00:00:28.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.900Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.640If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.980War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:52.200The first thing I learned is the importance of physical courage.
00:00:55.840The fact that he had the guts to stay there.
00:00:59.320And when he came out of the bunker in the video clip that we showed, and there he was in his fatigues with his buddies around him, and he said, we're here.
00:01:10.020That was a powerful statement of personal courage.
00:01:13.640The second thing I learned was the importance of technology.
00:01:17.260And the technology that the United States has provided to Ukraine is extraordinary.
00:01:21.280We have the ability to use the most modern tools of AI, other ways of precisely locating where the enemy is, and then putting fires from HIMARS, from artillery pieces.
00:01:34.220Everything that the U.S. can provide within the limits of what it said is allowable is targeted very precisely.
00:01:42.640When you read that a building full of Russian generals and senior officers got hit, that's no accident.
00:01:50.960Third thing that I learned is the importance of intelligence, the way in which the United States has used intelligence to constantly stay on the front foot, to take advantage of Russian weaknesses, to preempt Russian actions.
00:02:04.660And the way in which Russian intelligence has been so stupid.
00:02:08.260They really let Putin believe his fantasies about Ukraine, that it's not a real country, they won't fight back.
00:02:14.660And somehow the wanted Russian intelligence machine completely broke down in this war.
00:02:20.660Has arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in connection with the leak of highly classified documents online.
00:02:27.560The documents, some of which may have been altered, included assessments of the war in Ukraine.
00:02:32.640NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell has details.
00:02:38.080Backed up by an armored SWAT vehicle with guns drawn,
00:02:40.960the FBI arrested a 21-year-old airman first class in the Massachusetts National Guard,
00:02:46.700working in IT in their intelligence wing,
00:02:49.420who the government says is the source of that major intelligence leak.
00:02:53.020The Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira
00:02:56.460in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission
00:03:02.320of classified national defense information.
00:03:05.340The Washington Post was first to report that Teixeira,
00:03:07.740under the moniker OG, shared classified intelligence,
00:03:11.740including photos of the leaked documents,
00:03:13.980in a private group of mostly young men on Discord,
00:03:17.380an online chat platform popular with video gamers.
00:03:20.900The Post spoke with an anonymous member of that chat room,
00:03:23.980populated by gun enthusiasts who frequently shared racist memes.
00:05:27.220There is an air war that hasn't really unfolded yet.
00:05:31.200Putin has not really launched his air force against Ukraine in big ways because he's afraid of getting planes shot down.
00:05:39.280What you see, if it's accurate, and you're right to underline the veracity, no ability quotient here.
00:05:47.580But if it's accurate, the dropping down of those inventories concerns me.
00:05:53.000It's a message that we ought to be putting more focus on that air war and, again, thinking consciously about getting fighter jets in the hands of the Ukrainians.
00:06:06.920Okay, Friday, 14 April, year of our lower 2023.
00:06:10.700President Trump is going to be at the NRA today.
00:06:24.020Normally they run a few minutes late, so we're going to do it live in the 5 o'clock show, maybe even roll over to the 6, capture the whole thing.
00:06:30.140Big story about Mike Pence is going to really kick off his campaign today to make the case at the NRA that Donald Trump is weak on guns and that Mike Pence is a stronger gun advocate.
00:06:45.340We have Russ Vogt about – because you're the creditors committee, we've got to get fully up to speed here on everything with going on behind the scenes on the debt ceiling negotiation.
00:06:58.000In fact, can you pull – go to my getter and pull the – I didn't tell you this this morning, my crack staff.
00:07:02.920Pulled the Frank Luntz was on Don Lemon.
00:07:05.520Frank Luntz was on Don Lemon yesterday talking about the six ways, the six moves you have to do to defeat Trump.
00:07:11.680It all gets down to you have to be authentic.
00:07:15.420I mean you basically have to be Trump, which is, of course, nobody can – only Trump can be Trump.
00:07:19.220But he said the number one issue – wait for it.
00:07:22.040The number one issue, the number one – this is Frank Luntz.
00:07:25.520The number one issue from all of his – these focus groups and when he jumps out of the bunk bed over there with – I guess is McCarthy still his roommate?
00:07:33.300He jumps out of the bunk bed and does his – those phony focus groups.
00:07:37.420The number one issue is the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling.
00:07:43.560We've got Joe Kent, a warrior par excellence.
00:07:48.960What you saw right there – and I want to thank the crack war room staff for pulling David Ignatius.
00:07:55.900That cold open started on the first anniversary, and David Ignatius is sitting there.
00:08:01.280And David Ignatius, everybody knows, to give you some inside baseball, he's a – he's a Washington Post columnist, Mr. National Security Intelligence.
00:08:09.760When they want to drop something, when the administrative state or the deep state wants to drop something on Morning Joe with the knitted browns, sound very officious.
00:08:16.840This is things for serious people, not for the MAGA, breathe-through-their-mouth knuckle-draggers over at the war room.
00:08:28.800And David Ignatius right there, just to make sure you understand the lies and misrepresentations, we had that bookend with David Ignatius on the first anniversary of the war talking about the amazing intelligence we had and the intelligence superiority, right?
00:08:42.360That we knew the Russians, we knew everything that's going on.
00:09:20.180Jack and I did the 6 o'clock show together last night, and Jack had an incredible human events daily we did live on Getter last night on Shee in the CCP.
00:09:28.840I do disagree with Brother Posobiec in one regard.
00:09:32.940When they say airman first class, that's not like a first class petty officer.
00:09:36.100This is the lowest grand dune when you put a chevron on.
00:09:38.680This is a guy that's barely off of being a recruit.
00:09:42.980This guy is a grand dune to a grand dune.
00:09:47.000And listen, ladies and gentlemen, it's the Air National Guard in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over at Otis Air Force Base.
00:10:38.900This is – and now all the media – of course, they've got to show up with 50 guys up-armored with long guns and all the weaponry and then got to – walk him out in humility.
00:10:48.720He's reading a book and some other things.
00:11:08.680He's got a bunch of 16- to 17-year-old kids in this thing and they're these gamers and they're talking and he's, quote-unquote, trying to get them up into the real world, not just the gamer world by giving them stuff.
00:12:18.900And to hang it on Ignatius, dude, okay, you're right.
00:12:23.060The intelligence is great and the intelligence is telling you behind the scenes on classified and compartmented information that everything that Stavridis and everything on MSNBC and CNN and Admiral Kirby and Tony Blinken is a stone cold in your face.
00:12:43.280Now look, we had the Pentagon Papers that showed they lied about Vietnam to you for 10 years.
00:19:13.420How does that – because you agree with me.
00:19:16.620Those are basic in-your-face lies that they're telling us everything is going – the triumphalist narrative is what's dominant in our ruling class and particularly in the Biden regime.
00:19:27.000We've been told over and over again that the Ukrainians are definitely going to win, that every single Russian troop will be expelled from Ukraine.
00:19:35.980This victory is inevitable as long as we keep supporting them.
00:19:39.900And so that argument has never made sense if you understand just, I think, basic geography.
00:19:44.140If you look at a map and you see how big Russia is and you see how small Ukraine is, even Kamala Harris said this.
00:20:09.720When you get Stav Rea and these other retired generals talking about like the next offensive or the next great tactic that they're going to apply to this war, just look at these guys' track records.
00:20:18.900How many more surges do we need to be successful in Iraq and Afghanistan?
00:20:22.220How many more countries did we need to go to war with to experiment with this regime change nonsense?
00:20:28.880And the problem is they always profit and are promoted off of being wrong.
00:20:33.200So this whole thing, this whole deck of cards is imploding down.
00:20:36.420And it's going to fall on the deplorables to go fight World War III if Congress doesn't do their job and pump the brakes and actually provide some congressional oversight and exercise their war powers authorities.
00:20:47.920Next weekend, make sure you get the thing up.
00:20:53.020Next weekend in L.A., we're going to have the early years of World War III, packed two-day event.
00:21:05.080You've been saying that the global elites, the uniparty, the ruling class in this country have been lying to the American people to their face on a number of topics, from the invasion of the southern border to the economy to the whole issue of transgender ideology, all of it.
00:21:22.100Talk to me about when you see these documents and you read these documents versus what Ignatius and Stavridis and everybody sells the American public every day, ma'am.
00:21:33.920Well, Steve, I always tell people, you know, that when you hear things reported, the measure is not what you know about a subject because our information is naturally limited.
00:21:44.540You have to always try to remember that people in positions of power have access to the number one intelligence collecting agency in the world.
00:21:55.480So when you see people like with Afghanistan say it was a failure of intelligence, you know, it's so frustrating because here you have the NSA, which is known as the crown jewel of intelligence collection.
00:22:07.300There is not a digital signal alive that they don't capture and store, by the way.
00:22:13.140We have massive data storage facilities hidden in mountains and hidden underground and in, you know, secret classified facilities all across this country.
00:22:22.620You have every intelligence agency of every nation on earth beating a path to the door of the NSA to find out what they know.
00:22:31.060And, you know, we're supposed to believe that out of nowhere, our intelligence agencies are constantly surprised.
00:22:38.040And our officials apparently don't read anything that they're given.
00:22:43.460They don't know anything that our intelligence agencies learn because they always claim to have no knowledge.
00:22:48.340So if you remember in the Obama administration, when ISIS took Mosul, OK, that was a huge moment in history for the whole world to see.
00:22:58.200And then unspeakable misery followed thousands upon thousands of people murdered, right, and driven out of their homes and tortured and so on and enslaved.
00:23:16.860If a single journalist had bothered to do any homework whatsoever, they would have gone back to the testimony that General Lieutenant General Michael Flynn had made on the Hill before the Senate Intelligence Committee just a couple months earlier when he had the DNI, the director of national intelligence, sitting right next to him.
00:23:44.080They're going to expand and so on and so on.
00:23:46.240So it's sometimes it's not even hidden behind closed doors.
00:23:51.120What we have come to learn, you called it a stone cold lie.
00:23:54.880What I have come to learn, what millions of people are waking up to across the world, is that these people who are in positions of power, they don't tell small white lies.
00:24:12.080They've got attorneys beside them and they consistently deceive the American people on a massive and criminal scale.
00:24:21.680And that's the other part that I think gets left out there.
00:24:24.360There are actual crimes being committed and they're not necessary by a 21 year old who's sitting on his porch reading a book when you have an entire SWAT team show up.
00:24:33.080Right. They're not necessary by the American exercising their First Amendment rights, strolling around the Capitol like a tourist who's now being charged with insurrection.
00:24:42.280They're not like the parents going before school boards because they care about what their children are learning in school.
00:24:47.920No, there are actual criminals who are all across Congress and they're all across the executive branch.
00:24:54.620They're in the White House who are feeding intelligence to foreign partners abroad, who are breaking the law, who are involved in real legal conspiracies.
00:25:02.920So treason and sedition who accuse the American people day in and day out law abiding citizens get accused of crimes.
00:25:12.120They did not commit. They get smeared and they get targeted.
00:25:15.720And when that fails, they get dismissed as being crazy and all at the same time as you have people in positions of power who have not only the ability to know the truth, but the responsibility to know the truth.
00:25:28.620And they lie and they lie and they lie. And yet when you put them on the stand, they have to tell the truth.
00:25:34.560Right. When you when you take them under oath, now it's a different story.
00:25:38.460And if you compare what they say under oath, like John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, all of those people who are involved in targeting you, targeting Trump, targeting really the will of the American people, because that was a legally elected administration that was undermined in a criminal conspiracy.
00:25:56.340Those people say one thing in public and they say another behind closed doors.
00:26:00.340And the day is coming when they are held to account because it cannot keep going like this forever.
00:26:08.460When you say we've got a couple of minutes, we want to hold you through.
00:26:11.960And Joe Kent, when you say that Millie has been totally quiet and has hadn't come forward.
00:26:18.320These people have testified for the last year and their testimony basically is what David Ignatius and Admiral Stavridis have.
00:26:25.820They perjured themselves in front of Congress.
00:26:27.700Has Congress done enough to push back on this?
00:26:29.700Because the bit the bit in the ass between the real information and what they've given the public in Congress is it is as wide as the Grand Canyon, ma'am.
00:26:39.760You have a small number of people in Congress who are fighting against a tsunami of cowardice and weakness and corruption.
00:26:50.500I mean, if you look at what, say, for example, the Weaponization Committee, why has that committee not issued 100 subpoenas a week at this point?
00:26:59.780You have one of the worst crimes in the history of the United States.
00:27:04.200There has rarely been a day since 1776 when the government of the United States, along from the executive branch to law enforcement to the Department of Justice, every single institution that we have held sacred to uphold and protect this republic has gone after the American people.
00:27:22.200We have people sitting behind bars who are political prisoners, like Jeremy Brown, 20-year veteran of special operations, who made public that law enforcement were trying, the JTTF, Joint Terrorism Task Force at DHS, were trying to get him to inform on his fellow Oath Keepers.
00:27:39.820He had been a member of that organization for exactly a month.
00:27:43.120And when he made that public, they planted evidence in his home.
00:27:46.820They came after him, and he is one of hundreds and hundreds.
00:27:52.140And those are just related to January 6th.
00:27:54.640And what is happening is Congress is not doing enough because people who are in Congress are afraid.
00:28:45.420After I've stolen the title, borrowed against it, or sold the property, it's 60 to 90 days to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.
00:28:53.460You know, by that point, you start getting foreclosure notices.
00:28:56.200You've got four mortgages on your house.
00:31:37.840You've got NATO special operators all over the place, including at least 14 Americans.
00:31:43.140Alex Jones tells me you got thousands or hundreds and you got thousands of special operators from from NATO nations.
00:31:50.020But by the way, this would be the NATO that Macron.
00:31:52.860Remember, they just threw us under the bus in Beijing the other day, not just through us under the bus that we don't be pulled into the gunfight in in the in the straits of Taiwan in the South China Sea, defending Taiwan.
00:34:09.280However, they've been put into a very precarious situation where they're in this environment expected to share intelligence with the Ukrainians, yet at the same time, they're told that they're not at war.
00:34:19.380We've put these men and women into a very difficult and dangerous position, and look, we have to ask the question, if we've taken the risk to put boots on the ground, what happens when one of them gets killed?
00:34:56.540We have preached the gospel of making Biden come to the House and make the case of what the plan is.
00:35:06.200Now you know everything they've told you, all the testimony, all of New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, all of it's been a lie because now we have the documents.
00:35:16.780So more than ever, he's got to come and make the case.
00:36:49.680This is just us providing weapons to some freedom fighters.
00:36:52.820And some people may have bought that, but now they're seeing all those lies implode.
00:36:56.180They're seeing that they're ruling class, Biden and even some Republicans, unfortunately, and the woman who beat me in the election, Marie Perez, a Democrat, that they are not prioritizing the American people.
00:40:26.460And if you go back a little bit further, how about the fact that's left out of the conversation on Ukraine, which proves that Ukraine is not a country.
00:40:35.900I think most people don't realize that Ukraine is to Russia what Puerto Rico is to the United States.
00:40:47.300It was in 1654 when Ukraine became a protectorate of Russia.
00:40:51.760And so if you look at it like that, it would help people understand that there are many people in Ukraine who speak Russian as a first language.
00:41:00.400There are many people in Ukraine who are loyal to Putin and to Moscow and to Russia and not to people in Kiev.
00:41:08.300And there are many people in Kiev and in the government in Ukraine who have murdered and targeted people in eastern Ukraine, particularly because the east is close to Russia and geographically, culturally, historically.
00:41:24.320That is the area that swears the highest degree of loyalty to Russia.
00:41:28.780And that is the area, of course, where you have Crimea, which voted under Obama.
00:41:32.980They voted for their independence from Ukraine.
00:41:44.660And across Donbass and Lugansk and Odessa and all of these cities in eastern Ukraine, you have had thousands of people who have been murdered by the government in Kiev and by their Nazi battalions, like the Azov Battalion, which, by the way, with 5,000 strong is more of a division than a battalion.
00:42:03.880And the United States and NATO and all these countries have been sending their weapons.
00:42:08.880And they don't want you to look at this history.
00:42:10.700You know, I remember a time when every journalist I worked with, as we were heading into Afghanistan, as we're going into Iraq or wherever it was, you were loaded up with history books.
00:42:21.540You know, your job wasn't just to be a reporter and parrot out what the Pentagon told you or repeat what the White House was saying.
00:42:28.080Your job was to understand the context, to understand the history, to talk to every Afghan you met, to evaluate what they said, you know, in terms of motive and to put that in a broader perspective.
00:42:41.240I used to tell the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, the American soldiers, I said, look, I understand what you're saying and I'm listening to you.
00:42:48.700But you need to remember, I have a responsibility not just to you.
00:42:52.200I'm responsible to the people of this country, because I need to look at what you're doing in this village in the context of the country as a whole.
00:43:07.620And then I have a responsibility to the American people whose taxpayer dollars are funding this, who are paying your salary.
00:43:14.320I have a responsibility to the leaders who sent you there.
00:43:16.720You know, and so when you look at it, a journalist's job is to be true to the whole truth as much as you can.
00:43:22.560And what we are seeing today is that there is a complete abdication of responsibility from the media and from our leaders who are consistently dishonored.
00:46:44.400Here's what I don't get about Ukraine.
00:46:45.980And now you question everything we see in intelligence.
00:46:48.700Why is Brad Paisley over there with Joe Manchin?
00:46:51.200And you got every other day some big – did that happen when you were in Iraq and Afghanistan in these free fire zones, ma'am?
00:47:00.240I spent several weeks embedded with U.S. forces on the – just on the airport road to take you from the airport in Baghdad into the center of the city.
00:47:09.720And it was the most dangerous road in the world at that time.
00:47:13.600People were dying on that road every day.
00:47:15.480There were, you know, some months where over 100 people died in Baghdad every single day of the week or almost every day.
00:47:24.120And I lived in that city for five years straight.
00:47:29.460I've never seen anything like the parade of celebrities that are showing up in Ukraine today.
00:47:35.340I mean, it's the biggest indication that you have that things are not – they don't consider things dangerous on the ground because they would never take that risk otherwise.
00:47:42.720And I spoke to a Ukrainian woman two nights ago and another American who just returned from Kiev who said that the days of the bomb shelters and, you know, the whole sort of war footing have all but disappeared from the capital itself.
00:47:57.480And most of the fighting is in the east where, of course, you know, as usual, it's the people of Ukraine who are paying the highest price.
00:48:04.060Laura, you've been at the forefront of protecting the sovereignty and making the sovereignty of the United States a central issue about the invasion of the southern border and so much of what's going on.
00:48:14.800Give me your assessment on this World Health Organization.
00:48:19.260We're going to get everything up that Reggie Littlejohn gave us so you can call your congressman, call your senator.
00:48:23.840Talk to us about how important it is of what's happening with the World Health Organization vis-Ã -vis the sovereignty of the citizens in the country, the United States of America.
00:48:31.860Well, Steve, most Americans don't realize that we are already in the middle of a war, right, and that the policies that are being implemented today, the American people are being committed, not just politically, but by law, to global institutions and global governments.
00:48:51.580That's not a conspiracy, and the World Health Organization, this whole issue over this legislation now, this agreement, this tells you that.
00:49:00.700It's right in your face because what it's saying is that a bunch of unelected bureaucrats from a body that is, let's not delude ourselves.
00:49:08.700The World Health Organization is run by a small number of billionaires like Bill Gates and others who finance these organizations.
00:49:18.100It is a complete misnomer to present these as public entities because what you are seeing now is that you have a small number of people who talk about the relationship and the partnership, public-private partnership, but when they say that, they are not talking about the traditional view where you have sovereign governments and sovereign nations who are partnered with private companies.
00:49:41.980They're talking about private companies who are served by these so-called government bodies, right, and the most important thing for people to understand here is that we are being committed to these organizations and we are being committed to global government at the very same time that we still believe we're living in a country whose borders are protected.
00:50:05.960The southern border effectively doesn't exist any longer.
00:50:11.740If you were to go down to El Paso today or tomorrow or next week, what you will see on the other side of the wall there where there's big gates is thousands of people who are lined up who are coming here illegally.
00:50:23.840We have an administration who has created the CBP1 app, and this app now allows people who want to come illegally to go through the app so that they can now come across the official ports of entry.
00:50:37.400So they're not even included in the number of apprehensions that Border Patrol logs between the official ports of entry.
00:50:44.660We have a surge of Chinese over the last four or five weeks where all across the southern border in areas where there are normally no Chinese because they typically for years, Chinese have come through McAllen Station.
00:50:57.440Now they're coming through RGC, Rio Grande City, and other stations are coming in Arizona.
00:51:01.740They come through the northern border, through the Swanton port of entry, and they are surging.
00:51:07.420They've gone from zero in Rio Grande City to 50 to 70 a day.
00:51:11.080Star County, where Rio Grande City is, two nights ago they had 97 out of 141 apprehensions were Chinese nationals.
00:51:19.460And what is happening to these people is they are just being given a notice to appear at ICE at an immigration facility, and then if they show up, they're given a notice to appear in court.
00:51:30.780So when they don't show up at ICE, they're not even in violation of a court order, right, or a court date because they weren't even given that.
00:51:38.600And they just go off into the United States, and the Biden administration has set up a very good system for them where they pass these people on to NGOs or LLCs.
00:51:48.660And don't be fooled, right, this taxpayer is still paying for this because these NGOs and companies are getting massive contracts with the Biden administration to send these people across the country to provide, you know, basic living, whatever they need to live from, whether it's clothes and food and rent and whatever else.
00:52:09.680And at the very same time, the Border Patrol is being told there's no money for your security.
00:52:16.140We're taking down your aerostats, which are your eyes in the sky, and we are taking away your ability to see the border.
00:52:22.940And we're sending you back to 1924, where you have to look for sign in the dirt and rely on hits on ground sensors.