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Steve Bannon (0:02)
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians not 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.
Law Enforcement Representative (0:21)
In the world to stop that, but.
Mike Benz (0:22)
You'Re not going to stop it.
Steve Bannon (0:22)
It's going to happen.
Mike Benz (0:24)
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.
Steve Bannon (0:34)
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Mike Benz (0:44)
War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Natalie Winters (0:53)
Welcome to the War Room. It's Natalie Winters hosting today, Thursday, August 21, in the year of our Lord 2025. We are awaiting John Solomon. He's got a new exclusive scoop out related to James Comey. But we also got Mike Benz, Laura Loomer, Brian Harrison. The latest coming out of Texas. Quite the packed show. I think we got Mike Benz. Mike, there's a bit of breaking news. The State Department is set to review all 55 million people with U.S. visas for, quote, deportable violations. That seems like a rather large undertaking for the State Department, but I know you have been highlighting a lot of the initiatives that they've been been doing. I'd love to just get your sort of reaction to that. But also what you've been really hammering where they need to press, particularly on the USAID files.
Mike Benz (1:43)
Well, the State Department has been very aggressive under, under Secretary Rubio on a whole range of initiatives. Obviously, there was the mass firing of about 4,000 employees last month. There was the shutdown of the censorship center, the global Engagement center at the State Department. There is a giant reorganization where about 130 different sub bureaus are being zapped out. And now there's the announcement of this giant undertaking. Obviously, 55 million people is about a sixth of the entire US population and sort of speaks to the sheer size of how much this country has ingested over the course of our lifetime. We'll see how much of that actually ends up being administered or reviewed. Ironically, the State Department may have to, may have to hire a whole new flood of people to carry out that kind of investigation. But that would be a good opportunity for the Trump administration to staff the State Department with folks who are ideologically on sides with the foreign policy vision of the MAGA movement. Adjacent to that is the, is the building right next to the State Department, which is the US Institute of Peace, which gets about $55 million a year from the US taxpayer that has just been toppled in, and effectively it's a legal transition. But the U.S. institute of Peace, which is a very, almost 1984 named institution, it's just like in 1984, there was the Ministry of Peace that conducted war. The US Institute of Peace is very much a war front. Its wall of donors, I was just in the building last week. Its wall of donors are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, a bunch of oil companies like Exxon, Chevron, bp, Shell. It is a mandatory board seat for the Secretary of War as well as the President of the National Defense University. It's sort of war under the name of peace. But effectively what the US Institute of Peace has been doing has been promoting illegal narcotics in the production of them. The US Institute of Peace put out a memo in 2023 to the Taliban instructing them to keep the drugs flowing in Afghanistan. That was of course, very useful to the Biden administration because that drug money paid the ISIS fighters to effectively funded the insurgency Al Qaeda and ISIS forces who the following year would topple, topple Bashar Al Assad and install a new government run by a former ISIS Al Qaeda leader, Mohammed Al Jelani, who previously had a $10 million bounty on his head under the Trump administration, but under the Biden administration, they made him the king of Syria. And this is again sort of run out of the auspices of this State Department adjacent U.S. institute of Peace. The U.S. institute of Peace also ran a global campaign for Internet censorship, working to try to get judges and legislatures to ban hate speech or ban mis and disinformation. They had a strategy that included going to the electoral management bodies, that is the courts that decide elections, to get them to say that speech about the election should be considered part of the judicial jurisdiction so that judges can censor speech the same way we saw happen in Brazil where the judge Moraes, the head of the emb, the electoral management body in Brazil, did the same thing. So we see this as part of a government strategy under the Biden administration. The U.S. institute of Peace actually has whole training seminars on how to organize riots, how to occupy government buildings, how to block city intersections and block roads, how to blockade train tracks to prevent cargo from going from place to place when you're protesting something, and even called in its instructions for the sponsored protest movements of it to deliberately seek to get arrested so that USAID sponsored media can hold up the arrested figures as being martyrs for the cause. And can justify economic sanctions. So we have this real blob apparatus. The US and Suit Peace fought the mandatory turnover. Tooth and nail guns were discovered in the building. They they knocked the bolts out of the doors. There had to be a showdown with federal police. They tried to delete a terabyte of financial data which fortunately was recovered by Doge. But there is one big missing piece in all of this which is the transparency about the files themselves from so much of this legacy behavior. And I can talk about that now with things like the USAID files and State Department files. But I'll pause there if you have any questions about what I just said.
