Stephen K. Bannon and Jack Posobiec talk about where the war on USAID came from and what it means for the future of the country. Plus, a look at the FBI handing over the names of all the agents involved in the January 6th counter-espionage operation.
00:04:06.960First off, I want to set the record straight, and this talks about the work.
00:04:11.560The guy that was talking there, Stephanie Ruhl, last night was, I think, the former or the current executive producer of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.
00:06:42.400Posobiec, where do we stand on crossing the Potomac to go to the Pentagon, ripping away Biden's security clearance?
00:06:49.340And probably most important, Mike Benz and all the laboring oars that for years and years and years went after USAID.
00:06:58.080Well, Steve, thanks again for having me on.
00:06:59.840And congratulations on returning to your alma mater up there in Harvard.
00:07:04.400I must imagine that they haven't quite had their Dunkin' Donuts yet.
00:07:09.180They don't realize that Steve's up there in Beantown because if they did, they'd be out with the pitchforks and torches trying to get him out of there, trying to run him out of town.
00:07:17.780But when it comes down to it, folks, what President Trump has done, again, this has been part of the strategic political maneuver warfare that he has instituted since returning to office.
00:07:31.620What are the key elements of maneuver warfare?
00:07:34.000Speed, surprise, shock and awe showing up in places where the enemy does not expect not frontal assaults, but going around and disrupting resources, disrupting supply chains.
00:07:47.100And by going after USAID specifically, as well as these other funded elements, internews and the various different verticals that come out under USAID that go out to foreign services that come back to the U.S.
00:08:00.620Because through the Internet, there are no borders.
00:08:02.420So when you're funding one of these foreign liberal services for news or one of these platforms, of course, it's going to be regurgitated back into the United States.
00:08:10.080And, oh, they say they could say we're we're citing foreign reports or see we're not funded.
00:08:27.440Oh, white nationalists, you know, not not to dispute the fact that, by the way, oh, Mike Benz happens to be from a Jewish family, by the way.
00:08:35.300But, you know, we're not going to mention that same as Darren Beattie, for that matter.
00:08:39.060But again, they're trying desperately to grasp for some kind of purchase here because the maneuver warfare is too strong for them.
00:08:49.080They don't have the ability to keep up with the breakneck speed that President Trump has established.
00:08:54.340And J.D. Vance has come out and said, this is not out of the gate stuff.
00:09:10.640And so looking at these different pieces, these different verticals, the USAID, boom, you take away the resources from the mainstream media.
00:09:17.820You take away the enemy's ability to wage war.
00:09:59.640The way the system is set up, you can look at all federal grants.
00:10:04.120And so you take a step back from that.
00:10:05.960But now go look at the Department of Defense, $900 billion budget that's over there with the money outlays going all over the place.
00:10:15.080You got billions of dollars of equipment, as President Trump has said again and again, that's left on the battlefield of Afghanistan with the keys in the helicopter hand over to the Taliban.
00:10:23.420And then they're going to come down on the soldier.
00:10:26.420They're going to come down on the E-4.
00:10:27.980They're going to come down on the E-4 mafia because, oh, you forgot to pay your receipt at Buffalo Wild Wings with your credit card that was given to you for travel.
00:10:39.780It's a scam what they've been running over there for a long time.
00:10:43.800Anyone who's been – go talk to any serious person who's been in the military.
00:10:47.240Ask anyone who's worn the uniform, you know, you know if your hand is on that Bible that there is tons of waste, fraud, and abuse that goes on over there.
00:10:58.480And it isn't even just with these outlays, the boondoggles that go on over there and the foreign money – the foreign military spending plus the R&D budgets.
00:11:07.980And, Steve, with the R&D over there, I explained this a little bit with Brad yesterday.
00:11:11.600The way the Pentagon structures their R&D projects, so all the money that goes to Boeing, the money that goes to Lockheed, go ask Nikki Haley about that.
00:11:21.220And you're required to have all of these DEI affirmative actions.
00:11:27.240Okay, we have these racial quotas for this type of contractor, and you need Eskimos here, and you need Native Americans and disabled veterans here and this one there and that one there.
00:11:37.000And it gets to the point where you're spending so much money for a project that just doesn't work.
00:11:43.740Go look at the LCS project in the Navy.
00:11:46.100Go look at the railgun project in the Navy.
00:11:59.700Because we do not put excellence and greatness at the floor anymore, and that's exactly what Secretary Hegseth has called for.
00:12:07.500It absolutely needs to apply to the distribution, the allocation, and the contracting process of the DOD.
00:12:16.440This, you know, one has got to be a realignment of, and it may be too quick to do this, but a realignment with hemispheric defense in the defense budget.
00:13:17.560Final thoughts, final thoughts on maneuver warfare and what you're seeing so far in Doja's assault on the institutions.
00:13:26.200Well, Steve, that's exactly what it's about.
00:13:29.540It's about continuing to fire on all fronts.
00:13:32.300It's about continuing to stupefy the enemy.
00:13:34.880It's about treating this as what it is, a hostile takeover of the American government away from people who do not have patriotism in their hearts and replacing it with people who love this country.
00:13:47.480It's as simple as that, recognizing the political opposition for what they are and treating them, by the way, the way that they have treated us for the last 12 years.
00:14:23.820I will be accompanying Secretary Hegseth across Europe next week with the NATO summit and the Minister of Defense meeting in Belgium, Brussels.
00:18:29.000In fact, it takes mathematically around 3% to keep it full employment.
00:18:34.540Oh, by the way, the labor statistics last night, as E.J. and Tony went through on this show, the only one to mention it, in five years, in five years, total net job growth, total net job growth, 100%, has gone to foreigners, not native-born U.S. citizens.
00:19:08.720I'm going to come back with a rant or two in a moment about the numbers getting out of control.
00:19:13.440But when I just said right there about five years of net job growth, 100% to foreign-born, and, of course, the zero hedges all over, this shows you a massive amount of that.
00:19:28.240It's not legal immigration here, quote-unquote legal immigration here, and either my favorite H-1B visas or green cards or whatever you want to say.
00:19:41.800That has crushed the economics of African-American and Hispanic citizens in this country, and that's why Donald Trump is back in office.
00:19:49.780Now, the one way to do this is that we have to, you know, get rid of the criminals and all that, and people, a million people have deportation notices.
00:19:56.720But already, the embeds in the media, they understand if they can get ahead of what Homan's trying to do, we're going to have a bigger problem trying to get this.
00:20:07.720They're going to have optics that they think win for them, and this whole thing is going to get slowed down.
00:20:18.440Why don't you tee up what's going to be in the clip, and then we'll play it.
00:20:20.520Sure, well, the mainstream media in concert with these far-left NGOs are actively working to sabotage President Trump's mass deportation agenda.
00:20:29.800And we're seeing this pattern replicate in state after state, city after city, and raid after raid.
00:20:37.900He was speaking on Fox, talking about how a raid out in Colorado had been actively sabotaged by someone who essentially preemptively leaked information about an ICE raid.
00:20:47.580They were going to go on to get several Trendy Aragua members.
00:20:51.220Instead, they were only able to nab one.
00:20:53.660I think this sort of goes back to that infamous Wall Street Journal article that you were talking about, Steve, prior to President Trump being sworn in, right, where they were sort of leaking, if not doxing, preemptively, not from White House sources, but from likely these far-left activist types, like I said, working in collaboration with mainstream media outlets.
00:21:11.760We can play that clip, but just to contextualize, it's not just happening in Colorado.
00:21:17.140There's also a big L.A. Times piece coming out this weekend, which I'd love to just read a quote from if you want to talk about sabotage.
00:21:24.600Quote, federal law enforcement agents are planning to carry out a large-scale immigration enforcement action in the Los Angeles area before the end of February, according to an internal government document reviewed by the Times.
00:21:37.500I've never seen something cut a castle to treason, but see a buried lead in that article.
00:21:42.180Here's a quote, speaking with an official from ICE.
00:21:45.480Just because certain information is being given doesn't mean it's the administration's plan because they know some agents are going to be resistant.
00:22:18.820First of all, if they're shouting and helping these people get away with bullhorns, how is that legal to get help from the people in the streets?
00:22:25.580I know they can protest, but that's not what they're doing.
00:22:30.820When they come to the – they cross the line of impediment, and that's why I'm working very close, starting this morning with the Department of Justice.
00:22:37.340And where do they cross that line of impediment?
00:22:39.600So they may find themselves in a pair of handcuffs very soon.
00:22:42.740So working with DOJ on that, get some legal guidance on that.
00:23:25.960The New York Post is reporting that there have been 11,000 in these raids so far.
00:23:30.58011,000 of the bad hombres have been rolled up.
00:23:34.280I know President Trump, what I'm hearing coming out of the White House is that he wants bigger numbers, and he wants bigger numbers faster.
00:23:41.280This is why they brought Gitmo online.
00:23:42.660They have a huge problem with the logistics.
00:23:44.320They have a huge problem with money and cash.
00:23:46.940It's one of the reasons they're talking about the two reconciliations, as we recommended from day one.
00:23:51.740What are you hearing over at the White House, Natalie, about what the staff, who are doing a great job over there,
00:23:56.440but what is the word of how Kristi Noem and Tom Homan and Stephen Middle are going to get more support?
00:24:02.660Yeah, well, we certainly need to add a few zeros to that.
00:24:05.640The sort of line that they're running with is that there's just a lack of detention facilities.
00:24:11.340I think this dovetails not only with what the Biden regime did, but sort of the lobbying effort that we've seen being mounted from the kind of left-wing resistance groups, particularly the ACLU.
00:24:20.480I think the logical question after that Tom Homan clip is, you know, who was behind sabotaging that raid?
00:24:26.640And like I said, in states all across the country, for example, in South Carolina, there's a picture we can put on screen.
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00:31:07.660To actually get in the way of law enforcement?
00:31:10.660We know that Pritzker in Illinois and Johnson...
00:31:13.500And so for me, instead of going there and getting in those people's faces, I'd go start arresting officials.
00:31:19.820California just last night, your beloved California, passed $50 million principally to thwart federal officials from coming in to actually do ICE raids and actually remove illegal alien criminals and illegal aliens.
00:31:36.160And my point is that, hey, Palisades, suck on this.
00:31:39.560You shouldn't get a penny until that law is rescinded and that California is reverse sanctuary cities and working with federal officials to remove illegal alien evaders.
00:31:50.940Well, that mindset shows the problem right there.
00:31:53.540I mean, since President Trump had won the election, Gavin Newsom had been plotting, like you said, $50 million for their state.
00:31:59.880DOJ, I believe half of it being itemized to actually block the deportations.
00:32:04.000The other half to sort of try to be a guidebook and sort of a blueprint for other states to resist the Trump agenda.
00:32:11.180But, Steve, I think there's another layer to it as well, that a lot of these groups that are involved in the resistance efforts are receiving taxpayer dollars, right?
00:32:19.780Obviously, DHS has slow-rolled and frozen some of the taxpayer funds that are going to these entities, but they still have sizable war chests, not just from the four years of the Biden regime.
00:32:29.880But you can see that group in particular, Steve, and I think it's important to note, right, the first wave of deportations, at least as sort of messaged by the Trump White House and the media, has been, we're just going after the criminals.
00:32:41.220Yes, obviously, we need to expand that, but any deportation efforts that these groups are trying to block right now, they're trying to block the deportations of criminal, illegal aliens, right?
00:32:51.540And like I said, the information that we flashed on the screen, this is very detailed in terms of questions and statements and answers.
00:32:59.300You can see their role-playing, what to do with an ICE agent comes to your door.
00:33:11.840Natalie, we'll let you go about your chores on a Saturday morning.
00:33:15.340Fabulous couple of weeks at the White House as a correspondent breaking all kind of news and particularly looking at the response to Days of Thunder.
00:33:22.780If you get a chance, make sure you look at the Stephanie Rule last night because these are broken people.
00:33:29.900They have no – they've always controlled the levers of institutional power.
00:33:33.780And once you take that – once you strip it away from them, they have absolutely nothing to stand on, including making an argument to the American people why President Trump should be slowed down.
00:45:12.540Professor Amy Wax, I'm a huge fan and have wanted to do this for so long.
00:45:16.380Talk to me, first off, why are you here at a conference talking to young students at Harvard today?
00:45:24.540Well, because what's more important than young people to the future of our country?
00:45:30.000And I see in academia a complete indifference to that future, to young people, to responsibilities towards those young people, to expose them to the truth, to reality, however unpleasant that might be.
00:45:50.700And more broadly, as a conservative, I believe in Edmund Burke's covenant, which is that because we have inherited wonderful, lasting, valuable institutions from the past and from the struggles and sacrifices of the past, we have a duty to preserve, protect, and defend them and then pass them on to the next generations.
00:46:18.340But as a victim, we owe as much to those that came before us as we owe to future generations, and we honor that by passing on these institutions in better shape and making sure we pass them on with their original intent.
00:46:36.100Well, first of all, we are degrading and debasing the institutions of Western civilization, actively denigrating them and running them down.
00:46:48.340I think in many ways that are just plain false, and we are teaching our children and our young people that what we enjoy every day, the privileges and the benefits that we enjoy every day, are somehow ill-gotten gains.
00:47:06.100They are the product of exploitation and persecution and racism and all of these evil forces, and that is a lie.
00:47:17.800So we shouldn't be doing that because it causes them to have a heedless attitude towards all of the goods that they have inherited.
00:47:31.540Secondly, I see in my fellow academics an unwillingness to go up against the powers that be and some of their destructive and nefarious ideas and programs like DEI, which denigrates the meritocracy,
00:47:48.840which creates a lax atmosphere, that results in incompetence, which discriminates against white males, which valorizes identity politics and diversity over and above other important values.
00:48:05.920And they won't speak up about it, even though many of them behind closed doors have their doubts and don't even support and approve of this kind of thing.
00:48:33.360Those are two of the leading institutions in this country founded by some of the great, you know,
00:48:38.300Chalmers Jefferson at UVA, the University of Pennsylvania, you know, the fantastic people of Pennsylvania that formed that in Philadelphia.
00:48:46.740How did these two leading institutions deteriorate so badly?
00:48:51.180Well, I mean, it happened gradually, and as Hemingway says, then suddenly.
00:48:56.300And it's because of that the far left has created a stronghold in these institutions, and it has drawn up the ladders and consolidated its power.
00:49:08.600And that belief system is very far removed from most ordinary people.
00:49:14.900And, of course, the interests of those ordinary people, although elites profess to care about them, they don't really care about them.
00:49:28.360You can just look around you in Cambridge and see this sort of posh, refined, beautiful place that elite people have created for themselves.
00:49:38.920Go 30 miles to the west of Philadelphia outside my home, and you'll see squalor, decrepitude, lack of law and order, a paucity of nice things.
00:50:20.100And secondly, this obsession with equality of outcome, which, of course, is the centerpiece of what we know as woke.
00:50:29.520And we will, by hook and by crook, force people to accept that ideology and to live that ideology while we largely exempt ourselves from it.
00:50:41.840And here I'm going to cite Charles Murray in Coming Apart, which is a brilliant and magisterial book.
00:50:47.340He has shown how the elites have separated themselves from the rest of society, the top 20 percent geographically, culturally, educationally, in where they live, very important.
00:51:02.620They live in the fastness of their little white-opias while they tout diversity for everybody else.
00:51:09.220So there's a lot of double standards and duplicity here, which the masses understand.
00:51:28.340We have Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which makes the receipt of federal funds in private institutions like my own contingent on obeying the law, not discriminating, obeying the civil rights laws.
00:51:44.000Those laws are violated every day in every way.
00:51:48.440And Trump would have ample justification to cut off those institutions and ask them to prove that they deserve all this money.
00:51:57.860Penn gets $900-plus million a year in loans, in grants, in other programmatic funding.
00:52:05.960They are rich enough to fund themselves until they prove that they are obeying the law.
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