
Episode 4370: Judge Boasberg Weighs In On Signalgate...
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Eric Bolling
Check it out.
Steve Bannon
Is that. I'll give me a second. Let him put it on. There you go. Hold up. That could be it. That's legislation. That's going to be. Take it over. It's all yours. Bowling, you go from. You go, Eric, you see, you got range. You can go from the very serious to then the comedic, you know, instantaneously. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it, Eric. Thank you. Manana, Eric. Bowling the great. Thank you, brother. So just for programming, President Trump was supposed to sign the executive orders earlier in the day. It was closed press. Because sometimes what they do is they, is they film it live to tape and then put it up later. I hope the White House has solved the, the streaming problem they had yesterday. We did notify them. I think they were looking into it. Our current understanding is it going to be at 6:00 tonight during our show, the second hour. They are going to have EOs. And we understand they may even make it open to press. We hope that's the case and we hope, our hope our. Brian Glenn's there. But even if not, the press will be there and President Trump should hold court. So we'll do that. We've got a lot to go through in the first hour. We have a great cold open that sets forth what's happened today. An incredible day for news and strategic news. Let's see it. I'll come in. Put it all in context. The President has to hold people accountable when things like this happen. It is not fair to everybody who puts their life on the line to serve this great country. It's not fair to them. So somebody should be held accountable. It should be the Secretary of Defense, in my view, in this case, Pete.
Melanie Zenona
Hagseth and Mike Walz should resign immediately. They cannot be trusted to protect our national security. This week we saw that they shared classified military attack plans on an unsecure platform with a random journalist included. Then they lied to the American people about it and doubled down on that lie even after being caught red handed.
Steve Bannon
Secretary of Defense Pete Hexseth should resign. He recklessly texted operational details of military strikes, including time, place, location and sequencing of those strikes, to a journalist. Had that information gotten to the Houthis, American pilots could have been shot down, Navy sailors could have been targeted. His reckless actions endangered the lives of American troops, endangered our national security, and makes it so that our allies don't want to share sensitive, classified information with us anymore. Pete Hexa should resign. Right? I mean, and frankly, every person on that chat should. Should resign. And never in their lifetime have access to classified material because these morons exposed our military with their idiocy of just putting it into a group chat. And not even, not one of them said, hey, who is this other person in here that's not responding, Right? Like, it wasn't like he was pretending to be someone else.
Melanie Zenona
He just, like, wasn't responding.
Steve Bannon
Ultimately, the buck stops with the President of the United States of America, which is why I made clear to President Trump yesterday in my correspondence that the Secretary of defense should be fired immediately if he's not man enough to own up to his mistakes and resign in disgrace.
Melanie Zenona
Sixteen Democratic senators who signed a letter today asking for, frankly, a more sprawling investigative action beyond what we just talked about. Do you think ultimately the reality will lie somewhere in the middle? Are you more likely to have to, for lack of a better phrase, take what you can get from your Republican colleagues? Where is this realistically going?
Senator Blumenthal
I'm hoping for an even more aggressive, comprehensive investigative effort that will be bipartisan. This step, asking for the inspector general of the Defense Department to do an inquiry is a good one, very positive bipartisan step. But these investigations by inspectors general often take months, sometimes years. And this one has to be prompt, penetrating, and unsparing. And in the meantime, let's be very blunt here. There was a likely crime committed under the Espionage act, under the Federal Records act, there should be a criminal investigation. I think there's grounds for a prosecution, but ultimately the evidence has to be assessed after the FBI, which has a criminal national security unit, to do an objective and independent investigation that could produce a prosecution. I also think that both Hegseth and Walsh need to resign or be fired.
Melanie Zenona
Breaking news that the White House is preparing to pull Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations. NBC's Melanie Zenona broke this story. She joins us from Capitol Hill. What more do we know, Melanie?
Captain Fennell
Yeah, well, it hasn't officially been pulled yet. We are waiting for a potential social media post from President Donald Trump to officially announce this based on several sources that I spoke to. That is indeed the plan is that the White House is going to withdraw her, her nomination to be the Ambassador to the United Nations. And CBS first reported earlier that this is something that was being considered today. Now, we know that is likely to happen and is going to happen potentially within the next hour here. Now, we had also reported a few weeks ago that her nomination had been on ice. And the primary reason at that time was that there was concern from the White House over the razor thin majorities in the House. Remember, having her leave would narrow the already thin majority by yet another member until she is replaced in her Senate seat, which could take months. And there is a Democratic governor in New York where she is from. So it's just really uncertain how long that process would take. But I'll point out what's slightly different in this case right now, in this moment in time, is that Republicans are set to get back at least 2, 2 of the seats that have been unfilled over these last few months. There's a special election next week for two Florida seats. That's for Michael Waltz, who left Congress to serve as the national security director adviser. And then, sorry, Congressman Matt Gates, who also left to try to serve as the AG nominee, although he ended up pulling out of the running a few days later. So Republicans are going to get their margins up pretty, pretty soon here. So the timing about this withdrawal is pretty interesting to say the least. But nonetheless, the bottom line is that Elise Phonics, someone who has been a Trump loyalist, was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump after January six to run for president, someone who has just been behind the president every turn. She even gave up her leadership post here in the House in order to eventually leave Congress. I mean, she's been posting all week on Instagram about how she's doing a tribute to all of her favorite moments in the House. There's supposed to be a toast to her with leadership on Monday night, saying goodbye to her. It looks like she is not going to be leaving at least for that United nations ambassador post anytime soon.
Steve Bannon
Of course, we got two specials next week in Florida. Two specials will be watching on Tuesday. Chapin. And there is talk that Democrats think they can flip a seat here. Republicans in the state think Senator Randy Fine will be all right. But is that why we're having this conversation, because of what's up in Florida? It certainly is playing a role. I think you're seeing the Democratic candidate running a little bit stronger than probably anyone anticipated. So they are, you know, I think, I think the Republicans are ultimately be safe. But this is the calculation, right. And they're watching this. And you know, per genius point, right. A lot of the Trump agenda hinges on congressional support. I mean, almost all of Doge. Right. If they're going to implement any of these, these, any of these recommendations stuff that's going to come next year, they need a willing Congress. And you've seen some Republicans like to, you know, do the have a little independent streak, right. So you can't always guarantee on 100% in your caucus. So all of this makes sense to me. It's, it's the right thing to worry about. It's unfortunate for, you know, Congresswoman Stefanik, you know, having her sights set on the ambassador's role. But getting the president's agenda passed is the most important thing for Republicans in the Beltway for sure. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot 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 going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA 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.
Senator Blumenthal
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Steve Bannon
It's Thursday, the 27th of March in the year of our Lord 2025. An explosive day on Capitol Hill and through other parts of the world. We're going to cover it all. I'm going to replay momentarily in the next block when I have Mike Davis and Captain Fennell join me. Blumenthal right there. Quiet part out loud. What did I tell you? There've been crimes committed. We want a criminal investigation. They violate the Espionage Act. This radical justice judge, as I just said on Eric Bolling show, has already inserted himself in this case and asked for all documents, complete document dump, preserve your documents, everything from March 11 to March 15. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which is the committee of jurisdiction controlled by Republicans, Roger Wicker has agreed to a bipartisan underline that, ladies and gentlemen, bipartisan investigation of this. More on that later. I want to go. At 6:30 tonight, President Trump is going to be doing a town hall, a telephonic town hall in the 6th congressional district of Florida for Randy Fine, the candidate, the Republican nominee. Randy joins us right now. Randy, you became a immense interest in the nation's capital today. Least Stefanik dropped out. I want to say least Stefanik did not drop out with Fabrizio's story about being nervous about this. Two other reasons, Number one, President Trump needs to have somebody in leadership that will deal with him straight and tell him particularly on critical path, what's going on. Also, Stefanik's by far the best defender he's ever had on Capitol Hill. Now that Gates is out in San Diego. You got it. You almost got to bring her in. You got to go to the bullpen, the U.N. we'll talk about the U.N. later, Randy. Fine. This is a dog fight up till Saturday. You can vote early and then it's game day. Where do we stand, sir?
Eric Bolling
Well, we've had a good day. Republicans are coming out. We've outperformed the Democrats, but we still have a long way to go. They've reached 22%. Almost one in four Democrats have voted, but only 13% of Republicans have. Our people are coming later and so we need people to get out and vote. It's almost done for the day in most of our counties. But tomorrow and Saturday, people can still vote early. And I'm super excited that at 6:30 President Trump is doing a teletown rally with me. And so he's going to make the call, I think, for people to come out and vote for me as well. So if they live in my district, if they live in those six counties, I'm actually campaigning. You can see I'm in a car, I'm waiting to go into my next event. But people can go to voterandyfine.com they can find out the hours and the locations of their early voting locations in those six counties. We just need them to get out and vote. If our side votes, we will win overwhelmingly. The question is, are they going to do that?
Steve Bannon
Yes, we're going to make sure they do that. But my understanding on the numbers is that it's been reported that the early vote breaks down 51 Democrat, 43 Republican. Have we closed that gap at all, sir?
Eric Bolling
Well, no, the early vote, I mean, Republicans are up by seven points. So I don't remember what the exact numbers are, but no more Republicans have voted than Democrats. That's not the case. It's not upside down. The first day on Saturday when you took all the absentee ballots, which Democrats typically do well on, and then early voting that day they were up. But every day we've made substantial progress. We're up five or six thousand votes, Republican versus Democrat. So we're moving in the right direction, but we're not moving far enough. We need to get that number up, up, up if we want to have Cuz I not only want to win, I want to win strongly, compellingly, so people can understand just how popular President Trump remains. That's why I needed them to get to voterandyfine.com figure out where to vote.
Steve Bannon
Tomorrow or Saturday early.
Eric Bolling
There's no reason not to run up.
Steve Bannon
The score one more time because people were jacked up after your appearance this morning. Where do they go? How do they help?
Eric Bolling
Sir, they can go to randyfine.com they can do one of three things. If they live in the district, they can find out where to vote. If they don't live in the district and they want to volunteer, there's a button where they can volunteer. And if they want to donate, every dollar we're raising is going immediately out the door for more voter contact activity. So whether it's $5, $10, $20, every dollar we raise will be out the door tomorrow being spent to make sure President Trump's agenda is safe.
Steve Bannon
Randy, Fine. Thank you very much, brother. We look forward to seeing tomorrow. Good luck tonight with President Trump on the tele town hall. It's going to be fantastic. Excited.
Eric Bolling
Appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Thank you. Folks, let's get up on the ramparts. Let's have Randy Fiennes back. He's right. We got to run up a big number here. Stefanik her nomination for the United nations poll because we're going to go to general quarters in the nation's capital. The Senate Armed Services Committee that you have worked your ass off to make sure it's in Republican hands agreed to have a bipartisan investigation and this judge immediately stepped in on this phony lawsuit. Civil suit said save all documents. You saw Blumenthal right there. There's been crimes committed. This has to be a crime. You see where this is going, right? You see how they play? It's time now. Republicans got to learn how to play smash mouth up on Capitol Hill. Enough of being the wimps. Short break. John Kahn takes us out. Back in a moment. Mike Davis, the viceroy, joins us. You don't go out and buy a life jacket when the boat is already sinking. And you don't buy gold when the economy has already collapsed. Clearly others are heeding this advice as gold hit an all time high the first part of 2025 multiple times. It's not too late for you. The company I trust to help you diversify into physical gold is Birch Gold. The company I buy my gold from. Birch Gold specializes in helping you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold for no money out of pocket. Just listen to this five star review. Quote, knowledgeable, helpful, non pressure, end quote. That's what you get with Burt's Gold. And that's why I've endorsed them for so long. Get your free info kit on Gold by texting the word Bannon B A N N o N to 989-898. There's no obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and countless five star reviews. Text Bannon B A N N o N to 989-898 and let the experts at Birchgold help you secure your financial future. Today with Gold news from that federal.
Melanie Zenona
Hearing on the lawsuit involving the national Security team group chat. CNN's chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid is back with us. Paula, what have we learned from the judge in this case? So, Casey, we had a decision here, Judge James Boasberg ordering the Trump administration to preserve all signal messages between moving March 11 and March 15. Now, those dates are significant because those are the dates when Trump administration officials were on a signal chat with a reporter from the Atlantic discussing military strikes in Yemen. Now this came after a lawsuit alleging that the administration was violating federal records laws because they're using this encrypted app that has auto delete features that were enabled by at least one person, one official in that chat. It's not clear that they were properly preserving these records. During this hearing, the Justice Department said it is trying to track down these records and properly preserve them. And the judge described this decision as a, quote, compromise. Now, Casey, Judge James Boasberg, he is an Obama appointed judge who has come under attack repeatedly in the past few weeks from President Trump. And just last week he oversaw a separate case related to to Trump sweeping use of a wartime authority to deport people he says were part of a Venezuelan gang. Now what's interesting is during that case, one of the arguments the administration made was that they did not have to comply with an initial order Boasberg made because he made it from the bench. So he did an oral order. They have argued that that didn't carry the same weight as a written order. So he quit during this hearing. Stop you for one second and just ask you, because I'm sure this is going to come up right. In the Venezuelan case, the question was are they going to defy the order? My question in this case is what if they can't comply with it because the messages have been deleted? Well, there's a process for that. What I was going to say is he quipped that he was going to put this in writing. I think it's funny that he's sort of carrying that strand along to this case.
Steve Bannon
Feels like he has to do that.
Melanie Zenona
I mean, exactly. I don't know if I'd make a joke in this context. You could just sort of do it. But in terms of whether they're going to comply right now, they have to show that they are at least trying, because this group would have to show irreparable harm. And the Justice Department is like, you can't prove that. We're trying to track this down. We've tracked down some of them, not the ultimately can not, cannot reveal these text messages. If they cannot retrieve these, that could potentially escalate this controversy because they could be in violation of these records laws. Now, usually that is something that would be referred to the attorney general. But at this point, there's no indication that the Trump Justice Department wants to get involved in this at all or escalate it to a criminal matter. So it's going to be really interesting to see what they put in a status report in the next 2448 hours. Sixteen Democratic senators who signed a letter today asking for, frankly, a more sprawling investigative action beyond what we just talked about. Do you think ultimately the reality will lie somewhere in the middle? Are you more likely to have to, for lack of a better phrase, take what you can get from your Republican colleagues? Where is this realistically going?
Senator Blumenthal
I'm hoping for an even more aggressive, comprehensive investigative effort that will be bipartisan. This step, asking for the inspector general of the Defense Department to do an inquiry is a good one, very positive bipartisan step. But these investigations by inspectors general often take months, sometimes years. And this one has to be prompt, penetrating, and unless bearing. And in the meantime, let's be very blunt here. There was a likely crime committed under the Espionage act, under the Federal Records act, there should be a criminal investigation. I think there's grounds for a prosecution, but ultimately the evidence has to be assessed after the FBI, which has a criminal national security unit to do, do an objective and independent investigation that could produce a prosecution. I also think that both Hegseth and Walsh need to resign or be fired.
Steve Bannon
You see the targeting right there? Crimes, crimes, crimes, crimes, both of the judge and now Blumenthal and the investigation, and they're going to try to pull cash into this, too. Mike Davis, the problem I have here, sir, is that the feckless Republicans on Capitol Hill are either rolling into this or in the House Judiciary Committee, and Johnson will not call up these judges to put them on notice that we're not going to tolerate that. Mike Davis, your thoughts? First off, where we stand with all this, how this judge got involved, and what's the solution?
Mike Davis
Sir, this is a silly non scandal. We have top national security officials using signal, which is end to end encryption, to communicate. This is exactly what the Biden administration directed these highly targeted officials to do. Right. And so we can't expect that these officials can all be brought into a SCIFF at one time to have these ongoing discussions. You have the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the national security adviser and other key officials. They have to be able to do their job. They have to be able to communicate in real time. And signal is the best thing they have according to the Biden administration. So it's not illegal for them to communicate on signal. It's actually encouraged according to the Biden administration's pronouncement from the, from cisa, which is the Homeland Security Cyber cyber part of the Homeland Security Department. Right. So that's one thing. The issue here is, is that this report somehow got onto this signal chain and the Trump White House needs to figure out how this.
Steve Bannon
We just lost Michael. Mike, let's get him back up. I know he's traveling. Let's go ahead and reboot him. The courts are going to be the anvil, the deep state is going to be the hammer. Here's the state of play. They had one of these groups file a civil suit immediately. A civil suit. Now this has got Boasberg, who's already inserted himself in the national security and forced the President to invoke the national what secrets. The Secrets Act. The State Secrets act to try to back him off, to try to back him off from getting involved in his role as, as Commander in Chief. Now he's involved in signal and that's supposed to be random. And he's inserted himself by requesting all documents, as they said on the T up. Oh, well that could be, you know, criminal. He could be looking for criminal activity on just what a civil matter. In addition, Wicker of Mississippi, as the committee of jurisdiction over the Pentagon, as head of the Senate Armed Service Committee that you worked your ass off to make sure you could get agreed with Blumenthal and these jackals to open up a bipartisan, a bipartisan investigation of this. And Blumenthal at the beginning, the ink ain't even dry on it saying, oh, it's criminal. We have to be aggressive. We have to have a criminal prosecution. Crimes have been committed. Mike Davis joins us again. Mike, your thoughts?
Mike Davis
I mean, like I was saying before, Steve, this is not, this is a non scandal. This is silly. These top national security officials are encouraged by the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security to Use signal for end to end encryption because they have to be able to communicate. Right. And that's what they're doing here. The only. The mistake that appears to have happened is there was a reporter on the signal chain, likely inadvertently, from their perspective, obviously. And so they need to figure out how this guy got on the signal chain and corrected. So it doesn't. But there's. There's no crime here. This was encouraged by the Biden Department of Homeland Security.
Steve Bannon
What about this judge that's now forced his way in on this civil matter and what they're trying to do? I understand they're silly. The arguments here don't make sense. But as you know, in lawfare, it doesn't need to make sense. In fact, if it makes. If it's counterintuitive or counter the law, that's all the better. They use law as a weapon. This is not a search for truth. That's what I keep telling people. This is not a search for truth. It's not. They use lawfare, they use the courts, they use these radical judges. They use the process in Congress as a weapon, and they're damn good at doing it. And we just seem to be too feckless. I'd like to know, I thought we were going to bring judges up this week at the Judiciary Committee to start asking them some questions about their role so far in shutting down every initiative President Trump has, including his efforts as Commander in Chief, sir.
Mike Davis
Yeah, that's exactly right. And it's just amazing to me that this D.C. obama judge, Jeb Boasberg, he seems to be the Forrest Gump of this lawfare against President Trump right now. He just seems to be popping up on all these Trump cases. I thought the D.C. district Court was supposed to randomly assign these cases to these judges. I. This doesn't seem very random to me, that these two cases that, you know, deal with the president, with national security matters with the president. It's Boseberg who's getting these cases. It just is not adding up. And in response to Senator Blumenthal, there's no crime here. It is not a prime for the national security officials to communicate via signal. They were encouraged to do that again by the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden.
Steve Bannon
Okay, okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. Once again, you have. You're arguing law, you're arguing truth. You're in a search for justice, bro. This is not about justice. You see what I have to do, folks? This is not about justice. This judge is corrupt. They're not going to stop. They're not going to stop till we just beat him in November. Right? We just beat them. They're not going to stop this thing. The courts, the same people send all these old ladies and people walking through, as you say, to take a Polaroid in the Capitol, sending them years in prison are the same guys now in President Trump's grill. And you've got, and you've loose Blumenthal and this pack of jackals in the Senate now and he sent into a criminal investigation by the IG over at the Pentagon. Your thoughts? I mean how we stop the lawfare assume that we're right and they're wrong and it doesn't matter matter to them, sir.
Mike Davis
Well, what I would, what I would say is I think the President needs to say the IG is not investigating this. The Justice Department is not investigating this. My White House team will investigate this and we will rectify this. Because even if they investigate, what are they going to investigate? They investigated that these national security officials were using signal which they're allowed to do and there was someone on the the signal chain. Big deal. All right, so you, so you make sure that doesn't happen again. But there this idea that, look, I would say this, you're not going to be able to open a criminal investigation without the Justice Department. The Justice Department absolutely should not open this investigation. And frankly, I'm right. I'm stunned that Senator Wicker is, is participating in this in the Senate. There's nothing for the Justice Department or the IG to investigate.
Steve Bannon
Mike, Mike, hang on one second. I want to make sure people get a where they have to go to fight this over. Article three. Short break. Captain Fennell, Mike Davis, next in the world. While we may have won this election, the fight to restore our great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to take a stand and Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. Only America's Christian conservative wireless provider, Patriot Mobile offers a way to vote with your wallet without compromising on quality or convenience. Patriot Mobile isn't just about providing exceptional cell phone service. It's a call to action to defend our rights and our freedoms. With Patriot Mobile, you get outstanding nationwide coverage because they operate on all three major networks. If you have a cell phone service today, you can get cell phone service with Patriot Mobile with a coverage guarantee. But the difference is every dollar you spend supports the first and Second Amendments, the sanctity of life and our veterans and first responders. Switching is easy. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Their 100% US based customer service support team will Help you find the perfect plan. Now. Right now, go to patriotmobile.com Bannon or call 972 Patriot. So call 972 Patriot or go to patriotmobile.com Bannon. You get a free month of service. That's a free month with promo code. Bannon. Switch to Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom with every call and text you make. Visit patriotmobile.com bannon or call 972 Patriot. Remember, you get a free month of service. Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Okay, the policy here is no scalps. Number one, nobody deserves it. Number two, we can't. You give them a scalp and they're gonna come in. They get blood in that order, it's all over. No scalps. This goes right back to the confirmations, right back to the railhead of that was Pete Hegseth. We're not gonna bend one inch. Impossible. Mike Davis People are ready to fight, particularly the war on posse. They are, they are so angry that the judicial system, particularly this corrupt court in Washington D.C. and Johnson and these guys, I don't want to hear about this Issa bill, which is nice, you know, three judge panel. That's not the point right now. The point right now, start calling judges in and put them in the stand right there and start drilling with questions. And you're going to have these federal judges give you a different, they're going to, they're going to give you different opinions. Just human nature. They are. Today the Doge guys over the secrets over at Social Security got lit up by this judge. Lit up. And if you continue, it's gonna, it's gonna continue until you stop it. It's going to continue until you stop it. This is not a search for truth. These Democrats, they know how to use these courts. It's a show trials like the 1930s in Moscow. Mike Davis the rate of fight, where they go, sir, they should go to.
Mike Davis
Article3Project.Org article number 3project.org There is an action item right now where we need to contact both of your home state senators and your U.S. house rep to impeach and remove D.C. obama Judge Jeb Boasberg. I don't care if we don't have the votes in the Senate to do this. I want to make the process, the punishment. I want this to serve as a deterrence. If Boasberg is in an impeachment trial, he's not making his illegal orders sabotaging President Trump and the President will.
Steve Bannon
101 more time. Where do they go, sir?
Mike Davis
Where to Article 3 Article street project.org Article number 3 project.org you can donate followers on social media Take action, action action and teach. Jeb Boseberg.
Steve Bannon
Thank you brother Mike what's your social media? You're putting up stuff all night where they go on Twitter and get her M.R.D.
Mike Davis
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Steve Bannon
Okay. Mike Davis, thank you joining us by phone. Mike Davis, the Viceroy I've asked two individuals. I got Philip, Patrick. Philip I'm a bump Philip a little bit because I want to take some time to go through Gold is on Fire and I want you to understand why. In global economics and geopolitics, by the way, they got the great newsletter. Make sure you go to Rickard's War Room Strategic Intelligence. Jim is a geopolitical and macroeconomic guy that comes on as a contributor. Absolutely Fantastic. Go to rickardswarroom.com get strategic intelligence and he throws in a free book on MoneyGPT. It's about currency, capital markets and AI and it will get your attention. It's not a pleasant read, but it's something you must read. It's free. So go check it out. Now. I wanted to have Captain Fennell. So Captain Fennell and thank you. You're up in the middle of the night where you're joining us. But it was important enough that we talked during the day. I want you because here is the main thing. Pete Hegseth is doing the exact job that this audience fought so hard to make sure he was confirmed. Captain Fanouts, give me your assessment as Pete Higgs so far as Secretary of Defense and particularly making his initial trip out to Guam, as you say, quite symbolic. For the main thing, sir.
Philip Patrick
Yeah. I mean the secretary is I mean he went to Europe and he told the Europeans they needed to do their share in the first couple of weeks that he was there. And now he's in the Indo Pacific, which is the main area of national security threat. And he's been to Hawaii to meet with the commander of Indo pacom, Admiral Papro, and they've talked about the real O plans, the operational plans that go into defending our interests in the Pacific. He's been to Guam and he's now just arrived in the Philippines and there's reporting that there's going to be an announcement that the US Will install another second battery of the Typhoon missile system, which is a combination of the TLAM and the SM6 missiles together in a launcher that basically gives us a surface to surface missile attack capability. Out to 1500 miles and a surface to air capability of, you know, 600 miles or so. And this is a system that's very critical for our allies defense in the Philippines. And so what we're seeing is him leading that and coming out on the front end of that to extend President Trump's actions that he did in the first administration when they first put the theater high area of defense missile system in Korea defends against the PRC's missiles that could attack South Korea and Japan. So President Trump is consistent over the two terms that he wants to increase America's defensive posture in the Indo Pacific in the Far East. And Pete Hegseth is out there and he's leading the charge. And oh, by the way, as he was doing that, they're leading strikes into the, into the Houthis. There's now reporting in the last 24 hours that there's over a dozen tankers and transport planes that have arrived into Diego Garcia, along with at least five to seven B2 stealth bombers. So there's a lot going on. And the Secretary of Defense is young, energetic, he's leading the troops from the front and he's energizing recruiting and he's energizing America's focus on, as you and I talk frequently about the main thing. So he's in the main thing right now. He's in the theater and he's reinforcing our alliances with Japan and Taiwan. He's going to, he's in the Philippines now, but he'll go on to Japan to celebrate and remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima with our Japanese allies who we fought 80 years ago. So these are very significant events. And he's representing us. And as you've been talking about, all this hubbub about the signal thing is just really very political and it's very detrimental to America's national security, especially when no one died in the attacks from our carriers into the Yemen against The Houthis here 10 days ago. Unlike what happened in August of 2021, when 13Americans were killed with the feckless leadership from the previous administration.
Steve Bannon
And people should know when Captain Fennell talks, he's one of the most revered naval intelligence officer that's ever put on the uniform I want to leave with. You mentioned something we had Nigel on here for weeks a couple of months ago about Diego Garcia and the importance of Diego Garcia. There's something happening. Diego Garcia has had a lot of activity. This is open sourced. It's had a lot of activity. I Mean, you and I might disagree on should we be hanging around the southern Arabian Peninsula, but one of the mandates of the United States Navy is to keep the oceans free, free navigation of the seas. That's certainly one mission that the two strike carrier battle groups are doing. But Diego Garcia is quite interesting, sir. Tell me your thoughts. That is the party going to be on. Is that what you're seeing at Diego Garcia, sir?
Philip Patrick
It sure looks like something's happening. And what I find ironic is all the hand wringing and the sky is falling from all of these politicians in Washington about signal chats that were after the fact, or at least after the execution. They're not saying anything right now about the regular commercial imagery, commercial tracking of aircraft that's available on the Internet that people have already found. And we know, as I just said, there's over a dozen U.S. air Force transport aircraft and refuelers that are in Diego, along with the five to seven B2 bombers. That's out there in the public domain. And yet I don't hear any of these same people that are screaming about Secretary of Defense should resign, are not saying anything about these issues. We live in the 21st century. It's not like when I was commissioned in 1986 and we didn't have this technology and you had to go to your skiff in the command center or you had to go on board your ship to get access to the classified information. We're living in a world where we have commercial satellites that are providing data to everyone. And so, as Colonel John Boyd said in the 1960s, the OODA loop, observe, Orient, decide, and act. That cycle of OODA loop, whoever can do that faster wins. And so what we have is people that are doing it faster and we're winning. Now, did we make a mistake in having it on signal and should we reassess that? Yes. And the President of the United States said it was a lesson learned, it was a mistake, and they're going to make changes. But to say we're going to crucify somebody over this is ridiculous. Right now we have larger things to do, and that's to face the reality that the Chinese Communist Party is sharpening their swords to essentially attack Taiwan and attack American interests in Asia, because to take Taiwan, they're going to attack our forces in the theater to make sure that we can't come in and defend Taiwan. That is the most lethal threat to us. We didn't defend or we didn't deter Putin from attacking in Ukraine. Are we going to deter the PRC from attacking Taiwan. That's the existential question that should be asked to these congressmen and these senators when they're on their TV stations and pontificate. They're not helping America's national security. All they're doing is playing political games and everyone can see it.
Steve Bannon
Captain Fennell mentions the legendary Colonel Boyd, who I happen to know the, that had the 9,000 page brief on maneuver warfare. A legendary guy like you are. Captain Funnell. Captain Funnell, I guess you don't have social media, right? We still do. You have a website?
Philip Patrick
No, sir, I do not.
Steve Bannon
That's okay, we'll just keep you. We'll just keep you. We'll just keep you here, Captain. Captain Fennell, thank you so much for adding your level headed discernment into this entire fiasco. Of course there shouldn't be any investigations and to agree to the investigations and not go on full offense. An individual spent a lot of time in Taiwan, knows what the situation is, but is one of the most astute political observers in the nation's capital. Matt Boyle joins us from Breitbart, the national political editor. Matt, you put out a tweet today about this Elise Stefanik that I thought encapsulated if Denver can put it up. But I want you to walk through it. There's much more here than Tony Fabrizio panicking about Florida 6. And there's a lot going on and particularly for this place and time, because President Trump needs a team that he can count on to take action when action has to be taken. Matt Boyle.
Matt Boyle
Yeah, look, I think that this is a sign that the President understands that the radical left and the globalist elite are beginning their attempt to strike back after November 5th. Obviously, November 5th was a huge election victory for President Trump and for conservatives and America First Republicans. But they did not win the war.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like they won a chance to win the war. And I think the President recognizes this. And what we're seeing this week from the Atlantic over this whole Signal gate nonsense is that this is the first of many likely strikes from those who have been disposed from power by the American public in their attempt, their desperate attempt to reclaim power. So I think that what's going on here is that the President recognizes that to succeed, he needs to have a very strong, strong House majority, as strong as possible. And he needs people in positions of power throughout the House that are straight with him. Right. So look, not to knock Speaker Johnson too much. I think that question's been settled, at least for now, in the broader equation here. After President Trump endorsed Him at the beginning of the year obviously won on the first ballot, and it is what it is. But the point is that Trump needs somebody on the inside of the House Republican leadership team that he could trust and talk to every day that's gonna shoot him straight when it comes to how this tax package is coming together. So ultimately, I mean, the entire agenda rides on this. Right? Like, the president needs this bill to pass.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, needs the tax details to make it through.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
He has to extend his previous tax cuts and he has to lock in no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security and no tax on overtime if he delivers on that stuff.
Eric Bolling
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, along with the immigration stuff, along with the energy dominance, Donald Trump can lock in the greatest political realignment in modern history. But he needs strong leaders in the House. And this is a strategic move, I think, by the president to do that.
Steve Bannon
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Matt Boyle
Yeah. This is where everybody needs to realize we're at war.
Steve Bannon
Right?
Matt Boyle
We are at war right now with the radical left and the globalist elite, the establishment media, et cetera. The party's over. Right. Like, and now the serious work begins. And I think that the impeachment fight in 2019 made several heroes. Right. Like some of them you see in key places all around, you know, the movement and the government. Right. So, for instance, Lee Zeldin was another one, but he's in the, he's at the EPA now. He's no longer in the House. Devin Nunez, another one. He's now running True Social and Trump's media enterprises on the outside. So he's no longer in the House. So it's like Elise is like the last, you know, the last amigo, if you will. Right. Like from that impeachment crew back in 2019 that, you know, she was sharpened by that.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, I think she radicalized her and it turned her into a, you know, an aggressive fighter. And so as we're getting it from all sides here, and this is just the beginning, okay? This is just the very beginning. This Atlantic Story, the deep state, the establishment media, they are coming for President Trump and they are coming for this movement and this agenda. Because this movement in this agenda represents a threat to their, to their livelihood.
Steve Bannon
Right?
Matt Boyle
Like, both things cannot survive.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, so either movement survives and thrives and prospers or they do. Right. Like, but they will go extinct. I mean, they are facing extinction right now from President Trump and his team. You see it right now with all the teams, all the cuts they're making across the government and everything and so on and so forth, all the changes they're making, the deportations they're doing. I mean, again, they're being sent the way of the dinosaurs. But the point is, is that, you know, these people are, they're not going down without a fight, and they're gonna fight every step of the way.
Steve Bannon
Let's talk about that. By the way, Devin Nunez is also the chairman of the president's intelligence board, PIAB. So he's in the bullpen. Lee Zeldin found the $20 billion Citicorp money laundering operation on the first day, was at epa. Stefanik's going back to the House. She's going to be the tip of the spear. Matt Boyle, the way to stop this is to stop it. Why are we not having judges go up before the House Judiciary, Jim Jordan and that team to actually ask some questions. I didn't say start an impeachment hearing right now, but have some hearings and collect some information, particularly why Boasberg thinks he can step in, be commander in chief, and today take some nuisance lawsuit from one of these left wing groups and all of a sudden he's requesting all documents and MSNBC is talking about potential criminal charges coming out of that. Why is that not happening? Matt Boyle, you say we're at war. Did Mike Johnson, the leadership, Did Mike Johnson, the leadership of the House understand when you say war, you mean war, sir?
Matt Boyle
Yeah. Boasberg should have already been brought before a House panel and impeachment charges should have already been begun against him.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, I mean, he's totally out of line whether, you know, not just on this case, but the previous one with the trend, Aragua, you know, him trying to order planes that were already in the air to be returned. Like, he doesn't have the authority to do that. He's not elected by anyone.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like, and so the President of the United States is the elected commander in chief. We have a radical, out of control federal judiciary. Right. There needs to be serious changes and reforms done to this. It needs to come from the executive branch, from the legislative branch, and frankly from the judicial branch. Right. So I would hope that there are courageous people and I know there's a lot of good judges out there.
Steve Bannon
Right.
Matt Boyle
Like especially in the appellate system. Right. Like in the appellate courts that need to start reining this craziness and insanity in. Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Boyle. Boyle. How does Roger Wicker, the, the committee of jurisdiction over the Pentagon, the intelligence guys didn't ask for this. The committee of jurisdiction on the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth working in a bipartisan way with Jack Reed, another radical, and they got Blumenthal, and Blumenthal already said crimes have been committed. We need a criminal investigation. How does Wicker, as a Republican in this audience, work their tail off for Wicker? How does Wicker kowtow and fall into the trap of bipartisanship when it comes to this nonsense?
Matt Boyle
Sir, it defies logic. But I mean, he's a globalist establishment Republican. He always was uneasy with Pete Hegseth getting confirmed as Secretary of Defense to begin with because again, these guys are all, you know, in the pockets of the defense contractors. Right. Like, and so at the end of the day, you know, there's a lot of, we can talk about the Democrats all day, but the Republicans have major problems still inside the Republican Party. And there's a lot of rhinos and, you know, whatever you want to call them, establishment Republicans, RINOs, et cetera, that need to be removed. There's good members coming in, don't get me wrong. Right. Like, even the numbers are better than they've ever been before. But we haven't won this yet. And everybody needs to recognize we are at war. We are at war.
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Episode Summary: Judge Boasberg Weighs In On Signalgate (Episode 4370)
Podcast Information:
I. Introduction to Signalgate Controversy
The episode opens with Steve Bannon addressing the audience about significant legislative developments expected to unfold during President Trump's telephonic town hall. The primary focus is on the Signalgate scandal, where top national security officials allegedly mishandled classified information through the encrypted Signal app.
Notable Quote:
"The President has to hold people accountable when things like this happen. It is not fair to everybody who puts their life on the line to serve this great country."
— Steve Bannon [02:00]
II. Calls for Resignations and Accountability
Both Steve Bannon and Melanie Zenona vehemently call for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Mike Walz. They argue that the mishandling of classified military attack plans on an unsecured platform endangers national security and undermines trust.
Notable Quotes:
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hexseth should resign. He recklessly texted operational details of military strikes... His reckless actions endangered the lives of American troops..."
— Steve Bannon [02:06]
"Hegseth and Mike Walz should resign immediately. They cannot be trusted to protect our national security."
— Melanie Zenona [01:38]
III. Judge Boasberg's Involvement and Judicial Criticism
Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed judge, has become a central figure in the Signalgate case by ordering the Trump administration to preserve all Signal messages between March 11 and March 15. Bannon criticizes Judge Boasberg for overstepping judicial boundaries and engaging in what he terms "lawfare."
Notable Quotes:
"This radical justice judge... has already inserted himself in this case and asked for all documents..."
— Steve Bannon [09:30]
"Judge Boasberg should have already been brought before a House panel and impeachment charges should have already been begun against him."
— Matt Boyle [49:29]
IV. Impact on Republican Leadership and Political Strategy
The episode delves into the broader implications of Signalgate on Republican leadership, emphasizing the need for unity to support President Trump's agenda. Bannon highlights upcoming special elections in Florida as pivotal for maintaining Republican majorities necessary for legislative success.
Notable Quotes:
"If they're going to implement any of these recommendations... they need a willing Congress."
— Steve Bannon [07:17]
"The entire agenda rides on this. The president needs this bill to pass."
— Matt Boyle [43:02]
V. Withdrawal of Elise Stefanik's UN Ambassador Nomination
Melanie Zenona reports breaking news about the White House preparing to withdraw Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's nomination for Ambassador to the United Nations. This move is portrayed as part of a strategic realignment within Republican ranks amidst ongoing political battles.
Notable Quotes:
"Elise Stefanik, someone who has been a Trump loyalist... looks like she is not going to be leaving at least for that United Nations ambassador post anytime soon."
— Captain Fennell [05:06]
VI. Special Elections in Florida and Their Significance
Steve Bannon discusses the importance of upcoming special elections in Florida, emphasizing that these races could bolster Republican majorities in Congress, thereby facilitating the passage of President Trump's legislative agenda.
Notable Quote:
"These two specials will be crucial for increasing our margins and supporting President Trump's agenda."
— Steve Bannon [07:17]
VII. Perspectives from Guests and Experts
The episode features insights from several guests, including Senator Richard Blumenthal, Captain Fennell, Mike Davis, and Matt Boyle. Their perspectives range from advocating for comprehensive investigations into Signalgate to defending the use of Signal by national security officials as per Biden administration guidelines.
Notable Quotes:
"There was a likely crime committed under the Espionage Act... there should be a criminal investigation."
— Senator Blumenthal [04:52]
"This is a silly non-scandal... it's not illegal for them to communicate on Signal. It's actually encouraged."
— Mike Davis [20:47]
"We're at war right now with the radical left and the globalist elite."
— Matt Boyle [47:21]
VIII. Legal and Political Ramifications
Bannon and his guests discuss the potential legal repercussions of Signalgate, including possible violations of the Espionage Act and the Federal Records Act. They argue that the judiciary is weaponizing the legal system against President Trump and his allies.
Notable Quotes:
"They use law as a weapon. This is not a search for truth."
— Steve Bannon [24:24]
"They are using the courts, they use these radical judges. They use the process in Congress as a weapon."
— Steve Bannon [24:24]
IX. Conclusion and Call to Action
In the final segments, Bannon urges listeners to take action against what he perceives as judicial overreach and political adversaries. He promotes websites like Article3Project.org for listeners to engage in political activism aimed at impeaching Judge Boasberg.
Notable Quotes:
"Start calling judges in and put them on notice that we're not going to tolerate that."
— Steve Bannon [25:14]
"People need to contact their senators and house representatives to impeach and remove Judge Boasberg."
— Mike Davis [31:37]
Key Takeaways:
Conclusion:
Episode 4370 of Bannon's War Room provides a comprehensive and partisan analysis of the Signalgate controversy, highlighting allegations of misconduct among top defense officials, judicial overreach, and the strategic maneuvers within the Republican Party to support President Trump's agenda. Through notable quotes and expert opinions, the episode underscores the ongoing political battles and calls for active listener participation to influence legislative and judicial outcomes.