Bannon's War Room - Episode 5228： Democrats Continue To Fight Against Saving Our Elections; State Attorney General's Continue Fight Against Live Nation

00:00:00.000 Time has expired. I would advise the members that a vote has been called. It's a single vote

00:00:04.720 and if members want to shuttle back and forth so we can maintain the continuity of the hearing,

00:00:09.500 we'll do that. So if you start to see it, just to our witnesses, you know how this works.

00:00:13.760 They'll be moving in and out to go address that vote and then returning to their seat. But

00:00:17.800 at this time, I recognize Mr. Scott. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman,

00:00:21.880 for the record, I would like to submit an article from Politico dated February 24th,

00:00:27.760 And the title of it is Head of State of the Union, Dems Demand Trump Make Iran Plans Public.

00:00:36.060 I think most Americans understand that if the President of the United States makes those

00:00:40.200 plans public, then the enemies get to see them as well.

00:00:43.300 MR.

00:00:44.300 Without objection, so we're not.

00:00:45.300 And that was the date of the State of the Union.

00:00:47.420 Director Patel, I'm going to come to you very quickly, and then I'm going to move on.

00:00:51.780 But I listened closely to Senator Langford's testimony yesterday about fraud and the other

00:00:59.660 things that are going on, and I want to bring your attention.

00:01:04.560 This was in March 25th of 2024.

00:01:07.980 An unsuspecting Uber driver named Lalitha Tulanda Hall drove to a house near Columbus,

00:01:12.540 Ohio to pick up a package.

00:01:13.880 She had no idea that the 81-year-old man who lived there had just received a series of

00:01:18.420 phone calls from scammers who had threatened to kill him if he did not give the woman coming to

00:01:24.020 his house twelve thousand dollars in cash he killed the lady so she's dead he now has a life sentence

00:01:31.780 are you aware of any action or investigation that the justice department has taken to pursue justice

00:01:38.020 to bring the scammers and put them and make them pay for what they did let me take it

00:01:44.900 it thursday 19 march year of our lord 2026 um we're going to this morning be just as packed

00:01:53.920 as we were yesterday with uh live events uh tulsi gabbard uh john ratcliffe and cash patel

00:02:00.200 before the um house intelligence and they are getting um and tulsi's getting a little bit lit

00:02:05.840 up we've got some polls from that because this started earlier we're also going to dip in and

00:02:11.640 out of the live coverage also the prime minister of japan at 11 o'clock will be at the white house

00:02:16.580 it looks like if it starts on time the president is going to meet with her for a few minutes

00:02:23.140 privately and then bring the press in uh for a bilat and then take questions um

00:02:29.440 my understanding is that she's got you know real issues and so it may be later anyway we're going

00:02:35.400 to be juggling but we've got a full absolute packed agenda day including a cold open that

00:02:40.800 we're going to do in the b block mike davis is going to join me here uh momentarily and on top

00:02:46.980 of that uh pete hexeth and uh general kane had a um had a um a press conference this morning

00:02:55.660 a press briefing uh our own david zier got a good question in real america's voice but there

00:03:00.880 were some really terrific questions uh asked and some terrific information overnight i don't know

00:03:06.880 if we've got the tweet i mean we've got the true social of the president this is going to get back

00:03:11.880 to an issue that we're going to delve into this morning and also this afternoon when i think we'll

00:03:18.040 have more time there's an incident yesterday in which uh there's this massive gas field natural

00:03:25.980 gas in fact catars is kind of unique i think among the gulf emirates is that they're not

00:03:32.640 really that much oil it's natural gas i think they're the largest in the world it's where

00:03:37.400 their wealth derives from and their power derives from their power derives from their wealth

00:03:41.640 it's a joint field kind of co-managed i think really managed more than them but in some part

00:03:47.300 of in joint ownership with the iranians um part of that was hit yesterday uh by the israelis

00:03:55.000 and president trump went off we get that true social up and put it up uh president trump

00:04:02.060 went off the iranians hit back mike davis is up we get to mike in a second um then the iranians

00:04:09.680 hit back and the president went off on true social uh about this and it can't happen again

00:04:15.280 it did expand gas through the roof oil i think went to 119 dollars a barrel i'm gonna get bowling

00:04:21.760 on here later we'll fit it in we'll figure out somehow when he's available to fit in

00:04:24.880 also in addition yesterday we talked to you about the pipeline across saudi arabia going to red

00:04:30.700 You see, that was hit. As we told you, in all likelihood, they're going to start targeting this because this is the one way the Arabs, the Saudis have to get around the Strait of Hormuz.

00:04:41.800 More developments on this expeditionary force.

00:04:44.660 It looks like it's coming together potentially to give the president of the United States another arrow in the quiver to be able to take Karg Island and maybe part of some coastal facilities inside the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.

00:04:59.640 anywhere we get to all that including tulsi's uh testimony um quite as heated today as it was

00:05:06.540 yesterday when she's in front of the senate uh right now i've got is mike davis with me

00:05:11.140 mike so i want to go through and if we've got the clip from mullins do we have that clip that

00:05:16.420 short clip is that ready to go it's not ready to go thank you um mike davis we have a host of

00:05:24.180 things to go through uh the one i want to talk about is that we the the the uh save america act

00:05:30.860 now today the senate's coming back at noon we covered it last night uh on our six o'clock show

00:05:37.020 and we streamed it until its conclusion and mike lee came on the floor but the second part of that

00:05:42.880 pivoted away because the democrats just don't have a great answer for this chuck schumer then

00:05:48.200 goes to the sticks and says yeah of course we support voter id they pivoted in about the six

00:05:53.960 o'clock hour to talk about war powers i mean they totally changed the conversation and then cotton

00:05:59.600 and lindsey had to come down and you had a big you know a big throwdown on war powers they put

00:06:04.880 up another what quorum vote and they lost i think um you know 53 47 wasn't even close uh can you

00:06:13.380 just walk us through what you think the strategy is right now because they're going to reconvene

00:06:17.100 at noon they're supposed to talk about save america do you just walk me through your understanding of

00:06:21.440 where we are in this? Save Act has the support of over 80 percent of Americans, including a

00:06:30.020 supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities, because it is commonsensical that

00:06:37.820 you have to have an ID to vote like you do in just about every other civilized country around

00:06:44.240 the world. It's commonsensical that you don't have foreign invaders, illegal aliens and other

00:06:50.360 foreigners voting in your elections. We want Americans to decide American elections, and we

00:06:57.920 need to have that verified with voter ID. The Democrats have pretended that the voter ID is

00:07:05.440 somehow racist because apparently, according to the Democrats, Black Americans don't have the

00:07:11.280 wherewithal to get an ID, and they also think voter ID, or they pretend voter ID is sexist

00:07:18.120 because apparently married women are too stupid to change their name and get an ID like everyone

00:07:24.200 else, according to the Democrats' theory. This is collapsing on the Democrats, as we saw

00:07:29.520 with Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democrat leader, who is pivoting rapidly because he sees the poll

00:07:35.960 numbers and the pressure, including from the war room posse, lighting up these Senate offices

00:07:42.240 through our action center. One of the reasons, Mike, help me out here,

00:07:47.360 The reason is that their arguments, because we've been in this now for two days, their arguments are very scattered, very weak.

00:07:54.260 Is that what's also driving?

00:07:55.600 I mean, some people are watching this, they're putting the clips out, and the Democrats are just not, you know, the thing about 50 percent of women are going to not be able to vote.

00:08:04.640 They're not sticking the landing on anything.

00:08:06.440 Is that why Schumer is now saying, of course, we support voter ID?

00:08:10.140 Is that the reason?

00:08:10.900 Of course, here's the real reason the Democrats are fighting like hell to stop the passage of the SAVE Act that has the support of 80 percent of Americans, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities, because Democrat politicians know that illegal aliens are illegally voting in our elections.

00:08:31.600 And the Democrats are increasingly reliant on the illegal alien vote or the foreigner vote, like we saw in New York City with Mondami. If the illegals are not voting, why are the Democrats so concerned about voter ID? Why are they so concerned about proof of citizenship when you register to vote?

00:08:54.820 these are common sense proposals in this SAVE Act. I want to commend senators like Mike Lee.

00:09:02.100 He has been the tip of the spear on this. There's also been other senators like Eric Schmidt in

00:09:07.020 Missouri, but these guys are warriors. One of my good friends is Rachel Bovard at the

00:09:12.060 Conservative Partnership Institute, and she is an expert on Senate procedure. And I talked to her

00:09:19.500 last night, and I would strongly encourage Senate Republicans to lean in and lean in strongly. We do

00:09:27.220 not need 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate. That is a myth. It takes 60 votes to

00:09:36.180 short-circuit debate in the Senate, so to file for closure, to invoke closure, to short-circuit

00:09:43.320 unlimited debate in the Senate. But if you just force these Senate Democrats to stand on their

00:09:49.880 feet and debate, they're going to wear out. And we have 80% of Americans behind the passage of

00:09:57.300 the SAVE Act. So let's not play any games. They're building what's called the tree in the

00:10:03.940 Senate. Let's build that tree with real amendments that's going to ultimately lead to the debates

00:10:10.540 and passage of the Save Act and not bright, shiny Christmas ornaments that are a distraction. Keep

00:10:16.960 your eye on the prize, which is the passage of the Save Act. The Democrats are going to cave.

00:10:23.880 It has 80 percent support of Americans, including a supermajority of the Democrats and minorities.

00:10:29.100 The Democrats will cave on this. We're already starting to see Schumer caved by saying after

00:10:34.860 opposing voter ID for many, many, many years, all of a sudden the Democrats pretend like they support

00:10:40.260 for voter ID. The political pressure is working.

00:10:46.920 Perfect. Okay, let me play. I want to play something for a hearing. I know you're pressed

00:10:50.000 for time. We're pressed for time. Let's play this hearing, and I want your response, Mike Davis.

00:10:54.620 A clothing at a local church when she came across agents in an unmarked car.

00:11:00.240 Agents sideswiped her car. Three masked agents in camouflage stormed out, and one of them pulled

00:11:06.200 out his gun and fired at her just at her moving vehicle hitting her five times thank you guys

00:11:13.300 let's get the right clip anyway uh mike because of time uh constraints we had uh the witness uh

00:11:20.400 yesterday uh mark wayne mullins trying to be there trying to become the head of dhs said was very

00:11:26.620 blunt and said under his watch that he will require judicial warrants to go into any business or any

00:11:34.440 home in which they're not actively chasing a criminal. This is 1 billion percent against

00:11:42.800 any logic, anything that the Trump administration has ever stood for and anything the president

00:11:47.140 of the United States has ever stood for. You're the guy that used to prep all the big time

00:11:55.980 confirmations we had to do fell to you working for Grassley, particularly when it came to Supreme

00:12:02.200 Court and others. Was that a slip of what Mark Wayne Mullins thinks, or is that signed off by

00:12:08.800 the White House, sir? I presume that Senator Mullin must have been misspeaking there because

00:12:15.180 that's not what the law is by any stretch of the imagination. He's not a lawyer, so it's

00:12:20.220 understandable if he got tripped up a bit on the differences between a judicial warrant

00:12:25.860 where you go to the Article III judge in a criminal proceeding with probable cause

00:12:32.220 versus an ICE warrant where it's a civil proceeding to expel illegal aliens.

00:12:40.500 It's civil in nature, not criminal in nature.

00:12:42.260 So I presume he just got tripped up on the difference between a judicial warrant

00:12:46.620 and an ICE warrant because that's just not what the law is.

00:12:50.000 And if we actually require judicial warrants for immigration,

00:12:54.380 there's no chance in hell we would be able to expel the tens of millions of illegal aliens

00:13:00.720 who have flooded into America and are replacing American workers and American voters.

00:13:08.080 So President Trump's broad electoral mandate is to secure our border and expel illegal aliens,

00:13:15.340 starting with the worst of the worst like Trendy Aragua and MS-13.

00:13:19.440 And you certainly don't need an Article III judicial warrant to do that.

00:13:24.380 it would take us how many thousand years if there's president trump says 25 i think war rooms

00:13:32.160 at like 20 or 15 to 20 but let's say there's millions and millions and millions real quickly

00:13:37.340 i'm holding through the break i got another question but how many decades would it take us

00:13:41.820 if we had to have judicial warrants and also the system would totally clog up you couldn't move

00:13:46.400 anything else it would be it'd be beyond a nightmare how can this be a slip-up how can this

00:13:51.960 be a slip of this guy how is he nominated he's got to know something about this part of it i mean

00:13:56.840 holman i think was on tv said look he's not an expert in in immigration law this is not something

00:14:02.780 for an expert this is not something you need to be an expert is it sir look i i would just say this

00:14:09.820 just think of what dc obama judge jeff bozberg would do with an article three judicial warrants

00:14:16.700 for any illegal alien to get expelled out of our country including a rapist or a murderer he would

00:14:21.940 throw it right in his garbage can so that's just not the law it's not practical it's it would make

00:14:28.040 it impossible for president trump to do his job and carry out his broad electoral mandate to get

00:14:33.060 these illegal aliens the hell out of our country perfect perfect answer think about we had to go

00:14:38.240 and there's there's hundreds of bozbergs out there he's the worst but there's hundreds of

00:14:43.840 Mike's exactly right. You'd never get any war. Anyway, Mike Davis is going to stick with us.

00:14:48.540 We've got so much to go through, and we're going to get it all done this morning in the war room.

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00:16:21.400 Yes, there are reporters in front of me, but they are not our audience today.

00:16:28.520 It's you, the good, decent, patriotic American people.

00:16:33.340 You, the hardworking, taxpaying, God-fearing American patriots.

00:16:40.040 The media here, not all of it, but much of it, wants you to think

00:16:46.640 just 19 days into this conflict that we're somehow spinning toward an endless abyss

00:16:52.620 or a forever war or a quagmire, nothing could be further from the truth.

00:17:01.100 Hear it from me, one of hundreds of thousands who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:17:06.080 who watched previous foolish politicians like Bush, Obama, and Biden squander American credibility.

00:17:14.960 This is not those wars. President Trump knows better. To the patriotic members of the press,

00:17:25.360 nobody can deliver perfection in wartime. This building knows that more than anyone.

00:17:31.840 But report the reality. We're winning decisively and on our terms.

00:17:39.680 With our team here, the director Gabbard told your colleague, Senator John Ossoff, that it's not the intelligence community's job to determine whether a country poses an imminent threat to the United States.

00:17:51.500 She only said the president can do that. Does that come as news to analysts at the 18 agencies under her control, including the CIA?

00:18:00.160 Well, that comes to news to all of us who thought we still had a constitution and the requirement that a president is going to into a war of choice.

00:18:09.100 You have to react quite quickly. We give the president the deference.

00:18:14.260 But this was a war of choice. And the idea that he alone gets to determine what is imminent.

00:18:21.420 I always thought imminent was actually a factual determination.

00:18:25.000 Many times the intelligence community says, you know, there's an imminent threat here or there.

00:18:29.800 There was never that indication from all the reports that I saw and read.

00:18:34.960 And I'm a little bit flabbergasted by Director Gabbard, but I guess not surprised.

00:18:41.640 That is overwhelming force applied with precision.

00:18:44.040 And again, today will be the largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was.

00:18:49.880 As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build.

00:18:53.400 Iran's continue to degrade.

00:18:55.720 We're hunting and striking death and destruction from above.

00:19:00.280 their core industries not not steel or agriculture tourism their core industries are state-sponsored

00:19:09.180 terrorism proxy militias underground networks ballistic missiles and a violent messianic

00:19:15.900 islamist ideology chasing some sort of apocalyptic end game a regime like that refusing to abandon

00:19:24.920 in its nuclear ambitions is not just a regional problem.

00:19:29.660 It's a direct threat to America,

00:19:32.160 to freedom, and to civilization.

00:19:35.000 My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night

00:19:37.640 while I was editing these remarks.

00:19:40.640 He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover.

00:19:45.400 And I looked at him and I said,

00:19:47.340 they died for you, son,

00:19:50.580 so that your generation doesn't have to deal

00:19:54.120 a nuclear Iran. It's the truth. And they did. So to the families who said finish this, we will.

00:20:04.920 And I say the same to every American who wants peace through strength. May almighty God continue

00:20:12.600 to bless our troops in this fight. And again to the American people, please pray for them

00:20:17.640 every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of

00:20:28.180 Jesus Christ. West CENTCOM remains on plan to achieve our military objectives and remain

00:20:34.600 unrelenting in our pursuit of Iranian missile capabilities, UAV capabilities, and their Navy,

00:20:41.040 and as the Secretary said, their industrial base. Each day, we continue to attack deeper

00:20:46.780 into Iranian territory. As reported by U.S. Central Command yesterday, the U.S. military

00:20:53.740 dropped 5,000-pound penetrator weapons into underground storage facilities, storing coastal

00:21:00.020 defense, cruise missiles, and other support equipment. These weapons are bespokely designed

00:21:05.520 to get through concrete and or rocks and function after penetrating those barriers. We continue to

00:21:15.220 hunt and kill mine storage facilities and naval ammunition depots. We continue to hunt and kill

00:21:21.320 afloat assets including more than 120 vessels and 44 mine layers and the pressure will continue.

00:21:28.720 We're flying further to the east now and penetrating deeper into Iranian airspace

00:21:33.340 to hunt and kill one-way attack garrisons destroying Iran's ability to project power

00:21:39.140 outside of its borders. The A-10 warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank

00:21:44.800 and is hunting and killing fast-attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz.

00:21:49.780 In addition, AH-64 Apaches have joined the fight on the southern flank,

00:21:54.840 and they continue to work on the southern side,

00:21:58.060 and that includes some of our allies who are using Apaches to handle one-way attack drones.

00:22:04.540 In Iraq, AH-64s have been striking against Iranian-aligned militia groups

00:22:11.060 to make sure that we suppress any threat in Iraq against U.S. forces or U.S. interests.

00:22:18.500 And we remain focused on pursuit of any platform that Iran could field to harm Americans or our partners.

00:22:26.420 Last Friday, Admiral Cooper and the CENTCOM team conducted precision strikes against more than 90 targets on Karg Island,

00:22:33.220 which included all of their military-only infrastructure, which included air defenses,

00:22:39.860 naval base, mine storage, and deployment facilities.

00:22:43.280 And as the Secretary mentioned, we continue to strike against Iran's defense industrial base.

00:22:49.040 Good morning, Mr. Secretary. David Zia, Real America's Voice News.

00:22:53.160 What countries have been the most cooperative with us, including the Gulf states, as Europe hedges?

00:22:58.540 And I also wanted to ask you, the Internet blackouts by the regime.

00:23:03.220 It's been shut down for weeks.

00:23:04.920 Is the U.S. military playing a role in fighting against the regime, blocking VPN networks and satellites and other things?

00:23:14.640 Is there a role for the U.S. military there?

00:23:18.760 Obviously, on the allies and partners side, Israel from day one has been an incredible and capable partner, willing and able.

00:23:26.680 There's nothing like capabilities and partners that are able to use them.

00:23:30.740 The Gulf states have stepped up incredibly.

00:23:32.540 In fact, Iran's sort of reckless attempt to strike civilian infrastructure and other things has brought countries who maybe would have not been as all in as they are today squarely into our orbit.

00:23:45.920 And we're proud to be defending with them, standing with them, you name it, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and others who have been right there.

00:23:55.580 And we're grateful for that kind of support.

00:23:57.600 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Given the updated degradation and strike target numbers you laid out, how close would you say we are towards achieving the president's objectives? And what is the end game of the operation without divulging any sensitive battle plans?

00:24:10.420 Well, we wouldn't want to set a definitive time frame on that, but as we've said, we're on plan.

00:24:14.740 So we're looking at those metrics very closely, relaying that to the president and the national security team,

00:24:19.880 but feel confident that as, again, we're more stand in, means we're over the top, even further in,

00:24:26.400 and we have even more of an exact sense of what we're striking and why, and even more dynamically,

00:24:32.040 meaning because the intelligence improves, we're able to more quickly identify targets when they,

00:24:36.560 let's say they come out of an underground facility where they've been hiding and able to strike it

00:24:40.800 before it strikes or right after it shoots. But we are very much on plan. And that's what I that's

00:24:45.740 why I want to speak to the American people here. You hear a lot of noise about widening or new

00:24:50.960 missions or speculation about what we should or should not be doing. This is a clear set of

00:24:56.020 objectives. The president has given us every capability we need to accomplish that. We've

00:24:59.700 got the best in the world in uniform executing it on the ground. They are believe in and are

00:25:05.660 invested in this mission and it will be at the president's choosing ultimately where we say hey

00:25:11.180 we've achieved what we need to on behalf of the american people to ensure our security so no no

00:25:16.340 time set on that but we're very much on track the vice president has often emphasized that the goal

00:25:21.420 of this war is to do denuclearize iran while also avoiding a larger quagmire i know that you

00:25:28.640 touched on this i'd like you to expand on how do you do that how do you denuclearize the country

00:25:33.800 while also avoiding this, you know, forever war.

00:25:38.040 And then there was a report last night

00:25:39.880 that the Pentagon asked the White House

00:25:41.740 for $200 billion for Iran war supplemental.

00:25:44.920 Can you confirm this?

00:25:46.660 And can you explain why a package this large is necessary?

00:25:51.480 Well, first of all, none of this would have been possible

00:25:53.200 without Midnight Hammer,

00:25:54.600 without that audacious mission with very clear goals

00:25:57.060 that did obliterate their ability to enrich

00:25:59.140 and the capabilities they have in those facilities.

00:26:00.900 So it created the conditions for Iran to step forward and say, OK, you can reach out and touch us like that in our nuclear ambitions.

00:26:07.660 You can see that we're still trying to do this. Let's make a deal.

00:26:11.060 And the President Trump put our two best folks on it, Steve and Jared, and they worked diligently, earnestly.

00:26:16.760 I watched it to try to pursue that deal. And ultimately, I think the whole time Iran sort of said, well, we'll talk as we build more missiles and as we build more UAVs.

00:26:25.660 UAVs and we create this conventional umbrella so that if we chose to, we could try to reconstitute

00:26:31.880 the program and sort of naively thinking that President Trump wouldn't do something about it.

00:26:36.740 And that's why, as Secretary Rubio has said and I've said, it's the conventional umbrella that

00:26:41.600 was growing and growing and growing that was meant to protect that nuclear capability. So you had to

00:26:46.520 address both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as well. As far as

00:26:51.060 $200 billion. I think that number could move, obviously. It takes money to kill bad guys.

00:26:59.960 So we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for

00:27:05.340 what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future. Ensure that our ammunition is,

00:27:11.780 everything's refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond. I mean, President Trump,

00:27:15.260 as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term. Didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in

00:27:19.780 his second but he had so thank goodness he did that and an investment like this is meant to say

00:27:24.460 hey we'll replace anything that was spent and now that we're reviving our defense industrial base

00:27:28.700 and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretaries here is

00:27:32.700 doing long lead times on exquisite munitions we're going to be refilled faster than anyone

00:27:37.820 imagined and I think you know we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden

00:27:43.140 created uh which was which was depleting those stockholds and not sending them to our own

00:27:49.700 military but to ukraine okay i'm gonna get uh mike davis hopefully back up this afternoon we're

00:27:57.220 talking about the save save save america act i think there is some momentum we'll talk about

00:28:02.260 that more also this press conference what's going on capital markets all of it you're in the war

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00:29:42.220 Okay, so the intelligence group, just like yesterday with the Senate.

00:29:46.880 And remember, this wasn't called because of the war.

00:29:49.260 These are scheduled that they have to do.

00:29:53.020 I think it's twice a year that they have to update on the intelligence situation.

00:30:01.620 ODNI, Tulsi Gabbard, submits a report to people to look at.

00:30:06.240 Now, the report itself, we will get into more of that, I hope,

00:30:12.780 probably won't have time tomorrow, but on Saturday, go through the report.

00:30:16.080 Remember, we went through the National Security Strategy Memo

00:30:18.740 and then the National Security Defense Memo that comes off.

00:30:22.000 those are all required by statute to actually get done the um this is also by statute she has

00:30:29.760 to deliver it as the overseer she kind of over over kind of manages at a top level all 17 although

00:30:38.620 dia defense intelligence and cia run totally on their own and i know they do report up her at

00:30:44.840 least in some some aspect the interesting thing about this is i believe as i read through it

00:30:50.560 there is uh first off it's about the borders about internal security it's about

00:30:56.060 intelligence about the uh the homegrown nature of some of this all radical

00:31:00.840 to islam it's one of the reasons that sharia law is so important the texas proposition that

00:31:06.360 we passed overwhelmingly uh but then they get to iran but then there's an i have an issue there's

00:31:12.920 an issue with the uh director of national intelligence about the rise of china and

00:31:19.100 particularly regarding Taiwan, we're going to have, obviously, our top experts from the

00:31:23.440 Committee on the Present Danger, China, probably going to break that down on Saturday. But let's

00:31:29.620 say this, I think in the intelligence report, it's quite different than what we've had over

00:31:33.700 the last couple of years, and even different than the National Security Memorandum that was

00:31:37.980 submitted, and the National Defense Memorandum submitted by the Secretary of War about China

00:31:44.400 and the threat in the south china sea the straits of taiwan and particularly with a potential

00:31:49.300 planning by the ccp and the people's liberation army and navy for an invasion of taiwan we'll get

00:31:54.840 to all that uh later one thing i want to say mike davis had to bounce but um about the save america

00:32:03.720 act you can see the pivot by the democrats because of the last two days we've had wall-to-wall

00:32:07.880 coverage of this you haven't seen um they their arguments were not sticking that's why schumer i

00:32:13.320 think is looking for some running room they keep flipping back to these war powers discussions as

00:32:18.380 we covered last night another failed vote uh by the democrats this afternoon mike lee i think

00:32:23.780 they're going to pick this up starting at noon like i said we're going to go to the white house

00:32:27.060 for the prime minister's visit in a bilan president trump is inviting the press in i think around 11

00:32:32.140 15 11 30 mike lee's back up on the on the senate we're going to have people up on capitol hill

00:32:37.640 and um it looks at now we've we're on the bill it's now to get to uh to to the standing filibuster

00:32:44.800 and all that that i think the next 48 hours will play through but i do think there is some momentum

00:32:49.320 here because you see the democrats starting to fold particularly on the idea i'm sure they're

00:32:53.500 doing the overnight polling and seeing this when schumer says that i want to now go to ohio the

00:33:00.340 attorney general uh dave yost uh mr attorney general thank you for joining us while everything

00:33:06.000 else is going on one thing i keep telling the audience we've got to continue to focus on is

00:33:10.200 this is the concentration of power corporate and and and really governmental power in the

00:33:15.100 united states you you are one of these um i would say heroic attorney generals that have stepped

00:33:20.780 into the breach in this it's a situation with live it and i tell people it's not simply about

00:33:26.960 an entertainment entity this this talks the bigger issues about corporate power now you're

00:33:32.220 one of the attorney generals, like in Texas and other states, that have taken this up on this

00:33:36.680 antitrust suit. Can you just walk us through your logic, given everything else is going on,

00:33:41.820 why you consider this an important issue for you to focus on as an state AG, sir?

00:33:48.200 Yeah, absolutely. Although I'll say, if I were a federal officer, this wouldn't be probably at

00:33:54.800 the top of my list with everything that's going on in the world. But it is important, and your

00:34:00.220 point on the concentration of power is absolutely important. That's what we're seeing right now in

00:34:06.820 America. It is the suppression of ingenuity and innovation when concentrated power protects its

00:34:14.240 own position. That's what's happening here with the Live Nation lawsuit. It's an antitrust lawsuit

00:34:19.740 had been between the federal government and the state attorneys general were cooperating to sue

00:34:26.380 them. What they've done is they have vertically integrated and created a monopoly that, for all

00:34:32.340 intents and purposes, strangles the entertainment industry. You play with Live Nation or you may

00:34:40.140 not get to play at all. They own the venues. They own Ticketmaster and the sales. They own

00:34:46.900 the promotion company. They own everything from top to bottom except the artists. They only rent

00:34:52.980 the artists because they're disposable.

00:34:55.980 So this lawsuit seeks money damages as well as just vestiture

00:35:02.880 of the Ticketmaster portion of the enterprise.

00:35:06.220 It's kind of the linchpin of their ability to control the entire ecosystem

00:35:12.200 to allow free and fair competition, which markets

00:35:16.440 are how we allocate resources in a free society.

00:35:19.980 But there's no free market when there's a monopoly.

00:35:22.980 so i've known these guys for years and live nation they went about you know i was in the

00:35:28.820 merger and acquisition department goldman sachs for many years had my own firm did m&a they they

00:35:32.760 did a logical and i was part of a management company in the music business but they did a

00:35:36.940 logical consolidation of of of the venues from the sheds the amphitheaters all of it but it was

00:35:44.700 during the obama administration that then they merged in the obama administration approved this

00:35:49.740 their justice department and antitrust division approved the merger into ticketmaster that's when

00:35:53.780 it became a different entity i mean that's when they really had pricing power control as you said

00:35:58.940 everybody but the hardest which they they rented as rent seekers are we making the argument enough

00:36:05.500 that this is what obama and you know the democrats are all for these oligarchs and that's what you

00:36:11.900 guys are trying to break up i mean the justice department came up with a solution you state ag

00:36:16.460 said, that's still not good enough. We want to be tougher on this. We want to really back

00:36:20.480 entrepreneurs. Are we putting a highlight to make sure people understand this is how so many of

00:36:26.120 these industries during the Obama administration had the concentration of power around these

00:36:31.560 oligarchs, sir? Yeah, that's a great point. The beginning, the turn of the century is when we

00:36:38.480 really started seeing discussion about oligarchy here in America. And the state attorneys general

00:36:46.080 have been focusing not just on this, but we look at some of the things that's happening in big tech.

00:36:52.480 The attorney generals are in court, and we're concerned, and I think properly so,

00:36:58.780 about the aggregation of unchecked power.

00:37:05.220 What do you, what, the state AGs right now, it's kind of, and you guys don't have the staffs,

00:37:10.200 I think, really do this, but now the court, the case has been put to you guys. You're trying to,

00:37:14.940 you're trying to prosecute this or take it forward. What are you looking for? You had a

00:37:21.740 settlement with the U.S. government that I think a lot of people would say, well, the Live Nation

00:37:25.980 would consider that a massive victory. And here, we're hardcore neo-Brandeisians. I mean, we want

00:37:31.420 the breakup of the whole thing is the breakup of big tech and all of it. What do you think

00:37:36.340 the objectives are of you guys collectively as AGs right now in this live-in situation?

00:37:41.660 Yeah, I think that there's a number of my colleagues that want to see it completely

00:37:49.380 broken up. At the minimum, I think that everyone agrees that there needs to be

00:37:55.620 more guardrails around the way they use their scale and their integration in the marketplace.

00:38:06.000 Look, I'm not a Brandeisian or a neo-Brandeisian for the simple reason that I doubt that government is wise enough to make decisions about businesses, and it concerns me.

00:38:21.380 We're putting guardrails around unfair competition as a century-old accepted practice, part of the fabric of our legal system.

00:38:31.700 And while the Justice Department may, from a macro level, be satisfied with the settlement that they've negotiated, we out in the States have very different priorities.

00:38:43.680 We have direct consumer issues that we want to deal with that aren't addressed, in our view, adequately with the federal settlement.

00:38:52.480 And, frankly, the different venues are dispersed differently among the states.

00:38:57.840 So while nationally the DOJ might be happy, the states are rightly concerned about things that are maybe a little bit more localized than a national market.

00:39:09.080 I know it's always tough to predict on these trials, the length of it, but when do you see

00:39:15.840 this playing out, both at the trial level and then whatever deal that you state attorney generals

00:39:22.200 come and fit into the model in your own state that you're comfortable with? How long do you

00:39:27.840 see this playing out? Well, right now, the trial is going forward, and I like this case. This is

00:39:35.680 about as strong an antitrust case as I've seen during my professional career. And we've got

00:39:43.960 really egregious behavior here. There's a message between a couple of executives talking about

00:39:53.100 charging $250 a slot for VIP parking at a Kid Rock concert. And one of them says,

00:39:59.480 I almost feel bad, I almost feel bad about taking advantage of them like this.

00:40:08.520 That kind of hubris, I think, is not going to sit well with the court.

00:40:13.900 At the end of the day, I don't know if we win disvestiture.

00:40:19.300 That's going to depend, and the law disfavors it.

00:40:21.780 But I think that we can get a lot more on the table than what we had at the with the federal settlement.

00:40:30.040 And that's why Ohio is sticking to its guns at the moment.

00:40:36.020 Well, that's the question. Of course, we would love to see the investor.

00:40:39.860 But I agree with you that that's a I wouldn't say a long shot, but it's not you know, it's not going to be easy.

00:40:45.260 But how did the Justice Department, given you just reiterated what we think, this is a very strong case.

00:40:51.780 of course the company fought like crazy not to have these conversations put into the record but

00:40:57.620 you know people kind of knew about them once they were put into the record you know how that's going

00:41:01.780 to play in front of a jury given the hand that you had do you have any idea understand the justice

00:41:06.820 department is is overwhelmed with you know the deep state and what they're trying to do on

00:41:11.060 immigration everything to implement president trump's uh policies but do you have any idea

00:41:16.180 whether why the justice department essentially took a pass on this and you got the guys men and

00:41:21.220 Men and women at the state level had to then take it on their shoulders.

00:41:26.480 Well, look, we each have our own portfolio.

00:41:30.840 The Justice Department, to my knowledge, is tremendously understaffed.

00:41:35.520 They've got limited bandwidth, and that's directly at the hands of Chuck Schumer and his pals blocking the president's nominees to do justice.

00:41:47.960 so i i i'm not sure that there's that much of a disagreement between ohio and the doj we

00:41:55.980 just simply have different things that we're looking for uh i don't blame them for not

00:42:01.460 prioritizing this particular fight any further than the concessions that they were able to get

00:42:07.560 that matter at a national level

00:42:09.440 attorney general dave yost there's tremendous focus on this how do people keep up with you

00:42:16.780 What website you got to go to?

00:42:18.820 People are really, a big part of our audience is quite focused on this case for many different reasons.

00:42:24.940 Where do they go to keep up with your activity on this?

00:42:28.900 Well, I personally tweet on or post on X, and, of course, we're on all of the platforms.

00:42:36.740 If you just search for the Attorney General's Office of Ohio, you'll find us everywhere.

00:42:42.500 attorney general yost uh from the war and posse thank you very much for pursuing this really

00:42:49.820 appreciate it we will keep up to speed and if anything happens we'd love to have you back on

00:42:53.680 appreciate you sir thank you for having me

00:42:58.040 dave yost from the state of ohio the um one of the central um states of our maga movement right

00:43:10.400 there pursuing that. This is

00:43:12.480 going to be a tough one. He's right.

00:43:14.380 The divesture, the breakup of Live Ent,

00:43:16.500 which I am one

00:43:17.740 million percent for, particularly

00:43:20.320 the ticketmaster part of it. If you want to get

00:43:22.380 back to free market competition, you've got

00:43:24.400 to do that. Short commercial break.

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00:45:12.640 The president has stated that his objectives are to destroy Iran's ballistic missile launching capability,

00:45:21.460 their ballistic missile production capability, and their Navy, the IRGC Navy, and mine-laying capability.

00:45:29.780 so the death and destruction continues the economic cost the united states to israel to

00:45:37.040 the gulf states and to the world continues to increase so i want to ask you to the best of

00:45:42.020 your knowledge do you know whether israel is supportive of the president's call to make a

00:45:46.020 deal with iran i don't know the answer to that i don't know israel's position on that

00:45:53.860 and to what do you attribute israel's decision to strike iranian energy infrastructure

00:45:59.320 despite President Trump's call to keep those facilities off-limits?

00:46:05.060 I don't have an answer for that.

00:46:14.600 So they ignored the president. Do you agree with that?

00:46:20.160 I'm not privy to any of their deliberations

00:46:23.460 or what went into their calculus in launching this or other attacks.

00:46:29.320 I'm not we are we are not involved with the in the operational element of this

00:46:34.980 we're providing continuously on a daily basis the intelligence assessments of the events that are

00:46:40.540 occurring and I guess I know the FBI can because they're domestic but can anybody else at the

00:46:46.980 table provide any insight into that I guess I'm not sure what the question you're asking

00:46:56.340 Congressman Castro, I guess a couple of things. The goals that the president set out are clearly

00:47:04.080 defined. The DNI related those. What was not included is a goal of the U.S. campaign.

00:47:11.080 Well, Director, let me start with this. Let me start with this question. You asked what my

00:47:14.580 question is. Let me reclaim my time, Director. Come on. Do you know why Israel decided to strike

00:47:21.720 that infrastructure despite the fact that the president said it should be off limits?

00:47:25.060 I wouldn't I wouldn't speak for Israel. And what do you guys know? We're at war. What do you guys know?

00:47:33.660 We'll have to take that for the record. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit.

00:47:40.060 So with the strike yesterday on South Far's gas field, you know, if the U.S. didn't know about it or didn't approve of it,

00:47:47.160 it kind of seems like a trend of Israel apparently pursuing their own objectives over U.S. objectives.

00:47:55.060 I'm not sure if you agree with that, but the president has said he doesn't want to hit Iran's oil infrastructure right now.

00:48:01.300 As you said, the U.S. avoided this on Park Island. Oil is nearing $120.

00:48:06.260 Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they're going to pursue their own objectives?

00:48:10.800 We hold the cards. We have objectives. Those objectives are clear.

00:48:16.800 We have allies pursuing objectives as well. And the truth speaks for itself.

00:48:21.000 I mean, President Trump was very clear about that.

00:48:23.680 Iran has weaponized energy for decades.

00:48:26.840 Israel clearly sent a warning, and POTUS has made it clear, very clear.

00:48:31.420 Iran knows when you hit Karg Island and you hit military capabilities on Karg Island,

00:48:37.620 which is the only thing we hit, we can hold anything at issue, anything.

00:48:42.660 The United States military controls the fate of that country.

00:48:45.620 Iran has the ability to make the right choices.

00:48:47.700 It should not, going forward, target Arab allies, Arab countries, trying to create pain, the pain that they created themselves.

00:48:57.280 Thank you all very much.

00:49:01.100 Okay, and by the way, Jordan Conradsen over at Gateway Pundit, great question and very succinct.

00:49:10.160 Let's rewind on this for a second because this is quite important.

00:49:13.360 And it's very important that the war and posse think this through and make sure that you come to your own conclusion.

00:49:24.260 But in alliances, and particularly in alliances and war, you have, you don't all go in as kind of equal partners.

00:49:36.100 You have an entity that kind of leads and other people follow, but you have joint war aims.

00:49:43.360 This is not a small thing.

00:49:45.320 This is a big thing, a very big thing.

00:49:49.480 Let me go back.

00:49:51.000 As you know, watching the show,

00:49:52.300 an inflection point in this war took place,

00:49:55.520 what is it, two Saturdays ago,

00:49:57.040 when the Israelis, against a standing order

00:50:03.080 from the commander-in-chief of the United States military,

00:50:06.560 that would be Donald John Trump,

00:50:08.400 that no oil infrastructure was to be hit

00:50:12.720 this was not a uh this was not a marginal thing this was central why because a predicate to this

00:50:21.320 entire operation was an uprising of the iranian people against a murderous dictatorship uh islamic

00:50:30.500 theocracy that it was um part of the war plan and was stated very succinctly at the start

00:50:39.540 that that is one of the one of the many elements that would bring this war to a conclusion and

00:50:46.480 what would be a successful conclusion for those that think that freedom for the Persian people is

00:50:51.620 is is central to this now as you know the war room doesn't believe that but if that can end

00:50:56.260 this and end it quicker of course we're for it that line was crossed directly and Axios which

00:51:04.880 is essentially part of the comms department of the white house let's be blunt and for the idf

00:51:10.040 between rabat and uh mark caputo said the military command was it was in shock and and then the next

00:51:17.500 day said hey told the israelis on a no uh uncertain terms that cannot happen again we cannot

00:51:23.920 touch any of the iranian uh infrastructure because we want to be first of all we want something there

00:51:29.000 to be post-war plus we want the iranian people not to kind of uh organize around a persian

00:51:35.960 nationalist response that it's the west and the arabs against the persians that's the last thing

00:51:42.460 we want we still want them helping overthrow this these theocratic shiite demons

00:51:48.620 yesterday the president of the united states came out and said point blank

00:51:54.060 uh that he didn't you know he was shocked about this very upset about it when the israelis again

00:52:00.800 now way out of their kind of zone into the persian gulf uh attacked the this kind of joint field

00:52:09.580 controlled by qatar and the iranians and i think actually the qataris actually run it in some sort

00:52:16.100 of joint ownership because of where it actually fits into the persian gulf

00:52:20.220 and then uh the president came out and said you know they had this thing they went back

00:52:25.720 the iranians he said under no circumstance can you touch attack anything around but particularly

00:52:30.360 qatar then it came out that he had approved the mission they came back said oh no no we talked

00:52:38.760 to you you approved this you approved this mission i don't think that's something that

00:52:42.520 the Commander-in-Chief is going to miss. I just don't believe that. And you saw we didn't exactly

00:52:50.340 shroud ourselves in glory at the Intelligence Committee. Look, the nation's at war, and we have

00:52:57.380 operational security, but we have to deal with the American people in a very blunt manner here.

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Bannon's War Room - March 19, 2026

Episode 5228： Democrats Continue To Fight Against Saving Our Elections; State Attorney General's Continue Fight Against Live Nation

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