Bannon's War Room - Episode 4303： Zelensky To Meet With Trump; US Extradited 29 Top Cartel Members For Prosecution In The US

00:00:00.000 There are a lot of things that are happening in Washington and have been happening over the past couple of years where there really aren't a lot of parallels.

00:00:07.440 I suspect, though, this view of the world, what what what is old is new again, this view of the world that Donald Trump is bringing in to the White House and sort of smashing this post-war order that has seen the United States dominate the world economically and militarily and every other way, culturally, you name it.

00:00:31.000 We've dominated since the end of World War Two. But he's trying to bring about this new order.

00:00:36.780 Take us back. Is is this more like a Teddy Roosevelt imperialist approach?

00:00:43.760 Is this William McKinley? Who who who does this remind you of his his his worldview when it comes to to power politics?

00:00:54.460 It's older than that, even it's almost medieval and Renaissance, right?

00:00:59.780 This this is a royal house with a kingdom who bases relations on personal connection, personal feeling to go to something Susan said a moment ago.

00:01:12.920 And basically, it's a very autocratic, very straightforward.

00:01:25.040 I mean, let's be honest. It's kind of I don't want to say refreshing, but but the president is being very clear here.

00:01:33.080 So one of the things that I think is is really important here is to remember that we are now living to shift from a historical metaphor to a cultural one.

00:01:46.800 We're now living in the Sopranos. Right.

00:01:50.660 Right. This is a there. This is a protection racket.

00:01:56.800 Basically, President Zelensky is being asked to come to Washington to pay for our protection.

00:02:04.700 And one of the most revealing moments, I think, of the last couple of weeks was in some comments the president made.

00:02:14.700 It was about the Associated Press situation in the White House.

00:02:18.520 And I believe I have this almost almost exactly right.

00:02:21.400 But it's certainly the essence of it.

00:02:23.660 The AP doesn't do me any favors, so I'm not going to do them any favors.

00:02:29.500 That's the way the world works.

00:02:31.320 That's the way the world works.

00:02:34.680 That's where we are.

00:02:36.580 And it's a there's not a lot of diplomatic thought here.

00:02:41.340 You know, this is there's not going to be a foreign affairs piece about this doctrine.

00:02:46.480 That's the way the world works.

00:02:51.160 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:02:56.100 Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on this people.

00:03:01.320 You know, I got a free shot.

00:03:02.760 All these networks lying about the people.

00:03:05.760 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:03:07.740 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:03:09.160 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:03:11.780 It's going to happen.

00:03:13.060 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:03:16.480 Mega media.

00:03:17.360 I wish in my soul.

00:03:19.700 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:03:23.300 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:03:27.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:03:33.280 War Room.

00:03:34.220 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:03:36.280 Bannon.

00:03:36.620 It's Friday, 28 February, in the year of our Lord, 2025.

00:03:46.100 We are live from the Patriot Mobile headquarters in Grapevine, Texas, at the good offices of Glenn Story and the team.

00:03:54.280 Really honored to be invited down here.

00:03:56.960 We're speaking tonight.

00:03:57.580 Jack Posobiec has joined me.

00:04:00.320 He's off of being off of guard.

00:04:03.140 He's no longer heat shield for Pam Bondi.

00:04:06.540 He's down here in Texas.

00:04:07.800 We're going to give Jack and I are speaking tonight to a big group of Texas MAGA conservatives and grassroots and get people fired up.

00:04:16.620 More about that later.

00:04:17.880 By the way, there is a there's still some seats available.

00:04:21.020 Yeah, a few tables.

00:04:22.360 They've expanded out.

00:04:23.720 Well, the tables thing is sold.

00:04:24.720 They've expanded some general admission.

00:04:27.080 They were a tough time selling tickets when it was just post.

00:04:29.420 So, so I came in, you know, support Glenn Story and the great team.

00:04:32.380 Oh, is that right?

00:04:33.100 No, no, no, no, because everyone's fighting over the tickets.

00:04:36.280 It was just small.

00:04:37.380 Okay, so Posto's with me.

00:04:39.220 We are going to talk about the Pam Bondi and the FBI situation here momentarily.

00:04:42.580 We've got some big breaking news we've got to get to.

00:04:44.900 Our own Brian Glenn is at the White House.

00:04:48.360 Brian, set up the day.

00:04:50.440 Zelensky's coming. 0.92

00:04:51.740 This is the day everybody's talked about.

00:04:53.320 The deal's done.

00:04:54.340 I think it'll be signed this morning.

00:04:56.340 Walk us through the logistics of the day, sir.

00:04:59.420 All right.

00:05:01.040 Good morning, everybody.

00:05:02.040 Behind me, you've got the color guard getting into position.

00:05:05.500 Now, President Zelensky is scheduled to arrive here at the White House and go into the West

00:05:10.340 Wing at about 11 o'clock.

00:05:11.940 And then shortly after that, Zelensky will meet with President Trump in the Oval Office

00:05:17.500 and have a brief press conference there.

00:05:21.420 We'll make sure we bring you all the results from that.

00:05:24.680 And then a little bit later at 1 o'clock, there is a bilateral press conference in the East Room.

00:05:30.920 And I would imagine that's when the press really gets to open up and ask their questions.

00:05:35.560 But it all is about that rare earth minerals agreement.

00:05:40.120 And from what I understand, that deal is done.

00:05:42.980 It just needs to be signed.

00:05:44.860 But as you would expect, the security around the White House area and this whole perimeter

00:05:49.160 has really been enhanced the most I've seen from any world leader coming in here.

00:05:54.980 And this is it.

00:05:55.880 I mean, this is one of the biggest meetings.

00:05:57.980 This could be one of the most defining moments, if you will, Steve, of President Trump's second term.

00:06:04.420 Well, yes.

00:06:06.740 I do think the bigger one will be, obviously, Putin.

00:06:09.480 I think this is the check the box and get out of the way.

00:06:11.760 There's a lot of controversy about this deal.

00:06:13.900 I think even President Trump, like he says, it's for rare earths.

00:06:17.540 And I think, Brian, the way they present this and Jack, I would say this is a framework.

00:06:22.780 This is a framework for further negotiations and more details on, you know, as an M&A.

00:06:28.560 You kind of get a term sheet.

00:06:30.180 You have an overall term sheet.

00:06:31.440 Term sheet was when we went with Besson two weeks ago.

00:06:34.080 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:06:35.240 In fact, you were there.

00:06:36.440 There was some misreporting on that.

00:06:39.960 So Zelensky was very disrespectful to Secretary of Treasury Besson and essentially signed the same deal is what I understand, right?

00:06:47.300 Look, the term sheet that we delivered with Secretary Besson when we took the train to Kiev two nights or, you know,

00:06:54.260 the night train to Kiev two weeks ago, the term sheet is remarkably similar to what's going to be coming in today.

00:07:00.000 So this, it's an evolution.

00:07:01.540 But the big piece of it, Steve, was that Zelensky kept saying, I want a security guarantee.

00:07:06.100 Yes.

00:07:06.320 But you can't do that because a security guarantee is de facto NATO membership because that would give you essentially an Article 5 provision.

00:07:12.440 Yes, but I think they would take a security guarantee of American troops and or – okay, two terms you're going to see here, folks.

00:07:19.120 NATO means American troops.

00:07:20.760 That's the thing.

00:07:21.720 Here's the two terms I think you should look for, Brian, today.

00:07:25.060 And by the way, Brian is in the press pool today.

00:07:27.780 Brian, you're going to be in the Oval.

00:07:29.440 And, Brian, I kind of disagree, although I know you get to ask the first question now.

00:07:33.220 Like, you're the new Helen Thompson of UPI.

00:07:36.460 You get to ask the first question at the big press conference.

00:07:38.660 But the press – we call these press avails, these bilats.

00:07:42.100 And I think President Trump's doing something quite extraordinary.

00:07:44.700 He's inviting the media in not just for the cameras, but he's inviting questions from the media.

00:07:49.300 And some of those I find fascinating.

00:07:51.020 I believe there are going to be some detailed questions at the very open to him and Zelensky.

00:07:56.200 And a couple things already.

00:07:57.920 Backstop.

00:07:58.800 The term of art here is backstop.

00:08:00.400 Is there a – if it's not a security guarantee, is there an American backstop?

00:08:04.340 Number two –

00:08:04.780 We started yesterday with Keir Starmer.

00:08:06.140 It's Keir Starmer.

00:08:07.280 And then Macron – you know, Macron tried to work his evil magic the other day.

00:08:11.420 The other thing you should hear coming from the Senate is what I'm hearing already is that, oh, well, since we have a framework,

00:08:18.080 that means we can put forward another Ukrainian aid package, right, for economic development.

00:08:23.060 What are you hearing at the White House, Brian Glenn?

00:08:26.460 Yeah, that's – I'm hearing a little bit of that as well.

00:08:29.280 But, you know, when you look at social media and Zelensky was trending on X and I read some of the comments,

00:08:36.520 the American people just want this to be over.

00:08:38.680 We're tired of our tax dollars on that conveyor belt going over to Ukraine.

00:08:43.540 And, of course, we don't know where a lot of that money's gone.

00:08:45.900 We don't know where some of the weapons have turned up and ended up in enemy's hands.

00:08:50.140 So they're angry, and that's why I think you see a lot of attention here in D.C. as far as the security around this whole entire area.

00:09:00.240 But those are two great questions.

00:09:02.240 And, hey, shoot me some other ones.

00:09:04.080 I'm more than happy to fire away, figuratively speaking, with language in that Oval Office.

00:09:11.360 And, yeah.

00:09:12.780 Yeah.

00:09:14.260 Brian, hang on.

00:09:14.980 Jack, jump in.

00:09:15.540 But here's the thing.

00:09:17.280 This can only be looked at in the overall strategic rapprochement with Russia.

00:09:23.840 This is – President Trump is a deal guy.

00:09:26.560 This is the entree, too.

00:09:27.300 He's got to check a box.

00:09:28.860 He's got a conditioned precedent he's got to deal with, which is lay your guns down.

00:09:33.460 The way I'm going to get to lay your guns down is we'll do some sort of ephemeral deal for their rare earths.

00:09:38.660 See, this is why Zelensky wouldn't sign it with Besson because Zelensky wanted today to happen.

00:09:44.240 He wants the pomp and circumstance.

00:09:46.120 He wants – because, look, what does he know is going to come after this?

00:09:49.620 What does he have after this back home?

00:09:51.560 Elections.

00:09:52.400 Once martial law ends, he's got to run for elections again.

00:09:54.260 Yes, because President Trump's going to force it.

00:09:55.660 Brian Glenn, you're there.

00:09:57.200 You understand the tension between the MAGA base, who supports President Trump 100%, but saying,

00:10:03.100 hey, look, we know as soon as it's done you're going to have the Lindsey Grahams.

00:10:07.360 You're going to have all those neoliberal neocons in the Senate. 1.00

00:10:11.840 They're going to get another big – and you're going to start hearing nonstop, we need a security – you need a backup, just a backstop.

00:10:20.320 And that backstop means American troops are American –

00:10:22.480 Just a little bit more.

00:10:23.000 One more hit.

00:10:23.560 Just give me one more hit, man.

00:10:24.640 Is the White House in your reporting, particularly at the staff level, are they aware of this, sir?

00:10:30.460 Oh, yes, sir.

00:10:33.240 I think they are.

00:10:34.340 And I think they're listening to the American people as far as what their feedback has been on social media in regards to that.

00:10:41.620 You know, I made a joke earlier on American Sunrise that I wanted to print out my tax return

00:10:46.500 and see if I can just get Zelensky to sign his name on there as a dependent in my household

00:10:50.900 because I feel like a lot of our taxes have just been going over there and paying for him.

00:10:56.520 Not sure if that's going to happen today, but I'm happy to bring one in the Oval Office if he'll sign it.

00:11:01.280 But this is the most – you know, when you look at all these world leaders that have been here,

00:11:07.060 this one obviously is the one that people are focused on, that they want this war over.

00:11:12.500 It's hugely unpopular, just the financing of it.

00:11:15.500 And, of course, you know, if you were against financing this war, you were called a Putin puppet and all this other stuff.

00:11:22.240 And shout out to the people in the very beginning who stood up against this war and wanted to end it

00:11:28.020 as they were labeled, you know, just communist and anti-American.

00:11:31.860 And I just don't understand why we want to continue to fund this war.

00:11:37.180 Brian, two things.

00:11:38.160 Number one, I appreciate you're saving your best stuff for Morning Sunrise.

00:11:41.340 I mean, what do we got here?

00:11:42.700 Okay, Harry, get on this.

00:11:44.000 Number two, if you look at MSNBC, brother, they hate this deal because they hate the fact that Trump is actually bringing peace.

00:11:52.620 This is essentially the predicate to a ceasefire, right, Jack?

00:11:55.380 No, MSNBC –

00:11:56.120 And they hate it.

00:11:56.740 They're all over –

00:11:57.720 This is appeasement.

00:11:58.440 This is Putin wants whatever he wants.

00:12:00.480 Putin puppets.

00:12:01.140 This is your appeasing aggression and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:12:05.200 Because – but, Steve, this is where they intuit what you just said, which is absolutely correct.

00:12:09.020 They intuit that what's really going on is the strategy – and Marco Rubio laid this out in his confirmation hearing.

00:12:15.980 The strategy of we are no longer going to be the global hegemon.

00:12:19.880 Russia is going to be there at the end of the day.

00:12:23.020 China is going to be there.

00:12:24.280 So you have to have a policy, and the policy can't be we're going to have war and regime change and the rest of it.

00:12:29.400 Well, being a hegemon means you're an imperial power, not an imperial power. 0.58

00:12:32.180 By the way, the key thing is to – in the rapprochement to bring Russia into our camp, break them off from the CCP. 0.63

00:12:38.940 And then you balance.

00:12:39.980 Just for the audience, President Trump has to balance all this.

00:12:43.060 This is why he's the master dealmaker.

00:12:44.460 This is quite complicated.

00:12:46.060 I would say don't get too worked up about this.

00:12:49.140 I don't actually see – first off, there's a question of geography.

00:12:53.400 Number one, if you look at the deal itself, Brian, most of the rare earths we're talking about, minerals we're talking about, are actually in a place called the Donbass.

00:13:01.940 But, Steve, you know Putin's without a statement on that.

00:13:04.440 If not that, Russian tanks are sitting on the rest of them.

00:13:06.640 But he said, hey, Putin said, hey, you're signing deals, I'll sign you a deal too.

00:13:10.260 Exactly.

00:13:10.760 So I think there's some reality here.

00:13:12.220 Brian, you've got to get ready.

00:13:13.720 So, Brian, next time we see Brian, we'll hear his voice in the Oval Office.

00:13:17.920 That's going to be approximately 11 o'clock, Brian.

00:13:21.820 Yeah, that's assuming that Zelensky gets here on time.

00:13:24.780 We'll find out.

00:13:25.360 But schedule about 11.05, just shortly after 11 o'clock hour.

00:13:30.620 So what we're going to do, Brian Glenn, what is your social media so people can keep up with you with your travels?

00:13:35.000 Also today, later, Brian, you are going to be on what plane leaving here?

00:13:40.700 That would be Air Force One out of Joint Base Andrews headed to Florida on the weekend, covering President Trump on the ground there in Florida.

00:13:48.480 Stay tuned to me, BrianGlennTV across the board, at Brian on Truth Social, and at BrianGlennTV on Getter.

00:13:54.360 Yep.

00:13:55.540 I knew Brian Glenn was just some schmendrick doing the right-side broadcasting, grinding out in these fields, you know, covering the thing.

00:14:02.520 Baby, you've come a long way.

00:14:04.140 Mosinee, Wisconsin.

00:14:05.500 Mosinee.

00:14:06.220 Brian Glenn, it shows you.

00:14:07.920 You keep grinding, folk. 0.99

00:14:09.260 Good things are going to happen.

00:14:11.000 We love you, brother.

00:14:12.080 Brian Glenn is going to be back in the Oval.

00:14:13.660 We're going to have coverage live of all this today.

00:14:16.180 Also, Air Force One, the takeoff.

00:14:18.340 We're going to take a short commercial break, Jack.

00:14:20.160 But so, I just want to think, talk about the Trump effect.

00:14:23.540 The war President Trump wants to get on is the war against the Mexican cartels, and he's on it.

00:14:29.280 A massive development overnight.

00:14:31.520 Extradition of, I think, 28 of the worst of the cartel leaders.

00:14:35.220 As President Trump preps the kinetic part of the war that matters on our southern border with the cartels.

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00:16:39.740 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:42.040 Okay, welcome back.

00:16:46.280 We're live at the Patriot Mobile headquarters in Grapevine, Texas.

00:16:50.260 I want to thank Glenn Story and the team.

00:16:52.440 We're going to, if we can't fit in it today because of Zelensky, we're going to have Patriot Mobile on hopefully this afternoon.

00:16:57.920 And tomorrow, I'm giving a big speech tonight, Jack.

00:17:01.260 Is the opening act.

00:17:02.540 I get to open.

00:17:03.500 Yes, I get to open.

00:17:04.320 I get to open for Steve.

00:17:05.220 Oh, boy.

00:17:06.080 Look, take Brian Glenn.

00:17:07.120 There it is right there.

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00:17:11.520 If you're in the area, there's still general admission tickets.

00:17:14.380 I think they're opening up seats even as we speak.

00:17:17.300 All the tables are sold out, et cetera.

00:17:19.560 I'll be doing a meet and greet before, so make sure everybody gets there.

00:17:22.460 Love to hang out with you guys.

00:17:23.580 I want to thank Glenn Story and the entire team.

00:17:27.340 Brian Glenn, I'm telling you, I'm so proud of that guy.

00:17:29.360 Now, so here's the logistics.

00:17:30.620 At 11 o'clock, Zelensky's supposed to show up, I think, at 11.

00:17:34.680 The color guard's already out.

00:17:35.520 If we can go to the color guard, if Denver or Harry, if we can do a split scan,

00:17:40.620 I want to see the color guard.

00:17:41.660 It looks pretty impressive.

00:17:42.960 We were there yesterday.

00:17:43.640 President Trump.

00:17:44.740 Were you there yesterday?

00:17:46.300 A little bit.

00:17:46.660 You were the heat shield.

00:17:48.620 We're going to get into all the.

00:17:49.760 We're there to see the prime minister.

00:17:51.180 We have huge breaking news about Carter.

00:17:53.060 There we are right there.

00:17:53.960 Great shot.

00:17:54.780 This is the color guard.

00:17:55.780 That's imminent.

00:17:56.780 Yesterday, what was the problem?

00:17:59.140 Pam Bondi oversold this. 1.00

00:18:00.860 You had every major influencer there.

00:18:02.740 You had Cerno.

00:18:03.520 You had yourself.

00:18:04.280 You had D.C. Drano.

00:18:05.120 You had, you know, you had Congressman Anna Paulina Luna.

00:18:09.640 You got people are all over this.

00:18:11.480 It was a big disappointment.

00:18:12.780 Does she, in fact, not, is DOJ not have the files?

00:18:15.760 They sent a letter.

00:18:17.160 And what I will tell you, if there's information there, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino are the two

00:18:22.220 best guys in the world to organize this and to get it out, if it can be gotten out.

00:18:26.920 I have no idea about the legality of it.

00:18:28.700 But if you've got Cash on point and you have Dan Bongino on point, you have the two best

00:18:32.560 guys.

00:18:33.320 The fiasco yesterday was because of, in your best judgment, why did that happen?

00:18:39.780 Well, I think what happened was that people were expecting there to be new stuff in these

00:18:43.060 binders.

00:18:43.420 Certainly, we expected there to be new stuff in the binders as well.

00:18:46.540 And we had been invited to the White House.

00:18:48.560 You know, honored invite.

00:18:50.440 But it was Caroline Levitt. 0.92

00:18:51.600 It was Caroline Levitt and J.D. 0.90

00:18:53.300 That was the invite, was to meet with them, do policy briefings, et cetera, et cetera.

00:18:57.380 The name Epstein was never once even mentioned prior to this.

00:19:01.960 So then the binders come in.

00:19:03.360 And, of course, we've seen that she's been doing the media tour, saying that this is going

00:19:06.320 to come.

00:19:06.760 It's on the desk.

00:19:07.460 We're going to have it soon.

00:19:08.840 Puts this out.

00:19:09.580 Okay.

00:19:09.860 So she came over and joined the meeting, essentially.

00:19:12.280 She joined up.

00:19:12.660 Yeah.

00:19:12.800 And we were meeting, we went with Bobby, we met with Rubio.

00:19:16.240 So you met with major cabinet officials.

00:19:18.540 They all came through.

00:19:19.360 Okay.

00:19:19.640 And we're giving you background, which they traditionally do to influencers of the media,

00:19:23.420 et cetera.

00:19:23.740 So you know what's going on.

00:19:24.720 Kind of off the record background.

00:19:26.760 So you guys are fully up to speed on things like today.

00:19:29.380 By the way, split screen right there.

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00:19:43.400 Zelensky will be here at 11.

00:19:44.980 He'll go into the Oval.

00:19:46.020 It's another bilat.

00:19:47.040 They'll probably spend a few minutes with the president.

00:19:48.560 Then they will have a press avail.

00:19:50.580 Not a press conference.

00:19:51.420 A press avail.

00:19:52.700 Right there.

00:19:53.140 Beautiful shot.

00:19:53.700 So Trump's meeting with an unelected autocrat today.

00:19:57.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 0.97

00:19:58.560 They get on Trump for being a fascist.

00:20:01.320 This guy, and I think this is going to force him with this deal to actually hold an election.

00:20:05.920 So I assume he's not going to be the president tomorrow.

00:20:07.060 That's what's going to come on the back end of it.

00:20:07.980 So that's what's going to come on the back end is that if the war ends, so he's currently

00:20:11.820 in power right now.

00:20:13.420 And it'll almost have been a year until May.

00:20:15.660 It'll be one year since his term ended.

00:20:18.940 So martial law ends, which is constitutional in wartime.

00:20:21.660 And President Trump's doing this again.

00:20:22.920 He's a believer in democracy.

00:20:24.780 So they've got to have an election.

00:20:25.980 We're going to go to, we've got Benzman.

00:20:27.800 We've got Oscar Blue Riberos.

00:20:29.260 We have Ben Burkman.

00:20:30.200 Before we go there, I just want to clean this up.

00:20:31.780 Is that, so, I mean, I don't think Pam understands the depth that the Warren Posse and others that

00:20:39.000 have followed this understand the receipts.

00:20:41.100 My understanding is what was released yesterday has already been released in previous federal

00:20:46.400 court filings or in the trial of Maxwell, right?

00:20:50.980 So this information was previously, I think the people that are, who love Pam and support

00:20:57.460 her are kind of like, how did you say this stuff on Jesse Waters?

00:21:01.120 And if that's all DOJ's got, you should have known that this stuff's been out there for

00:21:05.140 a while.

00:21:05.400 And particularly people who follow this very closely have already seen this, correct?

00:21:08.220 Correct.

00:21:08.440 And there's this, there's this letter also saying that SDNY is sitting on some of the

00:21:13.020 files as well.

00:21:13.960 There's some whistleblower coming out of there, but SDNY, SDNY reports to main justice.

00:21:18.800 I mean, SDNY, that's not even cash.

00:21:20.600 Cash has FBI.

00:21:22.280 And my understanding, I saw the letter.

00:21:24.000 She went to cash and said, I want everything on my desk by eight o'clock this morning.

00:21:29.000 And if you got cash, I don't think Dan Bonjini is actually over there yet, but if you have

00:21:32.640 cash Patel, that's the best guy.

00:21:34.700 I mean, cash is, is going to be fierce on this, correct?

00:21:37.660 There's no question.

00:21:38.540 I mean, he's put out his statements about it.

00:21:40.320 He had some tweets about it last night up on X.

00:21:42.500 So he's looking for, he's looking for the brass tacks because look, he's been on the

00:21:46.080 job five days.

00:21:47.000 Exactly.

00:21:47.400 Five days he's been on the job.

00:21:48.880 And this has been something that he's been talking about for years.

00:21:51.300 With SDNY though, the Southern District of New York reports to main justice.

00:21:54.440 I mean, they report to a U.S. attorney, but that U.S. attorney, so if it's, if they're

00:21:57.640 saying, they're saying their files.

00:21:59.540 I mean, if the rat's nest and SDNY has got to be cleaned up, Steve, here's the scuttlebutt,

00:22:03.420 right?

00:22:03.600 And it doesn't need to be clean.

00:22:04.420 The scuttlebutt is that they think what they're going to hear, get back is they're going to

00:22:07.900 say, wait a minute, Ghislaine Maxwell, right?

00:22:10.320 Who's who was the accomplice?

00:22:11.700 She was lady Epstein.

00:22:13.280 They're going to say, oh, her appeal is still in process.

00:22:16.440 Something you know about.

00:22:17.440 And so if her appeals in process, then we can't release this because it's in process.

00:22:21.360 But then there's a color guard right there taking position.

00:22:24.600 This means that maybe Zelensky is going to be here a little early.

00:22:27.680 And this is what happened yesterday.

00:22:28.840 So yesterday we walk out the portico door.

00:22:31.640 We're just walking to the EEOB, which you see behind there, the Eisenhower building.

00:22:35.340 We did.

00:22:35.620 And then the entire media is there waiting for Keir Stommer.

00:22:39.460 Do you think you were set up?

00:22:40.980 Is that what you're implying?

00:22:43.520 I think that, I think that it was very, I think there are no coincidences.

00:22:49.660 I think there's no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences.

00:22:51.660 But why would they do that when they didn't give you any information?

00:22:54.060 That would be the exact opposite of what they would want to do, wouldn't they?

00:22:57.180 But here's, here's my position, right?

00:22:58.840 My position is, I mean, no offense.

00:23:00.300 We had, we had the, if there's information, we had the best people in our influence.

00:23:03.620 We're going to put it out.

00:23:04.200 We had Cerno, you, you had everybody.

00:23:05.980 So who's who of influencers?

00:23:08.060 And I'm, and I'm going to keep asking them for more information.

00:23:10.240 And we're going to keep going back and we're going to press them and say, look, and I'm in communication, by the way.

00:23:14.500 Well, I don't know if you're going to, I don't think asking is going to do it.

00:23:16.860 I think you want the information or the demand it.

00:23:19.200 We're in communication with Anna Paulina Luna.

00:23:21.560 Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, as we, everyone knows, is very hot on this. 0.99

00:23:25.480 And she's going to be going over and she said, you know what?

00:23:27.680 You know what?

00:23:28.520 We've dealt with DOJ not giving us documents before.

00:23:30.280 Guys, I want to keep, okay.

00:23:31.340 I'm going to direct, now I'm going to go back to my direct case.

00:23:33.620 I want the shot.

00:23:34.680 I want that beautiful shot in front of the, yes, I don't, I've seen enough of Jack and the audience knows, the audience knows how beautiful I am, right?

00:23:41.120 They don't need to see it on a, right there.

00:23:43.620 Now, this is the working side of the West Wing.

00:23:46.380 This is where these bilats, when you're not on a state visit, when you're here for a working visit, this is where you come. 0.93

00:23:51.880 And the color guard is put out there as a honor.

00:23:54.320 It's a very short, when he goes inside, the president normally comes out to meet people.

00:23:59.480 He didn't come out the first time with Macron the other day.

00:24:01.920 The reason was Macron was coming early, kind of unofficially, to join President Trump in the Oval Office for the G7 conference call.

00:24:11.060 And it was a video call, so they wanted to have it secure, and Macron wanted to be with the president.

00:24:14.640 Macron then left and came back and got this.

00:24:16.460 So this is a working visit to the White House right there.

00:24:19.480 I actually got to run into Dr. Navarro yesterday a little bit there because he was coming out with his better half.

00:24:25.180 Okay, so people should understand, right to the left, see the portico, that is the West Wing.

00:24:29.020 Now, the West Wing is one or two stories right there.

00:24:30.980 These offices are very crammed.

00:24:32.980 Well, you're actually looking at the second story because of the way the hill sits.

00:24:36.000 So there's a lower level as well.

00:24:37.720 Well, and there's also, underneath that's the National Security Council.

00:24:41.920 Yes.

00:24:43.120 As I say, the West Wing is a military command post with a very old office, small office.

00:24:48.080 Now, where Dr. Navarro and most of the people you see is the executive office building is in the background.

00:24:54.220 That is the old State Department and War Department.

00:24:57.000 It's a massive, massive building, a thousand people or more.

00:25:01.600 Well, people don't realize that the West Wing actually isn't that big.

00:25:04.120 Tiny, very tiny.

00:25:05.240 You have the Oval Office.

00:25:06.140 The East Wing actually were the first ladies' offices in the East Ballroom. 1.00

00:25:11.740 You have more space.

00:25:12.500 That's where the press conference takes place in the East Room.

00:25:16.280 They'll be there today.

00:25:17.440 So a massive breaking news.

00:25:19.160 So the bottom line of this is cash is guided at the FBI.

00:25:22.240 There's some controversy about Southern District.

00:25:24.140 But people are working on this.

00:25:25.280 You guys were there for a briefing with all the cabinet officials, J.D., Caroline Levitt.

00:25:29.560 This Bondi popped in, gave you guys the binders, and you went outside.

00:25:34.620 And it turned out to be the prime minister of England was there, and you had a couple hundred press guys.

00:25:41.040 And you guys gave an impromptu press conference but didn't have a lot of receipts, right?

00:25:45.400 Well, that was the thing, right?

00:25:46.520 You know, they hand you this thing.

00:25:47.760 They say, hey, walk out this door.

00:25:49.040 You walk out.

00:25:49.660 Oh, there's the cameras everywhere.

00:25:51.300 Did they tell you that this is like phase one, that this is not everything that was presented to you?

00:25:55.080 The way it was presented was this is phase one, and there's going to be more.

00:25:58.220 They also gave us copies of the letter.

00:25:59.820 Okay, look, nobody's happy on this.

00:26:01.400 I know that some people are outraged.

00:26:03.640 Beautiful camera shot right there.

00:26:05.300 You don't have to do a split screen.

00:26:06.840 Give me a whole screen.

00:26:08.000 I want the whole screen.

00:26:08.940 I got enough of Jack Posobiec.

00:26:10.720 I got to look at him right here next to me.

00:26:12.140 And the audience remembers what my beautiful visage is.

00:26:16.800 Okay, let's go.

00:26:17.480 We got serious business on the cartel war.

00:26:20.120 Zelensky today is to stop the Ukraine war.

00:26:22.420 I think we can be very safe that President Trump, that's a conditioned precedent.

00:26:26.240 You got to lay down your guns.

00:26:27.760 The war that President Trump is really focused on is the cartel war.

00:26:31.120 Let's go to Todd Benzman.

00:26:32.860 I've also got Ben Burquam.

00:26:34.840 Oscar Blue Ramirez is in Mexico and Tijuana.

00:26:37.320 We're going to go to all that.

00:26:39.260 Benzman, we got about a minute here to tee this up.

00:26:42.120 How big a deal was this, this extradition of these 28 cartel leaders, sir, by President Trump and the Trump administration with the cooperation of the Mexican government, sir?

00:26:52.520 This is hugely meaningful and impactful.

00:26:55.700 They have convinced the Mexican government to expel and extradite 29 founding fathers of the Mexican cartel, six of them which have been designated terrorist organizations recently.

00:27:14.200 Claudia Scheinbaum has just bought herself another couple months of a reprieve from Donald Trump's threat of trade tariffs. 0.99

00:27:22.240 That's what this is all about.

00:27:23.500 So these are big scalps that Scheinbaum has brought to Donald Trump.

00:27:30.320 This is a major victory.

00:27:32.460 It's a first blow to the cartels of many more to come.

00:27:39.040 There's a lot of work to be done here.

00:27:41.500 These 29 guys are mass murderers.

00:27:44.500 They'll be brought here with a to to refill the death row, federal death row that Joe Biden, you know, cleared out on his last days in the office.

00:27:57.880 Now we've got some new.

00:27:58.820 Sounds good to me.

00:27:59.720 So, Todd.

00:28:00.960 Yeah.

00:28:02.240 Todd, hang on for one second.

00:28:03.780 We're going to take a short break.

00:28:04.760 We've got Ben Burquam.

00:28:05.960 We've got Oscar Blue.

00:28:06.760 Romero's got the team that has fought for this for years.

00:28:11.140 Todd Benzman being brilliant did not bury the lead.

00:28:13.980 President Trump and tariffs.

00:28:15.780 I don't think on the fourth that 25 percent tariffs across the border are going to go on to Mexico.

00:28:21.140 And the reason is they're starting to wake up and focus on the cartel war.

00:28:25.600 Birchgold.com, end of the dollar empire, particularly modern monetary theory, the sixth free installment.

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00:28:34.680 Short break.

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00:30:06.260 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:30:15.240 Okay.

00:30:15.940 Right there you see that's a beautiful structure of the White House.

00:30:19.280 That's the West Wing.

00:30:20.140 We're expecting President Zelensky of Ukraine.

00:30:22.360 It's a huge day for peace and prosperity.

00:30:28.340 No one's crazy about this deal.

00:30:30.300 We understand President Trump's trying to recoup money.

00:30:33.280 And he's adamant there was $350 billion.

00:30:36.120 Zelensky's coming. 0.92

00:30:36.860 That's the color guard.

00:30:38.060 This is a working visit, just like Prime Minister Starmer yesterday, Macron, President of France.

00:30:44.440 These are working visits.

00:30:45.920 A bilat, what it's called.

00:30:47.880 Brian Glenn is now, Brian is getting set up and getting in.

00:30:51.260 They probably team up in the Roosevelt Room, which is right across the hall from the Oval.

00:30:55.660 Brian Glenn, our own Brian Glenn, will be there.

00:30:57.560 There'll be a camera crew, et cetera.

00:30:58.960 And this goes back, Jack, to this thing of President Trump and Caroline Leavitt and Susie Wiles doing something that needed to be done.

00:31:07.600 They've taken control of the White House pool.

00:31:09.940 So now you just don't have the New York Times and MSNBC and all these people that are sitting there just putting their framing on it, which is always negative, particularly about President Trump.

00:31:17.820 You now have Newsmax.

00:31:18.880 You have Real America's Voice.

00:31:20.240 You have the podcasters, et cetera.

00:31:21.800 Well, Steve, it's not just about the framing, but it's also about the fact that – and there are anonymous media sources going around all over the last couple of weeks.

00:31:30.880 Look, you're seeing the purges going on at NBC and MSNBC, massive restructuring.

00:31:36.500 And the executives are saying, look, half of the people in this country don't believe anything that we're saying.

00:31:42.480 Any of this stuff that we're writing, any of this stuff that we're putting out, we have no stroke with 50 percent of the country.

00:31:48.340 And if we don't have that and we can't even motivate more people to vote, then what are we doing it for?

00:31:54.420 What are we doing this for?

00:31:55.440 And so what Caroline Leavitt is doing, absolute genius, and then President Trump as well, is saying, look, we're going through new media to find where the people are.

00:32:04.920 And we can tell you – and we've done changes to programming.

00:32:08.400 We do a lot more live coverage from the White House because I tell people you're seeing history being made.

00:32:12.560 There are decades in which nothing happens.

00:32:14.540 There are weeks in which decades happen.

00:32:16.460 This week, think about it.

00:32:17.560 And I don't think this has ever happened in White House history.

00:32:21.000 You've had the president of France, the prime minister of the UK, two of our oldest – our two oldest allies.

00:32:28.240 There's some Marines coming outside.

00:32:29.640 We're pulling in right now.

00:32:33.360 So this is getting closer.

00:32:34.840 I think he's going to be there at 11 or close to 11.

00:32:36.860 We'll be covering it live.

00:32:37.920 Great shots.

00:32:38.940 I want to hold that shot.

00:32:40.700 I'm going to bring some guests.

00:32:41.620 So President Trump is here today to stop the fighting in Ukraine, and he's doing it with us first as a minerals deal.

00:32:50.720 It's not perfect, but it's a condition, President, to get President Trump to what he really wants to do as a rapprochement with Russia and to make sure that we can lay the guns down in Western Europe and stop spending a trillion dollars a year on defense and focus on the Chinese Communist Party, the railhead of all the problems. 0.86

00:33:06.260 But what's being done is he's taking the international structure of globalism, which is based around this American hegemonic state that existed sort of after the end of World War II.

00:33:16.020 The post-war international world-based war, which was originally set up to contain communism, to contain the Soviet Union.

00:33:23.000 That's why you see Afghanistan. 0.97

00:33:24.540 That's why you saw Vietnam. 0.98

00:33:25.820 That's why you saw the rest of it.

00:33:26.940 But then what happened in 1991, 1992, after the Soviet Union fell, which creates the modern state union.

00:33:33.900 But don't bury the lead.

00:33:35.440 In 1972, 1973, it was Kissinger and Nixon going to see Mao Zedong to say, if we want to take – now, they were more detente, but they said, if we want to actually have a shot at containing the Soviet Union and stopping this, we have to get China on our side. 0.55

00:33:49.920 So they initiate – well, they exacerbate what was called at the time the Sino-Soviet split.

00:33:54.260 The Sino-Soviet split, and then President Reagan came in and said, hey, look, I saw what Nixon did, but Nixon wanted detente with these guys.

00:34:00.240 I can take down the evil empire.

00:34:02.000 And it took essentially – from 1981 to 1989, it took about eight or nine years.

00:34:06.400 President Reagan had left office, but the evil empire collapsed at Berlin Wall Street.

00:34:10.020 And the central part of that was getting the Chinese on our side.

00:34:13.660 We've done – this is totally reversed.

00:34:15.480 This is what President Trump's grand strategy is.

00:34:17.460 The goal is a new Sino-Soviet split, but in the other direction.

00:34:21.640 In the other direction.

00:34:22.600 And this is what he wanted to accomplish in the first term.

00:34:25.160 It was prevented.

00:34:25.880 Now, when you talk about America first, President Trump is saying, hey, look, we've got to secure the homeland.

00:34:30.940 He's not really interested in the war in Ukraine.

00:34:33.040 He wants the guns to be put down so we can get peace and prosperity and do this geostrategic realignment.

00:34:38.300 What he wants to focus on, just like, folks, don't forget, ISIS. 0.53

00:34:41.860 When President Trump came in the first time, as you remember, Obama told us there's a generational problem.

00:34:47.440 The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had more control of –

00:34:54.180 Territory.

00:34:54.620 Of territory and real estate than the size of Iraq or the size of Syria.

00:34:58.420 Well, and who was the general that he went and got briefed on that was Raising Cain.

00:35:01.600 Raising Cain.

00:35:02.200 That's why Raising Cain's chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

00:35:04.000 So, President Trump – and this is what Mattis did well.

00:35:07.260 President Trump said, I want to take down ISIS.

00:35:09.860 And I think it was in the first five or six months, ISIS was gone.

00:35:12.780 But Steve, let me – and I'll actually take one down a notch for Mattis on that.

00:35:18.060 What they did was they – and by the way, this just happened again.

00:35:22.100 What they did is they restructured what's called the kill chain.

00:35:24.920 Yes.

00:35:25.220 So, the kill chain is when we find fixed and evaluated.

00:35:29.220 So, the F3EA cycle is you found the terrorist leader.

00:35:33.600 You found the high-value target.

00:35:35.080 You can go strike on him.

00:35:36.300 The way Obama had it written in the early fight – and Biden did the same thing.

00:35:39.260 And led to Soleimani's –

00:35:40.280 It went all the way up, all the way up to the White House.

00:35:42.360 Is that almost Obama or one of his guys, Ben Rhodes, had to sign off on it.

00:35:45.840 Trump, they deregulated that and delegated it down.

00:35:49.060 He said, let the warfighters fight the war.

00:35:50.320 He had the 06 level.

00:35:51.260 Yeah.

00:35:51.600 Let the 06 level.

00:35:52.520 Let the warfighters fight the war.

00:35:53.900 Now, why is that relevant?

00:35:55.100 Because President Trump, one of the first things he did was designate a bunch of these Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

00:36:03.160 That means you can go to the next level.

00:36:04.880 Fine, fix, finish.

00:36:05.700 The first step he does is, like, I need a forcing function.

00:36:08.280 A forcing function is going to be 25% across the board tariffs unless you step up, start stopping fentanyl, help us take these cartels.

00:36:16.160 Todd Benzman.

00:36:16.820 Last night, we saw the fruits of President Trump's – and this is my point.

00:36:20.960 The guy's been in office 35 days.

00:36:23.020 We've accomplished more in taking down the Mexican drug cartels than in the previous 25 or 30 years.

00:36:28.980 I mean, this is true action.

00:36:30.620 Twenty-nine founding fathers of the cartels, these different – you know, the Senanola and all these others, you can tell us, have literally been coughed up by Mexico.

00:36:40.540 That has had them for years, been coughed up, and now they're becoming in U.S. custody.

00:36:45.400 Todd Benzman, how big a deal is this as the predicate for the kinetic part, which is going to take down these – take down and eradicate these drug cartels, sir?

00:36:55.360 This is a huge offering by the Scheinbaum administration.

00:37:00.740 And just for context, the – a lot of these guys have been in – under extradition request by the U.S. – by many U.S. governments for decades.

00:37:10.880 And their power from their luxury prison cells – these are guys are in, quote-unquote, prison, but it's not real prison.

00:37:19.300 And they're still running their operations from there through brute force.

00:37:24.740 And they've managed to get successive Mexican regimes to block U.S. extradition for decades.

00:37:33.220 Now, all of a sudden, they're all on military flights being flown into eight different U.S. cities to face justice.

00:37:41.540 And, I mean, it's going to be death penalty justice for some of these guys because they killed DEA agents.

00:37:49.520 One of them killed a deputy sheriff in Charlotte, North Carolina.

00:37:55.140 I mean, these guys are in the United States.

00:37:57.180 I don't think anybody disputes that anymore.

00:37:59.540 I mean, no normal person disputes that.

00:38:01.780 So this is a first delivery on a requirement by Donald Trump.

00:38:10.540 We're going to see a lot more, and we're going to probably see some fighting down there too.

00:38:16.960 So, Todd, hang on for a second.

00:38:18.280 Let's go to Ben Burkholm.

00:38:19.300 I want to keep this shot or do the preview shot.

00:38:21.560 I'd love to stay on the White House.

00:38:23.480 Ben Burkholm joins us.

00:38:25.660 Ben Burkholm joins us from his home.

00:38:27.780 Ben, you've done this.

00:38:29.260 Oscar will go to Mexico in a second.

00:38:30.620 How big a deal, brother, is this?

00:38:34.360 Yeah, it's huge.

00:38:35.380 It's huge.

00:38:35.960 A couple things, not burying the lead.

00:38:37.900 First off, it's just the beginning.

00:38:39.620 This starts the unraveling.

00:38:41.720 It's also going to start the major violence, and Oscar's going to talk a little bit more about that, what they're already seeing down there.

00:38:47.840 But it's two things.

00:38:48.980 As you mentioned, it's the threat of tariffs, but it's also the strength of President Trump designating these terrorist organizations and giving Mexico the backup to be able to do this.

00:38:59.600 This is extremely dangerous for the government in Mexico, the officials in Mexico.

00:39:04.220 Not surprisingly, a lot of these guys were in America yesterday, I think, kind of on purpose, so they didn't get whacked when this all happened.

00:39:12.220 Some of the guys from the Mexican delegation were actually on the U.S. side.

00:39:15.160 But the other side of this is—

00:39:17.160 Hold it.

00:39:17.720 Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, hang on for a second.

00:39:21.380 Ben, hang on for a second.

00:39:22.280 I want to reiterate to the audience that this is a massive blow to the cartels.

00:39:28.460 That's why it's so dangerous.

00:39:29.720 The cartels and Oscar's going to tell us what's happening in Mexico right now.

00:39:32.380 But for the Scheinbaum government—and she's a lefty, right?

00:39:37.040 But for her—and she was forced to do this because 25% tariffs— 0.98

00:39:40.380 That's right.

00:39:40.740 It's over in Mexico.

00:39:41.920 Her government's over. 0.97

00:39:42.820 The country's over.

00:39:43.440 That's right.

00:39:43.780 This is Trump.

00:39:45.160 This is called a forcing function.

00:39:46.900 Tell us why it's dangerous for her personally in her government, sir. 0.98

00:39:50.920 Because the cartels control every level of government.

00:39:55.920 They control the DAs.

00:39:57.020 They control the judges.

00:39:58.020 They control the municipal governments.

00:39:59.880 They control the military.

00:40:01.020 They control the police.

00:40:02.280 They control just about everything, depending on which district you're in,

00:40:05.700 whether you're in the Gulf or the CJNG or the Jalisco New Generation or the Michoacan

00:40:12.560 or all of these guys, the Noreste.

00:40:14.260 All of them control their little factions of the country.

00:40:17.220 They really control Mexico. 0.98

00:40:18.360 So for the government to come out and say, we're going to side with America,

00:40:21.820 this really took—again, the threat of tariffs, that's one big part of it.

00:40:26.140 But it also took the backing of the U.S. military being able to say,

00:40:30.200 we can come in and take you guys out at any moment.

00:40:32.860 And really, the bigger part to this, Steve, as you said, this was Joe Biden for four years

00:40:37.560 sending our tax dollars, our money over to foreign wars and allowing our country to be invaded.

00:40:42.800 This is the new Bukele mantra where we put the victims first over the criminals. 0.97

00:40:48.980 It's never been done before.

00:40:50.180 In particular, you can see how big a deal it is by the attorneys in Mexico,

00:40:54.600 their reaction to this.

00:40:55.880 They are freaking out, the defense attorneys.

00:41:00.380 Hang on for one second.

00:41:01.500 You see the split screen right there.

00:41:02.580 You see the color guard getting ready.

00:41:04.220 Zelensky's en route.

00:41:05.200 We understand he's going to be at 11 o'clock Eastern time.

00:41:08.040 He'll be arriving.

00:41:09.220 Big day for President Trump.

00:41:10.460 He'll go in for a short bilat.

00:41:13.180 Then there'll be a press avail.

00:41:14.540 Our own Brian Glenn will be in there.

00:41:17.100 Right there, there's a color guard.

00:41:19.000 Then I think they'll have a working lunch.

00:41:21.700 And I think at 1 o'clock, they're going to have a press conference in the East Room.

00:41:27.420 We will also be there.

00:41:28.640 Real quickly, the intelligence planes are flying around targeting.

00:41:34.700 The targeting has been done by the intelligence community.

00:41:36.880 And they haven't been shy about sending the signal to Mexico that we're preparing for something.

00:41:42.960 Well, Steve, I understand, and people have to understand as well, that these aren't just imagery flights.

00:41:47.480 These are flights that are packed with the entire suite of surveillance and ISR technology that the United States intelligence community has.

00:41:55.100 We're talking about signal suckers, even signal sniffers.

00:42:01.320 They're pulling up anything that they have down there.

00:42:03.360 Because, by the way, number one, it's cell phones.

00:42:05.940 Tracking up all the cell phones, and then you have to begin the work of the needles in the haystack.

00:42:10.340 So mapping out the networks.

00:42:11.940 Do these guys use SIM swapping like the Taliban or ISIS used to do?

00:42:15.140 Do they practice ComSec?

00:42:16.380 Who are the leaders?

00:42:17.360 What are the nodes?

00:42:17.880 You've got to build out the network.

00:42:18.980 I've got about a minute before we go to break.

00:42:20.900 Let me get Oscar Blue Ramirez.

00:42:22.520 And, Oscar, you're down in Mexico, sir.

00:42:25.160 You saw this historic day.

00:42:26.580 You've worked on this for years to get here.

00:42:28.400 But how dangerous is it, sir?

00:42:31.260 It's beginning to be really dangerous, sir.

00:42:33.800 This is not a huge blow to the Mexican cartels.

00:42:36.240 It's a huge blow to the other cartels that is the corrupt politicians in Mexico.

00:42:40.600 Gladys Chambon just gave up all of these big names. 1.00

00:42:43.900 And the biggest name is Rafael El Caro Quintero, who has been being looked and being investigated by the American government.

00:42:51.060 But the other thing is that it is not being mentioned.

00:42:53.640 It is the biggest campaign that is in Mayo Zambada that is arrested in the American territory.

00:42:58.500 And it is putting pressure on the corrupt politicians in Mexico, on Claudia Sheinbaum. 0.99

00:43:03.160 This is why all of this, it is happening.

00:43:05.820 Claudia Sheinbaum, it is being just basically en masse, also by the right-wing political party in Mexico that is on the rise right now,

00:43:12.780 pressuring the Mexican president to basically stop the drug cartels, to basically stop the wars over here,

00:43:19.560 and to ultimately put pressure on her to name them as cartel terrorists that she doesn't want to. 0.86

00:43:24.660 She's willing to change the Constitution just to protect the cartels, to not be named as terrorists. 1.00

00:43:29.540 And this is all just because of the 25 percent terror. 0.83

00:43:33.820 So it's a big blow to the Mexican cartels, but it's a bigger blow to the corrupt politicians in the Mexican government, and particularly to them, sir.

00:43:41.980 Wow.

00:43:43.560 Okay, hang on for one second.

00:43:45.140 Burke Holmes is going to stick with us.

00:43:46.520 Oscar Blue down in Mexico.

00:43:48.120 I'm here live with Jack Posovic at the Patriot Mobile headquarters.

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00:45:26.680 Okay.

00:45:27.000 I want to show you, and particularly the folks that are very concerned about yesterday, we've got the great Real America Voice camera right there.

00:45:36.280 If we can do some direction, I want to do a slow pan.

00:45:39.300 Now what you're seeing back there is, hang on, is the residence part of the White House.

00:45:44.080 That's the color guard.

00:45:44.940 They're going to march in.

00:45:45.480 Let's pan around.

00:45:46.900 That's the mansion.

00:45:47.660 Now, the mansion.

00:45:48.700 Yep.

00:45:49.620 By the way, you call it the residence when you're inside baseball.

00:45:52.620 Right there.

00:45:53.040 Okay, stop right there.

00:45:53.800 That colonnade is on the other side of that is the colonnade in the – that's okay.

00:46:00.860 Once you go, you go.

00:46:02.260 Okay, stop right there.

00:46:03.320 Right there.

00:46:04.160 That's the press pool.

00:46:05.580 That's what you want.

00:46:06.280 By the way, the thing we just went past, on the other side is the colonnade you always see coming from the residence and the president walking to the West Wing.

00:46:13.480 And that's the Rose Gardens on the other side.

00:46:15.480 On the flip side of it.

00:46:16.360 On the flip side.

00:46:16.940 Yeah.

00:46:17.300 Right there, look at that press mob. 0.97

00:46:19.060 There's got to be, what, 200 or 300?

00:46:20.720 And this is beyond just the press pool.

00:46:23.080 Yes.

00:46:23.440 So this is the – anyone who's got a press pass for the White House, a daily pass today, the hard passes, they're all there.

00:46:30.740 But President Trump understanding mass communications has opened that up, which I think is good.

00:46:35.620 There's more foreign press.

00:46:37.260 There's more podcasts.

00:46:37.600 I hear they even let the War Room have a correspondent.

00:46:39.420 We have a – with Real America's Voice, we have three now.

00:46:41.940 We have Amanda Head. 1.00

00:46:43.120 Right.

00:46:43.600 With John Solomon.

00:46:44.780 You got Natalie Winters with War Room.

00:46:46.760 And you have Brian Glenn.

00:46:47.820 I should send Kevin down there.

00:46:48.800 I got to send Kevin down there for human events.

00:46:50.620 We're going to send human events.

00:46:51.740 All right.

00:46:52.080 The – I think there are background checks that have to come.

00:46:55.940 Yeah, Kevin, sorry.

00:46:56.820 There's background checks, though.

00:46:58.100 Minimum security.

00:47:00.420 Another executive order.

00:47:01.760 Folks, every day – so yesterday – let me finish this.

00:47:04.700 Yesterday, you guys walked out, and that's what they had for the British prime minister.

00:47:08.840 That's right.

00:47:09.180 You guys are sitting there with a binder that really is something that –

00:47:12.540 Was handed to us.

00:47:13.420 Handed to you.

00:47:14.020 Bore and Posse's already seen, right?

00:47:15.480 Right.

00:47:15.960 That the Posse's seen, that people look through this.

00:47:18.240 And we didn't even have time to take a couple, three minutes to just look through it yet because they hand us this thing and say, okay, we're going to the next room.

00:47:24.320 Yeah.

00:47:24.500 We walk out.

00:47:25.500 I didn't know why we're walking this way.

00:47:26.700 Why didn't we go the other way?

00:47:27.780 But we walk out, and then, boom, everyone's waiting because yesterday was Keir Stomber for the British prime minister.

00:47:34.420 So all the cameras are there.

00:47:35.560 And, you know, look, when D.C. Drano sees a camera, you know –

00:47:38.700 Hold it.

00:47:39.320 Don't go to D.C. Drano.

00:47:40.340 Jack Posobiec sees –

00:47:41.420 Not in the picture.

00:47:42.560 Not in the picture.

00:47:43.540 Not in the picture.

00:47:44.280 The most dangerous territory in D.C. is between a microphone camera and Jack Posobiec.

00:47:48.660 Look, by myself, let's just say.

00:47:50.500 Let's just say.

00:47:51.300 Okay.

00:47:52.000 Hey, I learned from the best.

00:47:53.060 A major executive order has just been signed.

00:47:55.800 Jack Posobiec.

00:47:56.940 And keep on that shot.

00:47:59.860 Major executive order has been signed.

00:48:01.560 What is it, sir?

00:48:02.160 President Trump has signed an executive order that harkens back to Teddy Roosevelt and his discussion of hyphenated Americans, if you're familiar with that one, Steve.

00:48:14.540 President Trump's EO is declaring that English is the official language of the United States.

00:48:22.040 That is – and by the way, that's going to have a ripple effect around the country because that means government documents must be in English.

00:48:30.180 Look, it's a –

00:48:32.380 And voting has to be in English?

00:48:34.720 And voting.

00:48:35.120 Now, voting, that's going to be tricky.

00:48:36.720 And federal elections at least.

00:48:37.600 Voting is going to be tricky because, as we know, voting is run by the states, but had a discussion on background with some very high-level senior officials yesterday at the White House, specifically on –

00:48:49.660 Scott Pressler was there yesterday, and that was his – everyone knows, Scott Pressler brought it up again and again, election integrity, election integrity.

00:48:56.040 And so if we – when we pass the election integrity legislation, this should be front and center, that ballots should be printed in English.

00:49:05.360 The press is right there.

00:49:07.640 Now, right to the right of that is where the – if we pan around, you can see the portico of the working side of the West Wing where they bring dignitaries in.

00:49:17.040 Okay, that shot's fine.

00:49:18.400 The – Zelensky's going to be here, I think, at 11 o'clock, so it'll be about five or six minutes.

00:49:25.860 He will arrive.

00:49:26.340 You'll see the color guard, I think, get in place right before he arrives.

00:49:30.420 So we'll be waiting for that.

00:49:31.440 Steve, do you know the history of Pebble Beach a little bit?

00:49:34.000 No, give it to me.

00:49:34.600 So Pebble Beach – I looked this up the other day.

00:49:36.500 I was digging up something.

00:49:37.340 Pebble Beach not being the golf links in Monterey that the –

00:49:40.400 Pebble Beach of the White House.

00:49:42.720 Pebble Beach of the White House is what?

00:49:44.540 Yes.

00:49:44.980 Is an area – and this is where the camera that you're looking through right now is currently situated, the one that's showing the press pool.

00:49:51.520 So it's the area with all the tents, all the green tents that line up, and that's where members of the media can do their hits.

00:49:57.620 That's where Brian Glenn does his hit.

00:49:58.880 I did an interview with Alina Haba there yesterday.

00:50:01.400 She came out as the counselor to the White House, to the president, and then it's where all the cameras are.

00:50:06.920 But the history is – and the reason they call it Pebble Beach is because there's – it's just rocks and strewn and it's all there.

00:50:12.000 It's like a little gravel walkway.

00:50:13.160 It's like a gravel walkway because you don't need to see it.

00:50:14.980 Sean Spicer did some videos there, did like an Easter thing.

00:50:18.340 But the history of it is that it actually – you know what the actual first thing where they started setting up there 24-7 was?

00:50:26.100 Lewinsky.

00:50:27.100 Oh.

00:50:27.740 It was back – it was the end of the 90s because they were – that one of the Zalinski skits. 0.99

00:50:31.600 Because remember, this was the era of TV.

00:50:34.520 That was – it was the OJ.

00:50:35.660 Well, it was also –

00:50:36.900 Drudge broken.

00:50:37.780 CNN.

00:50:38.120 CNN.

00:50:38.280 The beginning of social media.

00:50:39.460 But Steve, remember, this is when media shifted from we're reporting stories to we're going live.

00:50:44.060 Yeah.

00:50:44.380 So we're giving you the car chase.

00:50:46.000 And the car chase in this case was the president and Lewinsky.

00:50:50.380 The white Bronco was the blue dress. 0.59

00:50:52.140 Exactly.

00:50:52.680 The white Bronco was the blue dress. 0.59

00:50:53.680 If it doesn't fit, it's – well, let's not go there.

00:50:56.880 Lewinsky came out yesterday.

00:50:58.240 Lewinsky came out a couple days ago and said Bill Clinton should have resigned, which I think most people think.

00:51:02.540 Okay, I want to keep this shot, but I want to go to Oscar Blue Ramirez.

00:51:06.460 Oscar, if you were in the Oval today, what question would you ask President Trump, would you put to President Trump about what you've seen overnight with the cartels, the 29 being extradited here to the United States in the future kinetic war that's coming against the terrorist organizations, the Mexican drug cartels, sir?

00:51:27.200 Well, I think the number one question that I will ask is why in Mayo Zambada it is not one of the first people that should be investigating and should be asked about the bank accounts of these dirty politicians in Mexico. 0.73

00:51:40.760 Can we have the possibility of asking him and investigating him?

00:51:44.320 This, Mayo Zambada, is the campaign.

00:51:45.800 This is the guy that has Claudio Shimbaud extremely nervous right now.

00:51:49.940 It's the guy that knows the whereabouts.

00:51:51.280 It's the guy that knows which political campaign has been funded.

00:51:54.180 If the past president of Mexico, this goes way deeper, Steve, if the past president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his political campaign, they're speculating that Mayo Zambada was the number one that it was, you know, the number one funder, the number one that it was funding this political campaign.

00:52:09.060 I think that one of the most important question that goes extremely deep to this is to find the root of the problem of all these dirty politicians and to go directly to Enmayo Zambada, that is the campaign of drug lords that basically controls and has the level of violence in Culiacán, the level of violence in the central parts of Mexico, the extreme level of violence and insecurities and the cartel attacks that are occurring right now in Tijuana.

00:52:29.640 Just this past week, Steve, two human heads, they were found and one in a really transit boulevard.

00:52:36.500 The other one was found in the east side of Tijuana.

00:52:39.080 So violence is escalating.

00:52:40.620 I think that one of the questions will be that, Steve, directly to know why the bank accounts and all these dirty politicians have not been investigated by this, you know, this particular campaign speaking about it.

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Bannon's War Room - February 28, 2025

Episode 4303： Zelensky To Meet With Trump; US Extradited 29 Top Cartel Members For Prosecution In The US

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