Bannon`s War Room
WarRoom Battleground EP 867: Pope Leo Is Francis 2.0; Continuing Mass Deportations
09 Oct 2025
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Chapter 1: What breakthrough occurred in the Middle East recently?
You know, last night we reached a momentous breakthrough in the Middle East, something that people said was never going to be done. We ended the war in Gaza and really, on a much bigger basis, created peace. And I think it's going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace. Peace in the Middle East.
We secured the release of all of the remaining hostages and they should be released on Monday or Tuesday.
Chapter 2: How are hostages being secured in the current negotiations?
Getting them is a complicated process. I'd rather not tell you what they have to do to get them. There are places you don't want to be, but we are getting the hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday. And that'll be a day of joy. I'm going to try and make a trip over.
Chapter 3: What role does Trump play in the peace negotiations?
We're going to try and get over there. And we're working on the timing, the exact timing. We're going to go to Egypt. where we'll have a signing, an additional signing. We've already had a signing representing me, but we're going to have an official signing.
Chapter 4: Why is there a different sentiment in Gaza and Israel this time?
Why do they feel differently about this phase one? It seems like the jubilation on the streets, both in Gaza and in Israel, is a little bit different this time around, Sam. But what they've said to me was a few things. One is that Trump is so much behind this and that they really have put all their faith in him more than any of the other deals have been.
The other thing is this coalition that he's managed to get, the Arab coalition.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Pope's recent teachings?
He's gotten a huge international support that hasn't been in previous deals. And they just feel like there's no way that Netanyahu can back down from this pressure. And so they have said that there is a different feeling to this. But at the same time, As you've been mentioning, this is phase one, but the issues in the last deal as well came going into phase two.
Chapter 6: How does the Pope's stance affect U.S. immigration policy?
And so there are concerns that this might go ahead, but that it might not last. But this in Trump involvement, everyone is saying is really the key as to why they think this time is much different than previous.
Yeah, and that's the reason why I made the point that I did earlier. We need to stop viewing this as the outlier and recognize this is now the normal. This is normal.
Chapter 7: What arguments are being made about presidential powers?
Like, what is normal at the Department of Justice in October of 2025 is that the President of the United States will order the Attorney General or suggest to the FBI who he wants investigated and indicted, and they will comply. And, you know, again, not to be the difficult one here,
But if you're sitting, you know, as a line assistant in the Eastern District of Virginia, I don't want to hear about the fact that you disagree. I don't want to hear that you refuse to be in the grand jury room. What the hell are you doing in the office?
Chapter 8: How does the current political climate reflect on the Catholic Church's role?
You know, what you're doing in the office is you are still conveying a legitimacy to an office that is run by a woman right now who is, I think, probably been in grand jury rooms twice in her life. Once to indict James Comey and once now to indict Tish James. So, you know, The authoritarians don't just rule by the handful of people at the top.
They rule through the compliant go along, get along of a whole lot of other people. And yes, I was one of those people who said, if you are a good government employee, don't resign. But the assumption was that they were going to stand up and they were going to speak out. They weren't going to sit quietly at their desk and try not to get called on.
And right now there are a whole lot of people in the executive branch who are just trying to keep quiet and not get called on. And those people need to either stand up and follow their oath or else they need to get the hell out of the government.
What is the judge considering in this case? The judge in Chicago, you're asking? Yes, in Chicago. One of the things that the judge has to weigh is whether this is within the president's power under this provision of Title 10. And there are two things that the president can rely upon.
We actually heard about this earlier today when the Ninth Circuit heard argument about what's going on in Portland. One of them is, is there a rebellion on the ground or a danger of a rebellion that would justify federalizing the National Guard?
And obviously that depends on whether the court itself thinks it has the power to define what a rebellion is, or if only the president in his own discretion gets to decide that. But the second question is, does the president think that regular forces are unable to execute the laws of the United States?
And that could be a question, too, because it doesn't just depend on the immediate here and now. But there were some questions today from the Ninth Circuit, for example, about.
Do we let the president sort of have the discretion to decide how to allocate federal resources so that if the president, for example, thinks I've put too many ICE and CBP officers in Chicago and that's diverting from their other missions? Does that justify sending in the National Guard to assist in the protection, for example, of federal property, of federal persons?
Can he sort of like shift resources around in the way that he sees fit?
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