Bannon's War Room - Episode 5513： Thursday We Are Getting To the Bottom Of 2020; Making Sure Blanche Gets Across The Goal Line

00:00:00.000 assault on the truth and democracy in American elections to primetime. MS Now is now reporting

00:00:05.920 that Trump will deliver an address Thursday evening where he plans to unveil another round

00:00:11.180 of lies about why he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden, this time claiming that newly declassified reports

00:00:17.280 reveal foreign interference in that election that his own government didn't know about

00:00:21.060 at the time. Lies that seemed to conveniently obscure that he was the president of the United

00:00:26.460 States. All of his handpicked people ran every facet of the government in 2020. His handpicked

00:00:33.180 Attorney General Bill Barr ran the Justice Department. His handpicked replacement for

00:00:38.720 Jim Comey, Chris Wray, ran the FBI. Both of them have repeatedly and publicly debunked these lies

00:00:45.380 if there was any foreign interference. Trump's address will take place in prime time. It is

00:00:50.840 likely to mark the start of releases of so-called evidence that everyone that worked for him in 2020

00:00:57.020 couldn't find, as Donald Trump makes it abundantly clear that there's no lever of national security

00:01:03.080 power that he will not exploit and pervert to undermine our faith in our elections and our

00:01:08.500 democracy, including these essential national security agencies. MSNOW has exclusive reporting

00:01:14.700 that details Trump's plans to use our national security apparatus and turn it into a propaganda

00:01:19.720 machine for his election lies. Quote, a new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of

00:01:25.400 classified intelligence and law enforcement documents for evidence of irregularities in

00:01:29.980 U.S. elections is expected to begin releasing documents within weeks, according to two U.S.

00:01:35.320 officials with knowledge of the matter. Speaking to MSNOW, the Office of the Director of National

00:01:40.280 Intelligence, whose acting chief Bill Pulte has been accused by Democrats of politically weaponizing

00:01:46.000 federal government information will be part of this effort. Democrats say that Trump has placed

00:01:51.060 Pulte in this position so that he can aid Republicans in the midterm elections and potentially

00:01:56.340 limit voting by Democrats. The release of the documents appears to be part of a series of

00:02:01.680 accelerating efforts by Trump and his aides to again question and relitigate the results of the

00:02:06.980 2020 election. Claims that widespread voter fraud occurred in the country and decreased public trust

00:02:13.360 in the results of pivotal elections this fall that will decide control of Congress.

00:02:18.020 This effort is not just isolated to Pulte's office of the director of national intelligence.

00:02:22.700 MSNOW reports that it is part of a whole of government effort to try to subvert November's

00:02:27.620 midterm elections, coming on the heels of Trump's weaponization of the Department of

00:02:31.760 Justice and FEMA.

00:02:33.340 One election protection advocate telling MSNOW that local election officials must prepare

00:02:38.140 now for a federal assault on our elections, saying this, quote,

00:02:41.240 This is unprecedented, she said. If you had told me in 2010 that we would be having this conversation, I wouldn't have believed you.

00:02:48.680 But we have to take this seriously, given events in 2020 and the president's focus on the fall.

00:02:53.980 Not only is the U.S. ramping up attacks on Iran, the American naval blockade on Iranian ports is about to resume.

00:03:00.800 And President Trump says other ships will pay the U.S. a fee for safe passage through the strait.

00:03:06.520 The president making that announcement today after the U.S. military says it struck dozens of targets in Iran overnight after Iran attacked a cargo ship over the weekend.

00:03:17.380 This is new CENTCOM video showing a one way sea drone attacking an Iranian port for the first time since the war started.

00:03:26.760 All of this is pushing oil prices higher.

00:03:29.740 It is up more than eight percent today.

00:03:31.800 Just moments ago, President Trump announced he plans to address the nation in a primetime speech Thursday night.

00:03:37.580 That development coming just minutes after we learned that Trump formally notified Congress on Friday the U.S. military action against Iran has resumed.

00:03:45.480 So what we know right now is that these are intelligence and law enforcement documents that are classified, that the administration is looking to declassify,

00:03:53.940 that this White House task force is reviewing, searching for, they're looking for irregularities

00:03:59.880 in the election, namely in the 2020 election, which, if that sounds familiar, it's because,

00:04:06.220 as you know, the president has repeatedly lied about the 2020 election being rigged.

00:04:10.380 Now, we don't exactly know the timing of when they're going to start releasing these. It could

00:04:15.780 be as early as this week. But one thing that I can say is that election security experts,

00:04:21.820 election officials across the country that I've talked to have expected something like this to be coming for a while now

00:04:27.700 because they expected the administration, based on what happened during the president's first term,

00:04:32.560 to dredge up old conspiracy theories, old intelligence assessments, and to try to make something of them.

00:04:39.840 And so some of those conspiracy theories that they think the administration may bring back up again

00:04:45.540 has to do with Venezuela, you know, interfering with voting machines, which was something that

00:04:52.180 has been debunked. There's also the question of China influence or interference, which again,

00:04:57.440 the intel community assessed at the time in 2020 and 2021. And they found that there was no

00:05:04.340 interference against President Trump in that election. And I was just talking to a former

00:05:11.040 senior national security official who served during the first Trump administration, who told

00:05:17.920 me that all credible threats and intel were looked into deeply, were combed over aggressively

00:05:26.120 and brought up and made a pretty salient point saying that at the time, John Ratcliffe was the

00:05:32.280 director of national intelligence and he had all of this same information and still there was unable

00:05:39.060 to provide legitimate evidence of a massive influence and interference campaign that swayed

00:05:45.600 the 2020 election. So if you're talking about how you actually achieve that, when we speak with

00:05:50.620 former government officials who say, you know, it's not they haven't dealt with this exact 0.88

00:05:55.280 situation, but they have game planned it in the past for how you would overcome Iran controlling

00:06:00.700 the strait. And it involves U.S. boots on the ground, seizing quite a bit of land into Iran,

00:06:07.660 and then boots on the ground to hold that land and secure the strait.

00:06:15.400 Definitely.

00:06:16.280 I mean, do you see any way around that at this point?

00:06:19.940 I'm not going to hypothesize right here about the best way forward.

00:06:23.820 I assume the president will outline for us what he sees the best way forward on Thursday.

00:06:28.020 You talk to officials.

00:06:28.560 You talk to officials.

00:06:29.500 Are you expecting when you're talking about something that's actually effective,

00:06:33.860 whether what he goes with or not?

00:06:35.820 When you talk to people.

00:06:37.080 I'm expecting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that your expectation? Because when I talk to our military experts, they say it includes boots on the ground. And I think we should talk to the American people about what's really expected here. Is that your understanding or do you understand something different?

00:06:51.440 that's not what obviously i can't discuss what i've been briefed on from a classified setting

00:06:56.620 but i'll just tell you that's not what i'm asking what i believe what i what what i built but i know

00:07:00.300 right but strategic you're asking broadly speaking strategically what i think is that you're going to

00:07:05.500 have to be aggressive um what what the what and you're asking what does that specifically look

00:07:10.160 like i think the answer is we're gonna this what's going on right now is not working and uh you can't 0.70

00:07:16.420 expect Iran to just play ball, because they never have. 0.78

00:07:21.380 This has been their MO, and what they've done, even in the last weeks, is continue to develop 0.95

00:07:26.580 their ballistic missiles, continue to be tougher, and instead of looking for a way forward,

00:07:32.500 they keep upping the ante.

00:07:34.100 So I think the bottom line is, given the fact that they're still there on the nuclear program, 0.72

00:07:37.540 on their ballistic program, on their terror program, and now the Straits, we're going 0.82

00:07:41.320 to have to be aggressive, but that should be no surprise of who we're dealing with, of 0.75

00:07:45.620 who they've attacked us, they've attacked our bases, attacked our allies just in recent days.

00:07:49.980 They've attacked bases of our allies, you know, our bases and in Gulf allied countries.

00:07:56.340 So, you know, the bottom line is you can't just allow that to happen.

00:07:58.860 You've got to respond and deal with it.

00:08:00.460 And of course, we'll see what the commander in chief says in terms of specifics.

00:08:04.040 But the bottom line is we can't just sit here.

00:08:05.840 We have some reporting that there's a White House elections task force

00:08:09.880 looking through classified intelligence and various law enforcement documents

00:08:14.700 to find evidence or irregularities in elections.

00:08:18.620 Two officials with knowledge tell us

00:08:20.460 that those documents are expected to be released within weeks.

00:08:25.700 What do you think they're doing here?

00:08:27.900 And what is your and other Democrats' plans to counter it?

00:08:33.640 So first, what they're doing here is we know their agenda.

00:08:37.020 They've basically told us, and we've seen evidence of that.

00:08:39.820 Donald Trump wants to try to delegitimize American elections.

00:08:43.820 He's taken the election that he lost with his raid in Atlanta, in Georgia, and trying to say that my election, I won my election.

00:08:52.100 We know that there are judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans who have all called that what it is.

00:08:57.900 False, a lie, he is lost in court, but yet he's trying to build this case that will not only try to further his lie that he was a winner of an election that he lost,

00:09:08.060 but also to delegitimize American elections on the eve of Democrats regaining the House and the Senate

00:09:15.100 so he can try to press his case that even any loss that he faces was an illegitimate one.

00:09:20.040 And that is spectacularly dangerous to our democracy.

00:09:24.520 You see other nations' democracies unraveling because some petite autocrat has undermined safe, secure elections

00:09:32.140 or the belief in the public for them.

00:09:34.800 And then the second thing, what are we doing about it?

00:09:36.780 Well, we're already having many emergency meetings to prepare for anything that he is doing to try to undermine our elections.

00:09:43.940 We are already taking him to court and winning most of those cases.

00:09:48.140 Americans should know that we have dragged him to court over and over again and won most of the cases, not all of them.

00:09:55.340 So this is going to be a stress test to our democracy.

00:09:58.400 And the one message voters need to get right now is this should make you more willing to go out and vote than less.

00:10:06.780 more determined to show up to our polls. The answer to this is not surrendering to Donald

00:10:12.480 Trump's what he wants, which is us to lose our faith in our democracy in our elections.

00:10:16.420 The answer to this is more democracy, more engagement and more involvement.

00:10:20.640 Living in post-truth America. I know all this, but just riddle me this. When Obama ran intelligence,

00:10:27.180 the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016. When Biden ran the government and the

00:10:33.400 intelligence. The election was secure and Trump ran in 2024. But when Donald Trump and all of his

00:10:38.920 boobs were running U.S. national security, it got all left up. Is that the theory? 0.96

00:10:44.620 I guess so, Nicole. We like to say that this administration is built on lies,

00:10:49.160 but it's also built on really bad leftovers because these claims they are making are bad

00:10:56.100 leftovers that have been sifted through years ago. They are moldy and inedible now. These

00:11:01.320 claims that they're going to try to make later this week i expect them to cherry pick and

00:11:05.660 selectively leak intelligence about chinese can i stop you can i stop you though what document

00:11:12.400 is going to show something that donald trump wouldn't have either stolen when he took quote

00:11:17.440 national defense information to mar-a-lago in boxes that he then had flooded in the back like

00:11:22.560 if he had it okay it it uh i could go on and there's more in the war we were into a complete

00:11:29.000 for a couple more minutes but it boggles my mind and i think the white house has to end the white

00:11:35.160 house staff as i said this morning why is msnbc david rhodes gets briefed who's an assassin a media

00:11:44.020 assassin hates president trump why is he briefed by the white house and now there's uh tweets out

00:11:50.500 i'll pull them up in a second but says that president trump is going to announce this on

00:11:54.500 thursday and talk about this on thursday right what you're hearing there according to senior

00:11:57.980 officials at the White House that were granted anonymity to talk about this topic.

00:12:04.360 Why is the White House briefing MSNBC so they can frame this?

00:12:08.840 Why was this delayed tonight and going to go Thursday so they can get a couple of, so

00:12:12.620 the White House staff in the intelligence community?

00:12:15.980 Tell me how this happens.

00:12:17.360 How does something that's been secret, close hold, working with the senior most people

00:12:24.500 this declassification program of john solomon and pulte that has been as the brits call it a close

00:12:31.960 run thing how does that on msmec all afternoon now they've been briefed how does msmec get briefed

00:12:40.840 fox not briefed the newsmax they're not covering this right now real america's voice is not briefed

00:12:45.720 why are they why are they briefed so that they can frame it you hear right there today was

00:12:51.520 disinformation this morning with rhodes now it's all moldy it's going to be so moldy it's called

00:12:56.440 framing the narrative who at the white house is doing this what members of the comms staff

00:13:05.040 or others or in the intelligence community that thought it was a good thing and helped

00:13:10.800 the nation move forward about stolen elections and voter integrity which is at the top of

00:13:16.560 president trump's agenda the top what does he keep telling us that the save america act is his

00:13:23.480 number one legislative priority it has to be passed so who at the just very simple question

00:13:30.220 why is msnbc already have this and they're framing the narrative why are they doing it

00:13:34.260 who did it we need names we need names and if you don't agree with what president trump doing

00:13:42.440 why don't you just resign and go back to private life why are you trying to put the knife in we're

00:13:45.820 going to get to the bottom of it, and we're going to name names. This is some of the most important

00:13:50.540 work that people around President Trump and President Trump have ever done. Let me reiterate,

00:13:54.900 President Trump has said time and time and time and time and time again that the Save America

00:14:01.480 Act is number one priority. His White House staff never made it a priority. They colluded with Thune

00:14:07.740 and the Senate not to make it a priority. And if you need to see it in all its glory,

00:14:14.320 Just watch MSNBC this afternoon.

00:14:16.620 Just watch it.

00:14:18.220 They're already laying out the framing.

00:14:20.980 They were going to be ahead of it tonight if it went tonight on Thursday.

00:14:28.260 Absolutely revolting.

00:14:30.840 Absolutely revolting.

00:14:32.180 We're going to name names here.

00:14:34.320 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:14:36.360 We are going to name names.

00:14:38.560 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:14:39.860 The Vice-Roy is going to join me in a second.

00:14:41.820 And the judiciary, it's not even so much the Senate, but the Judiciary Committee slot that was brought up by the death, unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham.

00:14:54.120 Next, with Mike Davis and The Word.

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00:16:21.120 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:16:26.600 Mike Davis, the viceroy, joins us.

00:16:29.120 Mike Davis, Senator Graham, I think the president's recommended his sister take his place on an interim basis to fulfill the rest of his time.

00:16:41.520 Other people are going to – I guess they're going to have a discussion about who's going to run.

00:16:44.820 But there's needs right now.

00:16:46.880 Talk to me about the Judiciary Committee and what is your recommendation, sir?

00:16:50.000 Well, the Judiciary Committee right now is broken down with 12 Republican slots and 10 Democrat slots. My former boss, Chairman Chuck Grassley, is the chairman through the end of this year, and then Senator Mike Lee will either be the chairman or the ranking member in the next Congress, depending on whether Republicans keep or lose the Senate.

00:17:14.540 but we still need to fill Lindsey Graham's big shoes on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:17:20.320 Right now, we have 11 Senate Republicans instead of 12.

00:17:24.780 And I strongly recommend that the senators pick U.S. Senator Jim Banks from Indiana

00:17:32.720 to fill the slot on the Judiciary Committee.

00:17:38.520 He is a bold and fearless warrior.

00:17:41.660 He's a lawyer.

00:17:42.300 He grew up working class like Lindsey Graham.

00:17:46.740 He is America first.

00:17:49.560 He's MAGA.

00:17:51.000 He's very pro-Trump.

00:17:53.080 He's bold.

00:17:53.700 He's fearless.

00:17:54.780 We can't put wimps on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:17:58.240 We're doing too many important things.

00:18:00.660 Judicial confirmations, Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing is this Wednesday.

00:18:06.200 We have the Save America Act, Immigration, DEI, corporate power.

00:18:12.940 There are so many big consequential issues going through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:18:18.680 And someone like Jim Banks is the perfect person to go and continue the fight to carry on the baton for Lindsey Graham.

00:18:30.660 How tough is the – and by the way, there's a – but there's a deep bench.

00:18:35.220 There's Jim Banks, commander in the Navy.

00:18:38.180 There's a deep bench of lawyers.

00:18:40.960 The Judiciary Committee is a very prestigious committee, correct?

00:18:44.040 And one of the reasons it's prestigious, it has a ton of power.

00:18:48.060 What power does it have, sir?

00:18:50.780 Well, it's all legislation affecting our justice system,

00:18:55.420 all legislation affecting big tech, for example, DEI, affirmative action, discrimination with

00:19:06.920 corporations. It also has the confirmation power for judges, federal judges, if there are Supreme

00:19:13.740 Court vacancies, lower federal courts, the Justice Department. It's an A committee in the Senate.

00:19:20.680 It's a very powerful committee, and when you have a tight margin in the Senate, you want to make sure that you have the A-team on the eight committees like the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:19:33.080 And talk to me about banks.

00:19:34.240 Why is banks – I mean right now what we need is fighters, right?

00:19:38.560 We need people who are going to stay in the breach because as you see from these leaks coming out of the White House now on this declassification, you're going to need people standing in the breach.

00:19:46.980 and take a lot of grief from our side of the football about what's being pursued.

00:19:52.080 And judiciary's got so many things tied up with immigration, mass deportations.

00:19:56.600 I mean, all the very thorny, the thorniest issues come to judiciary by and by.

00:20:04.260 And that's one of the reasons it's an A committee.

00:20:06.140 So why is Banks, for this moment in time, why is Jim Banks the perfect fit?

00:20:13.020 Well, I remember after the Mar-a-Lago raid, it was a pretty dark time.

00:20:16.980 around President Trump, around Mar-a-Lago. And I remember the people who ran from President Trump,

00:20:24.120 the rats scurrying off the ship. And I remember the people who ran to President Trump. And Jim

00:20:30.480 Banks is one of the people who ran to President Trump, and he's always been by President Trump's

00:20:36.480 side. And so that's why I am a big champion of Jim Banks. I went and spoke to his supporters

00:20:43.300 at the indiana republican convention recently this guy is a rising star uh like i said he

00:20:51.360 comes from a working class populist backgrounds like lindsey graham uh he's uh he's the real deal

00:21:00.160 and so i i that's what we need someone like jim banks on the senate judiciary committee we we need

00:21:06.060 people who go to Washington, D.C. to fight the swamp, to kill the reptiles, not to go adopt them.

00:21:16.260 The confirmation of Todd Blanche, how tough is that going to be? Are we going to hold people

00:21:20.480 together to actually vote for this because the Democrats are lying in wait right here,

00:21:26.340 and they're going to relitigate all of the Trump's year and a half is going to be relitigated in

00:21:34.020 this confirmation hearing, sir? Yeah, Todd Blanche is going to be confirmed as the next

00:21:40.020 Attorney General of the United States by August recess. The Article III Project

00:21:44.560 is going to make damn sure that happens. Teaming up with the War Room Posse, go to 0.99

00:21:49.940 article3project.org and take action and contact both of your home state senators. Email,

00:21:56.760 patch through phone calls, social media, Democrat and Republican. Steal the spines

00:22:02.080 of the Republicans make the Democrat senators feel less sure-footed, like we did during

00:22:08.300 Ketanji Brown-Jackson's confirmation. But the reason Todd Blanche is going to be confirmed is

00:22:13.280 because he is qualified for the job. Every Senate Republican voted to confirm him as Deputy Attorney

00:22:21.460 General. By statute, the Deputy Attorney General has almost every power as the Attorney General.

00:22:29.260 He's done a great job as the deputy attorney general for almost two years.

00:22:33.520 He's been the acting attorney general for the last many months, and there's no reason

00:22:39.000 that any Senate Republican would not vote for him after they all voted for him.

00:22:44.580 Before we see dirty tricks out of the Democrats, we just saw a Democrat judge in Miami, Judge 0.90

00:22:52.260 Kathleen Williams, just come out with a lawless order, gratuitous lawless order, trying to 0.78

00:22:58.720 trashed Todd Blanche. You're seeing the headlines now. It's a judicial drive-by shooting by this 0.94

00:23:04.160 lawless Miami Obama judge, this former federal public defender. This is the same Kathleen

00:23:10.920 Williams, who said that the Alligator Alley sending illegal aliens, gangbangers, rapists,

00:23:21.500 murderers, and other violent illegals to Alligator Alley in Florida was somehow illegal because she 1.00

00:23:27.940 tried to pull some obscure environmental law out of her hat. She got reversed by the 11th Circuit. 0.99

00:23:35.880 This Kathleen Williams will get reversed again by the 11th Circuit on this last minute judicial 0.94

00:23:41.160 drive-by shooting of Todd Blanch before his confirmation hearing in two days. But her damage 0.99

00:23:45.940 is already done. We're already seeing the headlines trashing Todd Blanch. It's lawless,

00:23:50.700 it's partisan, but it's what you would expect from one of these Obama judges, these partisan hacks

00:23:56.560 and judicial robes. Yep. I've asked Jeff Clark to join us a little later in the next hour to go

00:24:01.700 through some of these issues about what the hell they're trying to trash him and the president

00:24:05.540 before the confirmation hearing. Mike Davis, one more time, where do we go to the Article 3 Project

00:24:10.580 to get on top of the confirmation of Todd Blanche? Article3project.org, donate, follow us on social.

00:24:19.860 Again, the War Room Posse superpowers action, action, action, light up. Both of your home

00:24:25.540 state senators right now. We make it very easy. Emails, social media posts, patch through phone

00:24:31.960 calls. It takes about two minutes. Please go do it and support Todd Blanche so he could be the

00:24:36.480 next attorney general by August recess. Thank you, sir. And we'll take up your mission here to

00:24:43.640 get Jim Banks on judiciary. I think it's a great idea. Very solid. A real fighter.

00:24:48.960 Mike Davis, the viceroy. Thank you so much for changing your schedule and coming on here at

00:24:52.340 spur of the moment. I appreciate you. I got Neil McCabe up at the White House.

00:25:00.340 Neil, you want to give us a thumbnail sketch before we go to break of the status of the war?

00:25:05.140 Things are heating up. Big League, what do you got?

00:25:11.060 Yeah, Steve, I think the most critical change in the war, obviously, that went extremely kinetic

00:25:16.880 over the weekend is that Central Command and U.S. forces are now going after economic targets,

00:25:23.620 which had been sort of off the table. And those are railheads and bridges and things of that sort.

00:25:28.640 The idea was that you wanted to avoid the economic targets because they were the one they were part 0.59

00:25:34.200 of financing the rebuilding of the new Iran. But that's now off the table. And you're also seeing

00:25:40.220 them going after specific military targets that are critical to Iran, trying to control the

00:25:46.600 Strait of Hormuz, and that's the submarines, submarine facilities, and the bases up and down

00:25:52.560 that coast, including two bases that are actually very close to the Pakistani border, which are

00:25:58.360 part of the Gulf of Oman that sort of guard that non-Iranian side of the, that eastern side

00:26:04.280 of the strait. So very serious stuff going on right now, Steve, in the third Gulf War.

00:26:11.640 The third Gulf War. Oh my God. Neil, hang on for one second. I'm going to come back to the

00:26:16.180 I'm going to come back to you as we get a little runway here.

00:26:19.780 Also, President Trump announced, as we talked on Eric Bolling,

00:26:23.500 that we're going to take responsibility now since nobody else will step up

00:26:27.960 and do it to keep the Strait of Hormuz absolutely clear.

00:26:30.780 But there's a little action item to incentivize the local Gulf Emirates

00:26:40.400 in Saudi Arabia to get with the program, and that's going to be a 20% vigorous,

00:26:44.060 a 20% fee on top of everything, I think that might get some people's attention.

00:26:50.580 We'll talk about that in a moment.

00:26:53.080 Clearly, I'm quite upset this afternoon, as we should be.

00:26:57.780 I don't know in what universe people think it's a good thing to brief MSNBC.

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00:32:05.640 Neil McCabe, the CENCOM just put out – this just dropped as we were in break or just right before we were in break.

00:32:13.360 At 4.45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today, U.S. Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran at the commander-in-chief's direction.

00:32:23.880 These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:32:34.080 Now, you've got – that follows on a true social that you have from the president.

00:32:38.940 What does that say, Neal McCabe?

00:32:40.300 yes sir steve uh today at 10 16 the president uh posted on truth social

00:32:48.000 the hermos strait is open and will remain open with or without iran we are reinstating the

00:32:56.800 iranian blockade so named because it is only stopping the iranian ships and or customers

00:33:03.880 from entering or leaving all other countries will have fair and open use of the strait

00:33:09.000 The USA will be, from this point forward, known as the guardian of the Hermuz Strait, but as such, and as a matter of fairness, will be reimbursed at a rate of 20% for all cargo shipped for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the world.

00:33:30.660 The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.

00:33:39.820 So I was talking this morning about how people had to start ponying up because it's $88 billion. I think the third bill that they're putting forward, the reconciliation bill, is $350 billion.

00:33:56.520 I think that even has more of defense spending in it.

00:33:59.280 But right now, let's assume it's $100 billion for what we've, the American people are out in this, as President Trump calls it, an excursion. 0.88

00:34:10.760 What happens, President, and I said, hey, the Gulf Emirates got to start paying here. 0.72

00:34:15.280 We're keeping the hormones open for Europe and for the Gulf. 0.87

00:34:18.180 It can't be on the, you know, just not on the kids of the Americans.

00:34:21.920 That burden in harm's way, as you know, as you well know.

00:34:25.320 But somehow we can't go further than the debt. We can't, you know, borrow more money from the Chinese Communist Party to pay for keeping the strait open for Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar.

00:34:38.440 So what numbers what numbers what numbers did you did you come up with this?

00:34:42.980 So 20 percent is basically a carried interest.

00:34:46.140 He's taking a carried interest in each craft, both the big cargo crafts plus the VLCC.

00:34:52.560 So the numbers alone of the VLCCs would be what?

00:34:58.020 All right, let me first say, Steve, I think it's illustrative that whenever the president speaks about the Panama Canal,

00:35:04.080 the first thing he talks about is the 40,000 people who are killed building it.

00:35:08.140 And the second thing he talks about is how much it was a profitable venture, the return on investment on the Panama Canal.

00:35:16.580 And the third thing he'll say is that as soon as the Panamanians bought it for a dollar, they raised the rate significantly so they would make so much money off the Panama Canal.

00:35:26.060 And I think this sort of speaks to what he's doing with the Strait of Hormuz.

00:35:30.080 What you were talking about is the VLCC, which is the very large crude carrier, which is roughly 2 million barrels.

00:35:39.180 So if you're at $80 a barrel, Brent closed today at 83.

00:35:44.900 So if you're at $80 a barrel, that's $160 million.

00:35:49.860 And so the toll would be $32 million.

00:35:53.240 And under normal circumstances, you have probably 10 VLCCs passing through the Strait of Hormuz every day.

00:36:02.900 And you could have 3,000 to 3,600 annually.

00:36:07.880 And so you can see how that would add up, Steve.

00:36:13.120 And look, it's not – President Trump's not looking for a revenue source for the United States of America,

00:36:18.720 although it is good to have partners or people that are going to share the cost here. 0.70

00:36:24.220 He's also using this as a forcing function for the Gulf Emirates to get very focused

00:36:29.780 with Oman and put this thing to bed, particularly if they want to have free navigation.

00:36:34.560 It's just not going to come, they're not going to freeload off the United States anymore.

00:36:38.840 And I think the situation is very complicated, but as you know, we've been a big advocate

00:36:42.460 of economic warfare and taking a little something for the effort is economic warfare.

00:36:46.580 People have to get very focused over there that Uncle Sugar is just not going to hang around forever and run up $100 billion bills every quarter.

00:36:55.440 We can't afford it.

00:36:57.340 If you think about it, the war started, I don't know, a couple of months ago.

00:37:01.440 Pete was up there two or three weeks ago at $88 billion.

00:37:04.680 It's over $100 billion now.

00:37:05.940 We don't have the luxury of $100 billion every quarter.

00:37:11.380 That's another $400 billion on top of the other deficit.

00:37:14.640 The first nine months of the year, and I believe this is without the cost, it might include the cost, but I think it's without the cost, is $1.4 trillion.

00:37:24.380 That's one of the things that Philip Patrick and I are going to discuss on Saturday.

00:37:29.640 It's $1.4 trillion, and the rate right now, we're going to get to $2 trillion by the end of the fiscal year, or close to $2 trillion, as we've said.

00:37:39.380 Also, put this in your pipe and smoke it.

00:37:43.820 we're not going to have any appropriation no appropriations bills we're going to have another

00:37:47.780 cr they're going to come because they say we're out of time you know we're out of time they're

00:37:52.060 spending so much time on the save america act passing it because president trump's made it

00:37:56.500 its number one priority they have so much they spend so much time on that that they don't have

00:38:00.340 time to appropriation so we're going to get another cr another cr is going to have baked

00:38:04.460 into it these massive deficits scott besson's already got a huge burden with having to finance

00:38:09.740 these now. And it's just going to be another burden on Treasury to go out and actually finance

00:38:16.900 more. This is why we have to have people step up. If it's a 20 percent carried interest or a 20

00:38:23.320 percent fee on each ship, then so be it. The president's thought this through. His team has

00:38:28.920 thought this through. And it sounds like now this is not going to be warmly embraced. First,

00:38:34.620 I'm not going to be warmly embraced by the Persians who think they're getting that vague. 1.00

00:38:38.800 I think he's been pretty clear, Neil, to say, hey, look, we're going to take this thing. 1.00

00:38:44.740 We're going to clean it up.

00:38:46.060 We're going to open it up. 0.99

00:38:47.220 We don't need pirates down there doing pirate things.

00:38:51.080 You guys are out.

00:38:52.040 We're in.

00:38:52.540 The United States Navy is going to be there.

00:38:55.160 But it's not free.

00:38:57.720 We're not going to do this for free.

00:38:59.120 You're going to have to step up.

00:39:00.020 I think that will get everybody very focused.

00:39:02.440 Neil McCabe, your thoughts?

00:39:03.640 i'll just say that pompey the great became poppy the great because he cleared out the pirates and

00:39:11.460 that's exactly what president trump is doing and then moving forward right if people have a problem

00:39:16.740 with a 20 percent toll i think that prompts a conversation and maybe something can be worked

00:39:21.820 out but certainly the president is not going to stand there and watch it become an iranian toll

00:39:26.720 booth steve neil mccabe great reporting at the white house can you give your socials so overnight

00:39:33.060 Tonight, there was going to be this, in Real America's Voice, we were all set for this.

00:39:38.720 In fact, the great Eric Gruber is actually back in D.C.

00:39:41.300 There was going to be a briefing tonight by the president on this topic of interference, but that got moved to Thursday.

00:39:47.580 The president put it up a couple hours ago.

00:39:50.620 So Thursday, we'll have a run-up to Thursday.

00:39:52.480 Now, of course, MSMEC somehow got briefed, and they're framing this right now.

00:39:58.580 But we're going to have a lot of coverage on the run-up to this from the White House and also from the war room.

00:40:05.000 And we'll get down and dirty on this.

00:40:06.760 Neil McCabe, I want to thank you so much for sticking around late this afternoon and give us your assessment of the war.

00:40:13.140 You call it the third Gulf War. 0.71

00:40:14.580 President Trump, I mean, right now, CENCOM, they're lighting up again.

00:40:18.540 This is another night of attacks, and it looks like it's going to continue on at least until somebody gets back to the table

00:40:26.560 because the MOU seems to me to be OBE, overcome by events.

00:40:30.940 Neil McCabe, where are we going to go for your socials?

00:40:35.060 Steve, you can find me on all the socials at Reporter McCabe.

00:40:38.320 Good to be with you, sir.

00:40:40.080 Thank you, sir, always.

00:40:41.940 Can I play the clip from my favorite Nicole?

00:40:45.800 You know how much I love Nicole Wallace.

00:40:47.860 I love having her voice just kind of beep, beep, beep, beep.

00:40:51.060 Can we go ahead and play Nicole Wallace?

00:40:52.720 Can we play it? Let's play it. 1.00

00:40:53.540 Donald Trump appears to be taking his assault on the truth and democracy and American elections to prime time.

00:41:01.260 MSNOW is now reporting that Trump will deliver an address Thursday evening where he plans to unveil another round of lies about why he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden.

00:41:10.900 This time claiming that newly declassified reports reveal foreign interference in that election that his own government didn't know about at the time.

00:41:18.340 lies that seem to conveniently obscure that he was the president of the United States.

00:41:23.660 All of his handpicked people ran every facet of the government in 2020.

00:41:28.440 His handpicked Attorney General Bill Barr ran the Justice Department.

00:41:33.420 His handpicked replacement for Jim Comey, Chris Wray, ran the FBI.

00:41:37.700 Both of them have repeatedly and publicly debunked these lies if there was any foreign interference.

00:41:43.820 Trump's address will take place in prime time.

00:41:46.200 It is likely to mark the start of releases of so-called evidence that everyone that worked for him in 2020 couldn't find, as Donald Trump makes it abundantly clear that there's no lever of national security power that he will not exploit and pervert to undermine our faith in our elections and our democracy, including these essential national security agencies.

00:42:08.860 MS now has exclusive reporting that details Trump's plans to use our national security apparatus and turn it into a propaganda machine for his election lives.

00:42:18.160 Quote, a new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of classified.

00:42:22.460 OK, guys, stop.

00:42:26.420 Whoa.

00:42:28.540 You heard our magic words.

00:42:30.660 We have exclusive reporting.

00:42:32.880 How does that work?

00:42:34.900 White House, tell me how that works.

00:42:38.860 This cuts to the core of who runs this country.

00:42:43.380 Do some network of the intelligence services?

00:42:46.680 Because I keep saying, I first got there, it's not a deep state.

00:42:49.480 It's up in your grill every day telling you, we run things.

00:42:54.880 You guys are just passing through.

00:42:56.680 And they thought Trump was just passing.

00:42:58.260 Remember, they tried to stop him from getting elected.

00:43:01.440 Then once he was there, they created the Russiagate hoax

00:43:04.460 to try to attempt to destroy his first term. 0.80

00:43:07.080 than with the Ukrainian lie to impeach him.

00:43:12.160 Think about that.

00:43:12.800 All of that in the first term.

00:43:15.040 And when they couldn't do that, they then stole the 2020 election.

00:43:20.680 And people knew this.

00:43:24.120 And then he went through the years in the wilderness after being stolen.

00:43:28.440 And maybe the Chinese Communist Party.

00:43:30.220 Wow, that would be such a reach.

00:43:31.740 Chinese Communist Party. 0.99

00:43:32.820 You'll see the same guys that did the pandemic. 1.00

00:43:35.520 Go back in time.

00:43:36.820 You have to know the timeline here.

00:43:38.400 You have to know the history of it.

00:43:40.180 In May of 2019, still the most important geopolitical month for geopolitics in this century.

00:43:47.360 After working on it for two years, Lighthizer-Navarro, what we call the Lighthizer deal with Lee

00:43:52.800 He was torn up and thrown in our face, was torn up and thrown in our face. 0.85

00:44:00.740 And they declared a people's war. 0.58

00:44:02.500 And the next thing you know, Shazam, coming out of Wuhan, as we now know, was the pandemic to take down, to break the Trump administration, to break President Trump.

00:44:15.000 At the same time, they're not leaving anything to chance because they got to get Trump out of there.

00:44:19.200 Why?

00:44:19.840 Trump is not a globalist.

00:44:21.100 For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party had been held to count, had been called out by Donald J. Trump.

00:44:28.780 and now we're in this situation where you actually get a deep dive on it and who's got

00:44:36.500 exclusive reporting exclusive reporting from msnbc how does that work who gave him the exclusives

00:44:44.260 no we want to know in fact we're gonna know we already kind of know but we don't know no

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00:46:43.680 and we're going to be discussing it but uh in fact i think we'll start discussing it right now

00:46:50.260 before i sign after that we're going to be signing two documents that are close to a million and a

00:46:56.240 half acres each and governor do you want to say a few words about what we're doing and explain it to

00:47:01.020 the press yeah well thank you mr president this is a big day for uh for utah um the president did

00:47:07.900 something very similar several years ago during his first term of course the monuments were

00:47:12.040 re-expanded under the past administration. And this matters to Utah. We believe that under the

00:47:17.540 Antiquities Act, it's very clear that these monument designations are supposed to be the

00:47:22.920 smallest area possible to protect the antiquities. And these multi-million acre monuments that are

00:47:32.620 bigger than the state of Delaware certainly do not fit that designation. Now, we care,

00:47:38.080 We definitely care about protecting these antiquities and will continue to do so.

00:47:43.560 The problem is with these giant monument designations, there are no resources that come with those.

00:47:48.420 We have nine monuments in Utah.

00:47:50.540 Seven of them are around 700 acres to 7,000 acres.

00:47:54.460 That's what this was meant to be, not millions of acres as what happened with Grand Staircase, Escalante, and Bears Ears.

00:48:02.320 And so we're grateful that the president has made a determination that we need to right-size these monuments.

00:48:08.080 Again, this does not remove the other protections that already exist in those areas,

00:48:12.260 just making the monuments more manageable so that we have the resources necessary to continue to protect these antiquities.

00:48:18.940 I know we have the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior here with us.

00:48:24.040 Kay, is there anything you'd like to add?

00:48:25.140 I'll just say the Antiquities Act is 120 years old, but the first monument that was created was only 1,200 acres.

00:48:31.700 So if you think about it, since then, President Clinton, President Obama, and President Biden

00:48:37.800 have increased the acreage in the state of Utah and locked those acres up, over 3 million

00:48:43.020 acres.

00:48:43.660 For nobody to use, right?

00:48:45.240 Nobody to use.

00:48:45.440 You can't do anything.

00:48:46.200 You can't go hunting.

00:48:47.520 You can't go fishing.

00:48:49.020 You can't do anything.

00:48:50.040 You can virtually not even walk on it.

00:48:52.780 That's exactly right, sir.

00:48:53.900 So you were remedying that.

00:48:55.080 I remember.

00:48:55.820 I do remember.

00:48:56.740 I have a great memory.

00:48:57.700 And Mr. President, I know of Senator...

00:48:58.980 And this is actually better than the first...

00:49:00.900 it is better yeah senator lee's been very involved i know in conversing with you good

00:49:05.780 that's true mike smallest area compatible with the objects to be protected that's always been

00:49:12.880 the standard under the antiquities act president biden president clinton and president obama

00:49:19.140 overlooked that standard president trump is fixing it today you had thanks mike you had

00:49:25.060 something to say i thought that was very important celeste well i think it's worth noting for the

00:49:31.380 press in the room that both of these monuments were created over the unanimous opposition of

00:49:36.960 utah's federal delegation our governors um county commissioners the locals who are worried about

00:49:44.140 losing multiple uses on these federal lands and we're standing here with the governor the speaker

00:49:50.200 of the utah house the entire utah federal delegation supporting a president listening

00:49:55.980 to the people of utah and saying we know you value this land you want it used for multiple use and

00:50:02.060 not locked up and so this is a very different process than how the monuments were created

00:50:07.660 well they took the land away from the people quite honestly it was ridiculous and i remember orrin

00:50:13.220 hatch before he passed away he was a great guy who's a friend of mine and he felt so strongly

00:50:18.820 about this and we signed and then they terminated it after they got in office which was crazy and

00:50:25.620 we're putting it back but we're actually giving more than we did the first time back to the people

00:50:30.100 of utah please go ahead i think people don't understand utah is over two-thirds owned by the

00:50:39.780 federal government these counties where these monuments are at are over 90 federal land when

00:50:46.100 people make decisions about this 2,000 miles away, you can see how that steps on the local

00:50:51.560 people who only control about 5 or 10 percent of the land with local government.

00:50:56.320 So not only do you have all these dynamics, you have an economy, you can't pave roads,

00:51:02.760 you can't build schools, you can't pay fire people, police department because of this

00:51:06.820 dynamic of 95 percent federal lands.

00:51:09.760 The other part of that is Utahns will tell you they love these lands.

00:51:13.620 They manage them better than people 2,000 miles away.

00:51:16.800 So if this is about good management, it really should be done in Utah by people who have demonstrated over decades and decades and decades and generations that they're good managers of this land.

00:51:27.800 Great job. Well said. Anybody? You're leaving. I can't believe it.

00:51:33.120 I can't believe it. You're excited? Where are you going to come here?

00:51:36.580 Well, can I say this? First of all, we sat down with the previous administration and said,

00:51:41.180 Then we'll just work this out, so we don't have to keep going back and forth.

00:51:43.640 This will work with us.

00:51:45.020 And we promised that you didn't, that once we have the power,

00:51:48.160 we're going to make sure that the people's voices are heard.

00:51:50.340 So thank you for helping us keep our promise.

00:51:52.520 And unfortunately, the last administration did not understand that this wouldn't happen one day.

00:51:57.060 So thank you so much.

00:51:57.960 Great honor.

00:51:59.280 Let's sign.

00:52:00.900 This is very nice.

00:52:02.320 I'm very happy about this.

00:52:04.380 And better than the first time.

00:52:11.180 Okay, here's number one.

00:52:26.840 Okay, number two.

00:52:29.460 Here you go.

00:52:34.240 Almost three million acres.

00:52:37.440 Going to be well taken care of now.

00:52:41.180 Okay, Penn, who should I give this to, huh?

00:52:55.180 Maybe the governor's representative, right?

00:52:57.180 And Mike, how about taking one, right?

00:52:59.180 Thank you.

00:53:00.180 So we've done something that was, I think, very desperately needed.

00:53:06.180 It was very unfair to the people of Utah.

00:53:09.180 and now fairness has been brought back.

00:53:12.220 It's going to be better taken care of,

00:53:15.100 and they'll be able to use it a little bit.

00:53:17.500 So there's something very nice about that.

00:53:20.200 Okay?

00:53:20.820 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:53:21.980 Thank you.

00:53:27.640 Do you have any questions about this, first of all,

00:53:29.920 most importantly?

00:53:30.780 Anybody want to talk about this?

00:53:32.580 Yeah, Jeff, go ahead.

00:53:33.740 I've got one on Iran, too, but I'll start with this.

00:53:35.640 just you said that 70 percent of the land was federal was there any other way to turn this

00:53:42.300 around how is it that that i guess my question is how how did it get there if it's a state go ahead

00:53:48.160 you want to discuss that please the land ownership is what it is but under the antiquities act

00:53:56.420 120 years ago congress made the decision to give presidents the power to designate

00:54:02.080 by executive proclamation, certain land as monument.

00:54:07.660 It was supposed to be the smallest area compatible with the objects to be protected in connection with that.

00:54:14.600 Now, initially, as the Deputy Secretary of the Interior explained a minute ago,

00:54:18.300 that meant a few hundred, maybe a thousand or two acres at the most.

00:54:22.240 These are three million acres.

00:54:24.080 As I explained to President Biden, that's two Delawares.

00:54:27.460 It's been abused, and so it was done by executive action.

00:54:31.360 President Trump is right-sizing it to bring it in compliance with what the law says.

00:54:36.140 And, Mr. President, just on Iran, you have said now to Congress that we are back at war.

00:54:41.320 How long do you expect this to take?

00:54:43.160 And what's the legal basis?

00:54:44.180 Take what?

00:54:44.600 Take what?

00:54:45.180 The war.

00:54:46.080 Well, I think it's going very fast.

00:54:47.740 We've demolished their military. 0.93

00:54:49.500 We're hitting them very hard.

00:54:51.400 We had a deal yesterday or the day before yesterday.

00:54:53.720 It was all done.

00:54:55.020 And then they broke up that deal immediately because they found out there was something

00:54:58.460 in the deal they didn't like.

00:54:59.560 and they're wired differently and we're not going to put up with it we are just going forward

00:55:05.500 we're attacking them tonight and we're taking out all of their capability for anything having to do

00:55:11.980 with the straight with the harmless straight and i think in the end we will end up just controlling 0.99

00:55:18.300 the whole thing and what and what they're doing is being very foolish very stupid and they've 0.99

00:55:22.800 treated people horribly they've killed 52 000 protesters so far that we can determine 0.99

00:55:28.000 It might be more than that, but 52,000 protesters have been killed, and it's really a terrible situation.

00:55:36.540 We'll have it under control very quickly.

00:55:39.160 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:55:40.280 Please.

00:55:41.200 Wait, wait, wait.

00:55:42.400 Wait, Jeff.

00:55:44.780 I'm sorry.

00:55:45.220 Be nice.

00:55:45.880 Be nice, Jeff.

00:55:46.660 Go ahead, please.

00:55:47.400 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:55:48.280 I have to teach him to be nice.

00:55:50.080 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:55:51.080 On your presidency, so a lot of us here actually witnessed a miracle two years ago today

00:55:55.460 as we were on the ground covering your rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:55:59.380 You said a lot of times that you believe that God has saved your life.

00:56:03.240 Has there been a moment throughout your presidency so far

00:56:06.240 where you thought this is why God kept you here?

00:56:09.960 Well, we're doing a lot.

00:56:11.540 We have a country that I use the expression make America great again,

00:56:15.360 and we've done far more than anyone thought possible, including maybe even me.

00:56:19.620 We've done things that are unreal.

00:56:21.600 at $19.2 trillion. The money being invested in our country is more than any country has ever had

00:56:28.020 by many times. We have trillions of dollars coming. And because of the tariffs and the proper use of

00:56:34.180 tariffs, because all of the things, I think because of the election, November 5th was a very important

00:56:39.320 day. When you look at the military, we have the strongest military in the world. We rebuilt it

00:56:44.120 largely during my first term. And we have recruitment now. We're setting records in

00:56:49.200 recruitment we had if you go back to the campaign when I used to talk about it the last administration

00:56:55.800 they couldn't recruit soldiers we needed soldiers in every single branch of our military and that

00:57:01.540 included police and firemen nobody wanted to do anything having to do with a uniform in this

00:57:05.960 country because they weren't proud of the country and now the people are very very proud to be an

00:57:10.700 American our country is doing phenomenally well we're respected all over the world if I go no

00:57:16.240 matter where I go, we just got back from NATO, and I think you saw the response. It was like

00:57:20.560 a very beautiful thing, actually. It was a total, total response, totally positive response.

00:57:26.700 No matter where we go, we're respected again, maybe respected more than ever before. So

00:57:31.280 I appreciate the question, but that's pretty, pretty much it.

00:57:35.440 Mr. President, thank you. Cameron R. Kim with Town Hall. I was curious about their reports

00:57:40.480 about Iranian drones in Cuba.

00:57:43.760 There are concerns about that.

00:57:45.440 Where does the relationship with the U.S. stand there?

00:57:47.680 Is military intervention still on the table?

00:57:50.180 Well, if they do have that,

00:57:51.440 and they might very well have that,

00:57:52.800 we'll take care of it.

00:57:53.600 Marco is just in the other room.

00:57:55.480 And if they do have that,

00:57:56.760 we'll take care of it in short order.

00:57:59.100 We're not going to have a problem.

00:58:00.740 We're not going to allow that to happen.

00:58:02.200 So it could be that they're storing some.

00:58:04.660 We're looking into it now.

00:58:05.860 It could be so, and it maybe isn't.

00:58:08.080 But we'll figure it out first.

00:58:09.280 And what are you expecting to speak about?

Bannon's War Room - July 13, 2026

Episode 5513： Thursday We Are Getting To the Bottom Of 2020; Making Sure Blanche Gets Across The Goal Line

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