Bannon's War Room - Episode 5536： Dignified Transfer For US Service Members; Chaos Over NDAA

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00:12:45.340 We'll bring in now our Fox News chief national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin.

00:13:02.860 She is in our Washington newsroom watching this with us.

00:13:05.600 Jennifer.

00:13:06.740 Sandra, every president says that this is the most difficult thing that they have to

00:13:11.880 do during their presidency, to go to Dover to meet the families and to greet the caskets

00:13:19.280 of the fallen, knowing that they have sent these individuals, these soldiers, to war.

00:13:25.380 It weighs heavily on them. We've heard President Trump speak about that in the past. This is

00:13:30.580 the third time that he has been to Dover since the start of the Iran war. There were the 1.00

00:13:35.880 six service members who were killed early on in the conflict when a drone hit their base in Kuwait.

00:13:42.440 There were the six service members who died in the KC-135 air refueling plane that went down

00:13:49.240 over Iraq. And now today we have these four other soldiers. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan,

00:13:58.680 we're learning more about his life from his family. His family in Utah has set up a scholarship

00:14:05.620 fund for ROTC students at his former alma mater, the University of Southern Utah, with the death

00:14:12.800 gratuity, the $100,000 that each service member will be given by the Department of War. And his

00:14:19.480 family has decided to devote that to future service members. He was supposed to return home

00:14:26.300 and get married. His family remembers him as an adventurer. He went to Mount Everest base camp. He

00:14:32.940 hiked the Camino Trail. He was planning to come home and get married. Then there was private

00:14:38.840 Isabella Gonzalez, just 19 years old. She just graduated last year from high school. She told

00:14:45.480 her English teacher just before she was graduating that she planned to enlist so that she could

00:14:52.440 eventually go to college. She's from northern Texas, from Carrollton, Texas. Sergeant Michael

00:14:58.640 Swinton, his wife from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. His

00:15:04.200 wife, Mia, posted a heart-rending post on Facebook showing him hugging his four-year-old

00:15:10.520 daughter. It was the last picture she would take of him through the car window in his

00:15:15.880 uniform as he hugged his four-year-old daughter. He also had a six-year-old son. He was killed

00:15:21.160 in northern Iraq when they were trying to disable a one-way Iranian attack drone last

00:15:27.400 weekend. And then there is Sergeant Angel Rampersad. We just learned her name and her and received

00:15:33.480 a photo of her, 28-year-old Angel Rampersad of Queens, New York. She has been described as

00:15:42.360 believed to be dead because her remains have not yet been identified. They will be identified at

00:15:49.520 Dover. But she had been found under the rubble of that drone strike on the Jordanian base. So these

00:15:56.720 four American heroes have returned to Dover. The president, the Secretary Hegseth, as well as the

00:16:03.760 Army Secretary Dan Driscoll were there to greet them, as well as General Dan Kane. They spent about

00:16:10.180 three hours with the family members. That's what they do before we see this ceremony and the

00:16:16.720 flag-draped caskets come out of the back of that plane. They spend time individually with those

00:16:22.000 family members. So a heartbreaking moment today at Dover Air Force Base.

00:16:29.540 Wednesday, 22 July, Year of the Lord, 2026. That was a dignified transfer. I want to thank

00:16:34.180 Jennifer Griffin over at Fox as we were monitoring all the coverage. I thought she did such a great

00:16:40.280 job that we pulled that clip for the honored dead. The dignified transfer and obviously it's very

00:16:49.700 intense when they go meet the families uh beforehand uh for fallen servicemen and i think

00:16:56.680 kind of cloudy of what's how we're going to go forward in this a lot of back and forth today

00:17:02.620 on this on discussion president trump said hey for every uh every troop killed we're gonna take

00:17:08.220 out another brush excuse me every every every vessel that is fired upon we're gonna take out

00:17:13.760 a bridge or an electric power plant a lot of discussion on where we go from here do we have

00:17:19.660 luke on luke nicastro luke joins us he's luke you're over at the american conservative with

00:17:26.020 kurt mills is that correct that's right steve and and you used to be part of josh hawley's team over

00:17:33.100 in the senate yes i was his national security advisor until the end of june so and what your

00:17:40.280 background in national security did you go to college you get a degree in this how did you

00:17:43.940 become, how did you, because Josh Hawley has a reputation having a great staff. How did you get

00:17:49.940 that? He does. He does. So I got a graduate degree in international relations and I worked for some

00:17:56.680 time in the Department of the Navy. I also worked at the National Defense University and did some

00:18:01.940 contracting. So I did a little bit before joining Senator Hawley's team. I think they had today the

00:18:09.180 vote it's kind of they didn't they had a rules vote it didn't get stopped so i think today

00:18:13.960 the house actually voted on the ndaa am i correct on that you are yes so talk to me

00:18:21.520 216 and i think there's some interesting no's on here but walk me through the controversial

00:18:30.180 the section 219 i want to make sure the audience understands this from an expert what is it

00:18:35.760 How did it get in here?

00:18:37.000 Some language got changed.

00:18:38.220 You take your time and explain it to us.

00:18:40.780 Sure.

00:18:41.700 So basically, this is a provision that directs the creation of an official and an office

00:18:48.760 and allocates resources for the merger of elements of the U.S. military establishment

00:18:55.780 and the Israeli military establishment, right?

00:18:57.720 The way that it's been kind of conventionally described in the press is as a merger of the

00:19:02.660 U.S. and Israeli defense industrial bases.

00:19:05.180 So essentially what the House is doing with this provision is creating a single official who is now tasked with taking all kinds of different kind of cooperative programs and efforts, whether it's technology, whether it's intel sharing, whether it's joint exercises, and basically fusing those with what the Israeli military does, what the IDF does.

00:19:29.540 well hold it joint exercises the industrial base is one thing that's actually we have you know many

00:19:36.120 different companies working on um air programs missile programs submarines all the equipment

00:19:42.860 that goes on navy ships i mean this is the equipment's kind of legion then you have

00:19:46.900 then you have information or intelligence sharing then you have like joint operations

00:19:51.800 Does this 219 incorporate all of that, or is it just – don't get me wrong.

00:19:58.340 The issue of merging the industrial bases is massive in and of itself.

00:20:04.540 But are there other things other than the industrial bases?

00:20:08.600 Is it intelligence, and is it joint operations?

00:20:12.380 So it's not like joint operational control, but it does make provision for intelligence.

00:20:18.440 It does make provision for information sharing.

00:20:20.220 I mean, the thing to know is that we do a lot of this stuff already, right?

00:20:24.000 The Pentagon already does a lot of cooperative work with Israel.

00:20:28.800 The difference here is that you now have direction from the Congress saying, you know, don't just do this, do more of it, right?

00:20:36.360 And by putting it in statute, you make it extremely difficult to ever unwind, right?

00:20:40.860 Because what they're doing right now is basically at the discretion of the president.

00:20:44.840 I mean, historically, you know, the Pentagon has been a little too comfortable kind of doing its own thing.

00:20:49.020 And there's been sort of some kind of like what you could call deep state influences there.

00:20:52.260 But, you know, as a general matter, the president could tomorrow direct them to unwind a lot of this cooperation.

00:20:58.880 And if this Section 219 gets enacted into law, it will be extremely difficult to do that.

00:21:05.220 OK, I want to go back to the section itself.

00:21:09.120 The NDAA, let's pull it back for a second.

00:21:11.420 We've talked to the audience a lot about this, but I want to take another shot at it.

00:21:14.240 um cabinet departments um department of justice others every five years i think you're supposed

00:21:24.380 to come back and get reauthorized right we we've had epa has never been reauthorized i think it's

00:21:30.940 been decades maybe a century since doj most of the cabinet departments are never reauthorized

00:21:37.720 they never go through this process and number one like even they just figure this will be a

00:21:42.400 firefight every time and they don't want to do it and so they just kick the can down the road

00:21:46.240 to make sure there's no question whether the um the uh national defense uh industrial complex is

00:21:55.560 going to get their money they never miss a must pass piece of legislation when you come to

00:22:00.460 washington on capitol hill you don't have to pass a budget you don't even have to pass authorizations

00:22:06.580 all the stuff that absolutely should be in statute just kicks gets kicked down the road

00:22:11.580 with CRs or omnibuses, they get dumped in. They never do the work. It never really sees the light

00:22:16.860 of day. And those fights never see the light of day. But the NDAA always gets, this is a must pass

00:22:23.120 because, and they always say, if you don't do this, the troops are not going to get paid. They're not

00:22:27.560 going to get their payday. And so everybody heaves too. In the NDAA, so is that a correct description

00:22:34.160 of the National Defense Authorization Act? Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And the other thing

00:22:39.120 I'll just note is that, you know, the whole process is designed to allow for as little

00:22:43.540 debate as possible, which is why the House is doing this at the back end of its last

00:22:47.220 week before it goes on recess for five weeks, right?

00:22:51.360 So do we have, so we have, we don't have an alliance with Israel.

00:22:58.420 Israel is technically not an ally because we've never had an alliance.

00:23:02.200 um it but but we do have an alliance a big alliance with nato with the countries of western

00:23:09.480 europe kind of post world war ii and that's expanded to other countries we have all kind

00:23:14.660 of issues about interoperability and the equipment you know uh what what the british defense britain's

00:23:20.860 got some great defense countries uh companies france has got some italy's got some have do we

00:23:26.380 have the same type of language? And I understand integration got taken out by Representative

00:23:33.480 Anna Polina Luna at the last second. She fought for that to extract integration, the term

00:23:39.100 integration. But do we have anything even close to being parallel to what we've just passed

00:23:46.660 for Israel with either the United Kingdom or France or Italy or Germany or any other ally

00:23:53.460 that we have? Yeah, I mean, so the United Kingdom is a good example. I used to work for the

00:23:58.780 Department of the Navy on submarine cooperation, and we have some very strong agreements about

00:24:04.660 nuclear technology, you know, the stuff basically that goes in our submarines and on our nuclear

00:24:09.440 weapons. Like, we share a lot of that. We use the same suppliers, you know, we have like a lot of

00:24:14.740 military industrial integration there. And then there are other like very sort of broad agreements.

00:24:19.940 NATO as a whole, I mean, there's not something quite as sort of extensive just because, you know, it's such a large group of countries.

00:24:30.020 But there are some precedents.

00:24:31.640 But, I mean, you're right to note that Israel is not a formal treaty ally, right?

00:24:34.740 So this kind of –

00:24:36.560 But hang on.

00:24:37.320 But hang on.

00:24:37.800 Hang on.

00:24:38.180 But hang on.

00:24:38.640 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:24:39.380 Let's go back.

00:24:40.080 You have Naval Material Command.

00:24:43.360 There are joint projects we work on.

00:24:46.440 You know, there's the progress about selling submarines to Australia.

00:24:49.940 There are issues we work on with planes and jets and armament and everything,

00:24:55.780 and we work with partners, we work with some companies,

00:24:58.360 and there are carve-outs, there are joint agreements,

00:25:00.920 and we work on these things, but it's still a case-by-case basis.

00:25:04.840 And even, you know, the special relationship we have with the United Kingdom,

00:25:07.660 and remember, we fought the bloodiest war in mankind's history

00:25:12.600 with them as our alliance partner,

00:25:14.480 and then afterwards in the Cold War.

00:25:16.680 But I can still tell you, being in the Navy,

00:25:19.460 we didn't have the same types of ships.

00:25:22.460 They were different.

00:25:23.120 We borrowed some technology.

00:25:24.400 They helped us with gas turbines.

00:25:26.220 And so on all different weapons systems,

00:25:28.920 and sometimes the Brits got a lead on it,

00:25:30.860 sometimes the French, particularly in aerospace,

00:25:33.460 have a lead on certain things.

00:25:34.960 There are joint programs.

00:25:36.280 There are joint ventures for certain things.

00:25:37.720 But is there anything close to 219 where you have a broad mandate

00:25:41.160 to essentially merge the industrial base, the defense industrial base of the United Kingdom

00:25:48.340 with the United States or the France with the United States or Italy or Germany with the United States?

00:25:54.440 Not that I'm aware of. 0.97

00:25:56.840 So yes, that is a correct answer.

00:26:00.100 So this is pretty unique.

00:26:01.860 And that's why I think people are sitting there going, hang on for a second, what are we doing here?

00:26:06.860 And at first, the language, what they wanted to pass, the language initially said we were going to integrate the industrial bases of the defense industrial bases of Israel in the United States.

00:26:18.940 Walk me through again. Walk the audience through again.

00:26:20.900 What will this mean as far as what we actually do by what the statute, how it now reads?

00:26:27.340 so taking out the integration language was good but it didn't change a lot of the sort of other

00:26:36.380 problematic aspects of the provision so you still have a direction for instance to cooperate in i

00:26:42.640 think eight or nine technological areas and they're pretty broad i mean it's like biotech

00:26:46.940 you know missile defense ai like big you know cutting edge areas and so what that means is that

00:26:52.220 you'll see a lot of sort of sharing of our research and exchanges of our scientists.

00:26:58.000 And basically, we're going to give them access to what we have.

00:27:00.980 And they're supposed to give us access to what they have.

00:27:02.760 But, you know, there's a certain lack of reciprocity just because we're such a bigger country, right?

00:27:07.600 We have so much more. We've done so much more in such an expansive scope for this provision.

00:27:12.860 So you're going to see some of that. You'll see joint procurement, right, which is like the integration of some like Israeli suppliers into our supply chains,

00:27:20.200 the integration presumably of American suppliers into Israeli supply chains, it's still quite large in scope.

00:27:27.420 And again, the integration language, that representative Lunar's amendment did cut that.

00:27:33.020 And I think from the perspective of sovereignty, that definitely is worth noting.

00:27:38.540 But the broader intent of the legislation, or the provision rather, is still intact.

00:27:45.260 Well, I mean, this goes to our sovereignty.

00:27:47.080 This also goes to about intelligence, national security.

00:27:50.480 I mean, you know, it was just a month or so ago, I think some members, I don't think it was Netanyahu himself,

00:27:56.220 but they leaked to the press that, hey, if the United States is going to give us a hard time here on armaments,

00:28:04.820 you know, India's out there, we got the Chinese Communist Party, they got relationships, they're very close to China.

00:28:10.300 This is absolutely an abomination. 1.00

00:28:12.740 Let me be blunt.

00:28:13.560 it is out anybody that voted for this if your congressman voted for it it's only a handful and

00:28:18.820 there's some surprising names on there if your congressman voted for this you ought to light him

00:28:23.760 up and ask him specifically how can we do something we've never done before and why would we do it

00:28:29.560 now i mean right now we should be unwinding the relationship to let israel stand on its own

00:28:35.140 israel is not a protector of the united states not a vassal state they're not technically an ally

00:28:40.840 because we don't have an alliance uh if they want to march to beirut if they want to um you know

00:28:47.920 disarm hezbollah in southern lebanon if they want to march to damascus if they want to march to

00:28:52.360 tehran god bless them that's their right as a sovereign nation but we should have nothing to

00:28:57.620 do with it we should make a decision right now and all we're doing and this is a cowardly way to do

00:29:03.160 it to kind of slip this in because this locks in the united states you heard netanyahu oh yeah we

00:29:08.600 don't want any more money. We don't want the 10-year, you know, maybe one more time, one more

00:29:12.000 10-year MOU. We'll just do one more. They want to go through the back door here. This has to be

00:29:18.620 defeated in the Senate, or it has to be taken out and vetoed because of this. A full debate and

00:29:25.280 explanation in front of the American people, and we can start by you asking your congressman,

00:29:29.220 did you vote for this? And if you voted for it, please walk me through the reasons

00:29:32.760 that you did vote for it okay uh if you can stick around luke i'd appreciate it um on a day

00:29:41.480 of the dignified transfers at virtually the same moment they voted for this

00:29:47.820 uh i don't think you can be more outraged than that

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00:32:48.480 So, Luke, it was 2-6-10. It was a very close vote, but it looks like Josh Breachin of Oklahoma,

00:32:56.160 Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming,

00:33:01.100 Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Chip Roy of Texas, and Tom Massey of Kentucky were the no vote.

00:33:07.500 Some of those are pretty surprising on there.

00:33:09.500 But if they are your representative, I would call them and say, hey, why'd you vote no?

00:33:15.040 I'd like to get some information on that.

00:33:16.700 If they voted yes, I would call them also.

00:33:19.400 Why was there not a debate on this topic?

00:33:22.500 This is not a small thing.

00:33:23.960 This is monumental.

00:33:26.260 We've never done this before.

00:33:27.560 We fought the bloodiest war in the history of mankind with Russia and China and the United Kingdom as our allies. 0.79

00:33:41.320 And what China and Russia provided just in bodies, right, because we shipped them virtually all the material they fought with, 0.67

00:33:51.120 the United Kingdom was a true part.

00:33:53.440 And I realized the United Kingdom was fighting for their freedom, but also for their empire.

00:33:57.740 There were all kinds of other reasons, but we fought shoulder to shoulder.

00:34:01.880 And then in the Cold War, we've never had this level.

00:34:05.720 Yes, we have joint projects for submarines.

00:34:08.180 We have tons of joint projects because some of the British defense contractors are world class,

00:34:13.900 just like we have some with the French that have defense contractors that are world class, just like the Italians.

00:34:20.340 These certain areas, they are experts in.

00:34:23.040 And we have joint projects where we can share technology or we can learn or cut costs and get lower production costs.

00:34:29.800 And, of course, Pete and the team over the Pentagon are doing this massive restructuring of defense at a 1.5 trillion.

00:34:36.720 It ain't cheap.

00:34:37.800 And a lot of this money and this – what they're talking about, the reconciliation is a kind of down payment so the defense industry can actually move quicker and get up the learning curve faster so that we can get, you know, weapons now just from not the big contractors but these small entrepreneurs.

00:34:53.040 But to do this is different. This is different. And I don't want to hear the pitch. Oh, there's so far advancing technology. We've got, hey, if it's so great, we'll do it on a project by project basis. And if you want to do a bunch of projects, maybe even go into a vertical, this is different.

00:35:06.800 And until Anna Paulina Luna took out the word integration, they wanted an integration of both.

00:35:13.540 And here's why.

00:35:14.700 They understand, Netanyahu and this crowd understands because of the Israel First Imperial Israel Project that has turned off so many people in this country, including many people who are defenders of Israel, that now they were saying, hey, look, it's a wealthy nation.

00:35:31.660 They got health care.

00:35:32.560 They pay for college.

00:35:34.140 They got to be stroking checks here.

00:35:35.600 Now that we're saying we're tired of funding this

00:35:38.240 We want to stop this now

00:35:40.040 We don't want to go another 10 years on another MOU

00:35:42.180 They backdoor in a very cunning move

00:35:45.620 To do this

00:35:47.100 And they didn't want to do it in the broad light of day

00:35:50.320 This is something they slipped in

00:35:52.300 And went out of their way not to have a debate on this

00:35:54.820 And this is not acceptable

00:35:56.320 This all gets back to the sovereignty of this nation

00:36:00.100 Is it going to be the oligarchs and the big tech guys

00:36:03.100 Is it going to be the banks

00:36:04.520 Is it going to be foreign powers?

00:36:06.160 Is the CCP going to come in here and just steal our elections?

00:36:09.720 Is Israel going to dictate to us through the misinformation that we got and the bad intelligence,

00:36:16.680 not the exquisite intelligence, the bad intelligence that has us where we are today in Iran?

00:36:23.460 Just see what you see in Iran right now.

00:36:26.480 And think about what information, what intelligence got shared at what time to the president of the United States, the commander in chief.

00:36:32.680 And I find it ironic on one hand and repulsive on the other that at virtually the very moment you bring those American citizens back, including people who are kids, you bring them back for a dignified transfer to their families here in the United States at virtually the same moment you vote for this.

00:36:54.320 you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for not bringing

00:36:58.980 this up for a full and complete debate so that the American people understand exactly what they got

00:37:05.080 into. This is no different than the oligarchs trying to slip in all the things they try to do

00:37:11.320 on AI to make sure they had no guardrails at all, no controls at all, and bill after bill. Remember,

00:37:16.860 it was the NDA last time they tried to get it into. This is what they do when they want to hide

00:37:22.020 something. When they want to hide it, they slip it into an NDA and say, well, this is a must pass.

00:37:27.240 The troops aren't going to get paid. You have to do this. We can't go on our six-week vacation

00:37:31.640 until we get this done. The troops are not going to get paid. Hey, the troops would be fine

00:37:36.720 missing a payday or two to have this debated, to have this debated. So, because it leads to exactly

00:37:45.980 what in the hell are we doing in the Middle East and who and what are we doing it for and those

00:37:52.820 questions have to be answered and they're not going away if people think you can slip this in

00:37:57.040 oh that's going to be fine it's not going away because people in the United States are tired of

00:38:01.820 it they want to understand what they're paying for to understand why the defense bill is so big

00:38:07.380 what is actually the strategy and who's chipping in uh are the Saudis writing a big check is UAE

00:38:15.060 writing a big check? Is Qatar writing a big check? Is Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan writing a check? Are

00:38:21.760 they still opening the six overland routes to the Chinese Communist Party? Our great allies in

00:38:26.960 Pakistan. Our great allies in Saudi Arabia. Our great allies in Qatar and UAE. In Bahrain. In

00:38:34.880 Kuwait. We've been there for 47 years now. Right? We've been there for 47 years. It's time to ask

00:38:43.200 some hard questions uh luke any closing thoughts or comments i really want to thank you and curt

00:38:49.220 mills the team of american conservative following in the steps of uh of buchanan right uh who

00:38:56.160 started and fought the iraq war and god bless if there are more americans that has back back then

00:39:01.100 we were we would have not gotten involved in that debacle your thoughts sir um look i would just

00:39:08.240 echo your comments about sovereignty i mean this isn't an anti-israel thing right this is a this

00:39:12.720 is an american sovereignty thing right and i think that's why the american people should care

00:39:16.420 that's why our representatives should care that's why it was such a disgrace that there wasn't a

00:39:20.560 full debate that this was kind of rammed through at the last minute and uh it should not um it's

00:39:27.340 not the decent thing to do and it's and i hope you know it it could have potentially like pretty

00:39:33.240 negative long-term consequences so as this continues to go to the senate go through conference

00:39:37.940 you know we have to really be watching this thing there will be one last vote there will be one vote

00:39:41.320 when this comes out of conference.

00:39:42.500 And so that's, I think,

00:39:43.740 something that's really important to watch.

00:39:45.260 Thank you.

00:39:46.040 This is not anti-Israel.

00:39:47.720 I'm all for Israel having its sovereignty. 0.88

00:39:51.000 Israel should have its own strategic plan 0.91

00:39:52.980 and finance its own military. 0.70

00:39:54.940 And if we can work on joint projects,

00:39:56.860 if it fits the vital national security

00:39:59.120 interests of the United States,

00:40:00.540 the vital national security interests,

00:40:02.560 maybe we would partner up with some things. 1.00

00:40:04.680 I don't see anything in Lebanon

00:40:06.320 that has anything to do

00:40:08.020 with the vital national security

00:40:09.180 interest of the United States or in Syria.

00:40:11.320 Or in Tehran, you know, now the Republican Party's skipping around and all.

00:40:15.280 It's going to be, you know, anti-communism is going to be our big theme in November because you've got nothing else.

00:40:21.760 We've warned you about this for years.

00:40:23.280 This didn't happen overnight, what's happening in Manhattan, what's happening in Minneapolis, what's happening in Los Angeles.

00:40:28.480 This is because you are a controlled opposition.

00:40:30.600 We have this problem, and I've lectured over and over and over again.

00:40:34.920 The problems of this nation are not in downtown Tehran.

00:40:37.980 They're in downtown Manhattan. 0.95

00:40:39.660 This is about the sovereignty of Israel.

00:40:41.620 If Israel is a sovereign, independent nation, not a vassal state and not a protectorate of the United States of America, 0.67

00:40:47.540 wants to take a tank column and drive all the way to Beirut, God bless you. 0.88

00:40:51.260 If you want to go to Damascus, God bless you. 0.86

00:40:53.180 If you want to go to Tehran, God bless you.

00:40:55.100 Get all these Fox analysts, get General Keene, one of the bravest guys we've had,

00:40:59.020 and a great vice chief of staff for the United States Army.

00:41:01.580 Give him a field command.

00:41:02.660 He'll take in a second. 0.99

00:41:03.600 Put four stars on him like the Filipinos put it on MacArthur. 0.97

00:41:06.840 He'll be the lead tank. 0.99

00:41:08.020 God bless you. 0.99

00:41:09.260 Send a postcard from Beirut when you get there.

00:41:11.800 Luke, where do they go for American Conservative? 0.56

00:41:14.040 Where do they go for your social media, sir?

00:41:17.160 So the Americans, our website, theamericanconservative.com,

00:41:21.440 spells the sounds.

00:41:22.660 And then we're on Twitter as well at amconmag.

00:41:25.840 And you can follow me at Luke Nicastro.

00:41:29.140 Thank you, sir.

00:41:29.920 Appreciate you.

00:41:31.380 Thank you.

00:41:32.880 I want to go back to something.

00:41:38.640 I want you to contact your congressman today.

00:41:46.320 Contact your congressman.

00:41:47.560 Look, the Save America Act, yes, that's very important,

00:41:50.420 but they're playing games with the Save America Act.

00:41:53.300 They're stringing President Trump along.

00:41:54.940 They don't want to do this.

00:41:55.980 It's got to be attached to something.

00:41:57.540 Then they're going to fight it.

00:41:58.780 They had every opportunity to do the standing filibuster

00:42:02.080 to get back to the old filibuster like you saw in a version of it

00:42:06.160 In the Jimmy Stewart movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, those kind of are what you saw back if you're old enough or have you even seen the videos, what they did for the Civil Rights Bill and other bills.

00:42:16.840 I think the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Bills back in the 1960s is kind of historic where the U.S. Senate became a real debating society.

00:42:26.140 They've had every opportunity to do that.

00:42:27.780 Mike Lee has tried to lead the charge.

00:42:29.620 You've had Senator Schmidt of Missouri and others that have tried to push this.

00:42:34.440 You know, Senator Johnson, others have tried to push this, and it just didn't go anywhere because the Senate leadership doesn't want it to go anywhere.

00:42:41.580 The Senate leadership treats President Trump as a lame duck.

00:42:46.540 Otherwise, why do you not have – take some official recess?

00:42:51.420 You're leaving for six weeks.

00:42:54.080 Why don't you just declare a recess?

00:42:56.080 Maybe President Trump's got to – can think through a couple of recess appointments.

00:43:00.260 John Cornyn, up until I think mid-afternoon, was holding up the White House on certain ambassador picks, saying, no, no, no, no, no, I haven't seen the appropriations, you haven't funded AIDS, I guess AIDS relief in Africa.

00:43:14.480 Age relief in Africa did not meet John Cornyn's standards

00:43:19.280 This is John Cornyn of Texas 1.00

00:43:20.940 This is John Cornyn of Texas that has an Islamic invasion down there 1.00

00:43:25.260 He's never done anything about 1.00

00:43:26.360 Except, you know, have these videos out on Muslim holidays to thank the Muslims

00:43:30.740 This is John Cornyn who didn't lift a finger and fought President Trump

00:43:33.980 Every step of the way on the border wall

00:43:36.380 The people in Texas understood this

00:43:38.280 This is why Paxson was up by, you know, 10 points

00:43:43.900 President Trump came in and it was a 20-point blowout.

00:43:46.960 As soon as people understood that President Trump didn't have this guy's back,

00:43:49.980 he's the one holding up Cary Lake and other MAGA types from being ambassadors.

00:43:56.700 Now, I understand that's all worked out, but the Senate has not been cooperative.

00:44:00.840 This is something completely different.

00:44:02.420 And look, you don't even have to oppose this.

00:44:05.620 Let's say you even agree with it.

00:44:07.420 Call your congressman out and the staff's going to blow you up and say,

00:44:10.060 hey, can you just give me some talking points?

00:44:12.480 Can you give me a readout?

00:44:13.560 what was his thinking of that?

00:44:15.180 I have some questions.

00:44:16.640 We've never done this before.

00:44:18.020 Why are we doing this now?

00:44:19.780 And particularly when you look at these segments,

00:44:21.680 this very sensitive aspects of AI and others,

00:44:26.580 how can we be guaranteed?

00:44:27.780 How can you be guaranteed that it won't somehow leak out

00:44:30.200 to the Chinese Communist Party or even to India,

00:44:32.740 who's not exactly an ally, but in the Indo-Pacific,

00:44:36.560 we're quite aligned against the Chinese Communist Party,

00:44:38.920 but we don't have a formal alliance with India either.

00:44:41.900 How can you do this?

00:44:43.560 Why did you do this?

00:44:45.540 And they say, look, on a case-by-case basis,

00:44:48.000 you can still make a decision on a case-by-case basis,

00:44:50.740 on a weapon system, on a platform, on a whole vast array of technology.

00:44:55.840 But not this.

00:44:56.720 And if APO hadn't put, they wanted, the word was integrate,

00:44:59.860 and that was in there for a long time.

00:45:01.960 They wanted to integrate the two defense industrial bases.

00:45:06.960 Now, why is that? 0.80

00:45:08.380 Part of that is just to play into the permanent wars.

00:45:12.320 And I can tell you from the polling industry, the American people are tired.

00:45:15.500 They want to move on.

00:45:16.200 They want to focus on the clear and present danger that is inside the wire here in the United States.

00:45:23.960 If we don't address what Mandami and these folks in Manhattan are doing,

00:45:29.400 if we don't address what is going on in Chicago, if we don't address what's going on in Los Angeles,

00:45:33.820 if we don't address what's going on in Minneapolis and Seattle and Portland and San Francisco and Denver and city after city,

00:45:39.980 If you do not address it now, we are heading towards a civil war.

00:45:45.860 They are playing the John C. Calhoun.

00:45:47.920 They're nullifying federal law in all of those.

00:45:52.220 Doesn't have to happen.

00:45:54.260 Doesn't have to happen.

00:45:56.300 You can stop it now.

00:45:58.760 But you have to have focus and you have to have opportunity costs.

00:46:02.920 You can't be focused other places.

00:46:05.720 You have to maniacally focus on the invasion that happened in this country

00:46:09.760 because of the stolen election of 2020.

00:46:14.380 It's all quite clear.

00:46:17.080 And all we continue to do

00:46:18.820 is to finance and fund the distractions.

00:46:24.400 See what you see.

00:46:26.700 Who actually controls this country?

00:46:28.800 Who makes the decision?

00:46:30.000 Is it you?

00:46:31.340 Call your congressman up

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00:47:58.520 I think it's appropriate this time.

00:48:05.120 Here's what I want to do.

00:48:06.500 Since we are not going to have Mike Lindell on tonight,

00:48:09.080 and I need to do more homework on this bombshell he kind of dropped this afternoon,

00:48:14.160 I just want to do give him a note.

00:48:15.760 I don't think governors can mess with federal immigration law,

00:48:21.000 but I'll deal with that after the show as I drill down on exactly what was said.

00:48:24.860 I want to make sure I have a full understanding of this because I was dealing with other stuff this afternoon related to other topics that are burning.

00:48:36.780 In fact, we're going to have tomorrow some folks on about AI legislation, other things that are going on that the Warren Posse needs to know about immediately.

00:48:46.620 I think what Jennifer Griffin did was so appropriate today.

00:48:50.100 And let's play Jennifer Griffin again, her in memoriam to our honored dead at Dover today.

00:48:58.900 Bringing now our Fox News chief national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin.

00:49:02.340 She is in our Washington newsroom watching this with us.

00:49:05.100 Jennifer?

00:49:06.240 Sandra, every president says that this is the most difficult thing that they have to do during their presidency,

00:49:12.660 to go to Dover to meet the families and to greet the caskets of the fallen.

00:49:20.100 knowing that they have sent these individuals, these soldiers to war.

00:49:24.840 It weighs heavily on them. We've heard President Trump speak about that in the past.

00:49:29.800 This is the third time that he has been to Dover since the start of the Iran war.

00:49:34.920 There were the six service members who were killed early on in the conflict when a drone hit their base in Kuwait.

00:49:41.920 There were the six service members who died in the KC-135 air refueling plane that went down over Iraq.

00:49:50.720 And now today we have these four other soldiers.

00:49:55.400 First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, we're learning more about his life from his family.

00:50:01.140 His family in Utah has set up a scholarship fund for ROTC students at his former alma mater,

00:50:08.800 the University of Southern Utah, with the death gratuity, the $100,000 that each service member

00:50:15.380 will be given by the Department of War. And his family has decided to devote that to future

00:50:22.500 service members. He was supposed to return home and get married. His family remembers him as

00:50:28.460 an adventurer. He went to Mount Everest base camp. He hiked the Camino Trail. He was planning to come

00:50:36.600 home and get married. Then there was private Isabella Gonzalez, just 19 years old. She just

00:50:41.360 graduated last year from high school. She told her English teacher just before she was graduating

00:50:49.740 that she planned to enlist so that she could eventually go to college. She's from Northern

00:50:54.660 Texas, from Carrollton, Texas. Sergeant Michael Swinton, his wife from Fayetteville, North Carolina,

00:51:01.980 He was stationed at Fort Bragg. His wife, Mia, posted a heart-rending post on Facebook showing him hugging his four-year-old daughter.

00:51:10.520 It was the last picture she would take of him through the car window in his uniform as he hugged his four-year-old daughter.

00:51:17.920 He also had a six-year-old son. He was killed in northern Iraq when they were trying to disable a one-way Iranian attack drone last weekend.

00:51:27.200 And then there is Sergeant Angel Rampersad. We just learned her name and received a photo of her, 28-year-old Angel Rampersad of Queens, New York. She has been described as believed to be dead because her remains have not yet been identified. They will be identified at Dover. But she had been found under the rubble of that drone strike on the Jordanian base.

00:51:55.680 So, these four American heroes have returned to Dover. The president, the Secretary Hegseth,

00:52:02.320 as well as the Army Secretary Dan Driscoll were there to greet them, as well as General Dan

00:52:08.320 Cain. They spent about three hours with the family members. That's what they do

00:52:13.600 before we see this ceremony and the flag-draped caskets come out of the back of that plane.

00:52:19.360 They spend time individually with those family members.

00:52:22.860 So a heartbreaking moment today at Dover Air Force Base.

00:52:28.160 That's Fox News.

00:52:29.900 Jennifer Griffin, you know her. 0.99

00:52:31.500 She's the chief national security correspondent. 0.87

00:52:35.420 I thought, excellent job there.

00:52:36.700 And also talking about what happens at Dover, the hours with me and the families and discussing with the families, et cetera,

00:52:45.260 obviously a very traumatic moment for the families.

00:52:48.980 we are going to

00:52:53.880 tomorrow at 10 a.m.

00:52:56.600 we're going to have a lot

00:52:57.480 first of all we've got a lot on the Iran war

00:52:59.680 and what's kind of the bid and the ask

00:53:01.280 where this thing is headed

00:53:02.280 particularly also the financing of it

00:53:04.760 what is the status of this NDA

00:53:06.660 what does this all mean

00:53:07.700 what does the defense bill mean

00:53:10.000 how does it fit into everything else

00:53:11.340 because I think right now

00:53:12.840 that on Capitol Hill

00:53:14.920 there's just all this confusion every day

00:53:16.640 of what is actually happening

00:53:17.720 what's not happening

00:53:18.640 we need to try to become the still point in the turning world so you can understand it

00:53:23.040 because it's in times of this confusion where all kind of deals try to get swept swept in and

00:53:29.780 it's going to be bad enough they're going to come back they need a cr they may actually try to do it

00:53:34.180 although the senate's got a big supposedly difference in the house they're going to try to

00:53:38.580 already i told you months ago they're going to do a cr that's going to take us from september

00:53:46.020 30th the end of the fiscal year through the end of the year and then you're going to get jammed up

00:53:51.700 with an um you know omnibus the problem with this is is that it gets you back to the spending of

00:53:59.840 biden and pelosi because you haven't passed an authorization act which is actually a law

00:54:04.960 so russ vote hasn't had a chance to really do any significant cuts and like we said and projected

00:54:13.100 last year at this time or maybe a little late later in august and september when this is being

00:54:18.560 talked about we said hey they're going to do a full year cr and that i think that happened

00:54:22.260 by the time um uh it happened in january i think or right in december it's going to lead to a two

00:54:30.180 trillion dollar deficit what deficit we had so far we've had a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit for

00:54:36.940 the first nine months who's reporting that not war room those are not our numbers those are the

00:54:42.420 numbers of the Treasury Department. It's going to get to 1-8 or 2. I think in addition to what

00:54:51.520 we're talking about now, this $350 billion reconciliation. Anyway, we'll get to all that

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Bannon's War Room - July 22, 2026

Episode 5536： Dignified Transfer For US Service Members; Chaos Over NDAA

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