John Solomon claims to Steve Bannon that the FBI will be investigating elections in five “particularly blue states or blue areas of states” including Maricopa and Fulton counties
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From the March 9, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): John Solomon, you've got a — nothing short of a blockbuster story on Just the News, I think you broke overnight. Maricopa County. Now you've been the tip of the spear of making — allowing us to understand the overall framing of what's happening in Georgia, and we've had tons of the local people who have been fighting the fight in Georgia.
Maricopa — and as Georgia is the key that probably picks the lock today because people stood in the breach and go, everybody remembers back from that night that it was really Arizona and the call by Fox News that kind of — it seemed like a domino effect and really disoriented many, many, many people who were not just Fox fans but obviously Trump supporters and we've never really gotten steady on that.
So,go through what your story says today because I think this is so important I wanted to lead with it this morning, sir.
JOHN SOLOMON (GUEST): Thank you. I appreciate it. So, Maricopa County has had more than a decade of long-term problems. Back in the early 2000s it was the Democrats who always cried foul that Maricopa County couldn't count votes correctly, couldn't administer the election correctly. Then in 2024, Republicans raised the same curtains and Democrats suddenly went into a state of denial.
The FBI has decided that the history of Maricopa County is problematic and that under federal law a county or a state must administer the election the way their state laws require it. If they don't, it is a federal legal violation.
This is why they raided Fulton County, another place with a long history of irregularities and misconduct and quite frankly just incompetent election counting.
And so the focus in this grand jury subpoena that went in the last few days to Maricopa County, seized many gigabytes of election data, is the 2024 election, which is interesting because President Trump won there, but there is a discovery that was made by congressional observers. Every year the House Administration Committee sends observers, one Democrat, one Republican, to various voting centers. One of the teams, the Republican Democrat team that went to Maricopa County, observed something very disturbing. They took pictures, they wrote a long report. Congressman Abe Hamadeh hinted at this in an Oversight letter recently.
The information in that report was so troubling to the FBI and when coupled to the things that the Arizona Senate found in 2020 that were raised as concerns and the things that Hamadeh and Kari Lake raised in 2022, they were able to get a grand jury subpoena from a federal grand jury and execute the transmission of a large amount of voter data. They're going to go through that data looking for some of the telltale signs that were in this congressional report.
I hope in the next couple of days to make that congressional report public so everybody can see what it was that observers on Bryan Steil's House Administration Committee saw. Bryan Steil himself acknowledged that they were working with federal authorities on this specific Arizona matter.
So, you got Congress working with the FBI, and I think this is phase two of about a five-phase look at states, particularly blue states or blue areas of states where elections are not administered the way the law says they're supposed to be, and as a result, the FBI may come in and prosecute people, because it is a federal felony, if you don't follow your state's laws, if you don't treat everybody the same under your state law.
So that's where we're at today. Now, over the next 10 days, Steve, we're gonna have a lot more. We are going to be able to get for the first time — I've been able to start processing these documents — a large body of evidence that's in the intelligence community that raises concerns about foreign interference in our elections. That'll probably be the end of this week or early next week. The documents are explosive. They're really remarkable.
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BANNON: Real quickly, you said five phases, and you said Maricopa was phase two. Is that to imply that — that Fulton County was phase one?
SOLOMON: Yeah, I think they're looking at five epicenters of voting irregularities. I don't know the other three yet. I just know there's a total of five on the agenda based on what people have been told downstream, you know, the agents in the field that are going to work on this, the prosecutors that are getting grand jury subpoenas, so it looks like they'll be looking at some other places.
If you look historically you clearly have some concerns about what went on in Michigan. All the work we did last year in Michigan on the state police uncovering this voter mill, and no one in the FBI ever going and investigating, even though the Michigan State Police said, hey, something bad happened here. I think I'd have to assume Michigan might be on the top of the list.
Wisconsin's always had a lot of questions. There was a famous video by James O'Keefe, eight, 10 years ago, of a guy admitting that they would bus in illegal aliens to vote. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but the video was clearly true, you could see it for your own self.
So I think Wisconsin's a likely one, but I don't know the other three, but I'm told that there are five areas that they're looking at, five regions, five localities where election irregularities have long been an issue and getting to the bottom of all of them.
BANNON: I'm gonna just throw out another random name, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, but we'll leave that for another day and then they get five.
SOLOMON: Of course, absolutely.
BANNON: This congressional report, Abe Hamadeh's been all over this. Do you have any idea - you said you have it - when you will be able to vet this and put it out to people.
SOLOMON: Yeah, I've been vetting it for a few weeks. I got the document in the last 24 hours, but I've kind of known what it says, and I've been, like I said, we had Bryan Steil on talking about it. Well, I think we'll have it in time for tomorrow if everything goes well.