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July 25, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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WarRoom Battleground EP 814: The Wall Street Journal Continues Their Attack On Trump
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jesse watters
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john brennan
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major garrett
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mike davis
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ned price
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tulsi gabbard
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mike johnson
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trey gowdy
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steve bannon
Welcome.
It's Thursday, 24 July, Year of our Lord 2025, another historic day, only the third time in the history of the Republic that a President of the United States has gone over to the Eccles building.
I think the War Engine Room was telling me, I said Connecticut Avenue.
It's on Constitution Avenue for psych upon the Constitution.
One thing I will tell you, the difference between $3.1 billion and $1.8 billion, and that's an apples to apples, if you take out the quote-unquote third building or wherever, it's $1.4 to $2.5.
This came from Pulte, I think, in the gaggle that happened afterwards with Russ Vogt.
Federal Reserve Chair should know if the President of the United States is going to come over, you at least ought to have a handle on the math.
And I think those kind of numbers are mind-boggling on a percentage basis.
And I would say that that shows a sloppy management team.
They got way too many people at the Fed.
I don't even know why they have a Fed.
I also don't understand why the broker, dealer, the banks own the Fed.
And they say, well, it's this kind of, you know, it's this kind of theoretical ownership.
Okay, let's put the theoretical ownership and divide those shares up to the American people, particularly the New York Fed, which is the trading desk of the Federal Reserve.
Anyway, the discussion really is about interest rates, and Fishback had a really amazing analysis.
We're going to have Philip Patrick on tomorrow and hopefully get Fishback back in the next couple of days and go through this because interest rates, as they're saying, at 25-year highs need to be cut.
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Also, as you can tell from the budget gap, you had Russ there right there.
And we're asking for rescissions.
Where are the rescissions, the pocket rescissions, the impoundments?
The House has left today.
They ain't back until after Labor Day.
Senate's getting ready to get out of town.
If we can put up that, there was a tweet out by Tom Massey.
I think Denver's got that.
And said, remember, this is about the people being confirmed.
We're not doing enough.
Judge Janine, I think, comes out of committee.
They're going to try to get her.
Next week before these guys leave, they're trying to get Emil Bove.
So I think the sentence in for a couple of days next week.
Bove, I think, is now scheduled for Tuesday.
But as Senator Johnson and Hawley told you, the cupboard's dry.
And what we should do is do mass confirmations by calling a recess.
Massey put it today that Johnson and Thun have already worked it out.
They're never going to be in recess.
It's going to be kind of every couple of days.
So I think that looks at like they're not going to have the availability.
We're going to get more details, talk about that tomorrow.
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Even if you do these pocket confirmations, they're good for a year, right?
They're good for a year.
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On Tulsi, and we got some stuff on the Epstein situation.
In fact, the Washington Post has just broke a story.
If I still have it here, I will read from it.
Washington Post just broke a story.
Headline.
DOJ has productive meeting with Epstein associate Glene Maxwell.
Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former associate, Glene Maxwell, met with top Justice Department official for nearly five hours, her attorney said, answering every question in a, quote, very productive day, unquote.
The meeting in downtown Tallahassee, not far from the low-security federal prison, where Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking comes as the Trump administration trying to mitigate the political fallout over its handling of the case.
Her attorney, David Marcus, said he took that Todd Blanche was there, the deputy attorney general, and I want to give a quote.
He took a full day and asked a lot of questions.
She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly, and to the best of her ability.
I'm sure we'll hear more about that this evening, and we will be on top of it.
The Tulsi Gabbard situation, the media is coming hard.
What I've asked our crack team to do is do a little cold open.
We're going to play right now that's got Jesse Waters, who's done such a really, I think Jesse's doing a great job of this.
We've got Jesse Waters intercut with some of the non, you know, the mainstream media, particularly MSNBC.
Let's go ahead and play it, and I will comment and make observations on the other side.
jesse watters
Fox News Alert, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gadberg, releasing a bombshell report today that shows a conspiracy by a sitting president, Barack Obama, and his intel agencies to sabotage the president-elect, Donald Trump, brainwash the electorate, and undermine the legitimacy of an election.
tulsi gabbard
There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.
They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't.
jesse watters
Gabrier got her hands on a House Intel report that's been locked away in a CIA vault for almost a decade.
Investigators spent over 2,000 hours looking into how the Russia hoax was born, interviewing 20 CIA and FBI officials.
And it turns out that the Obama administration doctored the intelligence to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the election.
A month after Trump beat Hillary, Barack Obama wasn't satisfied with his intelligence reporting and ordered his CIA director to create a new assessment of how Russia interfered with the election.
This was a highly unusual move.
John Brennan handpicked five CIA analysts to write the assessment, and they were siloed.
None of them knew what the other was doing.
And only one analyst was in charge of drafting this report.
There was nothing routine about this, and it was a rush job to publish before Trump was sworn in.
Nothing was coordinated with the other intelligence agencies either.
Basically, this was home cooking for Barack Obama.
There were four key elements from the assessment that were repeated over and over again and formed the basis of the Russia hoax and the Robert Mueller witch hunt.
One, that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win.
Two, Putin took action to help Trump win.
Three, the Russians had blackmail on Trump.
That was the steele dossier.
And four, that the Russians tried colluding with the Trump campaign.
None of any of this was ever true.
There was no reliable intelligence to support any of these allegations.
Senior CIA officials repeatedly refused to traffic in these allegations, but they were repeatedly overruled by CIA Director Brennan and FBI Director Comey, who insisted that they be pushed, even without verifiable evidence.
The Obama administration cherry-picked the intelligence, lied about their sources, misquoted sources, didn't corroborate their claims, suppressed intelligence that ran counter to their narratives, and even used anonymous internet postings.
Rank and file CIA admitted what they were doing violated their own tradecraft standards.
There was a massive pressure campaign that came right from the top.
CIA analysts say they received unusual directives from political appointees, the CIA director, and Obama himself.
This is how the Russia hoax was born.
unidentified
Even the conservative National Review's editorial board today argues that Gabbard is doing exactly what she rails against, writing, we've had enough, more than enough, lawfare, and Trump should consider that it can also backfire.
Joining me now, Ned Price, former senior State Department and CIA official.
Ned, you wrote that what Gabbard is doing with her claims is rhetorical sleight of hand.
Explain that.
ned price
Yeah, you know, Chris, on one level, it's not at all surprising that an influential personality in Washington this month is talking about a shadowy cabal of some of the country's most influential and powerful engaging in sordid crimes, and then a subsequent cover-up to hide their tracks.
The problem is, in this case, the person speaking is the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
And of course, she's not talking about Jeffrey Epstein, the scandal engulfing her administration.
She's talking about the Obama administration in 2016.
What I meant by rhetorical sleight of hand is the fact that she is very intentionally, I think, conflating two very different terms.
She is correct, and every good conspiracy theory starts with the smallest kernel of truth.
And she is correct that the Obama administration in which I served was clear both before the 2016 election and after that Russia could not and did not hack the election.
And by that, we meant that Russia did not alter the vote tallies, did not mess with voter rolls, did not interfere in the Actual voting process itself.
But she then uses that conclusion, that term hack to say, but then how could they say, how could the intelligence community say in January 2017 that Russia sought to influence the election?
And Chris, as you know, as your viewers know, there's a big difference between hacking the election, that is to say, actually changing votes, changing voter rolls, tallies, and influencing the election, using propaganda, using social media bots, using social media ads to try to change the attitudes of the American people.
The real scandal, Chris, is that we have a director of national intelligence who, despite the efforts of rogue states, of cyber criminals, of terrorists, she is engaging in partisan politics.
She is using her bully pulpit to weaponize the intelligence precisely what she has railed against in the past.
hillary clinton
Donald Trump knows that the Russians helped him win in 2016.
james comey
Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much.
john brennan
It was Russia in a very systematic way and tried to interfere in the election and to try to advance the prospects of Donald Trump being elected.
jesse watters
This was such a malicious disinformation campaign perpetrated on the American people that at one point, 60% of Democrats believed the Russians hacked our voting machines to help Trump win the White House.
What this report actually shows is that the Russians just wanted to create chaos and undermine Americans' faith in democracy.
Solid intelligence suggested that Vladimir Putin didn't care who won.
He had no preference, but like most people, expected Hillary to win and had a little docket of compromising dirt on her, dirt that he never released.
Now, if Putin wanted Trump to win, why didn't Putin drop the dirt?
tulsi gabbard
There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote, psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then-Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.
Then-CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a quote-unquote clear preference for Trump.
jesse watters
Now, if Clinton was on tranquilizers like the Russians believed, why didn't they leak it to help Trump win?
unidentified
How credible was the information about Hillary Clinton's power?
tulsi gabbard
All I have seen is what the intelligence committee have reported through their investigation.
I think the underlying point there is that we understand from intelligence what Russia said that they had.
And the important point here is that if they were trying to influence the election, as President Obama and James Clapper and John Brennan, everybody said they were doing in order to support Donald Trump's election, they would have released the most damning of that information.
jesse watters
Obama and his spy chiefs knew that Putin didn't prefer Trump over Hillary, but they cooked the intelligence to make it look like he did.
Obama and his intel spies knew that Putin didn't collude with Trump and that he didn't even direct his people to help Trump win.
But they put it out there anyway.
In a sense, Barack Obama did exactly what Putin wanted, undermined Americans' faith in free and fair elections and cause chaos in our country.
Barack Obama, the CIA, and the FBI were the ones doing what our enemy wanted.
unidentified
Do you believe that any of this new information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior?
tulsi gabbard
We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this.
For even poor President Obama?
Correct.
The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.
There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact.
jesse watters
Even two years later, after the election, Barack Obama was still pushing a hoax he knew wasn't true.
And he knew it wasn't true because he helped manufacture it.
They're undermining our alliances.
james clapper
Cozing up to Russia.
mike davis
What happened to the Republican Party?
They're cozing up to the former head of the KGB.
unidentified
Actively blocking legislation that would defend our elections from Russian attack.
john brennan
What happened?
jesse watters
No, I don't know if it's possible to indict a former president for actions he took while in office.
I'm not a lawyer, proudly.
But Brennan Comey and others may have severe liability.
Trey Gowdy says we know for a fact that Brennan committed perjury when he lied to Congress.
trey gowdy
Director Brennan, do you know who commissioned the steel dossier?
john brennan
I don't.
trey gowdy
Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as part of any court filings, applications?
john brennan
I have no awareness.
trey gowdy
Did the CIA rely on it?
john brennan
No.
trey gowdy
Why not?
john brennan
Because we didn't.
It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had.
It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done.
It was not.
jesse watters
Well, that's a lie.
Whatever happens to these guys is not revenge.
It's accountability.
And it's time for people to pay the price.
john brennan
But they keep saying these things, making these allegations that are without foundation at all, and claiming that there was this vast conspiracy, that we were, in fact, deceiving the American people and engaged in this coup.
And so therefore, again, it's very clear in my mind that there's a political motivation for this.
And unfortunately, it's an insult to the intelligence profession because there were so many people who worked on this intelligence community assessment that was done to make sure that people understood exactly what the Russians did in 2016 and what they were capable of doing in the future, which is why President Obama asked us to put this together.
He didn't tell us what to write.
I didn't write that report, nor did Jim Clapper, we had the experts, those who are steeped in understanding Russia, understanding exactly their capabilities, what they do on the covert influence front, and other things.
And so, therefore, again, I feel very confident that if people take a look at this, and I wish Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe would read the assessment, Tulsi Gabbard, you know, she may be impaired on the ethics front, certainly, but she's not impaired on the intellect front.
And so I can only presume that she is doing this intentionally, intentionally mischaracterizing, misrepresenting, and lying about what she has found.
steve bannon
I want to give a hat tip to Jesse Waters and his team.
That was, I think, as crisp as you could possibly do, and I think it's great.
For the War Room Posse, we have to be a force multiplier on this.
We're now engaged in information warfare mortal combat.
We have to land this.
Right?
We have to stick the landing, as I say.
We have to stick the landing, and here's why.
We're engaged now at the highest levels of information warfare against the deep state.
And you see right there, I just took a snippet from Chris Jansen, not even the primetime guys.
But they are in full assault right now to dismiss this and spin it.
They want this to go away.
This is why it's incumbent upon the Department of Justice, which announced the strike force last night and the FBI, to move with alacrity, to move with urgency.
We can't let this thing just drag on.
What you have to do is take these clips, take what we're putting out, take what Jesse Waters, others are putting out, the Jack Besobic, the Charlie Kirks.
Now more than ever, you have to be a force multiplier.
We have to flood the zone with this content.
More and more Americans have to wake up to the fact of what happened, and we're going to have humongous, huge pushback on this, blowback on this.
They're dismissing it, but they've already engaged, right?
Obama the other day, and this was stunning to me, on the very first day that President Trump came out, and I think they appreciated and respected the fact of what Trump had done, like I said, in the Oval Office with a head of state right there from Asia.
So every Asia TV is tuned to this, the Philippines, on an important topic, which is stopping the Chinese Communist Party in the South China Sea.
And on global television, because you had every reporter there, and President Trump took every question and then went on that magnificent, and we played it in its entirety, I think it was nine minutes long, off the top of his head, all the details.
He knows this very deeply.
Not just when he was there, it's kind of burned in his soul what happened here.
Tulsi Gabbard then, the other day, came down to the press briefing room, which I think was a stroke of genius, and we need that every couple of days, particularly in August when the House and the Senate leave, and even the President may not be there.
We need every couple of days to be dropping new information, new and fresh information.
But most importantly, we have to make sure that the law enforcement part of this apparatus, not the intelligence, the intelligence is giving, and there's more to come.
My understanding from very senior sources that whistleblowers are coming out of the world like nobody's business.
People that have been offended about why this happened for years and years and years, but were afraid for their jobs, afraid for their careers.
Okay.
If we can put the Mediight, I'm going to come back to this, but I want to take it in a slightly different direction.
Mediight had a lead story.
One of the lead stories today was about Carl Rose, Wall Street Journal, coming, and do we have that clip of the Wall Street Journal?
I think I told you the Wall Street Journal.
I remember I told you on MSMEC to cut the guy talking about the Wall Street Journal.
Did we cut that?
Okay, fine.
Let me know if you've got it.
About the Wall Street Journal going after Trump.
We're producing why we're hosting the show.
Carl Rove and the Wall Street Journal.
And the Wall Street Journal is on a jihad against President Trump.
So today, the political price of conspiracy shows up in their op-ed section by Carl Rove.
Do we have the clip of the Wall Street Journal?
Can I go ahead and play it?
Okay, hang on.
Carl Rove is sitting there talking about all the conspiracy theories, all the kooks and the cranks and the fringe.
That would be you in the war room, talking about the standard of the 2020 election, talking about COVID.
I think he's got that in there, 2020 election.
J6, J6 got all that.
I tell you what, let's play this clip from MSNBC this afternoon on the Wall Street Journal targeting President Trump, and then we're going to come back to Carl Rose Open.
anthony coley
You know, the Wall Street Journal has had not one, but two really good blockbuster stories on this matter over the last 10 days or so.
And what we've seen from some on the right is just this intentional, vicious attack to undermine their reporting.
Because I just want to understand, based on somebody who has run an office at the Justice Department, I just want to underscore how well connected and well sourced the Wall Street Journal is at the main justice and throughout the FBI.
And I give you a data point when Attorney General Garland decided that he was going to appoint a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump.
The Wall Street Journal scooped at that story on the morning of that announcement.
And, you know, I was running the Office of Public Affairs.
Was I bothered by that?
Yeah, I was bothered by it.
But that didn't give me license.
No, we did not do.
And also, I didn't also lie to the journal or to the American people like the White House and like the Trump administration is doing now.
And that, I think, is what we are saying, you know, how his numbers are going down with his base because they cannot trust what he's saying.
Donald Trump continues and his people continue to play his base and the American people for fools because they're not just telling the truth and shooting straight with people.
It's trip, trip, trip.
It's what's causing them to not really be able to turn the page and try to get on with the business of governing the country.
unidentified
Again, I just want to repeat the breaking news for those who may have joined late, we now can confirm that the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanch, is in Tallahassee, Florida in the U.S. Attorney's Office, and he is speaking with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghelane Maxwell in a meeting that could go through the day.
steve bannon
Yeah, five hours a meeting.
She answered every question, according to her lawyer.
We're going to take a short break, get back into this.
You see, the Wall Street Journal, and today they give the analysis piece where Carl Rove is saying that the problem is the war room posse in the MAGA base that we're tinfoil hat on the stolen election of 2020,
on the pandemic, on the COVID vaccine, on J6, on the deep state, what's happening with the Russia hoax, all of it.
And they say that this treasonous conspiracy is going to get things off kilter.
Murdoch wants it shut down immediately.
Short commercial break.
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steve bannon
This is why we have to stick the landing on this.
The accusations have been made from the Oval Office.
The President of the United States has called out Obama, his predecessor, as guilty of treason.
Doesn't come any higher than that.
Also, the people running very high officials in the government, and not just the government.
This is not the Department of Labor or Health and Human Services or education, as important as those are.
These are the departments and bureaus that are associated with the national security of the United States and state secrets.
You see the abuse of it.
Tulsi Gabbards then come out and she said, hey, I've turned these over to kind of criminal complaints to the Justice Department.
They've got to act.
The Justice Department, the FBI, and this is what we heard last night, John Solomon walked us through what the process would be to pull together a task force that had the best of the best, and they would quickly go through this.
And of course, last night, John Solomon said it might take a week or two to do that.
And voila, what happens is this took, in fact, last night they called it from justice.
So this is happening right now.
But it has to move with alacrity.
It has to move with speed.
DOJ understands that in Epstein.
The Deputy Attorney General of the United States, who obviously is now running the deal over there on this case, went to Tallahassee, Florida, and we just heard a report, a five-hour interview.
Sounded like it wasn't under oath, but a five-hour interview with Maxwell, where supposedly, according to our attorney, answered all questions in five hours.
This, you should know, is the first time that prosecutors actually discussed anything with her because she was indicted and then had defense attorneys and went to court and lost.
Is now serving, I think, 20 years in a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida.
As of right now, the House is going to, I think, either interview or depose her in Tallahassee.
It's not going to be on TV.
It won't be in the House because they're all gone.
But the staffs are around, and I'm sure some of the actual congressmen themselves will be involved in this, to actually go and give a deposition, I think it is, even more than an interview, a deposition on, and this is House oversight, I don't think it's judiciary, I think it's oversight, on the 11th of August.
In fact, if we can play, there's some controversy about all this, if we can play, I think we have Speaker Johnson, is that clip ready to go?
Okay, not so much.
We're going to have, we got Speaker Johnson.
Okay, let's go ahead and play, Denver.
unidentified
Thank you.
steve bannon
You guys are in crack shape today.
Let's go ahead and play, we have Speaker Johnson with Major Garrett on Major Garrett's, I think, his podcast.
Let's go ahead and hear it.
major garrett
And to the point when the Trump Justice Department said there were more than 1,000 victims, for people who knew this case very, very well, did a lot of investigative work on it, that number surprised them.
High, high number.
unidentified
Yeah.
major garrett
Meaning that to their minds, investigative reporters and others, there have to be accomplices, uncharged accomplices, and that aspect of justice is still missing.
mike johnson
Yes, and it's of great concern to us.
I mean, we want full transparency.
We want everybody who was involved in any way with the Epstein evils, let's call it what it was, to be brought to justice as quickly as possible.
We want the full weight of the law on their heads.
major garrett
But when the Justice Department said in that same two-page memo, there's no reason to pursue further prosecutions, many said, how can those two things be properly aligned?
mike johnson
These are good questions.
I don't know.
I've never seen the Epstein evidence.
It wasn't in my lane.
But I have the same concern and question that a lot of people do.
And look, I think the president...
Oh, it's not a hoax, of course not.
steve bannon
I tell you what, if Denver, let's play that one again.
This is Major Garrett with Speaker Johnson.
Speaker Johnson said, hey, this is not my lane.
Garrett, Major Garrett, I think, is asking a very sharply defined question.
If we can play that again, I want the audience to see it and hear it one more time.
major garrett
And to the point when the Trump Justice Department said there were more than 1,000 victims, for people who knew this case very, very well, did a lot of investigative work on it, that number surprised them.
High, high number.
Meaning that to their minds, investigative reporters and others, there have to be accomplices, uncharged accomplices, and that aspect of justice is still missing.
mike johnson
Yes, and it's of great concern to us.
I mean, we want full transparency.
We want everybody who is involved in any way with the Epstein evils, let's call it what it was, to be brought to justice as quickly as possible.
We want the full weight of the law on their heads.
major garrett
But when the Justice Department said in that same two-page memo, there's no reason to pursue further prosecutions, many said, how can those two things be properly aligned?
mike johnson
These are good questions.
I don't know.
I've never seen the Epstein evidence.
It wasn't in my lane.
But I have the same concern and question that a lot of people do.
And look, I think the president...
unidentified
Oh, it's not a hoax, of course not.
steve bannon
There you see the house.
They're talking about, oh, the house skipped town because they want to deal with this.
Johnson looks like he's trying to deal with it.
I believe my scheduling is correct on the 11th of August.
And I think that's pretty quick to go down and to get your act together and go down and to actually interview somebody.
Now, that may be overruled by the Justice Department, whatever happened in this meeting today.
Her lawyer was there.
The Deputy Attorney General runs what they call runs the building.
You know, the Attorney General gives advice to the President, oversees everything, is ultimately responsible, does obviously a lot of TV to put the messaging out of what they're trying to accomplish, flies around the country and talks to local groups, particularly local U.S. attorneys, all of it.
But the DAG, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, runs the building.
So all of Maine Justice and then even all the U.S. attorneys kind of come up through that.
It's a massive job.
Todd Blanch has the confidence in President Trump.
Emil Bove will be confirmed next Tuesday or Wednesday as an appellate court judge.
And it's huge and controversial.
We've been following it.
It's a complete and total firestorm.
His wingman for President Trump for all those years, those years of darkness when we had to chop our way through the jungle.
Todd Blanch is now deputy attorney general.
His deputy was Emel, who's now gone and been promoted to the judgeship.
Some people are saying on the fast track to be a Supreme Court justice if a vacancy does arrive.
And he has tremendous, he has the confidence of the president, has been a, remember, he was actually the acting attorney general in the first month or so of the administration when Homan was doing all those raids.
And he was right there with Holman, remember, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Chicago, New York particularly.
I think those two.
I'm not sure Detroit, but definitely in Chicago and in New York City.
So the president's someone the president has tremendous confidence in, and you can tell has taken active control of this, has gone down and had an interview five hours.
Her attorney says, Washington Post reports, in a quote, five hours answered all questions truthfully to the best of her ability.
And then Todd Blanche is on his way back.
So right now, technically scheduled, is this interview by the House on the 11th?
And we'll see what comes of that.
If something happens today, obviates that or the Justice Department decides to go in a different direction.
I'm sure we're going to find out.
But you heard there right there, Mike Johnson 100% said, hey, it's not a hoax.
It's time to get all the information out or all the information the courts will potentially let out.
The court already, I think, said, hey, what you put forward in trying to get the unseal the documents and some of the evidence and also in the grand jury testimony, both in the Epstein situation and the Maxwell was not sharply worded enough.
You got to tell us exactly what you want.
And the most important thing is the victims.
So I think they're back to the drawing board there.
Maybe the Maxwell situation today goes over that.
Back to the Tulsi situation, which is we have to drive this.
This is where you can become a force multiplier.
I want to go back to, you know, we have Caitlin Collins every day, and this is why it's important to get Tulsi to the briefing room.
When you do the briefing room, it's a forcing function.
All the big media have to cover it, and you have a number of the biggest reporters in mainstream media who either beat is the White House or if something's important, they'll go cover it.
If Tulsi is going to come down to the briefing room, it will be important because right now they're trying to run interference.
We didn't play the beginning of the Chris Jansing segment that we played the Clips on.
She starts the segment by saying, Tulsi Gabbers thrown out all these charges and they're totally unfounded, right?
They just edit turtle as totally unfounded.
So our mission and our purpose here is to get information out just like in the pandemic, just like in the 2020 big steal, just like the illegitimate regime.
We've done this exercise before.
In fact, this is your highest and best use.
This is where you're the most powerful, is to actually take information and flood the zone and power through and you set the narrative.
Because this narrative right now is being formed.
And it's quite obvious the deep state had a coup.
Like Tulsi Gabba said, it's a coup d'état.
It's a coup against a president-elect and to continue on after he took the oath of office to destroy him.
To either make sure he was forced from office all the way to in 2019, they went to the impeachment.
This is how this show started, warm impeachment.
Because I realized at that time, this is going to be relentless.
They're not going to remove him by impeachment.
They will impeach him.
They won't remove him as trial in the Senate.
They'll never get to the two-thirds vote.
But this is what they're trying to do.
And guess what?
It was all about Ukraine or around Ukraine.
So this is why you're a force multiply.
Caitlin Collins, every day we can show you when Tulsi's down there or Caroline Levitt's down there.
She's engaged in narrative warfare.
Now her show, and I want to go back, we have two clips here I want you to see again and think about.
We have one that's from over a year ago.
And this is McCabe of the FBI on, I think, on Caitlin Collins.
And then we have just from, I think it's last night, Clapper.
These are two of the most senior people in this coup.
And this is why I'm saying for the task force, one of the things this afternoon, I spent some time with this, I believe they have to go right now and take the passports of these people.
We cannot leave open the possibility that these people may try to skip the country and say, Oh, Bannon, this is your overreaction.
Your hair is on fire.
No, we have them on TV.
This is before Trump was elected.
President Trump was re-elected in 2024, saying, I hear what Trump's saying, right?
I hear what Trump's saying, and I'm nervous enough that people, many of us are talking about with our families leaving the country.
Now that they see this is actually happening, and it's actually happening, folks.
Some of these people are going to skip, and they could be key people like McCabe.
Let's go ahead and play the two clips.
kaitlan collins
What do people inside the FBI think when they hear a comment like that?
andrew mccabe
You know, it is terrifying.
It's frightening.
I have a lot of conversations with former colleagues, people who are or were in the intelligence and law enforcement community and may have worked in the Obama administration, other places.
And people are really trying to assess what is life going to be like if Donald Trump wins a second term.
And on a very personal level, I mean, these are torturous discussions with their family members about whether or not they have to leave the country to avoid being unconstitutionally and illegally detained.
I mean, people are actually worried about being thrown in jail or grabbed in some sort of extrajudicial detention.
And I think, you know, as crazy as this sounds in the United States of America, I think people should really consider that these are possibilities.
Listen to what the man says.
He typically does what he says, as crazy as it seems.
And that's really all the indicators you need.
kaitlan collins
When the director says that she's referred these filings to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, tonight we're told they formed what is called a strike force.
Do you have concerns that they will attempt to prosecute you?
james clapper
Well, certainly I do.
You know, after eight and a half years of this, and I don't know of an intelligence product that was more scrutinized, more investigated than that product was by numerous people.
You know, it's very disconcerting.
It really is.
And I take seriously when President of the United States accuses me of being a participant in a treasonous conspiracy, which is ridiculous.
kaitlan collins
Yeah, what's your reaction to that?
james clapper
It's ridiculous.
It just is untrue.
kaitlan collins
So what will you do if they come after you?
What is your plan?
james clapper
Well, I'll lawyer up, I suppose.
Already have.
kaitlan collins
You've already hired attorneys in case of, in anticipation that this Trump Justice Department could try to prosecute you?
james clapper
We've had sort of perpetual attorneys since I left the government in 2017.
steve bannon
Mike Davis has joined us for a different topic.
Mike, I've got to ask you, you've got McCabe there saying a year ago he's thinking of leaving the country, and you've got Clapper saying last night he's lawyered up because Tulsi got ready coming from.
How serious should these guys be taking this?
Because MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC are saying this is just all something that Tulsi and the war room and other people are making up out of thin air, sir?
mike davis
Well, if that's the case, then they shouldn't be worried.
But I would say this, there's pretty clear evidence of a criminal conspiracy to politicize and weaponize intel agencies and law enforcement to go after President Trump, his top aides like you, Steve, Bannon and Peter DeVall, his supporters on January 6th.
They politicized and weaponized these intel agencies and law enforcement.
And that is a clear-cut case of conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. Section 241.
So I would say to Brennan and Clapper and Comey and Biden and Hillary and so many others, Andrew Weissman, Barack Obama, you better lawyer up.
And I've been saying that for three years on your show since the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Justice is coming.
And if McCabe wants to go hide overseas, I think that the FBI will gladly go retrieve him through an extradition treaty.
steve bannon
Mike, you've done a great job in the last couple of years at Article III, informing and educating this audience about what the Article II powers are of the President of the United States.
Margot Cleveland over at the Federalists has just tweeted, D.C. Circuit denies Institute for Peace requests for full court to overturn panel stay.
In other words, a Trump win.
Can you interpret that for us, sir, about President Trump's Article II powers?
mike davis
Yeah, so the U.S. Institute of Peace is another boondoggle in Washington, D.C. I think the budget's around $60 million, and it's supposed to be kind of quasi-part of the State Department, this nonprofit.
It has a board.
It's part of the executive branch.
And President Trump ordered that the U.S. Institute of Peace get dismantled to the maximum extent the law allows, meaning take it down to the statutory minimum, the floor that Congress created for this Institute of Peace.
And so they did that.
These plaintiffs ran to a D.C. Obama judge, I think it was Shutkin, if I'm remembering this correctly, who issued a stay saying that the president and his team can't do this.
Shockingly, a three-judge panel on the D.C. circuit stayed that order, and then the full D.C. circuit, which is stacked with Obama and Biden radicals, said that, okay, we're not going to overturn that stay.
So this is a big sign that these activist plaintiffs, lawyers, judges understand that President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, Solicitor General John Sauer, Chief of Staff, Chad Meisel, incoming Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, they're getting monumental victories in the Supreme Court.
And you're seeing the D.C. Circuit, the most left-wing radical circuit out of all of them, is even starting to back down here.
steve bannon
Amazing.
Thank you.
I've got that.
I got her tweet up, Margot Cleveland's tweet.
Everybody push it out.
Last thing.
For the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, given everything, because the whole building reports to him, to get on a plane, fly down to Tallahassee, and do a five-hour interview.
Is that a big deal, sir?
mike davis
It is a big deal, and it shows that the Justice Department is not trying to cover up anything.
They're putting one of the most senior people in the Justice Department on this case.
And they filed a motion with the court for the court to release the grand jury materials.
I mean, I just will tell you as a lawyer, I would be surprised if the court can release a lot of these materials, but it's up for the courts to decide now you're dealing with victims who are minors.
But it shows that this Maxwell lady, this Jeffrey Epstein's, for lack of a better word, is saying that she has new evidence.
Todd Blanche is going down there to talk to her, to hear her new evidence.
They're taking this seriously and they're not trying to cover up anything.
steve bannon
Mike Davis, where do people go on social media to follow you and where do they go for Article 3 Project, sir?
mike davis
Article3Project.org, article number threeproject.org.
unidentified
You can follow us on social media.
mike davis
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Amel Bovey for the Third Circuit just got through his closure votes today in the United States Senate.
He should be confirmed on Tuesday as the new United States Circuit judge for the Third Circuit.
Everyone said that that wasn't possible.
And then the War Room posse teams up with the Article III project and lit up the Senate switchboard.
I would say go to the Amel Bovie action item now and keep the pressure up so we make sure we get AMO Bovey confirmed on Tuesday.
steve bannon
And get it next Tuesday before people leave.
Mike Davis, thank you.
You're a warrior.
Appreciate you.
Bovey's a big, huge win, and Judge Denine's another huge win.
We got to get more.
We've got to get these confirmations done.
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