
Episode 4238: Scale And Executive Action To Take Back Our Country ...
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Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.
Here's the memo obtained tonight by MSNBC's Ryan Reilly. Quote, Colleagues, we understand there's a lot of media reporting and rumors surrounding potential changes at the FBI. This includes reporting and rumors about actions that very seriously impact our workforce, consistent with our commitment to share information with you as we receive it. Acting Deputy Director Kasane and I want to provide you with an update. Late this afternoon I received a memo from the Acting Deputy Attorney General notifying me that eight senior FBI executives are to be terminated by specific dates unless these employees have retired beforehand. So eight of them will be out unless they quit. Quote, I have been personally in touch with each of these impacted employees. The memo also directs me to provide by noon on Tuesday the following quote, all current and former FBI personnel assigned at any time to investigations and or prosecutions relating to events that occurred at or near the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and also secondly, United States versus Haniya, which is, I believe, a case about hamas and the October 7th attack. They want a list of all current and former FBI personnel assigned at any time to investigations or prosecutions related to January 6th or that one Hamas case. QUOTE these lists should include relevant supervisory personnel and FBI regional offices and field divisions, as well as FBI headquarters. For each employee included in the list provide the current title, office to which the person is assigned, role in the investigation or prosecution, and date of last activity relating to the investigation or prosecution. Upon timely receipt of the requested information, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General will commence a review process to determine whether additional personnel actions are necessary. The Acting Director of the FBI then tells personnel at the FBI, quote, we understand that this request encompasses thousands of FBI employees across the country who have supported these investigative efforts. I am one of those employees, as is Acting Deputy Director Kissane. As we have said since the moment we agreed to take on these roles, meeting the Acting Director and Acting Deputy Director of the FBI we are going to follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what is in the best interest of the workforce and the American people always. We will be back in touch with more information as soon as we can. In the meantime, stay safe and take care of each other. Brian J. Driscoll, Jr. Acting Director this.
Martin
Past Monday, interim U.S. attorney Martin issued an email to the entire office stating as much. He said that there would be an internal investigation into our office and specifically the January 6th prosecutors, charging decisions with respect to charging certain violators, or rather certain January 6th defendants, with violations of 18 U.S. code 1512, which is the statute that the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in The United States versus Fisher, or rather Fisher versus the United States, did not apply to the January 6th riots. So we know there's at least some amount of investigation ongoing. Whether or not that is criminal, civil, or merely internal, I can't say.
Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.
As former Trump defense lawyer Emil Beauvais at the Justice Department, possibly on orders from the White House, has demanded a list of every single FBI agent in the entire country who worked on any January 6th case in any capacity at all. And even though that includes the new acting director and the new acting deputy director, who Trump himself just ham handedly accidentally appointed, they say the reason they want that list is because they're going to review it for potential personnel action against all those agents. Does this fundamentally change who we are as a country? If FBI and Justice Department prosecutors. FBI officials and Justice Department prosecutors. Prosecutors have their. Have now had their careers threatened and in some cases ended specifically because they worked on lawful cases that didn't please the president. Have we already sort of crossed a Rubicon in terms of who we are as a country and what the rule of law is in the United States of America?
Unnamed Senator
Absolutely, that's what's happening. I mean, the cruelty of it is this wonderful young prosecutor idealistic is gone. Right. The second thing is that there isn't. It's clear that it's, quote, my Justice Department, as the President called it. That brings us back to the days when it was J. Edgar Hoover. But instead of J. Edgar Hoover going after Martin Luther King or even the John Bird Society for political reasons, is Donald Trump doing it to use the Justice Department or the FBI to exact retribution or pursue political enemies? But I got to say, there is a responsibility that we have in the United States Senate as an independent institution, to cry foul here. And I really am hoping that my Republican colleagues, who many of whom I have great respect for, see that this, this is no game anymore. I mean, what the President did with this impoundment, he has no authority to do. What he's doing with the purging of the FBI is showing that he is deadly serious. And I think there was a lot of wishful thinking on a lot of folks that the Trump agenda would be different than it was, but he's made it clear. Lawlessness and cruelty, he will use both of those to take care of his need for retribution, but also to privilege the Elon Musk of the world. And there's only a few of them, but those are the ones who are in charge. And by the way, there was an elon Musk, Musk, SpaceX, SpaceX person over there at the Justice Department and is he going to be looking over Cash Patel's shoulder in the purge?
Unnamed Commentator
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.
Stephen K. Bannon
Medieval on these people. I got a free shot.
Unnamed Commentator
All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
Stephen K. Bannon
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but.
Unnamed Commentator
You'Re not going to stop it.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's going to happen.
Martin
And where do people like that go.
Stephen K. Bannon
To share the big lie?
Martin
MAGA media I wish in my soul.
Stephen K. Bannon
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. This country will be saved.
Unnamed Commentator
War room.
Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen k. Ban. Saturday, the 1st of February, year of our Lord 2025, you're in the war room. On another workday. You saw Senator Welch right there. Impoundment, impoundment and removal of billets and programs, but really billets in this case, President Trump. The deconstruction of the Ministry of State is full bore. And the question I have for Rachel Matta on the MSNBC team in the, you know all these defenders of the American Gestapo, we've called them that, what, for two or three years now. Did you honestly think, let me get this right. Did you honestly think that you were going to be use Gestapo like tactics against the American people and you were to kick down doors and you were going to terrorize families, School board meetings, you were going to terrorize families. If the people praying the rosary outside of these abortion mills and that you were going to terrorize because that's what you tried to do, terrorize. Trump supporters and MAGA supporters, have the largest quote, unquote criminal investigation in your history that dwarfed anything about the anti war movement during the 60s, different than anything about finding the communist infiltration in our country in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Anything regarding radical Islamic Jihad, which you missed in the 80s and 90s and then after 9, 11, all of these things, all these major moments of infiltration by our enemies, and the largest was going to be against the MAGA movement, American citizens. And you would throw in the right to life movement. You would throw in really what, the beginning of Maha make America healthy again, which was really the school board meetings and the awakening of the American mom to what was going on in the schools. Do you honestly think that would all be done and you would trample on Civil rights and human rights and destroy people and bankrupt people, have people commit suicide and feel like they were othered they were not part of their country anymore. Do you honestly think that that was going to happen and there would be no accountability? Is that what you thought? This is not the Republican Party. There's all kind of, this is language, has to get precise. I think if you want to understand this historic moment, you can't talk about Republicans and Democrats anymore. That's a label that's meaningless. It's meaningless. The Republican Party and the quote, unquote, you know, limited government conservative. And I realize a lot of you people used to be limited government conservatives, maybe some of you are, but it never limited government conservative and constitutional conservative. Year after year, cycle after cycle, you put people back in. And what happened? They shredded the Constitution and the controlled opposition of the Republican Party and the limited government conservative movement just sat there and either were okay with it, work with it, got along with it, but they never opposed it. They might have sat there and made some speeches and sent some angry letters, but that's not opposing it. That's not opposing it. This is an apparatus that is running the most powerful nation on earth and they're not going to give it up. Why do you think in those four years, what they did to Trump in the first term was horrendous? But look what they did to Trump after they stole the 2020 election. After they stole, let me repeat, after they stole the 2020 election. They're like the Praetorian Guard. They choose who runs the empire. And the, you know, kind of the Spartacus guys weren't destroyed. It was resilience. And so now President Trump is back and we're in charge. President Trump's in charge. To show you his commitment and focus and determination. And like I say, when you look at Days of Thunder, you have to have three scale, depth and urgency. Scale. The scale of it, the depth of it. Every vertical, the scale of it, of all the verticals, the whole waterfront of everything that is, has impacted the country, everything that's taken away, destroyed the constitutional republic that has destroyed our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, our citizens, all of it, from Geneva and the World Health Institute to where money is going all over the world to the southern border to Latin America to Canada, to the Arctic to Ukraine, to Beijing, to Tehran, the capitals of Europe to Los Angeles to Chicago, everywhere. The scale of it, it's everything all together. I think I know this pretty well because we've been working on it, I don't know, for 10 years of my life, but for the last four years specifically, very detailed on the return. You've been on the show, you follow the show. Those of you who came in after the election, so many people come up to you. You gave us hope. You gave us hope. Well, we weren't happy talking to you. We said, here's how we do it, here's how we do it. And this is the political part. What starts the precinct strategy and rebuilds and rebuilds confidence. And you start with the American Policy Institute and the Peter Navarro books and Project 25. And you build up verticals in policy and also teams and cadres and a vanguard of a cadre. That's a revolutionary movement. And now the scale of it is breathtaking. And I say that someone knows a little bit about this. It's breathtaking. The depth of it is breathtaking. But the most impressive thing is the urgency of it. President Trump is acting in that, saying, there are decades that nothing happens and then there's weeks that decades happen. These are the weeks of Donald John Trump in 47. This is why it's the age of Trump. And they sit there. Do you honestly think we're gonna let the Gestapo get away with it? You know, was it Quentin Tarantino? These guys in Hollywood, they write these fantasy movies. What they would do to the Nazis. All these fantasy movies. Fantasy movies. That wasn't done to the Nazis. All these fantasy movies like little nine year old boys were. Let's have a fantasy movie movie. We're actually doing it. What, What? What you saw yesterday was nothing short of magnificent. Nothing short of magnificent. And for those of you on the receiving end of this, the blunt force instrument that lose, that leaves blunt force trauma. You did this to yourselves. You brought this on yourselves. Action reveals character. You revealed your character over many years because you thought you were untouchable. You thought you were impervious to all this. You treated people like garbage. You destroyed people, you destroyed families. You tried to destroy movements. You wanted to put Trump in this aspect of it. Imprisoned for 300 years, you wanted him to die in a federal prison. Let me repeat this. You wanted him to die in a federal prison. Haven't been to a federal prison. It's quite easy to die in a federal prison. You wanted him to die in a federal prison. Did you honestly think there would not be accountability? Well, if you did, you were sadly.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, welcome back. There's going to be much more of this. This had to be taken care of first, and it's not stopped. Somebody contacted me the other day, said, you know, some of the senior guys over there are very worried about their jobs. I said, they shouldn't be worried about their jobs. They should be worried about their criminal defense. This is only the first step. Stage one, step one. We're not doing it for Trump. We're not doing it for Navarro, Bannon or any of the thousands of J6 guys rolled up, men and women. They have nothing to do with it. They're totally irrelevant. This has to be done because it has to be done. We cannot allow this republic to go forward with this cancer. It's a cancer over there. The Deep State's a cancer. If they had, you could. You couldn't forgive them. But you might understand if they'd done an amazing job and the country was both prosperous and peaceful. We're not. We're besieged everywhere and our enemies have infiltrated us. And we underwrite them. Your tax dollars underwrite them. That's why it's such a sham. This is why they're so offended. On Thursday, they were offended. You saw them. You see. See, even like guys like Bennett was. Bennett's a school teacher. Bennett was a school supervisor. There's some calm guy from Colorado. Do you see the viciousness coming through on, on, on, on Tulsi Gabbard about the Ukraine question? Maybe we can Play that in a minute. We got work to do on Tulsi. I don't want to get too cocky because I think they may try to call Cash back because the events took place Friday. That's in perspective. This is how President Trump, I believe, is thinking. Cash hasn't been voted on his committee. Bobby has not been voted on his committee. Tulsi has not been voted on the committee. By the committee. The convening, the committee of authority, they go through first. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. It's absolutely important to him to make sure this thing is done and done, you know, done appropriately and done immediately and done expeditiously with urgency. It's scale, because he's covering the waterfront in every vertical that we've talked about for years on this show. They've got action plans, are taking executive action. Remember the concept we laid out to you, the violence of action. Not that it's violent, but it's the violence of action that Poso talks about. He'll be up here at 11. The violence of action. Action. Action. Action. Action. You're the protagonist in your life. You're the protagonist in the story. You're driving action. Driving action. Driving action. Make them react. Flood the zone. Action, Action. Action. Flood the zone. Action. Action. Action. Vertical, vertical, vertical. Wide, across the thing. Scale. Scale it. Make it big. Make it important. They're so used to having power. See how lazy they've gotten? See how pathetic they are. See the bleeding? You see the confirmations? They're bleeding out. Bleed. Bleet. And Bobby Kennedy finally having enough of it. Maybe get that clip for me later. Finally having a belly full of it. Calls out, Bernie Sanders. All you Bernie bros. I'll tell you, he's pathetic. Pathetic old man, totally irrelevant. Taking money from big pharma. And at the end, Well, I raised $200 million. Only a million. You're bought and paid for. Pathetic. Go talk about the minimum wage. Another misdirection play while you sit there and allow illegal immigrant invasion come through in the H1B visas. Glad you jumped in after we took on the oligarchs. Hey, dude, hold my beer. Scale, depth, urgency. Scale, depth, urgency. People around Trump. Oh, you can't. Don't do this. Cash has not been voted. They have not been voted to. Do you know you got boom. How about this? Get rid of them and do it today. I want it done by 5:00. I want them out. I want them out of the building. What you folks should do. Don't worry about your jobs. Your jobs are gone because you've disgraced the institution that you were sworn to uphold. You've disgraced your oath before God Almighty about defending the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Turned out you were the domestic enemies. Yes, you will go down in history because history is written by the victors and we are the victors now and we will be the victors in the future and we will write the history and you are the villains. You're being cast out now. You cast us out, but we were resilient. We had nothing. We had no control, no access, nothing on any of the institutions of power in this nation. Not Wall street and the capital markets, not the corporatists and all the corporate power, not the apartheid state in Silicon Valley, not the media in Hollywood, not the media in New York City, the television media. We didn't have pop culture, we didn't have high culture, we didn't have the universities, we didn't have the official churches. We had nothing. Nothing. Nothing but the indomitable will of this movement, of a populist movement, of sovereign will. That's what populism is. What you saw last night is applied populism through a blunt force instrument that happens to be the 47th president of the United States delivering blunt force trauma. You saw them last night. That's trauma. They're traumatized. Blunt force trauma. My mom said, get a taste of your own medicine. They didn't like it. They're going to like it a lot less. Yeah, they're going to. They're going to strike back. Of course they're going to strike back. They're quite powerful. They're going to strike back. Got that? They're going to resist and then they're going to strike. That's why. Action, action, action. Trump gets this. There's article the other day, met with his team, I think it was in the Atlantic. He met with his team and they had the executive orders people and they said, look, we have a program to let roll these out over the first 30 days or the first 60 days. We'll drop one every couple of days and we'll have a press conference. He goes, no, get them ready, I want them out. You know, 1, 2, 3, bang, bang, bang. Let's roll, let's go. Let's overwhelm. Take on this apparatus and break it. Let's take the Praetorian guard and break it. They don't seem so tough now, do they? Remember how high and mighty they were coming to the microphone and you're this, and you're that and having press conferences and seeing people perp walked and seeing people in jail and coming. You know Jack Smith's team came and sat in the front row and I was sentenced and they laughing and joking. Didn't bother me. Didn't care. The woman who stood and perjured herself in my trial is a simple trial. Perjurers have a lie. Bald face lied. Looked right there. Bald faced lie. Set up with Jack Smith's guys. Bald faced lie. She scrambled, took a pardon, begged for a pardon. Just like all of them. Begging for pardons. The J6 made don't look so tough now does it? Remember how puffed up they were on national TV and ABC News breaking news broadcast television I think at first broadcast tv national tv. This is like Watergate. This is bigger than Iran Contra. Remember all that Liz Cheney don't look so puffed up anymore, does she Benny Thompson. Remember how puffed up Benny Thompson was. Remember Benny? Remember Kinzinger shifty shift. All those lies he told every night of Rachel Maddow during Russia hoax. All of that bald fate coming. I just came at intel. This would be damning to President Trump. This was connected. He's done. He's going to prison. Then on the. Then on the the committee just the shifty shift grab himself a pardon. Not so sure those pardons are going to work. That's the next step. You're trying to say don't depend on those pardons. Don't count on them. Maybe you can bring them up at your trial. Hey, I was given a pardon. Okay. Interesting. We'll check that out. Seems like an interesting facto. This was directed by the President of the United States. Let me repeat this theory of the unified executive unitary executive. He is so if anyone out there is missing it and if I was the producers of the Rachel Madden all these guys. Take your number two pencil out and write this one down. He's the chief executive officer the United States government. And in that if he wants to take the money and impound it. He's going to take the money and impound it. Welch gets it. You heard him right there. He's going to take the money, impound it. Number two. He's the commander in chief of the uniformed military services. And if he decides at his sole discretion. Let me repeat this sole discretion to recall Milley to active duty. Him put on a uniform and tell Hegseth and the team over the Pentagon to convene a military tribunal under the uniform code of military justice and try Millie for treason. That will be done. And last but not least he is the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer of the country. The way that they really built in this kind of last phase, the deep state and made it impervious and acted like they just acted is they had a coup against Richard Nixon. It wasn't CIA and Woodrow and that was all part but the main part, the central part was Sirica, the Federal Court in D.C. the House staff lawyers and the Justice Department. Does this ring a bell to anybody? Do you ring a bell? Oh yeah. I think they did that to Trump too, didn't they? And Trump's followers, Didn't they do that? Yeah, they laid the blueprint. Then Jeff Shepard wrote two books about they're brilliant and Jeff Shepard should know. He was a lawyer in the White House counsel's office office and reported to the rat John Dean. He saw it all and he spent his life document Ask Monica Crowley. They ran out of play but and for years they hived off. They hermetically sealed the FBI in the Justice Department for their own devices. Yesterday on the 31st of January in the year of our Lord 2025, that hermetically sealed institution, the seal was broken. The seal was broken because the chief magistrate of the United States government, the chief law enforcement officer decided to break the seal.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Action.
Unnamed Commentator
Action.
Stephen K. Bannon
Action. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, welcome back. The so this is going to continue. They are purging. It's a purge. Some people around the President don't want to say that, but it's a purge. You have to. You have to get the virus out of the body. You have to. We allowed this country, Republicans, conservatives, myself, all of us, we allowed this country to get in a terrible, terrible, terrible place. A dark place run by bad people, evil people. There's not a difference in politics. There's not a difference in, you know, I think the marginal tax rate should be there. No, I think it should be there. No, I think, you know, this ought to be that, that ought to be this. The typical discourse of politics, Obamacare. Remember the, remember the arguments in the Tea Party that seemed so huge in those days, they're so tiny today. This is different. This is how a free republic, the last best hope of mankind. Because here, as Lincoln told us, is the last. You know, can this whole, whole idea of self government work? What can't work if you have an apparatus that thinks it runs the deal and you're just passing through? And that's what we have. That's what the administrative state is. And that's the deep state's their kind of rogue element. And President Trump, yes, we're going after the administrative state and Elon's doing some stuff and Russ vote and, you know, there's budgets and process and critical paths and all that. It's all happening. But hey, you've got a bad element of this. That's deep state and he ain't gonna tolerate it. Let me repeat. They tried to put him in prison for 300 years on just one aspect of it. 300 years to die in prison. To die in prison. And you have people in J6. There was a guy in my cell block across the, my cell and right across in his cell. I think he got 15 years. He's out now, by the way. He's out. And look at these guys. Just men and women just walk through the cabinet. They didn't care. Break you and bankrupt you by legal. They don't care. They don't care that your life's destroyed and your business is gone. They don't care. They didn't care. They didn't care because they thought you were powerless and you're never coming back. And now they understand that you actually are, I don't know, pretty powerful. And President Trump's the avenging angel and he don't want to hear it. I think the timing of it is magnificent because official Washington. Oh, my gosh, cash. You know, the committee and dude, ba bing, ba bang and oh my, oh my gosh, man, the committee, he doesn't give Fafo. Fafo Donald Trump. Boom. Yesterday had Every option in the world to wait. Oh, no. The committee will vote cash today and maybe the Senate floor. And thinking he don't care. Care. I want it done. I want to start to. I want to lance the boil and let's drain the pus out of it. And let's do it now. Let's not wait. That's what an adult says. That's what a parent says. That's what someone in charge says. Let's not wait. Let's take action. What did Churchill, right on the top of the memos. Action this day. Action this day had all kinds of things coming to him. People being. Everybody's got an idea, everybody's got, you know, wants to do this, wants to do. Have proposals and programs and policies and all of it. Action this day. That's how World War II was one. Action this day. That's Trump. That's why so many things happen simultaneously. This is just one aspect of it. You can take it. Go back, you know, from, from we told you, the start stopping the kinetic part of the third World War to the mass deportations, what you're doing on securing the border, all of it. But get the military. Get the military Airlift command. Get home and run around. Go to the sanctuary cities. Get the, you know, put one on the hip of the secretary of DHS in a bulletproof vest and let her roll. Start rolling up some folks. All hands on deck. The financial crisis. Get bessant. Get vote. Let's get working on this. Elon. Start taking about billets. Let's just roll. Let's go. Action. Action. Action. Flood the zone. Keep moving. They have no intellectual response. Don't give them time to organize. People said what, Steve, shouldn't you love to have time, reflect? No, no. They've had plenty. They've had decades in charge. Now they're not in charge. So let's make sure they understand how not in charge they are. Action. Action. Action. Go to the point of attack. In the point of attack. Put your best people and do not flinch. Do not falter. Move it. Action. Action. Action. And then you have. You have all the media and there are all the customs. We have some work to do on this and we're going to play. Can I play? Let's play. Tulsi Gabbard. We got some work. 202-225-20202. Excuse me. 224-3121. That would be the Senate. Although you could call 225 over the House and get put to the Senate. They'll be hiding today. They're Actually working. I think they're on time. They're gonna be hiding. They're probably not gonna pick up your calls. That's get Bill Blaster or. Or get Mike Davis in the team. You saw Mike. You saw what Mike's response was last night. Just loving what's going on. Let's play. We have a little, I think, work. We have work to do on Bobby. We have work to do on Cash. May have a little more work to do on Tulsi. We're going to get there, but we have to let people know what the stakes are. This is not a free choice. It has to be contextualized like the President. This is the team he wants. He gets his team. And if you're not going to vote that way, well, guess what? Actions. Ideas have consequences, and actions have consequences. Let's go and play Tulsi. Tulsi Gabbard's the opposite of qualified. She may be less qualified for this job than Pete Hegseth was to run the Defense Department.
Martin
Yeah, that's a pretty neck and neck competition there among the various nominees that are up right now about who's least qualified for their jobs. I still think Hegseth wins simply because of the size of the Defense Department and his inability and inexperience to deal with that. But Gabbard, I mean, I think, you know, one of the things that has been so distressing about, about these hearings and you see it especially with the Gabbard hearing, are any of those Republican senators really behind closed doors, when any of them turn to. Turn to each other and say, yeah, you know, I'm a little concerned about her views, but she's. She's totally qualified. She's an absolutely credible choice. This is another example, I think, of Donald Trump intentionally choosing people who are unqualified and controversial because he's actually not trying to reform or improve any of these organizations.
Stephen K. Bannon
Except in the case of the Defense Department and the FBI and particularly dni, people could die. And the danger at DNI is that the folks who die. If CIA agents in the field die.
Martin
No one ever gets to know about it.
Stephen K. Bannon
A star goes up at Langley. You will never know their names.
Martin
But all that is secondary to Donald Trump trying to break and own the, and then own the pieces of these institutions. He views the intelligence community as his opponent. He views the Justice Department as an enemy. He loathes the FBI, you know, as one of the institutions that was charged with holding him accountable for his actions. And so the idea, I mean, the Republican narrative on this is, while Americans have questions and concerns about these institutions. And so we have to fix them and we have to bring in kind of out of the box thinking. But that's not what's going on here. And Gabbard, I think, is really the example of this is not intended to actually improve these institutions and destroy.
Stephen K. Bannon
So whether.
Unnamed Commentator
Let me ask you, I've worked very hard to put your own words here in front of the committee. Not, you know, fake news, not conspiracy theories on the Internet, but the actual things that you have said. On February 23, 2022, at the very moment that Russian tanks were rolling across the peaceful border of Ukraine for the first time, you tweeted at 11:30pm your time, this war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden administration NATO had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate, legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine's becoming a member of NATO. Did you say that? Yes or no?
Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.
I believe you're reading my tweet, Senator.
Unnamed Commentator
Yes is the answer. A few months later, you said on your podcast, and I quoted it, quote, but this regime change, war against Russia that the US And NATO are waging via their proxy in Ukraine didn't begin when Putin invaded Ukraine. They had their eyes set on this objective long before that. Did you say that? Yes or no?
Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.
I believe you're reading my tweet.
Martin
There's a lot.
Unnamed Commentator
The answer is yes. You are agreeing that you basically said that Putin was justified in rolling over the peaceful border of Ukraine the first time since World War II, that a free nation had been invaded by a totalitarian state. And you were there at 11:30pm that night to say that you were with them, not us.
Stephen K. Bannon
If you see you're with them, not us. Who is us, Bennett? The blood on your hands, bro. I know you're, I don't know, school district superintendent or something out of Colorado. Look at what you said. That. What she said is absolutely 1,000% correct. Not, you know, not 999, 1,000% correct. Look at what Ukraine is today. Exactly what we told you was going to happen. And now Bennett and all these guys want to run or they want to throw some more money in, but they were basically run. And you're going to sit there. The thing that got me, if you watched historical documentaries, that's like the Nazi judges back in the 30s haranguing, haranguing the resistance people. They would pick up, you know, they wouldn't let them. They'd take their belts off and put oversized pants, everything to do to humiliate them in front of people. And then these Nazi judges, just like Bennett. Haranguing, haranguing, haranguing. Who are you, dude? Some goofball from Colorado? You Gonna Harangue her? 202-224-3121. If you don't think we need Tulsi Gabbard, you are mistaken. We need Tulsi Gabbard. Big league. That was pure calm before the storm. That was centered, unflappable. And they came at her hard. They may hate her. It's interesting. They may hate her more than they hate all the rest of them. There's something about Tulsi Gabbard that triggers them. That triggers a weasel like Bennett. Look at that. Is that disgraceful? That's the beta male. That's the Democratic Party beta male right there. You see it can't stand up to anything in real life, but man, you give him a gavel, you put him behind you. Give him a desk, give him a nameplate, give him a title. He's a senator from Colorado. He's not a little Weasley. I don't know, school board district chairman or school board superintendent. He's not Superintendent Bennett. He's a United States senator. He's gonna let her know he's just a Nazi judge. This all has to be purged, folks. Has to be. We're not a constitutional republic if we don't. They see the end of it all. That's why it's so vicious. That's where they're striking out so hard. When I say the end of it all, it's going to take years. But they are now starting to realize how it could end if we are relentless and determined and focused. That's the question. That's the big question before us today. That's what Tulsi Gabbard stands for. That's what Kennedy stands for and Cash Patel stands for. They're now it's not just the people themselves. It's symbolic. It's the reason we have to have them. It's not a choice. We have to have them. We must have them. And we will have them.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, Taj Gill is with us. Taj, by the way, Harnwell is going to be at top of the hour. Jack Posobec. We're going to have more to go through once again, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cash Patel. That is the work before us today. Obviously we have to get Tulsi over the hump. If Grace can put up the Senate Intel Committee, I'll maybe do that in the next hour. Let's get that in the live chat. Let's get that everywhere. The people you should be calling today and work them and work them hard. This one is a no brainer. Look at her grace and presence the other day, just amazing. And she will do an amazing job, you know, I know she'll do an amazing job. The people that have destroyed this country hate her. So just her being there is going to be. You're three quarters of the way to a great job. And remember, weasels like Bennett, this is why these guys are so dangerous. All these beta males, they can't do anything in real life. You give them a little power, give them a little taste of power. This is kind of how the Nazis were just saying, go look at him. Does Himmler look like a, does he look like a alpha male? Don't think so. Hitler, alpha male. Don't think so. These guys look like those guys look like alpha males. Don't think so. Kind of like the, you know, a lot of Hess. Kind of reminds me of Bennett just saying, go back and read it. Go back and study it. They weren't really alpha males in a thing called the Real World. Give them a little power. Get a little taste of power. You see what happens. Bad things happen. 80th anniversary of Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is just not simply about the Jews. It's everything. You know, it's the gypsies, it's the Catholics, the priests, the Poles, all of it. Give them a little power. That's what it's going to do. You don't think Bennett, look at him, he's like a Nazi judge. You don't think they had the. If they had the option, if we. The option be sending her a witness, get him off, go to the Gulag. That's what they did. This is how they ran the deal. This is why the FBI was the American Gestapo. I don't take pride in saying that. When I was a kid in the parish, Little St. Paul's parish, the most revered guys weren't the doctors and the lawyers. The revered guys were the couple of dads that were FBI agents because you had a lot of mix. You had to be a lawyer and accountant. Had a lot of Irish there, a lot of hammerheads. They were the Revere guys. The FBI part of Hoover's FBI revered. Yep. It's interesting that the modern FBI went after when they say the Richmond office. No, that's. They went after Steve Bannon's parents. Traditional Latin Mass. Tiny parish that was started because the bishop allowed the Latin Mass to be said. And all the people in the Latin Mass came together and they had a tiny little parish and they had some of the Benedictine monks at the military school where I went, went over there and started part time to do it. And they came from all over. And these were the deplorables. This was the blue collar of the blue collar. The families that had, you know, eight and nine kids, like the old Catholic families, the throwbacks and had the kids that all served in the military and some that went to the Naval Academy and some that went to West Point. It is the epitome, the manifestation of the best in this country. People had nothing material. You could tell the kids all had hand me downs, but they had something more than the billionaires families and the billionaires kids. I've seen, I've seen the rich and I've seen the working class poor and what the, what those families got in that parish you can't replace. There's not enough gold on earth to replace it. It's everything. It's everything. It's everything that's good in this country. I've seen all the wealthy kids and all the wealthy families, all the madness there. And what does the FBI do? They wrote reports, they looked at that. That's White supremacy. That's white nationalism. That's disruptive. That's how evil. The deepness in the evil. It's evil what was in the building. That's why that building. No cash. It's not a museum to the deep state. You're just wrong there, sir. That building, which is brutalist architecture, it is such a scar on Pennsylvania Avenue, it has to be taken apart brick by brick and the earth salted around it like Carthage. And nothing ever again ever put there as a memorial to what was allowed to take place in the late 20th and early 21st century forever. Nothing could ever be built there. And just a small plaque in the middle to remind people that both political parties and the American people. And to have these things in Hollywood with FBI shows, first thing I told kids, you got to go to Hollywood. First thing is, take all the intellectual property. It's a disgrace. You have these shows and these people are all like superheroes. No, no, no. They're evil. It's evil. It's evil. When I'm in prison. And you have these, the holiest people, the nicest people you will ever meet for praying the rosary outside of an abortion mill. And you get five years in a federal prison. And the way they were rousted and jackbooted and kicked down their doors and intimidate their families, intimidate their little children so that psychological scars always there. And you want mercy. You will not get mercy. I'm sorry. You will get justice. Yep. Unleavened with mercy, accountability and justice. You must. It must happen. This republic, we can never get this. We can't get onto the road to the constitutionality. You can't get onto the road of what the framers and the revolutionary generation had in mind. Until that is done. That's why it must be done. It's not Trump. Not about Trump. It's about something far deeper. It's what Trump is for the ages. Yep. Very imperfect. A very imperfect instrument. And it's the imperfections that highlight the greatness. It's where we are. And we're not backing off this at all. They think if they think we're going to back off, they are mistaken. This has to play out to its logical conclusion. That's why Trump's on the hero's journey. Yep. Speaking of the hero's journey, the right stuff, what a way to end. I got some pretty big heroes on the other side. Taj Gill, Jack Bosobic, the one and only Ben Harnwell, all join us in the war room after a short 90 second commercial break.
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Release Date: February 1, 2025
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Platform: WarRoom.org
In Episode 4238, titled Scale And Executive Action To Take Back Our Country, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into significant political upheavals concerning the FBI and the broader implications for American governance and democracy. The episode features insightful discussions among key figures, including Acting Director Brian J. Driscoll, Jr., political commentators, and unnamed senators and commentators. The conversation navigates through recent FBI executive terminations, internal investigations, threats to the rule of law, and strategic responses aimed at reclaiming national integrity.
At [00:00], Acting FBI Director Brian J. Driscoll, Jr. addresses the FBI workforce regarding a memo received from the Acting Deputy Attorney General. The memo mandates the termination of eight senior FBI executives by specified dates unless they retire voluntarily. Driscoll emphasizes adherence to the law and FBI policies, stating:
"We are going to follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what is in the best interest of the workforce and the American people always." ([02:27])
Further, Driscoll details requests for information concerning FBI personnel involved in investigations related to the January 6th Capitol events and the case against Haniya regarding the October 7th Hamas attack. This move has raised concerns about potential personnel actions against agents involved in these high-profile cases.
An unnamed senator voices grave concerns at [04:05], comparing current Justice Department actions under President Trump to the era of J. Edgar Hoover:
"Is Donald Trump using the Justice Department or the FBI to exact retribution or pursue political enemies?" ([04:05])
The senator underscores the erosion of the Justice Department's independence, highlighting that actions against FBI officials and prosecutors may signify a departure from constitutional governance.
At [03:10], Driscoll criticizes former Trump defense lawyer Emil Beauvais for demanding an exhaustive list of FBI agents involved in sensitive investigations, framing it as an attempt to undermine the FBI’s integrity:
"Does this fundamentally change who we are as a country? If FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have now had their careers threatened... Have we already sort of crossed a Rubicon in terms of... rule of law?" ([03:10])
Stephen K. Bannon passionately discusses the ongoing purge within federal institutions at [06:18]:
"This is a purge. Some people around the President don't want to say that, but it's a purge. You have to get the virus out of the body." ([06:18])
He likens the removal of officials to eradicating a cancer, emphasizing the necessity to cleanse the administrative state to restore constitutional governance.
Bannon outlines a strategic approach based on three pillars—scale, depth, and urgency:
"Scale. The scale of it, it's everything all together. ... The depth of it is breathtaking. ... The most impressive thing is the urgency of it." ([15:00])
He argues that President Trump's decisive executive actions are crucial to dismantling entrenched bureaucratic resistance and reclaiming national sovereignty.
At [05:43], Bannon challenges media outlets, accusing them of portraying federal actions as oppressive:
"We have called them the American Gestapo... Did you honestly think that was going to happen?" ([06:04])
He asserts that media misrepresentation fuels public fear and undermines genuine governmental accountability.
Throughout the episode, Bannon addresses specific political figures, critiquing their qualifications and motivations. For instance, he disparages Senator Bennett's handling of Tulsi Gabbard's hearings, labeling his actions as reminiscent of Nazi judges:
"What you saw yesterday was nothing short of magnificent... It was like the Nazi judges back in the 30s haranguing the resistance people." ([36:23])
Bannon highlights the administration's aggressive use of executive orders to swiftly implement reforms:
"I want to start to. I want to lance the boil and let's drain the pus out of it." ([29:30])
He emphasizes the need for immediate and overwhelming action to prevent the deep state from reasserting control.
The discussion includes critiques of nominees such as Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel, questioning their qualifications and the administration's strategic choices. Bannon underscores the importance of supporting qualified individuals who align with the movement's goals:
"We need Tulsi Gabbard. Big league... We have to have them. We must have them." ([29:30])
An unnamed commentator warns of escalating governmental surveillance, citing Jim Rickards' concerns about programmable money and the government's capacity to shut out dissenters from financial systems:
"If we say the wrong things on social media... the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts." ([43:31])
The episode also touches upon economic issues, particularly the national debt and deficits. The commentator urges listeners to safeguard their savings through diversification and investing in physical assets like gold:
"Diversify your savings. That's why buy gold from Birch Gold." ([15:00])
In his concluding remarks, Bannon reiterates the necessity of relentless action to reform and reclaim American institutions:
"We can't allow this republic to go forward with this cancer. It's a cancer over there. The Deep State's a cancer." ([16:20])
He calls for continued vigilance and proactive measures to ensure accountability and uphold constitutional principles.
Bannon announces upcoming segments featuring guests like Taj Gill and Jack Posobec, signaling ongoing discussions about strategic initiatives and further institutional reforms.
Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.:
"We are going to follow the law, follow FBI policy, and do what is in the best interest of the workforce and the American people always." ([02:27])
Unnamed Senator:
"Is Donald Trump using the Justice Department or the FBI to exact retribution or pursue political enemies?" ([04:05])
Stephen K. Bannon:
"This is a purge. Some people around the President don't want to say that, but it's a purge." ([06:18])
Unnamed Commentator:
"If we say the wrong things on social media... the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts." ([43:31])
Brian J. Driscoll, Jr.:
"Does this fundamentally change who we are as a country?... Have we already sort of crossed a Rubicon in terms of... rule of law?" ([03:10])
Episode 4238 of Bannon's War Room offers a critical examination of the ongoing political struggles within federal institutions, emphasizing the perceived threat of institutional overreach and the imperative for decisive executive action. Through a blend of expert commentary and strategic discourse, the episode underscores the importance of maintaining constitutional integrity and resisting deep-state influences to safeguard American democracy.
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