Stephen K. Bannon and Jeff Clark join me in the War Room to talk about the latest in the Trump/Biden saga and how it affects the future of the Republican presidential nomination race. We also talk about China's growing influence in Latin America and how to deal with it.
00:00:25.740I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:31.620Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:35.380If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:41.740War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:50.220Are we going to prevent China from having a military base on the island of Cuba?
00:00:54.040We have been not only looking, but also engaging in a number of countries over the last couple of years where China is trying to get a foothold.
00:01:05.900And we've been engaged diplomatically in a number of places.
00:01:09.520And we've had some success in either preventing that, delaying that, or turning that around.
00:01:49.020Again, we've made clear that this is a real concern.
00:01:52.700And as I said, in a variety of places where China's tried to get a foothold, militarily or with intelligence, we've been not only looking at that, we've been taking action to try to push back.
00:07:49.740The Chinese Empire, the Chinese people have not had freedom, any freedom.
00:07:53.640For one small amount of time in the early 20th century, maybe a democracy, but it really devolved into warlordism.
00:08:00.560What Russia is devolving into now, warlordism.
00:08:04.500We'll have Ben Harnwell on here in a little while to discuss that.
00:08:09.480But this is, you know, Franklin said on the steps to the woman, Mr. Franklin, do we have a republic?
00:08:16.320Yes, you do, ma'am, if you can keep it.
00:08:18.640Ben Franklin was a very wise individual.
00:08:21.100He understood, well, he understood the forces there, as I'll talk about on the specials that we run up to July 4th.
00:08:29.720The expeditionary force on the 2nd of July, really before they had signed the document, on the 2nd of July, the first troop transports came into New York Harbor with no resistance.
00:08:44.420The entire expeditionary force was landed by mid-August, I think on the 22nd.
00:08:50.760I think the largest expeditionary force the British Empire had ever put forward.
00:08:54.360And led to a catastrophic series of battles that essentially culminated in us being driven back across the Delaware River into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
00:09:05.980Lost Long Island, lost Manhattan, lost all of New York, then Princeton, then across all the way down.
00:09:12.400Just driven back, defeat after defeat after defeat after defeat.
00:09:15.980You didn't get your liberty, you didn't get your freedom by signing the Declaration of Independence.
00:09:20.500That's a group of lawyers having a magnificent debate about freedom and everything.
00:09:25.820You won your liberty by defeating the British Army in the World Navy, the most powerful navy in the world and probably the best professional army in the world at the time.
00:09:34.960You took eight years and you beat them.
00:11:06.020In the world today, the most powerful nation in the history of mankind.
00:11:12.260And as much as we're fighting for our children and grandchildren, we're fighting for every patriot and patriot grave that for 12 or 13 or 14 generations have handed this republic to us, bequeathed this to us.
00:12:48.320The revolutionary generation were a collection of deal lawyers, smugglers and real estate speculators.
00:12:53.780Speculators, okay, who rose above their own limitations as human beings to be one of the greatest collection in a generation of leaders in the history of mankind.
00:13:05.480And not just formed this nation, but fought the most powerful empire in the world at that time.
00:13:16.580Of which, understand, they would have probably had a better even economic deal if they had just gone along and been a part of that empire and been a part of the British East India Company.
00:13:28.140And the landed worthless aristocracy and just rolled it out as part of the British Empire.
00:13:32.600They probably would have had a better economic deal.
00:13:36.280But the Jeffersons and the Hamiltons and the Franklins and the Adams had the ability to look downrange.
00:13:44.320And say, no, we have to fight for this today, even if they string us up.
00:13:47.900Show me where that courage in America is today.
00:13:52.120Donald Trump, if Donald Trump had walked away on the on the afternoon, the 20th of January and when he got to Mar-a-Lago and just played golf and hung out.
00:14:02.860None of this would have happened to him.
00:14:05.320But like Cincinnati's, he's returned to say, no, the republic must be saved and I'm here to save it.
00:17:50.540Like, when I was a young kid, the men in my parish, who, by the way, the parish that the FBI now looks at as a problem with domestic terrorism, right?
00:18:04.320The people that were held in the highest regard, we had a couple of FBI field agents in my parish, and that was the top of, for an Irish Catholic parish, that was the highest you could get.
00:18:13.960That's unfortunately not the same today, but you were co-head of the cyber division.
00:18:18.800Talk to me about the reality of how dangerous this is for people.
00:18:22.240And it's simple to check if you go to home title life, but how dangerous it is for somebody to go in, these cyber criminals, or even state power now, to go in and mess around with your title?
00:18:34.200You know, the perfect storm of cybercrime and our country's home title filing system has created a vulnerability that puts all 84 million single-family homes at risk of having their homes stolen while they're still in it through title theft.
00:18:51.720All someone has to do with a forged signature and a fake notary stamp on one simple document.
00:18:57.140Cyber thieves anywhere in the world can fraudulently transfer your home from your name into their name or a name of their choosing.
00:19:10.300And at that time, sell your home and drain it of its equity.
00:22:22.600Look, there's a double Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Harvard, Barnard Balin.
00:22:29.200And Balin is famous for establishing that the American consciousness solidified decades before 1776 and the Revolutionary War, right?
00:22:38.860So during that time period, we like to think of, you know, sometimes these days the founders and the whole country at that time as being unified against the British, but they weren't, right?
00:22:49.700We had these essentially, you know, lazy folks who were very happy with their royal prerogatives and the benefits flowing from Britain, and they didn't fight.
00:23:00.000They actually sometimes threw their lot on the other side.
00:23:04.400It's time to put aside, you know, being the summer patriot, it's time to fight for the country and to be someone who would fall and be classed with the framers and the founders and those who fought and camped at Valley Forge and fought all the battles up and down the East Coast.
00:23:22.560And not with the lazy Tories, with the folks who, you know, in the modern day have thrown in with the uniparty establishment and they just do not have the guts to fight for the country.
00:23:32.840And they're going to let our patrimony be whittled away or washed away, and then we won't be able to get it back.
00:23:39.540Talk to me about what signals – I asked both Cash and Davis when I had them on earlier, Mike Davis, to walk me through what are you looking for in the Republican House right now to kind of get a handle on what's going on?
00:23:56.460Because clearly the oversight committee and the judiciary and the weaponization government, they're all fine, nice people, but they're not staffed upright.
00:24:05.100What are you looking for in those committees, and do you support Davis and Cash saying we should commence the impeachment process on at least Garland right now?
00:24:15.180So, Steve, look, what I would do is I would get the same level of staffing that the January 6th committee had and the same level of expertise.
00:24:24.020So, we need people who – you know, it's great to have lifelong staffers on Capitol Hill, right, as part of the process, but we need people who actually know how to prosecute cases, make factual findings, ask questions in depositions in a serious lawyerly way, narrow the funnel to get concessions from the witnesses.
00:24:45.060So, we need our own former U.S. attorneys who want to fight, and if we can't find them in the U.S. attorney ranks or in the assistant U.S. attorney ranks, and I think we can if we look hard enough, then we go to the state attorneys general and to local prosecutors and find the people there.
00:25:02.660In terms of an impeachment inquiry, here's what I would start with.
00:25:07.260I would bring in Weiss and I would bring in Garland, and I would ask them about this whole question of whether there was an ask by Weiss to be appointed as a special counsel under the regulations.
00:25:20.040And Garland is saying, no, he was never asked.
00:25:23.220So, you know, if both are telling the truth, right, and we'd have to try to really press on that, then what that suggests is that someone in between Garland and Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, told Weiss to stand down and that he was never going to get that authority.
00:25:37.760That person should then become a focus for inquiry.
00:25:42.320And, Steve, look, who is the—what are we talking about there if, you know, a lot of people don't understand the command structure of the Justice Department?
00:25:50.180The U.S. attorneys report to the deputy attorney general, right?
00:25:55.840And then the deputy attorney general also has a number of officials.
00:25:59.220One of the most prominent ones, the most prominent one, is called the pay DAG, the principal associate deputy attorney general.
00:26:04.220You know, someone probably in the DAG structure, if Garland didn't tell Weiss this himself, said that he could not proceed as a special counsel.
00:26:14.960Somewhere there's a big problem, and the House needs to get to the bottom of it.
00:26:21.640You think because Weiss has said, I asked for it, and Garland said, I never heard about it, you're saying either one or two are lying or somewhere in between, like a Lisa Monaco or something like that, it were at rest.
00:26:32.840But you want a full pursuit of that to kick things off, correct?
00:26:40.060Do you buy my theory of the case and Mike Davis's that this whole Mar-a-Lago raid and everything like that, now that we know the timeline here and know what they knew at the time, that it's at least evident to me that that was a total misdirection play to just get up another controversy around Trump, sir?
00:26:57.780I do, because I think that they came to realize that Biden had documents spread in multiple locations.
00:27:05.460And we also know now from the FOIA revelations that America First Legal got that Biden authorized special access to Trump's, the former president's documents under the whole scheme of 44 USC, the Presidential Records Act, and that they lied about that.
00:27:23.300They tried initially to suggest that this was the FBI acting on their own, and I suspect that the FBI people, and we've seen now even Stephen D'Antuono, right, who was the guy out in Michigan with the Whitmer kidnapping plot and then brought to D.C. to be the head of the field office here during January 6th, even he seemed to have rebelled against going after Trump.
00:27:43.960I suspect those folks said, we're not going to, you know, take the heat for having authorized this raid.
00:27:50.120So then Garland came out and he took responsibility for it.
00:27:53.980Meanwhile, they had Kareem Jean-Pierre say Biden had nothing to do with it, but that was complete lies.
00:28:05.260I want to talk about East Palestine, Jeff Clark being correct again.
00:28:09.040When this situation first went down to what we know now, Jeff Clark from Russ Vogt's organization is going to stick over through the break.
00:28:19.380And we've also got Ben Harnwell on the situation in Russia in Delaware.
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00:29:47.340During the hearing, emergency officials spoke about the critical decision to then vent and burn toxic chemicals from five train cars.
00:30:04.160The local fire chief says it's a decision they were only given 13 minutes to make, but defended it as the best option available.
00:30:13.660And in the end, the decision to vent and burn was agreed to without dissent as the least bad option, as the only option for avoiding a much more severe explosion, fire, and far-reaching contamination.
00:30:29.460EPA says they will not test furnace filters here.
00:30:35.240Because every piece of data that we collect has to have what we call a data quality objective.
00:30:42.020And that objective tells us what we're going to do with the result.
00:30:46.680If we go out and collect a furnace filter sample and we don't have any comparative values to measure that against, then all we have is a piece of data that we can't use.
00:30:55.800In the EPA's opinion, is East Palestine and the surrounding communities, is it safe here for residents?
00:31:02.220I don't see any exposure potential from the derailment site based on the hundreds of thousands of monitoring points that we have.
00:32:03.780Well, what wasn't covered in that segment was the biggest bombshell of the hearing, which was the vice president for health, safety and environment, Paul Thomas, from the company Oxy Vinyls, which produced the vinyl chloride, saying that he told them on three separate occasions, you know, based on what I'm seeing from the readings and the like, there's no evidence of polymerization.
00:32:26.700In other words, there's no risk that the cars are going to blow up, that, you know, the 135-degree temperatures for the cars was explainable by the fire nearby, and that in order for there to be combustion, you know, you would need sufficient oxygen.
00:32:42.400It's not like it would just polymerize without oxygen and the cars are designed not to have the oxygen in them.
00:32:48.260So the bottom line was, you know, he advised, right, and they're the ones who manufactured the relevant substance of concern, you know, don't detonate these cars.
00:32:56.360There's no need to do that, and they did it anyway, and then you saw in the clip that you played, Steve, that they gave poor Drabik, the local fire chief, 13 minutes to decide what to do, right?
00:33:08.120You know, they had a bunch of experts on site, you know, I think driven largely by Norfolk Southern and its financial interests, saying, well, you know, we got to blow this up.
00:33:16.580There's some risk, and you're the decision maker.
00:33:20.920And, you know, that's faulty in a number of different ways, as we've explored before.
00:33:24.420First of all, the authority over that site was exclusively in the hands of the EPA administrator as the delegate of President Biden.
00:33:33.420He shall take care that all site decisions, all control of that site, you know, were made by federal, state, or private actors.
00:33:44.220Whoever they were, the EPA administrator controlled them.
00:33:47.040So they dumped this into the lap of the fire chief, who's not, doesn't have the expertise to make the decision.
00:33:53.320They told him he only got 13 minutes to do it, and it doesn't seem like they told him about the fact that OxyVinyls had said that there's no need to detonate this car, and then they went and blew it up anyway.
00:34:03.520And then they created the phosgene gas that fell over the community, and, you know, as you see there, they're still conceding that, of course, there are big problems with water in the area.
00:34:13.460You know, you can't even go into your, wade into your local creek, and it's summertime, and, you know, kids want to play.
00:34:18.480So it's a disgraceful situation, and it's an attempt, again, to keep passing the buck from the EPA administrator and from President Biden, where it belongs, onto a local fire chief who's clueless about these kinds of things, when the experts about the substance say the cars never should have been detonated.
00:34:37.580I just want to make sure, because this is your area of expertise, this is why you were in the Justice Department, you've kind of, this is part of your life's work.
00:34:45.120Look, the $6.8 trillion that we spend that we can't afford, that we're having a $2 trillion deficit this year, but the $6.8 we spend is supposedly in one aspect for the administrative state that they know how to administer, correct?
00:34:59.020So when you have this command structure, and the executive order gives it, because it's supposed to be to the president, but he can't do everything, so he deputizes the EPA director.
00:35:07.140They have a system, that system's set up to have an on-scene commander, they take charge of it, and they have the ability and the apparatus they have in Washington, plus, as they break it down to regional administrators, to be able to call in the expert for the polymers, to be able to call and to know that's the whole point of a command center, is to be able to think through these complicated things of hazardous materials and all these things to drop.
00:35:28.580So that's the theoretical structure, correct?
00:35:31.640And that's supposedly what we're paying for, Jeff Clark?
00:35:35.800That's exactly what we're paying for, and it should be the priority of EPA.
00:35:39.620But as you know, in this administration, the priority of the EPA is for Michael Regan to take junkets to Africa with Idris Elba to blather on about the fake climate change issue, or to give out money under this phantom concept of environmental justice, and to worry about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:36:02.480This is not related directly to East Palestine, but it's indicative of the way this town is working at this point.
00:36:08.680I walked into a fancy restaurant yesterday in K Street, saw a bunch of, you know, high-powered lawyers sitting around the table.
00:37:11.760We're burying every future generation because we're printing at least $2 trillion that we can't afford.
00:37:18.140And this is why the guys in the third world countries and the developing nations are saying, screw you, we've had enough.
00:37:23.060We're going to meet in Durban and come up with the beginning of a solution because we're tired of you jamming us.
00:37:27.500We're telling you, the Grundunes and the MAGA and the deplorables of the United States can lose 15% of their purchasing power over the last couple of years.
00:37:43.220But it'll be a start because we're not going to take it anymore.
00:37:46.200But the people in East Palestine, this is how you lose a nation.
00:37:50.460This is about managed decline because the hardworking citizens and patriots who have sent sons and daughters on every battlefield in the world and who pay their taxes and their pension money.
00:38:00.660Sequoia Capital, by the way, the Wall Street Journal today, tells you what War Room has been banging the drum on.
00:38:06.080Sequoia Capital, giving all the money to the Chinese Communist Party for military technology, had to make a decision.
00:46:15.920Is that it only makes sense in the context of what they were doing and what is the evidence of their selling out the nation, selling out the nation.
00:46:27.920And I'm going to play, at the top of the hour, I'm going to play the Anthony Blinken military base in Cuba.
00:46:44.160I mean, that's exactly what we've been saying since the Mar-a-Lago raid, what, 11 months ago now, last August.
00:46:50.980This was a clear play by the Justice Department and the intel agencies to go after Trump because Trump declassified and had his personal copy of the damning crossfire hurricane records.
00:47:04.960The Russian collusion hoax, Hillary, President Obama, Vice President Biden, the FBI, the CIA, the AG, they colluded together in 2016 to cook up the Russian collusion hoax, to say that Trump was colluding with the Russians.
00:47:24.280And I think the reason they did this is because Hillary Clinton had her illegal home server as secretary of state with our nation's most classified secrets.
00:47:35.000It evidenced the Clinton Foundation's pay-for-play and other foreign bribery and corruption schemes.
00:47:41.760It was hacked by foreign governments, probably Russia, and maybe Hillary was worried that Russia was going to leak this evidence before 2016.
00:47:49.940And so to get ahead of that, they tried to say that Trump was colluding with Russia.
00:47:57.940Well, they ran the exact same play in 2020 when the CIA worked with the 51 former intel goons to say that Hunter Biden's laptop, evidencing the Biden's corruption, foreign bribery and corruption, was a Russian disinformation campaign.
00:48:14.040They got the New York Post, America's oldest newspaper, deplatformed.
00:48:20.060You couldn't even access the story's link on the Internet.
00:48:23.040That's how much they are willing to weaponize our law enforcement and intel agencies to change elections, election interference at its worst.
00:48:31.960And they're doing the same thing now in 2024.
00:48:36.540Trump was in a civil lawsuit versus Hillary Clinton down in Florida over the Russian collusion hoax.
00:48:42.260And I bet you anything that Biden feared that those were going to come out during the discovery process.
00:48:47.620Hence, we got this unprecedented, unlawful, unnecessary home raid on a former president for presidential records he's allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.
00:48:58.480Our intel agencies, our law enforcement agencies have been completely politicized and weaponized.
00:49:04.920And the only way we're going to fix this is getting Trump back in the White House in 2024.
00:49:10.660In the meantime, House Republicans must move forward with impeachments.
00:49:15.580Biden, Garland, Ray, Mayorkas, all of these people are bad actors in many different ways.
00:49:22.340But we cannot have a politicized and weaponized justice system.
00:49:27.060That is going to end our republic if we continue down this path.
00:49:29.820Like Franklin said, a republic if you're going to keep it.
00:49:34.420And we're in the middle of the part of can you keep it, the charge that Benjamin Franklin gave us on the day that they had signed.
00:49:42.140What, before I let you go, what evidence will be out there to show you that the House Republicans are serious McCarthy, because it's all about McCarthy, that they're serious about going forward on impeachment and really getting this thing that we can get a formal process and show the receipts?
00:49:56.260What action are you looking for the next couple of days to see if this is real?
00:50:01.640I think he's the Speaker of the House.
00:50:03.740If he wants to move forward with impeachment, he can move forward with impeachment.
00:50:07.700And we need to light up these House Republicans, 202-224-3121, 202-224-3121.