Brown Shooting Targeted Violence | Steve Bannon and Caroline Wren Raise Alarming Questions

Steve Bannon and Caroline Wren raise urgent questions about a deadly shooting at Brown University that left a conservative student leader dead and authorities with no clear answers.

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This clip aired on WarRoom’s evening show on December 15, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

STEVE BANNON (HOST): There’s something not right about the singing. And this young woman, vice president of the College Republican Club, they’re a Republican club, very conservative. But Brown is by far, orders of magnitude, the most far left student faculty and student body in the Ivy League. And she stood tall.

There’s all types of chat going around, et cetera, that the campus police and the authorities are thinking that this may be a targeted assassination on someone, ma’am.

CAROLINE WREN (GUEST): This does. This hits close to home for me. I got my start in politics with the College Republicans at Auburn University in Alabama. And so this beautiful young girl from Mountain Brook, AL, you know, got her dream to go to an Ivy League school, Brown University. And she was, you know, viciously gunned down on campus along with eleven other students, two of which are now dead, on Brown University’s campus.

And the shooting happened 48 hours ago. So far, we have zero information on the suspect. We have one video of essentially a blob walking down an unidentified street. And what is amazing, like Brown is a private Ivy League school. It costs nearly $100,000 a year to attend. And somehow a masked man walked into the lecture hall, shot 11 students that were there studying for their finals, then walked out. And there is no video footage. Like, where are the cameras at Brown University? This is unbelievable.

There’s 11,000 or so students at Brown University. I think less than 1% identify as conservative, which puts the number somewhere around 92 students. And somehow the vice president of the College Republicans died in the shooting. It makes it very hard to believe that this was not targeted. And why we don’t know much about this also is because no one in the media is talking about it.

I saw one report that said the shooter, that some of the students in the lecture hall said that the shooter yelled Allah Akbar before opening fire. Then some people say that isn’t true. How hard is it to confirm that? I mean, like, did he yell that or not? You had a room full of 90 students in a lecture hall. So, like, out of a basic level, could we just confirm that? Because that might explain the motive here.

And, you know, this comes on the heels of the FBI today announcing that they thwarted, thank God, a planned terrorist bombing in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve by a pro Palestine group. But apparently the media, they don’t care. They don’t want to talk about the mass murder that just happened at Brown University or the terrorist plot that they were just thwarted in Los Angeles.

All they want to talk about is the rhetoric around Donald Trump’s post about some movie director, Rob Reiner, that I’ve never heard of, who was murdered by his coked out, deranged, drug addicted son that he raised in Hollywood. So it’s not even that shocking of a story.

And so I just, I can’t. I don’t want to talk about the movie mogul that was killed. I want to talk about Ella Cook, the 19 year old, the beautiful young girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, the Christian leader of the only conservative group on campus that was just shot in the face. And some reports are saying that. Why aren’t we discussing that? That is what I want to be talking about right now.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Why is, you know, Kash, I understand they’re busy. They got stuff going on. They just rolled up this group in L.A. But when you see the mayor and you see the chief of police and the campus police, it’s Keystone cops.

Kash and Bongino should take this one over, and they should be at the microphones, tell us what happened, and we should have daily updates.

I mean, it’s kind of stunning. A guy, somebody can walk in on a study session, because this was a called study session to get ready for finals. It’s not like a regular class. Hell, it’s a Saturday afternoon. How many college kids are in class on Saturday afternoon?

Something happened and got this guy there. We don’t know anything about it. And it’s just the laws of probability when you have a known, very conservative young woman that’s VP of the Republican club, has gone out of her way not to be controversial but to help people that are getting dragged and ratioed on social media. And she’s known as kind of a safe space. That’s how brave she is. That she’s gunned down and shot in the face.

And it’s just too random. Right? It doesn’t make sense. Maybe it is, but we’ve got to get there.

And you’re right. I don’t even want to put the picture up. It’s such a joke. I thought it was a parody when somebody. It’s across a parking lot, and it’s a little black thing walking around that’s dressed up for winter with nothing. And they don’t have any explanation. This is like the Keystone cops running this, is it not, Caroline Wren?

CAROLINE WREN (GUEST): Yeah, it is.

I mean, this part about Providence, RI, is notable. It’s small, but their police force, who is running this? Kash has come out and said that the FBI out of Boston is coming in to assist. But technically, Charlie Kirk got assassinated on live television, and then President Trump has had two assassination attempts against his life.

More than half the cabinet and White House staff have all had to move onto military bases due to the threats against their lives. I mean, Alina Habba and Ed Martin have both been attacked. Stephen and Katie Miller had to move out of their home because left wing lunatics were writing in chalk every morning on their driveway death threats.

A left wing sniper just murdered three people at an ICE facility in Texas. We just had two National Guard troops gunned down in D.C. I mean, I can go on and on. But there’s a pattern here. And it is a pattern of left wing violence against conservatives, against Christians. And we have got to stop it.

And this takes the FBI’s full and present attention, not some coked out movie son’s murder mystery plot taking place in Los Angeles right now. I don’t care.