Stephen K. Bannon is joined by the Viceroy of the Justice Department, Mike Davis, and Jim R. Rickards, to talk about Watergate and Watergate's impact on the White House. They also talk about Jack Smith's new book, Watergate: The White House's Secret War on America.
00:02:04.000And how many law firms are not willing to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump right now in his administration?
00:02:08.000Some have just started their own firm in the last few days.
00:02:11.000But, you know, there is a very human moment towards the end of the book where, you know, Jack realizes it's all over.
00:02:18.000And, you know, he's with his prosecutors and says, you know, I have a wonderful wife and kids.
00:02:26.000And that's what really matters in this world.
00:02:28.000And, you know, I urge you to find what matters for you and to hold on to that.
00:02:32.000Because everything they've been working on was over.
00:02:35.000You know, everything that they'd really poured night and day into.
00:02:39.000In Jack Smith's orbit, his inner circle was, we could be overturned.
00:02:45.000The fear for Merrick Garland, the attorney general, who ultimately tacitly approved this move, was the appearance of shopping for a better jury in D.C.
00:02:57.000You know, D.C. had indicted every single Capitol rioter, you know, and definitely was much more anti-Trump.
00:03:05.000Well, Merrick Garland comes across as someone for whom a time capsule is required.
00:03:11.000His judgment and his pace of decision making feel like the most dangerous thing at the Biden era Justice Department.
00:03:18.000Is that a fair extrapolation of your body of reporting on Merrick Garland's conduct?
00:03:24.000You know, this is an extremely respected jurist, somebody that I covered.
00:03:43.000As an attorney general, people felt that he was harkening back to a post Watergate playbook that no longer played.
00:03:51.000He was living in an in a world in which it would be OK to turn the page.
00:03:57.000But it turns out that not looking at the evidence that was very public, starting, we learned in December 2020, there were investigators pushing for an investigation based on evidence that they didn't actually open until a year and a month later.
00:04:16.000And they didn't open this investigation until January 30th, 2022, not have been more clear when he was the attorney general that he did not want anyone speaking.
00:04:25.000We have a moment in the book that's never been reported before where he was livid when then, then about to be former U.S.
00:04:39.000Attorney Mike Sherwin went on 60 Minutes to explain the evidence and the riot investigation and how he believed you could charge these people with seditious conspiracy.
00:04:50.000Those who had helped arrange the riot, those who came with riot gear and, you know, special and zip ties, but also the radio communications, the sort of front phalanx, if you will.
00:05:02.000And he went on air and made this series of comments about how he really thought seditious conspiracy was the way these charges were trending.
00:05:11.000He'd made that recommendation to Merrick Garland privately.
00:05:14.000And now Merrick Garland was hearing it on national television.
00:05:17.000And the end result of that was they recommended referring Mike Sherwin for disbarment in two states where he held a law license for discussing what the crimes were that they would try to build cases for.
00:05:33.000So they were going to be disbarred. And now everyone that worked for under Merrick Garland's direction and decision to appoint a special counsel, Jack Smith, to investigate Donald Trump's crime of mishandling classified documents and interfering with the election has been fired, purged and canceled.
00:06:54.000She might go on the link, but been at the Washington Post forever.
00:06:57.000And they are throwing Jack Smith and particularly Merrick Garland under the bus in this book, Injustice, as as many laws as they broke, as many things that they did on weaponizing the federal government.
00:07:11.000It's not good enough because Trump's not in prison.
00:08:04.000I mean, Merrick Garland gets ripped on in this book and Jack Smith gets ripped on as not doing enough, not breaking enough laws, not because it's all about getting Trump to prison and to make sure he can't return.
00:08:16.000There's so when you read these books and see these interviews, Mike, they're still kind of in shock that Trump is back.
00:08:22.000You can you can feel it as it goes through.
00:08:24.000You're like you're like a sitting Shiva or it's an Irish wake that they're sitting there just in kind of shock about what just happened, sir.
00:08:31.000Yeah, because they don't understand real Americans in real America.
00:08:37.000They don't understand the war room posse.
00:08:40.000They don't understand how people think in the real world.
00:08:45.000They're in the New York and D.C. bubble.
00:08:48.000And it's it would be shocking to people in New York City and Manhattan and in Washington, D.C. and, you know, the fancy parts in northwest upper D.C.
00:08:59.000It is shocking that real Americans in real America actually like Donald Trump and want him to be the president.
00:09:06.000And these lawfare Democrats did everything they could to sabotage not only President Trump, but sabotage the American people, the American electorate for the last eight years.
00:09:20.000They made up the Russian collusion hoax to protect Hillary and to hurt President Trump.
00:09:25.000And when that failed in 2016 and Trump won the White House, they tried to destroy his his presidency.
00:09:31.000They hobbled it with the Russian collusion hoax.
00:09:34.000They did the Arctic frost on the United States senators and the Trump allies after President Trump left office.
00:09:41.000They impeached him twice for for nonsense.
00:09:45.000They indicted him four times for non crimes.
00:09:47.000They tried to bankrupt him for non fraud.
00:09:49.000They tried to throw him in prison for the rest of his life.
00:09:52.000They tried to throw him off the ballot unconstitutionally in Colorado and Maine and elsewhere.
00:09:58.000They tried to take off his head when they underfunded the Secret Service and said he's the gravest threat to democracy.
00:10:03.000And Biden said to put a bullseye on him.
00:10:05.000This is an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
00:10:09.000And they're really going to be shocked when there's when they face these grand jury subpoenas and when they face criminal indictments.
00:10:20.000It's going to get a lot worse for these lawfare Democrats.
00:10:24.000These lawfare Democrats laughed at Cash Patel, the FBI director, Dan Bongino, at Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia outside of D.C.
00:10:36.000They're not laughing anymore as Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and Lindsey Halligan showed the receipts yesterday that you talked about that's on all my social media.
00:10:47.000These are damning, damning documents with Comey and these other lawfare Democrats.
00:10:55.000Because we've seen a shift here in the last two or three weeks with Grassley's committee, what Cash has put out.
00:11:02.000I want to take that thread, and I want to hold you through the break for a few minutes, too, to get – I want to take that thread, which you kind of lay out in the Vice-Roy's thing.
00:11:09.180Walk us through this kind of sea change we've seen over the last two or three weeks here, sir, and what it means for us going forward.
00:11:17.300Well, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and Chuck Grassley, my former boss, the Senate Judiciary Chairman, Lindsey Halligan, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, they're firing on all cylinders, and they're actually delivering.
00:11:30.560And I give great credit to these people, particularly Cash Patel and Lindsey Halligan.
00:11:35.100They are going up against the deep state, and anyone who's done this in the past has been utterly destroyed.
00:11:43.500And Cash and Dan and Lindsey and so many others that we talked about are – they're just bold and fearless warriors for the Constitution.
00:11:52.280They know what these lawfare Democrats did to President Trump, his top aides like you, Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro, and Jeff Clark, his allies.
00:12:05.940This is the biggest scandal in American history, what these lawfare Democrats did.
00:12:13.180They did not like what the American voters did in 2016, and so they tried to destroy that.
00:12:20.160They tried to destroy President Trump for the last eight years.
00:12:23.600They tried to destroy his top aides, his allies.
00:12:26.620They threw everything they had at President Trump, and Teflon Don is back in the White House.
00:12:34.200They're really going to have a meltdown again when the grand jury subpoenas start going out and the indictments start flying.
00:12:40.320It's going to get very, very ugly for these lawfare Democrats, as we've discussed on your show for the last three-plus years since the Mar-a-Lago raid, and we're going to put their asses in prison where they belong.
00:12:54.660A couple things I'm hearing is that, number one, there's about 100 subpoenas backed up as the lawyers try to work through them.
00:13:02.840Also, their superseding indictment is going to come out.
00:13:07.940Let's take – we've got about a minute here, and I'll hold you through the break briefly.
00:13:40.900We have Mike Davis, the viceroy, with us.
00:13:43.100Mike, I'm going to just hold you for a couple minutes.
00:13:45.500If Grace and Moe can put up that Twitter thread yesterday of Davis, it's really quite brilliant, and it kind of walks you through everything because you can use this as a roadmap.
00:13:58.840Remember, Mike came out of Grassley's committee, and over there, those guys are deadly serious.
00:14:04.360So this goes to another phase right now.
00:14:07.780And the more it's put out there and promulgated, the more whistleblowers and the more folks you're going to have over in the apparatus, they're going to say, hey, no mas.
00:17:37.020And it tells you how many warriors were actually in the Republican Party and the conservative movement at the time that just needed a little guidance from the populist nationalist warriors, right?
00:17:48.040And then they became, they're our frontline troops.
00:17:50.300The Federalist Society, Leonard Lee on that crowd, I thought they were lecturing us for the longest time.
00:17:59.120Yeah, I remember when people looked at this case against James Comey for perjury, for false statements, for obstruction of a congressional investigation, when Comey lied twice in 2017 and 2020 to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:18:15.720When the Senate Judiciary Committee was investigating this Russian collusion hoax, all the wimps, the FedSoc wimps, said that there's no evidence here.
00:18:23.760Well, Lindsey Halligan teams up with Kash Patel and Dan Mangino, and guess what?
00:18:31.920They got the indictment in Alexandria, Virginia, certainly not Trump country in this Democrat suburb outside of Washington, D.C.
00:18:40.440And then Comey was stupid enough to file a motion to dismiss the indictment for malicious prosecution.
00:18:50.460And they were saying that Lindsey Halligan and Kash and Dan and the rest of the all-stars in the Trump administration were targeting Comey only because of his First Amendment rights, right?
00:19:01.280And so then Lindsey said, OK, then I'll show you the receipts.
00:19:05.260And Lindsey showed the receipts that Kash Patel and Dan Mangino found, including in the burn bags inside of a skiff inside the FBI.
00:19:14.740They were trying to destroy this evidence.
00:19:17.800And Kash and Dan found it, turned it over to Lindsey.
00:19:20.380And Lindsey filed her response to Comey's motion to dismiss for malicious prosecution.
00:19:47.860I imagine there's going to be other indictments coming down the road, maybe in the Southern District of Florida, for this conspiracy against rights that we've been talking about, where the Obama and Biden regimes politicized and weaponized intel agencies and law enforcement to take out Trump, his top aides, his allies.
00:20:36.240You got to hit it with more speed than ever.
00:20:37.700Before I lose you, tomorrow at the Supreme, we're going to have an all-star group tomorrow of some of the best folks, like we've got records coming on about globalization, trade tariffs.
00:20:49.680But the one thing ludics there, brother, because Mike Davis, having worked on for years when we were in the wilderness with the Project 2025 guys and Stephen Miller guys over America First Policy Institute,
00:21:01.320and, of course, the great Russ vote and others, basically came up driving the maximalization of Article II or the unitary theory of the executive.
00:21:12.900The Supreme Court has come out and kind of, I don't know, Mike, it's backed your theory of the case, which is these are political decisions.
00:21:22.080These are political choices and need to be rectified at the polls through something called politics.
00:21:27.700That's why Ludic, who's still bitter at Trump and even bitter at the Bush guys for passing him over to the Supreme Court, because he thinks he should be chief justice, and he ain't.
00:21:37.100That's why he's doing Saturday mornings on MSNBC at 8 at 7.30 in the morning, of course, with the war room watching.
00:21:44.280Your thoughts, your thoughts about what tomorrow is going to show, and why is Ludic using this mantra?
00:22:02.920You're living rent-free in Michael Ludig's head.
00:22:06.480He is this washed-up, loser, former federal judge.
00:22:10.560Like you said, Steve, he's so bitter that he got passed over for the Supreme Court.
00:22:15.300I was in the Bush White House Office of Political Affairs at the time, as you said.
00:22:19.800I'm a little bit more radical than my colleagues.
00:22:22.620I broke a little bit more China, as you can imagine, than my colleagues did in that White House.
00:22:28.340But Ludig, he's never recovered from his bitterness, and Trump has absolutely fried Ludig's brain.
00:22:37.340And remember, this is the same Michael Ludig.
00:22:39.700I just wrote a piece in The Federalist on this, and it published yesterday.
00:22:42.960This is the same Michael Ludig who said that the Colorado Supreme Court decision throwing Trump off the ballot, I think he said masterful or something like that, that got reversed 9 to nothing by the Supreme Court.
00:22:57.400I mean, it is really hard to get reversed 9 to nothing by the Supreme Court.
00:23:02.840But Michael Ludig and his goofball theory found a way.
00:23:07.900They're bitter that the American people put President Trump in the White House twice, really three times, but they stole the election in 2020.
00:23:17.060They are so mad at real Americans in real America, like the war room posse who put President Trump back in the White House, and they're doing everything they can to stop him.
00:23:28.100They run Crossfire Hurricane before his presidency and during his presidency.
00:23:33.160They ran Ortic Frost after his presidency to try to take out Trump and MAGA.
00:23:37.760Now they're trying to use judicial sabotage.
00:23:41.080They're trying to have these Democrat activist judges and these Democrat hellholes like New York, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, and elsewhere try to destroy his presidency.
00:23:50.680But the Supreme Court's not going to let that happen.
00:23:52.920And we need to give, and I mean this sincerely, not only David Warren's in the White House counsel, but also Attorney General Pam Bondi.
00:24:02.820Bill Barr would not have brought these cases to the Supreme Court because Bill Barr is a blowhard and Pam Bondi has bigger balls than all the Republican attorneys general before her combined.
00:24:15.460And she's the one who's taken this aggressive approach and going to the emergency docket of the Supreme Court and getting these monumental wins, not only for President Trump, but for the presidency and his article to core article to executive powers.
00:26:47.720When I worked at the CIA, by the way, the CIA was always a burn bag a couple seats away from my desk, and I threw a lot of stuff in it.
00:26:55.280I always assumed they burned it later, but maybe not.
00:26:58.140But this is a lot of what I did for the intelligence community.
00:27:02.120And the way to understand it, as it's being presented to the court, they're saying, well, that act does not mention the word terrorist, which is true, and therefore you can't use it to impose terrorists.
00:27:30.700And number two, is there a threat to national security?
00:27:32.900Well, again, when you're hollowing out the United States, stealing technology, using it for military purposes, there's a threat to national security.
00:27:39.540Those are the predicates, and they've both met in this case.
00:27:42.100And furthermore, there's a safety valve in that statute that says if the Congress doesn't like what the president did within, I think it's 90 days or some time period.
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00:29:06.200Jim Rickards, I want to tie what you're doing with the Supreme Court tomorrow,
00:29:12.260your thoughts on the Supreme Court and this monumental case that's coming forward
00:29:16.420about Trump's trade policies and tariffs to the lectures you're giving at Hillsdale.
00:29:21.080And, folks, we're going to find out if there's a possibility they can live stream it,
00:29:23.800we're going to live stream it here on War Room on our channel over at Rumble and at Getter and other platforms.
00:29:32.760If not, we're going to play the videotape.
00:29:34.460And we're eventually going to get all of it, but we definitely want to get Rickards.
00:29:37.000Jim Rickards, your lecture at Hillsdale on Magonomics, where we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
00:29:44.620What I'm doing, Steve, is, you know, there's plenty of commentary on Magonomics and policy debates and news coverage and arguments and all that.
00:29:53.880But I said, no one's teaching it the way you would teach monetarism or Keynesianism.
00:30:00.040So I started doing that actually around the world.
00:30:02.340I'm here at the Hillsdale College, so I'm giving the lecture tonight.
00:30:05.380But I gave this presentation very much the same in Ljubljana in Slovenia 10 days ago.
00:30:12.500Of course, Slovenia, the original home country of our greatest first lady, Melania Trump.
00:30:16.660And it was an audience of, you know, public intellectuals, government officials, and others.
00:30:23.920And I said at the end of it, I said, by the way, for Slovenia, you should quit the EU, quit the European Central Bank, get away from the euro, and quit NATO, and use your advantages.
00:30:34.720They've got, you know, they've got a nuclear power plant.
00:30:37.480They've got, I said, buy Russian energy like Hungary, encourage direct foreign investment.
00:30:41.700Kind of laid out a plan, but it basically involved getting out of the EU because they're dragging you down.
00:31:22.380But yeah, this is capping off a very good six lecture series, as I've mentioned, Amity Slays.
00:31:27.860I think, by the way, Jim, I think you're going to find, I spoke to the Hillsdale, I think donors, I don't know, six months or so ago.
00:31:36.520That, you know, we had these people on their feet.
00:31:38.920I think you're going to be quite surprised at Hillsdale.
00:31:40.880I think they're pretty cutting edge out there.
00:31:43.060I think, I think it got a lot of, I realize you got the libertarians, you got a lot of Cato people or people, you know, think like Cato.
00:31:50.200You got a lot of classic Austrian economics, Milton Friedman types, Milton Friedman types.
00:31:55.340I think you're going to be quite pleasantly surprised about how at least some of the audience embraces the policies of President Trump, the populist economic nationalist policies of President Trump, sir.
00:32:08.360Well, it's certainly a very smart crowd.
00:32:42.440They had comparative advantage in tuna fishing and rice farming.
00:32:45.660Yet today they are the superpower of semiconductor production.
00:32:48.620They did that as a matter of government policy.
00:32:50.480They created comparative advantage out of thin air by subsidizing it, encouraging spinoffs, sending students to Berkeley and Stanford, getting them back again, et cetera.
00:33:00.440And Trump's doing the same thing in the United States, direct foreign investment.
00:35:50.400And I kind of, you know, got some, got off the road a little bit, made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
00:35:55.580I know this is not a religious show, but, you know, go there and you'll see a little bit of heaven on earth.
00:36:01.640That might be the most important place in the world.
00:36:03.360So I always tell people in Washington and New York, you got to get off your butts, get away from your screens, go out, travel, meet people.
00:36:30.140When Rickards is over in Slovenia, he's talking to all these government officials.
00:36:33.840He's essentially laying out the premise of Brexit, why Brexit is so important, to take your sovereignty back from these centralized governments.
00:36:41.860It's essentially the core of the talk tonight at Hillsdale.
00:36:44.900It was about taking our sovereignty back, the American people, putting America first and American citizens first.
00:36:50.860But I got to go back to Liz Yor will never forgive me in Harnwell and Jack Posobiec.