Bannon's War Room - Episode 4574： Speedrunning The Iraq War Propaganda Train; Investigate Fox News

00:00:00.000 operating off of far more facts than we are. So at the end of the day, as Greg said,

00:00:03.480 we elected him, we got to trust him, right? But the immediate issue is fertile. I mean,

00:00:09.120 that's just it. So you don't have to go all the way. People talk about regime change,

00:00:12.560 everything else. You just got to mitigate the immediate issue. If you do that, like I said,

00:00:18.220 take the deal off the table. If you get rid of the immediate threat, well, then you bought some

00:00:22.360 time. Now, ultimately, regime change is where this thing has to devolve to. At the end of the day,

00:00:28.080 whether you like it or not, you have an adversary who cannot exist without that bomb. The mullahs 1.00

00:00:33.180 cannot list long term without that bomb. They learn the lessons of Gaddafi. We need this thing. 0.86

00:00:37.920 They're going to keep trying. That's the source to it. So you got this adversary. They say they want

00:00:42.440 to kill you. They're trying to get the bomb. At the end of the day, at some point, they got to go. 1.00

00:00:46.100 But you don't need that right now. You just got to mitigate the immediate problem, which is fertile.

00:00:50.800 What I think he's doing is, and that's why I think you can see this two week window.

00:00:54.300 The last thing he wants is any American blood here. And right now, the Iranians still do have 1.00

00:01:00.980 some offensive capacity. They do have the ability to fire missiles, maybe hit some American assets,

00:01:05.260 and in many ways, almost worst, almost worst, is hitting some of our adversaries, excuse me,

00:01:10.420 some of our allies. You get some dead Europeans and et cetera in some place inside the red zone in Iraq.

00:01:16.160 We got an international magilla. That's the last thing he wants. I think he's buying time,

00:01:20.220 waiting till they are out of that capacity. And then, in my own opinion, I think that's when he moves.

00:01:26.880 And then, ultimately, long term, if you notice, we hit their internal security. That's the besiege.

00:01:31.240 That's the one who keep their people down. The Israelis took that out yesterday. 1.00

00:01:35.760 They're also now hacking the media and saying, rise up, rise up, unlike what we saw during the Green Revolution. 0.84

00:01:41.380 I think, long term, that's the second stage. But the first stage is fertile. 0.87

00:01:44.920 And from where I sit, you've got to mitigate that. Well, I'm surprised you missed the line that

00:01:50.300 B.B. stole from George W. Bush in his 2003 speech to a joint session of Congress.

00:01:56.740 We must not allow the world's most dangerous regime to acquire the world's most dangerous weapons.

00:02:04.280 B.B. just takes the same sheet of music out anytime he needs it for whatever country he happens to be

00:02:10.800 angry at at the moment. And he's particularly concerned with Iran because it's the last one. 0.91

00:02:18.060 He will have a clean sweep of the Levant, a clean sweep of all those who might oppose him in some way 0.95

00:02:25.940 in Southwest Asia if Iran goes. And he can't do it by himself. In fact, I got videos this morning

00:02:33.900 smuggled out of Israel showing me that Israel is being pummeled right now, pummeled in ways that 0.63

00:02:41.400 B.B. Netanyahu probably never envisioned, and certainly the Israeli citizens of Israel didn't

00:02:48.740 envision. So he's in a trick bag right now, and I think it's only going to deepen and get worse.

00:02:54.940 So he needs the United States, desperately needs them, if he's going to complete this mission,

00:03:00.880 which is almost messianic with him, to destroy this final regime in Southwest Asia called Iran.

00:03:07.820 Yes, Sarah, these changes really do show how the U.S. military is making sure that it's not only ready

00:03:11.580 to carry out military strikes against Iran if Donald Trump ultimately does decide to give that order,

00:03:17.940 but preparing for the possibility of what would come after that should those strikes come to fruition.

00:03:25.040 And we're told that military assets in the Middle East, across the region, and have been moved in

00:03:31.400 anticipation of potential Iranian retaliation should Donald Trump ultimately give that go order.

00:03:38.040 Obviously, we know that Donald Trump has said that he's going to make a decision on that move in the

00:03:41.560 next two weeks, but the military is not waiting on the decision to making sure that it protects and

00:03:46.780 takes steps to protect its assets across the Middle East. That includes moving airplanes that it can't

00:03:51.540 protect in a shelter at its military base in Qatar. They've moved those planes to a different location.

00:03:57.100 They've also moved naval assets from its base in Bahrain, which is also obviously in the relative

00:04:03.020 proximity of certain Iranian proxy forces that we know have the capability of launching drones

00:04:07.980 and ballistic missiles at U.S. forces. You may remember in January 2024, an Iranian proxy group

00:04:13.360 killed three U.S. service members at a U.S. base on the border of Syria and Iraq. So that threat is very

00:04:18.820 real. And these changes reflect how seriously the Pentagon is taking Iran's threat to target U.S. forces

00:04:25.360 if Donald Trump does strike Iranian nuclear sites. We saw how difficult Iraq became, and we never really

00:04:32.480 did conquer Iraq in the sense that we won over the people. Iran is going to be 10 or 15 times more 1.00

00:04:40.980 difficult. They are far more capable than Iraq was, militarily speaking, and they have not been 0.97

00:04:47.420 penetrated to the point where I would say they were weakened severely. So if you want assurance that

00:04:54.160 you're going to eliminate a nuclear program that is so underground that even these B-2 bunker

00:04:59.720 busters aren't going to do anything, think al-Ansar and the Houthis, if you will, not going to do a thing

00:05:06.100 except rattle the rocks a little bit. If you want to assure that they do not have a program, you're going to

00:05:11.860 have to invade and go root it out, lemon branch. And that's going to require 10 years? A battle with 90,000

00:05:20.600 people, all of whom will be steeled against you? I have a war plan for the Zagoras Mountains and those 1.00

00:05:27.220 tough terrains in Iraq. We were contemplating having to stop the Soviets in 1979 when they first went into 0.96

00:05:35.220 Afghanistan and we thought they might make a run down to Chabahar and Bandar Abbas, something the

00:05:40.500 Russian empire, Soviet empire too, had always wanted, a warm water port in the Gulf. Those are very

00:05:47.780 difficult mountains to fight in, extremely difficult mountains to fight in. You want a really long war

00:05:54.900 that will cost two or three trillion dollars, cost a lot of casualties on both sides, and not give you

00:06:00.740 much more of a result than we got in Iraq? Try Iran. This is a huge strategic opportunity here that

00:06:07.060 we haven't had in 45 years. We're talking about removing and ending Iran as being the number one 1.00

00:06:14.500 adversary that has dominated the region in terms of instability. They've been at this for 45 years.

00:06:22.900 And as you pointed out to our audience here, the history of killing Americans during that time frame

00:06:29.300 is very significant, but their overall behavior. So as a result of diminishing this regime, taking

00:06:35.940 away its nuclear capability, taking away much of its military capability, weaken it politically,

00:06:42.740 isolating it for the first time, as we mentioned in the last hour. I mean, the proxies aren't helping

00:06:49.220 them. Right. I mean, their allies aren't helping them. And China and Russia are not helping them.

00:06:54.100 And they expected they funded Hezbollah, billions of dollars for one reason only. Yes, to do state 0.75

00:07:02.180 sponsored terrorism. And they were the best at it in the business. But number two, and the primary

00:07:07.700 reason was to defend Iran in the event of a war with Israel. And they haven't fired a shot. They lost

00:07:14.820 the political will. So what that presents to us is our contribution here to end this. After all,

00:07:22.260 this is Israel's war. Right. And we're going to help end it and end the domination of the Iranian 1.00

00:07:28.980 regime. That is a paradigm shift that will reset the Middle East for years to come. And it will likely 0.99

00:07:36.580 be a catalyst for what we want to see, which is normalization of the other countries in the region

00:07:42.820 with Israel, the so-called Abraham Accords. That will put us on a pathway for that. 0.98

00:07:47.780 What is a crippled Iranian government look like? It's what comes next if a crippled Iranian government 0.99

00:07:52.260 falls. And as you talk to politicians in D.C., as I have, especially in the MAGA universe,

00:07:58.660 that's their big concern. It's not that we can't get involved military with a pinpoint strike or even

00:08:04.500 something more robust than that. It's what happens if that government falls and how much are we then

00:08:09.620 invested in propping up a new government? Because that's the quagmire that happened in Iraq. It wasn't

00:08:15.060 necessarily the three weeks of the military intervention. It was what we tried to build

00:08:18.180 after the fact. So can you explain a little bit what might happen domestically in Iran if

00:08:23.940 this government were to fall? So a chaotic post-war Iran would be a threat of its own. 0.98

00:08:31.540 And you're right. The idea of the United States with its allies attempting nation building in that

00:08:38.020 country from outside is crazy. I've been to Iran twice and I've seen the passion that Iranians that

00:08:46.180 you meet have for a different kind of country. This clerical regime is not popular with people. So

00:08:54.580 if that regime is crushed, if some kind of peace agreement is done in a way that gives

00:09:01.780 more pragmatist elements in Iran more power. I mean, let's remember the entire IRGC military

00:09:08.980 leadership has been wiped out. So if pragmatists, if the people who want a different country have

00:09:14.820 more power and then take action, you'd have a more hopeful scenario. But no one should think that

00:09:22.740 you can easily build on the rubble a country that's going to be stabilizing. It would be nice to think,

00:09:29.620 you know, we think back to the absolute chaos that began October 7, the terrible loss of life across

00:09:37.220 the region. It would be nice to think of that cycle coming to an end with a process of rebuilding

00:09:42.980 across the region. I mean, that's a pipe dream, maybe. But, you know, if people are going to try to

00:09:48.820 think big, that's that's the way they should think. And they should enlist people in Iran, 1.00

00:09:53.860 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who have that belief in a different kind of region

00:09:58.420 and will work hard, it'll take many years. But that's something worth all the misery that's come.

00:10:06.020 This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going

00:10:13.540 medieval on these people. I got a free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people

00:10:20.740 have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything

00:10:24.660 in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

00:10:27.460 And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul,

00:10:34.100 I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:10:41.620 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:10:47.860 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:10:56.340 It's Friday, 20 June, Year of the Lord, 2025. I started today with two hitters, Jack Posovic and

00:11:01.940 Sean Davis. Sean Davis, founder of The Federalist. Sean, we did a little bit longer cold open this

00:11:07.620 morning because we wanted the audience's head to blow up to start the show. Your assessment of where

00:11:14.420 we are now that you've heard all the talking heads and propagandists overnight dealing with

00:11:18.660 President Trump saying, hey, we're going to take a deep breath here and think this thing through,

00:11:22.580 sir.

00:11:22.900 Yeah, I was starting to get a little mad at all those clips because I thought, 0.98

00:11:26.820 dang, I'm just getting dumber listening to this nonsense. But where we are now, 0.61

00:11:32.100 it seems like everything's still super fluid. It feels to me as though the fever has broken

00:11:39.140 a little bit. I'd say midweek, the war drums were being banged so loudly and people were getting

00:11:45.460 so hysterical that it felt like the whole thing might fall apart any second. Thankfully, we have

00:11:51.700 a president who's been through this stuff before. He's seen all the nonsense that was done with

00:11:56.420 foreign policy in the early 2000s. I think he's patient. I think he would much rather talk than bomb

00:12:03.140 or go to war. And so I think right now we're in a critical period where the president to me seems

00:12:09.300 as though he wants to get a deal done. He wants something that doesn't require yet another war

00:12:13.780 in the Middle East. And yet on the other side, I think we're going to have people and entities who

00:12:18.820 are going to spend the next two weeks doing nothing but trying to blow up the possibility of any deal.

00:12:25.220 Let me ask you about, because this is what's most disturbing. President Trump is very even-handed,

00:12:30.820 thinks things through, is Jack Spasovic said yesterday so brilliantly, measure twice, cut once.

00:12:37.860 But this whole drive, the war fever, the whole, and it's so, it's the playbook, it's the exact Iraq 0.99

00:12:44.420 playbook. We go from, this is why I want you on, you had this tweet where you said we segued from,

00:12:49.780 you know, having to stop the nuclear program to regime change. And you have all this loose talk

00:12:55.300 on some of these networks and these pundits about regime change. We're talking about an ancient

00:12:58.980 civilization, 90 million people, you know, something the Romans, you know, have fought the Persians

00:13:05.300 for 2,000 years, right, to a draw. Just give me your thoughts there before we go to break. Your

00:13:11.460 thoughts about this drive for regime change by the propagandist warmongers that are amongst us.

00:13:17.940 Yeah, it's interesting, you know, before the Iraq war, we probably had a good year plus,

00:13:25.540 you know, maybe 15 months, where they were beating the drums, they were building their case,

00:13:30.340 it was new stuff every day, but it was a fairly, like, deliberate, long, drawn-out process.

00:13:36.900 You know, I think it was a terrible idea in hindsight, but you had congressional approval for it.

00:13:41.380 This right now feels like they're speedrunning the entire Iraq war propaganda campaign and trying 0.73

00:13:47.220 to compress it into, like, a week and a half and are using social media to create a hysterical hype

00:13:54.340 cycle. You know, so much of these mobs are obviously false, they're run by bots, and they're meant to

00:13:59.860 create this sense of chaos and panic to force you into an emotional decision right now because they

00:14:06.980 don't want to give you time to think about the ramifications of any decision you might make.

00:14:11.940 And to me, this type of, like, increased tempo and pace in the propaganda suggests that they know

00:14:17.620 they're in real trouble, that they know they have a problem, and you could see that in how angry they

00:14:23.220 got yesterday when that two-week pause was announced because they had built up this hyper-frenzy campaign,

00:14:29.700 and it clearly didn't work, thankfully.

00:14:31.540 Yeah. Sean, can you hang on for a second through the break? It got the great Jack Posobiec. Posobiec told us

00:14:38.820 yesterday, it's like the old salesman's trick, create urgency and then upsell. I think that was exposed,

00:14:46.500 folks. I think everybody did a good job. Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec, all the different

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00:16:27.700 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:31.900 Sean Davis brings up a brilliant point, as he is often one to do, and that is, remember, in the Iraq war,

00:16:38.500 they had, after 9-11, right, the Bush apparatus, Cheney apparatus, focused on this, focused on Iraq,

00:16:46.940 to the detriment of really going after what the cause of this thing was. Maybe in Saudi Arabia,

00:16:55.360 but I digress. A year and a half, they built up the PSYOP, coming out of Fox News, the PSYOP,

00:17:02.680 every day with guys like, and Jack Keene is a good man, right, because he's got the CENTCOM mentality,

00:17:09.500 right, that whole, just the way CENTCOM thinks. They're obsessed by this, right, and they're one of

00:17:14.960 the, next to the CIA, I think the Federal Reserve, the CIA, and the, and CENTCOM are the three most

00:17:21.920 important and powerful institutions in the imperial capital. It's really, that's really the home base

00:17:29.420 with the CIA of the Praetorian Guard, right? The, it was a year and a half, Jack Posobiec,

00:17:36.280 of a buildup. Here, they had to rush it. This is why there's been no justification. Why was it have

00:17:41.580 to be last Thursday night? And remember, they had momentum, because they're up on Fox, hey,

00:17:46.560 this is the greatest military victory. I think you can make a cogent argument, as Colonel Lawrence

00:17:50.900 Wilkerson did, and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is, was Colin Powell's, I think, his military aid.

00:17:59.420 That, you can make an argument, hang on, let's play this for a second. I want to play it,

00:18:02.720 because I think you make an argument the Israelis may actually be losing right now,

00:18:06.220 and they're looking for a bailout. Let's go ahead and play it.

00:18:09.020 Well, I'm surprised you missed the line that Bibi stole from George W. Bush in his 2003 speech 0.87

00:18:16.040 to a joint session of Congress. We must not allow the world's most dangerous regime to acquire the 0.61

00:18:23.420 world's most dangerous weapons. Bibi just takes the same sheet of music out anytime he needs it for 0.94

00:18:30.080 whatever country he happens to be angry at at the moment. And he's particularly concerned with Iran

00:18:36.960 because it's the last one. He will have a clean sweep of the Levant, a clean sweep of all those who 0.99

00:18:45.960 might oppose him in some way in Southwest Asia if Iran goes. And he can't do it by himself. In fact, 0.81

00:18:53.840 I got videos this morning smuggled out of Israel showing me that Israel is being pummeled right 1.00

00:19:00.720 now, pummeled in ways that Bibi Netanyahu probably never envisioned, and certainly the Israeli citizens

00:19:08.880 of Israel didn't envision. So he's in a trick bag right now, and I think it's only going to deepen 0.89

00:19:15.380 and get worse. So he needs the United States, desperately needs them, if he's going to complete

00:19:21.720 this mission, which is almost messianic with him, to destroy this final regime in Southwest Asia called

00:19:28.480 Iran. By the way, they have been on a roll in southern Syria with Hezbollah. Their defeat of Hezbollah

00:19:34.820 is incredible, taking down the air defenses initially, what, 90 days ago or 60 days ago

00:19:39.760 in Iran. What they've done, look, they've got to finish this Muslim Brotherhood of Mas. They're 1.00

00:19:46.540 far from doing that in Gaza. But this is biting off more than you can treat. Here's my problem with

00:19:53.080 it. It was always contingent. Their plan was always contingent in sucking the Americans in here 0.99

00:19:59.080 into a combat position. And we're just not ready for that. We're not ready for it because it's

00:20:04.760 like, what is the interest, what is the vital national security interest of the United States

00:20:09.460 in getting involved in another war that's going to take 20 or 30 years to resolve? Jack Basovic,

00:20:16.200 with your knowledge as a naval intelligence officer, is Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson correct?

00:20:21.480 Did they bite off more than they can chew? Is Israel actually now looking for a bailout? Are they

00:20:25.820 losing this war? Well, Steve, here's what's going on, and it comes down to basic capabilities. And you've got

00:20:32.580 there's an order of battle mismatch here because while the Israelis did come in with a high

00:20:37.480 technological advantage, and that has always been their advantage. If you go back to the Six-Day War

00:20:43.020 in the 1960s, if you go back to any of these other recent skirmishes that we've seen and the conflicts

00:20:49.480 between themselves, Hezbollah, Hamas, and others, taking the Golan Heights and being able to defend that

00:20:55.700 against the Syrian army, it's always been the technological advantage. However, that technological

00:21:01.140 advantage can be blunted, as we've seen just up to the north on the arc of instability, by what?

00:21:09.080 Numbers. A war of attrition. That's what we saw between Ukraine and Russia, because we heard the

00:21:13.660 same stuff in the very early days of Ukraine and Russia. They said Ukraine's got the technology,

00:21:18.260 Ukraine's got the tech advantage, they got Starlink, they got the drones, they got everything out,

00:21:22.640 Russia's going to collapse, Russia's going to slow down. So what did Russia switch to? Russia switched

00:21:27.000 to a war of attrition. Now, we haven't seen that yet here, because this is an air war. What we are

00:21:32.020 seeing is a war of air attrition. Look, the Iron Dome, as powerful as it is, and as great as it is,

00:21:38.020 it was not designed for long-range, high-intensity, sustained warfare. It was built primarily for

00:21:45.200 short-range, low-volume rocket attacks from Hamas or Hezbollah. That's usually what came out. The Iron 0.88

00:21:51.760 Dome was not designed for full-scale, prolonged military campaigns. And that's why Israeli officials

00:21:57.240 came out themselves to NBC yesterday and said, look, we were at 90% interception rate. Now we're

00:22:02.960 down to 65%. And so these strikes that he's seeing, and I'm looking at when I check my feeds

00:22:08.620 from Tel Aviv and other areas, you are now starting to see more and more Iranian ordinance making it

00:22:17.580 through that Iron Dome net. And so it's helpful against small barrages. It has that defensive

00:22:24.960 layer. But these interceptor missiles that Israel is shooting up, by the way, same issue that Ukraine

00:22:29.280 had. The interceptor missiles are extremely expensive, and they are not unlimited. You're

00:22:34.860 talking $50,000 to $100,000 each time one is fired. That doesn't even mean if it hits. When it's fired,

00:22:41.940 if it malfunctions, when it goes off, $50,000 to $100,000. That's U.S. dollars. And so you're

00:22:47.480 talking about an extremely expensive air net. And of course, they're doing that because they want to

00:22:52.280 protect civilians. They want to protect infrastructure. Absolutely. But we're just

00:22:56.220 talking about order of battle here. And so, yes, Iran's munitions, they're not as position-guided.

00:23:02.560 They're ordnance. They're missiles. A lot of this is old material. There was a missile, one of the

00:23:07.960 ballistics that landed. And there were some images circulating on social media yesterday. And you

00:23:11.700 could see this thing was built in 1981, a Shahad III. This was a very old piece of ordinance. This

00:23:17.120 was Cold War material. But from Iran's perspective, the only way that you can beat the Iron Dome and 0.94

00:23:22.740 the way you can fight back against it is by overcoming it and overwhelming it and, again,

00:23:28.460 draining those military resources and financial resources because of the great expense of the

00:23:33.340 shoot-down interceptors that Israel is having to use. And this, of course, is what creates the sense 0.69

00:23:39.720 of urgency. It's urgent for Israel to have someone come in and potentially knock the Iranians out 1.00

00:23:46.320 through a regime change operation or get one of the bigger power players in to backfill them,

00:23:51.460 to backfill the ammunition, because otherwise they're going to run out. They can't keep this up forever,

00:23:55.780 Steve.

00:23:57.300 Sean, this thing of sense of urgency and then the upsell to regime change,

00:24:00.620 this has clearly been rejected by President Trump. He couldn't be more adamant about it.

00:24:04.660 What are your thoughts on how this plays out going forward? Because obviously the Fox News

00:24:09.540 propaganda crew wants regime change here. And they may feel that they took a licking yesterday,

00:24:16.840 but they are far from finished. This is not the way Murdoch and these guys roll. They never give up.

00:24:21.720 Your thoughts, sir?

00:24:23.560 Well, you look at people like Bill Kristol. You look at what neocons have been pushing for a long time.

00:24:28.840 It wasn't ever just about Iraq or just getting regime change in Libya or just getting regime

00:24:35.700 change in Russia, which they were talking about like crazy people for years and using the Ukraine 0.70

00:24:41.540 war as a proxy to take down the Russian regime as if somehow it would be replaced by anything better.

00:24:50.000 Iran regime change is really the crown jewel. That's the thing they've been going after for a very, 0.78

00:24:54.760 very long time. And I'm not that old. I'm in my 40s. But basically my entire life we've been told

00:25:01.740 they're about to get a nuclear weapon. They're about to get a nuclear weapon. It's going to happen

00:25:05.400 tomorrow. It's going to happen tomorrow. It's been going on since the 80s or 90s. And so I think what

00:25:10.700 we're going to see is a massive ramp up that Iran's about to attack us. It's about to attack our allies. 1.00

00:25:19.340 If we don't do this now, we might get nuked, even though Iran doesn't have ballistic missile

00:25:23.740 capability coming at us. I think we are going to see so much emotionally extortive threats about

00:25:30.400 what could happen or what might happen if we don't do this thing right now. And we know this because

00:25:36.060 of just how quickly they went from, hey, Israel is going to take out this capability to, hey,

00:25:42.560 actually, we need to get rid of the regime there. And oh, by the way, we're going to need the U.S.

00:25:46.800 to help with it. They've run out of tricks, really, at this point. They went from zero to 100

00:25:52.300 in a matter of seconds. And once you get to that point, the only thing you can do past that is just

00:25:59.000 make completely emotional extortive threats. And I think we're going to see them go into overdrive

00:26:04.000 with that over the next two weeks as they likely try to upend any deal that we might be able to get

00:26:10.260 with the Iranians. Sean, where do people, you're the founder of The Federalist, and by the way,

00:26:17.780 it's a must-go-to site. Where do people go? Your social media is always something people should be

00:26:22.440 on because you're doing great analysis and observations throughout the day. Where do people

00:26:26.660 go to get you? Thank you. They can find me on X at Sean, M-D-A-V, S-E-A-N-M-D-A-V,

00:26:33.660 or they can find us and all of our great writers and reporters at thefederalist.com.

00:26:40.520 Incredible. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate you.

00:26:42.880 Thank you, sir.

00:26:44.020 Jack, can you stick around for a couple of minutes or you got to bounce?

00:26:47.660 I'm here.

00:26:49.300 Okay. We got the Jack. So I want to give a hat tip to Charlie Kirk, the great work. Charlie Kirk

00:26:54.680 has been doing the great work that Benny Johnson's been doing, so many other people,

00:26:58.700 just absolutely incredible, the podcasters. This is a team effort just to present facts.

00:27:05.560 Remember, we're a week ago. Think of where we were a week ago. A week ago, the chest beating,

00:27:11.700 the thumping, and I want to thank my Real America's Voice distribution partners and my crack team here.

00:27:18.020 I think we put a marker out. When we finished the cold open last Friday morning, what did we end

00:27:25.020 with? We ended with the shock and awe of 19 March of 2003 and also the march up to Baghdad when all

00:27:33.180 the people, you know, were beating their chest and this is going to be easy and what a victory.

00:27:37.640 What? We still have, what, 25,000, 30,000 troops that are now exposed to the Persians for counterattack. 0.87

00:27:43.960 When you deal in the Middle East, understand that history can come up and grab you. Okay.

00:27:52.060 It's unbelievable. The naivete. And quite frankly, the, um, it's almost criminal, criminal what is

00:28:01.060 going on. In fact, I think an investigation into like, what is the information Fox News is getting?

00:28:07.500 Is money changing hands? Are they, are they beginning ads? I mean, I would actually say

00:28:12.860 there, you know, a FARA investigation should take place of Fox News and it should take place of Fox

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00:29:43.860 and do it today. Big difference of opinion here, but unlike the left, we're not afraid to show it.

00:29:49.980 And you know all the players involved. So I guess I got to ask you, I want to talk about that thing.

00:29:54.720 Should it matter that the mood of America, they voted for a guy who wanted to concentrate on America

00:30:00.580 first. We got the guy in, and now we're here almost participating in a war. How do you explain

00:30:07.160 that, say, to your MAGA friends, you know, the Tuckers and the Bannons, you know, or then you have

00:30:14.880 the other side, the Rubios and the Mike Waltzes. How do you, what do you say?

00:30:19.680 So I observed America first, up front and personal, in term one. And what I learned about President

00:30:25.380 Trump, he's a man of action, not words. He's not a Navelle Chamberlain. He is a Churchill. He is not

00:30:30.820 someone who sits in a beach chair and lets history happen to him. He makes history. He acts strategically.

00:30:36.420 He acts when it's in our interest. When he took out Soleimani, when he took out al-Baghdadi,

00:30:40.660 when he acted in Syria, when they used chemical weapons on their own people, every dictator in 0.65

00:30:45.740 the world observed that. And you know what happened? Putin, for the first time in four

00:30:49.520 presidencies, did not invade a sovereign country. The last and final year of his presidency, not a

00:30:55.140 single American troop died in Afghanistan. ISIS dismantled. He's not words, he is action.

00:31:03.920 How is Bannon and the folks that you mentioned and the people advocating for just sitting back and

00:31:08.900 taking it easy? How are they any different than Biden's foreign policy? Biden's foreign policy was,

00:31:14.180 I say don't, and Putin does. I say don't, and the Taliban takes over Afghanistan. I say don't,

00:31:21.120 and two global wars start on my watch. That is the Biden foreign policy. That is by no definition

00:31:27.080 America first. Iran has had five decades, five decades, almost half a century to talk. And what 0.78

00:31:32.620 they've done instead, kill 609 American troops in Iraq. What they've done is put an assassination plot

00:31:38.860 on President Trump's head. What they've done is take American hostages and wreak havoc

00:31:43.120 on the world. America first is not sitting in a beach chair and using words. It's taking decisive

00:31:48.420 action when we can take out Fordow with one swoop of an airplane.

00:31:54.020 With one swoop of an airplane. Of course, Kayleigh McEnany is infantile. Let's be blunt.

00:32:02.400 That right there is dangerous. That is dangerous. And that is on Fox all day long. I'm absolutely

00:32:07.580 serious. Why wouldn't, why, why do you not think that they're representing a foreign

00:32:12.040 government? Hannity, Levin, the whole crowd, there should be an investigation. Has there

00:32:18.180 been intelligence or, you know, are the guys taking ads? You see the AIPAC ads all the time

00:32:22.160 over there. I'm a supporter of Israel and I believe in Israel first to do what they think 0.69

00:32:28.560 is necessary. And they've done a pretty magnificent job recently with Hezbollah in Southern Syria.

00:32:34.460 I think even in Gaza, although it's, it should be done a lot quicker and get it over with. 0.83

00:32:40.900 But this is different scale. This is different level. And in history, scale matters. And this

00:32:47.920 was rushed. This was rushed to try to suck us into a military operation and get us entangled

00:32:54.140 in regime change. That is obvious. The urgency last week, which still hasn't been explained,

00:33:00.280 why they had to have a Pearl Harbor type attack last Thursday night and Friday morning, right?

00:33:05.980 As we said, what do we say on the show, Jack Posovic on Friday morning? We said this was just

00:33:11.380 not to get, it was obvious. It was just not to get the nuclear program. It was a decapitation

00:33:18.660 move at the highest military command. They were bragging about it. And that's fine. But if you're

00:33:23.940 going to do that, don't do it where you then got to upsell us for regime change or bring

00:33:28.020 us in to finish, do the coup de grace. If the coup de grace is needed by the United States

00:33:32.100 of America, you should discuss that. And the American people need to be prepared for that.

00:33:38.260 What did Lincoln say? If you have public opinion on your side, if you have the public's support,

00:33:44.780 you can do anything in this country. But to get the public support, you've got to be straight

00:33:49.120 with the public. We were dealt from the bottom of the deck in Iraq. And I might note, Kayleigh

00:33:54.260 McEnany, if you learned your history, Iraq today is, I don't know, 50% Jack controlled 0.98

00:33:59.840 by Persia for the simple reason is that the buffoons over at Fox that dangerously promoted

00:34:05.460 into the Iraq war, right, had not thought it through. So Jack, where are we? And look, Israel,

00:34:12.220 we have a special relationship, which I unfortunately think is being broken right now by the way the

00:34:17.180 Netanyahu government is dealing with us. But that special relationship is they have air

00:34:23.580 supremacy over Persia right now. But if you look at the hits they're taking, you've got

00:34:28.460 to ask the question, and they're running out of ammunition, which they're going to need

00:34:31.760 us to do. They're running out of the refueling operations. They're going to need us to do.

00:34:35.740 We're already engaged as a combatant, okay? Let's be blunt. We're already engaged as a combatant.

00:34:40.600 Now they want to bring us into air operations. As Hugo Lowell walked you through yesterday,

00:34:47.560 it's not one swoop. Her words at the end are damning. Oh, it's just one swoop. Get off your 0.89

00:34:53.180 beach chair. Just one swoop. Well, lady, guess what? The guys in the beach chairs right now are

00:34:59.520 advising President Trump, think this through. You're the commander in chief. We will support you.

00:35:06.240 Obviously, your MAGA base, not Fox and the Murdochs that dumped him in 2021 and try to get,

00:35:12.520 you know, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley and Yunkin and all that crowd, right? The neocon crowd, 0.53

00:35:19.000 promote him over President Trump, try to crush President Trump. Murdoch, try to make him a

00:35:23.040 non-person. Those are Murdoch's words, not mine. So your rush here to basically jam the president of the

00:35:30.880 United States and to jam the United States of America into a situation where we had to deliver

00:35:36.460 the coup de grace on a military operation you initiated does not wash with the American people,

00:35:43.100 does not wash with MAGA. And I will tell you, I think the odds are now, hopefully, that the

00:35:49.280 president thinks through and looks at other diplomatic and economic warfare possibilities

00:35:54.120 to deal with the situation. Jack Bosovic. Yeah, Steve, I mean, there's just massive category

00:36:01.460 errors there. Talking about trying to compare this to ISIS. ISIS didn't have a navy. ISIS didn't have

00:36:06.360 a ballistic missile force. ISIS didn't have any of these assets. ISIS didn't have control of 20 percent

00:36:12.600 of the world's oil going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. ISIS didn't have any of these things.

00:36:17.180 So just massive category errors there. One is a sovereign government and the other one is a terrorist

00:36:23.660 group. So these are these are wildly different things. And to compare them as the same, it's it's

00:36:28.820 it's just it's just someone who, you know, really, really needs to go back and hit the books. And

00:36:33.320 when you look at also and say, wait a minute, the one line that just sticks at me, Steve, is say,

00:36:38.520 wait a minute, this is Joe Biden's foreign policy. Joe Biden was not an isolationist. Joe Biden launched

00:36:42.800 a proxy war against Russia. Let's not mince words. There is a proxy war against Russia that Joe Biden

00:36:48.780 initiated through his proxies in Ukraine that Fox News was cheerleading for. And all the cheerleaders 0.87

00:36:55.200 with the the blow dried hair and the makeup and everyone else on Fox News when they were cheerleading

00:37:00.640 for that. And Tucker Carlson, by the way, got fired over speaking out against the war in Ukraine to

00:37:06.740 say, hey, wait a minute. This isn't a great idea. We've got real issues here. They've got real number

00:37:11.840 issues. They've got armament issues. Maybe we should try to find a way to end this diplomatically.

00:37:16.360 Where is that going right now? How's that going right now? When when they did the last troop

00:37:20.960 exchange, the last troop exchange and and Russia turned over 6000 bodies and Ukraine turned over

00:37:28.260 70. All right. That's the numbers of ratio right there. How many people got to die? How many men

00:37:33.120 got to die? How many boys got Christian European men? How many Christians do you want dead? Because 1.00

00:37:39.260 that's what happens in every single Middle East war, too. By the way, the Christians always get 1.00

00:37:42.340 slaughtered by one side or the other. Right. All these areas used to be Christian. 1.00

00:37:46.060 They're all slaughtered. They say, oh, we pray for him. We pray for him. Or you could

00:37:49.620 maybe not start a war and get them all killed. So you've got a proxy war right now that is 0.97

00:37:53.940 still unfinished. Not not too far, relatively speaking, to the north of Iran between Ukraine

00:38:00.600 and Russia that all of Fox News was cheerleading. And what we just we don't talk about that

00:38:05.500 anymore. We don't have any conversation about that whatsoever. Putin's up there. He's

00:38:08.940 saying, wait a minute. You know why? You know why? You know why? China's trying to come 1.00

00:38:12.600 in. The same crew. Levin, Levin, Hannity, Cruz, Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham's over there

00:38:18.860 for the assault. The same exact crew, the same exact crew with the blood on their hands

00:38:23.640 of two million. Let me be blunt. Two million Ukrainians and Russians. A million Russians.

00:38:31.160 Christians. Dead or wounded. A million Ukrainians dead and wounded. And here's the point. On this 1.00

00:38:36.960 show, as you know, from the very beginning with talking about Professor Mersheimer, they

00:38:42.140 were leading the Ukrainians into a destructive war. It's like where when the catastrophic 0.50

00:38:46.420 nature of that conflict is revolting. Who cheerleaded that? And where are they now? Are they

00:38:52.900 cheerleading? No, because they understand the American people are revolting what's happening.

00:38:57.360 They want a new proxy war before they even finish the last one.

00:38:59.840 Exactly. It's revolting. And the one man, the one man on Fox News who wasn't cheerleading,

00:39:06.640 they fired him. Got rid of him. Right? Got rid of him. Talk to me about also Charlie's

00:39:13.520 being attacked. It's just truth. But Charlie's being attacked because he used the analogy of

00:39:17.940 the Persians and the Romans, sir? It's true. Look, look, you've got a Western power. Think

00:39:24.700 of it, right? You would say, oh, that's, that's, you know, they're saying, oh, Charlie said

00:39:27.580 the Romans couldn't even beat the Persians, right? Well, understand when, when Rome and 0.96

00:39:31.480 Persia were fighting, that's because that was an expeditionary operation of Rome, a Western 0.95

00:39:36.860 power based, as we know, of course, in Italy was fighting Persia. So there were two massive 0.89

00:39:42.160 wars between Rome and Persia. You sit there and say, oh, well, that's, that's no, the geography

00:39:46.680 hasn't changed. The lift hasn't changed. You still have to lift troops and material and sources.

00:39:52.160 You need all of this. So you need your supply lines. So you have to carry out those

00:39:57.320 sustained supply lines, just like we're seeing this air bridge that's being built right now,

00:40:01.100 right in front of our eyes, if you go look at the map. So that's all being done. And the Persians, 1.00

00:40:05.540 what do they do? They hunkered down and they kept fighting. They kept fighting. They kept fighting.

00:40:09.220 They kept fighting. And what did it do? What did it do? It sapped the strength of both Persia and the

00:40:15.620 Western Roman Empire. So the Roman Empire splits to West and East Byzantium, goes on for much longer.

00:40:19.980 And then the Persian Empire collapses also internally. And what did that give rise to?

00:40:24.880 Oh, right. The Islamic Caliphate was able to sweep in under Muhammad and the Arab armies and the Muslim 1.00

00:40:31.640 armies. They took the entire peninsula. They took all of Persia. And then they sweeped all the way 1.00

00:40:35.800 through and it created the Ottoman Caliphate. So all of this was done because they were able to break 0.81

00:40:42.380 out because you weakened the empire by overstretch by putting foreign interests ahead of your domestic

00:40:49.360 agenda, the domestic agenda of your internal core populace. And so if you think that there aren't any

00:40:56.900 analogies that we can learn from that history and we should just shut up and stop reading those history

00:41:01.480 books and telling Charlie Kirk to stop worrying about it, I would say I think Charlie Kirk is dead spot

00:41:06.680 on. Dead spot on. Jack, also today it's pretty obvious. President Trump has pivoted back to what

00:41:14.860 his interest really should be. The mass deportations, huge win in the courts, right, that President Trump's

00:41:20.680 taking advantage of. But also the big, beautiful bill. He understands he's got a lift here. It's a

00:41:26.260 heavy lift because there's a huge gap between the bid and the ask here to get a bill for him to sign on

00:41:32.240 July 4th. Talk to me about where the president's head looks like, at least on True Social and other

00:41:37.600 messaging we're seeing coming out this morning. He's back to business, is he not?

00:41:42.400 Well, President Trump knows. Look, this big, beautiful bill and the drumbeats were not beating

00:41:46.440 for war. They were beating for this bill just one week ago, about one week prior to last Thursday.

00:41:51.900 And that bill looked like it was working its way through. And Stephen Miller was up there on Capitol

00:41:56.020 Hill and he was working hard on it and getting in a lot of debates with some of the senators and the

00:42:00.560 holdouts, etc. But you need 50. So you need 50 plus one if you get J.D. in there. And that's

00:42:05.720 able to be enough to get this across. You only need a simple majority because of the way that

00:42:09.040 they're doing this. You want your deportations. And look, I've said day in and day out, support

00:42:13.540 your local ICE raids. That's where America's first focused is. That's President Trump's number one

00:42:21.260 issue. And by the way, Kayleigh McEnany said that just a few nights ago. This is the number one issue

00:42:25.620 for American voters, for Trump supporters. And it's his most broad support is on that issue as

00:42:31.800 well. And Kayleigh, I applaud you for saying that. I think she was exactly correct when she said that,

00:42:36.140 that that's President Trump's number one issue. That's what swept him into office. And that's

00:42:40.640 what he's been fighting very hard to get across the finish line. Number one, with the ICE raids that

00:42:44.740 have been going on, fantastic ICE raids, Los Angeles, huge ICE raids. I love the videos coming out of

00:42:50.400 there. I can't get enough of them, Steve. We got to set up a whole, you know, maybe a whole

00:42:54.600 couple hours here on Real America's Voice where we just show the footage of the ICE raids. Maybe

00:42:58.720 we get Ben Berkwam to narrate or something. And that, you know, maybe in bed with those guys,

00:43:02.520 Oscar Ramirez. But then you got the big, beautiful bill that if you want to see these expanded,

00:43:07.220 boom, you hit the bill. Now they get the funding to do it nationwide. It's incredible. That's what

00:43:11.520 President Trump's core focus has always been. Jack, where do people go? Social media, the show,

00:43:18.380 all of it. Human events daily will be up at 2 p.m. today. We're going to be walking

00:43:24.580 through all of this, the play-by-play. We're going to have footage of these strikes hitting

00:43:29.120 Iran, hitting Tel Aviv, hitting Haifa, places where a lot of people said that it wasn't going

00:43:34.480 to come back to the backfield. But this situation, unfortunately, needs a dealmaker-in-chief

00:43:39.860 like President Donald J. Trump.

00:43:41.820 President Trump. Thank you, Jack. Short break. Back to the War Room.

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00:45:00.420 Um, now that the president has set the course that let's think this through, as he thinks through

00:45:10.620 actually Haley McEnany's, it's just one swoop. It's just one swoop. It's just a swoop. That's

00:45:18.120 all. It's just a swoop. Get off your beach chair. Let's have a swoop. That type of infantile 0.98

00:45:23.900 cheerleading is what led to Section 60 over in Arlington National Cemetery. Yeah.

00:45:34.320 Remember Bill Kristol? They're going to throw, remember that? They're going to throw roses.

00:45:37.380 They're going to throw roses in the streets to, to, to welcome the American troops. That was

00:45:42.080 all in Iraq. It's dangerous to put the pom-poms up and act like this. Now, this is very serious,

00:45:55.220 not just for this country, geopolitically, geostrategically, but also for the lives of

00:46:01.480 men and women in combat and their families. America first means also American citizens first.

00:46:08.500 This is why president Trump resonates so well. This is why he has such a large movement that's

00:46:13.460 growing. David Drucker from the dispatch, uh, is going to be up next in the next, but a story he did

00:46:19.720 on Bloomberg about how African American men are coming to the MAGA movement and they're just not

00:46:27.400 coming for a quick, uh, one time vote, potentially permanently. Why is that? One of the reasons they

00:46:37.340 understand that president Trump is, if he gets involved militarily, he's going to think it

00:46:42.060 through and think through the second, third, fourth, fifth order magnitude. President Trump has pivoted

00:46:48.380 back this morning to focus on the tax and spending. Ray Dalio, and I'm trying to play that. If I can't

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00:50:14.280 So we're going to have David Drucker is going to join us to talk about something important,

00:50:21.040 this coalition and what's driving it and how important it is. This is what President Trump

00:50:25.900 has done. And you can't throw it away with, oh, we're going to just jump into a kinetic conflict

00:50:32.880 here. Oh, yeah, we're just going to do it. And you saw Hugo Lowell yesterday. The strike packages

00:50:38.280 here are quite complicated. If you decide to go the route, and by the way, he may decide to go the route

00:50:43.120 of a targeted military intervention. People have to be prepared for that. He'll come back and he'll

00:50:49.380 explain his logic. But one thing you can see is that he gave them another couple of weeks. He's trying

00:50:54.740 to get a deal. And if they're at all interested in the deal, something could be struck. But if

00:51:00.780 they're not going to have a deal, if they're just going to set President Trump said, you're not

00:51:04.100 going to have a nuclear weapon, he may go another alternative. But he will come back and explain

00:51:08.100 that to people. But even then, it's not easy. It's quite complicated. These strike packages

00:51:15.120 are complicated. It's not just the pilots lives you're putting in jeopardy. It's also the United

00:51:21.140 States. Because then we're a combatant. We're a combatant. We are a combatant in another war.

00:51:28.180 And maybe we can limit it. But President Trump, I will tell you, will look through every alternative.

00:51:33.940 And he will make sure it's 125% that, hey, this thing can happen. It's not one swoop. It's very

00:51:39.180 complicated. So that's why he keeps telling when I'm on the show for the Israelis, finish what you 0.55

00:51:46.640 started. You say you could have taken this thing out. It may take additional bombing runs. It may

00:51:51.880 take commando raids. Get on with it. Whatever it takes, go for it. Jim Rickards and the team,

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00:52:39.760 got a very special mystery guest in the second hour. David Drucker is going to start it off,

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Bannon's War Room - June 20, 2025

Episode 4574： Speedrunning The Iraq War Propaganda Train; Investigate Fox News

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