Episode 4742: Lisa Cook Heads To Court

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room – Episode 4742: Lisa Cook Heads To Court

Date: August 29, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon (WarRoom.org)
Notable Guests: Mike Davis, Christina Bobb, Brandon Straka, Jim Rickards

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Main Theme

This episode focuses on escalating legal and political confrontations during the Trump administration’s renewed tenure, specifically the unprecedented court battle over Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's removal. The broader context includes intensified efforts to "deconstruct the administrative state," assert presidential powers, and challenge longstanding institutional structures, including the Federal Reserve. Additional topics include election integrity fights in key swing states, New York's looming political shifts, and global geopolitical realignments, particularly in relation to the BRICS nations, China, Russia, and the U.S.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Unprecedented Power Grabs and Federal Reserve Legal Case

Timestamps: 00:00 – 14:44

• Host Framing: Steve Bannon and Christina Bobb open by painting the Trump administration as actively and aggressively reshaping American governance, deploying National Guard troops, firing officials for noncompliance, and restricting voting methods.
• Lisa Cook Lawsuit: A hearing is underway regarding Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who has filed suit to block President Trump’s attempt to remove her, arguing it’s illegal and unprecedented because the President lacks the unilateral power to redefine "cause" for termination. Trump alleges Cook committed mortgage fraud (01:07).
  • Quote (Mike Davis on broader implications, 07:53):

    "If the president states cannot let her go for these activities for cause, then the whole Federal Reserve structure is unconstitutional and must be just taken apart and rethought."

• Mortgage Fraud Allegations: Mike Davis details the allegations that Lisa Cook misrepresented properties as primary residences to secure lower interest rates (07:53–10:12).
• Challenge to Independence of Federal Reserve: Davis argues that if the President can’t remove governors for cause, the Fed acts as a “fourth branch” of government, insulated from necessary constitutional controls (10:12–14:44).

2. Administrative State, Judicial Sabotage, and Conservative Strategy

Timestamps: 14:44 – 24:44

• Separation of Powers Argument: Davis claims the Federal Reserve and other executive agencies are unconstitutional if presidents lack authority to hire/fire at will.
  • Quote (Mike Davis, 13:16):

    "I don't know if we have five [Supreme Court] votes yet...but...it's amazing how these judges will find their backbones and actually follow the law if the politics are right."

• Judiciary as the 'Swamp Plumber': Davis likens conservative judicial strategy to “draining the swamp” through court rulings, not political branches (18:21–21:37).
• Coming Conservative Legal Wins: Emphasizes a "window of opportunity" to reshape the federal government, reduce agency powers, and return authority to states and people (21:37).

3. Election Integrity Battles: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona

Timestamps: 24:44 – 32:53

• Christina Bobb on Election Oversight: Applauds Heather Honey’s appointment for election investigations in Pennsylvania (25:39), emphasizing her role analyzing irregular vote counts.
  • Quote (Christina Bobb, 25:39):

    "She got it right. She's causing Mark Elias to have a conniption, which is a very, very good day."

• Fulton County, Georgia: Describes a standoff where Democratic commissioners refuse to seat lawfully appointed Republicans on the election board, disregarding multiple court orders and risking fines (26:42–28:10; 30:48–31:41).
  • Bannon’s Commentary (30:48):

    "They're just thumbing their nose in the face of the judge. But...it's pretty brazen. It would be nice if Republicans...had half the backbone that these Democrats have."

• Arizona Update: Bobb remains a defendant in ongoing election-related prosecutions, predicting defeat for "politically-motivated" cases (32:01).

4. New York City Mayoral Race & Ground Activism

Timestamps: 33:18 – 40:48

• Brandon Straka’s “WalkAway Campaign”: Grassroots anti-socialism campaign in NYC strives to mobilize massive voter turnout to defeat Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani in the mayoral race.
  • Strategy: Canvassing, outreach to minority communities, live public debates (Brandon Straka, 34:52, 39:13).
  • Quote (Brandon Straka, 39:15):

    "We're changing hearts and minds. It really is happening. You know, we just have to have these conversations and reach these people."

• Electoral Math & Challenges: Argues the race can be won if voter turnout exceeds usual dismal figures, given division among establishment candidates.

5. Geopolitical Realignment, BRICS, and US Strategy

Timestamps: 40:50 – 52:02

• Jim Rickards on Eurasian Alliances: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China reflects growing unity between China, Russia, and India—a direct strategic threat to the U.S.
• US Foreign Policy Missteps: Rickards criticizes the lack of diplomacy, suggesting the U.S. should pivot to Russia (as Nixon did with China) instead of isolating Moscow (47:13–52:02).
  • Quote (Jim Rickards, 47:13):

    "Now's the time to pivot to Russia and let the United States and Russia work together to isolate the Communist Party of China."

• Ukraine & Peace Treaty Calculus: Outlines potential for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, involving guarantees by major powers—emphasizes urgency and strategic opportunity for the U.S.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Mike Davis on Fed Governance (07:53):

  "If the president states cannot let her go for these activities for cause, then the whole Federal Reserve structure is unconstitutional..."

• Steve Bannon on Administrative Power (12:23):

  "Are we getting down to...the nub of it, where these semi-autonomous agencies, they got to be a fish or a foul, right?"

• Mike Davis on Conservative Judicial Strategy (18:21):

  "...these judicial saboteurs are winning short term battles, but they are losing the war. And they're going to lose the war in a big way."

• Christina Bobb on Judicial Defiance in Georgia (31:08):

  "It's pretty brazen...they're just thumbing their nose in the face of the judge."

• Brandon Straka on Activism (39:15):

  "We're changing hearts and minds. It really is happening. You know, we just have to have these conversations and reach these people."

• Jim Rickards on Strategic Missteps (47:13):

  "This is a self-made disaster. It's the failure of US Foreign policy. I keep looking for diplomats. And where, where are the diplomats, Steve?"

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Trump’s Power Grabs, Lisa Cook Lawsuit Overview: 00:00–01:36
• Mortgage Fraud Allegations & Fed Structure Debate: 07:53–14:44
• Administrative State & Federal Judiciary Strategy: 14:44–24:44
• Election Integrity Fights (PA, GA, AZ): 25:39–32:53
• NYC Mayoral Race/WalkAway Campaign: 34:52–40:48
• Geopolitics: Eurasian Bloc, U.S. Diplomacy: 40:50–52:02

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Key Takeaways

• The episode is a passionate, often combative briefing on the Trump White House’s assertion of power, specifically the Lisa Cook Federal Reserve case, which is framed as a constitutional showdown about executive power and the administrative state.
• Conservative lawyers and judges are urged to be bold in dismantling agency powers, with the courts positioned as the ultimate “plumbers” to drain the swamp—expect more legal challenges to the structure of agencies like the Fed.
• Election integrity remains a major front, with guests describing fights over control of local election boards and ongoing prosecutions tied to the 2020 contest.
• In New York City, Brandon Straka’s campaign attempts to turn the mayoral race by mobilizing non-traditional conservative voters.
• Jim Rickards warns of a gathering alignment among Eurasian powers (China, Russia, India), sharply criticizing U.S. diplomatic failures and advocating for a pivot to Russia to contain China.

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Links & Calls to Action

• Article 3 Project: article3project.org
• WalkAway Campaign: walkawaycampaign.com
• Jim Rickards’ Newsletter: rickardswarroom.com
• Christina Bobb’s Book: Available for pre-order on major booksellers and christinabobb.com

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Tone & Language:
The episode is forceful, unsparing, and ideological—marked by Bannon’s trademark urgency and the guests’ combative, often legalistic framing. The speakers are frank about their motivations and the political stakes, favoring direct accusations and dramatic metaphors over bureaucratic caution.

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

Rule of dawn is making its mark on our government already in the seven.

[Christina Bobb]

Months since Donald Trump took office, especially.

[Steve Bannon]

This summer, where we have seen power grabs, actual, not figurative, actual power grabs.

[Christina Bobb]

By the Trump administration at every level and everywhere we look.

[Steve Bannon]

Let's just tick through what's happened in the last couple weeks.

[Christina Bobb]

National Guard troops are now actively deployed.

[Steve Bannon]

In our nation's capital, ones that as.

[Christina Bobb]

Of this week, are now armed. Multiple officials have been fired for not.

[Steve Bannon]

Giving Donald Trump exactly the data or.

[Christina Bobb]

The answers or the responses he wants.

[Steve Bannon]

The latest of whom being the CDC director who wasn't in line with the HHS secretary enough. Donald Trump rolled out an actual red.

[Christina Bobb]

Carpet and built a blue platform to.

[Steve Bannon]

Stand on together next to a world.

[Christina Bobb]

Leader well known to be a vicious dictator and wanted for war crimes by the icc. Trump has floated stopping states from voting by mail and from using voting machines.

[Steve Bannon]

And that's just a few. It would take the whole hour to go through all of them this morning. A hearing is now set for 10am this morning in Washington, D.C. after Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit against President Trump, claiming that his attempt to remove her from her position is unlawful. She is asking to remain an active member of the board.

[Christina Bobb]

In her lawsuit, which also names the.

[Steve Bannon]

Fed's Board of Governors and Chair Jerome Powell as defendants, Cook describes her ouster as unprecedented and illegal. The filing argues that the president does not have the power to unilaterally redefine cause, completely unmoored to case law, history and tradition, and conclude without evidence that he has found it. Trump has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, but she has not been charged with with a crime.

[Mike Davis]

Citizens are now at the mercy of a rogue, highly incompetent group of individuals who don't, at the end of the day, in my estimation, have the health care of the American people in mind. To Vaughn's point, you've got young kids who are going to be going to school this fall already started and we've already seen pockets of measles exploding around the country. You think that's not going to get worse? Of course it is. And yet we don't have the vaccines.

[Steve Bannon]

To protect the kids.

[Mike Davis]

What the hell are we doing as a country now when we have dumbed down medical care to the point where the idiocracy is telling smart scientists they don't know what they're doing?

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah, I can't speak to all of that, but I can say that, you.

[Mike Davis]

Know, speak to enough of it.

[Steve Bannon]

We good? It is a global preeminent public health.

[Jim Rickards]

Agency, and I have been here for 30 years. I've worked with multiple different administrations.

[Steve Bannon]

I am willing, was willing to work with this administration, but I find that the transparency is not there and the possibility that the information that comes out from the secretary over the next several.

[Mike Davis]

Weeks will be something that I will.

[Steve Bannon]

Not be able to support and that the American public will have to call into question.

[Mike Davis]

And so that's some place. That's a place I've never been before. I don't like being in that place.

[Steve Bannon]

But I do want everyone to know that American people to know that CDC should be the place where you get your information, where you find out how.

[Mike Davis]

To protect yourself to get the recommendations.

[Steve Bannon]

And if we're not able to do that, we'll have to find some other way. This is why none of these a holes can lecture anyone on compassion. The most compassionate people on this planet are trying to stop the trans delusion. The least compassionate are the people in the media, academia and politicians who enabled this hysteria of horror. What is so glaring about the trans cult? Apparently your identity is the only thing that matters. Until you do something awful, then it's the least important variable. Then you look at everything else, you talk about guns, but suddenly it's all of a sudden like, oh, we can't talk about that. What was it the other trans shooter that they actually hid her identity in this manifesto that this creep wrote, he said tired of being trans and that he had wished he had never brainwashed himself. What more do you need? Straight from the monster's mouth. Politicians, activists, teachers, you built this. You could have listened to the warnings. We were talking about this on this show for years. You amplified a hysterical, a hysterical, literally hysterical phenomenon that was going no place good. You created a poisonous program that twisted young minds for destruction, annihilated place to be when you deny biology and they have nowhere to go. So all of these media arguments, what you're seeing there among those people, it's to escape their own culpability and the reality that they created. So forget the layer of mental illness and gun control. The origin of the evil, the evil lies in the creation of a mindset that indulged a delusional self ruining connections with fellow human beings. So that trans by ascribing extreme aggrieved mentality then gets directed against society so this person feels justified in killing children. His killing resulted from that ideology. And if you don't believe that, you're one dumb Trump and his supporters. You know, Vance says this all the time.

[Mike Davis]

They constantly put this line, push this line. That you either care about Americans or you care about immigrants, not both. But it's racist garbage. We're an interconnected society of human beings who depend on each other to survive and thrive.

[Steve Bannon]

And there's not some neat line you.

[Mike Davis]

Can cleave between Americans and foreigners. We just have neighbors and communities.

[Steve Bannon]

Trump World says that's bunk, that there's just two sides. Trump World says that to make America.

[Mike Davis]

Great again, you named armed federal officers.

[Steve Bannon]

Roaming streets and businesses and Home Depot.

[Mike Davis]

Parking lots in search of people to disappear.

[Steve Bannon]

And now raids on camps of firefighters.

[Mike Davis]

As they literally battle the largest wildfire in the American northwest. Donald Trump, J.D.

[Steve Bannon]

Vance and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that's what it takes.

[Mike Davis]

So they can rule over the Ashes.

[Steve Bannon]

Friday, 29th August. Your overlord, 2025. We are so jammed today, we're not even going to do the show open after that great cold open. We are absolutely packed and our first couple of guests are frontline warriors. Mike Davis, Christina Bob, Brandon Stracha. I want to bring in the viceroy, Mike Davis first. Mike, I want to pull the camera back in a minute and give. You're the viceroy. Give us the battlefield of all these important decisions that have been done about President Trump's Article II powers. But I got to start with we're in court right now, of which Mike Davis has informed me, at least through his Twitter feed, is one of the most important things we're fighting on. This is Lisa Cook. The, the governor of the Federal Reserve now has, I guess, three potential felonies for, for not understanding how to do a mortgage or kind of doing three card money. But you're saying it's more important. All the media's jumped on. Trump wants the majority control of the Fed governors. You're saying something quite different. You've been out there saying, hey, if he can't fire her, if you, if he can't, if the president states cannot let her go for these activities for cause, then the federal whole Federal Reserve structure is unconstitutional and must be just taken apart and rethought. Mike Davis, let's start there, sir.

[Mike Davis]

Yeah. So Lisa Cook is one of the seven governors on the Federal Reserve Board. She got caught with her hand in the cookie jar three times. There is very strong evidence presented by Bill Pulte, one of Trump's housing finance leads, that Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud. She said that these residences were her primary residents and she got a lower interest rate when in fact they were investment properties. Investment properties have a higher risk of default. And that could harm the whole financial system of people are lying about getting a primary residence. When it's not that. The Democrats response is is that, oh, we never charge people with mortgage fraud, which is a felony. We don't charge people with mortgage fraud unless it's in connection with other crimes. Well, that's just silly. That means there's amnesty for mortgage fraud. And that sends a message to the entire country, go, go commit mortgage fraud. Otherwise, you know, there's nothing we're going to do about it. So that's just a dumb argument. And it's a particularly dumb argument when you are one of the governors of the Fed with the responsibility of, of helping to establish policies for our financial system that affects interest rates. So there's pretty damning evidence against this. Lisa Cook, under our statutes for the Federal Reserve, the President can fire these governors for cause. There's clearly cause to fire her. If she's committing mortgage fraud one time, there's evidence she committed mortgage fraud several times. And so she should be able to be fired immediately under that statute, which President Trump has done. She's challenging that and she is not.

[Steve Bannon]

And Mike, just for the audience, she is not denied she, she bought a house as a primary residence. She then bought another house, said it was a primary residence, the second house, to get the lower rate. She then has been on earth that she bought a third property, which should have been an investment property, and she listed that as a second home when it was purely investment property. So she's got a couple of mortgage fraud things. And she's never denied that. Right? She's not denied that of all these accusations of mortgage fraud, that she didn't do it. Correct.

[Mike Davis]

I have not heard any denial and I don't know how you can deny it. I mean, her signature's on the document and then you see that it's an investment property instead of her primary residence or a second home. So that's the issue. President Trump has fired her for cause and she's challenging that. The Federal Reserve Board is challenging that. And they're trying to make this like it's a play for the Federal Reserve's independence. And that's the problem. That's the bigger problem, is that this statutes that created the Federal Reserve 111 years ago, or whenever it was that established the Fed. The problem is, is it essentially created a fourth branch of government that's not allowed by our Constitution. Again, under Article 1, Congress writes the laws, it has the legislative power. Under Article 2, the President executes the laws, he has the executive power, all executive power under Article 3. The Supreme Court and the lower federal courts decide cases and controversies of the parties properly before them with redressible claims. That's Article 3 standing, or the judicial power. If you create this Federal Reserve System where the President cannot fire them, they're exercising executive power outside of the President's executive power, and the President has the executive power, all executive power under Article 2. So if the Federal Reserve wants to fight for this fraudster, Lisa Cook, and say that the President didn't have the statutory power to fire her, then the courts have to say, okay, they're going to have to decide that issue. I think the Court's going to say, of course the President has the power to fire someone for a cause if they're committing mortgage fraud, especially several times. But if they don't, if they say that that's not something that creates cause to fire someone, then the courts are going to have to decide the constitutional question, whether the President has the power under Article 2 of the Constitution to fire this executive branch officer, Lisa Cook at the Fed. And if he does not have that power under the statute, then it's unconstitutional. The Fed is.

[Steve Bannon]

But aren't a lot of these Alphabet agencies, Are we getting down to the hub of it that the nub of it, where these semi autonomous agencies, they got to be a fish or a foul, right? I mean, the President, in his executive power has to have the ability to set the policy over there, to be able to hire and fire people. I mean, shouldn't we take this all the way to its ultimate conclusion? Because, you know, here in the world, we're trying to drive the maximalist position every day now. And also they seize the institutions because the left is melting down, because they see exactly what we're trying to do, but we're just not doing it fast. Now, shouldn't we, shouldn't the government, shouldn't President Trump's lawyers go in there and just say, hey, look, it's not just about firing Cook, it's about the entire structure of this thing is upside down and it's unconstitutional, sir, it is unconstitutional.

[Mike Davis]

I don't know if we have five votes yet on the Supreme Court to go along with that position. But, you know, as you, as we saw with the presidential immunity argument, you get out there and you make the political argument, and it's amazing how these judges will find their backbones and actually follow the law if the politics are right. And so we'll be doing that next. I think the Federal Reserve is Clearly unconstitutional because the President doesn't have the unilateral power to fire the governors. And so they're exercising executive power at the Fed outside of the President's executive power. And that makes it unconstitutional. And so look, this is, this is part of the Wilsonian model that we have. We have the founders who want it separated powers, both vertical and horizontal separation. So we make sure that there's not centralized power. That power belongs to we the people. We loan power to the federal government through our loan agreement called the Constitution. Then we divide that power among the three branches and we only give the federal government specific and enumerated power in the Constitution. Whatever power we don't give it in that loan agreement belongs to the states and we the people as confirmed by the 10th Amendment. The Wilsonian model flips that on its head. It consolidates all this power in the federal government and then further consolidates it in the executive branch and then further consolidates it in unelected experts who are unaccountable to Congress, the President, the American people. That's unacceptable.

[Steve Bannon]

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[Mike Davis]

Yeah. I want to say this. First of all, I want to give tremendous credit to President Trump's legal team. David Warrington in the White House Counsel's office, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanch, Solicitor General John Sauer, Stanley Woodward, who's going to be the number three at the Justice Department, Chad Meisel, Harmeet Dillon, the whole crew over there at the Justice Department and at the White House Counsel's office, they are fighting this unprecedented republic, ending welfare. Every day, this judicial sabotage by these judges, these activist judges, Democrat activist judges, and these Democrat hellholes who are issuing these injunctions, trying to stop the President from exercising his core Article 2 executive power. And these judicial saboteurs are winning short term battles, but they are losing the war. And they're going to lose the war in a big way. And this is what I mean by this. I always thought that it would take 20 years for us to get the federal governments back into the place that our founders intended, where the federal government has specific, enumerated and divided powers and the rest of the power belongs to the states and we the people, as confirmed by the 10th Amendment, by these Democrat activists, plaintiffs and attorneys and judges and other activists doing this judicial sabotage. They are fast forwarding our project where hopefully I'll be able to retire at the end of the Trump administration and hand off the Article 3 project to someone else. Because the job will be done. The federal government will be dismantled by the federal judiciary, the plumbers, as I call them, because I always say that the political branches are never going to drain the swamp. Why would the reptiles drain the swamp? So we're going to do it through the judges where they strike down these executive branch agencies as unconstitutional because they're not permitted by the Constitution. So I, I say to these activists, keep going, keep, keep doing your judicial sabotage. Go get your win with some DEI misfits in D.C. or New York or wherever. You get some Biden or Obama judge to enjoin the President of the United States. And then when the President wins at the Supreme Court of the United States, that that's going to be binding on the whole country forever.

[Steve Bannon]

The other thing that, and we're having these wins now, the other thing I might add is that they are so still totally understaffed. When you just named the team right there, those are like the heads. Those are the starters. You would normally hope you had 100 lawyers underneath it. We just don't right now because of just hiring and the whole thing with the confirmation process. What do you see going forward? We got these wins right now. I know you got to bounce, but. And this is huge. This is one of the things we talked about at the beginning. We got to get this legal right because this is the only way they're going to stop us. We've argued for maximization and urgency and do it every day. And seize control of these institutions. When we get back next week at the beginning of everybody's back and it's going to be, you know, just absolute open warfare. Where do you see us heading on this?

[Mike Davis]

Yeah, I mean, I would say this is the most important thing that we're going to do as the war Room Posse is to make enough noise, provide the political cover so these Republican lawyers and these conservative judges find and keep their backbones and they follow the Constitution. And the most important project, why we're doing the Article 3 project, why we're getting constitutionalist judges on the bench, why we're getting good people in the Justice Department, bold and fearless judges, bold and fearless Justice Department officials, bold and fearless people working for Dave Warrington's team at the White House. The reason we're doing this is we have a window of opportunity with President Trump who understands the threat we face from, from, from the deep state, from these big government agencies. And we have a four year opportunity, a four year window to, to get the job done and dismantle most of the executive branch and return power back to the states and the people. And this is not theoretical. We have seen this with COVID lockdowns, we have seen this with so many other instances when there is concentrated power and Washington D.C. the American people pay the price and it's not what our founders intended. We don't care what the experts think. We don't care about the Wilsonian model where the Experts in Washington D.C. the Tony Fauci's of the world going to decide whether we go outside on a particular day or if we ride on a plane or if we have to wear masks or if we have to take off our mask between bites and sips, as they would say. No, we didn't agree to that as we the people and we certainly did not agree to an invasion of our country and changing our population because the Democrats want to open our border and these Democrat judges say that there's somehow constitutional due process rights for these illegal immigrants who have invaded our country. I mean, these are crucial fights that we are fighting every day at the Article 3 project with the, with the war room posse. And we have to win, and we have to win this over the next four years or we're going to lose our country.

[Steve Bannon]

Deconstructing the administrative state and taking down the deep state. And of course Judge Gorsuch, Justice Gorsuch, clerk, is at the tip of the spear that Mike Davis, where do people go for Article 3, particularly this weekend, the end of the summer, where they go and get all the content. Check it out, see if they want to support you guys.

[Mike Davis]

Article3project.org Article number three, Project Dawg. You can follow us on social media, donate, but only what you can afford and, but take action. One of the big action items is in the middle there to repeal the D.C. home Rule act of 1973. That is a crucial one. Let's, let's light up both of your home state senators in your U.S. house rep. And tell them to repeal this unconstitutional D.C. home Rule act of 1973. That's let corrupt local, incompetent Democrat politicians hold hostage our nation's capital to crime and corruption.

[Steve Bannon]

Amen, brother. Thank you, Mike. Let's everybody go over there today, check out the home world. There's so much more. We're engaged now in the courts. It's just incredible. We got two warriors. One's taken to the streets, the others taken to counter lawfare. Christina Bobb. So, Christina. And we keep talking about the convergence of factors that make sure that. Because if you look at demographics, if you look at the, if you look at the census, if you look at our redistricting, you look at every element of it. Another key point is the actual elections. Himself. President Trump's got executive order mail in ballots. Two things. Heather Honey. And then what's happened in Fulton County. You've been the tip of the spear of both of these. Tell me about the magnificence of having Heather Honey is now the leading official. And I know it's good because Mark Elias literally, for 48 hours, has been apoplectic over at MSNBC. How important is her selection, ma'? Am?

[Christina Bobb]

As he should be. He should be very afraid of Heather Hudding. She's fantastic. And I applaud DHS for actually bringing her on and putting her in the position that they did. She is an investigator. She did a lot of the investigation from 2020. And I believe she'd been working on elections prior to that. She's the one that did all the math and put the spreadsheet together to show that There were about 120 additional votes in Pennsylvania, more votes than voters. That whole narrative that was out there. She was the one that uncovered that the left came out and said, oh, that's not true. That's been debunked. But I've never seen anywhere where anyone has corrected her math. I mean, her math maths. So she got it right. She's causing Mark Elias to have a conniption, which is a very, very good day. She's fantastic. She's a hard worker. She's just a generally good person who cares about this country. She's exactly what we need there. And they could not have picked a better person for that position.

[Steve Bannon]

What is going on? You know, that's Pennsylvania. Heather Honey now has been elevated. She's a. She's a hammer. She's a warrior. What in the hell is going on down in Georgia and Fulton County, Ma'? Am.

[Christina Bobb]

Yeah, they're throwing sand in the gears. And Mike Davis in the earlier segment did a fantastic job of laying out at the lower level. You know, how they're trying to use the courts just to sand stall and just to try to make things difficult. Because as he said, we have about, you know, three to four years to get this done or we could lose everything forever. And we're on track to get it done. Down in Fulton county there, it's required that Fulton county have two Republicans, two Democrats, I believe an independent on their election board. The board of commissioners, which is above the election board, is refusing to seat the two Republicans on the board, and they're not allowed to participate. They're not officially on the board yet. The Republican GOP has gone to court three times now to get a court order saying, hey, our Republicans need to be seated. And three times now the court has said, yeah, they do. And they have issued orders to the county commissioner saying, you need to seat the Republicans on the board. They're lawfully appointed. You know, there's no, no legal reason that they can't be on the board. They meet all the requirements and they went through the proper process. So put them on the, put them on the board and the county. I'm sorry, the commissioners are just saying, no, we're just not going to do it. So finally, on Wednesday, they went back of this week. Just a couple of days ago, they went back and got an order from the judge getting a contempt order holding the county commissioners in contempt. $10,000 fine per day. They do not seat these Republicans. I understand that the county has appealed that. So that.

[Steve Bannon]

Christina. Yeah, just hang on one second. We're gonna go back to Fulton County. Also, Arizona, Brandon Strock is going to join us about New York and Jim Rickards big deal with the Chinese Communist Party this weekend hosting a big old parade. Back in a moment. You missed the IRS tax deadline. You think it's just going to go away? Well, think again. The IRS doesn't mess around and they're applying pressure like we haven't seen in years. So if you haven't filed in a while, even if you can't pay, don't wait. And don't face the IRS alone. You need the trusted experts by your side. Tax Network usa. Tax Network USA isn't like other tax relief companies. They have an edge, a preferred direct line to the irs. They know which agents to talk to and which ones to avoid. They use smart, aggressive strategies to settle your tax problems quickly in your favor. Whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, Tax Network USA has helped resolve over $1 billion in tax debt. And they can help you, too. Don't wait on this. It's only going to get worse. Call text Network USA right now. It's free. Talk with one of their strategists and put your IRS troubles behind you. Put it behind you today. Call Tax network USA at 1-800-958-1000. That's 800-958-1000 or visit Tax Network USA tnusa.com Bannon do it today. Do not let this thing get ahead of you. Do it today.

[Brandon Straka]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, just to make sure we can connect some dots here, we're listening. The the actual arguments going on right now about the governor of the Federal Reserve is kind of what we talked about with Mike Davis. And here's a They're saying right now the issue of cause and what scope the president has defined, what that means is now being discussed in the hearing. This is the thrust of the case. The president is arguing that he has broad discretion to determine what meets the mark of for cause to Terminator. What Davis and I are saying, I think is even deeper. And I think that this is where they ought to go after they get some time, is that the entire structure of the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional. The way it's structured, the president doesn't need cause. He can just walk in and say, hey, look, boom, I don't like you as governor. You're gone, folks. Just write that down with your number two principle. This is where this thing's going to go. You guys out there don't like the Fed and Jacksonian populace want to take it down. This is going to be our angle of attack.

[Mike Davis]

Wait for it.

[Steve Bannon]

Very important. Christina, finish with Fulton county because this is a big deal. And hey, I do kind of admire the folks down there, the radical Democrats. They're saying, screw you, run up the bill. We don't care. We don't know. We're not going to let you. We're going to steal elections. We're going to steal them how we're going to steal in broad daylight, you're not going to do anything about it. Your thoughts?

[Christina Bobb]

Man, it's pretty. Yeah, it's pretty brazen. It's kind of shocking. It would be nice if Republicans, a lot of Republicans had half the backbone that these Democrats have. They're just thumbing their nose in the face of the judge. But so right now they have a contempt ruling where they're being fined $10,000 a day. That ruling is stayed pending appeal. They appealed that ruling, you know, basically immediately. So they're not racking up the fees. We have to wait and see what the Court of Appeals does, which I hope it upholds. I don't know how the Court of Appeals could find any other way, but we'll find out hopefully in the next few days, maybe weeks.

[Steve Bannon]

What, what is going on? And folks, this is these battles right now. You should know the Steve Stearns when they have those podcasts, everybody should get in there because there are fights all over the country. And folks in this voter integrity. And that's every time you get a Heather Honey up there, it's so important. But these fights are going on nonstop. Arizona. Give me a quick update on Arizona, ma'.

[Christina Bobb]

Am, On Arizona for the criminal cases, Chris May is abusing her office. She's still doing that. She's still trying to throw people in jail who support Donald Trump. And I'm still a defendant in that case. She's still trying to throw people in jail for being Trump electors in 2020, which is not illegal. And that case is, I think, going down in flames. It's going down a little slower than I hoped it would, but it doesn't look good. We've got some appeals issues that were waiting to come out, and I expect her to lose again and probably the case get dismissed, hopefully relatively soon. Don't forget, we also have the same case open in Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Fannie Willis case is still open in Georgia. So every time they point their fingers at Donald Trump, they, oh, he's weaponizing justice. They haven't. They haven't put their guns down. They're still firing at us. They're still trying to throw us in jail. No, still fighting. I know they're not, but. Yeah, sorry.

[Steve Bannon]

Their lawfare continues real quick. By the way, poll out. I think overnight, Hobbs and Andy Biggs, dead heat in the governor's race in Arizona. He has not won the primary yet, but dead heat right there. Ma', am, your new book, where do people get it? When is it out? The art is amazing. The photography is amazing. That is because it's Dan Florette, my producer. But it's really incredible where people get the book.

[Brandon Straka]

Ma'.

[Mike Davis]

Am.

[Christina Bobb]

Yep. It's available for pre order Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever books are sold. And you can find it on my website, christinabob.com, which Dan also did the art for that. Thank you, Dan. He's amazing. But yeah, it comes out in about 10 days, September 9th, something like that.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you, man. Appreciate it.

[Christina Bobb]

Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

Let's get the book. Christina Bobb warrior extraordinaire Brandon Stracha joins us. Brandon, two people I admire, Naomi Wolf and yourself, you're not just fighters and warriors. You're very smart about selecting your battle space. Naomi's, she, she's doing these things in Brooklyn and all these young rising stars, Republican, a lot of minorities, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics. It's, it's incredible about this race is coming up in November. I guess we're in the heat of the race, but the election's in November. You're out there full bore on your, on your flipping Democrats and you're doing a huge ground game. I don't see it, I don't see where the opposition here is in three camps. They refuse to quit. You got Sliwa with about 12 to 15% of the vote. You got Eric Adams, the mayor, with about 10 or 12, and you got Cuomo with about low 20s. Combined. They're combined, they are a majority, I think barely, if you take all the smart polling. But they refuse to drop out of the race. So what is you think, what is your solution? You're out there, you were out there doing a ground game to try to get people signed up. I mean, what's the purpose of this? Sir?

[Brandon Straka]

Yeah, thank you and I appreciate it. So, you know, let's first address the ground game and then I'll give you a couple scenarios in which I truly believe we can win. Otherwise I wouldn't be wasting my time doing this. So what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to organize the largest anti momdani canvassing and outreach effort in New York City. And so we have at this point hundreds of volunteers. I want to get that into the thousands after we get into September and the race really starts gearing up. But we're going to be getting people out into the boroughs, knocking on doors, making phone calls, text messaging, and we're going to be targeting a lot of different minority communities and young people who need to either be changing their mind, we're going to be Educating people about the dangers and the ills of democratic socialism, the false promises of Zoran Mamdani, and how these policies are going to negatively impact people's lives in New Yorkers. But there's a couple scenarios here in which we can actually win. One is if we get to the point where a couple of these candidates drop out and it's one against one. A poll just came out recently showing that if it's Cuomo versus Mom, Donnie, there's.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, full stop, full stop, full stop, full stop. I got that. But that's a maspetory fantasy. That's just not going to happen. Sleeve was going to be into the end. He's a nutcase, Adams. He's an African American. The last, only African American male in the history of New York City lost to Rudy for Dinkins loss. So he's obligated if you talk to these guys to continue on. They're just not going to drop out. So give me the scenario where they don't drop out, because that's reality. Cuomo is not going to drop, but he's raised too much money. Those three, for their egos and other reasons. Because I keep telling folks to lose. Here you got the Working People Party and the Democratic Socialists. This guy's Sadiq Khan on. On steroids. Okay, if you see where London is today, that's where New York City's going to. And if you lose this and they're never going to give up power like the Bolsheviks. So in a scenario where nobody drops out, that Brandon Straka in the President States can't convince these guys to drop out. Give me the scenario how you win.

[Mike Davis]

Sure.

[Brandon Straka]

For the record, that's not my mission to convince them to drop out, but so if we're in a race where nobody is dropping out, what we have to look at is just driving massive voter turnout. Because we have 4.7 million registration registered voters in New York City. Zoran Mamdani got 468,000 votes in the primary. If we can drive, this is going to be a high election, high voter turnout, I believe, because the nation's eyes are on this race. It's getting a lot of momentum and people are very concerned about what's going on. So if we can drive close to 50% of the voter turnout and really push it up there, the person who gets 590,000 votes is going to be the winner. And I don't believe that's going to be Zoran Mamdani, because I don't believe he has much support beyond the support that he got in the primary. I'm not even convinced that the voters who came out in the primary are gonna come out to vote for him. But we can. The numbers are there. We just have to drive the people out to go out and vote. Traditionally, New York City mayoral races are having low voter turnout. 23%, 25%. It's abysmal. I think this race is going to be different. The eyes of the nation are on it. I think if we can drive the people out and split the vote, the person who ends up with 590,000 votes wins. And I don't think that will be Zoran Mamdani.

[Steve Bannon]

Brandon, I want to know we're going to have you back on a lot. Obviously, it's going to kick up in September. Where do people go, though, for this weekend to go and visit your site, get the information. If they want to talk to your people, talk to them. Because I do think this is going to take some convincing of folks to understand exactly what's going on here. I will tell folks, folks, if, when Mandami wins, that he's going to turn New York City, the greatest city in the world, in the financial capital of the world, into modern London. He is Sadiq Khan on steroids. And folks, there's been so many big donors and so many of the power brokers in New York, they've looked the other way on this thing and they're whistling past the graveyard right now because this is happening. And the only way it's going to stop if someone like you get some traction. And we'll have to see if that happens. But I respect you and Naomi. You two guys are fighters. You also have a pretty good sense of how things can be pulled off. So I want everybody, where do people go this weekend to find more information about what you're trying to accomplish? Right.

[Brandon Straka]

So one of the things that we're doing in addition to the canvassing and outreach is we're going to be doing events on an almost weekly basis all over the city. So the next one we have coming up is in Washington Square park this Saturday. We're asking people to show up around 12 o'.

[Steve Bannon]

Clock.

[Brandon Straka]

The event begins at 1 o'.

[Jim Rickards]

Clock.

[Brandon Straka]

This is the rally against Democratic socialism. It lasts from 1 to 3, and then immediately after, we're turning it into a live New York City street debate where we're encouraging New Yorkers to approach the microphone and debate our panel asking questions about Democratic socialism, challenging us, debating us. We just did this. Yeah, we did this in Union Square a couple of weeks ago. It was phenomenal. I mean, we had hundreds of people turn out. We had Mom Donnie supporters show up, get behind the microphone, ask us questions about, you know, what's wrong with socialism. And we're changing hearts and minds. It really is happening. You know, we just have to have these conversations and reach these people. So if anyone wants to learn more about my effort and what I'm doing, please go to walkaway campaign.com if you want to show up and join us on Washington Square park, one o' clock this Saturday. Go to walkaway campaign.com events. We need volunteers. I want an army of thousands of volunteers. Go to walkaway campaign.com Sign up to be a volunteer whether you live in New York City or anywhere in the country. We need remote volunteers to text, make phone calls, send emails, and if you're able to give to the cause, go to walkaway campaign.com because we need to hire more staff too. But you know, Steve, I appreciate your skepticism, but I'm being sincere when I say I truly believe we can beat this guy. And I think that we will.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, brother. By the way, Washington Square park, that'll be fascinating. Hope you guys also bring security. Could get a little, could get a little wild there. The democratic socialists, these brothers roll hard. So hopefully we can stream it tomorrow on War Room. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you, Brandon.

[Brandon Straka]

Thanks, Steve.

[Steve Bannon]

At least somebody's punching back up there. The three campaigns have been a disaster. The politicians campaigns. Jim Rickert's one of the smartest guys on geopolitics. So Jim and I want to give people a heads up on Tuesday the 2nd. We're going to turn a lot of the show over the morning to make it about contemporary geopolitics but tie it back to the end of the Second World War. That will be the 80th commemoration of the signing of the surrender instrument of Imperial Japan on the USS Missouri. We'll do a commemoration on that. It tied to politics. But Jim, the Chinese Communist Party has jumped in front of us. They're having a big parade. They're having a big parade over the next couple of days and they've invited Modi and Putin and they both showed up. What is that? Semifor has got a great story on it. What is that? What does that mean? That that does not bode well for what we're trying to work on here. India's are one of our most important allies and we need a rapprochement with Russia, sir.

[Jim Rickards]

Right. This is around the something called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or the SCO there's been so much attention paid to brics, and people have heard a lot about that and brics coming up with a new currency. And that's a big issue, but that's separate. But the people say the BRICs can't work because China and India are members and they're fighting over the borders in Nepal and the Himalayas and so forth, some of these eastern regions in India. And I've always said that's not a problem because the BRICS is not a political or military alliance. It's an economic alliance. And you can have good economic relations even if you're fighting over other issues on a different level. Shanghai Cooperation Organization is different. That actually does purport to have some military functions. Now, it's not NATO. They've never done anything militarily, but that is part of their charter, that that would be a more proactive political military group. And I've said for a long time we're going to see over time a convergence of the BRICS and the scr, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. There is a lot of overlap in the members. I don't have a whole list of all the members in front of me, but the big ones, Russia and China and India are in both. And that's why, you know, Putin and Modi are showing up for this. So we're, we're watching what's sometimes called the Global south or really the Asian, you know, the Asian landmass. Back to Mackinder. At this point, converging to stand up to the collective west, meaning basically us, Canada, NATO, Australia and a couple other countries. You see the United States stealing $300 billion of lawfully purchased treasury securities from Russia. And I'm using the word stealing.

[Steve Bannon]

Jim, Jim, Jim, hang on once. Hang on one second. We're going to take a short break. The entire next block, and then some is Jim Rickards as He explains geopolitics 101 in the modern world.

[Mike Davis]

Next.

[Steve Bannon]

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[Brandon Straka]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, just announced Russ Vogt, our own Russ Vogt, a contributor here for years of obviously now head of OMB. Marco Rubio has like 10 jobs. He just gave one President Trump to prove it. Russ Vote is Officially winding down USAID. Officially winding down USAID. In addition, there has been a pocket $5 billion of additional kind of foreign aid that kind of fell into another pocket that's gone Now. These aren't the huge numbers we want, but President Trump has announced they're going to do a pocket rescission on that and people are just going to have to suck on that. So two good things going from on the manager on economic side, I want to go back. So the worst nightmare we could have geopolitically and we're all we're the hemispheric defense crowd and have extraditionary forces. But what you don't want is where you have this kind of civilizational melding on the Eurasian landmass with the Chinese Communist Party as the head head, the head gangsters, the Chinese Communist Party, Russia with the kgb. And then you got Modi one, because we are a little bit at loggerheads on some of these tariffs and also the buying of the secondary purchasing or the, you know, secondary sanctions are purchasing oil from Russia. Although I might duly note that China buys more and we haven't sanctioned them. But just walk the audience through if you have those three civilizational powers and particularly how Russia wants to with Persia and Turkey, kind of get their, you know, Dugan's theory for Putin of that part of the Eurasian landmass if these brothers lock in hard and actually become an alliance. And I might note that Modi has said that he's not going to go to the parade stand. They're there for the meetings. They are going to have meetings, but he's not going to commemorate the 80th victory by staying at the parade stand. How bad is it? How rough is the 21st century going to be for the good old United States of America if those three are partners and have some sort of hard alliance on the Eurasian landmass in an international capital markets? Sir?

[Jim Rickards]

Well, if they are, again, we're talking Russia, China and India. There are a lot of ancillary powers, but they're the big three in this context. Yeah. If they form a strong union either under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is meeting now or in the coming days, or brics or some convergence of the two, that's a disaster for the United States. But the problem, Steve, is that this is a self made disaster. It's the failure of US Foreign policy. I keep looking for diplomats. And where, where are the diplomats, Steve? Steve Wykows. Now, I don't know. Personally, I'll assume he's an excellent real estate negotiator, but he's not really trained in diplomacy. I just don't see that now this is such an easy case, which is there are only three powers in the world that matter. Russia, China and the United States. So India's a big deal, Japan's a big deal, I get it. But they're the three with nuclear weapons who kind of call the shots. It should always be two against one, and you should be part of the two. Now, Nixon did this brilliantly in 1971. 72, he pivoted to China, opened the door, met with Mao Zedong, et cetera, in order to isolate the Soviet Union at the time, really Russia. And it worked. You know, 1989, balloon wall falls. 1991, the Soviet Union dissolves. It took time, but that alliance with China basically isolated Russia, which, you know, Soviet Union today. Now's the time to pivot to Russia and let the United States and Russia work together to isolate the Communist Party of China. I've been to China many times, been all over the country. I have good friends there, wonderful people. It's the Communist Party that's the problem, not the people of China. So this is a very obvious case. What are we doing instead? We're listening to Lindsey Graham, we're listening to warmongers, where, you know, Fiona Hill, these phony baloney experts, etc. We're treating Russia like a pariah when it should be one of our strongest allies. We don't have to have a treaty with them, we don't have to love them, but we have to work with them. And that would be an obvious one. And the Pivot. The thing is, what's holding that up? Well, the answer is the war in Ukraine. And I think the best thing that came out of the Alaska summit a few weeks ago was not much did come out of it. But there was one thing. Trump listened to Putin, unfiltered. He didn't have Lindsey Graham or Marco Rubio or Mike Walsh or any of these other people filtering Putin's comments. He listened to Putin and it became very clear there was not going to be an unconditional cease fire. We've said that on your show six months or even a year ago. We said that. But Trump. But Putin will go for a comprehensive peace treaty with security guarantees. And Trump said, okay, I hear you. Let's go for the peace treaty. Then Wyckoff took the phrase security guarantees. And Putin did say that in the meeting. But Putin's understanding of that and Wyckoff's understanding, completely different. Wyckoff ran off the rails with these Article 5 guarantees, which Putin will never agree to. What Putin meant was, let's have the peace treaty and then have some enforcement because the US Lied about Minsk. One lied about Minsk, too, lied about the Maidan revolution, which is one of these phony, baloney, CIA, MI6 color revolutions. Putin actually fell for all of it, and he doesn't trust us anymore. And I don't blame him. But what he, what Putin means is China, maybe Turkey, Russia, the United States, and nobody else. No UK boots on the ground. They don't have that many boots. No French or German boots on the ground. They don't have. They couldn't put two divisions together if their lives depended on it. But those other four powers I mentioned, just backing, backing this up. That's a deal that can be done, could be done very quickly. Who cares what Zelensky thinks? You know, put him on a bus, plane to Dubai or whatever it takes there and get it done. At that point, you open the door to rapprochement with Russia. By the way, big deal. The other day, Exxon Mobil said they were in very preliminary discussions with Rosneft about looking, which is a big Russian oil company, about doing some more new exploration in Siberia for basic oil in the Arctic area. I don't know this for a fact, but a company like Exxon would never say anything like that unless they had some kind of green light from the White House. You just don't go there. So I take it that Trump is looking at that. That's all very encouraging, but we got to move quickly on this also. The key to Iran, I've said that before. Russia has got Iran very much under its thumb in Terms of the S400 and S500 Anti aircraft systems and they're training the Iranians now and a lot else. Well, if you want to dial down the tension with Iran, get Russia on your side now. Why we can't see any of this. Why are diplomats, I mean where's, where's Kissinger, Helen Seinnenfeld, George Marshall, where. James Baker, I mean where are these people? We don't have. I go to China and they say we love Kissinger, but you know, he's, he's dead. I mean, don't you have just.

[Steve Bannon]

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