
Episode 4095: Kash Patel Appointed To Clean Up The FBI...
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Steve Bannon
Normal in Donald Trump's Washington, they believe. And the man that Trump says he wants to put in Ray's stead, Cash Patel, perceived by many to be deeply dangerous because he has indeed, as you note, no qualifications for this job. Many of Trump's former aides said as much four years ago. But Patel, I'm told, and I'm talking to people in the orbit the last couple of days, there is no ideology, there's no agenda here other than retribution. Patel's one defining characteristic is that he is simply loyal to Donald Trump. And even inner circle Trump members of the last few years have been startled by Patel's willingness to simply do whatever Trump. Yeah, people I've talked to say this pick was a nod to the extreme right wing portions of Trump base, the Steve Bannon ultra MAGA sector here who had been disappointed by some of Trump's more conventional picks like, say Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State. So this is Trump throwing them red meat because he knows he needs to keep them happy. But there are others in Trump world deeply worried about this pick who feel like Patel is not only unqualified, but indeed dangerous. That Patel will never think twice, never hesitate in carrying out whatever Trump wants, even if it means potentially, people say, breaking the law.
Mike Davis
So there are real questions here and.
Steve Bannon
We'Ll get into it as to whether or not Patel can be confirmed. Much like Matt Gaetz, that pick seemed in trouble. This one seems hardly a sure thing either.
Mike Davis
Joe Mika.
Steve Bannon
But there are mechanisms where if he were to fire Ray Patel could step in in the interim way for or so odd days that even, even that short sample size, even if you can't get confirmed, would be enough to carry out some of Trump's agenda. Cash. I know you're probably going to be head of the CIA, but do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short, in a pretty short order, the first couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions. Yes, we got the bench for Bannon.
Matt Boyle
And you know those guys, I'm not.
Steve Bannon
Going to go out there and say their names right now so the radical left wing media can terrorize them. But excuse me, the one thing we.
Matt Boyle
Learned in the Trump administration, the first.
Steve Bannon
Go round is we got to put in all America patriots top to bottom. And we got them for law enforcement, we got them for intel collection, we got them for offensive operations, we got.
Matt Boyle
Them for dod, CIA, everywhere.
Steve Bannon
We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections, we're going to come after you whether it's criminally or civilly. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice. All right, let's bring in. Could you play that again? And this is. Can we do a CC to Republican senators. Hey, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley. Let's see. Mike Rounds. This is a great patriot, deeply disturbed. This. He said pretty much just that. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, who certainly stood up to the atrocious selection of Matt Gates. This, we want to play this one again. It's a long distance dedication from Casey to you. Cash, I know you're probably going to be head of the CIA, but do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short, in a pretty short order, the first couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions? Yes, we got the bench for it, Bannon.
Matt Boyle
And you know those guys.
Steve Bannon
I'm not going to go out there and say their names right now so the radical left wing media can terrorize them. But excuse me. The one thing we learned in the Trump administration, the first go round is we got to put in all America patriots, top to bottom. And we got them for law enforcement.
Matt Boyle
We got them for intel collection, we.
Steve Bannon
Got them for offensive operations, we got.
Matt Boyle
Them for dod, CIA, everywhere.
Steve Bannon
We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you whether it's criminally or civilly. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice. We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you whether it's criminal or civilly. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice. Yeah, and we'll put you on notice. This is not only bad for the men and women who run the FBI, this is not only bad for the rule of law, this is not only bad for the First Amendment, this is not only bad for the United States of America, this is bad for Donald Trump, this is bad for the Trump administration. This is not gonna end well. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies. Cause we're going medieval on these people. Britain's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not gonna stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mag I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Monday, the 2nd of December, year of our Lord 2024. Welcome start of a, I think a pretty historic week. And right out of the box you see the run of the sprockets off of certain War Room footage. I would recommend to the producers over Morning Joe. We have better clips than that. That's a good one. I love that one. But we got even better. Also, we're a huge supporter of Scott Besson and think he's a safe pair of hands over Treasury. But I digress. Okay, today, warriors only. Natalie's gonna be with me at 5, Julie Kelly's gonna be with me at 6. This morning I got Davis, Boyle, Posobic, Degrasse, Murderers Row 27, Yankees level. Folks, it's fixed bayonets because President Trump took a bullet to the head and then four months later won a sweeping victory. As people are saying over the weekend, he won over 3,000 counties and destroyed and shattered the Democratic Party. Want to start with Mike Davis on our own beloved Cash Patel, Matt Bowles written amazing piece on Breitbart for defense of Pete Hegseth. Also those thrown down hard on Patel. Let's start with Mike Davis. Mike Davis, Grassley's in the Senator Grassley is in Politico this morning that's saying he wants to hear from Cash to make the case to him and his committee that Cash is actually going to deconstruct the administrative and deep state, particularly this mess you have at the Justice Department, FBI, that cash would be tip of the spear at the FBI. Can you, can you give us your thoughts, sir, since you're an expert in getting nominations through and Article 3 has stood up and said, hey, we're the guys, we're going to push these over top. Like we got a couple of Supreme Court justices through Gorsuch and Kavanaugh And Kavanaugh being quite tough that you've pledged you and your organization to do this. So walk me through the Cash Patel meltdown.
Mike Davis
Yeah. So incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a returning Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, my former boss, has sent a very strong and positive signal to Cash Patel with those comments. He's telling Cash Patel to lean in on Cash Patel's calls to reform a broken and corrupt FBI. And Cash Patel is the perfect nominee by President Trump to do this because he has extensive experience. He was a public defender. He was a national security prosecutor for many years. He worked as a top aide on the House Intelligence Committee with Devin Nunes, who it was Cash Patel who helped uncover the Crossfire hurricane scandal, the biggest scandal in American history where the Obama, Biden, Hillary regime made up the Crossfire hurricane investigation. They lied to the FISA court.
Steve Bannon
Does he have, does he have the flat out simple question, in your professional opinion, not your Irishman, that you love to fight as much as I do, just to fight. Right. I'm talking professional opinion. Does Cash, when you're sitting there talking to US Senators, does Cash Patel have the curriculum vita and the experience and the judgment to be the Director of the FBI? Sir, yes or no?
Mike Davis
Yes, 100%. He's actually the perfect person at this time for the job. Cash Patel is right out of central casting for someone who can go in and bring serious reforms to a badly broken and corrupt federal agency that has been politicized and weaponized not only against President Trump and his top aides like you, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, who they sent to the clink. This FBI went after parents for raising objections about gender chaos in schools. Christians under the Face act arrested Christians, including throwing a 75 year old Christian in prison for praying at an abortion clinic. While this FBI is kneeling to BLM and giving amnesty to Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. We just saw a pardon. Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden after he said before the election he wouldn't hang up.
Steve Bannon
We're gonna get to that. Hang on, hang on. I'm gonna get to bull here. So you about the, the with the posse in the movement, think of Cash, but a question. Grassley is not a lawyer. He chairs this committee. When Chuck Grassley, because you have to go pretty deep into the woods to hit his tripwire when he says Cash has got to walk him through how he reforms the system, how he reforms the FBI. What do you believe Senator Grassley is talking about? Mike?
Mike Davis
Senator Chuck Grassley, my former boss has long had distrust of the FBI going back to Ruby Ridge decades ago. Right. The FBI killed islands. And so Grassley has long had a very skeptical view of the FBI. He has long held the FBI accountable on a bipartisan basis, Republican and Democrat FBI directors. And he wants how Cash Patel is going to earn Chuck Grassley support. Is Cash Patel leaning in to what he's already doing, what he's already done, what he's already proposing, and that is that Cash Patel is going to go in and be a serious and bold reformer of the FBI. And if Cash Patel leans in on that, which he will, of course, then he's going to have Chuck Grassley's strong support and cash Patel will 100% get confirmed. And I say this to the people on MSNBC who think Cash is unconfirmable. Watch us.
Steve Bannon
Give me real quick. You're going to stick around a couple. Give me that again. You're a professional. You just said 100%. Do I have metaphysical certitude that he's going to be confirmed? Sir?
Mike Davis
Yes. I was the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee for returning Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. I handled many of these nominations. I actually, my second day on the job, the last time was Chris Ray's nomination. Right. And so I know how this process works. I know how the Republicans were all spun up about Russian collusion. They got duped by the Russian collusion hoax. And Senate Republicans can correct that madness by. By voting to confirm Cash Patel. Which Senate Republicans will do. Because the Article 3 project is having the war room posse light up the senate. Go to article3project.org article number three project.org take action and hit on the. Hit the button on Cash Patel. Call both of your senators, hit them on social media, email them.
Steve Bannon
Hang on. We're going to get to all the call to action. I want to lay the predicate. That's perfect. Hang on, Davis. I want to bring in Matt Boyle. Matt, give me the response of the MAGA movement to the announcement of Cash Patel's FBI director. Sir. Yeah.
Matt Boyle
I haven't seen anything like this of any of the picks so far. I think the movement is electrified and I think the reason because the distortion and perversion of the rule of law in this country and law and order as a principle, you know, dating back even further, before Trump's first term, back into the Obama days, if you remember back the history of all of this was when Eric Holder was held in criminal and civil contempt that Congress faced no consequences. Barack Obama used executive privilege to cover up documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. And I think since then, what we've seen is a perversion of the rule of law and justice in this country. And I think that Cash Patel, each of these key moments throughout the movement since then, whether it be the Hillary Clinton email scandal, whether it be.
Steve Bannon
The.
Matt Boyle
Unconstitutional raid of Mar A Lago, whether it be the weaponization against President Trump, all of it. The FBI, the through line through all of it. And that's why people.
Steve Bannon
Hang on one second. You've been amazing on Hexeth. There's all kind of breaking news. Mike Davis is with us. We're gonna take a short commercial break. Brother. Mike Davis takes it all the way back to Ruby Ridge. I think you go much farther than that. But hey, the murder and cold blood of Vicki Weaver has never been actually, the American people have never been walked through that properly. Let's go there in the war room. Davis and bowl on the other side. Big victory on 5. November. Now the work can finally start on the big issues facing the country. One of the biggest is the national debt and the deficits that drive it. Hey, you think the country's broke? The country is broke. We're just printing money to keep this house of cards going. The strategy remains the same for you. You got to diversify, diversify your savings. That's why buy gold from Birchgold. So many things are out of your control, out of the president's control. It's important to have a safe haven for your savings. Birch Gold Group, my gold company will help you convert an IRA or 401k into an IRA into physical gold. Let me repeat that. Convert your IRA or 401k into an IRA in physical gold. And the best news, it doesn't cost you a penny. Text ban into 989-898. Get your free info kit. Plus right now through Black Friday, you receive a free 1 ounce Silver Eagle for every $5,000 you purchase. Let me repeat that. A free 1 ounce Silver Eagle for every five thousand dollars purchased. Protect your savings with Birch Gold. Text Bannon to 989-898 and claim your eligibility for your free silver today. That dropped this weekend. And before the whistleblower news that came out late last night from the New Yorker, pattern being tracked out and fact checked about his behavior. And now Penelope Hegseth, the mother of Trump's defense secretary Pitt Pete Hegseth told her son he should, quote, get some help and accused him of abusing multiple women in a newly unearthed email from her back in 2018, the email was obtained by the New York Times from another person with ties to the family. In it, Penelope wrote in part, you are an abuser of women. That is the ugly truth. And I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. NBC News has not independently obtained the email. The message was sent in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from Hegseth's second wife, Samantha. Their marriage ended after Trump's choice to lead the Department of Defense impregnated a Fox News coworker with whom he was having an affair. In an interview with the Times on Friday, Penelope Hegseth defended her son, saying she disavowed those sentiments as well as apologized. In a follow up email, she told the paper it's not true. It has never been true, adding, I know my son is a good father, husband. Okay, dramatic reading there. And nominated for best best supporting Actress. By the way, Mika, if you, if you actually got into it and negotiated and had your name up in the headlights, you know, morning Mika, not Morning Joe, because you do all the work and you got more money, which you should get, we would, you'd be best Actress, not best supporting actress. But hey, you've decided not to empower yourself, not to take, not to seize your power and to be there. The wingman for the moron Matt Boyle. Once again, Breitbart's ahead of this. So I want to dramatic reading. I think they did it twice this morning. They played our clips all morning. I actually think she went back. I think she went and did a dramatic reading of the letter again. What is and let's face it, a letter from your mom. A letter from your mom saying, hey yo son, we need some mid course guidance is not the best. But there's a story here and you guys broke the story. Tell me about it.
Matt Boyle
Yeah, so a couple of big things that we've done on the Hexat thing. So the headline you see up there right now was ahead of a New Yorker piece that came out late last night or like overnight from Jane Mayer who's like one of the establishers, media's top hit people, right? Like, I mean she is, you know, will write these like mega multi thousand word pieces. You know, she's like an assassin for the establishment media. So Jane Mayer got ahold of. So Pete Hegseth, before he worked for Fox News was the head of a variety of different veterans organizations. And then, you know, there were Internets in fighting between different people and the staff and whatnot and these different things. And apparently some disgruntled ex staffer wrote about Hegseth trying to get, you know, because they're all competing with each other. Steve, we know this from dealing with all these conservative groups and whatever, right? There's oftentimes infighting among them and there's always trying to somebody trying to take control from the other person and whatever. And it kind of is what it is. Anyway, point is that, you know, apparently a decade ago, one of them wrote this long report making a whole series of salacious allegations against Hexat. So we got a hold of the report and the fact that the New Yorker was working on this story about this ahead of time. So our own Christina Wong, who's our Pentagon correspondent here at Breitbart News, way ahead of the story on this. So we broke it ahead of the New Yorker, the New Yorker article. Jane Mayer says in her report, she calls Breitbart News the I think she calls us like spokespeople for Trump or something like that. Or like, you know, we do propaganda for Trump or something like that. Obviously, we're just a journalistic outlet, right? We don't work for President Trump. But the, but that being said, the next line, she says that the document that we got is a different document than she got. I can tell you that that is factually incorrect, right? Like Jane Mayer's story is wrong, at least in that regard, for sure, because I know the document because I read the document. Now, we didn't publish the document because we're not in the business of spreading misinformation against Trump's nominees. But the point is that I can see the document and Jane Mayer quotes from it in her story. It's word for word, exactly what we have, right? So we know the document, who wrote it, why they wrote it. They're a disgruntled ex staffer. So our report is 100% true, and Jane Mayer's is not. The backdrop of this is. And then you played that clip of Maureen Mika there, Mika Brzezinski doing the dramatic read of Pete Hegseth's mom's letter. That's another thing. So the New York Times over the weekend or late last week had this big story where they went after Hegseth and they uncovered this email that his mom sent him during his divorce several years ago. Things are high, emotions are high. She writes this really nasty email to her son, trying to get her feelings out there about him. You heard Mika reading it, the Netherlands. And the thing that the New York Times buries in their story, they do report it, but they cast doubt on it significantly because they didn't actually get it, is that the next morning, right after she sent this nasty email, she actually sent an apology to her son. So it wasn't like four years later she made up with her son as he's this national TV star and about to be in President Trump's cabinet or something like that. It was literally the next morning she wrote another follow up email saying she didn't mean what she said the night before. Things were emotions are running high. One can expect that in a divorce. By the way, responsible journalists know that when you're reporting on divorce proceedings that you kind of take things with a very big grain of salt from either side because both sides are always people lie, there's nastiness, there's emotions run high, logic goes by the wayside. It's pretty common. But the New York Times threw that to the wayside in their report on this. And then obviously, so that people like Mika could go to dramatic reads like that on tv. The reason why they're doing this is because they are hell bent the establishment media on stopping Pete Hegseth because he's a reformer, because he's going to bring real change to the Pentagon. They're trying to stop him from getting confirmed by the Senate.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like you'll hear them talk about it throughout the course of their stories. In fact, Jane Mayer even called the senator before she put her story out. Dick Blumenthal, a senator from Connecticut. Dick Blumenthal, of course, you know, infamous for dodging the draft. They call him Da Dang Dick for a reason. But the point is that Da Nang Dick, she's literally whipping votes. Yeah, I would never expect Dick Blumenthal to vote for Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, but still, nonetheless, Jane Mayer is literally whipping votes among senators, as are the New York Times reporters, et cetera, trying to stop his confirmation. Why are they trying to do this?
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Because of what he represents.
Steve Bannon
Hang on for one second. I got to make sure the audience understands this because we're playing and this for the hoplites and the posse out there on your shoulders that we put President Trump, the great leader who came back, right, and went through all this. I want everybody to understand this message. Mike Davis, Matt Boyle, Steve Bannon, we're all in 100%. There's no give fix bayonets, okay? President Trump wants them. We're going to get them. And I don't love them all. Okay? I don't Love them all, but he wants them. They're going to go now. If he decides to drop a few in there, that's his choice. But here's the point. They have the heaviest artillery they've ever I've seen. This is at. Jane Mayer is the number one. And the New Yorker is like, above all else, is kind of the intellectual magazine of the Upper west side. Upper east side. This is all the heavies in New York. Jane Mayer is a professional political writer assassin. Her thing is put together and it's meant to take out a Pete. It's higher than the New York Times. The New York Times kinds of even feeds off this when she's on something. She wrote the dark money that everything that Cokes touch is evil. And look, I'm no fan of the Cokes, but she makes it seem like they're completely demonic. She's an assassin and she's all over Pete Hegseth.
Matt Boyle
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
I'll tell you, here's what's happening and why we. Hang on one second. Everybody's got to come together on these because symbolically, President Trump, we're not gonna have any unless President Trump says, like with Gates, has a conversation and they make a decision. And the decision is not even that there weren't enough votes. President Trump hadn't even started whipping yet, okay? And this is about Republicans in the Republican Senate. We gotta stick together in this. We have to hang together. And you're gonna have to hang tough. You're gonna need Mike Davis in the trench. You're gonna need Matt Bowles in the trench. You're gonna need War room in the trench. Because guess what? They want to take them all out. They want to call Hegses from the herd, Alinsky 101. And then they want to come and cash call him from the herd. And then Tulsi Gabbard, and then they want to get Kennedy, right? And then, hey, then they'll come for Kristi Noem. They don't want Trump to have any team, and Trump gets to pick his team. Matt Boyle, your thoughts, sir?
Matt Boyle
Yeah, 100% right. That's exactly what they're doing. And by the way, the media, I would argue. Look, look, it's been less than a month since Election Day, and I would argue that November 5th election demonstrated just how weak the establishment media is across the board. Everyone who sits in that front row in the White House briefing room at the moment, from Fox News through the Associated Press, all the networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they've never been weaker. Okay, so these establishment media outlets have never been weaker that what they are looking to do right now is they are trying to take down as many scalps as they can get so that way they can reestablish their power structure and frankly, they don't want to reform and change their ways. And we see this with the story last night. I mean this huge breaking story. It's both the most egregious thing in the world and the least surprising thing in the world, which is the Hunter Biden pardon from Joe Biden. All of us saw it coming. All of us knew what was coming. We all knew the President was lying and the media just went along with it all.
Steve Bannon
Hang on, hang on. Can you hang with us both? I know you got editorial calls and you run it. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I got, I got, I got Davis, I got Boyle, posos coming in. We're at war folks. Matt Bowles laid it out right there. We have destroyed the ecosystem of the right media, the great news sites, we have the Breitbarts, the Citizens Free Press, the Revolvers, the national pulses, all of them. Gateway pundit. Combined with the podcast and the Real America's voice and the posos and Charlotte Kirk's, we've crushed these guys. This is their road back. Their road back is a Linsky 101. Mike Davis said it. They're all going to get confirmed unless President Trump makes a decision. Hey, our marching orders is to confirm. Short break. Back in a moment. It's obvious the unthinkable continues. Most Americans know something is very, very wrong. The people in charge keep telling you that everything's fine and to stop noticing. But you know better. That's why self reliant folks are investing in emergency food storage and you should too. My patrons play the nation's largest emergency preparedness company are the ones you can trust. Go to mypatronsupply.com and secure their best selling 3 month emergency food kits. Each contains tasty breakfasts, lunches and dinners averaging over 2000 calories per day. My patron supply also sells solar generators, gravity powered water filters, off grid room heaters for when the power goes out. They also sell heirloom seeds and survival gear. Order by 3pm and your items shipped that same day and arrive quickly on your doorstep in unmarked boxes. Go to mypatriotsupply.com today. Hope is not a plan. My patriot supply is a plan. Time is running out to prepare for what's coming. Mypatriotsupply.com go there today. Action Action. Action. The United States has so much respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son. I mean, what. You know, again, it's all about the contrast. President Biden saying, I will respect whatever this jury decides versus Donald Trump after he was convicted on 34 counts, saying, the entire system is rigged against him. Their latest attack has been that Joe Biden has politicized and weaponized the dojo. That was the whole argument around Donald Trump's conviction. And this week, of course, Hunter Biden was found guilty. And Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon his son, he would not commute his sentence. How stark is this difference? I mean, how can Republicans keep making this argument now that. That know. Now that Joe Biden has really put it out there? Where's Hunter? And he stood there in a courtroom, flanked by his family, and he's accepted his sentence. He is not pardoning his son, which he could do. These are federal charges. He is not doing that. He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country.
Mike Davis
And then is.
Steve Bannon
It isn't. I mean, if you want to know if he believes it, you can actually see what is happening with his own son. The president, Anderson, has been really clear that he is going to accept. Accept the outcome of the trial no matter what happens. So Joe Biden's gotten asked about, you.
Matt Boyle
Know, talking about law and order, he's gotten asked if he would pardon his son.
Steve Bannon
He has said no.
Matt Boyle
On the other side, you've got Donald Trump who has said that he will.
Steve Bannon
Pardon the January 6th insurrectionists. They're not even his sons. They're just sons of. I think Joe Biden has a chance.
Matt Boyle
Here to stand up for the rule.
Steve Bannon
Of law, to say the rule. The law is the law, no matter.
Matt Boyle
Who it is, no matter if it's Trump or a Biden. And remember, part of Trumpism's dangerousness is that it tears down institutions, important institutions of our democracy. So there is an opportunity here for.
Steve Bannon
Biden to say, you know, the jury found him guilty.
Matt Boyle
This is how it's supposed to work.
Steve Bannon
Period, paragraph, end of story. The Justice Department convicted the president's own son, his only living son.
Mike Davis
You heard the president say he would accept the outcome of the case. I know no other word for that but presidential.
Steve Bannon
Mm. He even went so far as to say he wouldn't pardon his son. That's how much respect he has for the system. President has said that he will not pardon his son. What did you think of that I thought it was extraordinary. I mean, it was a, it was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn't have been in, you know, starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own conviction. CNN has learned President Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden. CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny, I believe, is with us. Jeff, can you hear me and Jessica? Yes. Okay. What are you learning? Look, we are just getting a statement from President Joe Biden. He's saying that today he signed a pardon for my son Hunter. And he goes through the reasoning why, of course, Hunter is facing a sentencing later this month. But this is a really a monumental moment for President Biden. He said several months ago in June when he was still seeking a reelection, that he would not pardon Hunter Biden. But now we are learning he is. And let's just read through this statement quickly together. He said, today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word even as I watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. So this is a fairly long statement about four or five paragraphs from President Biden, but really going through why he is making this decision. He also goes on to say this. He said no reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out because he is my this is how. And this you want to know, you want to know why the media has no respect and why we crushed them right there. The key is not just simply remember in my press conference, I came out and said right away after spending four months in prison that Hunter Biden should be pardoned because he'd be gone at 48 hours. He's not a man. He's a boy. And his father has treated him like a little boy. And this is why he's so out of control. He would not last in a federal prison for 48 hours. I said that that has nothing to do with what happened here. And this, the media's too gutless to talk about it. The issue with this pardon is what it even entails. MIKE davis, I Blanket pardon. I think the only blanket pardon that we've seen, we've been on cover is Jerry Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. And it was actually tighter than this. This goes back 10 years to a month or like a month before he was officially signed up, or he got his first check from Burisma. This Goes back to the color revolution in Ukraine. It goes back to everything that happened in Ukraine and everything else is this. Talk to me about the scale and scope of this pardon, sir.
Mike Davis
It's a stunning pardon because as you said, it goes back more than a decade and it covers any potential federal crime that Hunter Biden may have committed, including foreign bribery and corruption. Hell, if he raped a child, which, you know, there's evidence that could have happened from these tapes, he'd be pardoned. Taking foreign bribes, pardons, foreign corruption, pardons, selling out our national security to China, pardon. This is a breathtaking pardon in scope. And the reason that Joe Biden did it, obviously, was to protect Joe Biden and the rest of the family. And I would say this, this is the first pardon for Hunter Biden. Just wait until Joe Biden pardons the rest of the Biden family and himself. Because guess what? As House Oversight Chairman James Comer has clearly documented with bank statements, these scumbag Bidens, it seems like every scumbag Biden, except for the granddaughter, who they wouldn't claim has taken over $23 million from these corrupt foreign entities. It's gone into their bank accounts. What the hell were the bidens selling for? $23 million. It's very clear.
Steve Bannon
And now we don't have to look. Now we don't have to worry. Now we don't have to wait for Badiba Badeebadi, Badeeb Comer, God bless him. Now we're going to have the Justice Department, we actually do real investigations because they sold the country out. To go back 11 years is outrageous. Hang on for a second, Mike Boyle. This is. And the media will not all morning, they will not discuss what is important here. Because I said he's going to last 48 hours in a prison. He's not a man, he's a boy. He's a reflection of. They're like the family and take this media and quote it because they're like a pack of feral dogs, okay? They're a pack of feral dogs. You look at the emails, you look at the text message, you look at the videos and the pictures on this guy that he kept of himself and he took of himself. They're a pack of feral dogs. That's not even the point. The point, Matt Boyle, is the scale of this. And this goes back to Victoria Nuland. Because, folks, this is about the deep state. This is about taking apart the administrative state and the deep state. That's what the fight on Hex is about. That's what the fight on Bobby Kennedy's about. That's what the fight on Tulsi Gabbard's about. And that's what the fight, particularly on Cash Patel, is about. Matt Boyle.
Matt Boyle
Yeah, this is all about the deep state. And in fact, the media are just showing just how useless they are. That clip you played, I actually know a lot of these people, right? Like, I run the same. These folks, I don't get along with them. You know, I tried to be nice and respectful, but I also asked them some pretty tough questions. I asked several of them this morning.
Steve Bannon
Right?
Matt Boyle
Like, I'm not gonna name exactly which ones, because I kind of try to keep my conversations with them private. But I will say I asked several of the people in that video that you played this morning if they have remorse for what they did, and none of them did.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, not a single one of them showed remorse. That's sociopathic, okay? Like, these people are sociopathic in the way they're willing to lie and spread misinformation on behalf of a corruption regime. Right. And frankly, I think that that's why this thing is so important is because it just demonstrates that we have the moral authority as we head into the second Trump term in ways we never did in going into the first one. The first one was we shocked the world, right? So in 2016, the world was shocked. DC was shocked. Everybody was rocked. And that provided time and comfort to the resistance to be able to resist Donald Trump. And, you know, they use the deep state, etc. This time, Donald Trump has the. Has a mandate, a clear one. And that's why I think there's a through line that connects here through the establishment media, through the deep state that connects all of these major stories that we're talking about this morning, whether it be Trump's pick for the Pentagon or the FBI or the Justice Department or, you know, these other agencies and departments. And what we see with the Biden pardon here, Right? And again, it all goes back to what the Obama administration and that perversion of justice that we saw. That, I mean, to Mike's point, frankly, goes back even further than the Obama administration, back to Ruby Ridge and further than that even. Right? But the point is that what we really saw was the beginning of the weaponization that started with Eric Holder. And by the way, it's worth noting, who's the person out there most aggressively publicly defending the pardon last night and this morning?
Mike Davis
Eric Holder.
Matt Boyle
Right. Like Eric Holder is exposed here in ways that he never has been before. And frankly, I hope that the incoming Justice Department and incoming congressional majorities actually do something about all of this stuff this time, right? Like, there are still documents, things that they can recover from that.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, but hang on, but hang on. The Justice Department has been apolitical to him. President Trump's trying to get his own. Matt Gaetz or Pam Bondi. Eric Holder's the single most partisan, most partisan attorney general since Bobby Kennedy. Right? And most partisan attorney general says Bobby Kennedy. He was the hatchet man for Obama. He was the enforcer. He was Obama's enforcer. Matt, you covered this for years. He was the enforcer of Obama, sir.
Matt Boyle
No, 100%. And by the way, this is why it's only fair that Donald Trump be able to have people that he trusts in the positions, in these positions as well. And frankly, I think that you're gonna see Donald Trump handle things much more responsibly than the way the Democrats did. And if he does, if Donald Trump does do this stuff, right, and brings these reforms to these departments and agencies and stops the weaponization from government once for all and actually holds these deep state actors accountable, then guess what? That thing that we were talking about over the weekend, Steve, where you're on the COVID of the Times of London, the whole page spread there, about 50 years of MAGA, that's gonna happen, right? So that's the thing. That's the question here. Do the Republicans actually do it? Does Trump actually do it? And if they do and they actually take this stuff on, then guess what? The left in the establishment media and those people, those propagandists that you played at the top of the segment there are going to lose their power forever. And that's why they're fighting so hard against Trump's nominees, because they see it, too. They're not stupid people, right? Like, I don't think they're stupid at all. They're very smart. They see what's happening here just as clear as we do, and they're trying to stop it.
Steve Bannon
This is the fight, by the way, the fight for. The fight for the Trump's second term is now, between now and Inauguration Day, we're either gonna win this or gonna lose it. Folks, let me be blunt. The fight for this thing is right now, they think they can cripple Trump even before he puts his hand on the King James Bible. Matt, you guys at Breitbart doing an amazing job, and obviously you're the best reporter out there. Where do people go to get all your stuff, all your material?
Matt Boyle
Breitbart.com I'm also on X@Mboyle1 and on True Social at RealMap Oil. Our team's working very hard as we cover all these confirmation fights.
Steve Bannon
Amazing. Thank you, sir. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Yep, you bet. Mike Davis, can I hold you through. I know you're busy. Can I hold you through the break? Because I want to. I want you just walk through the battle Plan and Article 3 and you know we're going to the ramparts on this because you got it. You gotta win it now. You have to win now. Don't. I don't want to hear people, oh, we gotta celebrate. I gotta take the holidays off. It's too much. No, no, we get. We win this now because they're going full Alinsky on President Trump and they're gonna try to cull him from the herd. They're trying to call Pete Hegseth right now as they prep cash. Patel and every one of these people are vital. President Trump has a vision and it's not reform. It's actually taking the administrative state apart brick by brick with the Doge team and Russ vote. And it's shattering forever the deep state. We're at war. This is the fight we always wanted. But it's a fight we have to win. Short break. Back in the war room in a moment. Ever think how can I work this hard and still be in debt? The piles of overdue bills, the threatening phone calls and never having money to do anything, it's just won't stop. You're trapped in debt. Done with Debt is the way out. They've developed aggressive new strategies to end your debt permanently. Done With Debt stands between you and harassing bill collector. They tirelessly negotiate with your creditors to lower or even forgive what you owe. And they do it all without bankruptcy or new additional loans. As one client raved, quote, our phone call saved us a fortune. I wish we did this long ago. End quote, bottom line, Done With Debt has unique strategies to get you out of debt faster and put more money in your pocket every month. But you need to hurry because some debt solutions are time sensitive and you don't want to miss out. Visit donewithdeb.com talk with one of their debt relief strategists for free. Let me repeat that. Go to donewithdebt.com and talk to one of their debt relief strategists for free. You have nothing to lose except your debt. Go to donewithdebt.com that is done with debt.com. do it today. Action, action, action.
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Start first with you and just get your reaction to this news tonight.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, well it's, it's a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning, professional, independent Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fact that Cash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even like a matter for debate. So I think what we should, what we should really be thinking about right now is what does this signal in terms of Donald Trump's intent for the FBI? The installation or the nomination? I guess we should say at this point of Cash Patel's FBI director can only possibly be a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI and to possibly use it as a tool for the President's political agenda. And you know, as an organization we know what that, what that looks like. This country has been there before, right? The pre Watergate FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI struck fear in the hearts of Americans across the spectrum of politicians, people in entertainment, people in the civil rights community because the director operated at the direction of President. Okay, okay. Mike Davis, Cash Patel, Pete Hegseth McCabe. By the way McCabe, here's my strong recommendation. Don't spend time airman on a cnn. You should get a lawyer and get in a room and maybe get your passport ready. You're the one who've been whining about you should leave the country. Hey, I would never tell anybody to leave the country because I'd like people that fight for their country. But in your case brother, I don't know man. I would lawyer up though, bro. Mike Davis, Article 3. You guys are going to be the tip of the tip of the spear. Tell us what you're going to do. This audience is chomping at the bit now to go to work. What do they do?
Mike Davis
Well first let me send a message to Senate Republicans because I have experience working with you guys on nominations and I think Senate Republicans need to remember this, that President Trump won in a landslide with 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states. He has a mandate for change. And the President of the United States, any President of the United States should get the qualified cabinet picks he wants. And so the Senate's job is to look at these cabinet nominees and ask are they qualified? And if the answer is yes, then you should vote to confirm those picks. Even if you have a personality disagreement, even if you have a policy disagreements. The President doesn't pick your Senate staff and you shouldn't get to pick the President's cabinet. That is for the President to pick. The only reason you should ever vote against a Cabinet pick for a president as a Senate Republican is if that cabinet picks has been disqualified because of their misconduct. And there is not a me too presumption of guilt. We got rid of that during Christine Blasey Ford's nonsense against Justice Kavanaugh. We got rid of the MeToo presumption of guilt. And so if you want to disqualify a Cabinet nominee, you better do it through clear and convincing evidence. Otherwise, you vote to confirm the president's Cabinet picks and frankly all of his top executive branch officials because the president won and he gets to pick his team. And you should presumptively go with this team unless there is a very damn good reason not to. So with that said, that means that these Senate Republicans should presumptively be on board with every single one of President Trump's cabinet picks. Right? And that's what the Article 3 project is gearing up to do. In the first term. We helped him confirm his judges. We're going to do that again. We helped President Trump win against this republic ending law firm and election interference against Trump. We were the tip of the spear on the election integrity. Now we're going back to the basics of the Article 3 project. We're going to help President Trump confirm his nominees, his executive branch nominees and his judicial nominees. And we're going to support and defend those nominees as they're going through the process. We're going to support and defend them when they get into office, when they have to make tough decisions because Republicans tend to be cowards and they tend to run for the hills when Trump and his team have to make tough decisions. And so that's not going to be as the Article 3 project. We are going to be supporting and defending President Trump and his team every step of the way.
Steve Bannon
Once again, where do they go to article three to sign up?
Mike Davis
Article3project.org article number three project.org you can donate there. You can follow us on social media and the most important thing you can do today is take action and contact both of your home state senators and tell them to support Cash Patel. He is qualified to be FBI director. It doesn't matter whether they like his personality, if they or if they have policy disagreements with him. It's who President Trump Trump wants to reform a broken and corrupt FBI. So support Cash Patel. Tell your home state senators to vote for his confirmation.
Steve Bannon
Thank you brother. Mike Davis Social Media where the people.
Mike Davis
Get you on Twitter article3project at article3project and my personal is at Mrd DMIA Mrd DMIA and thank you, Steve.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. So if you think of the three lines of work that we talked about, the national security, the war, the expanding World War 3, if you look at the southern border and President Trump just magnificently using tariffs as a negotiating wedge to bludgeon people, we haven't even time to cover this. Although I'm quite proud of the fact that the only meaningful discussion at all anywhere on tariffs was on War Room Battleground, I think, on Wednesday evening at 6. And I realized, because the holidays maybe not the most watched show we ever had, so we're gonna do more of that. But he's had, you know, the Mexican president call him a kowtow and then had Trudeau, you know, skittle down to Mar a Lago, right, to tell President Trump, oh, we'll do anything you want, you know, tougher border, et cetera. Right? You got the wars, you got that. And now you got the financial side. And there's so much going on in that. They're playing games. It all hangs in the balance. The point for us is that the deep state is the enemy. And they're rearing their head right now with all their lackeys, okay? They will not stop. They will not stop. They will not stop until you stop them. The election on November 5th is just a. It's just a part of the path. It's a part of the path. You either seize the institutions now and back these folks off so President Trump could get the team to go and deconstruct it and destroy it. You're going to lose. The Trump presidency hangs in the balance now, here and now, here and now. They know that these are smart, cunning people. They hate this country. They want their own deal. But they're not just going to sit there and give up because you won more votes than they did. You think they care about that? They stole the 2020 short. Break. Back in 90 seconds. You owe back taxes, right? Here's the question. Why is the IRS targeting you and not millionaires who owe a fortune compared to you? Rich people have tax attorneys. You probably don't. Tax Network USA are patriots. You want on your side to solve your IRS tax problems quickly and painlessly. Their attorneys, strategists, and expert negotiators employ brilliant strategies designed to solve your IRS problem quickly in your favor. They have a preferred direct line to the irs. They know which agents to talk to and which to avoid. And Tax Network USA learned of a limited time special IRS offer. The IRS is willing to forgive $1 billion in tax penalties. Find out if you qualify before it's too late. Schedule your free confidential consultation now. Look, Tax Network USA has resolved over 1 billion in tax debts and they offer a best in class client satisfaction guarantee. This is the team I recommend to solve your IRS problems so you can get your life back. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com bannon tnusa.com Bannon will include things like preservatives, artificial.
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Release Date: December 2, 2024
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)
In Episode 4095 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into the controversial appointment of Cash Patel as the new Director of the FBI. The episode discusses the qualifications, potential implications, and the broader political context surrounding this significant nomination.
Steve Bannon initiates the discussion by highlighting the skepticism surrounding Cash Patel's appointment. Despite perceptions of Patel being "deeply dangerous" due to his lack of traditional qualifications, Bannon suggests that Patel's sole agenda is retribution, aligned with unwavering loyalty to former President Donald Trump.
[00:00] Steve Bannon: "Patel's one defining characteristic is that he is simply loyal to Donald Trump."
Bannon further emphasizes that Patel's nomination appears to be a strategic move to appease the extreme right-wing factions within Trump's base, particularly the ultra-MAGA supporters disappointed by some of Trump's previous more conventional picks.
[01:18] Steve Bannon: "This pick was a nod to the extreme right-wing portions of Trump base... Patel will never think twice, never hesitate in carrying out whatever Trump wants, even if it means potentially, people say, breaking the law."
Mike Davis, a seasoned expert in Senate nominations, provides a supportive stance on Patel's qualifications. He asserts that Patel is the "perfect nominee" to reform a "broken and corrupt FBI," citing Patel's background as a public defender and national security prosecutor.
[08:53] Mike Davis: "Cash Patel is right out of central casting for someone who can go in and bring serious reforms to a badly broken and corrupt federal agency."
Davis discusses Senator Chuck Grassley's positive signals towards Patel, suggesting that Grassley's long-standing mistrust of the FBI aligns with Patel's reformative agenda.
[10:46] Mike Davis: "Senator Chuck Grassley... has long had a very skeptical view of the FBI... if Cash Patel leans in on that, which he will, of course, then he's going to have Chuck Grassley's strong support and Cash Patel will 100% get confirmed."
Matt Boyle echoes Davis's sentiments, expressing enthusiasm from the MAGA movement regarding Patel's nomination. Boyle connects the appointment to a broader narrative of combating the "deep state" and reversing perceived injustices perpetrated by previous administrations.
[13:13] Matt Boyle: "I think the movement is electrified... Cash Patel... is going to be a reformer, because he's going to bring real change to the Pentagon."
Bannon and his guests discuss the concept of the "deep state" and its influence on federal institutions and media. They argue that Patel's appointment is part of a larger strategy to dismantle entrenched bureaucratic systems that they believe have been corrupted by partisan agendas.
[14:17] Steve Bannon: "This is about the deep state, this is about taking apart the administrative state and the deep state."
The conversation also touches on media portrayals, with Bannon criticizing mainstream outlets like The New York Times and journalists such as Jane Mayer for their alleged efforts to undermine conservative nominees and protect the established power structures.
[14:06] Matt Boyle: "Jane Mayer... is a professional political writer assassin... trying to stop Pete Hegseth because he's a reformer."
A significant portion of the episode contrasts Patel's nomination with President Joe Biden's recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. Bannon and his guests criticize Biden's decision, framing it as hypocritical and indicative of systemic favoritism.
[34:51] Mike Davis: "It's a stunning pardon because... it covers any potential federal crime that Hunter Biden may have committed."
They highlight Biden's commitment to the rule of law in theory, questioning the sincerity given his pardon action.
[30:38] Steve Bannon: "The president has said that he will accept the outcome of the case... President Biden's gotten asked about it and he said no."
Boyle underscores the stark difference between Biden's stance and Trump's handling of legal matters, suggesting it reveals character flaws and systemic corruption.
[31:12] Matt Boyle: "Part of Trumpism's dangerousness is that it tears down institutions... this time, Donald Trump has the mandate, a clear one."
The episode emphasizes the importance of the Article 3 Project, an initiative aimed at supporting Trump's nominations and reforms within federal institutions. Mike Davis details strategies for Senate Republicans to back Trump's nominees, stressing the significance of confirming qualified individuals without personal or policy disagreements obstructing the process.
[46:54] Mike Davis: "Senate Republicans should presumptively be on board with every single one of President Trump's cabinet picks... support Cash Patel."
Davis urges listeners to take immediate action by contacting their state senators to advocate for Patel's confirmation, reinforcing the notion that this is a pivotal moment for the Republican agenda.
[49:52] Mike Davis: "You can follow us on social media and the most important thing you can do today is take action and contact both of your home state senators and tell them to support Cash Patel."
In closing, Bannon reiterates the high stakes of the current political climate, framing the confirmation of Cash Patel and other nominees as critical battles in the fight against the deep state. He emphasizes unity among conservatives and the urgent need to support Trump's agenda to ensure the dismantling of perceived corrupt institutions.
[50:30] Steve Bannon: "This is the fight for Trump's second term... the deep state is the enemy."
The episode concludes with a reaffirmation of the movement's commitment to supporting Trump and implementing substantial reforms within the federal government.
Episode 4095 of Bannon’s War Room presents a fervent defense of Cash Patel's FBI nomination, positioning it as a crucial step in combating a corrupt deep state and reinforcing Trump’s reelection efforts. Through a blend of expert testimonies, critical analysis of media narratives, and strategic calls to action, the episode underscores the ongoing struggle within American politics to reshape federal institutions in alignment with conservative and MAGA principles.