Bannon`s War Room
Episode 5052: Millions Funneled From Minnesota To Somalia; Trump Sets Sights On Greenland
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What recent events have led to increased tensions in Minneapolis?
Already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bull . This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying. TO MINNESOTANS, KNOW THAT OUR ADMINISTRATION IS GOING TO STOP AT NOTHING TO SEEK ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE.
THE STATE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL APPREHENSION ARE WORKING ON THE INVESTIGATION. WE HAVE ACTIVATED THE STATE EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER. STATE PATROL AND MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD LEADERSHIP IS CONNECTED WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE ST. PAUL POLICE DEPARTMENT, HENNEPIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE DNR, AND MINNESOTA'S HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
WE HAVE ACTIVATED DOZENS OF MEMBERS OF THE STATE PATROL'S MOBILE RESPONSE TEAM. And from here on, I have a very simple message. We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough. There's nothing more important than Minnesotan safety. I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.
We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning order is a heads up for folks. And these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. They're teachers in your community. They're business owners. They're construction professionals.
Chapter 2: How is the Minnesota administration responding to federal actions?
They are Minnesotans. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait.
Get the fuck out of here right now.
That's what I'm saying. It's a bunch of them. They killed my fucking neighbor. Who the fuck are these Nazis? You guys are losers. You guys are losers. You guys are losers. You're trying to agitate people. You're agitating. Some fucking agitators over here.
You're losers. Let's move to that. Let's move to that.
Get the out of my city! What the is wrong with you? Somebody die! Go to your car so we can take a picture of your plate. Where's your car, you coward? You couldn't even stop? I'm not moving. You walked the block? You're a coward. Get the out. To ICE, get the out of Minneapolis. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
Somebody is dead. That's on you. To the family, I'm so deeply sorry. We're going to be working towards justice as quickly as we possibly can right now. And justice is what we've all got to get. We're going to make sure that in this very difficult moment, we do not take the bait that these ICE agents are trying to create and that the federal government, to be clear, wants.
People are going to want to exercise their First Amendment rights, but please do so safely and lawfully to ensure that we do not have any further tragedy in this city or destruction. We can show them the kind of courage, bravery, love, and compassion that makes Minneapolis Minneapolis. Let's unite around hope and love and peace and getting justice.
Ambassador, I just think we're in new territory here. The president of the United States is actually not on the side of the allies. The president of the United States is aligning himself with folks like Vladimir Putin. And I say that because territorial integrity is a sovereignty. Those are things we got to remind Putin of, President Xi of.
Why are they reminding the president of the United States?
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Chapter 3: What investigations are underway regarding financial fraud in Minnesota?
This is horrific. one part of what has been a year full of cruelty and we know that when ICE agents attack immigrants they attack every single one of us across this country and this is a city and will always be a city that stands up for immigrants across the five boroughs and
I have made it clear to everyone within my city government, and that extends to NYPD, that we are going to uphold our sanctuary city policies. We are going to adhere to them. That is why one of the 11 executive orders that we signed was to repeal the previous administration's order to allow for collaboration with ICE on Rikers Island.
what we are going to be doing is following the laws that we have set, laws which have kept New Yorkers safe. And we are going to make it clear to each and every person in the city what their rights are. That's why we took the time to make a Know Your Rights video, because it goes back to the earlier question. If you don't know of your rights,
then how can you be expected to actually use those rights? So we are going to take every opportunity we have to inform New Yorkers of what they already can do and also to make it clear to our own city government agencies and departments across the board, including NYPD, that we are not here to assist ICE agents in their work. We are here to follow the laws of New York City.
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've tried 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 line? 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? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
It's Thursday, 8 January, in the year of our Lord, 2026. Welcome to the War Room. We're on the road today. Talk to you in a few minutes about where we are. Right there you see is the President of the United States works through hemispheric defense from Latin America all the way up to the Arctic. And of course, I think we took another ship on the high seas today.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's foreign policy decisions?
And Steve, you usually light it on fire, but dude, what you light on fire, he's going to really light on it.
I'm just the, I'm the, I'm the opening act for the great Glenn Beck. The reason, one of the reasons for this is Glenn Beck's been on this for over a decade. One of the best books ever. about understanding Islam. I think Glenn Beck wrote 12 years ago or something. I remember just reading it when it first came out. Glenn Beck's been on this problem from the very beginning talking about Europe.
And I think it's fantastic. He's going to keynote and close it out. I'm sure he's going to get people jacked up. Glenn, just tell me, where do people go to find out more about Patriot Mobile? You've brought in 22 to 25 groups for this event. We could have sold 1,000 tickets. I think we had to cut it off at 700.
You've just done a magnificent, what people have been working on and coming together over the Christmas holidays to put this on. And now the great Glenn Beck is going to join us and close it out, be the keynote address. Talk to me about Patriot Mobile. Where do people go find out more about you? And if they want to get on a waiting list for a ticket or do whatever, where do they go today?
Hey, I will say this. It is sold out. You know, there is a wait list. Go to patriot mobile dot com forward slash save Texas. But, you know, if you received an email, then you're going to get it. You're going to get in. And then secondly, I just want to say, look, we have a pre meeting with 50 legislators leading up to the event today.
And these guys are from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and other states that are coming in just for this. And it's an incredible, incredible event. And, you know, I think we're probably going to do this once a quarter. And, you know, we want to educate others. And I will say this one last thing. I say it every time we talk. I believe in the freedom of religion.
I don't care if you're Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, whatever you want to worship, I want you to have the freedom to worship that here in this country. However... If you're going to bring in some law that's contrary to our U.S. Constitution, that's where it really stops. That's where we put our feet down. And you know what? Look, we're going to fight this tooth and nail through the legislative sessions.
And look, this is something we have to stop because we do not want a Europe or America.
We're going to stop it. It's going to get stopped. This is not going to happen in the United States. It's happening. You see Mandami running his mouth, the Ugandan Marxist jihadist. And if somebody did the work to check his naturalization papers, as I've recommended because I know this, he would be denaturalized and put on a plane back to Uganda where he should go.
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Chapter 5: How does the podcast address the issue of immigration and ICE operations?
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We're actually broadcasting from Kevin Friedman's war room, the great Kevin Friedman. Kevin's going to join us later in the show. Also, Tej Gill is going to slip in here. Tej is with us. Going to talk about what's going on in Minneapolis. And John Solomon is going to join us in a moment. So just to summarize Glenn's story, tomorrow night in ā I think it's in Grapevine, Texas.
We're going to have a ā We're going to have a gathering, I don't know, 500, 600, 700 folks. And Glenn Beck is now going to join myself and Gert Wilders. Also, I think Stinchum is going to be there also. He's going to emcee and also speak. So this thing is packed wall to wall. One more time, where do they go to Patriot Mobile, Glenn's story?
PatriotMobile.com forward slash Save Texas. And, yeah, you know what? New York City, what's going on up there is just an abomination. You've got this communist run in the city. It's one of the greatest cities in the world. I lived there for 15 years. And we've got to put a wall around that and keep all that nonsense out, and we've got to save Texas. So, you know what?
If you want to be a part of this Save Texas event, You know, it's going to be an inspiration. It's going to embolden folks. It's going to teach us what we can do. And, look, if you didn't make it this time, we're going to have another one, and we look forward to hosting you guys.
Okay.
And very excited Glenn is going to be a part of it.
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Chapter 6: What are the concerns regarding welfare fraud and its impact on communities?
Christian company that supports and has the back of folks with Christian values. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Just some logistics. Scott Besson, the secretary of treasurer, is out, I think, for a two-day trip to Minneapolis, already previously scheduled. I think Jack Posobiec is going to be with him. Our own David Zier in a crew from Real America's Voice is going to be there.
He's giving a major speech at the ā I think it's the Economic Club of Minneapolis. Talk about all the good things happening with the Trump economy and more to come. And so we're going to stream that live on all of our platforms today. Real America's Voice is going to do it. We're also going to stream it on our Rumble and our Getter channels, all of them, Grace and Mo on top of that.
And then later on, we're trying to get Scott Bessett maybe for an interview this afternoon, if not tomorrow morning. So we're going to work it all out. He's going to stop by some factories. some folks we know out there, so the Secretary of Treasury. John Solomon joins us.
John, first off, you've been doing investigative work in your assessment of this situation yesterday with the ICE officers, sir.
Yeah, listen, officer-involved shootings have three key elements to them when they decide whether it's lawful. The first is, did the person who was shot know that they were being stopped by law enforcement? And that issue, we know for sure that's the case. She was trying to block them with the car. They had their lights on.
They identified themselves as ICE when they told her to get out of the car. Secondly, they always look at what was she told to do. Was she give a lawful instruction? The instruction was to get out of the car. She chose not to and drove forward. The third thing is when an officer fires her gun, were they in danger? That's the third element.
There is a singular piece of evidence that's going to be essential to this review. And all the folks that I talked to in the last 24 hours who've investigated officer-involved shootings for decades of experience say that the most important piece of evidence is the bullet hole from the first shot fired by the ICE officer is directly in the front windshield. What does that mean?
Why is that significant? It means the officer had to be in front of the car as it was peeling away. and he was in danger. I think that when those three elements are reviewed, all of the politics are stripped away. You have a person that was driving at an ICE agent after being lawfully instructed to stop and get out of the car.
That's going to make this, according to all the experts I talked to, a legitimate, tragic, but legitimately legal shooting.
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Chapter 7: How do political dynamics influence local governance in Minnesota?
We got comparative statistics yesterday. The amount of money that these Somali couriers took out of the Minneapolis airport with the TSA flagging it daily was 99 times larger than all the cash that was declared in luggage going out of New York's JFK International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in America. 99 times more than what flies out of Dallas.
90% more than what was flown out of Seattle, which is the most common airport for people to go to Asia from. This was an abnormally high amount of cash being stuffed in the luggage, being detected every day by the TSA. Because, by the way, the couriers told, they declared the money.
They literally would say, yeah, we got a million bucks in our suitcase, which you have to do to get it through the airport. And nobody in the Biden administration thought it was unusual that a million bucks of cash was moving in luggage out of the country, out of Minneapolis every day, way more than any other airport in America at the time.
This is, I think, the second end of this welfare scam, which is where was this money going after it was defrauded? And I think we're beginning to get some signs of what's going on here.
This is almost jaw-dropping. You're saying for the four years of Biden, when you hear these kind of numbers every day, are Cash or Kristi Noem or somebody now doing an investigation for why this was not reported broadly and why this was not shut down?
Yeah, the president, in fact, just reposted my story and said arrest them all, meaning all the people that were moving the cash out of the country if it was defrauded cash. That's a big moment. Yeah, there's been an investigation going on for three or four weeks since this thing. We first wrote about the
welfare scandal in August of 2024, Steve, right when Waltz was named, because it was important that the man who wanted to be vice president be exposed for the fact that he presided over it. In February of this past year, the Justice Department approached Justin. He was like, hey, where'd you get this evidence? The answer is, it's all in the public documents. Look, it's in our story.
That's when prosecutors really ramped up their activities in Minneapolis. They discovered this cash flow in the airports about six or eight weeks ago when some whistleblowers came forward within the TSA and people had retired from the TSA. It's been under investigation for three or four weeks now.
It's a very unusual and large amount of money, unlike anything we've seen anywhere else in the country. And I think it's become part of the larger picture. But it is under significant and large investigation. There's hundreds of agents now looking at both who defrauded it, where did they come from, and where did they send their money.
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Chapter 8: What actions are being proposed to address systemic issues in government?
We're going to let that go. The media, which has been aligned with the deep state, suffocate the story. And so we see it. The prosecutors saw it. But most of the establishment leaves it there. We need more Senator Rand Paul. Listen, every day for the last 20 years, he's been exposing the fraud, the waste in government and the abuse of government.
The stuff he put out yesterday is the stuff every Republican should be talking about. The tools that we made for terrorists and for criminals were turned against innocent Americans simply because the Democratic regime disagreed with their opinions. That's not America. Senator Rand Paul calls it out every day. We need more James Comers, Rand Pauls, Jim Jordans calling this stuff out.
The club just sits there and yawns at it. And that's how we end up with a $37 trillion, $38 trillion debt.
John Solomon, where do people go for your content, sir?
Just the news.com and Jay Solomon reports on all social media.
Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. Senator Paul, now it's been announced we have a $1.5 trillion defense budget. You've been one of the biggest folks in there saying, hey, we've got to get the waste, fraud, and abuse. Things might be out of control. What are your thoughts about that? You know, I think waste, you know, is part of it, but really it has to be overall budgets of everything.
I mean, if you cut out the waste and abuse in government, I think it's not enough. I mean, what Doge found was enormous, and we should codify that, put it into the law and make sure it doesn't happen again. particularly the foreign aid, but you really have to address just overall spending.
If you take military spending off the table, though, and, you know, the president yesterday says we should increase it from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, if you do that, you'll never balance your budget, but you also will perhaps precipitate a crisis here where the dollar could suddenly lose its value and our debt suddenly becomes something no one wants to touch.
So we have now presidents focused on hemispheric defense from Greenland to the Gulf of America, the Arctic to Panama Canal, Latin America. You've got these moves. I'll talk to you about that in a second. But at home, things seem more and more spinning out of control. We did a cold open. Mondami says, hey, we're a sanctuary city. We're not going to allow ICE in.
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