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Stephen K. Bannon (0:08)
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot.
Peter Navarro (0:19)
All these networks lying about the people.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:22)
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.
Peter Navarro (0:27)
You'Re not going to stop it.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:28)
It's going to happen.
Natalie Winters (0:29)
And where do people like that go.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:31)
To share the big lie?
Natalie Winters (0:32)
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Stephen K. Bannon (0:36)
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. Ban. Foreign It's Friday, the 31st of January, year of our Lord 2025. You're in the late afternoon, early evening edition of THE War Room. We're going to go to White House. Our White House correspondent, Natalie Winters. Natalie, I want to talk to you about this purge at the FBI senior leadership. Also, the field offices hit like a thunderbolt this afternoon on days of thunder. The cash Patel had a good day yesterday, but they were all over him. They haven't had I don't think the committees voted maybe. I don't think the committees voted and certainly they haven't voted on the floor. Schumer today is bragging about how the resistance is forming. I mean, what's the White House thinking? Why would President Trump authorize Emil Bovey to go start purging the FBI before the is this does this show this level of confidence of President Trump? I mean, it's exact opposite of how most political figures in this town would operate.
Natalie Winters (2:00)
Well, setting aside the firing of the attorneys, this is something that was originally sourced, I believe, from the Associated Press, in addition to, I think, some people speaking anonymously to Politico. So it wasn't necessarily a broad declaration that came out, but this, of course, is coming on the heels of an FBI personnel shake up happening just a few days ago. But from what we're learning about it, I do think it does frankly reek of confidence coming from the White House. I think a lot of the campaign promises, not necessarily of retribution. I know we aren't allowed to use that word, certainly not on the White House lawn. But if you really understand who is affected by this move, it's people who have weaponized the justice system, the FBI, not just against President Trump, but against his most fervent support to that point, its senior managers in some of the FBI's largest field offices, in addition to various departments within FBI headquarters, including National Security, Criminal, Cyber Response and Services, Science and Technology, Information and Technology and Human Resource branches. But, Steve, I will say I was reading through the legacy media's kind of coverage of this, which, by the way, it's interesting, this topic did not come up in today's press briefing. I've heard really no murmurs or rumors about this until broke, what, about an hour ago. But they're already quoting whether it's the FBI Agents Association, a bunch of lawyers. I'd posit it's probably whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid of double impeachment fame. But talking about how they're going to fight this, which I really think hearkens back to a lot of sort of the architect, the blueprint of the resistance pushback. One of the, I think, offenses that they really wanted to mount was the idea not just through the paradigm of Schedule F, but the mass firing that they view as being unjustified. In this case, I think the FBI is sort of, I guess, the white whale. Right? You can't come for the FBI, especially if you look at it through the lens of the independent executive theory. But I think right now what you're about to witness go down in terms of this purge at the FBI is essentially the first showdown between I think, elements of the resistance movement, the sort of rebranded now that Trump is back. Lawfare branch and brigade against the White House against President Trump. So we'll definitely be following it close closely. But it's, it's just things are just starting to pop off.
