Bannon's War Room - Episode 4195： Hearing Coverage Of Bondi, Rubio, And Radcliff

00:00:00.000 Attorney General. From 2010, the year before she took office, to 2018, the last year she was in

00:00:06.640 office, together Florida experienced a remarkable 26% drop in overall crime, including a 19.6% drop

00:00:14.880 in violent crime and a 27.4% drop in property crime. These aren't just numbers, these are tens

00:00:22.080 of thousands of lives. You're watching the War Room. We're going to be between the CIA today,

00:00:27.980 the confirmation hearing of Marco Rubio and the confirmation hearing of Pam Bondi. We're going to

00:00:32.660 go back. Senator Rick Scott talking about Pam Bondi. We'll be coming back and forth, and I'll be giving

00:00:36.800 context throughout the first hour. In this short introduction, as U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi

00:00:43.720 will restore law and order to the nation, should put Americans' interests first, and make the nation

00:00:48.960 a better and safer place. I urge every single member of this committee to support my friend Pam Bondi,

00:00:55.320 and I look forward to voting for her confirmation soon on the Senate floor and help her get to work 0.91

00:00:59.640 for the American people. Thank you, Chairman.

00:01:07.000 Thank you.

00:01:08.700 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Durbin, and members of the committee.

00:01:12.480 It is an honor for me and a privilege to introduce Pam Bondi, President Trump's nominee to be the 87th

00:01:18.960 Attorney General of the United States. I have known and worked closely with Pam for years,

00:01:24.180 and I'm glad to call her a friend. When Pam was nominated by President Trump, my reaction was,

00:01:29.780 this is a home run. As many of us are, I was only to be outdone by Senator Graham,

00:01:35.740 who described the nomination as a grand slam, touchdown, hole-in-one, ace, hat-trick, slam-dunk,

00:01:41.160 Olympic gold medal pick, and he's right. As the letter joined by more than 100 former Justice

00:01:48.020 Department officials put it, quote, it's all too rare for senior Justice Department officials,

00:01:53.080 much less attorneys general, to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work

00:01:57.380 of keeping our communities safe, end quote. Pam exemplifies and personifies the Department

00:02:03.860 of Justice's mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our communities safe, and to protect our rights

00:02:10.360 and liberties as Americans. Pam has distinguished herself in a career in public service that has 0.81

00:02:16.580 taken her from her small-town upbringing in Temple Terrace. Okay, ready? Okay, here's what

00:02:23.480 we're going to do today. This is flood the zone, right? This is what we recommended, and now we have

00:02:28.980 to juggle along with everybody else. The three major confirmation hearings this morning, Senator Rubio

00:02:34.360 for Secretary of State, his opening statement on Breitbart is kind of a complete reorientation to an

00:02:40.240 America First. We're going to catch that. Pam Bondi, Durbin, you saw early in Real America's Voice,

00:02:45.420 Dick Durbin already read her, the Riot Act, about her relationship with President Trump, and they're

00:02:50.460 going to drill down on her today. I don't think it will be as intense as Pete Hegseth, but it might be,

00:02:55.060 so we're going to go back and forth between Pam Bondi and Secretary of State, and if John Ratcliffe

00:02:59.620 of the CIA, anything explodes there, we'll go to this. I want to reiterate to this audience, Pete Hegseth is

00:03:06.340 going to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense, and that is because of two things. Pete Hegseth's

00:03:11.460 tremendous, tremendous performance yesterday. Also, this audience, the number is 202-224-3121.

00:03:20.340 Today, make sure you give support for Secretary or Senator Rubio, Pam Bondi, and of course,

00:03:26.860 Congressman John Ratcliffe at CIA. It's going to be quite intense this morning. We're going to try to

00:03:32.460 juggle and go through, but I want to make sure. Joni Ernst last night said that she's good with

00:03:37.860 Pete Hegseth. That means that Pete Hegseth is going to be through. We can get all of President

00:03:41.520 Trump's nominees if we continue to work and to put pressure. We're going to let you try to hear as

00:03:45.920 much as possible, particularly Democrats going after President Trump's nomination. Let's go back

00:03:52.000 to the introductory remarks on Pam Bondi, and as soon as Senator Rubio is up, we'll go right to his

00:03:59.280 opening statement. Let's go to the back. She's incredibly generous and someone I could always

00:04:03.640 count on. She's truthful, she's tough, and she's a born leader. She has charted her own course with

00:04:11.520 the rare combination of backbone and heart. The next Attorney General of the United States must restore

00:04:18.380 trust by reversing the weaponization we've seen the last four years and refocusing that department to

00:04:24.680 its core mission, administering justice. The next Attorney General must promote the rule of law,

00:04:30.860 take on violent crime, keep our communities safe, and safeguard the God-given rights that each American

00:04:36.820 has protected in our Constitution. I can think of no one, no one more up to that task than Pam Bondi,

00:04:44.600 a career prosecutor and widely respected Attorney General with the prudence, fortitude,

00:04:50.520 and temperance for this incredibly important job. Mr. Chairman, it is truly an honor for me to

00:04:56.040 introduce Pam Bondi to this committee and to our country here today and speak on her behalf,

00:05:00.580 and it's my hope that her nomination will be swiftly confirmed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:05:04.240 Thank you, Senator Schmidt. Now, Ms. Bondi, would you please come forward, and before you're seated,

00:05:09.760 I'd like to administer oath. Would you please raise your right hand and answer this question?

00:05:16.720 Do you swear that the testimony you're about to give to this committee will be the truth,

00:05:25.400 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So help you God. Please be seated and move ahead with

00:05:34.500 your opening statement.

00:05:35.440 Thank you, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:05:51.040 I've had the opportunity to meet with almost all of you, and I greatly appreciate that.

00:05:57.260 I'm grateful to President Trump and to this committee for your consideration to be the 87th

00:06:04.020 Attorney General of the United States. I would not be here without my family, and if you can bear

00:06:12.380 with me for just a moment, a lot of them have made a very long trip, and I wrote them all down so I

00:06:18.080 don't forget anyone. My beautiful mother, who wouldn't be here, a retired kindergarten teacher, 0.90

00:06:25.620 would not be here without my mom. As of a week ago, it was 12 years since we lost my dad to leukemia.

00:06:31.940 Feels like 12 days. My amazing husband, John, and his two incredible girls, Collins and Finley.

00:06:42.140 Collins is a senior at University of Florida, and I think all of you on this committee will be very

00:06:47.040 happy to know Finley is in cybersecurity. There's a third who is traveling abroad. I wish she could be

00:06:55.540 here. My amazing father-in-law, David. My sister, Beth. My brother-in-law is home with my niece.

00:07:04.900 My nephews, if you could just raise your hand, Evan, Jake, and soon-to-be niece, Savannah.

00:07:12.340 My brother, Brad, a brilliant lawyer. My sister-in-law, Tandy.

00:07:17.320 And my nephews, Justin, who just got a 4.0 at UVA. Rex, great college tennis player.

00:07:26.880 Brad, great tennis player. Is Rhea here? And my niece, my beautiful niece, Rhea. And the little guy

00:07:34.560 is in school because he's 10. My friends, Leslie, Kathy, Dina, Tiffany, Kim, Paula, and so many of my

00:07:43.340 former- Okay, we're going to shift to Tom Cotton over the CIA opening of John Radcliffe. We're

00:07:48.820 going to go back to Pam after her general introductory remarks. Let's go to Tom Cotton at the CIA

00:07:52.700 confirmation hearing.

00:07:54.400 ...celebrated and even known. Unlike our troops, no one buys them beers in the airport. Sometimes

00:08:02.540 their families don't even know what they do. So let me say to them today, on behalf of this committee

00:08:08.360 and a grateful nation, we respect you, we appreciate you, and we thank you.

00:08:14.380 But we also need more from you. In these dangerous times, our intelligence agencies haven't anticipated

00:08:21.040 major events or detected impending attacks. In just the last few weeks, the members of this committee

00:08:28.400 and, I presume, the President, had no forewarning of the New Orleans terrorist attack or the collapse

00:08:35.100 of the Assad tyranny in Syria. The same goes for Hamas's October 7th atrocity against Israel

00:08:42.320 in 2023. I could give other examples, but suffice it to say, we're too often in the dark.

00:08:50.620 While this goes for the entire intelligence community, the problem is especially acute

00:08:55.040 at the CIA, which remains, after all, the central intelligence agency.

00:09:01.240 The CIA needs to get back to its roots, but must overcome several challenges to do so.

00:09:09.200 First, the CIA has neglected its core mission, collecting clandestine foreign intelligence.

00:09:16.660 Put more simply, stealing secrets. Intelligence collection is the main effort.

00:09:22.600 Every other job is a supporting effort. If you don't collect intelligence by, say, handling

00:09:28.240 spies or hacking computers, you should ask yourself how you support those who do or how you harness

00:09:34.780 and use what they produce. I have seen way too many reports over the years with phrases like

00:09:42.240 according to, based on, judging by, followed only by diplomatic accounts and press reports.

00:09:49.200 In other words, not intelligence. And it's gotten worse over the last four years.

00:09:54.940 Those sources are not unimportant, but without clandestine intelligence, we might as well get

00:10:00.160 briefed by the State Department or a think tank or just read the newspaper.

00:10:05.160 Second, the CIA has become too bureaucratic. Now, I realize that Alan Dulles probably had the same

00:10:11.180 complaint just five years after the CIA was created. But this has also gotten worse in recent years,

00:10:16.600 in no small part, thanks to former Director Brennan's so-called modernization.

00:10:22.340 Lines of authority have grown blurry. Talkers have replaced doers.

00:10:26.740 Managers with no field experience have taken over operational roles and more.

00:10:31.820 Much like our military, the tooth-to-tell ratio at the CIA is badly out of balance.

00:10:37.940 Third, the CIA's analysis and priorities have been politicized.

00:10:42.020 Intelligence analysis all too often has aligned curiously with the Biden administration's policy

00:10:48.800 preferences. The Afghan army is strong and cohesive. Ukraine's army will collapse within

00:10:54.900 days of Russia's invasion. Israel can't possibly destroy Hamas or Hezbollah. Iran's air defenses are

00:11:00.920 mighty and fearsome. Time and again, the CIA has produced inaccurate analysis that conveniently

00:11:07.580 justifies President Biden's actions or as often his inaction. Likewise, the CIA's misplaced priorities

00:11:14.900 have yielded too many reports on matters, like the prospects for gay rights legislation in Africa or

00:11:20.640 climate change. These topics may have their place in government, but it's not at the CIA.

00:11:27.520 And I certainly hope to never again see another video, statement, or social media post from the CIA

00:11:33.640 about diversity or equity or inclusion. If you wonder why our intelligence agencies struggle to

00:11:40.180 collect intelligence, consider this fact. The CIA offered to pay diversity consultants three times

00:11:46.820 as much as a new case officer. I'm sorry, but if you feel like you need a diversity consultant or an

00:11:53.160 affinity group or your pronouns in an email, maybe the CIA isn't for you. This job isn't about your

00:12:00.580 identity or your feelings. It's about our nation's security.

00:12:05.160 Fourth, the CIA dabbles too much in questions of political judgment, even as it neglects its core

00:12:11.840 mission of intelligence collection. Some of the blame, to be fair, lies with us. I hear questions from this

00:12:18.820 committee about, say, some nations will to fight, or if we do this, that, or the other thing, what will Vladimir Putin or

00:12:25.220 Xi Jinping do in response? These aren't really intelligence questions, but rather matters.

00:12:30.560 Matters of statesmanship and political judgment, or prudence, the statesman's supreme virtue.

00:12:38.020 I would observe that Lincoln and Churchill didn't have our vast modern intelligence apparatus,

00:12:43.400 but they were pretty good wartime leaders because they were great statesmen.

00:12:48.300 It's the CIA's responsibility to provide us and the president with timely, relevant secrets.

00:12:54.000 For example, that Russia has mobilized multiple divisions on Ukraine's border at Christmas time

00:12:59.600 and sent perishable fresh blood supplies to the front. It's our job to use that information to

00:13:06.100 discern the inherent logic of events, not to defer passively to the intelligence community's judgment

00:13:12.740 that is a convenient conclusion that Putin hadn't yet decided to invade just days before the

00:13:19.940 obviously impending invasion. Fifth, the CIA needs to become bolder and more innovative

00:13:26.960 in covert action. I've seen successful covert action programs. I've seen debacles. The latter

00:13:34.120 are usually caused by ill-advised constraints by political leaders or when a president uses covert

00:13:40.460 action as a substitute for policy and not a supplement for policy. I'll have to save more for our closed session,

00:13:47.920 of course, but for now I'll just say that the timid indecision that has characterized the Biden

00:13:52.540 administration's overt actions extends to its covert actions. Mr. Ratcliffe, you have a big job ahead of you.

00:14:01.080 The nation needs a strong, capable, and aggressive CIA. I believe the men and women you will lead

00:14:07.880 want to serve in just that kind of agency. They join the CIA, after all, not a church choir or a therapy session

00:14:14.500 on a college campus. They and the nation are counting on you to deliver badly needed reforms

00:14:21.480 and on this committee to ensure you do. I'll now recognize the vice chairman for his opening remarks.

00:14:29.720 Mr. Chairman, and first of all, congratulations on becoming chair of what I think is the most important

00:14:36.280 committee in the Senate. Okay, that is Tom Cotton. We're going to juggle three this morning, folks.

00:14:41.980 It's important you see it. John Ratcliffe before the Intelligence Committee in the Senate. That's Mark

00:14:46.960 Warner, the vice chair, or the ranking member, I guess, talking. Ratcliffe, we got Pam Bondi. Pam

00:14:53.060 Bondi's about, I think, getting lit up by Dick Durbin here. In a second, we'll go to that. We're going to focus

00:14:56.920 principally on the Democrat questioning. We think that's most helpful. And two of these are going to be put

00:15:03.320 under intense scrutiny. That will be Marco Rubio, because Marco Rubio's opening statement, you saw it up on

00:15:09.360 Breitbart. Matt Bull and the team had it as an exclusive. It gives a very different outlook than

00:15:14.520 the Washington consensus runs. It's really, I think, the most forward, you know, presentation

00:15:21.300 of America first, talking about the post-war international rules-based order being over.

00:15:26.740 Do we have, let's go to, let's go to judiciary. Let's watch Pam Bondi handle Dick Durbin. As soon as 1.00

00:15:33.320 Marco Rubio starts talking, we'll cut back to that. So we're juggling today, but I think it's important

00:15:37.120 that people see all three. Let's go ahead and go. Big victory on 5 November. Now the work can

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00:17:00.820 As they want information, will you commit to responding to my oversight requests as well

00:17:08.560 as a request of other members of the committee? Chairman, either I or my top staff will personally

00:17:16.480 review the letters and do everything we can to respond to you.

00:17:23.440 Your tenure as Florida Attorney General was impressive. You fought against pill mills,

00:17:32.120 human trafficking. You eliminated a backlog of rape test kits in state labs. You fought against

00:17:40.440 organized retail theft. And you were known to stand for law and order. With such achievements,

00:17:47.540 it's easy to see why the people of Florida reelected you in 2014. And why President-elect Trump

00:17:55.280 nominated you to serve as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. So this gives you a chance

00:18:02.820 to tell us on this committee and the people of this country what you're proud of as your record

00:18:09.840 as Attorney General of Florida. Thank you, Chairman Grassley. I was truly honored to serve the people

00:18:20.320 of the state of Florida for eight years, but it was a team effort. I had great people around me,

00:18:26.340 many of whom are in this room today. And we did a lot. We did a lot to fight crime. And I've been

00:18:33.520 reminiscing a lot since I was asked to take this nomination. Opioids, as I talked about, were a top

00:18:40.980 priority right when I took office. When I was running for office, I went through the entire state of

00:18:46.520 Florida. Parents were walking up to me, handing me pictures of their children who were deceased

00:18:53.280 from opioid abuse. After I was elected, I took those pictures and I framed them in my office

00:19:01.580 as a goal of stopping that fight, which I talked about in my opening statement.

00:19:08.520 And if U.S. Attorney General, I'll bring those pictures back out and they will be there to inspire

00:19:15.180 me on the further drug abuse we're facing throughout this country. We also learned that something else was

00:19:22.920 happening. Pregnant women were having babies as a result of being opioid dependent. We call it 0.99

00:19:28.820 neonatal abstinence syndrome. We fought to educate mothers. We fought that issue as well.

00:19:35.160 Fentanyl was wreaking havoc in our country, but it was just getting started. I actually fought my own

00:19:42.080 party a bit on scheduling fentanyl because at that time people thought it was something you merely got

00:19:48.160 in the hospital on a patch after surgery. Apples and oranges and boy do we all know that now, the

00:19:54.220 difference. Fentanyl is raging throughout our country and I will do everything I can to fight

00:20:01.080 that with the agencies that fall under the Department of Justice. Human trafficking became a top priority

00:20:06.860 for me as Attorney General. I had the opportunity on a bipartisan trip to go to Mexico and the one thing

00:20:14.420 I found out there. They were doing better than we were. They had safe houses. I saw things I never dreamed

00:20:22.380 I would see and all of these things in my past have formed the person I am right now sitting here before

00:20:29.280 you. I came back to Florida. We started a human trafficking council and we partnered with others

00:20:37.260 and we expanded and added safe houses in the state of Florida. I don't know how many are in this country

00:20:44.480 right now, but I would like to partner with both sides if confirmed to continue those efforts.

00:20:50.260 I'd like to interrupt you. Yes, sir. And go to another question and I'll have another round so you can finish

00:20:58.840 on that point. I'd like to ask you about something that's central to

00:21:03.980 fighting government waste and fraud, the False Claims Act. I want you to know that Attorney General

00:21:15.780 Garland calls me once a year. He called me yesterday to tell me the success of the False Claims Act

00:21:22.960 since 1986 when I got it. This is why it's, this is why it's, this is, that's Chairman Grassley,

00:21:30.280 Judiciary. We have Judiciary with Pam Bondi. He wants to be Attorney General of the United States,

00:21:34.520 President Trump's pick. You've got Intelligence with John Ratcliffe, President Trump's pick to not

00:21:39.980 just go to the CIA, but to basically restructure the CIA. And you have Marco Rubio, Senator Marco Rubio,

00:21:45.760 who's going to be his Secretary of State. This is all with the Ukraine war, everything going on,

00:21:49.480 with Senator Rubio. If you go to Breitbart, I think I actually put it up last night on my getter.

00:21:55.200 He gave an exclusive to Breitbart, his opening statement, which is a pretty definitive

00:21:59.380 walkthrough of the intellectual framework of America First, really trashes the post-war

00:22:05.820 international rules-based order has been gained by the Chinese Communist Party. The reason it's 0.83

00:22:10.760 important, we're trying to get you to all three. Yesterday, this audience was a major factor,

00:22:15.480 a major factor in making sure that Pete Hexeth got over the top, particularly with folks like

00:22:21.280 Senator Joni Ernst and others. And remember, back four weeks ago, you guys went to fix bayonets and

00:22:28.280 kept Pete Hexeth. Pete Hexeth would have been traded out for Ron DeSantis within an hour of when we

00:22:34.320 really got to hard work there on that Thursday, what, about a month or so ago. This audience is

00:22:39.160 quite important to make sure we're putting pressure on the Senate to approve these candidates.

00:22:43.960 And particularly, all we need to do is hold together the Republicans, the 53 Republicans.

00:22:50.840 And obviously, next to Monday, J.D. Vance will break any ties. But he'll be vice president on Monday.

00:23:00.320 It's critical to do, so we're going to try to juggle all three. I particularly want to go to

00:23:04.260 Rubio's opening statement. We're going to dip into some of the Democrats questioning Radcliffe,

00:23:08.600 and particularly Democrats coming after Pam Bondi. So we may be jumping around a little bit today,

00:23:13.720 Real America's Voice. We're going to try to skip commercial breaks in the first hour. It's so

00:23:19.060 important that you guys are up to speed on what's going on. Yesterday, magnificent performance. Like

00:23:23.920 I said, Pete Hexeth, Senator Joni Ernst said last night, she's comfortable. She's going to vote for

00:23:28.980 him. I think that should put it to bed unless anything else pops up between now and the time

00:23:34.020 of the committee vote. And I think the committee vote, they're going to try to get that, I believe,

00:23:38.660 Thursday or Friday. The committee vote will be before then. The General House vote,

00:23:41.700 or the whole Senate vote, hopefully on Monday or Sunday, if they can do that. People really want

00:23:47.860 to swear in Pete Hexeth as Secretary of Defense right after President Trump takes the oath of office.

00:23:52.860 Let's go back to Pam Bondi. Let's hear Pam Bondi. The questioning of Pam Bondi will be jumping back

00:23:57.080 and forth. I'll be coming in to put context, maybe just sometimes my voice, maybe sometimes with my

00:24:02.920 lovely visage. Okay, let's go back.

00:24:04.780 To my knowledge, Donald Trump has never acknowledged the legal results of the 2020

00:24:10.800 election. Are you prepared to say today under oath without reservation that Donald Trump lost the

00:24:16.760 presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020?

00:24:21.060 Ranking Member Durbin, President Biden is the President of the United States. He was duly sworn in,

00:24:28.040 and he is the President of the United States. There was a peaceful transition of power. President

00:24:33.580 Trump left office and was overwhelmingly elected in 2024.

00:24:40.040 Do you have any doubts that Joe Biden had the majority of votes, electoral votes, necessary to

00:24:45.460 be elected President in 2020?

00:24:47.340 You know, Senator, all I can tell you as a prosecutor is from my firsthand experience.

00:24:52.480 And I accept the results. I accept, of course, that Joe Biden is President of the United States.

00:24:59.100 But what I can tell you is what I saw firsthand when I went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the

00:25:06.280 campaign. I was an advocate for the campaign, and I was on the ground in Pennsylvania, and I saw many

00:25:12.620 things there. But do I accept the results? Of course I do. Do I agree with what happened? And I saw so much,

00:25:20.020 you know, no one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issues with election

00:25:27.620 integrity in our country. We should all want our elections to be free and fair and the rules and

00:25:36.300 the laws to be followed. I think that question deserved a yes or no. And I think the length of

00:25:42.320 your answer is an indication that you weren't prepared to answer yes. Have you heard the recording of

00:25:48.660 President Trump on January 2nd, 2021, when he urged the Secretary of State of Georgia to, quote,

00:25:54.800 find 11,780 votes and declare him the winner of that state?

00:26:00.220 No, I've heard about it through clips, but no, no, Senator, I've not heard it.

00:26:03.940 What was your reaction to President Trump making that call?

00:26:07.820 I have, I would have to listen to the tape, Senator.

00:26:11.300 Well, the quote that I give you is exact. He said to the Georgia Secretary of State,

00:26:18.800 find 11,780 votes. Do you have the entire context of that call? I feel like it was long,

00:26:26.520 much longer than that and may have been taken out of context. It was an hour long.

00:26:29.700 Right. You can certainly listen to it. I hope you will. Every American should. As a former

00:26:35.900 prosecutors, are you not concerned that the President of the United States called a state

00:26:41.300 election official and asked him to find enough votes to change the results of the election?

00:26:46.080 Senator, I have not listened to the hour long conversation, but it's my understanding that

00:26:51.840 is not what he asked him to do. You need to listen to it. Let me ask a third question. Do you believe

00:26:59.580 that the January 6 rioters who've been convicted of violent assaults on police officers should be pardoned?

00:27:04.960 Senator, if confirmed as Attorney General of the United States, the pardons, of course,

00:27:14.540 fall under the President. But if asked to look at those cases, I will look at each case

00:27:21.140 and advise on a case-by-case basis, just as I did my entire career as a prosecutor.

00:27:29.560 Senator, you also advise the President on pardons. That's part of your responsibility as Attorney

00:27:36.080 General. And so I'm asking you, do you believe that those who've been convicted of the January 6

00:27:42.580 riot violent assaults on our police officers should be pardoned? That's a simple question.

00:27:48.200 So, Senator, I have not seen any of those files, of course. If confirmed and if asked to advise the

00:27:55.000 President, I will look at each and every file. But let me be very clear in speaking to you,

00:28:01.160 I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.

00:28:07.680 Let me ask you about your work as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners. You did not list your current

00:28:13.900 position as a partner at the lobbying firm, nor the work you've done for your Ballard Partner

00:28:18.720 clients, such as lobbying for the country of Qatar for $115,000 a month, and for corporate giants

00:28:26.380 Amazon and Uber when you were asked about conflicts of interest. Why do you believe your work as a

00:28:32.520 lobbyist does not constitute potential conflicts of interest?

00:28:36.000 Well, Senator, first, that was the amount my firm received. I believe multiple people represented the

00:28:42.940 country of Qatar within my firm. My role, and I am very proud of the work that I did. It was a short

00:28:49.680 time, and I wish it had been longer for Qatar, was anti-human trafficking efforts leading into the World

00:28:55.380 Cup, which is something I'd like to talk about later, too. I was registered as FARA along with many

00:29:01.920 members of my firm. That was the sole portion of my representation for Qatar. Now, if there are any

00:29:09.620 conflicts with anyone I represented in private practice, I would consult with the career ethics

00:29:16.780 officials within the department and make the appropriate decision. I would also like to point

00:29:23.660 out to you I don't believe that I would be the first Attorney General who has represented and advocated

00:29:30.540 for businesses in their past. Of course not. The question is whether you will recuse yourself

00:29:37.180 from any case involving your Ballard clients. One of those clients was the GEO Group, was it not?

00:29:45.180 GEO, yes. A private prison company you lobbied for manages correctional institutions and detention

00:29:51.640 facilities. The GEO Group has faced criticism for safety violations, inadequate health care, and poor

00:29:58.040 management. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is GEO's largest source of revenue. Under the Trump

00:30:04.420 administration, GEO stands to earn hundreds of millions of dollars by detaining immigrants if

00:30:09.080 there is this mass deportation. Would you sense any conflict of interest if you're asked to judge

00:30:14.560 the performance of this government contractor? Senator, I will consult with the career ethics

00:30:21.140 officials within the Department of Justice and make the appropriate decision. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:30:27.120 Senator Graham. Thank you. Congratulations. You forgot to say that John's family was from South

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00:31:53.180 Okay. Not that we wouldn't want to watch Lindsey Graham. I got to come back. The war room,

00:31:58.900 the war room position on this is Trump won. Biden's illegitimate. And I realize that Pam Bondi's got

00:32:06.280 to get confirmed. And this is that you see the eggshell she's walking on right there. But the appropriate

00:32:11.740 answer, uh, Pam and Pam's, uh, uh, a good person. I know her very well. Uh, Pam Bondi, uh, Trump won

00:32:19.460 the 2020 election. Uh, Biden's illegitimate and we need to adjudicate that. I'm feeling now we need a

00:32:25.380 special prosecutor more and more. And maybe that special prosecutor has got to report up to the

00:32:29.020 White House and the, you know, the, the unified theory of the executive that President Trump's

00:32:35.320 votes, the chief executive. He is the, uh, commander in chief of the armed forces and he's chief

00:32:39.820 magistrate and chief law enforcement officer, not the attorney general. That's what they've been

00:32:44.440 trying to run on us since, uh, since Watergate. Uh, do we have, let's go. Marco Rubio, I think

00:32:48.420 has given his opening statement. I think they're trying to bang, bang him up. Uh, Lindsey Graham's

00:32:52.200 questioning Pam Bondi will come back, uh, when we get a Democrat, uh, try to chop her up and you 1.00

00:32:57.300 see your action. Let's go to Marco Rubio for a second. Back to order. All right. Um, so

00:33:08.080 while America too often prioritize the global order above our core national interest, other

00:33:13.160 nations continue to act the way nations have always acted and always will in what they perceive 0.94

00:33:18.820 to be their best interest. And instead of folding into the post cold war global order, they have

00:33:24.900 manipulated it to serve their interests at the expense of ours. We welcome the Chinese communist 1.00

00:33:31.300 party into the global order and they took advantage of all of its benefits and they ignored all of its

00:33:37.600 obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have repressed and lied and cheated and hacked and

00:33:45.020 stolen their way into global superpower status. And they have done so at our expense and at the expense

00:33:52.540 of the people of their own country. In our very own hemisphere, narco terrorists and dictators and 1.00

00:34:00.080 despots take advantage of open borders to drive mass migration, to traffic in women and children and to

00:34:05.980 flood our communities with deadly fentanyl and violent criminals. In Moscow, in Tehran, in Pyongyang,

00:34:13.280 dictators, rogue states, national stability, and aligned with and they fund radical terror groups.

00:34:21.680 And then they hide behind their veto power at the United Nations Security Council or the threats of

00:34:26.720 nuclear war. The post-war global order is not just obsolete. It is now a weapon being used against us.

00:34:36.640 And all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical

00:34:42.800 instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive and in this room today.

00:34:51.680 Eight decades later, we are once again called to create a free world out of the chaos. And this will not be easy.

00:34:59.200 And it will be impossible without a strong and a confident America that engages in the world,

00:35:06.640 putting our core national interests once again above all else. Just four years ago,

00:35:12.640 I believe we began to see what that would look like during President Trump's first term.

00:35:18.480 America's strength was a deterrent to our adversaries and it gave us leverage in diplomacy.

00:35:24.000 There were no new wars. ISIS was eviscerated. Soleimani was dead. The historic Abraham Accords were born.

00:35:31.760 And Americans were safer as a result. Now, President Trump returns to office with an unmistakable mandate

00:35:40.080 from the voters. They want a strong America. A strong America engaged

00:35:46.160 guided by a clear objective to promote peace abroad and security and prosperity here at home.

00:35:52.400 That is the promise that President Trump was elected to keep. And if I am confirmed,

00:35:58.960 keeping that promise will be the core mission of the United States Department of State.

00:36:05.440 Now, tragically, horrifying atrocities and unimaginable human suffering can be found on

00:36:10.880 virtually every continent. And I am certain that today I will be asked about the array of programs and

00:36:16.160 the activities the Department of State carries out to address them.

00:36:19.280 We are a nation who was founded on the revolutionary truth that all men are created equal and that our

00:36:25.680 rights come not from man or from government, but from God. And so we will never be indifferent to the

00:36:32.240 suffering of our fellow man. But ultimately, under President Trump, the top priority of the United

00:36:38.800 Department of State Department of State will be the United States. The direction he has given for the

00:36:45.120 conduct of our foreign policy is clear. Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, every policy we pursue

00:36:53.920 must be justified by the answer to one of three questions. Does it make America safer? Does it make America

00:37:01.120 stronger? Or does it make America more prosperous? Under President Trump, the dollars of hardworking

00:37:07.840 American taxpayers will always be spent wisely and our power will always be yielded prudently

00:37:14.560 and towards what is best for America and Americans before anything and everything else.

00:37:21.520 Prudence in the conduct of foreign policy is not an abandonment of our values.

00:37:26.080 It is the common sense understanding that while we remain the wealthiest and the most powerful nation

00:37:32.000 on the earth, our wealth has never been unlimited and our power has never been infinite.

00:37:39.360 And placing our core national interest above all else is not isolationism. It is the common sense

00:37:46.320 realization that a foreign policy centered in our national interest is not some outdated relic.

00:37:55.200 Since the emergence of the modern nation state over two centuries ago, countries acting based on what

00:38:00.880 they perceive to be their core national interest, that has been the norm, not the exception. And for our

00:38:06.880 country, placing the interest of America and Americans above all else has never been more relevant

00:38:13.520 or more necessary than it is right now. For in the end, how America, how can America promote the cause of

00:38:21.680 peace on earth if it is not first safe at home? What good is America to our allies if it is not strong?

00:38:30.320 And how can America help end the suffering of God's children across the world if it is not first prosperous

00:38:36.640 here at home? I thank you and I hope I can earn your support whether it's because you believe I would

00:38:42.640 do a good job or because you want to get rid of me. Thank you. Bring it to me. Either way the results.

00:38:48.240 Okay. Um, by the way, shouldn't be lost in anybody. We have two University of Florida grads. The Gators are

00:38:55.600 representing today. We're going to go back to Pam Bondi. A big question I think by Democrats. That was Marco Rubio.

00:39:01.840 A pretty impressive opening statement. America first by Senator Rubio. Let's go back and hear

00:39:06.320 the grilling of Pam Bondi. Senator, the attorney general's office in Florida is the third largest

00:39:11.760 in the state. Approximately 1,400 employees and approximately 400 lawyers. Only California and

00:39:20.800 Texas are our bigger offices. And you were responsible for hiring into that office while you were attorney

00:39:26.720 general. Yes. Would you have hired someone into the Florida attorney general's office who you knew

00:39:32.960 had an enemies list? Senator, to cut to the chase, you're clearly talking about Cash Patel. I don't

00:39:40.240 believe he has an enemies list. He made a quote on TV, which I have not heard. I saw your your sign or

00:39:46.960 Senator Durbin sign about Cash. But I, um, I know that Cash Patel has had 60 jury trials as a public defender,

00:39:57.680 as a prosecutor. He has great experience in the Intel Department, Department of Defense.

00:40:06.160 I have known Cash and I believe that Cash is the right person at this time for this job. You'll have the

00:40:13.680 ability to question Mr. Patel. And I'm questioning you right now about whether you will enforce an

00:40:19.360 enemies list that he announced publicly on television. Oh, Senator, I'm sorry. There will

00:40:23.440 never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice. Thank you. Um, the FBI's, uh, what is the

00:40:31.280 FBI's role in national security and counterterrorism and how important is that role? You know, Senator,

00:40:37.280 I believe now more than ever counterterrorism is so important and vital in our country. We are facing

00:40:46.640 such incredible threats here and abroad. If I'm sure many of you saw, um, FBI, former FBI director

00:40:55.360 Ray's interview on 60 minutes, he talked about the threats that frankly, again, I don't have my security

00:41:02.560 clearance, but the threats facing us, Senator, from China, from China right now that are so great, 0.99

00:41:09.760 with the sleeper cells within our country. Given that importance, is it responsible to call

00:41:16.800 for shutting down the FBI's counterterrorism and national security work? And will you,

00:41:22.640 as Attorney General, impede or shut down the FBI's counterterrorism and national security work?

00:41:28.400 Senator, Senator, I believe that national security is vital right now for our country on so many

00:41:36.000 fronts. I could continue to discuss many others. And the FBI's role in that? And the FBI plays a vital

00:41:40.880 role in counterterrorism throughout our world. Which you will or will not shut down? I will look at each

00:41:46.160 agency. I have no intention of shutting anything down right now, Senator. I am not in that office yet,

00:41:52.880 and if confirmed, I will look at each individual agency and how it should be managed. But counterterrorism

00:42:00.240 right now in our world is vital. You have said that Department of Justice prosecutors will be prosecuted

00:42:10.080 in the Trump administration. What Department of Justice prosecutors will be prosecuted and why?

00:42:18.000 I said that on TV. I said prosecutors will be prosecuted to finish the quote, if bad. Investigators

00:42:27.680 will be investigated. You know, we all take an oath, Senator, to uphold the law. None of us are above the

00:42:34.960 law. Let me give you a really good example of a bad lawyer within the Justice Department, a guy named

00:42:41.040 Clinesmith, who altered a FISA warrant, one of the most important things we can do in this country.

00:42:48.000 So will everyone be held to an equal, equal, fair system of justice? If I am the next Attorney General,

00:42:57.200 absolutely. And no one is above the law. Under what circumstances will you prosecute journalists

00:43:06.400 for what they write? I believe in the freedom of speech. Only if anyone commits a crime. It's pretty

00:43:16.560 basic, Senator, with anything, with with any victim. And this is this goes back to my entire career

00:43:22.400 for 18 years as a prosecutor and then eight years as Florida's Attorney General.

00:43:26.560 You find the facts of the case, you apply the law in good faith, and you treat everyone fairly.

00:43:40.720 And it would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime. It's a

00:43:52.080 prosecutor's job to start with a crime and look for a name, correct?

00:43:59.280 Senator, I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization that we have seen the last four

00:44:04.080 years and what's been happening to Donald Trump. They targeted Donald Trump. They went after him,

00:44:10.560 actually starting back in 2016. They targeted his campaign. They have launched countless investigations

00:44:17.680 against him. That will not be the case if I am Attorney General. I will not politicize that office.

00:44:24.880 I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered

00:44:32.160 even handedly throughout this country. Senator, we've got to bring this country back together.

00:44:37.920 We've got to move forward or we're going to lose our country.

00:44:40.880 Yeah, I think the concern is that weaponization of the Justice Department may well occur under your

00:44:48.480 tenure. And we want to make sure that that's not the case, that you remain independent, that you remain

00:44:53.920 able to and willing to tell the president no when that's necessary for to protect the Constitution and

00:44:59.760 the integrity of the department. So that's where I'm asking these questions.

00:45:05.600 We talked in the meeting about the contacts policy that has prevailed really since Senator Hatch

00:45:15.840 sat in that chair and demanded of the Clinton Justice Department through all the administration

00:45:21.600 since then, with the exception of a brief period under Attorney General Gonzalez, which he corrected

00:45:27.760 and which did not end well for him. There has been a contacts policy that limits contacts between the White

00:45:34.000 House and the Department of Justice to a very few senior officials on each side. In your role as

00:45:40.720 Attorney General, if you are confirmed, will you maintain, defend, and enforce that long-standing contacts

00:45:48.320 policy? Senator, yes, I will meet with White House counsel and I will meet with the appropriate officials

00:45:54.640 and follow the contacts policy. My time has expired. Thank you, Ms. Bondi. Senator Cornyn.

00:46:01.360 Ms. Bondi, your testimony is music to my ears. Thank you. One of the things that I have been most

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00:47:29.920 That is donewithdebt.com. Do it today. Action, action, action. Weaponization and politicalization

00:47:37.920 of the Department of Justice, which together with the FBI is one of the most important institutions

00:47:43.920 in this country. If people don't trust that their elected officials will faithfully enforce the law

00:47:54.000 or administer equal justice under the law, they've lost faith in America. And that disturbs me greatly.

00:48:06.240 And I know it does you too, based on what you said. So I'm delighted to hear you say what you have said.

00:48:14.000 But I want to talk about some specific topics. Time is short. First, the border. I believe President Biden

00:48:23.120 and Vice President Harris had presided over one of the biggest humanitarian and public safety disasters

00:48:30.560 in American history. Senator Cruz and I represent a state with 1,200 miles of common border with America.

00:48:37.360 But as you pointed out with fentanyl, what happens is the border doesn't stay at the border.

00:48:44.080 Fentanyl poisoning is the most common cause of death of young people between the age of 18 and 45.

00:48:51.840 We know where it comes from. The precursors come from China. They go to the cartels, 0.96

00:48:56.320 they mix them up, make them look like innocuous pills. And young people take them and die.

00:49:04.080 It's just that simple and that tragic. So there's just so much that we could talk about with regard

00:49:11.360 to the border. But, you know, I know people...

00:49:15.200 You see what the Democrats are trying to do. And I just want to reiterate, the engine room is informing me,

00:49:24.240 which I knew, but I will repeat this. Your efforts yesterday, during and after the Pete Hegseth

00:49:30.880 confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, really, I think,

00:49:38.320 made sure that Joni Ernst understood that everybody's on watch here and others. Joni Ernst came out on a

00:49:44.560 talk show in Iowa yesterday and said she's all good with Pete Hegseth. She's going to vote. That

00:49:49.520 changed the total dynamics. You can see the air last night on MSNBC go out of the propaganda apparatus

00:49:56.800 over there as they face the reality that Pete Hegseth is going to be Secretary of Defense. That is

00:50:02.000 because this audience had his back from the very beginning. Today, Pam Bondi, and look, we love

00:50:08.080 Pam Bondi, and Pam Bondi is going to be the Attorney General. We need her as the Attorney General right 1.00

00:50:11.840 now. She's not Matt Gaetz, but then, you know, how many Matt Gaetzes are there? There is a lesson here,

00:50:17.040 though. They were very close to letting Hegseth go. If this audience, we had Gaetz's back,

00:50:24.800 the lesson we should take is never give in to the Democrats whatsoever. They're never going to treat

00:50:30.160 you fairly. You saw Hegseth yesterday. They came up with a personal tax. When you go back and see

00:50:34.400 Rubio and Pam here, Pam Bondi, the Democrats will be coming up with every snarky comment they can make

00:50:41.440 to try to chop her up, try to chop him up. You know, two very decent people that have tremendous

00:50:47.120 track records, right? I realize that, you know, maybe Pam is not Gaetz and not as hard as, you know,

00:50:53.280 the Warren Posse and particularly some of the elements over in Rumble, you savages, 1.00

00:50:58.800 want, and I agree that we wanted Matt Gaetz. We didn't get Matt Gaetz. There's a lesson in why

00:51:03.280 we don't have Matt Gaetz here today, because people blinked, right? People blinked, and we could

00:51:08.480 have gotten Matt Gaetz through. It would have been very messy. It would have been contentious. Today's

00:51:12.240 hearing would have been 10 XP Texas, but guess what? Everybody else would have gotten through

00:51:16.640 with flying colors. Let's go back to, I want to go to Marco Rubio right now. We'll come back to

00:51:21.920 Pam Bondi in a second. Let's go to Marco Rubio. I think the United States should be very concerned,

00:51:26.400 because I believe this is a test run for applying it to American service member and American leaders

00:51:31.040 in the future. Well said. I couldn't agree with you more, and certainly the court has badly damaged

00:51:37.920 its reputation, and it's going to have a long ways to go to recover from that. So with that, Senator

00:51:44.160 Shaheen. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Rubio, as I said in my opening statement, I hope that this

00:51:49.680 committee can better collaborate to swiftly confirm career foreign service officers. These are patriotic

00:51:55.520 Americans who have served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, and they work to

00:52:00.720 advance U.S. national security interests. Delays and vacant posts hurt America's interest. I know you

00:52:07.840 agree with that, because we've had that conversation. But will you commit to working with Chairman Rish and

00:52:12.880 me to prioritize the advancement and confirmation of career State Department officials?

00:52:19.600 Well, the answer to that is yes, but I would also point to this fact that I think we're going to

00:52:23.680 begin by prioritizing. We're going to look at what are the key issues in the world. There are obviously

00:52:27.440 every post in the world is important or it shouldn't exist. And then the question is, which are the ones

00:52:31.600 we bring to you first? And those are the ones that I think are most critical. So obviously, I think you'll see

00:52:36.160 our nominees for the deputy posts, which are critically important, all the undersecretaries as well. And what I've

00:52:41.520 endeavored to do as we interview and identify people, and I believe I've met with and interviewed

00:52:46.320 most of the candidates for those top posts, is I want to bring you people that are three things.

00:52:50.240 Number one, are aligned to the mission. I think that's critically important, whether they be

00:52:54.000 foreign service officers. I'm not talking about political alignment. I'm talking about alignment with

00:52:57.760 the mission that we've outlined for American foreign policy, which is one of the things that I think

00:53:03.280 has hurt the State Department. Under numerous administrations is sometimes the mission or what is the core

00:53:09.040 mission of the department has not been well defined. That's on us, and it's our obligation to define

00:53:14.240 that. So number one, align to the mission. Number two, the capability to do the job. And I can tell you

00:53:19.360 now that my entire service on this committee, which spans 14 years, we always had fellows from the

00:53:26.320 Department of State, I believe all of whom are still in the service of our country. And I intend, because

00:53:31.680 I know them and I've worked with them, to utilize their skill sets in the department. And in fact,

00:53:38.640 a couple who we hope will be returning home soon from foreign postings to work with us at the State

00:53:43.200 Department closer to my office. But the point is that we want to have people that are highly capable,

00:53:48.400 both those who we bring from what they call political appointees, but also those that are promoted

00:53:53.040 from within the Foreign Service. And then the third are people that we can get through the committee,

00:53:58.400 because time is of the essence. Now, you may not agree with all their views, whether they be

00:54:02.880 Foreign Service officers or whether they be political, but I think it's important. And we're

00:54:07.040 not going to exclude someone just because we think that maybe they're going to have a rougher

00:54:10.480 confirmation process than someone else. But I do think it's important that we have people in these

00:54:14.960 positions as quickly as possible. And having served for 14 years on that side of this room,

00:54:20.160 I understand that one of the things we can do to help expedite that is to bring you people that will do

00:54:24.240 a good job, who are qualified for the job or mission aligned, but also that can move through

00:54:30.400 this process quickly enough so that they can be at post and begin to fulfill their duties. If I have to

00:54:34.880 wait a year to get them in place, well, I'm not sure on some of these issues we face today, we have a year to wait.

00:54:40.640 I certainly agree with that. And I appreciate your focus on mission and qualifications, because I think the committee will be looking closely at that.

00:54:50.240 I want to go now to NATO, because in 2023, Congress overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan Cain-Rubio provision,

00:55:00.160 prohibiting any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without Senate approval

00:55:04.880 or an act of Congress. Will you commit to adhering to Senate approval or an act of Congress as required

00:55:10.720 under that law that you authored, if President Trump attempts to withdraw the US from NATO?

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Bannon's War Room - January 15, 2025

Episode 4195： Hearing Coverage Of Bondi, Rubio, And Radcliff

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