The War Room is a weekly political podcast produced by Stephen K.K. Bannon and his co-hosts, John Rocha, Matt Rhule, and Sarah Downey. This week, the guys discuss the growing role of the National Guard in the fight against immigration, and the growing numbers of federal agents tasked with carrying out ICE raids.
00:07:05.800Are you, are you, is it more in the Judge Jeanine, is it more about actual enforcement
00:07:12.380and enforcing on these juveniles and charging them as adults?
00:07:15.880Because, you know, people are saying it's scary in certain parts of town with these packs of young kids.
00:07:21.240Or do you think it, would you caution President Trump about federalizing and putting federal law enforcement officers in there?
00:07:28.120I mean, what would be your recommendation to the president?
00:07:31.600Well, Judge Jeanine has restrictions on what she can do.
00:07:35.740I believe they have to go and change the rules for D.C.
00:07:40.320so that somebody who is 14 would be classified as an adult.
00:07:44.780And at that point, she could go and prosecute him.
00:07:47.820Look, there's a big difference between what she's doing and what the U.S. attorney under Biden did.
00:07:54.980The U.S. attorney under Biden dropped over half of, of the arrests and didn't prosecute them for violent crimes that were there.
00:08:05.640You know, he was willing to go after J6ers and others.
00:08:09.640But when it came to actual violent criminals, he wasn't willing to prosecute them.
00:08:15.780So, look, that's helpful, at least in terms of how they're treating adults.
00:08:20.700But D.C. is going to have to make some changes there to make it so that the U.S. attorney can go and prosecute people who are 15 years of age or whatever,
00:08:32.640who are engaged in these types of PACs.
00:08:35.740Look, as far as federal officers go, I don't, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter whether it's a federal officer or whether it's a metropolitan police officer.
00:08:46.360You're talking about the capital city for the United States in part, though, you know, this applies in general.
00:08:53.240I mean, look at Los Angeles, where they went and used National Guard troops to go and try to protect ICE agents and reduce violence.
00:09:05.840So, you know, I don't think it matters for the criminal exactly who's doing it.
00:09:10.720If you're just making it more likely they're going to be arrested, more likely that they're going to be prosecuted and convicted, you're going to reduce the amount of crime.
00:09:30.940No, I'm sorry. I had my I had my block on people are this gets to our second point about the mass deportations.
00:09:39.520They're saying now the progressives are going crazy, saying President Trump's really building a group of brown shirts that in bringing these troops in and giving them authority away from local police.
00:09:53.500He's essentially building a force that he can turn on anybody.
00:09:56.680Walk us through your your understanding what President Trump's trying to accomplish here, particularly in these out of control sanctuary cities.
00:10:03.060Well, I mean, he's focused overwhelmingly on criminals, people who particularly violent criminals that are there.
00:10:11.480You know, one of the puzzles that you often have is why these Democrat sanctuary areas fight so hard against deporting criminals.
00:10:22.040I mean, murderers, people who are child rapists.
00:10:24.720And, you know, I think partly what's going on is just the census counts illegals as the same as U.S. citizens when it's coming to things like figuring out the population in an area which is used for things like congressional districts.
00:10:41.620You look at California, the most conservative estimate that I've seen with regard to the number of illegals in California is like three million.
00:10:50.680Obviously, I think it's much higher than that.
00:10:54.080But, you know, you may be talking about five congressional districts or more as a result of that.
00:11:01.160You look at New York and Illinois and New Jersey and Maryland and Massachusetts and these other places.
00:11:09.480You know, you may be talking about 25 congressional districts, the equivalent of that.
00:11:13.920You know, I can understand why they want to be magnets for attracting illegal aliens to their areas.
00:11:24.400And, you know, otherwise, it's pretty much a puzzle why they go and fight so hard against even deporting people who are child rapists.
00:11:35.900And so, you know, I think, you know, it's really I'm glad Trump is talking about trying to redo the census.
00:11:47.960Obviously, it's not going to affect the redistricting right now.
00:11:52.200You have to wait until they do the next census properly.
00:11:55.800But at least it would give people an idea of how messed up the system is right now.
00:12:01.600I have to say one other thing, though.
00:12:03.860Trump has to be careful in terms of who he appoints to run these types of things.
00:12:09.240One of the mistakes that he made for the 2020 census is that he didn't use people who actually were good at statistics that were there.
00:12:19.560And the census itself has acknowledged that there were systematic errors that overcounted population in Democratic-controlled states and undercounted them in Republican states.
00:12:32.320It may have been a difference of like 13 congressional districts that should have gone from Democratic states to Republican states.
00:12:40.160You know, maybe you're talking about 10 more Republicans, at least, that should have been in Congress.
00:12:45.200Could you imagine how different the discussions we've been having this year would be if rather maybe than three Republican vote margin in the House?
00:13:01.760And so hopefully this will be something that's dealt with in the future.
00:13:06.560Before I lose you, I got to talk about this amazing piece you just wrote, President Trump today putting out tariffs.
00:13:11.920This is his 200th day, and one of the things he's proudest of is how he's redone the commercial relationships in the world and particularly with the use of tariffs.
00:14:16.700So do regular income taxes on personal people.
00:14:20.280And so, you know, the question isn't whether, I mean, all taxes do this.
00:14:24.420So to go and use the arguments against tariffs doesn't make much sense unless you also compare it to others.
00:14:33.340The issue that economists should be looking at is how do we reduce the overall disincentives created across all the different taxes.
00:14:43.380Before Trump became president, the average tariff rate was 2.5 percent.
00:14:47.860I mean, compare that to income taxes where you just look at state and federal, the top rate on average across states is like 44 percent.
00:14:57.740For corporate income taxes, the top rate would be about 27 percent.
00:15:03.720You know, those are really high rates.
00:15:06.160And the things that people have to understand is that the size of the distortion increases more quickly with the level of taxes.
00:15:15.580So if I have a 20 percent tax, I have more than twice the distortion that I have if I have a 10 percent tax.
00:15:23.120Now, I don't know what the correct optimal tariff is, but I am willing to bet you a large amount of money it's a lot higher than 2.5 percent.
00:15:35.120And so, you know, somehow, I mean, I don't like taxes at all in general.
00:15:41.360OK, but you've got to have some taxes.
00:16:42.440If you want to find out about crime and the reality of it, go to see John.
00:16:48.060John Lott's the best mathematician in this regard.
00:16:51.660Before I get to Brad, I want to bring in Tej.
00:16:53.200Tej, this whole thing about you came out of, you know, over a dozen deployments, both as a SEAL and then as a contractor.
00:17:04.140You've got deep roots in the community.
00:17:06.740This whole situation with the coming of President Trump that you're building a series of brown shirts when when what he's trying to do is help law enforcement.
00:17:15.460That obviously so outnumbered when you talk about these sanctuary cities, give me your thoughts, because they're saying, oh, you're militarizing this.
00:17:33.920Yeah, Steve, the police have been gutted and demoralized, kind of like the Border Patrol were in the in the military, actually.
00:17:42.420So a lot of these cops, they don't even bother arresting people anymore because the district attorneys just release people on no bail and they don't prosecute the crimes.
00:17:53.100So and also the police, people go after him and sue him and they lose their jobs.
00:17:58.460So why are they going to put their neck on the line and go arrest people when nothing happens?
00:18:05.820So the head law enforcement officer is Pam Bondi, and she needs to go to all the police departments nationwide and tell them to start enforcing the laws.
00:18:16.140Look at lawless areas like California, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C.
00:18:25.560And like this thing that happened in Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago, the police didn't even want to take a police report for the for the victims that one of the victims I saw was on Fox News last night.
00:18:37.540And she said she had to basically force the police to take her name and take a police report.
00:18:42.620So there's a record of what happened when the the group of thugs attacked the white people like two weeks ago, I think it was.
00:19:08.600And we need to get rid of these George Soros district attorneys.
00:19:11.800So when the police make an arrest, the district attorney need to have the have the police, the police officers back and throw the book at the criminals.
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00:21:46.040That was the whole theory when Tej came to me because Tej actually ran my security for a while after all of his defense of our nation as a patriot.
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00:32:28.320So I could go on for hours about this topic, but part of the reason why I love RFK Jr. so much and the whole Make America Healthy Again movement in total
00:32:37.160is because, you know, when you hear RFK Jr. talk about trying to eliminate a lot of the ingredients within our foods,
00:32:43.360within the U.S. specifically, like the artificial dyes, the seed oils, the glyphosates, and a lot of the preservatives,
00:32:50.880it's pretty disgusting, in my opinion, that it's even allowed in the first place.
00:32:55.240In a lot of other countries, it's illegal.
00:32:57.420Like if you go to Europe, a lot of those ingredients that you find in U.S. foods are literally illegal to include.
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