Stephen K. Bannon (3:00)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. It's Tuesday, the 11th of February in the year of our Lord 2025. We've got a lot to go and particularly President Trump. We're going to go. Which just happened moments ago in the Oval Office with President Trump signing, guess what, more executive orders on days of thunders and taking questions from the press. Kind of his daily fireside chat, press briefing in there. I think there's an executive order about judges. And I know that it's been a lot of focus on. Okay, New York Times. Today, a showdown emerges. This is what I was holding up in front of the courthouse today, a showdown emerges over the limits of presidential power. You see that? That's the lead right there. And then below it kind of the analytical piece was Trump causes constitutional crises. Scholars say a flurry of radical acts that may thwart court's response. Okay, and they're making this case that everything President Trump's doing, everything Doge is doing, Elon Musk is doing Russ Vote over at omb. Stephen Miller is head of the. He's deputy chief of staff for policy. All these guys taking different cracks at the administrative state, different cracks at trying to figure out what the deep state's been up to and trying to crush it. Also trying to look at where you can cut costs dramatically and quickly so that we can afford this government. They are being stopped right now, or slowed down, I should say, in federal court. They're going to federal court from Rhode island to Washington, D.C. to New York City. Federal court to stop the Consumer Protection Board from being shut down and defunded from usaid, being shut down and defunded that people sent home from, you know, everything from government workers having the buyouts, even that they're saying that's illegal, to government workers being told to come back to work or you're fired in different. On and on and on, different restructurings. And they've got unions suing, they have individual suing, they have people suing over their data. So they're everywhere in federal court. What I told NBC is that, hey, President Trump could fight these, could not turn over, could not slow it down. One was about stopping. He stopped payments in a certain area, and they said he had to continue the payments. So the executives in charge of the area have a choice to either restart or defy the courts. If you defy the courts, which I'm inclined to do, and fight this, you know, you could be held in contempt. The executive could go to jail. But my recommendation for President Trump, I know he's a fighter and he doesn't want to comply with a lot of what the courts are saying, particularly since you've heard J.D. and you've heard other people talk about it, they think it's an intrusion upon executive power. To wit, if the appropriations Committee and they pass something. It's got a budget, let's say the Green New scam. And it's got $500 billion. And President Trump steps in to office and there's 300 billion unspent. He believes he has the authority from the Constitution as a chief executive to reprogram that. And that's called, you know, he's got this whole thing about the Impoundment Act. He think he impound it and reprogram it. And that is a big constitutional question have to be resolved. But there's many, many others. Now, I said you can either fight this and be held in contempt and fight the courts at the lower level, or you could comply, slow down a bit, but expedite to get to an appellate court and have a hearing and if that doesn't work, get on the emergency docket of the Supreme Court. And they by and larger have to take some of these things. So that's it on the federal side, that I don't think should be the fear. Number one, you have literally broken the Democratic Party. They don't really have a political response right now. You can see this if you watch msnbc, if you read the New York Times, they're bitching at their leaders. They're not stepping up to Trump enough. They got some of these old hacks outside of government buildings having protests, but it feels very performative. The crowds aren't very big. They're cold, they're sullen and they're beaten. So on the political side, not much. The media is completely shattered, a little bit turned on themselves. They're searching CNNs, they're all trying to figure it out. Okay, but so the Democratic Party and really the media, which is essentially really the opposition party to President Trump, is on its back foot. And the federal courts, I just don't think, I think the federal courts have given TROs and some, you know, temporary restraining orders or stand downs, stays for short periods of time. But I don't see the federal courts, although there's a lot. And they're all running into federal court because that's what they do. And they used to run the deal at a DOJ with the judges in the Southern District in the Eastern District of New York. Remember, all this was their terrain. They had all the ability of law firm that I think works itself out. And I think President Trump continues to press the bet, continues to put the foot on the pedal. Where I see is the chink in the armor. And I think it has to be addressed immediately. And this is what I said Outside the courthouse in New York City. And New York City is not just, it's not Peoria, Illinois, it's not someplace in Missouri. It is the financial capital of the world. And if you look at the ship of state, kind of the way our country's organized, the bridge, let's say, is Washington D.C. but the engine room is in New York. It's where all the capital markets are. It's where the Treasury Department's trading desk is. It's where the Federal Reserve's trading desk. I think the Federal Reserve and the treasury are the two biggest trading desks of government securities and bonds in the world. You have every piece of commercial data goes through there, all types of trade data goes through there. New York's a hub for information. That's why it's the financial capital of the world. Financial capitals deal on information, whether it's 16th century city of London or 21st century Manhattan. And in Manhattan, this is not New York City of the boroughs. It's not Staten island, it's not Brooklyn, it's not Queens, it's not the Bronx. You don't have this kind of particularly immigrant, hardworking people of color that are starting to shift towards President Trump to start to become more MAGA or Staten island, which has always been kind of a backbone of the Republican Party. Up there you have Manhattan. Manhattan is, it's probably the most radicalized part of any city in the country. And inside that city you have two actually radicalized places like the Upper west side. And then you got kind of downtown you have Letitia James, you have an attorney general that has totally and complete control of all of it. And she has a prosecutor in a da, in a Soros backed DA and she's sores backed in Manhattan that has full ability to impanel a grand jury, a criminal grand jury on moment's notice and throw up the most bizarre information for criminal charges. Look at President Trump. Remember, President Trump is found guilty of 32 felonies in New York that were completely and totally bogus. Ask anyone, law professor, you know, any reasonable lawyer, you know, completely bogus. They took these misdemeanors and flipped them into felonies. And I think the jury was out three hours. And they went through, remember days of picking the jury, remember all the picking the jury. Well, I think this guy, this guy's giving me the wink. Remember that one guy? Yeah. He's, he's looked over here, he's unanimous. You have a hand picked from the Upper west side. The existential threat, the clear and present Danger, the clear and present danger to President Trump right now, to me, is only one thing, and that is this system that these radicals and the most radical people underneath the New York legislature, the most radical people, Tish James Alvin Bragg Soros backed with radical prosecutors in a city you can call a grand jury of radicals with nothing to do but sit in a grand jury. Radicals to indict people. And right now, they can make up anything about the information about what you're doing with shutting some of these things down. It doesn't have to be accurate. In fact, they could go for years on the indictment. They can indict you and go for years and years and years, and they have nothing, but they just drag it out. They don't have the politics. They're not winning. President Trump's polling is unbelievable. The media shattered, right? CNN's number's in the tank. MSNBC's babbling every night. New York Times readership. People don't look. Just look at the media, look at the pundits. They have no earthly idea what they're doing wandering around. So no politics, no narrative building, no information warfare. The federal courts are a problem, don't get me wrong, but we're on the high ground there. President Trump's theory of the unified executive, I think, plays out. I would be very careful. I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I think if you start being held in contempt as an executive assistant with President Trump says, no, I'm not going to give you. You say, stop, you know, uncut, off the funding. I'm not going to do it. I think you lose some of the moderates like Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett when you need them. So I think you have to worry about the politics of the court. But I think on the. At least as I understand it, I'm certainly not a lawyer, but as explained to me over and over again, I think in the federal court system, it slows you down, but it doesn't stop it. It slows you down, but it doesn't stop. And it tangles you, but you work through it. The only thing they have is they've set up a perfect system. Soros set it up. It's his money. They thought it through. These are not great lawyers, but this is an existential threat. And to me, it has to be addressed as addressed. I think Pam Bonney, I think the only thing you do is put the fear of God in him. You know, President, this should have happened after President Trump, the sham trial he had the first time. I think Pam Bonney, which Should be a high, high, high priority. And she should put the Southern District. Southern District's a rat's nest. You got Clayton up there. Jay Clayton is a new. But I don't think he's been confirmed yet. Remember, all the US Attorneys had to be confirmed. This thing takes forever. We have other confirmation to talk about this week. Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, Cash Patel. It looks like for Bobby and Tulsi, it's coming our way. And Tulsi was supposed to be the kind of odd lot there. It looks like cash. They're coming back with cash every day. They say, oh, they got a new revelation on Cash Patel. Now they're claiming Cash Patel fired all the FBI agents last week. But, hey, you know what? Good on you. Good on you. You started your job early. That's their new thing. Every day is a new revelation of cash. They've put his committee of jurisdiction, the Judiciary vote till Thursday. Think the other votes are tomorrow. But Pam Bondi is in. Emil Bovey is there doing an amazing job. Todd Blanche has not confirmed, but Emil's there doing a fantastic job. I would set a task force immediately or parse it out to the Southern District, Eastern District. Let's get a criminal investigation going on Tish James and Alvin Bragg. If nothing more, Put the fear of God in them, slow them down, because they're coming for Trump. They're coming for this administration. They feel that they are the last line of defense of the administrative and particularly the deep state. And remember, there are many, many, many, many dark secrets in New York between the Capitol and the intelligence. This is why Donovan, when he set up the Wild Bill Donovan, when he set up the oss, he would pick from two basic types of people. Wall street lawyers, of which he was one, deal lawyers and investment bankers. That's a crowd that, you know, could get things done their way. A lot of dark secrets there. Okay, we've got a full press briefing, I guess a presser from President Trump signing the executive orders. Days of thunder. Continue. Attorney General Pam Bondi hits it. Wow. What a beautiful view. Oh, my Lord. Oh, my Lord. New York, New York. Stunning. Short break. Back in a moment.