
Episode 4548: The Threshold For Law And Order; Failed State Of California ...
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Stephen K. Bannon
Pd, our local pd, to protect our own National Guard because they're being used upon. Show some decency.
Mike Lindell
Show some humanity.
Stephen K. Bannon
More importantly, act like the commander in chief. This chaos is manufactured, and it's my job as governor working with local law enforcement to clean up their mess. I can't emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angeleno's right now. He talked about violent criminal drug dealer. You go from a drug dealer to chasing people through the parking lot of a Home Depot where there's day laborers working. This entire situation is what leaves us believing that we're being used as a test case. The response of the American people to it has been exactly what you'd think. I mean, bigger protests than ever in Los Angeles, the solidarity protests that I just listed all day Sunday in all those cities all across the country today, solidary protests. Solidarity protests in Atlanta, across the street from Atlanta's Immigration Court Building. Solidary protests today in Baltimore, solidary protests today in Boston, and also in Chicago and Tampa, Florida. Today. There was a huge solidarity protest in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. today. There were protests outside the Justice Department headquarters. You know, and when people stand up and protest, what we are learning over and over again in this administration is that protest works. And one of the ways that it works is that it puts steel in the spine of the political opposition in this country. For elected Democrats, it clarifies things for them. It shows them that the more they themselves push back as elected officials, the more support they will have from their own constituents. And so it's a sort of virtuous circle, right amid this primal surge of protest, this moral revulsion and rejection of what Trump is doing. I mean, you see the elected Democrats stepping up and standing up, too, when the context of the massive military parade that Donald Trump is throwing for himself in Washington, D.C. this coming weekend to.
Jim Rickards
Mark his birthday, as well as the.
Stephen K. Bannon
Anniversary, the 250th anniversary of the US Army. Donald Trump craves and always has craved.
Jim Rickards
Sort of militarized shows of force that.
Stephen K. Bannon
Is endemic to who he is as a political figure.
Jim Rickards
He wants to surround himself with shows of force and strength.
Stephen K. Bannon
And he was shocked and furious to find that many military leaders in his first term didn't. Didn't share his views of the politicization of the military that Donald Trump had.
Jim Rickards
In mind for his presidency.
Stephen K. Bannon
This time around, he's finding it much easier to have his demands met.
Jim Rickards
He has a different kind of defense secretary.
Stephen K. Bannon
And Pete Hegseth, he's already fired his.
Jim Rickards
First chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And he has the ability now to create these spectacles almost on demand. And I anticipate, Pete, that he will continue to do so.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do you think the president was right to override this? The rights of the state in terms of making its own decisions? And in this case, he chose to send a. Well, that's a miss. I come from Richmond, Virginia, so I know something about states rights. And Gavin Newsom is acting like a neo confederate right now. The federal government has every availability to do what they did to federalize National Guards, particularly if they think that the commander in chief thinks that something's not being handled properly. And that's what the President did. Our argument today on the show is that he should double and triple down today with ICE raids. I mean, we've had an invasion of this country just on Biden's watch of 10 to 13 million illegal alien invaders. And they all have to go home, not just the criminals. Every person that came here on Biden's watch has to be deported. And that's what they're trying to stop now with thesewith people like Mayor Bass and Gavin Newsom. And it's absolutely the prerogative of the president's commander in chief to do what he did. So in what way is the situation that we've seen just in the last couple of days in Los Angeles an invasion or a rebellion described in the piece of law that the President has referred to? Well, there's been invasion, but specifically over the years, but people all agree that 13 million people came. What you had is ICE agents doing their normal raids to basically get people to deport them out of the country. And this was stoppedthis was stopped by this mob. This is what was surrounding the ICE headquarters. Couldn't let ICE out, and the local LAPD didn't really intervene. You know, over the last two days, the LAPDs kind of stood down.
Jim Rickards
There'd be a red line for everyone that's not to deploy US Forces, forces domestically here. It's clear that Donald Trump is tearing this country apart.
Stephen K. Bannon
He's pitting American citizens against one another.
Jim Rickards
The National Guard, men and women who.
Mike Lindell
Have been deployed to the streets of.
Jim Rickards
Los Angeles, they're citizens of California.
Stephen K. Bannon
I'm sure they don't like the idea.
Jim Rickards
That they have to fulfill their obligations as National Guards people, you know, despite.
Stephen K. Bannon
The recommendations, the strong recommendation of the.
Jim Rickards
Governor and the mayor not to do that. But Donald Trump is determined to have.
Stephen K. Bannon
This confrontation and provoke confrontation.
Jim Rickards
And that's why just listening to Mike Johnson basically say it's okay to deploy.
Stephen K. Bannon
US Military forces domestically here against American citizens. I mean, this just after 120 days.
Jim Rickards
Or so of this administration, I can just imagine where it's going to go over the next 120 days and over.
Stephen K. Bannon
The next three and a half years.
Jim Rickards
And I'm hoping that there's going to.
Stephen K. Bannon
Be individuals of principle in the Republican Party who are going to say enough is enough.
Jim Rickards
But I've lost faith in so many of them who have just been willing to give Donald Trump everything he wants, again, irrespective of law and order, respect of the Constitution, irrespective of common sense, and irrespective of what keeps this country.
Stephen K. Bannon
Together, which is the people that keep us together. And again, I think Donald Trump is going down this road intentionally, again to try to provoke these types of confrontations.
Jim Rickards
That's going to go nowhere good.
Stephen K. Bannon
Immigrant voters, foreign born voters, have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020 closest to her trustworn immigration. You go back to 2020, Democrats get this held a 32 point lead on this issue. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024, 2025. Look at that shift. A 40 point shift to the right among immigrant voters. Republicans now lead on this issue by 8 points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find. The group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were in fact immigrants themselves. Immigrants who are registered to vote in this country. Now that folk have their red meat, now that they're going to see the spectacle of quote, unquote LA on fire, which it's not, right, what will happen? Will he activate the ugliness that got him in office in the first place?
Jim Rickards
Will folk now declare why they love him?
Stephen K. Bannon
Because we know that he's always good.
Mike Lindell
On the immigration question.
Stephen K. Bannon
And then the second thing, this reminds.
Jim Rickards
Me historically of the, it's not a.
Stephen K. Bannon
Clear analogy, but when the nation, when.
Jim Rickards
This, these political factions divided the nation.
Stephen K. Bannon
In between, between slaveholders and slave catchers.
Jim Rickards
When they made everybody with the Fugitive Slave Law, all of us had to.
Stephen K. Bannon
If someone escaped, all of us had to return that particular piece of property to these folk. With ICE running around la, forcing people to make choices, will they protect their, their friends, their neighbors, their family members? Will they take, will they confront these folk and they're terrorized. I'm sitting here trying to figure out, right, what will the country stomach? Are they going to allow this man to do this? And the answer that I keep coming.
Jim Rickards
To Is yes, Samer.
Stephen K. Bannon
I don't know what else to say. How can I? Here's the thing.
Mike Lindell
Donald Trump as a political charlatan of.
Stephen K. Bannon
Sorts, gives Americans license to be who they really are. They don't have to pretend.
Mike Lindell
And when you see what they really are, who they really are, these people who support him.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right. It's dark. I guess my hope, specifics of what we saw over the weekend. You just asked me, so where was the violence? What did your eyes tell you? Did you watch the footage? I did, but what I'm saying to.
Jim Rickards
You is some of, not all, some.
Stephen K. Bannon
Of those protesting are US Citizens. My colleagues on the ground have spoken to them. That's fine. If they're breaking the law, they're breaking the law. But I just want to get to the point. What's your point? I want to get to the thinking behind this and what Pete Hegseth is saying because it's interesting for our viewers to see this. If you have US Marines in California around protesters, does that not move America to a different place? It's not protestors. It's not protesters. See, this is what you guys try to do with your language all the time. That's not a Protestant. That was a riot. Okay? They're interfering with folks that are being deported out of this country. They are breaking the law in their rioting. They shut down Los angeles for like 18 hours yesterday. That's not a protest. Nobody is saying about peaceful protests. If you want to come protest, they intervene with ICE agents doing their job. Certainly you should call up the Marines in the US army if you have to, or activate the Reserve. The Army Reserve. Federalize the National Guard is just step one. But folks have to understandand particularly BBC ought to embrace this. This is not going to stop. We're going to do this. And I'll be blunt. This should have been done in England a long time ago. You guys should have stood up to the fact of the problem you've got with illegal mass migration. This is what has to happen. All you're saying. You have to have a country, you have to have borders, you have to have your sovereignty. And President Trump has the American people in the back of him. He won the national election. The polling right now is overwhelmingly support this. They're going to go to federal court, argue it out. We'll see how that plays out. But I will tell you, today in Los Angeles, they're going to double or triple the number of ICE raids they're going to do on this. Now, the only problem I have with the ICE raids. They're not arresting CEOs. I think they ought to go into these workplaces and start arresting the white collar managers. I hold them just as responsible and maybe more responsible than the folks that have the job. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemy because we're going medieval on these people. I got a 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. War room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. It's Tuesday 10th June, year of your Lord 2025. I want to thank the real America's Voice crew in Denver and Parker, and particularly my producer camera this morning. That was a work of art. That was a perfect arc of exactly where we stand and what the two sides are. One is for law and order and to get our sovereignty back. Right? And I hate to say it, you gotta. You've got to press the bet today, Homan. And I love Tom Holman, but a strong recommendation. Tom, you know, we didn't want Pam Bondi to be a co host over there at fox. Get back in the Justice, Justice Department and let's start indicting people. Let's start arresting people. Tom, Enough tv. We got it. We got the message laid out right there. President Trump's going to Fort Bragg today. He's going to Fort Bragg. Our own Brian Glenn's gonna be with him today in Los Angeles and throughout the country because Dallas and San Antonio, other places are light up. The ICE should triple down today in, in la. And I didn't like. Tom, I love you, but I don't like. You know, Peter Schweitzer tore. The great Peter Schweitzer. You're saying, hey, that wasn't about a nice raid, that we're doing some money laundering. We're stopping cartels. Don't apologize. All 10 million have to go, not just the criminals in the insane asylum. This is what Bass and Newsom are whining about. If you're here illegally, you're going to go back to your home. And if ICE has to enforce that, it has to enforce. We hope most people just pack up and leave. This is righteous cleaning up this mess. The Democrats on the wrong side of this. Look at Harry Anton. We can play much more of Harry Anton sitting there going this is, this is absolutely the issue the United States wants. They want their Sony back. You know who wants it? Hispanic citizens and African American citizens. They want these festering sores of these big cities like Los Angeles cleaned up, the schools cleaned up, the medical system cleaned up, the law and order in the neighborhoods cleaned up. 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Mike Lindell
Went to school in la.
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Stephen K. Bannon
It's all on the line. My pillow too. Goes to the jury. Later in the week. We'll give you coverage nonstop. I want to play Harry. And I get. I get Berquholm in the streets of L. A. So just make sure you understand the big picture here. The overwhelming show of force is what broke this riot and sent them all home. Right? Otherwise you had LA burning for a week and CNN saying, oh, look at this. They're just so frustrated. But this is just the predicate. The key is to get back that the ICE agents need to get back into the streets today in a massive show of force and rounding people up and deporting them back to their home countries. Do it humanely, do it, make sure that you do it in appropriate manner, but it's got to be done. Let's go. I'm going to play Harry Entin one more time. I've got McGinley here in house and we've got on the streets of Los Angeles our own Ben Berkram. Let's play Harry Enton one more time. Immigrant voters, foreign born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020 closest to her trust born immigration. You go back to 2020. Democrats get this held a 32 point lead on this issue. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024, 2025. Look at that shift. A 40 point shift to the right among immigrant voters. Republicans now lead on this issue by 8 points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find. The group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were in fact immigrants themselves. Immigrants who are registered to vote in this country first ran back in 2016. Immigrant voters are one of his weakest bots. But look at this. Trump's vote share in presidential election among again, immigrant citizens, those who are registered to vote. Look at this. 20, 2016, he got 36% of the vote. You go to 2020, 39% of the vote. Look at this, in 2024, all the way up to 47% of the vote. Some polls I looked at had him barely losing that vote. Some polls I looked at had him barely winning that vote. Again, there is no block of voters that shifted more to the right from 2020 to 2024 than immigrant voters. And Donald Trump, at least in some surveys, actually won that vote. On average, it's about equal. So there may be all this stuff, right, about undocumented immigrants and Trump being harsh on them. But immigrant voters themselves have increasingly liked Donald Trump and have increasingly moved to the right on immigration into the Republican camp. The net favorable rating, immigrants who are here illegally. Among immigrant citizens, again, those registered to vote in 2020, look at this. Plus 23 points on the net favorable rating. But look at where we were in 2024 in the streets, Ben Berkram in the streets of Los Angeles. Ben, you're reporting. We'll play him later or throughout the day. You've done man in the street interviews of people cleaning up the mess that Are immigrants citizens? They agree with Harry Anton at cnn. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Absolutely. Hands down, the immigrant, in particular, the legal voting immigrant community in America, this everything that you're seeing from the Democrats right now, all the defacing of property.
Mike Lindell
And attacking of police and law enforcement.
Stephen K. Bannon
And ice, you're just turning them more maga. But what we're also seeing, and this was pretty shocking, not so much shocking, but to get them on camera. I was just walking down the streets to get over here today, and we had this crew of guys cleaning off the graffiti. I walk up and the guy turns to me and says, what does this prove? And I walk over and he just starts giving me an interview. I walked further down to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, a historic landmark here in Los Angeles. It's got graffiti all over it. There's this woman across the street shaking her head, same thing. I just start filming her. She starts talking. She, you know, she even said, I would generally be sympathetic to their cause, but when you do stuff like this, you're turning the people off. Those were her words. Wait till you see the interview. This is not just turning off the immigrant community, the black American community who feel like they've been abandoned by the Democrats. This is turning off the liberal white Democrat base. So keep it up, Democrats. I mean, I don't know whose strategy this is, but it's working for Madison. You got the billionaires, you got the Walton family, There's all kind of things. Hang on for a second. Ben, stay right there and come back to you. McGinley, you're from LA. You know the city. I want to. The legal immigrant community has their schools destroyed, their health care destroyed. Trump's their savior. That's what he's coming in and trying to do, is he not?
Mike Lindell
Yeah. I mean, it's one of the reasons that they came to this country in the first place was so it. Rule of law, not men. Right. One of the basic civics lessons that we all had growing up is that the United States is a rule ruled by laws, not men. We don't want subjective standards. And if you look at what Gavin Newsom and Karen Base are doing, Bass are doing, they're basically saying, we're going to selectively decide which laws are going to be enforced and which ones are not. That is a personal decision for them. And under our federalist system, federal law, Trump's state law, it occupies the field under the supremacy clause in the court cases, are telling you that the federal government, meaning the president of the United States, based upon the authority that the Congress has given him by statute, by cameralism and presentment has the authority to do this. I should follow the law. They should go and get the warrants for some of these folks. But they should also enforce the immigration laws.
Stephen K. Bannon
But a lot of times you don't need the warrants.
Mike Lindell
No, that's what I'm saying. You should enforce the immigration laws. Yes, without, without the warrants. But basically they should follow the law. They're going to have the support of the community. They may not have the support of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, but that's okay because everybody is looking at what they're doing with the people who are throwing cinder blocks at police officers, at law enforcement.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, let's talk about that. Let's talk about this. There's obviously pre stage, you have bricks, you have cinder blocks, all of it. You had the Watts riots in the mid-60s. You then had the Rodney King in 92, I think now today, and President Trump, what has changed? Because President Trump has had a massive show of federalized National Guard. He's got a battalion of Marines coming up. I think he's put another 2,000 National Guard. He's thinking about Army Reserve. He's going to Fort Bragg today as a show of force. Why is LAPD like over the weekend it was. And I kind of feel for these guys, the front line guys, because a little bit looks like they're forced to play namby Pam. But there were virtually no arrest right. In San Francisco. They had a 142 arrest in LA, virtually nothing. What's going on?
Mike Lindell
Yeah, because the rank and file in LAPD and the LA County Sheriff deputies don't have the support of the political leaders in the county, in the city.
Stephen K. Bannon
Or the even into the police chain of command.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, I think some of those guys are trying their best to support the rank and file. But if you talk to the rank and file, and I have friends who were part of the rank and file and still talk to some of them, a lot of them are demoralized. A lot of them don't want to risk anything because they know that the city, the county and the state are not going to back them up. When you have some of these folks who are trying to cause physical harm and property damage, they want to enforce the law. They want to get them off the streets. Why? Because the overwhelming majority of Angelenos and Californians are good people. They're hard working people. They're working multiple jobs just to be able to afford to stay in California because of all the taxes that Gavin Newsom and Karen Batzer and imposing on them, whether it's $8 gas or anything else, these people just want to live their lives and raise their kids and have their small business.
Stephen K. Bannon
Unless you take care of the illegal alien situation, you're not going to be able to get the schools back up to standard. You're not going to be. The medical system there is destroyed, the schools are destroyed, the law and order, the neighborhoods are destroyed. And the reason is you have, I think they're talking about in LA, maybe a million or 2 million illegal aliens. Until you sort that problem out, the working class Hispanic citizens and working class African American citizens, because first off, it suppresses wages so hard. This is why the elites in la, the Gavin Newsoms of the world, love illegal aliens, because they get their grass cut cheaper, their nannies, all of it, right? The people doing the yards and the wages drop for everybody in the working class area.
Mike Lindell
But all these hard working people have been living with a crime ridden city for a long time. People forget about that. They basically declared we're not going to prosecute people who steal items valued just under $1,000. You're coming off of the era where they had Gascon as the Lada who acted more like a criminal defense attorney as opposed to a prosecutor to protect the citizens and get violent criminals. Whenever the LAPD and the sheriffs were bringing these folks in and booking them, the prosecutors were processing them right back out onto the street. So on the heels of that, now they have a new lada.
Stephen K. Bannon
Who's better, right?
Mike Lindell
Who's better? But I don't think he's good enough. I think he needs to take a harder line on the violent crime. And you know, I think LAPD needs to know that the political leadership has their back, which Bass does not. I think that the LA County Sheriff's Department needs to know that the la, that the, that the political leadership has their back. And Gavin Newsom. Right. To me, my question for Gavin Newsom, how much property needs to be damaged? How much promise he needs to be destroyed? How many people need to be injured? How many people have to die before you would call in the National Guard and do the right thing? What is the trigger for you to restore law and order and actually enforce the law in the state of California and in, in Los Angeles?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes. Yet to answer that, we've got McKinley. Finally, Angelino in house. We've got Ben Burkham on the streets, Jim Rickards, the geopolitical strategist. This is an aspect of the third World war. And also it's going to join us and Chris Moritz, who knows something about the failed state of California. All next in the war room. There's something happening with our farmland here in the United States that isn't getting enough attention. The Chinese have been buying up hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland. They're also taking control over critical supply chains, things like fertilizer, animal feed and farming equipment. Why? It's not clear. They're tightening their grip on global food production. That is clear. And if things go south and it could happen quickly, we need to be ready. That's why I trust my Patriot Supply. They're America's largest emergency preparedness company. And right now, when you get there, four week emergency food supply, you'll get a free 4, 247 food kits, an extra 12 days of food, absolutely free. Okay? Full stop. You're have to insert this. Okay. And right now, when you get their four week emergency food supply, you'll get four free 72 hour food kits, an extra 12 days of food, absolutely free. Let me repeat that. You're going to get four free 72 hour food kits. That's an extra 12 days of food and it's absolutely free. That's four weeks of delicious meals that last up to 25 years, delivering 2,000 plus calories per day. It's shipped fast and it's shipped free. We can't control what the Chinese Communist Party does. You can't control what China does. But we can control how prepared we are. Go to my patriotsupply.com today to claim your 12 days of free food. Shop my patriotsupply.com my patriotsupply.com do it today. Do not let this thing get ahead of you. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. It's not just the foot soldiers out front, right? It's not the foot soldiers out front. And to talk about narrative control, CNN did not even show the press conference with Bass last night. They understand that's a loser. How do we get to the bottom of how this thing's organized? There's another huge thing financed by the Walton family and all these billionaires. We'll get some names here in a minute, but what do we. Why are we not all, why is the Justice Department not all over this? Why is the FBI? Cash said, hey, he's going to be doing all this. Why are we not all over the financiers and the people in back of this? We ought to be perp walking those people out today.
Mike Lindell
Look, I think that after this is done after they restore order, I would fully expect that the FBI and the Department of Justice is going to take a look at a couple of things. Were these protests financed? If yes, by whom? Was there coordination? Did that coordination involve obstructing federal law enforcement processes and arresting, you know, their duties under federal law? And I think that those are going to have to be some hard questions that a lot of people in California, the, the people who are organizing the protests but potentially some of these political.
Stephen K. Bannon
Leaders as well, they passed a 34 billion, a $34 million bill to finance it. Berquhm, answer McGinley's question. You're on the streets where the pre positioned bricks and the stones. You've been down there with the street level. Is this organized or not sir? Yeah, from the very top there is coordination by all these different groups from, you know, now you have this new one.
Mike Lindell
No kings, but it's all the same groups, indivisible.
Stephen K. Bannon
The American Socialist Party, Democratic Socialists of America, all going back to Great Society.
Mike Lindell
And all of these organizations, it is.
Stephen K. Bannon
All coordinated, all organized. They're communicating to each other. They've got walkie talkies, they're talking back and forth who's going where. You've got antifa coordinating with the liberals, the activist attorneys organizations, the attorneys guild.
Mike Lindell
They are all coordinated and again it's through multiple groups but it's all coordinated.
Stephen K. Bannon
And the big thing, I mean this to me is just a RICO case waiting to happen. Well, hold it, hold it, hang on McGinley. The part of the Arizona engine room is telling me right now if they cut off the head of the snake, it all ends. Do you agree with that?
Mike Lindell
No, I think that they've, I think that back in the day the dem dark money network was a very top down organization. I think after the president was elected in 2016 they all got together and decided to make it more of a dispersed group. They wanted to give it the, the appearance.
Stephen K. Bannon
So we just can't.
Mike Lindell
Organic.
Stephen K. Bannon
We just can't. But it's still a couple of billionaires in back of it. The Walton.
Mike Lindell
More than a couple. More than a couple.
Stephen K. Bannon
I think that's what they're saying. Do you go after the billionaires today?
Mike Lindell
I think you got to find the organizations or you're going to find the donors.
Stephen K. Bannon
You've done the most, you've done the most work on all this dark money, tied it together. What are the two or three this morning that you would tell the Justice Department to go in, seize, get a warrant, seize their records and let's Roll.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, I would take. I would take a look at all of the big national dark money groups and look at the state and local groups that are on the ground that Ben is talking about and what are the transfers. You can pull those out of the 990s that these groups file. Now, the 20, 24, 990s aren't coming available until probably around November or later. But I would want to take that and follow the money because it's not just the national groups that you have there. You have to, excuse me, follow it down into the States because that's where the rubber hits the road on some of these. And a lot of people will ignore California because it's a one party rule state. But when you look at some of the activities that are happening on the ground right now in Los Angeles, Santa Ana and some of these other communities, you need to get down there and find out these community groups, who's financing them, what a training level and who's supporting.
Stephen K. Bannon
Another part of the engine room was telling me the trust of Fairings, how big a deal is these trust fund kids, these Nepo billionaire babies that are funding this?
Mike Lindell
Look, I don't know who is funding this, Steve, so I don't want to come out and name names, but I do want to say that there is enough evidence here for the oversight committee in the House of Representatives.
Stephen K. Bannon
Dude, you're boring me. And come right.
Mike Lindell
I get it.
Stephen K. Bannon
Come on, Bill and Homeland Security. Don't get me home and don't do another TV interview. Get ice, guys, I got Bill McGinley here. Drop the hammer. He's calling comer. We're gonna have a. We're going to have another hearing. Can I hold it? Can you draft a strongly worded letter? Maybe we do this. What the hell? Listen, Trump sending in troops, right? Me, Trump's. Trump's taking it up.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, but you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Stephen K. Bannon
It broke them, though, didn't it?
Mike Lindell
Yes.
Stephen K. Bannon
The show of force broke the protesters. Yeah, and gave the LAPD some backbone. It gave the California Highway Patrol some backbone.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, because the rank and file finally saw that there was somebody supporting them.
Stephen K. Bannon
The cavalry arrived, did it not?
Mike Lindell
That's right.
Stephen K. Bannon
We're going to Fort Bragg. Brian Glenn's going the second hour. Berquam. Where. When are we going to get your. When are we going to get your interviews? Your man in the street interviews, where are they? I'm going to cut those. I'm going to cut them up in.
Mike Lindell
The next few minutes.
Stephen K. Bannon
As soon as I get them up. I'll send it to you guys first and I'll let you know. Cut. Cut them up and come back to me. We got time. I'm going to play in the second hour. This is okay. Harry Enton told you the biggest group that shifted this is Starr County, Texas, down in the Rio Grande where Cortez has been talking about working class Hispanics that are American citizens, working class blacks that are American citizens. 1000% support what President Trump is doing. Because you know why? It's looking out for them. They're the ones that are, they're bearing the brunt of this. Not the Trustafarians. Right. Who are, who are dining off this. And this gets back also, they're dying off the H1B visas. Hang on one second. Bill. I want to stick around. Ben, you go do your. Go do your thing. Where do people get your content? Ben, go cut your stuff and come back in the second hour. Where do people get it in the interim? Always first on Real America's Voice at Real am, Voice on all the social.
Mike Lindell
Media, and then my social media at.
Stephen K. Bannon
Ben Berkwam Substack, frontline America and frontlineamerica.com great reporting. So proud of you, brother. Let's bring in Rickards. Rickards, I said yesterday that this was another front in the Third World War in the arc of instability from from Kursk all the way down to the Red Sea, the South China Sea, around Taiwan. This global conflict that's metastasizing. One of the key areas is the invasion of the United States was 10 million illegal alien invaders and the mainstream media went absolutely crazy. Bannon puts weird conspiracies up there. Sir, you're the best geopolitical strategists I know. We're negotiating in London on rare earths and ships right now. We got a Chinese, a PLA People's Liberation Navy carrier battle group that's steaming east of the second island chain, right when we said for years it could never happen. You've got the Russians have hit Kiev last night, I think as hard as London got hit in some of the nights of the blitz. But is not one of the biggest battlefields here. The invasion that took place and you're seeing it in LA County.
Jim Rickards
Jim rickards well, it's absolutely right, Steve. When you talk about warfare, you have a lot of kinetic or potentially kinetic aspects to it. But financial warfare is as much a part of the geopolitical struggle you're describing as kinetic warfare. And that happens to be my specialty. I have one quick story and then I'll kind of bring this back to the situation in Los Angeles. Some years ago, I was asked by the CIA to organize a clandestine operation to destabilize a certain country. I'm not going to mention the name of the country. I've been there. It's a pretty place, but no need to mention the name, but no Bay of Pigs kind of stuff. It had to be financial. That was my area. So I studied it for a while and I very quickly realized that you could do it pretty easily by cutting off remittances. And for those who don't know, when people leave their country and go somewhere else, United States, and they get a job, they make money, they send money back home. I mean, everyone's supposed to do that, but they do. And these remittances, I identified the channel that they were going through. It wasn't Venmo, but it was something like that. It was an online application. And I identified the channel. I said to the agency, get your technical people, cut off the channel. Say cutting off the oxygen, oxygen supply. You'll have social unrest within days. And then throw in some propaganda and take it from there. So I wrote this up. And the thing with the CIA, you tell them stuff and they don't tell you anything back. It's kind of a one way street. So some months later, I bumped into my point of contact. I said, hey, whatever happened to that idea I put out there? He goes, oh, they decided not to do it. And I said, why not? He said, they thought it might work. In other words, I said, oh, you didn't really want to stabilize me. You just wanted to kind of mess with them a little bit. But the point is, remittances are like oxygen supply. It will totally destabilize the country. Now bring that to the big beautiful bill buried in there. Very technical provision. By the way, I was international tax counsel of the city for 10 years. So this is another one of my specialties. There's a provision to put a 5% withholding tax on remittances to Mexico. Now, before you say, hey, this is some landscaper sending 100 bucks back home, no, the remittances to Mexico are 64.7 billion a year from the US to Mexico. Individual transfers might be small, but the total is $64.7 billion. That's 3.5% of Mexican GDP. That's more money than Mexico makes in oil exports. That's larger than Mexico's trade surplus with the United States. This is their total oxygen supply. Now you say, but including it's so huge.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's part of scammer. Hang on. But, Jim, why wouldn't you demand that they be able to show proof of citizenship at Western Union? And if you can't show legitimate proof of citizenship, you can't send the wire that. The only wire that can be sent is by a United States citizen. Why would we allow. Make it. Or if they try to do it, make it 100% tax. Just seize it, take it all. I mean, why we just 5%. That's fine. I understand that. That's. That's kind of smart, but it doesn't get to the heart of it. The heart of it is that in LA county we have. Is it 2 million, I think, overall in the county. Illegal aliens, sir.
Jim Rickards
First of all, you could do that. It would not be difficult. And, you know, just whatever channel they're using these days, you know, the old Western Union banks, Venmo, whatever, they're a bunch of channels. They're not, they're not difficult to find. And you could put that, that requirement on them, by the way, 64.7 billion. Mexico would be begging to rejoin the United States. I mean, that would. And this is why Sheinbaum is completely melting down this. And it's more than just the 5%. 5% sounds small. And I agree. It could be as much as you want, but. So we're going to skim 5%. But the point is Mexico, when they get the money, they put a value added tax on it of 16 point. 16%. Value added tax. So it's a big sort of. It's not just, you know, people sending money to their grandmother or whatever in some village. It's a big source of revenue for the Mexican government. The cartel takes a skin. The money itself could be used to pay for the border wall. I mean, this is. Even the 5% is a very big deal. But you're right, if you want to make it higher than that, dial it up to 20% or even 100%. You could do that. And as I said, Mexico would grind to a halt. This is. This is 3.5% of their GDP coming from Mexicans living in the United States, sending money back home. And by the way, the provision to put the 5% on is in the big beautiful bill. So it's coming. And that's why. Now there's some notion. I can't. I'll just be clear. This is speculation. I can't verify this, but there's some notion that because Sheinbaum said we want to mobilize the Mexican population in the United States to resist this. Now, she didn't say violence, but is what's going on in LA is in some way that mobilization that she referred to.
Stephen K. Bannon
She'S turned. I know you got to bounce some observations on all this.
Mike Lindell
Look, I think that it's so convenient with all the short term memory just from Boulder with the guy who came in, we had a terror attack in a park, right? Karen Bass is yelling about oh, they tried to do a raid or ICE agent showed up at Home Depot. We had an anti Semitic attack in Boulder in a park. How soon do people forget that Chris Wray sat before Congress last year? No friend of the war room, nobody that we trust saying I've never seen the red lights blinking like they are right now. I mean even the Biden administration toward the end realized the folly of their ways and began to realize how insecure that they placed America in. And I think that what we need to do is we need to be supporting these ICE agents, we need to be supporting federal law enforcement. President Trump needs our back. Everybody needs to back him up. You and I have talked about how we need to almost have a permanent campaign to support him, not only on the big beautiful bill, on the immigration policy, everything else that he wants to do to try and right the ship of everything that's gone wrong.
Stephen K. Bannon
I know you got to bounce. I'm going to contact you. I want to have you back on the next couple of days because between, between Rick is getting worked up on the remittances and you are the expert in the dark money. The Warren posse right now is blowing up the chat saying they want scalps of billionaires, sons and daughters. So I want to come. You're the expert at that. I want to come back. We got to cut that. We got to stop the funding of this, the funding in California. It's coming through, it's coming through their assembly because it's a one party state, but also these billionaire kids that are funding the destruction of our country. We got to get an org and you're the smartest guy out there about that.
Mike Lindell
And a California assembly and held a press conference, I think it was yesterday, where he basically said, you know, you're taking the money from the law enforcement and you're giving it to these groups that are helping to organize these protests.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, I'm going to have you give social media everything when we come back. Short commercial break I got Jim Rickards, Bill McGinley, short break. Back in a moment. What if he had the brightest mind in The War Room delivering critical financial research every month. Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets. Jim predicted Trump's electoral College victory exactly 312 to 226, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency and your financial future. His latest book, MoneyGPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes, and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go to rickardswarroom.com. that's all one word. Rickards War Room. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's Rickards War room dot com. Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bangings get a little heckled in the work. People want scalps. I can't believe I got Bill McGinley in here. First. First time in. And this is one of my dearest friends. First time here actually in studio of Satophone and it's got to be since before inauguration, right?
Mike Lindell
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay. Maybe since my prison stint. They know McGinley's a hammer. You know where all the money is and what does McGinley give me? I think we ought to call an oversight committee. Comer. Oh, my God. People was like, game off. Where's McGinley? That's a body double. Real quickly, people go get you. For all your information, you've got a great new thing. We'll get to that.
Mike Lindell
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
When you come back. But what's going. Tell me where we'll go on exit W.J.
Mike Lindell
Mcginley getter at McGinley. W.J.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do we have the indivisibles that. Is that loaded yet? The picture of the tweet with the picture of. Was it Lee? Ezra Levin and Lee. I mean, this is one of the issues. It's these billionaire kids, right? Or these kids that are putting this together that are financing all this stuff. Like indivisible as I think part of the new kings. I think the full page ad I saw in the New York Times was by one of the Walton people. I think we got to get to the people that are funding this. I mean, otherwise the other people in the streets that Berquam's got to deal with are the foot soldiers. Right. They're always going to show up, but you got to cut the money off.
Mike Lindell
Yeah. But you got to get to the broader network that's out there. None of this is you can view in isolation. You know, you've got to look at all of the stuff that they've done in elections. You've got to do look at everything that they've done.
Stephen K. Bannon
Justice Department. If the Justice Department gets a special deal going here with Ed Martin or something, you will be open to being. You and Tom Fitton could be advisors to that, correct?
Mike Lindell
Yeah. I'll go in and talk to Ed Martin anytime.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay. Perfect. Social media x.
Mike Lindell
Once again, McGinley or WJ? McGinley and Getter. McGinley.
Stephen K. Bannon
WJ folks, go blow him up. Today, band is bringing for an hour to be a hammer. You're hunting the beach guy. Act like a hunting beach. Huntington beach, by the way, talk about a city that's flipped away.
Mike Lindell
It's a bright red dot in a blue state.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's amazing.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, those surfers, they're all maga.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's a full MAGA down there. You walk through the streets, you can see why on a Saturday afternoon, spontaneous.
Mike Lindell
Trump demonstrations at the pier.
Stephen K. Bannon
Unbelievable Maga. Bill McGinley. Love you, brother.
Mike Lindell
Thanks for having me on.
Stephen K. Bannon
Oversight Committee.
Mike Lindell
Wow.
Stephen K. Bannon
Rickards, the broader war here. The Russians. The Russians hit. They're slugging it out now, the Ukrainians and the Russians, are they not?
Jim Rickards
They are. And you know, the, the media, well, you know, New York Times, Washington Post and so forth. They report on these Russian very large drone attacks, 500 drones or more. They're also using ballistic missiles. Not using the Rushnik, but Ishkal and some other missiles and bombers. So this is a massive attack. But they don't really report very much on what the Ukrainians did to the Russians. I mean, obviously this blowing up a few of these strategic bombers. By the way, the Ukrainians lie about everything. So if they say they blew up 40 bombers, make it five. And it's not clear that they really blew them up. They were damaged, etc. Yeah, they did some damage.
Stephen K. Bannon
But hang on, but hang on. The first casualty of war is the truth. The Russians don't do a bad job either, Right. I mean, they're kind of pros at this. So everything you're reading from the battlefield, you got to kind of filter, right?
Jim Rickards
Well, I agree with that. But if you're winning, you're more likely to tell the Truth. So I think actually the Russian Defense Ministry has a very good track record. They put out a few propaganda pieces, but when you compare what they say to what actually happens, sometimes you don't learn. Two weeks or even months later, their track record is pretty good. Ukraine just, you know, I don't know what to say. They just lie about everything. But, okay, Zelensky's.
Stephen K. Bannon
Zelensky's lighting up the. Jim, Zelensky is lighting up the President, United States today, saying, I don't need any more talk out of Washington. I need action. How do you interpret that?
Jim Rickards
He's desperate. It's not just because Ukraine's losing the war. That would be one reason to be desperate. But he personally is kind of a pawn for the neo Nazi element, the Azov Brigades and, you know, the Bandera descendants, etc. He's under their thumb now. He's the president. Actually, he's not the president. He's a dictator because his presidential term expired in May of 2024. So he's now under a year and a half of being a dictator, period. But he's under the thumb of the. Of the neo Nazi element. By the way, I had a discussion with the head of the U.S. marshall Foundation. It's basically a pro German U.S. organization. I asked her about this and she said, yeah, there are Nazis there. She kind of said, we keep our distance. But I got an acknowledgement from an expert that, yeah, they are. They are, in fact, neo Nazis. So I guess he has his houses in Dubai and maybe Miami, all set. He's got money abroad, he's good to go. But.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do we know that? Do we know that? How do you ascertain. How do you back that up as a fact that he's got these houses? We keep hearing he's got houses in Egypt. He's got skimmed so much off the top of the oligarchs. How do we actually know that for a fact?
Jim Rickards
I rely on sources who have very good track record. So, yeah, it says it's secondhand, but I. But I always test them. I say, okay, I've been listening to you for three years, and you've been right about almost everything. And on occasions when you're not right, you admit it. You say, we got that wrong. That gives you a lot of credibility in my view. I was teaching a class. There was a lady from the State Department, fairly senior, who was in my class, and I went through some of this, and she came up to me during the coffee break and said, could you give me your sources? And I Said, sure. And I did. But I thought it was odd that she has the highest possible security clearances and she's asking me for basically what are open sources. You have to know where to look. So, yeah, I do rely on sourcing, but I also judge them by the track record. And it's very good.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4548: The Threshold For Law And Order; Failed State Of California
Release Date: June 10, 2025
Introduction
In Episode 4548 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves deep into the escalating tensions in California, portraying it as a failing state grappling with law and order challenges. The discussion features notable guests Mike Lindell and Jim Rickards, who provide their insights on the political, social, and geopolitical ramifications of the current crisis.
1. Manufactured Chaos and Law Enforcement Challenges
Stephen K. Bannon opens the episode by addressing the perceived failures of local law enforcement in California. He claims the chaos is "manufactured" and emphasizes his role alongside local authorities to restore order.
Bannon discusses the surge in protests across major cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., attributing them to the administration's mishandling of law and order. He asserts that these protests are effective in strengthening political opposition.
2. Presidential Influence and Militarization
The conversation shifts to Donald Trump’s influence and his inclination towards militarized displays of power. Bannon and Rickards critique Trump’s approach to governing, highlighting his desire for military shows of strength and the resulting tensions with military leadership.
Stephen K. Bannon [02:58]: “Donald Trump craves and always has craved sort of militarized shows of force that is endemic to who he is as a political figure.”
Jim Rickards [03:05]: “He wants to surround himself with shows of force and strength.”
They discuss the firing of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, and the impact of such decisions on the administration's ability to create significant military spectacles.
3. Federal Intervention and Immigration Enforcement
Bannon criticizes Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for their handling of immigration enforcement, labeling their actions as neo-Confederate. He advocates for increased ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids and the federalization of the National Guard to address the influx of illegal immigrants.
Stephen K. Bannon [04:31]: “Gavin Newsom is acting like a neo confederate right now.”
Bannon [05:30]: “We've had an invasion of this country just on Biden's watch of 10 to 13 million illegal alien invaders.”
He argues that the federal government has the authority to intervene when state authorities fail to manage immigration effectively.
4. Political Polarization and Voter Shifts
A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the shifting political landscape among immigrant voters. Bannon presents data suggesting a substantial move towards the Republican camp among immigrant citizens between 2020 and 2025, particularly on immigration issues.
He claims that this shift is a direct result of the administration's handling of immigration and the resulting lawlessness, positioning Trump as a savior figure for these communities.
5. Financial Warfare and Geopolitical Tensions
Guest Jim Rickards, a geopolitical strategist, introduces the concept of financial warfare as a component of the broader geopolitical struggle. He warns of measures like imposing a 5% withholding tax on remittances to Mexico, which could have significant economic impacts.
Rickards elaborates on how cutting off remittances could economically strain Mexico, thereby influencing its relationship with the United States.
6. Dark Money and Organizational Coordination
Bannon and Lindell discuss the influence of dark money and the coordination among various groups opposing the current administration. They suggest that billionaire families, like the Walton family, are financing protests and destabilizing efforts.
Stephen K. Bannon [31:46]: “All coordinated, all organized. They're communicating to each other.”
Mike Lindell [32:11]: “They are all coordinated and again it's through multiple groups but it's all coordinated.”
The conversation hints at potential legal actions, such as RICO cases, to address these orchestrated efforts.
7. Media Narratives and Public Perception
The hosts criticize mainstream media outlets like CNN and The New York Times for their portrayal of events in California, arguing that these narratives downplay the severity of the situation and the role of immigration enforcement.
They advocate for alternative media platforms to disseminate their perspectives and counter mainstream narratives.
8. Geopolitical Conflicts and Domestic Implications
Jim Rickards connects the domestic turmoil in California to larger geopolitical conflicts, including the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and the strategic moves of the BRICS nations.
He suggests that financial strategies, such as taxing remittances, are tools of modern warfare that can have profound domestic and international effects.
9. Call to Action and Future Outlook
Bannon concludes the episode with a call to action, urging listeners to support law enforcement and federal authorities in restoring order. He emphasizes the need to cut off funding for destabilizing groups and to hold accountable those financing the chaos.
He forecasts continued efforts to deport illegal immigrants and restore sovereignty and law and order in California.
Conclusion
Episode 4548 of Bannon’s War Room presents a fervent critique of California's current state of governance, emphasizing issues related to immigration, law enforcement, and political polarization. Through passionate discussions and strategic insights from guests like Mike Lindell and Jim Rickards, the episode underscores the perceived threats to national sovereignty and the urgent need for concerted efforts to address them.
Notable Quotes:
Stephen K. Bannon [00:09]: “This chaos is manufactured, and it's my job as governor working with local law enforcement to clean up their mess.”
Jim Rickards [03:01]: “He wants to surround himself with shows of force and strength.”
Stephen K. Bannon [07:34]: “Immigrant voters, foreign born voters, have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020.”
Jim Rickards [39:48]: “Remittances are like oxygen supply. It will totally destabilize the country.”
Mike Lindell [32:11]: “They are all coordinated and again it's through multiple groups but it's all coordinated.”
Stephen K. Bannon [43:00]: “We got to cut the money off. It's coming through their assembly because it's a one-party state, but also these billionaire kids that are funding the destruction of our country.”
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this summary reflect the content presented in the podcast episode and do not constitute an endorsement or validation of the opinions expressed by the speakers.