In this episode of The War Room, host STEPHEN K. BONUS EPISODE featuring Jack Posobiec and Natalie Winters, host of the show "The War Room" on Fox News Radio's "The Situation Room," joins us to discuss the latest in the Iran/ISIS conflict, including reports that U.S. forces carried out strikes against Iranian forces in Syria and Iraq.
00:00:55.000It's Natalie Winters hosting, filling in for the one and only Stephen K. Bannon today,
00:01:00.000February 2nd in the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:01:04.000But as I'm sure Steve would say, we've got a lot of wood to chop today.
00:01:08.000There's a lot of news breaking all over the world, whether it's Fannie Willis, what's going on in the Middle East,
00:01:14.000what's going on with our own hostile regime here at home, weaponizing against American citizens.
00:01:19.000We are going to cover all of that and so much more in the War Room today.
00:01:23.000Without further ado, I'll spare you guys one of my rants and we'll just get right to the guy who's probably going to give you a pretty epic rant.
00:01:30.000Now, Jack Posobiec, of course, a good friend of the show, I had wanted you on to talk about all things Taylor Swift at Steve's request.
00:01:37.000But I would say lucky for Taylor Swift, unlucky for probably the rest of the world.
00:01:43.000It seems that we have breaking news that there are some retaliatory strikes going on against, I believe, Iranian-backed militant militia groups in Iraq and Syria.
00:01:53.000So you seem to be the perfect person to sort of break down both what is actually going on, boots on the ground, but also from a more meta perspective, what should we look for in the coming days?
00:02:04.000OK, so Natalie, thanks again for having me on. What we're seeing now, of course, this is the promised retaliation from Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin regarding the deaths of those three troops from the state of Georgia Army Reservists who were killed at Tower 22 in Jordan.
00:02:19.000What we're told at this point, as of 1,600 hours Eastern Standard Time, U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, so that's the Pentagon's operational forces, the operational COCOM in the Middle East, conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:02:38.040This is the same organization that Gerald Soleimani was the head of, this IRGZ Quds Force, and their affiliated militia groups.
00:02:46.220So these are these Iranian proxy forces, these Islamic militia groups, 85 targets, numerous aircraft to include, and they're making a big point of this, bombers that were actually flown long range from the United States itself.
00:02:59.880The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions were given a long list of things that were hit, but we're not actually told where they were hit or any specifics on the groups that were targeted other than they are IRGZ sponsored groups.
00:03:16.120And so it's very interesting that we're seeing this, but also something that I would look at in terms of the fact that it was B-1 bombers that were used in this situation.
00:03:26.340The fact that we used these stealth long range bombers from the United States to the Middle East, it actually kind of sparks the question for us then, and Fox News love to show their maps up of all the bases that we have in the Middle East.
00:03:42.380And of course, when they talk about it, they'll say, oh, well, look where all these strikes were.
00:03:45.980But in doing so, they are forced to actually show where we have troops on the ground in the Middle East.
00:03:51.440And something you'll never hear from Fox, something you'll never hear from the administration is an actual explanation of why we have so many thousands of troops right now, including people who are friends of mine that are over there.
00:04:04.380Why do we have all of these troops there?
00:04:07.720You just showed, by the way, the Pentagon, by the way, just showed us that they could send bombers over anytime they wanted to strike these groups, to strike these.
00:04:16.600And here's the list right in front of me, intelligence centers, command and control operation centers, rockets, missiles, vehicle shortage, logistics.
00:04:26.280So if we have the ability to bomb them all the way from the United States, why do we need 3,000 American forces there?
00:04:32.300Why not just send Eric Prince a couple of the special ops guys, send them over, let them take care of business?
00:04:37.940Why do we need people in these engineering regiments and all these other places in harm's way?
00:04:42.460And it's simple, Natalie, I'll tell you right now, because there are people within our government like Victoria Nuland, who is running around trying to put the pieces back together in Kiev right now, who are desperate for a wider war in the region with Russia and desperate for a war with Iran.
00:04:58.700Those troops that we have on the ground there exist as a tripwire, essentially a human meat shield, if you will, in order to produce more strikes in the region.
00:05:09.940This is exactly what the Biden administration wants.
00:05:12.440And by the way, it's exactly what the Iranian proxy forces know.
00:05:15.400If I'm not mistaken, it was just a few months back that I think some of our firebrands in the House were fighting to repeal basically the AUMF in Syria and other countries in the region.
00:05:28.120But I'm just curious, like, you know, we always talk about looking downrange here in the war.
00:05:32.680I'm sure the question's on everyone's mind right now is, do you think that these are going to be isolated incidents and there won't be any, you know, follow-up attacks?
00:05:41.060Is it going to balloon into a bigger conflict? How do you think you see this kind of day, this at least barrage of missiles or strikes ending?
00:05:49.420Do you think it's going to become something bigger?
00:05:52.100Of course there's going to become something bigger that comes of this.
00:05:54.580And so we haven't seen, and the big key takeaway, I think, from all of this is that the administration is being very careful to say that they haven't attacked directly any Iranian assets, including Iranian naval assets, maritime assets.
00:06:08.040There was some talk, by the way, some chatter earlier in the week that Iranian naval assets or IRGC targets would be looked at.
00:06:17.540And so what they're basically trying to say is, similar, by the way, when Trump took out Soleimani, which was a direct strike, they're trying to say, we're going to go after the proxy forces.
00:06:26.020We're going to go after the people that are the head of the proxy forces.
00:06:30.500The problem is they're continuing to fund the Iranians.
00:06:33.920They're continuing to keep these funds unfrozen.
00:06:36.500And they're continuing to go in on all of these efforts to essentially appease Iran while at the same time trying to show face on the world stage.
00:06:45.600They're trying to have their cake and eat it, too.
00:06:48.160The administration's policy on Iran is ridiculous.
00:06:52.700And quite frankly, it is dangerous in risking opening a wider war.
00:06:56.740Because, by the way, sure, you hit a bunch of these proxy groups.
00:06:59.860But what about the ones you didn't hit?
00:07:01.420Now they're going to be out for blood.
00:07:02.940Now they're going to be after U.S. assets or any potential U.S.-backed ship where not just in the Middle East and not just our soldiers, who, by the way, are still sitting ducks because they've already shown they can defeat our defenses with these cheap, like, $500 drones.
00:07:16.840They're basically lawnmowers with, you know, with bombs and wings attached to them flying, right, piggybacking on behind our drones and defeating our air defense radars.
00:07:26.140But they're also shown that these drones are used to great effect in the Red Sea.
00:07:32.400By the way, also, naval drones are shown to have great effect where?
00:07:36.360In the Black Sea, where the Ukrainians actually just used a naval drone to take out a Russian missile ship yesterday off the coast of Crimea.
00:07:43.480You want to tell me that the Houthis don't have those same types of naval drones as well?
00:07:47.400Well, Natalie, this is a huge piece that I think that the planners in the Pentagon and a lot of people just really haven't internalized yet, that the rise of drone warfare and drone swarm attacks is absolutely going to be a – this is like the invention of gunfire, the invention of firearms for warfare.
00:08:11.040The 20th century way of doing business is over.
00:08:13.680This is going to change the way that we fight in war.
00:08:16.000This is going to change the way that we fight terrorism.
00:08:18.120By the way, this is going to change the way – if you are for criminals in the United States, for cartels operating on the border, transnational groups, if you're getting drugs across, if you're a celebrity or, you know, just a high-net-worth individual and you're worried about crime, you're worried about stalkers, these types of things,
00:08:34.860drones will be employed in all of these various capacities, not just in the Middle East, not just in Ukraine, but it's going to be coming to our border and it's going to be coming to a neighborhood near you very soon.
00:08:48.340And this administration, quite frankly, has not shown they have any idea what to do or how to respond when Americans are killed.
00:08:56.560Well, look, Jack, I was going to try to find the perfect Taylor Swift song to use as a segue for this.
00:09:01.880I was going with I Knew You Were Trouble, but maybe we should go with Wildest Dreams because what is unfolding?
00:09:07.200So I'm sure the wildest dream of both Iran but also the military-industrial complex here at home and Joe Biden himself.
00:09:14.460Give me about a minute or two before I let you go.
00:09:16.660Like I said, we've got a lot of news to get to, but just the latest on the Taylor Swift sigh-off since we did our hour-long special.
00:09:23.440So, yeah, and following up on our special, so now Nikki Haley and Jake Taper, no less than those two luminaries, are over on CNN essentially attacking us for – and they're calling it a conspiracy theory, by the way.
00:09:35.860They're saying it's a conspiracy theory to suggest that Taylor Swift might endorse Joe Biden.
00:09:48.520She backstopped the mail-in ballot scheme.
00:09:52.420She backstopped this crazy hoax that Trump had called veterans suckers and losers that he was trying to shut down the mail system, the postal system in the United States.
00:10:02.460She was tweeting all of this stuff in 2020 or somebody was suiting it for it.
00:10:06.260But people have said to me, Natalie, that I should be a little bit nicer to the Swifties.
00:10:11.420Maybe there's a way that you can break bread with the Swifties.
00:10:14.560Maybe you should try to embrace Taylor Swift.
00:10:16.600And so I've said, you know what, I've taken your considerations to heart.
00:10:20.400And therefore, because I saw something trending on Twitter yesterday, and of course, you know, we know that we're in Black History Month.
00:10:26.280And I said, well, why don't we have a White History Month?
00:10:28.520And if we're going to have a White History Month, then we're going to need a Snow Queen of the White History Month.
00:10:33.120And the only Snow Queen that I can think of for White History Month is none other than Taylor Swift herself.
00:10:41.680And so I'm very happy to bestow upon Taylor Swift and the Swifties this title as the leading national first Snow Queen of White History Month.
00:10:52.620And I'm proud to say, Natalie, and I'm going to say it, and I'm going to say it proudly.
00:10:57.680I never thought you would say these words.
00:10:59.560I am a proud Swifty, and I am a member of the White Swifties.
00:11:04.480And when we listen to Taylor Swift music, and when everyone listens to Taylor Swift music, we have to remember that we are centering our whiteness and our white energy on Taylor Swift.
00:11:14.020Well, you can't say when I don't host the War Room, it doesn't get interesting.
00:11:26.520If people want to follow you and have a happy White History Month and stay up to date with all your work, your reporting, where can they go to do all that?
00:11:35.400Well, if you want to follow me, just go look at Rolling Stone, CNN, Nikki Haley, Jake Tapper, everyone, Joy Reid, Jimmy Kimmel, everyone who's attacking me right now.
00:11:46.840But if you want to join the White Swifties, and if you want to join the celebration of White History Month and our Snow Queen, Taylor Swift, the greatest Snow Queen the world has ever known, then you can visit me, Jack Vosovic, at Twitter, X, and Getter.
00:12:02.300Jack, thank you so much for joining us.
00:12:08.480Maybe our Snow King, the poster child from the male side of things for White History Month, could be none other than Mike Davis, of course, the legal pit bull here in the War Room.
00:12:22.300Mike Davis, I'll hold you through the break.
00:12:32.680Walk us through the latest, what we know on that front.
00:12:35.540Well, this is big trouble for Big Fannie, Doughton-Fulton County, because she now has admitted to this inappropriate relationship with this boyfriend who she hired as her special prosecutor to collude with the Biden White House, including the Biden White House counsel, to bring these unprecedented RICO felony charges against President Trump and 18 co-defendants.
00:13:04.500And yet she's paying her boyfriend $250 an hour, substantially more than other special prosecutors who actually have experience to bring this bogus prosecution against Trump and these 18 others.
00:13:17.900And, oh, by the way, she's taken illegal kickbacks from this illegal boyfriend, not so secret anymore, in the form of these lavish trips to Napa, to the Caribbean.
00:13:30.720She not only should be kicked off this case and disbarred, she should go to prison if these allegations end up being true, which it looks like they very much are true.
00:13:40.460I would say it's par for the course of the Biden regime.
00:13:46.760If I'm not mistaken, it was Nathan Wade, the alleged boyfriend who was billing or invoicing the White House for like 24-hour workdays.
00:13:54.460But when you look at what Hunter Biden was doing, and I'm not just talking about his extracurricular activities, but his lack of legal expertise and getting added for a variety of foreign entities, whether it was the Chinese Communist Party, Ukraine, or even white shoe law firms here at home getting added as a partner, there seems to be, I would say, a habit of these far left people just disrespecting the rule of law.
00:14:18.920But I guess when you don't have to play by the rule of law, it doesn't matter.
00:14:22.320Mike Davis, I want you to hang with us through the break.
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00:14:33.780You can only imagine what type of free handouts Joe Biden and his cronies are going to want to hand out when we get even closer to the election to try to basically buy votes in addition to the millions of people that they're importing.
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