On this episode of The War Room, Dave Brat sits in for the late Stephen K. Bannon and talks about the latest in the scandal surrounding the Secret Service Director, Kimberly A. Cheadle, and her testimony before Congress.
00:06:15.420If you can stay with us for a couple minutes, we're having a couple intelligence experts on later in the show.
00:06:22.200And just curious on your perspective, right?
00:06:25.100We've got the fourth branch of government, right, outweighing the first three, right?
00:06:30.640The Congress, the executive judiciary, the three-letter agencies are all out of control.
00:06:36.140In your view, what are the two or three things—and this will give great hope to the war room posse and the American people—what are the two or three things we can do at the highest level to end this abuse of bad governance?
00:07:00.080The other thing that we can do, and I talked to Chairman Comer on the Oversight Committee when it comes to Cheadle specifically, is not only can we defund her salary, for example, let's finally use the Hellman rule, but also contempt of Congress.
00:07:12.360Here is someone who was clearly prepped for one week, clearly prepped in how not to answer any specific questions, which I believe falls under the contempt of Congress category.
00:07:22.060So we have many, many tools in our toolbox, but for the war room posse, when we have historic moments as such the time that we're in today, it is incumbent behind every single American across the country to educate and inform and call into demand your member of Congress get on board with America.
00:07:47.280What action are we, are they going to take?
00:07:50.940So phones should be lighting up, emails should be sent, call your member of Congress, tell them to get on board with the impeachment or with the contempt of Congress, all the things, defunding Cheadle's salary, all the things, all the tools that we have in the toolbox, we have the ability to take a principled stand, we have the ability to take a principled action, and that's what we should be doing now.
00:08:16.260And I am, I'm just like everybody else out there, I work hard, I believe in my country, and I'm trying to make a difference, but war room posse can make a difference too.
00:08:27.360Right, thank you for all that, and our favorite person is Stephen K. Bannon, and it was good to see the House take a little more action on him, but again, the posse wants to see more fighters like you out there.
00:08:46.620You know, the president at the RNC, the convention was great, right?
00:08:50.000Usually, the check writers and the grassroots are not aligned, right?
00:08:55.220In Virginia politics, the grassroots usually comes through and does the right thing for the country, and the check writers only come through when it's convenient for them or they got some policy in the hopper.
00:10:22.040I will tell you, in the moments, the minutes, the hours, and the days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, that moment, when he stood up as quickly as he did, with a fist, a defiant fist in the air, he brought the nation together.
00:10:37.180I had blacks, whites, Democrats, Republicans, people literally pulling over on the side of the road, stopping traffic, jumping out of their cars, because everybody had something to say.
00:10:47.400And the common theme was, we support Donald Trump.
00:10:52.160And so to be a part of this historic moment in our nation's history is a huge honor.
00:10:58.340I do not want to see our party wasted, which is why it is so important that 220 of us, the members of Congress, know where the American people are.
00:11:09.200They need to know how middle America, hardworking America, feels about what's happening in this country, because that is the only way we're going to change the direction of the nation.
00:11:19.920And then, when we win it all in November, it is going to be incumbent behind everybody that's watching today, behind every Republican, every Independent, everybody across the country, to make sure they hold the Republican Party accountable.
00:11:37.140What are we going to do with the great responsibility we are going to have come January to fix the border, to fix inflation, to fix spending, to end the endless wars?
00:11:47.160And the other thing I'm going to add to this, because it's really important to independent voters, is women.
00:11:52.780Donald Trump has shown you can be pro-life and be pro-women.
00:11:56.060You can care about women and care about life.
00:12:01.240And that is really important, to be able to flip this in, get the White House for Donald Trump, and to get a supermajority in both chambers and be able to do something for the nation.
00:12:13.380The great Nancy Mace, Congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us in the war room.
00:12:18.640We see why everybody loves you out there.
00:12:20.460Keep doing what you're doing, fighting for the American people.
00:13:20.000This is really kind of an amazing story, and thanks for just having me on to go over it quickly.
00:13:25.860Well, yesterday, the White House issued an executive order, an executive memorandum, and it created a five-alarm bell fire in my brain.
00:13:40.080Because here you have Biden carefully managed out of sight in Delaware after a tweet pulled him out of this presidential race.
00:13:48.080The second tweet anointed his successor.
00:13:51.040And this executive order was issued yesterday when no one's heard from him.
00:13:55.780But it delegates presidential powers to the secretaries of the Treasury and to state.
00:14:02.740So what I just said is this executive order is delegating presidential powers to the secretaries of Treasury and secretary of state, both as to the Ukraine flush fund and to future executive orders.
00:14:17.780So the people who've been playing president behind the scenes for three and a half years are thoroughly in charge now as of yesterday, Monday, July 22nd.
00:17:13.600Yesterday, an executive order was issued by the White House, signed by Joe Biden.
00:17:19.920Again, this is a guy who has been waylaid, but he had time to issue an executive order that delegates his presidential powers and authorities, not to the vice president, but to the secretary of state and to the secretary of treasury.
00:17:37.980So, if you want to know who's in charge, I would start there.
00:17:41.720Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and I have given to Cameron both the executive orders so the posse can find – Cameron can post so that the posse can read this executive order that was issued yesterday and the underlying legislation that it refers to.
00:18:03.060And that's essentially this Ukraine funding bill.
00:18:08.060But here's what's key about this executive order.
00:18:10.620It's that the president is delegating his authority to these two secretaries, cabinet secretaries, but it also says, and all future legislation, all future executive orders.
00:18:59.120When nobody has COVID, somehow he has COVID, and he's still able to sign executive orders to delegate his presidential authorities down to the secretaries of cabinet, bypassing Kamala Harris.
00:19:21.660He's going to be weighing in on exactly those issues.
00:19:24.480So, I think the president, Trump, listens to this show.
00:19:29.300Why don't you talk to him right now and tell him what your recommendations are for secretary of state and secretary of treasury and all these power positions that are part of the blob, right?
00:19:40.240As Mike Benz says, how important are the appointments we make, and should we put Wall Street globalists in charge there, or do you think we should put some grassroots leaders in charge of those?
00:20:45.360I listened to it four times last week to try and pack the stuff in my head.
00:20:48.580But he's great at showing how the State Department and DOD have carve-outs with the mainstream media.
00:20:58.500And then a lot of this stuff is going through the tip of the spear right now, which appears to be DHS, Department of Homeland Security, which now just happens to be ahead of the president's security attachment as well.
00:21:12.080And so, Mike Benz, welcome to the War Room.
00:21:15.540And why don't you just give it to us from the top down?
00:21:19.880Who's running this globalist blob that you talk about?
00:21:42.900Well, there's a lot of different power factions who struggle for the senior position in the blob.
00:21:49.780And the reason that I use the word blob, it wasn't me who coined it.
00:21:54.320It was Obama's deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, who was describing an apparatus within the U.S. government more powerful than the presidency.
00:22:05.720This was after Obama's struggles with his own foreign policy establishment.
00:22:10.000And that's really what the blob refers to.
00:22:12.580It refers to this nexus within the government of the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA in the intelligence community.
00:22:19.480And then sort of above that, the corporate and financial stakeholders who serve as a kind of donor and drafter class.
00:22:27.800These are the folks who pay money into the coffers of presidents or elected officials in order to determine the personnel at the Pentagon, at the CIA, at the State Department.
00:22:38.200But then who also, their own personal businesses, draft almost like in a bike race.
00:22:44.460They draft off of the battering ram that goes first when the government takes action to secure their markets or to conquer territory for them to operate in.
00:22:53.800So almost like in a bike race where you don't want to be out in front, you want to be right behind the person cutting the wind, the Pentagon cuts the wind, the State Department, the CIA, these government agencies cut the wind for companies like ExxonMobil and Walmart and Microsoft and pretty much every large publicly traded multinational company.
00:23:15.240So you have this constant sort of jockeying for the top spot on any particular issue or in any particular industry, but they often come together when it comes to a presidential race.
00:23:28.500And in the case of Biden versus Trump, it was very clear that the foreign policy establishment almost unanimously detested Donald Trump and saw him as akin to a foreign dictator.
00:23:44.500And not necessarily that they actually saw him this way, I should say, but that they cynically framed him that way in order to break out the same toolkit they use to depose of foreign leaders.
00:23:54.500That is, our whole foreign policy establishment uses this dichotomy between democracy and autocracy.
00:24:01.860In the 1920s or the 1910s, Woodrow Wilson penned this idea that our foreign policy establishment exists to make the world safe for democracy, which gave us this carte blanche to form regime change apparatuses to overthrow anyone who's an autocracy and replace it with a democracy.
00:24:20.860Now, of course, this has sort of become a bit of a joke, given that our definition of democracy is now completely indistinguishable from autocracy.
00:24:30.440We have vassal states like Ukraine, which don't even hold elections anymore, and they're said to be democracy.
00:24:36.120You have Biden hitting Trump with 91 felony charges in 1,000 years in prison time until this SCOTUS immunity decision came down.
00:24:50.440Censoring the media is now said to be democracy.
00:24:53.260But, you know, to your point around DHS, DHS plays a really interesting role in all of this because DHS has now served for about seven years as one of the main connective tissues between the foreign policy establishment's Department of Dirty Tricks Abroad being laundered against U.S. citizens here at home.
00:25:14.020You know, DHS was obviously set up in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, and it was, you know, sort of initially supposed to be this counterterrorism vehicle to stop another 9-11.
00:25:25.620It is now spawned into mission creeping control over a dozen different federal agencies, including TSA, but also including the Secret Service.
00:25:37.160Now, just a little bit of backstory on this, you know, as you mentioned on the Tucker hit, I went over DHS's role as the nerve center of the government's domestic censorship apparatus, which was the fact that DHS was seen as something really unique.
00:25:56.920When they were trying to set up the first ever domestic censorship bureau in this country, which had a really obscure name, it was called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
00:26:07.640It had security in its name twice, even though it really had nothing to do with security.
00:26:13.560They pulled off a really cute trick CISA did, which was they said, well, it was the last act of Obama's outgoing DHS Secretary Judd Johnson to declare elections to be critical infrastructure.
00:26:28.300They did this in the early iteration of Russiagate, where they said, well, Russia might be hacking our elections.
00:26:34.620And so elections have to be deemed critical infrastructure.
00:26:37.160So we have a big, bad federal agency who's able to take it on.
00:26:40.320But then they did a few things and say that again, Mike, Mike, say that again, because that that's the piece that goes by so quickly and it's so huge.
00:26:49.260So say that again, what they're considered critical infrastructure in law.
00:26:53.860And that gives them the ability to do what?
00:26:57.760So DHS can't act, can't spend a dollar, can't spend a nickel.
00:27:02.880There's no jurisdiction to, to protect any, you know, to lower satellites, subsea cables, federal buildings, unless something's designated as so-called critical infrastructure.
00:27:17.020That's what DHS is supposed to protect.
00:27:19.160But then they did something really cute in January 2017, which is that they just, they declared not the hard physical structures of dams or electrical grids, but the metaphysical concept of elections as critical infrastructure.
00:27:34.380And then that was the first cute trick they pulled off.
00:27:37.200And then in, uh, in effectively in November, 2018, they pulled off a second cute trick, which is, they said that tweets on the internet are a cyber attack on critical infrastructure.
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00:29:39.300And we have the best person on the planet who's been explaining to us what the signal is, why she's stepping down, the relationship between DHS and her position, and who's really in charge of these things.
00:29:55.340And so, Mike, why don't we just hit rewind just briefly and cover the last two points that we were just covering.
00:30:01.660And just take it from there, and then we'll move on.
00:30:06.600It's important to remember in all of this that DHS is an intelligence agency.
00:30:11.720DHS has a really unique position in our intelligence community.
00:30:17.300We have 17 different intelligence agencies in this country, but only two of them are domestic-facing.
00:30:28.680And DHS is particularly unique because it's the only domestic intelligence agency not tied to the Justice Department.
00:30:36.340So when we were just talking about the origins of DHS and domestic censorship online here in the U.S., there's an interesting origin story to that DHS office, which was it was the product of a long campaign by an organization known as the Atlantic Council, which is known as NATO's think tank in Washington.
00:30:59.500It's got seven former CIA directors on its board.
00:31:03.800It gets annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department, and CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:31:10.500And they penned a memo about a year before that office's creation and then staffed it full of a bunch of their people, that office.
00:31:19.680But in that memo, they said what we'd really like is for the CIA to be able to do this directly.
00:31:24.840But actually, their first pick was to have the domestic censorship run out of the Global Engagement Center in the State Department because they had a big network there.
00:31:34.900This is the whole – the same shop that was responsible for censorship of Twitter 1.0 from the State Department side.
00:31:41.960But they said we can't do that because the State Department faces outward.
00:31:45.720Then they had another paragraph saying, well, we could park it at the CIA because this is really the sort of thing that the CIA does abroad containing the spread of hostile adversary media.
00:31:56.600They said we can't do that for a couple reasons.
00:32:00.140Two, this is not the sort of thing we can really run as a clandestine operation because there's going to be so many people involved.
00:32:05.980And it's – the logistics would be a nightmare.
00:32:07.440Then they said three, another option is we could park it at the FBI.
00:32:11.980But the problem with the FBI is it's not – the FBI is tied to the Justice Department and it's not illegal to tweet about mail-in ballots.
00:32:21.020They said, well, that leaves us with DHS.
00:32:23.620And what we could do – DHS is domestic intelligence, but it doesn't require an act of lawbreaking to expend federal resources on it.
00:32:32.400And then at a September 2021 conference reviewing everything they had done to censor the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior advisor to DHS who was a part of that 2020 operation confessed on tape that what they had done was effectively created a domestic CIA within DHS.
00:32:54.200That combined those foreign-facing CIA powers that are not allowed at home with the domestic jurisdiction of the FBI but without the oversight or active lawbreaking necessary related to the Justice Department by parking it at DHS.
00:33:07.820And then lo and behold, one year later in 2022, DHS would create this domestic intelligence group.
00:33:16.200I don't know if you've read about this, but this had James Clapper and John Brennan put in charge of it.
00:33:22.280That is the former head of the intelligence community and the former head of the CIA on the day Trump was inaugurated, mind you.
00:33:28.940They were the most recent CIA and intelligence community directors.
00:33:34.420And in those emails that came out, America First Legal actually just got these about three weeks ago.
00:33:41.200Stephen Miller's group, his legal group, after they got this thing shut down, they got the emails.
00:33:46.100And it turned out that this domestic CIA cell within DHS, run by former heads of the CIA and former heads of the entire intelligence community, explicitly targeted Trump supporters, saying that the lion's share of what we need to focus on are, quote, supporters of President Donald Trump.
00:34:07.060So, I mean, you have – this is the sort of thing that launched the church committee hearings in 1975, domestic activities of our foreign-facing Department of Dirty Tricks who are allowed to overthrow governments, who are allowed to control media around the world but are never supposed to come home.
00:34:24.420They're supposed to be a guard dog, not attacking our own family's children.
00:34:28.900And that's what we're up against here.
00:34:31.760And you see this with DHS and the scandals around the Secret Service.
00:34:36.340The fact is we have so many unanswered questions about the role of Secret Service in the January 6th pipe bomber story.
00:34:44.060The Justice Department – and once again, it's this one-two punch between the Justice Department and the Secret Service.
00:34:50.540And in the January 6th pipe bomb situation, it took an entire year of the Justice Department lying to judges and lying to defense counsel, saying that Kamala Harris was in the Capitol.
00:35:02.820It didn't come out until, I think, December 2021.
00:35:06.340That Kamala Harris was at a very strange site instead.
00:35:09.800And they actually had to update and file amended indictments in order to correct this misinformation.
00:35:15.400They had told judges and defense counsel that actually Kamala Harris was sitting basically on top of the DNC pipe bomb.
00:35:23.840That is, she was hand-delivered directly to the site of the place that Secret Service was supposed to stop any threats from jeopardizing.
00:35:35.100And lo and behold, we're told the pipe bomb was sitting at the front leg of the park bench at the entrance to the building.
00:35:43.040You could walk by that park bench as I did, and you have coffee on that park bench.
00:35:48.240And it was supposed to have sat there for 17 hours from 8 p.m. on January 5th until it was discovered at 1 p.m. the following day.
00:35:58.160And then you have the fact that the FBI has a tape, and I'm going to post this on my timeline again today, at Mike Ben Cyber on X.
00:36:07.120And I'll do a zoom in so everyone can see it.
00:36:09.140The FBI has a tape of the pipe bomber taking the pipe bomb out of the bag but has not disclosed it because they had a stationary camera focused in on the actual park bench.
00:36:22.580But then they cut the stationary camera before he takes it out of the bag.
00:36:28.080What if it was a rogue person from Secret Service?
00:36:31.120Or what if Secret Service found a device that was different from what the pipe bomber took out of the bag?
00:36:36.420The FBI has already stonewalled us because that pipe bomber was texting from the park bench.
00:36:42.660But then they told us, oh, the cell phone data was corrupted.
00:36:45.340Magically, the only person out of 1,500 indictments in January 6th whose cell phone data was corrupted by AT&T happens to be the pipe bomber.
00:36:53.980What, did the dog eat the security footage?
00:36:56.600Did a lightning bolt strike the stationary camera just before he took it out of the bag?
00:39:41.480They – in the words of Alex Damos, who was the lead advisor to CISA and who had formed a two-man consultancy with the head of CISA as soon as they left office.
00:39:51.100And their first client was SolarWinds, the group that CISA failed to stop the hacking of, which is very connected to CrowdStrike, I should mention, and Dimitri Alperovic and that whole Atlantic Council network.
00:40:01.840But what Alex Damos actually said about this was that at the time when they set all this up, there was no offensive capability to take tweets down.
00:40:10.700There was no offensive capability around cyber whatsoever unless it had to do with hacking or cybersecurity.
00:40:16.760And so they simply grafted the language of cybersecurity onto it.
00:40:21.620This is why they started using terms like the disinformation kill chain to graft off of the cybersecurity kill chain.
00:40:27.460Everyone can go right now and Google the 2018 DHS Whole of Society Disinformation Response Manual, which actually goes through this disinformation kill chain and even treats domestic disagreement over issues around war, over issues around whether we should go to war with Syria, over tweets about Seth Rich.
00:40:51.700And it treats those as so-called cyber events that are being conducted by cyber threat actors.
00:40:58.760So you're a cyber threat actor in DHS when you tweet something that they don't like.
00:41:03.100And I was in Congress then, and I would have spent my every waking hour on these issues because for me, there's nothing more serious.
00:41:12.180Lastly, in closing, 30 seconds, also in your interview with Tucker, you showed very clearly that democracy, right, the use of these terms are, you know, they're metaphysical.
00:41:26.740They're quasi-religious to the American people.
00:41:28.820When you say democracy, it invokes things that are almost related to being made in the image of God and the highest of the highs.
00:41:35.060Now they've changed the definition of democracy not to we the people in the Constitution, but they've changed the definition of democracy on the hard left to processes and institutions.
00:41:47.600So in closing, Mike, what's the upshot of that?
00:41:58.100What they did is, as soon as democracy stopped being useful to them in 2016, because remember, we never really had that much of a choice outside of a uniparty from Truman until Trump.
00:42:09.020I mean, someone made the statistic on Twitter just yesterday that I retweeted, but it's incredible.
00:42:15.980There has been a Bush, a Clinton, or a Biden on the ticket of every election in this country since 1976.
00:42:50.600The new definition of democracy in the eyes of the blob is that it's a consensus of institutions rather than a consensus of individuals.
00:42:58.000So if you try to vote your way out of control by officials from the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA, or BlackRock, then you are conducting an attack on democracy simply for voting for the wrong candidate.
00:47:56.600But this is just a breaking of the law and then the worst associations that can be made to the worst atrocities in history by our government officials.
00:49:16.280She was frequently proposing their ideas for the border, for illegal immigration, which at that time was abolish ICE, in deportation, in detention, create massive oversight of the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE.
00:49:39.500All of her proposals revolved around the Antifa placards that you saw on the streets during the riots and the looting.
00:49:52.880Those were, you know, Occupy ICE encampments.
00:49:57.500She was trying to appeal to them, and she took their ideology about dismantling immigration enforcement at the border to heart and actually raised her hand during, you know, the presidential, you know, the primary debates on TV, saying that she would decriminalize illegal border entry.
00:50:22.660She promised that she was going to completely overhaul ICE, that she was going to pretty much end detention, fold up private detention facilities, reduce detention space so that nobody could be held.
00:50:39.640She bought into the idea that, you saw it right there in the clip, she was dog whistling there, that ICE agents are Nazi brown shirts, and their detention camps are concentration camps for Latter-day Jews who happen to be brown-skinned Spanish speakers.
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