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January 11, 2025 49 mins

THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, JANUARY 11TH, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stuck out to me today because the former manager of
the LA Water and Power Department said that the system
has never been designed to fight a wildfire like this.
But why would that be, Like, haven't we known for
quite some time the California is at very high risk
for wildfires?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, absolutely, we've known that California in general is prone
to wildfires and that some urban areas will face wildfires.
But I don't think, frankly, that we as a society
have been willing to pay for the infrastructure that would
be needed, especially on the water side, but also on
the power side and the firefighter side to address fires

(00:42):
of this magnitude. And we're pretty reactionary and it would
cost again I don't know any secon numbers, but multiple
times what we pay out for all those services to
have stop these fires in their tracks. And maybe we're
going there in the future, maybe that's what we'll do,
but to date that just hasn't been expected, and we
have trouble having you know, people are concerned about what

(01:04):
they pay for water and power now, so I think
it's largely a question of societal well and also a
question of you know, whether we can afford this infrastructure
in certain areas. Whether these areas are defensefule from fires
like this.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
This is my worst nightmare, but it's actually not because
the planet is still getting hotter is the problem. And
you know, I sort of did see this coming because
Los Angeles, Southern California was getting hotter and drier and
more fiery, and there were smoke events. There was one

(01:41):
fire that caught my family in a small cloud for
weeks and weeks. But it's still getting hotter, and it's
still places like this are still getting drier, and floods
are still getting worse, and hurricanes are still getting worse,
and this will continue as long as we keep burning
fossil fuels. And it's just breaks my heart that political

(02:04):
leaders around the world today are still continuing to drill
as fast as they can, expand fossil fuels as fast
as they can. This is what's causing this. And I
blame the fossil fuel industry. I know we all use
fossil fuels, but the fossil fuel executives and lobbyists have
known that this would happen for decades and they covered
it up. They lied, and they've been giving donations to

(02:27):
politicians to block action.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
We look at a vast catastrophe like wildfires, like nine
to eleven, like JFK, and we're looking for answers.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
We're looking for who really.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Did it and who is to blame for. And I
think a personal tragedy affects you. You want someone to
be angry at, you want someone who did it to you.
And I think in this case, they're looking for a
cartoon villain, and unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
There isn't one.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
I'm angry.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I lost my home, I lost things that cannot be replaced,
friends of mine lost everything. I have a right to
be angry. There's just no one for me to be
angry at. I mean, the wind did this. It's foolish
to be angry at the wind. But it's very profitable
to tell people that it was DEI or Antifa arsonists

(03:15):
or the endangered Smelts or Gavin Newsom who did it
to them. It drives commerce, it drives virality and clicks,
and unfortunately, we live in an attention economy where social
media and politics drive the way we look at the
world and the way that we look at reality.

Speaker 7 (03:32):
For evacuation orders, they've now expanded as the palisates fire
heads towards Brentwood.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That is where we find NBC's Dana Griffin this morning.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Dana, good morning to you. What is the latest there
on the ground, Alicia, good morning to you.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
So we are in the Brentwood neighborhood and as you
can see behind me, this orange glow, this is the
Palisades fire that has stretched farther east. It is now
encroaching on this region. We've actually got some new flames
just at the bottom here that are really roaring. Fire
officials are relentless and trying to attack us from above.
You may hear the helicopters above us. They are trying

(04:07):
to drop water on this area. There were new evacuation
orders overnight, which was very concerning for people, including actor
Dennis Quaid, who was among those that had to evacuate.
Listen to what he told our local station KNBC.

Speaker 8 (04:23):
I would have thought, you know, it's we've all had
a really big lesson. What is it hint that our
experience of reality can change in a moment. Yeah, and
that's that we just had to, like God handle.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
But there was also an issue with the water supply.

Speaker 7 (04:46):
We have already confirmed with officials that they didn't have
enough water pressure. They couldn't keep up with demand. We
also know that there was a community reservoir near the
Palisades community that was offline and empty, and so you
we got the governor of California launching an investigation into
those water supplies. Even the LA Fire Chief said that

(05:07):
the budget cut seventeen point six million dollars that allegedly
Mayor Bass cut from that budget impeded their ability to
fight this fire.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Now, there was a meeting last night with Mayor.

Speaker 7 (05:21):
Bass and the LA Fire Chief, and there were a
lot of rumors swirling that the fire chief may have
been fired because of the criticisms that she has made publicly,
but the fire Department and Mayor bas offices that is.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Not the case.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
She is, still, in fact, the fire chief still employed.
So that's what's what we're dealing with, you know, concerns
about leadership and if the job can be done. The
fire chief has reiterated that she can get this job done.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
This is the primal screen of a dying regime.

Speaker 9 (05:54):
Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on
these people.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
I've got a free shot. All these networks lying about
the people.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
The people have had a belly full of it.

Speaker 10 (06:05):
I know you don't like hearing that. I know you
tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
And where do people like that go to share the
big line?

Speaker 11 (06:14):
Mega media?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
these people had a conscience.

Speaker 9 (06:21):
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
If that answer is to save my country, this country.

Speaker 10 (06:29):
Will be saved. War Room.

Speaker 11 (06:32):
Here's your host, Stephen k Back.

Speaker 9 (06:40):
It's Saturday, eleven January in the year of Alert twenty
twenty five. We're now what nine days away, and we've
got a lot to talk about the days of thunder,
including the audience and want to thank Transition Team Flood.
The zone starts on Tuesday. We're we get to all
that about these confirmations. But folks, I'm telling you for
someone that's spent I don't know, twenty years of my

(07:03):
life in southern California and those various areas on the
West side.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
We have staff from there, the.

Speaker 9 (07:10):
Whole brekepart headquarters, whole Breight Bart team, Andrew Breibart, all
from that area. This is out of control. That footage
we showed you at CNN is literally right before we
came on the show.

Speaker 10 (07:24):
I would argue, right now, when you look.

Speaker 9 (07:26):
At this, this fire is actually burning more out of
control and more intense in more areas than the Palisades
fire the other day. I mean, the palif Sades fire
is moving. But my point is this is intensity. And
now you've got Gavin Newsom saying he's going to investigate
the water situation, the one hundred and seventeen million gallon

(07:50):
reservoir up in Palisades that was filed as empty because
working on the roof of it or the cover. But
I want to read you what's sent altered me last
night from an Army major or not maybe not active duty,
but an army major, Omar Omar Coudrat. And I'm just
going to read this and if we can put it

(08:10):
up and down, we can put up. We're at a
and he wrote this last night. We're at a critical
moment in this firefight. If this fire isn't stopped here
right now, it can end up burning down Brentwood and
Encino by tomorrow night. If it jumps to four or five,
all of bel Air may burn down by tomorrow night.

Speaker 10 (08:30):
Then roll onto Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Sherman Oaks.

Speaker 9 (08:36):
You add that to what's happened in the Palisades, in
the western part of town near Santa Monica. You've burned
down a pretty good part of I don't know, La County,
La City. Now that turns out to be And here's
the thing for the guy. If we maybe get that
ready to replay, nobody to blame. You know, dude, this
is not climate change. That that that is fantasy. These

(09:02):
fires are going to happen. But they got to be
tamped down. And people say, we've never had something to scale.
You've got to have kind of surge capacity and a
plan to do that, and you can execute the plan.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
Where's the water?

Speaker 9 (09:12):
Where the firemen? How can they have them? Called National Guard?
This is all hands on deck. I just want to
repeat this. I mean, this is shocking. We're at a
critical moment in this firefight. If this fire isn't stopped
here right now, it can end up burning down Brentwood
and Encino by tomorrow night. If it jumps to four

(09:33):
or five, all a bel air may burn down by
tomorrow night. Then roll onto Beverly Hills, Hollywood in Sherman Oaks.
Let's play that footage again. That's right up there. I
mean that's right up on the four or five. You
could have the Giddy Museum go down in Brentwood. The
intensity of this fire, not the guy winting. Can we
just go play the last part with the CNN. I'll
get the guy wanted second. Yeah, look at this right here.

(09:56):
The intensity of this fire, the scale of this fire
contains to pick up. And you have President Trump make
these legitimate criticisms, and you have the apparatus there of
Mayor Bass her group of you know, the Adams family clowns,
thedd I politically correct clowns, you know their course. And

(10:16):
then you got Gavin Newsom, Gavin not to bring up politics.
Some say so of Grubby's politics. Not the best way
to start your twenty twenty eight run. Like I think
it might be over before it starts. You've got to
get a grip on this. There will be all hands
on deck. National Guards should be out every fire department
throughout the country. They're saying they bring in Mexican firefighters.

(10:36):
I don't know if you need to bring in firefighters
from Mexico. I don't think it's a good look. Not
when I hear you're turning down firefighters from New York City,
some of the best in the world FDN Y, but
also National Guard and Army Reserve, other National Guard units
from bordering states. It has to this thing should have
been stopped and put down by now. The winds are

(10:59):
bad now, but they're they're not. I don't think it's
the same Santa Ana conditions we had at the beginning.

Speaker 10 (11:05):
Look at just look at that.

Speaker 9 (11:06):
This thing is blazing out of control, and this is
all human agencies stop it. This is this is disorganized.
How do I know it's disorganized? First off, you can
look and see it, and then you listen to the
people what they say. There's nobody around, there's no water pressure,
the hydrants aren't working. But then you just go to
the press conferences. If you haven't watched the press conferences,

(11:27):
you got to watch them. It and I want to
tied back to remember the first press conference in New
Orleans with the with the terrorists that killed the people,
drove over them, and Dave Bossi. Turns out Dave Bossi
actually went down with Governor Landry to help sort that
mess out. He said, Steve You can't imagine the horror
of the of the actual site itself. What happened to

(11:49):
those people, the agony, the horrible deaths they had. Remember
the first press conference you had the FBI local person.
She had a ring in her nose and she said,
this is definitely not a terrorist actor. I shouldn't say
that this is not a terrorist actually got to hook.
They sent somebody from main FBI down the next day.
That first press converence was a disaster. Senator Kennedy had
to step in the middle of it or people were

(12:10):
just gonna totally panic in New Orleans would have lost
business forever when they had the huge college football game
coming the next day.

Speaker 10 (12:17):
Look at these press converss.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Don't don't take it unfiltered, don't don't listen to Steve
Bannon this watch with your own eyes, and people are
there furious. I don't know how CNN found or MSNBC
found this guy. I don't know who to be angry at. Hey, well,
I can tell you a lot of your compatriots as
they get over the shock, and they're in shock.

Speaker 10 (12:36):
Some of the most pristine.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
Storybook villages and towns in LA which is a collection
of like New York's a collection of neighborhoods. I tell
people New York's not one thing. It's a collection of
neighborhoods interlinked. That's LA's a collection of like, except for
downtown la if the rest of it's a collection of
like little.

Speaker 10 (12:57):
Towns and villages and neighborhoods.

Speaker 9 (13:02):
These neighborhoods look like it's not dressed in forty Night's
Tokyo and Kyoto. It's looks like it got fire bombed
at low level by Curtis LeMay dropping napalm. Oh, they're looking.
They see there was no water. There's no the fire
hirers haven't been checked.

Speaker 10 (13:21):
There's no water.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
And now I don't know if you don't have enough people,
But I'm telling you that this army major, if we
can put that up, make sure and grace, if you
can push that out. Seems like a pretty logical guy.
He's warning that thing's burning out of control. It jumps
to four or five, gets into Homby Hills in Beverly
Hills on that side and Sherman Oaks on the other.

(13:46):
It will burn all the way to downtown La, burned
to mid Wilshire. This is a catastrophe. Then you have
the insurance thing, it's gonna be bankrupt. They're gonna have
to have a federal ballot. Hey, Jesse Water said last night,
you may need a federal takeover. If Trump was the
president of day, I think President Trump would say, hey,

(14:07):
sign this for pusse Coomatatas. We're sending in the troops.
You're gonna have looting, You're gonna have a destruction. People
need to be taken care of. There's already the things
that vendors they send it in water and sodas, and
these guys are getting vendors are selling it, not giving
away for free.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
It's chaos.

Speaker 9 (14:25):
Gavin Newsom's line, people confronting, even saying, I'm on the
phone with the president, with Biden. This is what happens
the collap This is a collapse of complex systems.

Speaker 10 (14:35):
Darren beatting noiled a year ago. This is what DEI
get you.

Speaker 9 (14:39):
This is a collapse of complex systems. One of the
great cities in the world, complete free fall with a
biblical fire heading their way. Stunning an American the twenty
first century. Look at it, just look at that.

Speaker 10 (14:56):
Embrace it. Unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (15:00):
Here's your host, Stephen K.

Speaker 12 (15:02):
Back.

Speaker 9 (15:06):
You know, Grace, we're monitoring this thing very closely. I
may actually be coming up over the weekend and doing
maybe some specials on Getter and Rumble whatever on this
La situation. This is one of the great cities and country,
and I think it's in Alexander pre eight in her
last days working with us, because Alexander has been announced.
You guys know she's going to go over as senior

(15:27):
counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Speaker 10 (15:30):
She sent me.

Speaker 9 (15:31):
She says, it's it's eerily, it's ironic. It's symbolic that
in the last days of this illegitimate regime that this
audience hammered from the very beginning and tried to make
the case that we know, we get the facts that
Biden stole the election. This is what you get, this
apocalyptic I'm not saying divine providence is working as well.

(15:52):
There far be from me to say that, but something
there's something deep going on here.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Man.

Speaker 9 (15:57):
This thing in La is old Testament. And the incompetence,
I mean, just to grow. It's the incompetence and the
arrogance because they don't want to be corrected, they don't
want take any questions. They're going to lie to you
and to your face. I just hope you know this.
This worm is nobody to blame. Hey, just keep watching
the press conferences when it settles into people because they're

(16:18):
in shock right now. I mean they're in shock. You
get up Tuesday morning and it's windy. It's a Santa Anna.
That happens all the time in La. It's a Santa Anna.
It's a hot day in a windy day in La.
That happens, not fire season, but that happens.

Speaker 10 (16:36):
All of a sudden.

Speaker 9 (16:36):
A couple, you know, ten thirty. I think it happened
in the morning. We monitor hear about heaven it on
the afternoon show. You're a couple hours later, you're asked
to evacuate, which is ex shordinary.

Speaker 10 (16:47):
You're evacuate and you never go back. It's taped off.

Speaker 9 (16:49):
Now it's gone everything everything your parents gave you, everything
you've got from childhood, all your photos right, your wedding album,
your high school all of it, not just the material
stuff of your car and your furniture and how you
live your home.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
Your home is gone. It's ashes right there.

Speaker 9 (17:06):
It's ashes, not one home or two homes, blocks and
blocks and blocks, a village like Passage Palisades gone over,
one hundred is gone gone. There was no and people
you see them coming back. There's no water, there's no
I kept sitting there and asking, I said, where are
these fire guys? Are environment are very brave. If they

(17:28):
got it, they'll go. And I said where are the firemen?
How come they're not deployed? And now the guys uses,
well you had this once. Another gazellioneers, well, hey, you
got to plan for that. I'm not saying you have
to build to that because it may cost to trellion dollars.
I don't know, but I can tell you I'm not
buying the story that you got the big gravitational feed
over at the Homby Hills, right, and then you got

(17:49):
the twe hundred and seventeen tank in the Palisades and
the three I just told you at the time. When
the woman, now they're all over her daily mail, everybody.
When she's going to Prescotte watching, he goes, well, there's
one million. She thinks it was like a sophisticated answer.
She gives the exact times of one million. Lady, that's
not the question. The question is how did you run out.
How did these tanks run out and not refilled constantly?

(18:12):
How how did you not have water? Don't give me
the precise minute. She was like, very proud of herself.
Don't I get an eight now? Who you're making.

Speaker 10 (18:19):
Seven undred fifty thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
You're clearly not competent to have the position, lady. Then
I were talking about the looting, and the looting is
also tied to Hey, I'm not saying it's not American citizens.
Then they're stealing as quickly as they can. But you've
got a lot of illegal aliens. It's all coming home
to roost. This is like Rebecca West's novel about La

(18:40):
the Day of the Locust, about this Ariva.

Speaker 10 (18:44):
There's around an earthquake.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
And what's happening with what's in Biden. I've told you
now for weeks. He's doing everything possible to choplock.

Speaker 10 (18:55):
He was out there the other day.

Speaker 9 (18:56):
I'm just saying God works some mysterious ways. He was
out there that day, out there that day. Divine providence
deemed that he was not going to go see the pope.
He was out there that day incompetent or remember the
arrogance and not reading the room. He said, well, you know,
he goes to this thing of the people have lost
everything and they'll never recongregate there. In other words, they

(19:18):
left and the kids went to school, They had a
social network they did, that was their home. That'll never
be back even with the rebuildible years and people want
it'd be totally different, the kids who have to go
to different schools.

Speaker 10 (19:29):
Your entire life's turned upside down.

Speaker 9 (19:30):
And you know what this guy says, Well, after hearing
all this briefing of this horror and an inferno and
people's lives being destroyed, and people were voted for him,
his guys, he says, they're kind of drifty done. You know,
he's got that blank look. And then he goes, well,
there there's some good news. You know, I'm a great
grandfather day. Screw you, man, what are you talking about.

(19:52):
I don't care about your granddaughter having a baby. Good
on you, but don't bring that up. You wait, they
start picking bodies out of this thing. They say five.
Now it's gonna be a lot more than five. And
my point, it's getting worse. Look at that you the
watching the screen, all those get things. This is just
rip this off of CNN before he came in. It's

(20:14):
pre dawn there. It's it's burning and not just that.
But Ben's was gonna be on. But you know what
Biden does yesterday, He basically tries to legitimize a million
illegal aliens here so we can't deport him. He's up
in your grill. I don't care if he gives himself
a part and he's got to be investigate. Criminal charge
is gonna be birthed. Criminal charges on the invasion of

(20:36):
this country. He's up in your grill yesterday signing this thing.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
Todd.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
I'm gonna do this out of Order'm gonna get Todd
first because I want to continue with this catar in Biden.
But I also got we got very good news. I'm
not here to be dooming gloom, flood the zone. Let's
not put that up. The flood the zone, days of thunder.
He's gonna have a pregame. We're gonna start on Tuesday
because confirmation. They are chalk a block with confirmations. I'm
gonna walk you all through it. There's great news here.

(21:04):
Susie Wiles, Steven Miller, the team, the transition team did it. Bang,
You're gonna be so happy about what you see. And
we're gonna do wall to wall coverage of all these
confirmation hearings. I'm gonna get to that in a second, Todd,
and Todd knows about the looting, of what's going on,
the National Guard will be called out out like immediately
I heard some of yes say, I mean in other
National Guards, other army reserves. You've got to get to

(21:26):
La You got to save this city. You got to
save the city. And then people got to throw these
bums out and recall Bass, recall Gavin Newsom, throw them out.
If this done redpil yet then nothing, well, then you're lost.

Speaker 10 (21:43):
Unreal. The looting is gonna be terrible, already terrible.

Speaker 9 (21:47):
But in all of this, Todd, in all of this,
and by the way, I'm not saying you I need
to have a federal bailout for people who are quite wealthy,
I'm not going there. But there's insurance, this insurance deal
they have, this scheme they have, the structure I have
is very much like Florida. We have to think these
things through. People are not gonna be able to live.

(22:07):
We'll get to all that in a moment. But Todd,
in all of this tell me what Biden does, and
this is in your grill. And this is why there
has to be a upfront, totally transparent.

Speaker 10 (22:19):
And not some commission or not some set of hearings.

Speaker 9 (22:23):
I mean, a special prosecutor with powers of subpoena power
and a grand jury on the invasion of the Southern Board.
Let's leave law fair here. He got other things you
got to do. I'm talking the invasion of this country.
Catholic charities, all of them get rolled out. I'm quoting
the Guardian. I said, hell with it, dude, Kate got
to be investigated. But Biden, specifically, what he did yesterday's

(22:45):
an outrage. Walk our folks through how much he's making
it so tough for Trump to execute the plan on deportations.

Speaker 10 (22:52):
Todd Bensman, that's right.

Speaker 13 (22:54):
It's like somebody did not let the dog out of
the White House quick enough, and they left piles all
over over the place for Trump to come in and
clean up. The latest pile is that the Biden Harris
administration Majorcas yesterday signed order extending deportation prevention. It's called

(23:17):
temporary protected status for a million people, six hundred thousand
of them being Venezuelans so that Trump can't support them
readily when they enter office for as part of the
mass deportation program. Now what this does is it it
just it enables those people who fall under it to

(23:40):
reapply for work permits and to stay for another eighteen
months passed when they were already And it adds four
hundred thousand more Venezuelans, then we're already on this thing.
I just want to point out that, having interviewed hundreds
and hundreds of Venezuelans and also of that are on

(24:00):
this list, that they are not coming from Venezuela. We
don't have to deport them to Venezuela. The vast majority
of them are coming from perfectly safe, happy, prosperous countries
they've been they were doing great for years and years, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru.

(24:24):
They did well in all of these places. Argentina. You
don't have to deport them to Venezuela. But they're acting
as though, oh my god, we can't deport them to Venezuela.
We can deport them to the places that they came from,
where they were prospering for many years. And I just
want to point out that those people that fall under

(24:44):
this committed fraud, in my opinion, asylum fraud and humanitarian
parole fraud just to get into the country because they
weren't coming from Venezuela. Millions of them are still outside
of Venezuela, seven million and plus they don't need TPS
or you know, deportation prevention at all. This whole thing

(25:06):
is smelly, you know, it's got a big stink on it,
and I think that that it needs to be investigated.
But also the thing that really needs to be investigated
is the steering of contracts and grants from the State
Department to the United Nations and NGOs that were facilitating

(25:32):
the onward movement of those Venezuelans and lots of other nationalities. Besides,
I can't wait till somebody starts sinking their teeth into
that one.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
And Stephen, can I just mention one other little pile
that they left behind?

Speaker 10 (25:46):
I got a minute, hang on, hang on, hang on,
hang on, hang on.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
I want to hold you through because I want to
go back to that because this is going to be
a big part of the investigation of these NGOs, these contractors,
they are a central part of the apparatus. Remember what
Todd Bensman told us early on. He said, don't fall
for the media thing. This is not chaos. This is
not chaotic, this is not disorganized. This is a well
thought through plan. They have to get as many illegal

(26:14):
aliens into this country as possibly got fifteen million. Now
their whole purpose is to spread it out, have a
whole architecture of resistance, an architecture of resistance for the
mass deportations. Days of thunder are upon us, because I'm
telling you, folks, Holman, Miller, Trump, the War Room not

(26:36):
gonna be any backdown on this at all, going to
double down. They've got to go, and they've got to
go as soon as President Trump's hand comes off to
King James.

Speaker 10 (26:45):
Bible going to be a tough one. Folks, got to
get very focused on this. Days of Thunder.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
Next, Todd Bensman, We're going to talk about flooding the
zone next week with the confirmation hearings.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
Next in the war Room.

Speaker 11 (27:00):
Or room, here's your hosts, Stephen k.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
Just a quick note from KTLA in Los Angeles, the
big TV station, KTLA five. Not people that are you know, crazy, screaming,
et cetera. KTLA one of the better stations out there.
This is they just tweeted they eating fire, one of
the multitude of wildfires incinerating the Los Angeles area. Let

(27:32):
me repeat that incinerating the Los Angeles are is still
burning with little containment on Saturday, as the Santa Ana
wind event fueling the blazes is said to continue into
next week. You're going to see the difference between this
regime and what they consider folks out there as everything

(27:55):
you have is burning down around you, and you look
and you see no help arriving, no cavalry arriving. Please
remember that this is not simply a natural event. It's
also human agency is either exacerbated or failed to plan
and prepare and be able to execute like people should,
to be able to stop it, or at least thwarted.

Speaker 10 (28:18):
It's going unabated.

Speaker 9 (28:21):
If Donald Trump, if the oath of office was a
week ago, there'd be a very different situation in LA today.

Speaker 10 (28:29):
There would.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
It's called stepping into a decision in owning it. And
here's what I want to make the contrast. While that
is on fire, incinerating KTLA, incinerating the Los Angeles area,
what does Biden spend his time on Todd? What is
it because there's more outrageous and I realized, hey, folks,

(28:51):
can President Trump undo this? Yes, but it gets much
more complicated, much more bureaucratic. So don't think we're just
gonna wave a magic wand it's all gonna be good again.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
You've also got in bed in these organizations.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
And when I say organizations, I mean the actual departments
that are going to fight you tooth and nail on
this leak everything about the administrative state and the deep state.

Speaker 10 (29:09):
Part of their plan is they're all open borders. Guys.

Speaker 9 (29:12):
Don't altos think you're going to walk in there it's
all going to be sunshine. Yes, we're so glad you're here. No,
this is what Biden's doing. He's raising the stakes, making
it more difficult. Like Trump doesn't have enough problems to
step in on day one. Nowice get figured. They got
another million people then to try to turn them against us.
Give me the thing about the NGOs, the contracts, and

(29:33):
then you've got even a greater outrage regarding your romania, sir, right.

Speaker 13 (29:40):
US State Department money absolutely has bloated the NGOs, non
governmental organizations and un agencies for the last four years,
bloated with hundreds of millions of dollars State Department money
USAID to facilitate the onward movement of hundreds of thousands

(30:02):
and millions of migrants over our southern border, and then
once they got into the country, transportation company NGOs housing
shelter all over the United States, hundreds and hundreds of
millions of dollars in no.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Bid contracts and grants that are just.

Speaker 13 (30:24):
Waiting to be investigated, in my opinion, on our side
of the border, on both sides of the border, in
my view, this ought to be a priority FBI task
force kind of thing Federal Investigation DOJ Like COVID fraud,
like healthcare fraud. I mean they're still popping people for COVID,

(30:46):
you know, AID fraud even to this day, here we are,
two three years later. I think that you're going to
be seeing lots of fraud cases involving these NGOs on
our side of the border. Religious in Goos Catholic Charity's
highest Lutherans, you name it.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
They're all of the Adventists, they're all involved on our.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
Hey, hang on, hang on, hang on.

Speaker 9 (31:12):
The Guardian's about to print a story about the Catholic
Church in Maclroy the cardinal that the fake pope is
put in as a cardinal.

Speaker 10 (31:19):
In Washington, d c. Which is normally one of the most.

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Powerful, not the most powerful cardinal because they interface with
the White House. They've put in one of the most
radical open borders guys whose big deal is deportations and
open border. His assignment McLeroy, and I said, hey, look,
I'm a Catholic. Catholic Church has to be investigated criminally,
along with Catholic charities, all of them, just because I'm

(31:42):
a Catholic.

Speaker 10 (31:43):
They don't get it. They don't in my mind, they
don't get an opt out.

Speaker 9 (31:46):
Whoever tried to destroy the sovereignty of this country.

Speaker 10 (31:49):
I don't care where it goes. I don't care if
it goes to Rabbis.

Speaker 9 (31:51):
I don't care if it goes to these evangelical you
know are Lutherans. I don't care, Mormons, you pick it
whatever religships. This is a highly organized effort to invade
our country. And there was billions of dollars spent that
went to these NGOs and these contractors. And see what
todd sounds at the last second going out the door

(32:11):
instead of doing a transition with President Trump understanding what
our policy is going to be and what the American
people voted for in November fifth. They're doing the exact opposite.
This is not going to stop until you stop it.
Anybody thinks you can have a group hug or unity,
we need unity now, No, we don't need unity.

Speaker 10 (32:31):
We do not need unity.

Speaker 9 (32:33):
We will get unity after Trump's policies are implemented. You're
going to see how much unity we get starting the
afternoon and next week. That's where our coverage is going
to focus on. Is getting the job done. Not to celebrate,
but yes, this is going to be part of that.
But this is we're in a crisis. This is like
wartime capital. We're in a crisis.

Speaker 10 (32:52):
And look what they're doing.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
Everything they can possibly do to thwart Trump they're going
to do. And this is just they're opening salvo. They're
just giving us a love tap right now. You wait
till they bring in the heavy guns, and they're going
to bring them in unless you break them now, Bensman,
tell me about tell me about Romania. Tell me what
they're doing here. Even this is more outrageous than what

(33:14):
they've just done. Given the million folks another eighteen months
and work permits, every black and Hispanic person in this
country's got to understand. They're letting another million people compete
against you. This is why your salary suck, particularly you're
lower skilled. Right, if you're lower skilled and fighting for
those kind of wages towards the bottom of the rung,

(33:36):
trying to work your way up, save a little money,
make yourself better, do the small things for your family.

Speaker 10 (33:41):
This is what Biden thinks of you.

Speaker 9 (33:42):
You don't think they I don't think they got the
message in November fifth, they didn't get the message. The
messages you're sick of that. They just did another million
to compete with you and get standard of their work permits.
Tell me about Romania, oh man.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, listen to this one.

Speaker 13 (33:58):
Romanians have poured over the southern border, ten thousand of
them just in the last couple of years.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Because Romania.

Speaker 13 (34:05):
I've been to Romania, You've probably been there. It's one
of the poorest countries of Eastern Europe. They're economic migrants.
So they know Trump's going to sew up the border
and they wanted to just create a pile for him
to clean up. So they just made Romania a visa
waiver country so that they can fly into the US
on a tourist visa with no checks and no regulation.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
So guess what they're going to do. They're going to overstay.
Of course, they're all going to overstay.

Speaker 13 (34:34):
They're going to have this thousands and thousands of Romanians
flying into US airports under this visa waiver deal.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
And Trump's going to have to clean that one up too.

Speaker 13 (34:44):
And I hope they get on that one fast, because
they will be flying into US airports and overstaying. They
get ninety day visas without any regulation or checking. They
can fly in like a British subject or somebody from
Norma or Denmark or something like that, except they're gonna stay.
Of course they're gonna stay because they can't come over

(35:06):
the border anymore. They gave them this alternative route into
the country. Expect more of that visa waiver stuff in
the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
Keep an eye on it.

Speaker 10 (35:18):
Not the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 9 (35:19):
They got a week to do this, but we're going
to be monitoring to make sure it's overturned immediately. Todd,
where do people go? Your coverage now more important than ever?
Can you believe that we won the election and Bensman's
still going to be on watch. He's going to be
there for the deportations. You think it's going to be easy,
Folks think it's gonna be an easy one.

Speaker 10 (35:39):
Don't think so.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
Think they're gonna sit there and try to thwart this
at every step.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
Of the way. Just saying just I'm just doing it
out there, Todd. Where we go?

Speaker 13 (35:49):
Yeah, you can follow me at Bensman Todd on X.
I'm also at truth Social and Getter. You can sign
up for my newsletter at Todbinsman dot com.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
Oh my stuff is there too.

Speaker 13 (36:01):
I worked for the Center for Immigration Studies CIST, or
great organization for all your information about the deportation, et cetera.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
I hope we announced soon that you're going to the administration, sir.
They need you, Todd Mensman, good man, thank you, brother,
thank you. You know Viva Fried, the great lawyer from Canada.
Viva was one of the smartest guys out there. I'm
just going to read from his tweet. Now, he's an
accurate guy. This from the tweet. His tweet is his tweet.

(36:37):
It appears people broke into an army reserve center in
California and stole three humvies, machine gun, vehicle mounts, machine
gun tripads, and tried to steal the uniforms. Right, the
army is saying that they they were up armored, but
they didn't get the machine guns, got the mounts.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
How does that happen? California? I hope, I hope. I
hope you love it. I hope you love it.

Speaker 9 (37:06):
It's days of the locusts, days of thunder in Washington,
d C. Are what President Trump's going to do in
days of locusts in La? Well, how's that comparison? How's
that comparison. It's an individual who happens to be a
man that knows how to be a boss and a leader,
has both moral courage and physical courage, and has a

(37:27):
plan and he's putting people around him.

Speaker 10 (37:29):
He's going to execute on that plan.

Speaker 9 (37:31):
And all of these bad guys and villains, because that's
what they are, are contry to stop that. Even though
so this is what they think of democracy. You think
all this democracy. Remember the Biden's out there with the
red thing in front of Independence all looking like a
demon with the red eyes and shouting at us. We
hate democracy. We hate democracy, and we know that loss
because it didn't resonate with the American people. Why because

(37:54):
the American people know we're defenders of democracy, We're defenders
of the little guy. The MAGA movements made up a
little guy, men and women, And how much did they
believe in the will of the people that have spoken
clearly about what they want clearly Trump, These are not
marginal issues that are kind of coming out of nowhere.

(38:15):
These are the central issues that were debated for years,
debated for years, and the American people rendered their verdicant.
What are they doing is spend all the time in
as me he's convicted fella and convicted fella. I told
the teams, a convicted fella, convicted fellain, shove it up
your ass. This country's in a crisis. Don't think it's

(38:35):
in a crisis. Look at the collapse of complex systems
in LA It's one of the most advanced cities in
the world. It's got some of the smartest people in
the worlds. Hollywood is television, it's content on a global basis.
They voted it in just saying chickens coming home to roost,

(38:56):
just saying days of the locusts, just saying in That's
the contrast the Imperial Capital now. And this is what
I'm telling people. I know they got all these balls
and people thinking all these ball going hey, I'm not
so sure it's a ball gown type time, because the
Imperial Capital is not sitting there spreading roses on the

(39:18):
on the on the on the street saying, oh Trump
is returning. We're so honored and glad to have Trump return. No. No,
that's the resistance in the apparatus. That's who's doing this now,
giving it to Biden. Here's how we do it. We
got a meet of these guys. You extend their stay,
they get their things in Romania. We've got a whole

(39:40):
deal in Romania. Let them in. They coming through Ireland,
we got it. That's all the apparatus doing it. But
you have the fear, and there's fear because Trump's coming
to town and going to deliver days of thunder, and
on the West coast you have days of locus. You

(40:01):
can't get more biblical than this. You can't get more
Old Testament than this.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
I don't know. Is a cleansing fire, I don't know,
But I.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
Tell you what, for everybody supported out there, has the
cavalry arrived for you? And you know in your own mind,
if Trump had been had taken the oath last Monday,
last Monday, would your life be different right now?

Speaker 10 (40:23):
Would Los Angeles be different? You damn right, it would
be different.

Speaker 9 (40:27):
You would have a man who stepped into a decision
and made decisions and deployed people to take care of
the problem. Would it be perfect? No, and be perfect,
but to be better than this. This is just surrender.

Speaker 10 (40:42):
Look at that. It's gonna get worse.

Speaker 9 (40:47):
Listen to read the major's tweet short break the word.

Speaker 10 (40:53):
We will play to the lot God, we will.

Speaker 11 (40:55):
Joe, he's your host. Stephen came back.

Speaker 9 (41:07):
So I'm gonna get it to at the top of
the hour or get to this. So there's good flooding
the zone going on offense. The days of thunder actually starts,
not going to be even on the inauguration day. It's
going to start next week Tuesday. I think there's three hearings.
There's six on Wednesday, more on Thursday. I'm gonna walk
through all of them at the top of the hour.

(41:30):
Congratulations to the team. Were not there, but it's looking
great because of the work of the transition team and
the individual people that were nominated in their teams. This
takes a enormous amount of work in coordination and the
murder boards of this week, I heard they were going great.
I walked through everything, but congratulations so far, fabulous job.
We got to push these over the top. But amazing,

(41:52):
and you flooded the zone. And I'm telling you it's
you know, it's been all hands on deck evolution, but
just great. We'll get to at the moment. Day's You've
been in a lot of hot jams in the world,
this thing in LA and I realized you've kind of moved.

Speaker 10 (42:05):
Out of the areas a lot of us have.

Speaker 9 (42:07):
But uh, this is the collapse of complex systems. This
is this is where you have no order, you have
no hierarchy, you have no teams that are not trained
in all the time you're training, you're training, you're training,
so in situations like this, when it's so chaotic and
things are happening, you just know you're the big muscles
in a group. The reflex actions can can pull it off,

(42:29):
like you train all the time and Navy, so obviously
that's not happening here. They've essentially surrendered to the elements
and it's going to have catastrophic outcome for the folks
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 10 (42:41):
Taju Gi.

Speaker 12 (42:43):
Yeah, that's hid something for me. You know, I grew
up in southern California.

Speaker 14 (42:47):
Actually, my grand grandparents and my mom had a house
in Altadena, California. It burnt down on Thursday, so it's
definitely hits home. It's it's unexcusable. There's no water in
the fire hydrants stead a one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir in Pacific Colisades and it was empty. It's crazy.
Then the mayor's in Africa, you know, seventeen million dollar

(43:11):
budget cut. It's almost like you can't make this stuff up.
Was it intentional? So you know, it's like the Afghanistan pullout.
It's so many bad things. It's so many coincidences. Isn't intentional,
you know, it's no, no, no.

Speaker 10 (43:28):
This I'm saying, we're not conspiracy theory. Guys, we keep
saying we're not conspiracy theories. But they're no coincidences. This
thing is so.

Speaker 9 (43:37):
The incompetence couldn't be that great that all this stuff,
the fire hyders hadn't been tested and we're empty.

Speaker 10 (43:43):
It's just too much.

Speaker 9 (43:45):
The woman the other day, sitting there and she's in
the oh, we had three one million tanks, and she's
giving this precise second that it ran out of water.

Speaker 10 (43:52):
Lady, that's not the question.

Speaker 9 (43:54):
We don't care that in two thirty one am in
the morning Pacific standard time, it ran out of water.
The question is why were the tanks not being refilled
as they were coming down with water. It's like it
never dawned her. This is my point that the people
they appointed the lack of experience.

Speaker 10 (44:10):
Go ahead, Tash, Yeah, I saw.

Speaker 12 (44:12):
I saw.

Speaker 14 (44:13):
Also when Biden was in town, they grounded a lot
of the firefighting aircraft so they couldn't even fly and
drop water on these fires because the president's in town
and the airspace restrictions.

Speaker 12 (44:24):
You know, it's like it's too many.

Speaker 14 (44:26):
Coincidents, coincidences, it's and it's right before Trump takes office.
In California burns like this every single year and they
never improved their firefighting capabilities or readiness. It's it's it's
called we had a we had a phrase back in
the seal Team's complacency kills these they get too comfortable

(44:49):
and then they get complacent and people die and the
city is actually burning down. It's it's completely insane, and
it's like nobody cares and then they just and then
there's no accountability. So everybody points fingers at everybody else,
and meanwhile the people in California are suffering.

Speaker 12 (45:06):
It's it's the most beautiful state in the nation, and
they are literally destroying it and burning it to the
ground with their crazy policies. It's intanity.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
It's one of most Having traveled all over the world
and lived in California, southern California, mo was raised there.
But having lived in southern California, I know for twenty
twenty five years it's one of the most beautiful places
in the world, in the world, and the natural resources
and the people out there are great, most of them,
you know, the vast majority. But you've got some bad
ombres out there, and Gavin Newsom in bass just look

(45:38):
at them. Just watch the press. Don't take it from me,
don't take it for taste. Go watch the press cover
see it from their own lips. The arrogance and also
the arrogance when they give these half baked go ahead, taysh.

Speaker 12 (45:49):
These political dynasties run that states.

Speaker 14 (45:51):
The Brown family, the Pelosi family, the Newsome family, and
they have literally destroyed it.

Speaker 12 (45:57):
It's like we're talking, it's the most beautiful state.

Speaker 14 (46:01):
It's the best weather, it's incredible weather you're around, and
they're destroyed it. It's they care more about illegal immigrants,
the transvestite minorities and all these crazy policies and the
people that built the state, the people that work hard.

Speaker 12 (46:18):
Companies are leaving there in droves. People are leaving there
in droves.

Speaker 14 (46:22):
Like you can't even get a U haul truck outbound
out of California because they're all coming back in. Because
everybody is leaving the state in droves.

Speaker 12 (46:30):
It's it's horrible and it's sad.

Speaker 9 (46:33):
You wait to what happens after this attage. I think
people need a cup of coffee. People need a hot,
black cup of coffee. Walk me through. You guys have
sorted out. You've left southern California. Now you live up
in the more of the near the American Redoubt, which
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(46:54):
up in the Idaho, Montana, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon area, Wyoming.

Speaker 10 (47:00):
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Complacency kills. Absolutely disgusting and revolting. What's happening out there.

Speaker 10 (48:49):
TAJE.

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Gill's got the right stuff, so does this audience. We're
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