This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on November 12, 2025.
Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).
STEVE BANNON (HOST): “But I want to go back to start this. This is why we started the cold open with Todd Blanche giving that talk at the Federalist Society. Because it is the quiet part out loud that, of course, the crew at MSNBC said about, you know, they’re going after these judges because they don’t agree with the political agenda of President Trump.
Yo, baby, that’s the whole point. This is why the Roberts Court has overturned so many of these radical left-wing judges that you judge-shop. This is why the Supreme Court, because what the Roberts Court has said, essentially in ruling after ruling after ruling, it’s not their job to make political decisions, not their job to get involved. That was the Warren Court, and that’s been the problem with the court for decade after decade after decade.
In the Roberts Court, I think because you have some very strong conservatives, or as we call it, the Clarence Thomas Court, Judge Thomas Court, is saying we’re not interventionists, we’re not judicial activists. The political decisions should be made by, wait for it, the political branches of the government. That would be Capitol Hill, the Congress, and the executive branch.
Let’s go. So I want to start there because it’s going to roll through the entire analysis of exactly where we are on a major pivot of the economic policy of the United States. Can I play the first cut, the Todd Blanche one? I’ll tell you. I’ll just keep my mic on it and I’ll cut it off when I’m happy. Are these guys ready? Can they do it? Okay. He’s going to play it.
[MSNBC clip plays}
Can we stop right there? Denver, can you stop? Okay. Right there. He says, the Supreme Court’s reversed all these guys. It is a war. This is called lawfare, and this is a war. They don’t have the political supports, so this is the principal attack that they’ve used to date — the courts. And they go, oh, but this is out of Erdogan. No. Out of Erdogan, you guys have had the high ground for decade after decade after decade after you removed, starting with the Warren Court somewhat, but after you removed Richard Nixon.
And always remember Jeff Shepard, the Watergate stuff you see in All the President’s Men, that’s Hollywood. Deep Throat, that’s all Hollywood. That’s what the liberals put forward, you know, these brave reporters and the Washington Post and Katharine Graham, right? All of it. That’s all kind of Deep Throat. It was a judicial and legal insurrection against Nixon.
As Jeff Shepard points out, it was lawfare that removed Nixon, and the Republicans didn’t have the stones to back him up. They folded and Nixon went, and then they hermetically sealed off the Justice Department since then. This is one of the reasons they hate Trump and they hate what Trump’s doing. Remember, go back to the Article II powers, the maximalist strategy. Part of that is something that no Republican has touched since Nixon, and that is the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the country.
In fact, Nixon didn’t. If you study the internal workings of the White House, they were petrified of it. Trump ain’t petrified about it. And this was the years in the wilderness to build the case intellectually to go for it. And it is a war. And they’ve been reversed.
I don’t have time. We’re going to continue with the tape because then the other panelists, or the other co-host on the evening show at MSNBC, says the quiet part out loud. You know, they’re all over these judges because they don’t agree with the political agenda of Donald Trump.
We don’t give a damn what a judge… they went along with this. We ain’t going along with this. This is the battering ram that Trump is, and this is why they hate him. They understand they have to stop this. This is their focal point. Yes, they got some wins, and we’ll talk about that, taking on some populist issues. But this is the heart of the matter.
This is what their defense has already been. This is what their offense is. This is why you have the grand conspiracy case now in South Florida to take that part of the deep state apart — just like Carthage.”
