed services of the military.
He's also the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer.
And this all plays into that.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court, for the second time, backed up President Trump, first about the State Department, second about the Department of Education.
President Trump's concept of this government is to downsize this.
Now, he's doing it through the appropriations process.
And also, to give everybody a heads up, I think it's pretty well known within Washington as of yesterday.
There's probably going to be a CR.
I don't think they're going to get the appropriations bills done because I think they're going to take an August recess.
There's only 20 workdays between today and the end of September.
I think there's 20 legislative days.
We're in the middle of July.
It's 20 legislative days between now and the middle of September.
I think I'm pretty accurate in that.
All 12 individual appropriations bills, I think, are not going to get done.
And so let's go to, we've got John Solomon.
We'll go back to Brian Glenn in a moment.
So, John, you just finished an interview with the president.
I know you're going to play it in its entirety without commercial interruption at 6 o'clock on your show in Real America's Voice that follows the War Room.
Can you give us a couple of just headlines?
Because I'm sure knowing John Solomon, it's got some big scoops in it.
Thank you.
Yeah, listen, he was just very candid, very open, very detailed, very focused.
Let's start with the big thing.
He clearly learned in the last few days about the grand conspiracy case that Cash Patel at the FBI opened.
He embraced it.
He said, I like it.
It's a good approach.
I didn't know about it until you reported on it, and I shouldn't need to know about it, but it's the right approach of looking at the last decade of going after conservatives as a criminal conspiracy.
He said he was open to a special prosecutor, and he said that special prosecutor should just take a look at Epstein and make sure there's nothing there to give the American public a little more latitude, a little more confidence that they're not hiding anything.
I'm not hiding anything.
We have nothing to hide.
But if he wants to look at anything legitimate, they're there.
So I think the president's behind the special prosecutor, behind going after the last decade as a criminal conspiracy to use the judicial system to punish political enemies.
And also to keep his hands off it.
He said, this is in Pam and Cash's hands.
They do the work, but I like the idea from what you reported.
I thought that was big.
He's not going to fire Jerome Powell, but he sure hopes that Jerome Powell resigns.
I think that was a big moment in the interview.
People will hear what he has to say about that.
And then he talked extensively about the economy, the tariffs.
He had read Amanda Head's story this morning saying that he is moving towards a balanced budget, that the combination of tariff revenue, more spending cuts, and his ability now from the courts to get rid of as many bureaucrats as he wants, that they could get on a path to a balanced budget, which two years ago, even six months ago, seemed improbable.
But he was very serious about that and very detailed about that.
And then he went through the trade deals.
He said, India is in the wind.
It's going to happen pretty soon.
Canada is a ways off.
I think the EU is going to buckle because they can't live without us.
And we'll have almost all the trade deals in place in just a few weeks and people will see the future revenues and also the future relationships we'll have for trade.
So he was relaxed.
He was very detailed.
He was excited that Adam Schiff's mortgage fraud was being looked at.
And I think people are going to enjoy this interview today.
Very, very substantive interview.
Yeah.
Hang on.
You're already going to move markets.
I want to go back before the Grand Conspiracy.
I just want to hear you say it again.
He is not going to fire Jerome Powell.
Because the rumors this morning on Wall Street, Powell's going to be terminated and either Besson or Hassett are going to step in.
You're reporting right now from the president he's not going to fire Jerome Powell?
I asked him, would you fire him?
And he said, I'm not going to do it because they tell me it would hurt the markets.
Listen, I think there's this issue with the $2.5 billion lavish remodel there that is an issue that needs to be looked at.
But I hope he resigns.
And I think that's where he left it.
But he said, I'm not going to do it because I don't want to roil the market.
So that was a pretty big moment in the interview.
I want to go back to make sure, particularly, we got a ton of new people here on Spotify and other things.
When you talk grand criminal conspiracy against of the deep state, just go back in time and hit a highlight reel.
What are you talking about?
Because so much of this is based upon your reporting, what you've been doing for years.
We have had the massive disappointment or underperformance of Durham that still sticks in people's minds.
When you talk about grand conspiracy.
Oh, he does.
Did he reiterate that to you?
He did.
He said, listen, I don't know why Bill Barr prosecuted John Durham.
He took four years to tell us the same thing that Michael Horowitz told us in a year.
He was very versatile in the Inspector General Report, the Durham report.
It's remarkable how much detail he knows about it.
And he's like, we need a moment of accountability.
Let's just get it done.
And he was excited to know.
He didn't know about it really until he read our story, but he was excited to know that Cash Patel is looking at this wash, rinse, repeat cycle.
What does that happen?
Democrat has a legal problem.
The deep state exonerates a Hillary Clinton, tries to exonerate a Hunter Biden, tries to let Joe Biden off the hook for the classified documents.
And then the deep state turns on the Republican and tries to project that sin or a sin on Donald Trump or His Republican followers, Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, Donald Trump's classified documents, even though he had the right to declassify them and take them with him.
That is what Cash Patel is looking at.
And then everything else that goes to that, your prosecution, the failure to look at the Chinese intervention in the 2020 election, all of that is looked at as an ongoing conspiracy to use the color of law, to use the authority of government to protect one political party and to punish another party.
You start to look at it that way, it becomes a criminal conspiracy, much like the mob was looked at in the 80s and 90s.
And you believe that this will go back all the way to the beginning of, or at least the beginning of this coup, not to Nixon and not to JFK, which I think has to happen too.
But do you believe this will go back to Crossfire Hurricane?
It will go back to the spying of the middle of the middle.
I think it goes back to Hillary being cleared.
Yeah, I think it goes back to the moment Hillary Clinton was cleared.
He made two big pieces of news in the middle interview.
He is going to declassify the classified annex that showed that the FBI had new intelligence on Hillary Clinton's emails and chose not to look at it.
We're going to, for the first time ever, get to see what that intelligence is.
He's declassifying that.
And then the intercept where they find out Hillary Clinton approved the Russia hoax.
He's going to declassify that.
Letting a grand jury see that, something John Durham couldn't even do, will be a huge advantage to whoever the prosecutor is and for the FBI to get moving.
Now, and you say that he's not aware of any of this, obviously, but that you did inform him that they're thinking about appointing a special counsel on this to take over this entire investigation?
Yeah, and he sounds like it's a good approach.
Let's just do it.
Let's get the trust of the American people.
Let's get accountability.
And then let's focus on the things that matter, like the future of the economy, the future of education, shrinking the government, getting to a balanced budget, securing the world.
He's so frustrated, and you can really see it.
But he had a pointed warning in the middle of the interview, much like the truth he just put out a few minutes ago, that Republicans who are talking about this and don't know what in the upstream things are just doing the Democrats' bidding, and they're distracting the American people from the great opportunity our generation has to fix our country and to fix the world.
And he wants the American people to stay focused on the tariffs and the securing of the country.
At one point, he said, listen, if I find out who's behind the attacks on ICE, who's coordinating this, who was behind George Flyde and the riots, I'm going to designate them a terrorist organization.
That is a big proclamation.
He's thinking about big issues.
I think he's frustrated by all the social media chatter from people who don't really know what's in the Epstein files.
And he was very pointed about that.
Let's stay focused on the things that matter to the American people.
I want the answers to Epstein like everyone he said.
So let the prosecutor do that.
So he is, he's on board with the situation of getting a special prosecutor and having the Epstein situation put into that so that can be formally looked at.
Anything legitimate that should be looked at.
And really in a corporate project.
And you volunteered it, by the way, Steve.
You know, I ask him about the special, he immediately volunteers and then I follow up on it.
But he immediately brings up Epstein.
Like, just throw that in.
Let's get it all answered.
I got nothing to hide.
I want truth and I want prosecutions.
I just want the justice system to take care of what needs to be taken care of.
It was really a remarkable moment.
Since you're an expert in this, Tom Fenton, myself, Mike Davis, others have been discussing this about the, because the courts have backed up President Trump's Article II powers.
They have backed him up so far as commander-in-chief and what he's trying to do, expel them.
They have backed him up in two historic rulings, one on the State Department and really USAID, that part of it.
And yesterday with the Department of Education to say, do it, I think it's a huge tool along with this special prosecutor in this criminal conspiracy investigation to really take down the deep state.
But is he thinking of that the special prosecutor, which we argue for, should report to the office of the president?
Are you saying, you think he's going to say, hey, let Pam and DOJ let him report to them?
I think he'll use the mechanism that's currently in the law.
Like he, listen, what's really interesting about the president, he doesn't, unlike Joe Biden, who wanted his finger in the dirty drink to go after Donald Trump, right?
The White House six, the National Archives, Donald Trump's like, I trust the system.
I trust the people I got in there to get this done.
Sure, we made a few missteps here and there, but I believe we can do this in the current law and do it right without any politics, just with the facts and the evidence.
And I just want the American people to have the truth.
And if someone committed a crime to be prosecuted, it's really remarkable how hands-off the president is in terms of, I don't want to meddle with the system.
I just know the right thing for the American people is transparency, accountability, and then let's shrink this government so it's not in our face anymore going forward.
John, last thing.
You've been all over this, but this Autopen situation is actually, I think, deeper and actually more criminal than anything I've ever seen.
I think this could be a Bordicade-level situation with the deep state.
Do you believe that'll be handled?
Do you think that'll be handled separately and DOJ will handle that?
What do you think about this Autopen that's just really important?
Great question.
One could argue.
Yeah.
I think one could argue that hiding Joe Biden's mental decline from the American people is another form of the conspiracy, right?
First, you protect his son, then you protect his classified documents, and then you protect his mental decline.
I would imagine that if Pam Bondi and the experts at the Justice Department sit down, they could get all of this because it's one big continuum.
It's one effort to use the government time and again to hide from the American people the truth, to use intelligence and law enforcement to punish political enemies.
And I think the continuation of that is all the way through.
Now, that's my personal opinion, that you look at Joe Biden's hiding and the switcheroo at the top of the ticket as the final act in the conspiracy.
First, you hide his corruption, then you hide his classified documents, then you hide his mental decline.
I think it makes sense to have it all under one prosecutor, give someone everyone in America can trust who's serious about the facts, not going to carry out political vendettas, just carry out the law.
I think you can solve all of this, and we can move on to the people's business while that's going on and get this country fixed.
Last thing, you know, Brennan's been on TV, but Weissman in that crowd on MSNBC are saying, hey, Solomon and Fenton and Bannon are all wrong.
At worst case, this is about lying to Congress, this perjury, that the statute of limits has well passed any of this, and these guys are just kicking up another conspiracy.
Can you give me a technical answer on that to these guys?
You can go back and look at, and I've brought multiple legal experts on.
I had Bud Cummins, former U.S. Attorney in Little Rock on the show last night.
You can go back and charge old crimes if you can show it as a continuation of an ongoing conspiracy.
Now, I'll take my reporting and its credibility over Andrew Weissman's statements over the last 10 years any day or night.
I'll challenge a debate.
I think I win that on facts.
But listen, the real question is, does this rise to criminality?
And I think you have to have a grand jury look at it and make the law assumption.
All I know is that there's a predicated investigation that starts the process.
We should apply the law, not hijack the law and let the experts do this.
Get someone we can trust.
That's the key thing.
We don't trust government for a good reason.
They've betrayed us for the last 25 years on over and over and over again.
The 2008 gift at Jeffrey Epstein, the IRS targeting conservatives, the Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment.
There's good reason to distrust the government.
But if you get a transformational good figure that everybody can trust, we can get the truth and then we apply the law to that truth.
I don't know whether there'll be charges made, but I do know the process is now in place to at least get to a real prosecutorial investigation and have the evidence that John Durham was deprived to show a jury.
Imagine you're John Durham.
You can't show him the Clinton intelligence.
I mean, that's like the big smoking gun.
You can't show it to the grand jury because it stayed classified.
John, this is a blockbuster interview.
Social media, where do people go?
You're going to play it without commercial interruption tonight.
We're going to follow you at 6 o'clock.
So that's going to be the first shot.
Yeah, 6 o'clock on TV.
Just the news, no noise.
We'll follow your show.
Then justthenews.com.
We'll have about 8, 10 stories over the next hour, Amanda and I, who conducted the interview with me.
And then Jay Solomon reports on all social media accounts.
We'll have this ripped for the next couple of days.
And by the way, we're going to put up a transcript.
Unlike most new organizations, you can see every word that the president uttered.
John, thank you so much.
We'll start the pregame at 5.30 on War Room.
Sir, thank you so much.
Sounds great, my friend.
Thank you.
John Solomon, with a blockbuster interview.
First off, the president said, has told John Solomon he's not going to fire Jerome Powell.
That in and of itself would be a market mover.
And what he said is that it may, as much as President Trump is disappointed, he calls him too late Jones or too late Powell.
And President Trump is asking for or really says you should have a 300 basis point cut to a 300 basis point cut to interest rates.
He's not going to remove him, even though there's a massive investigation going on on the Tosh Mall.
If anybody hasn't been down in front of the Federal Reserve, it's pretty shocking what's going on.
You've got to actually go by the building itself and see what they're doing.
It is a new Versailles.
It's pretty shocking.
We want to do away with the Federal Reserve or at least cut it in half.
Okay, we're still waiting for the Crown Prince of Bahrain.
We're going to cover that.
President Trump's going to be a presser.
Charlie Kirk is going to follow us at 12.
Some of that may take place from inside the Oval Office.
President Trump probably going to do a presser or press a veil as it's called right there.
You see the Honor Guard ready.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to return to the White House in a moment.
We're going to return to the White House in a moment.
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
We're going to go back to the shot.
We're going to go back to the shot right now of Bahrain.
So John Solomon, already some controversy.
I think some of the confusion.
A White House official saying that he may actually fire Jay Powell, and he's moving that, told John Solomon he would not.
John Solomon, I think someone put out the clip from his interview on that.
John Solomon reiterate they're going to do a, that the president thinks, first time he's hearing about it, but the grand conspiracy investigation that's taking place by the FBI.
This goes back to crossfire hurricane.
It goes back, I guess before that, to Hillary Clinton being exonerated.
Crossfire hurricane started immediately after that.
So they're going to go back to the summer of 2016.
They're going to go back also to the nullification project, which became the Moeller Investigation.
John Solomon agrees with me that that was all a coup attempt to try to remove President Trump from office.
It was very evident what they were trying to do.
They were trying to thwart President Trump initially and try to make sure that his entire presidency was questioned by Russian collusion, which is a total lie, as that was proven.
That the Mole investigation was done just to grind his administration down and get him to focus on that.
Then later, they threw out the phony, the perfect, the beautiful perfect phone call with Zelensky.
That's one of the reasons I've never trusted Zelensky for one second and would never trust Zelensky, given what he did to President Trump in August of 2019 that led to the impeachment movement by Nancy Pelosi.
That's because that's what they ran on in the midterm elections in 2018 when they won, I forget, I don't know, 40, 50 seats, right?
Took control of the House, made Nancy Pelosi the speaker.
She was looking for the first opportunity to impeach Trump that used the bogus situation about the arms to Ukraine as completely bogus in Zelensky.
Good news was the formation of this show.
I finally realized and said, hey, I've been thinking about this for a long time, but given the fact that nobody's talking really about the impeachment, this was in September when Pelosi came out.
We started the show in late September, right, the 1st of August, Warham Impeachment.
Even the White House at the time, and this may be pertinent till today, when we first started Warhammer Impeachment, John Fredericks, I originally saw on the John Fredericks radio network.
I think John had a couple of stations in Richmond, my hometown.
The Real America's voice, Rob Signal, the guys jumped in, I think, after we'd been up like a week or five days.
The White House said, no, that's all fake news.
There's not going to be any impeachment.
And I kept saying, I don't know if they're paying attention here, but they will impeach.
The House will impeach him by Thanksgiving.
They'll turn it over to the Senate.
They'll have a trial.
They won't be able to remove him.
They don't have the votes, but it'll be done by Christmas, but to smear him to kick off the 2020 campaign.
Now, I was wrong by about a month, I think.
I think they did impeach him.
I think the final impeachment came before Christmas.
They kicked it over to the Senate.
The Senate finally started getting involved in it in late January.
We shifted to war and pandemic because, once again, being ahead of the curve, we said, hey, something's happening in China.
It's going to be a pretty big deal.
You can see what the CCP is trying to do, trying to crush President Trump's reelection possibilities.
They'll pull out anything, including a bioweapon from the Wuhan lab.
So we shifted half the show to war and pandemic.
The other was war and impeachment, for those of you that go back that far with the show.
We like being ahead of the curve.
I think, according to John Solomon and the reporting he's doing on his interview with the president, the president fully supports this criminal conspiracy investigations going on by the FBI.
He also supports, which a lot of people are talking about right now, he supports right now people, maybe the announcement he said he'd go along with it.
That would be fine.
First, he's hearing about it, according to John Solomon's interview, is announcing a special counsel or special prosecutor, however you want to deem it, that would actually take over whatever the FBI is doing.
You impanel a grand jury and a criminal grand jury.
This would be a criminal conspiracy.
As John Solomon said, counter to what MSNBC, and I think that they are hoping that it just, that the statute of limitations has washed away or made beyond reach their crimes.
But if it's ongoing criminal conspiracy, you can actually impanel a grand jury and go for it.
Now it's a special prosecutor, and it's not just about perjury to the House members or the House committees.
It's actually far deeper than that.
The Supreme Court is giving the President, now we have two very powerful weapons to go after and take down the deep state.
You have a criminal conspiracy investigation that looks like it might have a special counsel announced to take that over.
The president also said, hey, fine, let's put the Epstein thing in there to make sure somebody can go through it and release the documents in some sort of formal capacity so people make sure that it's been reviewed, it's been looked at, and what you're seeing is accurate what was proposed.
That's what we've been saying from the get-go.
The way to move the ball forward here and make sure that everybody's accommodated, particularly people who want to see the truth, is that process.
It looks like, according to John Solomon in this interview, that is exactly what's taking place.
The Supreme Court has backed up the president, also his Article II power as chief executive to basically downsize the apparatus.
And what happened at State Department and what happened at the okay, guys, please don't play with my picture back up in a second, hopefully.
That what's happened with the Supreme Court, what's happened with the Supreme Court is so important because the Supreme Court has come back and has backed the President of the United States in this situation of downsizing these departments.
And there's not a better tool for going after the deep state than actually go in and start to take apart parts of the FBI, parts of the CIA, of the 17 different intelligence agencies that report to Tulsi Gabbard do that, part of the Defense Department, Justice Department, all of it.
This interconnectivity, this interconnection of the national security apparatus and the legal apparatus and the intelligence apparatus, that combines.
They're heading inside?
Okay, we've had a freeze on the thing.
They're heading inside right now.
I guess we're frozen on our camera shot.
Okay.
I've had a freeze up there.
Anyway, the Crown Prince is there.
The Prime Minister is there.
We'll get a shot up here in a second.
Had some issues technologically.
Not to worry.
John Solomon.
John Solomon has gotten back to me.
He's not firing Powell.
He's putting up the quotes, ASAP.
And that's where we stand.
There we go right there.
Have we blown the brake?
Are we got six?
Okay.
We've had a slight technical problem here in our remote studio.
I want to make sure you get there.
There's a picture of the White House.
Froze up.
A lot of news.
John Solomon just reports, and maybe we can get John Solomon on phone to call in.
I'll try that.
Can you call?
Okay.
We're going to try to get John Solomon to call in.
If we can please stop that reverberation I have in my ear.
Okay.
Big news this morning.
John Solomon has said the President of the United States is not going to fire Jerome Powell.
It's in his interview.
He's putting the clip up even as we speak.
And if guys, we can grab that clip at Real America's Voice would be fantastic.
The Crown Prince of Bahrain and the Prime Minister are now in the White House.
I think momentarily, hopefully we'll be going to the President Trump has made it open to the press.
That normally means there's going to be a press available and the president will probably be answering a host of Questions.
Like I said, just gave a great interview with John Solomon.
There's the color guard right there.
Is that on delay?
Because if he's already in, then they shouldn't be going to the okay, fine.
Actually, interesting way to leave, but there they are right there.
Sorry for the technical problem.
Okay, so we're back.
We're not going to blow the break.
We're going to go to break.
It would be helpful if I knew what's going on here, guys.
Okay.
By the way, you can blow the break, keep the break.
I'll do whatever.
It's been a big, big news morning.
So right now, like I said, it's going to be a press evaluate with the president.
We've had a show today that kind of walked you through the fundamentals.
Number one, Richard Barris came on.
The polling.
The president's polling on economics is stronger than ever.
That's why yesterday you saw Jane Zirkle up at the House and Jane Zirkle sitting there and talking to.
They made available the congressman finally.
The congressman saying, hey, this is what's positive about the Big Beautiful Bill.
This is some of the issues that I think we've got to cover.
Those issues all centered around virtually.
They centered around cutting spending.
That's the importance of the, although it's symbolic, this bill that cuts spending, $9 billion, particularly symbolic, it cuts NPR and it cuts PBS.
So those organizations will essentially be out of money.
Now they'll have to look to private donors as they should because it's basically a leftist organization with not just progressive news, but anti-Trump, anti-MAGA consistent news.
So that is historic in its nature.
And Russ Vote and the team have worked on that.
To dovetail what these congressmen are saying, you have to focus on the spending cuts.
And right now, votes rescissions package has taken weeks and weeks and weeks to get through.
I think two things you're going to see, particularly the fact that we're going to have a CR on midnight or the 30th because they can't get the appropriations bills done.
So this audience has got to get yourself ready for that.
You can have a number of rescissions.
You can do pocket rescissions between now and September 30th and cut out huge swaths of the spending of the federal government.
Or you can just impound the money.
Either of them work.
One of them is using Capitol Hill, the other is just using the innate power of the president to do it.
Now, clearly they're going to try to sue and go to court on that, but I don't see how the courts have backed you on downsizing as they have of downsizing these, of downsizing the situation with downsizing the situation at the State Department and downsizing the situation, particularly at the Department of Education.
And we had Congressman Mark Harris on here on a two-pronged attack that not only can President Trump, and they said last night, and Linda McMahon, Secretary Linda McMahon said, hey, in the next couple of weeks, you're going to see a true deconstruction of the Department of Education.
Simultaneously, the federal charter for the National Education Association, he's put up a bill with, I think, 28 co-sponsors to essentially strip, to essentially strip the federal charter given in 1906 of NEA because NEA works like a PAC now.
If you don't think the NEA is a political organization, watch what's happening on the streets of New York City.
I do not believe people have understood the power, the negative power of what they put together in New York City coming out of the schools, coming out of the universities.
They've essentially turned the schools and universities into PACs.
How was that done?
A big part of it at the school level was done by the NEA.
So you have a two-pronged approach on this.
Most importantly, the takeaway for the Article II powers of the president, the courts are backing him up.
This is why I think it's so important that this investigation go down.
Now, John wants to go more traditional.
John's been around a lot longer than I have.
I am with Tom Finton 100% on this.
And I think Mike Davis, that I would love for this to actually, the special counsel to report directly to the office of the president.
I think the courts will hold that up.
Once again, it's one of his Article II powers.
Also, the Justice Department, the FBI are overwhelmed right now.
And Pam's doing a great job on managing the various lawyers that are in court every day on the 100 lawsuits against President Trump for his powers.
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Fancy two titles, I want to say.
I don't know if I'd rather be the Prime Minister or the Crown Prince.
I think I'd take the Crown Prince.
And very importantly, your son, your beautiful son, who has a great reputation.
You know that.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Great reputation as a smart, hardworking guy.
So it's good to say hello to you.
Congratulations.
We've had a tremendous relationship, I have personally, with Bahrain over the years and has been a fantastic ally.
And anything they needed, we helped them.
And anything we needed, they helped us.
And we're going to be talking about a lot of different things, including the most perfect military maneuver that anybody's seen probably in 50 years, which took place a few weeks ago.
And Iran knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity.
And it was obliterated.
I used that term to say, well, maybe that's too much.
I said, no, it turns out it was more than obliterated.
They can't go back.
And we're just really going to talk about some things, including trade.
We're going to be discussing trade.
We do a lot of trading with Bahrain.
And we're going to have lunch after this, but we'll take some questions.
First, I'd like to ask the Crown Prince to say a couple of words.
He also has a father who's living and well and doing fantastically, as I understand it.
He is.
And somebody who's respected all over the Middle East and all over the world.
And thank you very much for being here.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, one and all.
It is indeed a great honor to be here on this fine morning to put into action the relationship that exists between our two countries.
We will be discussing security issues, we will be discussing trade and investment, which is very important.
We are very happy to be announcing $17 billion worth of deals that are coming to the United States.
And this is real.
These aren't fake deals.
These are real deals.
You don't have to borrow the money.
We don't have to borrow it.
It's coming in.
And it only builds upon a legacy that we're very proud of.
We have had a relationship in the civil side between our two countries since 1893 and formally since 1948.
So may it long continue and we look forward to many, many more years of productive partnership.
Thank you, Mr. President.
You will honor us.
We will have that indeed.
We'll have many good years, and I'd say right now is your top year.
And we appreciate the investment.
We left, as you know, Saudi Arabia.
We were just there, Saudi Arabia.
Qatar was so great.
Leaders great.
We had UAE.
We had a couple of other visits, but all great places.
And we left with $5.1 trillion of investment.
And they all want to be investing in the United States.
I think we have over $16 trillion of investment coming in, which is a record.
And we're only a little bit into the year.
And let's say the first two months I sort of took it easy because we had to fix up the Oval Office.
I had to devote my time to fixing it up.
But now we had to fix up our country.
So we have, I think everyone is saying we have the hottest country now anywhere in the world.
We were dead a year ago.
We are a dead country.
And now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
And it's a great honor to have you here.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Any questions?
So I think there's all the developments in Syria at the moment.
Well, I can comment.
I think I'll ask Marco to say a few words on Syria.
Yeah, it's complicated, obviously.
These are historic, long-time rivalries between different groups in the southwest of Syria, Bedouins, the Druze community, and it led to an unfortunate situation and a misunderstanding, it looks like, between the Israeli side and the Syrian side.
So we've been engaged with them all morning long and all night long with both sides.
And we think we're on our way towards a real de-escalation and then hopefully get back on track in helping Syria build the country and arriving at a situation there in the Middle East that's far more stable.
So in the next few hours, we hope to see some real progress to end what you've been seeing over the last couple hours.
Mr. President, Jerome Powell, do you have plans or if you're back considering firing Jerome Powell?
What's your justification if you're thinking about this to do this?
He's always been too late, hence his nickname too late.
He should have cut interest rates a long time ago.
Europe has cut him ten times in the short period of time, and we cut him none.
The only time he cut him was just before the election to try and help Kamala or Biden, whoever the hell it was, because nobody really knew.
Obviously that didn't work, but he tried to cut him for the Democrats, Kamala.
And how did that work out?
You'll tell me.
It didn't work out too well, did it?
But he's, I think he does a terrible job.
He's costing us a lot of money.
And we fight through it.
It's almost, the country's become so successful that it doesn't have a big impact.
But it does hurt people wanting to get a mortgage.
People want to buy a house.
He's a terrible Fed chair.
I was surprised he was appointed.
I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him.
But they did.
So, no, we're not planning on doing anything.
We're very concerned.
He's doing a little renovation for $2.5 billion of the Fed.
Building a renovation, and they have close to $900 million cost overrun.
And it's a shame.
But the biggest cost overrun is the cost overrun for interest rates, because we should be paying three points lower, and we would save a trillion dollars a year in interest if that were the case.
And all it is is the stroke of a pen.
And that goes for his board, too, because his board is not doing the job because they should try and rein this guy in.
So he's doing a lousy job, but no, I'm not talking about that.
Fortunately, we get to make a change in the next, what, eight months or so?
And we'll pick somebody that's good, and we'll pick somebody.
I just want a fair job.
We want to see lower interest rates.
Our country deserves it.
We're making a lot of money.
We're doing great as a country.
We have no inflation.
Record stock market, record business, record everything.
Everything's a record now.
We had the worst inflation in history under Biden, and now we have almost no inflation.
We've done a great job, and we should have the interest rates cut.
So you were saying the other day that Scott Besson, you're so happy with him at Treasury that he's not your top option to replace Trump Howell, whenever that may be, whenever you decide what you want to do with him.
Scott's doing a very good job.
I'm very happy with Scott.
Is Kevin Hassen?
Kevin's somebody would consider, Sha.
Kevin is fantastic, too.
We have a lot of good people for that job.
It's not a tough job, to be honest.
Assuming you're smart, it's not a tough job.
If you're a dummy, then I guess it's a tough job.
But it might be one of the easiest jobs I've ever seen.
And now on top of it, he's building a close to $3 billion little nest egg for himself.
He's not doing the right job.
We should be saving a trillion dollars a year on interest, you know, when he talks about cost.
We should be saving, think of it, a trillion dollars a year.
Add that with the tariffs and everything else.
But he just doesn't want it.
He's a knucklehead.
But we'll see how that, we'll see how he's listening to this.
That's a strange conversation.
But, you know, we like to say it like it is.
But we have a lot of people that want that job very badly.
And I'm only interested in low-interest people, frankly, because you don't need, I know, so they had the 71 different economists and people that they experts that they picked about a month ago.
I was the only one, along with one person from maybe the Wharton School of Finance, the two of us got it right.
69 people, including Powell, got it wrong.
And he wants to hire thousands of new people to help him decide where we're going.
It only takes one good mind.
It doesn't take 5,000 good minds.
So they're expanding the Fed.
It's the dumbest thing I've heard of.
But you know, it's very autonomous.
Okay, this is the war room.
We'll be back at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
We're going to turn it over to Charlie Kirk.
We're going to continue coverage of the President in the Oval Office.
But I think it's highly unlikely unless he has to leave for fraud.
I mean, it's possible there's fraud involved with the $2.5 bill, $2.7 billion renovation.
This is a renovation.
How do you spend $2.7 billion?
And he didn't have proper clearance, et cetera, et cetera.
So you know that's going on.
So there could be something to that.
But I think he's not doing a good job.
He's got a very easy job to do.
You know what he has to do?
Lower interest rates.
Have you drafted a letter to tell you how if you decide that you are going to fire him?
Have you drafted a letter?
I have drafted a letter.
So you didn't show a letter to Republican lawmakers last night?
No, I talked about the concept of fire him.
I said, what do you think?
Almost every one of them said I should.
But I'm more conservative than they are.
Oh, no, we did.
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