On today's show, Stephen K. Bannon reacts to Joe Biden's acquittals in the E.J. Shah v. Joe Biden case, and calls for an end to the use of lawfare to get a presidential candidate in jail.
00:00:30.500It could potentially still be Barack Obama.
00:00:33.720It could still potentially be Hillary Clinton.
00:00:36.660We're going to have to look at what the statutes of limitations are on the various crimes they surely committed.
00:00:42.780We're going to have to look at passing laws to revive those dead crimes, felonies or misdemeanors, so that those cases can be brought out of time.
00:00:53.920That what that's what may be in the interest of justice, just like they did for E.
00:00:58.840Jean Carroll with a New York state law that was passed so that she could sue him.
00:01:10.220And John Yoo, an amazing lawyer who worked in the Bush administration, Department of Justice, has a great piece out today talking about how that's the only way they'll learn.
00:01:22.680The only way to save the republic now is to give them a taste of their own medicine.
00:01:34.180They're the wolves with the bloody piece of meat in their mouths.
00:01:38.220That doesn't stop the wolf from coming back for more.
00:01:41.480The reaction was I was at Costco buying, you know, 10 boxes of Keurig coffee.
00:01:46.980And my watch started to buzz and I got so excited I started leaking a little bit.
00:01:52.700This judge committed multiple elements of reversible error and he did it while his daughter has made a ton of money off of Democratic candidates.
00:02:05.340And while he himself donated to the Biden campaign.
00:02:16.560I will help Donald Trump however I think that I can, Wolf, because if we allow this to happen, it's so much bigger and so much more troubling than Donald Trump.
00:02:25.300If we allow the standard that you can throw your political opponents in jail because they're doing better than you in an election, it will be the end of this country as we know it.
00:02:33.220This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:02:40.780Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:03:24.240It's Friday, 31 May in the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:03:27.400Boy, you know, as this audience knows, I've had some differences of opinions with Megyn Kelly ever since she tried to kneecap President Trump in the very first debate he was ever in.
00:03:40.420But man, oh man, do I like that clip that she had.
00:03:43.940I put it up on Getter, said, Old Testament, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
00:03:48.220Of course, we have bigger fish to fry, but this is pretty important.
00:18:31.060They had a Democrat U.S. attorney and they had a Republican U.S. attorney.
00:18:34.820Both were present at my first deposition to the January 6th committee where I, you know, unleashed on them a series of privileges, which they still, they purported to reject, but which they've really never pierced.
00:18:47.380And, you know, they were geared up to question me for hours.
00:18:51.260They had, like, 20 people in the room, plus all the members on, you know, WebEx, except for Adam Schiff, who was physically in the room.
00:19:01.820And if the, you know, they refuse to show up, then you've got to, you know, go take them to the rules committee and then bring it to the floor and then send over a referral for criminal contempt.
00:19:11.840Or you really have to think about the nuclear option because we know the Biden DOJ is not going to process that, just like they didn't do anything against Eric Holder.
00:19:20.820Then you've got to be prepared to use Congress's inherent contempt power to go out and grab them and put them in the Capitol jail until they're prepared to testify, Steve.
00:19:29.800So, so you've got, we haven't even voted out contempt.
00:19:34.900The two committees have, but we haven't voted out for the whole House, the contempt on Garland and people are whining because we don't have, we're short some Republican votes.
00:19:44.100Nothing's going to happen until you show the teeth that you've got teeth, right?
00:19:47.340Yeah, no, I mean, if you just send a polite letter of show up, you're going to get a polite letter back that says, I'm sorry, we're not going to come in, right?
00:19:57.140You know, now if that's like the opening salvo to a dance that you fully anticipate, you know, taking the iron fist out of the velvet glove at some point, then, you know, I can see the purpose to it.
00:20:07.380But if it's only going to be, you know, a velvet glove tap on the shoulder and they can ignore it in a response letter, then it's not going to accomplish anything.
00:20:17.340And so Mike Howe, who's always very creative over heritage, he's saying, hey, he's got an idea, got a plan, that the first step is Jordan takes the $10 million that's sitting there left over from the J-6 and he uses that immediately to fund a special counsel, a special counsel to go after these guys.
00:20:35.520This, I haven't seen Mike's proposal, Steve, but to the extent you understand the details of it, this would be, you know, a kind of special counsel attached to House Judiciary or House Subcommittee weaponization.
00:20:50.000You know, it's not like they could demand, you know, and really get a special counsel using the DOJ regs inside DOJ.
00:21:22.100You've got Paxson and Texas, but you particularly have, who have jurisdiction in Georgia and Florida.
00:21:30.780There may be some political reasons not doing it.
00:21:33.120But what would you recommend to Jim Jordan and the House they do right now to go on offense and to let people, and so people can feel that they're on offense?
00:21:42.120So, Steve, you know, I would again say it's following the January 6th committee playbook.
00:21:48.940So, I would go and staff up with as many assistant U.S. attorneys, former assistant U.S. attorneys as possible, as many former U.S. attorneys, you know, as possible.
00:21:58.900If you can't find a former U.S. attorney, find a former state AG.
00:22:02.160If you can't find that, find former DAs, find people who have serious criminal prosecution experience and who, you know, at the very least have a lot of deposition experience.
00:22:13.480Send them in to, you know, take depositions, staff depositions, and each side has fairness there, right?
00:22:19.200Unlike the January 6th playbook where it was only the one side taking, you know, the depositions with, you know, no ability to push back with a Republican questioner, right?
00:22:28.580And then, you know, once you have those sworn bodies of testimony, then you hone it down and then you turn it into a public hearing where you grill them about the admissions you got during that process.
00:22:40.680And you also subpoena all the documents, which I know, you know, cash has been on from day one.
00:22:45.600The documents are always the source of you get the documents first and then you do the deposition, right?
00:22:50.880And you got to be prepared if they're not going to play ball, they're not going to comply to take it to the level of enforcement to make them comply.
00:22:58.580No, you had Corey Mills today and you got cash working on that, but we have to get on offense on this.
00:23:06.200Jeff Clark, you're doing such great work over at CRA.
00:24:11.520An old colleague, I shouldn't say an old colleague, a colleague from way back, and one of the smartest guys I know on geopolitics, national security, foreign affairs, and working over heritage, doing a lot of things.
00:24:24.080First off, did Biden announce, I thought the Israelis were going to go into Gaza and take care of the remaining combat brigades.
00:24:33.500Nikki Haley's over there signing bombs.
00:24:36.280And did Biden announce today at the White House because it's very hard to follow this guy.
00:24:42.320Kurt, did he announce that there's a new peace plan he's got and that the Israelis support this and they're going to have a ceasefire and it's going to lead to peace and the Hamas military brigades are going to stay there?
00:24:57.960And maybe neocon Nikki cut the deal while she was over there.
00:25:01.080Do you fully understand what's going on here now?
00:25:02.960No, I'm not sure anybody fully understands what's going on there.
00:25:06.980That includes the American government and the Israeli government.
00:25:10.080What I will say is that it looks like there's a new plan.
00:25:13.580I think the critical elements here are, one, nobody knows if these—or, sorry, nobody on the Western side knows if the Israeli hostages are even one.
00:25:21.680And then secondly, it's possible that Netanyahu's government is going to collapse in Israel.
00:25:27.620Mr. Gantz, effectively his wartime co-prime minister here, may withdraw from the government in early June.
00:25:34.660And so I think Washington believes that they have leverage now to force some sort of shock ceasefire.
00:25:40.860And so this is Benny Gantz, the former IDF commander-in-chief.
00:25:47.080Look, Kurt, you were America first before America first was popular.
00:25:52.100You're seeing announcements now with Zelensky that I guess the Brits, the French with Macron, and now the Americans have secretly, we've approved, actually using our weapon systems, our ammunition, our missiles to launch into Russia itself.
00:26:10.420As an America—a guy that looks at the world through the lens of America first, and you're one of the early architects of this strategy, is Biden about as far off of America first as you could possibly get?
00:26:24.540What I would say about the European situation is, one, I think it's very encouraging that the Europeans seem like they are investing in having their own army now.
00:26:33.220The problem is that they are fighting the wrong war.
00:26:36.140No, I think people forget how much Biden actually cares about Russia.
00:26:41.800You could see it during the campaign in 2019 and early 2020.
00:26:47.380He has personal animus towards the leadership of Russia, and it's very much affecting foreign policy.
00:33:17.020You just heard about the power of the chairmanships.
00:33:21.940So, Bob, you're the head of the Freedom Caucus, Congressman Goode.
00:33:25.060We're in a dogfight on every different front.
00:33:28.100Congress really hasn't done their job of oversight or getting on top of trying to stop this lawfare.
00:33:33.140Even worse, we don't have our hands around spending.
00:33:36.560I think it's Roger Wicker, Mississippi, is talking about a $55 billion increase to the defense budget to get us almost to a trillion dollars.
00:35:28.300We haven't yet voted as a House to bring forward the contempt charge on Garland.
00:35:35.160What is it about leadership that they don't realize?
00:35:39.260And because you're having people like Megyn Kelly, we've got Sean Davis over the Federalist.
00:35:43.080I mean, you have people that their hair's not on fire like oftentimes you are here in the war room just going off on people and wanting action, action, action.
00:35:52.820The Freedom Caucus is known for action.
00:35:55.320So where do you think we stand and when are we going to put a pitchfork on some people's backs and get some action going?
00:35:59.800Yeah, the Republican Party wants to bring, continue to bring a knife to a gunfight.
00:36:04.560And you wonder if they really recognize as a whole that there's an existential threat to the country,
00:36:09.540that everything that we value, everything that we hold dear is at stake.
00:36:56.660We could have defunded, out of the House at least, refused to fund the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens, the weaponization by the Department of Injustice under Merrick Garland.
00:37:07.580And we couldn't get Republicans to do that.
00:37:09.560We could do that in the spending bill this year.
00:37:11.480We could at least defund it after the government funding expires on September 30.
00:37:16.640We could defund it come October 1, and Merrick Garland wouldn't have a budget to operate on if we had the courage and the will to do it.
00:37:23.540I know my House Freedom Caucus colleagues and I are willing to do that.
00:37:26.180But the leadership, of course, of the conference has not shown a willingness to do that.
00:37:31.380Congressman Good, look forward to having you on next week.
00:37:33.600Tell us, where do you go to your website about your campaign?
00:37:37.280Where do they go for your social media, sir?
00:37:38.840Bobgoodforcongress.com, at Rep Bob Good.
00:37:43.560Steve, thanks for being a leader in the fight.
00:37:45.440The war room is leading the way, and you guys are the tip of the spear.
00:41:18.000Showing up for a hearing isn't going to do anything.
00:41:20.280So what, Jim Jordan can raise his voice and, you know, wear another outfit without a suit jacket like he does every single time he has another one of these hearings
00:41:28.280and then clip it and have it go on Fox News and go on Sean Hannity and go on Jesse Waters and then send out his soundbite in a fundraising email?
00:41:36.020Well, I mean, this is rinse, wash, repeat, Steve.
00:41:39.220This is exactly what all of these Republicans do.
00:41:41.980People need to understand that all of these hearings are performative.
00:41:45.480These members of Congress and the members of the Senate use these hearings as a way to have their social media interns clip clips for them,
00:41:52.700for their Twitter accounts and their Facebook accounts and their Instagram accounts,
00:41:56.040so then they can go out and raise money off of Trump supporters while pretending to have President Trump's back.
00:43:09.940I don't care about burning some of these senators and people who I've talked to.
00:43:13.320If they don't start forcing James Comer to get—
00:43:16.500If these senators and these members of Congress don't start forcing James Comer and forcing Jim Jordan to send a subpoena to Lauren Mershon,
00:43:25.980I'm going to start posting screenshots of these text messages.
00:46:46.160I really honestly just was crying the entire time while I was watching President Trump's press conference today because I just love Donald Trump so much.
00:46:53.180And this is a man who is a billionaire who should be sitting at home with his grandkids, playing golf every day, doing whatever he wants to do.
00:47:01.160And he's literally going through hell.
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