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Episode 5421: Todd Blanche Set To Be Attorney General; Taking Down The SPLC
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I don't believe he's ever had a security clearance. He clearly has no experience in intelligence. He has no geopolitical experience, no international connections. The sorts of things you would look for. Whoever told the president to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it should lose their jobs because they should know that the math just works against palty being confirmed.
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Someone could have told the President that.
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A
What's that?
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Someone could have told the President that and it still happened.
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That may be true, but then it's on the president.
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Senator, forgive me because I did demote you to the lower chamber before I teed up that sound. But in addition to hearing from.
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He did.
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He didn't even plant a Lisa.
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He took it with grace.
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I'm a proud former House member as
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well, so I take it all past and present. I thought that was interesting. I thought what we heard in a statement from Senator McConnell was notable. The Senator saying very few Senate confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. Anyone performing this role of such immense public TR must have the extensive national security experience required by statute. And no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote. The sense we've been getting, Senator, talking with your colleagues, is that the expectation is that this president knows that he doesn't have the votes in the Senate and is just going to from now on have acting heads of a variety of agencies. I wonder both if you agree with that analysis and if that is the case to your point about checks and balances, where that leaves the U.S. senate in acting as a check on this president.
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Yeah, it is. It is a problem that you put in, basically, an acting director here. They can serve for a little over 200 days and then you have to have a Senate confirmation. But there's a way to get around that, too. The rule is then if he were to nominate somebody that is then going through the process, basically Mr. Pulte could stay in that job and who knows, he could put somebody up there that there's no way the Senate's going to take up, but because there's a nominee forward under the, under the rules, he can stay there. And I certainly, you know, I appreciate Senator Tillis comments. This is a guy who has absolutely zero experience in one of the most important jobs that we have in the federal government at a time when we're in war and we're facing threats, terrorist threats that are very real. You expect to have an intelligence director who actually understands the job, has experience in the job, and can provide unbiased, qualified opinions and recommendations of The President. You're not getting that. And unfortunately, this, this appointment to this acting really follows the pattern of what we've seen from this president, that he doesn't care about qualifications, he doesn't care about experience. The only thing he cares about is loyalty. Are you going to be 100% loyal to him? And that's not in the American interest. To have somebody in this key position, Director of Intelligence, that needs to provide the kind of insight and expertise that a president needs to make sound decisions that protect us and keep us safe, to have an unqualified person, let's be clear, it makes America less safe and it puts people at risk in our
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country, like a new record. I think in terms of being out there, this is a guy who has zero or less than zero, if you can, intelligence experience. Does he have a security clearance knowing absolutely Nothing about this? 18 intelligence agencies? How long will it take him just to, you know, to know what he's in charge of, to get some idea of what he's in charge of, let alone get up to speed? And it's not as if there's nothing going on in the world. So if we actually need to have this job, someone coordinating the agencies, which some people thought we didn't need, but if we need to have it, we need to have somebody who can act, who can make our agencies better and more efficient and more effective. And clearly that's not Bill Pulte. It's just not an app.
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It's also a reminder that they are going to pursue an all of the above approach. They are going to mess with maps. They're going to try to seek information on voters from specific states. There has been all of these references to ICE showing up in polling places. And that is why it is interesting to me, Michael, that you had Senate Dems convening this meeting. And I just. If I could ask you for a second to put on your chairman hat your thoughts on that happening through Senate leadership rather than happening through the National Committee.
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Look, I mean, I think it's important that the Senate leadership is already looking at legislatively what they can do and getting, getting lawyers and those who are going to be a part of efforting a reconstruction of the deconstruction of voting rights in this country. And so I think it's important to take it out of the politics from that standpoint and to begin to frame it legislatively, because that's really what's going to have to happen here, is the course correction is going to be legislative action at all levels of our government. In all expanses and areas of our government. It's not just in this sweet spot of voting rights, but you've got abortion, you've got other civil rights out there that are going to be that are under duress, not to mention just general operation of the government. So it's good to have it legislatively start.
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And the people who are fighting against this know that, which is why they're trying to keep that legislative option from coming down by trying to steal this next election. Be vigilant folks.
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That comes as president. Trump is expected in the coming days to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanch to serve in the role permanently. That is according to a senior administration official speaking to Ms. Now. In April, Trump appointed Blanch, his former personal attorn attorney, to lead the DOJ in an acting capacity after firing then Attorney General Pam Bondi. Blanche, as I said, previously served as the personal attorney to the President. Here's what Trump said yesterday during an interview with the New York Post.
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Will he be attorney general or have you decided?
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I think you will.
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You haven't got someone else in mind? No, not wrong.
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I wanted to see how he's received. You know we put him as acting and he's done a very good job.
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Blanche's nomination to be attorney general, two senior administration officials told Ms. Now has the same Blanche has developed good relationships with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. That might help to allay some confirmation issues he inevitably will face. Ultimately, they said his confirmation may hinge on whether or not that so called anti weaponization fund is actually dropped.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people's not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it. It's to going going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media I wish in my soul I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band Foreign. June in the year of our Lord 2026. Of course it is. The Tiananmen Square happened. I kicked off the new federal states annual commemoration of this last night at about 7 o' clock which would be dawn or just about dawn in Beijing. We'll talk more about that later in the show. Just some pattern recognition. President Trump is now, I think, selecting individuals that he has faith in that are going to be fighters in this whole thing with the United States Senate. Just so you can connect some dots, I think there's a poll out last couple of days shows Collins down 6 to 8 in Maine. I think there's a poll out with our saw numbers. They may still be private. Watley down 8 in North Carolina. And then there's a poll just came up that shows Sherrod Brown up eight in Ohio. I'm noticing some pattern recognition. A do nothing Senate, a Senate that blocks President Trump's agenda is not going to come, is not going to be real. People are not going to go door to door for this. It's just not going to happen. You're seeing the numbers now and these are big deficits to make up, given that we're in June. And so we have to turn now to action, action, action. Want to bring in Mike Davis. Mike, you know Todd Blanche quite well. I think it's incredible selection for, for the president to be the permanent Attorney General. Todd has really revved things up over there and is kind of hitting on all cylinders. Give me your assessment of, I want your assessment of him first. And I want to talk about the confirmation battle. So tell us about Todd Blanche.
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Todd Blanche is a bold and fearless warrior for the Constitution. Todd Blanch put every thing on the line to defend President Trump against the Democrats unprecedented republic ending lawfare against President Trump. Todd Blanche was in the courtrooms, in several courtrooms, defending President Trump against bogus charges, completely bogus charges. He gave up. He was a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then Todd Blanche was at big white shoe law firms and he gave that up to go defend President Trump. And I don't think people understand the legal, political, financial risks that Todd took to go do that. And then he has done a phenomenal job as President Trump's deputy attorney general and now acting attorney general. He, more than anyone, has seen it from all sides. He's seen this as a federal prosecutor, he's seen this as a defense attorney. He has seen this as the top leader in the Justice Department. When you're the deputy attorney general, you're the number two. You're the chief operating officer of the entire department. You run the department. And now he's doing both. He's the deputy attorney general and the acting attorney general. Because President Trump Likes to give people six jobs, as Marco learned the hard way.
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Because that's. Yeah, but that's as. Because that's what he trusts people. People say, well, he wasn't mag. He was a Democrat. Hey, a guy named Donald Trump was a Democrat. Okay, Todd Blanche. But when you. And because he went back to the law firm and said, and this is in the darkest days, folks, when Boris was trying to put together a team, Emil Bovey and Todd, they went back, Todd went to his law firm, a white shoe law firm, he was a partner, and said, hey, look, I'm gonna represent the President United States. And they go, no, you have to leave the firm. 99.9% of people that have spent years as federal prosecutor not making any money and live in these cities like Washington, D.C. and New York City, you don't make any money. You've been a federal prosecutor for a while. You finally get to a law firm, you're finally making some money after all the years of law school and all of it. And they tell him, no, you're not. You can't represent Trump and be at this firm. He says, okay, I'm not going to be at this firm. And remember, folks, in those days, these were the long shots of the long shot. There was no talk in the media about Trump coming back and being president again. There was no talk in the Republican Party. All the people that have sucked up to Trump in the last couple of years were all against us. Todd Blanche proved his courage and proved he's full maga. A lot more MAGA than a lot of people that run around say they're maga. Okay, Mark Tel Aviv, Levin. This guy gave it all up to defend. And what they had to do, Mike, as you know, those years, because you were part of helping out here, they had to weave in. I mean, one, one mistake, and it's all over. President Trump's in the White House today because of Todd Blanche and Emil Bovey. And that great job of Boris, put together that team when everybody in the world turned us down, sir.
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That's exactly right. Boris Epstein, John Sauer, the Solicitor General of the United States, Todd Blanche, who's going to be the Attorney General of the United States. Email Bovey, who's now a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. I hope John Sauer and Emil Bovey both go on the Supreme Court of the United States along with Eileen Cannon and maybe some others, but amen. These people put everything on the line to save our country. And we've talked about this on your show. So many times since the Mar A Lago raid. Steve this was so much bigger than Donald J. Trump. This was so much bigger than one president, one former president, one election. These were republic ending tactics by these lawfare Democrats. They were going to for the first time in our history, throw in prison a former President of the United States. And they didn't do it just once. They tried to do it four different times for non crimes. They tried to bankrupt him, they tried to throw him off the ballot. When that all failed, they tried to take off his head and then when the American people put him back in the White House, they tried to sabotage his presidency with their Democrat plaintiffs and their Democrat attorneys going to their Democrat judges and Democrat hellholes like dc, New York, Atlanta. It's been Todd Blanche as the tip of the spear against all of this. So I don't want to hear anyone say, oh, he's a Democrat, who gives a damn. I saw so many Republicans were such cowards.
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Anybody says he's not maga? Anybody says he's not maga. All these influencers. Where in the hell were you? What did you guys get?
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Give up.
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Todd Blanch has been a warrior in the trenches. President Trump knows that. That's what put him as acting now. Now we're going to have to push it over the top to get it done. And President Trump understands they're still going to come after everybody. If we're to lose some of these elections, David's going to stick around. Short Commercial break Back in a moment. For the first time since World War II, our national debt held by the public, has exceeded GDP. America, this is a wake up call. Our sins of the past reckless government spending have finally caught up to us. So what's next? Higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses and higher interest payments on the national debt? Every dollar Washington spends on interest is a dollar it has to tax, borrow or print. Smart retirement planners prepare for potential setbacks and they can do that by diversifying with a time tested asset known for weathering the storm, that is physical gold. Now, physical gold you can get from my trusted friends at Birchgold Group. Text the word Bannon B A N N O N to the number 989-898 and Birchgold will send you a free info kit on converting an existing Iraq or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA. In physical gold, you don't pull the ripcord on your parachute once you've already hit the ground. Don't wait for economic turbulence to diversify. Text Bannon to the number 989-898. Again, text Bannon to 989-898. Own some gold and own it from Birchgold War room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Mike, are you gonna. Are you, you, you. I made your acquaintance because you're the Sherpa. You did all the big confirmations in the first term. They go to Mike Davis when they got a tough one. Are you going, not that Todd Blanche is going to be tough, but are you going to be the Sherpa? Are you going to, are you going to manage the confirmation of Todd Blanche? Can I break some news here?
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No.
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And I don't want to torpedo his nomination by having someone as charming as myself doing the outreach to squishy Republican senators. So now I don't think that I didn't finish charm school, so I don't think I'll be doing that.
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Let me just. They just asked a question about Thune. Thune said the committee, Judiciary Committee is going to take it up. They asked Thune point blank, will Blanche have a hard time getting confirmed? This is Thune. This is a profile in courage. Thune. Hard to say. Most of our members are pretty deferential to who the president wants and some in some of these key positions. He's obviously serving the role already and clearly has experience in it, so that'll serve him well. But this is an environment where nothing is, nothing's a safe or sure bet these days. This is how you lose the United States Senate. If you're not turfing out Thune right now, tell, hey, you're eight down in Ohio, you're eight down in Maine, you're eight down in in North Carolina. You should win all three of those. That's all MAGA country. You're down in Georgia, you're down every. We're going to kick Alaska and Kansas and others in here and Iowa. They're all going to get thrown in there because is a response like that acceptable? Mike Davis?
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Jon Thune is such a pussy, and he just proved it with that statement. There is no question that Todd Blanche is qualified. There's no question that Todd Blanche will get confirmed because Chuck Grassley, my former boss, will make damn sure it happens. John Thune can't even get the Senate to pass legislation with the support of 80% of Americans, including a super majority of Democrats and a super majority of minority the Save America Act. John Thune's a pussy.
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Closing. Give me some thoughts on Pulte. The Pulte, you know, all the senators saying, well, he doesn't have Qualification doesn't know anything about intelligence. These guys, are they like, are they like Alan Dulles, John Foster Dulles, or all these guys, are they Wild Bill Donovan, that these guys all come with tremendous expertise? You know them. Davis, I don't know how in the hell you worked in the Senate for so long and came out such a warrior, sir.
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Well, I was only there for 18 months and I broke every piece of China in the Senate and left. And I can assure you I'm not on the Senate Staff hall of Fame. My picture may be on their walls, maybe on their dartboards, but I'm certainly not in the Senate hall of Fame. I got a lot of stuff done and I had to deal with these senators. And it's amazing to me when these senators, if you look at their backgrounds and they pretend like they are somehow qualified to get intelligence briefings and make decisions on our national security, they're somehow qualified, but others are not. Let me say this about Bill Pulte. This guy is someone who has been a very successful businessman from a very successful residential home, home building family for many years in Florida. The President likes him, The President trusts him. He's a good executive. He's a bold and fearless reformer. President Trump put in Bill Pulte to go shake up things at the, at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There's a, there's a corporate entity that runs that. The. Bill Pulte runs that now. And now President Trump wants Bill Pulte to go serve as the acting Director of National Intelligence, to go shake up the place. I like the fact that Bill Pulte is not part of the intelligence community. He's not part of the military industrial complex. He's not James Clapper, for example, who had a career in the military and intel and then was able to weaponize the DNI against political enemies. Bill Pulte can go in there as a serious bold reformer to shake up the politicized and weaponized intel agencies. And that's exactly what he's going to do in these Senate Republicans should allow the President to pick his own people to do this. He doesn't pick their dog crap Senate staffers. And so they should let the President pick his trusted aides to help him carry out his electoral mandate to bring serious reforms to a politicized and weaponized intel community that's led by the DNA. Bill Pulte is over the targets when you hear these cowardly Senate Republicans crying about it.
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Mike, article three. You're going to lead the effort here, particularly on Todd Blanche, where Do people go right now, sir, to get more information, all this and follow your social media.
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We will fight like hell at the Article 3 project to ensure that Todd Blanch is our next attorney general. And if any Senate Republican gets in the way, we will make their lives hell. And I promise you that. Promise you that. It's article number three project.org article number three project.org you can follow us on social donates, but only what you can afford. When the president makes the official announcement, you will see a FOX News opinion piece from me supporting Todd Blanche's nomination to be the next attorney general. And you will see an action page to light up both of your home state. But we don't want to get ahead of the president. So stay tuned.
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Thank you, Mike Davis. Appreciate you, sir. Appreciate your taking the, taking the lead on Todd Blanche. The worm's going to be all over this. I'll have more about this. I got Metaxas. Eric Metaxas joins us. The books revolution, folks. If we do our job here, this book's gonna open its New York Times number one bestseller and that will send shockwaves through the, through the progressive culture in this country. This book is absolutely the best summary of the revolution I've ever read. And I read it all, 600 pages in a weekend. I devoured this book. It was that good. Metaxas, you only got a couple of minutes to know. You got to bounce, make the pitch. Why should people, with everything else going on, why should they take time to not just purchase this book today but to get into it and start reading this book before the Fourth of July?
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Well, first of all, thanks for having me on, Steve. And I gotta say, you know, it's not about selling books, God forbid. Right? This is about saving our nation. Right? So first of all, if a book like this is at the top of the New York Times list, you got to make it too big to rig. They don't want to put a book like this at the top of the list. And maybe they won't. Jill Biden's book might be there. So I ask your audience, if you don't mind, if you're going to buy a Father's Day copy or something, please buy it immediately because this actually matters. But the story in this book is a story that I had no idea when I set out to tell the story that it would be as significant as it is. I said I want to tell you, you know, just, and thanks for your praise of the readability. Just a gallop through the amazing story of stories and Lexington and Concord and the. The shot heard around the world and Bunker Hill. There's all these amazing stories. We should all know the stories. But in the course of writing it, the character of the men involved in this and what they were actually doing, it just kind of hit me like a Mack truck. I was stunned. I said, I. I've not heard this. We've been. We've been sold this lie. The secularist enlightenment, you know, Deist version, total nonsense. This was profoundly Christian. It's inescapably Christian. And of course, what's at the heart of Christian faith? Religious liberty. So Christians don't force other people to convert to their religion, unlike some religions might do. It's. It's all about liberty. But what is the nature of liberty? It is profoundly about God's definition of liberty. The founders understood this, and they wanted to go back to the Sinai covenant. They wanted to be without a king, governing ourselves. How come I've never heard this? How come most Americans don't hear this? How come PBS doesn't mention this? For that matter, how come PBS doesn't mention Nathan Hale and all of these great heroes who were profound men of Christian faith? And again, this is not about, you know, Christian faith, but it's about America. But why haven't we heard this version of it? Because there are some people, they don't like it, and so they push the secular Enlightenment narrative. And again, my book is not about, you know, what I've just mentioned. My book is just a gallop through the history, but behind it is something so beautiful and sacred, the faith of George Washington. Anybody ever calls him a deist, laugh at them. It's like saying, I believe the earth is flat. It is insane. So all of this is our story. We've forgotten our story. And again, people listen to this program far less guilty of that. But I myself was amazed at what I had forgotten. I said, I want to write one book for the 250th, because this is the last exit before the toll. This is the existential crisis. America. We either get it now, we either save the nation, or it's gone forever. This is our moment. And I think the 250th is an example. It's a moment where many mainstream people are gonna revisit American history. I hope they do it with my book to get the true version. But the fact of the matter is, every American used to know this stuff. It's why we were a great country. If you want to make America great again, everyone has to know the true story of who we were and how these people suffered and for what they suffered and how they saw it as a moral and spiritual battle. How Washington was strict with his officers, that you will not cede the moral high ground. We're not going to stoop to the barbarism of the British elites who were monsters. I didn't know the British elites were monsters. And that's all through my book. It's a true story. It's a battle between good and evil. I honestly did not know that. And when I learn these things, I just kind of go crazy. I just think I've got to put it in a book. I've got to make it exciting and then I've got to tell the world about it. But this is about America. And you know what? It is my prayer and hope that people around the world, including in England today, would become part of this larger revolution to govern themselves, to take back their governments. Because this isn't just meant for us on this continent, the whole world. This is meant for the whole world. And I think that people are looking at us today like a shining city on a hill and saying, how can we get that? We've had enough of this nonsense. So I hope that's happening in Great Britain as we know.
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You get the strategy, you get the combat history, you get the philosophy, you get all the politics, all of it, the economics. We got 30 seconds. Where do people go to get the book today and where they go to find out where you're going to speak or do book signings.
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My name is Eric Metaxas. Ericmataxas.com I'm going to be all over the country, starting in Houston this weekend. I'm going everywhere. Eric metaxas.com buy this book. Please buy copies for Father's Day. If you're going to buy any copies, please buy them now. The opening weekend. It makes every bit of difference. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you, Steve, for your support because you're a hero to me. Thank you for very much.
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Thank you, Eric. Appreciate the kind words. But it's this audience, the army of the awakened. Consider this one of your training manuals. How about that? We got a lot of wood to chop this morning and we're going to chop it all. Stick around. You're in the war room. Do you owe back taxes or you haven't filed your taxes in years? Now is the time to resolve your tax matters. With the national conversation around abolishing the income tax, the IRS is fighting back and proving it's here to Stay by becoming more aggressive than ever before. They're sending out more collection notices, filing more tax liens and collecting billions more in recent years. If you owe, the IRS can garnish your wages, levy your bank accounts, seize your retirement and even your home if you owe or haven't filed. It's not a question of if the IRS will act, it's a question of when it will act. 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We're going to talk about capital markets are also going to talk about employment and what is happening in employment particularly with foreign workers versus American workers. Birch Gold now more than ever. You saw the Mac Daddy on Drudge the last couple of days about as we reported and broke you the story broke the story to you in October. Right? We told you it was going to happen last June July at the Rio Reset where we sent the team from. Birch Gold. Philip Patrick and the team went down. Yeah, just hold that right now for a few minutes. Can we get that back up? Thank you. People need to see my lovely facage Central banks. It's now official. Central banks buying more physical gold than they're buying US Treasuries. Scott Besson. Scott too. And Scott's over at Ways and Means right now. We're going to try to pull some clips from that. Also we're streaming the markup of the NDAA. We're going to get all over this section 224. This where the merging of the industrial basis of Israel and the United States can happen. Don't do with the British, don't do with NATO. We shouldn't do it with Taiwan. We shouldn't do with anybody. Okay? There's no ally that close to us that we should do it. And the Israel first, Greater Israel are not allies and President Trump's already blunt about that the last couple of days. So we got to get that out of the NDA because this is a backdoor way. They're trying to get rid of this memorandum of understanding which we also have to kill. And we got to put NATO on notice. President Trump's going over to the G7 and to the NATO meeting. I think NATO is in Turkey and you got to put these guys on notice. They're not giving us any help whatsoever in the straight or Hormuz and not giving us any help in the Red Sea. The president did come out and say he does not intend, doesn't think there's going to be any more big uptick in kinetic activity. So that's quite, quite important. What does this all mean? It all means we got to get our arms around the deficits. The plan was to grow ourselves out of this. We're going to grow ourselves out of it. At some point you got to cap spending. I think that's got to start with obviously these social programs and all the fraud. You got to get all of that out of there. And we, we're burning daylight. It has to happen. But in addition, I'm not so sure you can go to a $1.5 trillion defense budget. We have to go through that line by line and we do have to start to rebuild the United States Navy. So all of that's got to be factored in their Scots and ways means today and we'll be doing highlights of that. Birchgold.com Bannon ended the dollar empire go. But most importantly, get to Philip Patrick and team and ask them the question flat out why are now this reported everywhere Daily Telegraphs done these huge stories about it. Now this reported everywhere that central banks throughout the world are buying gold instead of to to at a greater extent than US Securities. What does that all mean? What does it mean for me? What does it mean for gold? What does it mean for geoeconomics? How should I think about that? We want people to be informed, smart. In fact, that's if you buy revolution and you carry it around, people will think you're smart because this is not it's a 600 page history of the revolution. If you carried around, they'll think you're smart. If you actually read it and take your pen out and mark it up and think about it. You're going to be smart. How about that? Would that be a great gift for yourself, for the revolution, for the, for the honoring the revolutionary generation? John Bolton, flash just coming across cnn. John Bolton is going to plead guilty to a felony charge for holding classified. I don't think there's anything yet about what the penalty is going to be, but this is more the Todd Blanche trying to sort this mess out. Also, Tyler o' Neill joins the Southern Poverty Law Center. Todd Blanche in the Justice Department. So what did they do last night? Tyler, you're our expert in this because you have covered this extensively for years. What happened last night? Todd Blanche and the Justice Department refiled a new what, a new charging document?
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Yeah, this was Tuesday night. There's a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. This fleshes out a lot of the government's claims and reveals a lot of things that are even more shocking than we saw in the first indictment. So in the first indictment, we saw that one of the organizers of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was on the SPLC payroll. Now we know the SPLC had reimbursed people for cross burning materials for KKK hoods and KKK robes and particularly and there's the whole list, creating racist paraphernalia, donating to extremist leaders, paying living expenses, creating new chapters of extremist groups and then growing existing ones and of course, attending and hosting extremist rallies. This is what the SPLC's so called their field, the SPLC's money to do. And this just underscores how large of a scandal this is that the Southern Poverty Law center, while it went to donors and said we exist to dismantle white supremacy and hate in America, we're trying to dismantle these groups. In the meantime, it was paying people that the SPLC says are informants.
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But hang on. But then that money actually propped up. Hang on, hang on, hang on. How does Todd Blanche's Justice Department and yourself as an outside kind of investigative reporter on this? We've been bombarded since your first appearance on the show talking about your book and these charges. And Todd, in more, you know, discussion about these charges by the mainstream media, particularly New York Times, Washington Post and msnbc, just completely coming at us in a tidal wave that, my gosh, this is just how they do investigations. This is purely investigations. This is the right, the crazed right wing taking what this organization does to stop hate and to do in a very systematic way. They're taking what their actual strength is and it's turning it against them. And it's not just unfair, it's unjust. And it shows you how craven the far right is, sir.
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G
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the left's narrative on this, they have consistently said from almost the beginning. You know, I testified before Congress last December on the splc and at the time, you know, the Congressional Black Caucus and many left leaning activist groups said that criticizing the Southern poverty laws and this was before any indictment, that criticizing the SPLC was attacking civil society. And so now we see, you know, they've been saying that after this indictment comes out that this is an attack on civil society. I'm sorry. There are few organizations in America that pose a threat to civil society worse than the Southern Poverty Law Center. I mean, the SPLC puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on a map with chapters of the KKK saying that this is the infrastructure upholding white supremacy in America. And deranged people have used that map to carry out an attempted mass shooting. After the SPLC put Turning Point USA on the map, a man went out and allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk, aiming to, as prosecutors say, silence his hate. That doesn't prove that the SPLC caused that attack or inspired it and the SPLC condemned it. But over and over again we have this repeating cycle where the SPLC will demonize someone on the right and then there will be violence against that person and then the SPLC will refuse to take that person off of the hate map. And over and over again we see the SPLC going to big tech, going to social media, going to banks, the saying that people need to debank de platform delist any conservative group that is on this hate map. And of course the hate map does include real hateful organizations that are very small and tend not to have an impact politically. Groups like Adam Waffen Division where members have been convicted in court of planning violence attacks.
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B
Yes, but these are all that's all marginalia. And we now know that they're propping them up to try to make them bigger than they actually are. America's not a hateful country. There's very little hate. The hate comes from the progressive left. The hate comes from the Red Green alliance that hates this country and the secret police force and secret police information center for this is a Southern poverty law center. Now tell me how the superseding indictment addresses this specific concern that. Oh, it's just not them doing their investigative work. The superseding indictment tells me what.
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G
Yeah, so the superseding indictment shows that an SPLC employee who is actually supervising one of these so called informants, you know, who is part of the neo Nazi group National Alliance. The SPLC employee was in a romantic relationship with this person and they shared bank accounts. So when the SPLC paid this so called confidential informant, that money then was spent by the SPLC employee to furnish their supplies, their living expenses for the couple together. And so, you know, the level of connection here we have someone who, at the splc, an employee is literally in bed with a neo Nazi or at least someone who is paid to stay in neo Nazi groups. Meanwhile, we had multiple people, there are at least three individuals who were involved with the kkk, went to the SPLC asking the SPLC for help to leave the kkk. And then the SPLC gave them money and said, no, you need to stay in the KKK and work on our behalf in these organizations. Then that money was directed to things like cross burning materials and things like KKK hoods and, and enabled these groups. I mean, one of these people who wanted to leave the KKK and then was convinced by the SPLC to remain in the KKK later became a leader of a KKK group. And so when it comes to the overall claim, I mean, the indictment says the SPLC used donor money, which donors gave to the SPLC to combat hate. The SPLC used that money to prop up the very hate that it claims it exists to oppose. So we're talking here about a firefighter who greenlights, who moonlights as an arsonist. We're talking about an exterminator who's planting rats in people's houses to justify his own job. That's what is happening with the SPLC according to this indictment. And you know what I've heard over and over again, you know, people have said that this is normal. I'm sorry, none of this looks normal to me. I talked to an expert who had been following the history of Jewish groups that had been paying informants decades ago. And he said that nowhere did one of these Jewish groups ever promote and trumpet the fact, you know, one of their informants never did the Jewish groups go about and say, oh, this person who. And the group's not revealing that it's an informant. This person proves that hate is on the march and you need to give us money. This is such a duplicitous move that the SPLC has done because they go online and they release this extremist profile. And little does anybody know who sees this profile, this person that the SPLC is parading is a dangerous extremist that you need to give to the SPLC so we can combat this person. That very same person is on the SPLC's payroll. I mean the so when the left comes out and says this is normal.
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B
Hang on, I want to just hold that. I want to hold that for. We're going to take a short commercial break. Then I want to continue this. Particularly I think they're guilty also of hate crimes, as the engine room tells me. Patriot Mobile all the success down in Texas and the success down in Texas, obviously just a start, but there's a lot of it. 972 Patriot comes from a Christian company with Christian values that support causes that are important to you. Also, it happens to be, oh, by the way, the best phone service in the world. Go check it out. 972 Patriot call today. Talk to someone with an East Texas accent that'll give you all the inside baseball. Also, you say you're from Warren Posse and guess what? You get a free month free when you make the switch. Short commercial break Back with Tyler o' Neill in the war room in a moment. Fellow patriots, the Federal Reserve has portrayed America for over a century, printing fiat, inflating away your savings, serving globalist masters. But President Trump is ending it. President Trump is wielding a 112 year old law to reclaim control from the rogue Federal Reserve. He's replacing Jerome Powell, slashing rates, igniting America's re industrialization. Now this is not theory. Government backed industry plus low rates unleashes super cycles. History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. Miners are up over 400% in the last year. What Rickards is calling Trump's gift is wealth for American patriots, not global handouts. Now it's America's turn. Jim Rickards, former CIA and Pentagon veteran says act now go to insider2026.com that is insider2026.com to get Jim Rickards strategic intelligence newsletter today. Strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics. It's what chairman and CEO throughout the world read and you should too. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, we got all the sponsors coming in now for special offers for the Warren Posse to give you access to things to make you get you up the learning curve. Let's say that free. Take number two prince a lot and go free. No obligation. You get a test run. It's like President Trump putting Todd as he said it putting putting Todd up as acting ag and test market. See how it goes. Run it up the flagpole and see if Anybody salutes? Well enough people saluted. The Todd's now going to be put in to be confirmed and he will get confirmed as attorney general is what he's doing with Pulte right now. Putting Pulte in his acting. See how that turns out. Chapter, it's a data company, not a healthcare company. Made created by data experts because the Medicare system is mind numbingly complicated on purpose. There's a hundred billion dollars of fees out there they're scrambling for. Make sure you don't get devoured by that and get someone to put you in a wrong plan. Chapter will give you a total free consultation. Eight four five War Room. That's your direct line. A special hotline just for the Warren posse. And already thousands of your compatriots have taken us up on this and gotten a free no obligation consultation. What do you got to lose? A little time. But taking the Medicare thing takes a lot of time and it makes your brain hurt. It's like a. It's like a ice cream brain freeze. Lisa makes mine hurt. 8:4 5 War Room. Go check it out today. Talk to the folks over at Chapter. Get your free no obligation consultation on what alternatives are available for you for your Medicare. So Tyler, the engine room's bugging me saying hey, look what Tyler's laying out. Aren't they instigating hate? Because what they do is they put you on the hate map, you know, War room, Charlie Kirk. Then they goad it and then when Charlie Kirk gets assassinated, they're oh well, you know, we're so sorry. With thoughts and prayers with Charlie Kirk's wife. Screw you, Southern Poverty Law Center. You're one of the reasons he was assassinated. Let me be blunt. And I hope that, I hope the Great Scott Bessant. What I haven't seen yet is NGOs and these donors that give to them. They're just the people that $800 million. Think about it. They're sitting on $800 million. We got all these not for profits on the right that are living hand to mouth. They have $800 million. Every person that gave them a penny ought to be investigated because they're part of the problem. I think they ought to be charged because everybody knew what the scam was. This is like. This is like the information department of the Gestapo. Tyler o', Neill, are there hate crimes here? Can they be prosecuted? Is Todd Blanche got a lot more that's going to come on this and a lot longer. A lot farther to go to really put this thing out of business and to Send these perps to prison.
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G
Well, I'm not sure about hate crimes. What I do know is that hate crimes require an underlying criminal act and then a bias that shows that people engaged in the activity in order to attack people of a certain race or of a certain identity. And so what we see here is, and the indictment constantly claims that we have a scheme to prop up hate, and that leads to people having more bias against. And, of course, this is the downstream effect. So the criminal act here that's being alleged is a few steps higher up. And then if you look at the downstream effects, you have the SPLC engaging in this routine defamation against conservatives. And I think. I mean, there are defamation cases that are still working their way through the courts. We have to see where they end up. But some of them are very strong. That said, we have the answer to your question about bankrupting them, about weakening their money. The train, the gravy train for the splc. The answer, actually, there is in this superseding indictment where they're going for forfeiture of funds that were secured through this scheme or artifice if the SPLC is convicted of this behavior. So a lot of people have been noting that there aren't specific names of specific individuals in the indictment that nobody has been arrested as of yet. But I think what we're looking at here is an attempt to prevent the SPLC's propping up of hate, to stop this scheme and artifice, and then to say that if they are engaging in this scam to raise their money, then that money can be forfeited to the US Government. And that's what we're seeing in this superseding indictment. I think the SPLC is gonna fight very hard against that. But when we're talking about a scheme to defraud donors and lie systematically in the way that they raise money, that's very powerful charges. And some of these charges, I think, are very clear in black and white, particularly the bank fraud charges, where we have clearly misstatement, you know, false statements to a bank that say one thing, and then statements that say the exact opposite a few years later. I mean, this is a very damning indictment for the splc. And I know our friends on the other side of the aisle want to continually make light of this shocking, damning scandal. But if you read this indictment, you can't come away with the idea that this is normal activity. I mean, it's astonishing.
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B
Tyler, you're doing the best job of keeping up to date with this. Where do people go for your writings? On this because there's going to be a lot more coming out of the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney's Office on this. And you're going to see perp walks, you're going to see arrests, you're going to see people that have been funding this, they're going for a kill shot here. And this is why the left's going crazy. So where do people go to follow you, sir, in your reportage?
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G
Yeah. Thank you. I'm most active on X Tyler 2, the number 2 O'. Neill. I'm also on Truth Social and a few other platforms. You can follow me also on the daily Signals channels and also dailysignal.com My particular book on the Southern Poverty Law center was Originally published in 2020, but I have an updated edition that came out last month that has a new chapter bringing people up to speed. You know, in 2020 there was already so much corruption in this organization and you know, I had to get, I had to get an update because it's just jaw dropping everything that this organization has done and the fact that anyone considers this a reliable, you know, outlet for hate.
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B
But I want the pale, okay? People could have gone after this forever. Anything associated with it, the Senate, the House should have shut down, should be all over these groups associated. These are the drivers of hate in this country and the drivers of things like the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Tyler, thank you so much, sir. Appreciate you stick around. E.J. and Tony went through his own confirmation fight. Why was that? Why the Senate roll over on him? Let me think. He's maga. He believes in MAGA economics. He supported President Trump. Oh, I got it. I got it. I got. That's not acceptable to John Thune in the United States Senate. All next in the world. This year marks a critical moment for our country as the opposition grows more aggressive and more unapologetic. The fight now reaches into the everyday decisions we make. Patriot Mobile has standing on. Has been standing on the front lines fighting for freedom for more than 12 years. They just don't deliver top tier wireless service. They are activists like me and like you in the war and posse who truly care about this republic and saving our country. Patriot Mobile office prioritized premium access on all three major US networks giving you the same or better coverage than the main carriers themselves. That means fast speeds and dependable nationwide coverage backed by 100% US based customer service. They also offer unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming and more. With a simple seamless activation you can switch in minutes, keep your number keep your phone or upgrade. And here's the difference. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, you'll be part of a powerful stream of giving that directly funds the Christian conservative movement. Take a stand today. Go to patriot mobile.com Bannon or call 972-patriot. That's 972-patriot and use promo code Bannon for a free month of service. Don't wait, do it today. That's patriot mobile.com bannon or call 972 Patriot and join the team today.