
Episode 5433: Belfast Burns; SPLC Continues To Lie Before Congress; US Strikes Iran ...
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Steve Bannon
Am a true.
Jack Posobiec
I'm a true America first maga.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, hang on.
Jack Posobiec
Gangster with you.
David Zier
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Stephen K. Bannon
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Jack Posobiec
And if you get back to the market, need some help with yours. I. I'll. I'll help you out there, my friends. The least I can do for the man who taught me America first from
Stephen K. Bannon
back in the day. Thank you.
Jack Posobiec
You have a great show.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Thank you. I appreciate you. Let's. Let's just get right into the show. It is Tuesday, 9th June, year of Lord 2026. Is Posobic up? I had to do this. Is Jack up yet?
Brian Fair
Yes.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hey, Jack Posobic. Breaking news out of New Island. What do you got for us, sir? It looks like pretty intense over there.
Jack Posobiec
Is. Is on fire right now. And this all comes on the heels of a shocking video that came out just last night where a migrant, a Sudanese migrant, was found in the middle of the street conducting what I can only describe as an ISIS style or terrorist style beheading of a Belfast man there in the middle of the street. He was interrupted. He was stopped in his tracks by a group of men who came by, a group of locals who came by before the police, I might add. And the. The film is one of the most horrific things I've. I would say it's the most terrific thing I've ever seen. But this just comes on the heels a couple of weeks after the Henry Novak video that was just released in another part of the uk. This is of course Northern Ireland, but still part of the uk. And you could see the individual. Individual's face is covered in blood. He's attempting to saw through the neck, isn't able to do so. So they were able to save his life. But what's happened now in Belfast is Northern Ireland is responding that they are done with the migration policies. They are completely done with everything you're seeing now, hundreds of men dressed in black who are out there. And Steve, here's what's really interesting. You know, you know, you've seen certainly Northern Ireland is no stranger to scenes like this. But what's different here is this isn't about Protestant, Catholic. It's not about Northern Ireland versus the Republic of Ireland.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's not the trouble. This is not the troubles.
Jack Posobiec
It's not. Well, it is the troubles. It's a new trouble. It's a different kind. It's the. It's the new troubles, that's for sure. But it's In a different direction because you're seeing Catholics and Protestants on the same side. That's what I was getting at, Steve, is that they're on the same side now. The same. This is very much about the. The old inhabitants, the original inhabitants of these isles, Ireland and the British Isles, and the newcomers. And they are done. The people are just.
Stephen K. Bannon
Jack, I want to. I want. I want to frame this for a second. We've sent Kevin over. Your brother's done great reporting for us all over the place.
Jack Posobiec
And he was in Northern Ireland for a piece of that.
Steve Bannon
But.
Stephen K. Bannon
But we sent him to the Republic of Ireland, which has a horrible migrant problem. You're starting to see the beginning of a maga, or nationalist, populist, nationalist movement there. But they're under different law. The Northern Irish are under British law. I mean, that's one of the issues. But. And this is with Nigel and the guys that, you know, there's sometimes not the focus like the Tommy Robinson. Tommy Robinson's actually trying to pull this together. He's trying to unite. Although an Englishman, he's trying to unite Northern Ireland in the republic in some sort of combination here to let people know, hey, it's one Ireland. And this migrant migration, this migrant policy, whether it's coming out of London or coming out of Dublin, is not acceptable to the people of Ireland. Is that correct?
Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, that's exactly right. So you're seeing folks like Tommy Robinson as well as Conor McGregor. So an Englishman and an Irishman who are both in complete agreement here, which is not typically the case when you're discussing something that happened on the streets of Northern Ireland. You're seeing Protestants and Catholics. You're seeing folks who, you know, perhaps their. Their. Their fathers who had come to blows or even worse during the troubles. And they're coming up and saying, look, this isn't about those divisions anymore, and we can take care of that at this point. But this has now become existential. It's becomes existential, Steve, because they are going after.
Stephen K. Bannon
They're.
Jack Posobiec
They're beheading. They're beheading people in the streets. They're killing sons. They're raping daughters. It's got to stop. Enough is enough. And that's. That's what this is. We could be looking at the makings of an uprising here.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, they do it because they get away with it, and they think they can continue to get away with it. I mean, beheading somebody in the middle of the street is. Is Belfast on fire right now?
Jack Posobiec
Everything I'm seeing, Steve, you are seeing these fires, but we're also getting in some reports that some of the areas and facilities being targeted are those that have been involved in migrant operations, that have been involved in housing migrants or bringing migrants over. And that may be one of the angles here that people are looking at, because they feel, Steve, that. That they're being pushed out of their own towns, that they're being pushed out of their own cities, they're being pushed out of their own neighborhoods. And they're the ones who have to take it on the chin. Their sons, their daughters, like the girls up in Rotherham, which Tommy Robinson has been talking about for almost two decades, and Keir Starmer was the crown prosecutor and nobody wanted to say a word because it was Pakistanis and Middle Easterners that were raping, wholesale raping these little girls. And now with the killings in the street, Steve, I think it's gotten to a boiling point, and that point is boiling over.
Stephen K. Bannon
And our own Raheem Qassam did such great work on that for years at Breitbart and then with us and National Pulse. I just want to remind people some of the most intense activity in the Republic of Ireland was when they went to these hotels where they're putting these migrants up and they're staying in these nice hotels and they're just running around the streets doing what they want. You know, the lads in Ireland saying, hey, that doesn't work for us. They torched a couple of those. I mean, it's only so much people are going to take. You're going to hit their tripwire. And once you hit their tripwire, these are tough hombres. These are working class people, middle class people, and they're not going to sit there and tolerate this continually, you know, pushing by the elites in London and Dublin who are all globalist, right? This is the anti nationalist, just trying to jam this down their people's throats. So this could be pretty intense and hopefully gets channeled into positive nationalism. But I got to tell you, you got to throw down at first because they don't listen until you throw down hard, sir.
Jack Posobiec
Steve, that's what's going on. And look what we saw this whole last week with. In the wake of Henry Novak's murder and the. The video finally being released by the authorities, you saw people, we were talking about this before, how it's uniting all of Europe, how the old tribalisms of Europe have now kind of been broken down because there's a new situation going on. The migrant invasion of 2015 is now final being responded to. And you've got people in Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, England, Western Europe, all over rising up and saying, enough is enough. We are not going to let Henry Novak die in vain. We are not going to let this go unanswered. And that's why the response is happening when it is. And Steve, you know, of course, the CPAC UK is taking place in just a couple of weeks. I'm going to be traveling there as well as Nigel Farage, a number of other people are going to be coming there. And you know, to have it come at such a time when the UK is the central focus of so much discussion and so much of what we're seeing here, I, I, I think they couldn't have predicted this, but the timing is absolutely right for, for the exorcism, the, the exercising, I should say, of freedom of speech and exercise, exorcism of the violence.
Stephen K. Bannon
I think exorcism got to get the migrants out there. Why? I got you. Give me a minute. President Trump last night coming back for the game saying, hey, I've talked to the Iranians. They're going to play nice. Now we have an Apache helicopter that either had mechanical problems or was shut down. And this, this couple of reports out that have not been totally verified. The 82nd Airborne moving certain elements around for potential incursion into Carg Island. Your updates are.
Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, I saw that report about the 82nd Airborne as well. And, and certainly that's something that look when you and I were here in real time telling everyone that these elements of our military, these elements of that, by the way, some of the great, most storied units, not just in American history, but in world history, these are the best of the best that we have of this country. But we were reporting in real time that these movements were taking place. Now we hear the 82nd Airborne in some capacity has been forward deployed, the 501st to the ground in Israel. This comes as we know that a number of the refuelers, the KC135s and the fighters, the F22s, the F35s, were also being based out of Israel. This of course, was happening because if you remember, at one point the Gulf nations were not allowing overflight, we're not allowing basing. The Saudis were not opening up their airspace. Iraqis are not opening up their airspace. Iraq is basically just an ally of Iran at this point, completely wholesale taken over by Shia majority that's there on the ground. But Steve, what we also see with, with that Apache shoot down Number one, it shows that the IRGC does have the ability to, to reach out and strike the US to strike back. Their capabilities have been degraded, but they have not been destroyed. They have not been decimated as of yet. We do, by the way, seen numerous more KC135 up in the air headed towards the vicinity of Iran. And so I believe that President Trump's promised response is imminent as we speak. But it all, it all goes to the larger point of the strategy of is this about bringing them to heel so that we can get a deal or is it as the neocons want push to further escalate the war? And we know that's exactly what the neocons want, Steve. I do also want to highlight that those, those soldiers, the air crew of that Apache, they were, they were initially retrieved not by United States Navy search and rescue, but in fact an unmanned surface vehicle. This, this vehicle that essentially a drone ship, a that was, that was dispatched, was able to find them very quickly, was able to hover with them and be there. And then here's what's interesting, Steve, the drone, this, then this will tell you about the kind of Indian territory that they were, they were operating in. The drone ship was sent to pick them up or they could have potentially, because it said it was a couple of hours, they could have drifted perhaps very close or much closer to the Iranian coastline. The drone ship picks them up, pulls them out of hostile territory. And at that point, Navy Search and Rescue came in with the helicopter.
Stephen K. Bannon
Jack, Referee, bounce. They're trying to dig in even more. We've got McCabe up on Capitol Hill or he might be back in the White House. We've got a clip of Thune about fisa. They're trying to really, they're trying to really use leverage over the president on fisa. Is it the end of the world, sir, if this thing just kind of evaporates on Friday at midnight, sir?
Jack Posobiec
Well, this, this is what's so, this is what's so ridiculous about what they're doing in the United States Senate. And I should say it's ridiculous, but it's become business as usual for these Republican Sen. Because they seem to think that they've got leverage over President Trump vis a vis his appointment of Bill the Bulldog Pulte over there, who's about to go like a bull in a China shop. Dni he's going to take it, he's going to go to it like Doge. He's going to go to it with that business acumen to say what do you mean you got 16 in this agency and they duplicate all the processes? No, we're going to, we're going to figure this out. We're going to do this in a smart way. They're terrified of Bill Pulte. But here's the other piece, Steve, is that President Trump has all the leverage when it comes to fisa. FISA is not something that is popular with the MAGA base, period, full stop. FISA is something that you want to know who knows about the abuse of the FISA system more than any other individual on the face of the planet. The guy's name is Donald J. Trump. His address is 1600 Pennsylvania. You could walk over there and talk to him all about it. He's the one who doesn't want to sign off on this. They need to be coming to him and say, what do you want, Mr. President? What, what do you want in terms of leverage to be able to sign off on this? Do you want the Save America Act? Yes. Do you want full funding for ice? Do you want Bill Pulte? Yes. And then finally, once he gets all of his basket of his asks, then maybe, just maybe, we could consider a FISA reauthorization.
Stephen K. Bannon
Jack Bosobic, great update. Everybody wants to keep their eye on what's happening in Belfast tonight. What's your social media? You're the Associated Press of the Amaga movement in America first. Where do people go?
Jack Posobiec
Well, thanks, Steve. We're up at Jack Posobic as always. In fact, Kevin had to tag him in a little bit as well because he's got contacts on the ground in Belfast as we speak, people who are moving in and out of some of these areas where the action is going on. So make sure to give Kevin a follow as well and we'll be tag teaming it throughout the night.
Stephen K. Bannon
Maybe get Kevin's go bag ready, getting back over there. We'll talk after the show.
Jack Posobiec
Maybe, I don't know. He said, he said he was going to get one of those black hoods. I said, I don't know, Kev, I don't know. I said Kevin style.
Stephen K. Bannon
An Irishman in Northern Ireland, in Belfast. Okay, Jack, thank you so much. Thank Kevin.
Jack Posobiec
Yep. God bless.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Brian Fair
Many groups and some in this room have misrepresented our work, including our confidential informant program repeating various false allegations. Some say we've lost our way. That's false. We've never lost our North Star. A fair and just society for every person. All our programs advance that mission because
Congressman Garcia
their assault on the SPLC is a crucial part of the assault on democracy itself. The Republican party used to be the party of Lincoln from Illinois. That's where I'm from. Today it's nothing more than a debt cult and a political front for the white supremacist movement. Tragically, that's as old as Our country itself. As my Democratic colleagues have pointed out, there's a reason why Republicans are targeting the splc. No organization has been more effective in dismantling the Klan and other white nationalist groups, including through the use of informants. This is a nonprofit organization. It has a board of directors. They govern organizations in place. You don't know. So the Republican Party protects these groups because they have the same goals. Erase reconstruction, erase the civil rights movement, destroy multiracial democracy, and restore Jim Crow in America. That's what this is all about, and it's right in front of us.
Congressman Issa
Mr. Fehrer, I don't want you to be left out of this conversation. You have. Your organization has labeled Dr. King and Charlie Kirk and others. Do you regret that? Will you recant it? Or are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk, in fact somehow deserve to be on your hate list for their constantly talking about bringing people together, talking about the teachings of the Bible and the like.
Brian Fair
Congressman Issa, as I said in my statement.
Congressman Issa
Now, wait a second. No, no, I heard your statement. I only want an answer to Your question in 11 seconds left. Are you going to recant? Yes or no. And if you're not going to, please don't tell me it's because now you're under charges. Your organization did it as much as 16 years ago. Will you take back any part of that? Or is your hate list stand as your position of your organization? As its head?
Brian Fair
Today, the SPLC will continue to expose hate and extremism.
Congressman Issa
Okay, we'll take that as they list.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, well, explain to me the reasoning behind targeting groups like Turning Point usa, the Family Research Council, traditional Catholic groups as hate groups, but not groups like Antifa, Jane's Revenge, Youth Liberation Front.
Brian Fair
We list groups that demonize or vilify people based on immutable characteristics or that express anti government conspiracy theories.
Stephen K. Bannon
You believe that Andy FA and Jane's Revenge and Youth Liberation Front have committed violent acts?
Brian Fair
Congressman Clintock, it's my understanding that the FBI has said antifa is an ideology, not a group. So a group. If it's not a group, it wouldn't be identified on our list.
Stephen K. Bannon
So you don't recognize it as a group? I'm sorry, you don't recognize it as a group. Mr. Chairman, the time's up here. Time to jump Doning of extreme white
Zach
nationalists directly from the White House. In Trump's America, white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally are, quote, very fine people. Even after images and videos showed participants making Nazi salutes and cheering on the former grand wizard of the KKK.
Steve Bannon
In 2012, the Family Research Council was attacked and the guard in the front of the building was shot. The head of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, made quite note at the time of Southern Property Law Center's involvement in that. In putting Family Research Council on their so called hate map. Has the SPLC ever acknowledged that its designation contributed to that attack?
Brian Fair
Congressman Roy, yes or no? I can't answer that question with the yes or no. You asked me if I.
Steve Bannon
Did they retract correct or reconsider the listing of the Family Research Council on its hate map?
Brian Fair
The Family Research Council is listed on our hate map because it meets the criteria.
Steve Bannon
To this day you continue to keep the Family Research Council on its hate map. Is that true?
Brian Fair
The Family Research Council remains on the hate map because it meets the criteria that we use.
Steve Bannon
Which criteria?
Brian Fair
The Family Research Council is an anti lgbtq.
Steve Bannon
Okay, so on your website you used to have language on there defending your position on the Family Research Council and you had language saying that other groups like Focus on the Family are not included and you use that as your defense. Well, that language is now gone and Focus on the Family is now noted as a hate group. Mr. Roy, can you explain that?
Brian Fair
Congressman Roy, we take no pleasure enlisting any group and we wish the list was empty, but we have the constitutional right to express our opinion.
Steve Bannon
How many leftist anti Jewish groups do you have listed on your website? We name them.
Brian Fair
Anyone listening to this can go to our website and see our again. Our Year in Hate and Extremism report was released this morning.
Steve Bannon
How many extremist Islamic groups do you have of the 1500 or so organizations you have on your hate map?
Brian Fair
Again, anyone can can go to our website.
Steve Bannon
My office has been looking over and can't really find one.
Brian Fair
Again, it is the SPLCs.
Steve Bannon
You think SPLC could provide us a list of the Islamic oriented groups do you have on your hate map?
Brian Fair
Mr. Roy? We don't target any group because of its religion.
Steve Bannon
Really?
Brian Fair
I want to be clear about that.
Steve Bannon
Really?
Brian Fair
Yes, that's exactly right. We target no group because of its religion. We target groups because they express statements and engage in activities that demean and vilify.
Stephen K. Bannon
Tyler o'.
Mark Lynch
Neill.
Stephen K. Bannon
I don't know how you sat through that, man. My blood pressure is up right now. Just listen. That is. That's bald faced lies and perjury. Walk us through it, sir.
Tyler O'Neill
Yeah, I mean over and over again. And I was actually really grateful for Representative Garcia's comments because I think he hit the nail on the head for exactly what the SPLC is going for here. That was the gentleman who decided to refer to the Republican Party as a political front for the white supremacist movement. That one statement, I think summarizes so much what the SPLC is trying to do, how they're trying to vilify the right. And we see this in the very hate map they released today. Throughout their report, they have these situations where they said extremism and hate is infiltrating American institutions, infiltrating the federal government. And of course, the interesting thing there is they say that it's infiltrating the Trump administration, and then they cry to high heaven about the conservatives who have been testifying before Congress. And lo and behold, my name shows up for two out of the three congressional testimonies I did last year. Somehow they forgot one of them. But I find this quite interesting because they smear Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA and PragerU as anti government extremist groups. And yet now that these organizations are to some degree impacting and working with the federal government, the SPLC is suggesting that the federal government is itself infiltrated with extremists. Therefore, if you want to find an anti government group, well, it certainly seems from this report that the SPLC might be footing that bill.
Stephen K. Bannon
This hate map and putting it on this is the way to put a target on somebody's back. This is one of the reasons Charlie Kirk has been assassinated. What is the purpose of this congressional committee as you see it? I know Justice Department's got indictments. What are we trying to do here? Because I think our audience finds it offensive for a hate monger like this guy and his acolytes to be given an open mic and just spread additional hate to, you know, to every group on the right that's determined to stand up to these guys and break them.
Tyler O'Neill
Well, so the committee, the House Judiciary Committee, is trying to get to the facts behind the indictment. And I think this is a very important proceeding because we've seen first in the indictment handed down in April, then the superseding indictment that came down last week of all these claims that the federal government has made against the splc, that they were funding some of the white nationalists, some of the members of groups like the KKK and neo Nazis, to essentially continue to prop up this hate in order for the SPLC to fundraise off of it. And the superseding indictment says the SPLC paid for clan hoods. It paid for A cross burning. And One of the SPLC's employees was actually sleeping with a n neo Nazi, a member of a neo Nazi group. So this is, you know, these allegations are explosive and I was glad to see that the House Judiciary Committee invited Brian Fair to address some of these things. Now, of course he didn't respond, he didn't give concrete answers to a lot of the allegations here, but you definitely saw him struggle to respond to many of the questions that were presented to him. And, and he continued to stand by the SPLC's smears against mainstream conservative and Christian organizations. And he punted when pressured on the nature of those claims, on the reason why the SPLC considers these organizations hate groups. But he did not backtrack. And I think that's very important. We had him sitting there on the same dais next to a member of Alliance Defending Freedom and saying that he still supports putting putting ADF on the hate map. I mean, it is obscene, but I think it is revealing that he stands for these things.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're on top of this. Great work over the Daily Signal. Where do people go? What is your social media and where they get your writings, sir, including your book.
Tyler O'Neill
Thank you. Yes, you can follow me on X and on Truth Social. Tyler 2. The number two, O' Neill that is the background is my second book, the Woktopus, the Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. The Southern Poverty Law center plays a big role in that. But my first book, making Hate the Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law center, initially published in 2020. But there was too much going on recently for me not to republish it. And last month there's an updated edition that's available on the new chapter.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, Tyler. Thank you for going over to the hearing. They're bombing again in Iran. We're going back to Jack Posic.
Mark Lynch
Short break.
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John Thune
War room.
Jack Posobiec
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, Jack Bassovic is back in studio. Jack, just as you bounced off we've started bombing again. Centcoms announced we're bombing I think down on the Persian side of the Hormuz. Straight of Hormuz. Sir, what do you got for us?
Jack Posobiec
Yeah Steve, look, so I saw that that tanker activity was being reported about nine of those KC135s operating up over within the region of CENTCOM and across the aor. And for folks to understand the context of this, that normal operations, you're talking two to three even in 2025 those strikes, that was about four to six tankers having nine tankers up simultaneously. This is a big operation that's going to be hitting right now. And the latest that's coming in is that there are coastal areas on the Persian side of the Strait of Hormuz, Bandar, Bandar, Sarique and Kesham island so known IRGC Navy installments and those, those facilities there looking of course the CENTCOM does say again that these are self defense strikes and what they mean by that is this is tit for tat. You launched an attack on us, we're launching an attack back. So still holding that this is within the framework and as, as President Trump said, a cease fire in that part of the world means you're firing back in a more moderate manner.
Stephen K. Bannon
Tell people just to make sure people know the, the nomenclature we're talking about with the ceasefire as the framework, why they go out of the way, say these are self defense moves.
Jack Posobiec
The reason they're saying it's self defense means that these are retaliatory in nature. What it means that these are strike packages on facilities that are directly associated with the attack on, on this Apache helicopter or and by the way we know that one was down but it's possible that other, other U.S. assets were targeted in this attack that were not, that were not fouled. And of course you know we need to, we need to get to the full bottom of exactly how that happened. But what they're saying is that these are not offensive combat operations. It's in retaliation for a strike and they're signaling that they do not intend to continue more. But I would say, Steve, that even though they're putting that out in the tweet, the sheer size of the strikes and the information that we're starting to get in about this does speak to this being a quite a large self defense retaliation.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, it's also, you know, both sides rearm and rethink things through when they have these ceasefires. What concerns me, you look at this, the logistics with the tankers that and you look at the islands are taking close to Hormuz. On the other side of the right, down at the other side of the Persian Gulf, you got Carg Island. I think it puts a lot of substance in back of potentially the 82nd Airborne going down there. So I just tell people, stand by for some heavy roles here because I think President Trump's going back in. Looks like he's trying to get their attention, that we got to get a deal or we can continue to dust you guys up. Sir.
Jack Posobiec
Yeah, no, it may not be general quarters just yet. However, that certainly is something that they could be looking at. Look, the President said, Steve, that he wants a deal, but all options remain on the table. And I think that we're seeing right here is all options.
Stephen K. Bannon
Not general quarters yet, but the smoking lamp is out. Jack Bosobic, once again, your Twitter feed. Where do people go?
Jack Posobiec
The smoking lamp is out. You know, that means, you know, that means it's time to get down to
Stephen K. Bannon
business, time to get focused. Twitter feed. Where do people go?
Jack Posobiec
Ackpasobic.
Stephen K. Bannon
Could be a long night tonight, Jack. I'll check in with you after the show. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you.
Jack Posobiec
Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Neil McCabe, let's get McCabe up. I'm going to play the Jon Thune part. I got to get to that. But McCabe, you're at the White House. You're very familiar, obviously, given your service to the country of military operations. Once again, I think President Trump is in the no games business. Last night he was saying, hey, I told him to play nice. You know, he read Netanyahu the riot act. Now, you know, they took out an Apache. Looks like one mechanical problem. They took it out. President Trump ramping up a strike here around what I call the pirate element down there around Hormuz, sir.
Neil McCabe
Right, Steve. And you know, one of the things I've been watching is sort of like the sort of signature Protein is the US Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, which is Boxer itself, which is a WASP class Marine carrier. And it's also got USS Portland and USS Comstock, roughly 2500 Marines. They got probably at least nine landing crafts, which is different from the configuration of Tripoli, which can do landings, but it's not really set up for landings the way the Boxer group is. Boxer was in Singapore. Remember Secretary of War Hegseth did PT with the guys about two weeks ago. They broke up the three ships. Those three ships are now reconstituted as an amphibious ready group and they are heading west into the Iran theater.
Stephen K. Bannon
Steve?
Brian Fair
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
I think President Trump has, you know, had enough of the mediator role and said, hey, maybe, maybe I go back to the combatant role. Okay, Neil, you've done double duty with us. You're up on Capitol Hill. I want to play the thune clips you've got. Let's play them and then I'm going to bring you in about fisa.
John Thune
Good afternoon, everyone. We have a saying around here that if you don't get national security right, the rest is just conversation. And that's certainly true with respect to some of the issues that we have in front of us right now. The FISA legislation which is pending here in the United States Senate, is critical to keeping this country safe and secure for Americans. And just to put a fine point on that, if you look at how effective FISA has been, it has stopped numerous terrorist attacks, it has been used in 90% of the CIA's synthetic drug disruptions. So in other words, these drug busts that you keep reading about, a lot of that originates with information derived from the 702 process. So it's very, very concerning when you have the Democrats here in the United States Senate essentially saying that we are not interested in reauthorizing this program, which will go dark at midnight on Friday if we don't take action. Question.
Stephen K. Bannon
President Trump and his allies have renewed their calls to fire the parliamentarian and pass the SAVE Act. You've been very clear as to why the SAVE act doesn't have the votes to pass, why firing the parliamentarian would create problems here.
Mark Lynch
But are you worried that if you
Stephen K. Bannon
don't do what the President wants, that he was going to criticize your leadership
Jack Posobiec
or perhaps withdraw support from your leadership?
John Thune
That could happen. Look, and you, it's a, it's a, a well, well known fact around here sometimes perhaps not fully grasp around the country. But anybody who follows this process closely knows that we don't have the votes. And the only way that you could figure out a way to get the votes. And even in that case, the Save America act didn't even get 50 votes last week on the floor of the Senate. But even if you confine it to just the two issues of photo ID and, you know, citizenship, in order to register to vote on those two issues, you take, you take 60 votes in the Senate. The only way you could get there is to undo or get rid of the legislative filibuster. And there aren't even close to the votes here in the United States Senate in order to achieve that. So it's an issue we all agree on, we're all for it, and we've all voted that way, but it's not something that we're going to be able to get done absent having an election and electing some more Republicans.
Stephen K. Bannon
Are you pushing the White House to
Jack Posobiec
nominate a permanent dni and do you
Stephen K. Bannon
think that they will to help unjam the situation with Democrats?
John Thune
We're encouraging it. At least I am. I think that, you know, getting some certainty and closure on that issue about who that might be will certainly play an important role in unlocking the support that we need to get FISA done. You know, we've got a midnight Friday deadline now. The clock is ticking. And obviously, as I said before, I think it's an incredibly irresponsible position for the Democrats to take given the fact that Chairman Cotton, Chairman Grassley and others have worked with Democrats in both the House and the Senate on a package that is full of reforms. This is a FISA reauthorization that includes reforms put in the House that have been added to by the Senate, all of which make. Will make the program we think stronger and should have broad bipartisan support on the floor.
Stephen K. Bannon
That is cuck talk. Senate cuck talk. John Thune can't do anything. No votes. You know, don't want pulte. Neil McCabe, your assessment of this. I don't understand how they think they got leveraged. Trump doesn't want the FISA thing. He knows it's been used again, seems been used against all of maga. Right. It's a corrupt program, a corrupt system. You don't, you don't combat a corrupt system by kowtowing these people, particularly who's pushing it. The worst, the worst. Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton. Right. And all the Democrats. If all the Democrats want it, we don't want it. No. No interest. Oh, they're coming together for national security. The Democrats are out there stealing the election in Los Angeles. They don't care about national security. They let 20 million illegal aliens in here under Biden's watch is 100 million in. In. In the country and they still want to keep paying for them. These big fights. We're going to get a C.R. why are we going to get a C.R. the Democrats won't be reasonable on any budget cuts. So don't give me oh, they're so worried about national security. The FISA is a top concern. Bs. That's just a bald face lie. But you just heard right there where President Trump's got put up. That's cuck talk. Senate cuck talk. McCabe, what do you got for me?
Neil McCabe
Yeah, I'll be straight with you, Steve. I almost, I was afraid to even send this to you because. But I just figured someone has to see just how pathetic Thune is. Right. It's just he just drones on and I can't do it. I don't even know why he wanted to be the leader. Like the leader of what? I will also say that the brass, John Barrasso is, you know, conservative guy, his heart's in the right place. But he's the whip. He has no fire. So he's in charge of whipping votes. No fire there. The deputy chief whip is Mike Crapo, a never Trumper who want Trump to get off the ticket after Access Hollywood.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yep.
Neil McCabe
Other deputy whips, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn. Right. Todd Young. These are like Trump haters who are on the team to drive votes to achieve the president's agenda. It is completely and absolutely pathetic. And you have to see it and hear it to know it. And that's what we're dealing with. Steve.
Stephen K. Bannon
Neil, great, great clips you got and coverage and Great analysis. You're 100% correct. Neil, where do people go to follow you on social media? Both for it looks like the balloon's up and we're shooting again in Persia. And also for all your coverage, the White House and on Capitol Hill. Sir,
Neil McCabe
you can find me on all the socials at. Reporter McCabe, good to be with you, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Do I have. David's here by phone. Okay. We're trying to get zero and no. Okay. We're gonna. What I'll do is maybe I'll talk for a minute. How's that? We're gonna go to South Carolina and see what's exactly going on. Your hero kind of talks about energy, etc. We'll just wait for the guys afterwards. Night update on the bombing. Yeah, go ahead and play. Let's play that. Let's Hit it.
Jack Posobiec
Strike.
Mark Lynch
That the US Military is characterizing as retaliatory or defensive.
Zach
Well, Zach is exactly right here. Look at the language and how exactly they are framing this. This is not something that wasn't thought out and how they were going to couch what these military strikes were. They're not calling this an all out offensive. They are specifically saying two things that are critical here. One, that this is self defense. So this is in direct response to the downing of that Apache helicopter. I do think we need to note the second part of this, which is the idea that this mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression. A couple of things. We have not heard confirmation from the White House, from the West Wing, from the Pentagon that this was intentional in terms of the shooting down of this Apache helicopter. Although here they are specifically saying unjustified Iranian aggression, indicating that there was some kind of intention there. But of course they aren't saying that directly. The other part of this, as Zach noted, the idea that this is a proportional response, essentially going with what President Trump said, that it was out of necessity, those were the President's words that they had to respond to the shooting down of this helicopter. So this is how they are threading the needle, using very careful language, that this is a response, that this is defense, that this is not an offensive that they are doing. This is not some kind of unjustified.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Stephen K. Bannon
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Mark Lynch
Sir, yes, sir. So there is intensity here on the ground to get rid of Lindsey Graham. You know, the folks in South Carolina are tired. It's like they, it's like there's something in the water. Like it's an endocrine disruptor. Steve. Like the hormones are all out of whack and South Carolina keeps on producing these like fancy boys like, like Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott. And they're not exactly men. They're not, look, they're embarrassed. The entire state is embarrassed and they're ready for it to be over and, and they're heading out to the polls. There was decently heavy turnout for the early voting. It's a very short period in South Carolina and that ended up last week. It looks like there's about 145,000 early votes that could go either way. You know, you could see a scenario where everybody's just really excited to get rid of Lindsey Graham. Or as is sort of been the tradition in the last several election cycles, you know, that's where the bad guys, you know, stuff all the boxes. We are seeing some irregularities out there at the polls. There are some of them, like, so the ESNS machines. I know everybody's scared of getting sued. I'm not going to say anything wonky, but the SNS machines are just, they're bogus. And I know there's a lot of debate about the machines and how bogus they are, but I got to say, look, and Donald Trump knows this, we still haven't fixed the election theft problem in this country and terrible. And so we got to get it fixed. And, you know, it's unconscionable that they have touch screen voting. And it's like, how do you even track what happened to the, to the bits and the bites that traveled through the machine when you don't even get a printout receipt of your, of your ballot? Right. Why are we, if Iraq can do a purple thumb election and have secure elections, why can't South Carolina?
Stephen K. Bannon
No. What are you hearing on around the state? Like, are there certain places that come in strong, like Charleston or up country in Columbia? What are you hearing from all your contacts and, and poll workers? All that throughout the state here?
Mark Lynch
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So first of all, I got to say there's still an hour to go vote in South Carolina. About an hour, five, hour, ten if you're in South Carolina, get out and go vote. If you haven't voted and drag 19 of your dead friends with you. Okay, but we're getting, we're getting reports all over and Horry county is strong for us. Up in the upstate, of course, is very strong. That's where Lindsey Graham got booed, you know, the last time he tried to take the stage ahead of Donald Trump up in Pickens County. And there's not excitement at all for Lindsey. There's no excitement for Lindsey. Like, nobody wants to admit that they're supporting Lindsey. There's no signs out for Lindsey. He doesn't have any presence at the polls, Steve. Like, it's truly remarkable if somehow by some it'll be shenanigans like Lindsey Graham manages to get himself above 50% and another term in the United States Senate. But, you know, this is just another example of the fact, the clear fact that I think a lot of Americans know, many millions of Americans know that we don't have legitimate Elections. You can't find a Lindsay supporter, Steve,
Stephen K. Bannon
and the Rhinos don't want to, don't want to change. This is the reason you got the problem in California. No, we got to bounce. Where do people go on social media to follow you throughout the night, sir?
Mark Lynch
Yeah, so at Mark lynch sc we're going to be putting out updates at Mark Lynch FC on all the socials, Facebook, Twitter, all that. And Steve, thanks for covering. You're. You're one of the true patriots that's willing to put his neck out on the line to go against the establishment. As you know, many, many folks in the conservative Inc. You know, Connie, establishment just won't do it. So. Thank you, Steve.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, no, you got it with Lindsey Graham. You got to have a full accounting here. Folks in South Carolina are too good, too patriotic. David Zier, our own David Zier's down there. David, what do you got for sir? Hi.
David Zier
With respect to the early voting, Steve, I got numbers. According to South Carolina Election Commission, there were 318,000 plus early votes cast so far. Again, which would put it about two and a half times the 2024 election. And early voting is leading the pack with Richland county, which is Columbia, Charleston and Greenville. More Democratic areas than the rest of the state. Now, it may make sense because they're higher populations, maybe stronger machines out there, but. So I don't know if early voting is going to help, you know, Mark lynch or not. I interviewed him after we spoke today. It's a David versus Goliath story. You know, he started out a small appliance guy and he has over 100 employees now, very well liked in the Greenville area. And I know he has some opposition from some of the Greenville Republicans here who are part of that establishment machine. He did show me the video at lunch of the election. Maybe a regular regularity where somebody clicked on the box, maybe near the corner top of his box and another candidate's name came up after that. But I can't verify the accuracy of that video. I have not heard a lot of account of, you know, any more irregularities.
Stephen K. Bannon
We gotta, we gotta bounce. Where are you going to be tonight? Because people are going to focus you and I want your, your Twitter.
Brian Fair
I'm going.
Stephen K. Bannon
Where are you going to be? Watch, watching this.
David Zier
Yeah, I'm going right now to the Baptist church to Mark Lynch's headquarters. We're going to get man on the streets and then I'm racing over to Greenville to Pam Evans watch party in downtown Greenville.
Stephen K. Bannon
You'll be at Pam Evans tonight. Good She's. She's very solid.
David Zier
I will.
Stephen K. Bannon
And also, as you heard, you're. You're a Pentagon guy and do a great job. They just started bombing again and we just. It looks like we're lighting guys up over there and straight up. Hormuz. I'll come back to you later. One more time. Your social media. Where do people follow you tonight? David Zier.
David Zier
Yeah. At Dave Zir on X. David Zier and everything else. And I'm in touch with the Pentagon for any statements. I'll let you know.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Date: June 9, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Key Guests: Jack Posobiec, Tyler O'Neill, Neil McCabe, David Zier, Mark Lynch
This episode of Bannon’s War Room explores escalating global tensions, political unrest in Belfast following a violent crime linked to migration, updates on US military action against Iran, criticisms of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) congressional testimony, and US domestic political struggles over surveillance (FISA) and primary elections. The show features real-time updates, frontline perspectives, and commentary aligning with the America First/MAGA movement.
| Topic | Main Speaker(s) | Timestamp | |----------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------| | Breaking: Belfast/Migration Unrest | Jack Posobiec, Steve Bannon | 00:37-08:07 | | US military action against Iran | Jack Posobiec, Steve Bannon | 08:07-11:10; 29:48-33:10 | | Congressional SPLC hearing | Brian Fair, Reps, Bannon, O’Neill | 16:21-27:40 | | FISA debate & Senate intraparty rift | Jack Posobiec, John Thune, McCabe, Bannon | 11:10-12:57; 35:23-41:02 | | SC GOP Primary/Lindsey Graham challenge| Mark Lynch, David Zier | 46:30-52:28 |
The episode maintains a combative, urgent, and populist tone, emphasizing grassroots anger, elite malfeasance, and a sense of international and domestic crisis. Banter mixes with detailed reporting and polemical commentary—speakers use hyperbolic, dramatic language, and the show promotes the "America First" ethos throughout.
Listeners are left with an impression of global instability (highlighted by escalating violence from Belfast to Iran), mounting distrust in US institutions (legislative, electoral, and non-governmental), and a call for aggressive nationalist-populist engagement both abroad and at home. The War Room frames the moment as an inflection point for the MAGA movement, with strong rhetoric against both international adversaries and domestic opposition within government and civil society.
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