Bannon's War Room - Episode 4579： Banging The Drums Of War; Will There Be Troops On The Ground

00:00:00.000 Common wisdom about this president, about the political movement that he leads,

00:00:05.320 is that he is supposedly isolationist, that he is supposedly anti-war. That has never been

00:00:12.300 exactly right. That's always been kind of a lazy common wisdom. In less than six months back in

00:00:17.380 office, he has threatened military action against Panama, against Canada, against Denmark in order

00:00:25.920 to seize Greenland. He has bombed Yemen over and over and over again, and now he appears to have 0.86

00:00:32.720 entered the United States military into a war in Iran, something that neoconservatives have thrilled 1.00

00:00:40.000 to for, I guess, two generations now. A lot of commentary around the Trump phenomenon and Trump's

00:00:49.760 politics would suggest that he has risen in opposition to the neoconservatives who have

00:00:56.000 advocated for this type of war since essentially the Iranian revolution in 1979. But since 1979,

00:01:02.700 the U.S. military has not engaged directly with Iran. But Donald Trump has done so tonight. Donald

00:01:08.660 Trump has ordered U.S. military bombing raids on Iran. We are now in war with Iran.

00:01:16.480 I actually got emotional over this attack because we finally have some sign of retribution for them

00:01:25.980 killing us for so many years, and we just kept taking it on the chin. No doubt that because of the

00:01:32.860 president's decisive action, we have severely damaged Iran's critical nuclear infrastructure. I think we have 0.91

00:01:38.820 to be prepared for Iran to retaliate. And I joined the president in his warning to the supreme leader of 0.84

00:01:44.700 Iran that if he targets Americans, the military force you will see will make last night look like

00:01:50.800 child's play. There's no question Iran was working towards having a nuclear weapon that is without 0.92

00:01:57.700 question. Everyone knows that that looks at the data on this. The question is, will they be allowed to be

00:02:03.660 able to actually finish their work to be able to do that? President Trump said, no, you cannot do that

00:02:08.460 for the security of the entire world and of American citizens living in that region.

00:02:13.960 I don't know how anybody could have been surprised at this. I think President Trump certainly telegraphed

00:02:19.240 it. He said he's going to make his decision a couple of weeks. I certainly understand why President

00:02:23.620 Trump would not share that information with the Democrats in Congress. And again, the operational

00:02:27.920 security is just so crucial to protect our servicemen and women. I didn't need notice. I've been saying for

00:02:33.520 over a week, it'll be the president's decision. I will support that decision. You can see this is the

00:02:38.260 before satellite image of the Fordo nuclear plant. And then after you can see these craters, three

00:02:45.220 craters here and here. Presumably those are the impacts of the U.S. bunker busting bombs. Now the key

00:02:53.540 is to assess how much damage was actually done underground. That's ongoing. And as that happens,

00:02:59.280 an incredible amount of awareness now on the possibility of the Iranian counterattack.

00:03:03.800 Finish it.

00:03:04.300 Yeah, we'll just think that we're in such a better place as a result of the attack than what we were

00:03:10.140 before. And I think when you look at this, is this going to end at a negotiating table or is this

00:03:16.240 going to end on a battlefield? And Iran, they've got to go through a couple of things. One, I think

00:03:22.460 the status of the damage and the nuclear enterprise is a factor in their decision making, in my view.

00:03:29.460 Also, they're on their own time schedule. And we're kind of getting in a crouch and getting ready for

00:03:36.420 an attack. But they may take their time. This is their time schedule.

00:03:41.000 The meeting has now begun between Vladimir Putin and Abbas Aragchi. Cameras were allowed in at the

00:03:46.100 start of the talks. We saw and heard the pair exchange comments between translators. Vladimir Putin

00:03:52.480 called the aggression against Iran groundless. He said that their meeting will give them the chance to

00:03:58.440 find ways out of the current situation. And he added, most importantly, perhaps, that Russia was 0.66

00:04:03.580 ready to help the Iranian people. But the question everyone wants to know the answer to is what kind

00:04:09.200 of help will that constitute from Russia? If Tehran is seeking military help from Moscow, I think

00:04:16.200 Aragchi is going to be leaving here empty handed, leaving here disappointed. And I say that for a number

00:04:21.840 of reasons. Firstly, assuming things say as they are, by the way, firstly, although the countries

00:04:27.240 have this strategic partnership deal that they signed in January that sought to deepen their

00:04:32.260 military cooperation, there's no mutual defence clause contained within it. So, there's no legal

00:04:38.100 obligation for Moscow to step in and provide military aid to Tehran. And the second reason is that all of

00:04:44.280 Russia's attention and resources right now are focused on Ukraine. And so, I think they're reluctant to

00:04:51.240 be dragged into another conflict. And I think they might be hard pressed to as well. And the third

00:04:57.100 reason is that this comes at a time when Moscow is trying to get closer to Washington and improve

00:05:01.600 relations there. If they back Iran militarily now, then I think, of course, that will derail that kind 0.88

00:05:07.600 of warming relationship there. So, I don't think we're going to see at this stage any material support

00:05:12.920 from Moscow for Tehran. At the same time, though, Moscow is very wary of things progressing towards

00:05:18.500 regime change in Iran. They lost an important strategic ally in Syria when the Bashar al-Assad

00:05:24.440 regime fell there in December. And they don't want the same thing happening right now. So, for now,

00:05:29.720 I think Moscow is going to be pursuing and working very hard to achieve a diplomatic resolution.

00:05:36.060 They're uniquely placed to do that. They've got these strong ties with Iran. They've got warm

00:05:40.260 relations historically with Israel. And there's this budding personal relationship

00:05:44.140 between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. So, I think the Kremlin is going to be trying to talk

00:05:49.340 everyone down. And at this meeting today with the Iranian foreign minister, I think Putin clearly

00:05:54.400 knows that Iran has to respond. But I think he's going to be trying to persuade them to limit that 0.96

00:05:59.640 response to a symbolic one, hoping that then they can draw a line underneath this. And if he can do

00:06:04.780 that, then he will be preserving Russia's interests in the region, but also potentially gaining some

00:06:10.420 leverage with Donald Trump that he could then in turn use when it comes to Ukraine and U.S. military

00:06:15.920 support for Kyiv. It's a big if. And there's a lot of things playing into it. But Russia has a lot of

00:06:22.580 stake in how this progresses. And there's a lot that remains unpredictable.

00:06:27.500 Talk to me, Rick Stengel, about where Prime Minister Netanyahu factors into this debate.

00:06:35.460 Well, he's the big winner in all of this. And he seems to be conducting American foreign policy,

00:06:45.460 masterminding American intelligence. He had tried the last three presidents, including the first

00:06:54.160 Trump administration to persuade those American presidents that Iran was imminently about to

00:07:00.040 have a nuclear weapon and the U.S. needed to help Israel obliterate it. He finally persuaded Donald 0.82

00:07:06.320 Trump in his second term. He's a very persuasive fellow. He sees this ideologically. You know, one of

00:07:15.240 the problems of having an American president who sees foreign policy in terms of the personality of

00:07:20.900 foreign leaders is it makes him more receptive to the argument of those foreign leaders. Remember,

00:07:26.640 early in his first term, he said he trusted Vladimir Putin's description of our intelligence more than

00:07:32.500 our own intelligence services. So, you know, Bibi is really guiding a lot of what's happening here.

00:07:40.860 And we should be talking about what he sees as the next step, because that's going to help

00:07:45.480 focus what the American electorate is going to see. Meanwhile, President Trump is floating the idea

00:07:52.060 of a regime change in Iran. In a Truth Social post yesterday, the president wrote, quote,

00:07:58.160 if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?

00:08:05.400 This is the first time Trump's raised the possibility of changing the leadership in Iran

00:08:10.180 since Israel launched that war 11 days ago. The president's comments also break from the

00:08:16.640 stance of the rest of his administration that they've been taking, as they've been saying the

00:08:20.980 intention of Saturday's strike was not to push for regime change, but to prevent Iran from obtaining

00:08:27.040 nuclear weapons. Sometimes the military has to be used if it's used by a smart commander chief,

00:08:32.500 if it's used wisely, if it's used for a specific purpose. It gives us peace. So I want the

00:08:39.960 so-called, I don't know what to call them. People are running around, warmonger, the sloganeers.

00:08:46.020 This should be an education for you too. This should be an education for you too.

00:08:50.980 America, don't you feel relief? Of course you feel relief, because these Islamo-Nazis were

00:08:57.280 building nuclear weapons to attack us too, with intercontinental ballistic missiles. 0.96

00:09:01.880 Guess what? You can go to bed peacefully tonight. No, that's not going to happen.

00:09:05.940 That's not going to happen. Not because of Obama, not because of Biden, not because of the Democrats,

00:09:12.200 not because of some Republicans, because of Donald Trump.

00:09:15.180 This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on

00:09:26.360 these people. Here's the reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. The

00:09:32.520 people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do

00:09:36.480 everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

00:09:39.500 And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega Media. I wish in my soul, I wish

00:09:46.720 that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:09:53.640 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:09:59.860 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.

00:10:03.280 Monday, 23 June, in the year of our Lord, 2025, in a sweltering imperial capital.

00:10:15.240 Don't you feel, didn't you go to bed Saturday night feeling better?

00:10:19.500 Haven't you felt better all weekend?

00:10:22.580 Mark Levin, the propaganda department over there, the hectoring of Fox, because now the

00:10:28.300 PSYAPs move into a, they're moving to a different location. We're going to get into that in just a

00:10:32.360 moment. Didn't you go, didn't you feel better? Don't you feel better?

00:10:38.360 The engine room also, in going through the cold open, I want to thank my team. Just amazing cold

00:10:43.380 open. Did you get enough neocons there? Because we can load it up a lot more, folks.

00:10:48.440 Just from proportionality, every dollar we spend, focus on this. Every second we spend focus on this,

00:10:54.020 we're not focused on the main thing. Although the Moolahs are an ally, as I said, for all five years of 0.96

00:11:00.840 the show, they provide the oil for them. Dave Walsh is going to join us for that. Sam Faddis is going

00:11:05.200 to join us for Intel. His thoughts, Jack Posobiec's here. We're going to take this hour. In the second

00:11:10.460 hour, we're going to get off the Iran war because part of this PSYOP is to get us not to focus on

00:11:16.400 what's important for this country, for America first. And we're going to do that. And we're going

00:11:21.160 to do that every day. We're going to spend time on the war, as we have to, right? And we should.

00:11:26.980 But we're not going to get totally consumed by this. Because to get totally consumed by this

00:11:33.100 is to fall into their trap, to not focus on what's important in this country. The engine room informs

00:11:39.400 me, though, for proportionality, Mark Levin and all, General Keane, love General Keane, great guy,

00:11:44.180 Jack Keane. Although General Keane is kind of morphing into the general in Dr. Strangelove

00:11:54.760 a little bit. This is either going to be ended now or ended on a battlefield. They're just,

00:11:59.560 they're set to go. What's happening now is that I think we lost a big part of initiative yesterday

00:12:05.420 morning. And I was very disappointed. And I love Pete Hexer. This audience does. As you know,

00:12:09.460 we went to expand next to get Pete as DOD and raising Keane a good man and has President Trump's

00:12:16.920 confidence. But number one, we should have gone to the initiative. I need to, we needed to see some

00:12:22.240 grainy photographs like Schwarzkopf put up. And they were out there because a couple hours later,

00:12:27.740 hour later, MSNBC, CNN were putting up and driving the initiative of exactly what happened. I understand

00:12:34.220 DOD that you don't have the battle damage assessment. That's going to take three or four weeks,

00:12:38.640 as you said. But there's enough there to kind of take and start to drive the narrative.

00:12:44.500 We lost that opportunity. I've been all weekend saying somebody at the Pentagon's got to stand up

00:12:49.480 in front of a podium that says Pentagon in front of it and actually give us a first cut.

00:12:54.420 Photographs are all over. We need, we need an initial preliminary subject to change draft

00:13:00.940 assessment of exactly what was accomplished. President Trump is so proud of this as he should.

00:13:05.960 The precision, logistics, bravery, valor, boldness of the attack itself, unquestioned, right? But

00:13:13.860 exactly what was accomplished. Number two, because you see now, it's all about, hey, we don't know

00:13:19.000 where the material is. You see the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, the drumbeat on Fox.

00:13:23.440 What is that? What's that going to lead us to, folks? Hey, do we need the 75th Ranger Battalion

00:13:29.140 to go in and find it? Oh, it's coming. It's coming. And of course, you saw the regime change

00:13:35.420 narrative over the weekend, right? They're going to drive that. You saw the Chavarant son, 1.00

00:13:40.100 I don't know, a guy that's been partying in New York for 40 years, 50 years. They're now at the

00:13:46.000 podium saying they're calling all, remember Chalabi? This is Chalabi 2.0. Remember Chalabi? We've got

00:13:51.820 Chalabi 2.0. And all that stuff's fine as long as we're not part of it. We've got to come out of 1.00

00:13:58.080 the battle damage assessment. If we've got enough of it done, hey, then it's to the Israelis. Because 1.00

00:14:02.840 I think the tell here, and I think very upsetting, is why did the United States have to take on the

00:14:10.080 other two? The other two facilities were never mentioned in the road. It was always Fordo,

00:14:14.420 can't get to Fordo, need bunker busting bombs to get to Fordo. Why is the U.S. Navy in the North

00:14:20.340 Arabian Sea firing 30 tomahawks at one of the facilities? Why was that not taken out by the

00:14:26.920 air supremacy of the Israeli Air Force? Was the entire thing for the nukes just cosplaying? 0.55

00:14:34.960 Is this because the ultimate goal is regime change? And if that's fine, Israelis have at it. Like we

00:14:41.480 said, finish what you started. If you want regime change, go for it, baby. Just no participation by

00:14:50.140 the United States government. Short break. Faddis, Walsh, Posobiec, next.

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00:16:28.160 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:30.800 As the engineering room informs me, it's a million deaths by fentanyl. We have a million deaths by

00:16:36.100 fentanyl, 50,000 a year. Oh, and we got 10,000. By the way, every American serviceman, including the

00:16:41.360 Marines in Beirut, who should have been, the vengeance on them should have come years ago, 1.00

00:16:47.320 decades ago, and the money, I think, still held up in court. Right? I got it. And the Iranians are bad 1.00

00:16:54.580 guys. Today, right now, the Israelis bombing Tehran. I think they're having Bastille Day. 0.99

00:16:59.420 They're bombing the prison. They're bombing the Revolutionary Guard headquarters. Good on you. 0.99

00:17:04.320 Bomb away. 0.99

00:17:07.300 They're talking about regime change. They got the Shah's son. Like I said, he had a press conference. 0.96

00:17:11.220 He's Chalabi, too. They're getting all that together. In New York City, a proxy for this is what's 0.82

00:17:16.560 happening in New York City right now with that mayor's race. You watch. You're going to have a radical

00:17:22.080 Islamic mayor, a socialist to top everything off, but that's the least of the issues. 0.83

00:17:28.820 That's going to happen, folks, or it's going to come damn close. And of course, you got the

00:17:32.780 rig voting there. Right? So everything in New York City, all you progressives in New York City,

00:17:39.640 hey, get ready to embrace the future, folks. The progressives have brought this on us.

00:17:45.140 Now you get the Red-Green Alliance. But in the fog of war, this is what got Faddis Walsh and

00:17:51.160 Walsh and oil and what's happening in oil markets, particularly what's happening to the threat

00:17:56.080 to shut down the Straits or Hormuz, which, by the way, in any Cartesian kind of logic is

00:18:02.280 the craziest things the Iranians can do. But hey, they're taking income. And these guys are 1.00

00:18:07.980 not exactly rational anyway. They're looking for the 13th. They're following Mahdi. 0.81

00:18:13.560 They're looking for Mahdi. So this is the rationality. But no, Mark Levin, I don't think

00:18:19.120 people are sleeping better. First off, Sam Faddis, the raid itself was magnificent. It

00:18:25.040 showed you the coordination, the high technology. Nobody on earth, I'm sure the Russians and

00:18:28.900 the Chinese Communist Party got their number two pencils out and were writing down a lot

00:18:33.340 of, oh my God, these brothers can move and they can move fast and they can move hard and

00:18:37.780 they can bring the heat. But I was very upset yesterday morning when we at least didn't

00:18:44.480 have, you know, give me a Norman Schwarzkopf, give me at least a grainy gun cannon photo of

00:18:50.320 exactly what the freaking, you know, what happened. They said at the, you know, Raisin Cain, who's

00:18:56.380 fantastic and has the president's complete trust, because Raisin Cain was the guy that actually

00:19:00.080 took ISIS down, I don't know, in 90 days when they said it would take 10 years. He started 0.86

00:19:06.860 off, Sam, as Jack has pointed out, by saying, hey, I've got all the assets that are involved,

00:19:11.740 including Space Command, NRO. As you know, we can pick out a license plate on an Audi in

00:19:19.060 downtown Tehran. Why do I have no grainy photographs and at least take the initiative that we're taking

00:19:25.760 the initiative? This happened. Understanding a bomb damage assessment is 30 days away. Sam Faddis.

00:19:32.980 Well, first of all, Steve, I agree with you. Obviously, all credit to the men and women who

00:19:38.120 pulled this off. That's never been our issue, right? The competence of our people.

00:19:43.060 Why didn't they give us an assessment? Honestly, I don't think they have any idea what we just blew

00:19:50.040 up at Fordow. Let's keep in mind, three weeks ago, none of this was going on and we weren't talking

00:19:55.300 about doing it until the Israelis showed up and handed us a bunch of intel that we apparently

00:20:00.080 did not have. And so now they're driving the train and they're the ones that tell us Fordow has to be

00:20:07.340 blown up and this is what's there. Hang on, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. Don't go too

00:20:11.840 fast. Okay. Israelis, because this is the big debate, right? The Israelis showed up with intelligence we

00:20:18.840 didn't have, correct? Yeah, I don't. I mean, I get it that now people are attempting to turn this into

00:20:26.160 a debate. I don't see how it can be a debate. We know what the written IC assessment was as of the

00:20:34.220 end of March. Tulsi Gabbard delivered to Congress, but what she read, word for word, was a prepared

00:20:39.920 formal assessment by the entire intelligence community. Said the Supreme Leader has not changed

00:20:46.440 the decision that was made in 2003 to abandon a nuclear weapons program. So were we concerned

00:20:53.660 about it? We were concerned about it. Were we allegedly watching it? Yeah. Was there any urgency?

00:20:59.420 No, because our assessment of our entire intelligence community was there is as of this point, no

00:21:07.640 Iranian effort to create a nuclear weapon, to operationalize it. Okay. So that's where we were.

00:21:15.760 Three weeks ago, nobody was talking about bunker buster bombs, attacking Iran, regime change. And

00:21:22.420 then the Israelis showed up with intelligence that at this point still remains largely unknown

00:21:30.760 and said, we're on the cusp. They're about to actually have more than one. I think the number

00:21:37.760 has varied from nine to 12 operational nuclear weapons. And sometimes they've made it sound like

00:21:43.560 within days, as you've pointed out before, sometimes it sounds a lot longer, but based

00:21:49.700 on this intelligence that we did not have, apparently still don't have, apparently, according

00:21:56.560 to Secretary Rubio, they still haven't shown us. We have now gone to the point where we

00:22:02.560 are bombing sites. We're bombing Fordow. Now, the fact that Fordow had a whole bunch of centrifuges 0.99

00:22:11.380 in it has been involved in the nuclear weapons program. I just want to make sure, because people

00:22:14.360 are going to pick this, people are going to try to pick this apart, right? We're a big defender

00:22:17.400 of Israel. People, oh, abandon's flipped. Ain't flipped, folks. But let me be brutally frank.

00:22:23.700 The United States of America and American citizens make decisions for the United States of America,

00:22:28.880 a full stop, and we will not back off that one inch. If you don't like it, that's your

00:22:33.200 problem, okay? And we're going to get to the bottom of this. We're going to get to the bottom

00:22:37.960 of this. We are going to get to the bottom of this, and we're going to get all the facts.

00:22:41.920 Hang on. But one thing in the interim from Tulsi, didn't the International Atomic Energy

00:22:46.800 thing did come out, correct, and make an assessment that they were working on physical

00:22:52.880 material to make 10 to 15 bombs. Was that correct? Yeah, and the IAEA has been kind of sounding

00:23:02.320 that alarm for some time. I mean, look, I think the Israelis are closer to the mark than we are, 1.00

00:23:08.540 but it doesn't, to me, the fundamental point here is we're steering now, making national

00:23:15.160 security decisions at the highest level that affect the United States, affect American citizens.

00:23:22.420 And we are doing it based on intelligence passed to us by a foreign power. And it is,

00:23:30.600 it appears to me, based on what Rubio said the other day, that we have not even been shown

00:23:36.080 this intelligence. Now, as you say, this is the United States of America. The Israelis are allies.

00:23:43.980 But our decisions on behalf of our citizens, we have to make for ourselves, and we have to make

00:23:51.660 based on our own intelligence. So the Israelis are telling us we got to bomb Fordow. I question

00:23:59.520 everything about that. If they're really, if the Iranians are really as close to having a nuclear 0.71

00:24:04.920 weapon as the Israelis suggest, then the enrichment activity that you would do at Fordow is over.

00:24:12.740 I mean, taking it out will prevent them from enriching more uranium. But they long since

00:24:18.200 have done the work they needed to do at Fordow, if they're really within days. And the program now

00:24:24.980 would be being conducted in much smaller locations. And the real issue would not be that they're bunk,

00:24:32.360 they're in bunkers hundreds of feet under the ground. The real issue would be,

00:24:35.640 it could be done almost anywhere in a commercial warehouse. Finding them is the issue.

00:24:40.700 Well, okay, hang over a second, because this is the, I'm going to get back to the bomb damage

00:24:45.380 assessment. And to me, the tell, the tell on Saturday night is why are we sending the tomahawks

00:24:51.540 to the third facility? I thought it was all about Fordow. Right. Now we got to send bunker

00:24:55.940 buses to the second facility. But the third facility, which is kind of above ground,

00:25:00.840 I thought the Israelis had air supremacy. I thought they had air superiority. I thought they 1.00

00:25:05.500 were doing combat sortie after combat sortie. And since this is their, their number one objective

00:25:10.180 is this, the nuclear power, the nuclear, you know, weapons program. Number two is the ballistic

00:25:15.580 missiles program. Netanyahu yesterday said point blank, we're not going to get in a war of attrition.

00:25:21.740 When it, when those are over, it's over. I'm just quoting him. Right. But Jack Posobiec,

00:25:26.780 we're getting, Sam Hangover said, Jack Posobiec, we're constantly getting the upsell.

00:25:30.060 You get the sense of the false sense of urgency. And maybe it's not false, but I'd like to see

00:25:35.280 that information at least give us as much D class as you can. Because Rubio, I think I'm not sure

00:25:41.520 they haven't seen some of it, but certainly haven't seen all of it to make an independent assessment.

00:25:46.160 But we're getting the sense of urgency and we're getting an upsell. The upsell is first regime change.

00:25:51.040 Right. The second upsell today, folks, is to Sam's point. Well, hang on. Maybe they took that. Maybe

00:25:58.100 we got to find the, we got to find the, since there was no, uh, um, you know, nuclear fallout

00:26:04.120 or radiation. Right. And no seismic activity. Right. I'm just quoting the experts. Now we,

00:26:10.060 now, now the financial times and the New York times both come out almost at the same time

00:26:14.400 with the same story. Oh, well now we've got to go hunt for the, for the, for the material itself.

00:26:20.440 That reads to me, not just Israeli commandos, it's get on the phone and call the 75th Ranger Battalion.

00:26:25.820 Let's get the 75th Ranger Battalion on the phone. Cause I think we got to send a couple of guys

00:26:29.740 in there to find this stuff. Am I wrong? We're getting upsold a Jack Posobiec.

00:26:34.660 Yeah, Steve. It was interesting because the Washington post wrote up our, uh, our back and

00:26:40.000 forth the other day, our diatribe about the upsell, but they left out the part about the upsell being

00:26:46.120 regime change. I noticed that was very interesting because we've always been very clear about this,

00:26:50.160 that president Trump has been focused on the nuclear program, but the upsell was to try to

00:26:57.020 suck the United States in to say, well, you know, maybe it's just going to be a special operations

00:27:01.780 rate. Maybe it's just going to be a little bit, a couple of boots on the ground. Not, not, not too 0.94

00:27:05.720 many, just a couple of units, get some, get some CAG in there. Delta force seal team six, get the

00:27:10.660 boys out of dev group, get a little black squadron go down. It'll be fine. It'll be totally fine. 1.00

00:27:14.600 That was always the upsell. Now, hold on a second, because president Trump told me obliterated

00:27:20.600 completely. That's what my president said. So if president Trump says it's obliterated completely

00:27:25.760 and the New York times is pushing for all this, and we got a lot of questions about what actually

00:27:31.260 went down here, because I'm going to take the word of my president who says obliterated completely.

00:27:37.060 So perfect strike, et cetera, et cetera, what they're trying to push for. And all these guys,

00:27:42.580 Jack Keane, the Institute for the Study of War, which has been completely wrong about

00:27:47.260 everything in Ukraine, by the way, the ISW, which Jack Keane runs. Those are the guys telling

00:27:52.620 you, oh, it's going to be one fell strike. No. Well, here we are three years later. And

00:27:56.260 by the way, nobody's paying attention. Russia is advancing in Ukraine right now. Well, no

00:28:01.160 one's looking.

00:28:01.660 No. And the Chinese Communist Party is advancing in the South China Sea, all these shoals down 0.92

00:28:08.420 there and little atolls.

00:28:09.660 Two carriers. They have two carriers up.

00:28:10.920 They're sending their fishing boats down there. They're really naval craft. Okay. We've got

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00:30:08.940 In the War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:30:16.020 Okay, welcome back. Birch Gold, you're going to get a little turbulence, although, and they're

00:30:20.880 threatening to shut down the Straits or Moose, which is obviously for them. Dave Walsh is going to be

00:30:25.180 here to explain the logic because it would be absolute economic suicide for them, I think. Maybe I got this

00:30:30.680 wrong too, but I don't think so. Birch Gold, check it out now. The book, How to Invest in

00:30:37.220 Gold and Precious Metals, Bannon, 989898. Just text that. You get to Philip Patrick and the

00:30:44.220 team. Now more than ever, and I hope everybody did their homework assignment. I know there

00:30:47.560 was a ton of downloads on the end of the dollar empire. As the BRICS nations, that would be

00:30:52.300 the global south, head to Rio for the Rio reset. Sam Fadish, your assessment, are we being

00:30:57.500 upsold here? Are we being upsold? And by the way, as I've said a million times, if the Israelis want 0.99

00:31:02.640 regime change, go for it. If they want to go in and send people in to find the material, go for it.

00:31:08.440 It's their war. They started, and they should finish what they started. And hey, look, I think

00:31:12.920 they've got the valor and the courage and IDF and the Israeli Air Force. They punch way above their 0.85

00:31:19.480 weight. I think they got these guys maybe on the ropes. I don't know. President Trump can't get a

00:31:25.940 meeting for his negotiating time because the Ayatollah ain't taking calls because the guys

00:31:31.040 that take calls end up dead. Sam Fadish, your assessment. And in the CIA, shouldn't we have

00:31:36.440 our, I thought we paid, I don't know, a trillion dollars a year for all these 17

00:31:40.460 intelligence agencies. We got everything in the world to have an independent assessment

00:31:46.500 that came from people called Americans that had a perspective of the United States of America,

00:31:52.380 sir. Look, it is a given in any situation like this that you're going to have everybody in the

00:31:58.040 world come out of the woodwork and try to use you for their intended purposes. So yeah, we got the

00:32:03.060 crown prince now who, who claims that he's going to ride back into Tehran on a white horse if we just

00:32:10.100 back him and restore the monarchy. What's the defense against that? The defense against that is that

00:32:15.680 your intelligence services do their job and you know what the heck is going on and you can't be

00:32:22.240 played. So with all respect to the Israelis who I've worked with extensively, it doesn't change the

00:32:27.980 fact that they are representing Israel's interest and our interest in there do not coincide.

00:32:35.360 And can, are we in a position of, they do not coincide all the time.

00:32:38.760 So again, you have to have your own intelligence. We are now in a position where they are driving the

00:32:46.380 train. They're telling us things and you know, maybe they're true and maybe they aren't true and

00:32:53.760 maybe there's a mix of all of the above and maybe they're just flat out wrong about some things and

00:33:00.360 they believe that you're true. This is the maze of mirrors. So we have to have our own eyes and ears

00:33:07.660 and it is manifestly obvious we don't because again, three weeks ago we didn't like what was

00:33:15.660 going on in Iran, but there was no screaming emergency and now we're standing on the brink

00:33:20.340 of tumbling out of control and this thing really becoming a major conflict. Under a thousand over

00:33:27.400 40 years and every one of those lives are precious, right? Including the Marines at the Marine barracks

00:33:33.220 that even president Reagan said the single biggest mistake he made, he admitted two mistakes

00:33:37.440 in his presidency, doing the deal on amnesty where they let it, they, they gave him amnesty first

00:33:43.000 and never sealed the border and then the Marine barracks. And as soon as he got them in there

00:33:47.720 and died, he told Capron, get the hell out of there. What are we doing? We got enough fight with

00:33:51.200 the Russians. We can't be doing this. Jack Posobiec. Um, what's, how's, how's the upsell going to play out 0.85

00:33:57.800 over the next couple of days? And, uh, what information do we have to get this audience

00:34:02.460 to make sure they understand they're being upsold, sir? Well, Steve, there's going to be a couple

00:34:07.540 elements to this. So let's, let's keep in mind that the NATO conference takes place tomorrow at

00:34:14.740 the Hague and president Trump is currently scheduled to attend. Now we have heard the leaders of South

00:34:20.220 Korea and Japan, the president, new president, and then the prime minister have both pulled out

00:34:26.400 citing, uh, unforeseen circumstances as well as Middle East instability as the reason they don't want

00:34:32.920 to go. Uh, Zelensky, of course, he's up there. He's meet with Prince, or excuse me, King Charles

00:34:37.720 right now at the UK, and he's completely backed all of the action in Iran. He's calling for, uh,

00:34:45.240 potentially for regime change as well. He wants the U S to get in there big because here's what the

00:34:48.900 big play is now. What else, what else do you have going on in Europe right now? The foreign minister

00:34:54.360 of Iran, where's he? He's in Moscow. He's sitting down at the Kremlin right now, as we speak with

00:35:00.300 Vladimir Putin and the video is coming out and they're saying, we're going to deal with this

00:35:03.120 jointly. And the U S has conducted a legal activity, et cetera, et cetera. So what they're trying to do,

00:35:07.760 Steve, is they want to put the Iran fight together. That's what the EU wants, the European leaders.

00:35:13.140 They want to put Iran and Russia in the same bucket to get Trump to say, well, wait a minute,

00:35:19.500 you got to fight Russia too, through Ukraine, couple, three bombing runs, maybe over there on

00:35:24.700 Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine. So now you've got, or excuse me on, on Russian troops. Yeah.

00:35:29.420 Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine. So now you've got the Russians, but the Russians didn't, the Russians 0.89

00:35:35.380 didn't back in the Chinese. Nobody's come through it and said, Hey, we're militarily. We're going to come 0.98

00:35:40.020 in and back off the Israelis. I don't even think the Russians call for the Israelis. What Putin said,

00:35:44.160 didn't he say? Hey, he says, I got to play it. I got to play it kind of safe here.

00:35:48.300 Two million Russian speakers in Israel. Folks take your number two pronouncement. I write this one

00:35:53.800 down. Besides the Ted Cruz should have known there's roughly 190 some million or a hundred million in

00:35:58.980 Persia. There are two million Russians, Russian speaking, a Jewish people in, um, in, uh, in,

00:36:06.040 in, uh, of the nine million in Israel. So he just can't pick a side. I'm sure some of the people

00:36:12.040 taking incoming and they're taking brutal incoming yesterday are, are Russian citizens. Um, so in 1.00

00:36:20.040 taking our eye off the ball of the larger war and yes, Fox news, we are in the third world war. We just

00:36:26.200 don't want another battlefront right now because we've got one here in the United States that we're not

00:36:30.140 focused on enough. We got another in the South China sea that they're running the tables on us. I 0.97

00:36:34.480 should duly note South Korea canceled going to NATO this morning. Did Japan did also, but South

00:36:41.480 Korea, which is totally controlled by the Chinese Congress party, that political party announced

00:36:45.560 they're not going to NATO. They got other things they got to focus on. Right. And Japan announced

00:36:49.840 they weren't going either. I I'd actually be surprised if the president actually attended.

00:36:54.540 I'm not so sure given the threats, given the hot talk coming out of Tehran, the big talk,

00:36:59.880 Jack, that I would send the president over to NATO right now. If you need to talk to first of those

00:37:05.160 guys, all boring. He was in Calgary, got bored, came back. Right. Um, so how do we prevent the

00:37:12.400 upsell from getting, drawing us in more? The, the, the issue before us is we did what president Trump

00:37:18.580 said he would do is take down the nuclear program. He says it's obliterated the Pentagon. I'm sure it's

00:37:23.340 going to come out today or tomorrow and reinforce that this thing is knocked down because our

00:37:27.580 military in their valor and their boldness knocked it down. It's our mission's finished. Is it not

00:37:34.040 Jack? I mean, the, the, the, the regime change is if the, if the, if the peacock thrown guy that's

00:37:40.000 been hanging out in cocktail parties in New York city and the Hamptons for 50 years, hasn't lifted a

00:37:45.260 finger to help free his people. If that brother's ready to roll, then Hey, he's Chalibay 2.0. Do it.

00:37:51.800 Hey, that sounds great. That sounds like an idea. If the MEK want to team up with him and all these

00:37:57.360 other revolutionary groups or outside groups go with them, but we should have nothing to do with

00:38:02.820 that. Am I incorrect? Jack Posobiec. Well, Steve, not only that one, another watch word to look for

00:38:09.000 is moderates. You're going to hear this. This is going to be rolled out very soon. They're going to

00:38:13.660 say, well, there's, there's moderate elements that perhaps we can try to reach out to. And if we can get

00:38:19.020 to the moderate elements, perhaps they'll depose the IRGC, they'll depose the leader and the

00:38:25.720 moderates will rise up. And Steve, this was the same exact failed logic that led to what the third

00:38:33.300 biggest scandal of the Reagan administration, Iran Contra. Remember this Robert McFarlane. Oh,

00:38:40.120 we're going to go to the moderates and the moderate. They're going to work with us. We're going to come

00:38:44.200 together. Everybody seems to have forgotten this. We tried this. We have tried all these things.

00:38:49.400 We tried this again and again. And they tried to impeach President Reagan. Remember they went

00:38:55.220 all that. I think they indicted Cap Weinberg. Which leads to impeachment. Sam Fad, poor Cap became a

00:39:02.200 felon. I think they had to, they had to pardon him later. I've totally, that one slipped, the pardon him. 0.96

00:39:07.460 Hey, Sam Faddis, the hunt for the material. This is, this is a big deal, right? Because your point,

00:39:13.820 it could be anywhere. Who does the CIA normally in the military turn to? I threw at 75th Ranger

00:39:19.760 Battalion, but who would they go to? Because when they talk about, we got to find the material.

00:39:26.460 Am I missing it? They're talking about boots on the ground, sir.

00:39:31.200 Well, if that's what they're talking about, we're totally screwed, Steve. I mean,

00:39:35.700 how should it work? It should work that you should have these guys called assets.

00:39:39.820 Denver, put Denver, put up, put up the Financial Times and New York Times. The two biggest stories

00:39:43.660 in those papers today, which are the two dominant

00:39:45.760 news sources in the world, is your point at the very beginning. They think that they think

00:39:51.660 the Iranians pulled the stuff out beforehand because this thing was kind of telegraphed by

00:39:56.540 the Israelis for a couple of weeks and pulled it out or pulled it out over time, thinking it was a

00:40:00.600 target. And so let's assume for purposes of discussion, the Times and the Financial Times are right.

00:40:05.840 What happens to go find it? Yeah, well, I think we we know that there were trucks running in and out of

00:40:12.640 Fordow over the course of days. There's a question there why we didn't just bomb those of the Israelis 1.00

00:40:18.080 didn't bomb those. So we know a whole bunch of stuff left for Fordow. That's fact. How should

00:40:23.760 you hunt it? You should hunt it with clandestine assets, which is what the CIA is supposed to have

00:40:28.640 inside Iran, which is what we did in Iraq when the bombing campaign started and they all displaced to 0.62

00:40:34.460 unmarked locations. We followed them with teams on the ground and gave us GPS cords and put JDAMs

00:40:39.680 through the roof. We apparently don't have any human sources in Iran that are worth anything.

00:40:44.620 So, yeah, now are you talking about putting actual, you know, whether it's the rain, whether it's the

00:40:51.440 Ranger regiment or whether it's other tier one units, you're talking about putting uniformed American

00:40:58.540 personnel on the ground. I mean, come on, we know. I've worked with those guys are great,

00:41:03.760 but you know how that ends, that you do not stay undetected. It ends badly.

00:41:08.900 Jack, Sam Fattis said the magic word tier one. What do you? Oh, my God. What do we get? Folks,

00:41:14.620 this is the way you get sucked in. Give me what's tier one.

00:41:17.300 WMDs and WMD material doctrine is that that's going to be your tier one elements. My bias is

00:41:26.320 always Navy. So, you know, but it's, you know, it's always kind of a jump ball there. But, you

00:41:30.980 know, looking at a situation like that with the Navy element, you could have DevGuru go in. But

00:41:35.360 since you're talking about WMD material and potentially bomb making material, because again,

00:41:40.660 the intelligence, I haven't seen it. I haven't, you know, touched any of this, but there's been a lot

00:41:45.660 of questions about triggers. There's been a lot of questions about delivery systems. So you're

00:41:49.640 going to need a tier one element. So either DevGuru or Delta Force, but you're going to need

00:41:55.660 an EOD. You're going to need the EOD element attached to that so that they can deal with

00:42:02.160 whatever situation they find on the ground there. If they are actually going in and need to render

00:42:07.380 something safe or confiscate or et cetera, et cetera, whatever you're talking about. Because again,

00:42:11.820 if this is fizzle material, you're talking tier one operators, minimum, minimum, if you're going

00:42:17.420 to be sending U.S. boots on the ground. And yes, to Sam's point, of course, you're going to need to

00:42:21.660 locate this first through intelligence. And that also includes human intelligence. Look, you know,

00:42:28.220 you've got to pay off guys on the ground. You've got to need people there. Presumably,

00:42:31.460 Mossad has had all of these elements that were able to find all these sites and all these leaders.

00:42:36.060 DevGuru, you're talking about SEAL Team, SEAL Team, you were saying SEAL Team 6 with EOD.

00:42:40.260 SEAL Team 6 with EOD, EOD, the frogman, from DOD, the bomb squad that was so brave in Iraq. So

00:42:49.820 you've got EOD elements. Everybody knows Navy EOD is the best EOD. Yeah. Yeah. Let's not get in

00:42:56.140 that Army-Navy fight. Hang on. You two guys, hang on. It's true. I've got Dave Walsh. We're going to

00:43:01.700 talk a little oil. We got our two Intel guys, Jack Basovic and Sam. I really appreciate Sam taking the

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00:45:29.460 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:45:35.600 So, Birch Gold. Also, always go to Birch Gold, promo code Bannon, and get to the Philip Patrick

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00:46:16.600 intelligence. We're going to have MTG and Mike Davis on here about something in the Big Beautiful

00:46:20.340 Bill. So, both of those are going to come in the next hour. Also, Harmeet Dillon. We're trying

00:46:23.620 to get her over the Justice Department. As we're going to sit there and say, we're just

00:46:27.260 not going to get sucked in and focused on all this. Jack, give me a minute on what you

00:46:32.400 need to see from Pete and the guys, the guerrilla from CENCOM and Raising Cain today. What types

00:46:40.820 of elements would you like to see to make sure we get a great picture here as we say, we stand

00:46:46.900 relieved, right? The Israelis relieved the watch. We want to have a complete turnover. What do 0.97

00:46:52.580 you want to show them?

00:46:55.220 Well, Steve, when it comes down to this, you know, as a prior intelligence officer and

00:47:00.780 someone who's looked at these types of situations before, when you're conducting battle damage

00:47:04.520 assessment, some of the things you're going to look at, they're not just going to be these

00:47:08.800 commercial imagery photos that we're seeing from Maxar and others. The United States intelligence

00:47:14.800 community, of course. So when has every eye in the sky on a strike like this, you would

00:47:20.180 have every single intelligence satellite, spy satellite focused directly on every facility

00:47:25.600 that was being hit, particularly Fordo, because of its extreme distance, extreme depth beneath

00:47:30.940 the surface of that mountain. So we've got all sorts of capabilities up there to see into

00:47:36.920 this from an intelligence perspective. And if the president wanted to, he could declassify

00:47:41.360 this or other elements could be declassified as well. So we're not just looking at basic

00:47:46.400 satellite imagery of, say, those sites and those tunnels. By the way, we've got, we've

00:47:50.340 got, if you want to look inside a tunnel, we've got satellites that can shoot on an angle and

00:47:53.680 they can get right into that tunnel. So those trucks looking up to this, you would have had

00:47:58.380 satellites that were tracking every single truck, what was being done, what was being put

00:48:03.120 onto them. Plus you've got synthetic aperture radar. You've got things that can look deep inside

00:48:09.220 these mountains. We've got all sorts of ability to look into this, to measure what's going

00:48:13.860 on. We've got infrared, we've got magnetic anomalies and all the rest to really track

00:48:18.480 this down. The Israelis got drones all over the place. Yeah, they got drones all over the

00:48:23.440 place. They've been doing drone war and winning in Tehran. Hang on for a second. Dave Walsh,

00:48:29.200 make me smart. The president sends out a tweet today going wild. Then he says, drill, baby,

00:48:35.160 drill. What is the president's issue today with oil, the Straits of Hormuz in the Persians,

00:48:42.520 sir?

00:48:44.300 Well, he's worried about the Hormuz Straits being blocked for a while. Prices, by the

00:48:49.180 way, seem to be down 0.6% so far today, 72 bucks ballpark. But with that said, he's doing

00:48:56.660 the jawboning thing. The president tries to do, try to get ExxonMobil, Chevron, Occidental

00:49:01.040 Marathon, Chesapeake to do something they have never done before. For 55 years in this

00:49:06.480 country, never done before. And that is, guess what? Let's not match OPEC and world oil prices.

00:49:12.100 That's not going to happen. They're going to match world oil prices. In part, one reason

00:49:15.880 we have never taken on OPEC. We have decided the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is doing it.

00:49:19.600 Hold it. Hang on. Slow down. Hold it. Slow down. Slow down.

00:49:22.220 What did you just say? I want the audience to understand it because I don't. Walk me through

00:49:28.140 that again. No, he's attempting to jawbone through social media the major oil producers

00:49:34.880 in this country to please don't go along with world oil prices. Okay, Deutsche Bank is forecasting

00:49:41.220 you're going to go from a range of $85 to $120 possibly for the time period that the Straits

00:49:47.580 of Hormuz may be blocked. We buy precious little oil that comes from that source. Only like 7%

00:49:54.320 of our imports, which are almost nil to begin with, come from there. What he's concerned

00:49:59.300 with is global pricing going to $85, $120, from which we benefit massively, by the way,

00:50:05.380 is our major export commodity. But consumers here will be punished if that happens because

00:50:11.120 these companies will raise prices to match what happens globally and the demand they get

00:50:16.300 globally to displace the 20 million barrels a day that comes from the sections of the Middle

00:50:21.320 East that are furnished through the Hormuz Straits. So he's jawboning our domestic industry

00:50:27.320 to try to hold prices in line. Don't go along with the bad guys. That's not going to work.

00:50:32.860 They're going to, as they always have, they'll track prices with OPEC and the rest of the world

00:50:37.400 to wherever the global markets go. And right now, the assessment of Deutsche Bank, for example,

00:50:42.660 is we might be headed to $85 low to $120 high based on this Hormuz Straits impact for as long

00:50:50.980 as it may last. But it is, to Rubio's point, absolute suicide.

00:50:55.360 But hang on, hang on. 20, 80% of the cash flow comes from what they sell the Chinese. And we see 0.99

00:51:02.720 Malaysia and all this stuff. Those are all fronts for the Persians selling it to the Chinese. 1.00

00:51:07.140 The Chinese, Persians sell them a million and a half to two and a half, maybe three million

00:51:10.620 barrels a day. Why would you, being a sailor that's happened to sail a combatant into the

00:51:17.920 Straits of Hormuz, why would the Iranians want to close it? If you close it, aren't they cutting, 1.00

00:51:22.520 aren't they slitting their own throat? This is the logic I don't get. What's the strategic logic

00:51:27.640 here for why they would even do it? Yeah, it does appear on the surface to be suicidal

00:51:32.660 as a move for them, because you're talking about the two million barrels a day going to China,

00:51:37.160 all flow that way from them, $100 million a day of revenue for them. They're desperate,

00:51:43.460 they're isolated, they're cut off, they're basically looking for a sympathy play through

00:51:50.220 this process of attempting to congeal China support, Korea support, especially...

00:51:57.220 And they would cut off Europe? Europe would be done. If you cut off Straits of Hormuz,

00:52:01.960 Europe gets no oil, right? Large supply to Europe, way more than here. Yes, substantial,

00:52:08.100 substantial. But they want to try to get you on Qatar and the kingdom with them also,

00:52:12.880 because they're badly hurt by this. Got it. Kingdom, UAE, Qatar. Okay, I got it. But I'm

00:52:17.800 going to spend, I'm going to need some more time with you. Poso, you got to go. Sam Fettis,

00:52:21.760 I'm going to ask you to stick. Poso, social media, the show, you're up here at two o'clock,

00:52:28.180 your social media is on fire, taking incoming sometimes, but giving as good as you get.

00:52:33.840 Where do you go, Poso, for you? Well, people are more than happy to step right up to come get me

00:52:39.460 at social media. If you want to follow me, just go watch NBC, Washington Post, Jon Stewart,

00:52:45.080 The Daily Show. They're all coming after Poso. And I'm more than happy to take it on,

00:52:50.240 because as a Philly guy, that's what we do. So yeah, we're going to be up. We've got,

00:52:54.120 we've got the great Matt Boyle from Breitbart on. We're going to be talking all things political,

00:52:58.240 because there's a domestic agenda here as well. Huge. Deportations, the big, beautiful bill,

00:53:04.880 all the rest of it. You know, we got some borders that we got to worry about here at home too,

00:53:08.440 by the way. Mass deportations, the leading front. Poso, where do people go for your social media?

00:53:14.160 Where do they go? At Jack Posobiec, TruthCatter, Social, or Telegram.

00:53:17.560 Also, this race in New York City, you're about to have a radical jihadist Muslim as your mayor, 0.84

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Bannon's War Room - June 23, 2025

Episode 4579： Banging The Drums Of War; Will There Be Troops On The Ground

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