Bannon's War Room - October 13, 2025


Episode 4846： Broker Of Peace In The Middle East And Economic Prosperity


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 14 minutes

Words per Minute

151.40694

Word Count

11,348

Sentence Count

910

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

The President of the United States is about to arrive in Jerusalem on Air Force One to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, welcome back some hostages, and address the Israeli nation at the Knesset. What does this mean for the people of Israel and the world at large?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What does today mean with the President of the United States about to arrive in Jerusalem on Air Force One to meet Netanyahu,
00:00:08.220 welcome some hostages back, and then address the Israeli nation at the Knesset, sir?
00:00:14.940 Good morning, Steve. Great to be with you. We are here in Jerusalem on Jaffa Street.
00:00:20.100 This place is going to be banging here in a bit.
00:00:22.900 This is one of the sort of most busy places in Jerusalem where Israelis come.
00:00:28.420 I was reminded this morning, Steve, what a small country this is and how everybody has been impacted by this.
00:00:35.680 The camera operator that I'm working with this morning, we were looking at some of the hostages being released,
00:00:42.500 and two of the guys are called the Berman Twins, and he worked with them before.
00:00:47.720 And he knows a lot of people in the company that they worked with, very respected guys.
00:00:53.440 I've got family members who have said the same thing.
00:00:56.140 They knew people that either got abducted on October 7th or got attacked or, you know, whatever happened.
00:01:01.860 So it's really, if you want to think of it this way, Steve, it's a family rejoicing for what's happening today.
00:01:08.900 They're excited.
00:01:10.120 To say they're excited to have President Trump is perhaps the understatement of the century.
00:01:15.280 Jack, you've been on many of these trips with the president.
00:01:17.980 You followed this very closely from the beginning.
00:01:20.080 You and I covered this live on the day that it happened.
00:01:23.300 On October 7th, it was a Saturday.
00:01:24.940 Your thoughts this morning as we await the president's arrival on Air Force One?
00:01:32.120 Well, Steve, this is nothing short of historic.
00:01:35.340 The scenes we're seeing are absolutely biblical, and there are posters now going up in Jerusalem that I'm seeing just go viral on social media,
00:01:46.000 saying that Cyrus the Great has returned, and they are referring to President Trump as Cyrus the Great.
00:01:53.720 I see the crowds cheering there.
00:01:56.380 The Persian leader who came in but also was able to provide peace to this area after they viewed him as a liberator of liberating them from the Babylonians.
00:02:07.300 And seeing this new covenant, seeing this new deal that is being put in place, I mean, it's nothing short of biblical.
00:02:15.100 It's nothing short of biblical, and I don't know how anyone who's a believer can be watching these scenes,
00:02:21.360 can be seeing this all happening and not going back and brushing up on our Old Testament.
00:02:28.180 Hang on for one second. Air Force One has landed, just landed in Israel, and you see a guard of honor coming out to meet it.
00:02:38.720 There's supposed to be a very short, see the red carpet, it's going to be a very short runway.
00:02:44.260 Do we have audio? Let's try to pick it. Let's pick up the music.
00:02:58.180 Let's try to pick up the music.
00:03:28.180 Let's try to pick up the music.
00:03:58.180 Jack Posobiec, that is always, the logistics is always brought forward on a military plane in advance as the Secret Service sets up for the president's travels.
00:04:23.860 And obviously people, in particular our audience, are quite concerned about the security for the president since you didn't have months to plan this.
00:04:31.100 You really had very, very, this was planned very, very quickly.
00:04:33.800 Well, Steve, that's right. So the Beast, and actually there's a pair of limos that will travel ahead of the president.
00:04:42.500 They will fly on military aircraft.
00:04:44.560 And prior to the president arriving in any region, particularly a region such as the Middle East and CENTCOM, you've got, you're going to have teams in military.
00:04:53.220 You're going to have special forces that are going out.
00:04:56.000 They're going to be siting in on those locations.
00:04:58.400 They're going to be finding where the closest hospitals are.
00:05:01.560 They're going to be finding where the routes are for various medical facilities,
00:05:05.640 as well as making sure that the president's entire military and security team is there on site at all times.
00:05:13.800 Now this one, stand here, this one, and please here, let's try again.
00:05:32.460 Now here, please.
00:05:34.080 Thank you.
00:05:58.920 People in the United States have been quite concerned about the security around all this.
00:06:02.520 And I'll be honest with you, I don't, I think this is way too confusing and way too looks like unmanageable.
00:06:10.920 I would, I mean, I just think there's too many people around, too much media around.
00:06:14.880 I don't get this coming into Israel on the spur of the moment.
00:06:20.520 Joel, you first and then Kurt, but I really, we're just taking the fee from people.
00:06:25.780 But man, I just don't, that right there look like they're just winging it.
00:06:30.680 Joe Gilbert, your thoughts.
00:06:34.380 Yeah, I'm with you.
00:06:35.240 I'm very nervous when I see that many people crowded around the president from so many different directions.
00:06:40.980 Don't forget, a lot of these people have weapons that are authorized to have weapons.
00:06:46.460 But who knows if, you know, somebody has a beef, you know.
00:06:50.160 So I get a little nervous when there's not enough space between the president and a large crowd.
00:06:54.340 What occurred to me just watching this is this whole spectacle is based on misunderstanding.
00:07:02.800 I recall that, you know, I visited Israel and Gaza was a pretty peaceful place at one time.
00:07:09.040 But Israel gave up Gaza to the PLO terror group under the guise of the idea that peace would break out,
00:07:16.580 that all they really wanted was to have their own territory without Israelis and there would be peace.
00:07:22.480 And people cheered and they had the square and they sang songs and they danced.
00:07:27.660 And immediately it just fell apart because the Israelis fundamentally did not understand that the Islamic world
00:07:34.000 and the Palestinian Arabs did not want to accept Israel in any size or circumstance.
00:07:40.820 And I believe that attitude remains the same today.
00:07:43.180 And that's what they're going to encounter in the future.
00:07:47.800 But it's all a result of this fundamental misunderstanding is why they had the war and why Trump is even there today.
00:07:55.900 Well, you see the outpouring from the Israeli people in the square.
00:07:59.820 Also, the rest of the people at the Knesset greeting him were all smiles.
00:08:05.580 And I believe, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:08:07.580 the president had just spent 45 minutes in the beast, in the car from Ben-Gurion Airport to the Knesset with Netanyahu.
00:08:16.420 I mean, they traveled together.
00:08:17.640 And like I said, like I asked Joel when they started off,
00:08:21.100 I'd like to be the fly inside the car to hear that conversation.
00:08:25.900 Clearly, it wasn't hail fellow well met.
00:08:28.480 The president had his game face on when he showed up.
00:08:31.340 I've seen that look before.
00:08:33.060 That's not the ebullient President Trump.
00:08:37.200 We got a shot inside the Knesset right now.
00:08:40.100 But Beebe clearly was icy.
00:08:41.880 And you said he didn't shake his hand after he signed the book.
00:08:44.540 He specifically went and shook the speaker of the Knesset's hand,
00:08:49.960 but pretty evident did not turn and shake Beebe's.
00:08:56.680 I don't want to read too much into that,
00:08:58.700 but it was clearly icy when they got out of the car and got there.
00:09:02.980 And I think it's because Beebe's not enthusiastic.
00:09:05.840 Yeah, this is a catastrophic defeat for the Israel-first crowd here.
00:09:09.760 Tel Aviv, Levin, and that crowd, I'm sure they're banging their heads on the wall.
00:09:13.260 It's a catastrophic defeat because they overreached.
00:09:16.760 They pushed this greater Israel project, and it came crashing down around them.
00:09:22.120 As the president of the United States,
00:09:23.760 when Beebe, he already took out the negotiating team for Iran,
00:09:28.380 which we now know he bald-faced lie to the American people.
00:09:31.540 And quite frankly, John Ratcliffe, the CIA director,
00:09:33.840 should be hauled before the House about why he agreed with the Mossad's assessment
00:09:41.380 that this thing was days or weeks away from a nuclear weapon
00:09:45.960 when the cabinet minutes in the cabinet debate was released by the Times of Israel,
00:09:52.560 and they agreed that it was a minimum of two years,
00:09:56.440 of which we said here in the war room.
00:10:00.680 They went to kill the negotiating team that Steve Wyckoff was supposed to meet with in Oman that Sunday,
00:10:06.600 and really hit the trip where our President Trump was Netanyahu,
00:10:11.760 without talking to the United States,
00:10:15.360 went and did a missile attack into Qatar
00:10:18.340 to take out the negotiating team of Hamas.
00:10:21.700 I mean, how are you going to make a deal?
00:10:23.160 How are you going to try to get the hostages back without doing that?
00:10:31.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:10:34.880 I mean, pray for our enemies,
00:10:38.000 because we're going medieval on these people.
00:10:41.300 You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:10:45.580 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:10:47.480 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:10:48.920 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:10:50.660 but you're not going to stop it.
00:10:51.600 It's going to happen.
00:10:52.860 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:10:56.260 Mega media.
00:10:57.620 I wish in my soul,
00:10:59.260 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:11:02.340 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:11:06.800 If that answer is to save my country,
00:11:10.020 this country will be saved.
00:11:13.200 War Room.
00:11:14.020 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:11:16.440 It's Monday, 13 October in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:11:25.820 It is Columbus Day here in the United States of America,
00:11:27.920 and we continue our wall-to-wall coverage of this historic trip to the Middle East,
00:11:35.620 not just any trip, really the freeing of the hostages,
00:11:37.940 all by President Trump.
00:11:39.200 And he is en route and I think will momentarily land Air Force One.
00:11:43.500 They left about 40 minutes ago, and it's about a 45-minute flight,
00:11:46.920 at the Red Sea Resort in Egypt,
00:11:52.140 where the nations of the world, I think 50-some nations,
00:11:55.020 or 25 nations have gathered, including many of the European powers,
00:11:58.960 France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and others.
00:12:01.820 Of course, all the prominent Arab nations and Muslim nations,
00:12:06.580 I think Indonesia's there, Turkey's there,
00:12:08.860 and this is where the deal's going to get cut.
00:12:12.060 Something happened today when President Trump was there.
00:12:14.420 He said the long and painful nightmare of this two-year war is over.
00:12:19.980 He was very adamant about that.
00:12:21.520 There we have the live shot at the seaside resort
00:12:25.960 that President Trump is going to speak at that podium.
00:12:30.100 These are the folks who are really putting together the deal,
00:12:33.060 the money, and the security.
00:12:35.040 And the Israel First crowd should understand
00:12:38.320 what they've accomplished today, which is a two-state solution.
00:12:42.300 You're going to have a proto-Palestinian state in Gaza,
00:12:46.460 two million people.
00:12:47.360 They're not going anywhere.
00:12:48.700 You're going to have tens of billions of dollars
00:12:50.560 from the Gulf Emirates,
00:12:53.020 or at least from the families that control the Gulf Emirates
00:12:56.020 and Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
00:12:58.140 Australia, also in probably UAE.
00:13:02.000 And Turkey is going to provide at least the security guarantee.
00:13:05.680 We've got a lot to go through.
00:13:07.000 It's been historic so far.
00:13:08.300 It's about to, I think, even get more historic.
00:13:11.600 This morning was a little delayed.
00:13:12.900 By the way, President Trump spent hours longer in Israel
00:13:15.760 than planned, than the four hours.
00:13:17.700 He's just now getting to visit the Arab nations.
00:13:20.780 We're supposed to start hours ago.
00:13:22.180 That's fine.
00:13:22.700 We've got no place to go and nothing to do except cover this historic day
00:13:28.900 on Columbus Day.
00:13:31.420 There was, President Trump, I think, brokered a situation
00:13:37.040 where Bibi actually got an invite from Sisi.
00:13:39.940 And you know, Sisi's under tremendous pressure.
00:13:43.200 The Egyptians, you know, not to be rubbing up on the Israelis.
00:13:46.920 And so he's under tremendous pressure.
00:13:49.180 I think he actually offered an invitation,
00:13:51.720 but Bibi waved off at the last second.
00:13:53.640 Netanyahu waved off.
00:13:54.580 We'll try to get into all that.
00:13:55.920 I've got Dave Bratt with us.
00:13:58.500 Also, Ben Harnwell from Rome.
00:14:00.680 I want to thank those two guys.
00:14:02.480 They were there for the morning coverage.
00:14:03.980 I want to thank Real America's Voice.
00:14:05.300 By the way, the team in Denver, glad you were paying attention.
00:14:08.640 That was a great, great, great cold open.
00:14:11.180 Had the highlight reel.
00:14:12.280 We didn't really get to President Trump's speech,
00:14:14.900 but we'll do some of that in the coming hour.
00:14:18.640 A historic day.
00:14:20.480 What's President Trump's right?
00:14:21.160 The long and painful nightmare is over.
00:14:24.680 President Trump also said a number of times today,
00:14:27.900 the war is over.
00:14:29.520 With the war being over,
00:14:30.740 that means the Greater Israel Project is over.
00:14:34.820 So the two-state solution,
00:14:36.560 what's happening, as Joel Gilbert so brilliantly laid out today,
00:14:40.560 is 100% the result of the efforts of the Israel First crowd
00:14:45.260 here in the United States,
00:14:46.460 which supported Netanyahu and his overreach.
00:14:50.640 We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:52.140 We're going to go back to the Red Sea when we return.
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00:17:33.940 Okay, welcome.
00:17:37.620 I want a couple things.
00:17:38.540 Number one, I really want to thank, of course, our Denver crew cut just an amazing cold open.
00:17:45.880 Today, I've got Dave Brett and Ben Harnwell with me this morning, and we're going to bring
00:17:50.300 them in a second.
00:17:50.900 They were part of their earlier coverage.
00:17:52.340 President Trump was supposed to be there for four hours, and it was a pretty tight schedule.
00:17:57.100 I believe he was there for eight hours.
00:17:59.600 Number one, he had a huge meeting with the families, I think 100 members of the families
00:18:05.900 of the hostages.
00:18:07.660 He sat there and just listened.
00:18:08.860 They had kind of a roundtable or singing around where people were passing the microphone.
00:18:13.400 It shows what Kurt Mills calls the empathetic side of President Trump, which people that
00:18:19.020 know him know it's quite strong.
00:18:20.500 It was pretty amazing.
00:18:21.840 And then he spoke, and there were all these speeches.
00:18:24.400 I mean, Bibi went on and on, and the opposition leader went on and on.
00:18:28.260 It was, the speaker of their house went on and on.
00:18:31.180 I mean, that's all fine.
00:18:32.240 I realize it's historic.
00:18:33.180 But President Trump, here we go right here, Air Force One, coming into Sharm el-Sheikh, the
00:18:42.780 world-class resort on the Red Sea.
00:18:48.100 And the security there, you think the security in Israel was high, which it was, but there
00:18:53.320 were parts of the Knesset part that we'll get into that was pretty, I thought, pretty concerning.
00:18:58.280 There's the resort right there, beautiful shot.
00:19:00.280 This resort is known throughout the world.
00:19:04.020 I want to thank Real America's Voice.
00:19:05.920 Incredible coverage.
00:19:06.980 And here's the thing.
00:19:07.660 I had a chance to assess what we did this morning versus, there's Air Force One.
00:19:13.280 Is that beautiful?
00:19:14.500 Coming in, landing in Egypt right now.
00:19:17.620 It's old shuttle diplomacy from Kissinger, except this deal is going to have amazing impact
00:19:26.680 on the Middle East, unlike Kissinger's back and forth, which is kind of ridiculous, the
00:19:33.120 back and forth as like a servant over there.
00:19:38.400 Our coverage, quite frankly, was just more serious and more sophisticated than the other
00:19:42.620 channels.
00:19:43.760 Other channels, a lot of it's pretty infantile.
00:19:46.060 I realize the hostages are key and that's a celebratory thing, but it is, that is kind
00:19:52.800 of signal on a day that you ought to focus on, or that's really noise on a day you ought
00:19:56.800 to focus on signal because this is massively important, particularly for people who have
00:20:01.940 supported Israel for decades.
00:20:03.480 You're about to see a two-state solution, a proto-Palestinian state going to be created
00:20:09.660 this afternoon in Egypt with unlimited cash, sponsors that have very deep pockets, an
00:20:19.320 acknowledgement that the two million Palestinians are not going to go out to the Sinai Desert
00:20:23.460 to live in tents.
00:20:24.960 They're going to stay in Gaza.
00:20:26.660 Gaza and the Turks, of all people, are going to coordinate the Arab nations in some sort
00:20:33.540 of security package or security guarantee, which President Trump, I think, said in his
00:20:36.940 speech he doesn't think will need to be, to happen.
00:20:40.620 But President Trump talked about it as a done deal.
00:20:43.660 Last night, Bibi addressed by video, a pre-taped video, the Israeli people.
00:20:49.380 He talked about the Gaza part of this being over, but that the war continues.
00:20:53.000 President Trump, when asked that question on Air Force One on the way over in a gaggle,
00:20:57.900 a press gaggle, said, no, no, no, no, let me be blunt.
00:21:00.620 The war is over.
00:21:01.920 And by that, I think he sent a signal to Bibi, to Netanyahu, that America is not going to be
00:21:08.280 sponsoring these attacks on the Arab nations or the Persians.
00:21:13.100 And I think it was a big wake-up call.
00:21:15.360 Netanyahu didn't look to me.
00:21:16.860 I mean, his speech, he glazed President Trump for however long it took, 20 minutes.
00:21:21.680 But he was pretty dour during the day.
00:21:24.800 And there's some photos of President Trump and Netanyahu doing one-on-one off to the
00:21:29.300 side.
00:21:29.760 And Netanyahu, I think, realizes the magnitude of what is going down today.
00:21:35.120 Let me start with Dave Bratt.
00:21:36.780 We got Ben Harnwell.
00:21:38.380 Dave, you were on, came on and helped us for a couple hours in the morning.
00:21:42.560 You know this area.
00:21:43.560 And you also know the pressure that congressmen have been over.
00:21:46.740 I mean, President Trump actually, I mean, to the war room, called out Miriam Adelson, the
00:21:52.920 biggest single donor to AIPAC and to these other institutions, and runs her deal with
00:21:58.940 Sheldon Adelson's widow, who's Israeli, and runs it with an iron fist about, you will toe
00:22:05.920 the line about Israel.
00:22:08.020 And he called her out right there about being Israel first.
00:22:11.380 In fact, we'll play that clip later.
00:22:12.420 I was pretty, I was pretty stunned he did that in the Knesset, but that's President Trump.
00:22:17.400 Your assessment so far of the eight hours that the president spent in Israel.
00:22:25.000 You know, I'll just repeat from this morning.
00:22:27.860 I think we're going to have a new level of transparency that may compel us to continue
00:22:34.400 the peace when you see, right, when the whole world takes a look at the war dead, the soldiers
00:22:41.960 dead, the innocents going back to their homes, et cetera.
00:22:44.820 But then what you just said, you know, more sophisticated analysis of what's going on here
00:22:49.660 and what Trump is really pulling off, right?
00:22:53.020 Back in the 13th century, we had Islamic scholars, Christian scholars, and Jewish scholars who pulled
00:23:00.920 together a unity narrative of historic proportions based on human reason.
00:23:07.600 You can differ on the religion.
00:23:09.420 And look what Trump is doing here, right?
00:23:10.960 He calls out and says, you know, we need to follow the God of Abraham, he said, Abraham,
00:23:17.320 Isaac, and Jacob, right?
00:23:19.000 And he's Christian.
00:23:21.140 The U.S. is predominantly Christian.
00:23:23.500 Israel is predominantly Jewish.
00:23:24.900 And then the Middle East is predominantly Muslim.
00:23:27.960 And what's Trump doing?
00:23:29.080 And he's showing you can all get along.
00:23:32.440 The West is the series of getting along.
00:23:35.240 We have a constitutional republic in this country.
00:23:37.740 And so it's very interesting who's blowing this up, right?
00:23:40.540 The left does not want reason to be in charge.
00:23:44.820 The West, the communists do not believe in reason.
00:23:48.360 We're still at war, right?
00:23:49.720 We're still in World War III.
00:23:52.260 This part is cooling down.
00:23:53.740 And Trump said, this war is done.
00:23:55.640 Thank God.
00:23:56.980 But there's a unity, right?
00:23:58.460 Israel knows, right?
00:23:59.720 Their famous Shema, hero Israel, the Lord our God is one.
00:24:03.740 We need to all unite together and do business and commerce.
00:24:08.320 And you can debate the merits of some of the commerce coming up.
00:24:12.100 But that's the way it should be.
00:24:14.320 And Trump is just completely ironic how he pulls this off.
00:24:20.120 He pulls together the religions of the world underneath the simple reason of you will get along.
00:24:26.960 And so for me, that's what sticks out today.
00:24:29.640 And then in Israel, you know, it just goes back.
00:24:33.540 You know, Trump's not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:24:35.880 But, you know, Jesus in the Beatitudes and the Sermon, blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
00:24:43.120 And Trump is doing that.
00:24:45.120 So that's the highest prize you can win.
00:24:46.780 And blessed are the peacemakers, the sons of God.
00:24:49.680 What does that mean?
00:24:50.200 It means you're sharing in the very identity of God, right?
00:24:54.100 We're all made in the image of God.
00:24:56.020 And Trump, he doesn't like to wear religion on his sleeve.
00:24:59.000 But today, sorry, Mr. President, you're doing a fine job.
00:25:03.160 Blessed are you.
00:25:03.960 You're a peacemaker.
00:25:05.300 You're revealing the very identity of God.
00:25:07.660 And so it's just a great day in that respect.
00:25:09.980 And it's too reliant on one person.
00:25:12.400 The church in the U.S. needs to do better.
00:25:14.680 The rabbis need to do better.
00:25:16.540 The Islamic clerics, you got to do better.
00:25:19.240 We can all do better.
00:25:20.320 And Trump's leading the way.
00:25:21.380 You said this morning, I want to make sure we emphasize this before we go to break.
00:25:28.760 You talked today about transparency.
00:25:32.260 And your point was, when we get into the stories of the hostages and how they were inhumanely treated,
00:25:39.940 and as the press gets into Gaza and see that it looks like Dresden, you're going to have, you know,
00:25:46.120 Kurt Mill said we're going to have a cyclone of media narratives coming out of here this afternoon, tomorrow, and the next day.
00:25:55.600 What did you mean by that?
00:25:56.780 You said that as something that's almost going to be forced accountability on people.
00:26:02.800 Yeah, well, everyone will take that, you know, at first glance and say, well, you know,
00:26:07.000 there's going to be false flag operations.
00:26:08.680 Hamas may blow up a building or a grenade or an Israeli radical may do something stupid.
00:26:15.380 But the broader context is we're going to see human depravity, man against man, coming up now.
00:26:21.100 We have not had us politicos.
00:26:23.100 We follow politics every day.
00:26:24.560 But the mainstream American is now going to, for the first time, see all of Palestine.
00:26:31.220 They're going to get a sense of the horrific treatment of the Israeli hostages.
00:26:36.160 And it's not going to be pretty.
00:26:37.600 But that very ugliness of human behavior toward each other may compel a piece, right?
00:26:43.740 And so we're all on our guard.
00:26:46.480 We all know this is fragile.
00:26:48.120 We're in the first step.
00:26:49.380 We're going to see if there's a, you know, if they lay down their arms from Hamas and if all of the prisoners make their way back.
00:26:56.240 And, you know, we'll be going on to step two, three, and four, hopefully.
00:27:00.160 But the transparency, I think, is going to reveal to everybody, right, that we cannot go down this road any further.
00:27:07.260 It's too far.
00:27:08.020 Okay, hang over a second.
00:27:11.640 Dave Brett, Ben Harnwell in Rome.
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00:27:39.440 President Trump is now in Egypt, and he is going to address, he's going to meet first, and then I think address this peace conference that's come together for the Middle East.
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00:33:04.660 One of the monuments at the, or I should say displays at the resort momentarily.
00:33:12.020 We don't control the cameras here, but momentarily, by the way, it's a world-class resort.
00:33:16.360 They have peace conferences there, conferences there all the time, not just business conferences, but things like this.
00:33:22.860 In fact, they negotiated much of the deal at this resort last week.
00:33:29.640 This is where Jared Kushner and Whitcoff, Steve Whitcoff, flew to, to sit down and actually negotiate.
00:33:39.260 As we said, they had, you know, all the nations, the Gulf Emirates, Turkey, etc.
00:33:44.200 And Israel was kind of, Ron Dermer was there as kind of an adee.
00:33:50.860 Netanyahu will not be at this conference today.
00:33:52.660 I think that's quite bizarre that he's a major part of this.
00:33:57.240 I don't know why he's not there, but I will tell you, not in the room, not in the deal.
00:34:02.860 And this is by far the more important part of the meeting, because this is going to lay out, actually, the future of the Middle East.
00:34:09.480 There's Air Force One at the bottom of the stairs.
00:34:13.440 A guard of honor, looks like from the Egyptian military, is there.
00:34:17.960 Also, many dignitaries to meet the president of the United States.
00:34:22.460 We're going to go, as soon as he comes down, try to go live to see if there's any microphones and pick up anything it's said.
00:34:28.200 He worked the crowd, so to speak, when he was there with, when he landed in Israel.
00:34:34.760 It was quite moving, a very simple, but I thought pretty powerful meeting, greeting for the president of the United States.
00:34:43.800 Ben Harnwell, the, give me your assessment of the first part of this.
00:34:48.960 It was eight hours, not four.
00:34:51.300 The president alone had a one-hour speech in the Knesset, and it was so dramatic today about the releasing of the hostages.
00:35:01.560 Quite frankly, the outpouring of jubilation was something to behold, and I don't think the American media had picked up how important that was to the Israeli people.
00:35:12.840 Obviously, people came together.
00:35:15.080 In fact, most of the time, we had the cameras on hostage square in Tel Aviv.
00:35:20.380 In Tel Aviv, as, you know, Joel Gilbert was telling us, was like San Francisco.
00:35:25.260 This is not Trump country, but you saw people with MAGA hats.
00:35:29.440 You saw many signs for President Trump, and he actually had a couple signs about, by the way, there we are right there, the president of the United States in Egypt.
00:35:37.040 Let's watch this as he descends to the reception by the Arab nations.
00:36:07.040 The president with dignitaries right there.
00:36:17.500 There's General Sisi, who actually the president worked with earlier to get the invitation to get the invitation for Netanyahu, which, for kind of unknown reasons, he did not accept.
00:36:33.140 I think it would be very important for him to be there today, the president with Egyptian authorities, I think other Gulf nations, this kind of reception.
00:36:44.000 General Sisi, who's the, let's call it like it is, military dictator of Egypt, is there.
00:36:51.360 What I'm amazed at, Brett and Harnwell, is the, here we go, hang on, here's the welcome.
00:37:21.360 We'll be right back.
00:37:51.360 We'll be right back.
00:38:21.360 We'll be right back.
00:38:51.340 You know, Ben, we made a big deal this morning about the Knesset.
00:39:02.920 And it looked like it was a little chaotic when the president arrived and put together at the last second.
00:39:09.000 I was quite concerned about the security.
00:39:10.860 I'll be blunt.
00:39:11.660 And this, I think, shows you the courage, number one, the courage, the physical courage of Donald Trump.
00:39:16.700 And also, how important this is, remember Sadat, after signing the, what, the Camp David, signed the Camp David Accords or working was with Carter.
00:39:30.620 He was assassinated at a pass and review of the troops by rogue Islamists in the Egyptian military.
00:39:39.500 So, I mean, right there, I realize the president's got to come and got to meet people.
00:39:44.320 But, you know, here in the United States, we're most concerned.
00:39:47.880 There's a motorcade as it heads to the resort.
00:39:49.840 We're most concerned about President Trump's safety.
00:39:53.500 There have been two assassination attempts on President Trump's in the United States.
00:39:58.540 Now he's in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.
00:40:00.480 And the thing today in the Knesset was just, maybe in the afternoon show, when things calm down, I'll play it.
00:40:05.120 But it was completely unacceptable, the kind of chaotic response.
00:40:08.960 And they say, well, that's how the Knesset is.
00:40:12.200 It's, you know, very kind of like a family argument all the time.
00:40:15.400 But it's just not acceptable.
00:40:18.880 And even there, right there, given how Rabin and Sadat have been assassinating the past, because without Trump, we're in the abyss.
00:40:30.820 I mean, folks, you've got to see what President Trump's doing right now on every different front to return America to her greatness is unparalleled in our nation's history, except for President Lincoln and General Washington.
00:40:44.340 That's it.
00:40:45.720 There we are right there heading to the conference center at the resort.
00:40:51.060 President Trump will be out over there in a moment.
00:40:53.400 I think he's going to meet with some people kind of behind the scenes and then speak in a while.
00:40:58.560 Ben Harnwell, first off, your just general assessment of the security.
00:41:03.080 This all got put together the last second.
00:41:04.700 And President Trump wanted to do this because he forced everybody.
00:41:08.740 He forced the system.
00:41:11.180 He forced the system.
00:41:12.680 Let's make sure we always get the we don't need Ben and myself.
00:41:15.820 Let's make sure we always got the the motorcade.
00:41:18.900 OK, can we get the motorcade?
00:41:21.600 Standing orders always do the action.
00:41:24.000 There we go.
00:41:25.240 Not that I don't like staring at the artist doesn't like looking at Ben Harnwell and his new haircut.
00:41:31.200 Did you pay for that haircut, by the way?
00:41:33.460 I guess I guess I shouldn't talk.
00:41:35.420 Ben should not be talking about paying for haircuts.
00:41:37.680 Right.
00:41:37.820 Ben, your assessment, first off, I'm very concerned and Brad jump in.
00:41:43.340 I'm very concerned about the security of it.
00:41:45.860 People are trying their best.
00:41:46.940 It's put together at the last second.
00:41:48.380 President Trump is often wants to do is is, you know, he says, hey, we're going to do this.
00:41:55.360 I'm going to be there when the hostages are released.
00:41:57.040 And you kind of get what you get.
00:41:58.700 Ben Harnwell first.
00:42:00.940 OK, so look, I first want to start off bouncing off the feed that we have before us and seeing President Trump descending the escalator.
00:42:10.380 And I had a reminiscence as I was watching this along with the war room, along with you, Steve and Dave, all of America, all of the world watching this.
00:42:19.620 I had a reminiscence and I just want to make a first observation.
00:42:23.260 Whenever you see President Donald Trump descending an escalator, it is always to put when he gets to the bottom to put both hands out and shake hands with divine providence to shake hands with destiny, because that's the kind of person Donald Trump is.
00:42:39.660 It was like a reflection of 10 years ago, right, 2015, when when when Donald Trump descended the golden escalator.
00:42:48.740 And now he's doing that descending an escalator again of Air Force One and changing the course of human history because Donald Trump is a world historical figure.
00:42:58.540 OK, for the security, right, as we were watching the Knesset this morning, it looked like a market scene from any city in the in the in the in the soup scene in any city in the Middle East.
00:43:12.040 It was it was chaotic, disorganized.
00:43:15.940 And it's absolutely right, Steve, to say that there was a non zero risk to every minute Donald Trump spent there in Jerusalem today.
00:43:27.120 A non zero risk. And we know we know that there's a lot of opposition to this because astonishingly and I can't scratch my head.
00:43:38.340 Look, I first worked in the British Parliament 30 years ago that I spent time in the European Parliament.
00:43:45.160 I've been around. I've seen a few things.
00:43:47.000 I have never seen a president of a parliament or a speaker of a parliament tell a full parliamentary assembly in front of the visiting dignitary to behave themselves because protesters will be thrown out.
00:44:02.720 You know, that kind of message is put out by the by the speaker's office beforehand, isn't it?
00:44:07.480 Right. Behave yourselves. I won't bridge dissent.
00:44:09.680 But the reason, Steve, but hang on, hang on. Don't don't bury the lead, because later in the speech, he did have a protest from a member of parliament, a left wing member who had to be escorted out with security forces.
00:44:25.360 One, two of them. I was actually shocked he gave the warning, the warning.
00:44:28.660 And then later on, you see that the left wing guys actually got up and were yelling at Trump and the president of the United States and were whisked away quickly.
00:44:38.200 But that's how volatile it is when you have members of the parliament are warned publicly in front of the in front of not just the nation, but the world.
00:44:46.280 And this is a guy that's being allowed, like I said, in in in in the square and in hostage square in Tel Aviv.
00:44:53.500 That ain't Trump country. And you've got signs and they're calling him Cyrus the Great.
00:44:58.240 You've got signs down there saying, you know, basically Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:45:02.680 He was cheered the other night when Whitcoff and Jared got there to address the crowd for the first time.
00:45:09.440 And Netanyahu's name was booed when Whitcoff said, yeah, by the way, your prime minister has something to do with this, too.
00:45:14.080 It was lustily booed. And Trump in a in a progressive left crowd was was lauded, cheered heartily.
00:45:22.240 And then today you had a couple of guys get up. And this is my point about the security thing.
00:45:27.160 You don't know when this is a volatile part of the country. And these people, they run a little hot.
00:45:32.680 Right. So it would that was scary. And hey, I didn't like the tarmac right here.
00:45:38.240 I just don't. I realize President Trump wants to have the big, you know, reception.
00:45:42.180 And that's great. But people have to remember one of the one of the biggest peace deals ever, quote unquote, peace deal ever signed.
00:45:49.900 I think both participants were were assassinated not too long after Sadat by his own people.
00:45:56.380 And it's soccer being by, you know, the kind of the right wing kind of farther right than BB's, the Netanyahu's crew today.
00:46:04.220 So it's something to be to obviously be worried about. Guys, hang on for a second.
00:46:09.280 We've got the motorcade going. Are we going to take a commercial break or blow the break?
00:46:13.000 Yeah. Can we blow the break? Because I think we got we got some action going on here.
00:46:16.940 Ben Harnwell, I took away your microphone. I'm giving it back to you, sir, for your thoughts.
00:46:22.920 Yeah, well, so that, you know, there it is.
00:46:25.660 It was a non zero risk and we see the level of opposition that is there.
00:46:30.680 Steve, you've mentioned a couple of times, both in the live show this morning and also in the morning show now that the smiles and the goodwill that we saw at the Knesset and in the crowds.
00:46:44.220 I just want to underline another point that you've also been repeating because it is related that what we are seeing is a controlled feed from Israel.
00:46:52.440 They're pointing the cameras specifically so that President Trump comes out of this with a massive and well-deserved feel good factor.
00:47:04.260 They're not showing us the degree of opposition there.
00:47:06.680 And that underlines the point that we mentioned earlier in the live show this morning, that that this is a very precarious state to be in.
00:47:19.120 And President Trump has. I mean, I hesitate to use the word triumph of the will, but that is exactly what this is.
00:47:25.920 This is a triumph of Donald Trump's will because he he made this happen with the with the force of his personality alone, alone and exclusively.
00:47:38.440 Donald Trump has made this happen because he wanted it to happen.
00:47:44.280 No, it's extraordinary. You're right.
00:47:46.320 He enforced his will on a situation as only few leaders can do.
00:47:50.500 Ben, you've used a term that I throw around loosely, but I want the War Room Posse to understand what it means.
00:47:57.840 World historical figure.
00:48:00.160 Why is that term used for certain individuals like like Napoleon or Churchill or Lord Nelson or, you know, a handful of people, Clive of India, a handful of people and not for others?
00:48:15.600 What does it mean?
00:48:16.500 Well, it's Hegel's termination term.
00:48:21.500 It comes from Hegel because he believed that that history was driven by specific individuals.
00:48:28.080 Call it posterity. Call it basically just sort of the power of the individual.
00:48:34.620 But individuals themselves, certain points in history have the ability because factors come together to determine human history by the force of their own personality, by the force of their own charisma, by the force of their own will, by the force of their own power.
00:48:52.500 Whereas everybody else, when they influence events, it's more because they're going along with the current and they make a slight contribution.
00:49:03.020 But there were very few individuals that changed the direction of the river by themselves.
00:49:08.200 And President Trump is one of those.
00:49:09.720 He's definitely to use. I mean, that term did fall out of favor.
00:49:13.720 It became a bit pejorative after the 30s and 40s of the last century.
00:49:19.940 But I think Donald Trump himself, by what he's doing and what he has done, he has purified the term once again for use because he is a world historical figure.
00:49:32.660 You name them, you name them people like Napoleon and Churchill and Lincoln, perhaps.
00:49:38.260 And Donald Trump in future generations will be recited in the same names as the others, as the line in which he's continuing in.
00:49:51.420 By the way, General Washington, it's also, though, for, you know, people like Lenin, it's not lost at Stalin.
00:49:57.000 There are certain bad guys, the President of the United States exiting the beast right there at the resort of security there.
00:50:05.260 And, of course, the General Sisi, the military dictator of military dictator of Egypt, although he is, quote unquote, elected with 90 percent of the vote in an area of the world that democracy really hasn't taken root that much.
00:50:23.520 As Joel Gilbert said today, Israel being one of the few places there is a functioning democracy, they don't even make a attempt of it in the in the Gulf Emirates.
00:50:32.560 As President Trump meeting officials right there and then we'll go inside, I think he'll have a meet and greet or at least a few minutes with officials before the speech.
00:50:43.260 Like I said, he's running four hours late for this because what happened in Israel was so important.
00:50:49.220 And President Trump, kind of the empathetic President Trump, sat there for over an hour with, sat there for over an hour with, with, with the hostages' families.
00:51:03.520 There we go right there.
00:51:04.580 We got out of the, the advertisement.
00:51:07.240 President Trump going in, General Sisi.
00:51:09.080 Dave Brett, is Donald Trump a world historical figure in the Hegelian sense, philosophy professor, professor of philosophy?
00:51:19.760 Yes, man, Harnwell's on fire.
00:51:22.480 I want to go back to his non-zero probability comment also.
00:51:27.480 You know, I don't want to detract from our security team over there.
00:51:31.880 But one madman with a gun, right, determined to lose his own life, wins, right?
00:51:38.660 All the security experts will tell you that.
00:51:40.680 And so to have those, a couple leftist freaks in the room in the Knesset or anywhere in the line getting off the plane, like you just said, I find that unacceptable.
00:51:49.280 Back when I was in Congress, people were still landing planes, right?
00:51:54.380 Model planes, smaller planes in the White House lawn just to give people an idea, right?
00:51:59.220 So it's not to detract from how great our secret service is, but they might get euphoric, sharing the mood, and one second lapse and it's all over, right?
00:52:07.900 So the ceremony's got to take a backseat to the president of the world historical figure.
00:52:13.040 So let's go there.
00:52:14.000 Hegel, right, the divine mind.
00:52:16.440 But I will correct Hegel, right?
00:52:19.140 Kierkegaard said he would have been the greatest philosopher ever if he would have mentioned God.
00:52:24.060 But this world historical mind, look at where we're at today in the secular world.
00:52:29.220 All the rest of the world powers never refer to God, right?
00:52:32.400 That's why we are where we are.
00:52:33.900 The globalists, the institutionalists, the deep state, the administrative state, there is no God, right?
00:52:39.420 What's unique about Trump?
00:52:40.660 He gets in front of Israel, making peace with Muslims, Jewish, Christians, and invokes the God of Abraham.
00:52:47.760 That is the—he's not only a world historical figure, but he's the right world historical figure.
00:52:55.020 Because it's not about just power, right?
00:52:58.320 It's power subservient to God's will.
00:53:01.300 And boy, Trump stands out today.
00:53:03.060 And it's just stunning.
00:53:04.620 And so A-plus kudos to Harnwell for bringing up that one.
00:53:08.380 I want to develop that for a minute because people—the enemies of President Trump and their legion on the left, even those have to kind of shut up today.
00:53:20.680 Not all of them.
00:53:21.720 But here's the thing I found so powerful.
00:53:23.340 Obviously, Israeli officials are ecstatic for what President—it got them off the hook.
00:53:28.940 They were kind of in a dead end with the hostages not being returned, the nation really turning against them, the IDF kind of being punched out and not really that excited about going into Gaza.
00:53:41.660 This whole concept of the removal of two million Palestinians out of Gaza never got any traction, was quite frankly kind of looked at as just over the top.
00:53:51.880 But so today, Israeli officials, people on the streets, Trump is Cyrus the Great.
00:53:58.200 Trump is fantastic.
00:53:59.980 You know, Trump could be elected prime minister today over in Israel.
00:54:03.140 By people on the left, not just on the right who have always adored him in Jerusalem, but people on the left.
00:54:09.160 I found it most interesting that President Trump had nothing I felt but humility today.
00:54:17.140 And that shows you real power and it shows you greatness.
00:54:19.460 He took—and remember, he's 78 years old.
00:54:23.520 He's getting off a red eye.
00:54:25.360 No time—you know, he didn't go to a hotel.
00:54:28.280 He didn't sleep in for a couple hours.
00:54:30.360 He didn't—and I know that Air Force One has a compartment for the president and the first lady.
00:54:35.320 He has a—but hey, it is just a bed on a—you know, the Air Force One is essentially a military command center with a—some small accommodation for dignitaries and officials.
00:54:48.100 Do not think it's that fancy.
00:54:50.080 The military command center part of it is amazing because it is really a military command center for the president of the United States to go airborne and to be able to be commander in chief in case anything happens.
00:55:01.820 That's the principal reason for it.
00:55:03.840 Yes, he does his travel, obviously.
00:55:06.220 But he gets off this after a long, I think, eight-hour flight.
00:55:10.140 I mean, we covered it.
00:55:11.020 We covered it on the takeoff and then covered the landing and did four hours.
00:55:17.480 And I can tell this audience, Dave Bratt, Ben Harnwell, Stephen K. Bannon, our entire young team of 20-year-olds in Denver and West Palm and here in the war room are dead, tired, and beat.
00:55:30.840 This guy gets off a plane.
00:55:33.220 There's no break.
00:55:34.500 He does a—and here's what's so powerful.
00:55:38.860 He spent over an hour with the families of the hostages, and they didn't have TV cameras in there.
00:55:46.020 This was not something he's trying to exploit for political benefit.
00:55:50.920 He's like—he's risen above that.
00:55:53.480 That's why he is a world historical figure, for his actions.
00:55:56.360 But he's also rising to something that's beyond just being a typical politician.
00:56:02.640 He spent an hour just listening today with people that's passing the microphone around and people giving these heartfelt stories.
00:56:09.780 Right there, he's with General Sisi, and I'm sure they're going to have a private time.
00:56:15.640 If we can get—do we have the audio?
00:56:17.040 Can we pick that up?
00:56:17.820 I'd love to hear what they have to say.
00:56:22.880 Okay, let's—we can't get the audio.
00:56:24.640 They're going to sit down and have a—President Trump doesn't drink coffee, but there you'd have one of those Turkish or Saudi coffees that would get you rolling.
00:56:34.320 It is his war path, maybe, to the 10th power.
00:56:38.860 As soon as we get sound, let's go ahead.
00:56:40.520 He's got some leaders right there.
00:56:41.780 He's going to spend some time.
00:56:43.300 Let's go ahead and listen in.
00:56:44.220 Do you want to have a couple of questions?
00:56:45.740 Because we're having an amazing period of time, like I think nobody's seen before.
00:56:51.660 And we had tremendous stuff, as you know, in Israel.
00:56:56.820 And now we're in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader.
00:57:02.400 And my friend is right here, the president, but also the general, you know.
00:57:08.640 Sometimes I call him—usually I call him the general because he's both, and he's good at both.
00:57:13.460 And they've done a fantastic job.
00:57:16.400 And they have very little crime, you know, because they don't play games.
00:57:20.240 That's why.
00:57:20.900 They don't play games like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing.
00:57:27.040 But they don't have crime.
00:57:28.240 I ask about crime, and they almost don't even know what I'm talking about.
00:57:32.480 So it's a great tribute to this man.
00:57:35.600 He's done a fantastic job in bringing this country together.
00:57:39.280 And the United States is with him all the way.
00:57:41.740 Thank you.
00:57:42.520 Okay, all the way.
00:57:43.660 And it's an honor to be with you.
00:57:45.340 Sir, what will Egypt's role play in the peace process here?
00:57:49.240 He played a very important role.
00:57:51.360 And they had a very important role with Hamas.
00:57:53.880 In fact, the general was—right here—was very instrumental because Hamas respects this country,
00:58:01.420 and they respect the leadership of Egypt.
00:58:04.320 So we had a—you played a very important role.
00:58:06.900 I appreciate it very much.
00:58:08.280 Thank you.
00:58:08.860 Thank you very much.
00:58:09.580 Mr. President Trump, in Israel just now, you were talking about a possible Iran peace deal.
00:58:15.380 You said, we are ready when you are.
00:58:17.420 Is that the ultimate goal with today's signing, to get—
00:58:22.420 No, not Iran, but I think Iran will come along.
00:58:26.400 They've been battered and bruised, and, you know, they're—they need some help.
00:58:33.620 They're big sanctions, as you know, tremendous sanctions.
00:58:36.420 I'd love to take the sanctions off when they're ready to talk.
00:58:39.340 But they can't really survive with those sanctions.
00:58:42.140 Those sanctions are very tough.
00:58:44.060 But at some point, they're going to say, we want the sanctions off.
00:58:47.720 We're going to end up with peace.
00:58:49.060 I think Iran is going to be fine.
00:58:51.780 I know so many Iranian people.
00:58:53.280 They're great people.
00:58:54.100 They're smart.
00:58:54.780 They're great, great people.
00:58:56.100 Engineers, lawyers.
00:58:57.440 I mean, they're academics.
00:58:59.340 But the—they took a big hit.
00:59:03.820 And frankly, if we didn't hit them on the nuclear, I don't think you would have been able to have this incredible—
00:59:08.780 this deal, this once-in-a-lifetime deal.
00:59:12.740 Nobody's ever said anything like what's happening today.
00:59:15.620 And countries have all come together.
00:59:17.560 All different countries.
00:59:18.580 Some liked each other.
00:59:19.540 Some didn't.
00:59:20.160 Most didn't.
00:59:21.480 And they've all come together.
00:59:22.900 Every country has come together.
00:59:25.280 And by the way, Iran did put out a statement, you know, that they support this deal very wholeheartedly.
00:59:30.500 So that was in itself something.
00:59:32.580 But no, I think they want to—that's all I do in my life.
00:59:36.140 I make deals, and they want to make a deal.
00:59:38.900 President Trump, why don't you spread it out of the way to Iran?
00:59:42.200 The living hostages have been returned.
00:59:45.020 Can you please tell us what the next steps are?
00:59:47.020 Well, they're going and looking for bodies.
00:59:50.260 It's a pretty gruesome task.
00:59:52.700 And they're—they know where numerous are, as you know.
00:59:56.640 I guess five or six are in yet now.
00:59:59.980 But they're looking for bodies.
01:00:01.820 They know the areas and the search parties out.
01:00:04.920 And they're doing it in conjunction with Israel.
01:00:07.820 And they'll—they're going to be finding quite a few of them.
01:00:11.560 President Trump, can you tell us when phase two of the negotiations will begin?
01:00:16.140 Well, it started.
01:00:17.000 I mean, it started as far as we're concerned.
01:00:18.820 Phase two started.
01:00:20.520 And, you know, the phases are all a little bit mixed in with each other.
01:00:23.980 They're going to start cleaning up.
01:00:26.340 You look at Gaza, and it's—it needs a lot of cleanup.
01:00:30.360 That's why when I talked to him in my speech, I talked to him about the debris.
01:00:34.120 I used the word debris.
01:00:35.140 That's debris times ten.
01:00:38.060 So, uh, we're going to—they're going to really do a job.
01:00:41.560 They have a lot of power.
01:00:43.260 In another room, you have the wealthiest—some of the wealthiest nations in the world.
01:00:47.400 All leaders, the big leaders are here, the emirs and the kings and everybody.
01:00:54.500 And it's—it's a very interesting group.
01:00:56.120 I guess we have, like, 35 countries.
01:00:59.700 And that's only because there were the 35 that we invited.
01:01:02.620 Everybody that we invited came.
01:01:05.040 So it's—there's a lot of respect.
01:01:06.640 And I think you'll see some tremendous progress, both in the Middle East.
01:01:12.860 This country is doing very well.
01:01:15.540 It has good leadership.
01:01:17.400 It's about leadership.
01:01:18.920 And it's really nice when you say, how is your crime situation?
01:01:22.380 And they, like, don't even know what you're talking about.
01:01:24.420 What do you mean, crime?
01:01:25.040 We don't have crime.
01:01:26.040 Because if he has crime, he puts it out very quickly.
01:01:29.440 Some people think that's not nice.
01:01:31.060 But I think it's great.
01:01:33.020 Because people don't want to be mugged and smashed, and they don't want to be stupid people.
01:01:38.580 They have a place that is doing very well.
01:01:43.740 We're very proud of it.
01:01:44.760 Because we knew each other from the beginning.
01:01:46.560 The first time I met, it was in a hotel.
01:01:49.180 And I was going to meet him, and then Hillary Clinton was following me.
01:01:53.560 Remember?
01:01:54.120 Hillary Clinton.
01:01:55.360 And he liked me so much, he never even got to see Hillary.
01:01:57.860 He saw her for about two seconds.
01:01:59.300 But he didn't really want to waste a lot of time.
01:02:02.100 He knew what was going to happen.
01:02:04.000 But that was the first time we met.
01:02:06.160 And we had a very good chemistry together.
01:02:08.780 And it continues till today.
01:02:12.060 So I want to thank you all very much.
01:02:14.060 I appreciate the way you covered this really momentous.
01:02:18.080 I've never said anything like it.
01:02:19.800 The level of love, the level of respect for what it is.
01:02:23.780 And it's, you know, it's peace in the Middle East.
01:02:26.780 And everybody said it's not possible to do.
01:02:29.300 And it's going to happen.
01:02:30.380 And it is happening.
01:02:31.500 It's before your very eyes.
01:02:33.860 And that's why it's become so fascinating.
01:02:36.060 Marco, do you have anything to say?
01:02:37.860 Egypt's been a phenomenal participant.
01:02:40.240 I think both Steve and Jared will tell you the critical role they played.
01:02:43.300 And they can tell you themselves.
01:02:44.720 They hosted the talks here.
01:02:45.880 And they're going to play a very important role now in the follow-up, the implementation of this.
01:02:49.920 Which is really, it's not simply about restoring Gaza.
01:02:52.860 It is about transforming the region.
01:02:55.320 So we have an incredible partner, a long alliance, a very capable partner here, and a tremendous collection of leaders.
01:03:01.040 This is clearly, in my mind, I think in the mind of everyone in this room, probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years.
01:03:08.000 That's not an exaggeration.
01:03:10.620 Only 50?
01:03:11.880 Maybe 100.
01:03:13.320 Unless it's the end of World War II.
01:03:15.360 Mr. Wyckoff and Mr. Kushner, I'm curious.
01:03:17.620 You've played such an important role in the tactical negotiations here.
01:03:20.620 What will your role be going forward, as a lot more has to be brought to the table here?
01:03:27.020 The minute we had inked the deal, Jared and I were already working on the implementation side of the deal.
01:03:33.640 So we're dug in.
01:03:36.140 We'll be here quite a bit.
01:03:37.680 That's at the direction of the president.
01:03:39.300 That's probably going to be one of the most important phases here.
01:03:43.640 Jared is remarkable to work with.
01:03:45.600 I talk about it all the time.
01:03:47.180 And, of course, we both love working for the president.
01:03:49.340 So it's a – it was like a very honorable job.
01:03:54.040 Mr. President, would you like to say something with you, Jared?
01:03:57.720 Yes.
01:03:58.100 Well, first of all, we'll actually say
01:04:27.780 I welcome you to Egypt.
01:04:29.140 It's a great pleasure and an honor to have you with us here in the city of peace, Shamshay.
01:04:37.100 And I also to extend, on behalf of all Egyptians and peace lovers around the world, salute the
01:04:46.980 appreciation and respect for its unprecedented and momentous accomplishment by us.
01:04:57.780 I've been very confident that your excellency is the only one who's capable of bringing
01:05:12.020 this about and bringing it into this war.
01:05:19.020 I even said that very precisely during my communication with your excellence that you are the only one
01:05:32.020 who is able to bring about peace and achieve peace in this party.
01:05:38.020 Thank you, Mr. President.
01:05:45.020 And what we need to do now is to fix the ceasefire and make sure that it maintains the states,
01:05:52.020 that we can deliver all of the remaining bodies of the deceased to the families.
01:05:59.020 And this is very important to bring in more humanitarian assistance into the strip and working very closely
01:06:06.020 on following up the rest of the steps that should be taken to make this successful.
01:06:13.020 Mr. President, you did very very great. Thank you.
01:06:14.020 Mr. President, thank you very much. Thank you.
01:06:19.020 But this is very important to bring in more humanitarian assistance into this trip and working very closely on following up the rest of the steps that should be taken to make this successful.
01:06:34.020 Mr. President, you did very good. Thank you.
01:06:44.020 He's a good man. Thank you. He's a good man. We're with him all the way.
01:06:48.020 Will he be on the Board of Peace, sir?
01:06:50.020 I'd like to have him on the Board. I'd like to. We may need an interpreter, but that's okay.
01:06:59.020 Will they have a move?
01:07:01.020 As long as the President, Vice President, the Board of Peace, I'll be there.
01:07:08.020 We've had many leaders want to be on the Board, actually. The Board of Peace, it's taken on, Steve, I'd say, a life of its own.
01:07:15.020 Do you want to discuss that? What's happened?
01:07:18.020 I think we have a long list of applicants to be on the Board.
01:07:24.020 That's very nice. It's better than the other way.
01:07:27.020 Usually it's the other way. Nobody wants to be on the Board.
01:07:30.020 But it's really taken on. This whole thing has taken on a life that's very different.
01:07:35.020 So it's been really a great honor. And you people have done a fantastic job. I want to tell you that we appreciate it very much.
01:07:45.020 Thank you very much, everybody.
01:07:47.020 All right. Take your eyes. Go. Rattles. Go. Thank you.
01:07:50.020 Thank you. Rattles. Go.
01:07:52.020 One second.
01:07:54.020 Yes.
01:07:55.020 I just want to look forward to your Excellency's support and your sponsorship with us in the conference for the reconstruction.
01:08:10.020 Thank you.
01:08:11.020 Thank you.
01:08:12.020 100%. Thank you.
01:08:13.020 Thank you, everybody.
01:08:14.020 All right. Thank you, Brad. You guys, let's go. Thanks, guys.
01:08:17.020 Okay. That's a gaggle, a little press avail.
01:08:24.020 Violet down.
01:08:26.020 There's Dasher Burns right there. Politico.
01:08:31.020 What President Trump is talking about in the campaign of 2016, because Hillary is making such a big deal about her bona fides as world leader, we made a decision.
01:08:45.020 Jared and myself made a decision that President Trump would go to the United Nations and take some meetings.
01:08:50.020 The very first meeting we had, and I believe it was General Flynn and Senator Sessions accompanied.
01:08:58.020 Jared and I went, but let those two go into the room with General Sisi and his entourage.
01:09:04.020 A couple of advisors want to keep it very low key.
01:09:07.020 And they hit it off right away. General Sisi saw something in Trump because, remember, at that time, coming off the Obama years, the Middle East was a complete and total mess.
01:09:19.020 And General Sisi saw something in Trump and then later couldn't fit Hillary into his schedule.
01:09:25.020 And it really gave a boost of, and I remember, President Trump, because, you know, he had never really been to the United Nations.
01:09:32.020 He was a businessman, not a diplomat.
01:09:34.020 But they had a long meeting and really bonded.
01:09:38.020 He's been very close to General Sisi.
01:09:40.020 You see right there, when I said, when he shows up, we call him General.
01:09:45.020 President Trump didn't refer to him as president because, I mean, Egypt is a tough place to govern, right?
01:09:52.020 It has very little industry.
01:09:53.020 It has a massive population that does have the agriculture that used to be the Kansas for the Roman Empire, right?
01:10:01.020 You remember Cleopatra and all the Mark Antony and everybody going to Egypt as where the grain was.
01:10:08.020 But General Sisi is very close to President Trump, and he's been central to putting this deal together.
01:10:17.020 In fact, the convening nations today are Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, and the United States of America.
01:10:27.020 So you have one of the Gulf Emirates.
01:10:29.020 You then have what I think most people considered the leading Arab nation, which would be Egypt with the ancient civilization.
01:10:37.020 And, of course, you have the Turks who are not Arabs, but one of the largest Muslim countries.
01:10:42.020 And, of course, Erdogan.
01:10:43.020 Erdogan and Sisi are kind of the same guy, right?
01:10:46.020 These kind of very tough leaders that the Middle East has and, you know, has to have.
01:10:52.020 Ben Harnwell, your thoughts on all this.
01:10:56.020 Well, I'm glad you say that, Steve, because it was absolutely visible to me that there was far more warmth from President Trump today sitting next to President General Al-Sisi than he showed to Bibi earlier on in Israel today.
01:11:11.020 Far, far more warmth.
01:11:13.020 It was noticeable, right?
01:11:14.020 Genuine affection, genuine warmth.
01:11:17.020 Look, there was in that press conference today something that President Trump said very quickly, very innocuously.
01:11:27.020 And I wrote it down as quickly as I could.
01:11:30.020 So this is an on the spur of the moment transcription of what he said.
01:11:36.020 So I'll allow for myself to be corrected if we get a full verbal at a later point.
01:11:42.020 To refresh the war room, he was asked a question.
01:11:45.020 President Trump was asked a question about whether Iran is going to be involved in any way moving forward with the peace.
01:11:53.020 And he said that he complimented very highly that the Iranian people said he wanted to lift the sanctions.
01:11:59.020 And then, Steve, he said this because he mentioned the bombing of the nuclear plant.
01:12:05.020 And he said if we didn't bomb them, the nuclear plant, we wouldn't have this agreement here today.
01:12:13.020 Now, what I'm going to say to that is whoever has ears to hear, let them listen.
01:12:21.020 That is, I think, a thousand percent a thesis confirmation of the thesis at the war room mentioned this morning.
01:12:29.020 And you mentioned it sort of repeatedly in the morning, Steve.
01:12:31.020 Good morning, Steve, and again on the show today, this show now.
01:12:36.020 That's really what really did it for Bibi Netanyahu.
01:12:41.020 What the tide turned was when they deceived President Trump into bombing Iran, right?
01:12:48.020 That I think when he realized that not only the Bibi, but also Bibi Stooges in the United States,
01:12:57.020 the Israel first crowd, as you've said repeatedly today, they overplayed their hand.
01:13:03.020 That is why we are here today.
01:13:05.020 That is the how Bibi must be wondering, because a couple of weeks ago he was looking at the possibility
01:13:11.020 of doing a full military invasion in Gaza, like as a precursor to annexing the strip.
01:13:17.020 Oh, no.
01:13:18.020 He must be wondering how exactly did he succeed in snatching the feet out of the jaws of victory?
01:13:25.020 And it's because of this.
01:13:27.020 And I think President Trump confirmed it right now.
01:13:31.020 And I think it's, I mean, part of this is this audience and people, they're saying,
01:13:35.020 hey, we support Israel, but we're America first.
01:13:39.020 You don't call the shot.
01:13:41.020 And what you did in Persia was unacceptable and a bald-faced lie.
01:13:47.020 And we know that from the Times of Israel and the release of the War Cabinet Minutes.
01:13:51.020 It's two years, as we said here on the show over and over again.
01:13:54.020 I think it was a disgrace that John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, doesn't need to show up in Israel today.
01:14:01.020 He should be back at Langley doing CIA-type things, which is like get our own intelligence and stop taking it from the Mossad.
01:14:09.020 That and what really hit President Trump's tripwire, because that was all about not taking out the nuclear facility because they didn't do it.
01:14:17.020 He was decapitating the Iranian regime, and particularly the negotiating team that had a meeting scheduled with Witkoff to try to get a negotiated end to it.
01:14:26.020 And then Bibi did it again in Qatar to try to take out the Hamas team.
01:14:30.020 How are you going to get a deal to bring the hostage home like today when you try to take out the negotiating team that's doing it?
01:14:39.020 No, no.
01:14:40.020 Huge sea change.
01:14:41.020 And you're absolutely correct.
01:14:42.020 There's general warmth and respect between the President and General al-Sisi of Egypt, which you didn't see with Netanyahu and Israel.
01:14:53.020 Short break.
01:14:54.020 We're going to return in a moment.