Bannon's War Room - Episode 5057： The Fraud Continues In Minnesota; Color Revolution In America

00:00:00.000 To hear this from me, I, the desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration

00:00:06.440 of how wrong this is, that is a patriotic duty at this point in time.

00:00:26.320 That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you.

00:00:28.400 That's okay, we don't change our plates every morning, just so you know.

00:00:34.280 It'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.

00:00:36.860 That's fine. U.S. citizen.

00:00:40.180 You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

00:00:45.100 Get out of the car. Get out of the car.

00:00:49.680 Get out of the car.

00:00:50.380 You're driving, not much!

00:00:51.680 Oh! 0.60

00:00:51.920 No, no, no, no.

00:00:53.620 Hi everyone, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz here.

00:01:01.440 You witnessed in Minnesota yesterday a tragedy, the death of Renee Goode on the streets at

00:01:06.500 the hands of a federal agent.

00:01:09.280 You also witnessed last night a beautiful vigil, a peaceful vigil, people expressing

00:01:15.880 their constitutional and First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, and for that I say thank

00:01:19.420 you.

00:01:20.420 I've been very clear, we need a couple things here.

00:01:22.180 We need Minnesota to carry out this investigation, to make sure that the professionals at the

00:01:26.420 PCA and the local law enforcement who's in charge of law enforcement make sure we do

00:01:32.600 the investigation, and then to pull back this unnecessary surge.

00:01:37.420 And so with that, I would ask for all of us to continue to do this peacefully, continue

00:01:42.560 to raise our voices, but do so in a manner that brings about that sense of community.

00:01:47.660 In Minnesota, I'm declaring tomorrow at 10 a.m. on January 9th, I'd ask everyone to pause

00:01:53.540 for a moment of silence.

00:01:54.840 To remember Renee Goode, also to remember all that's good and right about this nation.

00:02:01.320 And I'm going to ask folks if they can, I'd ask employers to give their people some space.

00:02:05.900 I'd ask each and every one to find a way to contribute in your community, it might be

00:02:10.040 shoveling your neighbor's walk, it might be being at a food bank, it might be pausing

00:02:14.260 to talk to someone you haven't talked to before.

00:02:16.680 But to show the goodness, to rise up, to make sure that we're being very, very clear about

00:02:21.660 this, that we expect our constitutional rights to be respected, that law enforcement is local,

00:02:26.960 that we expect accountability of our elected leaders, and that we are not going to go quietly,

00:02:33.900 and we're not going to give up on those things that matter so much to us.

00:02:37.720 And chief amongst those is human dignity, respect, rule of law, all of the things that we know

00:02:43.320 make this country great.

00:02:44.320 Show me, go ahead, go ahead, show me, show me, show me, go ahead, show me, show me, show 0.74

00:02:57.080 me, show me, show me, go ahead, show me, show me, pepper, say me, hurt me, scream at you, 0.98

00:03:06.080 your grandmother. 0.99

00:03:07.080 Cheaping.

00:03:08.580 Oh my goodness.

00:03:12.520 Oh my goodness.

00:03:16.080 Oh my goodness.

00:03:28.140 Oh boy.

00:03:30.380 Oh boy.

00:03:33.020 Oh boy.

00:03:36.020 Oh boy.

00:03:37.020 Donald Trump! Down, down with Donald Trump! Up, up with immigrants! Up, up with immigrants! 1.00

00:03:53.020 Down, down with Donald Trump! Up, up with friends and neighbors! Up, up with friends and neighbors!

00:04:01.020 Down, down with Donald Trump!

00:04:03.020 People with no cause and murdering people for trying to flee and for obeying a command to leave the area 0.98

00:04:10.020 and then shooting her in the face like that after she drops her kid off at school. 0.60

00:04:15.020 We have to show up with guns. We have to. There's no other way around it. 1.00

00:04:21.020 I don't care if I don't have a Minnesota carry permit. I'm unarmed right now, but this is the last time I show up to face these guys without a weapon.

00:04:29.020 There's no way. I got shot with a pepper ball five minutes after walking in here.

00:04:34.020 I never laid a finger on them. I never raised a hand to them. I've only been using my voice.

00:04:39.020 The time for speaking is over. The time for niceties is over. The time for peace is over.

00:04:46.020 They fired the first shot. It is time to end the s**t by any means necessary. 1.00

00:04:51.020 This is the primal scream of a dying regime. 0.96

00:04:58.020 Pray for our enemies. Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:05:03.020 Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.

00:05:09.020 I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

00:05:14.020 And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega Media.

00:05:19.020 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:05:24.020 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:35.020 Here in the War Room, it's Friday, January 9th in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:05:48.020 It's Natalie Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.

00:05:52.020 I think he's down in Texas doing, I'm sure, a wonderful live event.

00:05:56.020 So I was going to say you're stuck with me. You're not stuck. Don't worry. We've got a packed show.

00:06:00.020 I'm going to speed through. I think basically all the show kind of do a special just with Mike Benz for at least B, C, and D blocks.

00:06:07.020 I am going to tee off a bit on the cold open we just played for you.

00:06:12.020 That's everything going down in Minneapolis, across the state, all things ICE, all things DHS, the CBP commissioner, you name it.

00:06:21.020 I think what you're seeing there, we can call it the phalanx of fraud.

00:06:26.020 We like the Praetorian Guard analogy here, too, in the War Room.

00:06:30.020 But what you're seeing, I think, is a defense line form, essentially, so you cannot get to the heart of what we are really probing in Minnesota.

00:06:38.020 It's not about the authority or the rights of Border Patrol officials, ICE agents, law enforcement, take your pick.

00:06:45.020 It's about the systemic fraud, not just that happened there, but that was pushed and urged on, turned a blind eye, if not outright incentivized by the elected leaders there of the Democrat Party on the state level, the local level, but most importantly, the national level.

00:07:03.020 I mean, let it sink in. Tim Walsh, how wild is it that a VP candidate, not that long ago, in a very alternate universe, he could be sitting in the White House right now, not only has he dropped out of the race, but his state is in complete and utter disarray over something that is really not all that radical, really a foundational issue of this country, sovereignty, border security.

00:07:26.140 The idea that our tax dollars should not be subsidizing a bunch of third-rate foreigners who hate this country, our Islamic extremists, that's being euphemistic and have no respect for this country, and when they think about what it means to be American, that means, how many government subsidies and programs can I get enrolled in so I can, I don't know, live off the welfare state? 0.99

00:07:47.480 That's their definition of what being an American means to them, and I think it's quite telling for those of you who are maybe a little skeptical about the fraud, the large, vast swaths of it going down in Minnesota.

00:08:00.300 All the proof you need is the response that you're seeing.

00:08:04.940 I think they, what, sometimes like to call it an antibody, right?

00:08:08.060 That's the resistance to the fraud, although I think what we're seeing is more of a full-blown, outright virus, a few disease.

00:08:17.480 If you look at some of these people protesting, I'm not sure, maybe it's a mix of tetanus and HIV or monkeypox, but I want to drill down, you know, here in the war room, we really pay attention to words and language and rhetoric.

00:08:34.820 And something that we're hearing a lot, and we're going to play some more clips, is really focusing in on this concept of community, community, community.

00:08:42.420 And I wanted to juxtapose Tim Waltz's words before the alleged attempt to basically kill an ICE agent with a vehicle.

00:08:52.360 Obviously, that lady was killed. 1.00

00:08:54.440 She died.

00:08:54.980 Then you see Tim Waltz going on Twitter, doing the, you know, whole casual video talking about how, oh, we need to have a moment of silence for the community, the community, and all the kind of Democrat members of Congress are really towing in, towing the line on that one.

00:09:08.800 And I think that that's very telling, because what they're trying to signal, not just because they're community organizers and community activists, but it's that you, whether you're a hardworking, tax-dollar-paying, tax-paying American citizen, a member of this audience, a member of MAGA, you are not part of their community.

00:09:29.060 And they have perverted that word probably more than they have transgenderism or free and fair elections or election integrity, but they are making it very clear that community does not include Customs and Border Patrol, it does not include MAGA, it does not include you if you think that America deserves to have a border.

00:09:47.980 And even through legal immigration pathways, this country should not be continued to be exploited and pillaged at the hands of third-world foreigners. 1.00

00:09:56.600 That's not radical.

00:09:57.580 I think that's what the founding of this country was about.

00:10:00.980 And let me just say that this is a reminder to the weak Republicans who, what, every, like, week or so feel the need to tell us that we need to seek unity, right?

00:10:12.600 That's their favorite word, unity.

00:10:15.080 These are the people that they're telling us to seek unity with.

00:10:18.080 And I don't know about you guys, but I want no unity with people who are as deranged as the clips that I just played.

00:10:24.000 Right, the modern left, the progressive left, what you're seeing, they inherently treat protest and disruption as some sort of moral good.

00:10:34.180 Which really doesn't make sense at face value, but that's how you see them now justifying the most outlandish things, whether it's, you know, states' rights, the ideas that these states can do what they want.

00:10:42.920 I think I remember that in history.

00:10:44.400 I don't think the Democrat Party is necessarily on the side of that contextually.

00:10:48.840 But more importantly, you also see them endorsing things like Second Amendment rights.

00:10:53.040 Remember when they're saying that they should, you know, fire on the investigative reporter, Nick Shirley, for showing up to these Somali daycare centers?

00:10:59.700 It's a complete inversion of their whole worldview because the only thing that they care about is creating chaos.

00:11:05.820 And it's quite, I think, an Alinsky-ite projection that they got going on there, tying it back to community organizing, where they're essentially accusing these ICE agents of basically what they are guilty of, whether it's the Somalians, the left-wing NGOs, right?

00:11:21.820 Oh, these people are showing up.

00:11:23.200 They won't reveal their true identities and they're misusing funds.

00:11:26.300 They're misusing resources.

00:11:27.460 I'm pretty sure that's exactly why they were sent, because there's a bunch of foreigners who are doing that, using your taxpayer dollars to scam you out of, I think, billions of dollars more than the entirety of Somalia's GDP. 1.00

00:11:41.740 And that's a generous, that's still even with all the World Bank money flowing in.

00:11:47.400 Anyways, I think it's time that Tim Waltz issues his formal retraction of calling what us Republicans were the weird one.

00:11:55.340 I think weird ones, if we're the weird ones, then I think I don't want to be normal because your state is in complete and utter disarray.

00:12:05.680 And we're going to, like I said, we're going to play more clips.

00:12:07.700 You can see from North Carolina to New York to all around and across the country, this is metastasizing.

00:12:13.940 Hopefully it's not a Fort Sumter moment, but you never know with the state of the modern left.

00:12:20.900 I think we got Mike Benz.

00:12:23.580 Mike, I rambled enough.

00:12:25.540 I want to bring you on.

00:12:26.900 It's been a while since we've had you on.

00:12:28.600 We've only got a few minutes, but I just want sort of your top line assessment before we get really granular, because I know that's what the audience wants, of everything that we're seeing go down in Minneapolis right now.

00:12:38.960 Well, it's a kind of deflated, winter-suppressed attempt to recreate George Floyd 2.0.

00:12:50.640 I think the cold weather and maybe lack of a protected identity group status about this makes it less of a hotbed.

00:13:01.940 I don't think it will reach anywhere near the George Floyd levels of things, but this is – they need to keep this – we talked about it a million times, but this kind of people-powered, color revolution, people on the streets, force, hungry, enthusiastic, and active.

00:13:22.820 It's almost like deploying troops somewhere to keep the troops in ready position so that when the hot summer approaches, they're warmed up and good to go.

00:13:33.700 This, I think, is effectively what we're seeing in – once again, Minnesota.

00:13:40.160 This is the same Minnesota that kicked off the George Floyd riots.

00:13:43.820 But the tape that came out today about the car hitting, which I think was the opening clip that you played in that montage, hitting the officer, ending once and for all with incontrovertible smoking gun evidence that she had indeed effectively tried to run him over.

00:14:04.600 You could hear the thudding, the whacking sound of the car actually hitting the officer and his – looking like his body camera having to jerk away because of him being hit.

00:14:16.880 But effectively, this is the equivalent of if the actual police report had been made public about George Floyd in the early days of things before the I can't breathe narrative was allowed to saturate for what was effectively five months and no revelations about the fentanyl overdose.

00:14:37.580 But they will continue to try this and sit up Maz, a parallel kind of chaz, but we need to go after these networks. 0.99

00:14:47.600 I guess old habits die hard, especially when the funding sources are probably the same.

00:14:52.800 We've got more Mike Benz for the rest of the show right after this break.

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00:17:44.620 I know you highlight these peaceful protests on your show regularly.

00:17:50.260 Do you think they do any good?

00:17:52.180 Do you think that anything comes from them?

00:17:54.500 Yes.

00:17:55.000 You do?

00:17:55.440 Yes, I do.

00:17:57.040 I mean, in political science terms, there's what's called the 3.5% rule, which is that if

00:18:03.760 you look at authoritarian regimes of various kinds all over the world over the last, like,

00:18:09.480 century, once you have 3.5% of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or

00:18:19.000 an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that they can't oppose and that precludes

00:18:26.520 them from consolidating dictatorial power.

00:18:28.480 3.5%.

00:18:29.420 3.5%.

00:18:30.000 It's not that much larger a number than what we're already seeing in the streets against

00:18:33.760 Trump.

00:18:35.320 You're back in the war room where 3.5% is a very important number and figure.

00:18:41.560 Let that sink in.

00:18:42.380 That's, of course, Maddow, you know, the political theorist.

00:18:45.420 Well, I would just remind her humbly of who is it, Max Weber, talking about the monopoly

00:18:49.980 on the legitimate use of force that does not rest with crazy rogue, as Steve says, Karen 0.93

00:18:55.640 leftists driving cars or freaky liberal protesters or Somalians trying to kill ICE officers, shoot 0.98

00:19:04.600 them, do whatever, it rests with the state. 0.97

00:19:08.940 Just my two cents.

00:19:10.960 Mike Benz, I want to bring you back in where we left off, sort of looking at this through

00:19:15.840 the lens of that 3.5%, which I think squares kind of nicely with what you were talking about,

00:19:19.840 the sort of, you know, ready reserve status of the left-wing color revolution extraordinaires.

00:19:26.760 What else do you think our audience needs to know about what's going on in Minneapolis?

00:19:33.200 While you're playing that segment, I kept looking over to my kitchen and thinking if I had time

00:19:38.200 to grab a spoon, I wanted to gag.

00:19:40.120 All I have is a shoehorn here.

00:19:41.960 I want to gag myself.

00:19:43.780 A political scientist, Rachel Maddow, didn't come up with that. 0.98

00:19:48.380 That was conceived in the literal color revolution studies.

00:19:53.960 I mean, they call it democratization studies, and it's a subfield of political science, sociology,

00:20:00.500 psychology, international relations.

00:20:05.600 This is essentially the color revolution theoretician number that they always constantly cite.

00:20:11.720 Science has empirically validated that if you can mobilize 3.5% of the population into the streets,

00:20:17.380 it's the magic number that makes a tipping point that makes it impossible for police and security services

00:20:23.620 to contain the protests.

00:20:25.240 And so the president, the democratically elected president, is forced to flee in a helicopter

00:20:29.360 to a non-extradition country so that we can install a tinpot dictator of our own 0.92

00:20:35.160 who will serve our own donors and corporate interests.

00:20:39.240 It's, it's, it's nauseating.

00:20:42.460 It's, it's hilarious.

00:20:44.460 The FBI designated the three percenters, a, effectively a kind of domestic terrorist group,

00:20:52.300 the right-wing group who cited the 3% of the population who stood up to the British folks.

00:20:58.720 And they openly tout this 3.5% and there's no FBI watch list for Rachel Maddow.

00:21:05.140 But the fact is, is what they're talking about is toppling a government.

00:21:09.100 I mean, what, what you just heard her refer to is that the protests will be too big to contain.

00:21:14.540 The government will have to step aside if we can simply, I mean, this is what we see playing

00:21:18.680 out right now.

00:21:19.440 So, and this is what makes it dirty is that Republicans love this three point, there's

00:21:24.040 a bipartisan consensus on it, even though we, you know, conservatives tend to chafe when

00:21:29.600 Democrats use this, especially at home.

00:21:33.460 The fact is, is Lindsey Graham is champing at the bit for a 3.5% in, in Venezuela and in 0.75

00:21:40.620 Iran and as, and as a dictatorial as those countries leaders may be, the fact is, is this is our 0.63

00:21:48.220 stock and trade technique.

00:21:49.780 If a government we don't like will not willingly give us power, we seek to put 3.5% of the

00:21:59.620 population on NGO payroll on, or on dark money payroll or on drug money payroll as we tried

00:22:07.920 to do in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria, uh, in, in order to make sure that they are sufficiently

00:22:15.000 beholden to us, that they have an incentive to take to the streets to get more money.

00:22:20.780 And do you see the same sort of riot for hire networks at play in minute, in Minnesota?

00:22:26.760 We saw them in Seattle and Portland.

00:22:29.600 This is, you know, one of the main organizers here is indivisible, which got $7 million at

00:22:35.680 least in 2023 money, which was an off year.

00:22:38.520 That was just their latest form nine 90 from George Soros is open society foundation, which

00:22:43.960 is a very popular rental riot organizer for a CIA and state department, uh, 3.5% protests

00:22:52.520 abroad, but it's, you know, they're trying to make fetch happen.

00:22:56.720 The fact is, is it's cold.

00:22:58.420 It's isolated.

00:22:59.360 Just Minneapolis.

00:23:00.060 The, the facts of the case here are very weak, but they, you know, the plan is as the

00:23:06.500 summer approaches and as the 2026 midterms, uh, approach the attempt to, you know, when

00:23:15.320 you listen to these people, cause this 3.5% number was really touted by Maria Stefan and

00:23:20.160 Erica Chenoweth at the U S Institute of peace, which is a famous drug running gun running CIA

00:23:26.400 cutout.

00:23:26.900 It's literally in their charter for that, that the CIA has, uh, carte blanche to, uh,

00:23:32.780 to enter the premises and collaborate.

00:23:34.840 Uh, it's, uh, it's supported by, you know, the, the, the, the wall of donors on, on the

00:23:42.840 wall is Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and a bunch of oil companies.

00:23:48.200 Uh, Erica Chenoweth is out of the Harvard Belfer center and the, uh, successor to the Harvard

00:23:55.520 CIA.

00:23:56.020 It's called the Harvard, it was called the Harvard center for international affairs, a

00:24:00.800 cheeky play on CIA where it was caught doing CIA work directly in the 1970s and eighties,

00:24:10.020 and then rebranded to the, uh, I think C C T, uh, CSIA.

00:24:18.380 So the center for science and international affairs, you put that in there, it sort of blunts

00:24:22.380 it, but they're a rental riot, uh, theoretician group and incubator.

00:24:28.400 They bring, uh, riot leader, riot coordinators from foreign countries to the Harvard Belfer

00:24:35.500 center and the Harvard candy school where Erica Chenoweth is to train them on how to start,

00:24:40.640 how to kickstart a revolution in your country, in Belarus, in Moscow, in Venezuela, in Ukraine

00:24:47.480 ahead of 2014.

00:24:48.480 Uh, so these, these are professionals, these are professional folks who are paid their entire

00:24:55.920 career, usually directly, but, but often even indirectly through pass through grants and

00:25:02.580 subgrants by the U S taxpayer to so-called serve American interests by overthrowing foreign

00:25:07.940 gun, uh, countries and, uh, installing what are supposed to be American corporations, but

00:25:14.500 often end up being British, Canadian, Spanish, uh, Saudi, Pakistani, uh, and other, other

00:25:22.920 corporate firms that are allied, uh, to, to exploit foreign resources.

00:25:27.380 But here they want to exploit the treasury so that they can all pay themselves.

00:25:30.820 This is what they were doing with John Podesta's $375 billion climate scam.

00:25:35.900 This is what the EPA was doing with $92 billion in last minute payoffs to their own friends out

00:25:41.340 of the U S treasury to their, to NGOs.

00:25:45.360 And, uh, you know, it's, it's something that I hope the Trump administration has learned

00:25:49.740 a lesson from during the first time around the thing I'd stress about this is going after

00:25:55.440 the, it is perfectly lawful to do a genuinely peaceful protest.

00:25:59.980 In fact, it is our first amendment, right?

00:26:02.580 We don't just have a freedom of, you know, freedom of speech in the first amendment.

00:26:06.740 We have a freedom of assembly to be able to peacefully protest.

00:26:10.480 But when you are hitting police officers with your car, when you are burning down police

00:26:15.100 precincts as they did in Minneapolis in 2020, or throwing Molotov police, uh, cocktails in 0.72

00:26:20.740 police cars as they did in New York during those prior protests.

00:26:24.420 Um, and it's, and I think more interestingly for this justice department is the concept of

00:26:30.980 blocking roads in that, in that very video, you notice in that montage, you'll, you'll

00:26:37.380 see that they, they were organized blocking of major city intersections, which is a tried

00:26:44.460 and true technique in order to induce a standoff to create a martyr.

00:26:49.220 In fact, you can hear Maria Stefan, the touter of this 3.5% figure. 0.61

00:26:54.300 I think even co-wrote a book about the 3.5% figure, uh, where she on U S government payroll

00:27:01.420 from the U S Institute of peace, uh, actually gave a training manual for how to organize people

00:27:08.460 to block roads.

00:27:09.660 Well, that may be useful for the CIA to do in a foreign country to destabilize it and force

00:27:15.180 a showdown with the police, but that's a felony to do in the United States of America.

00:27:20.220 And the idea that, uh, what I don't like from this justice department's, uh, current, uh,

00:27:28.780 attempt to try to go after this is, is I think when you see organized blocking of roads,

00:27:34.380 the, what you, I think you need to do is interrogate the organizers about premeditated

00:27:41.340 road closures.

00:27:42.740 And once, once you have a insider manual, you know, go to indivisible, go to move on,

00:27:50.900 go to the SEIU or the, the AFL CIO, or to the immigrant defense force, which is this collection

00:27:58.980 of a hundred NGOs in Minnesota around this.

00:28:02.460 And the moment you get the training guides that show premeditated intent to block roads,

00:28:07.700 you have a mass felony arrest.

00:28:09.300 Mike Benz hang with us through the break.

00:28:13.860 I know the audience wants more of this.

00:28:15.760 Certainly Erica Chenoweth, uh, we've done a lot of reporting on her, her, her resume reads

00:28:19.560 like a rap sheet.

00:28:20.320 It's all about violence and trying to topple regimes.

00:28:24.140 They say, uh, president Trump is guilty of that.

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00:31:04.640 You're back in the war room.

00:31:07.080 We still got Mike Benz with us.

00:31:08.440 Mike, okay, we're going to do this, which is usually how the blocks end up shaping,

00:31:11.980 which is I ask you a question and then you talk the majority of it, which is the best, is what the audience wants.

00:31:16.280 But I have two sort of questions.

00:31:18.840 One, sort of walk us through the inverse of this.

00:31:22.980 In other words, not just the U.S. money flowing outward, but how that money then flows back inwards.

00:31:30.220 In other words, why is there even a Somali essentially colony, it seems like a penal colony at this point, in Minnesota?

00:31:38.520 Why are there these kind of refugee populations? 1.00

00:31:40.700 I know you've done a lot of reporting on this.

00:31:42.620 It sort of gives them inroads back home.

00:31:45.460 But that, first and foremost, and then also, if you have time, your thoughts on everything going down,

00:31:50.620 sort of in the same way you were talking about assessing what is going on in Venezuela and Iran.

00:31:56.420 No light topics there.

00:32:00.260 Well, certainly.

00:32:01.100 So what you see with refugee concentrations is they typically come here.

00:32:07.880 I mean, you've had this political patronage system of ethnic immigration and then mixed into local politics since the days of Tammany Hall in the early 1800s with the Irish in New York City,

00:32:24.020 where you had, you know, effectively, you know, this boss tweed political apparatus that would import the Irish into New York City and then give them fake no-show jobs, 0.86

00:32:36.800 basically big piles of free money using fraud and scams and marked-up city contracts, you know, a million dollars for lawn chairs type thing.

00:32:48.640 And then they would then rally the Irish to vote Democrat in New York City.

00:32:55.480 This has been going on with pretty, you know, pretty much every immigrant group's first arrival into the United States in some form.

00:33:05.120 But what really started to happen during the Cold War was you began to have city-specific ethnic enclaves develop through immigrant and refugee programs attached to CIA and military activity in their home region,

00:33:20.540 where we import vast sums of the population of a country that's undergoing a civil war as part of the effort to tilt that civil war in the U.S. military and CIA's favor.

00:33:37.620 And this is because those refugee populations, often endangered by local police or rival gangs, are much more useful, protected, and made rich here in America, 0.69

00:33:50.940 where they can then disperse money to their at-home, lower-level grunts, as well as huge, huge remittance payments back to the home country

00:34:01.820 in order to essentially serve as a alternate U.S. aid to fund the specific side of the civil war that the U.S. military and CIA want to win.

00:34:14.400 This is in part why Miami is disproportionately Cuban.

00:34:20.160 25% of Miami-Dade is Cuban, and this was because of the CIA importing huge amounts of the Cuban community

00:34:29.980 in an attempt to create a shadow government, a government in exile and a diaspora network that could champion the cause for Cuban liberty.

00:34:39.420 We saw the same thing happen in Minneapolis and neighboring Columbus, Ohio, in part because of the significant role that U.S. Air Force bases played during the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991.

00:34:55.060 Somalia was backed from the late 1960s until 1991 by a CIA-backed government.

00:35:05.860 Somalia is more oil than Iraq.

00:35:07.820 It's got huge amounts of minerals, and it sits near a very important choke point for global trade along effectively the whole strait that leads into the Persian Gulf.

00:35:25.060 And so what you have is in 1991 when the CIA U.S. government-backed government in Somalia fell and a civil war broke out,

00:35:39.220 and there was a big power vacuum for two decades effectively.

00:35:41.860 Somalia had no government at all, actually no central government.

00:35:45.560 What it had was effectively a remittance system and then a proxy battle between different great powers backing different Somali warlord factions.

00:35:57.980 And it was exactly at that moment that the U.S., that mass immigration from Somalia to the United States started principally in Minneapolis and in Columbus, Ohio,

00:36:11.660 which both had, again, as I mentioned, this substantial U.S. military vectors to Somalia for an interesting one in Columbus, Ohio, for example,

00:36:26.940 where people are finding what appears to be equivalent level frauds in Minneapolis.

00:36:31.840 Columbus, Ohio is a particularly interesting example because the Rickenbacker Air Force Base was used as the launch point for logistics to Somalia when George H.W. Bush in 1992,

00:36:48.860 December 1992 announced that the U.S. would begin a U.S. military ground presence in Somalia.

00:36:57.740 Now, nominally, this started with USAID.

00:37:00.660 This was the reason the Trump administration is still involved in Somalia.

00:37:05.660 We just bombed Somalia last night. 1.00

00:37:08.120 We're said to be at war with al-Shabaab in Somalia, which is essentially a rival, well, a semi-rival faction.

00:37:15.940 It's actually kind of complicated.

00:37:17.280 But we're fighting for mineral rights and control over mines and trade in port areas, and there are rival warlord factions.

00:37:26.920 So nominally, we have our special forces out there carrying out assassinations of those warlords.

00:37:33.720 But how did we get dragged into this?

00:37:35.140 Why are we in Somalia?

00:37:36.240 Well, it started with George H.W. Bush in Columbus, Ohio, the second largest population of Somali-Americans now,

00:37:42.720 had no Somali-Americans effectively at all until 1992.

00:37:48.260 But as soon as the U.S. military began launching operations from there, we imported masses of the leadership of the Somali warlord tribes that we were backing in order to enrich them.

00:38:03.620 And I think this is part of the reason the FBI looks the other way, law enforcement looks the other way,

00:38:09.460 because this fraud ends up capacity building U.S. military and CIA activities.

00:38:18.280 This is the same reason that the CIA allowed drug running.

00:38:23.640 Not just that, but actually built up drug running in Afghanistan, in Colombia, in Venezuela.

00:38:29.680 This is now seeing the blowback of this right now, frankly, in the charges against Maduro.

00:38:36.720 The original 2020 indictment was listed the Cartel of the Sons 32 times and framed Nicolas Maduro,

00:38:48.280 president of Venezuela, as being the leader of the Cartel of the Sons.

00:38:51.140 Well, in the revised indictment issued just six days ago, they've eliminated the references.

00:38:58.720 There's only two references in the superseding indictment, and they don't mention him as a leader of it at all.

00:39:06.140 And a big part of this is because the Cartel of the Sons was created by the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

00:39:15.120 It was created by General Ramon, who was the head of the Venezuelan military intelligence,

00:39:23.980 who was a sanctioned CIA asset, a paid on the – literal on the CIA payroll, and the CIA was busted.

00:39:34.260 In fact, the drug enforcement agency, the DEA chief actually resigned when the CIA authorized through the head of the Cartel of the Sons,

00:39:46.480 this General Ramon, the shipment of 1,500 kilograms of cocaine to the streets of Miami

00:39:55.420 to be sold for the proceeds to support U.S.-backed – to buy U.S.-backed arms in the neighboring conflict zones in Latin America.

00:40:05.680 But this was a case where you had, at the very least, the CIA greenlighting it, greenlighting what is an international crime,

00:40:17.560 the very crime they're charging Maduro with, but I suspect that many of these NGOs are training the Somali immigrant population

00:40:30.920 on how to do these scams, how to exploit the system for doing it.

00:40:35.600 Many of these NGOs are directly on U.S. State Department payroll, the State Department which – the very State Department that the CIA serves.

00:40:44.720 And so I think that the more scam money is produced, the more money you have for the American war in Somalia.

00:40:53.900 And so it's very difficult to tamp down on this fraud without running into weird corners of the blob of the bureaucracy within the U.S. federal government

00:41:06.480 because cracking down on this fraud means cracking down on what is essentially pass-through money in many respects.

00:41:14.720 To support a covert military campaign that benefits many of the – both Democrat and Republican donors in the oil industry,

00:41:28.700 in the metals and mining industry.

00:41:30.720 And so as much as you might want to crack down the fraud, it's the same reason we never crack down on the drugs.

00:41:35.060 And Mike, can you just tee off on Iran too?

00:41:42.400 Well, you know, it's the domino that they were hoping for.

00:41:46.140 I'm making you do my job. I'm sorry.

00:41:48.060 Well, it's an incredible week.

00:41:51.380 I mean, this is – this has been a long time coming.

00:41:55.620 This is not the first attempt to topple the Iranian regime through a people-powered revolution.

00:42:03.040 It is likely not the last, but we are seeing – we're seeing breakthroughs, I guess as they would say,

00:42:10.280 in ways that past violent protests did not have the energy for.

00:42:16.660 So I'm – it's one – you know, this is one of these complicated factors.

00:42:23.360 I think that it is in the U.S. interest, for example, to take the oil in Venezuela.

00:42:33.320 Venezuela is the largest oil reserves on planet Earth, even more than Saudi Arabia.

00:42:38.740 Venezuela has more gold than every mine in Africa combined.

00:42:44.340 Iran itself, I think, has the world's third largest reserves of oil and fourth largest reserves of natural gas.

00:42:55.420 It is like Venezuela, one of the most bountiful plots of dirt on all of planet Earth.

00:43:02.360 And if both Venezuela and Iran can be effectively regime-changed, I don't want to say within a week because it's going to take a very long time.

00:43:10.440 I don't know whether to call what's happening in Venezuela full regime change at this point because it's a weird – it's not a military coup and it's not a color revolution.

00:43:25.580 It's kind of a – we've kind of put what appears to be – I don't want to say an asset, but a more pliable negotiating partner in the form of Delcy Rodriguez in power through this.

00:43:35.980 But in Iran, the level of covert action here is going to be through the roof.

00:43:42.340 And I think whatever networks are – I think most people would –

00:43:47.980 Mike, we're coming up against a break.

00:43:49.580 The audience is going to kill me.

00:43:51.080 We'll talk more about this.

00:43:51.480 It's not my choice.

00:43:52.540 We've got a few minutes left in the show.

00:43:54.460 We'll be right back.

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00:45:13.460 Welcome back to The War Room.

00:45:15.600 We've only got a few minutes left with Mike Benz.

00:45:18.020 Mike, wrap sort of what you were saying, but also more importantly, where people can keep up to date with everything you're working on.

00:45:24.780 We know you never stop.

00:45:25.880 You're digging into all of this.

00:45:28.720 Well, the Iran situation is going to have months-long fallout.

00:45:35.220 I think the enervated energy pumping into Iran with these protests is going to, even if they don't result in substantial change to the Iranian government at present, it will effectively reveal networks city by city in Iran that can be capacity built through U.S. government and allied government supports.

00:45:59.120 And so I think that you can expect to see new, fresh rounds of sanctions and kind of military encirclement, if not outright military strikes, in conjunction with the protests to try to effectuate the toppling of the government.

00:46:18.900 And I think that, you know, this is one of these things where interest versus ethics are kind of the main, you know, pivot point here.

00:46:30.240 I think what we're seeing in Venezuela and Iran are things that a regime change would undoubtedly be in U.S. interests.

00:46:37.900 The question is, are the ethics of the tactics used the sort of thing that the means can justify the ends, so to speak?

00:46:51.000 And we will see on all that.

00:46:52.640 But you can, in the meantime, you can follow all my work and coverage of this on X at Mike Ben Cyber, also on YouTube and Rumble.

00:46:58.760 I post long-form videos.

00:47:01.660 Mike, thank you so much for joining us, taking the time out of your very busy schedule.

00:47:04.840 We appreciate it.

00:47:06.280 I speak for the audience.

00:47:07.900 Thank you, Natalie.

00:47:10.520 Thank you.

00:47:11.120 Have a good one.

00:47:12.520 And Warren Posse, I want to go out into the weekend playing some clips of how these protests are escalating.

00:47:18.420 A lot of these clips are not from Minneapolis.

00:47:20.500 They're from North Carolina.

00:47:21.560 They're from New York.

00:47:22.420 They're from all over the country.

00:47:24.160 But also just some good viewing because there are some good protesters amidst all of this on our side of the football.

00:47:31.580 And some really crazy ones. 0.97

00:47:32.920 And Eric Swalwell is just saying absolutely asinine stuff. 0.96

00:47:35.920 I guess the whole thing makes sense. 0.86

00:47:37.440 Have a good one.

00:47:38.560 Enjoy.

00:47:38.840 Enjoy.

00:47:38.860 No peace.

00:47:40.660 No justice.

00:47:41.820 No peace.

00:47:42.560 No justice.

00:47:46.280 I pray isです husbands help me

00:47:52.180 I pray is no peace

00:47:56.280 No Peaawoods 0.99

00:47:58.580 Drinks

00:47:59.680 Drinks

00:48:01.980 Drinks

00:48:07.900 Drinks

00:48:11.380 Drinks

00:48:13.260 Drinks

00:48:14.260 No protest, no peace, no justice, no peace.

00:48:30.000 No ice, no KKK, no fascist USA, no ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.

00:48:59.000 No ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.

00:49:29.000 People excited, we never need to be here.

00:49:32.500 It's not people, we're ready.

00:49:35.000 Hey Congressman.

00:49:43.420 What's going on, man? 0.99

00:49:43.960 What the f*** is up with ice rearing a woman in Minneapolis? 0.98

00:49:47.680 She has a name, right? 0.99

00:49:48.880 Renee Good.

00:49:50.420 Looks like she was a mom of three. 0.99

00:49:53.220 And had every right to go see her kids last night.

00:49:58.920 And instead she's dead.

00:50:01.620 And of course this is what would happen when you have a president who surges his thugs into our communities, masked, unidentified.

00:50:12.600 And I guess you're lucky now if all that happens is you're thrown in the back of a van or you're dragged by your hair through the streets.

00:50:19.440 Because now they're just shooting people in the face.

00:50:22.840 And bodies are piling up.

00:50:24.820 And we have to do something about it.

00:50:26.200 We're not helpless.

00:50:27.320 None of us are helpless.

00:50:28.320 We have to strip these guys of their immunity.

00:50:30.040 That makes them feel like they're invincible.

00:50:32.120 We have to ban masks and require them to show their faces. 0.99

00:50:37.500 And we have to make sure they're prosecuted locally.

00:50:39.640 Otherwise they're going to just roam around terrorizing people, terrorizing women, terrorizing moms.

00:50:45.700 And no one with a mom or a wife or a daughter should have to think about that.

00:50:49.680 And no woman should have to go through that. 0.96

00:50:51.100 So, yes, to ice my message is stay the f*** out of California.

00:50:56.180 I think that's the message that every leader has to deliver across the country because we're better than them.

00:51:03.120 We're going to get through this and there's going to be good on the other side.

00:51:05.820 But right now we need leadership and we need to go on offense.

00:51:09.320 So as I arrived at church yesterday, I noticed that there was something going on just a block and a half from the church.

00:51:15.620 And so I grabbed my whistles because we're used to doing that.

00:51:19.760 And I went down to see what was going on and I realized it was an ice raid.

00:51:24.460 And there were many, many protesters.

00:51:26.840 So I joined the protesting.

00:51:28.980 And before I knew it, I saw ice agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. 0.76

00:51:36.660 And so I approached her and we were at that point chanting, we are not afraid.

00:51:42.260 We are not afraid.

00:51:43.380 Go, go out of our state.

00:51:45.460 We are not afraid.

00:51:46.760 And I said to this ice agent, take me, stop harassing her. 0.99

00:51:51.920 Take me.

00:51:52.560 The agent came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me and said, are you afraid now?

00:51:58.320 To which I said, I am not afraid.

00:52:00.880 The next thing I knew, they were putting handcuffs on me and they put me in the back of an SUV.

00:52:05.760 They came back three times and they asked me if I was afraid yet.

00:52:10.060 To which I replied, hell no, I'm not afraid of you.

00:52:12.680 And I'm never going to be afraid of you.

00:52:15.040 The third time when they came back, they asked for my identification.

00:52:19.120 They asked for my cell phone.

00:52:21.200 I asked them if I was under arrest.

00:52:23.440 They didn't answer.

00:52:25.760 And then they said to me, well, you're white. 0.98

00:52:30.060 You won't be any fun anyway. 0.98

00:52:32.540 You can get out of the car.

00:52:33.800 I was astounded to experience and see such blatant racism and the effects that this is having on our community.

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Bannon's War Room - January 10, 2026

Episode 5057： The Fraud Continues In Minnesota; Color Revolution In America

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