On today's show, Ben Harnell and Stephen K. K. Bannon respond to Dan C. Caldwell's comments on Ukraine and Russia. They also talk about the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the future of the Joint Special Operations Command.
00:01:05.000If I just give me a quick moment to respond to what he was saying just before the break about the security guarantees being more locked in, more powerful than the security, the Article 5 guarantees of NATO.
00:01:21.000We say this a thousand times on the war, and the actual Article 5 guarantee obliges you to do absolutely nothing if a NATO ally is attacked.
00:01:30.000You've just got to take whatever steps you think are appropriate to the situation.
00:01:35.000That could be putting out a strongly worded press release.
00:01:37.000And you can say that has fulfilled our obligations.
00:01:40.000What is being talked about here is going to bind you, America, into defending Ukraine.
00:01:45.000And whilst I don't believe, I'm not one of these people that Russia is preparing and rolling tanks through continental Europe, when you have US guarantees, not only to Ukraine, but to the whole of continental Europe, continental Europe acts extremely irresponsibly with that at its back, on its shoulders, covering its back.
00:02:09.000So that's actually going to be moral hazard in a certain sense, because it is insulating European leaders with their relationship with Russia.
00:02:17.000See, my point is this, OK, on the on the on the treaty thing.
00:02:22.000There are three types of treaty here of offering.
00:05:06.000We're going to be recording this pre-record with Mike Benz.
00:05:09.000We're actually going to be talking about Ukraine and the regime change operation that led to all of this.
00:05:14.000That's going to be coming out during the Christmas break.
00:05:17.000But look, when you see all this stuff, Steve, I'm sorry that, you know, I grew up in the Philadelphia area under the shadow of Frank Rizzo,
00:05:25.000the greatest mayor in American history and the greatest mayor certainly in Philadelphia history.
00:05:30.000And it's time to go Frank Rizzo on the subversive groups of Brown University.
00:05:36.000Knock on every single door, door to door, and find out what happened to Ella Cook.
00:05:44.000Somebody knows something and you got to get it out of them.
00:05:47.000And quite frankly, Steve, I think it's time to do that to every single one of these subversive groups all across this beautiful country.
00:05:55.000Because the same way that Frank Rizzo was dealing with the Black Panthers who held their national convention right at Temple University in 1970.
00:08:05.000It's definitely not found in the Constitution.
00:08:08.000It's just a convention that's been in place for 100 years.
00:08:12.000And what it says is that when you're considering an executive branch nominee for a federal judgeship,
00:08:18.000or for a federal prosecutor in a district like the Eastern District of Virginia, for example,
00:08:25.000you got to go to the home state senator and give them a blue piece of paper and ask for a thumbs up or a thumbs down for your nominee.
00:08:33.000The reason that they did this for several years is because you had the filibuster, right?
00:08:38.000And so it was a political practice that helped you to gauge whether or not your nominee was going to have the votes they needed to get through.
00:08:46.000And it was also in an era where there was a general sense of collegiality, right?
00:08:51.000It wasn't the uproarious politics of our time.
00:08:55.000We know we're now living in a world where the politics are different.
00:08:59.000We've seen the filibuster go away when it comes to nominations.
00:09:02.000And yet, despite all of those changes, Senate Republicans are remaining steadfastly committed to this blue slip,
00:09:11.000which is now essentially a veto that a single Democratic senator can have over one of President Trump's nominees, just like that.
00:09:33.000But because Mark Warner and Tim Kaine returned a negative blue slip on her,
00:09:39.000Chuck Grassley and John Thune declined to move her nomination through the process.
00:09:44.000Eventually, her time in that position expired because she wasn't confirmed.
00:09:49.000And that mooted those entire prosecutions, thwarting one of the most important things that the conservative movement reelected Donald Trump to do.
00:14:55.000John Solomon, blue slips on the other side.
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00:15:33.000With the rate cuts from the Fed in 2026, the dollar will be worth less.
00:15:37.000And what happens if the AI bubble burst?
00:17:49.000Just because you found something doesn't mean that you had the right to go find it.
00:17:54.000And that's, I think, where we're finding a very big moment.
00:17:57.000Jim Jordan, Chuck Grassley are going to be key players in getting to the bottom of this, along with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, who found these documents.
00:18:05.000John, in previous lives, in a land far away in a time long, long ago, Peter Schweitzer, John Solomon, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:18:37.000If there are contemporaneous questions about the finances of the Clinton Foundation, it could open up a conspiracy case.
00:18:43.000But what we learned in the last 24 hours is that there was evidence of pay to play all the way back to 2010.
00:18:50.000And specifically when the Clinton cash book came out, when you were talking about it, when I was doing my reporting and we found Doug Campbell, the undercover informant.
00:18:58.000The Clinton family said, no, they're there.
00:19:04.000It turns out the Little Rock U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI had an ongoing investigation looking at the transfer with the help of President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton of uranium in Canada and on U.S. soil to Russia, to Rosatom, to Vladimir Putin.
00:19:25.000They were looking at it as a possible pay to play bribery scheme.
00:19:28.000And I'm going to predict that there is a smoking gun still to be released.
00:19:33.000We've got to get the president to do this.
00:19:35.000But I'm going to guess based on the documents I saw yesterday that either the Justice Department or the FBI raised an objection to the CFIUS.
00:19:44.000That's the board that approves sensitive transactions.
00:19:46.000Hillary Clinton has always said no one objected.
00:19:49.000I'm going to bet that there was an objection based on what I've seen in these documents.
00:19:53.000And we've got to go get that declassified.
00:19:56.000But I think all the stories we're talking about uranium, the only ones that were true were the ones Peter Schweitzer, you and I reported on.
00:20:03.000The stories that Clintons and the Democrats gave us, completely bogus.
00:20:24.000What's your advice to the president on this?
00:20:26.000What's your advice to the president on this, sir?
00:20:29.000I think he's got to bring the Senate club into his office and have a private conversation and say, listen, the Democrats are going to eviscerate all these things you're clinging to today.
00:23:02.000The Senate is actually in opposition to Trump.
00:23:05.000But who's the American public and particularly MAGA thinks who it is.
00:23:08.000And Solomon just said, he's telling the president, hey, look, give him 30 days, give him 45 days.
00:23:14.000But at some point in time in January, if they're not coming around to help you take action, you run a campaign against them for a couple of months.
00:24:12.000And I think it's because politics has just changed so much that we're in this really existential situation where people are afraid.
00:24:19.000This was a referendum November 2024 on the federal government.
00:24:23.000And Donald Trump wanted the job of president.
00:24:25.000And as the leader of the free world, as a leader of the American people, this isn't, in my opinion, about transactionally just going down a list of promises that he made on the campaign stump.
00:24:35.000He has to actually understand what Americans are going through and the actual root cause problems that we have in our country.
00:24:43.000Those problems are very deep in a way that I don't think everybody really understood in 2016.
00:24:48.000But I think they understand now because we had the Department of Justice weaponized.
00:24:52.000We had the January 6th psychological operation.
00:24:56.000We had all this stuff forced down people's throats.
00:24:58.000We had the FBI being Joe Biden's personal Gestapo.
00:25:01.000And Donald Trump is now leading that government.
00:25:04.000And these problems have not been fixed.
00:25:06.000We're coming up on the one month anniversary of my trip to Washington, DC.
00:25:10.000And I told Trump, I said, we need the fight, fight, fight plan for America that includes a conservative, pragmatic, economic, populist plan.
00:25:19.000Don't tell everybody it's a golden age because nobody believes that.
00:25:22.000You've got to tell us how we're going to get there and what the real problems are.
00:25:35.000And the other problem is brutal government reform.
00:25:38.000And so what the Democrats would say is, oh, look, Donald Trump's a dictator.
00:25:42.000He's coming in and doing dictator-y things.
00:25:44.000Well, when Donald Trump was acting most like a dictator in February, that's when his especially under 40 approval rating was at its highest.
00:25:51.000His approval rating was at its highest as well.
00:25:53.000But we have new polls back, which is closer to your opinion, that Donald Trump has done too much of what he promised during the campaign or he has not done enough of what he promised.
00:26:02.000And people say he hasn't done enough, 38% to only 21%, only one in five Americans say that Donald Trump has done too much of what he promised.
00:26:25.000That's what Americans demand and what they should be getting out of a president that sits on top of this rotted corpse of the federal government.
00:26:33.000But the under 30 voters, these Zoomerwaffen, these people who are just done with performative politics, they don't care about ideology at all.
00:26:43.000These people, 49% of them say he hasn't done enough of what he promised.
00:26:47.000Only 19% of them say he's done too much.
00:26:50.000And these under 30 voters, it's actually the under 40s too.
00:26:54.000They're the ones that agreed most with Donald Trump's quote about Napoleon Bonaparte, he who saves his country, violating snow laws.
00:27:00.000They're the ones that were most on board with Doge.
00:27:03.000They're the ones who most of them, three quarters of them, think that basically every elected official is using their position for ill-gotten gain.
00:27:10.000They're the most likely to want arrests.
00:27:12.000And they're most likely to be concerned about political violence as well.
00:27:16.000And so the problem is, again, I have all these metrics that show that Donald Trump just hasn't delivered.
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00:31:41.000So the the voters are not, you know, going to go and go down a checklist of, OK, Trump promised this on the campaign trail and I got this, this and this.
00:31:53.000And if you want to buck history, you're going to have to make those big moves.
00:31:56.000So one thing I would argue John Solomon said that was 100 percent correct and our polling shows it is that Trump just may have to campaign against his own party here soon to get what he wants.
00:32:07.000Well, I actually think that threat will be enough for a lot of people, but he's going to have to do that because the voters now with Trump improving are seeing once again Donald Trump in a different light than they see the Republican Party.
00:32:20.000And there are voters out there that Republicans haven't earned their votes.
00:32:24.000I mean, it really is that simple, you know, as much as they may even like Donald Trump or give him a lot of grace because of how much he's been through just as a candidate and a leader of this country.
00:32:33.000What he's what he's put himself through to be where he is today.
00:32:36.000They give him a lot of grace for that.
00:32:38.000But that grace does not extend to Republicans.
00:32:41.000So they better get to work and the blue slips, nuke the filibuster, get to work or you're cooked anyway.
00:32:47.000This is what this is my message to them.
00:33:20.000And Mitchell and Barris are telling you that they got to get their mind right up there and getting back a Trump or it's going to be they're going to be they're going to be.
00:33:28.000They talk about Civil War and MAGA and all this and Candace, Candace and Eric.
00:33:32.000Hey, the deep fight is right here because the establishment hates Trump.
00:33:36.000They hate Trump and they're going to try to thwart Trump.
00:33:39.000And that's going to be the big fight we're going to have.
00:33:56.000OK, I'm super happy here at six o'clock tonight.
00:34:00.000We're going to have a special for one hour.
00:34:02.000I've got Bill Federer, who I think is one of the best historians out there and best best historians and turns out is a Christian historian.
00:34:11.000And of course, I got our own Dave Brat Federer.
00:34:22.000I want people to understand how these folks were giants and how they stood in the breach in a time when the country was starting to go off a cliff.
00:34:32.000And of course, people remember President Reagan and what happened then.
00:34:35.000But if it hadn't been that these three Christian leaders really stepped into the breach and took massive amount of grief, I'm not so sure we would have the country for Trump to come around and even save.
00:41:53.000Now, Tony Perkins and General Jerry Boykin is now there.
00:41:57.000Suffered a number of his board members and supporters died in a plane crash, 1987.
00:42:04.000It was a setback, but they recovered in 1991.
00:42:08.000He moved Focus on the family's headquarters to Colorado Springs.
00:42:12.000And then he sold hundreds of thousands of copies of my book, America's God and Country Encyclopedia Quotations.
00:42:20.000I was personally introduced to him by Dick Bott of the Bott Radio Network.
00:42:24.000And so, but here, he took his brilliance in medicine, realized that there's this destruction going on of the family.
00:42:35.000I'm sure you're familiar and your viewers are with the Congressman Albert Herlong reading the 45 goals of communism to overthrow America, sort of rot it from the inside.
00:42:45.000And it was specifically destroy the family, destroy the morals, you know, push all this sexual promiscuity.
00:42:55.000And so, Dobson addressed this head on.
00:42:59.000And he says, we need to care about the kids.
00:43:03.000You know, I tell people, it's a pretty clever trick the devil's pulled to get Christians who believe the gospel of Christ, let their children be taught the gospel of Antichrist.
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