Bannon's War Room - Episode 4728： Trump's Maximalist Strategy; Pause To Ukraine Peace Efforts

00:00:00.000 Before you go, we're about to talk about Trump's retribution campaign we're seeing at the FBI and the Justice Department.

00:00:06.000 You're obviously on his enemies list, at least Kash Patel's enemies list.

00:00:12.300 Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way? I mean, he's hinted at it before.

00:00:17.020 Well, I think he's already come after me and several others in withdrawing the protection that we had from the Iranians for the attack on Qasem Soleimani.

00:00:27.100 Right. So I think and I said in the in the new forward to the paperback edition of my book, I think it is a retribution presidency.

00:00:34.320 Aid for TV attempt at an authoritarian takeover just so happens to be consuming the news cycle after news cycle.

00:00:40.640 But here's the thing. It is also very real and exactly what it looks like.

00:00:45.100 It's not just a show or a distraction. It's the real thing.

00:00:48.960 They are sending troops into the streets. They are occupying the Capitol.

00:00:52.500 They have a secret police force that is scooping people up, that is demanding people's I.D.

00:00:57.560 They have an enemies list. They have the state security apparatus targeting political opponents.

00:01:03.700 In fact, we're being told the FBI search on John Bolton's home and office was part of a, quote,

00:01:07.800 national security investigation in search of classified records.

00:01:10.840 Some are familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

00:01:14.400 But since his time in the first Trump administration, Bolton has come out as a vocal critic of the president.

00:01:19.260 And Chris, if you're the attorney general of New York or the junior senator from the state of California,

00:01:24.460 two other sort of high profile perceived political enemies of the president of the United States makes pretty clear,

00:01:31.220 doesn't it, what the president thinks about his political enemies and what might happen to them next?

00:01:37.480 Yeah, I think that should be a real concern for them and for all Americans.

00:01:41.220 I don't think there's a limit necessarily to what this administration is planning on doing against the enemies list.

00:01:49.440 You know, just a couple of weeks ago, you know, there was an A.I. generated video of President Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.

00:01:57.860 And, you know, then this opening of this broad investigation by the O.D.N.I.

00:02:03.280 So I think anything they consider anything fair game here and, you know, we should be concerned about, you know,

00:02:11.200 the utilization of the FBI as a tool in this political witch hunt.

00:02:17.080 So today could have been just, you know, the first first shot in this this campaign.

00:02:23.340 So we should see how this unfolds.

00:02:26.480 Listen, you know, my emotions have vacillated all day.

00:02:31.960 First of all, you know, I have complete confidence in the integrity and professionalism of the FBI.

00:02:36.820 So if the investigators found new information, part of an investigation into Ambassador Bolton

00:02:43.380 that indicated that he was involved in a crime and then sought a search warrant, that would be one thing.

00:02:50.420 But the timing was very suspicious.

00:02:51.820 Now it looks like that information was provided to them by the director of the CIA, a fierce loyalist to the president.

00:03:00.060 And it really, you know, gives me pause.

00:03:03.220 I don't recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.

00:03:06.820 I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting.

00:03:10.720 I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.

00:03:15.240 The president was never inappropriate with anybody.

00:03:18.980 In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman.

00:03:21.360 In all respects.

00:03:23.240 Are you saying there's a real possibility, then, that you do nothing if Putin doesn't come to the table for a ceasefire?

00:03:30.700 I'll see whose fault it is.

00:03:32.240 If there are reasons why, I'll understand that.

00:03:35.600 I know exactly what I'm doing.

00:03:37.980 We're going to see whether or not they have a meeting.

00:03:40.160 That'll be interesting to see.

00:03:41.500 And if they don't, why didn't they have a meeting?

00:03:43.000 Because I told them to have a meeting.

00:03:44.840 But I'll know in two weeks what I'm going to do.

00:03:47.600 I'm pretty good at this.

00:03:48.460 So, bottom line, bottom line, there's no meeting planned.

00:03:51.380 President Putin said clearly that he is ready to meet, provided this meeting is really going to have an agenda, presidential agenda.

00:04:02.160 So, that's a big if.

00:04:03.860 There's no meeting planned, Mr. Foreign Minister.

00:04:06.220 That's a big if.

00:04:07.100 You're saying there's no meeting planned right now.

00:04:09.620 Christian, I'm awfully sorry you're not listening.

00:04:13.900 There is no meeting planned.

00:04:15.320 And I'm not challenging this.

00:04:17.940 But you, you cannot, cannot, I think, understand what I'm saying.

00:04:24.160 Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda would be ready for a summit.

00:04:32.760 And this agenda is not ready at all.

00:04:35.940 Do you have any knowledge about that?

00:04:38.860 Um, I think, well, certainly my father had a background in intelligence during, because he was, uh, I believe he did in the Second World War, he was an intelligence, a British intelligence officer.

00:04:52.000 Um, I think that my sort of belief is that once you've been an intelligence officer, you're kind of, always, it doesn't mean that you're formally employed.

00:05:01.540 So, I don't think my dad in any formal sense was, uh, you know, employed by the, any agency, but when you, um, are very significant.

00:05:14.660 Dan Bongino, what you have in the background, as you, as you laid out, is a series of moves that we have seen over the past seven months and an extraordinary, unprecedented use of presidential power to, to achieve the political goals and to exact retribution.

00:05:33.460 When you see all of that conduct and you see Bolton's home being raided, you're then forced to say, okay, how are we supposed to look at this?

00:05:41.540 Should we accept this on face value?

00:05:43.340 Should we accept that this was done for the right reasons?

00:05:47.020 And we don't know why it was done yet.

00:05:49.340 We will learn that, you know, in the coming days.

00:05:51.800 And if there is court papers in this and such, and if there's a prosecution, we will learn what is actually here.

00:05:57.900 But for the moment, you have to kind of look at it and say, okay, uh, maybe there is, there is something serious here, but there's also a retribution campaign going on.

00:06:07.300 And you have to say, well, what's really happening here?

00:06:10.580 And it gets back to that simple, simple principle that if you, as a very powerful politician, the president of the United States, talk about ongoing investigations and what you want done to your enemies, when stuff is done to them, people tend to think you are behind it.

00:06:24.360 It's the norm now.

00:06:25.360 As soon as something happens, in any incident I've been on the news about, it's like the cabinet secretaries are racing to get it on X to show, uh, what, you know, the favoritism.

00:06:37.080 Like I got there first, I talked about it.

00:06:39.780 Um, so I'd say it was singular in this one as, as troubling, but that's just the norm now between, uh, Homeland defense and FBI that never happened before.

00:06:49.080 Uh, I mean, Jim Comey got a ton of it for what he started to do when he talked about something, but he was backed into a corner, but now it's just, it's the norm as soon as it happens.

00:06:59.120 And then the, the leak to the, the, the post today, uh, on this.

00:07:03.280 So it, it, it definitely is, it's going to continue.

00:07:06.760 Uh, it's unbelievable.

00:07:07.940 Early this morning, the Texas Senate approved new congressional maps.

00:07:11.840 They're designed to give Republicans up to five more seats in next year's midterms.

00:07:16.560 And now that the vote has cleared the final legislative hurdle, that's the governor Greg Abbott's desk and Democrats are vowing to fight back in court in California.

00:07:25.420 Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats, so they're pushing their own maps to offset GOP games.

00:07:31.300 The voters will have the next say here in November when they'll decide whether to override the state's independent commission and adopt the new lines.

00:07:41.540 Yeah.

00:07:42.060 I mean, I was told this morning by a senior FBI official that this was definitely not just about the book, that it was about a kind of drip, drip, drip of leaks by Bolton, including after 2020.

00:07:53.480 There was also a report by Jack Posobiec this morning who said that the CIA director, John Ratcliffe had actually given FBI director, Cash Patel information that might've pertained to this raid.

00:08:05.640 I mean, I think what's important.

00:08:06.500 I went back and reread John Bolton's book today.

00:08:09.220 And I mean, you have to put this in some context, which is that we're in the midst of an administration that is genuinely appearing to prosecute Russiagate.

00:08:16.520 The long or the Russiagate hoax, I should say, the long ongoing conspiracy to remove Trump from office.

00:08:23.040 Bolton was directly involved in the 2019 impeachment.

00:08:26.540 And afterwards, he said that he thought that the impeachment inquiry, the impeachment process by the Democrats wasn't broad enough, that it needed to include Trump's decisions that he said were made for political purposes, which is so far outlined so far out of bounds of the Constitution.

00:08:42.500 So you've got somebody here that was actively involved in trying to remove Trump from power and scheming in ways to remove Trump from power in 2019 and in 2020.

00:08:52.940 Do you think this is a prelude to Brennan, Clapper, Comey, a lot of the other rapscallions who conspired to sabotage a presidency?

00:09:03.580 I mean, look, I've been told, and I'm sure you've heard this, too, is that the Trump administration is serious.

00:09:10.640 The Department of Justice is serious.

00:09:12.060 The FBI is serious about prosecuting the Russia collusion hoax.

00:09:17.200 That is what it looks like.

00:09:18.720 And when you kind of look at the whole thing, I mean, to some extent, they're making it up as they go along.

00:09:22.860 But, I mean, we had e-mails, we had intelligence released a couple of weeks ago that suggested that Adam Schiff, that a conversation with Adam Schiff where he said that they were looking for, you know, maybe not criminal prosecution, but possibly impeachment.

00:09:36.760 That was way back in 2017.

00:09:39.200 Get to 2019.

00:09:40.560 They get that first impeachment.

00:09:41.760 And you see Bolton, again, saying he's he's being very creative in his book, describing all the ways in which he thought that Trump should have been charged up with impeachment or should the impeachment process should have gone in, criticizing the Democrats for making their scope too narrow.

00:09:57.880 He wanted it to just be around a whole set of decisions that John Bolton happened to disagree with and make that the basis of impeaching the president.

00:10:06.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:10:13.460 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:10:18.680 You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:10:22.940 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:10:24.860 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:10:26.280 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:10:28.980 It's going to happen.

00:10:30.240 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:10:33.640 Mega Media.

00:10:34.560 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:10:40.480 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:10:44.180 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:10:50.600 War Room.

00:10:51.380 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:10:53.460 Bannon.

00:10:57.980 It's Saturday, 23 August, Year of Our Lord, 2025.

00:11:01.240 Welcome to the War Room.

00:11:02.400 We've got a lot to talk about today on the maximalist strategy of maximizing everything

00:11:08.640 President Trump's doing right now in the MAGA movement to sort this mess out in the country.

00:11:13.540 Everything from taking on the cartels to shutting down these sanctuary democratic cities and cleaning them up

00:11:19.520 to making sure that we start on the process now of the 100 seats President Trump feels is right there for the MAGA movement

00:11:30.620 if we get our act together, including places like Texas.

00:11:34.540 Big win last night, but not a maximalist win.

00:11:37.380 Big win.

00:11:38.080 Senate voted for the five seats.

00:11:40.420 Hopefully Governor Abbott signs that thing quickly.

00:11:42.940 I would like to see him sign it over the weekend, but maybe they wait till Monday to have some sort of little ceremony.

00:11:49.800 But we've got some cleanups to do.

00:11:52.000 John Bolton, Jack Posobiec, you have been all over this situation, and now the mainstream media, as much as it hurts them,

00:12:01.360 are calling out, you know, your reporting and analysis.

00:12:05.820 We've got a couple of minutes on this side.

00:12:07.360 I'll hold you through the break.

00:12:09.140 John Bolton, the book and the classified documents just may be one small aspect of this.

00:12:15.060 Sir, your thoughts?

00:12:16.200 Well, Steve, thanks so much.

00:12:19.000 And that's right, I broke that story here on The War Room yesterday.

00:12:21.860 We got the piece up at humanevents.com.

00:12:23.720 I was able to put that into greater detail regarding some of the intelligence that was shared by John Ratcliffe

00:12:29.900 to FBI Director Patel.

00:12:32.220 Also receiving, as we're continuing to dig into this case and now reporting,

00:12:37.640 the next place we're going is there's that tweet from Dan Bongino saying that public corruption will not be tolerated.

00:12:45.600 Now, what's interesting about that tweet is, of course, he's not referencing classified material or mishandling classified material.

00:12:52.200 He's referencing actions that were taken beyond the scope of John Bolton's official duties,

00:12:59.540 possibly for monetary gain, this, of course, being the public corruption portfolio of the FBI,

00:13:04.680 and a lot of questions about lobbyists that John Bolton may have been working with while he was in office in the President's White House.

00:13:12.220 Well, it's about – we'll get into it as we come through the break.

00:13:18.000 It's about selling of access.

00:13:19.520 And I think this makes sense when you connect the dot of what Ratcliffe said about the CIA is providing intelligence.

00:13:26.360 A lot of people think that's backup to things that are in the book.

00:13:29.660 It may be that.

00:13:30.680 It may also be intercepts, et cetera, about people that Bolton was working with and how he was monetizing access.

00:13:40.320 Blockbuster news here in the war room this morning as we connect some dots.

00:13:44.540 The great Jack Posobiec is with us.

00:13:46.400 Ben Harnwell, big developments in Ukraine.

00:13:49.920 Wait for it.

00:13:51.080 What did we tell you?

00:13:51.800 President Trump, the two-week break.

00:13:53.060 Washington Post now reporting, as Jack Posobiec, highlights to me that Zelensky's on the clock.

00:14:00.860 Yes, you know, Putin, the Trump, maybe terrorists, maybe this, maybe terrorists against the CCP, people financing.

00:14:07.460 But Zelensky better show up with some partners because President Trump ain't buying it that the guys that came over and hung out,

00:14:13.560 the chaperones, when they got back home, President Trump's just got three questions.

00:14:19.520 How much cash, how many arms and weapons, and how many troops, particularly troops.

00:14:27.400 The colonel in charge of the union for the German troops, yes, the German army has a union,

00:14:34.040 brutally goes out and gives an interview and says all the European nations are military dwarves.

00:14:39.760 They don't have any finances, no resources, no manpower,

00:14:42.620 and that it is a bluff and pray strategy that will not work in the Ukraine.

00:14:49.700 Short commercial break.

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00:16:47.800 Did you see, are you seeing a lot of reaction from Manga World?

00:16:50.540 Because we're looking and we have, you know, some stuff from Laura Loomer, but it's not

00:16:57.380 much.

00:16:57.880 We're not seeing a whole lot.

00:16:59.600 I have a list that I keep.

00:17:01.840 I'm not going to put the name of it and then just private.

00:17:05.940 I'm not going to do that on live TV.

00:17:07.940 I'm not seeing the usual suspects come in real hot and heavy here just yet, other than

00:17:12.280 Jack Posobin, who sort of took the role as kind of the heir to being the next Rush Limbaugh.

00:17:18.860 He's been blasting out the thing about Maxwell saying that Epstein, she believed, didn't

00:17:22.540 kill himself.

00:17:25.320 Wow. 1.00

00:17:26.300 The heir to Rush Limbaugh.

00:17:28.020 Jack, that's a pretty big mantle.

00:17:30.120 I think that's Jake LaHutt.

00:17:31.400 That's Jake LaHutt.

00:17:32.220 He's a pretty sophisticated reporter.

00:17:36.140 What say you, sir?

00:17:36.940 Before we get back into this, what say you, sir?

00:17:39.040 Are you taking the mantle of Rush Limbaugh?

00:17:42.280 Look, Steve, there's only one Rush Limbaugh, the harmless little fuzzball, an all-around

00:17:49.340 good guy, the Maharashi, the most dangerous man in America. 1.00

00:17:53.940 However, I will say that for many years, I was a student of the Limbaugh Institute for

00:18:00.340 Advanced Conservative Studies and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.

00:18:06.420 So great.

00:18:07.560 Let's go back to Bolton.

00:18:08.960 You broke some big news.

00:18:09.840 So let's explain to the audience what's going on.

00:18:12.860 When Bongino sends this thing out, says public corruption, your antenna went up.

00:18:17.540 This is deeper just in the book, in the classified, in the yellow legal pads and all that.

00:18:23.480 That may be part of it.

00:18:24.760 I was pretty surprised how many boxes they took out of his house yesterday.

00:18:29.340 What are we talking about here?

00:18:30.960 Because it sounds like, when you say public corruption, it sounds like Bolton, in some

00:18:36.540 way, was potentially monetizing access.

00:18:40.200 Is that what we're talking about?

00:18:42.600 Well, Steve, I mean, that's the definition of public corruption, monetizing your office.

00:18:46.960 And in this case, monetizing access to the president or essentially monetizing policy or leverage.

00:18:53.080 And if you go all the way back to 2018, when they talked about Bolton's time at the NSC,

00:18:59.200 there is, in fact, an article from Politico that it pinged my memory, talking all about

00:19:05.520 a longtime colleague and lobbyist of John Bolton named Matthew Friedman, a guy that he had brought

00:19:13.120 in to be a consultant for staffing and a consultant on the outside, even while Bolton was working

00:19:20.240 on the inside.

00:19:23.040 And these individuals, so he had Friedman on the outside, Matthew Friedman, and then this

00:19:26.940 other guy, Charles Kupperman.

00:19:29.140 And it says in the political article right here, another Bolton friend has joined him

00:19:33.720 at the NSC to help weigh job applications.

00:19:36.740 And this, of course, is in the wake of H.R.

00:19:39.280 McMaster being ousted following policy classes with President Trump and others.

00:19:44.100 And, of course, the issue that they were talking about was this individual's business ties potentially

00:19:51.300 to foreign contacts and potentially to other influences that were coming in as Bolton was

00:19:58.420 the current national security advisor for President Trump there in the White House.

00:20:02.820 Friedman was on the transition team initially for the first couple of weeks and then was

00:20:11.260 fired for some screw-ups.

00:20:13.840 I think it was told some screw-ups.

00:20:16.700 But it was disturbing.

00:20:17.680 And Kupperman, I think, tried to, yeah, I think Kupperman came in for, I think Kupperman one

00:20:23.400 time was either the deputy or the assistant to the deputy or chief of staff, right?

00:20:27.880 He had a very prominent role.

00:20:31.240 Friedman is also alleged very tight with Mossad.

00:20:35.740 Do you think the law of unintended consequences are going to play in here, that you're going

00:20:39.520 to see a lot of Bolton's direct contacts with Ukraine intelligence and with Mossad?

00:20:46.500 Jack Posovic?

00:20:48.280 Well, Steve, this is going to call it all into question.

00:20:50.140 Whatever foreign contacts we're applying for access to the White House, potentially domestic

00:20:56.640 contacts as well.

00:20:58.180 It's very simple.

00:20:59.100 When we give our elected officials and our public officials this power and this access

00:21:05.360 and this influence, one of the great dangers, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat,

00:21:10.880 is that you will, instead of working for the good and the betterment of the American people,

00:21:15.780 you'll be working for your own personal gain and your own personal interests.

00:21:21.380 And of course, if they can find a direct link between any of this lobbying that was going

00:21:26.340 on, which again, was reported at the Times, this is Politico that I'm relying on here and

00:21:31.280 some other stuff that people have been, pointed me to that article again from last night, that

00:21:36.280 they're saying that I think this is probably what the big thing is on Bolton when it comes

00:21:41.900 to public corruption.

00:21:42.740 Well, and just to explain to the audience, I think Friedman was his business partner that

00:21:50.460 ran a consulting business that, or advisory business, a lot of people have.

00:21:53.800 And this is one of the reasons President Trump takes away their security clearance, because

00:21:56.620 the way they monetize things is to use that security clearance going forward.

00:22:00.380 It looks like potentially, and we don't know this for a fact, but you can kind of see the

00:22:06.240 convergence here, if you're sophisticated and can read between the lines, that Bolton,

00:22:13.380 and look, National Security Advisor is taking so many meetings, some meetings with so many

00:22:18.340 other National Security Advisors, heads of state, particularly, you know, if it's not a major

00:22:23.200 power, many heads of state will come in with their defense secretary and actually meet with

00:22:28.980 the National Security Advisor because it's just not time to get on the president's schedule.

00:22:35.440 The political article leaves open the fact that actually Friedman is monetizing, and maybe

00:22:42.320 even Kupperman are monetizing access to Bolton to actually people to take meetings and maybe

00:22:48.220 sign advisory agreements with them, either post or pre.

00:22:51.520 Is that what this looks like it's trending towards?

00:22:55.080 That's certainly what the implication is, that they're on the table for this public

00:22:58.880 corruption, which again, Dan Bongino is the one who posted that originally.

00:23:03.440 And so when we look at this, Steve, a lot of people in the audience will always ask me,

00:23:07.780 why is the United States of America so focused on this foreign country or that foreign country?

00:23:12.460 Why are we pushing for this when, you know, it seems out of nowhere?

00:23:17.260 And unfortunately, the dirty little secret is that Washington, D.C., just like every other

00:23:22.080 industry, runs on money.

00:23:24.620 And there are times where John Bolton, potentially, given his access to the president, he's got the

00:23:30.440 president's ear.

00:23:31.360 He's in there.

00:23:32.280 And as he said himself, in the room where it happened, the question is, was there some deal

00:23:39.200 set up where this guy was taking money on the outside?

00:23:42.980 This is similar to what we saw Hillary Clinton doing when she was secretary of state with 0.94

00:23:46.560 the Clinton Foundation, not quite on that scale, but a very similar formula to what you would

00:23:51.340 have seen there.

00:23:52.000 That's what the political article lays out.

00:23:56.100 Yeah, the Mike Davis, the great, the Viceroy, who's taking a couple of days off, I think,

00:24:01.580 has a tweet up that basically, and Jesse Waters talked about it last night, right before they

00:24:06.340 talked about your input, Mike had something that a lot of the people that just think it

00:24:12.200 happens to deal with the classified information in the book, the room where it happened, are

00:24:16.440 going to be embarrassed because it's going to be much broader than that.

00:24:18.640 And I think people should understand that if any of this is backed up by evidence, and

00:24:24.900 I think they would have had the evidence before they went and got the, or at least had an indication

00:24:29.640 of where the evidence was, since Ratcliffe's part of this also, is John Bolton could be looking

00:24:34.840 for a couple of decades of hard time, essentially could die in prison.

00:24:40.880 I mean, this is, these are pretty, these are very, very, very serious charges, and not just

00:24:45.260 about a book that he was doing.

00:24:47.800 Jack, along those lines, in the Maxwell interview, she admitted that she and Epstein were at the

00:24:56.280 beginning of helping the Clinton stand up, the Clinton Foundation.

00:24:59.760 Just mentioned that.

00:25:00.360 She also said that she doesn't think Epstein committed suicide.

00:25:04.560 She also admitted for the first time, I think, in any public record, that her father was

00:25:10.540 associated with, was an intelligence asset of the Mossad.

00:25:14.160 And, and also she exonerated President Trump, said he barely knew the, you know, he knew the

00:25:18.200 guy, but it was all public, hanging out in public places and never saw anything inappropriate.

00:25:23.980 Uh, your assessment of Todd Blanche's, um, uh, questioning of, of Maxwell and some of these

00:25:30.660 nuggets that came out of there.

00:25:33.260 Well, Steve, I think it was interesting.

00:25:35.100 Uh, this is something that I, I have a little bit of background with having been, uh, served

00:25:39.460 by the York Guantanamo Bay, conducting these types of interviews, conducting these types of

00:25:45.080 debriefs as an analyst and, and being able to look in through all this type of information.

00:25:49.880 But what I would say here is coming in, in the capacity that he did is, uh, is the same

00:25:56.560 thing I would say to anyone when I was down there working in the interrogation, uh, cell

00:26:00.400 at Guantanamo is good first meeting, right?

00:26:03.900 Because there seems to be a lot more, uh, there's also times where there's information

00:26:08.300 that's contradictory and there's also information where you got to go.

00:26:11.240 You can't take a detainee, or in this case, a prisoner's word at its face value.

00:26:16.780 You've got to go back and do the process of source validation.

00:26:20.120 And people say, how do you validate a source?

00:26:21.700 How do you know they're telling you the truth?

00:26:23.000 Source validation is an ongoing process.

00:26:26.320 So any good investigator is going to take the word of their source, but then go match that

00:26:31.380 up with what other data do you have out there?

00:26:34.100 If you have other informants, you have other sources of information, do you have other data

00:26:38.380 points using, uh, SIGINT or communications intelligence, whatever else, documentary intelligence,

00:26:43.780 Doc X, uh, like we've seen, of course, these questions about the files, other, some of

00:26:47.960 the girls that they've come out and, and said various things that contradict what Ghislaine

00:26:52.060 Maxwell said here.

00:26:53.020 So it really is a good, I think it's a great start.

00:26:55.880 I think it's a great start.

00:26:57.220 The fact that it happened, I think the Todd Blanch did a fantastic job and we'll see.

00:27:01.420 We'll see.

00:27:01.800 I think there's a lot of nuggets in there, but this is nowhere.

00:27:04.500 This is just scraping the tip of the iceberg.

00:27:06.600 I want, I want to, uh, hold, I know you got stuff with the family.

00:27:11.880 I just want to hold you.

00:27:12.460 I got to get to Ukraine and Gaza for a second, but I got 60 seconds here.

00:27:16.640 Pam Bondi did say, I think on February 21st, either February or March, I think it was February

00:27:22.120 21st that on her desk was the client's list that they were going through.

00:27:25.600 You guys went to the White House and got a document that you guys, you and, uh, DC

00:27:30.440 drink, et cetera, were not happy with.

00:27:32.500 Uh, Maxwell just said there is no client list.

00:27:34.560 How do you, how do you square that?

00:27:37.220 Well, I would say the question is, you know, what is a list?

00:27:40.260 How do you define list?

00:27:41.860 So is a list something that they write down or is a list something that an investigator

00:27:46.420 puts together when you're tracking all of the money and you're tracking all of the people

00:27:50.800 who, uh, so I think that's, that's really something that, uh, that people are playing

00:27:55.720 semantic games with.

00:27:58.320 Let's, let's, let's take a short break.

00:27:59.800 Jack for something that said, I don't know when the AG says I'm going, it's on my desk.

00:28:02.800 I got a list.

00:28:03.580 You imagine it's like a grocery list, right?

00:28:05.620 It's a list.

00:28:06.080 Anyway, short break, post on the other side, Harnwell, Jenny Beth Martin, all of it this

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00:30:26.960 Look, I know we're eating in, the worm is eating into Tanya Tay in the boys' time, so

00:30:31.560 I'm going to be quick about this.

00:30:33.280 First off, I want to just go back to the Maxwell.

00:30:35.480 You say it's the first, it's the attempt of the iceberg.

00:30:38.060 There's much more to come.

00:30:39.160 It has to be much more to come.

00:30:41.320 She finally identified, I think first time ever, admitted her father was an intelligence

00:30:45.920 asset.

00:30:46.640 He's known as the Mossad super spy, right?

00:30:50.540 A guy like him and Soros, they come out of, you know, post-war, they come out of, you

00:30:53.840 know, Eastern Europe, really is, I think, an informant to British intelligence sources,

00:31:00.280 informant to the Nazis.

00:31:01.900 And then next thing you know, they got some money, they're buying things, and they're

00:31:05.400 bigger than life.

00:31:08.360 Your observations on that, because that's going to, besides their thing about the Clinton,

00:31:12.400 their association with Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, also, she doesn't think he was

00:31:17.220 committed suicide.

00:31:18.920 That means if he was murdered, he was murdered for a reason.

00:31:21.720 What about this, what about her association, and people will, certain people would say that

00:31:28.440 they are royalty when it comes to Israeli intelligence, sir?

00:31:33.460 Well, Steve, one of the interesting facts about Robert Maxwell, just right off the bat,

00:31:37.620 that I don't think people realize, that even though he was born at the time, it was

00:31:42.300 Czechoslovakia, but given the border shifts and the changes post-World War II, and then

00:31:48.640 post-Soviet Union, believe it or not, the town where Robert Maxwell was born is now in

00:31:55.080 the territory of, wait for it, Ukraine.

00:31:58.840 It's Solotnbo, Ukraine, is actually where Robert Maxwell was born.

00:32:04.400 So it's right in this border region, of course, I've talked many, many times about how the

00:32:08.420 border regions in this area have changed myself, actually, not, not,

00:32:12.300 my family's not too far from there, and right on the border with Poland.

00:32:15.500 So he's right on the border today of Ukraine and Romania.

00:32:19.860 But there really were these questions about his ties with the setting, the setting up of

00:32:25.360 Mossad, the setting up of the state when the Israelis were really first getting involved,

00:32:30.220 and then even back to the 80s, talking about his ability for finance, his ability in arms

00:32:35.080 deals, tech transfers, surveillance, and the fact that when Robert Maxwell passed, he was

00:32:40.880 actually given a state funeral on, yes, the Mount of Olives itself outside of Jerusalem,

00:32:48.220 one of the most honored spots that traveled there many times, of course, in Israel, and

00:32:53.560 of course, in Christianity, of the Mount of Olives being the area where Christ went to

00:32:58.180 pray before he was, and the, where the Garden of Gethsemane is right there, et cetera, et

00:33:03.840 cetera, everybody knows.

00:33:04.980 So being buried there is one of the highest honors that you can get in Israel.

00:33:10.620 Yes.

00:33:10.840 Yes, a state funeral.

00:33:12.880 Also, the only, I think, American there's any statue or anything from, there are no statues

00:33:18.320 for the boys that hit the beach at Normandy.

00:33:21.220 There's no statues for the young men of the 8th Air Force.

00:33:24.440 There's no statues for those that freed the camps.

00:33:27.380 No statues for the statue for Angleton of the CA.

00:33:30.700 Also, the interesting thing about Maxwell is the whole controversy about technology that

00:33:35.880 they were able to get back in those days that gave them access to be able to look everywhere.

00:33:40.840 And this gets to some of the big questions about Palantir and some of these other, some

00:33:45.280 of these other companies today, about the surveillance technology, exactly who's financing

00:33:49.460 it, who owns it, who controls it, all of it.

00:33:52.280 Let me go to Ukraine.

00:33:54.200 As you're speaking about Ukraine with Maxwell, let's go to Ukraine.

00:33:57.520 Finally, we're getting some reality checks, Jack Posobiec.

00:34:01.160 The Washington Post got a big story today, but it's a culmination of a couple of things

00:34:04.260 that's happened is if you have been following the war room, you get in the straight skinny,

00:34:08.140 not the happy talk at Fox, not the happy talk at NBC.

00:34:10.840 The reality is that the chaperones, right, the chaperones of England, Italy, France, and

00:34:18.720 Germany had nothing to offer.

00:34:21.320 It was all trying to entrap President Trump and stepping up for everything, the United

00:34:24.900 States for everything on security guarantees and money.

00:34:28.060 And they've got out it all over the place.

00:34:30.340 As you know, Jack, every newspaper has been reporting how their military is saying, we

00:34:34.180 don't have the money to do this.

00:34:35.240 We want the weapons.

00:34:36.820 The Germans said, hey, we sent a brigade to Lithuania.

00:34:39.360 We're tapped out.

00:34:40.560 The head of the union of the German army, yes, the German army actually has a union of their

00:34:45.480 soldiers.

00:34:46.420 This colonel, and he was as blunt as anybody. 0.98

00:34:48.980 He says, this is ridiculous. 0.95

00:34:50.680 This is a bluff and pray strategy. 0.93

00:34:52.920 We don't have the manpower.

00:34:54.240 We don't have the arms.

00:34:55.100 He called the European nations individually, military dwarves.

00:35:00.400 And he said, this is just a fantasy.

00:35:02.780 Nothing's going to happen.

00:35:03.840 Europe has nothing to offer in Ukraine.

00:35:07.340 I think someone that understands that after you looked them in the eye, Jack Posobiec, is

00:35:11.980 and the reason the polls did not come over, President Trump, I think, fully appreciates

00:35:16.260 now.

00:35:16.980 And the Washington Post story talks about that.

00:35:19.340 Two weeks.

00:35:20.320 What are we looking at, Jack Posobiec?

00:35:21.960 Well, Steve, there's this buried way, way down in this new piece up in the Washington

00:35:29.980 Post today.

00:35:30.940 And people can see the headline is Land for Peace, Ukrainians Way, Frozen Frontline to 1.00

00:35:35.720 Placate Russia. 0.99

00:35:37.840 And way, way down, one of Zelensky's top advisors and a guy who's always talking in media is this

00:35:45.740 individual, Timothy Milovanov.

00:35:48.680 And Milovanov, he's the director of the Kiev School of Economics.

00:35:50.940 He's also advisor to Zelensky directly.

00:35:54.280 And he says right to the Washington Post in print on the record that Zelensky is being

00:35:59.420 put under a lot of pressure.

00:36:01.180 He is being threatened that there will be no longer financial support or intelligence support.

00:36:07.360 And in Ukraine, within Ukraine, no one will defend him.

00:36:12.060 So it seems as though, in one perspective, he's getting the squeeze from the American

00:36:17.900 side.

00:36:18.600 But two, and of course, we've seen President Trump put pressure on both Ukraine and Russia

00:36:23.260 to push this thing to a close.

00:36:25.340 But also, we have to look at the fact that he's getting, that Zelensky's facing internal

00:36:30.620 political pressure inside Ukraine.

00:36:32.680 We saw that Gallup poll where 70 percent of the country now wants negotiation.

00:36:37.680 We've seen protests break out in front of Zelensky's office.

00:36:40.760 And the fact, of course, that's been brought up time and time again, that once the war ends

00:36:45.980 and martial law is ceased within Ukraine, they have to hold presidential elections because

00:36:51.920 he's only currently in office.

00:36:53.740 He'll have to stand for election immediately after the cessation of hostilities.

00:36:57.760 Real quickly, I want to get your thoughts, and the audience does, on three things.

00:37:04.000 Number one, they're calling up the reservists, 60,000 reservists, to commence the military

00:37:09.600 aspect of the Gaza war.

00:37:12.720 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:37:13.700 It doesn't seem, I'm not getting the fact that the IDF's heart's in this.

00:37:17.320 Am I missing this?

00:37:18.320 I just don't see the, I don't see the intensity.

00:37:20.760 I don't see the urgency of going after, of going back to Gaza.

00:37:24.780 Not for an occupation, I mean, just for the mission of taking down the remaining, I think,

00:37:30.340 I don't know, 20,000 plus Hamas combatants.

00:37:33.540 Your thoughts?

00:37:35.440 Well, Steve, Gaza City, I mean, this is one of the most densely populated strips of land

00:37:40.520 on the entire planet.

00:37:42.260 So if you're talking about going door to door, conducting close quarters combat for IDF,

00:37:48.020 whether you're a reservist, even whether you're a special forces commando, this is going to

00:37:52.080 be some of the hardest fighting you've ever seen, this is Battle of Fallujah level on steroids

00:37:57.400 going in there against a populace that is increasingly hostile and incredibly hostile

00:38:03.920 to any Israeli soldier that's going to be coming in at a time where, as they say, you

00:38:10.420 know, you don't know who's Hamas, you don't know who's not. 0.77

00:38:13.480 So going in there, boots on the ground the way that the United States did, the Marines did

00:38:17.120 in Fallujah and the Navy SEAL, it's absolutely going to be a very high-casualty environment,

00:38:23.260 and they know that.

00:38:25.600 Just like in Fallujah, there's no air assistance.

00:38:29.580 It's not going to be able to help you.

00:38:30.040 You're going to go door to door in this one.

00:38:31.480 It's going to be tough.

00:38:32.360 It's going to be as tough as Fallujah.

00:38:34.040 Jack, we have an amphibious ready group, the Iwo Jima Group, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary

00:38:43.580 Force has been assigned to SOUTHCOM.

00:38:45.460 That's 4,000 Marines and sailors.

00:38:48.640 Word has it that from Maduro and Venezuela all the way up to Central America, the cartels,

00:38:53.140 and in Mexico, that Pete Hexas and the team are working through plans for actual military

00:38:58.320 interdiction in the Western Hemisphere.

00:39:00.880 Your thoughts?

00:39:02.600 Well, Steve, look, you know, we've talked about the hemispheric defense here many times.

00:39:06.420 When I was in the press briefing the other day, Caroline Levitt came out and said the United

00:39:10.420 States government does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and

00:39:16.840 was working hard to tie, you see this from the administration writ large, where they are

00:39:20.380 working to tie the cartels' operations directly to Maduro.

00:39:25.220 So this seems as though it's a whole-of-government approach to pressure both the cartels and Maduro

00:39:31.200 and obviously allowing a range of options, both militarily and economic.

00:39:36.160 So we're seeing the president really ratchet the pressure up here in the Western Hemisphere.

00:39:43.440 Last but not least, the president's very pleased with what's happening in Washington, D.C.,

00:39:48.020 about cleaning up the city.

00:39:49.440 Now, I think the 2,000, there are going to be 2,000 troops.

00:39:52.300 They're going to be carrying weapons is the latest.

00:39:54.660 And also the president's saying, hey, I'm looking at Chicago and New York City, which we've been

00:39:58.080 a huge advocate, although we would say L.A. first, Chicago second, New York third.

00:40:03.100 Your thoughts there as President Trump likes what he's seeing.

00:40:07.380 He's out on patrol with the National Guard elements, the federalized National Guard elements.

00:40:15.080 Your thoughts about the next steps there?

00:40:18.000 All I would say is don't forget Philadelphia.

00:40:20.480 Philadelphia is very close to my heart.

00:40:22.360 Mr. President, Stephen Miller, everybody who's up there, Pete Hegseth, please don't leave

00:40:27.040 Philadelphia off the list.

00:40:29.000 It is the birthplace of freedom.

00:40:30.760 It's a great city.

00:40:31.560 It needs to be cleaned up.

00:40:32.620 They all do.

00:40:33.140 Look, we need to bukele every single major city in this country.

00:40:38.960 It is time that I've been writing about this.

00:40:40.920 It's been picked up all over about city cons versus royal cons and the rise of the city

00:40:46.600 conservatives, the urban right, where this is people who come to politics a little bit

00:40:52.200 differently than people who live in the small towns that want to conserve their way of life.

00:40:58.000 For the people who come to conservatism, who come to politics from urban areas, they are fighting.

00:41:04.560 I put myself in that category.

00:41:06.020 We are fighting for our homes and our way of life that were stolen from us, and it's time to get them back.

00:41:13.380 Jack, you're covering so many big stories.

00:41:17.500 I want to make sure everybody gets access to your Twitter feed because you're like the Associated Press for the right, and it's pretty extraordinary.

00:41:26.700 And so as you're taking the mantle of Rush Limbaugh, as a student of Rush Limbaugh, where do people go to get the voice of Jack Posobiec over this weekend, sir?

00:41:36.480 There's only one Rush, but maybe I can be the first post, though.

00:41:41.960 So it's at Human Events Daily.

00:41:44.860 Make sure you go up there.

00:41:45.960 We might have put up a special episode this weekend just to talk about all the developments this week to make sure everyone downloads Human Events Daily.

00:41:53.440 Subscribe, that it really helps us out with our metrics.

00:41:55.760 And, of course, at Jack Posobiec, Twitter, Getter, True Social, and, of course, Telegram.

00:41:59.800 Jack, thank you, and thank Tanya Tay and the boys for letting the audience, letting the War Room Posse have access to you for the first hour of the show.

00:42:11.020 Nothing but love for the War Room Posse, and, of course, Steve, thank you for all of your support as well.

00:42:17.300 Thank you, brother.

00:42:18.060 Appreciate you.

00:42:19.420 Extraordinary young man.

00:42:20.340 We're going to figure out the time, but we're going to have the great Aaron Reitz is going to join us on Monday.

00:42:31.860 He's running also for the Attorney General down in Texas.

00:42:36.660 In Texas, you know, losing Ken Paxson.

00:42:39.020 Ken Paxson is going to go, is in the Senate race.

00:42:41.660 The Attorney General's race down there is going to be a barn burner.

00:42:44.220 It's absolutely essential.

00:42:45.340 As Texas goes, so goes the nation.

00:42:48.260 As the nation goes, so goes the world.

00:42:50.740 He will join us on Monday.

00:42:51.860 Hopefully Monday morning.

00:42:52.720 If not, it will be Monday afternoon.

00:42:53.700 We'll figure it out, make an announcement.

00:42:55.800 Very, very important race down there, and a great guy.

00:42:58.780 Glad he's in the race.

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00:45:31.780 Tej Gale.

00:45:34.060 Well, second hour, we're going to get back into Ukraine.

00:45:36.200 Also, the Civil War.

00:45:39.000 I tell you, if you want to see what could happen here, just look at the United Kingdom and look at London.

00:45:45.800 Look at London, particularly vis-a-vis what's going on in New York.

00:45:48.520 And this is why President Trump is so smart.

00:45:50.460 And our strategy is a maximalist strategy.

00:45:53.700 You've got D.C.

00:45:54.840 You're getting that sorted out.

00:45:56.640 Now, Chicago and New York City and Los Angeles have to do it.

00:46:02.240 These sanctuary cities are not going to get cleaned up until you clean them up. 0.89

00:46:05.240 They're not going to do it themselves.

00:46:07.480 So we've got to get on top of that.

00:46:09.240 President Trump is rolling down that path.

00:46:12.000 Tej Gale, now more than ever, brother.

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00:47:48.860 And people should know Atasia is working nonstop when you've got these situations like in Brazil

00:47:53.620 and what President Trump's doing with Lula, these big fights.

00:47:56.840 These entrepreneurs are working around it, and that's why Tej is up 24-7.

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00:48:02.360 These are five-star reviews, so don't take it from Tej.

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00:48:06.680 Don't take it from me because I love it, and I told Tej.

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00:48:13.720 If you're in the business of putting cream and sugar in your coffee, the reason you're doing that is to kill the acidity of the coffee.

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00:48:27.540 This is coffee that you drink the way coffee is supposed to be.

00:48:32.980 You're supposed to drink it, black. 1.00

00:48:35.120 Okay?

00:48:35.460 It's just incredible.

00:48:37.020 Tej, I want everybody to go.

00:48:38.600 Don't take it from us.

00:48:39.340 I want to go.

00:48:39.820 I've got to ask a question, a technical question.

00:48:42.240 I made a film with Michael Pack about Fallujah, first Fallujah and second Fallujah, and a joff in the middle.

00:48:47.960 In the interviews with the Marines and special forces and Navy SEALs like yourself, second Fallujah, we talked about that.

00:48:55.180 It was like a whole different deal.

00:48:56.440 I mean, the guy's got the thousand-yard stare.

00:48:58.320 You see these IDF guys that have these troops, and particularly some reservists they're calling up, have to go into Gaza City.

00:49:05.280 When you compact down to one city and you've got 20,000 dead enders, like you had the Chechnians. 1.00

00:49:10.840 Remember, in Fallujah, they had a strategy of bringing all the bad guys together because they wanted to kill it with one blow.

00:49:17.020 But it was absolutely horrific, and I think the Marines will tell you, one of the toughest battles in the history of the Marine Corps, including places like Peleliu and Terawa, these amazing landings that they did in the Pacific that were bloodier than Normandy.

00:49:32.260 Your thoughts, as the IDF gets ready to go into Gaza City, what should our audience look for as far as anticipation of how tough that's going to be for those troops?

00:49:42.700 That's what we call urban warfare, Steve.

00:49:44.940 If IDF's going to be fighting building to building, they're going to be clearing the buildings.

00:49:51.680 A lot of these times, when you go inside and clear these buildings with these guys, with the enemy, they're just hornets' nests.

00:49:59.000 So they're actually going to be using bulldozers and just bulldozing over these buildings.

00:50:06.240 I've seen them on the IDFs using them.

00:50:08.120 The Marine Corps used them in Fallujah.

00:50:10.020 They're big, huge D-10 armored bulldozers.

00:50:13.060 They just bulldoze these buildings. 0.81

00:50:15.200 In the IDF, one thing they're going to be doing different, the Marines, they're using airstrikes.

00:50:20.720 They're dropping, they call them small diameter bombs.

00:50:23.500 They're 50-pound GPS-guided bombs and then 250-pound GPS-guided bombs.

00:50:30.380 And they can take down a single building or two buildings with those small bombs.

00:50:33.940 So back then, we didn't have those.

00:50:35.940 We were using 500-pounders.

00:50:37.040 So it takes down a lot more.

00:50:38.740 It's a lot less precise.

00:50:41.360 So urban warfare, close quarters battle, it's a dirty game.

00:50:45.160 It's very, very dangerous.

00:50:47.960 Later on in the war, we started developing different tactics.

00:50:51.100 We actually started doing call-outs.

00:50:54.180 We stole those tactics from LAPD and the NYPD where you actually call the people out.

00:51:00.760 And if they don't come out, then you just blow up the whole building because it's so dangerous to go in these buildings.

00:51:05.280 You're going to start losing operators.

00:51:07.740 And what's worth more, an enemy combatant or one of your own operators.

00:51:12.320 So a lot of times, you just level the buildings with the people in it if they don't come out.

00:51:17.200 That's the best way to do it.

00:51:18.420 That's the safest way for your side.

00:51:21.000 Yeah, because what people don't, like in Fallujah and here, the folks that are there is the combatants, the fighters.

00:51:28.860 They're there for a reason.

00:51:29.880 They're dead-enders.

00:51:31.400 They're not looking to have a long life. 0.85

00:51:33.740 They're there to, hey, if I can take as many Americans as many IDF guys, I'm going to take them out. 1.00

00:51:38.840 My reward will be in the afterlife, but I'm not backing off.

00:51:42.720 Go ahead.

00:51:43.480 Yeah, one more thing is actually in some of these buildings when you go in, you know, these guys are not just sleeping in their beds.

00:51:50.100 These guys are hanging out in there.

00:51:51.840 They actually, they build machine gun nests inside the buildings.

00:51:55.560 So they actually fill sandbags and build machine gun nests.

00:52:00.340 And they have a belt-fed machine gun pointed at the front door.

00:52:03.900 They'll put plywood over the stairs so you can't go up the stairs.

00:52:06.720 And they build machine gun nests on the second-story landings facing the doorway.

00:52:11.260 So when you go in there, it's nasty.

00:52:13.540 That's why I said sometimes you just bulldoze the buildings.

00:52:16.240 You just bomb the buildings.

00:52:17.360 It's better. 0.98

00:52:18.360 I mean, doing close quarters battle, when you enter a building and there's a machine gun nests pointed at you, you're screwed, basically.

00:52:26.140 So in these situations, it's just like level the buildings.

00:52:30.300 All right.

00:52:31.780 I'm going to hold you through the break.

00:52:33.400 Just hang on.

00:52:33.960 Tej Gill, 16 deployments.

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Bannon's War Room - August 23, 2025

Episode 4728： Trump's Maximalist Strategy; Pause To Ukraine Peace Efforts

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