
Episode 4655: Blanch Heads To Florida; DOJ Launches Strikeforce Against Obama ...
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Tulsi Gabbard
President Trump's direction and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, today, we've released a declassified oversight majority staff report that was produced in September of 2020. The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats or Republicans. This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community standards and withheld the truth from the American people. In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election in November of 2016. They worked with their partners in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be a years long coup against him and his administration. We're here today because the American people deserve the truth. They deserve accountability and they deserve justice. The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named U.S. religious organizations, in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing from the State Department. They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote, psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness. And that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers. Then CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious senior substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a quote, unquote, clear preference for Trump. The implications of this are far reaching and have to do with the integrity of our Democratic Republic. It has to do with an outgoing president taking action to manufacture intelligence to undermine and usurp the will of the American people in that election and launch what would be a years long couple against the incoming president, United States Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon
I think this is a huge stress test for Trump and his coalition, which, you know, it's not all of maga, but it is Stuart Rhodes, it is Stephen Bannon, it is Michael Flynn. It is a certain significant portion of his base that is animated by this.
James Clapper
Notion that the deep state and the.
Steve Bannon
Dismantling of the deep state are job number one for Donald Trump. It's bigger than any tariff war or any social safety net program or even maybe immigration for them. This is the animating sort factor in their support for Trump and it's why Stuart Rhodes said Donald Trump's life was spared during the assassination attempts. He was here to dismantle this elite cabal and open back up our democracy.
Rick Crawford
Right.
Steve Bannon
I'm paraphrasing.
Tulsi Gabbard
Do you believe that any of this.
Caroline Levitt
New information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior?
Tulsi Gabbard
We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this for even former Obama? Mr.
Rick Crawford
Correct.
Tulsi Gabbard
The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact. I think the underlying point there is is that we understand from intelligence what Russia said that they had. And the important point here is that if they were trying to influence the election as President Obama and James Clapper and John Brennan, everybody said they were doing in order to support Donald Trump's election, they would have released the most damning of that information, some of which I detailed here. You'll find the rest in the report. Prior to the election, to help Donald Trump win, they specifically withheld what they had on her, the most damning information, because they thought that she would win the election. They had plans to release it just prior to her inauguration to again sow discord and chaos in America.
Steve Bannon
A spokesperson for former President Obama said.
Tulsi Gabbard
In a statement earlier this week. Nothing in the documents issued last week.
Steve Bannon
Undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia.
Tulsi Gabbard
Worked to influence the 2016 election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.
Steve Bannon
How do you respond to critics like.
Tulsi Gabbard
Former President Obama and also others on.
Steve Bannon
The Hill who say that the administration is conflating apples and oranges here, conflating.
Tulsi Gabbard
Allegations of actual hacking of voter machines.
Steve Bannon
And allegations of interference generally? Ms.
Tulsi Gabbard
I think it's a disservice to the American people that former President Obama's office and others who are criticizing the transparency that is being delivered by releasing these documents, they are doing a disservice to the American people and trying to deflect away from their culpability in what is a historic scandal and negative action towards the American people and our democratic republic. The answer to that statement can very clearly be found throughout all of the documents that we have released, again showing that Russia has took action to try to sow discord in the election, but showed no preference for or against any singular candidate, maybe either for you or.
Caroline Levitt
Caroline, the president said yesterday that Obama committed treason.
Rick Crawford
Do you or the White House believe that the Supreme Court's immunity decision protects Obama from prosecution?
Caroline Levitt
Ms. Look, I can speak to the president's feelings on this matter. He spoke to all of you yesterday in the Oval Office, but I also spoke to him about this this morning, and he wants to see all those who perpetuated this fraud against our country, who betrayed our country and the Constitution, to be thoroughly investigated and held accountable. And it's been, you know, 10 years of this. And I would just add, based on everything the director has said and declassified, all of you in this room should go through it and take a look at this report and review the intelligence because unfortunately, that hasn't happened. And many of the people who perpetuated this hoax, clapper, Andy McCabe, James Comey and many others have been hired by major networks in this room to go on television and continue to spew these lies, knowing that they are lies. And if you all recall, just flashback to 2016 and the years after the entire Trump won presidency was embroiled in this scandal that was perpetuated by the Democrat Party, and you had major Democrat Party officials in this city, namely Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, who went on television and told the American people that Donald Trump is an asset of Russia. It was a lie. They always knew it. Hillary Clinton herself said that President Trump would be a puppet for Putin. Senator Tim Kaine at the time called President Trump Vladimir Putin's defense lawyer Adam Schiff stated, and one of the worst things a lawmaker can do is to tell the American people, I know something you don't know. It's just classified and I can't tell you. And that's what he said. I can tell you that the case is more than that. I can't go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now. And not enough people in this room, not enough journalists in this country pushed Adam Schiff to say, what are you talking about? What evidence do you have? Everybody just ran with the lies and it led to impeachments. It led to the division of our country. Unfortunately, so many Americans, from listening to outlets in this room, believed in these lies. And it's a complete scam, and it's a scandal, and the president wants to see accountability for that.
Steve Bannon
This is their cause, the deep state. And Steve Bannon said, look, it's not.
Rick Crawford
That he's going to lose. It's not that Trump could lose his.
Steve Bannon
Entire coalition in the course of this Epstein saga. It's just that he could lose 10 to 15%. And that's enough to lose the House, and that's enough to lose Congress in 2026 and the presidency in 2028. And I think that's real math to me.
James Clapper
What's really interesting in why all of.
Steve Bannon
This might matter months and years from now is I think we're seeing in real time that the very movement that.
James Clapper
Trump created in some ways is bigger than him, and it's now a little different than him.
Steve Bannon
They really bought into maga, like, Steve Bannon wasn't joking. These people really believe in the things that they talked about. They believe in these conspiracy theories. They believe in the deep state. And they believe that Donald Trump as an obligation to them and to the movement and to the people who voted.
James Clapper
Him into office to stick with it. And I think that's where the frustration is on Epstein. You look at the polls, it's the first issue I can think of where.
Steve Bannon
You see Republicans legitimately divided, almost 5050.
James Clapper
Where Republican, his base, which is usually.
Steve Bannon
With him 90 to 95% of the time on most topics, is really troubled by this.
James Clapper
And they want all of the records.
Caroline Levitt
To be released first on Secretary Rubio. He put out a statement in 2020 following that Senate Intelligence Committee report, and he said, what they found is troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russia meddling, which the Director of National Intelligence just confirmed for all of you, that Russia was trying to sow distrust and chaos. But what's the outrage in this? That Secretary Rubio did not say at the time, the Democrats were saying at the time, is the fact that the intelligence community was concocting this narrative that the president colluded with with the Russians, that the president's son was holding secret meetings with the Russians, all of these lies that were never true. And he also said at that time we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the FBI under Comey, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the Steele dossier without verifying its methodology or sourcing the Steele dossier. That many outlets in this room ran as the gospel truth and it was cooked up and paid for by the Clinton campaign. As for your second question, Kaitlyn, I think who is saying that that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the President? Who has said that? Well, the President has publicly undermined her. When it came to Iran, he said she was wrong. He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about. That was on Air Force One. On camera the only people who are suggesting that the Director of National Intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the President are the people in this room who constantly try to sow distrust and, and chaos amongst the President's cabinet. And it is not working with Bill Barr. I will just answer your question directly. I am with the President of the United States every day. He has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard. He always has. He continues to. And that is true of his entire cabinet who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this President made.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. There's no 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.
Derek Harvey
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Steve Bannon
I wish that any of these people.
Derek Harvey
People had a conscience.
Steve Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
James Clapper
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen k. Ban.
Steve Bannon
Thursday the 24th of July, year of our Lord 2025. We had last night we did the AI conference and couldn't get to the the entirety. We had Ian Trottier on with the new book on Brennan. He's the Brennan expert. We had Colonel Derek Harvey, who's an expert on all of it. Colonel Harvey is going to be with us. We're going to go through this in detail. Later in the show we're going to pick up a live stream of Jack Bassobic and General Flynn over at a security conference, I think at 11:30 we're planning on doing that. So we'll pick that up and they'll have a lot to discuss about this situation. Right there you saw the seriousness of the charges, of course, the, the engine rooms already noted you know, it's a lot of this about optics and about style, about the way you present. This is why it's so important for the President kick this off in the Oval Office in front of a head of state, very important ally in the Philippines and on global television as all those pressers are. Tulsi Gabbard. I think it's very important for Tulsi every couple of days to go back to the White House press briefing because they're, it's a forcing function. They're forced to cover it. And the engine room did not miss. On the optics of it right there, she looked like a commanding field commander, right. Unflappable, just laying out the facts. No brag, just fact. And it had that. She was in the white like General Washington. Absolutely perfecto. And Caroline Levitt, so proud that Caroline got her start on this show years ago when she was running in a very tough primary up in New Hampshire. Look at her arc, look at her learning curve. Just a total hammer. That piece where she rips the face off the media in the room and says you guys have for years paid people that are still contributors and making big money to go on TV knowing what the facts were and lie the lawsuits here. I'm telling you, we gotta bring this together. You gotta stick the landing. It's all there in front of us and it's up to us to do it. John Solomon's on here yesterday. What did John Solomon tell you? I think they're going to announce a federal task force to get on top of this. The best of the best to get all the information and get it out there quickly and start getting some indictments. Guess what happened last night? Wait for it. Federal task force announced that they're putting this together. Okay, Colonel Harvey, John Solomon, Jack Nasobic, General Flynn, everybody. This July there is a global summit of BRICS nations. In Rio de Janeiro, the block of emerging superpowers including China, Russia, India and Persia are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency. They're calling this the Rio reset. As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US dollars will decrease, bringing down the value of the dollar in your savings. While this transition won't not happen overnight, but trust me, it's going to start in Rio. The Rio Reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality. Learn if diversifying your savings into gold is right for you. Birch Gold Group can help you move your hard earned savings into a tax sheltered IRA and precious metals Claim your free info kit on gold by texting my name Bannon. That's B A N N O N to 989-898 with an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers. Led Birchgold army with a free no obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. Text Bannon B A N N O N 298-9898. Do it today. That's the Rio reset. Text Bannon at 989-898 and do it.
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Steve Bannon
Okay. Welcome back. So much to get to artificial intelligence rescissions, economy, the president, Guess, guess what? The President of these United States going to go over to the Federal Reserve today to do a building inspection. Might have a chat with a couple of people over there. The Versailles on Connecticut Avenue. Two and a half billion dollars. I didn't actually realize how big it was till I went by it the other day. I think they field stripped the building. Now the Santa's asbestos. I don't know the whole thing so convoluted. And the problem is not the building, but the building may be a solution to a problem. Who knows. President's going to go over there. We will cover that. I think he's going over at 4:00'. Clock. Ravel cover it. We, we'll pick it up at 5. I'm trying to get David Malpass here tomorrow. Haven't been confirmed. Trying to book Malpass remark with Philip Patrick. Talk about everything going on at the Fed and how it impacts your life. Then on Saturday. Judy Shelton, who was at the Fed under President Trump is one of the most brilliant Fed watchers. Will be here on Saturday. So and we're going to fill up Patrick tomorrow. We'll figure all this out. A lot going on. Todd Blanche, I think Todd Blanche is en route. He's, he's the deputy attorney general, Trump's lawyer, former lawyer him, he and Emil Bove with the two guns that, that Boris got in harness and powered through all these problems from President Trump in those very dark years of 21, 22, 23, in 24, he's en route, I think, to the prison in Tallahassee. He's going to actually sit down and talk with Maxwell today. And the house is getting out of town today, but they have, they're sending out subpoenas to the Clintons and they've subpoenaed her, I think. And they're looking at testimony at deposition. Maybe not testimony, a deposition on. In fact, I think the deposition is going to be in the prison in Florida. So deposition on 11 August because the House will be gone. So this all come back, but big movements on the Epstein situation. Of course, the judge turned down the releasing of the, of the grand jury testimony. I think they've got to go back and be more specific. What actual sections do you want, what's going to be redacted and how you cover for the victim? So more on that. But Todd Blanche, Todd Blanche obviously now in charge of this over at doj. And I think that is a, I think that is a good thing. Todd Blanche is a no bs, let's get to the facts kind of guy. So you'll see some action. Also with Tulsi, Derek Harvey joins me. This should be passed. Tulsi and these guys. Remember, Derek, Colonel Harvey, there are dozens if not hundreds of whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork now, as you can imagine in the intelligence community and other places that have for years wanted to talk but didn't know, quite frankly, there's anybody to talk to. Now they realize with Tulsi throwing down hard that they're coming forward and it's time for we had John Solomon on here yesterday, said there's going to be a federal task force of FBI and DOJ and across the apparatus to get on top of this. They announced just last night that that's going to happen. But we need to, we need to expedite this because you can see the mainstream media coming in for trying to chop block Tulsi. Give me your assessment of what you heard yesterday. We had you on five, but we didn't get time to really get into it because the AI conference. What's your assessment of what you heard from the White House press briefing room, of which I think Tulsi ought to be there every two or three days to throw down and force the media to cover it. What's your assessment of what you heard yesterday, sir.
Derek Harvey
Tulsi Gabbard laid out the case brilliantly yesterday and Carolyn piled on. It was very clear that, you know what Carolyn, when she went after CNN and MSNBC and others, because they are either too lazy or ideologically in the tank, you know, and we are refusing to actually read, I think, you know, these reports, the, you know, intelligence community assessment analysis that was chartered by, you know, Congressman Devin Nunes, the CIA note that was put out on 26 June by John Radcliffe that laid out a good case against Brennan and this ica, the Russian hoax mater and other things. It was brilliantly laid out by Tulsi. But there's tremendous amounts of material. If people will just read it, it's factual, it's truthful, and they're just denying the truth and the facts when they question these things. Secondly, there's going to be more coming out because the roadmap is there. There's been a lot of work done. Durham has got classified annexes. For example, one annex that's on the Hillary intelligence plan to link Putin to Trump, that needs to be decl. The one on the steel dossier needs to be declassified. There are classified annexes from the Inspector General's report into misdeeds with FISA and how that played into the Steele dossier and the like. So there's a lot that still needs to come out and there's tremendous amounts of material that's already available to the strike force. But we were never able to get access to individuals in DOJ and FBI. Cash Patel and others will tell you this. We were stonewalled by our own DOJ and our own FBI and over at the CIA by Director Pompeo and then later Gina Haspel with being able to access the people we needed to, to depose.
Steve Bannon
The coaching tree here. I want to go back so people know the connections here on the House intelligence, which Nunez ran. Nunez ran it, quite frankly, because Mike Pompeo was promoted off there and went to CIA, which was not the best. So Pompeo went to CIA because he had been in House Intel. Nunez, Devin took over cash. Patel, I believe, was the general counsel because the Republicans controlled it, because we controlled the House. You were chief. You were chief investigator or chief of.
Derek Harvey
Staff, chief of investigations and director of Analytical integrity issues for the ic.
Steve Bannon
And so you guys, I want to go back to the war that was already in the intelligence community at the time between the deep state and really the forces that were innervated by President Trump actually winning and coming and saying we're going to clean this mess up, walk our people. When you say deep state, how do they roll and how can they actually be part of a government if you have politicals come in and they're supposed to be able to direct these people how? Because now we're hearing, you know, you're going to release, you're going to release, you know, background information from House Intel. You got all these other reports are classified that haven't been declassified. They're going to be declassified now so people can read them. They're going to be shocked. I mean, how does all this happen?
Derek Harvey
COLONEL HARVEY well, if you take a look at the list of people that were just even over at the, the meeting on the 9th of December when they met with the ICA on December of 2016, it's a list of who's who, but they're mostly professional career people. If you look at Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Sally Yates and so many others that were involved at CIA or at DNI at the National Security Division and doj, these were career people who were like minded with their political appointees that were supervising them and they had the same view, the same world view. And keep in mind, you know, Republicans aren't really seeking the careers in these fields and you know, burrowing in like the Democrats successfully do. And you know, we're just not as good at at that type of stuff. And so they have a lot of like minded people that continue to perpetuate themselves administration after administration.
Steve Bannon
How this is what's so shocked by the way the White House put up last night a report from NBC News that we're going to put up here momentarily on getter. That's pretty, pretty shocking about NBC News at least has a headline about Tulsi Gabbard calling Obama because they say a president led a treasonous conspiracy. That is the fact that's the information that's out there. Now. It's going to be the FBI with a, I hope a relatively rapid investigation and DOJ with actually bringing charges can bring this to a head. But the stakes cannot be higher. They just couldn't be higher. And if we fail to deliver, we fail to stick the landing, this is going to have massive repercussions because you're not going to be able to take this. We've got the weapons right now for us. We have a process, right? We have the weapons. We announced the strike force last night. The administration announced the strike force to pull it all together. You have both the material and now you're seeing beginning of a process come together that you can actually see how this thing develops. Now. It's going to be massive, you know, pushback. Not just pushback, they're going to try to chop block us every way, set traps for us, blow people up, clean more mines all over the place. Right. It's going to be tough. What would your recommendation right now, Colonel Harvey, be to Tulsi and Joe Kent and that team over at dni continue.
Derek Harvey
To do what they're doing, which is going through the information that they have, the reports that have already been done, whether it's, you know, and some of these are not, you know, under their authority, like the Durham report, that's doj. But work across the community to get information released and provide access to individuals and materials. Keep in mind this House intelligence report was locked up and we couldn't get it released in September, October and November, in 2020 when we were trying to get it released. So what they are going to need to do is continue to press forward over at DOJ and FBI and on the Hill. There has to be the intensity, the energy and resources, committed people, people that are smart, that are curious and are good investigators to pull this together along with some of the better legal minds to tie this together, put the puzzle together and then lay out obstruction of government proceedings, seditious conspiracy, perjury, creation of false documents, FISA abuse, lay it all together. Because when we look at this individually, Steve, just the ica, that's bad enough, but look at the human. And signals, yes, intelligence efforts to target the Trump campaign, the Trump transition and then onward, look at what they did in targeting Michael Flynn and how they abused their authority from their legal authority.
Steve Bannon
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Caroline Levitt
Yeah, I think when they hear a comment like that.
Steve Bannon
You know, it's terrifying. It's frightening. I have a lot of conversations with.
Derek Harvey
Former colleagues, people who are or were.
Steve Bannon
In the intelligence and law enforcement community and may have worked in the Obama administration other places, and people are really trying to assess, like, what is life going to be like if Donald Trump wins a second term? And on a very personal level, I mean, these are torturous discussions with their.
Tulsi Gabbard
Family members about whether or not they.
Steve Bannon
Have to leave the country to avoid being unconstitutionally and illegally detained. I mean, people are actually worried about being thrown in jail or grabbed in some sort of extrajudicial detention.
Tulsi Gabbard
And I think, you know, as crazy.
Steve Bannon
As this sounds in the United States of America, I think people should really consider that these are possibilities. Listen to what the man says. He typically does what he says, as crazy as it seems. And that's really all the indicators you need.
Caroline Levitt
When the director says that she's referred these filings to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation tonight, we're told they formed what is called a strike force. Do you have concerns that they will attempt to prosecute you?
James Clapper
Well, certainly I do. You know, after eight and a half years of this, and I don't know of an intelligence product that was more scrutinized, more investigated than not, product was by numerous people. You know, it's very disconcerting. It really is. And I take seriously when president of the United States accuses me of being a participant in a treasonous conspiracy, which is ridiculous.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Caroline Levitt
What's your reaction to that?
James Clapper
It's ridiculous.
Steve Bannon
It just.
James Clapper
It is untrue.
Caroline Levitt
So what will you do if they come after you? What is your plan?
James Clapper
Well, I'll lawyer up, I suppose. Already have.
Caroline Levitt
You've already hired attorneys in case of an anticipation that this Trump Justice Department could try to prosecute.
James Clapper
We've had sort of perpetual attorneys since I left the government in 2017. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago, Steve, that Cash Patel opened an investigation in April inside the fba. It's a predicated criminal investigation that looks at everything from the clearing of Hillary Clinton to the start of Russia Gate, all the way through Jackson Smith raiding Florida and The Biden White House sticking the National Archives and telling to get the FBI on Donald Trump in the classified documents case as one continuous criminal conspiracy, much like you would look at a drug cartel or an organized crime organization like the Mafia. When. When the Justice Department starts an investigation like this, their first step is to name a federal strike force. To get a strike force of the best agents and prosecutors, have them work exclusively on this and develop the overt acts. What are the overt acts? Is it the ordering of the Crossfire hurricane? Is it Obama knowing that it's a fake scandal and allowing it to go on? Is it hijacking the ica? You go through that. I think Pam Bondi is on the verge. If she follows the Justice Department's normal predicate, you got an open conspiracy case to name a federal strike force and to move this to the next level. Just think about this. That means the Obama administration and the Democrats and all of those who are involved in the weaponization are going to be treated just like the mob, just like a drug cartel. They're going to be pursued by a federal strike force to determine whether they, whether their political conspiracy to get Trump rose to a criminal conspiracy. I think that's the next step. I would not be surprised based on how far I know this investigation has evolved. If that happened within the next week, that will give us a sense that maybe for the first time, there's a serious effort to investigate this and to bring accountability all the way back from 16 all the way through 24. That's what I'd be watching.
Steve Bannon
And shazam, guess what happened Last night, a federal task force was announced they're moving for a federal strike force. Let me get to Solomon a second. I want to connect dots here with the first part of that cold open. If you remember the cold open from the show, the Kaitlan Collins is always asking the edgy question, like, hey, aren't you just doing this, Tulsi, because Trump lost confidence in you as dni. And, you know, he told me last week that he doesn't think you know anything and you're an idiot. Right. And you saw Caroline Levitt jump in there and start ripping her face off. Kaitlan Collins put a pin in it. Let's go back. The first one was McCabe. Yes. We're very worried if Trump wins because of what Trump is saying about investigations and about this treasonous conspiracy, folks. That was the 8th of June of 2024. And what do you talk about? We're already in discussions about leaving the country if Trump wins. Okay. The second one, Clapper was, wait for it last night, where he says, hey, I've lawyered up. These brothers know we're coming. This is why I'm banging behind the scenes. I'm saying, go grab their passports now. The FBI should go to Obama, Hillary, Clinton, all of them. Take their passports. You're going to see these rats heading down a rat line. You heard McCabe. That is from a year, over a year ago, when President Trump was just talking about it in interviews or, you know, going buck wild at these rallies and people digging it, saying, we got to do this. Well, now we're doing it. And John Solomon said yesterday, hey, if this thing's real, the next phase you'll see in the development is a federal strike force to bring together the best, the best to actually hone this down and get real about what crimes are really committed, what's the information we've got and how people are going to be charged. And last night it was announced John Solomon. First off, John, I like your assessment of McCabe, Clapper and Kaitlan Collins.
James Clapper
Sir, some of it looks a little bit like the Russian Pravda tv, right? Donald Trump's going to come in the dark of night without any basis in arrest. We know that's not going to happen. And CNN has become, going back to 2016, when they would not get off the Alpha bank baloney story, which every investigation ever looked at, it found it to be nothing but utter nonsense. They peddled that and now they're peddling that there's some secret Stasi police that's going to come and arrest the Obama people unwarranted. What the Justice Department did last night is follow its normal rules. There's an allegation made. They stand up a strike force because it's a conspiracy enterprise organization. They're potentially looking at. They're following the rules, something that Andrew McCabe and the FBI didn't do back during the Clinton era or during the Obama era. They misled the FISA court. They violated the normal norms of intelligence reporting and analysis. They created an intelligence product predicated on a false document and did so knowingly over the objections of their intelligence experts. That is the abnormal. What happened last night with Pam Bondi is the normal. But you know, listen, CNN for most of the last 10 years is hardly recognizable from the CNN that when I first got in the profession started in the 80s and 90s. So it doesn't surprise me and I understand why James Clapper lawyered up. There are some serious issues to be resolved here, and he probably does need a lawyer.
Steve Bannon
John, walk people through now that they've named that they're pulling this task force together, what will happen? Walk us through what we can expect behind the scenes of what kind of work they're doing. You said yesterday it's to focus down and get to real charges and see, you know, separate the wheat from the chaff, the speculation and the conspiracies versus hard fact that you can actually take to a grand jury and then get an indictment.
James Clapper
Right, sir. What the team will do is they'll bring in all the different skill sets. I think the National Security Division will be brought in. Ironically, that's same division that pursued Donald Trump on the classified documents, but took a dive on Joe Biden's classified documents. I think that division will be brought in and then they will look for what they believe to be the overt acts of the conspiracy, the various actions that led to a criminal conspiracy. Then they'll have to evaluate the statute. Are there any in the current statute of limitations or any that the statute paused on because evidence was hidden from us for a long time so we can charge it. Even now they have to decide the venue. Are they going to bring it in D.C. are they going to bring it in Florida? There'll be lots of work. And then there'll be grand jury subpoenas. There'll be significant interviews going on. You'll look for your cooperating witnesses. As I said yesterday, the strike force is a tool that was built during the pursuit of the mob, the Mafia, the Irish mob, the Russian mobs. And it has a very clear methodology on how they work. And one of the things that they do is they roll up people on the low end of the scale early, and then they try to get them to turn on their bosses and get us the truth. So if the ultimate targets are someone like a John Brennan or James Comey or Barack Obama, who's, by the way, not going to be indicted, anyone who thinks Barack Obama's going to be indicted, it's not going to happen. President Trump's immunity victory last year in the Supreme Court's going to protect Barack Obama. Barack Obama should and send a thank you card to Donald Trump. But you could imagine a scenario where they lay out a conspiracy and Barack Obama is named as an unindicted co conspirator. That would be one hell of a legacy for the 44th president. But they'll roll up people and see what they know. And can they roll up on the bigger guns who orchestrated this shenanigans, which now Looks to be quite criminal when you look at what Tulsi Gabbard put out in the last few days.
Steve Bannon
I hope we have a brilliant young prosecutor in DOJ that'll come up with a workaround, but we'll put a pin in that, come up with a workaround, because I don't think we'll be happy unless there's an indictment of Obama. One last thing. You had the new House chair, Intel Chair, Rick Crawford, on last night's show. His quote was, this is the greatest perpetuation Obama executed, the greatest perpetuation of fraud against the American people in history. And he cannot plead ignorance in this case. Talk to me about the House and the Senate side of this, sir.
James Clapper
Yeah, listen, the Senate side has always sneered at the Russia collusion thing. You know, when Marco Rubio was in charge of the Senate Intelligence Committee, they bought a lot of the FBI's garbage. It took John Durham to reverse that. It took Michael Horowitz to reverse it. So the Senate has always been a little bit of sleep at the switch. They've expressed some outrage, but not necessarily nearly as much. The House has always been the leading edge of trying to get us the truth. And I think today what the House thought was the worst case scenario back in 18 and 19, when Devin Nunes wrote his first report and then when Derek Harvey and Cash Patel wrote that second report released yesterday in 2020, I think it's a lot worse than even everyone imagined. It just looks that it's much more serious a matter when you put all the disparate parts together. And I think, you know, Rick Crawford's a member of the gang of eighties, one of the most powerful people in the United States. He has the same access to intelligence as the President and the speaker of the House. And for him to say what he said on the show last night, he thought his words carefully. He didn't say it off the cuff. It wasn't a talking point that some political aide wrote for him. He really believes that what you see in the Intelligence Committee, assess it in the FISA abuse uses in the things that succeeded them, like ignoring the China intelligence in 2020 or trying to make Donald Trump's classified documents worse than Joe Biden's is a complete corruption of the system and the engineer in chief. The ignition point in 2016 is President Barack Obama. He can't run from the evidence anymore. And that evidence, we laid it out a couple times, but he's in the meeting with Brennan. He knows that Hillary Clinton is making the fake Russia scandal. He doesn't stop the FBI a few days later when they open up on the fake allegations. In December, when Donald Trump pulls off in 16 and pulls off the unthinkable and he beats Hillary Clinton, he's about to get briefed that the Russians didn't have a preferred candidate. He cancels that briefing and orders a new intelligence assessment so it can come to something different, which, by the way, is based on bad and false evidence. And then in January, when he should be thinking about getting his presidential library together, he's presiding over a meeting to figure out how they can go after Mike Flynn after the FBI had cleared Mike Flynn of wrongdoing. That is not a president doing his job. That is a president doing what Congressman Crawford, the House Intelligence Committee said it's a fraud and he's at the forefront. He attends key events. Those are overt acts. If this becomes a criminal conspiracy, some of those things we just mentioned are going to be the overt acts. Now, do we know it's criminal yet? We'll see. But I think to have the House Intelligence Committee say that thoughtfully, not off the cuff, tells you how serious the people who know the evidence are taking it.
Steve Bannon
Wow. Impressive. John Solomon, where do people get all on social media, all your content and tell them about the 6:00 clock show? Yeah.
James Clapper
I get to follow you every day right here on Real America's Voice. Justin News, no noise with the amazing Amanda head. Jay Solomon reports on all social platforms on the website justinnews.com and thanks, Steve. You put a lot of attention on this. You've moved this dialogue forward. I'm really grateful. Every time we get to talk, you.
Steve Bannon
Guys are doing all the heavy lifting. I got the easy job. Just schedule and slot them in and let's roll, baby. John Salma, thank you, investigative reporter. The tip of the spear on this Solomon. Derek Harvey. This goes back. These people have been fighting this thing for a decade, over a decade. We got to stick the landing. We must stick the landing. Derek Harvey on the other side. You've heard me talk about Patriot Mobile for a while now. You probably know that for years they've stood in the gap for every American who believes in faith, family and freedom. So here's the question. Have you switched to Patriot Mobile yet? You'll get exceptional nationwide coverage because unlike most cell phone service providers, Patriot Mobile utilizes all three major US Networks switch today without sacrificing quality or service. They even add two numbers on two networks on one phone. Let me repeat. They can even add two numbers on two networks on one phone. It's like you're carrying two phones in one. They have unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, Internet on the go devices and Internet backup. Switching is easy. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Their 100% US based team can activate you in minutes. Best of all, switching to Patriot Mobile supports your values. If you believe in our first Amendment and second Amendment rights, the sanctity of life, supporting our veterans and first responders, this is where you belong right now. Go to patriot mobile.com bannon or call 972 Patriot. Get a free month of service with promo code Bannon. So if you call in, tell them Bannon also Switch today. That's patriot mobile.com Bannon or call 972 Patriot. Use your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Got to stick the landing. That's our new mantra here. Todd Blanche en route. I guess he's going to, he's actually going to go to the prison and interview her. So maxwell and if DOJ's down there, that has the feel of some deals going to be cut. Todd Blanche, the deputy with everything on Todd Blanche's shoulders, he ain't down there to go see Pensacola or Tallahassee, I guess. Tall, nasty, that's pretty serious. Plus the House is going to, is going to depose her in Tallahassee at the prison on the 11th. House has already announced on this situation. I guess they want Bill Clinton also. So you got two running trash. You got the Epstein thing, you got the House, you got the overall treasonous conspiracy also the House is very involved in that. Derek Carvey, you were there. You and Cash, coming from the coaching tree of Nunez, you guys were, you guys were there in the House, man. Is it. Are we glad that Crawford's there now, sir?
Derek Harvey
Thank. Well, we're very thankful that he's there. He replaced Congressman Mike Turner from Ohio, who was milk toast and not a strong MAGA candidate who was willing to dig for the truth. He partnered far too much with, you know, his ranking member, Hines, and he distanced himself from the investigations and Devin Nunez and tried to make nice with, you know, Adam Schiff and the crew and that's not the kind of leadership we needed. You know, Rick Crawford is a man of great character and a good leader and he understands the stakes for our country. He's from Arkansas and we are very blessed to have him there along with Cash and Bongino over at FBI and Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, John Radcliffe, you know, both at CIA and dni, respectively. We've got a Good team in place. Now they have to build the bench to go after this in the strike force, as John Solomon laid out earlier.
Steve Bannon
Would you anticipate, just given the information's out there? Well, let's go back. Why is the House, the report you and Cash Patel, now the director of the FBI, worked on, that you wanted to come out in 2020 because it was ready. Why did they block that? Why was that blocked? Did they feel that that would tilt the election more to Trump's hand? Was a political reason? Was there actually security reasons, national security reasons around it? Why is this thing being released now in the summer of 2024? Excuse me, 2025, when you guys had it ready to go in 2020, the CIA blocked it.
Derek Harvey
And, you know, you have to look at Gina Haspel and the leadership there because we didn't have control of the document. It was produced, researched and everything over at CIA headquarters. And we were not allowed to take any notes or materials out of the vault. We were, you know, supervised very closely. John Radcliffe, you know, tried to get it out when he was dni. Got to remember there was a lot going on at the time. But you can tell right now if you read the report, it was explosive about, you know, what was done in 2016 to frame Donald J. Trump and the linkage to Putin. And there was damaging information in there about what was known and what was put on the cutting room floor, what the Russians did not use, negative information about Hillary Clinton and the like, more information about the intelligence plan of. Of Clinton, the Steele dossier. And keep in mind, still a majority of people in this country believe significant parts of the Russian hoax that was propagated by cnn, msnbc, Andrew Weissman and the Mueller probe.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable. Colonel Harvey, where do people go? And we're going to get you back on and we'll do a special where we break down that House intel report that's now out or the codicil that you guys worked on that they kept under wraps. We'll break it down for the audience. So we want this audience as smart as possible. We got to get everybody up the learning curve. Where do people go for your social media, sir, and all your content?
Derek Harvey
Derek harvey.org and then Derek Harvey at Truth Social and Colonel Derek, Colonel D. Harvey on X.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.
Derek Harvey
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
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Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room
Episode 4655: "Blanch Heads To Florida; DOJ Launches Strikeforce Against Obama"
Release Date: July 24, 2025
Overview
In Episode 4655 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into a range of politically charged topics, focusing primarily on the recent developments involving former President Barack Obama and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) newly launched strike force. The episode features discussions with key figures such as Tulsi Gabbard, Steve Bannon, James Clapper, Rick Crawford, Caroline Levitt, and Derek Harvey. The conversation centers around allegations of intelligence manipulation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, internal political dynamics within the Republican base, and the implications of a federal strike force targeting former Obama administration officials.
Key Sections
Release of Declassified Report (00:00 - 06:29)
Speaker: Tulsi Gabbard
Content: Tulsi Gabbard announces the release of a declassified oversight majority staff report from September 2020, alleging that the Obama administration and its national security team fabricated an intelligence community assessment (ICA). She claims this false narrative was intended to portray Russian interference in the 2016 election as a means to secure President Trump's victory. Gabbard asserts that the report provides irrefutable evidence of the Obama administration's efforts to undermine Trump's legitimacy through media collaboration and intelligence manipulation.
Notable Quote:
"There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false." — Tulsi Gabbard [00:00]
Discussion on Trump's Coalition and the "Deep State" (03:13 - 10:05)
Speakers: Steve Bannon, James Clapper, Rick Crawford
Content: Steve Bannon discusses the significance of Trump's coalition, highlighting figures like Stuart Rhodes, Michael Flynn, and himself as key supporters focused on dismantling the so-called "deep state." James Clapper emphasizes that dismantling the deep state is a top priority for Trump, surpassing other policy issues. Rick Crawford and Caroline Levitt briefly interject, leading to a dialogue about the legitimacy and motivations behind the released report.
Notable Quotes:
"The dismantling of the deep state are job number one for Donald Trump." — Steve Bannon [03:31]
"It's a disservice to the American people... they are doing a disservice to the American people." — Tulsi Gabbard [05:41]
Allegations Against Obama and the Intelligence Community (05:15 - 16:58)
Speakers: Tulsi Gabbard, Caroline Levitt, James Clapper, Steve Bannon
Content: The conversation intensifies with Tulsi Gabbard and Caroline Levitt making serious allegations against former President Obama, accusing him of leading a conspiracy to manipulate intelligence assessments and undermine Trump's presidency. They discuss the role of key intelligence figures like James Clapper and John Brennan in perpetuating what they term as a "Russian hoax." James Clapper responds, denying involvement and expressing concern over the allegations, while Steve Bannon emphasizes the gravity of the situation and the potential for significant political repercussions.
Notable Quotes:
"The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment." — Tulsi Gabbard [04:15]
"Former President Obama and also others... they are doing a disservice to the American people." — Tulsi Gabbard [05:41]
"It's going to be tough. What would your recommendation right now, Colonel Harvey, be to Tulsi and Joe Kent and that team over at DNI continue." — Steve Bannon [25:37]
DOJ's Strike Force Against Obama (16:26 - 33:40)
Speakers: Steve Bannon, Derek Harvey, James Clapper
Content: The DOJ announces the formation of a federal strike force targeting alleged conspiracies involving the Obama administration. Derek Harvey outlines the historical context and the internal political struggles that led to this development. Steve Bannon and James Clapper discuss the implications, with Clapper acknowledging the seriousness of the accusations but maintaining his innocence. The dialogue explores the potential legal and political outcomes of the strike force's actions.
Notable Quotes:
"We have a process, right? We have the weapons... but you're not going to stop it." — Steve Bannon [12:09]
"When the Justice Department starts an investigation like this, their first step is to name a federal strike force." — James Clapper [31:36]
Media and Public Reaction (37:28 - 43:05)
Speakers: Steve Bannon, Derek Harvey, James Clapper
Content: The discussion shifts to media coverage and public perception of the allegations against Obama and the intelligence community. Steve Bannon criticizes mainstream media outlets like CNN and MSNBC for perpetuating what he claims are unfounded narratives. James Clapper defends his reputation while acknowledging the media's role in shaping public discourse.
Notable Quotes:
"CNN for most of the last 10 years is hardly recognizable from the CNN that when I first got in the profession..." — James Clapper [37:06]
"Unbelievable. Colonel Harvey, where do people go?" — Steve Bannon [48:59]
Legal and Political Implications (43:05 - 52:48)
Speakers: Rick Crawford, Steve Bannon
Content: Rick Crawford discusses legal cases involving deed theft and fraud, drawing parallels to the broader political allegations discussed earlier. The conversation includes endorsements for services like Home Title Lock and discusses ongoing efforts to investigate and prosecute alleged fraudsters.
Notable Quotes:
"For $50, he was able to bribe a notary to not look at an ID and, legally on paper, help facilitate transferring this out of someone's name." — Rick Crawford [52:04]
"Natalie Dominguez, hometitle.com promo code Steve. Talk to her today." — Steve Bannon [52:48]
Insights and Conclusions
Allegations of Intelligence Manipulation: The episode centers on serious claims that the Obama administration deliberately fabricated intelligence reports to influence the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. Tulsi Gabbard and other guests present these allegations as part of a broader conspiracy to undermine Trump's presidency.
Formation of DOJ Strike Force: The DOJ's establishment of a federal strike force targeting former Obama officials is portrayed as a significant development in uncovering alleged conspiracies. The discussions suggest that this move could lead to substantial legal actions against high-profile figures.
Media Critique: There is a strong critique of mainstream media's role in perpetuating narratives that, according to the hosts, are unfounded or manipulated. The conversation implies that media outlets have been complicit in maintaining the alleged conspiracy against Trump.
Impact on Republican Cohesion: Steve Bannon highlights concerns about the unity of Trump's coalition, emphasizing that issues like the "deep state" are pivotal in maintaining support. The potential fallout from the DOJ's actions could have significant repercussions for Republican politics and future elections.
Legal Preparations and Defensives: Figures like James Clapper express concerns about potential legal repercussions, indicating that individuals implicated are preparing to defend themselves against the DOJ's investigations.
Conclusion
Episode 4655 of Bannon's War Room presents a narrative that suggests deep-seated conspiracies within the U.S. intelligence community aimed at undermining former President Trump. Through detailed discussions and testimonials from various guests, the episode underscores the gravity of the DOJ's latest actions and their potential impact on American politics. While the hosts advocate for accountability and transparency, the episode also reflects the ongoing polarization and contentious debates surrounding election integrity and governmental oversight.
Disclaimer: The content of this summary is based on the transcript provided and does not reflect any verified facts or events. The views expressed in the podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent factual accuracy.