Steve Bannon Slams Bloomberg Hit Piece on Tulsi Gabbard and CIA’s Iran Record

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Aired on WarRoom’s morning show on January 8, 2026. 

STEVE BANNON : Natalie, in fact, I wasn’t supposed to do the show today. You had the whole show and you had a book. And I thank you for fitting me in because, and Poso for calling in from Minneapolis. Jack’s out there with Secretary Bessent, who did a magnificent job today.

And of course, a lot of activity in Minneapolis on something we’ve got to be focused on, which is the invasion of our country. And quite frankly, the insurrectionists and the traitors that are not allowing us to get these illegal alien invaders out of the country. It’s the number one priority for the country.

But something popped up today, and I felt we had to address it. That’s why I’m so glad you booked Kurt Mills and Jack called in. It’s his Bloomberg article.

Look, there was a massive hit piece done on Tulsi Gabbard today by Bloomberg, with cooperation of the White House and cooperation of people associated with the national security apparatus, particularly the intelligence community.

The DNI was 100% correct. The CIA’s intelligence, really driven by the Mossad, because Ratcliffe is so weak, was 100% wrong. And I can go through every detail. In fact, tomorrow, when I have more time, I will go through the details.

I know Poso’s joining us. Kurt Mills has joined us. Poso’s by phone. Jack, you know Tulsi. She came to, he’s not there yet?

Okay, fine. Do we know when Jack’s going in? Okay. Is Kurt Mills there? I can go here with my riff. Okay, fine.

A hemispheric defense. And now the White House is making this case, particularly with Greenland. It’s starting to fit together. But this is driven by one thing.

This is driven because Tulsi is not just about Venezuela. She’s one of the biggest people that are negative about American involvement in taking out the Iranian mullahs.

And here’s the reason. We have the sanctions. Everything we’ve said on here has gone exactly correct. The sanctions are bringing down the population. The Persians are in the streets to overthrow the mullahs.

What this has wrought on Israel, particularly people that have been defenders of Israel, is it brought a two state solution. You have to own the fact that the greater Israel project, and particularly the 12 day war, of which the Israelis were not winning, the Americans had to bail them out. First off defensively, and then lastly offensively.

And we know from the Times of Israel that it wasn’t two weeks on their nuclear program. It was two years, because Netanyahu had to tell his cabinet this.

What was obvious is that President Trump ended the 12 day war. He did not want to do an invasion. And now the Mossad, with the CIA and Ratcliffe, everything they’re doing is trying to push to an invasion. It’s not necessary.

The United States does not need to be dragged into another conflict in the Middle East. Why? Because the economic sanctions are doing what people thought they would do. It’s bringing the mullahs to their knees, with people in the streets.

If you cut them off from oil, and they should be cut off from the ability to sell oil to the Chinese Communist Party, they should be cut off 100%. If you did that, the people would rise up even more.

There’s no involvement needed. You have the CIA, the Mossad. Ratcliffe’s such a lightweight. They’re controlling him. They’re running him. But you’ve got Lindsey Graham and Tel Aviv Levin and all this crowd. All they want to do is invade Iran.

They want a line of contact with the Russians when we know they’re never going to fulfill that. Why? They’re dead broke.

Look at the domestic policy. France has no money. They have a parliament that can’t even get a budget out of it. Why? Because they’re so in debt and the deficits are so big. They have no cash for troops to go to Ukraine.

The UK is the exact same thing. Both of these countries are in financial crisis, and they’re going to look to us to bail them out.

The president’s plate is absolutely full. And Tulsi Gabbard, for being the hero she is, is actually standing up.

The Israelis had to fire missiles and eventually finish what they started offensively because they could not do it. To wit, the Israeli Air Force could not take out the surface parts of the nuclear program. The United States Navy had to do that with 30 Tomahawk missiles, which happens to be a technology from the 1970s.

President Trump bailed them out. And President Trump said, hey, look, I ended the 12 day war. The nuclear program is over.

Now they come with the new ballistic missile program, everything. Tulsi Gabbard is the one that says, well, actually, this is what reality is.

And today in Bloomberg, they went after her to say the DNI stands for do not invite. Well, she should be invited.

Number one, the president needs as many sources of information as possible. Particularly, this is like back in the 1970s. Team B was always there to judge what the CIA was saying. Why? Because until Bill Casey got to the CIA, it was wrong about everything about the Soviet Union.

The CIA has the worst reputation in the world of being dead wrong on major issues facing the United States strategically. Their history is replete with this.

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