Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room

Episode 5131: The Left's Plan To Change America; New Nixon Files Released
Date: February 10, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Key Guests: Mike Davis, James Rosen, community and political advocates

Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room dives into two major themes:

1. Fears and allegations regarding the integrity of the American electoral system—specifically addressing claims of election “rigging,” federal intervention, and efforts to reform election law.
2. Historical perspective on government 'deep state' activity—the release of new Nixon files, including James Rosen’s reporting on the Moore-Radford Affair, drawing parallels to today’s political conflicts.

The show features fiery discourse around voter fraud allegations, immigration and voting rights, community activism, and a deep historical dive into Watergate era “deep state” machinations, with extended commentary from Newsmax’s James Rosen on his new biography of Justice Antonin Scalia and his investigative reporting on Nixon.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Allegations of Rigged Elections and Federal Overreach

Republican Perspective:

• Bannon and Guests' Claims:

  • The American electoral system is described as “rigged, stolen, and a laughingstock.”
  • Historical and ongoing attempts by Democrats to encourage or enable illegal voting, particularly by non-citizens and immigrants, are emphasized as an existential threat.
  • Trump’s presidency and political movement are cast as the only defense against irreversible election fraud and loss of national sovereignty.

• The SAVE Act:

  • Advocated by guest Mike Davis as a crucial reform to “stop illegal immigrants from stealing our elections.”
  • Proposed changes: stricter voter ID requirements, aggressive purging of voter rolls, and increased federal oversight near polling places, especially in swing states.

Diverse Community Voices:

• Community Activists’ Responses:

  • Worry over federal law enforcement being used to intimidate voters, particularly minorities and immigrants (Georgia Voter/Activist, [02:08]; Latino Rights Advocate, [04:37]).
  • Experiences of racial profiling and persecution, with a call to elected leaders to show as much courage as artists like Bad Bunny in defending American diversity.

• Quote (Latino Rights Activist, [04:37]):

  "There is diversity right—I do not know Puerto Rican culture, I come from Mexican American culture... But that relation—he is uniting us by persecuting all of us equally and with the same paramilitary force, and I want to know which elected leader is going to be as brave as Bad Bunny has consistently."

Electoral System Dispute

• Luke (Analyst):
  • Fact checks fraud allegations, stating voter fraud in America is “less than one hundred cases in the last two decades” ([06:14]).
  • Criticizes current Republican maneuvers as “largely a political statement” intended to cast doubt should Democrats win.

Notable Exchange:

• Mike Davis ([16:35]):

  "Eighty percent of Americans support passing the SAVE Act, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities. Democrats pretend that Black people don’t have the wherewithal to get a voter ID like everyone else, when we all know the reason that Democrat politicians are opposing this is because they want their illegal aliens ... on the voter rolls so they can rig and steal elections."

2. Federal Courts, State Rights, and Law Enforcement

• Court Rulings & Sanctuary States:

  • Mike Davis highlights a recent ruling where a “Democrat judge in California just sided with the Trump administration” over federal vs. state authority regarding immigration enforcement ([11:15]).
  • Asserted legal clarity: Immigration and elections are ultimately under federal authority and supremacy clause; states can't “micromanage” federal officers.

• Political Standoff:

  • Davis and Bannon lambaste Democrats for what they say is hypocrisy regarding federal power in election law, accusing them of “rigging and stealing elections with illegal votes and phantom votes” ([20:27]).

3. America’s Changing Demographics and Cultural Shifts

• Latino Community Commentary (Latino Community Advocate, [03:04]):
  • “America is going to be Black and brown majority ... no, no, no, we’re there now ... A lot of Donald Trump white people got upset ... you fixated on words to try to understand. But if you heard the words in English you still wouldn’t have understood them, and that’s the point.”
• Super Bowl Cultural Moment:
  • Reference to Bad Bunny’s performance as a signifier of America’s current cultural makeup, sparking discomfort in segments of the Trump-aligned audience.

4. Legislative and Political Maneuvering

• Senate and House Negotiations:

  • Bannon and Davis monitor Capitol Hill negotiations for new election law proposals ([12:35]).
  • Senator Eric Schmitt and other pro-Trump lawmakers seen as key fighters; Schmitt’s leadership is praised (“a bold and fearless warrior for the Constitution” - Mike Davis, [26:55]).

• Call to Political Action:

  • Listeners are encouraged repeatedly to contact their representatives to support the SAVE Act ([27:32]).
  • Bannon’s closing: “Let’s do it ... you know what you got to do.”

5. Deep State, Nixon, and Parallels to Trump

James Rosen on Nixon Files & The Moore-Radford Affair

• Segment Start [45:09]:

  • Rosen explains the scale of Pentagon-era leaks, with Navy Yeoman Charles Radford passing thousands of classified documents to the Joint Chiefs, a crisis concealed to avoid wider exposure of covert US operations.
  • Nixon wanted to prosecute the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for espionage ([46:24]).
  • Parallels drawn to modern “deep state” accusations and lawfare against Trump.

• Quote (James Rosen, [46:24]):

  “We’ve talked about lawfare a lot with Nixon as the ... as bloody Kansas was to the Civil War, so the lawfare against Nixon was exactly what they’ve done to Trump.”

• Rosen’s Reporting:

  • Only researcher to review newly-declassified Nixon Oval Office tapes documenting the discovery of high-level military spying on the White House.

Historical Reflection

• Bannon frames the Nixon-era revelation as a template for understanding current “deep state” conflicts with Trump, suggesting ongoing attempts by entrenched government or military bureaucracy to sabotage anti-establishment presidents.

6. Scalia: Supreme Court Years

Book Release and Legacy Discussion with James Rosen

• Segment [29:48] onward:

  • Rosen discusses his biography, Scalia: Supreme Court Years 1986–2001, positioning Scalia as transformative in American legal culture.
  • Scalia’s textualist/originalist revolution detailed, contrasting with the “living constitution” theory.
  • Offers colorful anecdotes (Scalia making him eat rabbit at lunch, being a “bull in the china shop” at the Court, dominating oral arguments).

• Quote (James Rosen, [34:46]):

  “When you’re one of the nine justices sitting on the Supreme Court ... your rulings are going to touch every aspect of American life. Scalia’s legacy as a justice is profound.”

• Pitch to Readers:

  • Rosen asserts his biography is written for laypeople, illuminating one of America’s “greatest literary stylists” and patriots ([42:05]).

Memorable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “America's elections are rigged, stolen and a laughingstock all over the world… for fact’s sake Donald Trump won two of those so-called rigged stolen elections.”
  — Stephen K. Bannon [00:00]

• “The time for states and localities to act is probably before Republicans ... and to be prepared in advance to get injunctions and things like that to keep ICE away.”
  — Susan [00:25]

• “If we do not restore checks and balances in these midterm elections, we will not recognize our republic at the end of this presidential term. We may lose our republic.”
  — Georgia Voter/Activist [02:08]

• “If they heard the words in English, they still wouldn’t have understood them, because they listened to one man who ... has clouded their judgment and their reason with his own twitchiness.”
  — Latino Community Advocate [03:04]

• “I want to know which elected leader is going to be as brave as Bad Bunny has consistently.”
  — Latino Rights Activist [04:37]

• “It will pass the House, right—they’ll get the Republican votes ... but they will not get the votes in the Senate ... this is largely a political statement.”
  — Luke [06:14]

• “Democrats rig and steal elections with illegal votes and phantom votes. That's how they won the 2020 election.”
  — Mike Davis [20:27]

• “This will be orders of magnitude worse than Watergate—you'll actually show how they stole a presidential election and ... brought fifteen to twenty million illegal alien invaders into the country.”
  — Stephen K. Bannon [23:32]

• “By the time he [Scalia] died—even Elena Kagan ... had proclaimed, in essence, ‘Thanks to the Scalia revolution, we are all originalists now.’”
  — James Rosen [37:51]

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00] – Bannon's opening on “rigged” elections, setup of the episode’s focus on electoral integrity
• [02:08] – Georgia Activist on Federal intimidation at polls
• [03:04 & 04:37] – Latino advocates discuss cultural change and political targeting
• [06:14] – Luke fact-checks voter fraud claims
• [11:15] – Mike Davis on court rulings, federal vs state immigration authority
• [16:35] – Davis pitches the SAVE Act to audience
• [20:27] – Discussion of COVID, voting, alleged fraud, and lawfare
• [23:32] – Bannon and Davis: Watergate vs present-day allegations
• [29:48] – James Rosen on his new Scalia biography
• [34:46 & 37:51] – Rosen on Scalia’s legal philosophy and influence
• [45:09 & 46:24] – Rosen explains the Moore-Radford Affair and connections to current deep state discourse
• [51:58] – Segment continues: Bannon frames deep state actions then and now

Conclusion

This episode is a dense, impassioned political analysis—melding current claims of election integrity fraud, fear of demographic change, and urgent calls to legislative action, with a historical masterclass on secret government maneuvering during the Nixon era. The discussion is colored by Bannon and his guests' combative, direct style, frequent calls to action, and use of historic analogy to cast present-day events in a dramatic, world-altering light. The episode closes with Rosen’s assertion of the continued importance of historical perspective—and contemporary conservative activism—in shaping America’s future.