Bannon`s War Room
Episode 5049: President Trump Sets His Sights On Greenland; Corruption In Maryland
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What are President Trump's views on acquiring Greenland?
you know will help the country's economy and if the economy is doing better democracy will follow but we know that's not the case there's no talk of democracy is there there isn't stephanie but we're not a dictatorship we're not a monarchy the american people don't have to get behind trump just because he he picked up maduro and now we're going to extort them for two and a half billion three billion dollars of oil i want us to have a debate about that do
You realize how crazy this is? We picked him up, and now it's gangster diplomacy, right? Pay us $2 or $3 billion, and we will let your regime stay in place. And for many, many years, Senator Rubio, maybe he forgot what he used to say. We talked about this dictatorship, and the dictatorship is still in place. Every single person is there, so it's not regime change.
And now the president is just going to take a bribe so that we don't run the country, that we don't do regime change. And I want to suggest that this is not the way we should conduct our foreign policy abroad. This does not serve the interests of the American people. Even the president's comment, this is going to be for the American people and the Venezuelan people, this money.
What does that mean? How completely insane this idea is on so many levels. First of all, there is no national security interest that we need to seize Greenland. They have not made the case.
Chapter 2: How does the discussion highlight concerns about U.S. foreign policy?
We can have as many soldiers there as we want. We have bases there. I worked in the government. I know how we've used Greenland before. We can do that through negotiation. Second, they roll out minerals. We can sign treaties. We can sign agreements, contracts to get minerals. There is no reason to go back to 19th century imperialism.
But third, to your point, Stephanie, not only would it blow up NATO. it would alienate the United States from the entire world, from the democratic world, the free world, the autocratic world. And then we will empower countries like China. Well, if they can take Greenland, of course we can take Taiwan. Putin, well, there's no difference. We're just like them.
Chapter 3: What implications does the January 6th incident have for future elections?
I just think this is so insane and we need to call it out as insane. January 6th was not just one day. I think it was a strategy.
And if we are not laser focused and aware of what transpired in the lead up to what happened on that fateful day five years ago, then I started to think how flat footed we will be caught months from now as it relates to the 2026 midterms or the next presidential election. I think you're exactly right. This isn't just a fight about the past. It's a fight about the future.
And I think the two things are important here. The first is by pardoning the January 6th rioters, the president did something very practical, which is that he empowered a group of people that were willing to be violent in his name but would be literally put beyond the reach of the law.
We now have over 1,500 people who have been told, if you are violent on Donald Trump's behalf, you won't just be prosecuted. You'll be rewarded. So that's the first thing.
second thing and i think this gets to why donald trump has spent so much time trying to erase the history of january 6. you know it's not just the pardons the fact that he appointed an election denier to be interim head of the dc u.s attorney's office that they're taking down materials about january 6 from the doj website that they've appointed a literal rioter jared weiss to a doj job
The reason that I think that they're doing this is if they can convince people to forget January 6th, or worse, consider it a form of legitimate political discourse, if they can succeed in that, then any violence and attack on democracy will be from the same thing. And this against fraud.
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Chapter 4: What recent findings have emerged regarding corruption in Maryland?
The performance audit shows the Behavioral Health Administration sent millions of dollars out the door in grants without making proper checks into who was receiving them. And that is not even the most jaw-dropping finding. Lou Raguse has tonight's top story. Julie, according to the nonpartisan legislative auditor, this is another case of mismanagement of taxpayer money.
But perhaps the most explosive revelation is that managers within DHS, the Department of Human Services, tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating new documents. I do want to talk about what a serious issue this is and how it is frankly unacceptable.
Another sobering report by the Office of the Legislative Auditor, this one concerning the Behavioral Health Administration within the Department of Human Services, which issues grants to providers treating mental health and drug and alcohol addiction, hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The audit found them issuing grants to applicants without a bidding process.
So what we saw is that there was multiple entities that could have been eligible, and they chose not to provide a justification for why they were picking those.
This report is quite stunning. One outrageous example. The auditors found a grantee that was paid $672,000 for one month of work without any info on what they do. And the audit says the grant manager who paid it then left DHS a couple days later and became a paid consultant for that company. To me, that's criminal.
Auditor Judy Randall says she was most shocked that during the audit, multiple DHS managers backdated or created new documents to try to cover their tracks.
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Chapter 5: How are state funds being mismanaged in Maryland?
Frankly, in the 27 plus years I've been with OLA, I have never seen this before. I will say we have had suspicions periodically, but we have never been able to prove it, to document it. And we did in this case. And it's very troubling. Temporary DHS Commissioner Shireen Gandhi's response.
I was shocked to hear this information in the exit conference, and it is absolutely unacceptable that any staff would provide anything other than accurate representation of the work done to an auditor. Now there were a lot of questions from lawmakers about whether this audit should result in criminal investigations. So we'll see what comes from that.
The Office of the Legislative Auditor provides recommendations both to the department and to lawmakers in case law changes are needed. Just one more time of what the auditor said regarding this fabrication of documents. She called it a systemic problem within DHS. We have come full circle.
And, you know, today is a day where we kind of reflect on a lot of things and because all of us like 9-11 and like at other times in our nation's history where something traumatic has happened, we remember where we were, what we were doing and remember watching those events unfold. And so there is that that part of this that is history for us.
And so it got me reflecting a little bit about history.
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Chapter 6: What are the consequences of the recent audit findings?
Our history professor here at the table is Simone, and she's very quick to make those links to important periods in our nation's history as part of the progress or lack thereof that we're making. And for me, that circled completion was after the Civil War. Talk about it, Michael Thiel. After the Civil War, what happened? We allowed the people who moved against the government
who caused and fought in a way to keep slavery, yes, but even more so to overturn the fundamental foundations of this country. They built monuments to themselves. They started writing the history, and they continue to lie to this day about what those events that were at the heart of the Civil War were about.
They are writing at this moment, still writing that history and lying to themselves, to your point, and to the American people about what happened between 1860 and 1865. And now today, five years after January 6th, you have this president and those insurrectionists lying to themselves and to the country about what happened on that day. The difference is... We weren't at the table in 1865.
But we were in our living rooms. We were on our jobs. We were at cafes and places around this country watching that happen.
Chapter 7: How does the conversation address the importance of election integrity?
So how do we impress upon people?
You're both testifying on the Hill that this is real. This is real. What happened is real. And everything this president is saying about those events
is a lie yeah you you can whitewash it all you want with a pardon but we were there baby we saw it we lived it 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 on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Chapter 8: What actions are being proposed to ensure accountability in government?
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Wednesday, 7 January, Year of the Lord, 2026. There's a lot going on today. There's a big press conference with the Make America Healthy and the
agriculture part of this the maha movement I think Secretary of Agriculture and Bobby Kennedy that's an 11 o'clock hour we're gonna dip into that right now there's a hearing going on oversight Comer about the Minneapolis Somalian fraud you saw right there local TV in Minnesota and now the facts are coming out These audits and people now, they can't run away from this.
And I think you see why Waltz dropped out because they're going to very quickly go to criminal charges here. And so he had no shot of being governed again. He would have never beaten Mike Lindell anyway, but he has no shot. Right now. So we've got that. Also, President Trump is coming clear. We wanted to show you a cold open. We could have gone for the entire hour on the full meltdown.
Trump derangement syndrome is going next level right now. Last night, the hate. And I think if you got to grade it, I actually think the hate. of what the war room posse, the Jay Sixers, President Trump, and others have done to really shift the narrative frame, the Overton window, and actually show you the Fed's direction of what it was about. It's just magnificent and with no resources to do it.
And I got to thank the Jay Sixers and all their families who have just, on the fifth anniversary, have not given up, have not quit, and continue to press this. And the left and the media, Total full meltdown because they understand that they that their whole narrative from the end of democracy to now it's a deep state is a deep state operation.
We'll have more on that about what has to happen now between the administration and Congress to get now down to the.
the deck plates on uh on uh on getting this sorted we're trying to get jackie torboroff up for this first segment may not be able to do it because of a technical issue jackie remember jackie months ago i think it was in the spring or early summer remember he had the situation where all the flags of the states were in cities were uh were being changed they're having all sudden all these contests to like change the flags and they changed the flag of minnesota
In fact, can we play Waltz? Can we play the Waltz clip? Just tell me when we get ready. Waltz made a big deal. This is Waltz, the criminal, who just basically allowed the Somayans to steal money and others to steal money, you know, hand over fist. Remember that audit in the cold open? They paid somebody $675,000 for a month of work, never checked what the work was going to be.
And then the person that approved it resigned and went immediately to be a consultant for him. And even the guy on the panel said, isn't that criminal? Yes, it's criminal. So you have that. And this has been a well thought through. This is like the invasion of the southern border. This is like all the immigration laws. It's not chaos and anarchy.
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