Bannon's War Room - August 29, 2025


Episode 4742: Lisa Cook Heads To Court


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

176.25993

Word Count

9,647

Sentence Count

725

Misogynist Sentences

20

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

Vaughn Vazquez is the first black woman to serve as the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in over 30 years. She is also the first woman to become the Head of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Rule of dawn is making its mark on our government already in the seven months since Donald Trump
00:00:06.060 took office, especially this summer, where we have seen power grabs, actual, not figurative,
00:00:13.380 actual power grabs by the Trump administration at every level and everywhere we look.
00:00:19.320 Let's just tick through what's happened in the last couple of weeks. National Guard troops are
00:00:23.940 now actively deployed in our nation's capital, ones that, as of this week, are now armed. Multiple
00:00:30.760 officials have been fired for not giving Donald Trump exactly the data or the answers or the
00:00:37.940 responses he wants, the latest of whom being the CDC director, who wasn't in line with the HHS
00:00:44.720 secretary enough. Donald Trump rolled out an actual red carpet and built a blue platform to stand on
00:00:53.240 together next to a world leader well known to be a vicious dictator and wanted for war crimes by the
00:01:00.400 ICC. Trump has floated stopping states from voting by mail and from using voting machines. And that's
00:01:07.920 just a few. It would take the whole hour to go through all of them. This morning, a hearing is
00:01:12.760 now set for 10 a.m. this morning in Washington, D.C., after Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a
00:01:18.900 lawsuit against President Trump, claiming that his attempt to remove her from her position is
00:01:24.060 unlawful. She's asking to remain an active member of the board in her lawsuit, which also names the
00:01:30.420 Fed's Board of Governors and chair Jerome Powell as defendants. Cook describes her ouster as
00:01:35.740 unprecedented and illegal. The filing argues that the president does not have the power to unilaterally
00:01:42.060 redefine cause, completely unmoored to case law, history and tradition and conclude without evidence
00:01:48.980 that he has found it. Trump has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, but she has not been charged
00:01:54.540 with a crime. Citizens are now at the mercy of a rogue, highly incompetent group of individuals
00:02:01.380 who don't at the end of the day, in my estimation, have the health care of the American people in mind.
00:02:06.260 To Vaughn's point, you've got young kids who are going to be going to school this fall,
00:02:10.600 already started, and we've already seen pockets of measles exploding around the country.
00:02:17.380 You think that's not going to get worse? Of course it is. And yet, we don't have the vaccines to
00:02:23.140 protect the kids. What the hell are we doing as a country now where we have dumbed down medical care
00:02:28.980 to the point where the idiocracy is telling smart scientists they don't know what they're doing?
00:02:34.940 Yeah, I can't speak to all of that, but I can say that, you know,
00:02:41.460 Speak so enough of it. We're good.
00:02:44.840 It is a global, preeminent public health agency, and I have been here for 30 years. I've worked with
00:02:53.500 multiple different administrations. I am willing, was willing to work with this administration,
00:02:59.340 but I find that the transparency is not there and the possibility that the information that comes out
00:03:06.960 from the secretary over the next several weeks will be something that I will not be able to support
00:03:13.400 and that the American public will have to call into question. And so that's some place,
00:03:18.060 that's a place I've never been before. I don't like being in that place, but I do want everyone to know
00:03:23.760 that, American people to know that CDC should be the place where you get your information,
00:03:29.580 where you find out how to protect yourself, to get the recommendations. And if we're not able to do
00:03:35.740 that, we'll have to find some other way. This is why none of these a-holes can lecture anyone on
00:03:41.920 compassion. The most compassionate people on this planet are trying to stop the trans delusion.
00:03:49.120 The least compassionate are the people in the media, academia, and politicians who enabled this
00:03:55.080 hysteria of horror. What is so glaring about the trans cult, apparently your identity is the only
00:04:01.060 thing that matters until you do something awful. Then it's the least important variable. Then you look
00:04:06.840 at everything else. You talk about guns, but you suddenly, it's all of a sudden like, oh, we can't talk
00:04:13.200 about that. What was it? The other trans shooter that they actually hid her identity. In this manifesto
00:04:20.560 that this creep wrote, he said he was tired of being trans and that he had wished he had never
00:04:26.780 brainwashed himself. What more do you need straight from the monster's mouth? Politicians, activists,
00:04:34.360 teachers, you built this. You could have listened to the warnings. We were talking about this on this
00:04:39.940 show for years. You amplified a hysterical, a hysterical, literally hysterical phenomenon
00:04:47.200 that was going no place good. You created a poisonous program that twisted young minds for
00:04:53.020 destruction. A nihilistic place to be when you deny biology and they have nowhere to go. So all of these
00:04:59.780 media arguments, what you're seeing there among those people, it's to escape their own culpability
00:05:04.600 and the reality that they created. So forget the layer of mental illness and gun control. The origin
00:05:10.180 of the evil, the evil lies in the creation of a mindset that indulged a delusional self ruining
00:05:17.940 connections with fellow human beings. So that trans by ascribing extreme aggrieved mentality then gets
00:05:26.120 directed against society. So this person feels justified in killing children. His killing resulted from
00:05:34.540 that ideology. And if you don't believe that you're one dumb asshole, Trump and his supporters, you know,
00:05:41.500 Vance says this all the time. They constantly put this line, push this line that you either care about
00:05:45.280 Americans or you care about immigrants, not both. But it's racist garbage. We're an interconnected society of
00:05:52.980 human beings who depend on each other to survive and thrive. And there's not some neat line you can cleave
00:05:57.540 between Americans and foreigners. We just have neighbors and communities. Trump world says that's bunk, that there's
00:06:03.540 just two sides. Trump world says that to make America great again, you need armed federal officers roaming
00:06:09.540 streets and businesses and Home Depot parking lots in search of people that disappear. And now raids on
00:06:15.640 camps of firefighters as they literally battle the largest wildfire in the American Northwest.
00:06:22.820 Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground
00:06:28.260 if that's what it takes so they can rule over the ashes.
00:06:31.760 Friday, 29 August, year of our Lord, 2025. We are so jammed today. We're not even going to do the
00:06:39.440 show open after that great cold open. We are absolutely packed. And our first couple of guests
00:06:46.100 are frontline warriors, Mike Davis, Christina, Bob, Brandon Strachan. I want to bring in the Viceroy,
00:06:51.540 Mike Davis first. Mike, I want to pull the camera back in a minute and give, you're the Viceroy,
00:06:59.340 give us the battlefield of all these important decisions that have been done about President
00:07:04.900 Trump's Article II powers. But I got to start with, we're in court right now, of which Mike Davis has
00:07:11.460 informed me, at least through his Twitter feed, is one of the most important things we're fighting on.
00:07:16.180 This is Lisa Cook, the governor of the Federal Reserve, now has, I guess, three potential felonies
00:07:23.520 for not understanding how to do a mortgage or kind of doing three-card money. But you're saying it's
00:07:28.620 more important. All the media has jumped on. Trump wants the majority control of the Fed governors.
00:07:33.020 You're saying something quite different. You've been out there saying, hey, if he can't fire her,
00:07:39.240 if the President of the United States cannot let her go for these activities for a cause,
00:07:43.500 then the whole Federal Reserve structure is unconstitutional and must be just taken apart
00:07:49.600 and rethought. Mike Davis, let's start there, sir. Yeah, so Lisa Cook is one of the seven governors
00:07:57.200 on the Federal Reserve Board. She got caught with her hand in the cookie jar three times. There is
00:08:03.840 very strong evidence presented by Bill Pulte, one of Trump's housing finance leads, that Lisa Cook
00:08:12.340 committed mortgage fraud. She said that these residences were her primary residence, and she
00:08:18.600 got a lower interest rate when, in fact, they were investment properties. Investment properties
00:08:24.700 have a higher risk of default, and that could harm the whole financial system of people who are lying
00:08:32.580 about getting a primary residence when it's not. The Democrats' response is that, oh, we never
00:08:40.200 charge people with mortgage fraud, which is a felony. We don't charge people with mortgage fraud unless
00:08:45.580 it's in connection with other crimes. Well, that's just silly. That means there's amnesty for mortgage
00:08:50.400 fraud, and that sends a message to the entire country, go commit mortgage fraud. Otherwise,
00:08:56.000 you know, there's nothing we're going to do about it. So that's just a dumb argument. And it's a
00:09:00.620 particularly dumb argument when you are one of the governors of the Fed with the responsibility of
00:09:06.640 helping to establish policies for our financial system that affect interest rates. So there's pretty
00:09:16.580 damning evidence against this Lisa Cook. Under our statute for the Federal Reserve, the president can fire
00:09:24.280 these governors for cause. There's clearly cause to fire her if she's committing mortgage fraud one time.
00:09:30.980 There's evidence she committed mortgage fraud several times. And so she should be able to be fired
00:09:35.880 immediately under that statute, which President Trump has done. She's challenging that.
00:09:40.920 And she is not, and Mike, just for the audience, she has not denied, she bought a house as a primary
00:09:46.120 residence. She then bought another house, said it was a primary residence, the second house to get the
00:09:50.880 lower rate. She then has been unearthed that she bought a third property, which should have been an
00:09:56.040 investment property. And she listed that as a second home when it was purely investment property. So she's got
00:10:00.720 a couple of mortgage fraud things, and she's never denied that, right? She's not denied that of all
00:10:07.920 these accusations of mortgage fraud that she didn't do it, correct? I have not heard any denial, and I
00:10:13.820 don't know how you can deny it. I mean, her signature's on the document, and then you see that it's an
00:10:19.120 investment property instead of her primary residence or a second home. So that's the issue. President
00:10:25.820 Trump has fired her for cause, and she's challenging that, and the Federal Reserve Board is challenging
00:10:30.600 that, and they're trying to make this like it's a play for the Federal Reserve's independence. And
00:10:35.400 that's the problem. That's the bigger problem, is that this statute that created the Federal Reserve
00:10:41.460 111 years ago, or whenever it was, that established the Fed, the problem is it essentially created a fourth
00:10:49.980 branch of government that's not allowed by our Constitution. Again, under Article I, Congress
00:10:56.660 writes the laws. It has the legislative power. Under Article II, the president executes the laws. He has the
00:11:04.380 executive power, all executive power. Under Article III, the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts decide
00:11:10.360 cases and controversies of the parties properly before them with redressable claims. That's Article
00:11:16.820 three standing or the judicial power. If you create this Federal Reserve system where the president
00:11:24.520 cannot fire them, they're exercising executive power outside of the president's executive power,
00:11:32.360 and the president has the executive power, all executive power, under Article II. So if the Federal
00:11:39.080 Reserve wants to fight for this fraudster, Lisa Cook, and say that the president didn't have the
00:11:46.240 statutory power to fire her, then the courts have to say, okay, they're going to have to decide that
00:11:50.460 issue. I think the court's going to say, of course, the president has the power to fire someone for a
00:11:55.440 cause if they're committing mortgage fraud, especially several times. But if they don't, if they say that
00:12:00.640 that's not something that creates cause to fire someone, then the courts are going to have to decide
00:12:05.520 the constitutional question, whether the president has the power under Article II of the Constitution
00:12:11.880 to fire this executive branch officer, Lisa Cook at the Fed. And if he does not have that power under
00:12:20.840 the statute, then it's unconstitutional. The Fed is. But aren't a lot of these alphabet agencies,
00:12:26.460 aren't we getting down to the hub of it, that, or the nub of it, where these semi-autonomous
00:12:32.240 agencies, they got to be a fish or a fowl, right? I mean, the president and his executive power has to have
00:12:38.840 the ability to set the policy over there to be able to hire and fire people or not. I mean,
00:12:44.220 shouldn't we take this all the way to its ultimate conclusion? Because, you know, here in the world,
00:12:47.380 we're trying to drive the maximalist position every day now. And also, they seize the institutions
00:12:53.680 because the left is melting down because they see exactly what we're trying to do, but we're just not
00:12:59.060 doing it fast enough. Shouldn't we, shouldn't the government, shouldn't President Trump's lawyers
00:13:03.940 go in there and just say, hey, look, it's not just about firing Cook. It's about the entire structure
00:13:09.660 of this thing is upside down and it's unconstitutional, sir. It is unconstitutional.
00:13:16.260 I don't know if we have five votes yet on the Supreme Court to go along with that position. But,
00:13:21.620 you know, as you, as we saw with the presidential immunity argument, you get out there and you make
00:13:26.480 the political argument and it's amazing how these judges will find their backbones and actually follow
00:13:32.080 the law if the politics are right. And so we'll be doing that next. I think the Federal Reserve is
00:13:37.200 clearly unconstitutional because the president doesn't have the unilateral power to fire the
00:13:42.420 governors. And so they're exercising executive power at the Fed outside of the president's
00:13:47.700 executive power and that makes it unconstitutional. And so, look, this is part of the Wilsonian model
00:13:54.160 that we have the founders who want it separated powers, both vertical and horizontal separation.
00:14:00.480 So we make sure that there's not centralized power, that power belongs to we, the people.
00:14:05.020 We loan power to the federal government through our loan agreement called the Constitution. Then we
00:14:09.520 divide that power among the three branches and we only give the federal government specific and
00:14:14.320 enumerated power in the Constitution. Whatever power we don't give it in that loan agreement
00:14:19.600 belongs to the states and we, the people, as confirmed by the 10th Amendment.
00:14:23.480 The Wilsonian model flips that on its head. It consolidates all this power in the federal
00:14:30.900 government and then further consolidates it in the executive branch and then further
00:14:35.060 consolidates it in unelected experts who are unaccountable to Congress, the president,
00:14:40.480 the American people. That's unacceptable.
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00:17:10.840 administration is in federal court arguing that they can terminate for cause any governor of the
00:17:17.500 federal reserve they want. And Mike Davis, the viceroy is telling us that, hey, the whole structure
00:17:21.280 of the federal reserve is unconstitutional. Now, more than ever, when we're taking on the central
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00:17:36.740 So, Mike Davis, pull the camera back for a second. As to delay is to deny, and they've done a good job
00:17:42.780 of trying to chop block us everywhere with these judges and TROs and all this. In fact, I think they're
00:17:47.100 arguing about a TRO today in federal court. But when you move up the food chain, we're starting
00:17:53.340 to win and win big. And the reason I know that is Mark Elias and the team over at MSNBC, Weissman
00:17:58.440 and Mark Elias look like they're constipated every day. They're not digging life right now. Besides
00:18:04.440 the fact that we're coming after them, Christina Bob's going to be here in a minute, we're coming
00:18:08.400 after them and give them a dose of their own medicine. They understand they're losing and they're
00:18:12.860 losing big time to, quite frankly, President Trump and your theory of the case and the execution of
00:18:19.140 that theory, sir. Yeah, I want to say this. First of all, I want to give tremendous credit
00:18:24.580 to President Trump's legal team, David Warrington and the White House Counsel's Office,
00:18:30.280 the Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Solicitor General John Sauer,
00:18:36.820 Stanley Woodward, who's going to be the number three at the Justice Department,
00:18:39.920 Chad Mizell, Harmeet Dillon, the whole crew over there at the Justice Department and at the White
00:18:45.320 House Counsel's Office, they are fighting this unprecedented republic-ending lawfare every day,
00:18:53.040 this judicial sabotage by these judges, these activist judges, Democrat activist judges,
00:19:00.420 and these Democrat hellholes who are issuing these injunctions trying to stop the president from
00:19:06.820 exercising his core Article II executive power. And these judicial saboteurs are winning short-term
00:19:15.120 battles, but they are losing the war. They're going to lose the war in a big way. And this is what I
00:19:21.340 mean by this. I always thought that it would take 20 years for us to get the federal government back
00:19:29.220 into the place that our founders intended, where the federal government has specific,
00:19:33.680 enumerated and divided powers and the rest of the power belongs to the states and we the people as
00:19:38.700 confirmed by the 10th Amendments. By these Democrat activists, plaintiffs and attorneys and judges
00:19:46.820 and other activists doing this judicial sabotage, they are fast forwarding our project where hopefully I'll be
00:19:56.360 able to retire at the end of the Trump administration and hand off the Article III project to someone else
00:20:01.900 because the job will be done. The federal government will be dismantled by the federal judiciary,
00:20:08.220 the plumbers, as I call them, because I always say that the political branches are never going to drain
00:20:12.940 the swamp. Why would the reptiles drain the swamp? So we're going to do it through the judges where
00:20:17.180 they strike down these executive branch agencies as unconstitutional because they're not permitted
00:20:23.520 by the Constitution. So I say to these activists, keep going. Keep doing your judicial
00:20:29.380 sabotage. Go get your win with some DEI misfits in DC or New York or wherever you get some Biden or Obama
00:20:39.220 judge to enjoin the president of the United States. And then when the president wins at the Supreme Court
00:20:46.120 of the United States, that that's going to be binding on the whole country forever.
00:20:49.960 The other thing that and we're having these wins now, the other thing I might add is that they are so still
00:20:59.740 totally understaffed. When you just named the team right there, those are like the heads. Those are the
00:21:03.640 starters. You would normally hope you had 100 lawyers underneath it. We just don't right now because of
00:21:08.980 just hiring and the whole thing with the confirmation process. What do you see going forward? We got these
00:21:14.080 wins right now. I know you got to bounce, but and this is huge. This is one of the things we talked about
00:21:18.620 at the beginning. We got to get this legal right because this is the only way they're going to stop
00:21:22.460 us. We've argued for maximization and urgency and do it every day and seize control of these
00:21:28.380 institutions. When we get back next week at the beginning of everybody's back and it's going to be
00:21:33.740 just absolute open warfare, where do you see us heading on this? Yeah, I mean, I would say this is
00:21:38.940 the most important thing that we're going to do as the war room posse is to make enough noise,
00:21:44.240 provide the political cover so these Republican lawyers and these conservative judges find and
00:21:51.160 keep their backbones and they follow the Constitution. And the most important project,
00:21:56.040 why we're doing the Article III project, why we're getting constitutionalist judges on the bench,
00:22:01.660 why we're getting good people in the Justice Department, bold and fearless judges, bold and fearless
00:22:07.240 Justice Department officials, bold and fearless people working for Dave Warrington's team at the
00:22:12.200 White House. The reason we're doing this is we have a window of opportunity with President Trump
00:22:17.360 who understands the threat we face from the deep state, from these big government agencies. And we
00:22:24.820 have a four-year opportunity, a four-year window to get the job done and dismantle most of the executive
00:22:31.620 branch and return power back to the states and the people. And this is not theoretical. We have seen
00:22:37.360 this with COVID lockdowns. We have seen this with so many other instances when there is concentrated
00:22:42.980 power in Washington, D.C. The American people pay the price. And it's not what our founders intended.
00:22:50.860 We don't care what the experts think. We don't care about the Wilsonian model where the experts in
00:22:56.480 Washington, D.C., the Tony Fauci's of the world, get to decide whether we go outside on a particular
00:23:03.840 day or if we ride on a plane or if we have to wear masks or if we have to take off our mask between
00:23:08.820 bites and sips, as they would say. No, we didn't agree to that as we the people. We certainly did
00:23:14.220 not agree to an invasion of our country and changing our population because the Democrats want to open
00:23:22.000 our border. And these Democrat judges say that there's somehow constitutional due process rights
00:23:27.300 for these illegal immigrants who have invaded our country. I mean, these are crucial fights that we
00:23:35.220 are fighting every day at the Article III project with the war room posse. And we have to win. And we
00:23:41.300 have to win this over the next four years or we're going to lose our country.
00:23:46.780 Deconstructing the administrative state and taking down the deep state. And of course,
00:23:51.200 Judge Gorsuch, Justice Gorsuch's clerk is at the tip of the spear of that. Mike Davis,
00:23:55.900 where do people go for Article III, particularly this weekend, the end of the summer, where they
00:24:00.900 go and get all the content, check it out, see if they want to support you guys.
00:24:06.280 Article3project.org, article3project.org. You can follow us on social media, donate,
00:24:12.780 but only what you can afford, but take action. One of the big action items is in the middle there
00:24:17.060 to repeal the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973. That is a crucial one. Let's light up both of your home
00:24:24.920 state senators and your U.S. House rep and tell them to repeal this unconstitutional
00:24:29.340 D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 that's let corrupt local incompetent Democrat politicians
00:24:37.640 hold hostage our nation's capital to crime and corruption.
00:24:41.820 Amen, brother. Thank you, Mike. Let's everybody go over there today, check out the Home Rule. There's
00:24:48.660 so much more. We're engaged now in the courts. It's just incredible. We got two warriors. One's
00:24:54.360 taken to the streets. The other's taken to counter lawfare. Christina Bob. So Christina,
00:25:00.120 and we keep talking about the convergence of factors to make sure that, because if you look at demographics,
00:25:06.380 if you look at the census, if you look at our redistricting, you look at every element of it,
00:25:12.600 another key point is the actual elections themselves. President Trump's got an executive
00:25:16.380 order of mail-in ballots. Two things, Heather Honey, and then what's happening in Fulton County. You've
00:25:21.560 been the tip of the spear of both of these. Tell me about the magnificence of having Heather Honey
00:25:26.700 is now the leading official. And I know it's good, because Mark Elias, literally for 48 hours,
00:25:33.440 has been apoplectic over at MSNBC. How important is her selection, ma'am?
00:25:39.000 As he should be. He should be very afraid of Heather Honey. She's fantastic. And I applaud DHS for
00:25:44.460 actually bringing her on and putting her in the position that they did. She is an investigator.
00:25:50.000 She did a lot of the investigation from 2020, and I believe she'd been working on elections prior to
00:25:54.220 that. She's the one that did all the math and put the spreadsheet together to show that there were
00:25:59.040 about 120 additional votes in Pennsylvania, more votes than voters, that whole narrative that was
00:26:05.320 out there. She was the one that uncovered that. The left came out and said, oh, that's not true.
00:26:09.020 That's been debunked. But I've never seen anywhere where anyone has corrected her math. I mean, her
00:26:13.500 math, math. So she got it right. She's causing Mark Elias to have a conniption, which is a very,
00:26:20.680 very good day. She's fantastic. She's a hard worker. She's just a generally good person who cares
00:26:25.620 about this country. She's exactly what we need there. And they could not have picked a better
00:26:29.600 person for that position. What is going on? You know, that's Pennsylvania. Heather Honey now has
00:26:35.560 been elevated. She's a hammer. She's a warrior. What in the hell is going on down in Georgia and
00:26:41.080 Fulton County, ma'am? Yeah, they're throwing sand in the gears. And Mike Davis in the earlier
00:26:45.400 segment did a fantastic job of laying out at the lower level, you know, how they're trying to use the
00:26:50.260 courts just to stall and just to try to make things difficult. Because as he said, we have about,
00:26:55.880 you know, three to four years to get this done, or we could lose everything forever. And we're on
00:27:00.400 track to get it done. Down in Fulton County, it's required that Fulton County have two Republicans,
00:27:06.340 two Democrats, and I believe an independent on their election board. The board of commissioners,
00:27:10.400 which is above the election board, is refusing to seat the two Republicans on the board. And they're
00:27:16.720 not allowed to participate. They're not officially on the board yet. The Republican GOP has gone to
00:27:22.560 court three times now to get a court order saying, hey, our Republicans need to be seated. And three
00:27:29.520 times now, the court has said, yeah, they do. And they have issued orders to the county commissioners
00:27:35.500 saying, you need to seat the Republicans on the board. They're lawfully appointed. You know, there's no
00:27:40.120 legal reason that they can't be on the board. They meet all the requirements, and they went through
00:27:44.780 the proper process. So put them on the board. And the county, I'm sorry, the commissioners are just
00:27:49.640 saying, no, we're just not going to do it. So finally, on Wednesday, they went back, of this
00:27:53.680 week, just a couple days ago, they went back and got an order from the judge getting a contempt order,
00:27:59.460 holding the county commissioners in contempt. $10,000 fine per day. They do not seat these
00:28:05.380 Republicans. I understand that the county has appealed that. So that...
00:28:10.620 Christina, yeah, just hang on one second. We're going to go back to Fulton County.
00:28:14.380 Um, also Arizona. Brandon Strzok is going to join us about New York. And Jim Rickards,
00:28:20.580 big deal with the Chinese Communist Party this weekend, hosting a big old parade.
00:28:26.180 Back in a moment.
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00:29:47.160 Okay, just to make sure we can connect some dots here. We're listening. The actual arguments going
00:29:59.260 on right now about the governor of the Federal Reserve is kind of what we talked about with Mike
00:30:03.500 Davis. They're saying right now the issue of cause and what scope the president has defined, what that
00:30:09.240 means is now being discussed in the hearing. This is the thrust of the case. The president is arguing
00:30:13.260 that he has broad discretion to determine what meets the mark of for cause to terminator.
00:30:20.160 What Davis and I were saying I think is even deeper, and I think that this is where they ought to go
00:30:24.600 after they get some time, is that the entire structure of the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional
00:30:29.520 the way it's structured. The president doesn't need cause. He can just walk in and say, hey, look,
00:30:35.340 boom, I don't like you as governor. You're gone. Folks, just write that down with your number two
00:30:40.520 principle. This is where this thing's going to go. You guys out there don't like the Fed
00:30:43.780 and our Jacksonian populace want to take it down. This is going to be our angle of attack. Wait for
00:30:49.180 it. Very important. Christina, finish with Fulton County because this is a big deal. And hey,
00:30:54.320 I do kind of admire the folks down there, the radical Democrats. They're saying screw you.
00:31:00.060 Run up the bill. We don't care. We don't know. We're not going to let you. We're going to steal
00:31:03.420 elections. We're going to steal them how we're going to steal them in broad daylight. You're not going to do
00:31:06.980 anything about it. Your thoughts, ma'am? Yeah, it's pretty brazen. It's kind of shocking. It
00:31:11.700 would be nice if Republicans, a lot of Republicans, had half the backbone that these Democrats have.
00:31:15.900 They're just thumbing their nose in the face of the judge. So right now they have a contempt ruling
00:31:21.400 where they're being fined $10,000 a day. That ruling is stayed pending appeal. They appealed that
00:31:27.000 ruling basically immediately. So they're not racking up the fees. We have to wait and see what the Court
00:31:31.700 of Appeals does, which I hope it upholds. I don't know how the Court of Appeals could find any other
00:31:36.640 way, but we'll find out hopefully in the next few days, maybe weeks.
00:31:41.500 What is going on? And folks, these battles right now, you should know, the Steve Stearns,
00:31:46.920 when they have those podcasts, everybody should get in there because there are fights all over the
00:31:52.420 country and folks in this voter integrity. And that's every time you get a Heather Honey up there.
00:31:56.740 It's so important. But these fights are going on nonstop. Arizona, give me a quick update on Arizona,
00:32:01.240 ma'am. On Arizona for the criminal cases, Chris May is abusing her office.
00:32:06.280 She's still doing that. She's still trying to throw people in jail who support Donald Trump. And
00:32:10.580 I'm still a defendant in that case. She's still trying to throw people in jail for being
00:32:14.640 Trump electors in 2020, which is not illegal. And that case is, I think, going down in flames.
00:32:21.940 It's going down a little slower than I hoped it would, but it doesn't look good. We've got some
00:32:25.800 appeals issues that were waiting to come out. And I expect her to lose again. And probably
00:32:32.880 the case get dismissed, hopefully relatively soon. Don't forget, we also have the same case open in
00:32:38.000 Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Fannie Willis case is still open in Georgia. So every time they
00:32:42.420 point their fingers at Donald Trump and say, oh, he's weaponizing justice, they haven't put their
00:32:46.880 guns down. They're still firing at us. They're still trying to throw us in jail.
00:32:50.080 I know they're not. The law fair continues. Real quick, by the way, a poll out, I think
00:32:58.340 overnight, Hobbs and Andy Biggs, dead heat in the governor's race in Arizona. He has not won the
00:33:04.240 primary yet, but dead heat right there. Ma'am, your new book, where do people get it? When is it out?
00:33:10.760 The art is amazing. The photography is amazing. That is because it's Dan Flouette, my producer,
00:33:15.480 but it's really incredible. Where do people get the book, ma'am?
00:33:18.700 Yep. It's available for pre-order, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever books are sold.
00:33:23.600 And you can find it on my website, christinabob.com, which Dan also did the art for that. Thank you,
00:33:27.840 Dan. He's amazing. But yeah, it comes out in about 10 days, September 9th, something like that.
00:33:36.180 Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it.
00:33:38.060 Thank you.
00:33:38.720 Let's get the book, Christina Bob, Warrior Extraordinaire.
00:33:42.060 Brandon Straka joins us. Brandon, two people I admire, Naomi Wolf and yourself. You're not just
00:33:47.040 fighters and warriors. You're also very smart about selecting your battle space. Naomi's,
00:33:54.360 she's doing these things in Brooklyn and all these young rising stars, Republican, a lot of minorities,
00:34:01.380 African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics. It's incredible about this race is coming up in November. I guess
00:34:07.860 we're in the heat of the race, but the election's in November. You're out there full bore on your
00:34:12.900 flipping Democrats, and you're doing a huge ground game. I don't see it. I don't see where
00:34:19.720 the opposition here is in three camps. They refuse to quit. You got Sliwa with about 12 to 15% of the
00:34:27.620 vote. You got Eric Adams, the mayor, with about 10 or 12, and you got Cuomo with about low 20s.
00:34:33.240 Combined, they are a majority, I think, barely if you take all the smart polling, but they refuse to drop
00:34:40.900 out of the race. So what is your solution? You're out there doing a ground game to try to get people
00:34:47.740 signed up. I mean, what's the purpose of this, sir?
00:34:52.100 Yeah, thank you, and I appreciate it. So let's first address the ground game, and then I'll give
00:34:57.320 you a couple scenarios in which I truly believe we can win. Otherwise, I wouldn't be wasting my time
00:35:01.440 doing this. So what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to organize the largest anti-Mom Donnie
00:35:05.920 canvassing and outreach effort in New York City. And so we have, at this point, hundreds of volunteers.
00:35:12.140 I want to get that into the thousands after we get into September, and the race really starts
00:35:15.960 gearing up. But we're going to be getting people out into the boroughs, knocking on doors, making
00:35:20.780 phone calls, text messaging, and we're going to be targeting a lot of different minority communities
00:35:24.700 and young people who need to either be changing their mind. We're going to be educating people
00:35:29.680 about the dangers and the ills of democratic socialism, the false promises of Zoran Mom
00:35:34.160 Donnie, and how these policies are going to negatively impact people's lives and New Yorkers.
00:35:38.280 But there's a couple scenarios here in which we can actually win. One is if we get to the
00:35:43.040 point where a couple of these candidates drop out, and it's one against one. A poll just came
00:35:46.720 out recently showing that if it's Cuomo versus Mom Donnie, there's-
00:35:50.940 Okay, full stop, full stop, full stop, full stop. I got that, but that's a masturbatory fantasy.
00:35:55.800 That's just not going to happen. Sliwa's going to be in to the end. He's a nutcase.
00:36:00.720 Adam's not, he's an African-American, the last only African-American male in the history
00:36:05.200 of New York City, lost to Rudy for Dinkins loss. So he's obligated, if you talk to these
00:36:10.360 guys, to continue on. They're just not going to drop out. So give me the scenario where
00:36:14.160 they don't drop out, because that's reality. Cuomo's not going to drop out. He's raised
00:36:17.120 too much money. Those three, for their egos and other reasons, because I keep telling folks,
00:36:22.320 to lose here, you got the Working People Party and the Democratic Socialists. This guy's
00:36:27.240 Sadiq Khan on steroids. Okay? If you see where London is today, that's where New York City's
00:36:33.900 going. And if you lose this, and they're never going to give up power, like the Bolsheviks.
00:36:38.420 So in a scenario where nobody drops out, that Brandon Straka and the President of the United
00:36:43.180 States can't convince these guys to drop out, give me the scenario how you win.
00:36:47.000 Sure. For the record, that's not my mission, to convince them to drop out. But so if we're
00:36:53.280 in a race where nobody is dropping out, what we have to look at is just driving massive voter
00:36:57.780 turnout, because we have 4.7 million registered voters in New York City. Zoran Mamdani got 468,000
00:37:04.580 votes in the primary. This is going to be a high voter turnout, I believe, because the nation's eyes
00:37:11.840 are on this race. It's getting a lot of momentum, and people are very concerned about what's going
00:37:15.740 on. So if we can drive close to 50 percent of the voter turnout and really push it up there,
00:37:20.940 the person who gets 590,000 votes is going to be the winner. And I don't believe that's going to be
00:37:25.340 Zoran Mamdani, because I don't believe he has much support beyond the support that he got in the
00:37:30.340 primary. I'm not even convinced that the voters who came out in the primary are going to come out
00:37:33.660 to vote for him. But we can't. The numbers are there. We just have to drive the people out to go out
00:37:39.220 and vote. Traditionally, New York City mayoral races are having low voter turnout, 23 percent,
00:37:43.800 25 percent. It's abysmal. I think this race is going to be different. The eyes of the nation are
00:37:48.500 on it. I think if we can drive the people out and split the vote, the person who ends up with
00:37:53.700 590,000 votes wins. And I don't think that will be Zoran Mamdani.
00:38:01.740 Brandon, I want to know, we're going to have you back on a lot. Obviously,
00:38:04.340 it's going to kick up in September. Where do people go, though, for this weekend
00:38:07.620 to go and visit your site, get the information. If they want to talk to your people, talk to them,
00:38:13.480 because I do think this is going to take some convincing of folks to understand exactly what's
00:38:17.340 going on here. I will tell folks if when Mandami wins, that he's going to turn New York City,
00:38:25.100 the greatest city in the world and the financial capital of the world into modern London. He is
00:38:30.780 Sadiq Khan on steroids. And folks, there's been so many big donors and so many of the power brokers
00:38:37.040 in New York that have looked the other way on this thing. And they're whistling past the graveyard
00:38:40.620 right now because this is happening. And the only way it's going to stop, if someone like you get
00:38:44.900 some traction, we'll have to see if that happens. But I respect you and Naomi. You two guys are
00:38:50.420 fighters. You also have a pretty good sense of how things can be pulled off. So I want everybody,
00:38:55.580 where do people go this weekend to find more information about what you're trying to accomplish?
00:39:00.780 Right. So one of the things that we're doing in addition to the canvassing and outreach is we're
00:39:04.220 going to be doing events on an almost weekly basis all over the city. So the next one we have coming
00:39:08.380 up is in Washington Square Park. This Saturday, we're asking people to show up around 12 o'clock.
00:39:13.340 The event begins at one o'clock. This is the rally against democratic socialism. It lasts from one to
00:39:18.920 three. And then immediately after, we're turning it into a live New York City street debate where we're
00:39:23.280 encouraging New Yorkers to approach the microphone and debate our panel, asking questions about
00:39:27.680 democratic socialism, challenging us, debating us. We just did this. Yeah, we did this in
00:39:32.120 Union Square a couple of weeks ago. It was phenomenal. I mean, we had hundreds of people
00:39:36.820 turn out. We had Mom Donnie supporters show up, get behind the microphone, ask us questions about,
00:39:42.000 you know, what's wrong with socialism. And we're changing hearts and minds. It really is happening.
00:39:47.200 You know, we just have to have these conversations and reach these people. So if anyone wants to learn
00:39:51.320 more about my effort and what I'm doing, please go to walkawaycampaign.com. If you want to show up
00:39:56.540 and join us in Washington Square Park, one o'clock this Saturday, go to walkawaycampaign.com slash events.
00:40:02.520 We need volunteers. I want an army of thousands of volunteers. Go to walkawaycampaign.com, sign up to
00:40:08.820 be a volunteer. Whether you live in New York City or anywhere in the country, we need remote volunteers to
00:40:13.420 text, make phone calls, send emails. And if you're able to give to the cause, go to walkawaycampaign.com
00:40:19.840 because we need to hire more staff too. But, you know, Steve, I appreciate your skepticism,
00:40:24.380 but I'm being sincere when I say I truly believe we can beat this guy. And I think that we will.
00:40:31.860 Okay, brother. By the way, Washington Square Park, that'll be fascinating.
00:40:35.120 Hope you guys also bring security. It could get a little wild there. The Democrat socialists,
00:40:40.700 these brothers roll hard. So hopefully we can stream it tomorrow on War Room. Thank you,
00:40:46.360 sir. Appreciate you, Brandon.
00:40:47.300 Thanks, Steve.
00:40:49.360 At least somebody's punching back up there. The three campaigns have been a disaster,
00:40:54.100 the politicians' campaigns. Jim Rickert's one of the smartest guys on geopolitics. So, Jim,
00:40:59.880 and I want to give people a heads up. On Tuesday the 2nd, we're going to turn a lot of the show over
00:41:04.840 the morning to make it about contemporary geopolitics, but tie it back to the end of the Second World War.
00:41:10.780 That will be the 80th commemoration of the signing of the surrender instrument of Imperial Japan on the
00:41:18.460 USS Missouri. We'll do a commemoration on that and tie it to politics. But, Jim, the Chinese Communist Party
00:41:25.080 has jumped in front of us. They're having a big parade. They're having a big parade over the next
00:41:29.280 couple of days, and they've invited Modi and Putin, and they both showed up. What is that?
00:41:34.280 7-4 has got a great story on it. What does that mean? That does not bode well for what we're trying
00:41:41.260 to work on here. The Indians are one of our most important allies, and we need a rapprochement with
00:41:46.340 Russia, sir.
00:41:47.120 Right. This is around something called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or the SCO. There's been
00:41:55.320 so much attention paid to BRICS, and people have heard a lot about that, and BRICS coming up with
00:41:58.860 a new currency. That's a big issue, but that's separate. But people say the BRICS can't work
00:42:05.360 because China and India are members, and they're fighting over the borders in Nepal and the Himalayas
00:42:11.980 and so forth, some of these eastern regions in India. And I've always said that's not a problem,
00:42:16.580 because the BRICS is not a political or military alliance. It's an economic alliance, and you can
00:42:21.780 have good economic relations, even if you're fighting over other issues on a different level.
00:42:28.240 Shanghai Cooperation Organization is different. That actually does purport to have some military
00:42:33.960 functions. Now, it's not NATO. They've never done anything militarily, but that is part of their
00:42:39.140 charter, that that would be a more proactive political military group. And I've said for a
00:42:43.520 long time, we're going to see over time a convergence of the BRICS and the SCO, the Shanghai
00:42:48.880 Cooperation Organization. There is a lot of overlap in the members. I don't have a whole list of all
00:42:53.760 the members in front of me, but the big ones, Russia and China and India, are in both. And that's
00:43:00.600 why Putin and Modi are showing up for this. So we're watching what's sometimes called the global
00:43:06.340 South or really the Asian, you know, the Asian landmass. We got back to McKinder at this point,
00:43:13.220 converging to stand up to the collective West, meaning basically US, Canada, NATO, Australia,
00:43:20.000 and a couple other countries. You see the United States stealing $300 billion of lawfully purchased
00:43:27.160 treasury securities from Russia. Wow.
00:43:29.080 And I'm using the word stealing. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, hang on one second. We're going to take a short
00:43:35.540 break. The entire next block and then some is Jim Rickards as he explains geopolitics 101 in the modern
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00:45:05.480 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:45:10.840 Okay, just announced, Russ Vogt, our own Russ Vogt, a contributor here for years, obviously now head of
00:45:16.920 OMB. Marco Rubio has like 10 jobs. He just gave one, President Trump to prove it. Russ Vogt is
00:45:22.840 officially winding down USAID. Officially winding down USAID. In addition, there has been a pocket
00:45:30.880 rescission. Five billion dollars of additional kind of foreign aid that kind of fell into another
00:45:35.280 pocket. That's gone. Now, these aren't the huge numbers we want, but President Trump has announced
00:45:40.340 they're going to do a pocket rescission on that and people are just going to have to suck on that.
00:45:44.760 So two good things going from on the manager on economic side. I want to go back. So the worst
00:45:50.740 nightmare we could have geopolitically, and we're all, we're the hemispheric defense crowd and have
00:45:55.280 extraterrestrial forces. But what you don't want is where you have this kind of civilizational
00:46:00.760 melding on the Eurasian landmass with the Chinese Communist Party as the head, the head, the head
00:46:05.520 gangsters. The Chinese Communist Party, Russia with the KGB. And then you got Modi, one, because we are
00:46:12.320 a little bit of loggerheads on some of these tariffs and also the buying of the secondary purchasing
00:46:17.980 or the, you know, secondary sanctions of purchasing oil from Russia. Although I might duly note that
00:46:24.900 China buys more and we haven't sanctioned them, but just walk the audience through. If you have
00:46:29.780 those three civilizational powers and particularly how Russia wants to with Persia and Turkey kind of
00:46:36.060 get their, you know, Dugan's theory for Putin of that part of the Eurasian landmass. If these
00:46:42.700 brothers lock in hard and actually become an alliance, and I might note that that Modi has said
00:46:48.240 that he's not going to go to the parade stand. They're there for the meetings. They are going to
00:46:52.040 meetings, but he's not going to commemorate the 80th victory by standing at the parade stand.
00:46:58.500 How bad is it? How rough is the 21st century going to be for the good old United States of America
00:47:04.460 if those three are partners and have some sort of hard alliance on the Eurasian landmass in an
00:47:10.080 international capital markets, sir? Well, if they are, again, we're talking Russia, China, and India,
00:47:17.380 there are a lot of, you know, ancillary powers, but they're the big three in this context. Yeah,
00:47:21.900 if they form a strong union, either under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
00:47:27.780 which is meeting now or in the coming days, or BRICS or some convergence of the two, that's a
00:47:34.140 disaster for the United States. But the problem, Steve, is that this is a self-made disaster. It's
00:47:39.120 the failure of U.S. foreign policy. I keep looking for diplomats. Where are the diplomats? I mean,
00:47:44.120 Steve Whitehouse, you know, I don't know personally, I'll assume he's an excellent
00:47:48.740 real estate negotiator, but he's not really trained in diplomacy. I just don't see that.
00:47:53.680 Now, this is such an easy case, which is there are only three powers in the world that matter,
00:47:59.400 Russia, China, and the United States. So India's a big deal. Japan's a big deal. I get it. But
00:48:03.700 they're the three with nuclear weapons who kind of call the shots. It should always be two against
00:48:09.460 one, and you should be part of the two. Now, Nixon did this brilliantly in 1971, 72. He pivoted to
00:48:17.160 China, opened the door, met with Mao Zedong, et cetera, in order to isolate the Soviet Union at the
00:48:22.860 time, really Russia. And it worked, you know, 1989, Berlin Wall falls, 1991, the Soviet Union dissolves. It
00:48:28.660 took time. But that alliance with China basically isolated the Russia, which, you know, Soviet Union.
00:48:35.960 Today, now's the time to pivot to Russia and let the United States and Russia work together to
00:48:42.180 isolate the Communist Party of China. I've been to China many times, been all over the country,
00:48:46.880 have good friends there, wonderful people. It's the Communist Party that's the problem, not the
00:48:50.740 people of China. So this is a very obvious case. What are we doing instead? We're listening to
00:48:55.980 Lindsey Graham. We're listening to these warmongers where, you know, Fiona Hill, these phony baloney experts,
00:49:01.600 et cetera. We're treating Russia like a pariah when it should be one of our strongest allies.
00:49:05.860 We don't have to have a treaty with them. We don't have to love them, but we have to work with them.
00:49:09.960 And that would be an obvious one. And the pivot, the thing is, you say, what's holding that up?
00:49:14.380 Well, the answer is the war in Ukraine. And I think the best thing that came out of the Alaska
00:49:18.740 summit a few weeks ago was, I mean, not much did come out of it, but there was one thing.
00:49:23.520 Trump listened to Putin unfiltered. He didn't have Lindsey Graham or Marco Rubio or Mike Walsh or any of these
00:49:29.720 other people filtering Putin's comments. He listened to Putin and it became very clear there was not going to be
00:49:35.180 an unconditional ceasefire. We've said that on your show six months or even a year ago,
00:49:40.200 we said that. But Putin will go for a comprehensive peace treaty with security guarantees. And Trump
00:49:47.320 said, OK, I hear you. Let's go for the peace treaty. Then Wyckoff took the phrase security
00:49:52.000 guarantees. And Putin did say that in the meeting. But Putin's understanding of that and Wyckoff's
00:49:59.200 understanding are completely different. Wyckoff ran off the rails with these Article 5 guarantees,
00:50:03.100 which Putin will never agree to. What Putin meant was, let's have the peace treaty and then have
00:50:08.680 some enforcement because the U.S. lied about Minsk 1, lied about Minsk 2, lied about the Maidan
00:50:15.240 revolution, which is one of these funny baloney CIA MI6 color revolutions. Putin actually fell for all
00:50:22.140 of it. And he doesn't trust us anymore. And I don't blame him. But what Putin means is China,
00:50:28.140 maybe Turkey, Russia and the United States and nobody else, no U.K. boots on the ground. They
00:50:33.880 don't have that many boots, no French or German boots on the ground. They couldn't put two divisions
00:50:38.240 together if their lives depended on it. But those other four powers I mentioned, just backing this up,
00:50:44.560 that's a deal that can be done. It could be done very quickly. Who cares what Zelensky thinks?
00:50:48.440 Put them on a bus, a plane to Dubai or whatever it takes there and get it done. At that point,
00:50:55.560 you open the door to rapprochement with Russia. By the way, big deal the other day, ExxonMobil said
00:51:00.340 they were in very preliminary discussions with Rosneft about looking, which is a big Russian oil
00:51:06.500 company, about doing some more new exploration in Siberia for basic oil in the Arctic area.
00:51:13.860 I don't know this for a fact, but a company like Exxon would never say anything like that
00:51:19.100 unless they had some kind of green life in the White House. You just don't go there.
00:51:23.480 So I take it that Trump is looking at that. So that's all very encouraging.
00:51:27.640 But we ought to move quickly on this. It's also the key to Iran. I've said that before. Russia has
00:51:32.960 got Iran very much under its thumb in terms of the S-400 and S-500 anti-aircraft systems,
00:51:38.840 and they're training the Iranians now and a lot else. Well, if you want to dial down the tension
00:51:43.500 with Iran, get Russia on your side. Now, why we can't see any of this? Why are our diplomats? I
00:51:48.540 mean, where's Kissinger, Helmut Seinfeld, George Marshall, James Baker? I mean, where are these
00:51:53.600 people? We don't have... I go to China, and they say, we love Kissinger, but he's dead. I mean,
00:51:59.360 don't you have anybody else? Jim, just hang on for one second. I'm going to hold you through the
00:52:04.180 break. We're going to go also in the second hour. We're going to talk about the situation in
00:52:09.080 Minnesota and the trans ideology driving it. Also, Dr. Latipo is going to join us about the CDC
00:52:16.100 and the resignations and firings over there about vaccines.
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