War Room founder and host Steve Bannon spoke with guest Captain James Fanell about the CCP’s threat to the United States.

CCP leader Xi Jinping was in the United States to meet with President Trump at the White House this past week.

“I consider you one of the leaders, what I call the rational side of the equation, the rational side of the table about the Chinese Communist Party and what they really are and what their intents are,” Bannon said to Captain Fanell.

“By the way, this thing came was mainly optics. I think the entire business part of the meeting was around an hour,” Bannon said.

“The optics are what the optics are,” Bannon continued.

“Your thoughts, sir?” Bannon asked Captain Fanell.

“This is a historic moment in time, and this idea that the press, the few networks, can control what comes out of our White House, our White House, by these non-elected press entities that are opposed to President Trump’s vision or anything that they don’t agree with. That’s got to end,” Fanell said.

Bannon explained the difference between media outlets like Real America’s Voice and the Legacy media. With an outlet like RAV, there is commentary, but they try to show the entire story. Contrast that with so many of these other media outlets, which curate the story so they can continually badmouth President Trump.

“In our commentary and analysis about what we think is really going on is added on to it, but you got to show it. What they want to do is cut it all off and then just have their opinions, which is ‘Trump is terrible, Trump is awful,’” Bannon said.

“It is relentless, and it’s a sickness. Something has taken over this legacy media that’s worse than it’s ever been, and it’s going to get worse in the runup to the midterm elections,” Bannon continued.

“Your assessment of what you saw the last couple of days and the meaning of it, sir?” Bannon asked.

“I’m not a fan of having Xi here. I don’t like the Chinese Communist Party for their ideology, what they stand for. It’s directly opposed to America’s principles and values,” Fanell said.

“At least President Trump in this meeting stood firm, was very polite, very diplomatic, and exposed the world and Xi to what Americans are and what our documents are, our Constitution, our founding principles, and he showed them the power of our military might,” Fanell continued.

“They have killed, as I mentioned earlier, 800,000 or more Americans with fentanyl, and that has to stop, and the President should take it, use that as a bludgeon over the Chinese in negotiations,” Fanell explained.

Watch:

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Colombia’s new right-wing president brought a wanted narcotics commander to an American plane himself.

Video shows President Abelardo de la Espriella in a hangar as Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias “Araña” or “Spider,” is handed to U.S. Marshals and DEA agents.

WATCH:

WOW! Colombia’s new right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella just PERSONALLY hauled a hardened narco-criminal into a hangar to be loaded onto a UNITED STATES plane by US Marshals and DEA

El Tigre goes FULL law and order mode, and the terrified narco gets hauled into a… pic.twitter.com/ogWpG66ZI5

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 26, 2026

Rojas landed in San Diego later Friday under DEA and FBI escort.

His first federal appearance is set for Monday, before Magistrate Judge Steve B. Chu in the Southern District of California.

Hoy se hizo efectiva la extradición de alias “Araña” a los Estados Unidos.

Como Presidente de la República hice personalmente la entrega de Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias “Araña”, cabecilla de los Comandos de la Frontera y requerido por la justicia de los Estados Unidos.

La Corte… pic.twitter.com/BbGvqkiydV

— Abelardo De La Espriella (@ABDELAESPRIELLA) September 25, 2026

de la Espriella posted a video of the handover on X, and wrote in Spanish, translated by the platform:

Today, the extradition of alias “Spider” to the United States became effective.

As President of the Republic, I personally oversaw the handover of Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias “Spider,” leader of the Border Commands and wanted by the justice system of the United States.

The Supreme Court of Justice authorized his extradition, and I signed it without delay. With this decision, there are now 94 extraditions carried out during my administration.

This act represents far more than the handover of a criminal. It is an unequivocal message about the determination of the Colombian State to confront drug trafficking, strike at its structures, and strengthen cooperation with our allies to combat a criminal phenomenon that transcends our borders.

Drug trafficking has financed violence, terrorism, and organizations that have sown pain in our territory for decades. That is why we are acting against the entire criminal chain: illicit crops, laboratories, routes, finances, and leaders who grow rich at the expense of the blood and peace of mind of our citizens.

Colombia will no longer be a refuge for drug traffickers wanted by international justice. Those who seek to use our territory to produce, transport, or commercialize cocaine will have to answer to the justice system and face the full, legitimate weight of the State.

To Colombians, I reiterate my commitment: we will continue working to reclaim our territory, protect our families, and restore peace of mind to the regions battered by these organizations.

And to the criminals, I send an equally clear message: the State will pursue you, capture you, and, when warranted under the law, extradite you.

Colombia’s security is not delegated. It is exercised with authority, determination, and within the bounds of the law.

Firm for the Homeland!
Long live Christ the King!

Rojas, 44, is accused of leading Comandos de la Frontera, the Border Commands faction tied to the National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Army, a FARC dissident network that rejected or walked away from the 2016 peace deal.

U.S. prosecutors charged him with drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy tied to operations in Colombia and Ecuador dating to 2017.

The case was filed in the Southern District of California in early 2025.

AP and Reuters say he ran cocaine through Putumayo, on the Ecuador and Peru borders.

Colombia’s attorney general has separately linked Rojas to killings in Caquetá.

Rojas was arrested in Bogotá in February 2025 on an Interpol red notice while taking part in Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” talks. Colombia’s Supreme Court cleared extradition in 2025. Former President Petro suspended the handoff so Rojas could stay at the table as a negotiator.

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CNN hosts had a meltdown this afternoon during President Trump’s trip to Nashville to watch the University of Tennessee football game against the University of Texas after the network was 86’d from the press pool. 

CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene and Anderson Cooper whined on live TV last night about how CNN was not listed as the television pool and was replaced by Real America’s Voice in the White House daily guidance.

Then on Saturday, CNN Newsroom anchor Fredricka Whitfield brought Brian Stelter on the show to discuss the latest and push blatant lies about the new White House pool rotation.

“You can’t see much of him here on this network because the president barred CNN from traveling on Air Force One to handle the press pool duties, and in that role, CNN was scheduled to cover him on behalf of all the major television networks,” she claimed as if there was no available pool feed. “No outlet has been tapped to replace CNN, which means limited coverage of his trip.”

However, none of this is true. Real America’s Voice was tapped by the White House to fill the television pool duties and provide the live feed to any outlet that chooses to cover the President. CNN just chose not to cover Trump, then lied about the reason.

Stelter went on to spew his garbage narrative, arguing that “the president is trying to control news coverage” and “picking a fight with the people who are telling unpleasant truths about his administration.”

“Today, yes, it happens to be CNN, but tomorrow it could be any other news outlet. So we continue now for more than a week to see the president taking these unprecedented steps that CNN and other outlets have called illegal, and that First Amendment attorneys have said will eventually be defeated in court,” he continued.

“We know that that ban about the White House grounds. That ruling from the court was handed down a couple of days ago and taken into effect. So reporters from CNN, Politico, MS Now are back on the White House complex. But today the White House tried something different. The president rejected the plan, the schedule, for CNN to be the TV pool correspondent.”

Stelter went on to say, “The president wants to pick and choose who is able to be around him, who’s able to report on him, who’s able to document his presidency,” describing the move as “simply antithetical to the First Amendment.” So, now the President of the United States doesn’t get to decide who can be around him? Is CNN now unable to report on him or to document his presidency because they weren’t on Air Force One? Give me a break.

“He wants control. He wants to decide what’s real versus fake. But, of course, most Americans don’t want that. So, we don’t know what’s going to happen over the long term with TV pool coverage, but at least today the other networks have continued to rally together and refuse to go along with this ban,” Stelter added, claiming, “so, that’s why there’s no TV pool coverage.”

So, which is it? Is Trump preventing access to TV pool coverage, or are the networks refusing to cover him in protest?

WATCH:

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Real America’s Voice served as the White House television pool. Any network that wants to access its pool feed can email Pool@americasvoice.news.

Trump Blasts Fake News as CNN Barred From Air Force One – RAV and TGP Travel with POTUS

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Greek firefighters pulled six bodies from a collapsed house in Athens’ Plaka district on Saturday, including four American tourists who were supposed to fly home just hours later.

The blast hit 15 Lysikratous Street shortly after 7:30 a.m. Friday, a block from the Acropolis and the Temple of Olympian Zeus, according to an Associated Press report.

Rubble and glass were scattered across three blocks, and parked cars were crushed.

WATCH:

ALERT: Family of 4 is among at least 6 missing after a massive explosion shook a historic district in Greece.

An explosion hit a building in the Plaka district, next to the Acropolis of Athens and the Temple of Zeus, and it collapsed.

Fire services rescued 2 women from an… pic.twitter.com/bsUChKKOzX

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) September 25, 2026

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas called it “an incredible disaster” and said the explosion was likely tied to gas.

Fire brigade spokesman Vassilis Vathrakogiannis said crews with dogs, cameras, and sensors recovered all six of the victims after more than 24 hours in the wreckage.

Police spokeswoman Constantina Dimoglidou told the New York Times the four tourists had been on the first floor of the two-story building and were due to check out Friday morning.

A police source told Reuters they were expected at Athens airport around 3 p.m. for a Delta flight and never arrived.

Rescuers found a woman’s bag with two U.S. passports and the rental contract.

Greek media named the Americans as two couples traveling together: Florida Hoxha and her husband, Ian Alexander Kirkpatrick, and Florin Hoxha and his wife, Erisa Cani.

Greek Reporter and To Vima said Florida and Florin were siblings of Albanian origin who had U.S. passports.

Florida and Kirkpatrick had recently married and were in Greece on a honeymoon.

The other two dead lived upstairs.

Greek reports identified them as a married couple, Athina Papareskou, 78, a Greek woman, and Edmond Hings, 77, a British man.

Neighbors told reporters they smelled gas before the bang.

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Can Yemeni assemble an army to face the formidable Houthi militias in its tracks?

Since 2014, Since 2014, the Houthi rebels have fought a Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

Described by the US State Department as a terrorist proxy of Iran, the Houthis signed a UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022, but now they’re back into action – a bigger, more organized and much better armed force.

Earlier this month, the Houthis launched a rapid offensive along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, overrunning government positions in days.

The districts of Hays and al-Khawkhah fell, along with the last major Red Sea port of Mokha. They also conquered Dhubab, the Hanish Islands, and Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Now, they control Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and positions between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Now they are threatening shipping through the strait of Bab al-Mandeb and sending missile and drone attacks on Saudi and Israeli targets.

For a while, the war seemed focused on Houthis attacking Saudis and vice versa, as you can read in Flames and Smoke Seen Rising in Riyadh Airport After Warnings of Strikes by the Houthis and Saudi Forces Bomb Houthi Targets in Yemen – Iran Reports Strikes.

But now, Yemen’s Presidential Council chairman, Rashad al-Alimi, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Yemeni Armed Forces, is calling on his countrymen to unite against the terrorists.

Deutsche Welle reported:

“Rashad al-Alimi, the head of Yemen’s Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council, on Friday called for a general mobilization in the war-torn country.

‘I call upon the sons of our great people to engage in general mobilization and national mobilization, to rally around their armed and security forces’, al-Alimi said in a televised address.

The head of the governing body urged his compatriots to join the government forces weeks after Yemen’s government was dealt a major blow by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.”

Rashad al-Alimi added that anyone defecting from the Houthis to the government side will be pardoned in an upcoming amnesty, he added.

The Jerusalem Post reported:

“He decried the recent uptick in Houthi attacks as a “dangerous escalation” caused by the terrorist group choosing to act with force and weapons instead of pursuing dialogue and peace.

‘Experience has proven that making concessions to militias does not lead to peace, but rather gives them an opportunity to reorganize their ranks and prepare for a new round of escalation’, Alimi continued.

[…] ‘It is time for this long chapter of suffering to end, and for the Yemeni family to regain its security, tranquility, and normal life’, Alimi urged. ‘Every young person who is saved today from the project of this terrorist group is a building block in the construction of a new Yemen that is reconciled with itself, its neighbors, and the international community’.”

Read more:

Iran-Backed Houthis Attempt Strike on Mecca in Saudi Arabia – Islam’s Holiest City!

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