In this episode of War Room, Steve and Eric discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the latest in the ongoing saga of the Trump administration s alleged involvement in a Yemen war plan, and whether or not the information shared is classified.
00:00:00.000Now, coming at this this morning, Wicker of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he's going to hold hearings, bipartisan hearings, and get to the bottom of it, which we don't like to hear.
00:00:32.260It's going to be, I don't know, seven or so minutes long.
00:00:34.480It's going to get to the intensity of the day.
00:00:36.220Also, President Trump signed a number of executive orders on election integrity, a couple of other law firms that the government is going to is going to have a discussion with about their practices, their lawfare practices.
00:00:48.980We're going to play some of the intensity.
00:01:28.380So, Director Gabbard, did you participate in the group chat with Secretary of Defense and other Trump senior officials discussing the Yemen war plans?
00:01:38.040Senator, I don't want to get into the specifics.
00:04:50.120Let's get everybody in the room whenever possible.
00:04:54.360A lot of times you find out defects by exactly things like that.
00:04:58.360And would not information about the timing of airstrikes allow a military to pre-position or cue air defense systems to shoot down enemy aircraft?
00:05:17.300I think, Senator, from our perspective, any advance warning is something that we certainly are trying to protect.
00:05:26.760Director Radcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
00:10:08.820This is the deep state rising up and coming after President Trump publicly with the fangs bared.
00:10:16.740Do you think that it was just random that this hearing was held today, that Goldberg had the information from essentially 1144 a.m.
00:10:30.300Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, the 15th of March, on the Ides of March, nine days ago or ten days ago today, and he just released it yesterday?
00:10:44.420They knew they had a previously scheduled intelligence briefing today, and this is where they were going to ambush—and that's what this was—ambush the senior intelligence officials of the President Trump administration.
00:11:01.240And Tulsi Gabbard's was absolutely accurate.
00:11:03.980It's under review by the National Security Council, and at the appropriate time, we will get back to you, Senator.
00:30:30.860This committee hearing had been planned for weeks.
00:30:33.740This is why the Atlantic Magazine waited nine days.
00:30:37.560They were not getting this vetted by the lawyers for nine days.
00:30:40.780They waited until the eve of this to drop it and then had to set up an ambush for the senior high command of the intelligence apparatus for President Trump.
00:30:53.200Well, Steve, this is absolutely an ambush that was certainly planned in coordination with the Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intel.
00:31:02.520You're talking your Mark Werner's, your Wydens, all the rest of them there.
00:31:06.440There's no question in my mind that that's exactly what Jeff Greenberg or Goldberg was up to.
00:31:12.100And the question that I have is who on the Democrat staff knew about this?
00:31:19.560How many of their colleagues let that look?
00:31:22.240Look, you go up to that hearing and you think that, oh, we're just going to operate in good faith and they just want to get to the bottom of this.
00:31:28.460They're looking to operationalize anything they can for the nullification project like they did in 2017.
00:31:35.600They're already talking about Wicker's up there.
00:31:37.580He's talking about running concurrent investigations.
00:31:40.580They want to get another Russiagate so they can, what, impeachments.
00:31:45.780And then they're going to talk about running next year and they're going to turn that into we're going to impeach whoever they can up to and including President of the United States.
00:31:54.660They're going to say they're trying to run another Watergate play here.
00:31:57.560It's so patently obvious what they're doing.
00:32:01.140And that's exactly why I think the entire thing stinks.
00:32:03.920And the fact that it's Jeffrey Goldberg, the guy who's been involved with Russiagate, the guy who was involved with the Iraq War, the guy who was involved with the suckers and losers hoax is involved with this.
00:33:21.740She was on their side of the football.
00:33:23.840She's seen them do this a million times.
00:33:26.540And so the minute that she saw this play coming up, that's how she said, you know what, hard line, I'm not going to give you any rope with which to hang me.
00:33:54.500And I see Johnson says, okay, he wants to, you know, look at non-impeachment possibilities, whether it's the, you know, he gave that quote out earlier today.
00:34:03.980So whatever, whether it's, you know, whether it's budgetary or whether it's getting rid of a couple of two districts, because, by the way, those districts are not constitutional.
00:34:14.720It actually says the Supreme Court may create such districts.
00:34:17.900And this is, in fact, a check on the judiciary, one which the legislative never really uses.
00:34:24.160But certainly anyone at the, I'll defer to the Article III project on that.
00:38:17.960This is a hearing that we have on a regular basis.
00:38:21.440And the fact that this reporter waited and held on to this information until the day before is of concern as well.
00:38:30.060It shows an attempt to play politics with the intelligence of the United States, with the intelligence community, and with the national security of the United States.
00:38:40.740And so we are going to make sure that we stay focused on the issues that are important to this nation.
00:38:46.900And that is fighting terrorism and making sure we protect this country against foreign threats and those international forces like cartels, like the drug trade, that are threatening us as well.
00:39:14.720He waits until the afternoon of the day before the Senate and two days before the House to release it.
00:39:21.320Does it not look like a coordinated, deep state, democratic, intel community ambush, sir?
00:39:29.720That does give me concern, and I'm sure that there will be questions about that.
00:39:37.780And if it did rise to the importance that Mr. Goldberg claimed that it did, then he would have released it immediately and spoken to the concerns that he had about it.
00:39:55.340And instead he waited until the day before a hearing to reveal it and distract from really the agenda that we have tomorrow, which is the national security, the foreign threats, the entities like those who are engaged in fentanyl trade, which kill over 50,000 people in the United States last year alone.
00:40:20.060Congressman, you just got back from a week in the district.
00:40:26.600Virginia 6 is kind of one of the heartlands of this country.
00:40:33.060Where are their heads at in President Trump's first 60 days, sir?
00:40:36.420They could not be more excited about this administration, what it's accomplished in just under two months, making sure that we move forward on reconciliation, on extending the Trump tax cuts, making sure we have fair trade laws vis-a-vis other countries around the world.
00:40:57.780Engaging in trade negotiations with other countries, making sure we make those, make the way that we're treated by other countries more fair.
00:41:11.880A 90%, 95% reduction in appearances at the border.
00:41:16.280And so I think my district is overwhelmingly in favor of what Trump's accomplished in just a short time, delivering on his promises.
00:41:25.500And we look forward to more successes down the line.
00:41:30.440Are they, what do they think of the philosophy of flood the zone, all gas, no break?
00:41:34.840What's their perception, your constituents' perception of that, his process?
00:41:39.040I, well, I know my colleagues in the House are trying to play catch up a lot with the administration, and this administration is smart to keep its foot on the gas, to push through.
00:41:50.660And now, to my constituents, I think most of them are excited.
00:41:54.740They, for whatever their concerns were, you know, they're excited about the steps that this administration has taken, returning control over education to states and localities and parents.
00:42:05.040That's something Glenn Youngkin ran on and won on in his run for governor because it was up in Loudoun County where those school boards were ignoring parents, arresting parents for daring to speak out against the indoctrination that was going on of their kids.
00:42:21.180And so, it's ground zero for these types of concerns that are being addressed by this administration.
00:42:28.340And to take the woke, to take the DEI out of the federal government is a great accomplishment for them.
00:42:39.760Congressman Klein, how do people follow you? Where do they go?
00:42:43.620Rep. Ben Klein is the Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
00:42:48.140And I encourage people to keep in touch and visit.
00:42:53.680We're going to cover gavel to gavel tomorrow.
00:44:55.520Lastly, sir, we have an executive order for your attention on the very important subject of election integrity.
00:45:00.720We believe that this executive order is the farthest-reaching executive action taken in the history of the Republic to secure our elections.
00:45:10.600Among numerous other aspects of this executive order, this is going to cut down on illegal immigrants on the voter rolls,
00:45:18.960ensure that the Department of Homeland Security and the data that they have available is being fully weaponized to ensure that illegal immigrants aren't voting.
00:45:26.300This will include a citizenship question on the federal voting form for the first time.
00:45:31.100This executive order instructs the EAC to cut federal funding to states that don't take reasonable steps to secure their election.
00:45:40.040This calls on the Department of Justice to vigorously prosecute election crimes,
00:45:44.240particularly in states that we don't believe are in compliance with federal law around election integrity.
00:45:49.860I could go on and on for a while, sir, but compliance with National Election Day rules,
00:45:56.220cracking down and investigating and prosecuting foreign interference in our elections,
00:46:00.640revoking President Biden's Executive Order 14-019,
00:46:05.800which essentially weaponized government to corrupt and pollute our election process.
00:46:10.320There's a lot in here, but we believe that these are very important steps
00:46:13.700that we need to be taking as an administration at your direction
00:46:17.380to ensure that our elections are as secure as they possibly can be.