Bannon's War Room - Episode 4737： The Populist College Guide; Comey Leaks

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:07.180 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:12.420 You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:16.680 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:18.620 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:20.040 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:00:21.780 but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:22.720 It's going to happen.

00:00:23.980 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:27.380 Mega media.

00:00:28.300 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:34.180 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:37.920 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:44.320 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:52.280 It's Wednesday, 27 August, year of our Lord, 2025.

00:00:55.220 I think you noticed that there's so much going on in August.

00:00:57.980 No one took vacation.

00:00:59.280 I only think the Morning Joe crowd did.

00:01:00.940 Everybody was at it the entire time, because President Trump's driving the action here.

00:01:08.360 I'll get into the Weigel story.

00:01:10.600 Weigel's put up a poll.

00:01:13.280 It's like 1,200 people, so it's not a tiny poll.

00:01:15.860 That's 53% wanted to run for a third term.

00:01:21.260 I want to go, Caroline, I want to get you back in.

00:01:23.100 But first off, seizing the institutions.

00:01:25.520 So when we talk about this coalition, and we do have a coalition, and I agree with you, the major fights between the populist right, the populist nationalist right, and still the globalist tech bros to come.

00:01:35.580 But even the more traditional Republican Party part, the neoliberal neocons, which is the Tom Cottons and Lindsey Grahams.

00:01:43.280 You've got the Ted Cruz's and the Ron DeSantis, the old traditional limited government folks, which is still a big contingent.

00:01:51.480 You've got the religious right, the evangelicals.

00:01:54.200 Those three groups alone, before you leave the tech right, some of the things President Trump, he's doing, yes, he is listening to a lot of different people, but he's driving in a direction that's not traditional Republicanism.

00:02:07.220 And he's seizing the institutions.

00:02:09.080 This thing with the Federal Reserve, you know, we've had David Malpass on a lot over the last month.

00:02:14.740 David now here is on the short list for this new governorship that's going to come open.

00:02:19.120 And Scott Besson, as you know, is a safe pair of hands.

00:02:21.740 He's not a guy that runs around.

00:02:23.160 The reason he's Secretary of the Treasury is just his calm demeanor and the fact that he just doesn't go out, you know, and jump on things.

00:02:30.700 Scott said this morning, hey, she's got to be prosecuted. 1.00

00:02:33.360 She has not denied the mortgage fraud.

00:02:35.080 And he said, how do you have somebody who's a governor of the Federal Reserve, right, that, you know, has had mortgage fraud, pretty blatant mortgage fraud.

00:02:43.100 So talk to me about the seizing of the institutions, whether it's doing this thing.

00:02:46.940 And you've got these liberals, I think you had Glasner on, arguing there's no crime in D.C., that this is overreached.

00:02:55.100 Talk about the seizure of the institutions, whether it's the courts, whether it's the Justice Department, the FBI, whether it's the Federal Reserve.

00:03:05.080 And remember, we're in the strategy of the maximalists.

00:03:09.140 We want to put the pedal to the metal because we say we're burning daylight.

00:03:12.280 You've got to get these things done, whether it's redistricting, you know, take the 30 seats and take them now.

00:03:19.280 Texas still owes us another five of the five they got.

00:03:22.500 How do you think, one, how do you think President Trump's doing in that regard, given the three-hour, you know, basically board of directors meeting you saw yesterday?

00:03:30.380 And coupled with how do you hold that traditional part of the – that you came from, quite frankly, of the Republican Party?

00:03:37.320 Ma'am.

00:03:39.260 Well, I think he's doing fantastic.

00:03:41.200 I did love the premise of this Axios article that you referenced in the beginning, which was, quote,

00:03:46.080 Trump has exerted decisive control over every inch of the executive branch.

00:03:50.460 Well, yeah, he is the head of the executive branch, so I think it's a good thing that he has taken decisive control.

00:03:56.420 But what is funny is that these journalists are just so blown away by Trump is because they're used to these, frankly, cocked politicians that bow to every institution that they were actually elected to govern over, that the Constitution directs them to govern over.

00:04:11.160 But somehow they actually bended the knee to these institutions.

00:04:15.140 So much of Washington, our elected officials, were run by the institutions.

00:04:18.800 It is supposed to be the other way around.

00:04:20.800 And so that's why when Trump has come in and truly taken over the institutions of which he is in charge of and, in fact, should, it is an earthquake in D.C.

00:04:31.920 But I think we should talk about the key genius here, who truly is Stephen Miller.

00:04:36.500 You have to understand, Stephen Miller has studied these institutions and how to dismantle them since he was 16 years old.

00:04:44.160 And he came into this administration not only prepared to dismantle them, but emboldened by President Trump to do so.

00:04:51.460 And he really is the driving force behind what I think is an unbelievable success.

00:04:56.860 And in the Axios article, they lay out a lot of those successes.

00:04:59.900 But then one thing I kind of thought was where they say there's still remaining resistance that needs to be done.

00:05:05.320 They brought up the judicial branch, which obviously is true.

00:05:08.280 Now, the judicial branch is its own branch of government. 0.99

00:05:11.340 I blame a lot of the problems with the judicial branch actually around Mitch McConnell, Leonard Leo, and the idiots that put in these Bush Republican judges in the first Trump term that have been disasters. 0.98

00:05:24.760 And so this time around, I'm glad we're not listening to the Leonard Leo and those folks. 0.95

00:05:29.720 But they bring up the media as being remaining resistance.

00:05:32.480 Well, we do have a brilliant FCC chairman in Brendan Carr, who I think is doing a lot to dismantle the media.

00:05:38.420 I still would love to see him actually strip one of these news outlets from their licenses, something Trump's talked about.

00:05:46.320 But he's won a number of settlements, forced settlements against some of these organizations.

00:05:51.480 And I can't wait to see what's going to happen with the Wall Street Journal.

00:05:54.540 So overall, I'm very, very pleased.

00:05:57.220 And I want to see more dismantling the institutions.

00:06:00.160 I love that.

00:06:00.840 Hang on for a second.

00:06:01.440 Hang on a second.

00:06:02.940 A couple of the big wins that we – because remember, the war room is also the home of the neo-Brandeisian movement where we think Lena Kahn did a tremendous job in the first term.

00:06:13.160 We're against this concentration.

00:06:14.920 You just talked about the tech bros.

00:06:16.720 Folks, the difference in the first term and the second term in those years in between is the concentration of power in big pharma, big ag, big tech, right?

00:06:25.380 The big media, Wall Street, it's the concentration of power.

00:06:28.520 They're taking all the lobbyists.

00:06:29.800 They're taking all the top law firms, all the communications firms.

00:06:34.500 We've got two massive cases we're working on.

00:06:37.100 And now we find out Zuckerberg's back in the Oval Office.

00:06:40.620 You're hearing – and the FTC, Andrew Ferguson has done a tremendous job taking a case that was filed in the last days of President Trump's first term.

00:06:49.520 Lena Kahn kind of perfected it over her time, and Andrew Ferguson's got him in court to essentially break up a big part of Facebook.

00:06:57.680 And now we hear that Zuckerberg's back hovering around the White House.

00:07:01.340 Gates spent two hours – after the president's three-hour board meeting or cabinet meeting, Gates is in the Oval for two hours arguing his case on vaccines, USAID, all that.

00:07:14.400 So are we going to continue to win this, or the forces of concentration of power, money and power, are going to thwart our efforts here to try to break up some of these institutions and particularly try to break up certain of these institutions, whether it's Facebook, whether it's Google, et cetera, ma'am?

00:07:35.680 Well, I think that there's a difference between institutions and companies.

00:07:40.880 Where I think that we are winning right now in the Trump administration is breaking up institutions.

00:07:44.740 For example, putting Darren Beatty as the head of the – what is it?

00:07:47.500 The National Institute for Peace, which was just a massive money laundering building organization in D.C. to funnel money to USAID.

00:07:55.060 Those institutions were winning.

00:07:56.880 I still – the corporations are its own massive animal.

00:08:00.500 I, like you, thought Lena Kahn was one of the most brilliant people that we've seen.

00:08:04.540 I wish, actually, she would have stuck around for this Trump administration. 1.00

00:08:07.400 So how Trump and this administration is going to handle the corporations is still something that we are kind of waiting and watching.

00:08:14.360 I've been very nervous to see the embracement, I guess, of folks like Zuckerberg and Gates and others.

00:08:20.380 But also I understand what the Trump administration is doing.

00:08:22.980 They're bringing in all sorts of voices, trying to make the tent bigger.

00:08:26.940 But we'll see.

00:08:27.680 When it matters, does Trump hold the line against these folks?

00:08:30.340 And I think that it's still too early to tell.

00:08:33.040 But I have a lot of faith in President Trump to do it.

00:08:36.040 And I'm certainly going to remain to be vocal, as you are, and to hope for those outcomes.

00:08:41.820 But, yeah, these guys are definitely – they are coming around.

00:08:45.060 They're donating a lot of money to President Trump's different groups.

00:08:48.060 But, again, just because you donate money does not mean you're going to get what you want into this Trump administration.

00:08:52.800 And so these institutions – you know, putting Rick Rennell in charge of the Kennedy Center.

00:08:56.700 Genius.

00:08:57.200 What he is doing over there is brilliant.

00:08:58.660 So I do like to see that.

00:09:00.020 But the corporations are still a big, big problem.

00:09:04.900 Let's go to – by the way, President Trump's got a couple things on True Social today.

00:09:08.180 One is about Karl Rove, and that problem at Fox continues to exist.

00:09:12.840 The other is about he wants to bring, I think, RICO charges against Soros.

00:09:16.740 Is that a little bit missing the boat?

00:09:18.120 Talk to me about Arabella and some of these organizations that we quite – we cannot totally figure out how some of these institutions on the left get their cash.

00:09:29.820 Is Soros yesterday's news and Arabella is where the focus should be, ma'am?

00:09:35.260 No, because Soros and Arabella are directly linked.

00:09:38.220 In fact, the person who's basically in charge of Arabella Advisors right now is Soros' son, Alex Soros.

00:09:43.240 So Arabella Advisors was formed in 2005, and it was formed after the Democrats had lost the House, Senate, and the presidency.

00:09:51.580 And so George Soros called a meeting of the top progressive donors in the country and then invited a couple of the top political consultants.

00:09:58.560 And the donors told them, you just collectively wasted hundreds of millions of our dollars.

00:10:03.480 You have nothing to show for it.

00:10:04.920 Come back to us with a plan that involves funding ideas and institutions that will live beyond one election cycle.

00:10:11.200 From that meeting, you got Arabella Advisors. 0.56

00:10:14.180 It was conceived there, and it was – it's, you know, quote, a philanthropic consulting company that manages tens of billions, some say upwards of $75 billion with a B, and foundation support – and those foundations support left-wing woke causes and institutions.

00:10:29.540 Now, Arabella essentially runs about 200 nonprofits.

00:10:32.760 They're the fiscal sponsor for them, but really what they do is they are – they fund these grassroots groups, which are anything but.

00:10:40.160 They are actually political, you know, political-run entities.

00:10:43.880 And so, for example, the No Kings protest, Arabella Advisors funded that.

00:10:47.060 It's funded largely by a lot of foreign money as well, but they poured $20 million most recently behind the groups funding the protests of Trump's D.C. crime crackdown.

00:10:56.640 And when Mark Zuckerberg wanted to purchase the 2020 election, he spent $350 million to do that.

00:11:04.560 And where did he turn to?

00:11:05.540 Arabella Advisors.

00:11:06.540 Arabella is who ran the Center for Tech and Civil Life, the CTCL, where Zuckerberg famously gave that $350 million to turnout voters. 0.97

00:11:15.480 But really, they just focused that money in 26 blue counties and swing states.

00:11:20.740 They took over those counties' election systems, printed ballots, and here we are.

00:11:25.720 So the buck stops with Arabella Advisors.

00:11:28.360 It is the – I mean, it runs everything, all of these institutions, and we have to go after them.

00:11:34.120 The next step, I want to see Scott Bessent, who is now the acting director of the IRS.

00:11:38.260 The most important thing he can do is announce an investigation into Arabella Advisors.

00:11:43.200 These nonprofits, that's how they operate, they are not nonprofits.

00:11:46.980 They get the tax deductions on their way in there, but they are meddling in every single institution, corporation, and also our government and the way that we live our lives every day.

00:11:56.540 So I think it is the most important thing we can keep our eyes on.

00:11:59.340 But the first thing we could do is the ability to donate their stock, right, on a tax-free basis, right, and then finance these things.

00:12:09.300 We ought to cut that out.

00:12:10.400 That would stop the wealthy from doing this.

00:12:11.920 Last thing before I let you go.

00:12:13.600 I know you've got to bounce.

00:12:15.020 Still, Zuckerberg and Gates – I mean, Gates gets two hours with the president.

00:12:18.940 New York Times reporting he's got two hours with the president.

00:12:20.880 Gates and Zuckerberg are still getting – how are they still getting this type of access when they've been on the other side of the football for so long?

00:12:27.520 How does that work?

00:12:29.780 Well, I do think Trump is getting concessions from them.

00:12:32.400 Bill Gates has been begging for this meeting.

00:12:34.340 They met – I believe they had dinner in late December at Mar-a-Lago before Trump had been inaugurated.

00:12:40.620 And then there was a story in April by the New York Times about how Bill Gates was desperately trying to get in and see the president.

00:12:45.440 He wouldn't.

00:12:46.200 He took the meeting yesterday.

00:12:47.260 But what also came out yesterday was that Bill Gates was – he's one of the largest financial backers of Arabella Advisors, that he was pulling his $450 million out of Arabella Advisors.

00:12:58.380 So I would like to hope that it was actually the Trump administration that pressured them to do this and then said, fine, we'll take your meeting.

00:13:04.420 So that – if that is the case, I don't know that to be the case, but if that is the case, then that's a big win for Trump.

00:13:10.420 And we all know Bill Gates went in and advocated for funding of vaccines all over the world and whatever crap that he always advocates for.

00:13:18.360 It doesn't mean Trump's going to do it, but Trump got him to pull his money out of Arabella, and that's a win in my book.

00:13:23.440 So, Caroline, where's your social media now that you're back from your long, summer-long audition for Below Decks, back from the Aegean or, you know, wherever – I saw the Instagram, wherever you guys were.

00:13:38.460 You're back.

00:13:39.000 You're back at work.

00:13:39.860 Where do people go to keep up with your fights, ma'am? 1.00

00:13:43.960 It is at Caroline Wren on Twitter, Getter, Crew Social, and Instagram.

00:13:51.000 Caroline, good to have you back.

00:13:52.280 Thank you.

00:13:53.580 The Caroline Wren, Season of the Institutions.

00:13:57.420 Dave Weigel's piece, I will get to that a little bit later.

00:14:01.100 John Solomon, I think Eduardo Bolsonaro, also going to join us.

00:14:04.820 When we return, a fascinating piece, actually a special – I guess a special edition of the Washington Monthly.

00:14:12.800 You know, a lot of these college – guides to college sprung up, I guess, 20 or 30 years ago to help people kind of focus, right?

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00:14:21.720 you've got everybody doing them.

00:14:23.280 A totally different way to look at it is the way the Washington Monthly came at it.

00:14:27.160 We're going to have the editor to walk us through it in a moment.

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00:16:59.880 There's been an incident out in, it looks like, in Minneapolis.

00:17:02.880 There's going to be a press conference at our press briefing at 1130 Eastern Daylight Time.

00:17:07.040 We're going to go live to that.

00:17:08.600 Trying to get Eduardo Bolsonaro update on his father in Brazil and also John Solomon about what's going on in some of these court cases.

00:17:15.920 We may have to delay that until this afternoon or tomorrow because we're going to go live.

00:17:20.080 I want to introduce now Paul Glastris from Washington Monthly, the editor.

00:17:24.660 Paul, I always love when people try to do something totally outside the box and differently that kind of grabs you.

00:17:33.160 There's been a lot of these college guides, but you guys have done something totally different.

00:17:37.940 You've actually conceived, I call it a populist guide to college.

00:17:41.960 You've actually taken what's out there and looked at it through fresh eyes for, quite frankly, the bottom 90%.

00:17:49.800 And the thing is quite fascinating.

00:17:53.180 Walk us through how you guys conceived it.

00:17:55.300 What is this college guide about and what does it tell us?

00:17:58.960 So this is the 20th anniversary.

00:18:01.740 Thanks for having me on, by the way.

00:18:03.540 20th anniversary of the Washington Monthly College Guide and Rankings.

00:18:08.620 This year we redid our methodology to put an even finer point on what we think college rankings, which we think are important.

00:18:19.260 But the dozen of them that are out there, especially U.S. news, totally miss what's important about college rankings.

00:18:28.000 You know, our college rankings are about the value for average students, students from modest means, students who are poor, who are working class. 0.98

00:18:41.600 And they're also for the taxpayers.

00:18:44.540 You know, the average taxpayer spends about $1,700 a year on higher education because the government spends half a trillion dollars on higher education.

00:18:54.360 And they, you know, students and taxpayers want certain things from higher education.

00:19:00.160 We measure those things.

00:19:01.880 And what are those things?

00:19:02.740 It's number one, upward mobility for median income and below students, right?

00:19:09.440 The people who need entree into the middle class. 0.57

00:19:13.160 Number two, the research that drives human flourishing, economic growth.

00:19:20.000 And then three, the encouraging students to be active citizens, to vote, to serve their country in the military, in AmeriCorps.

00:19:31.720 So those are the things we measure.

00:19:34.040 And that's very different from U.S. news and the other dozen imitators because what they're about is capturing the eyeballs of the upper middle, 0.76

00:19:46.800 well, students from the upper middle class and wealthy families who have been taught since birth to strive to get into the most selective schools in order to stay in the upper middle class and the wealthy class.

00:19:59.280 And so their metrics all somehow, surprise, surprise, result in the same 20 or 30 mostly private or big flagship public universities in the top.

00:20:17.880 So you've got your Harvard's, your Yale's, your, you know, and so forth.

00:20:22.000 And in our ranking, it's quite different when you measure things the way we measure it for the average person and the average taxpayer.

00:20:30.440 A lot of mostly unsung state schools and small liberal arts colleges share the top 30 with the elite.

00:20:40.720 And in fact, the highest ranking elite school, Princeton, is number five on our rankings behind three California State University campuses, including Fresno State, number two.

00:20:55.280 And the number one school is probably a college 99% of your listeners and viewers have never heard of.

00:21:03.820 And that's Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.

00:21:09.360 And it's just a fascinating school.

00:21:11.380 And there's all these hidden gems for people available at WashingtonMonthly.com that they're just not going to find on other rankings.

00:21:21.020 It was amazing.

00:21:22.260 I want to go back to the methodology because you're right.

00:21:24.620 All the other 20 things have the same 30 or 40, 50 schools are ranked.

00:21:29.300 And people should know it's highly competitive among those guys because they want to go up.

00:21:33.620 Those rankings are intensely worked.

00:21:35.520 It's like the Forbes 400, right?

00:21:37.600 These guys work it nonstop because it's very important to be number, you know, for Harvard is, wants to be above Stanford, wants to be above Princeton, wants to be above Yale.

00:21:46.880 Walk me through.

00:21:47.720 I want to go back through the methodology.

00:21:49.440 How did you guys think this through and how did you apply it and how did you get the information related to that?

00:21:54.600 Well, funny story, I used to work for U.S. News for 10 years, so their college ranking was paying my mortgage.

00:22:03.320 I didn't work on the on the ranking, but it was part of what we did.

00:22:08.760 And there was always within U.S. News personnel a kind of sense that something was rotten in Denmark.

00:22:15.740 So when I took over the Washington Monthly some years later, we decided to do some investigative pieces about the U.S. News rankings.

00:22:27.380 We found some pretty hinky stuff about their methodology.

00:22:31.560 And then we said, all right, smart guy, if you think you can do a better job, we gave ourselves the challenge of doing a better job.

00:22:37.440 So in 2005, we created these alternative rankings.

00:22:42.460 And, you know, to understand our rankings, you've got to understand U.S. News's.

00:22:46.980 And they've all evolved over time.

00:22:48.560 But basically, what U.S. News and most of its competitors do is they measure colleges by how exclusive they are, number one, right?

00:22:59.620 How few people, you know, they get in, how many people they don't get in.

00:23:04.540 Number two, wealth, how much spending per student, you know, and it used to be they would measure the donors who would give them money.

00:23:19.260 And number three, prestige, right, is this self-referential survey they do that asks other college leaders, what do you think of this college?

00:23:31.000 And it's all sort of, well, it's prestigious because people say it's prestigious.

00:23:36.580 So when you do it that way, you automatically lift to the top the Harvards and the Yales and the Princetons and the Columbias and the MITs and so forth.

00:23:49.460 We do the opposite, right?

00:23:52.000 We don't have any SAT requirements.

00:23:54.660 We're not looking at selectivity.

00:23:56.000 That doesn't get you anything in our rankings.

00:24:00.060 In fact, you know, our rankings wind up giving bonuses to students, to schools that take in more kids on Pell, right, on Pell Grants.

00:24:13.280 Pell Grants are the grants from the federal government that go to moderate and low-income students.

00:24:20.460 The more Pell Grants you take in as a percentage and the better those students do, the higher you are on our rankings.

00:24:30.200 So it's just a very different way of looking at it.

00:24:32.400 And you get a different result.

00:24:33.860 You've gone, you started at a, you started, what, at University of Missouri and then went to Northwestern.

00:24:41.300 Talk to us about the, because I did the same thing, you know, I, and this is why I talk about the H-1B visas all the time, about the kids that grinded through the STEM programs and went to engineering schools and computers.

00:24:51.760 These guys were number one in their class or the top in the hard courses.

00:24:54.560 You know, I, I had, I had a while that, you know, I kind of phoned it in, right, and I went to a land-grant university, start off before Georgetown and Harvard.

00:25:02.540 I worked my way up the food chain.

00:25:04.200 But you did also, and you find out when you go to these institutions, it's about the teachers.

00:25:09.100 It's about the people around it that want to learn.

00:25:11.160 I mean, and that's why I think it's so fascinating about your guide.

00:25:14.140 You actually lay it out that, hey, there's a whole world out here that you don't have to pay $100,000 a year if you really want an education.

00:25:21.460 Tell me about your journey.

00:25:22.540 Yeah, well, I, I, I was, you know, not the greatest student in the world, uh, in, in elementary and middle school.

00:25:29.600 And toward the end of high school, I finally kind of began to buckle down, but I didn't have great scores or anything.

00:25:34.240 So I went to where everybody in my subdivision there, my suburb of St. Louis went to, which is, uh, you know, a Missouri state school, University of Missouri.

00:25:42.660 Good, you know, it's the flagship.

00:25:44.320 Um, and, and what I, and then I, you know, for other, for a variety of reasons, transferred to Northwestern.

00:25:50.320 Uh, my brother was there.

00:25:52.000 My best friend was there.

00:25:52.840 Anyway, what I found was that the quality of the professors at Northwestern were excellent, but they were no more excellent than the quality of the professors at, at Mizzou.

00:26:02.040 They, they, they, I, they were, we have a plethora of very smart people getting, uh, you know, degrees in this country, struggling to find places to teach.

00:26:13.940 And so, you know, these universities have their pick of brilliant minds.

00:26:19.760 And so the, the difference in the quality of the teaching is not so great.

00:26:23.820 And that kind of opened my mind to the idea that this hierarchy, uh, at U S news was malarkey.

00:26:31.780 And, and, and so, um, and in, in our current issue, I mentioned, uh, uh, uh, Fresno state.

00:26:38.980 I don't know if you know about Fresno state.

00:26:40.760 Fresno state is in the heart of the central Valley of California, right?

00:26:44.040 In Fresno.

00:26:45.060 And they take in total open access school.

00:26:48.800 It's the kind of school you might've gone to Steve.

00:26:51.140 Um, but a lot of their students come from very poor backgrounds.

00:26:55.020 And, uh, the president of the school himself came from a farm family.

00:26:58.980 Uh, and a lot of these students are, are, you know, dirt poor or modest income.

00:27:05.680 They, they don't charge too much money for the degree.

00:27:09.360 They graduate at higher rates than you would expect.

00:27:13.160 Given their demographics, they earn more than you would expect given their demographics.

00:27:18.420 And a lot of these kids, some of them anyway, um, go back to work and they stay in, in the area.

00:27:24.440 They don't, you know, jet off to New York or whatever.

00:27:27.080 Uh, they, they, they stay there in the central Valley for the most part.

00:27:30.860 And, and some of them go back to become managers of the agricultural firms where they used to pick crops.

00:27:37.660 Right.

00:27:38.360 That's what higher education at its best ought to be doing.

00:27:42.500 It's what makes us proud.

00:27:44.280 Yeah.

00:27:46.580 Hang on.

00:27:47.120 I want to hold you through the break.

00:27:49.020 Okay.

00:27:49.520 Great.

00:27:49.620 Paul Glastris from the Washington month.

00:27:51.500 And the reason is I've got a great story.

00:27:53.240 When I first saw this and, and one of you guys showed it to us when you had Fresno state,

00:27:57.760 so high, I've got a great Victor David Hanson story about Fresno state.

00:28:04.060 And the reason I think this Washington monthly ranking is very important.

00:28:07.860 You guys ought to look into it.

00:28:09.540 Short commercial break.

00:28:10.500 Paul Glastris from the Washington monthly on the other side.

00:28:13.080 Also, we're going to go to this press conference as soon as it's set up.

00:28:16.380 Short commercial break.

00:28:17.240 Back in one minute.

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00:29:40.420 So Paul and Paul Glassers is with us from the Washer Monthly,

00:29:47.240 this incredible new guide to colleges.

00:29:49.260 I recommend everybody, and he's going to tell you how to get there,

00:29:51.520 but everybody ought to get into it today,

00:29:53.300 particularly if you've got kids thinking about college

00:29:55.700 or if you're someone that's going to end up paying

00:29:58.260 or help paying your kids college,

00:30:01.620 or if you're a taxpayer.

00:30:02.920 Kind of a buried lead there was at $1,700 a year,

00:30:05.880 so you've got your skin in the game.

00:30:07.660 Paul, when I saw that you had Fresno State,

00:30:10.720 I don't even know if Victor Davis Hanson remembers this,

00:30:13.240 but the first time I became aware of him was I think in the late 90s.

00:30:17.380 I'm reading my copy of the Financial Times of London,

00:30:20.620 which people know that is one of my favorite,

00:30:23.920 not the favorite paper,

00:30:25.440 and they've got an op-ed about this guy I'd never heard of

00:30:28.020 from Fresno State, and he's talking about,

00:30:30.800 because he's a classicist,

00:30:32.480 that that's what he teaches at Fresno State.

00:30:34.240 He describes his students exactly like you just described them,

00:30:38.400 because he lives up,

00:30:39.400 he comes off a farming family up in the valley up there

00:30:43.640 near Fresno State.

00:30:44.540 He talks about his students being these working class,

00:30:47.140 Hispanic and working class American kids

00:30:50.540 and Hispanic Americans that worked on the farms, etc.

00:30:53.040 He's teaching Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War,

00:30:56.920 he's teaching Herodos,

00:30:58.200 he's teaching all the classic Greeks and Romans,

00:31:01.280 and they can't get enough of it,

00:31:02.880 and they're relating it to their experience in life and growing up,

00:31:07.640 and he just says,

00:31:08.740 hey, I've gone to some of the better schools in the country,

00:31:11.680 but this is an open,

00:31:14.300 these folks are mesmerized by this,

00:31:16.780 they just need to be given access to this information,

00:31:20.040 and now he's at Stanford many years later

00:31:22.660 coming off the Fresno State faculty.

00:31:25.180 So there's a lot there.

00:31:27.200 I mean, that's why Fresno State,

00:31:28.700 the places like Fresno State,

00:31:30.600 are tremendous value for the dollar,

00:31:33.220 and if you get in there and you want an education

00:31:35.980 and you meet the right people,

00:31:38.260 you can do just as well there

00:31:39.660 as you can do in Princeton and Harvard

00:31:41.160 and Yale and Northwestern.

00:31:43.200 Sir, your observations.

00:31:44.760 Well, first, you know,

00:31:47.660 Victor David Hanson's first book, I think,

00:31:50.360 was about the Greek way of war,

00:31:52.880 and, you know, he wrote quite specifically

00:31:56.760 about the efforts of different Greek city-states

00:32:01.580 to destroy each other's crops,

00:32:04.800 and he said,

00:32:05.460 that is almost impossible to do,

00:32:06.920 I know, because I grew up on a farm.

00:32:09.120 So, you know, that story rings true to me,

00:32:14.320 and I'm sure he found perfectly brilliant young people

00:32:18.380 at Fresno State

00:32:19.520 who probably didn't have the preparation

00:32:22.480 from their, you know, communities and high schools

00:32:25.580 to have read some of these classic texts before,

00:32:31.320 and, you know, for some of them,

00:32:33.220 it was probably mind-blowing.

00:32:35.120 For others, you know, they're there at college

00:32:36.920 just to get ahead, right?

00:32:38.440 They've got, you know,

00:32:41.320 they need to get a good job

00:32:43.240 to rise above their station

00:32:45.620 or at least stay there,

00:32:47.920 and the classes at these schools,

00:32:52.340 look, there are a lot of schools.

00:32:54.580 We rate 1,400-plus colleges and universities.

00:32:58.720 There's a whole bunch at the bottom, right?

00:33:00.920 And there are all kinds of colleges down there

00:33:02.760 that do very, very poorly.

00:33:05.700 Some of them are for-profits.

00:33:06.820 Some of them are art schools.

00:33:08.460 Some of them are religious schools.

00:33:09.940 A lot of them are state schools.

00:33:11.260 It's not like this whole class of colleges is good or bad,

00:33:14.760 but you can find great schools across the country,

00:33:19.040 and especially in certain states like California,

00:33:23.920 like New York, like North Carolina, like Florida,

00:33:27.500 that have strong centralized systems of governance

00:33:33.000 of their public universities

00:33:35.440 and that have long, decades-old commitments,

00:33:40.600 political commitments to keeping costs down,

00:33:45.020 tuition down for in-state modest and low-income students.

00:33:51.120 So there's a lot of states where that just isn't the case,

00:33:54.800 and if you go to college at public universities

00:33:58.600 in those states, it's more costly.

00:34:03.280 Paul, where do people go to get access to the list?

00:34:07.680 It's fascinating, and everybody ought to take a look at this.

00:34:10.220 And then what is your social media?

00:34:13.820 WashingtonMonthly.com.

00:34:15.620 People should read it every day.

00:34:16.900 There's magazine-quality writing each and every day

00:34:21.860 at WashingtonMonthly.com, and if you go there,

00:34:24.680 we have a whole tab under the college guide,

00:34:26.720 and you can read not only the rankings,

00:34:29.780 our best colleges for your tuition and tax dollar ranking,

00:34:33.680 which is our main one, but other rankings,

00:34:36.040 best Hispanic-serving institutions,

00:34:39.120 best colleges for research, and so forth,

00:34:42.120 best bang for the buck, 0.89

00:34:43.140 and some great feature and investigative work

00:34:47.420 in this new issue of the Washington Monthly

00:34:50.220 by, you know, on a variety of topics.

00:34:54.860 I mentioned one about, you know,

00:34:57.260 how certain states like Florida and California

00:34:59.280 run their public university systems,

00:35:03.220 but there's a lot of great journalism there, too.

00:35:05.260 And my handle on both Twitter and Blue Sky

00:35:10.000 is at Glastris, G-L-A-S-T-R-I-S.

00:35:15.560 Paul, thank you so much for coming on,

00:35:17.180 and thank you guys, thank the team over there

00:35:18.760 for doing this guide, the Populist Guide

00:35:21.440 to Higher Education.

00:35:22.960 Thank you, sir, appreciate you.

00:35:24.860 Thanks for having me on.

00:35:27.880 Fresno State, I'm telling you.

00:35:31.720 Victor Davis Hanson laid it out 30 years ago.

00:35:34.360 I've got to pull that article.

00:35:35.920 Op-ed.

00:35:36.420 I think this is the first op-ed

00:35:37.460 he ever had in the Financial Times.

00:35:39.600 John, we're going to go to this press conference live.

00:35:41.220 We've got John Solomon is joining us.

00:35:43.100 John, can you give us up the date?

00:35:44.440 The things you send me,

00:35:45.620 the articles you're doing over at Just the News,

00:35:47.980 literally blow my head up every night. 0.55

00:35:49.760 I just can't.

00:35:50.260 I'm so furious about this entire thing.

00:35:53.120 No, because it's just so,

00:35:54.460 it's so in your grill, right?

00:35:56.860 Talk to me about the latest Comey revelation, sir.

00:36:01.700 Listen, the deep state,

00:36:02.900 the weaponization state,

00:36:04.720 it was running rampant

00:36:06.580 and it had no impediments inside the government.

00:36:09.520 So right in the period of time

00:36:11.620 when James Comey's FBI is investigating

00:36:13.580 Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal,

00:36:16.520 her improper use of a private server

00:36:18.780 to move classified secrets

00:36:19.980 and do government business,

00:36:21.580 he closed down that investigation.

00:36:23.280 Now, he knows all the liabilities about it

00:36:25.660 because he talked about it at a press conference.

00:36:27.160 And a few months later,

00:36:28.240 he's working on a leak machine

00:36:30.080 to go after Donald Trump

00:36:31.400 and use the media to dirty up Donald Trump.

00:36:33.920 And his inner circle are using,

00:36:36.500 I'm not making this up,

00:36:37.840 private email to facilitate the leak.

00:36:40.080 And the investigators,

00:36:41.760 after Comey's fired,

00:36:42.960 discover this.

00:36:43.680 And they're like,

00:36:44.220 wait a second,

00:36:44.680 his chief of staff took a piece of information

00:36:46.300 from the FBI system,

00:36:47.820 moved it to the private email

00:36:51.120 so he could facilitate

00:36:52.100 an unauthorized leak to the media.

00:36:54.240 They try to investigate it

00:36:55.600 and they can't get the U.S. Attorney's Office

00:36:57.440 under Donald Trump, nonetheless,

00:36:58.900 under Jeff Sessions,

00:37:00.180 under Bill Barr,

00:37:01.600 under Rod Rosenstein.

00:37:03.280 They can't even get permission

00:37:04.620 to obtain the records

00:37:07.140 from that email account

00:37:08.200 and investigate it thoroughly.

00:37:09.960 And like all the other known crimes

00:37:13.120 and known abuses in government,

00:37:15.120 it gets shut down without a penalty.

00:37:16.740 But of all the people to be having people around

00:37:19.540 them using private email

00:37:20.340 to cover great government business

00:37:22.280 or to facilitate leaks,

00:37:23.720 James Comey should have been the last.

00:37:25.480 And there he is with his team

00:37:26.720 doing the very thing

00:37:27.920 that he was condemning at a podium

00:37:29.740 a few months earlier

00:37:30.520 when he gave the magic pass

00:37:32.280 to Hillary Clinton.

00:37:33.120 So that's the latest revelation.

00:37:34.840 Hold it.

00:37:35.220 Hang on.

00:37:36.580 Hang on.

00:37:37.220 Hang on.

00:37:37.860 My head's blown up for two things.

00:37:39.580 Let's bifurcate it.

00:37:41.340 Number one.

00:37:42.400 No, no, no, no.

00:37:43.140 Number one.

00:37:44.100 Because this was the thing over years

00:37:45.640 and this was this huge thing

00:37:47.820 that they're blaming.

00:37:48.660 If you go back to 16,

00:37:50.360 the summer of 16,

00:37:51.140 so they had this set up

00:37:53.780 and then he kind of waved it off the end.

00:37:55.720 But they knew what she did.

00:37:56.880 There's no doubt in your mind

00:37:58.240 they knew what she did was wrong.

00:38:00.300 Let's forget whether she's prosecuted. 1.00

00:38:01.600 They knew what she did was wrong, right?

00:38:03.160 No question about it?

00:38:04.140 Yeah.

00:38:04.640 Comey said it himself.

00:38:05.820 He said it,

00:38:06.340 just I'm not going to prosecute it.

00:38:07.740 And these are the guys

00:38:09.040 that investigate it.

00:38:10.920 So shortly thereafter,

00:38:13.060 knowing it was wrong,

00:38:14.640 knowing they were doing

00:38:15.520 a formal investigation

00:38:16.540 of what was a crime

00:38:17.980 or potentially a crime,

00:38:20.120 they then go,

00:38:21.940 and they're still running

00:38:23.040 the most revered

00:38:24.840 law enforcement institution

00:38:27.340 in the world,

00:38:28.600 they go and do the exact same thing?

00:38:30.760 Is that what you're telling me?

00:38:31.840 One hundred percent.

00:38:34.040 That's what these documents show.

00:38:35.300 This is what Cash Patel found

00:38:36.740 and made public

00:38:37.420 and that Pam Bondi declassified

00:38:39.760 and now sitting out there.

00:38:40.960 So it is shocking.

00:38:42.460 And it also reminds us

00:38:43.740 how much the Jeff Sessions

00:38:44.920 Bill Barr Justice Department

00:38:46.220 let us down.

00:38:47.360 These are all things

00:38:48.160 we could have known

00:38:48.960 before the 2020 election.

00:38:51.480 And instead,

00:38:52.300 they were buried in a drawer

00:38:53.400 until Cash Patel

00:38:54.600 and Pam Bondi dug them out. 0.97

00:38:55.720 Okay, but hang on.

00:38:58.060 That gets to my thing

00:38:58.940 because you talk about

00:38:59.860 the rot of the institutions.

00:39:01.540 This is the leadership

00:39:02.400 of the FBI.

00:39:03.980 They knew it was wrong.

00:39:05.580 They knew it was potentially criminal.

00:39:07.340 There's this whole controversy

00:39:08.400 about why they waved off.

00:39:09.500 They then set up

00:39:10.360 the exact same thing.

00:39:11.440 This shows you the rot

00:39:12.620 in these institutions.

00:39:14.200 But even, I think,

00:39:15.740 almost as bad

00:39:17.020 as then the guys

00:39:18.740 that come in

00:39:19.440 that are supposed to be

00:39:20.260 the guys that reformed the place,

00:39:22.400 they take a look

00:39:23.400 at this information.

00:39:24.220 And hang on.

00:39:25.420 Not only do they not pursue it,

00:39:27.860 they never ran it up

00:39:28.940 the chain of command

00:39:29.780 so anybody would know

00:39:30.940 that was going on.

00:39:31.760 This was all,

00:39:32.420 as you said,

00:39:33.080 buried until Cash

00:39:34.580 kind of found them

00:39:35.340 in the boxes

00:39:35.980 in the secure closet

00:39:40.780 that nobody's supposed

00:39:41.800 to go into.

00:39:42.280 Is that what happened here?

00:39:43.520 Not only did they not,

00:39:44.420 they reviewed it,

00:39:45.080 not investigate,

00:39:45.940 but they never told anybody

00:39:47.100 of the chain of command

00:39:48.060 or over at the White House

00:39:49.300 of what they had.

00:39:50.840 Is that the other part

00:39:52.480 of the story?

00:39:53.540 I think it's probably true

00:39:55.040 that Jeff Sessions

00:39:56.080 or a Bill Barr

00:39:56.880 or the Deputy Attorney General

00:39:58.160 or certainly the acting

00:39:59.720 Deputy Attorney General,

00:40:00.500 Dana Bonte,

00:40:01.100 definitely knew.

00:40:02.100 But it doesn't ever

00:40:02.840 get to the White House.

00:40:03.680 I talked to people

00:40:04.400 at the White House

00:40:04.860 and they were shocked

00:40:05.540 to see this story

00:40:06.240 this morning.

00:40:06.800 Like, oh my God,

00:40:07.640 you can't make this up.

00:40:09.240 Yeah, that's what it is.

00:40:10.040 You bury it.

00:40:11.080 And that culture

00:40:11.920 is why Joe Biden

00:40:14.100 felt no danger

00:40:15.240 in using a private email

00:40:16.360 to do all his pseudonym

00:40:17.360 emails for government business.

00:40:19.080 Everybody knew

00:40:19.800 no one would get punished

00:40:20.740 so they did it.

00:40:21.360 They just flaunted the law.

00:40:23.080 And I wonder

00:40:24.400 how many people

00:40:25.100 in the last four years

00:40:26.280 under Biden's

00:40:26.960 second administration

00:40:27.600 were doing the same thing

00:40:28.560 because there's never

00:40:29.380 been a penalty for it.

00:40:30.280 So why not do it?

00:40:34.000 John, we've got a minute or two.

00:40:35.740 Can you just walk us

00:40:36.460 through now all this?

00:40:38.080 Where, you know

00:40:39.220 better than anybody,

00:40:40.080 directionally,

00:40:40.740 where are these investigations

00:40:41.900 heading and kind of

00:40:43.900 the timing of these things?

00:40:46.120 Yeah, there's a lot

00:40:46.920 of grand jury activity.

00:40:48.080 None of it looks like

00:40:48.900 the big case yet.

00:40:50.200 It looks like

00:40:50.640 early ground gathering

00:40:51.680 of documents

00:40:52.520 on different aspects of it.

00:40:54.700 At some point,

00:40:55.360 I think Pam Bonney

00:40:56.000 makes a decision

00:40:56.660 to send it to Florida.

00:40:57.920 Two very important things.

00:40:59.160 The two big stories

00:40:59.760 we broke last week.

00:41:01.000 The knowledge now

00:41:01.800 that James Comey

00:41:02.700 authorized a leak

00:41:03.800 according to his own lawyer.

00:41:05.420 He authorized

00:41:05.940 a classified leak.

00:41:07.660 And according to Adam Schiff's

00:41:09.540 own Democratic House

00:41:10.700 Intelligence Committee staffer,

00:41:11.660 he authorized

00:41:12.280 a classified leak.

00:41:13.500 Those two cases

00:41:14.420 have a 10-year statute.

00:41:15.480 They don't even require

00:41:16.300 a conspiracy case to be made.

00:41:17.700 So those are early ones

00:41:19.240 for us to see.

00:41:19.980 Are they going to do it?

00:41:20.740 They just raided

00:41:21.420 John Bolton's house.

00:41:22.340 That's outside five years

00:41:24.120 of these alleged offenses.

00:41:25.860 Those also are signaling

00:41:27.620 that maybe they're going

00:41:28.360 to take on

00:41:29.240 some of these classified leaks

00:41:30.360 as a beginning strategy

00:41:31.980 while they build

00:41:32.620 a larger conspiracy case.

00:41:34.460 I wouldn't be surprised

00:41:35.380 if we saw our first charges

00:41:36.560 in the fall

00:41:37.060 if Pam Bonney serves.

00:41:38.440 If we go to Christmas

00:41:39.200 and there are no charges,

00:41:40.460 I think all of our skepticism

00:41:41.820 is going to be pretty high.

00:41:42.620 Real quick,

00:41:46.380 I'm hearing

00:41:46.660 it's not the FBI

00:41:48.280 in the investigation part

00:41:49.560 that the gating event here

00:41:51.320 is there's just not enough

00:41:52.320 senior prosecutorial hands

00:41:56.140 that can get on top of this

00:41:57.180 that the limitation

00:41:57.920 is actually the number

00:41:59.060 of prosecutors we have.

00:42:00.080 Are you hearing the same thing?

00:42:01.140 Yeah, I do.

00:42:02.720 I think that's a big part of it.

00:42:03.780 They are starting to ramp up.

00:42:04.980 It'd be helpful

00:42:05.440 if the Senate did its job

00:42:06.420 and got more of them through.

00:42:07.860 But I think, listen,

00:42:08.660 Pam Bonney has to make a decision. 1.00

00:42:10.040 Do we do the grand

00:42:10.840 conspiracy case or not?

00:42:11.960 Are we going to do it?

00:42:12.740 And where are we going to do it?

00:42:14.080 And when that decision is made,

00:42:15.300 that's when you're going to know

00:42:16.320 that rubber's hit the road.

00:42:17.940 And, you know,

00:42:18.760 she seems to be moving

00:42:19.680 in that direction.

00:42:20.720 And the right way to do this

00:42:21.720 is make sure you got

00:42:22.460 all the evidence

00:42:23.080 and then look at the evidence

00:42:24.220 and say,

00:42:24.380 that's a conspiracy.

00:42:25.260 Let's go after it.

00:42:26.200 So it seems like

00:42:26.940 that works underway.

00:42:27.900 I think Cash and Pam Bonney

00:42:29.060 are working well together

00:42:29.920 right now.

00:42:30.600 And there's, you know,

00:42:31.740 Cash is turning up

00:42:32.520 unbelievable stuff.

00:42:34.000 So is Tulsi.

00:42:34.800 And so the evidence

00:42:35.920 is now there.

00:42:37.000 Let's see if the Justice Department

00:42:38.200 is different this time.

00:42:39.100 But we want Pam Bonney 1.00

00:42:40.600 not to be Bill Barr.

00:42:41.960 Dude,

00:42:45.480 this story this morning

00:42:46.920 is like,

00:42:47.760 it's institutionally,

00:42:49.260 I don't know if anybody,

00:42:49.880 I'm serious,

00:42:50.440 I don't know if anybody

00:42:51.020 could change it.

00:42:51.660 So Solomon,

00:42:52.300 you're the best.

00:42:52.960 Where do people go

00:42:53.600 for all the breaking news

00:42:54.600 on all these investigations

00:42:55.720 you're putting up?

00:42:56.880 Where do folks

00:42:57.420 get your content?

00:42:58.580 Yeah, real simple.

00:42:59.640 Justinews.com,

00:43:00.700 Jay Solomon reports

00:43:01.640 on social media

00:43:02.380 and I'm lucky

00:43:02.820 to have to follow you

00:43:03.460 every day on

00:43:03.940 Real America's Voice

00:43:04.580 6 o'clock.

00:43:05.500 Justinews,

00:43:05.980 no noise

00:43:06.360 with my amazing colleague

00:43:07.340 Amanda Head.

00:43:07.840 And I might add

00:43:11.700 that John Solomon

00:43:12.420 also is another one

00:43:13.580 that's worked

00:43:14.000 the entire month of August.

00:43:15.620 Nobody took a day off here.

00:43:16.980 There's so much going on. 0.97

00:43:17.780 Damn right. 0.93

00:43:18.120 Never seen anything like it. 0.97

00:43:18.920 Too much of a country to save.

00:43:20.660 Thank you so much for being here.

00:43:21.360 Take care.

00:43:22.800 Thanks, buddy.

00:43:23.120 Too important.

00:43:25.400 Incredible.

00:43:26.280 The press conference

00:43:27.200 has not started as of yet

00:43:29.040 so we'll come back

00:43:29.860 and have a deblock,

00:43:31.000 hopefully.

00:43:31.540 Then we'll go right

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00:44:51.120 slash Bannon.

00:44:52.300 Do it today.

00:44:53.260 Do not let this thing

00:44:54.800 get ahead of you.

00:44:56.360 Do it today.

00:44:56.860 Here's your host,

00:44:59.880 Stephen K.

00:45:00.620 Bannon.

00:45:03.420 I'm going to come back

00:45:04.200 and hit that guide

00:45:05.000 again tomorrow.

00:45:05.780 It is the populist guide

00:45:06.880 for college

00:45:07.240 and there's a lot there

00:45:08.260 particularly if you're

00:45:09.400 of modest means

00:45:10.420 and you know

00:45:12.280 you're questioning

00:45:13.720 maybe questioning

00:45:14.660 hey the value

00:45:15.400 of college etc.

00:45:17.260 There's a lot there

00:45:18.120 in that Washington Monthly

00:45:19.200 so get it,

00:45:20.180 read it

00:45:20.560 and I'll have more

00:45:22.220 on that.

00:45:22.840 And school like Fresno State

00:45:24.120 is a perfect example

00:45:25.120 of a lot of value

00:45:26.020 out there

00:45:26.480 and a lot of good people

00:45:27.860 and you can really

00:45:28.500 you can really make

00:45:30.280 a go of it.

00:45:30.920 So it's quite

00:45:31.500 totally different

00:45:32.460 than all these other guys.

00:45:34.100 Steve Stern

00:45:34.700 Steve

00:45:35.740 Heather Honey

00:45:37.420 is now

00:45:38.080 just been named

00:45:39.680 I guess the head

00:45:40.260 of election integrity

00:45:41.240 over at

00:45:42.680 and we'll do more

00:45:43.360 on this later

00:45:43.980 in the week

00:45:44.520 of Heather

00:45:45.220 because

00:45:45.760 the left

00:45:47.480 is melting down

00:45:48.960 that they have

00:45:50.000 somebody really

00:45:50.580 from the Steve Stern

00:45:51.860 Academy

00:45:52.400 of hardcore

00:45:53.980 election integrity

00:45:55.000 that's now running

00:45:56.260 the entire system.

00:45:58.020 You've got another

00:45:58.880 another one of these

00:46:00.020 great panels

00:46:01.120 or shows today.

00:46:02.500 Tell us a little bit

00:46:03.100 about it

00:46:03.500 because hey

00:46:04.380 no offense

00:46:05.200 an alumni

00:46:05.760 of your

00:46:07.060 of your

00:46:07.600 of your broadcast

00:46:08.700 is now

00:46:09.620 officially

00:46:10.540 the most senior

00:46:11.900 person in the United States

00:46:12.780 government

00:46:13.120 about election integrity.

00:46:14.520 Sir.

00:46:15.800 Well this is going

00:46:16.800 to be a great

00:46:17.460 event today.

00:46:18.460 It's going to be

00:46:18.780 at 2 o'clock

00:46:19.420 eastern time.

00:46:20.600 My email is on the bottom

00:46:21.560 if you'd like to come on

00:46:22.520 go to

00:46:22.840 sstern1054gmail.com

00:46:25.280 We have some of the

00:46:26.420 top people coming on

00:46:27.480 today.

00:46:28.140 Captain Seth Keschel

00:46:29.400 who finally got

00:46:30.540 recognized by

00:46:31.260 President Trump

00:46:32.060 is going to give

00:46:32.840 all the data

00:46:33.580 on Arizona.

00:46:35.720 This is an Arizona

00:46:36.680 call today

00:46:37.460 with about five

00:46:38.260 people.

00:46:38.960 We're going to have

00:46:39.300 the head of the

00:46:40.120 Republican Party

00:46:41.000 Gina Svoboda 0.85

00:46:42.160 going to come on.

00:46:42.940 She's going to talk

00:46:43.480 about what's going

00:46:44.100 on there.

00:46:44.940 Catherine Engelbrecht

00:46:45.820 will be on

00:46:46.360 from True to Vote.

00:46:47.660 Erson Russell

00:46:48.280 from California

00:46:49.200 we've been trying

00:46:49.780 to get him on

00:46:50.200 for six months.

00:46:50.880 He's finally coming

00:46:51.560 on.

00:46:52.220 Peter Tickton

00:46:52.820 is going to be

00:46:53.220 doing this

00:46:53.600 from the airport.

00:46:54.800 He's going to be

00:46:55.220 talking about

00:46:55.900 Tina and we're

00:46:58.240 trying to get her

00:46:58.740 out of jail.

00:47:00.060 We're also going

00:47:00.780 to have Liz Harris 0.83

00:47:01.520 on.

00:47:02.260 We're going to have

00:47:02.780 Daniel Richards

00:47:03.680 from New Hampshire.

00:47:05.000 Marissa Hamilton.

00:47:06.820 Joe Hopp is going

00:47:07.660 to be talking about

00:47:08.340 what's going on

00:47:08.940 in Orange County.

00:47:10.060 General Flynn

00:47:10.640 is going to give us

00:47:11.300 a big event

00:47:12.240 that he's going

00:47:13.060 to be doing.

00:47:13.800 Michelle Swinnick

00:47:14.480 is going to be

00:47:14.820 talking about

00:47:15.240 all the fraud

00:47:15.840 in Arizona.

00:47:17.060 And Ray Michaels

00:47:17.800 yournews.com.

00:47:19.140 So we'll be on

00:47:20.120 from 2 o'clock

00:47:20.900 eastern time.

00:47:21.620 It'll be on

00:47:21.980 about 100 podcasters.

00:47:24.180 We expect between

00:47:24.980 4 and 8 million people.

00:47:26.620 This is going fantastic.

00:47:28.140 And they're finally

00:47:28.780 recognizing everybody

00:47:30.300 at the Republican Party

00:47:32.300 that all our people

00:47:33.400 who they didn't use

00:47:34.440 before they're now using.

00:47:35.940 And that's why

00:47:36.360 Heather got invited in

00:47:38.200 because she's a hard 0.99

00:47:38.980 working girl.

00:47:39.940 That's the important

00:47:40.540 thing about Heather 0.98

00:47:41.620 and the team

00:47:42.720 up in Pennsylvania

00:47:43.540 that worked so hard

00:47:45.000 on this.

00:47:45.480 And last night

00:47:45.960 they're just literally

00:47:46.660 blowing their heads

00:47:47.400 are blowing up.

00:47:48.420 Folks you should know

00:47:49.160 this is like an

00:47:50.380 all-star team today

00:47:51.240 but every week

00:47:52.140 or every couple weeks

00:47:53.080 Steve has the

00:47:54.680 additional ads

00:47:55.960 to the all-star team

00:47:56.800 all over the country.

00:47:57.800 People are working

00:47:58.780 like crazy on this.

00:48:00.460 And this is what's

00:48:01.140 going to ensure

00:48:01.920 our victories going forward.

00:48:03.480 If you don't have this

00:48:04.220 they're going to get

00:48:04.620 back to stealing it.

00:48:05.900 And so a lot of these

00:48:06.840 people are behind

00:48:08.100 the scenes but there's

00:48:08.960 stuff going on every day.

00:48:10.360 We're going to stream it

00:48:11.040 as we always do

00:48:11.980 every couple of weeks

00:48:13.280 when Steve gets

00:48:14.140 this group together

00:48:16.920 to make sure you get

00:48:18.200 the access to it.

00:48:18.980 But you'll be shocked

00:48:19.680 at how much work's

00:48:20.420 going on and how much

00:48:21.300 work's still to be done.

00:48:22.260 That's why I think

00:48:22.740 President Trump is now

00:48:23.760 recognizing this

00:48:25.100 at the highest level

00:48:26.020 and I think that she

00:48:27.360 is quite symbolic

00:48:28.400 of all the work

00:48:30.040 that people are doing

00:48:30.640 on a state-by-state basis.

00:48:31.760 I want to give a special

00:48:32.600 hat tip to those folks

00:48:33.520 in Pennsylvania

00:48:34.180 that have just hammered,

00:48:36.160 hammered, hammered this.

00:48:37.740 Because you know folks

00:48:38.660 in 2020

00:48:39.320 the mail-in ballots

00:48:40.680 it was Pennsylvania

00:48:42.460 that tipped this

00:48:43.840 entire thing

00:48:44.360 in the most egregious

00:48:45.560 of them all.

00:48:46.560 So I want to give

00:48:46.960 Heather and the entire 0.98

00:48:47.740 team, everybody,

00:48:48.800 Steve, your guys.

00:48:50.040 Steve, where do people

00:48:50.800 go once again

00:48:51.700 to get to this?

00:48:53.140 They'll be starting

00:48:53.640 at 2 o'clock.

00:48:54.700 Grace and Moe

00:48:55.260 will have it up

00:48:55.780 on all our platforms

00:48:56.760 on War Room.

00:48:58.680 But where do folks

00:48:59.600 go and where do folks

00:49:00.460 track you down personally?

00:49:02.240 So we got Stern

00:49:03.080 American Rumble.

00:49:04.000 Go to Stern American.

00:49:05.060 And I got to tell you

00:49:05.680 something and you're

00:49:06.340 going to hopefully

00:49:06.800 be part of it.

00:49:07.540 We're going to be doing

00:49:08.220 something even bigger.

00:49:09.180 We're going to be doing

00:49:10.320 a Precinct Strategy Zoom

00:49:12.140 with one person

00:49:13.440 from every state

00:49:14.460 on September 30th.

00:49:16.480 This is going to be huge.

00:49:17.880 We're going to hopefully

00:49:18.300 we'll get you on

00:49:19.000 for 10 minutes

00:49:19.620 because you are the guy

00:49:21.060 who started this

00:49:21.800 with Dan Schultz.

00:49:22.740 He'll be talking

00:49:23.500 for 15 minutes.

00:49:24.960 We have some sensational

00:49:26.260 people coming on.

00:49:27.560 So if you go to

00:49:28.140 Stern American Rumble,

00:49:29.560 we'll be there live

00:49:30.500 today at 2 o'clock.

00:49:31.780 Or you can go to

00:49:32.260 sstern1054.gmail.com.

00:49:34.520 As soon as I get off

00:49:35.560 and I get these links,

00:49:36.840 I will send them to you.

00:49:37.760 You can see how beautiful

00:49:39.080 this is.

00:49:39.700 My team has done

00:49:40.780 a fantastic job.

00:49:42.340 I just got back

00:49:43.140 from Spain

00:49:44.080 where God was with me.

00:49:45.940 I had fall hit my head

00:49:47.640 and I got a clearance today.

00:49:48.760 Thank God.

00:49:49.660 And thank you for everybody

00:49:50.600 who was texting me

00:49:51.940 and emailing me,

00:49:53.100 wishing me all the best.

00:49:54.220 So thank you very much

00:49:55.340 for having me on today.

00:49:56.340 Action, action, action.

00:49:57.540 You know, I'm always there

00:49:58.540 for you and you're

00:49:59.520 always there for me.

00:50:00.640 If I want to get

00:50:02.980 one of those great shirts

00:50:04.000 like you're wearing

00:50:04.640 the flag shirts,

00:50:05.420 where do people go?

00:50:06.080 Go to www.theflagshirt.com.

00:50:10.100 We are doing super phenomenal.

00:50:12.340 We're now on TikTok.

00:50:13.520 We're everywhere.

00:50:14.800 I appreciate you

00:50:15.620 letting everybody know about it.

00:50:17.680 Things are fantastic.

00:50:19.300 You know, I got

00:50:19.940 two weeks of rest

00:50:21.400 on the ship

00:50:22.040 and it was fantastic.

00:50:23.900 And now I'm going full gone.

00:50:25.900 And we've got everybody

00:50:26.980 coming on today.

00:50:27.900 They're going to do

00:50:28.280 a wonderful job.

00:50:29.180 You're going to get

00:50:29.580 terrific information.

00:50:30.700 So between election integrity,

00:50:32.700 precinct strategy,

00:50:33.520 we're going to help

00:50:34.420 President Trump

00:50:35.200 and we're going to get

00:50:36.160 the next elections.

00:50:37.740 We're going to do terrific.

00:50:39.400 Tickton is going to be

00:50:40.300 talking about very soon

00:50:42.260 about an EO

00:50:43.080 that he and a bunch

00:50:45.080 of people are working on

00:50:46.060 where we're going to have

00:50:46.700 one day voting,

00:50:47.620 no machines,

00:50:48.440 no paper ballots.

00:50:49.740 Everything is going

00:50:50.420 to be fantastic.

00:50:51.820 I think this is going

00:50:52.780 to really help us

00:50:53.720 on our next election.

00:50:55.060 And you get the update

00:50:58.060 on Tina Peters,

00:50:59.160 who is a saint

00:51:00.120 and a martyr.

00:51:00.880 She's a martyr

00:51:01.440 for our cause.

00:51:03.360 See what they've done

00:51:04.140 to that gold star mother

00:51:05.440 with everything

00:51:06.280 she sacrificed

00:51:07.020 for this nation,

00:51:07.820 what they've done to her.

00:51:08.680 She will be legendary. 0.88

00:51:09.640 She'll pass down 0.99

00:51:10.300 in American history

00:51:11.220 as one of the great

00:51:11.980 patriots of our era.

00:51:13.500 It's amazing.

00:51:14.320 Steve Stern,

00:51:14.840 thank you so much.

00:51:15.700 I appreciate you.

00:51:17.040 We've got to get people

00:51:18.120 to step up.

00:51:18.900 We can't be sleeping.

00:51:20.240 Join precinct strategy,

00:51:22.060 join election security.

00:51:23.600 Let's get to work.

00:51:24.920 Yep.

00:51:26.320 And the precinct strategy,

00:51:27.420 we've got to,

00:51:27.780 I know people,

00:51:28.740 they're getting hammered

00:51:29.720 by the state Republican GOP.

00:51:32.240 Thank you very much,

00:51:33.060 Steve Stern.

00:51:33.560 Okay, the press conference

00:51:34.460 is going to start.

00:51:35.860 Let's go ahead

00:51:36.340 and jump to it.

00:51:40.820 We're wrapping our arms

00:51:42.980 around these families,

00:51:44.280 giving them every ounce

00:51:45.800 that we can muster.

00:51:49.120 These were Minneapolis families.

00:51:51.540 These were American families.

00:51:52.920 And the amount of pain

00:51:55.520 that they are suffering

00:51:56.480 right now

00:51:57.100 is extraordinary.

00:52:00.240 Don't just say

00:52:01.140 this is about thoughts

00:52:02.100 and prayers right now.

00:52:03.160 These kids were literally praying.

00:52:05.600 It was the first week

00:52:06.940 of school.

00:52:08.020 They were in a church.

00:52:10.980 These are kids that

00:52:12.300 should be learning

00:52:13.820 with their friends.

00:52:16.060 They should be playing

00:52:17.200 on the playground.

00:52:17.940 They should be able

00:52:20.320 to go to school

00:52:21.700 or church

00:52:22.580 in peace

00:52:23.420 without the fear

00:52:24.440 or risk of violence

00:52:25.620 and their parents

00:52:26.420 should have the same

00:52:27.200 kind of assurance.

00:52:29.280 These are the sort of

00:52:30.420 basic assurances

00:52:31.480 that every family

00:52:32.540 should have

00:52:33.260 every step of the day

00:52:34.840 regardless of where

00:52:35.920 they are in our country.

00:52:37.120 I'm so deeply saddened

00:52:44.360 and I'm so sorry

00:52:45.300 to the families

00:52:47.680 that I know

00:52:48.300 are suffering

00:52:49.000 right now.

00:52:51.120 My ask is

00:52:52.100 to everyone

00:52:52.780 stand by them.

00:52:56.120 Love them.

00:52:56.820 What if he had

00:52:58.380 the brightest mind

00:52:59.320 in the war room

00:53:00.120 delivering critical

00:53:01.260 financial research

00:53:02.380 every month?

00:53:03.900 Steve Bannon here.

00:53:05.040 War room listeners

00:53:05.660 know Jim Rickards.

00:53:06.740 I love this guy.

00:53:08.180 He's our wise man.

00:53:09.180 A former CIA,

00:53:10.340 Pentagon,

00:53:10.800 and White House advisor

00:53:11.700 with an unmatched grasp

00:53:13.400 of geopolitics

00:53:14.380 and capital markets.

00:53:15.800 Jim predicted

00:53:16.400 Trump's electoral

00:53:17.120 college victory

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Bannon's War Room - August 27, 2025

Episode 4737： The Populist College Guide; Comey Leaks

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