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Nov. 27, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4956: DC Terror Attack On National Guard
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And do a reset.
I want to replay that entire presser because I think it was only a couple of minutes, but I think it's got some details in there.
So, as soon as you guys are ready to play it, we'll do it.
I also have to say, Jack, I've got a particular problem with the thing about all the agencies working together.
As I've said many times, we understand they all work together.
We assume you're all together.
But I think we just got to get down to the basics.
And if we can just put up that photo of the shooter or the alleged shooter, the one that got wounded, and they put in the thing, was that the, I think that was the alleged shooter, right?
I think we put that up.
And I'd like to play just what Cash and Mayor Bowser and the assistant head of what DC Metro has to say, because I'm not saying there's conflicting information, but even that, it wasn't tight.
It wasn't as tight as you have to have.
We don't have it.
No, Jack, right now.
Okay, Jack.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
We're going to reset.
Jack, we've got to reboot here.
What we know from this presser is that they called it a targeted shooting.
What happened earlier this afternoon, I think around 2:15 or so at the Farragut, near the Farragut, the Metro station.
Someone came around the shooter came around the corner and opened up on National Guard elements that were in that were there.
They were supposedly had weapons.
They were shot.
At first, it was reported by the governor of West Virginia that they had died.
What we do know is that other national from the presser is that other National Guard individuals got onto the shooter and let him have it.
I think there's New York Post is reporting five rounds.
He was hit by five rounds or took five rounds.
The ABC News and CBS, excuse me, CBS News is reporting that there was up to 10 to 15 shots coming from the gunmen, and they said it was looked like an ambush situation.
So I don't know if they've got more information than we just heard right there of the targeted targeted information.
Do we have this ready to play?
I'll tell you what, we're rebooting Jack Pasovic right now.
You're in the five o'clock hour of the war room.
We obviously had a very different show ready for you on the eve of Thanksgiving.
But this is actually an emergency in the nation's capital, very near the White House.
Let's go ahead.
We're going to take it from the top.
Let's go ahead and play the and replay the presser.
My name is Kash Patel, FBI Director.
We're here to brief you on the tragic events that happened today at approximately 2:15 local time in Washington, D.C., where two of our brave members of the National Guard and the Department of War were brazenly attacked in a horrendous act of violence.
They were shot.
They're in critical condition.
As you can see behind me, we have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to bring to bear all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act.
And make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.
Since this is an assault on a federal law enforcement officer, this will be treated at the federal level as an assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
The FBI will lead out on that mission with our interagency partners to include the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, ATF, DEA.
And we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter.
The Metropolitan Police Department and their skills in investigating homicides and gun shootings in this city is exceptional.
We will work together collaboratively because this is a matter of national security, because it's a matter of pride.
President Trump has been informed.
We've been in contact with the White House.
We will shortchange the American public with no resources to make sure we find and safeguard our nation's capital right here in Washington, D.C., and bring anyone responsible for this heinous act of violence to justice.
I would lastly like to add to the American public and the world: please send your prayers to those brave warriors who are in critical condition and their families.
They are here serving our country.
They are here protecting everyday Americans and citizens around the world in our nation's capital.
They are the heroes of this day, and we must remember them on this day and every day and their families and the sacrifice they have made.
I will now turn it over to Chief Carroll of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, everyone.
My name is Jeff Carroll.
I'm the Executive Assistant Chief here at the Metropolitan Police Department.
At approximately 2:15 this afternoon, members of the D.C. National Guard were on high visibility controls in the area of 17th and I Street Northwest when a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm, and discharged at the National Guard members.
The National Guard members, there were other members that were in the area, they were able to, after some back and forth, able to subdue the individual and bring him into custody.
Within moments, members of law enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into custody.
At this time, as the director mentioned, the National Guard members are being treated at a local hospital.
D.C. Fire and EMS responded to the scene to provide first aid for those individuals and transport them to a local hospital.
The suspect in this case was also transported for treatment at a local hospital.
Madam Mayor?
I'm Uriel Bowser.
I'm the mayor of Washington, D.C., and I too want to send my thoughts and prayers to the families of the guardsmen and to the guardsmen who are in critical condition in a local hospital.
I am joined by members and leadership from the D.C. National Guard, from the West Virginia National Guard, United States Secret Service, Deputy Mayor Pia, Fire Chief Donnelly, and Metro's General Manager Randy Clark.
And we join with the FBI Director in ensuring that MPD investigates.
The U.S. Attorney prosecutes this case to the fullest extent of the law.
I've had the opportunity to brief U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was speaking to the President when I called, as well as the United States Attorney Pierot, who assured me that this case will have her office's complete attention.
Mayor, was there any other suspect?
Chief?
Sure.
So, no, at this time, there was no indication that there was any other suspect, the one suspect that was involved in this incident.
They were shot during the interaction, and they were transported to the hospital for treatment.
Mayor, does this validate the need for the National Guard here in D.C.?
What we know, Andrea, is that this is a targeted shooting.
One individual who appeared to target these guardsmen, that individual has been taken into custody.
Mr. Mayor, can you tell us about more details on the condition of the two National Guardmen and whether or not anyone else was injured?
And a quick question, follow-up for the FBI director.
You said that we'll make sure we find the perpetrators for this act.
So just to clarify, the person believed to be responsible is in custody and there are no other suspects.
Sure, so I can start out again, Chief Carroll from MPD.
So both the individuals, the guard members, they are in critical condition in local hospital at this time being treated.
At this point, we have no other suspects.
We have reviewed video from the area.
It appears, like I said, to be a lone gunman that raised the firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard.
And he was quickly taken into custody by other National Guard members and law enforcement members.
Any sense of him?
Tell us about a motive.
No, at this time, obviously, we're very in the plenary stages of investigation.
There's a lot of things, a lot of agents that are here from various federal agencies, law enforcement agencies.
We have the full power of the FBI and our federal partners here in the task force.
So we're looking at all those different aspects, but we don't have any motivation.
The National Guardsmen that were shot, I'm told they were armed.
Did they get off charge?
At this time, that's part of the preliminary investigation.
We know how the suspect actually went out.
Chief?
Sure.
So how the suspect was apprehended, as I said, the individual, the suspect came around the corner, he immediately started firing a firearm at the two National Guard members.
So at that time, there were other National Guard members that were in the area.
They heard the gunfire.
They actually were able to intervene and to kind of hold down the suspect after he had been shot on the ground until law enforcement got there within moments.
And he was shot by the National Guard team?
At this point, we're still investigating exactly who shot that individual.
It's not clear at this time.
With your DC police in the area?
We don't know what kind of weapon.
There was DC police.
It happened right in front of the metro, although there is no indication that the perpetrator was on the metro.
So there's Metro Transit Police in the area and obviously being on 17th Street by the White House, Uniform Division of Secret Service were in the immediate area as well.
What kind of weapon the alleged perpetrators used?
We do not know at this time.
Still under the website fire.
We're going to be able to take a couple more.
The law enforcement has been able to question the suspect, or is his condition so severe that you haven't been able to have a conversation?
Sure.
So as I said, we're very preliminary in the investigation.
So we're looking into all aspects of who the individual is, his connections.
At this time, he's still in the hospital receiving treatment.
And I would just like to add, the reason that this suspect is in custody is because of the bravery of the men and women of the National Guard who responded due to their extensive training to secure American lives today.
There was not any further injury and any further shootings.
We should highlight the fact that the men and women of law enforcement, the interagency, the Department of War, and the National Guard executed their training with great precision today and prevented an even greater tragedy from befalling us.
These National Guardsmen are heroes, and we must pray for their safety and their speedy recovery.
And as the chief said, we are in the preliminary stages of this investigation.
We will run down every single lead, every piece of evidence.
This is the power of the U.S. government at its best at the state, local, and federal level.
That is why this interagency group is standing behind us to assure America and the world that we will continue to keep D.C. safe.
And thankfully, we have Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guardsmen, and federal agents, and the Department of Justice and an Attorney General willing to prosecute the mission to keep Americans safe.
And President Trump has rightly stated that this heinous act will be investigated.
And he has thanked the National Guard's men and women and the men and women of law enforcement.
Did the suspect say anything at the time?
Why did the West Virginia governor say that they just killed?
Was anyone else shot on such a call?
Have the families been notified?
So Jack Basobic joins me.
Jack, you had it right there.
Of course, they're in the moment also.
They only have a few minutes to prepare for this.
So you're going to have a little information, maybe not on top of everything.
But I do think they can give us more information about the shooter, right?
I understand he's not cooperating, but you could have said he was a male.
You didn't have to give us the pronouns.
I mean, it's just not, it's not acceptable.
You can give us more basic information about what's going on.
Jack Basobic, your thoughts?
Well, Steve, are you familiar with the tenets of Coulter's law and Coulter's law?
Oh, the longer it goes, the more you know it's a normal, it's part of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Is that the question?
She said, I believe in the moment.
She's a little more blunt.
She's a little more blunt than that.
Well, the longer, right, right.
The longer, of course she is.
The longer that it takes for them to release a description, the less chance that it was a white male.
Yeah.
You're saying if this guy had a MAGA ball cap on, we would note his name.
First off, they would already be scrubbing his social media.
You would hear every time he supported a was that a Trump rally?
Yeah, exactly.
You'd have all that.
You'd have pictures of him with like, you know, me and you or something like that.
You'd have everything.
So again, you know, it remains to be seen.
But once again, the tenets of Coulter's law seem to be holding true.
And so in this situation, you know, there really does need to be an understanding of what's going on.
And I think that you look at the way that the right responded to the murder of Charlie Kirk.
You've seen recriminations.
You've seen a lot of backstabbing, a lot of ankle biting, a lot of people pointing fingers, a lot of bickering and infighting, rather than actually doing something about the people who are shooting and killing patriots, National Guardsmen, school children in our country.
We need to do something about that.
We don't have time for the bickering and the infighting and then, oh, you can't have this person on your podcast.
And we've got to tone police.
We've got to be really careful.
No, those are not the people that are, it's not podcasters that are stacking bodies in the United States of America right now.
And I'm sick to death of so many conservatives thinking that that's the most important thing in the world.
Charlie Kirk's family will have an empty seat at their table tomorrow because of a violent leftist.
And until we as a country and as a movement actually start to get really serious about this, he is not going to be the last one.
It's the head of the table.
And, you know, Charlie's not going to be with his family, not going to be with the country.
I couldn't agree with you more.
This is what I'm saying.
I think this, hopefully, this tragedy will reinforce to the president and his team that America has his back.
America wants the situation dealt with.
America does not want this thing to devolve in more and more violence.
And these people are all of our type.
They're all outcast.
They're not in the normal flow of making America great again.
We have to be blunt about this.
Look at this.
These are the angry.
Charlie called them the lost boys of the West when he spoke about that.
These are the disaffected, disassociated young men.
And we also see a lot of the time migrant violence as well.
Same idea.
They're disassociated.
They're outcast from society.
They never really quite fit into society.
And then they turn on TV and they get told it's Donald Trump.
It's MAGA Republicans.
It's Charlie Kirk.
It's the United States National Guard that is putting you at risk.
So you've got to get up and do something about it.
I tell you what, we're going to take a short commercial break here.
Jack, you're going to stick around.
You're kind of my wingman.
We're pulling together some, we're pulling together some clips from other channels and also getting more information as we go.
I want to thank everybody for sticking around.
Not the five o'clock show that we had in mind, but we're going to stick it through and give you all the updated information.
A targeted shooting of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. near the White House.
Short commercial break.
Back in the war room in just a moment.
America's hotel.
Coming out of places like Chicago.
It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.
It is very, a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground.
So it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something, particularly against American citizens, what exactly do we know?
Basically, just what you said, Katie.
This shooting, I'm told, occurred near the White House in a place called Farragut Square in downtown D.C. We're seeing video on social media of police rushing to the scene.
I checked in with the Secret Service because they protect the White House and was told that two uniformed National Guard members were involved in a shooting.
At least one of them was struck.
Their condition is not known.
The nature of the incident was not known by this person.
It's being handled by the D.C. police, not the Secret Service, because they've decided there's no nexus to the White House, no threat to the White House.
So the circumstances of this incident are unclear.
Remember, of course, that uniformed National Guard are regularly patrolling the streets of Washington, having been deployed there by President Trump.
That's subject to a legal fight.
Actually, five days ago, a judge ordered the Trump administration to halt that deployment.
That's still being litigated.
But again, so all we know is that two uniformed National Guard members involved in a shooting, one was struck.
The condition of that person is unknown at this time.
Their presence is also under question whether it's legal.
Last week, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in D.C. was unlawful, arguing it lacks authority and is violating the District of Columbia's sovereign powers under the Home Rule Act.
The Trump administration is appealing that order.
They filed their appeal, Ken, last night.
Yeah, that's right.
And that will be ongoing.
You know, that's part of the litigation that's been happening around the country.
Various challenges have been made.
But the Trump administration is standing by this policy of deploying National Guard troops to cities, saying that it's necessary to combat crime.
As Tom just articulated, there's a lot of dispute about that, even among the National Guard members themselves.
But in D.C., it's been less controversial than in other places.
Again, the mayor sort of made a strategic decision to go along with it, essentially, initially, although the Attorney General is challenging that deployment in court.
But again, it hasn't been really much of a subject of contention on the streets because oftentimes you'll see them essentially National Guard, uniformed National Guard members gathered in groups, scrolling on their phones, chatting.
They're not really involved in very much that's controversial here in D.C., Katie.
The President says, and we didn't know much about that third person.
Now, apparently we do.
He says that the shooter was also very severely wounded.
But regardless, the president says we'll pay a very steep price.
JD Vance is in Kentucky.
He's going to be speaking soon.
We're going to wait to see if he does address the shooting and what happened in Washington, D.C. today.
Again, the president is not in town.
He is in Florida.
JD Vance in Kentucky.
That being said, it's Washington, D.C., a lot of high-value targets.
It involves two National Guard members.
And so much has been locked down, including the White House.
And there is a ground stop at Reagan National Airport, which is just on the outside of the city until 4 o'clock.
Again, this is the busiest travel day of the year.
So a ground stop at this moment is significant.
It's meaningful.
We've seen multiple different law enforcement agencies on the scene, including D.C. Police, Metropolitan Police, including the ATF, the U.S. Marshals, the FBI, the Secret Service.
The big question we have right now, and Ken Delanian pointed this out a moment ago, is: was this a targeted attack?
Did the person who shot these two guardsmen do it intentionally?
Was it an ambush?
Or was it something else?
Was it caught in crossfire, street crime?
It is unclear at the moment.
Read you with the governor of West Virginia has put out there on social media.
This is Governor Patrick Morrissey.
He says it's with great sorrow that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier today in Washington, D.C., have passed away from their injuries.
These brave West Virginians lost their lives in the service of their country.
We are in ongoing contact with federal officials as the investigation continues.
Our entire state grieves with their families, their loved ones, and the Guard community.
West Virginia will never forget their service or their sacrifice, and we will demand full accountability for this horrific act.
I'm a bit speechless because it is just so awful.
And the timing is making it even worse.
Okay, Denver, you got to get quicker on that.
Katie Tur was just reporting what the governor of West Virginia said.
He put out a tweet.
He reversed it.
He reversed it shortly thereafter and said they really didn't know the status.
I think now we know from the press conference it is they're in critical condition.
We have, is it Chris Peyote from a former assistant director of the FBI is with us?
Sir, thank you for joining us.
What would law enforcement be doing right now and going through and going through their evolutions to get to the bottom of this?
Right.
What you have is a very large law enforcement presence.
So they're figuring out who's going to be the lead, who's moving into support functions, who's going to be gathering what information and running down immediate investigative leads.
They're also going to be looking to collect incidental surveillance footage, any kind of information that would give them more context and characterization of the situation.
And as far as what the circumstances were at the time, they're also probably looking right now to make sure they can determine whether this was an isolated incident, loan offender, or is this something part of a more widespread attack posture across the nation?
Yeah, Chris, Cash said, hey, we're going to get the perpetrators.
And of course, it just happened a few minutes ago.
They did say it was a targeted shooting.
But the DC Metro, I think, assistant director really said that this looked like a lone gunman.
Is it too soon to jump to that conclusion, or it doesn't look like it was a set ambush from a roof?
But Cash did say we're going to get the perpetrators.
What would that lead you to believe?
Well, right now, it's too early to put a lot of context around it.
This could have been a random shooting by someone who is a disaffected person, saw two uniformed National Guardsmen and fired upon them.
I also have seen instances of rhetoric on social media by certain politicians indicating that they were saying that National Guard members could be firing upon American citizens.
It could have caused somebody to move from an ideological position to an actual kinetic action.
So they're looking at all of these things.
Right now, I would have to take a broader view of it and say we want to make sure that it's an isolated incident before we call it one.
We want to make sure that we have all the suspects in custody before we say we do and make sure that we're not overselling our position on the front end.
Did you say, Chris, did you say you actually thought you saw politicians today say about this incident that it might have been caused by somebody shooting in the crowd?
Or is that just some general?
That's something general.
Yeah.
Is that something that generally you've seen in the past?
I just saw it earlier today where there was one of the, I guess the six, the people who put out that message saying this in the past few days about the possibility of National Guard members taking such action against the American people.
I'm not saying it was related to today, but what I'm saying is in my previous life, if you have people that are on that edge of ideological views and action, a statement like that could take someone who is mentally unbalanced and move them to action versus just staying in the ideological position.
By the way, this is the seditious six that Chris is talking about, and there's been a lot of activity about that.
In fact, Captain Mark Kelly has already come out and said how horrific this is.
Jack, we have, Chris, is it pronounced Pihota?
How do you pronounce your last name?
Yes.
That's great.
Pijota.
Not close enough.
Jack Vasobic, I know you're trying to line up some other guests for us.
Do you have any questions for Chris?
Well, Chris, I suppose the one thing that we're going to have to start looking at really more now is these, and I spoke about this in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, these asymmetric assassinations, whereby in you can have self-radicalized or radicalized in small groups assassins who go off and commit radical acts and really looking at ways to harden up these soft targets.
Obviously, Charlie's campus tour was a soft target.
Places like, as we know, this was a metro station.
We've been told for years, ever since the days of 9-11, that these were soft targets.
But certainly the White House itself, you know, you think with all the security there and all the personnel and surveillance that there'd be something more that could be done.
That being said, an ambush is an ambush.
But certainly it's something that I think that a lot of national security is going to end.
Safety personnel are going to be focused on.
Absolutely.
What you're going to see is a change in the National Guard's posture for force protection.
They're going to start looking at how they protect their people and they're going to start looking at their standing rules of engagement.
You're also going to see the law enforcement community take up a bit more maybe of an aggressive posture around certain places, people, places, and things to make sure that any would-be attackers are put off by a show of force.
One thing I'll add to what you said is I find that a lot of the movements right now are practicing what we used to call the leaderless resistance model.
All of these folks are out there.
They're radicalized.
They're looking for a reason to take action.
They're looking for the adoration of their so-called tribe.
And rhetoric, any kind of irresponsible talk or agitation could move these people to action.
So it's just another way of expanding the threat environment for our law enforcement and national defense personnel.
Hey, Chris, can you stick with us?
Appreciate it if you could.
Absolutely.
Chris Pihota, who's a former assistant director of the FBI, Jack Pasovic is my wingman.
We're going to get some other people.
I think I'm in communication with Eric Prince, Brian Glenn.
We're going to get as much information about this as possible.
Real tragedy today near the White House.
Two National Guard unit members, I believe from West Virginia, were shot.
We're in supposedly in critical condition, as much as we've heard, by a gunman that was referred to by DC Metro as being a targeted, a targeted event.
We'll hopefully get more information about that as the night progresses.
Short commercial break.
You're in the war room.
Back in a moment, Stephen K. Bannon.
Okay, thanks.
We're going to get John Solomon up here momentarily.
Brian Glenn joins us.
Jack Pasovic's working a couple of contacts.
Make sure we get full information to everyone.
Brian Glenn, President Trump is at Mar-lago, so thank God he's not near this today.
Vice President Advance is, I think, in Kentucky.
Any updates of what you know about White House staff or anyone having any insights about this, sir?
Yes, good evening.
As of now, no, I don't have any updates from the White House other than the true social posts that President Push pushed out earlier.
I was telling the producer in the break yesterday, I had a great conversation with four National Guardsmen from Mississippi at a Starbucks right about a block away from where this incident happened today.
They tell me they were going to be here until March.
And I asked them, what has been the feedback from people on the streets as they often are found picking up trash?
They just had a video of them picking up trash just two days ago in front of Lafayette Park there.
They are excited to be in this city.
It's an honor to serve our country and being our nation's capital.
So as soon as I heard about this shooting, I instantly thought about these three young men that so bravely want to serve our community and to see what happened.
Now, you know, I also started thinking about, well, is this much of a large, is this a planup of a larger attack?
Should we see more of these lone wolves on the streets around D.C.?
And I know that Pete Hesseth had announced that we're going to have an additional 500 National Guardsmen around D.C.
And I hope, Steve, that every single one of these men and women that are walking these streets with the National Guard have some type of firearm on them.
A lot of them don't, Steve.
And luckily, from what I understand today, that the two gentlemen engaged in this shooting did have some type of weapon on them.
But I think it's imperative that we put these men and women on the streets of Washington, D.C. to patrol these neighborhoods, have the ability to defend themselves.
Very important.
Well, this was people on Capitol Hill that blinked and didn't really have the president's back about the deployment of these troops.
We get tremendous blowback on this from all the rhinos.
Right now, Jack, I'm going to come to you.
Brian, hang on.
This is a typical response, Jack.
Jane Meyer, who's one of the worst of the worst.
Caitlin Collins had put something out about the guardsmen being shot.
Jane Meyer comes in.
This is so tragic, so unnecessary.
These poor guardsmen should never have been deployed.
I live in D.C. and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash.
It was for political show and at what cost.
The left has never supported having the National Guard there to back up local police and to back up Ice Age.
Remember, the Jane Meyers of the world do not want anybody deported.
The only way they're going to win elections is the illegal alien invasion.
And of course, you know, just like Mamdani won in New York City.
And so all they're doing is dumping on.
They're not talking about the shooter.
They're not talking about, you know, these radical leftists and folks that are taking this in their own hands.
What they're doing is they're trashing the National Guard for just being there picking up trash.
Your thoughts, Jack Pasovic?
Yeah, Steve, I'll say what I said earlier today and earlier in the week.
No offense, but it's time to let the men handle this.
This idea that, oh, you know, we don't like these raids and we don't like the, we're scared of the uniforms.
These same people that were scared that President Trump was having tanks at the Army parade.
Yeah, imagine an army parade for their birthday, the 250th, that doesn't have a tank.
All right.
It's cut me a break.
I'm sick of the overt feminization of our culture, the overt feminization of America.
You need rough men to commit acts of roughness in order to keep people safe from violent animals.
The kind of violent animals that would shoot up Charlie Kirk, that would shoot up a school, that would shoot up National Guardsmen.
I'm sorry, lady, but that's just the facts.
And if you can't handle it, then guess what?
Maybe this line of business isn't for you.
Go work in a flower shop or something.
That's perfectly fine, but you have no business putting your opinion out there, especially when two members of National Guard who are conducting law enforcement, high-profile presence operations in front of the White House, the people's house, were just shot.
She takes the side of the criminal.
This is what they do, Steve: deny, attacked, and then reverse victim and offender.
It's called Darvo.
First, they deny what happened.
They attack the opposite side, and they reverse victim and offender.
The victim, in her case, is the people of D.C.
The victim is the people who are victimized.
It's like Slotkin saying that she was worried about the National Guardsmen were going to be shooting up U.S. citizens.
And Gavin Newsom said recently that deploying the National Guard is an act of a dictator.
He said it was an act of a dictator.
And I remember, Steve, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, we were told, oh, we're going to tone down the rhetoric.
We're going to tone down the rhetoric.
They didn't tone it down.
They toned it up.
They ratcheted up against conservatives, against President Trump, and against our National Guardsmen and law enforcement.
And what did conservatives do?
Conservatives started attacking each other with the infighting and saying, oh, he can't have this guy on his podcast.
He can't talk about that.
And they're more worried about that than the people being gunned down and the bodies being stacked in America because of asymmetric civil warfare, which is currently ongoing.
Steve, I would also like to point out just here that as we're waiting for more confirmation on the description, we also know, and I think it needs to be said, that President Trump just signed that executive order on the Muslim Brotherhood.
And the Muslim Brotherhood are known for extreme acts of violence, adherence to their ideology are known for extreme acts of violence.
You had Alex Jones and Laura Loomer on earlier today talking about that.
And, you know, I think as we describe all of this situation, we should also point out that this does happen in the wake of the signing of IDEO.
We're going to get back to that.
Got Jack Pasovic, my wingman from Human Events Daily.
Chris Pihota, former assistant director of the FBI, is good enough to join us.
Brian Glenn, our White House correspondent, I want to bring in John Solomon.
John's joining us, I think, by phone.
John, earlier in the day, there was talk about this might be an ambush.
CBS News reported that they said it was an ambush.
Law enforcement had told them 10 to 15 rounds.
We then heard it was a targeted shooting by D.C. Metro.
It looks like the individual took five incoming.
Have you got any update from your sources, sir?
Yeah, so as what we understand is that as this as the assailant was coming across 17th Street turning onto 8th Street, he just opened fire on the guardsmen.
Some were able to return fire.
He's wounded.
He's critically injured.
The guardsmen are critically injured.
But it does look to be a surprise, unprovoked, ambush-style attack.
Literally, they're walking down the street, and all of a sudden, this gentleman comes around the corner and immediately opens fire.
There's no provocation, according to law enforcement officials I've talked to, just pure hatred, just opening gunfire and trying to wound these American heroes in uniform that have been keeping our Capitol safe.
So we don't know a lot.
I want to point everybody back to something that I think is really important.
On Monday's show, we had Congressman Glenn Grossman.
He has played a very large role in helping people understand the Biden border crisis.
It was he who discovered tens of thousands of the border children, the unaccompanied minors, have been lost track of by the Biden administration.
Some of them ended up in the hands of cartels and traffickers because the government didn't keep a close eye on them.
He told me he is 100% certain that these six senators, what they were trying to do in that video last week, was to provoke people into thinking that the National Guard's deployment to keep illegal aliens off the ground, to keep criminals off the ground, was illegal, that that's what they were trying to rile people up on.
And if it turns out that this gentleman's motive is somehow related to that, it's going to be a tragedy.
And those six senators and others who have been provoking and suggesting that what the National Guard is doing, like you just mentioned, Jane Mayer, is somehow unlawful, unrighteous.
These are the people that are provoking and angering people around the country, creating a false error that somehow this is an illegal or unrighteous effort to secure a city.
And so we won't know the motive for a while, but I do think there is concern that the boiled water that the left has done is in some ways put the National Guard and others, like ICE, in grave danger.
And it's a tragedy that people who are elected in office and hold the highest offices in the land don't realize that their rhetoric contributes to a really unstable and violent situation right now.
We'll find out what this man's motive is, but it's so funny on Monday, or tragic, I should say, on Monday, that Glenn Grossman was worried that people would take from these six senators' language that the National Guard were somehow the bad people in this.
And that's the tragedy.
Even if it's not the motive for this shooting, it shouldn't be the message Americans are getting from their elected leaders.
I would love if Denver right now could go ahead and pull that clip from John Solomon's Monday Show.
I want to play it.
Solomon, the evolution, you know, Jane Mayer is mocking the National Guard about picking up trash.
There's been this issue.
The evolution of this from when President Trump first did it, it was pressure from the left, but you had people on Capitol Hill just weren't prepared to support President Trump.
Because the National Guard, from when they first came and had such a dramatic impact on crime, as you remember, in the first couple of weeks, there has been a bunch of people texting me now saying a lot of the National Guard even carry weapons, don't have ammo in them.
And of course, obviously now some of the National Guard do not carry weapons.
How did that happen?
Who did not have the president's back in this deployment of the National Guard for the safety and security of the Capitol, sir?
Yeah, listen, if you're trying to secure a capital where gun violence is frequent and regular, you need to be armed, right?
And we know that.
And I think that if any guardsmen were not armed, it appears that these guardsmen had at least small arms on them because they were able to return fire or some in the crowd were able to son in the group.
I think they usually travel in groups of four.
Someone was able to get several shots off and wound this assailant.
But we'll need to understand who in that group had weapons, who did not.
But you can't be a law enforcement official in the 21st century in a city like Washington, D.C., where gun crime is high, where the gangs roam and have roamed freely, though they've been reined in quite a bit the last few weeks, and not be armed.
You've got to be on equal firepower with the bad guys.
And so we'll get into that.
I've seen a lot of the guardsmen armed when I've engaged them.
I've had some great conversations.
I met a couple on H Street right where this happened just about a week ago, two weeks ago.
I bought them some coffee.
And it's just good people, and they're proud to be defending their country, proud to be making their capital a little safer.
They see their work as righteous, and they see the critics as somehow just silly.
They don't appreciate what these men and women are doing.
And I think at the end of the day, if any of them are unarmed and they're out in the street, that's got to change because anyone is a target these days.
That is a sad, sad thing.
We learned that tragically with Charlie, and we're learning it again tragically today here on a night and eve when we should be celebrating a holiday.
We're mourning the terrible wounding of these two National Guardsmen.
And hopefully they're in critical conditioning.
Hopefully, they pull through.
John, there's a lot of, you know, the people on the left are even being as aggressive right now.
They never should have been deployed.
This is all a power play by a dictator.
This instigation of this constantly by the left-wing politicians, do you see a reaction coming with President Trump?
Is he finally going to say, I've had enough of this, sir?
Listen, he's been pretty tough the last several months, and he immediately swats down.
Other presidents would have allowed the senators to go unanswered.
He didn't let that go unanswered.
He immediately called it what he believed it was, which was sedition.
And he has ordered investigations of them.
He is countering at every step this narrative because he knows any moment you stay silent, an inch is taken off of the debate line, and the left keeps surging in.
And I've said this many times.
What the left is engaged in is a war on truth.
They are trying to eliminate truth.
They try to make the bad guys the good guys, the good guys the bad guys.
They try to make the abnormal normal.
They want to put men on women's podium and steal their medals after an athletic competition.
And the reason they're doing it, the reason they're waging this war, and I've talked to many of the activists on the front lines, is they ultimately want to eradicate the ultimate truth upon which this country is built.
And that is that our creator endowed us with certain inalienable rights.
And they don't want that to be the truth anymore.
So as they destroy truth, they're marching towards eradicating that final truth that our liberties come from God and can't be taken from government.
I said this a few times in speeches and my friends on the left mocked me.
And then Tim Kame came out and said it out loud.
Yeah, but no, the government gives you rights.
You don't get them from anywhere else.
You get them from our governor.
Government, that is the truth that's under this truth on war, this war on truth.
And I think those of us who have the bully pulpit or the bullhorn every day, we have to keep countering the war on truth.
We have to keep reminding people that the good guys are the National Guardsmen, not the guy who fired unprovoked on them, that the good guys are the ICE agents.
They're not running up grannies and taking kids out of school.
They're getting gangbangers and drug traffickers off the street.
We have to counter it every step of every day because right now it's an information war designed to eradicate the many truths that this country is built on.
John, before I let you go, I just wanted to end, and we're going to get it booted up as soon as we can.
But Reverend Al Sharpton was on MSMDC just moments ago, and he is pretty adamant.
Al Sharpton blames President Trump for the National Guardsman being shot in D.C. quote, as Nicole Wallace watches, looks on with tears.
She goes, the two people that are fighting for their lives, guardsmen that this president put there in harm's way.
Your thoughts, sir?
It's ludicrous.
The president did something to make the city safer.
Those guardsmen, I know because I've talked so many of them.
I bought them coffee several times on the streets.
They're proud to be doing that.
They don't feel forced and compelled.
I mean, they obviously know they've been ordered there, but they don't feel that way.
They feel like this is a righteous job.
And someone like Al Sharpton or Nicole Wallace, who've imposed so many lies on the American people over the many years, they're doing a disservice to those men and women.
They don't even understand those men and women.
They don't know what makes them tick.
They don't know the patriotism that they feel.
And I've never seen Al Sharpton or Nicole Wallace cry for any of the people who were gunned down day in and day out every single day on the streets of Washington, D.C.
They didn't shed a tear then.
And the body toll is enormous in D.C. People who are wounded and shot in this unlawful, lawless sort of society that the D.C. government created in the nation's capital.
They weren't crying then.
They only cry when it's convenient to make a case against Donald Trump.
The American people are way smarter than Al Sharpton or Nicole Wallace whoever be.
They don't view it this way.
And by the way, the men and women, the fatigues that I walk by every day, they don't feel compelled by Donald Trump or that this is a miserable job or that they've been put in a wrong place.
They think they're in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.
And MSNBC should maybe wake up and spend a few days on the street and talk to these amazing guardsmen.
They'd find an extraordinarily different sentiment.
John, thank you for calling in.
If you have anything else, let us know.
We want to get you back up.
John Solomon, what's your John, just the news and your Twitter handle?
Jay Solomon Reports.
Yeah, Jay Solomon reports on all social platforms.
Thank you, brother.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Here's what I'd like to do.
Jack Vasobic's got a reporter in the street that's going to join us.
I'd like to play, do we have the Al Sharpton?
Can I play this right now?
Let's go ahead and play Al Sharpton.
Two people fighting for their lives, guardsmen, that this president put there.
And as I said, I was one that was very vocal against that.
But I'm not going to belittle the fact that their lives are at stake to get into a back and forth with the president.
I can say that if I'm a member of their families, I don't want to hear what he's saying about Honduras right now.
I want to pray that these two guardsmen who were ordered there and who we're being told by the mayor was ambushed make it through.
And all of this about sending in 500 people, what does that have to do with where we are now?
I think that we've got to, those of us that have been opposed to the president's policy, show that we are not going to morally match him by going down to a level of insensitivity.
They're two people fighting for their lives on Thanksgiving Eve.
And it just seems ironic to me that people that pardoned people assaulting police officers are now talking about how they're going to uphold and look up to the people in the building.
People in that building will beat January 6th.
Jack, you see MSNBC in all its glory.
Is Jack Vasobic, do we have him back up?
We got Jack?
Yeah.
Okay.
Hey, Jack, I think we've got Wid Lyman up.
You want to take it?
Yeah, let's do it.
So Wid Lyman, you're down there at the White House quite a bit.
You're covering it for Border Hawk News.
You were there on the scene moments after.
Tell us what you saw.
What were the sights and sounds?
And talk to us how soon after you arrived.
Good to be with you guys tonight, and thank you.
We got here a few minutes after the situation kind of unfolded.
Behind me here is Farragut Square.
We're a block or two from the White House here.
And we just finished up a press conference with Mayor of Washington, Mayor Bowser, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other officials.
And they basically stated what we've heard so far.
Two National Guardmen have been shot, are in critical condition at two different hospitals.
The suspect is also in critical condition.
There is one suspect at this time.
They did not release any further details about it.
Basically, going forwards, they're going to be investigating this to the fullest extent of the law.
I have a quote here from the D.C. Police Union.
The shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. is a despicable act.
Our homicide detectives will ensure that whoever has perpetrated this violence is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
And just this area, Jack, as you know, is very close to the White House.
What we were told was these National Guardmen who move around in small groups, four to six, sometimes two, were basically ambushed.
The shooter came around a corner, opened fire right away in what appears to be a very targeted attack on the National Guard here in Washington.
Wid, are you, now we know there's been some photos that have gone around online about a potential shooter.
Are you able to confirm any of that?
I'm sure you've seen them.
Did you get a chance to see the suspected shooter at all as they were loading him in?
Any information on description regarding this third individual who was shot, purportedly the shooter?
I can't confirm the photos that are going around, but oftentimes Twitter is ahead of the officials in some ways.
They did not confirm the photos during the press conference, so we don't have more information about the suspect.
What we do know is there appears to be one suspect at this time.
Once this Steve.
Hey, Wid, a question.
There was an earlier report this might be an ambush.
The D.C. Metro did say it was targeted.
Do you have any other details when they say targeted?
He just came around the corner as soon as he saw the National Guard.
He unloaded.
Do we have any other backup or description about when they say it was a targeted shooting, what that means?
That verbiage denotes, I think, that they didn't see the assailant coming, so more of an ambush.
What we were told was their guardsmen were going around a corner, and then the assailant came forwards and opened fire.
Targeted, meaning that he's going after the National Guardsmen themselves.
This is not a, you know, stopping another crime that does happen here in D.C. or another incident.
It sounds like he was going after or she was going after the National Guardsmen in this attack.
And you see them all over the place.
I mean, as both of you know, guardsmen are walking around this part of D.C. in groups.
There are many, many of them.
And there should be more coming in, according to what the administration is saying.
500 more should be on the ground.
But targeted in a sense of going after the guardsmen and ambush in the sense that they did not know it was coming.
Hey, Wid, can you hang on a second and stick with us?
I want to go to Chris Pihota, a former assistant director of the FBI.
Chris, the same question to you.
Any thoughts on this, what they're calling a targeted shooting or a targeted event here?
Again, hard to say, Steve.
Here's what I would be looking at right now.
The National Guard folks, they generally will walk on a routine patterned patrol.
This individual could have watched them for a few days, could have known when they were going to be coming around, could have been lying in wait for them, and then opened fire.
It's hard to tell right now what the word targeted means.
And I think what they're saying is that maybe this individual specifically opened fire on the National Guard folks, and it wasn't a spray of bullets all around the area.
It was a targeted aimed firing at the uniform personnel.
Hey, Wid, when you said that the shooter's in critical condition, was that said at the press conference?
Did the DC Metro mention that?
I don't remember Cash saying that.
I know the two guardsmen are critical, but you also picked up that the shooter himself, the assailant himself, is in critical condition?
That is correct.
I believe the White House has also stated that President Trump has a tweet that he posted.
It looks like on Truth Social and then back over to his main account where he says is also severely wounded.
So I believe they're indicating that the shooter was injured of some capacity during this escalation.
I did hear reports of other guardsmen getting involved.
We know Metro Police were on the scene very quickly.
I wasn't sure how he was injured at this time, but it does appear that he has suffered some injury.
Wid, can you hang with us?
We're going to take a short commercial break at the top of the hour to reset here.
I've got Jack Bisobic with us.
Jack is the host of Human Events Daily, our two o'clock show, and often the wingman for the team out at Turning Point.
He used to do thought crimes with Charlie Kirk every week.
Chris Pihota, former assistant director of the FBI, has been kind enough to join us for trying to get Eric Prince on.
Brian Glenn is going to reboot and be back up in a moment.
And of course, we have Wid Lyman.
Wid, is there Border Hawks reporting?
Border Hawks News.
Is that what your network is, your channel?
Thank you.
Singular.
Borderhawk.news is the website, and then Borderhawk News on Twitter.
But just singular, although there are many Border Hawks.
I'll admit that.
But you're the hawk of the hawks.
WID, stick around with us.
A big tragedy today.
Two National Guardsmen gunned down in a targeted shooting, according to DC Metro and Kash Patel, the head of the FBI.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We're going to roll into the six o'clock hour here on Real America's Voice.
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