Episode 5231: More Evidence Coming Out Proves That China Meddled In US Elections

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room | Episode 5231

Episode Title: More Evidence Coming Out Proves That China Meddled In US Elections
Date: March 20, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Key Guests: John Solomon, Bradley James (Breitbart), various political and intelligence analysts

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on mounting evidence of Chinese interference in US elections and the reluctance of US intelligence agencies and lawmakers to confront or disclose these threats publicly. Bannon, alongside investigative journalist John Solomon and other analysts, explores recent developments related to the Save America Act, voter ID legislation, deep state influence, election security breaches, and the broader implications for US sovereignty and governance. A substantial portion also discusses foreign policy turmoil, particularly related to the Middle East, with scrutiny of spending, military actions, and controversial US-funded organizations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Debate Over Voter ID & the Save America Act

• Democratic Stance Shifts: The episode opens with a sharp critique of Democrats expressing tentative support for a national Voter ID bill, which Bannon and panelists interpret as a strategic move rather than a genuine commitment.
  • “Since when do Democrats support voter ID?” – Stephen K. Bannon [00:10]
• Concerns over Voter Purges: Panelists argue the proposed legislation is designed less for ID verification and more for restricting voter access, describing it as a “citizenship test” that may disenfranchise women, rural voters, and those with irregular documentation.
  • “It is a voter purge. They’re going to decide who votes and who doesn’t.” – Bannon [02:06]
• Legislative Process Tensions: On Capitol Hill, there is deep division about next steps for the Save America Act and its implications, with discussions about sidestepping or grinding out legislative victories.
  • “The Senate works on two things. That’s consensus or exhaustion.” – Senate Analyst [13:03]

2. Evidence & Suppression of China’s Election Interference

• John Solomon’s Reporting: Solomon details grand jury activity involving former FBI Director James Comey as a witness in probes about intelligence community manipulation and the suppression of information on foreign intervention.
  • “A grand jury subpoena went to James Comey... to be a witness, not about things he testified to... but rather to talk about what he knows about the intelligence community assessment...” – John Solomon [17:58]
• China’s Hacking of Voter Data: The podcast alleges credible, documented evidence that China accessed and analyzed voter registration data in multiple US states, with intelligence ombudsman reports supposedly confirming this and indicating intentional suppression by US agencies.
  • “We now know... the intelligence ombudsman made public that the assessment was that they kept that China interference... ...even from the president, because the intelligence community didn’t like Donald Trump...” – John Solomon [19:29–20:29]
• Failure to Inform Congress/Public: Both host and guests lambast intelligence agencies for not briefing Congress or the American public as required by law.
  • “No one in a position of authority in the intelligence community wants to really touch this publicly, correct?” – Bannon [23:12]
  • “That seems to be the case.” – John Solomon [23:29]

3. Deep State & Partisan Politicization

• Weaponization of Intelligence: Discussion focuses on what they describe as a pattern of governmental bodies prioritizing political objectives over national interest, especially relating to Trump and Republican causes.
  • “The biggest scandal in American history... The system is saying, ‘Yeah, you may have all this, but we can’t go there because going there brings down the system.’” – Bannon [27:03]
• Summed Up Stakes: The episode frames current debates over election integrity as nothing less than existential for American democracy.
  • “This cuts to the heart of who controls this country...” – Bannon [29:36]

4. Middle East Unrest & US Foreign Policy Criticism

• Drone Incursions and Military Escalation: The panel reviews drone sightings near Fort McNair (DC), with security analysts expressing concern about unknown origins (possibly foreign) and growing regional instability.
  • “All of that came up negative... Whose drones were they? Why were they flying over this base?” – Intelligence Analyst [02:45]
• Prolonged Wars and US Objectives: Commentators criticize both Trump-era and Israeli strategies in the Middle East for prioritizing chaos and regime change, warning of endless conflict and unintended consequences.
  • “Israel often thinks it has attained a tactical victory... but there is no diplomacy behind it.” – Political Analyst [06:53]
• USAID Controversy: Breitbart’s Bradley James unveils how USAID funding, championed by figures such as Lindsey Graham, has allegedly ended up financing terror networks now opposing US interests.
  • “Millions of dollars... have come from American taxpayers and ended up in the coffers of Hamas...” – Bradley James [39:18]

5. Legislative Maneuverings & the 2026 Election Outlook

• Upcoming Legislative Votes: Capitol Hill maneuvers over the Save America Act, Homeland Security funding, and voter ID amendments are broken down.
• 2026 Midterm Predictions: John Solomon gives Republicans a cautiously optimistic outlook, contingent on actual delivery of structural election reforms and government accountability.
  • “If you’re a Republican, you look at what’s about to happen... you can be very optimistic as a Republican, but the big ifs are the people around the president...” – John Solomon [35:10]

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Noteworthy Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Voter ID as Voter Suppression:
  • “They just don’t want you to vote. And it’s not just women, it’s people in rural areas.” – Guest Commentator [00:53]
• On the Intelligence Community’s Credibility:
  • “Did the intelligence community in late 16 and early 17 put its political viewpoints ahead of its country?” – John Solomon [20:56]
• On Middle East Policy:
  • “We're in one now. This is like Gilligan’s Island. We went on an excursion for a couple of hours and now we're stuck in a real war that’s not going to end...” – Political Analyst [04:29]
• On USAID Funding:
  • “Lindsey Graham... the greatest champion... millions of dollars have come from American taxpayers and ended up in the coffers of Hamas, most of it through USAID.” – Bradley James [39:21]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–03:10: Voter ID & the Save America Act – suppression versus fraud arguments
• 03:37–08:00: Middle East escalation; war, diplomacy, and Trump/Israel strategies
• 11:28–15:01: Capitol Hill updates on legislative maneuvering and the Save America Act
• 17:56–21:45: John Solomon details intelligence suppression and grand jury activities
• 22:09–26:44: Suppression of China election meddling evidence; calls for declassification
• 27:03–30:33: Stakes of the deep state vs. democratic governance
• 30:48–36:31: John Solomon: pathway for Republicans and election reform optimism
• 39:18–41:55: Bradley James on USAID funding terrorism and the consequences for US foreign policy

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Conclusion & Takeaway

This episode paints a picture of an embattled political system, where questions of election integrity, foreign interference (specifically by China), deep state maneuvering, and bipartisan reluctance to confront uncomfortable truths form a thread linking domestic politics to global crises. The panel urges aggressive declassification, legislative reform, and public accountability, warning that failure could have dire consequences for American democracy and security.

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For more content:

• John Solomon: JustTheNews.com | Social: @JSolomonReports
• News and analysis: WarRoom.org

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Transcript

[Stephen K. Bannon]

That Schumer said Democrats support a voter ID bill. Why? It's a trap. Like the SAVE act has nothing to do with. It's really about citizenship. And so I feel like Republicans have backed y' all into a corner and y' all are like, yeah, now we'll do a national voter ID bill. When? What in the world is that? Since when the Democrats support voter id? Well, what I'm saying is this. It's fine. I can tell you in Nevada, we have to have a signature verification when you go vote, which is fine. But that's not a national voter ID bill. That's not a national voter id. Why a national. Are you going to vote for this? For this? If it goes to the floor? No, I am not. And I will tell you why. Especially I want to talk about the Save America Act. Well, I want to ask either of you and anybody listening, would you like all of our voter rolls to go to the Department of Homeland Security? Kristi Noem and Kristi Noem 2.0, possibly. And Michael?

No.

[Guest Commentator (possibly a political analyst or commentator)]

Hell no.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

What are they going to do with it then? They're going to look at it, decide who's worthy to vote and who isn't. And I took my husband's name. I'm proud to be married 33 years this year. Well, I have to have in order to vote. First of all, you don't know who the DHS are going to purge. You won't know until you show up to vote. In order to vote, I have to have my birth certificate, which doesn't match my married name. So then I have to get my marriage certificate and a passport and God knows what else. Military ID is not allowed. A bunch of other things, and go sit in person all day long. And if I don't have the right things there, they kick you out and maybe you'll come back and you won't get to vote. This is clearly a voter suppression. They just don't want you to vote. And it's not just women. It's people in rural areas. Every time you would move, you'd have to go in person to register to vote. They won't take a real id. This is a citizenship test. It is shown over and over and over, state after state, county after county, that there is no voter fraud.

[Intelligence or Security Analyst]

Because in the reality of it is,

[John Solomon]

when they start to push back about

[Political Analyst or Commentator]

voter fraud, Republicans just look and go,

[Intelligence or Security Analyst]

well, wait a minute. This is voter ID national. You said you would like that.

[John Solomon]

This isn't voter fraud.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

That's not what this bill is.

[Political Analyst or Commentator]

Right.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

And they're lying about it. It is not what the bill is. I don't think anyone has an argument about showing a driver's license signature verification. We do that in states all across this country. This bill is not that. It is a voter purge. They're going to decide who votes and

[Security or Military Analyst]

who doesn' two drones, we don't know what type, spotted recently near Fort McNair, which is the Washington army base that is home to the current Secretaries of State and Defense. Their detection was first revealed by the Washington Post, which reports that officials believe the threat serious enough to have considered moving those two somewhere else. Do we know much more about these drones?

[Intelligence or Security Analyst]

Well, we know that they were spotted multiple times on one night a couple of weeks ago, and that the first thing they did was they reached out to the FBI, to the Secret Service, to ncis, to say, were you doing any drone operations in the area? Because some of those agencies use drones, particularly if there's a protecting nearby. All of that came up negative. So the question was now burning. Ok, so whose drones were they? Why were they flying over this base and what were they capable of doing?

[Security or Military Analyst]

Do we know? I mean, are we talking about commercially available drones? Do we know?

[Intelligence or Security Analyst]

So it's hard because it's at night and most of these sightings are made based on, you know, I heard the noise, I looked up, I saw the flashing lights and I saw it flying by. So a competent description of whether it was commercial, you know, like the normal ones we see people playing with or something more sophisticated, we don't know.

[Political Analyst or Commentator]

You see this? Do you see any sign from Donald Trump that he has an interest in de escalating at this point or the other countries in the region going to push him to a position where, look, you've started this, you've just got to finish it.

He's the only one that wants to end quickly. Israel doesn't and the Iranians don't need to because they can continue the war. I try to look to the people who still have a conscience, who still try to tell us the truth when they can. Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard. When you watch Chelsea Gabbard, clearly she has something on her mind, which is what she believes in. She doesn't want what she calls the neocons, the hawks taking us into another war. We're in another war and she wants to say so, but she can't. She has to go along with the team that she's joined. I think unfortunately for her, she's on a team that now is Hawkish and she's not a hawk. And I think she'd like to speak her mind when those hesitants hesitancies yesterday in that hearing are true. She doesn't think we're in the right world in the right war. We shouldn't be in this war that Donald Trump campaigned against stupid wars. He got the votes of regular people in places like Pennsylvania and rural areas because they don't want their kids being taken into a stupid war. We're in one now. This is like Gillian's Island. We went on an excursion for a couple of hours and now we're stuck in a real war that's not going to end because the other two people in this war, Iran and Israel, want to keep it going.

[Security or Military Analyst]

I think Israel would go it alone if President Trump woke up tomorrow and said, you know what? Victory, we're done.

[Guest Commentator (possibly a political analyst or commentator)]

They wouldn't want. They would want to continue. I mean, I think that that's clear. Whether we would put the screws on, on Israel to make them stop is a question mark, mind. I mean, we might just let them go. But, you know, look, what Israel wants is absolutely regime change or regime collapse. They prefer chaos to having someone in charge, and that's why they're taking out every leader they can find, which makes it kind of hard to negotiate. Back to Jeremy's question. So if you want to negotiate, at some point, you really can't.

[Political Analyst or Commentator]

I don't want to ascribe too much strategy to the Trump administration, but I think they would have liked to see a positive outcome. However you define that, you know, the fall of the regime, the, you know, Iranian people getting a better new leadership, and then, you know, prosperity and building Trump hotels across the region. In contrast, it seems very much, and we've read it from many analysts, Israeli analysts, who describe the Israeli strategy and who describe Netanyahu's thinking. In contrast, you have there a plan for what seems to be constant chaos. And I have to say that the Israeli and the Iranian vision for the region are starting to really look alike. Chaos forever. War, war, war until victory, however you define that. But I think it's important to understand that the way this all started back in the 80s in Lebanon, in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon and collided with the Iranian revolution and propelled or ignited Iran's sort of regional architecture of proxy militias, et cetera, Iran, Israel often thinks it has attained a tactical victory or a strategic victory, but there is no diplomacy behind it. And then it creates the next iteration of the threat. You know, it got rid of the Palestinians In Lebanon in 1982, we got Hezbollah. If Israel decides that this is the chaos is the way forward, and land grabs in Lebanon or in Syria, on the Golan Heights are the way forward, you run the risk that you breathe life into groups like Hezbollah and others and create more of such threats to Israel, but also to the region's stability.

[Security or Military Analyst]

What do you think is important for viewers to know just in the last 24 hours or so what's going on?

[Guest Commentator (possibly a political analyst or commentator)]

I think what's important for me is that this idea that we can somehow bomb these Iranians into a negotiation or into capitulation is not understanding the Iranians at all. And I think that after we hit Kharg island, we saw them step up in terms of escalation. They hit UAE's Fujairah Report right here outside the Strait. They hit, you know, refineries. And so then just, you know, a day and a half ago, whenever it was, and we hit the, the Israelis hit the South Pars, right, the largest natural gas field in the world that's shared with gutter, but we hit, the Israelis hit that. The escalation has been way another notch up, right? And they're hitting all the upstream things. This LNG plant that they hit in gutter, it might take three to five years to fix it. This could be a huge, huge problem for us, for the world. And so I just don't understand. It's like, you know, what's the saying, you know, where the definition of insanity is when you do the same thing and you expect a different outcome. We did carg, they escalated. We Israelis did South Parsley, they escalated. This is where we're at. And I just think that we, we are failing to see the enemy here.

[Political Analyst or Commentator]

Trump this year wants to win on affordability. When you spend $200 billion in addition to an already incredible national debt, on top of all of that, another $200 billion, you're going to drive up prices, not just oil prices across the board. When you spend more money at the government, when you have GDP driving things, you're going to have inflation, you're going to have affordability problems. And this is going to be true right through. Hey, God, it's already practically April. We're going to lunch in November. You don't think we're going to have inflation in November because of this war? And also we're short handing, we're killing Iran again. I mean Ukraine, I mean, we used to help Ukraine with the sanctions on Russia. They're gone. No more oil sanctions on Russia. So we're, we're paying for one more by killing a chance for our friend. I think it's our friend Ukraine in Europe.

[Military or Defense Analyst]

I mean, look, we just are ending a week where he said he was shocked that Iran lashed out at the region in spite of the fact that it was predicted that Iran would last lash out at the region. We've had reporting from the Wall Street Journal that, that General Kaine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, warned him about closing the straits and he brushed through the Strait of Hormuz and he, he brushed through that warning you and flailing, lashing out at NATO allies, angry at them, and then saying that we don't need them. None of this communicates the calm conviction of a person who's orchestrating a plan that is going well. And that's but what I said in the piece is we have seen military dominance in this confrontation where the United States has been able to establish air dominance, it has been able to establish naval dominance. And what he's hoping against, hopefully is that the military's continued success will ultimately cover for his political failures, that he will be able to force open the strait, he will be able to keep it open at minimal cost. That's what he's gambling on and that's what he's hoping for. And yet at the moment, there is no sign that that is imminent. We seem to be in a situation where we can achieve what we want to achieve over Iran, but Iran can achieve what it wants to achieve in the strait and that is not good for us.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Friday, the 20th of March, year of our lower 2026. We're absolutely jammed today. We are going to be going to The White House 10:30. The commander in chief trophy between the military academies. The awardee this year is the United States Naval Academy. It's a sports trophy. We'll get there. President I'm sure is going to save a few remarks. We're going to jump in there. I'm going to go to the White House in a moment with Neil McKay. But breaking news just as we came on the Chuck Norris, the legendary Chuck Norris Walker Texas Rangers and of course a icon on the right just been announced by his family that Chuck Norris has passed away, has died at the age of 86 years old. So we'll get more on that as we get more information with Chuck Norris dead at 86. Want to go to Neil McCabe. Neil, you were up there yesterday. We're going to be covering Capitol Hill all day. They tried this consent to get the just the, just the voter ID part Because the Democrats were starting to fade yesterday on the Save America. And we started the cold open today with the Democrat crats. The Democrats tirade against its voter suppression. It's voter purging. Your sense on Capitol Hill of I know we're going to pick it back up and I've talked to Cleta and Jenny Beth. They're going to join us this evening and tomorrow and over the weekend as we cover this nonstop. But this is a process and particularly a legislative process. If you don't want to get tied up in a messaging bill, you're gonna have to grind this one out. Your thoughts, sir?

[Legislative or Senate Analyst]

Well, there's a lot of thoughts. Right. The Senate works on two things. That's consensus or exhaustion. And right now John Thune and Senate Republicans are at the fork of the road of what they're gonna do next. They don't wanna hand the President a loss on a cloture bill because they don't have the 60 yet. However, they could do a quick off ramp on the Save America act and take up other business that happens today at 1 o'. Clock. Thune is going to bring up the Homeland Security funding bill, if that, if that. They get the simple majority to take up that bill that moves Save America act off the floor. They address the Homeland Security and then they have to do another vote or unanimously consent, which they won't get to bring the Save America act back. But last night John Husted from Ohio, he offered the unanimous consent for a bill that would just be a clean voter ID bill, which Schumer talked about saying Democrats support voter id. Durbin told me yesterday, just off the Senate floor, Democrats support voter id. It's just now when they actually put it to them, they decided to block it. And it was Jeff Merkley from Oregon, the Democrat from Oregon. And he basically made the point that if you do voter ID with secret ballots, it means it's not a secret ballot anymore. Can we fiddle in the middle? And Houston said no, we're not going to do that. So that's where it stood.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Yeah, hang on for a second. So there's going to be, they're going to take up the DHS bill today. Get back on the, get back on the Save America Act. Tuberville tomorrow will offer the amendments. They put up amendments to offer the amendment. No men and women's sports, we'll break it all down for you. Plus the war in Iran next in the world. Think about this.

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Stephen K. Bannon (Ad reads)]

in the Middle East.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

He's also fighting a war here of the deep state, not simply from years gone by, but currently. But let's talk about what's actually happening. I know the audience sitting there going, hey, where are my arrests? Where are my perp walks, et cetera. Talk to me about Comey, Brennan, the House, South Florida, all of.

Sir.

[John Solomon]

So a grand jury subpoena went to James Comey from the Miami U.S. attorney's office and from a grand jury that is currently in Fort Pierce, Florida, being supervised by Judge Eileen Cannon. That means that Comey's coming in and being asked to be a witness, not about things he testified to that are in dispute and that he may have perjured himself. And that's certainly the allegation on the referrals against him, but rather to talk about what he knows about the intelligence community assessment that was the last thing Barack Obama did to try to hang another Russian shingle on Donald Trump's home as Barack Obama was leaving office. That's the assessment that said that the Intelligence Committee assesses that Vladimir Putin tried to help Donald Trump win the election. We now know most of the experts in the community disagreed with that assessment. And the only way they got to it was by sneaking in the then already discredited Steele dossier and then using it to pin that part on there. Brennan has always said he didn't want the dossier in the air, and they didn't rely on it. That evidence seems to be. Or that testimony, those comments seem to be at odds with the evidence. And so James Comey would know whether the CIA was asked or was bugging him to send over the Steele dossier so they could make this conclusion. He becomes a critical witness. You could potentially have James Comey be a hostile witness against John Brennan and the indictment. Meanwhile, federal officials tell me that the House Intelligence Committee is going to schedule a vote next week to vote out and send to the grand jury, send to the prosecutors its contacts with John Brennan over the years so that all of those testimonies and private briefings can be viewed by grand jurors to see when and how and what Brendan said over the years about various issues that are now tied up in the weaponization. At the end of the day, this part of the case, which is only a small part of the case, is looking at one element of the intelligence community being politically weaponized. In other words, did the intelligence community in late 16 and early 17 put its political viewpoints ahead of its country by declaring Donald Trump was being aided by Russia in the absence of such evidence because they wanted to create a political narrative that would hurt Donald Trump? Now, that's directly connected to the second issue we've been talking about the last week, which was, did that same intelligence community four years later, in another election and in the aftermath of another election Once again, put politics before country by trying to keep secret from President Trump, from the Congress, from the American public. Evidence it had that state vote, multiple states, voter data, registration had been penetrated and obtained and analyzed by China. Now, when that revelation occurred in Great Britain, it was a national scandal over the seas, across the pond. It probably should be a national scandal here. But we were kept from that knowledge for six years. And we now know from the documents the intelligence ombudsman made public that the assessment of the ombudsman was that they kept that China interference, election interference data quiet and secret, even from the president, because the intelligence community didn't like Donald Trump, they didn't like his policies on China, and they didn't want to give him data that they thought would help him execute his China policy. Once again, putting politics before the interest of your country, the interest of your commander in chief. So what's going on in Florida, what's going on in Washington now have a direct line, the same issue. A politicized intelligence community that's not doing its job, not serving its president, not serving its country.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

The. The politicized, yes. Here's one of the things that concerns me, and I don't know how we got to think through how we're going to put this, but you, you had the Senate and the House Intelligence Committee for the last couple days, and people should know those weren't called because there's these issues about imminent threat or anything. Those are by statute kind of requirements that they have to come in, I think, twice a year and give an update.

[John Solomon]

That's right.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

To the House and Senate. It was noticeable that nothing about this was raised there. And the issue is, I think, that the political class, and this is much Republican as Democrat, they keep talking about the Save America act, but they do not for two reasons. Number one, the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party, as everybody knows, all over D.C. with money. The other is that they do not want to go because they think they're.

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[Stephen K. Bannon]

They think they're feeding the MAGA animals about the 2020 election. So there's two whammies on this, right? You got the CCP involvement as intelligence, and you got the. We don't want to do it because then the wing nuts over at Real America's Voice war room, just the news are gonna, you know, don't feed the beast. So how do we. It is the most important issue that we're dealing with because we're spending all this time. We're gonna cover it all week. And you know this, John, you're doing a great job on the, on the, on the Save America act, right? And at the same time, we're saying, hey, guys, it's one thing about voting, but our existential threat enemies actually have access to all our voter data and they're manipulating it. And yet no one in a position of authority in the intelligence community wants to really touch this publicly, correct?

[John Solomon]

That seems to be the case. I'll just tell you some truisms. I've had questions pending for more than 10 days at the CIA that asked the CIA how many states, in which states does the CIA know had their voter registration data accessed by China. They know the answer. It's in their raw data. To date, haven't gotten those answers. Though, in fairness to the director, Director Ratcliffe, he did give me a statement saying he was looking at this and obviously we got some declassified documents to break the first story. Tulsi Gabbard, the dni, has known about this information at least since September. I just want to say that, again, Tulsi Cabert and her staff have known about this information about China penetrations at least since September. That's at least seven months ago. The Save America act wasn't even a twinkle in the eye of the House, let alone the Senate, when the DNI learned about this. I have made relentless and endless requests for that data to be declassified. I believe some of it's been declassified, but it has not yet been released. The dig, which has already been disbanded. The intelligence advisory group that was looking at this, they knew about this for quite some time. They were quite concerned about it. To date, none of this data has been given in a way that Congress could process it and understand it. It's not been given to the American public. Despite President Trump's obvious interest in the story. He tweeted out the story. He's been concerned about Chinese infiltration. And as a result, what you saw in that scheduled hearing was the Democrats had their way. They got to drive Iran, Iran, Iran, Israel, Israel, Israel. And the Trump intelligence chiefs could have drove a very different narrative. They could have turned those hearings on their head if they said, oh, by the way, we want to tell you about this. There's no doubt they know about it. At some point, someone in the Trump administration has to decide to take this bull by the horns and say, we're going to do this systematically. Here's what the Trump administration has at its disposal. These are facts irrefutable. They have a civil rights division of the Justice Department that's been reviewing state voter rolls. According to Harmeet Dhillon, tens of thousands of illegal aliens and noncitizens have made it onto the voter rolls. Tens of thousands. That's a big number. That's not a few. And dozens of those, at least dozens have been confirmed to vote. We just indicted one of them recently. That ought to be broken down by state and every senator should be given their data. Hey, in your state, this many noncitizens are believed to have vote and this many registered and this many are believed to vote. This is why the Save America act is important to your state and your constituents. And then come in and say, hey, your state was one of the states that was penetrated by China. Here is the raw intelligence report. You could do it in a classified setting, educate these senators to the threats that they have been willfully kept from. We know the Intelligence Committee hid this from Congress. By the way, when you ask the question, when could someone be put in handcuffs? If the intelligence community did not properly brief Congress as required by law, intelligence analysts could potentially face a criminal prosecution for not complying with that aspect of notifications to Congress. So we don't know enough to make those assessments. But those are all things that Trump could do right now, right this moment.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

But here's, and it's even at the, we're going to have the mass deportation guys on here later. It's also, you know, there's announcement or President Trump announcing or talking to staff that, you know, there were bad videos about mass deportation off it. John, I just want you to hang for a second and we may go to the wise, but hang because here's the thing. The stealing of the 2020 election and knowing that the Chinese Communist Party was in on it and was part of it and had, and knowing that the apparatus, the apparatus has known about both of these events and both of these events and particularly combined is the biggest scandal in American history. We actually put someone, we actually put someone in office at the office of the presidency. That changes the entire direction of the country. Particularly, we got 20 million illegal alien invaders here and everything else, the mess in Ukraine, the mess in Gaza, all of it. And knowing that didn't happen and that this information was suppressed, it's almost like the system, the system is saying, yeah, you may have all this, but we can't go there because if we go there in going there brings down the system. John Solomon's with us. Short commercial R. We got Bradley James from Breitbart. Explosive story on. Well, I'll let him tell it incredible story. Also, no Frisch is going to join us, all of it short. Commercial break Back in the Warm in a moment. How do you usually get your medication?

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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. This is one of the reasons we're covering the Save America act so closely, because in the next hundred days, let's just set the war aside for a second. I know you can't, but let's just set it aside for a second. In the next hundred days with this information about the war against the deep state, we're either going to see a path forward or we're not. John My belief and the reason is that this cuts to the heart, combined with Brennan and Comey and everything, this cuts to the heart of who controls this country. Do the people through a constitutional republic is set up by our founders or to some apparatus that has come about since basically, let's say the second the first or second World War that now just sees presidents as people passing through and they run the deal.

[John Solomon]

Yep.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Your investigative reporting has been we've brought the receipts. Now is are we going to actually get a hearing? I don't necessarily mean a congressional hearing, but we're actually going to be before the nation get a hearing on those receipts, sir.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, that's a great question. I will say that in the last 24 hours, Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the most powerful investigative body in the Senate, the permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He has called for the President to immediately declassify all remaining information on this and get this to the American public. That is a very powerful voice. Ron. John is very close to the President, been very supportive. He's a rational voice, a CEO sort of mentality. Just get it done. That's the first thing. I think in the next 24 to 48 hours we will learn that the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, currently chaired by Devin Nunes, will likely weigh in on this issue and look at did the Intelligence Committee put politics before country? That's a big issue. We just saw the P P have a very profound effect. Forced the CIA to retract 19 woke politicized non based intelligence assessments that were made during the Obama Biden years. That could also happen here. Having PIAB and Ron Johnson at the point on this is a very big powerful movement. Now the question is what will those in the intelligence community do? Or does the White House have to tell the intelligence community? We're taking this over. You send it to us. We will decide what to declassify. Now over the next week, I think we're going to learn some very important things. We're going to learn about some Ukraine meddling in elections, at least an attempt to meddle in the elections beyond anything we've already learned about with Hunter Biden and other things. We may learn that the FBI was tracking a major political figure for possible infiltration by China. I think we may learn about that in the next week to 10 days. So the story is going to keep building. The transparency is going to keep growing. The official arms of the Republican Party, the Senate, the House and the White House just have to grab this data, put it into a narrative and drive that narrative. If they really want to get the Save America act, that's really the opportunity here. That's up to them. They got to do the work. The facts and the evidence are all sitting at their fingertips.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

John, before I let you go, the New Republic and I'm asking my staff to pull it off my gutter. If Elizabeth could get it to my producers right here for a second. The New Republic had an article yesterday and it is brutal. It's talking about the Democrats are already working with law firms, et cetera, about our defeat in the House and the Senate this year. And then Trump's mag is eventually getting crushed in the 2028 election and what's in store for all of us. And I gave a speech a year ago and said, hey, understand these people play for keeps. It's not like the pity, Pat, you see through the Republican Party, these people play for keeps and they're going to be sending people to prison, they're going to bankrupt people. And the New Republic lays it all out. Given that, and given that he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and not a second to think is the President of the United States understand the scale of what's being laid out here that backs up the case that the deep state, from the very beginning, from the first time he became a reality on the political horizon, has had one focus and that is to stop Donald Trump, stop the MAGA movement, and ultimately to destroy Donald Trump and everybody around him. Do you think the president right now, given everything that's going on, he's got to focus on, understands the movement we've made in this effort to show how try to destroy him and that if we don't strike now, it's over.

[John Solomon]

He's got a scar in his right ear, four indictments and an extraordinary path to his second term that I think reminds him every single day what the Democrats are capable of and what they will do again if put in power. He is clearly dialed in on the things that matter and he's working on them as best I can tell. I think the real question just comes down to are the people around him loyal enough, are they focused enough, are they skilled enough to take the opportunity that's about them in the moment? If I'm a Republican, I'm very optimistic about the 2026 election. I haven't voted since I became a journalist, so I don't have any skin in the game other than covering it. But if you're a Republican, you look at what's about to happen over the horizon, you potentially, with the right strategy, could get voter ID and citizenship checks, you probably are going to win the Louisiana gerrymandering case, which will between the next two elections return 21 to 24 districts back to Republicans. You may also get a massive victory that cuts off one of the Democrats biggest advantages. If you, if the Mississippi case goes as expected and it's ruled that election day means Election Day, means you can't have ballots coming in four, five, six, seven, eight days later. Those are monumental changes to the election structure that Democrats have exploited that Republicans who now have on their side now to get that would be an incredible miracle for the Republicans, particularly in a midterm election. Then let's throw one other thing on there. If you start delivering the undelivered parts of the agenda. President Trump has delivered an awful lot. But you got election integrity still pending. You got accountability for the deep state and the weaponization and the politicization and you got to get the budget down. I mean, we're going to head towards $3 trillion deficit at the current ARC. We're going at. You tackle those three things, your base will be highly motivated to come out. Donald Trump will be on the ticket even though it's a midterm. And these changes, these structural changes to elections which will return them to the way we used to have elections back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. You can be very optimistic as a Republican, but the big ifs are the things that the people around the president have to deliver and thus far haven't gotten it. You know, the House and Senate, the leadership, they've whiffed on some big stuff. The people around the president are currently whiffing on some big stuff. Now that can change. They got a lot of things they're winning on. They got to win on these things. You can be very optimistic about the 26 election.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

John Solomon, where do we go to get all your content, the shows, the podcast, particularly your reporting, social media? Where we go.

[John Solomon]

Thank you. Yeah, just the news.com is the website. J. Solomon Reports is the handle on all social media. John Solomon Reports is the audio podcast. And then I'm lucky enough to follow you every night right here in Real America's Voice at six o' clock with the Just the News no Noise television show, which I share the stage with the amazing Amanda Head. So those are all the coordinates.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Keep fighting. Like I said, in the 100 days we're going to know they got the receipts. Is this going to be real or not? Because it is shocking. It is shocking in its detail. And what's to come is going to be even more shocking. I want to go, by the way, the White House got the camera up, so the president may come in at any moment. I'm sure he's being briefed on certain things right now about the war. So he may be running a little bit late. He's got the service academies there today, particularly the Naval Academy. Want to bring in Bradley Jaynes. Bradley, the headline of this and the reason I'm doing this and the timing is so perfect, I am going to have some people here to talk about, to talk about Lindsey Graham's political because we play Lindsey Graham's clips every day. And you know, it's almost surreal. It's like he's playing a character. And so that's one of the reasons we play it and it just drives people crazy. And we can't understand why the people in South Carolina, the good folks there that are the beating heart of maga, support this. The headline of your story over at Breitbarts, terrorist groups funded by Lindsey Graham backed usaid. Closing straight of Hormuz. Now the President has just put out, there's another report. The President's had some heated conversations with our allies about what they're really prepared to do to open the Strait of Hormuz. And I think I can say that it's basically performative and the President understands that. We're just sending now a Marine Expeditionary Unit from San Diego with another 2200 fleet Marines, combat Marines, and this is the USS Boxer, which has many more capabilities than the Tripoli. Tripoli is coming from Japan, Boxers coming from San Diego. So we are putting at least in place a capability, a capability that the Commander in Chief will have the ability to either take Cargill with an amphibious and air assault or even take some sort of beachhead or bridgehead onto the mainland of Ukraine down by Hormuz where they've got these rocket launchers and missiles and they just had a 5,000 pound bunker busting bomb overnight two nights ago. Walk me through your story because, brother, it is pretty shocking,

[Bradley James from Breitbart]

Steve. It is shocking, if not terribly surprising when you look at the long history of our intelligence and military misadventures, especially in the Middle East. But look, the same people, Lindsey Graham being the chieftain who encouraged President Trump to strike Iran, were also the same people who for decades have been funding so many of these groups in the Middle east who are now siding with Iran. It's truly remarkable the way this has unfolded. There have been millions of dollars that have come from American taxpayers and ended up in the coffers of Hamas, most of it through USAID. Lindsey Graham, going back to 15 years and more, has been the largest, the greatest champion, self proclaimed champion of USAID in the Republican Party. That money ended up in terror groups that were in this Iranian terror network. And now they are responsible or certainly contributing to closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is causing trouble not just for those same American taxpayers who were funding Hamas, but all over the globe. It's remarkable the way this has unfolded. And again, it also, I think this is important. It raises questions on the status, the capabilities of the President's advisors in the Republican Party. And it sends a very strong message that Republicans have a long way to go until they get the kind of elected representation that they need in Washington. Because a lot of it does not have President Trump's best interest at heart and not the American people's either.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Well, it's just not the. This has been going on for a while. It's just not the Trumps and even maga. It's like, what in the hell are we doing here? USAID is presented when Marco and even Elon and the Doge guys, but then Russ Fode over at OMB and Marco, when they started talking about usaid. These programs don't work. This has been a slush fund. Now we find out the money's been used to suppress conservative voices, right wing voices. They've been suppressed. People that are anti globalist has been used in Ukraine. It's a slush fund for the CIA and paramilitary activity. And I want to be specific here, Lindsey. I mean, it's almost like Lindsey Graham thinks this is like Charlie Wilson's war. And I know that was done. The book is much more serious than the movie. The movie's done as kind of a tongue in cheek, like maybe black comedy. There was nothing funny about what Charlie Wilson was doing. And for some of the good he did, and definitely there was some good there. The damage was also quite, you know, the blowback and what happened there was quite serious. And this is what is very analogous. You get these guys that think they're Lawrence of Arabia, right? Which is really Lindsey Graham. And, you know, they were all over the map. He's talking about, you know, perpetuity, defense agreements with Saudi Arabia. But now you see him here and he's really building a guerrilla army or paramilitary throughout the world. But particularly here, that now turns out, if we have to do. Which is currently in the plan, they're trying to plan on either a physical assault on Kharg island. And to do that, maybe get some sort of beachhead or bridgehead up on the shores of Iran down by the Straits of Hormuz. And I will tell you, that place is like the surface of the moon. And the people down there are like the Houthis in Yemen. They're bad, right? And now turns out that you're reporting, we find out we've actually been for that. We've been financing this the entire time. And the American people sitting there were, hang on for a second. I've got these young Marine men and women, these kids going over there. And it turns out that this whole mess. And I think this is why the people are so disgusted by the whole thing, because it's always hide the football, right? You never really know who's on what side, who's paying for what? And I think taxpayers are sitting there going, I'm just getting a $200 billion bill in addition to a $1.2 trillion, you know, defense budget. I get a $200 billion butcher's bill here. And now I'm finding out that we're financing the bad guys. Bradley, hang around. Bradley James from Brightblock on this.

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