Episode 5603: Breakdown On US Economy; Taxpayer Research Sold Out To China

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Bannon`s War Room 54 min 7 speakers 8 chapters transcribed 1 month ago

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How does the episode describe the DOJ’s role and the Comey prosecution controversy?

Unknown 0:00

Department makes its position very clear. The idea that the DOJ should operate independently from the president is nothing more than a quote myth. They wrote that. Trump's DOJ is defending its prosecution of former FBI director James Comey in that so-called Seashells case. First, denying its vindictive prosecution, but then, second, arguing that even if Comey was charged at the direction of Donald Trump, that would be perfectly fair. Fine. Quote, the chief executive directing his subordinate to exercise core executive functions is a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system. The purported independence of the DOJ that Comey cites is antithetical to the constitutional separation of powers. So you'll remember when Donald Trump took office for his second term, he did mass firings of inspectors general.

Unknown 0:48

These are the independent watchdogs that are supposed to scrutinize different agencies within the federal government. They're supposed to be looking for fraud, waste, and abuse. They're supposed to be scrutinizing the department head and making sure dollars are spent wisely and there's not no big Contracts going out to to allies and cronies, and a lot of them were wiped out and in their their um agencies their offices were either left vacant or put temporary people in charge. Now what's happened is Donald Trump has started to p appoint replacements at some of these agencies. But unlike past inspector generals who usually came from auditing backgrounds, Or law enforcement backgrounds, or eight other eight political roles.

Unknown 1:36

These people have overtly political backgrounds. So you have a former Republican congressman, for instance, or a lawyer who worked exclusively on Republican advocacy cases, or in the latest example, you have one of the co-authors of the Conservative Project 2025 document going in as an instruction. Inspector General. And so what you see out of this is um sometimes instead of looking inside the agency and scrutinizing the agency head, they're looking out at some of Donald Trump's rivals, right? Gavin Newsom, for instance, in California, or Leticia James, the Democratic Attorney General in New York. And so we're seeing a very different approach out of some inspector general's offices. with these new appointees from Donald Trump.

Nicolle Wallace 2:25

It is not a myth, but it is um perhaps to our detriment a norm, a post Watergate norm. And I wonder, Director Brennan, what we

What changes have occurred with Inspector General appointments under Trump?

Nicolle Wallace 2:38

should hear when they say all of the quiet things out loud and not just say them out loud but put them in filings. Are you thinking any differently about what we all know is going on in South Florida?

John Brennan 2:51

And this whole thing is so surreal. And especially the public comments about saying that there's no need for any type of independence from the White House. I mean, it's turned everything on its head. It's turned the system of justice in this country, you know, on its head in terms of the what we have done and how we have practiced the rule of law over the past many decades. And to be able to say things like that. I mean, it just it it just demonstrates, I think, the the depths to which they're willing to go in order to pursue adversaries of the president of the United States. And so therefore, again, the Department of Justice, they should be holding their head in shame those individuals who continue to carry out his guidance and his direction.

John Brennan 3:29

And again, I have to emphasize that there are real professionals, individuals of great principle and ethics, who remain in the Department of Justice and they have to hold the line. They have to not capitulate to the wishes and direction of these These individuals who again have so corrupted and perverted the rule of law that again it puts a lot of people in the crosshairs, not just me and Director Comey and others, but anybody out there who might in fact get on the wrong side of Donald Trump.

Trey Yingst 3:54

Hey guys, good morning. Overnight President Trump announced what he is calling economic D-Day against Iran. The president indicated that any country around the world providing a lifeline to the Iranians could face economic consequences of their own.