Bannon`s War Room
Episode 5065: Using Local Sheriffs To Save The States; Trump Policies Spearhead Economic Growth
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What actions are Minnesotans taking to protect local schools?
Local school kids in Minneapolis, en masse, walking out of their school to tell Trump's federal agents to leave them alone and get out of their town. Tonight, we're going to talk about what Minnesotans are doing to try to protect their schools, forming human chains around Minnesota public schools at pickup and drop off.
The Wall Street Journal reporting this weekend on a surge in, quote, volunteers, many of them moms already involved in their schools, using Google Docs to divvy up tasks such as delivering groceries to immigrant families. Volunteers are on hand at drop-off and pickup at schools with whistles to blow in case ICE agents show up.
The Immigrant Defense Network telling the Washington Post that they have trained about 2,000 people total to be ICE observers in the Twin Cities. About 2,000 people total. But then the day after ICE killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, they got a huge surge. They had 354 people show up in one day. The very next day. to be trained to be ice observers. 354 people showed up in one day.
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Chapter 2: How are volunteers supporting immigrant families in Minneapolis?
Why don't you help someone? All you do is hurt. All you do is hurt. The mayor saying, quote, Donald Trump should know that as long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we've got.
Here are Democratic members of Congress turning up at the local ICE detention facility, the local ICE jail in Minnesota, demanding to be let in because as members of Congress, they are allowed by law to inspect any federal facility like that at any time with no notice. But these members of Congress were nevertheless turned away.
Today, Democracy Forward went to court to force ICE and force the Trump administration to let those members of Congress in because that, in fact, is the law. And again, if they were hoping that their shambolic and chaotic violence would dissuade Americans from standing up to them. Well, they do not understand Americans. They do not understand how we are wired. It is having the opposite effect.
We're given 90 day notices to places like California, Scott. Right away, we're going to send out that notice. who would bill the federal government as people poured into the state to send those people back because no country can afford to do it. No country can afford to take in millions of people, pay for their education, their health care, their hospitals. You just can't do it.
And we all have a heart. You can't do it. But many of those people are murderers. They're people released from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums. They're people that are drug dealers. They're addicts.
Additionally, starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens. And it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
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.
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Chapter 3: What role do local sheriffs play in enforcing federal immigration laws?
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 lie? MAGA 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 Tuesday, 13 January, Year of Our Lord 2026. Thank you for coming to the afternoon, late afternoon, early evening edition. Now you know the early evening edition on Monday, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
The 6 o'clock show is War Room, Texas, and we're going to have a great crowd there tonight, a great group of people. Don't want to miss that. About the Islamic takeover of the great state of Texas, but I want to start first. Rachel Maddow is telling you, you see how unctuous she is? She's all puffed up. up there in that barn making that $20 million a year.
What we Americans, she doesn't understand we Americans. Lady, you are trying to protect 15 to 20 million illegal alien invaders who are certainly not Americans to stay inside this country. And you're trying to stop federal officials from performing their tasks under the Constitution. We played the cold open this morning.
All these lawsuits that the mayor of Minneapolis has and Walls has who are all going to go to prison for the scams they've got in bed with the Somalians, including the attorney general, Ellison. You're all up to your neck in it. You're going to tell Americans, you're going to tell hardworking, patriotic Americans and law enforcement and ICE agents, oh, they don't understand how we Americans are.
You're instigating. I don't know why we're not rolling up MSNBC. Oh, excuse me, ShamWow. It's the new name is ShamWow. That's the new, is it MS now? ShamWow. Remember that guy that had the chamois giving you a shine on the hood of your car? The ShamWow Network. is instigating violence against federal... You see that clip right there? We could have played hours of that type of stuff.
Sheriff Mack... Joins me, Sheriff, when I have these questions about law enforcement, you're one of the first people I turn to. What are federal agents supposed to do? And what recommendation would you give to the president of the United States now? He's going to cut them off on the 1st of February. No money there.
Before that, on 20 January, if we head down this path, the radical Democrats are going to try to shut down ICE by defunding it. And so I think we're going to a government shutdown. But that's fine. That's fine. On 1 February, the president just said he's not going to send any more cash to these sanctuary cities. You've had this problem in Arizona with sanctuary cities, all of it.
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Chapter 4: How are federal agents perceived in local communities?
I've talked to these sheriffs. They want to help. And the states are now trying to go after the sheriff. We just got back from Washington State where the sheriffs are being sued, being attacked by their own governors and their own AGs. AG Brown is suing Sheriff Wagner in Adams County because he's trying to help ICE get rid of criminals out of his county.
And the AG is actually showing his lawlessness and his ignorance in going after the sheriff that's trying to go after criminals. Hang on a second.
Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. I want to make sure people understand this. I want to make sure I understand it. You're telling me in the great state of Washington. There's sheriffs up there that are supporting ICE, which they're sworn to do. They're supporting ICE and ICE going through their federal duties to extract these illegal alien invaders.
And that the state attorney general is suing the sheriff?
Yes, that's exactly correct. 100% correct. And we just had, General Flynn and I were at a meeting there at a big rally, standing room only at the Experienced Church in Puyallup, right outside Tacoma. And the sheriffs are at a loss what to do. So we were trying to give them some direction and let them know they're doing the right thing. And Sheriff Bob Songer says, I don't care what the AG does.
I'm going to continue to help ICE. Sheriff... Schwenk in Pierce County, the second largest county in Washington State, same thing. But Washington State is the worst state in the union for destroying the office of sheriff, attacking the sheriff, and defending the criminals that invaded our country in the first place.
How can you, when you look at Washington, you look at Minneapolis, I mean, it's no doubt it's chaos and anarchy because the people that are breaking the law, the illegal aliens are here, but the Rachel Maddows of the world and all these people put the kids, they're using kids as human shields around the schools. I mean, what then is to be done?
What can the sheriffs actually do when you have American citizens that are actively breaking the law and trying to instigate more violence, sir?
Well, the sheriff's and his deputy should be there with those ICE agents, and they should be defending those ICE agents and working with them. The sheriff's office and the deputies should be clearing those streets for ICE and providing safety and security for and backup for their fellow police officers from the federal government.
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Chapter 5: What recommendations are being made to the President regarding law enforcement?
He's so impassioned to do this properly. We intend to imprison any fraudster, politician or public official involved in these sick plots to loot and pillage our country. In addition, I proudly called for the credit card companies to cap interest rates at 10 percent for one year because they're getting 28 and 30 percent and 32 percent. And it's unfair. The rates are way too high.
As part of those efforts at Davos, next week I'm going to provide much more detail about our housing policies so that every American who wants to own a home will be able to afford one. We have some great things happening with housing, as you know. You saw the $200 billion buy-in on bonds and mortgages.
This will include a ban on large institutional investors buying up single-family homes all over the country and making it impossible for people to buy a home. And I've also announced that the U.S. government is purchasing $200 billion of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates, and it's had a huge impact. It's already started.
And just last week, the average 30-year mortgage dropped below 6% for the first time in many years.
On consumer price index, we're expecting a headline number up three-tenths of a percent, and it delivered. That's exactly what we received, up three-tenths of a percent. Now, if you look at the previous month in August, it was up four-tenths. September, it was up three-tenths. So this fits right in. If you look at X food and energy, known as core on a month-over-month,
It's a tenth cooler than expected. It's up two-tenths. Now, if you look at year-over-year, up 2.7 expected, 2.7 arrives. The one glimmer here on the year-over-year is the core comes in the tenth light expectations, but the 2.6 level is where we've been. And my favorite numbers, and they really are my favorite numbers, Joe, if we look at the index here,
The index on the non-seasonally adjusted index, this started in 1913. The index number, 324. And why is that important? Because, once again, it's a new all-time high. Pretty much, not all the time, but pretty much every month, we get a new all-time high. 1913. And if you look at the 1957 rendition, which is the core CPI, it comes in at 331 and change.
And, of course, that's also an all-time, all-time high. So, Philip Patrick, I've got you on to make this make sense to me. You know, the president is now in a throwdown with the chairman of the Federal Reserve. It looks like the markets are supporting the president. I mean, either meh or a little bit of turbulence in the bond market that that settled out.
Stock market yesterday, I think S&P 500, all-time high. Did a little bit of retreat today, but not much. I mean, the markets are supporting him. You've got this, I think, excellent print or very good print on inflation today. And of course, President Trump's down there talking about how we're not going to keep spending on all these social programs. So they're obviously stealing the money.
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Chapter 6: How are Trump policies impacting economic growth?
You know, we need an independent Fed. Well, the money got the stock market hit an all time high yesterday and the bond market is no real turbulence. I mean, isn't the money the money gets a vote here? Isn't the money saying we're fine with Trump? Independence is overrated because Trump's making us so much money.
The economy's turned around under Biden is about to collapse that the guys running the economy are making us so much money. If he wants to take on all the Fed chairs because all the Fed chairs and and the U.S. Senate, the banking committee and all those guys are all sitting there going, Trump's the worst. We need an independent Fed. The money's not telling me that, is it?
Listen, not dramatic. Look at what happened in France and the UK. The bond markets are not revolting in that respect. You're absolutely correct. Flip side, though, we've had five rate cuts in the last two years. Borrowing rates have stayed fairly firm. In a normal climate, rates should have declined. So yes, bond markets aren't freaking out yet.
They're certainly happy with the direction Trump's heading. But Scott Besson's reaction, you know more than me. I'm getting this from the Daily Mail. There's people within the administration trying to calm this down a little bit because I think if it goes too far, we may start to have problems.
I think it should be noted that there wasn't a lot about Powell in today's speech. And Scott Besson did fly on Air Force One out there with President Trump. So make this make sense to me. We've got, I think, a carrier strike group somewhere in the Straits of Malacca heading toward the North Arabian Sea. So all the discussion tonight is going to strike Iran.
And I think if he had a target set that said, hey, bang, you drop one there and the Ayatollah falls, he may think about that. But I'm not so sure that target set. We keep saying just keep the economic pressure on. This thing is collapsing. You've got Greenland. The Danes are getting ready to send some special operators to Greenland. You've got obviously the situation in Venezuela.
Is the geopolitics like, why is gold on fire and why is silver on fire when you've got these other markets that are not really in horrible turmoil because of President Trump's challenge, just like Andrew Jackson? Andrew Jackson said, hey, we don't need a central bank, but if we got it, the people are going to control it, not the bankers. And I think Trump's saying the same thing.
Why is gold and silver on fire, sir?
Listen, there's so many forces driving it. We've got inflation. We've got de-dollarization. We've got geopolitical instability. It's like the perfect storm for physical precious metals that we're seeing. By the way, I want to say something on foreign policy. It's interesting. There is a world where things land right. We have a free Iran. We have a peacekeeping force in Gaza.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of tariffs on inflation and consumer prices?
And again, coming back to these inflation numbers that we're seeing at the consumer level, not only has inflation cooled, but wage growth has not. That means paychecks are continuing to get bigger. And more importantly, they buy more than they did a year ago. They buy more than they did when Trump took office.
In fact, the average American's weekly paycheck, Steve, buys about 1.5% more now than it did when Trump took office. Conversely, under Biden, that average weekly paycheck shrunk, at least in terms of what it could buy, by about 4%. So that tells you two things. One, we are course correcting. We're heading in the right direction.
The boom that Scott Besson keeps talking about has already begun and it's going to continue. But it also tells us that we haven't yet undone all of that damage from the Biden administration. And I think that's how you square the circle of how can the economy be improving so much while so many people still feel dissatisfied. We are still dealing with the hangover from the Biden years.
And we're going to have to take care of that. Number one is I said when people came out after the elections in November, oh, my God, it's about affordability, and they all fell into the trap of saying affordability. There were tweets out there saying November 26th is about affordability. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down. You've got a plan. You've executed the plan.
You're going to drive the plan, and that's both the supply-side tax cut and the trade and the commerce. They're driving to a point. Just focus on growth. jobs, and wages, and real wages. If you do that, it's all going to work out. You can see it coming right now. And look at the trade deficit. I think we had the lowest trade deficit since 2009. Exports up 30%, imports down 30%.
President Trump, it's kicking in right now. The question I have for you, how did all the experts... that from Liberation Day all the way to it started kicking in in July, just over and over on MSNBC every night, oh, it's going to blow up, his trade policies are so terrible, and they're going to cause this massive inflation, they're going to wipe out the working class.
The trade policies are done to build a robust middle class and working class, and the experts completely whiffed on the inflation part of this. Why did they miss so badly, E.J. ?
Steve because these these so-called experts they're not experts in in fields like economics. They're experts in politics They say what they think will sound good. They say what they think will sell books or appeal to politicians Whatever the case may be
Look, at the end of the day, the same people who have been ragging on President Trump and his policies were the exact same folks cheerleading for Biden and were dead wrong about inflation being transitory. Remember that one? And they also are the same folks who were wrong during the first Trump administration.
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Chapter 8: How does the current economic climate affect average American households?
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Obviously, the non-interventionists are saying economically, you know, Scott Besson gave the speech in March about how the Trump administration put the screws of sanctions and go after their currency. And they've done a magnificent job. This is why you've seen all the riots in the streets. This is why we argued against a decapitation hit during the 12 day war. You don't need that.
You don't need America. If you break it, you own it. We don't need to break it. We're breaking it right now with the people of Persia. They're the ones in the streets. Of course, there may be a strike tonight, particularly if there's a target set. You never know. President's going to look at all alternatives. But there's a carrier battle group I think is going to
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