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Steve Bannon: “The deep state is the kind of rogue praetorian guard of…”

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No. The deep state is that. No, that's the administrative state. And we fought all the administration, but there's two. The administrative state is the bureaucracy in the Administrative state that runs things. The deep state is the kind of rogue praetorian guard of certain elements, the Defense Department, intelligence, FBI, DOJ. that run the deal and have to be. And have to be rooted out, root and branch. The administrative state we fought the other day on the show. (23:42–23:51)

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