Bannon's War Room - June 18, 2025


Episode 4570： Stopping The Forever Wars


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

171.18333

Word Count

9,294

Sentence Count

813

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

Abby Blumberg and Abby Levin join me on the show to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, the Israeli air campaign against Iran, and why President Trump should be worried about Iran's nuclear program. We also discuss the latest on Fordow and the Israeli strike on Iran's Fordow plant.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Murdoch put in, and you know this.
00:00:01.660 I'm not sure they were ever Trump.
00:00:03.640 I'm not sure from day one they were ever Trump.
00:00:06.560 You know, I don't want to get into the behind-the-scenes things,
00:00:08.960 but you could tell stories for hours about what the reality was there.
00:00:11.880 And Murdoch was very up front.
00:00:13.400 He was never for Trump.
00:00:14.760 And those guys in 21, when this audience hunkered down
00:00:17.900 and joined the precinct strategy and got everything done,
00:00:20.340 this audience was his core, hardest core followers.
00:00:24.500 They had Ron DeSantis on every night.
00:00:26.100 You talk about Bibi doing, you know, this thing of Bibi over the last 30 years,
00:00:29.900 that it's only, you know, 12 months away, and they're playing it all the time.
00:00:33.660 You could go do Levin of all the times he had Ron DeSantis
00:00:36.400 and all the times that Fox had Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis,
00:00:39.960 and they promoted him all in 21 and 22.
00:00:42.120 Well, in 16, they wanted Jeb Bush.
00:00:46.620 In 20, they wanted Ron DeSantis.
00:00:48.600 There's no question.
00:00:49.520 They've never been.
00:00:50.520 They take Trump and hold their notes
00:00:52.420 because they know Trump brings up a massive audience.
00:00:55.060 I'm eating into your time.
00:00:57.460 I'm guessing because we have another handover.
00:00:59.640 You're going to have some massive media opportunity tomorrow.
00:01:03.860 The View or something.
00:01:04.960 I don't know what.
00:01:05.840 ABC News.
00:01:06.140 I'm giving you credit, Bowling.
00:01:08.680 You're more than a lucky charm.
00:01:10.560 You're actually, you've got media stroke.
00:01:12.660 People pay attention.
00:01:13.500 You're doing the hard changeover.
00:01:15.240 Not only do we keep the audience
00:01:16.560 and make the audience even bigger in the 5 o'clock hour,
00:01:18.800 but I've now become even more relevant to the media,
00:01:21.660 so thank you very much.
00:01:22.460 Have a good show.
00:01:26.020 Next time in town, we'll sit together.
00:01:27.780 Thank you, brother.
00:01:29.160 Yeah, can you give me more than two hours' notice?
00:01:30.960 Talk to Cameron.
00:01:31.600 Seriously, next time, just because somebody blows you off,
00:01:35.680 you know, just give me a day before.
00:01:37.220 Since you want to throw me under the bus,
00:01:38.600 since you want to throw me under the bus on live television,
00:01:41.180 did you ever open the gift that I sent you?
00:01:43.680 Did you ever open the box that's sitting at the Bannon War Room Studios?
00:01:48.860 Hang on.
00:01:50.260 That hasn't gone through.
00:01:51.360 Security hasn't signed off on it.
00:01:53.720 It's safe.
00:01:54.100 It's safe.
00:01:54.620 All right, brother.
00:01:55.060 Have a good show.
00:01:56.840 Thank you, brother.
00:01:57.640 Appreciate you.
00:01:58.280 Okay, we've got a massive cold open.
00:02:00.120 We're going to get into the day.
00:02:01.260 As only the war room could do, let's let it roll.
00:02:03.980 It doesn't take out Fordow, for example.
00:02:06.540 Has it really damaged Iran's nuclear program
00:02:08.840 as much as it says that it wants to?
00:02:11.640 Well, as that piece demonstrates,
00:02:13.800 Prime Minister Netanyahu has been very alarmist
00:02:16.320 for a long time about the Iranian nuclear program.
00:02:18.860 And obviously, in hindsight, a lot of that alarm was exaggerated.
00:02:22.360 But I think it is the case that the Iranian nuclear program
00:02:24.720 has accelerated since President Trump's disastrous decision in 2018
00:02:29.080 to exit the Iranian nuclear accord.
00:02:31.420 At that point, we know that the Iranian breakout time,
00:02:34.240 the amount of time they would take
00:02:35.320 to have enough fissile material for a bomb,
00:02:37.540 was over a year.
00:02:38.920 Now, I think everybody agrees, including U.S. intelligence,
00:02:42.020 it's down to a week or two.
00:02:43.360 I think the question mark is,
00:02:44.820 how long would it take them to actually weaponize that material?
00:02:48.460 And that's, I think, where you have a dispute
00:02:49.720 between the Israelis who are saying
00:02:51.400 they could weaponize very quickly
00:02:52.700 and the U.S. intelligence community,
00:02:54.500 which is saying it would take a longer period of time.
00:02:56.740 But I think you're on to a key point here, Abby,
00:02:59.200 which is what happens if the Israelis do not,
00:03:03.380 or the U.S. or somebody does not take out the Fordow site?
00:03:06.260 And the reality is the Iranian nuclear program
00:03:08.980 will pretty much continue despite all the damage
00:03:11.180 that the Iranians are suffering in this Israeli air campaign.
00:03:14.940 So that's why.
00:03:15.840 But keep in mind, even if Fordow is taken out,
00:03:17.960 that doesn't mean that Iran will never be able
00:03:19.920 to get a nuclear weapon because the know-how,
00:03:22.160 probably a lot of the enriched uranium,
00:03:23.780 all that stuff will remain still in Iranian hands.
00:03:26.780 But clearly, Fordow is a very big deal.
00:03:29.720 And I think what President Trump has to calculate
00:03:33.480 is it worth going after Fordow given the risk
00:03:37.060 that the Iranians, who have so far been refraining
00:03:39.840 from attacking U.S. bases or shipping in the region,
00:03:43.180 given the risk that they will escalate.
00:03:45.680 And so, you know, you see all these U.S. bases,
00:03:48.140 which are very close to Iran,
00:03:50.840 and in fact, much closer than Israel.
00:03:53.100 And so, you know, Israel is about 1,000 miles from Iran.
00:03:56.460 These bases are much closer.
00:03:57.900 So Iran has a lot more missiles that they can shoot at them.
00:04:00.320 They have drones.
00:04:01.280 They also have the capability to sow mines
00:04:03.300 in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
00:04:05.120 So there's a lot more damage they can probably do
00:04:07.060 even in their weakened state.
00:04:08.320 And so that's what I think President Trump
00:04:10.260 has to balance here.
00:04:11.380 Is it worth the risk of going after Fordow
00:04:13.720 if it means getting the U.S. involved
00:04:15.920 in the middle of these hostilities?
00:04:17.680 Let's answer questions about whether you are moving closer
00:04:21.320 or you believe the U.S. is moving closer
00:04:22.920 to striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:04:25.700 Where's your mindset on that?
00:04:26.900 I can't say that, right?
00:04:28.200 You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question.
00:04:30.360 Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?
00:04:34.660 And what time exactly, sir?
00:04:36.820 Sir, would you strike it?
00:04:38.560 Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch?
00:04:41.460 I mean, you don't know that I'm going to even do it.
00:04:43.600 You don't know.
00:04:44.280 I may do it.
00:04:44.900 I may not do it.
00:04:45.800 I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
00:04:47.180 I can tell you this,
00:04:48.060 that Iran's got a lot of trouble
00:04:51.400 and they want to negotiate.
00:04:54.340 And I said,
00:04:55.020 why didn't you negotiate with me before
00:04:56.720 all this death and destruction?
00:04:59.000 Why didn't you negotiate?
00:04:59.720 I said to the people,
00:05:01.180 why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?
00:05:04.160 You could have done fine.
00:05:05.540 Growing up in Sunday school,
00:05:06.780 I was taught from the Bible,
00:05:08.900 those who bless Israel will be blessed
00:05:10.680 and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
00:05:13.840 And from my perspective,
00:05:14.860 I want to be on the blessing side of things.
00:05:16.580 Of those who bless the government of Israel?
00:05:19.120 Those who bless Israel is what it says.
00:05:20.580 It doesn't say the government of it,
00:05:21.620 it says the nation of Israel.
00:05:23.200 So that's in the Bible.
00:05:24.780 As a Christian, I believe that.
00:05:26.340 Where is that?
00:05:27.320 I can find it to you.
00:05:28.400 I don't have the scripture off the tip of mine.
00:05:31.100 You pull out the phone and use the Google.
00:05:32.860 It's in Genesis.
00:05:34.300 So you're quoting a Bible phrase.
00:05:37.180 You don't have context for it.
00:05:37.980 You don't know where in the Bible it is,
00:05:38.980 but that's like your theology?
00:05:40.240 I'm confused.
00:05:41.560 What does that even mean?
00:05:43.140 Tucker.
00:05:44.380 I'm a Christian.
00:05:45.040 I want to know what you're talking about.
00:05:47.300 Where does my support for Israel come from?
00:05:50.080 Number one,
00:05:51.500 because biblically we're commanded to support Israel.
00:05:54.080 But number two.
00:05:54.740 Hold on.
00:05:55.220 No, no, no.
00:05:55.960 Hold on.
00:05:56.920 You're a senator and now you're throwing out theology
00:05:58.760 and I am a Christian and I am allowed to weigh in on this.
00:06:01.180 We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel?
00:06:04.020 We are commanded to support Israel.
00:06:05.960 What does that mean, Israel?
00:06:07.020 We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed.
00:06:08.920 Hold on.
00:06:09.520 Define Israel.
00:06:10.200 This is important.
00:06:11.020 Are you kidding?
00:06:12.020 This is a majority Christian country.
00:06:13.580 Define Israel?
00:06:14.540 Do you not know what Israel is?
00:06:16.120 That would be the country you've asked like 49 questions about.
00:06:19.160 So that's what Genesis, that's what God is talking about.
00:06:22.700 The nation of Israel, yes.
00:06:23.940 So is that the current borders, the current leadership?
00:06:26.420 He's talking about the political entity called Israel?
00:06:28.320 He's talking about the nation of Israel.
00:06:29.840 Yeah, nations exist and he's discussing a nation.
00:06:32.220 A nation was the people of Israel.
00:06:33.680 Is the nation God's referring to in Genesis,
00:06:36.660 is that the same as the country run by Benjamin Netanyahu right now?
00:06:39.440 Yes, yes.
00:06:40.320 It is.
00:06:40.780 And by the way, it's not run by Benjamin Netanyahu as a dictator.
00:06:43.800 It's a democratic country that elected.
00:06:45.660 He's the prime minister.
00:06:47.480 What?
00:06:48.320 But just like, you know, America is the country run by Donald Trump.
00:06:51.920 No, actually, the American people elected Donald Trump.
00:06:53.740 The same principle is there.
00:06:54.980 This is silly.
00:06:55.240 I'm talking about the political entity of modern Israel.
00:06:58.040 Yes.
00:06:58.400 And that is Israel.
00:06:59.260 Do you believe that's what God was talking about in Genesis?
00:07:01.980 I do.
00:07:02.920 But that country's existed since when?
00:07:05.440 For thousands of years.
00:07:06.780 Now, there was a time when it didn't exist and then it was recreated just over 70 years ago.
00:07:10.440 But I'm saying, I think most people understand that line in Genesis to refer to the Jewish people, God's chosen people.
00:07:21.240 That's not what it says.
00:07:22.480 Okay, Israel.
00:07:24.120 But you don't even know where in the Bible it is.
00:07:26.880 What do you say to the supreme leader of Iran that they will not say good luck?
00:07:32.980 It's already run out.
00:07:40.440 That's why we're doing what we're doing.
00:07:42.600 They had 60 days and a big, you know, 60 days, plenty of time.
00:07:47.620 And they made a mistake.
00:07:49.040 Honestly, they made a mistake.
00:07:51.180 Their country's in ruins.
00:07:53.680 So many people are dead.
00:07:54.920 They shouldn't be dead.
00:07:55.840 It's a very sad thing.
00:07:56.840 Really, as far as a lot of people that I've been talking to here, they really do want to see the United States get involved.
00:08:02.380 They want to see the United States finish the job.
00:08:05.640 One of the reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu keeps getting elected, keeps getting supported here, is because he tells the Israeli people that he is, and this is something that you hear from people in Israel about Benjamin Netanyahu, that he is an expert on manipulating whoever is in the White House.
00:08:20.900 And that's central to being the prime minister of Israel.
00:08:23.700 And it's something that he says, he constantly repeats to the voting public here, that he and only he can extract what Israelis need out of foreign capitals, specifically Washington.
00:08:35.660 So there is a lot of feeling here that the United States, a lot of confidence that the United States is going to weigh in, that Donald Trump is going to decide to do something against Iran.
00:08:44.140 One, maybe that bunker buster bomb that we're all talking about, the one that could possibly burrow in and destroy those remaining centrifuges in the Fordow nuclear facility.
00:08:53.060 Have you seen the Tucker Carlson, Senator Ted Cruz interview?
00:08:56.160 It seems like this issue on whether or not the United States should strike is kind of dividing a lot of your supporters.
00:09:01.040 No, my supporters are for me.
00:09:05.240 My supporters are America first.
00:09:07.300 They make America great again.
00:09:09.000 My supporters don't want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon.
00:09:13.040 Tucker's a nice guy.
00:09:14.020 He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong.
00:09:19.840 And I appreciated that.
00:09:21.460 And Ted Cruz is a nice guy.
00:09:23.140 I mean, he's been with me for a long time.
00:09:24.840 I'd say once the race was over, he's been with me ever since.
00:09:27.460 But very simple.
00:09:32.000 If they think that it's OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, then they should oppose me.
00:09:37.540 But nobody thinks it's OK.
00:09:39.400 People that don't want to fight either.
00:09:41.660 I'm not looking to fight.
00:09:43.240 But if it's a choice between fighting and him having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do.
00:09:50.300 It's OK, Bob.
00:09:51.380 We're just wrapping my friends and I.
00:09:53.980 In fact, we agree on a lot of things, aren't we?
00:09:56.240 No, we don't.
00:09:58.400 You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
00:10:02.780 Change always comes slowly.
00:10:06.220 I've pulled out more than half the troops.
00:10:08.360 I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years.
00:10:11.880 I want a volunteer army.
00:10:13.800 But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.
00:10:18.360 Come on, Mr. Nixon.
00:10:19.560 It's a civil war between Vietnamese.
00:10:21.260 You don't want the war?
00:10:23.960 We don't want the war.
00:10:25.040 The Vietnamese don't want the war.
00:10:27.540 So why does it go on?
00:10:28.880 We should be going, Mr. President.
00:10:36.100 OK.
00:10:37.420 Please.
00:10:41.600 You can't stop it, can you?
00:10:44.740 Even if you wanted to.
00:10:45.940 Because it's not you.
00:10:48.780 It's the system.
00:10:50.360 The system won't let you stop it.
00:10:56.320 There's more at stake here than what you want or what I want.
00:11:01.600 Then what's the point?
00:11:03.440 What's the point of being president?
00:11:04.960 You're powerless.
00:11:05.520 You're powerless.
00:11:07.000 No.
00:11:07.940 No, I'm not powerless.
00:11:10.640 Because I understand the system.
00:11:12.160 I believe I can control it.
00:11:14.300 Maybe not control it totally, but tame it enough to make it do some good.
00:11:20.140 Sounds like you're talking about a wild animal.
00:11:25.980 Maybe I am.
00:11:27.100 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:11:35.160 Pray for our enemies.
00:11:37.200 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:11:40.380 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:11:44.640 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:11:46.540 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:11:47.720 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that.
00:11:49.740 But you're not going to stop it.
00:11:50.680 It's going to happen.
00:11:51.960 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:11:55.340 Mega Media.
00:11:56.260 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:12:02.180 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:12:05.880 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:12:12.300 War Room.
00:12:13.100 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.
00:12:18.920 It's Wednesday, 18 June, Year of the Lord, 2025.
00:12:22.500 I want to thank Dave Brat for stepping in this morning.
00:12:27.120 At the spur of the moment, had two things.
00:12:28.820 A Christian Science Monitor had a press availability that we had scheduled actually a month ago.
00:12:36.700 And it turned out to be in the middle of this.
00:12:38.420 I want to thank the Christian Science Monitor for doing it.
00:12:42.020 A bunch of stories are coming out.
00:12:43.480 And I'm going to get to the details of that, about my thoughts about MAGIT and President Trump in this war.
00:12:48.060 And then I had a couple of MAGITs I could not get out of.
00:12:52.660 They're quite important.
00:12:53.300 And over the next, I don't know, week or two, I may be in and out here in the morning show.
00:13:00.400 So we'll have to, we'll sort of that out.
00:13:05.440 Right there, we ended, we ended the cold open with that incredibly powerful scene from the movie Nixon.
00:13:13.440 That was Sir Anthony Hopkins playing Richard Nixon.
00:13:16.860 You saw James Wood there as one of his aides.
00:13:20.660 Or Haldeman, right, with the flattop.
00:13:24.480 It's a true story about going to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night during one of the biggest demonstrations.
00:13:31.040 They had anti-war demonstrations.
00:13:33.560 And Nixon right there talking about the deep state, talking about the beast, the system.
00:13:38.860 And she said, why can't you end the war?
00:13:40.740 You're the president.
00:13:41.260 And what he was talking about, cut the defense budget.
00:13:44.360 I'm trying to do this as a volunteer army.
00:13:45.980 Inexurably drawn in, inexurably drawn into a conflict that everybody realized was madness.
00:13:53.860 Including the amazing young men and women that went over there and served and gave all.
00:14:04.180 Put it all on the line.
00:14:05.740 We're in the same situation now.
00:14:07.080 Why are we inexorably drawn into this with, I mean, how did this all start last week?
00:14:17.440 Max Boot lays it out pretty bluntly.
00:14:20.540 And it's got no pushback.
00:14:23.180 Thought Abby Phillips did a really good job there.
00:14:26.180 Max Boot made the case, well, Fedor, you know, only the Americans can do it.
00:14:30.340 And if you don't take that out, then you haven't ended their nuclear program.
00:14:34.000 Well, yo, dude, correct me if I'm wrong.
00:14:37.680 Bibi Netanyahu knew this from the beginning.
00:14:40.620 Was that brought up to anybody?
00:14:42.220 Was that talked about?
00:14:44.000 When he started bombing last Thursday that we would have to finish the job?
00:14:47.800 That we would have to finish the job?
00:14:49.460 Let's ask the cheerleaders over at Fox, working for Murdoch, taking his money.
00:14:56.400 It's quite revolting.
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00:16:27.080 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:16:30.300 Bannon.
00:16:31.460 So Bibi Netanyahu went to, and by the way, for Ted Cruz, yo, dude, I'm not exactly the
00:16:36.800 churchiest guy in the world.
00:16:39.660 And I know you're, you know, Mr. Bible.
00:16:43.400 When you talk about the Genesis thing, isn't our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the new covenant?
00:16:49.320 Now, you know, I'm a Catholic, and the Catholics, as everyone knows, are not as intensely into
00:16:56.440 the Bible.
00:16:56.880 I think that's changing now, but particularly when I was raised.
00:17:01.620 But in the Mass, the Catholic Mass, at the most solemn part, the new and everlasting covenant.
00:17:08.640 This whole thing, it was one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard in my life.
00:17:14.360 A grown man, a grown man that professes to be a Christian.
00:17:21.080 The New Testament is obviously very important.
00:17:23.520 It's one of the foundational elements.
00:17:26.360 But the New Testament's called the New Testament for a reason.
00:17:29.460 Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, is the new covenant.
00:17:34.320 A new covenant was made.
00:17:37.480 And is that the reason for Israel?
00:17:39.800 Look, we're one of the biggest defenders.
00:17:41.200 I think we're the biggest, one of the biggest defenders of Israel and the nation of Israel
00:17:45.060 around.
00:17:47.500 But this can't go on.
00:17:49.420 It can't.
00:17:50.740 It's not helping Israel.
00:17:52.880 It's hard to think there, the guy, you know, promotes himself inside of Israel as a manipulator
00:17:57.280 of American presidents, a manipulator of the American political process.
00:18:00.460 That's got to stop now.
00:18:02.240 It has to stop.
00:18:03.600 For the good of Israel, it has to stop.
00:18:07.000 And let me be blunt.
00:18:08.480 We still don't have an answer from them about why the attacks had to be last Thursday.
00:18:16.020 Why did it have to be now?
00:18:18.780 You said on Sunday with Brad Barrett that they're not going to have a weapon for 12 to 13 months.
00:18:23.660 So why did it have to happen on a Thursday in early June with the 12th, the 11th, the 12th?
00:18:30.060 Why?
00:18:31.140 Why?
00:18:32.660 And you talk about Israeli intelligence.
00:18:34.120 Is this the Israeli intelligence that's just had the greatest intelligence failure on October 7th,
00:18:42.260 a couple of years ago, since 9-11?
00:18:45.140 And people say, well, Steve, you can't, you know, they had their eye off the ball.
00:18:48.380 They were looking at the Persians.
00:18:49.340 I don't buy that.
00:18:51.520 I don't buy it.
00:18:52.280 Mossad, all of it, one of the great, the epic failure, epic failure.
00:18:55.440 That group is now going to have special intelligence.
00:18:58.400 And we know from Rubio and others that it was us that gave them intelligence.
00:19:03.540 Come on, man.
00:19:04.400 We have to have an adult conversation.
00:19:05.980 We're not going to let the shills at Fox.
00:19:07.700 We're not going to let people shilling at Fox.
00:19:10.560 The same exact crowd saying the same exact thing about the Iraq war.
00:19:15.800 Try to force the president of the United States into a corner.
00:19:19.880 He needs a range of options.
00:19:23.040 And, yes, they're going through a military option, maybe a direct strike.
00:19:26.200 But then you get to the Max Boot part of it.
00:19:28.980 And this is what really galls me.
00:19:30.980 And it galls me.
00:19:32.080 And we cannot allow it to continue.
00:19:36.740 Max Boot, who is the biggest MAGA and Trump hater on earth, or one of them, put him in the top 25.
00:19:42.700 He's just laying it out there for CNN, and he does a very good job because he's kind of an expert in the military.
00:19:49.380 He's written a bunch of books.
00:19:50.440 Very learned man.
00:19:53.160 And very pro-Israel.
00:19:55.860 He says, as a matter of fact, of course, you have to get to Fedor, and only the Americans have the technologies.
00:20:02.240 The Israelis can't finish this, and now the Americans have to finish it.
00:20:05.400 All these risks have to finish it.
00:20:06.620 And if you don't get that, then you're not taking the program.
00:20:09.140 So tell me, why did you start something you couldn't finish?
00:20:14.600 Remember, I was upset at first that we had to do the defense.
00:20:17.540 We had to put up the air defenses.
00:20:19.040 Why did you start something that you knew you couldn't finish?
00:20:23.560 Are we supposed to just step in and say, oh, fine, let's finish it?
00:20:26.460 That is a massive decision for the president of the United States who has to come to the American people and say, hey, I've weighed and measured it.
00:20:34.700 Here's what I'm going to do.
00:20:37.140 And, yes, we have enough faith in President Trump and his judgment that he will come to the right conclusion.
00:20:45.140 But we have to get all the cards on the table.
00:20:49.460 And the behavior of Fox, it's exactly like you got us into the Iraq War.
00:20:54.500 Yes, you.
00:20:55.700 The cheerleading of Fox and the Bush, you know, apparatchiks got us into the Iraq War.
00:21:02.320 When they lied, bald-faced lied.
00:21:04.480 Bald-faced lied.
00:21:06.800 You can have misinterpretation of data.
00:21:09.580 People make mistakes.
00:21:10.620 You can make – countries make mistakes.
00:21:12.620 You can make mistakes.
00:21:13.480 Hey, here's what I think it is.
00:21:14.460 But these were – they knew what they had and they hid it.
00:21:17.180 They knew they didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
00:21:20.420 They lied to you.
00:21:21.840 President Trump's presidency is predicated upon that in the financial collapse of 2008 where they lied to you also.
00:21:27.460 So this was the rise, the true rise of populist nationalism in this country around a leader like Donald Trump who had the stones to take on the Bush apparatus in South Carolina and tell the nation we never should have done it.
00:21:42.400 What is different this time?
00:21:43.940 The same – now they're talking about the Iraq Revolutionary – the Iran Council that's out there and they got the Shah's son and they have, you know, the people – M.E.K.
00:21:55.420 They got all these different guys and they asked me this thing.
00:21:58.300 Are we supposed to do due diligence on this?
00:22:00.460 Don't you remember the Iraq Congress, Freedom Congress of Chalibay?
00:22:05.020 Do you not remember that?
00:22:06.220 Remember all this?
00:22:07.140 They're going to be great.
00:22:07.780 They got to Iraq and nobody knew who they were.
00:22:09.980 It's like get the hell out of here.
00:22:11.620 And you never heard from them again.
00:22:12.880 Remember days and weeks they were on Fox nonstop.
00:22:16.160 They had all these great plans for Iraq.
00:22:18.780 Except for people there said, who are these guys?
00:22:20.440 These guys have been over in the United States making money and pretending they had something.
00:22:26.020 You had the same thing with the revolutionary – whatever these Persians are.
00:22:30.660 All of them now.
00:22:31.580 And let's go do – let's have them on TV.
00:22:33.460 What are your thoughts for Persia?
00:22:36.420 Are we playing this game again?
00:22:37.880 Are we doing this again?
00:22:41.060 The exact same thing with the exact same players and we're supposed to trust them?
00:22:44.720 I'll play the Mark Levin clip here in a moment.
00:22:51.140 Questioning people's patriotism?
00:22:52.860 Are you kidding me?
00:22:54.380 Let's question this Levin.
00:22:55.840 Why did he have to go last Thursday?
00:22:57.360 Answer the question.
00:22:58.240 You don't have an answer.
00:23:00.000 Why did he go on Brent Baer and said it was 12 months away?
00:23:02.380 I thought it was last weekend.
00:23:03.440 Had to go last weekend.
00:23:04.500 Refute the MSNBC report.
00:23:09.200 He promotes himself as a great manipulator of American presidents.
00:23:12.960 And most importantly, refute Max Boot.
00:23:16.100 That's a known thing.
00:23:17.100 It's now talked about.
00:23:17.940 This is why everybody's talking about it.
00:23:19.620 They can't finish the job.
00:23:21.060 Well, hey, you know what?
00:23:22.020 You started it.
00:23:22.980 You finished.
00:23:23.460 We're not sitting here and saying that the Mullah should have a nuclear weapon.
00:23:27.800 President Trump had diplomacy.
00:23:29.160 And yes, they said, oh, go screw off.
00:23:30.920 But we haven't started any of the economics.
00:23:32.720 Remember, when we went off the JCPOA, President Trump put in a whole thing of sanctions and not the heaviest.
00:23:41.520 And that led them into the streets by 22.
00:23:44.020 If you cut off the oil and you went up the escalatory ladder, not on military, but go up the escalatory ladder on economic warfare, you would break these guys and the people would do it.
00:23:54.620 It would not be regime change or regime destruction from the top and particularly from the Israelis and the Americans.
00:24:01.060 And that's what are they supposed to do?
00:24:04.100 This is an ancient civilization.
00:24:05.760 They're just going to say, oh, this is terrific.
00:24:07.140 The same crowd said, oh, they're going to be dancing and they're going to be welcoming arms.
00:24:10.320 It's the same guy said they're going to be throwing roses in the streets when you go to Baghdad.
00:24:14.500 Did they throw roses in the streets?
00:24:15.960 Do you remember of any of that?
00:24:17.060 How many dead are over in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery that paid for their lives and destroyed their families because of the lies of Fox News and the same crowd you see pitching this war right now, almost with the same vernacular?
00:24:35.260 Oh, it's a weapon of mass destruction.
00:24:38.540 Have to go.
00:24:39.140 Got to go now.
00:24:40.420 Well, according to Beebe, it's a year away.
00:24:44.560 And maybe if he hadn't stepped in the middle of President Trump, yes, it was a negotiation.
00:24:48.380 Yes, 60 days.
00:24:51.420 And now, let's be honest, you want regime change.
00:24:54.620 We know that.
00:24:55.220 That's obvious.
00:24:57.000 And people, I know, Steve, they're not saying regime change.
00:24:58.980 Yes, it is regime change.
00:25:00.420 Let's have an adult conversation.
00:25:02.000 Stop it.
00:25:03.280 Stop the nonsense.
00:25:04.440 If we're going to commit American lives and American resources, and not just that, American focus, do you honestly think we will be able to complete everything we want to do in this Trump revolution if we're tangled up there?
00:25:19.460 Do you think we can step a stand up to the existential threat of this country, the Chinese Communist Party that's everywhere when we just took a carrier battle group out of the South China Sea and sent it through the Straits of Malacca?
00:25:31.800 And now the Nimitz, who initially, in 1979, on his first cruise in 1980, was there, as I was, on a 7th Fleet destroyer squadron with a carrier battle group that did the exact same thing, left that area, went through the Malacca Straits, crossed the Indian Ocean, up to Camel and Gonzo Station, 50 years ago in 1979, whatever that math works out to.
00:25:55.340 So, we need to have an adult conversation.
00:26:01.460 Again, the pressure on President Trump's coming from the outside, and it's coming from people who are not straight with him.
00:26:11.660 Fox News and the Murdoch's, and Murdoch, given you're 92, you better get, you know, far be it from me to say you've got to get right with the Lord.
00:26:24.880 But remember, you're going to be weighed and measured.
00:26:27.940 And right now, all the facts are not coming out.
00:26:33.140 And no, Kaylee McEnany, I'm not sitting there saying we should do this.
00:26:36.820 And take the, put the pom-poms down.
00:26:38.900 Need action.
00:26:39.680 You need action.
00:26:40.480 Oh, yeah, let's go, let's go send some guys over there and go blow stuff up and get America involved.
00:26:45.420 It may come to that.
00:26:47.860 It looks like it might come to that.
00:26:51.140 But let us think it through and understand exactly this time, unlike Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, unlike Vietnam,
00:26:59.180 let's have enough respect for the people over there at Section 60.
00:27:04.140 Okay?
00:27:05.120 Let's respect them.
00:27:06.300 Let's respect the honored dead.
00:27:07.940 You want to respect them?
00:27:09.600 Let's do an even deeper dive than we do on Memorial Day.
00:27:12.500 Let's have enough respect for them to say, okay, this time we're going to totally think it through.
00:27:18.260 This time we're not going to be inexorably drawn in like Nixon talks about the system.
00:27:23.000 This time we're not going to be manipulated by anybody.
00:27:25.660 When we make this decision, we make it as free men and women in the greatest republic,
00:27:31.140 the greatest country in man's earth that have made tons of mistakes.
00:27:34.860 And in fact, we have a leader that has come to power refuting the political class,
00:27:40.840 the Lindsey Graham's of the world, the Lindsey Graham's of the world, those little worms,
00:27:44.320 yammering away every day, the Ted Cruz's.
00:27:47.760 And Ted Cruz, you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:27:50.740 Your lack of just a basic understanding of what's at stake here and what it means,
00:27:55.060 disgraceful, disgraceful, revolting, and you call yourself a leader.
00:28:04.740 Have respect for the honored dead by saying this time we will take the time and we will take the effort
00:28:12.320 and we will put in the work to make sure we looked at a range of alternatives.
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00:29:45.960 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:29:48.140 Bannon.
00:29:51.160 So the Wall Street Journal is reporting, if we can put it up, just come across that.
00:29:55.380 Wall Street Journal on an exclusive is reporting that told senior aides he approved attack plans for Iran
00:30:05.960 but is holding off on giving the final order to see if Tehran will abandon its nuclear program.
00:30:12.560 So there you have it.
00:30:13.600 President Trump has said for years they can't have nuclear weapons.
00:30:16.360 We kind of got into this as we got into it.
00:30:19.580 He said, hey, I guess we'll finish the job.
00:30:26.340 Finish the job that the Israelis knew at the beginning that they couldn't finish.
00:30:33.020 Right?
00:30:33.640 They couldn't finish.
00:30:35.340 And yet, honestly, they sucked us into this.
00:30:38.880 So now President Trump's got to make the decision.
00:30:40.920 President Trump's got to inform the American people that we have to get involved in combat operations.
00:30:45.440 Not enough to be in defense of combat operations.
00:30:48.820 Now we have to get into combat operations.
00:30:53.240 By someone that NBC News is saying prides himself on being a great manipulator.
00:30:57.540 And who, from his public statements, doesn't seem like it was any emergency that needed to be done by kinetic military action last Thursday.
00:31:13.920 Yes, people were united that they can't have the bomb.
00:31:17.560 Right?
00:31:18.200 There's a lot of ways to go through that.
00:31:19.960 And people said, well, the diplomacy failed.
00:31:21.660 I'm not so sure about that.
00:31:24.520 Maybe it hit a speed bump.
00:31:25.860 There was a meeting scheduled for Sunday.
00:31:28.940 Was there not?
00:31:30.780 That they'd already, that Steve was already set to go to, President Trump's right hand and special envoy for all this,
00:31:40.880 Whitcoff, in Muscat, Oman, I think the 6th or 7th meeting.
00:31:47.880 And just maybe they thought they were tapping the president along.
00:31:51.160 There's a lot of things you can do on course of diplomacy.
00:31:53.860 But they kind of came as a fait accompli.
00:31:57.280 Oh, we have special intelligence.
00:31:58.500 Well, at least show us a little leg on that.
00:32:00.340 Let's see it.
00:32:01.740 Not so sure I'm that impressed with your intelligence.
00:32:04.180 Oh, Steve, they weren't focused on Gaza.
00:32:06.320 Okay.
00:32:07.740 Intelligence services.
00:32:08.700 People there are assigned things.
00:32:11.780 Okay?
00:32:12.020 Don't tell me that I'm focused.
00:32:12.960 You have groups.
00:32:13.620 Hey, you're assigned here.
00:32:14.560 You're assigned to the Indo-Pacific.
00:32:15.720 You're assigned to the Chinese Communist Party's navy.
00:32:18.240 What is Captain Fennell?
00:32:19.420 The great Captain Fennell we get on here.
00:32:20.960 He was an intelligence officer in the Pacific Fleet.
00:32:25.240 And they focused on the Chinese Communist threat there.
00:32:28.780 He knows the chapter and verse.
00:32:29.960 And yo, guess what?
00:32:30.820 The emphasis was over at CENTCOM.
00:32:34.300 And let's talk about that.
00:32:37.120 We talk about we're anti-institutionalists.
00:32:39.440 Well, the reason that we're anti-institutionalists
00:32:42.040 is that the institutions in this government don't work.
00:32:48.960 Don't work.
00:32:49.780 The deep state has control of them.
00:32:53.080 And yes, it ain't that deep.
00:32:54.260 And everybody in this town that's here working knows it.
00:32:57.980 Knows it.
00:32:58.600 It's not that deep.
00:32:59.980 One of the central issues we have is CENTCOM.
00:33:04.720 The men and women there are fantastic.
00:33:07.580 It's done as good a job as it can given the political leadership.
00:33:12.880 The valor and courage of the troops has not and never can be questioned
00:33:17.660 given what they've done.
00:33:18.660 Let's go back to Section 60 over at Arlington National Cemetery
00:33:23.200 where the honored dead are there for eternity.
00:33:28.960 Eternity.
00:33:30.440 Their young lives snuffed out.
00:33:32.380 Their families broken.
00:33:36.420 And what is CENTCOM?
00:33:37.300 What did Obama try to do?
00:33:38.560 Pivot to Asia.
00:33:39.760 Did that succeed?
00:33:40.540 No.
00:33:41.620 Because CENTCOM has such power in the Pentagon.
00:33:45.980 We've got 50,000 troops over there now.
00:33:47.840 And now we've got more of these carrier battle groups.
00:33:51.120 People have to understand the combatant commanders.
00:33:52.920 Don't think about the Joint Chiefs of Staff anymore.
00:33:54.700 Even the Army Chief of Staff or the Chief of Naval Operations.
00:33:57.840 It's a different deal now.
00:34:00.120 Restructured since I left the Pentagon.
00:34:01.640 And I left the Pentagon.
00:34:02.700 The CNO was the man.
00:34:04.740 Not anymore.
00:34:05.120 You've got combatant commanders.
00:34:06.920 Those combatant commanders are a little bit like God on Earth.
00:34:11.260 And CENTCOM is the Mac Daddy.
00:34:15.220 Think about it.
00:34:16.000 With everything we've gone through, look at the bases.
00:34:17.860 Look at all of it.
00:34:18.640 What is it all there for?
00:34:19.720 What's the purpose?
00:34:20.580 I know the purpose of hemispheric defense.
00:34:24.860 I know the purpose of, I can see the purpose of Greenland.
00:34:27.960 I can see the understanding of purpose in the Arctic.
00:34:30.260 I can see the purpose of the Panama Canal.
00:34:32.260 I can see the purpose of the Central Pacific and the three-island chain.
00:34:35.200 It actually makes total and complete sense.
00:34:38.920 You add an Iron Dome on it, an anti-ballistic missile system,
00:34:42.380 and we nurture on the Monroe Doctrine our partners in Brazil when Lula's gone.
00:34:47.940 You get the Bolsonaro's back in Middle-Aid, in Argentina, and others.
00:34:51.400 I got it.
00:34:51.940 I understand it.
00:34:53.620 That's a hemispheric defense for the United States off of the Eurasian landmass
00:34:56.980 where we then can send expeditionary forces where we need to send them
00:35:00.740 to not be permanently there.
00:35:03.140 I think a lot of people that don't follow that closely,
00:35:06.500 and you don't have to, you've got enough to do in your own life.
00:35:09.540 But I think a lot of people are shocked and they're looking at,
00:35:11.200 man, look at all these bases.
00:35:12.460 Look at where the Persians could hit us.
00:35:15.600 We've got all these bases, got 50,000 troops spread over hell's half acre
00:35:18.900 in the Middle East.
00:35:19.700 Why?
00:35:21.280 Why?
00:35:23.040 For what purpose?
00:35:25.840 When we just said President Trump just said,
00:35:27.940 hey, it's a hemispheric defense.
00:35:29.620 Is that incorporated in the NDAA?
00:35:33.320 No, it is not.
00:35:34.700 At a trillion dollars, has any of that happened?
00:35:36.640 No, it's not.
00:35:37.580 You want to see where the trillion dollars is going, folks?
00:35:40.160 Start looking at that map that Max Boot had out there.
00:35:43.940 We start talking about what's around in the region,
00:35:45.680 what's exposed in the region.
00:35:51.040 President Trump hasn't made a final decision.
00:35:53.100 It rests with the mullahs and it rests with the,
00:35:57.240 and they've got to give it up.
00:35:59.660 I don't think he's going to mess around anymore.
00:36:01.560 He's not going to get tapped along.
00:36:03.100 So we've come to that moment.
00:36:06.380 But in making that argument to the American people,
00:36:08.600 he's got to now, and look,
00:36:10.000 it can't be lost on you of how we got here.
00:36:13.840 How we got here in an inappropriate manner.
00:36:16.260 Let me go back,
00:36:20.180 because I want to be very clear about this.
00:36:22.940 Max Boot said, and no one's refuted that.
00:36:25.000 In fact, everybody in this town that focuses on this knows it.
00:36:28.420 That the fedor, the nuclear power,
00:36:31.340 or the nuclear operation of the whole thing they've got,
00:36:35.200 of the material and processing the material,
00:36:38.760 and then potentially weaponization,
00:36:40.880 they buried it in a mountain.
00:36:42.160 Because they understand this day might come.
00:36:45.740 And the Israelis knew that.
00:36:46.940 And they started something they knew they couldn't finish.
00:36:50.160 And if they couldn't finish it, it was all for naught.
00:36:53.820 Why weren't we informed of that?
00:36:55.720 Why didn't we know that when they went in?
00:36:57.560 Because then you're dragging us into it.
00:36:59.620 Now we're in this situation that President Trump,
00:37:01.720 who's trying to stop an invasion of our country,
00:37:04.320 which is more important to us than this.
00:37:07.460 It just is.
00:37:08.520 To this nation, to the citizens of this nation,
00:37:12.900 who are tired, sick and tired,
00:37:15.600 of these wars they're drawn into that have no purpose.
00:37:21.420 We spent $9 trillion over there,
00:37:24.040 $7 trillion in Iraq and $2 trillion in Afghanistan,
00:37:29.300 with thousands of dead and tens of thousands of wounded
00:37:33.440 and people with PTSD committing suicide every day.
00:37:36.040 and massive amount of debt
00:37:41.560 that we have to pay on every single day.
00:37:44.720 And we'll always have to pay them
00:37:45.680 because we're never going to pay
00:37:46.640 one penny of the principal back.
00:37:52.420 So when we're asked to do it again,
00:37:55.420 we have to make a decision as a country.
00:37:59.220 And yes, President Trump's the commander-in-chief
00:38:01.200 and he's going to work through this and decide.
00:38:02.820 But he knows, because he looks at the history of Nixon and Johnson
00:38:07.200 and others, Bush,
00:38:09.480 that they have to bring the country along.
00:38:13.880 And these things are much easier to start than to finish.
00:38:17.940 So that's why, again,
00:38:20.360 the Israelis should finish what they started.
00:38:24.840 I keep hearing they have this capability.
00:38:26.480 It may take them longer.
00:38:27.540 You had Yeram Azani on here.
00:38:29.260 Good man.
00:38:30.560 They'll take them longer.
00:38:31.760 But then put your pilots at risk.
00:38:34.320 Go for it.
00:38:35.900 Loosen it up.
00:38:38.300 If it takes you longer,
00:38:39.520 hey, if it takes you a couple weeks,
00:38:40.820 big deal.
00:38:41.760 They're not going to build a bomb in a couple weeks.
00:38:43.260 Take your time.
00:38:43.960 Do it.
00:38:44.960 If you've got to send commandos in,
00:38:46.200 send commandos in.
00:38:48.360 Why do we have to clean up your mess?
00:38:51.180 Oh, because it's going to hit,
00:38:52.380 a ballistic missile is going to hit San Francisco.
00:38:53.940 That's not going to happen.
00:38:55.840 And everybody knows it's not going to happen.
00:38:58.020 That's just fear-mongering.
00:39:00.440 From people that don't respect you enough
00:39:03.220 to actually sit there and try to say,
00:39:05.960 hey, let's reason this thing through.
00:39:07.400 Here's the reason.
00:39:10.540 And then to question your patriotism,
00:39:12.380 particularly people who never served their country
00:39:13.840 a day in their life,
00:39:15.140 done nothing but suck off the tit
00:39:16.860 of this country and veterans.
00:39:20.720 And you're going to question people's patriotism?
00:39:22.840 Is that what you're going to do?
00:39:25.400 Or question someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:39:27.320 that's worked her tail off for the MAGA movement,
00:39:29.940 gone all over the country,
00:39:31.920 done events time and time and time again.
00:39:37.540 You're going to question her,
00:39:38.680 such as she's a pipsqueak from Georgia?
00:39:40.340 Who are you?
00:39:42.600 Anybody took a paycheck from Fox in 21,
00:39:45.580 Murdoch said that we're going to make Trump a non-person.
00:39:48.420 You sat there and you ran Ron DeSantis
00:39:50.500 and Nikki Haley and all of them
00:39:52.040 that are never going to be present,
00:39:53.800 never going to win national elections, ever.
00:39:58.280 Just like the collection of clowns you put up in 2016,
00:40:01.360 and yes, they were by and large not with the program
00:40:05.020 and got turfed out and beaten.
00:40:07.780 Although Fox went all in for them,
00:40:10.120 you tried to kneecap Trump in the very first debate.
00:40:14.200 You hated Trump.
00:40:16.660 You hated Trump.
00:40:17.760 And to show how much you hate him,
00:40:20.200 you won't even deal straight now.
00:40:22.000 It's just propaganda, propaganda,
00:40:24.020 and Lindsey Graham, and Lindsey...
00:40:24.980 We can play clips.
00:40:25.800 I can do the whole show, one hour.
00:40:27.480 And you know what?
00:40:28.580 You would be so repulsed by it.
00:40:32.000 Be like that time in Clockwork Orange.
00:40:36.780 Your eyelids are popped open.
00:40:38.400 You've got to watch it all the time.
00:40:40.360 Over and over and over again.
00:40:44.000 Just like in Iraq.
00:40:45.100 Let's have enough respect for the American people.
00:40:54.060 Let's have enough respect for this republic.
00:40:57.880 They say, America, first isolationist.
00:41:00.000 No, we're not isolationist.
00:41:02.400 No, we're not isolationist.
00:41:03.720 I gave six, seven, eight years of my life
00:41:05.740 to show we're not isolationist.
00:41:07.400 My daughter did the same thing.
00:41:09.220 We're not isolationist.
00:41:11.420 Don't try to smear us with that.
00:41:12.740 Or appeasers.
00:41:13.420 We're not appeasers.
00:41:15.360 But it's easy for you
00:41:17.460 because you're like Murdoch
00:41:19.220 in that corrupt family.
00:41:21.160 You just get the ball rolling.
00:41:23.280 You're the information.
00:41:24.520 You're the propaganda department.
00:41:26.100 Then you just wash your hands of it.
00:41:27.440 Did any of you guys suffer in Iraq?
00:41:29.580 Any of you?
00:41:31.800 Did you suffer in Iraq?
00:41:33.620 The ones that drove this?
00:41:34.920 The Murdochs?
00:41:35.520 You watch Succession?
00:41:36.360 They ever, they, they, they, all broken hearted.
00:41:39.620 How many times have Murdoch's been over Section 60?
00:41:42.560 How many?
00:41:43.740 How many, Lachlan?
00:41:44.660 How many, James?
00:41:45.420 How many, Rupert?
00:41:47.040 Have you been over there?
00:41:52.300 Let's honor this country and this republic.
00:41:54.620 Let's honor its citizens.
00:41:55.920 And most importantly, let's honor our dead
00:42:01.640 by saying this time we're actually going to think it through.
00:42:08.080 And that's what President Trump's doing.
00:42:10.740 And when he comes to the decision,
00:42:12.240 and particularly he's given them another chance.
00:42:13.880 And now, but now the other chance is kind of mangled
00:42:18.080 because the Israelis and Bibi moved this to what they moved it to,
00:42:24.000 and let's have an adult conversation,
00:42:25.500 to regime change or regime destruction.
00:42:28.800 That's what he's pitching the other night.
00:42:30.180 Pitching the other night when he said,
00:42:31.180 this is not America first, America dead.
00:42:32.740 Who in the hell are you to lecture the American people?
00:42:36.980 Who are you to lecture the American people?
00:42:41.360 American people are not going to tolerate it.
00:42:42.900 I'm not going to put up with it.
00:42:46.080 Who are you to jam us into this situation
00:42:48.840 which you knew you couldn't finish the job?
00:42:53.220 Or if you can, go finish it.
00:42:55.280 You got plenty of things.
00:42:56.160 Say, hey, Ben, I don't know what he's talking about.
00:42:57.280 We can finish the thing.
00:42:57.900 Go finish it.
00:42:59.880 Quit coming to us to finish it.
00:43:04.160 President Trump may come to that conclusion,
00:43:06.240 but it's not something he would just say out of thing.
00:43:08.760 Oh, yeah, let's go bomb him and take care of it.
00:43:10.920 He's going to do it
00:43:11.920 because he's got to weigh the options now
00:43:13.580 that you've gotten us into it.
00:43:16.000 That's reality.
00:43:17.680 That's the truth.
00:43:19.060 That's exactly where we are.
00:43:20.640 And people should be truthful with each other,
00:43:22.440 particularly in these tough decisions.
00:43:23.720 That's what allies do.
00:43:25.840 Allies don't manipulate
00:43:27.080 and don't inexorably draw people
00:43:29.660 into situations
00:43:30.660 of which the other party
00:43:32.240 has to get them out of.
00:43:37.220 Short break.
00:43:37.920 Back in a moment.
00:43:40.440 We rejoice when there's no more.
00:43:42.320 Let's take down the CCP.
00:43:44.200 What if he had the brightest mind
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00:44:59.940 Stephen K. Band.
00:45:00.960 And there's so much else
00:45:06.980 going on.
00:45:07.440 We're going to go through,
00:45:08.320 we'll go through a lot of that.
00:45:10.520 Make sure you're up to date
00:45:11.580 on everything.
00:45:13.840 Financial turbulence,
00:45:14.920 times of turbulence,
00:45:15.780 I think it may be getting
00:45:16.920 a lot more turbulent
00:45:18.120 and maybe a lot more turbulent
00:45:19.580 soon.
00:45:22.340 The president said,
00:45:23.300 Wall Street Journal's reporting,
00:45:24.620 just so you have it,
00:45:25.560 and grace him over,
00:45:26.520 you can put that story up
00:45:27.380 in the chat
00:45:27.820 so I already get a chance
00:45:28.520 to read it,
00:45:29.500 that President Trump
00:45:30.480 has reviewed alternatives
00:45:32.200 and has come
00:45:33.100 to the conclusion
00:45:34.380 that he will use
00:45:36.420 military force
00:45:38.020 to end,
00:45:39.720 to end,
00:45:40.760 to I guess do forward
00:45:41.680 to end the nuclear program
00:45:43.080 of the Persians,
00:45:46.400 but he has given some time
00:45:49.040 before he pulls the trigger
00:45:51.260 to see if,
00:45:53.060 to see if they end
00:45:53.800 the program themselves.
00:45:54.880 And we know today
00:45:55.560 President Trump said
00:45:56.720 they had called him
00:45:58.020 and contacted him
00:45:58.740 and wanted to come
00:45:59.220 to the White House.
00:46:00.840 He put that out there.
00:46:03.680 So in these times
00:46:04.640 of turbulence,
00:46:05.360 and it's going to be,
00:46:06.340 you know,
00:46:06.540 you saw in L.A.,
00:46:07.600 you see what's happening
00:46:08.480 now with the big
00:46:09.880 industry pressure
00:46:11.880 on immigration,
00:46:14.060 right,
00:46:14.200 on not deporting
00:46:14.980 these people.
00:46:16.380 On Capitol Hill,
00:46:17.240 we found out today,
00:46:18.040 Johnson,
00:46:19.540 Speaker Johnson
00:46:20.260 just announced,
00:46:21.000 hey,
00:46:21.120 he wasn't kept
00:46:21.740 in the loop
00:46:22.240 on anything they were
00:46:23.320 doing on the Medicaid.
00:46:24.320 Some of the biggest
00:46:24.960 issues they were
00:46:25.680 dealing with,
00:46:26.220 he just says,
00:46:26.740 hey,
00:46:26.840 they never kept me
00:46:27.400 in the loop.
00:46:29.180 So,
00:46:29.660 and he says,
00:46:30.260 some of this stuff
00:46:30.860 is not going to
00:46:31.260 pass the House.
00:46:31.900 So I appreciate
00:46:33.380 Senator Hawley's
00:46:34.640 thoughts that we're
00:46:35.740 going to get it
00:46:36.140 out of the House,
00:46:36.580 go to the Senate,
00:46:37.220 get out of the Senate,
00:46:38.160 go to the House.
00:46:38.740 It's all going to be fine.
00:46:39.660 It's going to be a bill
00:46:40.280 on President Trump's
00:46:41.900 desk on 4 July.
00:46:43.960 I'm not feeling that
00:46:45.060 since some of the
00:46:46.060 biggest gaps
00:46:47.060 and the biggest issues
00:46:47.920 which still haven't
00:46:48.640 even been solved
00:46:49.100 in the Senate,
00:46:50.200 the House guys
00:46:51.080 weren't even read into,
00:46:52.480 not in the loop.
00:46:53.900 And we're going to deal
00:46:54.600 with that over the next
00:46:55.340 couple of days.
00:46:55.760 We'll get you totally
00:46:56.440 up to speed on all that.
00:46:58.120 So in every different
00:46:59.060 aspect,
00:46:59.620 and this is what I said
00:47:00.300 today when I did this
00:47:01.140 press thing,
00:47:01.720 as you hear on the show,
00:47:03.400 coming down the golden
00:47:04.480 escalator with everything
00:47:06.400 we've gone through
00:47:07.040 in 10 years,
00:47:07.660 everything President
00:47:08.280 Trump's accomplished,
00:47:09.160 all the triumphs and
00:47:10.040 tragedies,
00:47:10.600 the victories,
00:47:11.140 the defeats,
00:47:11.680 all of it,
00:47:12.760 is just a preamble
00:47:13.780 to now,
00:47:14.540 to now,
00:47:15.140 to now,
00:47:15.620 because this is the
00:47:16.500 convergence of these
00:47:18.140 multiple crises,
00:47:20.060 right?
00:47:20.540 Multiple crises.
00:47:21.680 And particularly,
00:47:22.220 the guys say,
00:47:22.500 it's not in the third
00:47:23.400 world,
00:47:23.740 the third world war
00:47:25.100 has started.
00:47:26.380 There's almost two
00:47:27.500 million dead or wounded
00:47:28.480 in Ukraine,
00:47:29.240 by the way,
00:47:30.200 Ukraine,
00:47:30.920 which also Fox News,
00:47:32.560 nonstop,
00:47:33.660 pitched and pitched
00:47:34.880 and promoted
00:47:35.720 and pitched,
00:47:36.680 Zelensky's,
00:47:37.580 great,
00:47:37.960 wear your Ukrainian flag,
00:47:39.220 all of it,
00:47:39.700 nonstop,
00:47:40.680 nonstop,
00:47:41.660 nonstop.
00:47:42.620 How did that turn out?
00:47:44.940 You going over and
00:47:45.560 you apologized to
00:47:46.620 Mersheimer,
00:47:47.260 or you going over and
00:47:48.040 said,
00:47:48.320 hey,
00:47:48.500 we really apologized,
00:47:49.600 we didn't realize
00:47:50.200 you were going to get
00:47:51.220 over,
00:47:51.640 you know,
00:47:51.840 750,000 killed
00:47:53.320 and now the British
00:47:54.860 paper's reporting
00:47:55.480 the Russians got a million,
00:47:56.560 so it's closer to
00:47:57.200 two million,
00:47:58.580 dead and wounded.
00:48:01.120 But then he apologized
00:48:01.880 for that,
00:48:02.500 and he apologized
00:48:03.100 for the Ukraine scene
00:48:04.000 when on this show
00:48:05.180 from the beginning
00:48:05.920 we said it was wrong
00:48:07.020 and it was going to
00:48:07.880 destroy the Ukrainian
00:48:08.680 people and that's
00:48:09.340 exactly what's happened.
00:48:12.160 Mersheimer said
00:48:12.740 they're going to lead
00:48:13.200 them down the
00:48:13.600 primrose path
00:48:14.780 to their own
00:48:16.000 destruction.
00:48:16.640 Did Fox News
00:48:17.300 not the biggest
00:48:17.880 cheerleader of that?
00:48:18.560 I guess they weren't
00:48:19.100 the biggest cheerleader.
00:48:20.600 MSMEC and CNN
00:48:21.640 gave as good
00:48:22.880 as they got there.
00:48:23.760 They were all
00:48:24.160 cheerleaders.
00:48:25.780 Remember Zelensky?
00:48:26.600 He's so great,
00:48:27.220 so lovely,
00:48:27.860 so wonderful.
00:48:30.920 Birch Gold,
00:48:31.860 check it out.
00:48:33.480 We've done these
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00:48:35.440 so that you have
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00:48:40.120 Birchgold.com
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00:48:42.440 and I didn't even
00:48:43.240 get to mention it.
00:48:44.180 Today's New York Times,
00:48:46.260 the Chinese finance
00:48:47.240 minister,
00:48:47.720 you know what he's
00:48:48.120 pitching?
00:48:48.400 I think we're
00:48:50.960 coming up with
00:48:51.920 an alternative
00:48:52.440 currency to the dollar
00:48:53.620 and they're going
00:48:54.600 to make a fuller
00:48:55.160 presentation at Rio.
00:48:57.500 I'll get that up
00:48:58.340 tomorrow and I'll
00:48:58.820 walk you through it.
00:48:59.540 Plus what the Fed
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00:51:38.060 everyone coming together
00:51:39.460 like with the Chinese
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00:51:54.180 I want to thank you
00:51:55.960 for being here
00:51:56.540 in the 5 o'clock hour.
00:51:57.760 We're going to take
00:51:58.120 a short commercial break.
00:51:59.120 We're going to come back
00:51:59.660 for the 6 o'clock hour.
00:52:03.420 We've got a lot
00:52:04.080 to go through.
00:52:04.720 President Trump,
00:52:05.440 once again,
00:52:06.880 has determined
00:52:08.040 that he's prepared
00:52:09.240 to use military force
00:52:10.600 to take out
00:52:11.780 and finish the job
00:52:12.780 of this nuclear weapons program
00:52:15.900 of the Ayatollah
00:52:17.880 and the Mullahs
00:52:18.560 in Tehran.
00:52:20.540 He has also said
00:52:21.660 and told people,
00:52:22.400 he's done that
00:52:22.780 with his advisors,
00:52:23.460 said that he has not
00:52:24.640 picked a date
00:52:26.220 to pull the trigger
00:52:27.020 or is prepared
00:52:28.280 to pull the trigger yet,
00:52:30.160 but that they may
00:52:31.520 have a chance.
00:52:32.380 He's got to see
00:52:32.920 that they're prepared
00:52:33.540 to shut down the program.
00:52:34.640 Nothing in between.
00:52:35.640 He's not going
00:52:36.100 to get tapped along.
00:52:38.360 Okay,
00:52:38.640 short commercial break.
00:52:40.340 Going to redo
00:52:41.140 what kind of studios
00:52:41.940 we do for the 6 o'clock show.
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00:52:46.900 Yeah.
00:52:47.760 Ben Hornwell will join us.
00:52:49.400 We're going to take
00:52:49.720 a short commercial break.
00:52:50.640 We're going to be back
00:52:51.540 in the war room
00:52:52.220 in just a moment.
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