00:00:19.520I like the competition between the two parties.
00:00:22.080I voted yes, as many people have said, to level the playing field.
00:00:26.840um you know it was not started by us and i feel that we had to we had to react to things that
00:00:33.600were going on in other parts of the country first it was texas then california and today
00:00:38.980it's virginia's turn to ride the redistricting wave of this election cycle voters there considering
00:00:45.100a ballot measure that would redraw their congressional map if it passes it could
00:00:50.480potentially give democrats four more seats in the house virginia is white blue or if you prefer
00:00:56.820purplish-blue. It's not California, and so you're not going to get a landslide. That's for certain.
00:01:03.300You're not going to get anything approaching Abigail Spanberger's 15-point victory last
00:01:07.880November. Most observers here think that the referendum will probably pass. I've noticed a
00:01:15.400lot of hesitation, not so much because of polling, public or private, but because people in talking
00:01:21.640with their friends hear surprising things. From Democrats, for example, they are concerned about
00:01:28.900the idea of having this kind of redistricting at mid-decade and what it could lead to,
00:01:34.660understanding that Texas did it because Trump approached them to do it, and so did Missouri,
00:01:39.520and so did North Carolina, and maybe, maybe Florida will do the same thing. So you have to
00:01:45.360fight fire with fire. You can't unilaterally disarm. So I would say, you know, probably the
00:01:52.900odds are, given the Virginia electorate, that it will pass. But I don't think it's going to be
00:01:58.440anything close to a landslide. It will expire in 2030 and go back to the nonpartisan panel?
00:02:04.960That is absolutely correct. Of course, remember, you're still going to have the congressional
00:02:08.880districts that were set up now. They've already been passed. If, in fact, the referendum goes
00:02:15.280through. We know what the districts look like. So you're going to have incumbents in those
00:02:19.420districts, and nine or ten of them certainly will be Democrats, and incumbents tend to have an edge
00:02:25.920in getting reelected. So yes, you will have a return to the nonpartisan redistricting, but I
00:02:33.300wonder if those, quote, nonpartisan redistrictors or the state Supreme Court, if the legislature
00:02:39.320can't agree. It goes to the state Supreme Court. I wonder if they're going to oust that many
00:02:45.960incumbents. And of course, the incumbents can move to new districts that are established with
00:02:51.900an advantage being the incumbent. My guess is, and I'm guessing, Katie, I just don't think in
00:02:58.440the end, in November, it's going to be that close. The House usually isn't. I know it is now,
00:03:04.960you know, three seats or now I guess it's four, you know, with the resignation of the Florida
00:03:11.080Congresswoman just an hour or two ago. But it's going to be probably the norm is, you know, 10
00:03:20.120or 15, a margin of 10 or 15 for the party controlling could be higher than that. So do
00:03:26.540four seats make a difference? Of course, they give you some buffer in case things don't go your way
00:03:31.980in other districts. But odds are you're going to have the party that wins, and right now,
00:03:38.360clearly leaning Democratic. The newest poll has Democrats ahead in the generic ballot by seven
00:03:44.820points, which is definitely enough to win the House. So, you know, does it matter? Sure, it
00:03:50.900matters. You never know how these things are going to turn out until people vote. But as I say,
00:03:56.360the probability is that the party that controls the House will win by more than three or four
00:04:01.780seeds. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going
00:04:12.980medieval on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people
00:04:20.120have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything
00:04:24.040in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do
00:04:27.420people like that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these
00:04:35.140people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer
00:04:42.100is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.0.62
00:04:50.600it's tuesday 21 april in the year of our lord 2026 we're going to go to the commonwealth
00:05:02.060the lois stallman joins us jeff ryer is going to be on the chairman of the
00:05:05.540gop is going to be on in a moment delois you're actually at a polling station what is uh what
00:05:11.360what's the feel that you've had today i know you've been talking a lot of people going around
00:05:14.900your district? What's the sense of things? Honestly, Steve, it's like, it's unbelievably
00:05:20.800high turnout. We had, uh, last, last November we had at this particular precinct, 1,171 votes,
00:05:30.200and we have currently 928. So it's just an unbelievably high turnout. Um, I'm in York
00:05:37.300County, historic York County. And I would say that this county is probably likely to go red
00:05:45.100again on this referendum. But the feel of the people coming up, a lot of thumbs ups,
00:05:51.220a lot of people reacting to the map. Of course, we're showing the map, which the Democrats aren't.
00:05:57.640And some people are pretty surprised by the map that they see because it's, as you've said,
00:06:02.340being marketed as fair and temporary and to restore fairness. And once people lay
00:06:07.760eyes on that map, they realize that this is a total boondoggle. So I'm feeling very good,
00:06:13.760at least where I'm at. Well, you're saying that there's 928 voted and we got about an hour or
00:06:20.060less than an hour to go because the 1100 was in the gubernatorial race, correct?
00:06:24.860That's exactly right. So that statewide was about a 54 percent turnout. So this is an April referendum. Absolutely. Well beyond what any of our expectations were. I think we had originally sort of targeted for 30 percent.
00:06:40.980now here's what's absolutely stunning is that this whole thing was gun deck from the democrats
00:06:47.980first off it's it's worded in a very complicated way they never show the map because the map is
00:06:53.600offensive they basically take the washington dc suburb uh with all the deep staters and basically
00:07:00.640make that they infect the entire state with with the lobster and destroy the rural counties
00:07:35.620they get beyond the Trump derangement syndrome, what this is all about?
00:07:40.340I definitely do. I've definitely had some of those today who said, this just is not what I'm about
00:07:45.960as a voter. And maybe they'll split from party lines. I think I told you the other day, I had
00:07:51.940a Republican woman who had mistakenly voted yes, because she was legitimately confused by the
00:07:58.180language. So one of the reasons that we're fully staffing these polls is to make sure that those
00:08:03.420confused voters are set straight before they head into the ballot box today to mitigate any
00:08:08.340confusion from the very shady worded referendum language. Deloes, can you hang on one second? I
00:08:16.460want to go to Jeff Reier, the chairman of the GOP. Jeff, you've been handling everything all day.
00:08:25.400I'm sure your phone's been blowing up. Give us your assessment with about 50 minutes, 45 minutes
00:08:32.040to go. We feel good. We can't be sanguine about it. We've still got the phone calls going. We
00:08:37.740just sent out another round of text messages in order to get people out to vote. We're getting
00:08:42.040very good reports back from our polling places. DeLois' experience is pretty familiar to us,
00:08:47.880an unusually high turnout for an election held on a date when Virginia's never had an election,
00:08:55.420and also just high turnout in the right places, at least so far, as far as places that we think
00:09:01.740would lean Republican. We do have to keep in mind that, you know, this ballot doesn't have an R or
00:09:06.540a D on it. It simply says yes or no. And so it's very important for us to have people at the polling
00:09:13.260places. And as Lois mentioned, we're the only ones showing people what the maps are. We're the only
00:09:18.300ones showing them what they do. And it is having a reaction, especially in our rural communities,
00:09:24.920where turnout seems to be eclipsing what occurred in the gubernatorial race last year.
00:09:31.740Jeff, how did you get the word out? Because you guys virtually had no money. You had $80 million spent. You know, I was in Texas when I got back here, given that the war room's in Washington, we get, you know, all the channels for Northern Virginia. And I've never seen, I mean, it is unbelievable, nonstop, these Democratic ads. How did you guys get the word out to have even be competitive here?
00:09:58.540We turned it over to our volunteers and our apparatus at the grassroots level.
00:10:04.500We gave them names and phone numbers and addresses of people to knock, to call, to talk to.
00:10:13.020We asked them to engage their own friends as well so that we would be able to do personalized texts
00:10:19.800as well as the standard blast texts, which you see so many of those
00:10:24.120because they are a more affordable way to campaign.
00:10:26.860campaign, and that's how we got it going. And what happened was that our grassroots responded.
00:10:33.760We told them from the outset that the cavalry may not be coming for us, and we asked them
00:10:39.460to go ahead and be the cavalry, and they did.
00:10:43.900One of the things I like to point out to people is it doesn't matter where you go in Virginia,
00:10:48.480you will see a sign, a no sign, that you haven't seen before. And you will see other signs
00:10:53.220of really organic activity behind the no campaign.
00:10:56.900That's being driven by our volunteers.
00:10:59.020And also, especially over the course of the last month or so,
00:11:03.660by the War Room Posse, which has been extraordinarily helpful to us
00:11:15.380As you take an assessment, as you look around,
00:11:18.440how has the voting been in your assessment
00:11:22.340When you see the results, at least of what the raw vote is and who's participating in those northern Virginia counties, because folks throughout the country should understand that northern Virginia is now just simply a suburb of Washington, D.C., and you've got the corridor out there and what the Dulles corridor that is all defense contractors.
00:11:43.560You've got Pentagon City. You have a massive defense buildup. Roslyn, Tyson's Corner. I mean,
00:11:50.700high rises everywhere. They're like, I think Tyson's Corner reminds me of Dallas-Fort Worth,
00:11:55.600the Metroplex. There's been an explosion up there, and they've kind of dominated the state,
00:12:00.320but it's really not even Virginia. It's almost like Washington, D.C. The vote totals that you've
00:12:05.200been seeing in the participation. I know there's a lot of questions early in the morning, particularly
00:12:09.600on left-wing media like MSNBC. They were quite concerned. Have they made up for that during the
00:12:15.680day? Are you feeling good about what you're seeing as vote totals on game day in those strongly
00:12:20.680Democratic areas? We're still feeling very good. They still are lagging by and large behind. And
00:12:30.000the other thing that we believe we have going for us in those particular areas, although Republicans
00:12:34.780are a decided minority in those areas. We have some of our best community, local Republican
00:12:41.320committees and best activists in those areas. They're very accustomed to fining Republican
00:12:46.300voters, ensuring that they vote. And in this particular election, we think that's especially
00:12:52.240valuable. So they've done an outstanding job themselves of invigorating the brave Republicans
00:12:59.500that are living up there and more than a little frustrated because, as you've seen from
00:13:04.760some of the national headlines concerning crime,
00:13:08.540Democrat policies have taken over those areas.
00:23:04.160I think one of the inspirations, folks, is that this and Texas back-to-back
00:23:10.900are two of the best examples I've ever seen of the grassroots using their agency.
00:23:17.120if you think about it back i think we did the dinner in texas on january 9th
00:23:22.720there really hadn't been much talk about the although people were doing a great job don't
00:23:27.300get me wrong prepping this but until jenny story and the team came together
00:23:31.000a patriot mobile to pull together that dinner with gert builders and glenn beck and
00:23:36.600stenchfield and myself and others then that kind of exploded off the football
00:23:41.640went all the way through primary date on Prop 10 about prohibiting Sharia law in the state of Texas.
00:23:51.260Also, Paxton's campaign, no doubt, drafted off that and got just incredible energy.
00:23:59.640And now he's up, at least by the latest polling, by eight points with virtually no money compared to Cornyn.
00:24:06.060Cornyn, I think, is close to spending $100 million destroying Ken Paxton.
00:24:09.980But it has not had an impact as the grassroots are stepping up there, then roll right into the Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:24:16.800And this thing was over. Remember, Spanberg and this team destroyed the Republican establishment in the state, in the Commonwealth by 15 plus points and just an absolute blowout.
00:24:28.980And actually took, particularly in the House of Delegates, areas that were seem like could never, ever, ever be won by Democrats.
00:24:40.000And these were progressive Democrats and they were. Chris Spanberger, being a CIA operative, was able to mask her color revolution.0.79
00:24:48.800But it's all become she's unmasked now. And actually quite a weird she's kind of a weirdo.0.98
00:24:54.200Right. Which I think has been very evident to people in the Commonwealth since then.
00:24:57.580But this riding to the sound of the guns has been extraordinary.
00:25:01.500Back to back, if you add these patriots down in Georgia that are fighting for election integrity,
00:25:07.960you add on that this fight down in South Carolina where Lindsey Graham is currently under 50 percent.
00:25:13.760As I keep saying, if you get the issue set right, and when I say issue set right,
00:25:19.000I mean the issues that drive MAGA and the grassroots base, you can win.
00:25:25.080uh and this one is with no money there was no paid ballot chasing there was no paid door knocking
00:25:34.140there was no paid working on the in the uh in the you know in the um shopping centers uh or the
00:25:41.460parking lots on weekends none of that this was 100 grassroots that came out and particularly
00:25:46.960the rural counties which i think was extraordinary and they're right some of these even blue leaning
00:25:51.160have these tremendous Republican activists
00:25:53.980that really know how to get out to vote
00:25:55.280in those districts where they're overwhelmed.
00:25:57.940But I think it was the chairman of Hanover
00:32:07.120I want to play as much of this as we can
00:32:09.400I'm gonna come in for some editorial comment. This is on those demons at Southern Poverty Law Center. Finally, we're going on offense. Let's go and play it.
00:32:20.220Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud,
00:32:32.740four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
00:32:39.400According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups.
00:32:57.300As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups.
00:33:03.500It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
00:33:12.920The indictment describes this conduct in detail, but one troubling example is that the SPLC was paying a member of the leadership group
00:33:22.720that planned the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017
00:33:28.880that resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more.
00:33:34.740This particular person being paid by the SPLC allegedly received approximately $270,000
00:33:44.220in total according to the indictment between 2014 and 2023 SPLC paid at least three million dollars
00:33:54.380to eight individuals at least these individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan United
00:34:02.500Clans of America National Socialist Movement Aryan Nations Affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club
00:34:10.380the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Nazis, and the American Front.
00:34:17.520Now, as the indictment lays out, after SPLC paid members of these extremist groups,
00:34:24.240it created work product that reported on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to.
00:34:31.260And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it's told its donors it was doing,
00:34:36.880not dismantling extremism but funding it to carry out this scheme spLC created bank accounts
00:34:44.900in the name of at least five completely fictitious organizations that had no bona fide employees
00:34:51.180or legitimate business purpose the money was passed from spLC to one sham account to a second
00:34:59.040sham account and then loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members of the extremist groups
00:35:04.180This was designed to shield the source of those funds, and because of this, SPLC is also charged with one count, as I said earlier, of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
00:35:15.460in conclusion i want to thank the acting u.s attorney in the middle district of alabama kevin
00:35:22.820davidson who's in his district right now and not able to be with us for bringing this important
00:35:28.260case along with the fbi team in alabama for their hard work during this investigation
00:35:35.020this investigation is ongoing and i'd like to ask director patel to say a few words as well
00:35:42.060thank you general blanche what we're here today is to announce what the what the general just
00:35:53.440told you the southern poverty law center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged
00:35:59.380with allegations of fraud and using the banking system to perpetrate that fraud i just want to
00:36:04.920talk about a couple brief things here the southern poverty law center themselves advertised
00:36:10.680to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade.
00:36:17.000They used their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups.
00:36:23.360However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, used the money they raised from their
00:36:28.980donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again.
00:36:35.320They used the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups.
00:36:47.960The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, Unite to Right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club,
00:37:01.880and the National Socialist Party of America, and also the American Front.
00:37:06.640In at least one of these matters, our investigation revealed that funds were used to facilitate the
00:37:13.000commission of further state and federal offenses, totaling over $3 million.
00:37:19.880Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center, on top of
00:37:24.800perpetuating this widespread, decade-long, multi-million dollar fraud, conducted more
00:37:31.660criminal activity. They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial banking
00:37:38.800network. They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions
00:37:44.840that we rely on as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was not coming
00:37:49.720from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but
00:37:53.780rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud. This is a serious
00:38:00.640and egregious violation of a group that purported to dismantle violent extremist groups, but in turn
00:38:06.760actually only fueled the hatred. This is an important case brought by President Trump's
00:38:12.480administration. We're thankful for the president for his leadership and funding of not just the FBI
00:38:16.960and DOJ, but his commitment to go out there and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse
00:38:22.500wherever it occurs, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even though this money was
00:38:27.940made to appear to be coming from legitimate people and legitimate entities, we at the FBI,
00:38:34.540with our great partners at the Department of Justice and in the state of Alabama, were able
00:38:38.580to comb through a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a decade to build, so that we
00:38:44.040were able to follow the money, because money never lies, and they got caught. As the Attorney
00:38:49.580General said, these charges are varying. They are widespread and wide-ranging, and this
00:38:55.700investigation is very much ongoing. Today, we're here to announce the charges of the Southern
00:39:00.100Poverty Law Center, and this investigation and the individuals who are responsible will be
00:39:04.760brought to justice. Thank you, General. Thank you, Director Patel. Any questions?
00:39:12.540I'd like to know why individual people are not mentioned in this indictment. Is that something
00:39:18.020that's going to come down the pike? Is this just an indictment of the entity? Can you kind of
00:39:21.760explain, could people face charges here or is this the indictment and you're done? So yes, I mean,
00:39:28.140as we said, the indictment, this investigation is very much ongoing. And today the grand jury
00:39:33.060returned indictment against only one entity, the Southern Poverty Law Center. And we'll go from
00:39:40.000there. But as you'll see from the indictment itself, it should be obvious from the indictment
00:39:46.360that the investigation is is ongoing. I just want to make sure I understand you're alleging that
00:39:51.180the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups to continue
00:39:58.840their operations. Is that I'm not alleging it the grand jury returned an indictment that says that
00:40:04.800and so what what the what the investigation found according to to the indictment that was returned
00:40:10.100today is that they were paying so so the Southern Poverty Law Center is raising money asking folks
00:40:15.780to give them money to dismantle racism, and over a very long period of time, they were using some
00:40:21.840of the money they raised from donors to pay to, they called them field, you know, basically to
00:40:27.660informants, to, for information, for access, to just pay them for certain, to do certain things,
00:40:37.040and so yes, that's exactly what the indictment charge is. I was wondering if this is going to
00:40:42.540expand perhaps to more groups perhaps there's been a lot of accusations about
00:40:46.620particular groups like the Patriot Front that get a lot of you know traction and
00:40:50.880more so is the government or is this indictment I should say making the case
00:40:55.080that some of these matters where they've tried at great lengths to sort of make
00:40:59.820connections to people on the right per percent I mean Charlottesville was very
00:41:05.940much associated by you know the media with being sort of like you know part of
00:41:11.580a right wing kind of thing you know they're like good people on both sides type of thing i mean is
00:41:15.240this are we seeing a uh sort of the southern poverty law center was trying to create narratives
00:41:20.800uh using these types of groups to uh you know shape american public opinion look i think what
00:41:26.120what the southern poverty law center has has said over the years is available to the for the world
00:41:31.880to see it's on their website it's in other forms um the indictment speaks for itself i'm not going
00:41:36.540to talk outside the four corners of the indictment it lays out what the what the grand jury found
00:41:41.460And obviously, there's a whole body of public information around what the Southern Poverty Law Center has done over the past, you know, several decades.
00:41:51.720I mean, in some of these instances, these are groups that have been either their membership has been dismantled or they've definitely fallen out of public view.
00:41:59.840I'm just wondering the legal theory of how, you know, these payments allegedly went on to actually benefit the groups.
00:42:05.580Did you see the money go to the groups themselves rather than just the individuals who were paid informants, essentially?
00:42:32.220And so to the extent that those individuals receiving, one received over a million dollars, okay, to the extent over several years, to the extent that there's any link between that individual receiving the money and benefits to that organization, that's not in the indictment.
00:42:49.220indictment. Because again, it's not that individual who's charged with a crime. It's that individual
00:42:55.020was an informant or what have you. And it's Southern Poverty Law Center that made those
00:43:01.120payments to the individual. But it wasn't, you know, look, the payments were not made to these
00:43:06.920individuals in exchange for a service separate and apart from their work within these organizations.
00:43:13.760So, you know, that's, I think, speaks for itself.
00:43:16.740And just on an off topic, obviously you've read the Atlantic article that's now a subject of a defamation lawsuit brought by FBI.
00:43:22.360I absolutely did not read that article, but go ahead with your question.
00:43:25.420I just, you know, without, obviously it's in litigation now.
00:43:28.840Have you separately just heard any concerns, given your supervision over the FBI director, about any problems with drinking?
00:43:37.440I have a lot of, I have a lot of concerns.
00:43:39.660And my concerns are completely around the anonymous reporting that comes forth constantly that, you know, reporters have an obligation to report and they have due diligence that they're supposed to do.
00:43:52.920And when an entire article is based on anonymous sources and there's things in the article suggesting, for example, for example, apparently, that senior DOJ personnel were informed of something, that's me.
00:44:17.200The FBI director is on camera with the U.S. Olympic hockey team chugging a beer.
00:44:22.400I mean, do you think that that's appropriate conduct for the FBI director?
00:44:25.080That has nothing to do with the article.
00:44:26.760I mean, look, there's complete hit pieces, and you guys are in this business, and you know what they look like.
00:44:36.260And the fact that you're asking repeated questions about them almost is an omission of such.
00:44:41.620But when you have a bunch of people who are hiding behind closed curtains, saying things but not willing to say it publicly,
00:44:47.580and there are certain parts of the article that are blatantly false because apparently I was told something that I wasn't, it's suspicious in the back.
00:44:56.940Thank you, Mr. Acting Attorney General.
00:44:58.760Can you explain, again, what the fraud is here exactly?
00:45:02.460Are you saying it's illegal for the SPLC to pay money to people that are in hate groups or something about the way this was done makes it illegal?
00:45:11.700Because it's not automatically illegal, is it?
00:45:16.160So, again, I summarized the indictment, and it's now public for everybody to read.
00:45:20.700But the Southern Poverty Law Center is a 501c3.
00:45:23.720Okay, they're required to, under the laws associated with a nonprofit, to have certain transparency and honesty in what they're telling donors they're going to spend money on and what their mission statement is and what they're raising money doing.
00:45:35.960And so, as the indictment points out, there's different ways that they raise money.
00:45:41.720And in no fundraising efforts that the investigation found did they say, oh, and by the way, we're going to give a million bucks to the Ku Klux Klan.0.51
00:45:53.720And then the bank fraud part of it is you have KYC, you have an obligation to tell your financial institution what the corporation or the entity that you're opening an account for does.
00:46:05.800And the allegations in the indictment are that these were fictitious companies that were set up.
00:46:10.860And so there was certain information sworn to by SPLC executives about what the entities were doing that we allege is false.
00:46:18.420Can I just follow up on you? Can I have one follow up, Mr. Fierke?
00:46:21.900On the hiring of Joe DiGenova to work for the department, can you just tell us a little bit, I understand you went down to Florida, perhaps to take part in his swearing in or bring him on board.
00:46:33.820Can you explain why he's being brought back to the department after 40 years?
00:46:38.580So, I mean, look, I think that we, everybody in this administration, whether it's department justice or elsewhere, we're always looking for good people.
00:46:46.740And he's somebody who has a deep bench, as you said, he's been in this business for decades.
00:46:51.060and and when we had the opportunity to ask him to join the team and help we
00:46:57.000readily did I have an on topic and an off topic if you'll allow me um are you
00:47:01.440able to explain a little bit more about what led to this investigation were you
00:47:04.560guys tipped off by a former employee or how did how did you guys discover this
00:47:09.360no I can't talk about that but it's been going on for a long time there was a
00:47:14.400time that it was it was shut down for a while during the the last administration
00:47:20.940I don't know why. And it was started again over the past year or so, and that brings us to today.
00:47:29.380You mean the investigation began before this administration and then was shut down during the Biden administration?
00:47:34.980That's my understanding. I don't have information beyond what I just said around that.
00:47:39.640I wanted to ask about the Brennan, the John Brennan investigation.
00:47:43.180If you can explain why the career prosecutor who had been leading that investigation was removed,
00:47:48.360and if you have you have or had concerns that that investigation is not moving quickly enough
00:47:53.000i don't have any concerns about that investigation and again the um reporting around that really is
00:47:59.480just a source purely from leaks and not actually accurate reporting is not something i'm going to
00:48:04.520comment on and never will comment on can i ask you just to clarify one thing obviously the bureau
00:48:10.200had a long relationship with the sblc is is it your understanding that the previous leaders at
00:48:16.840that the Bureau knew this was happening and didn't view it as a crime or is that the Bureau did not
00:48:22.180know this was happening? It is it is my understanding that SPLC never told anybody in
00:48:28.620law enforcement that they were paying off the Ku Klux Klan and I don't think that should surprise0.70
00:48:32.020anybody. Thank you Mr. Acting Attorney General. I'd like you to both weigh in on a recent memo
00:48:39.160from the Office of Legal Counsel declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. So
00:48:44.260saying that presidents no longer need to preserve their documents or turn them to the government.
00:48:49.060What do you say to critics who suggest this basically eliminates transparency and accountability
00:48:53.260around how the White House operates, especially given how much time you guys are spending
00:48:57.700investigating the previous administration?
00:49:00.940Well, look, I think there is no dispute that this administration in just 14 months
00:49:05.700has been a lot more transparent than the last administration or in any administration.
00:49:09.340So if critics are suggesting that somehow we're not being transparent, I don't find that credible in any way, shape or form.
00:49:16.360As far as the recent OLC opinion regarding the PRA, that is something that has been heavily litigated in D.C. and elsewhere.
00:49:25.100And OLC issuing that is not the first place that you see that, that it's unconstitutional.
00:49:31.500I mean, I think there's a lot of places that you can go to think through why that is.
00:49:35.760The memo speaks for itself. And and and and I don't have much to say about it beyond that.
00:49:42.020Yeah. Do you want to weigh in on that? The president has this pending billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS.
00:49:49.040He sort of said that this is like he's negotiating with himself. How can you assure can you do anything you do to assure people that by the way.
00:49:56.960The demonic Southern Poverty Law Center. And hey, this ongoing investigation, they're going to get in there and find so much more.
00:50:02.880So you see Todd Blanchett. I really want to thank Todd for handling those questions about cash because they're coming to cash, as you can tell.
00:50:11.440And I thought Todd had a just had terrific answers for it. So great job over there.
00:50:17.720Tyler O'Neill from Daily Signal is going to join us tomorrow.
00:50:22.500Tyler's been following this very closely. He's going to break this all down for us.
00:50:25.560We're going to have a lot more on this. And I can tell you how that means all this afternoon, the last two days.
00:50:30.880back here in the Imperial Capitol trying to make sure we make every second count.
00:50:36.120I think there's a lot more that's going to be happening.
00:50:37.840I think you're going to be, I think people are finally going to say,
00:50:40.780hey, look, I see where some of this is going.
00:50:43.040I see where some of the action is taking place.
00:50:45.480And I want to thank everybody out there that's working on these things.
00:50:48.060They're really working nonstop, and it's a very, very, very understaffed team.
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