Bannon's War Room - Episode 5326： Global Impact On The Closed Strait; Rushed Election In Virginia Leaves Room To Steal

00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to

00:00:10.520 medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people

00:00:17.100 the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do

00:00:21.280 everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and

00:00:24.640 Where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:00:27.920 MAGA Media.

00:00:29.260 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:34.660 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:38.440 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:44.640 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.

00:00:48.040 without the permission of the united states navy to the regime in tehran the blockade is

00:00:59.400 tightening by the hour we are in control nothing in nothing out iran's battered military the irgc

00:01:08.960 specifically has been reduced to a gang of pirates with a flag they cloak their aggression

00:01:16.000 in slogans, but the world now sees them for what they are, criminals on the high seas.

00:01:22.260 They don't control anything. They're acting like pirates, acting like terrorists. They're the ones

00:01:29.600 who lay in discriminant minds, who shoot at random ships, who killed 45,000 of their own people,

00:01:39.540 Innocent protesters in the course of weeks, their own people, they are the bad actors.

00:01:47.440 It's Friday, 24 April in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:01:53.660 We are going to get back into the Commonwealth of Virginia today.

00:01:57.260 We're going to get into the Southern Poverty Law Center, all of it scheduled.

00:02:01.720 We got Carolyn Wren, hopefully Steve Cortez, others.

00:02:05.800 Aaron Joy is going to join us from the Commonwealth.

00:02:07.720 But I want to start with Captain Finnell.

00:02:09.700 So, Captain, you're the first one that talked about a blockade

00:02:13.620 and what a blockade could do on the show weeks and weeks ago.

00:02:18.160 And you and I talked about this pirate situation down on the cliffs

00:02:22.740 overlooking the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf 1.00

00:02:26.440 with this collection of Persians and Bedouin brigands. 1.00

00:02:32.160 Is Pete correct? 0.99

00:02:33.720 Because the briefing today, and I thought the general was fantastic, I think there's some confusion.

00:02:40.280 And maybe I'm confused and you're going to help me out here.

00:02:43.120 But we've got a blockade with now three carrier strike groups.

00:02:48.460 And that blockade, you don't go in or out unless you've got essentially the permission of the United States Navy and the commander in chief.

00:02:58.080 And we know that they've done a full blockade from Iranian ports.

00:03:02.040 And as Eric Bolling said, hang on, there are all types of things that are trying to slip and slip away, but we're doing that.

00:03:09.000 But the traffic coming out of the Persian Gulf is still down, when you look at all the publicly available sites, it's still down 80%.

00:03:17.980 So the pirates do have a stranglehold on Hormuz itself, sir. 0.85

00:03:25.060 Yeah, there's no question that Iran is through what I would consider to be this, 0.86

00:03:33.060 you know, cognitive warfare by the discussion of mines after we announced the blockade, 0.91

00:03:40.240 and then this issue with what they did this last weekend when they, or a couple of days

00:03:45.480 ago when they seized these two Mediterranean shipping company large container ships, and

00:03:52.800 those who are now in Iranian control.

00:03:55.540 They attacked five vessels, as the chairman said.

00:03:58.640 They retained two.

00:04:00.580 They did that with these Boston whalers. 1.00

00:04:03.180 And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy actually put out a video yesterday, a

00:04:07.620 two-minute video, showing a Boston whaler skimming along in smooth, clear seas, glassy

00:04:14.700 seas.

00:04:15.700 And they approach one of the MSC ships.

00:04:19.400 And when they get there, the ship is already dead in the water.

00:04:24.360 There's no fire.

00:04:25.360 There's no attack.

00:04:26.360 It's just already sitting dead in the water.

00:04:28.420 And the hatchet, the water line, is open, and a ladder is already down, and the Boston 0.69

00:04:33.740 Whaler pulls right up, and these Iranian Red Guard sailors jump off and come up, and they 0.51

00:04:38.780 have this takedown, apparently, or this simulated takedown. 0.91

00:04:44.640 So there's a lot of theater that the Iranians are putting out there, which has paralyzed 0.86

00:04:48.960 the international shipping company. Our blockade is in place, and we are specifically focused on 1.00

00:04:56.540 any ships that come into Iran or out of Iran. So all other international shipping that's in the

00:05:05.400 Gulf, and there's over 750 vessels in the Gulf right now, those ships are allowed to go out if

00:05:14.880 they're coming out of any other port outside of Iran, and we don't query them. We know who they

00:05:20.000 are. If we have a question, we may query them. But if they're squawking AIS, automated identification

00:05:25.640 system, then they're going to be free to sail out. But they're not. But on the other hand,

00:05:31.100 some have. And over the course of the blockade, or over the course of these entire 55 days,

00:05:38.040 there's been over 300 ships that have transited the Taiwan Strait. Most have gone through this

00:05:43.680 new Iranian toll booth are north of the normal traffic separation. 1.00

00:05:48.300 Hold it. Hang on. Hang on. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. You said Taiwan Strait. You meant 1.00

00:05:52.640 Strait of Hormuz. Strait of Hormuz. Sorry. My mistake. Okay. Continue on.

00:05:59.260 So they're transiting through the north of the transit separation scheme,

00:06:04.260 south of the transit separation scheme. We saw five of these cruise liners slipped out over the

00:06:11.060 weekend, last weekend. And then there's some that have gone through the traffic separation scheme.

00:06:17.500 But in those 55 days, there has not been any mines detected. Not one mine has been detected.

00:06:25.940 Not one ship has been hit by a mine. Yet the entire international community is paralyzed by

00:06:31.740 the threat of mines. And now with these two seizures, that continues. But talking about

00:06:40.460 the efficacy of the blockade from our side, let me give you an example of a proof of it.

00:06:46.920 Just in the last 24 hours, a 30-year-old Iranian VLCC, a very large crude container ship named

00:06:55.180 the Nasha, was in Bandar Abbas and is now steaming up into the Persian Gulf towards

00:07:01.540 Karg Island inside territorial waters of Iran. 0.95

00:07:05.820 This is a reflection of the Iranians not able to be able to offload their oil that they 0.77

00:07:12.780 must continue to produce to keep their system running.

00:07:16.200 And that oil is going to Karg Island, which contains 90 percent of Iran's oil.

00:07:20.620 And they're worried because they had about 13 million barrels of reserve capacity on

00:07:25.680 Karg Island.

00:07:27.060 And the estimates that I'm reading say that they had about a 12-day reserve.

00:07:31.620 The blockade went into place on the 8th of April.

00:07:34.360 So that's April 20th.

00:07:35.620 So this week, in this next, at some point, and that's why they had to pull this old 30-year-old ship out of mothballs to go up there and offload oil production.

00:07:45.920 So the Iranians are definitely feeling this.

00:07:49.240 Otherwise, they wouldn't pull that ship out. 1.00

00:07:51.340 Hang on, hang on. Slow down. I want to make sure people understand this.

00:07:54.580 You're saying they took it, this 30-year-old ship took the current production, they're going to Karg Island to basically put it into storage, correct?

00:08:02.960 because they can't get it out because the American Navy is on the other side.

00:08:06.380 OK. That ship was in mothballs, was not used.

00:08:10.920 It's something that they probably don't want to use because it's 30 years old.

00:08:14.420 So they got risk there. But the other alternative, this is to start shutting down their production facilities.

00:08:22.140 And that will cause the Chinese Communist Party gets some. 0.79

00:08:27.700 They got to deal with Iran to take as much as they can get.

00:08:30.240 But they've also got deals with Saudi. They got a 20 year output deal with Saudi Arabia.

00:08:35.600 Why strategically are we allowing Saudi, UAE and Qatar vessels to come out when some of that, not all of it, but some portion of that is going to the Chinese Communist Party?

00:08:47.100 And you agree with me that it's principle to principle here. The more heat we put on the CCP, the better situation we're going to have here to get a culmination of this done, principle to principle, and for what the issues we have in the Taiwan Straits, sir.

00:09:05.440 Yeah, I agree with you. We want to put pressure on China. And I would submit to you that that pressure is, in fact, happening, even if we consider that there may be one or two tankers that are getting out through these other Gulf states.

00:09:21.560 But again, as you said in your morning show, you know, 80 percent of the traffic is cut down, is reduced.

00:09:30.200 So China is being dramatically affected. And the proof of that is what happened this week when Xi Jinping came out in the PRC press.

00:09:42.180 He's been silent for 50 days, hasn't said a word.

00:09:45.960 You know, the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China has not said anything about this war.

00:09:52.300 He's led his foreign ministry and his surrogates and the Global Times and others say things about how they feel about it.

00:09:58.680 But Xi had never said anything until a few days ago.

00:10:01.900 And he came out and said, I think this is something that needs to be resolved.

00:10:06.880 And we should open and have normal passage of all shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:10:13.520 That is an evidence that this is having an impact on the People's Republic of China.

00:10:19.480 And there's other evidence, too, as Eric Bolling mentioned in your morning show.

00:10:23.960 Your recommendation, we've got a couple of minutes here, your recommendation to Admiral Cooper, General Cain, and the Secretary of War Pete Hexeth on this situation at Hormuz with this, whatever, it's Revolutionary Guard, group of pirates.

00:10:42.860 people that think they control this right now, what would be your recommendation of how to deal

00:10:47.580 with that or not deal with it? They need to take the president's orders that he gave yesterday in

00:10:53.460 the Oval Office and say, we're going to start smacking these mosquito ships. So CENTCOM has 0.99

00:11:00.240 the capacity to do that. They probably didn't do it in the first period of the kinetic operations

00:11:06.660 because they had so many other targets to get after.

00:11:09.060 Now these ships are, since they've used them to attack international shipping,

00:11:15.880 we are going to start leaning in on that. 1.00

00:11:18.440 And we have a variety of platforms that can decimate those mosquito boats. 1.00

00:11:23.320 And there will be, you know, A-10 warthogs. 1.00

00:11:27.820 We will have helicopters off of our carriers and our amphibious ships.

00:11:31.480 We will have all sorts of platforms that will be able to go after and zap these things as they start moving around in the straits.

00:11:39.840 So I would expect what we're going to hear over the next 48, 96 hours, we're going to start seeing some action against that. 0.96

00:11:48.100 And we'll then have to watch for the counterpunch from Iran because they will counterpunch.

00:11:52.920 Do you agree with me that this thing about Islamabad and you've got this foreign minister going, he's going to Islamabad, that's all nonsense until you deal with this?

00:12:04.340 And your recommendation is that, hey, I'd like to have it some other way, but it looks like you're going to have to go kinetic, at least at some level up the escalatory ladder on these guys, sir?

00:12:14.360 yeah it's certainly yeah i agree the diplomatic stuff in my opinion is just uh part of a process

00:12:22.180 that doesn't really lead to the final solution and right now that if if the international community

00:12:27.760 in europe and everybody else is up in arms about in asia about the strait being closed then we need 0.95

00:12:33.080 to go in and we can zap these little mosquito boats we can do we've already sent two destroyers 1.00

00:12:39.240 through the straight to prove that there's no mines. But we can do some nominal mine clearance 1.00

00:12:44.140 with robotics and other platforms. And then we need to start putting pressure on the international

00:12:49.520 shipping community to move. And I will tell you, because I follow these things, the international

00:12:55.900 shipping community, the shipping community writ large, they don't want to take any risk.

00:13:01.220 They don't want to take any risk. And my pushback to them would be, you did so in the tanker wars

00:13:07.160 in the 80s and you have to do it again today to prove to the world that this is not happening

00:13:12.860 i got it's going to cost a lot but it's going to cost a lot more if you bottle this up indefinitely

00:13:18.820 so we can show them that it's open we can show them it's clear but they're going to have to 1.00

00:13:24.600 take the first step uh we got a minute left am i unfair when i'm calling out the arabs and not 0.99

00:13:31.080 doing enough here because it's their oil that's really getting out and getting monetized that

00:13:35.060 their special forces, their navies have got to get engaged here. I haven't seen any Arabs out 0.99

00:13:39.960 chasing mosquito boats. I haven't seen any Arab fighters going over there. And I certainly haven't

00:13:45.400 seen any special forces. Am I unfair in that calling those guys out? No, I think that's a

00:13:52.540 fair call, just like it is with the European Union. We need to have more platforms available

00:13:57.680 to support the lion's share of the work that we've done. And, you know, we've got three aircraft

00:14:03.400 carrier strike groups there now, the Lincoln, the Ford, and now the Bush. And there's nine

00:14:09.140 destroyers that are with those three strike groups. So we have the platforms to do nominal

00:14:15.480 opening and starting some of this escort ops, but we need our Arab allies and we need the European 0.99

00:14:21.840 Union to get off their ass. Jim Fennell, thank you so much, sir. Appreciate you. Want to have 0.99

00:14:28.200 be back, talk about not just this, but how it interconnects with the main thing. As Jim

00:14:33.440 Fennell always tells us, keep the main thing the main thing. That is the competition and

00:14:38.160 the actual war, Cold War, with the Chinese Communist Party. Captain Fennell, thank you

00:14:43.560 so much for helping us out here. Appreciate you. We're going to go to the Commonwealth

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00:16:24.800 It is not over.

00:16:26.100 So if you look at their various challenges here brought by the RNC and other Republican entities,

00:16:30.920 they're basically making two types of challenges here.

00:16:34.120 One is substantive.

00:16:35.460 So they're arguing that the way the question was phrased on the ballot was unfair, was misleading.

00:16:41.380 And there is some legitimacy to that.

00:16:43.460 I mean, the question asks, do you want to, quote, restore fairness to the process?

00:16:47.340 who's going to realistically vote no on that? I mean, a lot of people did, but it's slanted.

00:16:51.580 I don't know if it's slanted enough to win the legal challenge. But the second category is the

00:16:56.620 procedural challenges. And that's where I think the challengers have some real heft behind their

00:17:01.720 arguments. For example, one of the laws says, if you're going to do this, the Virginia General

00:17:06.660 Assembly has to pass a law and then voting, the referendum can't start for 90 days after the law

00:17:11.980 has passed. Here, we're not even 90 days out now and the voting's done. So I don't know how Virginia

00:17:18.040 is going to defend that. There's another procedural quirk, I guess, that says the way you have to do

00:17:22.360 this is the Virginia General Assembly has to pass a law. Then you need to have an intervening

00:17:26.880 election. Then a second General Assembly needs to pass the law again. And the argument here that

00:17:33.060 you're hearing from the defenders is, well, the 2025 governor election, that's the intervening

00:17:37.680 election. The problem is that overlapped with the first vote. So there's some procedural nuance

00:17:43.360 here that I think is going to be a real problem for people defending this outcome. And I think

00:17:48.020 it's going to give the Republicans a chance to actually get it knocked down on the legal

00:17:51.560 challenges. Yes. Hell is freezing over. CNN's legal expert that literally when he's on there,

00:18:01.760 He's just bashing Trump, the Trump movement, anybody associated with Trump.

00:18:06.500 When he says, oh, yeah, I think they got some real problems here on the procedural side, that's like a papal bull.

00:18:13.500 It's like it's incredible.

00:18:17.940 Aaron Joyce, you're the founder of this data company that looks at everything you're dealing with elections.

00:18:22.440 But I want to ask you first, because you've been a real activist in this.

00:18:26.600 uh are people in the commonwealth and particularly people like yourselves one of the leaders are you

00:18:32.380 holding out hope that the courts are going to come in and bail us out ma'am well well thanks

00:18:40.260 for having us on steve i think there's a lot of um optimism about the strength of the republicans

00:18:45.680 and the interveners and the and the plaintiffs arguments in court uh that's going they're going

00:18:51.040 to hear that on Monday, I understand. So, no, they have no, they have four basic hurdles to

00:18:58.500 defend. That is the Democrats that rushed this constitutional amendment in a special election

00:19:04.080 in April. And they have to overcome those to withstand this entire vote being tossed out as

00:19:10.900 a Tazewell judge has already done. So short answer is, I think there's a lot of optimism. It's not

00:19:16.380 going to be easy. People think that, oh, the votes happened. We might as well have it stand.

00:19:21.400 But the data we're looking at, we look at voter data, Steve. Epic is the little nonprofit that

00:19:27.540 does big, big data, as we like to say. And our voter participation analysis shows that

00:19:33.380 the data were all over the map. It was a rushed election. We saw November 2025 in some of the

00:19:40.260 data coming through. That means they probably didn't even have enough time to test the machines

00:19:43.760 because somebody would have caught that

00:19:45.320 when they test the machines before the election.

00:19:48.380 So I don't know if you want me to go into some of our findings,

00:19:51.540 but the fact that there was no intervening election—go ahead.

00:19:55.820 Go ahead.

00:19:56.980 Well, the fact that they counted—you have to have two intervening elections,

00:20:00.880 I'm sorry, two intervening elections, as your guests have explained on past shows,

00:20:06.080 and they tried to count the early vote period from 2025 as an intervening election.

00:20:11.740 The election was already underway. A million ballots have been cast.

00:20:15.280 The reason that two intervening elections requirement in the Constitution of Virginia is so important is so people can think it through.

00:20:23.360 They can understand who the representatives are, what they're voting for.

00:20:27.240 This was so rushed that we just found a 70,000 vote ballot difference in the final results from Tuesday night.

00:20:35.720 So the Department of Elections will take the 45 days of early voting, the results there, they're unofficial, they're not certified yet, but they're a solid number.

00:20:45.240 They roll that into the election night votes as well.

00:20:49.000 So they take that one third of the early vote, the 45 days of early vote, roll that into the summary data from the election night voting and give you a result.

00:20:57.180 And we found a 70,000 vote difference.

00:21:00.300 The votes were up by 70,000 from early voting that we never saw.

00:21:04.840 I mean, we monitor the 45 days every day.

00:21:07.780 We monitor what's being mailed in.

00:21:09.960 We monitor what's being voted on a machine.

00:21:12.320 So we started raising some questions, and Chesterfield had actually doubled its votes by accident,

00:21:17.940 or somebody who was uploading or sending over the voter data in the big database in the sky, I suppose,

00:21:24.640 was basically accidentally, we think, doubled Chesterfield's count.

00:21:30.320 Chesterfield's final was 79,000 yes and 70,000 or so no.

00:21:35.800 And yet there's an extra 70,000 coming in.

00:21:38.360 Nobody noticed this except us.

00:21:39.920 We've pointed it out and the corrections were made.

00:21:43.480 But across the board, we see this.

00:21:45.220 We see localities that are losing, that are down, say, 230 down in Arlington.

00:21:51.880 So what they had for early voting in Arlington for 45 days, whatever they're showing on election night for early voting is down by 230.

00:21:59.740 We don't know why. Prince William County down to 37, Richmond City down to 278 early voters.

00:22:07.100 And so we tally all that up and still it's off by about 15,000 or so.

00:22:11.840 This is another. This is unbelievable.

00:22:13.780 Make of that what you will.

00:22:15.780 Yeah. Here's what I make about as well is we got to get a right count on this thing.

00:22:20.100 I tell you what I'm doing. I have my producer.

00:22:21.880 I want to talk to you about coming on our Saturday show because this needs a full couple of segments because, you know, from the Seth Kessels of the world,

00:22:28.400 So many people were coming to me and saying, hey, there's something screwed up about this, and we've got to sort this out because there's a tight grace.

00:22:34.360 What do you think it was?

00:22:36.720 It's sloppiness.

00:22:38.040 It's the sheer fact that this election was rushed, and this is why I get back to the two intervening elections rule in the Constitution because this gives people a chance to prepare on the big question of whether you want to change your Constitution.

00:22:51.960 Instead, this was kind of rushed out, and the data is rushed into here, and it's a lot of data to keep track of.

00:22:58.640 And if I could just add, Steve, to what your last guest got, or I think it was Matt Kittle, we work with a lot of grassroots.

00:23:06.000 So full disclosure, we're nonpartisan.

00:23:07.600 We take all comers for our analysis service, and we've built software, a bunch of volunteers, and we're grassroots.

00:23:13.220 We've built software to do this unique view, high propensity, low propensity, lean left, lean right, lean Republican, lean Democrat.

00:23:21.960 But the biggest complaint we hear from the grassroots is that the Republican Party or the RPV, I guess, or the GOP data, whatever they call it, they need to do a better job with helping the grassroots get that data.

00:23:34.620 Because right now it's basically a big six-figure cost to get the kind of intense data analysis that you need for elections these days, and that's what all the consultants get.

00:23:45.480 the grassroots needs to get better. And that's what we hear a lot. And that's why a lot of people

00:23:51.820 come to work with us and partner with us on the data analysis that we do. And we're blessed to

00:23:57.820 have some very talented people who founded this nonprofit. We also did it because we could see a

00:24:03.860 need that nobody is really following this data in a way that needs to be followed. 70,000 votes

00:24:09.880 were in the count election night that did not belong there. And the media just reports it like,

00:24:14.680 OK, there's the numbers. So I just wanted to point that out because your guess was spot on about the frustration among the grassroots.

00:24:21.940 This is why we wanted to have you on. We heard this from the grassroots across the state Commonwealth.

00:24:27.640 Where do people go right now to go to your site to check out this data? Where do they go?

00:24:33.380 I would start with EPIC. That's EPEC, Electoral Process Education Corporation.

00:24:38.620 We're the little nonprofit with the big name and big data and some big brains behind it, I would add.

00:24:43.420 uh epec.info that's us we're on substack epic.substack uh epic team is our x account we're

00:24:50.340 on getter we uh we need to go and fire up our account there but we do have a getter account

00:24:55.120 and uh truth social but um but starting epic if you want to be a volunteer we'll walk you through

00:25:00.740 the process we're happy to work with people and we explain and we help educate people on what this

00:25:05.020 data is about and how elections are so technologically um driven and how we need to

00:25:11.460 keep an eye on it so um but just to just to update chesterfield they did correct so they took the

00:25:17.040 70 000 double votes out and so now the early voting data for 45 days is now matching the

00:25:23.980 yeah but it throws the whole thing in the question oh the 70 000 but they got corrected

00:25:28.060 anyway uh one more time social media where they go your sub stack where they go to get the the

00:25:33.740 facts as you lay them out we are digital poll watchers.org that's our uh executive director

00:25:39.820 John Leroux. He's a brilliant

00:25:41.140 data scientist. That's his

00:25:43.800 personal blog. I highly recommend you read that.

00:25:46.380 DigitalPollWatchers.org.

00:25:47.360 You can find us on X, Epic Team,

00:25:49.880 E-P-E-C Team, and

00:25:51.840 on Substack, Epic.Substack.

00:25:53.520 Just Google us. We are quite findable.

00:25:56.560 Thank you, Steve, for having us on.

00:25:57.980 We appreciate it.

00:25:58.840 I look forward to having you back. This is monumental.

00:26:01.820 Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate you.

00:26:04.620 So, Ren. 0.99

00:26:07.160 Suck. 0.99

00:26:07.820 What do you think of that? 1.00

00:26:09.420 We've got another mess in the Commonwealth.

00:26:11.240 I mean, and they're saying the data, you know, they don't get data support.

00:26:14.640 The grassroots doesn't get data support.

00:26:16.740 I'm going to take you to break, but I've got to just give me your idea about the Commonwealth of Virginia right now as we go to court on Monday.

00:26:24.860 You know, I had some people, since I came on yesterday, push back on me a little bit, saying that they are more confident that the Supreme Court will end up doing the right thing.

00:26:32.580 I still remain skeptical, but I would say I'm less doomsday than I was yesterday.

00:26:36.980 And so but again, this is going to be up to those those judges there to make this decision.

00:26:41.680 And so I I I really hope they do the right thing.

00:26:45.300 This was blatantly unconstitutional.

00:26:47.080 Like there is no question about that.

00:26:48.940 And it was laid out in the lawsuit.

00:26:52.200 But like, you know, they have a militant psychotic attorney general there and a Supreme Court that gets reelected by the legislature.

00:26:58.840 You were very starry eyed when you came out of Auburn, but you're one of the most cynical people, given your battle scars over the years in politics.

00:27:07.420 How can you possibly think the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia or all the Democrats are going to sit there and go, oh, yeah, I see it.

00:27:14.660 Not not a problem. When you got the lead story in Axios this morning, it's how the Democrats already have a massive operation going through how they're going to impeach President Trump,

00:27:23.880 how they're going to impeach members of his cabinet, how they're going to put his family in prison.

00:27:27.200 how do you think what changed your mind we got about 30 seconds what changed your mind overnight

00:27:32.700 on that oh man i mean nothing's changed my mind on that i'm still fairly doomsday don't get me

00:27:38.660 wrong but there was like a glimmer of optimism that i was being convinced of but i will say i'm

00:27:42.980 very much for right now richard mccormick is leading the make dc square again that's what

00:27:47.160 we should do fight fire with fire screw it make dc president trump can do it by executive order

00:27:51.540 and take over arlington and alexandria put them in the district of colombia let them be represented

00:27:56.280 You're breaking up my you're breaking up my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:28:00.580 Oh, my God. Anyway, short break.

00:28:03.100 And we're going to get you back to Florida.

00:28:05.060 Wren's all about Florida now.

00:28:07.980 Cortez is about the about the Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:28:12.860 Speaking of the Commonwealth, the the protest in Unite the Right in the in Charlottesville, Virginia, Southern Poverty Law Center underwrote that.

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00:29:43.360 so caroline wren um please man don't be messing with my commonwealth now we're trying to break

00:29:50.580 that up let's go to florida carl rove's not i think carl rove heard that you're going to

00:29:55.840 tallahassee as the brawler you are to to to assist in any way you can to make sure this thing happens

00:30:02.800 this redistricting in this special uh session but carl rove's not happy with that he's not happy

00:30:08.960 with president trump doing this uh etc what is his argument about this and what is your argument

00:30:14.740 about this why this must be done ma'am well if there is a uh any type of proposition i think

00:30:22.840 it's a good idea carl roe typically doesn't um and so he came out of this year this morning or

00:30:27.360 yesterday i was reading and said that he did not believe the florida redistricting is a good idea

00:30:31.500 because it would help the democrats which he his claim is that there are some like r plus eight

00:30:37.160 members in the Florida Congress, a lot of like the South Miami folks. And if some if you add some new

00:30:44.320 districts, it might pull a couple of the Republicans from theirs, making theirs a little

00:30:48.560 bit more competitive, which I don't think so. I think there's been a huge population growth in

00:30:53.860 Florida and it's been Republicans who have been moving here. And so also I would ask Karl Rove,

00:30:58.520 if you actually believe Florida redistricting would help Democrats, then why did Hakeem Jeffries

00:31:03.120 go epiplectic about Florida yesterday and say, this is the biggest danger and we're going to

00:31:08.180 fight. This is a war. So the Democrats view Florida as a war. But Karl Rove seems to think

00:31:13.940 he already wants to surrender a war and a battle that we haven't even started yet,

00:31:17.560 which is not that surprising. They keep saying, too, their justification for all this is that

00:31:23.820 we can't make it too obvious that we're putting Trump on the ballot. We can't make it too obvious

00:31:28.100 this about trump and i say the whole democrats plan is they put trump on the ballot i saw this

00:31:33.740 out in texas that it's all about trump derangement syndrome and it's to stop trump and today in

00:31:38.680 axios they had the story as i've said going on behind the scenes finally axios got off their 0.97

00:31:44.360 ass and did some reporting this is a massive effort underway right now uh of the democrat 0.95

00:31:50.140 with these law firms with all the and not from profits they got the same democrat color revolution

00:31:55.780 that we have not taken apart yet.

00:31:57.620 We just haven't done it, folks.

00:31:59.500 And they are coming, and they're coming.

00:32:01.400 The lessons they learned the first time

00:32:02.880 are not taking Trump and the Trump movement out.

00:32:04.640 They've learned those.

00:32:05.720 These people are coming in the most vicious way possible.

00:32:08.580 It's just not to impeach Trump.

00:32:10.300 It's to bring criminal charges against members of his family,

00:32:13.820 other members.

00:32:14.300 I said this at the MPI dinner during the inauguration

00:32:20.520 when I said, hey, look, you guys are associated with this.

00:32:23.060 Anybody that's associated with this administration

00:32:24.840 or the MAGA movement, as soon as they win, they're coming to put us all in prison.

00:32:30.480 And, you know, you've got to fight them.

00:32:33.200 You've got to fight them every day.

00:32:34.500 And obviously, Axios is confirming that.

00:32:37.100 So what does Karl Rove and these guys not get?

00:32:39.540 And what does the Republican establishment now it's on Ron DeSantis' shoulders to basically

00:32:43.940 make this happen, is it not?

00:32:46.580 Yeah, because Karl Rove's attitude is the same as the Indiana legislators.

00:32:50.440 They care about what the mainstream media thinks.

00:32:52.320 They think they're defending democracy.

00:32:53.640 And the left is always, they take that talking point, but the left doesn't care.

00:32:57.980 They're here actually to fight.

00:32:59.320 And so I think what the left's plan is right now, I mean, they tell us what it is, is that

00:33:03.120 they are fighting this redistricting fight so hard because they need to win the House.

00:33:07.420 They think they're going to.

00:33:08.700 In 2026, they may either tie the Senate or be down one or two.

00:33:13.180 They think they could take the Senate in 2028 and then win the presidency.

00:33:17.300 And then we know exactly what they're going to do.

00:33:19.200 They will nuke the filibuster, which we're unwilling to do.

00:33:21.600 And then they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states, adding four new permanent Democrat senators.

00:33:26.980 They will pack the Supreme Court.

00:33:28.580 They will pass a new Voting Rights Act.

00:33:30.960 They will grant mass amnesty and impeach Donald Trump, which they will have done that if they take the House.

00:33:37.400 That is obviously their play.

00:33:38.620 Of course they're going to do that.

00:33:40.040 And meanwhile, Republicans are still just saying that we can't even pass the Save America Act.

00:33:44.600 It is unbelievable to me.

00:33:46.660 Every single Democrat is on record saying that we're going to nuke the filibuster when we come in.

00:33:50.680 And here are all the reasons why.

00:33:52.220 Look, they just, you know, put aside,

00:33:54.160 if you watch the Democrat talking points of Virginia,

00:33:55.940 they're like, this is horrible,

00:33:56.840 this is a terrible thing to be done,

00:33:58.060 but it has to be done to fight the Republicans.

00:34:01.260 Well, I wish Republicans had that attitude.

00:34:03.000 You can think that we need to preserve

00:34:04.640 the Senate institution and the nuclear filibuster's bad.

00:34:08.260 However, recognize the time we're in.

00:34:10.080 Recognize that the Democrats are going to do it

00:34:12.320 when they take over.

00:34:13.060 We have all three branches of government right now.

00:34:15.520 You have wasted one year.

00:34:17.420 We're now going to halfway through the second year

00:34:19.320 that is totally wasted.

00:34:20.460 We passed one bill. What are you guys doing? It's unbelievable to me.

00:34:26.020 What give us a heads up? What should we be looking for? We got we got the arguments in Virginia on Monday.

00:34:31.920 OK, we've got I think of the appellate court. Then we've got the then we've got Florida's about to kick in, I think, next week.

00:34:39.920 Also, what should we be looking for in Florida? Make us smarter about this.

00:34:44.380 In Florida, the governor is supposed to propose a map.

00:34:48.180 Nobody's seen it yet, and he will, to the Florida legislature, and they'll debate it in a special session that's going to start next week.

00:34:54.380 And so the map will add anywhere between, this is what people think, one in five new districts that people think could be Republican-leaning.

00:35:02.600 But it's important to note that this is in Florida.

00:35:04.600 It is not about partisan politics as to why in Virginia that's what this was.

00:35:09.240 They were open about it.

00:35:11.380 Florida, there really has been massive population growth.

00:35:13.760 The map was drawn for a 21-million-person state.

00:35:16.460 It was based off the 2020 census.

00:35:18.680 Florida is now at 23 million people.

00:35:20.960 And with the population shifts, the map has to shift.

00:35:24.540 Otherwise, you're underrepresenting millions of Floridians who deserve their representation based on today's population, not yesterday's census.

00:35:31.820 And so I think the goal of this special session should be to align these districts with where millions of new residents have settled in Florida and correct imbalances caused by the fastest growth rates in the nation.

00:35:41.940 If you wait until the 2030 census, then the census happens.

00:35:46.160 It takes two years for that to come out. Then you're looking at 2032 and then you go into a session.

00:35:50.920 We will lose. You will have four upcoming elections in Florida based off of maps that are so massively outdated due to the population boom that came to Florida after COVID from 2020 till now and is still increasing.

00:36:03.940 And so I think that they have to get this done. DeSantis will be leading the charge here.

00:36:08.940 I'm very hopeful that he's able to get this done. He's been a very savvy, you know, operator.

00:36:14.420 him and the legislature do not get along well but my god this this is very important and this is

00:36:19.000 also doing what is right for the state and you agree with me the stakes couldn't be higher given

00:36:25.320 axios confirmed today the the massive uh machinery in back of the destruction of president trump his

00:36:32.400 family in the mega movement ma'am yeah oh absolutely the stakes couldn't be higher but

00:36:37.180 for me it's less about they impeach him again fine actually i think it'll backfire on them and

00:36:41.620 doesn't, the Senate won't actually do the vote either. But, but for me, it's more about the top,

00:36:46.740 like I've, you know, I've worked in and around President Trump since 2016. I've put my entire

00:36:51.220 life into this for 10 years and we're now, we're here. He's in, we have the Senate, we have the

00:36:56.320 House and it's like, do something for the love of God. Like, and it is just so frustrating.

00:37:01.300 And President Trump is moving a million miles a minute, but it's just the, the legislature,

00:37:05.360 the Congress cannot or will not keep up with him. The Republicans just obstruct him at every chance

00:37:11.020 that they get it is so frustrating and so right now like we have to just be in this fight for

00:37:16.100 president trump for his agenda which is what we have all worked for for the last 10 years

00:37:21.200 caroline wren where do people follow you ma'am on social media it is at caroline wren on x

00:37:30.100 and getter and truth social thank you ma'am appreciate you look forward to having you back

00:37:35.700 next week. Cortez, you were the surrogate for President Trump that we made sure was put on

00:37:44.760 kind of the mainstream media. You did the duty in the in the open fire range of CNN. Is that

00:37:50.820 correct for a couple of years? That is right. So essentially, that's Scott Jennings seat. That

00:37:55.380 was the Steve Cortez seat back in 2018, 2019. But now they play softball with Jennings that you're

00:38:01.820 You were in the most vicious.

00:38:04.920 Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:38:06.700 You took some pretty tough stands from President Trump, and you took incoming, literally, I thought you were on there every night.

00:38:13.980 And we used to watch you and take the clips.

00:38:16.200 Go ahead.

00:38:16.780 Tell me about that.

00:38:18.080 So I was on it literally every single night in primetime.

00:38:20.760 It would rotate among the shows.

00:38:21.980 By the way, President Trump asked me to go there.

00:38:23.820 I was working in 2017 after he won, decided to not join the administration.

00:38:28.560 Instead, I went over to Fox News.

00:38:29.940 So I was a Fox News contributor for the first year of the Trump presidency.

00:38:32.840 As you can imagine, that was a pretty cushy job, pretty easy.

00:38:35.920 The president had me at the Christmas party in late 2017, in December,

00:38:40.920 and my wife and I, we were invited to go and have a private time with the first couple,

00:38:44.940 which was wonderful to get to see them privately in the midst of this huge Christmas party.

00:38:49.620 He said, okay, that's the good news.

00:38:50.640 We took a picture, of course.

00:38:51.620 He's like, the bad news is I need you to go work at CNN.

00:38:54.740 I said, oh, gosh, okay, fine.

00:38:56.760 I'll do it for the cause.

00:38:57.740 I'll do it for you.

00:38:59.000 He negotiated my contract, by the way, which is kind of funny and very Trumpian.

00:39:02.440 So he literally negotiated the terms of the contract, including the pays, and I'll make sure they pay you.

00:39:07.580 But it was brutal work, as you can imagine, going on Don Lemon and Cuomo every single night.

00:39:12.720 And for a year and a half, I was on every single night until I was taken off the air at CNN.

00:39:18.600 And the reason that I was taken off the air was that I had become too effective and too consistent in debunking the Charlottesville hoax,

00:39:26.720 which was the whole centerpiece of their network.

00:39:29.680 In fact, it was the centerpiece of the entire anti-Trump media ecosystem.

00:39:35.120 That was the foundational lie, the Charlottesville hoax,

00:39:38.240 supposing that President Trump had somehow praised bigots in Charlottesville.

00:39:42.180 Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:39:43.700 I want to nail this.

00:39:44.700 I want to stick the landing here.

00:39:46.540 This is what Biden used to say when he saw that,

00:39:51.480 when he saw that, that's what motivated him to come.

00:39:53.740 The entire color revolution lie is based upon that event and how they used it.

00:40:00.920 Is that correct, Steve?

00:40:01.820 Because every night they would be rubbing.

00:40:04.200 This is and Biden goes up and does a speech in Philadelphia.

00:40:07.720 The rise in white nationalism, the rise in white everywhere in the military.

00:40:13.280 Every this was the railhead of the lie that they used to smear not just President Trump, but the entire MAGA movement, sir.

00:40:22.540 Yes, exactly. And that's an important point. I'm glad you made it. It wasn't just about President Trump. It was that Trump and his tens of millions of followers and supporters, every single voter in the America First movement, was a racist retrograde.

00:40:36.940 And you're exactly correct. As my late friend Scott Adams used to say, this was the tentpole hoax. It was the foundation on which all of the other lies were really based.

00:40:48.040 But this was, to them, the nuclear weapon. This was the dirty bomb against President Trump and his movement.

00:40:54.800 Of course, it was entirely based on a lie, as is clear if you look at the actual transcripts and the actual full videos unedited of what President Trump said in that very contentious presser after the Charlottesville events.

00:41:08.620 I was pretty effective at debunking this lie, and I made a PragerU video that went super viral with a lot of help from President Trump.

00:41:16.000 And because of that, CNN said, hey, Cortez, we're going to take you off the field.

00:41:20.480 And here's what they did, which is even worse.

00:41:22.240 I said, OK, hey, you know what?

00:41:23.440 This job isn't much fun anyway.

00:41:25.400 Why don't we part ways?

00:41:26.480 Let me out of my contract.

00:41:27.520 They said, oh, no, no, we are going to pay you to not go on television.

00:41:31.620 So they literally paid me to not work, to not be on the air at CNN.

00:41:36.140 But I was still under contract and exclusive, so I couldn't go on other shows.

00:41:40.080 I couldn't go on alternative media shows like this.

00:41:42.220 I couldn't go on Fox News.

00:41:43.760 So they literally paid me to be sidelined.

00:41:46.300 That's how important this issue was to them, this myth, this hoax that President Trump had praised racists

00:41:53.060 when, in fact, the exact opposite is true from the transcript.

00:41:56.340 He expressly condemned the neo-Nazis who were there.

00:41:59.760 Well, now the new news, of course, is the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:42:05.460 And this indictment reveals that the underlying event itself, so not only was the hoax a grand lie,

00:42:11.460 But the underlying event itself, it was staged. It was financed and organized by the SPLC, by the leftists from that NGO, from that advocacy group, the SPLC.

00:42:25.720 They're now indicted for it because that is a fraud. And specifically, they paid $270,000.

00:42:31.940 We're talking real money, $270,000 to the guy who organized that very Charlottesville event.

00:42:39.220 So think of that. The event itself is staged by the left. They then are able to generate out of that event, because some really unfortunate violence ensued that they organized, they are then able to concoct this myth, this hoax, which was constantly promulgated by the corporate media.

00:42:56.440 Remember in those days, too, 10 years ago, corporate media had way more power than it does now.

00:43:01.820 Thankfully, they don't have the platforms they once did, but they repeated it ad nauseum, this lie, over and over.

00:43:07.620 They were also protected by big tech because when people like me try to diffuse the lie, we were constantly censored.

00:43:14.340 For example, that video I made, YouTube took it down for a while.

00:43:18.280 Took it down. Hang on, Cortez, hang on. I'm going to hold you to the break.

00:43:21.500 The Southern Poverty Law Center, this indictment and what will follow is so important to make sure that we can break up the deep state and the color revolution, destroying this republic. 0.64

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00:46:06.400 Cortez, don't bury the lead, bro. They pay 200. When I read the indictment, they paid two hundred seventy thousand dollars to a guy.

00:46:14.560 That's probably the cumulative cash he's ever gotten his entire life. I mean, they underwrote this thing.

00:46:19.960 This guy probably never made 10, 15 thousand bucks in his life. You're given the worst of the worst.

00:46:24.500 some of these guys are the worst of words you get you're underwriting them to stir this stuff up 1.00

00:46:29.200 are they not yes yeah exactly and look they found criminal cretins who were more than happy to take 1.00

00:46:35.000 this money an enormous amount of money a lot of money for anyone but especially for these types 0.98

00:46:40.340 of people you're exactly correct um and these northern liberals okay who all work for the

00:46:45.840 southern poverty law center they sit in their luxury office in montgomery alabama it's known

00:46:50.720 locally as the Poverty Palace. That's how opulent their headquarters are, because they've gotten

00:46:55.420 over the years hundreds of millions of dollars from all of the biggest companies in America,

00:47:00.280 all the biggest corporations that you support as a consumer, folks. Unfortunately, those

00:47:04.620 corporations are giving massive amounts of money to SPLC under the guise of fighting hate, when in

00:47:11.140 fact they are highly partisan political actors. And we now know, worse than that, a criminal

00:47:16.540 enterprise. This is a crime. This is a fraud. That's why they have been now indicted. They

00:47:22.060 were literally trying to create hate so that they could then claim that they are fighting it. This

00:47:27.820 would be like the fire department of a town going and starting and acting as arsonists and starting

00:47:33.020 fires all over town and then saying, hey, we need more budget. We need more authority to fight all

00:47:37.980 these fires that are breaking out in our town. That is what the SPLC did. And why did they have

00:47:42.280 to do that. It's because the demand for hate from the left, it far exceeds the actual supply of hate

00:47:49.660 that is out there in American society. Actual systemic hate is really hard to find in our

00:47:55.100 country. The populist movement is pulling together working class Hispanics, working class

00:47:59.660 African-Americans. Hate was coming down because people are working together. They got to stir it

00:48:04.320 up. And it's also the only way they win. This is a whole, this is a racket. Where would you like

00:48:09.120 excuse me not where would you like to where do you think this investigation because cash

00:48:13.320 and todd uh were pretty uh were pretty up front uh that this is just the beginning that this

00:48:19.880 document they got in there's just the beginning where do you think this must go sir yeah well

00:48:24.720 clearly and they did make that point that this is ongoing and it better be because i think there's a

00:48:29.420 lot more here obviously right as bad as this example is it is certainly not isolated it's not

00:48:34.880 there's never one cockroach right this isn't the only incident uh so yeah very curious about who

00:48:39.920 else was getting paid i suspect for example i suspect we'll see if it is revealed that a lot

00:48:45.420 of the kind of caricature almost foolish people on the right actually who seem to have some platforms

00:48:50.320 but make no sense and sort of embarrass our movement i suspect a lot of them are on the 0.77

00:48:54.680 payroll being paid by the left whether it's splc or other organizations but how many events uh in

00:49:01.340 recent political history that we thought were organic were in fact staged. I would argue quite

00:49:07.400 a few. We now know the Charlottesville one. And listen, I know as much about Charlottesville as

00:49:11.340 anybody, okay? I've spent years literally debunking the Charlottesville hoax. Even I didn't realize,

00:49:17.120 though, that the underlying event itself was staged, financed, and organized by leftists.

00:49:24.420 I mean, that's the reality, by leftists using corporate money, again, from the biggest companies

00:49:29.280 in America. So this is just the beginning. It's a really important expose. There's so many

00:49:34.860 different tentacles to this. And thankfully, we're in a different place where it's a lot harder now

00:49:39.780 for them to spread this kind of myth, this kind of hoax, like the Charlottesville hoax,

00:49:43.800 because corporate media doesn't have nearly as much power, and big tech is at least being

00:49:47.860 monitored regarding its censorship. I want to get you back on next week. I want to play

00:49:53.840 the PragerU tape. And I want to, because people, I want to make sure, particularly younger people

00:49:58.400 or new people to this movement have to understand how this was central to their argument.

00:50:04.020 They concocted this.

00:50:05.740 They knew this is so evil and so demonic that we got it.

00:50:09.180 And, man, you fought this thing on CNN.

00:50:11.340 It was really magnificent.

00:50:12.840 Steve, I got you here.

00:50:13.700 I got a minute or two.

00:50:14.880 Birch Gold, take your phone out.

00:50:16.080 Text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, at 989898, the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump.

00:50:23.340 Most importantly, get to Philip Patrick and the team.

00:50:25.480 And you can talk about gold as a hedge in times of financial turbulence.

00:50:30.740 Steve, I got about two minutes.

00:50:33.000 Just your assessment.

00:50:34.580 We heard the other day that the UAE and now Scott Besson told us, I guess, in testimony, many people in the Gulf are looking for these credit lines.

00:50:43.020 What's your sense of the capital markets through this entire shift to the war and the center of gravity of the war being now the Persian Gulf in the Strait of Hormuz, sir?

00:50:54.160 Well, we're in a very precarious place, and you don't have to take my word for it.

00:50:57.220 I mean, the financial markets are proving that.

00:50:58.720 Of course, you mentioned gold.

00:51:00.120 Gold above $4,700 an ounce.

00:51:02.220 Silver at $75.

00:51:03.960 Right now, 10-year yield, 4.32, staying well above 4.

00:51:08.560 I think there the real danger sign is if it starts to get above 4.5, that hasn't happened yet.

00:51:13.760 But the bond market is very, very nervous.

00:51:16.280 The United States has $39 trillion in debt.

00:51:19.740 we can't afford a normal operation of our goods and services, of the operations of the federal

00:51:25.740 government right now, much less afford a massive, expensive overseas war. And the bond market,

00:51:32.400 understandably, is very, very nervous right now. So it is imperative, I think, for so many reasons

00:51:38.600 that we wrap this up and get back home and focus on domestic priorities. But among the most

00:51:42.920 imperative reasons is the financial aspect. I said that again this morning, then with

00:51:48.140 captain finnell it's time now we we got an equation let's solve the equation with these

00:51:52.280 pirates or whatever it is in persian gulf or moves we've done our work there and then bring

00:51:57.300 it all back home turn it over to the europeans and the arabs it's it's uh it's it's their it's 0.97

00:52:01.780 their issue sir yeah 100 absolutely this is this is not our problem this is theirs uh and to me the 0.70

00:52:08.820 idea of any kind of lavish aid or backstop to the uae is an absolute no-go no way uh steve cortez

00:52:17.000 By the way, they implied they might be dumping treasuries, but we'll get to that next week.

00:52:21.080 Steve Cortez, where do they go for Cortez Investigates?

00:52:23.980 All your films, your social media, your content, all of it, sir.

00:52:28.260 Yes, cortesinvestigates.com.

00:52:30.400 Everything is there.

00:52:31.540 And also this article on the Charlottesville issue is at Real Clear Politics today.

00:52:37.220 Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

00:52:39.120 Real Clear Politics. Let's get that and push it out.

00:52:42.000 Charlottesville, Southern Poverty Law Center. 1.00

00:52:44.620 let's get let's get all the puss out of there sue the board ought to be criminal charged some of 1.00

00:52:50.660 these donors where's cloning let's get him back over here stick around on a friday afternoon

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Bannon's War Room - April 24, 2026

Episode 5326： Global Impact On The Closed Strait; Rushed Election In Virginia Leaves Room To Steal

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