Episode 4763: Murder In Charlotte; Victories For Trump In LA

Summary

Bannon’s War Room Episode 4763 Summary

Episode Title: Murder In Charlotte; Victories For Trump In LA
Date: September 8, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon
Guests: Benny Johnson, Federal Civil Rights Official, Julie Kelly, Ben Berkwam

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Overview

This episode of Bannon's War Room digs into three headline-grabbing topics:

• The brutal murder of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, NC, which Bannon and guest Benny Johnson argue reveals the failures of "woke" judicial and criminal justice policies.
• Recent Supreme Court rulings perceived as major wins for the Trump administration, including decisions on immigration enforcement and presidential removal powers over federal agencies.
• A firsthand report from Chicago as ICE launches "Operation Midway Blitz", signaling an escalation in immigration raids and mass deportations, especially in urban centers.

The tone is urgent and combative, with repeated calls for stricter criminal justice, criticism of mainstream media silence and collusion, and unreserved celebration of judicial wins for the MAGA movement.

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Main Topics and Key Insights

1. Charlotte Bus Murder: "A Society in Decay"

[00:00 – 14:42]

• Benny Johnson describes the stabbing murder of a Ukrainian refugee, asserting that "repeat, violent criminal offenders ... continue to be put on the street" due to “restorative justice and woke judicial policies” (04:03).

• The alleged killer, DeMarcus Brown Jr., had 14 prior arrests and claimed in the incident, “I got the white girl,” which Johnson and Bannon argue points to a racial hate crime (04:03).

• Statistical framing: Johnson cites FBI crime stats, claiming "One in every 22 black men will commit murder in their lifetime," with 52% of U.S. murders committed by black men, tying this to "fatherlessness" in black communities (05:29–06:55).

• Societal breakdown: Bannon and Johnson blame left-leaning criminal justice reforms, invoking D.C. and El Salvador as places where locking up "career criminals" led to dramatic crime reductions (08:28, 10:28).

• Notable Quote - Benny Johnson [06:36]:
  “Fatherlessness is killing, literally and figuratively, America.”

• Media blackout: Johnson accuses mainstream outlets and Democrat officials of colluding to bury the story because it doesn’t fit a convenient narrative—“The mayor thanked their media partners, Steve, for not talking about the story. It's absolute collusion.” (12:03)

• On bystander inaction: Johnson laments the lack of intervention by bus passengers, viewing it as symbolic of societal decline—"Where are the men? ... At some point you know, evil is real, demons are real. You better put on the full armor and be willing to fight." (14:07)

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2. Supreme Court Rulings: “Trump Wins”

[29:37 – 42:43]

• Reporting by Julie Kelly: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration on two key fronts:

  • Immigration Enforcement: Temporarily allows ICE to conduct stops and raids in seven California counties, perceived by supporters as legalizing aggressive enforcement—even at the risk of “racial profiling.” (31:48)
    • Justice Kavanaugh’s Concurring Opinion is highlighted: "We merely ensure that the executive branch acts within the confines of the Constitution and federal statutes." – Julie Kelly quoting Kavanaugh [35:08]
    • Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent: “It was a grave misuse of our emergency docket. ... I dissent.” [31:48]
  • Presidential Authority over Agencies: The Court put on hold a lower court ruling which had blocked Trump from firing a Biden-appointee FTC commissioner, reinforcing presidential control over federal agencies (37:34)
    • Kelly connects this to similar cases around appointments and firings in other federal boards (39:33).

• Wider MAGA strategy:
  Bannon and Kelly agree that Supreme Court victories are eroding the "radical judiciary" strategy they perceive Democrats using to slow Trump:
  “To delay is to deny.” (39:33)

• Kelly’s evaluation:
  "Slowly but surely, we are seeing all of these lawsuits unraveling and the decisions by these district court and even appellate court judges who are clearly outside the boundaries of their authority…" (40:20)

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3. Operation Midway Blitz: ICE Raids in Chicago

[45:17 – 48:56]

• On-the-ground report by Ben Berkwam: ICE is ramping up mass deportations and immigration enforcement under Trump’s direction in Chicago.

  • Operation involves local, state, and federal agencies ("whole-of-government approach") (46:25).
  • Activist pushback: Berkwam describes left-wing activists obstructing ICE agents and calling Chicago PD to block raids, enabling criminal suspects to evade arrest (48:25).

• Narrative framing: Berkwam and Bannon frame leftist activists as “enemies within,” accused of prioritizing criminal protection over community safety.

• Notable Quotes:

  • Ben Berkwam: “You guys are a piece of... You like criminals. If they're criminals, they gotta go.” (45:19)
  • Steve Bannon: “Screw you. We're sending them home. Folks, get ready for Operation Midway Blitz.” (45:51)

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4. Defending RFK Jr. and Vaccine Criticism

[18:18 – 25:34]

• Benny Johnson’s endorsement: Johnson lauds Bobby Kennedy for confronting Big Pharma at his confirmation hearings, calling him "the sunlight and the silver bullet" (18:51).
  • Quotes Kennedy as telling Bernie Sanders: “You have a giant big pharma receipt stamped right on your ass that says that they've given you multiple millions of dollars. You are the big pharma shill.” (18:51)
• On vaccine mandates: Johnson calls for removing legal immunity from vaccine manufacturers and shares a personal account of alleged vaccine harm within his family, stating, "This is a horrible perverse incentive... It's time for them to live and play by everyone else's rules." (21:54, 24:13)

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Notable Quotes and Timestamps

• Benny Johnson on crime and fatherlessness:
  "Fatherlessness is killing, literally and figuratively, America." ― [06:36]

• Steve Bannon on societal breakdown:
  "This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people." ― [02:03]

• Julie Kelly quoting Kavanaugh:
  "We merely ensure that the executive branch acts within the confines of the Constitution and federal statutes." ― [35:08]

• Justice Sotomayor dissent (read by analyst):
  "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, so speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost. I dissent." ― [31:48]

• Benny Johnson on media silence:
  "This is kryptonite for the left. You can't touch this." ― [12:03]

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Timeline of Key Segments

| Timestamp | Topic / Segment | |:----------:|:---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00–04:03| Charlotte bus murder, judicial failures, civil rights perspective | | 04:03–14:42| Benny Johnson details crime, statistics, societal factors, inaction | | 29:37–33:59| Supreme Court immigration ruling analysis | | 33:59–42:43| Presidential authority, FTC case, impact on MAGA movement | | 45:17–48:56| Operation Midway Blitz, on-the-ground in Chicago, activist clashes | | 18:18–25:34| Defending Bobby Kennedy, vaccine criticism, personal anecdote |

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Conclusion

This episode starkly contrasts law-and-order and anti-establishment populism against perceived progressive failures. The key threads—violent crime, Supreme Court wins strengthening executive power, and the reboot of forceful immigration raids—are woven together with an adversarial stance toward both mainstream media and political opponents.

The episode’s underlying theme: Restoration of strict justice and border control, celebration of Trump’s judicial triumphs, and an ongoing culture war against perceived elite collusion and social decay.

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Transcript

[Benny Johnson]

But I think everybody sees what the real problem is here, which is that repeat, violent criminal offenders that scream at judges that I don't belong in civilized society, I will murder and kill and maim and harm and offend again, continue to be put on the street. The floor is yours.

[Federal Civil Rights Official]

Well, look, it's very tragic what happened in this jurisdiction. It's the kind of thing that you're seeing happening all over the United States. And from the federal civil rights perspective, my angle is whether there is discrimination occurring by local law enforcement in how they treat offenders. And so, for example, in, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, we're investigating their blatant policy which says that they will give preferential plea agreements to people of color. Now, that's illegal under the law. I don't know whether Charlotte has a similar problem there. It may be the case and, you know, we'd love for people with evidence to come forward, whistleblowers to come forward. If they are treating offenders of a particular race more leniently than, say, white offenders, that would be a federal civil rights violation. But we need that evidence before we can take action at the doj, you know, to the broader point of whether the federal government can impose sort of sentencing strictures on state court judges. Typically speaking in Our Federalism and 10th Amendment Analysis, Division of power, most of the police power in the United States, and that means all the government power really lies with the states and with localities. What the federal government can do, however, is tie federal grants and federal law enforcement support, which is significant to basic minimum standards of performance. And so I think that's something that certainly could be looked at by policymakers. And so, you know, you do have to look from a federalism perspective as to whether a federal law governing criminal conduct is consistent with those 10th Amendment concerns.

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on 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.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

And where do people like that go.

[Steve Bannon]

To share the big lie?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these 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.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

War Room here's your host, Stephen k. Ban.

[Steve Bannon]

Monday, the 8th of September year of our Lord 2025. A lot to go through Supreme Court. Two big rulings in favor of the Trump administration. Julie Kelly's going to be on here. They're getting ready to go into Chicago. Ben Berkwam has been spending months out there. Ben will join us. Also a lot on big tech, artificial intelligence and the techs we got Joe Allen, also the Chinese Communist Party. I've got folks in the new federal state of China to talk about what's going on. Economist has a lead story about the as I told you the fifth column that's in Taiwan maybe sapping the spirit of the Taiwanese to defend themselves. Gonna get to all that and much much more. But I gotta start with the Benny Johnson. Benny, I wanted you on here from the other day and your spirited and I think most spirited defense we had of Bobby Kennedy came from you. But then the story that is that you have been following for a while but just is now getting the attention of mainstream media since has been forced you had Harmeet Dylan on the day. Can you just, let's just do a reset. What are we talking about? What happened? Where did it happen? How did it happen and why is the mainstream media not mentioned? One word of this, sir.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, yes, a lot to unpack Steve. Always an honor to be on. So a young woman who fled war torn Ukraine that is an active war zone with a lot of bad things happening and a lot of people dying. A lot of terrible stuff happening in Ukraine we can all agree decided to seek refuge in the greatest country on earth here, America. And she decided to locate to a municipality Charlotte, North Carolina and ride a bus home after her hourly job at a pizza place. But little did she realize that in this country there is something arguably as or more deadly than the war zone that she fled. Steve which is restorative justice and woke judicial policies which allows for monsters and animals to roam among us. Approximately 1% of the population to terrorize 99% of the population. And she was stabbed through her throat. We don't get any type of bumper stickers for her. She couldn't say I can't breathe because she had a knife in her throat. And now we've just learned that DeMarcus Brown Jr. The murderer had 14 prior arrest and was mumbling him to himself on that bus. I got the white girl confirming that this was in fact a racial hate crime. And so you need to step back and ask the question how does this happen? How do you get out of jail? 14 different times now we've named and shamed some of the judges that have allowed for this to happen. And obviously the policies that look at the criminal as the victim. And that's of course, a absolute evil. But I want to go a level further here, Steve, if you'll just allow me, if I can just have a minute. So I want to talk about something that we've looked through, some data that we've looked through on my show that I think is really alarming and should shock the soul and the consciences of Americans. One in every 22 black men will commit murder in their lifetime. Here in America, black men are nine times more likely to commit violent crime. They make up 6% of the population. But 52% of the murders are committed by black men. So what the hell is going on there? What is happening here in our nation? There has to be some type of correlation or causality, Steve. We have to figure this thing out. What is it? And we've looked and we think we found something. 70% of all black children are born into fatherless homes. There are six. There are six million black children living today in America without fathers. Now, we know that fatherlessness leads to twice the probability that the child is raised in poverty, half the chances of that child graduating college, and three times more likely for that child to become a criminal and incarcerated. 70% of juvenile delinquents that are in state facilities are from fatherless homes. Of course, fatherlessness in the black community especially skyrocketed after the Great Society programs of the 1960s and 70s that incentivized fatherlessness in communities, especially of color. And so here is the question that lies before America. Are we going to continue to incentivize the murder, the terrorism of our own people? Are we going to stop these insane policies? Fatherlessness is killing, literally and figuratively, America.

[Steve Bannon]

Steve Benny isn't also when he said 70% of the murders, if you look at the violent crimes, it's all perpetrated, basically perpetrated against the African American and some of the Hispanic community. Right. I mean, there is some black and white on crime, black on white crime, but principally, you've got these cities. And I think this is what President Trump is saying and why Chicago's next and Ben Berkram is going to join us. Of course, the Supreme Court had agree ruling today on ice about roving around. These policies have, have really been used to terrorize the minority community, have they not? Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, if you say black lives Matter, if you have that bumper sticker or if you have that flag and that slogan, by the way, all of the data that I just gave you is directly from the FBI. All of the data is directly from accredited studies and from our own federal crime and law enforcement data. It is been backed and it is there in black and white. And to your point about black and white, the vast majority of these crimes are committed against black populations or populations of color. That's what the statistics bear out. So if you believe that black lives matter, the number one thing that you would be banging your fist on the table for and yelling about in the streets through your megaphone till your voice cracked would be to lock up and incarcerate the 1% of our population. Diminishingly small numbers of the population that commit 90% of the crimes. That's how you solve crime. You can get to the spiritual realm and also talk about fatherlessness and clearly some very bad socio and economic conditions that cause this. Much of it precipitated by our federal government. But Steve, it's not like all darkness. There are examples of this. Washington D.C. where you're broadcasting right now, locked up 1700 people and saw a 94% reduction in crime. Exactly what I'm talking about here. There's 600,000 people live in Washington D.C. you're one of them. The war room broadcast from there regularly. And have you seen it safer in Washington since the National Guard moved in?

[Steve Bannon]

Oh yeah, not only safer, I was telling people I went to this thing in Georgetown on Friday night with anti Trump people and to a person they said the city's safer, Georgetown's safer, you can get out and walk around at night. I mean it's shocking. And these are all, you know, never Trumpers that would never publicly give the President a hat tip, but they all admit the city is demonstrably safer. Sir.

[Benny Johnson]

El Salvador is a wonderful example of this. El Salvador is the single most dangerous country in the western hemisphere. Now it is the safest country because they simply locked up their career criminals, approximately 1% of their population. Call it whatever you want, demonic possession, the gang pipeline that encourages this. But when you get rid of the contagion vector of career criminals, they don't spawn more career criminals. Now El Salvador solved this and at light neck snapping speed, now it has become one of the single safest countries on earth. And there is a roadmap here. President Trump followed it in our nation's capital and I hope that it happens throughout America's cities. But you've got to be able to look the problem dead in the face. You have to be meaner than evil in order to take on something like this. And President Trump says that these horrible acts need to be met with horrible justice. And so I really do indeed hope that there are some major prohibitions and some major penalties that are doled out to these killers and murderers. And again, as you stated, the single best thing you could want for the black community in this country is for these murderers to be locked up for good.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny, it was because of your coverage and a couple of others, but only a couple that really drove this. The footage is so brutal from the bus camera. Why did the mainstream media not touch this? I mean, didn't go through this. This happened back in August, I think. 22nd. This is. This story is essentially two, three weeks old.

[Benny Johnson]

Sir, sir, Mr. Bannon, this is kryptonite for the left. You can't touch this. I mean, if you touch this and if you're a leftist and you touch this, you're retarded because there is no way out here. He didn't use a gun. So you can't claim that this is some type of second Amendment thing. This is somebody who. There's a monster, an animal who's walking the streets because of your restorative justice policies. Somebody who at the very least was honest about his nature. Let's take a step back here. The murderer here has been locked up 14 times. He told the judges by his actions what he was capable of and what he was going to do. He screamed to be incarcerated, to be put in a labor camp for the rest of his life, but the judges refused to do it. These are Democrat policies through and through. It's a democrat municipality. Of course, this is a Ukrainian refugee. So you can't win there. You can't say she had it coming or she's some type of blood. There's some type of blood libel against her. There's a no win situation here for the left to cover this subject. So that's why they're going silent on it. The mayor thanked their media partners, Steve, for not talking about the story. It's absolute collusion. But more importantly, and I have this question, and I really want to bring this to the forefront, why can't we see the murder the actual moment where he murders this girl? We were able to see this with George Floyd because it served a cultural purpose to unmoor our country. We could. We need to see the full and unedited tape. People need to see this brutality, stare evil in the face and that and only then do you get the motivation to truly fight evil. The resolve.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny. I want to, if I can hold you through the break. I know you're going to get back to the family, but because I got to talk to you about Bobby Kennedy quickly. One of the other disturbing things about the family footage, and we got about a minute is nobody like jumped up and got in the middle of this. I mean, there were other passengers on the bus. It seemed to me they just kind of sat there.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I mean, it's what you see inside of a sunken society. Where are the men? What has happened to the men? I constantly am preaching to the audience. This is what God called you for. Your ancestors cry from the grave. All of us, especially if we're living in this land, come from noble and brave men who risked everything. And you have to ask yourself the question when you see a guy walking around with his fist filled and dripping with blood saying, I killed the white girl, I killed the white girl. At some point you know, evil is real, demons are real. You better put on the full armor and be willing to fight.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny Johnson is our guest. Short commercial break. We're gonna return to the war room. Just a moment.

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

Vaccines are like. And don't hold me to exactly this analogy. It's a little bit like traffic rules, right? You kind of don't have an option of, well, I'm going to stop or not stop at that light because not because it's your, you know, it's part of the social contract that you give up a little bit of your liberty in order to protect the safety of the many. And I think in a huge way, what we're dealing with in the country, broadly put, is a breakdown of lowercase D Democratic covenant. And, and this is the most vivid example of that. People like me and, you know, you and I talk about this a lot, talk about, you know, the constitutional order and the Declaration of Independence and responsible citizenship. And I love talking about that almost as much as I love the drop shot. But this is one where an actual intersection with daily reality. And I was going to ask you what's going on in Florida, which I was just, I don't want to say puzzled by, but it did seem a little bit out of the blue just to say, hey, we're going to pull out what is decade upon decade upon.

[Steve Bannon]

Decade during the public health, during the, during the Inquisition last week, the Star Chamber. You were all over social media on your very powerful Twitter feed and your show defending Bobby Kennedy. Talk about Maha. What was that about? I know one thing that concerned me, I didn't see an organized effort of surrogates out there and even in the administration to have Bobby Kennedy's back. Particularly, I thought he took it to him that day. Your thoughts?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. He was Van Helsing to the vampire Steve. He was the sunlight and the silver bullet to the werewolf. Bobby Kennedy is somebody who in his confirmation hearings had the single most viral clip that I've seen on the Internet for any confirmation hearing ever. And there were a lot of bangers from everyone from Tulsi to Cash Patel to P. Hegseth, but Bobby Kennedy looking straight dead in the eye Bernie Sanders and saying, oh, you're gonna, you're Gonna accuse me of going after big pharma. Well, you have a giant big pharma receipt stamped right on your ass that says that they've given you multiple millions of dollars. You are the big pharma shill. And he not only did that, he also scalped with a tomahawk Elizabeth Warren for saying the exact same thing. She also is a massive, big money big pharma shill. And Bobby Kennedy's capacity to go into that den of vampires like sunlight and expose how corrupt Washington D.C. works and how these companies want to make you sicker, not better. They profit off our misery. They are not incentivized at all to make you healthy. They are incentivized to make you sicker. And they often do so at force of a gun from the federal government, which is what they're asking for here. What they really want is force to force you to use a vaccine. Otherwise they will steal your job from you, they will take your livelihood, and they will put you and your children in the breadlines. That is ultimately what they want. Medical tyranny. Bobby Kennedy in the Maha movement, arguably the most powerful and important movement in the country. And I only say that, Steve, I know I'm at the beating heart of the MAGA movement here on War Room. I only say that because you can't have an America first if America is sick and dead. Fat, sick and dead. And so you need the Maha movement in order for the MAGA movement to even work. And what President Trump did in fusing with the two greatest living political dynasties, the Kennedys and the Trumps, together, is create a powerful force that can take down the darkness that is wrought in our government. And that's why they hate him so much.

[Steve Bannon]

Steve, what would you recommend to HHS and to the administration if we are to perfect this and do a better job? Because, look, the mainstream media is on the on the payroll of Pfizer and Big Pharma. If, like I said, if you cut out what you're trying to do, work with those folks trying to cut out advertising from big Pharma, MSNBC would be a test pattern. What would be your recommendation? Since you know social media and information warfare so well about getting out more of the actual data studies reports, because the data and the science here are on our side overwhelmingly. And that seems to be the hang up right now. They're beating us back on it. What would be your recommendation to Secretary Kennedy and the folks over at hhs?

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, it's very simple. You just simply need to prove and Covid of course, the COVID vaccine is the best test case for this. You simply need to prove that harm was done. Now this has been proven in study after study after study. Many of them out of Europe from the COVID vaccine, but some of them are taking place here in this country. You need to prove harm. Then you need to look at those who overlooked that harm and mandated and pushed the vaccine. Remember, it was a mandate. It was a mandate to work and fly and live in many places and municipalities. It was mandated that you take this. Well, that proof of harm can take down the entire system. The entire regime is built with the enormous shield of vaccine immunity and protection against vaccine manufacturers. This was something that was signed in the late 80s by Ronald Reagan, that protection for vaccine manufacturers is the holy grail in this industry. And I believe personally that that is what they are going after. I think that that's what they're ultimately going for. Listen, talk to anybody, including myself, and you can see any parent and you can see the horrible effects that vaccines can have on children. There are so many vaccine injured children out there and every parent knows it. I mean, they really do. It's gut wrenching. But there is a pressure operation that happens the second the baby is born and they take advantage of new mothers and they take advantage of new parents. And these parents don't have the facts and don't have the information. And it's wrong, Steve. It just is flatly immoral. And then when something horrible happens to the child that's happened in my family, there's no recourse for the parent. And so this isn't a free country if that's the case. I mean, you can't do, you can't. That can't be the way that the system works where you have no liability ever for anything that happens. This is a horrible perverse incentive. And so if I were to give them one piece of advice, it'd be that go after the immunity for vaccine manufacturers. That is the heart of darkness. That's the holy grail for these people. And it's time for them to live and play by everyone else's rules.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny, can you share that? I don't think a lot of our audience knows that you have a personal example from your personal life, your children's life, of this vaccine harm.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, yeah. I don't want to get too much into it because do my best to sort of take a step back, especially when it comes to my wife who's a nurse and who in our, you know, in our experience as parents, you know, they really push, they really push these vaccines on you at the hospital. And now we have four children and those children we will not allow any vaccines toward. But when my wife was still working in healthcare and with big healthcare, she was susceptible and she'll tell you this to some of the propaganda about vaccines and without doing enough research, and it does take some research, you can make mistakes and you can, you can, you know, you can say yes to things inside of that sort of pressure that gets applied to you as a new parent at the hospital. And so it's just something that you have to be extremely cautious about, but something that more importantly we need to educate the American public about. And obviously RFK Jr. Is doing, doing excellent at that.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny, where can people get the show? Where can they get you on your, your podcast and also your social media? Your coordinates are.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes. So ennyjohnson on everything and well, as always, Steve, it is just an honor to be joining you and you've just been a legend and an inspiration for me and for our nascent career and what we're building. So the war room, War Room posse is an absolute and total force of nature now.

[Steve Bannon]

You're one of the most important voices in our movement. I'm honored to have you on here. Thank you for your comment, sir.

[Benny Johnson]

Thank you, Steve.

[Steve Bannon]

Benny Johnson, a, a full throated defense of Bobby Kennedy last week is very important. And I keep saying you need, and you saw, you know, President Trump because of bad information has, because I think President Trump today, I'm looking at my producer, President Trump today did say that the people that were at the Justice Department are, those people were not going to get good jobs. They were not getting good jobs. I believe he said that. And Lisa Monaco is the, is the general counsel over at Microsoft and he had Bill Gates who I think has done more to help brainwash the American people on vaccines than anybody. At that dinner the other night after Bobby Kennedy, Benny Johnson, when I was watching it during the day, we always have social media up to check that Benny was given such a full throated and brilliant defense and about how important it was for Make America Healthy Again. It just had amazing statistics and was really giving a running account that I thought was a one man war room. And of course this horrible situation that's, that's come out about what happened in Charlotte on the bus and the footage, I agree with Benny. You ought to, you ought to be able to see the stabbing right itself, the actual murder itself, because it's just not seeing that detail. You get a, you get a a real feel for how bad it was. But I think that would be very educational for people. One of the shocking things about our culture and society, not only no one, at least in the footage I saw come to her defense. A lot of people just sat there and just took it as another normal day in the bus. Very, very, very disturbing. Benny Johnson all over. Okay. Ben Berkwam has been on assignment. Ben is going to come and join us. Julie Kelly is here to tell us about two big wins, and I mean big wins for President Trump at the supreme today Supreme Court. We're going to break it all down for you. Birch Gold. Take your phone at text Bannon B A N N O N at 989-898. Get the free and ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals. Don't forget that silver in the age of Trump. Gold on fire again today. Short commercial break. Back in a moment. According to the Department of Energy, blackouts could increase by 10,000% over the next few years. It's because of massive energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers. We talk about that all the time here in the War Room. And we have a fragile power grid. It just cannot keep up with that demand. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of being without power even for a day. That's why I got the grid Dr. 3300 from my patriot supply. It's a powerful solar generator that runs refrigerators, refrigerators, AC units, medical devices, power tools, anything you need to write out a blackout. And right now, for their Christmas in July event, they're including over $1,000 in free survival gear with your generator, including emergency food supply, water filtration, survival tools and more. You heard that right. Over a thousand bucks in free gear for a limited time. Head to my Patriotsupply.com Bannon, that's my Patriotsupply.com.com Bannon and grab the Christmas in July bundle before it's gone. Blackouts are coming. Go to my patronsupply.com Bannon and get prepared today.

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[Legal Analyst]

So the Supreme Court is reversing an order from that prevented federal law enforcement from conducting stops in seven California counties without reasonable suspicion. This was one of those emergency docket cases that just came together in the past few weeks. And it was a 6:3 decision. But the six conservatives on this court did not provide a full opinion of the case. It was just Justice Kavanaugh with his thoughts in a concurring opinion on this, saying, in part, of course, reasonable suspicion is important and it's necessary. But because there's a large population of undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area, because they don't speak English, and because perhaps they all gather in the same areas every day looking for that daily work as day laborers, that in itself is enough reasonable suspicion to stop someone here. So Sonia, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, along with the three other liberal justices, said, quote, it was a grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, so speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost. I dissent. So, Chris, the Supreme Court today effectively okaying racial profiling and immigration enforcement.

[Conservative Media Host]

Chris, thank you so much for that. Gary Grumbach. So let me ask the basic question. For starters. Does this apply only to those seven California counties and is it the final decision on all of this? Well, first of all, it's not the final decision, but let me go back to your first question. Does it apply only to those seven California counties? The original order issued by a district court in California did apply only to those seven counties and restrict immigration officials ability to arrest people on reasonable suspicion there. The Trump administration, therefore, will feel empowered by today's pause by the Supreme Court. I say pause because it is not the final ruling. However, the breakdown of votes here appears to give some signal into how the court will ultimately vote when this comes back to it. And of course, Justice Kavanaugh saying in his concurring opinion, as Gary just laid out for you, that he doubts that there was any constitutional infirmity with respect to the rounding up of day laborers who don't speak English and who gather in particular places where they are known to look for work that to him does constitute reasonable suspicion and therefore reasonable would not be unconstitutional. We can expect this to come back to the court in one way or another. But in the meantime, you can also expect the Trump administration to feel a little bit more free to go on these sort of immigration hunts for undocumented immigrants, not only in Los Angeles, Chris, but in many other areas of the country. We have seen at least 24 applications so far by the Trump administration itself in the first 32 weeks of his presidency. And I just want to give our viewers some context for how that compares to prior presidents. 19 applications were made by President Biden's administration in the entire four years that Joe Biden was president. So already in this term of President.

[Steve Bannon]

Trump's presidency, there were two rulings, one about firing the FTC commissioner and then this massive one about ice. Julie Kelly, you pick a man. Which one you want to start with. Both of them are, I think, very big and have implications on so many other things. President Trump winning at the Supreme Court, ma'. Am.

[Julie Kelly]

Correct. So both of these decisions by the Supreme Court today do have impacts on pending bigger matters before the lower courts. And we can talk about that, but we might as well start with this immigration decision, I thought, and I continue to read through it. But the concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh is very strong. It's very impressive because he is not pulling any punches. He makes very clear that we have a crisis of illegal immigrants in this country, especially in the Los Angeles area, that that leaves law enforcement and the federal government with few choices but to conduct these sort of raids at locations where illegals are known to hang out. And so he it was very strong. But I would like to read one passage, if I can, before you, or unless you have a question about how I think Justice Kavanaugh is signaling what the court might do in the Alien Enemies act litigation that's still ongoing.

[Steve Bannon]

Go ahead, ma'. Am.

[Julie Kelly]

So what Kavanaugh writes today, and this is the Alien Enemies act, this is the proclamation that the president signed, signed in March, that ordered the immediate removal of illegal Venezuelans tied to Trend Aragua, calling it a foreign terrorist organization, as you and I have talked about, this was the infamous case that went before Judge Jeb Bossberg where he made that infamous order, oral order, he said to turn claims around and return those illegal Venezuelans who had been deported. We just got a decision in the Fifth Circuit basically upholding the idea. And this was a two to one decision. This was what the Supreme Court sent back to the 5th Circuit asking them to review, you know, the use of this Alien Enemies act in all of these temporary restraining orders that have been handed down by other judges, halting the deportation of these illegal Venezuelans under the AE Act. And the 2:1 decision, basically this court saying, the appellate court saying, there is no predatory incursion, there is no invasion, therefore the president cannot invoke the Alien Enemies Act. Well, this will eventually get back to the Supreme Court. And here's what Justice Kavanaugh said. The judiciary does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities. It should come as no surprise that some administrations may be more laissez faire and in enforcing immigration law and other administrations more strict. Article 3 judges may have their views on which policy approach is better or fairer, but judges are not appointed to make those policy calls. We merely ensure that the executive branch acts within the confines of the Constitution and federal statutes. So he is, I think, sort of signaling, as the court did before in many judges, something like the Alien Enemies act and something like this as well, is not up for court review. This is strictly under the purview of the executive branch. So I pulled that out. I thought that that was an interesting comment by Justice Kavanaugh.

[Steve Bannon]

Wow. Also the ruling on the ftc. Tell me about that, because that's going to play in right to across the board what Trump's doing, but particularly, correct me if I'm wrong, the Fed governor and what's happening over the Federal Reserve.

[Julie Kelly]

You're exactly right. So it does appear. So what they did again today is put on hold the president firing of this individual, Rebecca Slaughter, who is sitting on the FTC board. And again, Steve, this is speaking to, and you and I talked about this month ago, that as frustrating as this litigation is for the Trump administration, it is very necessary and certainly very clarifying because we have all of these so called independent boards and agencies that wield tremendous power that are sort of acting as a fourth branch of government. Certainly nothing articulated in the Constitution, but they are very powerful, make very powerful decisions, and basically have been insulated by a few Supreme Court cases saying that the president who appoints any president who appoints these people to these agencies like the ftc, then a new president can't turn around and remove those other appointees that they are insulated unless the president defines or demonstrates some sort of cause for their removal. Now, the Supreme Court, in many of these instances, you and I have talked about the Office of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit System Protection Board, the president removing former Biden appointees from those boards, and the Supreme Court upholding that. So this is again what they did in this case with Rebecca slaughter at the FTC, putting a hold on the Washington D.C. district court and then appellate court that overturned her firing and ordered FTC to keep this woman on the board even though she had been fired by the president. So this is on hold as well.

[Steve Bannon]

Julie, you've been on this from day one. The Democrats came up when they had no political power, no organizing power, no real counter argument to the president. President. They went to these, they saw in this kind of neo Marxist and progressive judiciary that they would have a way to slow Trump down. To delay is to deny. Right. Burn daylight as much you get to the midterms and then the, the general, as we said today, President Trump seems to be winning. When we get to the Supreme Court, where do we stand overall, do you think? Because I just, I think the Atlantic had a, had a piece the other day and it went through the one strategy that's working for the Democrats and it's the legal strategy in this radical judiciary. Where do you think we stand overall right now?

[Julie Kelly]

I mean, I do think that the Supreme Court, even though there have been some frustrating interventions, especially in the Alien Enemies act lawsuits that were brought against the Trump administration, administration, but slowly, slowly but surely, we are seeing all of these lawsuits unraveling and the decisions by these district court and even appellate court judges who are clearly outside the boundaries of their authority and the separation of powers, infringing on the executive authority as we've never seen before. This is something that Justice Naomi Rao just said in her dissent in this Rebecca Slaughter lawsuit saying this is unprecedented. We as courts cannot tell the president who he can hire and fire on these boards that require presidential appointment and then Senate approval. So many justices or many appellate court judges and a few Supreme Court justices have noted the unprecedented nature of all of these lawsuits against president and how these lower courts are acting. We saw Justice Gorsuch address this last month very strongly because you see these judges defying even the Supreme Court opinions and orders. So I do think that the president is prevailing. I think that decisions today by the Supreme Court should send a good signal on the Alien Enemies act litigation and also the case of Lisa Cook, the fired governor of the Federal Reserve Board, who is doing to keep herself in that position.

[Steve Bannon]

Julie, been all over this. Where do people go for your podcast? You've got a substack, you've got social media. What are all your coordinates? So people can get all of Julie Kelly's content, ma'. Am.

[Julie Kelly]

So I'm at Declassified with Julie Kelly on Substack. Also X Julie Underscore Kelly, too. I have a great podcast up with my friend and your friend Lisa Shells with James Fishback who is a young up and comer in the MAGA movement and very critical of the Federal Reserve. He explains both what's happening at the Fed and also the case of Lisa Cook.

[Steve Bannon]

Amazing. Julie Kelly, thank you. Thank you for changing your schedule around to join us given the breaking news in the Supreme Court.

[Julie Kelly]

Huxley and Steve, thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

Julie Kelly, couple of big wins. Ben Berkwam has been on assignment. I think Ben's going to be able to tell us how important this Supreme Court ruling was today. Birchgold. I want to thank our sponsor everything that's happening globally in capital markets. Prime minister of Japan steps down. Why capital markets the government of France falls today.

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[Ben Berkwam]

Another one bites the dust.

[Steve Bannon]

You guys are a piece of. You don't know anything.

[Ben Berkwam]

You like criminals. If they're criminals, they gotta go. I guess they want to keep criminals in their neighborhoods. There's an operation going on, going after criminal illegals, and you have these leftists that show up. These guys started blocking traffic. All of these people are out here causing a problem, protecting criminals in their community. These are the enemies within that we're really battling against. You're one of what? Are you okay with rapists? Are you okay with murderers? Very simple message from me to you.

[Steve Bannon]

Screw you. We're sending them home. Folks, get ready for Operation Midway Blitz. Ben Berkram is joining us. Ben, you're actually on the ground. I want to put in perspective Supreme Court ruling today. I think the timing of that was very much timed to what's about to happen, or what I shouldn't say about to happen is happening in Chicago right now. The White House has put out almost like a group of trading cards. I think I've gotten those to Denver. We put them up. Ben, what is going on out there, sir? On the ground? Yeah.

[Ben Berkwam]

No, it's kicking off Operation Midway Blitz. This has been an entire ICE operation, but it's going to be kicking into high gear with all of the agencies again. It's this whole government approach that we saw from the beginning with President Trump. But every single month, they've been layering in new levels. And this, to me, Steve, what you saw there, and just wait till you see the rest of this. I was out there with these guys all day, going after one guy, one career criminal illegal alien who's committed multiple crimes, who's been convicted. We're in the neighborhood. We're going to get him. Our car gets surrounded by radical leftists who are there to obstruct ice. They end up calling. Chicago pd PD shows up, and this guy is now still sitting in that neighborhood protected because of the leftist activists. This decision by the judge, or, excuse me, by the Supreme Court in California. This needs to ripple across America. We need to be able to go into all. All of these communities. And I'm actually right across the street. Two things real quick. I didn't even notice this. My cameraman noticed it. We're on Hohman street right there. And right across the street is actually Chicago pd, cpd, where under Joe Biden, that place was full of illegals. While the inner city was abandoned by Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker. All of these facilities were full of illegals and now they're trying to obstruct and stop them from getting kicked out of our country. President Trump's not stopping. Tom Homan's not stopping, stopping. But these NGOs and these activist groups have to be prosecuted.

[Steve Bannon]

I just want to make sure. Ben, I'm going to hold you through the top of the hour when drill down this more Operation Midway Blitz is underway in Chicago. ICE is, is fully up and on this. Of course, what Ben just said, it's a whole of government approach. It's not simply ice, it's not simply dhs. Ben, I just. Before I let you go here, we're going to get you back at 6. Are you telling me the leftist activists surrounded ICE and then called Chicago PD who came out and the bad guy and the perpetrator got away?

[Ben Berkwam]

Yeah, well, he basically just stayed in his house and so they called pd, Chicago pd, Chicago PD came out. It created this whole scene. They ended up blocking the streets. PD ended up having to push them off the streets. That's when we got out of the ICE vehicle that we were with, embedded with. And I went and confronted them to expose them. But that's. Yes. Now that criminal is still sitting in their neighborhood because of their obstruction. And by the way, these are the same people that say they want to defund the police, but they're the first ones to call them.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben Berkwom, can you hang on? We're going to come back to you. Operation Midway Blitz, which is this ice, you know, up armored. Make sure you start to do the mass deportations and you start that beginning at the bad hombres. It started today in Chicago as President Trump said, hey, he's coming to Chicago. He's done such a magnificent job in D.C. if you talk to anybody, forget the statistics, it's down 1,700%, 2,000%. D.C. is a demonstrably safer city than it was when President Trump started this with the National Guard. Mike Lindell, it's been a very long and tough day, a good day for maga, for the MAGA movement, for President Trump. Our people are looking for a deal. What do you got for us, brother?

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