Sept. 26, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| The Trump Justice Department has indicted former FBI director James Comey on two counts. | ||
| The first count, obstruction, the second, false statements. | ||
| Two sources telling MSNBC that a grand jury rejected a third count. | ||
| That count is still unknown. | ||
| Just moments ago, Donald Trump said this on Truth Social Quote Justice in America, one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former corrupt head of the FBI. | ||
| Today he was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts. | ||
| He has been so bad for our country for so long that is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our nation. | ||
| make America great again. | ||
| My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. | ||
| But we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. | ||
| We will not live on our knees. | ||
| And you shouldn't either. | ||
| Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right. | ||
| But I'm not afraid. | ||
| And I hope you're not either. | ||
| I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. | ||
| My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. | ||
| So let's have a trial and keep the faith. | ||
| As the person that reported out, how significant is this moment? | ||
| I'll use the words, Chris, that prosecutors and federal investigators are saying to me tonight, which is simply chilling. | ||
| Chilling because a seasoned prosecutor who was appointed by the Trump administration, chosen by Donald Trump and his allies, looked at the facts in this case and said there wasn't a sufficient reasonable basis to bring it and was resisting bringing it, was pressured to resign or be forced out, uh thrown out, thrown out on the curb, and he chose to resign. | ||
| Days later, uh person with no prosecutorial experience is the U.S. attorney, and these charges are brought. | ||
| Chris, for the past two weeks, we have been gaslighted by MAGA, saying that we're too extreme, that our language is too extreme, that you can't use this kind of language. | ||
| Well, if you don't want us to use extreme language, you should not do extreme stuff. | ||
| If you don't want us to call Donald Trump an authoritarian, he should not act like an authoritarian. | ||
| And the reality is today, it's ironic that Erdogan was in the Oval Office with the president because Erdogan in Turkey did exactly the same thing that Donald Trump is now doing. | ||
| People who investigated him, he prosecuted. | ||
| This is completely un-American, and we should all be deeply horrified by what happened today. | ||
| Of course, I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey brothers. | ||
| Of course, I watched the whole thing, although on YouTube, Patrice and I got kicked off for the last 15 minutes and finished it on her phone. | ||
| But I watched it. | ||
| You see, Taylor Swift and I go way back. | ||
| I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago. | ||
| I've been to a second, and I have helped financially support the attendance of a lot of family members at others. | ||
| I'm in a family's Swifty group chat. | ||
| I know all her music and I listened to it in my headphones when I cut the grass. | ||
| So yes, I have a favorite of hers, although honestly for me it's a tie between all too well, 10-minute version, and Exile, featuring Bonnie Vare. | ||
| Taylor Swift has grown up with my family and provided us a soundtrack, really, as we've grown ourselves and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration. | ||
| She had songs for all of it. | ||
| I suspect that's something that millions of Americans have also experienced in their families. | ||
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I'm not surprised about the president, but I am still surprised about everyone else. | |
| What what about you? | ||
| Uh unfortunately, Simone, I am not surprised by much of anything. | ||
| Um, I feel like they got a really fast start. | ||
| They sort of slowed down, and now in the last few weeks, they've really picked up steam again. | ||
| And so I'm not surprised by this. | ||
| We saw that they raided Bolton's house just a few weeks ago. | ||
| Now they've got Comey, the as you as Comey mentioned, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, people that they have been targeting for a long, long time. | ||
| There are going to be more of them. | ||
| This is now part of it where they're trying to clean out the people they don't like to scare everybody else. | ||
| And as as somebody said, as you mentioned, this is exactly part of the process. | ||
| And let me just talk about the process too. | ||
| That is part of the punishment. | ||
| Now, Comey is a longtime law enforcement officer, a longtime lawyer. | ||
| For a lot of people, this is going to put them into significant amounts of debt in legal bills. | ||
| There are some incredible attorneys out there trying to protect folks that do this stuff. | ||
| But you know, now you've been before, you know, you've your case has been been before a grand jury. | ||
| You've got to have a lawyer, a litigator, right? | ||
| Litigators are very, very expensive, especially I assume in a federal criminal trial. | ||
| And now you've got to go before a judge, you've got to be arraigned, all those other things. | ||
| I hope that the judge in this case, whoever draws the case, uh, you know, will dismiss this these charges if they believe them to be egregious. | ||
| But I think we should see that Comey as the top of the pyramid, certainly not the bottom. | ||
| Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me and change me. | ||
| You may have seen that the governor of California has been generating a lot of attention lately by posting on social media in a satirical way where he mocks Donald Trump and his all-caps megalomania and his absurdity. | ||
| And I find it very funny. | ||
| Hilarious, even sometimes. | ||
| But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don't want us to become like Trump and his followers. | ||
| There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks. | ||
| This is really a reminder of how much retribution and revenge has been a driving factor in the president's in the president's presidency, not only in his campaign where he really promised to go after his enemies, but even after he won, he continues to pursue this relentlessly. | ||
| And you laid out that timeline of him posting that true social directly to Pam Bondi and later telling reporters that he wanted her to act quickly. | ||
| He's say made this very clear that he wanted an urgency here. | ||
| And that is something that potentially could come back to bite the prosecutors in this case, is his statements to this effect. | ||
| And this is really a break for a president that we have seen for decades now that the White House has not been involved in Justice Department actions, and that clearly seems to be not the case tonight. | ||
| We can't stop people from being jerks. | ||
| What we can do is stop it from hurting us, from changing us. | ||
| At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut, 14 years ago this summer, she sang a song about this topic, asking, why you gotta be so mean? | ||
| And she spoke directly to the nasty people. | ||
| I bet you got pushed around. | ||
| Somebody made you cold, but the cycle ends right now, because you can't leave me down that road. | ||
| You'll be glad I didn't sing that. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because down that road is unhappiness. | ||
| Nobody should have that power over us. | ||
| Thank you, Taylor Swift. | ||
| Keep the faith. | ||
| The increasingly uh autocratic, increasingly uh entirely presidentially driven uh uh policy agenda uh that Donald Trump is putting forward, I think on the questions of the Kimmel story is of a piece with the Comey story, | ||
| uh the weaponization of the Department of Justice, the politization of that, uh, and and all of the things you saw in the wake of Charlie Kirk's tragic, uh undeniably uh tragic murder uh when you saw J.D. Vance and others, these things have not gone away, | ||
| saying that the that the the pre that the the the the administration is going to war uh with the with what they call the radical left uh and plans to weaponize government in all kinds of ways against what J.D. Vance has talked about left wing, what they call left-wing NGOs that they're now uh starting to talk about as if they were sponsors of of domestic terror. | ||
| It is a uh where are we? | ||
| We're at a dark place, Joe. | ||
| And I'm uh you know, I take some comfort in the fact that Jimmy Kimmel got back on the air and and and gave us a moment that momentary reprieve, but I don't think that their their campaign against broadcasters and free speech is over, not by a long shot, and it feels this a bare but a very, very sobering week at the end of a string of very, very sobering weeks uh since this administration got underway back in January, eight months ago. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on the people. | ||
| You're gonna get a free shot on All these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of them. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Waru. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. It's Friday, 26 September in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| The President of the United States uh is leaving to head up to the uh Brighter Cup. | ||
| Just had a gag over and play that momentarily. | ||
| John Solomon uh joins us with a massive uh scoop of big breaking news. | ||
| Um, but I have to say, as I bring John Solomon on, not only is Comey a bad cop, he's a weirdo. | ||
| Uh I want to give a hat tip to the Denver crew, a real America's voice, and my own incredible production team here in the war room for for intercutting his Taylor Swift, um his Taylor Swift uh video from a I guess two weeks ago with his uh his very emotional plea last night. | ||
| Um, and that's from a grown-ass man uh, you know, about Taylor Swift, and you couldn't tell the difference in the two. | ||
| John Solomon, first your thoughts on Comey. | ||
| I know you know this situation very well. | ||
| Then I want to get to your scoop, sir. | ||
| Uh well, listen, uh, the truth of the matter is the people that say that seems comey is lying, is his inner circle team. | ||
| It was Andy McCabe who said it first. | ||
| It was James Baker that affirmed it in an interview with the Postal Inspection Service that we broke on your show a few weeks ago. | ||
| And in that case, uh, remember what James Baker said to the government. | ||
| He said that James Comey authorized me to leak classified information to the news medium to his chief of staff, James Rabicki. | ||
| And then we don't know yet what Rubicki's account is, but I suspect those three men are going to be the main state witnesses against James Comey. | ||
| It's not gonna be a MAGA lawyer, it's not gonna be a MAGA talk show host, it's gonna be his own inner circle saying, Yeah, he authorized us to leak, and yeah, he lied to Congress. | ||
| So James Comey's gonna face justice probably at the expense of his own inner circle, who couldn't lie when uh confronted about what he had done with the leaking to the media. | ||
| Uh the Taylor Swift thing, I have a little bit different take. | ||
| I do find it extremely weird to have an FBI director talking about being a Swifty, but hey, everyone's entitled to their music. | ||
| But I think there's something more cunning going on. | ||
| I think you have to always calculate James Comey as being a calculating guy. | ||
| He's gonna need to raise a lot of money uh for his legal defense fund. | ||
| He's about to undergo a really significant legal defense expense. | ||
| I think he was setting up millennials and others to uh to say, see me as a victim. | ||
| I'm like one of you guys, and he doesn't like Taylor's film. | ||
| I think he's looking to hit that generation, the millennial generation for donations for a legal defense fund down the road. | ||
| Uh that that may that may have been a calculated decision. | ||
| He knew what was coming over the horizon, and uh he knows he's gonna have to raise some money for his defense. | ||
| And I think there's something a little bit more calculating in that than other than just being flat out weird. | ||
| You see, John Solomon, all those years in the Imperial Capitol being the top investigative reporter. | ||
| That's the kind of insight you've got brilliant. | ||
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John Cynical, John. | |
| Uh before we get to your scoop, before we get a scoop, I want updates on Bolton because there's a whole wave of stuff that is happening now and coming to the forefront. | ||
| Uh the media said yesterday Bolton looks like his office had had secret or top secret documents. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| There's a search warrant return. | ||
| In his office, they found a secret and uh c uh and confidential classified information, including information on WMD, which is very sensitive. | ||
| Anything we know about WMD around the world is a very sensitive uh piece of information. | ||
| And so uh this is no different now than the president sent two decades ago when Sandy Berger, the former National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton in a story I broke when I was at the Associated Press, find the secret, uh classified documents out of the archives, stick them in his socks in his pants and try to walk out with him, and he got indicted. | ||
| There is a precedent for this. | ||
| You are the national security advisor. | ||
| You know you have no right to take classified documents with you. | ||
| The fact that they found those documents in his office and that they found earlier information in his email accounts related to the book suggests that he did something knowingly and willfully. | ||
| And there is this isn't a retribution. | ||
| This is a precedent that has been uh kept for a long time. | ||
| When you're the National Security Advisor, you walk off with classified information, you're gonna get prosecuted just as Sandy Burger. | ||
| Uh, we're gonna take a short commercial break. | ||
| John Solomon uh broke a very big story overnight, and the president of the United States has put it up on true social. | ||
| This implicates uh the institution of the FBI and the senior personnel running it post James Comey. | ||
| commercial break. | ||
| John Solomon on the other side. | ||
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| John Solomon. | ||
| So, John, uh, the story you broke is massive for what it discusses, and then also massive for how you learned out about it and what's been been hidden for years. | ||
| Just take us from the top and walk through, sir. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, first, let me just say something about the culture of the FBI. | ||
| For 35 years, I've covered it here in Washington. | ||
| And uh, in every controversy of the past, it has a history of covering things up. | ||
| Uh, the FBI lab scandal, 9-11, Oklahoma City, all stories that I broke, Russia collusion. | ||
| And over the years, I have spent most of my time trying to uh tell the American people what the FBI did in spite of the FBI not cooperating. | ||
| Under Cash Patel, he has broken that cycle. | ||
| He is now putting out the evidence that allowed prosecutors to seek that indictment against James Comey. | ||
| That is unlike anything I've seen in my 35 years covering the FBI. | ||
| And unlike that, he's sending to Congress the documents that fire directors and their teams kept from Congress. | ||
| And today we were able to get our hands on one of those documents. | ||
| What it shows is it answers the question that Chris Ray would never answer to Congress when he was asked. | ||
| He would not tell how many agents were sent to the Capitol once the violence started there and the riot began. | ||
| We got that answer because they did an after action report of the FBI. | ||
| Cash Patel recently found that after action report, and it is damning. | ||
| There were 275 FBI agents, most in plain clothes without any riot gear or protection, dispatched to the Capitol that day. | ||
| The reason there was an after action review is that a lot of those agents felt like they were put in harm's way. | ||
| They didn't have gear, they didn't have a way to identify themselves to the Capitol Police that they were cops. | ||
| If they had to draw their gun, they could have had a friendly fire incident. | ||
| And so that's an important fact. | ||
| It's something that Congress needed for oversight. | ||
| Do Chris Ray's FBI kept it from it. | ||
| But the more important issue long term. | ||
| So all my colleagues in the FBI who have tried to uh dispute that the FBI has a political bias problem. | ||
| This episode, this review ended up exposing more than the fact that an incompetent FBI sent a lot of FBI agents to the hill without gear and protections, and then didn't want to admit that to Congress. | ||
| It uncorked a decade of frustration among scores of FBI agents in the Washington field office that their agency had become clearly politically biased. | ||
| Those aren't my words, those are their words. | ||
| The after action review resulted in hundreds of statements by FBI agents uh saying our agency is a mess. | ||
| It is a joke. | ||
| It treats conservatives different than liberals. | ||
| It is woke. | ||
| It is more concerned about what face mask you wear than what criminal you kept. | ||
| It uncorked something, and that for that reason, Congress was most likely not given this document because it would have affirmed what Jim Jordan and what Devin Nunez and what uh Barry Laudermelk and all the people who've been investigating have been saying the FBI has a political bias problem. | ||
| Chris Ray was out, uh Chris Ray was asked this question. | ||
| Ah, no, that's not political talking point. | ||
| He would have known at the moment he gave that answer in 2023 that this after action report raised a serious amount of concern if he didn't know he wasn't in charge of his agency because this was a very important document. | ||
| The learnings and the failures of January 6. | ||
| This document is significant, not just for giving us the answer we were long denied and how many agents responded, how did they respond? | ||
| But it's more important that it is an affirmation from the frontline agents of the FBI that they had recognized their agency had become politically corrupted, politically biased, politically incompetent, and they were crying for help in 2021, and that help was kept for them until Donald Trump won the election and Cash Patel was installed. | ||
| Now, on the 275, Steve, I want to give you one possible legal implication. | ||
| Many of those agents who responded were in the WFO, and they most likely, afterwards, participated in the prosecutions of J6 defendants. | ||
| They probably executed affidavits in court pieces. | ||
| It is incumbent upon FBI agents to self-disclose under the Brady and Giglio standards. | ||
| You got to play fair by the rules standards for FBI agents. | ||
| If you were a witness to a crime, that you disclose that. | ||
| Otherwise, what you say is I looked at this video footage and I looked at this evidence after it occurred, and this is what I found. | ||
| But if you don't describe the fact that you might have been at the scene and witnessed some of this, you may have engaged in a giglio in radio violation. | ||
| We don't know yet the names of the agents, but given that there are 275 of them, one of the exercises that Congress could do right now is to find out how many of those agents subsequently filed affidavits and did not disclose they were eyewitnesses, potential victims at the Capitol. | ||
| That could result in a lot of appellate issues. | ||
| It may also provide new fodder to defend President Trump's decision to uh pardon a lot of those defendants. | ||
| This may have been a cheating scandal in the court system. | ||
| So that we don't know yet. | ||
| But from my experience doing Brady and Giglio issues as a reporter, there is a red flag blinking here today. | ||
| One of the things when I first talked to you when you were you had this story and you were you know doing your additional reporting to release it. | ||
| Um the thing that shocked you was the amount of um of uh anguish, vitriol that agents had about the way the department was being run, the way they thought it was OV-politicized, it was against conservatives, really quite blunt statements. | ||
| Um we have an obstruction of justice? | ||
| I mean, the the the uh oversight committee was trying to do oversight. | ||
| They knew they had a ticking time bomb at the FBI. | ||
| We had not just J6, you had the the grandmothers praying the rosary, had the people arrested or praying the rosary, had the Catholics, you had uh, you know, all these different MAGA uh folks around it up by the FBI. | ||
| Is there legal uh it does the does the uh um issues that the agents had with the way the department was being run? | ||
| Did Chris Ray obstruct justice by suppressing this report? | ||
| It's kind of shocking that nine months into Cash Patel's or President Trump, Cash came in later, uh, his uh reign at the FBI. | ||
| We're now just getting this. | ||
| Isn't this doesn't this rise to the level of at least an investigation on obstruction of justice? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| Every testimony given by an FBI officer, uh uh, including Ray himself has to be evaluated. | ||
| Every subpoena that was issued has to be reviewed to determine whether the documents that we're now setting forth and making public in our stories and the cash patell is turning over to Congress, uh, that they whether they were um responsive and they failed to turn them over. | ||
| We were going through a four-year debate. | ||
| The FBI was pursuing Donald Trump uh criminal cases, classified documents all the way to January 6th. | ||
| So we are having a debate uh that the FBI might have become politicized, and the FBI brass looked. | ||
| You and me and the Congress cameras and said, we don't have a problem. | ||
| That is a MAGA talking point. | ||
| That was not true. | ||
| Your own agents were crying a lot. | ||
| And listen, I've been, like I said, I've covered the FBI for 35 years. | ||
| The natural instinct of FBI agents is to tow the thin blue line. | ||
| Even if your agency made a mistake, we we protect the agency. | ||
| For the agents to uncork with this level of bluntness, uh calling the WFO a messed up place, uh, the most prestigious office, the Washington field office. | ||
| They're using the words political bias, corruption. | ||
| These are words that agents almost never utter about their agency. | ||
| They always tow that line. | ||
| This had been boiling since the Comey era and the January 6th event. | ||
| I created a moment where they spoke out, and then their leadership looked in the eye of Congress, looked in the eye of you and me and said, ah, that's a MAGA talking point. | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| It turns out their own agents have authenticated it. | ||
| I think every subpoena that's been issued, if Congress really cares about being uh an oversight agency, every testimony that's been given should be gone through with a fine-tooth comb and anything that's not responsive. | ||
| People need to be held uh recountable. | ||
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They withheld this from specific requests. | |
| Someone or many people should be held accountable. | ||
| John, I know you got a bounce. | ||
| Only got a couple of minutes, but uh I know the president thinks very highly of your reporting and your uh sense of these institutions. | ||
| I keep saying we have to have a maximum strategy, seize the institutions, and have a sense of urgency. | ||
| It is quite evident to me that Pam and Todd and all the team over there, uh, and Cash and Dan at the FBI DOJ have a very tenuous grasp on these institutions because they're so massive and they've been corrupt and they have a certain operating style that they've had now really since you know the 50s for the FBI, uh, you know, the Kennedy assassination and DOJ since the since uh post-Watergate. | ||
| Don't we need an independent group of advisors around President Trump? | ||
| Because cash and and and Pam are too close to it. | ||
| They're trying to run it every day and and trying to just you know tread water. | ||
| Don't we need a fundamental uh rethink and by the way, I'd like to hold you for a few minutes on the other side of this. | ||
| Don't we need a fundamental group group of uh senior people? | ||
| I tell you what, I want you to answer the other side, but the question is think about we need to restructure. | ||
| This is it's it's the deep state, but also we have an institutional problem. | ||
| You can see in this kind of at the last second, we had to kind of get this done because the institutional pushback on Comey, which is quite evident what he did, didn't want to do it, and if they didn't want to do it, it's not gonna happen. | ||
| You saw this in the first term. | ||
| In the second term, when President Trump basically sends a missive to Pam Bondi publicly, all of a sudden we start to get some action. | ||
| But if you look at the entire apparatus, we have a very tenuous grip on it. | ||
| We have a very tenuous grip on the FBI, even though Bon Gino and Cash, I think, are doing a terrific job. | ||
| Anyway, think about that, John. | ||
| I need an answer from the great John Solomon on the other side. | ||
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| John Solomon, uh if we don't do this, brother, on Trump's watch, uh the country is going to be an extremist, and you can tell by these bad actors. | ||
| So tell me what your solution is. | ||
| What would you tell him? | ||
| All right, so I'll tell you what my reporting is first. | ||
| The FBI has been fully taken over. | ||
| I have to tell Dan Bangino. | ||
| Uh, there are tens of thousands of pages of evidence that have been transmitted to the Justice Department. | ||
| It has overwhelmed the Justice Department. | ||
| There are more than 150 requests for subpoenas that have gone to various U.S. attorney's office from the FBI. | ||
| The FBI has had a complete takeover. | ||
| There has been an enema. | ||
| There are still people that need to be uh jettisoned. | ||
| They will over time. | ||
| Some of the strategies that Cash and Dan have had there have been to take people who were the bad actors who are very close to pensions and say, hey, you're not gonna get your pensions, you're gonna get fired if you don't tell me exactly what the hell went on here the last 10 years. | ||
| They've been able to squeeze out secrets from the former insiders of the Comey Ray world. | ||
| Uh and but we have a major problem. | ||
| The speed at which the FBI is producing the evidence is overwhelming a Justice Department that is grossly understaffed. | ||
| Uh, and it has resulted in some of those silly moments, like Pam goes out and says something about Epstein that's not true. | ||
| But the FBI is in a good shape. | ||
| It still needs a long-term redirection, and that's great. | ||
| Uh, as Devin Nunes has proposed, a blue ribbon commission of experts, including people I think they ought to put on this blue ribbon commission, people who are wrongly pursued, victims of the FBI have passed as part of the blue ribbon commission because there's no better perspective how to fix something than somebody that was wrong by the institution. | ||
| That's the long-term solution. | ||
| But we have a short-term problem. | ||
| You saw this play out in the last few days with the Comey indictment. | ||
| The comedy evidence was over the Justice Department for months. | ||
| The Justice Department simply is not able to keep up with the flow of evidence coming in from the FBI. | ||
| The president needs to get more lawyers, more resources there, get more U.S. attorneys. | ||
| Listen, you've got Stanley Woodward, who's a really major, important player in the judge. | ||
| He's still not confirmed. | ||
| We're eight months into the presidency, and someone at that level is not confirmed. | ||
| The Justice Department is overwhelmed by the evidence that the FBI is turning over. | ||
| It's overwhelmed by the subpoenas. | ||
| It needs to be resourced so that we don't run the clock on statute of limitations. | ||
| After that's fixed, that's a short-term fix. | ||
| Um, then I think a blue ribbon commission to re-examine the CIA and the intelligence community, the ODNI, the FBI, and the Justice Department, because it was one big machinery that ruined this country the last 10 years, and as soon as Donald Trump's gone, it will go back to ruining this country unless its compass is radically reset. | ||
| Uh the smartest people I talk to think a blue ribbon commission, like we had after 9-11 or uh during the 1970s, the church commission that that's the way to go. | ||
| And I'm sure we can find the political will to get that done. | ||
| But right now there's a bigger crisis. | ||
| There are strong, strong criminal cases that the FBI has dug up that are not in a position to be prosecuted because the Justice Department is grossly short of resources right now. | ||
| We got to solve that, or we're gonna be damn frustrated a year from now when we see people walk who could have been prosecuted. | ||
| Okay, is that because let's leave aside the unacceptable not going on a real recess and uh and having recess appointments to break this log jam, which is outrageous. | ||
| Let's put let me put a pin in that. | ||
| Is is the rest of the problem is that we just don't have enough talented people who kind of like to cut a President Trump's jib and feel comfortable in a MAG administration? | ||
| Or is it is it more at the top? | ||
| We just haven't processed enough people through. | ||
| Do we have a manpower problem of talent? | ||
| Or do we have a logjam of just getting people through and uh and getting them signed up? | ||
| I think Van Bondy should go to the president. | ||
| This is a leadership issue. | ||
| There's always enough people. | ||
| conservative side or skilled. | ||
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There are prosecutions. | |
| He's not going out either. | ||
| Let's try to reboot it again. | ||
| We're gonna try to rebrood down John Salman. | ||
| I tell you what, let's go ahead and play the uh while we reboot. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let's go and play the gaggle right now. | ||
| We got Rudy on deck. | ||
| Let's go and play the gaggle. | ||
| Let's put the gaggle. | ||
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Tell John if he can wait six minutes, he loves it. | |
| So I'm gonna go uh for a little while to represent the United States at the Ryder Cup, which is very tight. | ||
| And we'll uh be watching that. | ||
| This is Kai, by the way, in case you didn't know how we do. | ||
| And uh we'll be watching uh a little girl. | ||
| I think we have uh maybe a deal on Gaza, very close to a deal on Gaza. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Hello, Peter. | ||
| It's looking like we have a deal on Gaza. | ||
| And we'll let you know. | ||
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I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back, it's gonna be a deal that will end the war. | |
| Uh it's gonna be a deal with it's gonna be peace. | ||
| I think we have a deal. | ||
| That'll be number eight, Peter, nothing. | ||
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Mr. President, now that you're gonna next president. | |
| It's not a list, but I think there'll be others. | ||
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I mean, they're corrupt. | |
| These uh these were corrupt radical left democrats, who told me essentially was a death, he was worse than the Democrats. | ||
| I would say the Democrats are better than Tommy. | ||
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But uh, they'll be honest. | |
| Look, it was that's my opinion. | ||
| Uh they weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history. | ||
| What they've done is terrible. | ||
| And so I would uh I hope they're frankly, I hope they're honest. | ||
| You can't let this happen to a country. | ||
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Will you enjoy the point of terms he went to further try to case how can I never try to well we'll see, but it's a pretty easy case because look, he lied. | |
| You saw my truth today. | ||
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He lied. | |
| It was yes, so he didn't say, well, in my opinion, he didn't do a lot of things that maybe he shouldn't, but I don't think he could because he lied. | ||
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That was a very important question that he was asking. | |
| And he wanted to be specific. | ||
| But he didn't the only thing that happened to him, he didn't think he'd get caught. | ||
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What do you think about that answer that he gave? | |
| That was a very important answer. | ||
| And it was very for him, it was a very good answer if he didn't get caught. | ||
| But he got caught lying to Congress. | ||
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No, it's just not a way of raising this. | |
| You're getting in the same way of going to Congress. | ||
| Are you worried, Cal, that the next time there's a democratic president? | ||
| They will indict your FBI director or people. | ||
| That's what they tried to do, right? | ||
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They did it with me for four years they went after me. | |
| They went after me for four years, and that doesn't include the four great years that we had in the White House. | ||
| So when I ran it for you know, 2016 when we won, it began before I got to office. | ||
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You know that. | |
| Wait a minute. | ||
| Before I came to office, I started hearing rumors about Russia. | ||
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I said, what the hell do I have to do with Russia? | |
| Nothing. | ||
| And then it got worse and worse, because some of the fakers not you, but some of the fake news picked it up and they left it. | ||
| And we went through a long time with that. | ||
| And despite that, we had a great first term. | ||
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And that's how it went. | |
| That's how it went for a very long time. | ||
| Is this more about justice or is it about resentment? | ||
| It's about justice, uh, but also it's also about the fact that you can't let this go on. | ||
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They are sick radical left people, and they can't get away with it. | |
| And told me Tomy was one of the people, he wasn't the biggest, but he's a dirty cop. | ||
| He's always been a dirty cop, everybody knew it. | ||
| And it's uh, you know, as far as the case is concerned, he gave an answer. | ||
| It was a strong answer. | ||
| He Then verified it a couple of times. | ||
| Because that was a very important answer. | ||
| If he would have equivocated, he would have been like a little bit less sure. | ||
| That would have been very bad for him. | ||
| So he gave an answer. | ||
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The only problem is for him, he didn't think it be caught. | |
| And he got caught. | ||
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We did that yesterday. | |
| He lied and lied a lot. | ||
| But this was a very important thing. | ||
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This is, he could have said, well, maybe or I don't remember. | |
| He didn't say that. | ||
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He gave a very specific answer. | |
| And then he verified it numerous times. | ||
| And he got caught. | ||
| The problem that Golby has is he got caught live and he was very strong. | ||
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It's not like, well, maybe or I don't remember. | |
| He gave a very specific answer because it was a very powerful slide. | ||
| A very important question. | ||
| And when he gave the answer, the only problem is he got caught. | ||
| Well, we're going to see if the radical left democrats want to shut it down. | ||
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And it's up to that. | |
| We have a great economy going. | ||
| Because the numbers get in their fantastic. | ||
| Prices are down. | ||
| We have virtually no inflation. | ||
| Everything's going good. | ||
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We're respected by every nation in the world. | |
| And you know what happens? | ||
| The Democrats want to shut it down. | ||
| They want to shut it down because they want to give billion, ultimately, trillions of dollars to illegal migrants, people that came into our country illness. | ||
| Some of those people are criminals, but they came in to our country illegally. | ||
| And they want to give them the addiction of the years, trillions of dollars. | ||
| And our people aren't going to stand for it. | ||
| They also want to have open voters. | ||
| They want to have men and women's sports. | ||
| They want to have transgener for everybody. | ||
| These people are crazy, the Democrats. | ||
| So if it has to be shut down, it'll have to shut down. | ||
| but they're the ones that are in the jetty. | ||
| They're the ones in the water, they're the ones in the water. | ||
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They're the ones in the water. | |
| John Solomon continues with us. | ||
| President right there, a lot of news dealing with Gaza. | ||
| We'll get to all that. | ||
| John Solomon, can you finish your thought, please, for the audience? | ||
| Listen, I think the first issue for the Justice Department is a leadership issue. | ||
| You gotta go and take whatever it takes to get from the White House or other places, a group of people who can come in and clear the logjam and get this done. | ||
| This starts with leadership. | ||
| I don't doubt Pam's commitment to getting to the bottom of this stuff. | ||
| I think they're just so overwhelmed right now for what the FBI's turned over, they can't keep up with it, and that's gonna deserve the entire country if they don't fix it. | ||
| So you fix that, uh Steve, and then when when this evidence is out in the public and people can see the magnitude of what was kept from us, then you go get a blue ribbon commission and you rewire this entire system before the end of the Trump presidency. | ||
| Much like we rewired the Intel community after uh 9-11. | ||
| We did a lot of good in after 9-11 in fighting terrorism. | ||
| Of course, what we ended up creating was a deep state. | ||
| We didn't solve that problem, we made that problem worse. | ||
| We have to fix that. | ||
| A blue ribbon commission is what most of my experts tell me is the right way to go. | ||
| John Solomon, where do they go to get your reporting? | ||
| Just the news, the show, social media, all of it. | ||
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All right. | |
| Do we lose? | ||
| I guess we lost uh John Solomon again. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Um, I want to talk about real quick. | ||
| I got the mayor coming up. | ||
| There's no better person, there's no better person to look at and talk to about this terrorism uh bill and also Comey and all of it than America's mayor. | ||
| We're gonna go to Rulia Drudion, Julian after a short commercial break. | ||
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So they're all gone. | |
| We rejoice with no more. | ||
| Let's take down the CC. | ||
| Use your host. | ||
| Stephen K. Bass. | ||
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| Uh so right there in the gaggle, President Trump said that more indictments are likely coming against corrupt deep state officials after Comey and will include potentially other high-ranking politicians, America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and um, I think the greatest prosecutor we've had in this country's history. | ||
| Uh Rudy, what say you, sir? | ||
| Oh, I think it's obvious, Steve. | ||
| Uh, the indictment uh is a giveaway in uh the history of indictments, I think I know them pretty well. | ||
| You see how short it is? | ||
| So you might think as a defendant, I get a little short indictment like that, that's terrific. | ||
| That's if he committed one crime once. | ||
| That is a uh preface, not even an introduction to the major war and peace novel that the indictment will become. | ||
| Um they're beginning with him, maybe because of the time pressure. | ||
| I mean, she ha she can't be immune to the fact that there's pressure on her. | ||
| I might think it's unfair because I'm a prosecutor, and I don't know what good it is to push prosecutors, but uh this is this definitely is a result of the president pushing her a little. | ||
| And it's a good indictment. | ||
| Don't get me wrong, it's a good case, but it's rather small in the in the big scheme of things. | ||
| You've got a case that could be three times as broad as the original Biden Rico case that I outlined in my book. | ||
| It could be that case plus two others, all in one RICO case. | ||
| Think of Rico as a novel with seven or eight chapters, each chapter a different crime, different predicates, and a different uh uh set of penalties. | ||
| Plus, here's the benefit of RICO, Steve. | ||
| You can take the money away. | ||
| So if you want to, if you want to defuse some of these, let's say, oh, hypothetically, let's say that people were funding Antifa Black Lives Matter to do those riots. | ||
| You could bankrupt those operations. | ||
| You could you could take their present accounts, and then you could spend the next 10 years tracing all their accounts and taking everything else. | ||
| Uh case in point, the Teamsters. | ||
| Joe Geneva, your friend and I did that to the Teamsters. | ||
| We spent 10 years, went on after me, after him, and we took all their money out of the Central States Pension Fund, which took all their money out of Las Vegas, which took all their money away from them, which is why they're a pathetic silly group of old men now and wannabes. | ||
| You you could do that to the criminal uh money in the Democrat Party. | ||
| If you could find it all and get rid of it, because with all being contributed to illegally trying to stop Trump and then trying to lawfully, unlawfully remove a lawfully elected president, which gets about as close to treason as you can get. | ||
| Now, do I have to name the people involved in that? | ||
| I mean, I can I have it written down. | ||
| I mean, that's that's the that's the whole group. | ||
| That that's Obama, that's Hillary, that's of course Biden, that's uh the two bums over the two bums in intelligence. | ||
| Uh so hang on. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| I want to bifurcate and we get to the terrorism thing and the source and all that uh after the break. | ||
| You're gonna stick around with me. | ||
| I want to keep telling you you're I just want to make sure this we're clear on this. | ||
| You're saying that the little two page indictment on the lying to Congress and the obstruction of justice is just the appetizer when it even comes to Comey. | ||
| But you're because you're saying more things are gonna come on Comey. | ||
| Are you also uh anticipating when President Trump said that statement right there that you're going to have uh more indictments in a broader uh conspiracy investigation about Russia Gate, about trying to remove him as president, about trying to destroy his presidency in the first term? | ||
| Do you see that is you think that's what Trump's talking about? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Uh I'm not exactly sure if the president has envisioned everything that he's talking about. | ||
| After all, the president's not a lawyer and he doesn't know the tools that are available to them. | ||
| The president really, the president's objective isn't even so much prosecution. | ||
| It's bringing it to uh a public daylight and bringing it to account. | ||
| So simple. | ||
| So it doesn't happen again. | ||
| This is not a question of vengeance. | ||
| This is a question of justice and deterrence. | ||
| And if he didn't do it, he wouldn't be a president. | ||
| Uh if he if he had nothing to do with this, but this was on his plate, he would have to do the same thing. | ||
| And otherwise he'd be a lousy president, and we'd have this all happen again. | ||
| The only thing it's gonna stop these people, because they are thoroughgoing criminals, very similar to the mafia people I I prosecuted, very similar to the terrorists I prosecuted, and certainly just like the corrupt politicians I prosecuted. | ||
| They'll do this forever. | ||
| We can be in power for for three terms. | ||
| They'll come back and do it again. | ||
| The Democratic Party has been crooked. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| The two things they embraced originally was slavery and being crooks. | ||
| That's what the party's about. | ||
| It's history, it's boss tweed and slavery. | ||
| Why someone wants to belong to it and not change its name at least, I have no idea. | ||
| Is the potential of these broader things, because last night the historical reaction by people like Andrew Weissman and others, McCabe and these guys, because you you it's not just about Comey. | ||
| They understand what's coming. | ||
| They understand what their crimes are and they understand where this is going, sir. | ||
| Well, the one thing I don't see yet, but I I don't know the inside of it. | ||
| I want to see the one really great prosecutor. | ||
| What I mean by a great prosecutor is the one who can flip people. | ||
| Uh people think of a great prosecutor as a great trial lawyer, um, great investigator. | ||
| Truly, that's all true. | ||
| Here's the skill that you have if you're a great prosecutor. | ||
| This is why I made so many cases. | ||
| Uh this is gonna sound terribly, terribly uh boastful, but I was the as the best trial lawyer in the U.S. attorney's office, I won every case. | ||
| So even when I was the U.S. attorney, I would go to court and try cases. | ||
| I was the last U.S. attorney to try cases in court. | ||
| Second, I was skilled at turning people. | ||
| I was taught by the best, and I turned the mafia people, but I turned a lot of other people. | ||
| I turned, I turned Russian spies, I turned German Nazis. | ||
| What I mean by that is you'll see a couple of, you'll see about four or five, six indictments. | ||
| I don't think Comey, although you try everybody. | ||
| You hit somebody and then you try to flip them. | ||
| They were very unsuccessful in that, the um the Biden criminals. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because the people were telling the truth. | ||
| Uh flipping works when you got real criminals. | ||
| Uh people, people that are pretty innocent. | ||
| Some of them are live for you, but some of them are honorable enough not to. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| We're gonna take a short break. | ||
| The president is landing in Long Island. | ||
| He's going to the writer cup. | ||
| And boy, do we need the president's spirit on the American side for the writer cup. | ||
| And the greatest mayor in New York City City and one of the greatest prosecutors this nation's ever had. | ||
| Mayor Rudy Giuliani. |
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