Minnesotan Governor Tim Walz speaks on the death of Renee Goode, who was shot and killed by a federal agent in response to a peaceful protest in the streets of Little Falls, Minnesota, on Wednesday morning.
00:04:03.020People with no cause and murdering people for trying to flee and for obeying a command to leave the area
00:04:10.020and then shooting her in the face like that after she drops her kid off at school.
00:04:15.020We have to show up with guns. We have to. There's no other way around it.
00:04:21.020I 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.
00:04:29.020There's no way. I got shot with a pepper ball five minutes after walking in here.
00:04:34.020I never laid a finger on them. I never raised a hand to them. I've only been using my voice.
00:04:39.020The time for speaking is over. The time for niceties is over. The time for peace is over.
00:04:46.020They fired the first shot. It is time to end the s**t by any means necessary.
00:04:51.020This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:04:58.020Pray for our enemies. Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:05:03.020Here'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.
00:05:09.020I 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.
00:05:14.020And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega Media.
00:05:19.020I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:05:24.020Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:05:35.020Here in the War Room, it's Friday, January 9th in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:05:48.020It's Natalie Winters hosting, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.
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00:06:00.020I'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.
00:06:07.020I am going to tee off a bit on the cold open we just played for you.
00:06:12.020That's everything going down in Minneapolis, across the state, all things ICE, all things DHS, the CBP commissioner, you name it.
00:06:21.020I think what you're seeing there, we can call it the phalanx of fraud.
00:06:26.020We like the Praetorian Guard analogy here, too, in the War Room.
00:06:30.020But 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.
00:06:38.020It's not about the authority or the rights of Border Patrol officials, ICE agents, law enforcement, take your pick.
00:06:45.020It'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.
00:07:03.020I 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.
00:07:26.140The 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?
00:07:47.480That'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.
00:08:00.300All the proof you need is the response that you're seeing.
00:08:04.940I think they, what, sometimes like to call it an antibody, right?
00:08:08.060That's the resistance to the fraud, although I think what we're seeing is more of a full-blown, outright virus, a few disease.
00:08:17.480If 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.
00:08:34.820And 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.
00:08:42.420And I wanted to juxtapose Tim Waltz's words before the alleged attempt to basically kill an ICE agent with a vehicle.
00:08:54.980Then 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.
00:09:08.800And 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.
00:09:29.060And 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.
00:09:47.980And even through legal immigration pathways, this country should not be continued to be exploited and pillaged at the hands of third-world foreigners.
00:09:57.580I think that's what the founding of this country was about.
00:10:00.980And 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?
00:10:15.080These are the people that they're telling us to seek unity with.
00:10:18.080And 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.
00:10:24.000Right, the modern left, the progressive left, what you're seeing, they inherently treat protest and disruption as some sort of moral good.
00:10:34.180Which 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.
00:10:44.400I don't think the Democrat Party is necessarily on the side of that contextually.
00:10:48.840But more importantly, you also see them endorsing things like Second Amendment rights.
00:10:53.040Remember when they're saying that they should, you know, fire on the investigative reporter, Nick Shirley, for showing up to these Somali daycare centers?
00:10:59.700It's a complete inversion of their whole worldview because the only thing that they care about is creating chaos.
00:11:05.820And 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?
00:11:27.460I'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.
00:11:41.740And that's a generous, that's still even with all the World Bank money flowing in.
00:11:47.400Anyways, I think it's time that Tim Waltz issues his formal retraction of calling what us Republicans were the weird one.
00:11:55.340I 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.
00:12:05.680And we're going to, like I said, we're going to play more clips.
00:12:07.700You can see from North Carolina to New York to all around and across the country, this is metastasizing.
00:12:13.940Hopefully it's not a Fort Sumter moment, but you never know with the state of the modern left.
00:12:26.900It's been a while since we've had you on.
00:12:28.600We'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.
00:12:38.960Well, it's a kind of deflated, winter-suppressed attempt to recreate George Floyd 2.0.
00:12:50.640I think the cold weather and maybe lack of a protected identity group status about this makes it less of a hotbed.
00:13:01.940I 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.
00:13:22.820It'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.
00:13:33.700This, I think, is effectively what we're seeing in – once again, Minnesota.
00:13:40.160This is the same Minnesota that kicked off the George Floyd riots.
00:13:43.820But 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.
00:14:04.600You 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.
00:14:16.880But 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.
00:14:37.580But they will continue to try this and sit up Maz, a parallel kind of chaz, but we need to go after these networks.
00:14:47.600I guess old habits die hard, especially when the funding sources are probably the same.
00:14:52.800We've got more Mike Benz for the rest of the show right after this break.
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00:32:01.100So what you see with refugee concentrations is they typically come here.
00:32:07.880I 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,
00:32:24.020where 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,
00:32:36.800basically big piles of free money using fraud and scams and marked-up city contracts, you know, a million dollars for lawn chairs type thing.
00:32:48.640And then they would then rally the Irish to vote Democrat in New York City.
00:32:55.480This has been going on with pretty, you know, pretty much every immigrant group's first arrival into the United States in some form.
00:33:05.120But 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,
00:33:20.540where 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.
00:33:37.620And 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,
00:33:50.940where they can then disperse money to their at-home, lower-level grunts, as well as huge, huge remittance payments back to the home country
00:34:01.820in 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.
00:34:14.400This is in part why Miami is disproportionately Cuban.
00:34:20.16025% of Miami-Dade is Cuban, and this was because of the CIA importing huge amounts of the Cuban community
00:34:29.980in an attempt to create a shadow government, a government in exile and a diaspora network that could champion the cause for Cuban liberty.
00:34:39.420We 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.
00:34:55.060Somalia was backed from the late 1960s until 1991 by a CIA-backed government.
00:35:07.820It'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.
00:35:25.060And so what you have is in 1991 when the CIA U.S. government-backed government in Somalia fell and a civil war broke out,
00:35:39.220and there was a big power vacuum for two decades effectively.
00:35:41.860Somalia had no government at all, actually no central government.
00:35:45.560What it had was effectively a remittance system and then a proxy battle between different great powers backing different Somali warlord factions.
00:35:57.980And 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,
00:36:11.660which both had, again, as I mentioned, this substantial U.S. military vectors to Somalia for an interesting one in Columbus, Ohio, for example,
00:36:26.940where people are finding what appears to be equivalent level frauds in Minneapolis.
00:36:31.840Columbus, 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,
00:36:48.860December 1992 announced that the U.S. would begin a U.S. military ground presence in Somalia.
00:36:57.740Now, nominally, this started with USAID.
00:37:00.660This was the reason the Trump administration is still involved in Somalia.
00:37:36.240Well, it started with George H.W. Bush in Columbus, Ohio, the second largest population of Somali-Americans now,
00:37:42.720had no Somali-Americans effectively at all until 1992.
00:37:48.260But 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.
00:38:03.620And I think this is part of the reason the FBI looks the other way, law enforcement looks the other way,
00:38:09.460because this fraud ends up capacity building U.S. military and CIA activities.
00:38:18.280This is the same reason that the CIA allowed drug running.
00:38:23.640Not just that, but actually built up drug running in Afghanistan, in Colombia, in Venezuela.
00:38:29.680This is now seeing the blowback of this right now, frankly, in the charges against Maduro.
00:38:36.720The original 2020 indictment was listed the Cartel of the Sons 32 times and framed Nicolas Maduro,
00:38:48.280president of Venezuela, as being the leader of the Cartel of the Sons.
00:38:51.140Well, in the revised indictment issued just six days ago, they've eliminated the references.
00:38:58.720There's only two references in the superseding indictment, and they don't mention him as a leader of it at all.
00:39:06.140And a big part of this is because the Cartel of the Sons was created by the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
00:39:15.120It was created by General Ramon, who was the head of the Venezuelan military intelligence,
00:39:23.980who was a sanctioned CIA asset, a paid on the – literal on the CIA payroll, and the CIA was busted.
00:39:34.260In fact, the drug enforcement agency, the DEA chief actually resigned when the CIA authorized through the head of the Cartel of the Sons,
00:39:46.480this General Ramon, the shipment of 1,500 kilograms of cocaine to the streets of Miami
00:39:55.420to be sold for the proceeds to support U.S.-backed – to buy U.S.-backed arms in the neighboring conflict zones in Latin America.
00:40:05.680But this was a case where you had, at the very least, the CIA greenlighting it, greenlighting what is an international crime,
00:40:17.560the very crime they're charging Maduro with, but I suspect that many of these NGOs are training the Somali immigrant population
00:40:30.920on how to do these scams, how to exploit the system for doing it.
00:40:35.600Many of these NGOs are directly on U.S. State Department payroll, the State Department which – the very State Department that the CIA serves.
00:40:44.720And so I think that the more scam money is produced, the more money you have for the American war in Somalia.
00:40:53.900And 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
00:41:06.480because cracking down on this fraud means cracking down on what is essentially pass-through money in many respects.
00:41:14.720To support a covert military campaign that benefits many of the – both Democrat and Republican donors in the oil industry,
00:41:51.380I mean, this is – this has been a long time coming.
00:41:55.620This is not the first attempt to topple the Iranian regime through a people-powered revolution.
00:42:03.040It is likely not the last, but we are seeing – we're seeing breakthroughs, I guess as they would say,
00:42:10.280in ways that past violent protests did not have the energy for.
00:42:16.660So I'm – it's one – you know, this is one of these complicated factors.
00:42:23.360I think that it is in the U.S. interest, for example, to take the oil in Venezuela.
00:42:33.320Venezuela is the largest oil reserves on planet Earth, even more than Saudi Arabia.
00:42:38.740Venezuela has more gold than every mine in Africa combined.
00:42:44.340Iran itself, I think, has the world's third largest reserves of oil and fourth largest reserves of natural gas.
00:42:55.420It is like Venezuela, one of the most bountiful plots of dirt on all of planet Earth.
00:43:02.360And 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.
00:43:10.440I 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.
00:43:25.580It'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.
00:43:35.980But in Iran, the level of covert action here is going to be through the roof.
00:43:42.340And I think whatever networks are – I think most people would –
00:43:47.980Mike, we're coming up against a break.
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00:45:28.720Well, the Iran situation is going to have months-long fallout.
00:45:35.220I 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.
00:45:59.120And 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.
00:46:18.900And 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.
00:46:30.240I think what we're seeing in Venezuela and Iran are things that a regime change would undoubtedly be in U.S. interests.
00:46:37.900The question is, are the ethics of the tactics used the sort of thing that the means can justify the ends, so to speak?