00:00:10.220Breaking news to CNN. Former FBI Director James Comey appearing in federal court for the first time since getting indicted again by the Justice Department.
00:00:17.760Prosecutors are charging him with a new set of crimes because of a social media post they say threatened President Trump.
00:00:24.780Officials are pointing to this photo that Comey posted on Instagram last year,
00:00:29.280showing seashells on a beach, spelling out 86-47.
00:00:34.060Prosecutors say that is a clear threat.
00:00:36.140Since Trump is the 47th president, 86 can refer to getting rid of something.
00:05:16.980You're saying that your operation is preventing a nuclear Iran.0.71
00:05:21.000Will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the American people for doing what
00:05:27.140you believe is necessary to make Iran denuclear?
00:05:30.340Will you acknowledge the economic cost?
00:05:32.880We have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than what the previous administration did to our economy, what the previous administration did with inflation, what the previous administration did with COVID, and you're going to lecture this administration about the economy?
00:08:46.720So if the president, again, I'm asking you, orders you to break election law, violate the Constitution and the law, would you follow the orders of the president?
00:11:43.920It's going to be a redux in some ways of the case Comey was putting on as his defense,
00:11:51.220like he did in the previous charges he faced, which were perjury counts.
00:11:55.320That case was ultimately dismissed out of EDVA a couple months ago.
00:11:59.220What his defense lawyers told the judge today is they're going to file a motion
00:12:03.020saying that the Justice Department has singled him out unfairly and illegally
00:12:08.480in prosecuting him this time. They made that argument before saying that the only reason he
00:12:14.540was facing perjury charges was because Donald Trump really hated him. It ended up never getting
00:12:20.520ruled on because the case went away before that. But that is the plan again. That motion will come
00:12:26.540back into play here. There's also an indication that Comey's team wants to make sure the Justice
00:12:32.780Department and the administration, the Trump administration, protects all of their records.
00:12:37.600There's been some changes legally that the Justice Department has made about how they maintain presidential records.
00:12:43.900We could see some really interesting arguments over that as Comey fights this case.
00:12:49.800But this is going to be a different court ultimately, even though this court he was in today is one he had been in before.
00:12:57.400They even said at one point when the Justice Department spoke up and said, you know, we want to put some bail terms on him to release him under bail conditions.
00:13:05.800And the judge said, we don't need that. We've already been here before.
00:13:10.620But Eastern District of North Carolina, New Bern, North Carolina, that courthouse, a very different bench, a very different set of judges and potentially a very different jury pool if it gets to that.
00:13:22.180Thank you for that question. So approximately at this day, we're spending about twenty five billion dollars on Operation Epic Fury.
00:13:29.300Most of that is munitions. There's part of that. It's obviously O&M and equipment replacement.
00:13:33.680We will formulate a supplemental through the White House that will come to Congress
00:13:37.140once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict.
00:13:40.160So you're saying the full cost at this point is $25 billion?
00:13:43.480Yeah, that's our estimate for the cost.
00:13:45.060Okay. Interesting, because I'm glad you answered that question,
00:13:48.300because we've been asking for a hell of a long time, and no one's given us the number.
00:13:51.540So if you could get those details over to us, that would be great.
00:13:54.460A question about Iran, and I'll give you the final 30 seconds to answer.
00:13:58.940was iran moving precipitously towards nuclear weapons capability mr secretary
00:14:06.820even after the obliteration of midnight hammer what was clear is that the intention of iran
00:14:13.100remained in the pursuit of nuclear weapons and after as as hard as they were hit by israel it
00:14:18.680created an opportunity to get rid of the conventional shield that's why we talked about
00:14:22.080missile production and the navy and the defense industrial base to set them back from blackmailing
00:14:27.420the region and the world in pursuit of nuclear weapons because we understood how much they could
00:14:32.140continue to pursue them. What a day for news. Intense partisan warfare on Capitol Hill and
00:14:38.260throughout the rest of the country. Ambassador Carla Sands joins us on the other side.
00:14:57.420This year marks a critical moment for our country.
00:15:02.280As the opposition grows more aggressive and more unapologetic,
00:15:06.720the fight now reaches into the everyday decisions we make.
00:15:11.020Patriot Mobile has been standing on the front lines,
00:15:14.580fighting for freedom for more than 12 years.
00:15:17.160They just don't deliver top-tier wireless service.
00:15:20.240They are activists like me and like you in the War Room Posse
00:19:29.140These people are intent on reordering our country and not letting us have the freedoms that we enjoy.
00:19:34.520If you just think of Kamala Harris had won this last election, what our country would be like.
00:19:40.180Well, that's what they want. That's that's their plan for us.
00:19:43.620So President Trump needs to win this midterm.
00:19:46.160It's going to be really tough because just historically it's tough to win when you're the president in that first midterm.
00:19:52.800But President Trump needs to. Otherwise, we're going to have impeachments for two years.
00:19:56.900And that's going to make it harder for him to fulfill his agenda.
00:20:00.640And so I hope that people will work really, really hard and double down to hold the House and to hold the House and the Senate.
00:20:08.680The House is going to be the hard one.
00:20:10.420But because of our magnificent Supreme Court, which is ruling constitutionally and not unconstitutionally,
00:20:17.540we now have a better chance of holding the House if some of these state houses will get busy
00:20:23.380and make sure that they have maps that are conducive to equal representation, not race-based representation.
00:20:32.360Now, the DEI gerrymandering getting thrown out by the Supreme Court in a day, Alabama's attorney general came out.
00:20:38.900We'll be on top of that again, like we were this morning, tomorrow morning.
00:20:42.600Ambassador Sands talking about the key thing, you've got to get these special sessions called, like we just had this great special session in Florida.
00:20:49.240Ambassador, you know a lot about NATO.
00:20:52.100You were one of President Trump's top advisors in the first term as an ambassador.
00:20:57.520Your assessment of the trip the king made, the comments he made in talking about the unity we've had and how we've worked together, but also NATO's performance in the Iran war, ma'am.
00:21:13.400Yeah, I mean, the king was here definitely projecting soft power from Great Britain to the U.S.
00:21:22.040And we all love the U.K. because many of us have ancestors that come from there.
00:21:27.960I'm mostly Scottish, so I have a very great fondness also for the U.K.
00:21:33.180But the fact is that Great Britain has not done a good job with NATO.
00:21:40.900They couldn't even send a ship to help us out in the Hormuz when they finally did offer the ship broke down.
00:21:47.180And they couldn't prosecute the Falklands War today because they're in such poor condition.
00:21:52.040they have to spend more and they're throttling their economy with these bad policies,
00:21:57.720especially bad energy policies. And just in the EU writ large, they have bad energy policies and
00:22:05.020way too much regulation. So we're losing our greatest trading partner. This NATO, it's not
00:22:11.700just NATO. We're also a huge trading bloc, almost $2 trillion a year. And that's the really biggest
00:22:17.340trading block in the world, and we need to keep it. But like President Trump's national security
00:22:23.080strategy late last year called out, we're losing them not just because of demographics, but bad
00:22:28.440policy. And so King Charles was here to patch things up. I do feel better about the relationship
00:22:34.320because of his great visit, and it's a full-court press, and America is shining in our 250th
00:22:41.340anniversary year. But the fact is that it doesn't change the Kirstarmers in charge of the UK
00:22:47.420and that they are not helping us and didn't even let us use the Diego Garcia base during this0.76
00:22:54.480initial Iran effort. And so many other European allies, NATO allies, closed their airspace to us.
00:23:02.060So I think that NATO is being rethought for real allies and not just pretend allies so that we
00:23:09.060give them Article 5 protection. Yesterday, the FBI, Kash Patel, and the DOJ, I think it was 22
00:23:16.900warrants on these quote-unquote daycare centers in Minneapolis run by the Somalians or different
00:23:23.880Somalian groups. You had a piece up in the Daily Caller from the Daily Caller Foundation that
00:23:29.340talked about that's not the only fraud, and it was a magnificent piece about H-1B visas. We talked
00:23:33.980about it yesterday in the show and pushed it out to make sure everybody could read it. Can you walk
00:23:38.460take a minute or two and walk us through this, because it's one of the most profound pieces
00:23:42.140I've seen in a long time about the issues we face in front of us about legal immigration.
00:23:50.300Yeah, it's so, yeah, but there's so much fraud, Steve. It may be legal immigration, but these H-1B1.00
00:23:56.340visas or the EB-2s where it's, you know, if they're going to offer an extraordinary benefit
00:24:02.300to the United States, so they're having people, they're paying people to write papers for them,
00:24:07.560so they qualify for this. This is cheating. They're not writing the paper themselves.
00:24:11.320They're hiring talent for that. Or they fake degrees. There was an article in the China
00:24:16.460Morning, the Daily Morning Post, saying that there were 36,000 fake degrees sold for under
00:24:22.540$5,000 to people that wanted to come to the U.S. And American employers were accepting these fake
00:24:28.720degrees. And that's tragic, because what's happening is American STEM graduates are being
00:24:34.940hired at a much lower rate than foreign STEM graduates. It's at 90 percent of the new hires
00:24:41.340since covid have been foreign born, not U.S. born citizens. And so President Trump is trying to make
00:24:48.020America great again. And he wants American citizens to have good paying jobs. It's part of his
00:24:52.540full court press, right, reindustrialized. But STEM graduates deserve to have good jobs, too.
00:24:58.360And it's medical, it's tech, it's engineers. In fact, some of the universities, I'll just name a few, Emory, Indiana, Stanford, they're offering jobs available only to H-1B employees.
00:25:14.720In other words, their own graduates don't even qualify if they're American-born.
00:25:18.980This has to stop, especially companies or universities that are getting taxpayer dollars.0.85
00:25:24.240They can't prefer foreigners to U.S.-born citizens.0.96
00:25:28.860These young people are getting hired, even if they go to the same university as a foreign-born person,0.88
00:25:35.360they're getting hired at a lower rate than the foreigners.0.84
00:25:38.600And that even goes for medical doctors.0.74
00:25:42.140And so I hope that people will be aware of this and make sure that they're advocating for American citizens to get these jobs.0.86
00:25:50.980The Eli Crane and people in the House have initiated with Rosemary Jenks, other folks, a new bill addressing H-1Bs, which is pretty it doesn't get rid of the entire program, but it's pretty, pretty dramatic about reforms.
00:26:07.460I know President Trump relies upon you.
00:26:09.460What would be your advice to President Trump about the H-1B visas?
00:26:13.800Well, you know, he has a lot of pressure from the tech bros that are really involved in his administration.
00:26:19.180So it's going to be hard for him to make this change.
00:26:23.660So I think it probably has to come from the Congress making it.
00:26:27.620In fact, there is legislation from a Democrat senator from Arizona.
00:26:31.840He's saying make American call centers great again.
00:26:34.460He's saying if a company gets grant money from the U.S. government or any kind of support from the U.S. government, they should have to hire American call center employees.
00:26:44.460Can you imagine how many stay-at-home moms raising kids would love to work at home and be a call center from her home desk rather than having somebody from, say, India answering that phone?0.84
00:26:56.600That's making America great again.0.85
00:26:58.860ambassador sands where do people get you on social media because uh i tell you i think
00:27:05.340the administration needs you now more than ever to get back on board uh because there's a couple
00:27:10.140of billets i think you could fill and really help the president so where people keep up with you
00:27:13.980steve thanks i'm on twitter x mostly and then i repost a little bit on things like instagram
00:27:20.700and facebook but mostly i think a lot of people are communicating really clearly the news breaks
00:27:26.340on x thanks thank you man appreciate you ambassador what a day what a day we're going to go to the
00:27:34.220white house next our own neil mccabe he was following he was up on capitol hill and following
00:27:38.820the pete hexa you know pete sometimes as we've said when we've done the analysis of the life of
00:27:46.520his uh press conferences um maybe sometimes gets a little over skis but what he did today was
00:27:53.780magnificent. He stood in the breach for hour after hour and took incoming. These Democrats,
00:28:01.560they're not interested in trying to be an assistance in running the country.
00:28:07.240What they are trying to do is just destroy people. And they went all out today to destroy
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00:34:25.100One more thing we didn't really get. There are legitimate questions.
00:34:30.180There's this Atlantic piece and others. Looks like the administration is leaking on each other.
00:34:33.880But there are definitely questions about munitions, the rate of fire, how much we have.
00:34:40.300Are we are we field stripping East Asia, you know, South Korea, Japan?
00:34:45.060And they're they're very real questions out there. But in a situation like today, you can't get a straight answer.
00:34:51.960Did you come away feeling that you had a better sense of where we are with this with this conflict in Iran?
00:35:01.840I was really keyed up to hear the effort, the emphasis on war production and getting the industrial base going.
00:35:10.20050 billion dollars in new industrial facilities they talked about the munitions problem they
00:35:16.180said that the war production or the munitions production was too slow and too low and you know
00:35:22.900i i completely agree and you know i'm well aware that the a position the army pre-position stock
00:35:29.180in kuwait was gutted and sent to ukraine and that's been done at other aps facilities and so
00:35:36.200So, you know, our warfighters, if they wanted to do a ground offensive, first they have to restock because everything that was being held in Kuwait and Jordan has been given away to Ukraine.
00:35:47.960Neil McCabe, where do people get you on social media?
00:35:51.660Good job up there today on Capitol Hill in this hearing.
00:36:30.600As of yesterday, Steve, thanks for having us on, by the way.
00:36:33.280As of yesterday, according to the Supreme Court of Virginia, they declined to issue a stay of a Tazewell circuit court judge's voiding of the entire election.
00:36:45.480And it enjoined the Department of Elections and localities, you name it, from certifying and, you know, redrawing maps, basically, said this election is void.
00:36:55.020And all of that's being appealed up to the Supreme Court.
00:36:57.560And the attorney general, Jay Jones, had filed a motion saying, could you could you let us just go ahead and draw the maps while while this is being adjudicated and appealed?
00:37:07.140And the Supreme Court said, no, we declined one one sentence.
00:37:11.260You know, we declined to issue a stay.
00:37:14.080So there is no certifying of the vote.
00:37:16.800And that bodes very well for people who watched the appeals on Monday of the Republicans who were challenging how the majority Democrats at the assembly sort of just ran through this constitutional amendment.
00:37:32.140And so it bodes well and people are kind of encouraged by it based on how the questioning went and then how the judges basically said, no, we're going to keep the stay in place.
00:37:42.060Because if they were thinking of lifting the injunction and letting the votes go through, they would have, you know, they would have said, yeah, go ahead, get started.
00:37:52.260And and we'll see what happens from there.
00:37:54.580But frankly, you know, from our standpoint as a data company that follows voter data and who qualifies to look at Virginia's voter list, the votes have been so off this time around.
00:38:05.800And I'll go back to what I said the last time I was on your shows, because this was so rushed.
00:38:10.360The localities, 133 localities across Virginia had about a week and a half, maybe two weeks to get ready.
00:38:17.300Normally, they take about six months to get ready for an election.
00:38:19.860They had two weeks to get ready for this election.
00:38:22.820Now, granted, it was only one question, but they had to order ballots.
00:48:30.480Kunzler and those guys doing a great job.
00:48:32.460Steve Stern, you have a precinct strategy meeting tomorrow.
00:48:35.000I want to make sure all the we're going to carry it here on War Room, but I want to make sure all the War Room posse knows about it and puts it on their calendar.
00:48:42.620What time is it going to be? Who's going to speak? What are you guys going to do?
00:48:46.260It's going to be two o'clock tomorrow, Eastern Time.
00:48:49.540It'll be on Stern American Rumble, as well as 100 podcasters.
00:48:54.120We are going to have terrific speakers.
00:48:56.100It's been going to call PrecinctProjectUSA.org.
00:48:59.660We want everybody to join PrecinctProjectUSA.org.
00:49:04.000Why is that important? Because we're going to have monthly newsletters. There's going to be
00:49:08.360staff there around the clock to let you know where to join, how to join. You're going to learn how to
00:49:13.820recruit new members. Now, we have 400,000 slots, 200,000 people involved. Just recently, over the
00:49:20.360last three months, we started this. In just one state, they've got 2,720 new members. Nancy Pelosi
00:49:27.060is going to talk about that from Colorado tomorrow, of all places, Colorado. Jeff Davis is going to
00:49:33.180speak from South Carolina. Now, why I love him, myscgop.com. Every day he sends out a newsletter
00:49:40.160to everybody in South Carolina. Andy Mahon from Butler, Pennsylvania is going to be talking about
00:49:45.780what's there. He's going to be talking about his guides. We're going to have a girl from Florida
00:49:51.240on there, Karen Leonardo. She's going to be talking about her handbooks. We're going to let0.97
00:49:56.420people know how to get involved because we could have all the states reassign you know republicans
00:50:04.100but if we don't come out to vote it's not going to happen we're going to have annie parchen on
00:50:07.980from illinois freedom alliance amen she's fought the republicans there and and won her election
00:50:13.240cynthia haggett from missouri so come tomorrow what what what time what time is it and where
00:50:20.820do they go right now what time is it going to be two o'clock two o'clock uh you can go to stern
00:50:26.660american rumble you can go to the war room you can go to getter x you can email me at s stern
00:50:33.0201054 gmail.com yeah and next wednesday we're going to have our election security call with
00:50:37.780a special guest john goodman who's going to give you information that you're going to want to know
00:50:42.420about and steve bannon you're going to want to know about this too thank you sir uh tomorrow
00:50:47.520too. We're going to stream it on all of our platforms here on War Room. Steve Stern, great
00:50:52.040job. Stern's absolutely correct. Just because we're having these victories in Florida, the
00:50:56.400Supreme Court got all these districts that have been DEI or gerrymandered by the Democrats. It's
00:51:02.260still dependent upon the grassroots to turn out. But the grassroots understand this is political
00:51:07.520warfare. Maybe this Republican Party doesn't, but the grassroots definitely do. Trevor Comstock,
00:51:13.880Doc, let's end on a positive, upbeat note, as only sacred human health can do, sir.