July 22, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| One of the strategies in that election, sort of fighting fire with fire, it seems like redistricting is going to be an issue here. | ||
| We've already seen Texas Governor Greg Abbott announcing he would move forward with asking the state legislature to redraw Texas's maps after a push from the White House. | ||
| It seems we may see a similar effort from California Governor Gavin Newsom, even though the dynamics in that state are a little bit different than Texas. | ||
| But I guess my question is, do you support that type of effort in regards to strategy for the midterm election? | ||
| You know, I think generally voters choose their elected officials and not the other way around. | ||
| And I have always been a proponent of redistricting that keeps communities together and produces fair competitive results. | ||
| But not partisan redistricting, as you introduced an act before, sort of going against partisan redistricting. | ||
| In an ideal work, that's exactly right. | ||
| I think Republicans need to understand if they go down this path that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. | ||
| And they can't expect Democrats to sit back and let them change the rules of the game and not respond. | ||
| But ideally, everybody should keep redistricting once every 10 years to create fair maps that allow voters to elect their representatives rather than representatives to choose their constituents. | ||
| Hey, Heidi neighbors, Brian Harrison here to come to you from the floor of the House. | ||
| Property taxes are so important to the leadership of this corrupt body that we gaveled in, gaveled out about 10 minutes later. | ||
| And then I can break to you right now, we are going to work a two-day work week this week. | ||
| And as of yet, zero bills have been even referred to start dealing with property taxes. | ||
| So not getting up to a good start here. | ||
| And then, of course, the speaker put the head of the Democrat caucus, Gene Lee, who just threatened to break quorum to prevent Trump's redistricting agenda in Texas, put him on his newly formed select committee on redistricting. | ||
| So I'm sorry, guys, the special session is not shaping up as of yet to be much better than the regular sessions. | ||
| A continual betrayal of the conservative Republican voters of the state of Texas, but nonetheless, it's mine to fight for you. | ||
| So God bless you and God bless Texas. | ||
| I'll keep you posted. | ||
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Caroline, you mentioned there also Israel. | |
| We've seen stepping up some attacks in Gaza. | ||
| Has the president expressed his frustration with Netanyahu and how does this impact the ceasefire negotiations? | ||
| Well, look, the president enjoys a good working relationship with Prime Minister B.B. Netanyahu and stays in frequent communication with him. | ||
| He was caught off guard by the bombing in Syria and also the bombing of the Catholic Church in Gaza, which, as you know, I addressed at my briefing last week. | ||
| And in both accounts, the president quickly called the Prime Minister to rectify those situations. | ||
| And we saw Secretary Rubio intervene when it came to Syria. | ||
| We saw a de-escalation there. | ||
| And as for the bombing of the Catholic Church in Gaza, the Prime Minister did put out a statement saying this was an accident and they deeply regretted that action on behalf of the state of Israel following his conversation with the president. | ||
| This is the final scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| You guys not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you 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 line? | ||
| MAGA 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. Bannon. | |
| you you you Okay, it's Monday, 21 July, Year of Reload 2025. | ||
| A lot to get to today. | ||
| Julie Kelly and Sam Fattis are going to be here shortly about all the investigations. | ||
| We got a big update on artificial intelligence. | ||
| But we got to start in the great state of Texas. | ||
| Remember, folks, Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement. | ||
| They are bound and determined to turn it purple and then blue, as goes Texas, so goes the nation. | ||
| President Trump announced that, and we had deGrosse on here. | ||
| DeGrosse was off for a few days on his honeymoon. | ||
| But deGrosse was on here walking through the actual districts in Texas that make sense. | ||
| I think there's five districts to be redistricted. | ||
| But then this afternoon, we get this social media post by Brian Harrison. | ||
| Brian joins us now from the Texas legislature. | ||
| Brian, I'm totally cornfused. | ||
| How is this Radical Democrat put on the select committee when we thought one of the reasons you're in special session, you've got a couple things you have to do, but this is one of the priorities. | ||
| Why are we putting a Radical Democrat on the Select Committee, and is he going to chop block everything? | ||
| Is this thing going to get off? | ||
| I mean, President Trump is counting on the redishing of these five seats, sir. | ||
| Well, it's just a continued total betrayal of the fake Republicans that control the Texas House. | ||
| And even though you alluded to this, I mean, Texas has long been the crown jewel of the progressive left's plan to take over America. | ||
| If we lose Texas, we'll never have another Republican in the White House. | ||
| And the Democrats are hell-bent on derailing the Trump agenda at any cost. | ||
| So the state of Texas, as far as I'm concerned, we should be doing everything we can as a state that re-elected him with a 14-point landslide to lock arms with President Trump and advance his agenda. | ||
| And that includes here on the redistricting plan because we've got a chance to play a role in making sure that the U.S. Congress doesn't fall to the radical Democrats in the upcoming midterms. | ||
| But what does our fake Republican speaker do down here, a speaker selected by the Democrat caucus? | ||
| Gene Wu, the chair of the Texas House Democrat Caucus, goes out and does a press conference this morning where he literally puts them quorum breaking, walking out in order to thwart the Trump agenda explicitly on the table. | ||
| And then just minutes later, our Rhino speaker appoints him to a newly formed select committee on what? | ||
| Redistricting. | ||
| And then even since I learned that, two more quotes I'll give you from two other radical Democrats that he put on the redistricting committee. | ||
| This is Trump's plan for redistricting. | ||
| He puts these Democrats who said the following things just today. | ||
| One, by Representative Turner, he says, quote, we will do all we can to fight back against Donald Trump. | ||
| And then get this. | ||
| He actually made a Democrat the co-chairman of the redistricting committee. | ||
| Let me read you two sentences from the newly appointed Democrat co-chair of the redistricting committee. | ||
| Quote, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans want to prioritize going after congressional districts by stealing them while ignoring the people's voices. | ||
| Serving as vice chair of the House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting is a responsibility I take seriously because the stakes couldn't be higher. | ||
| I'm ready to fight back against President Trump. | ||
| That is the Democrat newly appointed co-chairman of the redistricting committee here in the great state of Texas. | ||
| It is an absolute betrayal of the conservative, Republican, Trump-supporting voters here in the state of Texas. | ||
| So, Brian, I'm missing something. | ||
| This is a priority, not just priority in Texas. | ||
| This is a priority from the man. | ||
| This is a priority of President Trump. | ||
| He said over the last week, this redistricting is central to his 2026 plan, not just to hold the House, but to increase the House so we don't have all these hang-ups on these bills. | ||
| Every bill is now trench warfare. | ||
| How did that message not get down to the leadership in Texas, sir? | ||
| Well, it's a question that has vexed me since I got elected. | ||
| I mean, as you know, Steve, I had the privilege of serving as a senior member of Trump's first administration. | ||
| I was excited to get elected to the Texas legislature because I assumed every elected Republican in Texas was fighting as hard for the freedom and liberty of the next generation as those of us who had served under President Trump. | ||
| And what I've learned down here is that we have a bunch of people who are effectively Democrats, but they can't get elected if they tell the truth about themselves, so they run as Republicans. | ||
| But then they turn around and then empower the very radical Democrats that they tell their voters they're going to oppose. | ||
| So I'll tell you how this happens. | ||
| We have a Republican, a nominally Republican speaker, but the secret that very few people understand is that it was actually the Democrat caucus that selected our speaker. | ||
| About 30 rhinos teamed up with the entire Democrat caucus in the Texas House, and they selected the House leadership. | ||
| So even though the voters of Texas re-elected Trump by 14 points and gave us a 26-seat majority in the Texas House of Representatives, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's team quite literally is in charge of the Republican-dominated House in the state of Texas. | ||
| I actually argue it's one of the biggest forms of voter fraud that's ever been perpetrated in these United States. | ||
| So why are we even having a special session? | ||
| What are the objectives? | ||
| Because I know these aren't, they try not to call these to it. | ||
| Why are you having a special session now in the blazing hot summer of Texas? | ||
| It is warm down here. | ||
| I mean, look, one of the obviously the redistricting thing, but then the other reason we should have one, and I was the first elected official here to call on Governor Abbott to do this, was to fix one of the biggest failures that we had during the regular session, which is that we decided to vote to keep property taxes sky high and tax Texans out of their homes to continue funding basically a continuation of the Biden agenda. | ||
| The Texas government might be the biggest funder of DEI in America. | ||
| We're funding transgender indoctrination in our public universities, but then also property taxes were not addressed. | ||
| And people think we're this small government, low-tax state, but the reality is Texas has one of, if not the highest property tax rate of any Republican state in America. | ||
| It's an outrage. | ||
| Texans are being taxed out of their homes, again, to fund the progressive left's ideology. | ||
| And I find that totally unacceptable. | ||
| So that's the reason I was calling for a special session is because we failed to do anything meaningful to get property taxes down. | ||
| And they're just burdening 30 million Texans and it's untenable. | ||
| But since we're here and since the president's got a need and national Republicans have a need to make sure that the radical Democrats and Jakeem Jeffries don't take over the U.S. Congress, we should do that. | ||
| We should lower property taxes and we should start acting like the conservative Republican state, the bastion of liberty and the beacon of freedom that everybody believes that we are. | ||
| But because of these weak establishment sellout rhinos controlling our legislature, we've just got Democrats running the show. | ||
| We've got four weeks of this special session and the speaker put out the schedule a day or two ago. | ||
| We're only going to be on the floor for 10 minutes today and maybe a few minutes on Thursday. | ||
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That's it. | |
| So that's a quarter of the session that's going to be gone before we even start getting to work with the people's business and the people, not just in Texas, but the people all across the country and President Trump. | ||
| Okay, how are we going to go forward? | ||
| This redistricting is beyond importance. | ||
| So what's your recommendation of going forward and how can the Warren Posse participate and assist our brethren down in Texas? | ||
| First off, we have a huge audience in Texas, but for those not in Texas, how can we help also? | ||
| Well, I'm grateful to the posse. | ||
| Y'all have helped us defeat the Austin swamp so many times. | ||
| The Austin media, the Texas media, they're lazy, they're liberal, so they don't cover the real story. | ||
| But I try to post every day, including from the floor on my X feed, which is at BrianE. | ||
| Harrison, at BrianE. | ||
| Harrison on X. Pretty much the only truthful news you're going to get out of the capital of Texas. | ||
| So please go and amplify that at Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| But then if you're in Texas especially, figure out who elects you or who represents you from the governor on down in the state of Texas. | ||
| And you reach out to them privately through emails and phone calls, but also publicly. | ||
| Go to their Facebook, go to their X accounts, and you ask them, what are they doing to stand up to the corrupt liberal Rhino leadership in the Texas legislature that's selling out President Trump, that's selling out Republicans, that's selling out congressional Republicans, and that's selling out conservatives because they want to tax Texans out of their homes to fund the Biden-Harris agenda. | ||
| Ask them those questions. | ||
| What are you doing to stand up to the corrupt leadership in the Texas legislature that's allowing Democrats to run the show? | ||
| And if you don't get an answer, you keep asking them. | ||
| I mean, ask them publicly. | ||
| Brian, one more time, your Twitter feed. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| At Brian E. Harrison on X. That's at Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| And let me tell you, we do occasionally have victories against this. | ||
| It's the same coalition in Texas that used to challenge us in Trump's first term and now Trump's second term, which is the Democrats. | ||
| They're mouthpieces in the liberal media, but also weak and maybe worst of all, weak establishment Republicans. | ||
| We can defeat them when we rally from the ground up and put pressure on them and exposing, bringing transparency to the corruption that they want to perpetrate at the hands of so-called Republicans down here. | ||
| But when they're called out to task on it, we can defeat them. | ||
| So there's still time. | ||
| We've got a month. | ||
| We've got enough time. | ||
| And we've got the votes if the corrupt leadership would just get out of the way and let the Republicans down here act like Republicans and stop empowering the radical Jakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Democrats that have controlled this legislature for far too long. | ||
| Thank you, Brian. | ||
| I appreciate you taking time away, getting back to the office. | ||
| Appreciate you, my friend. | ||
| Appreciate your possibility. | ||
| God bless y'all. | ||
| We will be on this every day. | ||
| I cannot emphasize enough how important that redistricting is, folks. | ||
| You remember those of you with us remember the wars that you fought in Florida and Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, I think North Carolina before the 22 midterm. | ||
| We're here again, I think Ohio, but really Texas, the Texas five. | ||
| It makes sense. | ||
| It ought to be done. | ||
| It assists the people actually being represented by folks that believe what they believe. | ||
| We've got to get those five seats, bottom line. | ||
| And we will fight like hell the next four weeks. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Julie Kelly and Sam Fattis are with us. | ||
| All kind of breaking news today in these investigations. | ||
| We're going to get into all of that. | ||
| But behind the scenes in the imperial capital, the most brutal of all fights is over artificial intelligence. | ||
| The investment in it, the regulation in it, who wins, who loses. | ||
| Are we going to overtake the Chinese Communist Party or keep the lead over the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| And is that being used to scare us into any regulation at all? | ||
| Mark Beale from the AI Policy Network is going to join us after a short commercial break. | ||
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| Mark Beale. | ||
| So there was a short kind of story in Axios about a piece of legislation being put forth by Josh Hawley. | ||
| In fact, the senator is going to be with us, I think, on Wednesday to talk about it. | ||
| But I want to give people a heads up because, Mark, do you agree with my thesis? | ||
| I said with all the investigations going on, you got treason things, you got the Epstein. | ||
| I mean, things are at a boil in Washington. | ||
| Behind the scenes, the knives are out. | ||
| Also, I think even more so about artificial intelligence. | ||
| And the reason is people know that this is power and money. | ||
| And that's why, and it's about control, it's about population control. | ||
| Give me your thoughts of where we stand with the fight about AI and at least making sure that it's not just some totally unregulated where you have a handful of people that are driving this agenda and nobody really knows what's going on until it's too late versus some sort of at least sensible regulatory framework. | ||
| And how does this bill from Senator Hawley has been at the forefront of this fight with Blackburn? | ||
| How does this fit into it? | ||
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Hey, Steve. | |
| Yeah, this is really important. | ||
| I don't know if most Americans recognize just that the decisions being made in Washington today over AI will shape the future of the United States for 100 years or more. | ||
| And so while we're all kind of being, we're all focused on all these different headlines, behind the scenes, as you mentioned, there's this war that's being waged on the future of AI and its table stakes for the country and for the future of freedom and for the future of our constitutional republic. | ||
| So Senator Hawley, you know, he's long been a champion of kind of everyday folks. | ||
| I think, Steve, one of the phrases you used was the little people or the hobbits. | ||
| As a Tolkien fan, I always love that. | ||
| And, you know, those are the folks whose voices are not being heard from in Washington. | ||
| And, you know, Senator Hawley has taken a stand. | ||
| And he's saying with Senator Blumenthal, they put out this piece of legislation that basically says if an AI company uses data that was generated by an American for training their models, then they're going to be held viably accountable. | ||
| And it's a really interesting thing. | ||
| And it's one that's being litigated in the courts right now. | ||
| And so I have to applaud Senator Hawley for stepping up and asserting the role of Congress in an appropriate way and not leaving these decisions to the courts. | ||
| So this is more than just monetization. | ||
| What are they trying to do? | ||
| Because folks, remember we beat back the 10-year moratorium into the fact of that no states would have a say-so here or at least there'd be some sort of regulation, not just a free and total anarchy for a decade, because by then it'll be way, way too late. | ||
| Every time they move, every meeting they take, they're trying to figure out how to slip this thing. | ||
| They try to slip it into the NDAA and the Senate side and the House side, it's been beaten back, but you won't know that until you see the actual, the final bill. | ||
| Every time you turn around, they're trying to get this moratorium in there. | ||
| How does this put that a little bit in check? | ||
| Because we've killed that a couple of times, but you've got to be always on the alert of what the oligarchs are trying to do. | ||
| You know, it's unfortunate that some of our Republican colleagues are continuing to push on this, despite the quite severe repudiation during the big beautiful bill discussion in the Senate. | ||
| And I think the appropriate response here is not to ban states from doing anything for 10 years. | ||
| If you're going to make the argument that, look, the United States needs to beat China, we need a standard unified approach. | ||
| It's not that you say there's going to be no rules for the industry and 10 Years of just sort of free reign to pick the pockets of the American people. | ||
| Instead, you need the federal guardrails in place. | ||
| And I think there's definitely a negotiation and a deal to be had here. | ||
| So, federal preemption could make sense if it were to be accompanied by smart federal policy. | ||
| And I think Senator Hawley and Senator Bluenthal appear to be trying to do just that. | ||
| It's kind of like a first shot, an opening salvo in the discussion of what a good deal might look like. | ||
| What do you say the possibilities is this can pass? | ||
| We know that when you brought it to exposure in the big, beautiful bill, the 10-year moratorium, Ted Cruz was mocking us that we only had three votes against. | ||
| It was a long night. | ||
| And then we won 99 to 1. | ||
| As soon as you put the searchlight on this, it changes. | ||
| What about in this situation? | ||
| What is your recommendation for the legislative strategy? | ||
| This is the network. | ||
| You guys run this network to make sure that we get the appropriate laws passed. | ||
| What say you? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| You know, our network, it's a bit of a David versus Goliath fight, but we're going to fight the good fight to try to help inform members of Congress on what the technical story is of these technologies and where it's going and what the appropriate guardrails will be. | ||
| And, you know, whether or not Senator Hawley and Senator Bluenthal's legislation will pass, I think that it seems to me, at least, right now, to be a bit of a tough road. | ||
| Because at the core of the matter is issues of whether or not these companies have what they assert to be this idea of a right to train. | ||
| And, you know, if the companies are going to say, like, look, if we can't, you know, acquire data and use that data to train our models, then we're not going to have an AI industry and China is going to win. | ||
| And then, of course, on the other hand, you know, you have musicians, you have artists, you have content creators who are going to be in journalists and who are going to be displaced by these capabilities. | ||
| And so if Senator Hawley, Senator Bluenthal, if this piece of the exact piece of legislation, it may or may not pass this Congress, but what it does is it opens the discussion on what an appropriate balance could be and what a consensus view could be. | ||
| Because I do get concerned when I hear folks like Congressman Guthrie in the House continuing to push on this kind of blanket path for the industry. | ||
| And we have Americans out there that are, Americans are losing their job today. | ||
| I mean, we've already had hundreds of thousands of Americans lose their jobs because of AI in 2025. | ||
| As I understand it, unemployment among college, recent college graduates is the highest it's ever been. | ||
| We need a national discussion on what the right framework is. | ||
| But hang on, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, you're in the middle of this thing. | ||
| You're not buying the case that it's creating more jobs than it's taking away. | ||
| I mean, that's the pitch they're making. | ||
| For all the technology folks and STEM people that are whining and bitching and moaning, right? | ||
| I say that tongue-in-cheek, that are losing their jobs, the proponents of AI said, oh, you're missing the point. | ||
| We're actually creating many more jobs than are leaving. | ||
| Is that the analysis that your group understands the situation we're in? | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| I unfortunately don't think that's true. | ||
| I think there's this line out there that's been perpetuated by the industry and by all these management consulting companies that, and it says this, it says an AI won't steal your job, a human using AI will steal your job. | ||
| And I think that's kind of like the digital opiate of the masses for the 21st century. | ||
| I think AI will absolutely steal your job. | ||
| And even if it does empower you, and I'm not anti-technology, I use AI every day. | ||
| These are some amazing capabilities, but I'm very aware of the fact that I do not own that AI. | ||
| And if I were dependent upon that AI for my livelihood, I would be very nervous that that could be taken away at any point. | ||
| And I would have little control over that. | ||
| So this idea that's going to create you and jobs or not create new jobs, I just don't, I don't, I don't see it yet. | ||
| And it could be true, but I'm not buying it. | ||
| Mark, how do people get to you to find out more about this, Bill? | ||
| More about what you guys are doing on AI and the AI Policy Network, sir? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| We are at theaipn.org, the EIPN.org. | ||
| And you can follow me on Twitter at MarkBiel. | ||
| Mark, thank you so much for jumping in here, talking about this. | ||
| Joe Allen's going to join us a little later in the show. | ||
| We've got a lot more on artificial intelligence. | ||
| But Julie Kelly joins us. | ||
| Julie, we're going to play. | ||
| We got a clip we're going to play after the commercial break for you. | ||
| So much is happening today. | ||
| I mean, can you give us just a couple of the headlines of what you're tracking on these investigations, ma'am? | ||
| What time is it? | ||
| I mean, it's like we're getting hourly bombshell droppings, which is great. | ||
| So just following up on Tulsi Gabbard's, not just her release on Friday, but her comments over the weekend about a treasonous conspiracy and her belief that charges should be brought. | ||
| Today, Senator Grassley's release of the old Hillary Clinton mid-year exam inquiry, as they called it, at the FBI, and how, of course, as we know, it was not thorough, but we have more evidence. | ||
| Senator Grassley disclosing the now declassified appendix to Michael Horowitz's 2018 report investigating the mid-year examination. | ||
| So lots of things happening. | ||
| So we can chat after the break. | ||
| I got about a minute or two. | ||
| Let's talk about, I want to talk about that one specifically. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because a lot of the mainstream media is either trying to dismiss this or said we've heard this before. | ||
| Like, for instance, they're saying, oh, this is the IG report from Horror Woods. | ||
| Well, actually, it's not. | ||
| It's kind of the meat of it that he wasn't able to disclose. | ||
| So Grassley's now on board. | ||
| There are other people on board. | ||
| I understand from people at DNI that the whistleblowers are burning up the phone lines of people that have information. | ||
| We've got about a minute before we go to break. | ||
| Why is this what Grassley did today so important? | ||
| Because what it demonstrates, and I'm going through it, it's pretty lengthy and kind of goes back and forth, but what it proves is that the FBI had eight thumb drives of data collected from a major breach of federal government servers. | ||
| This included a trove of hacked emails from then President Barack Obama. | ||
| I think it could be tied to the 2015 email hacking of the State Department. | ||
| It Doesn't specify in this declassified appendix, but they had eight thumb drives of emails from the president and from the State Department. | ||
| And what some in the FBI were pushing, and it appeared like even early on Peter Strzok was doing this, is that they wanted to look at the source who had turned over the eight thumb drives, look at, to the extent that they could, the data and records on those thumb drives and cross-reference with anything with the ongoing Hillary Clinton investigation. | ||
| But lo and behold, I know you'll be shocked to find out, no one pursued it. | ||
| The matter was dropped, and no one looked at those eight thumb drives to see if it further implicated Hillary Clinton because Jim Comey had already decided the case was closed and no charges would be brought. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| Julie Kelly is with us in the war room. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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| The intelligence community is full of very, very good people who do their jobs every single day. | ||
| And now they're watching their leader do something that each and every one of them knows is dishonest. | ||
| And it is a really, really bad thing for the safety and security of the American people when that dynamic is out there. | ||
| Congressman Jim Him's blasting DNI Tulsi Gabbard's, quote, lie, her attempt to turn the spotlight perhaps away from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and Donald Trump's plunging poll numbers by resorting to the typical playbook of Donald Trump and his allies, fabricating and re-litigating a nine-year-old assessment that was just recently re-corroborated by Mr. Ratcliffe, Donald Trump's handpicked CIA director, that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and favored Donald Trump. | ||
| Gabbard released a report on Friday that she claims proves that the Obama administration intelligence officials manipulated and withheld evidence that Russia did not hack voting machines to change the outcome of the election, accusing those officials of a, quote, treasonous conspiracy in 2016, end quote, and referring them to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. | ||
| The problems here are many. | ||
| No investigation contended that Russia manipulated votes in 2016. | ||
| Not the initial assessment by intelligence officials, not the nearly two-year-long Mueller investigation, not the investigation by the Bilbar-appointed special counsel John Durham, and not the investigation by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee led by now Secretary of State Marco Rubio. | ||
| As the New York Times reports, those three investigations, quote, back the findings of American spy agencies in late 2016 that Russia was trying to influence the election by damaging Ms. Clinton's campaign and bolstering Mr. Trump, end quote. | ||
| Adding that, quote, the new report by Ms. Gabbard's staff conflates those two activities by the Russians and tries to suggest that the Obama administration force the intelligence community to alter its conclusions, end quote. | ||
| Okay, this is how they're blown back already. | ||
| And look, these people are very sophisticated. | ||
| They have huge platforms. | ||
| This is going to be a fight, right? | ||
| But we have to win this one. | ||
| If you don't win this one, number one, I think people are going to be so dispirited that, hey, we caught these guys red-handed and you couldn't prosecute them and the deep state actually runs thing. | ||
| Julie Kelly, you've seen the underbelly of this since you started on the J6 persecutions, not prosecutions. | ||
| Talk to me about what's coming up on this and the blowback you're getting. | ||
| Of course, Andy McCarthy in National Review has already taken a shot at Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| Walk me through your assessment of where we are on this. | ||
| So here's what they're trying to do, the Nicole Wallacees and John Brennan and Tim Heapey, who was on the January 6th Select Committee. | ||
| I wish someone would ask him about all the destroyed evidence that he produced on that committee. | ||
| But nonetheless, what they're trying to suggest is that what Tulsi Gabbard and others are saying is that the Obama regime, Obama White House inner circle, said that the voting machines were hacked and that the vote totals were impacted by the Russians. | ||
| I don't think that Tulsi Gabbard, I keep reading through her documents, I don't see that she has said that anywhere. | ||
| But they did say, and I'm rereading John Brennan's ICA, the 2017 one that's now been thoroughly discredited. | ||
| And he does talk about Russian cyber intrusions into state and local electoral boards. | ||
| They sent Lisa Monaco, DHS Secretary Jay Johnson, and Jim Comey to Capitol Hill in September of 2016, not to talk to the gang of eight and congressional leaders about, you know, $100,000 in Facebook ads that the Kremlin allegedly was going to put out saying mean things about Hillary Clinton. | ||
| No, they went with the express purpose of fomenting this fake belief that the Russians somehow were going to hack into our election system, our voting system, and that they needed to come out in a bipartisan way and denounce that. | ||
| Not Facebook ads, not Vladimir Putin saying nice things about Donald Trump. | ||
| They made this sound like it was going to be a very aggressive and vote-changing election outcome changing operation. | ||
| So this is what they talked about beforehand. | ||
| They talked about it publicly. | ||
| They talked about it after the election. | ||
| So to now conflate this with, well, now they're saying that the Obama people said and Brennan said that votes were impacted. | ||
| No, that's not what they said. | ||
| They specifically said that the Russians at Vladimir Putin was going to interfere, hack, assault. | ||
| They used a number of different descriptions for it, the elections to help Donald Trump win. | ||
| So now that they're all backing away, I love how Nicole Wallace is like, oh, this nine-year-old report with John Brennan sitting right there, who, of course, was responsible for it. | ||
| You know, they just will not stop the deception that this hoax relied on from day one to try to destroy Donald Trump and successfully disabled the first half of his first presidency with this Russia collusion hoax. | ||
| And of course, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that came up empty-handed on that score. | ||
| What they mocked, the Mike Lindells and the Machine folks in the 2020 election, they were trying to work up, get people worked up in the fall of 2016, but it never happened. | ||
| Also, let's go back to the Facebook ads. | ||
| I think Clapper was the guy that wrote the book. | ||
| Either Clapper or Hayden, one of the two, keep those nerds apart. | ||
| It might have been Hayden's book because they all wrote books, right? | ||
| In the book, I remember Aaron Burnett sitting there interviewing him, and she said, hey, look, in your entire book, you get down to it, and you're talking about $160,000 of Facebook ads that some group in Russia took that said, you know, Hillary Clinton was not the best. | ||
| That's still kind of the basic facts they had. | ||
| There were some Facebook ads that were done, is it not? | ||
| They never proved anything else. | ||
| And of course, in the December 8th, they had a phony IC assessment that they wanted to rework to basically show and to smear, I call it the nullification project, either to be able to remove Trump from office, but not doing that put enough doubt in American people's minds that he'd been fairly and freely elected, ma'am. | ||
| Right, correct. | ||
| So I think that the Facebook ads maybe were proven or somehow tied to the Kremlin or GRU or whatever, but we did all this for Facebook ads. | ||
| And now you have Tim Hevhe or whoever and the weirdo Tim, the other Tim from the Bulwark. | ||
| Now all of a sudden they're just poo-pooing and laughing this whole thing off. | ||
| It's pretty preposterous. | ||
| And also, Steve, recall, this all originated with the other lie, which is that the Russians hacked the DNC email server and that the Russians were responsible for the decimation, excuse me, dissemination of incriminating emails located on that server that threw the convention up for grabs in 2016, resulted in the resignation of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. | ||
| They blame that on the Russians. | ||
| And then we come to find out there's never been any evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC email system. | ||
| Sean Henry, who is the CEO of CrowdStrike, the firm that was hired by Fusion and DNC to look into the hack and then quickly determine that this Gussifer 2.0 working with the GRU had hacked the email system. | ||
| He told Congress a few years later, no, we never had the data. | ||
| We never had the servers. | ||
| We never had the machine. | ||
| We never could look at anything. | ||
| Of course, Jim Comey said that they never had it either. | ||
| So that's another lie, but that's really what I think initiated this narrative, or even if it sort of disputes what is specifically in the ICA, but certainly the idea that the Russians hacked into something. | ||
| And that's why it was called, you know, 2016 election hacking. | ||
| If you go through the news reports, that's all that they say is hacking. | ||
| Barack Obama suggested it in December of mid-December of 2016. | ||
| Tulsa Gabbard has that in her documents. | ||
| So to now back off and say, oh, no, no, no, the Russians really didn't do anything serious. | ||
| We didn't really say that they did anything serious. | ||
| We just said that they were influencing the election. | ||
| Well, of course, every major enemy of America wants to do that. | ||
| So just another, their attempt to rewrite history in the face of now more evidence and putting the puzzle pieces together on this unprecedented. | ||
| Well, the evidence has been put out. | ||
| The evidence is put out. | ||
| More evidence is coming. | ||
| And by the way, on the Facebook ads, I don't think it's the Russians. | ||
| It may be some group associated with the Russians. | ||
| I don't think that was ever proved. | ||
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| That's right. | ||
| As little as that is. | ||
| Talk to me about Lisa Monaco. | ||
| Why is she important? | ||
| Why does she pop up in the meeting in Obama's office? | ||
| Why does she pop up later as the deputy to Merrick Garland? | ||
| She's, you know, like the character Zelig. | ||
| She shows up everywhere. | ||
| There's bad stuff happening. | ||
| Who is she? | ||
| And I guess one of her deputies got subpoenaed today. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So Lisa Monaco is kind of like the where's Waldo of the nearly decade-long lawfare operation against the president and everyone around him. | ||
| So yeah, she was in that December 9th, 2016 White House meeting that we just found out about thanks to Tulsi Gabbard on Friday. | ||
| But Steve, the morning before that meeting, White House meeting, Lisa Monaco met with some of the top political White House and national security reporters in the country at a breakfast for Christian Science Monitor. | ||
| That's where she planted the very first seeds that the president, that President Obama was going to order his intelligence community to look at potential Russian interference, hacking, involvement in the election. | ||
| So she didn't say, we're going to look at some social media posts that were mean about Hillary Clinton and maybe the Russians funded. | ||
| No. | ||
| And who asked her the question? | ||
| And I've posted this clip. | ||
| I also have it at my Substack. | ||
| Who pitches the softball question to Lisa Monaco that morning, right before this December 9th meeting, where they then are scrambling to change the intelligence assessment and rework it and order this ICA? | ||
| Who asked her the question? | ||
| Yahoo News Michael Isakoff, who was responsible for the first article in September 2016 about the Steele dossier, about alleged ties between the Trump campaign, Carter Page, and the Russians to influence the election. | ||
| That newspaper article used in the FISA applications to seek a warrant to spy on Carter Page and by extension, the campaign and by extension, the president. | ||
| This was all so carefully orchestrated. | ||
| So that was Lisa Monaco. | ||
| She then leaves, obviously, the Obama White House. | ||
| He's run out of office, thankfully. | ||
| She spends four years as a CNN commentator going after the president. | ||
| She was one of the first to float the idea about using the Logan Act against Michael Flynn. | ||
| Joe Biden gets installed in the White House, and he picks Lisa Monaco to be his deputy attorney general, run the Department of Justice, where she picks up right where she left off in January of 2017, puts a team together to investigate the president for January 6th to help concoct the classified documents case, | ||
| which we learned about in those court proceedings, that NARA and the White House general counsel had been in touch with the Deputy Attorney General's office on how to proceed with a criminal referral for the alleged harboring of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| And she brings on this man named Thomas Wyndham, pulls him, I think he was at the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland, pulls him, puts him in the DCUS Attorney's Office, which was first investigating the president for January 6th and then classified documents. | ||
| He's like her little toady. | ||
| And he eventually then, after Jack Smith's appointed in November of 2022, Wyndham goes to the special counsel's office from the DCUS Attorney's Office, goes there and is one of the lead prosecutors with Molly Gastone on the January 6th case. | ||
| So he was asked to sit for a transcribed interview with House Judiciary last month where he, of course, surprisingly did not answer any questions. | ||
| They asked him questions about the special counsel. | ||
| They asked him questions about the January 6th Committee, questions about any correspondence he had with Fannie Willis, any interactions with the National Archives, which of course was also a lead operator in concocting the documents case, and the U.S. Postal Service asked him a bunch of questions. | ||
| He said he couldn't answer. | ||
| So now he has been subpoenaed today, got a subpoena from House Judiciary to sit for a deposit. | ||
| Hang over one second. | ||
| I'll be right back. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Battle. | |
| So, Jolie, he gets over there and he's not forced to answer. | ||
| Tell me the answers he was giving. | ||
| So he really wasn't giving any answer. | ||
| At first, he said he could not answer questions because the Department of Justice had not authorized him to answer questions. | ||
| So of course, the Trump Department of Justice immediately said, yes, you can give unrestricted testimony about any of the topics under inquiry by House Judiciary. | ||
| Well, that didn't suffice. | ||
| So then he relied on federal rules criminal procedure, Rule 6E, which relates to secrecy of grand jury proceedings. | ||
| That wasn't flying either. | ||
| And at one point, Chairman Jordan calls his obfuscations, you invoked an absurd and indefensible interpretation of the department's authorization, refusing to testify about communications with FBI officials on the grounds that FBI officials were not included in the definition of DOJ officials. | ||
| Now, of course, they are. | ||
| The FBI is a sub-agency of the Department of Justice. | ||
| So Tom Wyndham, used to doing whatever the hell he wants behind the scenes, running roughshod over everyone's rights, you know, having to work with Judge Tanya Chutkin, working hand in glove with her to deny the president his rights, put a gag order on the president in that case. | ||
| But then when he's finally confronted, he pretends he has all these rights and protections and privileges that he doesn't have. | ||
| And so Jim Jordan blowing the whistle on Tom Wyndham today and force subpoenaing him to sit for a deposition in September to answer a lot of these questions. | ||
| I would think especially his work with special counsel Jack Smith could be part of overall investigation into the special counsel's office, which we know was announced in January by Attorney General, well, the Weaponization Committee, but then part of what Pam Bonnie and the DOJ and Weaponization Working Group are looking at as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Julie, you're all over this now. | ||
| I know you're publishing something on Lisa Monaco you're working on. | ||
| Where do people, folks, you're going to want to know, you want to get your scorecard out and start finding out who these people are because we're going to make them all infamous. | ||
| If you want them perp walked, if you want them found, if you want them investigated and indicted and tried and then imprisoned and or other, you got to do the pick and shovel work. | ||
| Julie Kelly and others, a team of others are doing it. | ||
| Where do people go, Julie, to find out all your information and support your work, ma'am? | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| So I'm hoping to have my first, there's going to be a two-part series on Lisa Monaco as kind of the common thread in this so-called grand conspiracy investigation. | ||
| So my work is declassified with Julie Kelly at Substack. | ||
| And then you can find breaking news reporting on X Julie underscore Kelly2. | ||
| Julie Kelly, thank you very much for joining us today in the war room. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Talk soon. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Julie Kelly, Lisa Monaco. | ||
| That name will pop up a lot. | ||
| You should know there's a ton of people right now, not just at DNI, that are declassifying these and putting it forward. | ||
| Of course, the Martin Luther King files were put out today. | ||
| Also, I would say, hey, we're absolutely full up. | ||
| No need to give us the MLK files right now. | ||
| You eventually want them. | ||
| But I think people are kind of swamped, I think is an easy way to say it, because the people out there that are doing this, both at DNI, other places over at DOJ are absolutely, you know, they're bailing water. | ||
| They're so swamped in this thing. | ||
| So many, many people, of course, Julie Kelly and all the independent investigators and a lot of good stuff coming up on the different podcasts and shows. | ||
| So make sure this is starting to rev up right now. | ||
| And, of course, you're going to have not just the naysayers. | ||
| You're going to have the Nicole Wallaces and the entire apparatus beating back, beating back hard. | ||
| Abraham George, the head of the GOP in Texas, is going to join us next hour. | ||
| And Sam Fattis and Joe Allen are going to join us. | ||
| A lot broiling down in Texas. | ||
| We've got to get this redistricting right. | ||
| There's something that stinks already starting the special session down there, which we thought was kind of going to go swimmingly. | ||
| Already some bumps coming out at the beginning. | ||
| So we got to get our arms around that. | ||
| Abraham George will join us. | ||
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| Mike Lindell, you've been laboring away all day. | ||
| Walk me through what the latest update is for our deals with our folks. | ||
| I know people love them. | ||
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| What do you got for us this afternoon? | ||
| Right on. | ||
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| Mike Lindell, once again, what's the number to call? | ||
| People love to call, talk to your operators. | ||
| What number to call? | ||
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| I'm sorry. | ||
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| Promo code War Room. | ||
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| I will be taking at least five or ten of the calls. | ||
| So you guys, if you get me, we'll talk for a bit. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Short break. |
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