Trump's Power in the Rule of Law was made in the spring of 2018, but it's now even more relevant for what's going on in the country, and why we should all be watching it on the big screen on Labor Day weekend.
00:09:15.000And that gets back to the budget and the budget deficit.
00:09:18.000You know, I've been a big advocate that we have to have political courage of the political class.
00:09:23.000We have to address the actual structure of the spending of this country and why we're running two trillion dollar deficits because of what's happened in COVID and the kind of spending that went on COVID we haven't gotten rid of.
00:09:56.000Sixteen trillion dollars of debt in the last, you know, the last couple of years.
00:10:00.000We flooded the zone with with with dollars.
00:10:03.000That's what's doing it until we get control that and the way to get control that spending has to be programmatically.
00:10:08.000OK, you have to do that at the Defense Department in the social programs, but you have to have the courage to say, hey, look, we've we've blown this and we're so far past this that we have to start to get our our house in order.
00:10:21.000Either we have to get more revenues to external revenues through tariffs.
00:10:25.000We have to either raise taxes or we have to have higher growth rates.
00:10:29.000And I'm all for higher growth rates and more tariffs.
00:10:31.000But I'm also I can also, you know, went to Harvard Business School and worked at Goldman Sachs.
00:10:35.000I can do the basic, simple mathematics in back of this.
00:10:38.000And it just doesn't add up until you start getting control of federal spending.
00:10:42.000Now, the Doge effort and my problem with Doge, I want to make sure it's more reality than fantasy.
00:10:48.000Besides all the media it's gotten, what we need, their primary purpose is not statutory and not programmatic.
00:10:58.000A little bit of that's gotten caught up in that.
00:11:00.000Their primary focus should be waste, fraud and abuse.
00:11:03.000And I would certainly like an Elon has committed that there's a trillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse.
00:11:09.000I'm from Missouri on this one. I want to be shown that I want to see that so far as we've gone to date.
00:11:16.000There really hasn't been, you know, there's been some marginal cuts, but those are almost like programmatic.
00:11:21.000And President Trump has said repeatedly, the cabinet controls that.
00:11:25.000We're going to follow statutory, like for instance, in VOA in these places, USAID, they're taking it down to statutory limits.
00:11:33.000They're also going to put USAID, proposed to put USAID under the State Department.
00:11:38.000But they're going to zero these out statutorily.
00:11:42.000Go back to the unitary theory of the executive.
00:11:45.000The president of the United States, as chief executive, has the ability to make personnel decisions and to fire anybody, to fire people.
00:11:53.000You don't have permanent employment in the federal government.
00:11:57.000And no U.S. citizen will back that up, right?
00:12:00.000The U.S. citizens right now live in an era of anxiety and be let go immediately.
00:12:05.000So the chief executive has the ability to fire, and he also has the appropriations process,
00:12:10.000which is the legal process that we go through to create a law to appropriate the money.
00:12:49.000The Doge effort is basically an effort about fraud and waste.
00:12:52.000It's kind of because the media has taken up in a little bit.
00:12:55.000Elon is, I think, in the media taking on a little more of a mandate than he had, right?
00:13:02.000And the media is focused on that, which I think is fantastic because Carrie Lake's work at VOA,
00:13:08.000other work that's going around like on USAID and these others.
00:13:12.000And in USAID, let's be honest, Eli Crane and these guys tried to zero it out in the appropriations process two years ago,
00:13:20.000all-night fights on the House floor. And who saved it?
00:13:23.000The Republican establishment saved it and didn't even have the balls to look into where the money was going.
00:13:28.000The money was going to all these NGOs that were supporting the invasion of the country,
00:13:31.000all these NGOs throughout the world and the United States that were suppressing conservative voices.
00:13:37.000That was brought to you by the controlled opposition Republicans.
00:13:42.000This is the reason you've got to differentiate between Republicans and the MAGA movement.
00:13:47.000The Republican Party is one of the reasons the country's in this situation.
00:13:51.000You mentioned Bill Barr and these guys. We've won since Nixon.
00:13:56.000You know, we've won as many times as we've lost. We've been in control as much as the Democrats have.
00:14:00.000How did the country get into this crisis? Because the Republican Party is like the Washington Generals to the Democrats' Harlem Globetrotters.
00:14:08.000They're just controlled opposition. It's all performative. They never really did anything.
00:14:13.000They just kind of went along with the system. That's the difference in Trump.
00:14:16.000Trump is direct action down a vertical to actually make fundamental change.
00:14:21.000And that's why the system is reacting. The system's traumatized. I understand that.
00:14:26.000He's a blunt force instrument. He's going to give the system a punch and it's going to be traumatized.
00:14:33.000That's kind of the purpose of the exercise. And that's why he's relentless. He will not back off.
00:14:38.000That's different than these country club Republicans who have essentially gone along with this for 40 or 50 years
00:14:44.000and got the country in this jam. This is why the MAGA movement detest rhinos, detest country club Republicans.
00:14:51.000We hate them more than we hate radical Democrats.
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00:16:51.000Yeah, I mean, when we've talked to people here and they see the letters coming off of something like USAID symbolically in this town, there's a fear of who is next, what is next.
00:17:04.000They should understand it's potentially all next.
00:17:09.000But if we don't close this gap of the two – this is why I think the media and particularly PBS and others that are a little more thoughtful are doing a terrible job.
00:17:21.000You don't explain how the system works.
00:17:24.000And the system is burying the country and working class people every day.
00:17:28.000Because we have a system that's totally out of control.
00:17:31.000It's crafted by the elites in this country and it works for them.
00:17:35.000In the last six months, I think it is, the last six months since the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1st,
00:17:42.000I believe that $4.4 trillion of wealth, stock market bonds, et cetera, have accreted to the top 1 percent.
00:17:50.000And that's more than the bottom 50 percent of our country.
00:18:26.000And you've had tremendous – you had more concentration of wealth in President Obama's term than you ever had in the history of the country.
00:18:32.000And this is why I say everything you see on cable TV or all this stuff on Capitol Hill is performative.
00:19:05.000This is why it's so tough to even talk about cutting spending here.
00:19:08.000And trust me, they're not worried about what happens to the American people.
00:19:12.000Are they not going to get this program or that program?
00:19:14.000They want to have this continued spending until we get a grip of that.
00:19:18.000And one of the ways you have to get a grip of it, you have to downsize the government programmatically.
00:19:24.000You just can't do everything that you've been doing and paying for.
00:19:28.000And principally, this is why I'm an advocate, strong advocate, until you get to the Defense Department – and it shouldn't be lost on anybody – that Doge has been – we're the ones on our show that said you've got to cross the Potomac.
00:20:21.000We've kicked the can down the road for decade and decade and decade.
00:20:25.000If you want inflation to continue, if you want the financial and economic opportunities to recede from you and your life, right, forget your children and grandchildren.
00:20:36.000If you want it all to recede, if you want to continue to have to work two jobs, if you want to use that credit card to make ends meet at the end of the month,
00:20:44.000if you want to be anxious every day of your life of the job you've got and how you're barely hanging on if you were fired, you're 90 days away.
00:22:01.000They've abandoned it to this credential class.
00:22:04.000This kind of, you know, phony degrees, you know, coming out of these universities and these people that hang on to these kind of marginal jobs
00:22:12.000that are all because of government spending and corporate spending that support this.
00:24:42.000These are highly sophisticated apparatuses working with private equity like Latham and Watkins and Carlisle in the Imperial Capital.
00:24:52.000Or working with these Wall Street hedge funds or private equity funds essentially control the country.
00:24:57.000The power of what President Trump did, and I don't think only the most sophisticated on their side, but I was stunned of how brilliantly thoughtful it was.
00:25:10.000Because they went after, the media bit on, they took away the security clearances.
00:25:14.000They took away the security clearances.
00:25:15.000But really that was just a means to say no more government contracts, no more government work.
00:25:20.000The key in the killer line though, which was absolutely brilliant, they embedded down in the executive order,
00:25:27.000oh, by the way, any firm that retains you will not be eligible for government contracts.
00:27:41.000The way that the system works with the NGOs, all these radical NGOs, the color revolution that Rachel Maddow talks about every night.
00:27:49.000The reason that these guys are able to be so powerful, those NGOs, they have the best law firms in the country working for them.
00:27:56.000That $100 million is not because you want philanthropic work, it's to take away the opportunity costs so they can't work for the radical left.
00:28:35.000It just cannot keep up with that demand.
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00:30:45.000You have to go to the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, University of Texas at Austin, Berkeley, UCLA.
00:30:52.000I'll throw on University of Florida and University of Arizona.
00:31:12.000I would go to the big state universities today, these great public Ivies, and say right off the bat, you either purge the faculty senate or purge the administration immediately or you cut off all money.
00:31:23.000In the state of Michigan and the state of Wisconsin, there's no way.
00:31:26.000This is billions of dollars to go to these universities.
00:31:31.000And then you would get to the—you would lance the boil that's driving this radicalness on college campuses, but also throughout America.
00:31:38.000Because they all—the common theme is that it's all public money.
00:31:43.000If you cut the USAID, why do they run around the USAID?
00:31:46.000Because it's publicly—has basically fueled the revolution in this country.
00:31:50.000Once you cut off the public money or once you cut off these radical—these law firms that are radicals, these neo-Marxist, right, culturally, not economically, once you cut off the public money or access to it, they fold.
00:32:03.000You've seen a system that has had so many of the institutions under control, they got lazy.
00:32:08.000They never thought a Trump would come along, and they never thought a Trump could get that message out to working-class people and actually have power in back of his punch.
00:32:16.000That's the great struggle we have today.
00:32:18.000And it's not being reported correctly.
00:32:21.000Number one, I just don't think the media has spent time thinking this through about what's really going on.
00:32:26.000They're all running around with their hair on fire, oh my gosh, this, this, and this.
00:32:29.000There's actually a very well thought through plan on this, and the opposition knows this.
00:32:35.000The law firms understand this. The NGOs understand this. Rachel Maddow understands this.
00:32:39.000Watch her show. Watch what she's really talking about.
00:32:41.000She understands exactly what's going on, and she understands the stakes about—the stakes and how high these stakes are.
00:32:48.000When they reach that agreement, what are they agreeing to?
00:32:50.000The president said they're bending to me. You said they come to him as a supplicant.
00:32:54.000I mean, are they agreeing to not attack the—not represent clients attacking the government?
00:32:59.000What's the crucial agreement that they're making? Is it loyalty?
00:33:05.000It's not loyalty. I think it's not—I think it's the fact that, first off, they're not going to fund—they're not going to do all this pro bono work for these other organizations, right?
00:33:13.000And number two, that they're going to not attack the government, not sue the government frivolously, which I think is a huge thing.
00:33:21.000It's not that, look, if they've got a case that's meaningful, I'm sure they'll take it and they'll continue on, or their partners will resign.
00:33:27.000You've already had some of the younger associates at Skadden-Arps saying we'll never agree to this and we'll go do it our way.
00:33:33.000But it should not be lost on people that Skadden-Arps and Paul Weiss, two of the most powerful law firms in the country, basically cratered.
00:33:42.000Has the administration chosen immigration as a place to make a stand with the courts?
00:33:49.000Was that intentional, or do you think that's how it developed?
00:33:53.000When you say immigration, I think immigration—look, the southern border has been secured in 60 days.
00:34:00.000How can anybody on the left sit there and not be humiliated by the lies, quite frankly,
00:34:05.000the lies that were supported by your channel and your show year after year after year,
00:34:10.000and the Republicans picked up on it. I'm not just picking on radical Democrats.
00:34:14.000By the way, when you guys are shut down and all the money's gone,
00:34:19.000it's this type of thing that—it's the lies and misrepresentation you're told on basic issues like the invasion of our country.
00:34:29.000We've started to get control of this immediately because of President Trump's just direct actions.
00:34:34.000In the courts, I think you're talking about, it's not the mass depredation.
00:34:38.000Remember, I believe we're two—once again, in the spectrum of this, President Trump's,
00:34:44.000a moderate, trying to balance everything.
00:34:47.000His right wing is for mass deportations of all 10 million—and let's be specific—that just came in on Biden's watch.
00:34:54.000Anything that happened beforehand, we'll have to think that through in the future.
00:34:58.000We're just talking about what's happened from January 20th of 2021 all the way till January 20th of 2025, in that four years.
00:35:07.000What Biden did, which is very well thought through, in conjunction with the NGOs that were paid for by either your religious organizations,
00:35:16.000like the Catholics, the Lutherans, or the Jews—Catholic charities being the worst, and I'm a Catholic—or USAID paid for by your taxpayer dollars
00:35:26.000to basically bring in economic competition that Wall Street wanted, that corporatists wanted, because they want to drive down wages.
00:35:32.000So if you're sitting in Chicago watching your PBS as a—as a convinced liberal, understand that your government—that government at the time was organized.
00:35:41.000It wasn't chaotic. It was a very organized way to basically invade—bring in cheaper labor into the United States to drive down wages among lower-skilled workers, which is unacceptable.
00:35:52.000So right now, we're not even talking about mass deportations, which is the point that MAGA wants to get to quickly, because they all have to go home.
00:36:00.000They all have to go home. You're not going to have a country unless every invader goes back to the—to the origin.
00:36:08.000What we're talking about now is a national security issue. Let's go back to the unified executive theory.
00:36:13.000He's commander-in-chief of the armed forces and can make decisions about national security.
00:36:18.000You have a radical judge that's in certain—this has nothing to do with immigration.
00:36:22.000This has to do with his role as chief—as commander-in-chief.
00:36:27.000Can a federal judge step in the middle of that and start making decisions about airplane, you know, capacity, lift, who's going to go, what's going to go, etc.?
00:36:36.000You have an organization—he's designated as a terrorist criminal organization that's terrorized people from Colorado or all over the country, and he's shipping them out of here.
00:36:47.000And he's going to continue to ship them out of here. You've had a judge insert himself in that role.
00:36:51.000It's now at the Supreme Court. I—you know, it'll get expedited, I assume, and we'll see.
00:36:56.000So, no, you can't let these radical judges do it, and this is going to be a showdown. It has to be a showdown.
00:37:01.000And the rhetoric about the judge, because a lot of lawyers say, you know, all of the rhetoric—calling for impeachment, the radical left lunatic—that this rhetoric, it shouldn't—that's not the type of thing the president should say.
00:37:15.000He should appeal. He should abide by the court ruling and not—
00:37:19.000Listen, by the way, was there any complaint from PBS or was there any complaint by the Democrats on the—on the rhetoric used against the judges when the—when the Roe v. Wade decision came out and they had to have police protection at their houses?
00:37:31.000I—I don't remember—I don't remember anything about the rhetoric being too high. You guys are so fucking phony on the face of it. This is why we're defeating the left.
00:37:40.000The American people, as they see this, they go, these guys are a bunch of fucking lying scumbags, which you are a bunch of lying fucking scumbags.
00:37:46.000You terrorize—you try to terrorize Supreme Court justices over a decision that didn't go your way.
00:37:52.000And now I'm a huge believer, but playing by the system. The system, we should get these judges—and I'm an advocate—I'm not saying I'm going to impeach them right now.
00:38:00.000That's for the—that's for the House of Representatives to decide.
00:38:03.000However, the Judiciary Committee should immediately get Beryl Howell and—what was it—Boseberg in immediately for a public hearing about their conduct.
00:38:12.000Absolutely. And let's put it before the American people. Let's put what these two have done. These two are radicals.
00:38:18.000Put them on notice. You put them through this process. Whether you impeach them or not, all these other judges are going to fold.
00:38:23.000Here's what we know. If you take power and exert it, this system's not so tough. You know why?
00:38:30.000They're all gutless cowards. They've all hid behind the system for decades and decades and decades.
00:38:35.000So the university administrators, they're not that tough. The big law firms? Nah, they're not that tough.
00:38:41.000The media? Look who's cratered. How many times—look how they're settling with Trump. They're not tough.
00:38:47.000We're resilient, we're anti-fragile, and we're tough. You can put us in fucking prison.
00:38:52.000You can take Trump up there and put him on trial every day. The people around Trump are battle-hardened, okay?
00:38:58.000You're not going to scare us, and we're not going to stop. And what we know is you guys are a bunch of pussies.
00:39:05.000You will crater. PBS is going to crater. You know why? You're not tough. You don't believe, actually, at your core in what you're trying to do.
00:39:13.000And you'll fold, like the law firms, like the universities, like the media, like all of these institutions.
00:39:19.000You will fold, because we're relentless and we're not going to stop.
00:39:22.000So when it gets up to the Supreme Court, which is where it's going to end up, I mean, how is it going to play out?
00:39:27.000And a lot's going to come onto John Roberts.
00:39:58.000Some of these things I wouldn't have complied with, but they have.
00:40:01.000And I think you're going to have to see when it comes out to the Supreme Court.
00:40:04.000So I don't want to prejudge what's going to happen.
00:40:06.000But a lot of these, on every part of the theory, right, whether he's chief executive and can make decisions on personnel and money, right,
00:40:14.000and executive action, as commander-in-chief, can he actually ship out these criminal terrorists?
00:40:21.000As the chief magistrate, things dealing with the Justice Department and the FBI, they're all going to the Supreme Court, right?
00:40:27.000And now there's, what, 82 lawsuits and more coming every day, right?
00:40:33.000But you're going to see a lot of these are not pro bono work anymore by the big law firms.
00:40:38.000Carrie Lake told me the other day on VOA, I think they got eight or nine.
00:40:41.000So that's how the system works, and we'll have to see how it plays out.
00:40:44.000But yes, you have a constitutional crisis because one of the tests of this theory is that it's supposed to be checks and balances.
00:40:53.000We got into the system for years, you had judicial supremacy.
00:40:56.000And I kept even saying to the Mark Levins and these guys who are very smart, the constitutional guys, they're all, everything's getting down to Supreme Court decisions.
00:41:05.000Well, I said, the founders never gave the Supreme Court to be, you never agreed to judicial supremacy.
00:41:12.000And what you're seeing now is a judicial insurrection about somebody that's challenging judicial supremacy.
00:41:18.000That's going to have to be worked out.
00:41:20.000And that is, I would say, the courts threw us into a constitutional crisis because they want to be supreme to the chief executive.
00:41:28.000And so this is going to play out, and we're going to see how it plays.
00:41:31.000I strongly believe we're going to win.
00:41:35.000I mean, you said that there were some court rulings you wouldn't comply with.
00:41:38.000The president has said that he would comply with court rulings.
00:46:32.000You can't compromise with our oppositions.
00:46:35.000They're not going to compromise with us.
00:46:36.000They don't believe in anything that we stand for.
00:46:38.000They think that all they talk about is autocratic breakthrough.
00:46:41.000This is the moment of autocratic breakthrough.
00:46:43.000This is the moment when Donald Trump becomes dictator.
00:46:45.000What he's trying to do is trying to get back to what the Constitution says and make sure that we're not a dictatorship.
00:46:51.000Because we have been a dictatorship, as you can see by how the Justice Department was weaponized against people and tried to send Trump to prison for 300 years, which they still want to do, and sent guys like Peter Navarro and myself to prison for discussions on checks and balances.
00:47:24.000Explain that, because that criticism of autocracy and the thing that we have heard is people who say the president doesn't seem to respect the rule of law or courts.
00:47:35.000He doesn't respect the rule of lawyers.
00:47:41.000He spent all this time putting judges in.
00:47:43.000What do you mean we don't respect the rule of law?
00:47:45.000He absolutely respects the rule of law.
00:47:47.000It's the other side that didn't respect the rule of law that went after people, that from school boards to people at abortion centers to people just opposed them on what they were trying to do and trying to break the Constitution.
00:48:01.000Have your audience ask themselves a question.
00:48:03.000The J6 Committee, did they not crawl on their bellies to the White House and ask for something that's never been given in the history of this country?
00:48:12.000Your audience should ask themselves, if they're so rule of law, why did they go crawling for something that's never been given in American history?
00:48:20.000A blanket preemptive pardon, and plus their staffs.
00:48:22.000I happen to think they're not legitimate.
00:48:24.000I think they ought to be pursued, because that's when we saw the breakdown of rule of law.
00:48:58.000And remember, these are people that volunteered for this back in 21 and 22, understanding by getting on this Trump team and working through these issues.
00:49:08.000Lawyers, people like Stephen Miller, Brooks Rollins, the people at Heritage, Russ Vogt, who are now all the core team, they understood by signing up for this in those early years, you were basically anathema to the Republican establishment.
00:49:23.000You wouldn't be in a Nikki Haley administration.
00:49:26.000You would not be in a Ron DeSantis administration.