Bannon's War Room - February 28, 2026


Episode 5177： US And Israel Attack Iran; War Builds In The Middle East


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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has been targeted by strikes from the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, and the Iranians have responded in kind. What does this mean for the future of the region and the possibility of further strikes on Iran?

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00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.000 Pray for our enemies.
00:00:09.000 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:12.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:17.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:19.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:20.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:22.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:29.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:48.000 Saturday, 28 February, year of early 2026.
00:00:56.000 War and the rumors of war.
00:00:58.000 No longer rumor that the United States commits major combat operations,
00:01:02.000 as the President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief, told us earlier this morning.
00:01:06.000 We're here. We got Captain Fennell, Brandon Weicker, Dr. Bradley Thayer, Sam Faddis, Joe Allen, D. Mike Davis,
00:01:13.000 a whole crew today to actually walk you through exactly what is going on and potentially what direction is this going to take.
00:01:21.000 We're going to start with our own Jack Posobiec. Jack, I've been very impressed the last couple of days on human events daily.
00:01:29.000 You've gone back to your roots as a naval intelligence officer. I think you made Captain Fennell very proud.
00:01:35.000 Walk us through where we are today because what we're going to do is try to take out the opinions
00:01:39.000 and really focus on some of the smartest people we know that know the region, know the assets that have been deployed,
00:01:45.000 can walk through strategy, tactics, et cetera.
00:01:48.000 So the war room posse who will be inundated with people's opinions and the yelling and screaming about the politics of it all
00:01:55.000 will have a good basis in exactly what in the hell is going on. Jack Posobiec, the floor is yours.
00:02:01.000 Well, Steve, thank you very much.
00:02:03.000 On Human Events Daily, we've spent all week saying that we expect strikes on Iran this weekend.
00:02:09.000 We said all the indications and warnings are there.
00:02:12.000 You saw these amassed forces of naval combat power that were sent to the Gulf, that were sent to the East Med,
00:02:20.000 the Lincoln, and then, of course, the Ford arriving just a couple of days ago.
00:02:25.000 And so with that in place, plus the massive amount of air power that the U.S.,
00:02:30.000 as well as the refuelers sent over to the Middle East, to the region, Saudi Arabia, Israel operating off of these airways and runways,
00:02:37.000 we know that these were not sent over for negotiations.
00:02:42.000 These were all the indications and warnings.
00:02:44.000 We heard the signal out of the White House as well that strikes were imminent.
00:02:48.000 I think, for me, one of the one of the top indicators was the deployment of almost the entire fifth fleet out of Bahrain there in the Gulf,
00:02:56.000 adjacent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, them departing port.
00:02:59.000 That, of course, was done in terms of a classic defensive dispersal movement in preparation for retaliatory strikes from Iran.
00:03:08.000 Those strikes have come in the face of these initial strikes from the United States.
00:03:13.000 So, you know, we went in and we explained how all of this was marching towards the United States was clearly marching towards military action in Iran all week.
00:03:22.000 And that, of course, is what we saw. And we put up potential strike packages that we could see for the United States.
00:03:29.000 It does appear that the U.S. at this point where we're told that these strikes were conducted using Tomahawk land attack missiles.
00:03:36.000 Those, of course, fired from destroyers. It does.
00:03:39.000 It appears that the F-22s were used for suppression of enemy air defense.
00:03:44.000 We know those air defense assets were targeted. We know that military anti-air missiles were struck.
00:03:51.000 We know the ballistic missiles were struck. We're told the IRGC command posts.
00:03:55.000 This is Iranians Revolutionary Guard Corps and particularly their naval ports and their naval hubs were hit.
00:04:01.000 Chabahar, Bandar Abbas and other areas along the Gulf, because, of course, the president and the White House understand the IRGC's initial goal in terms of all this.
00:04:12.000 One of their initial most deadly courses of action would be closing the Strait of Hormuz to be able to inflict massive economic chaos on the entire world.
00:04:21.000 That being the key naval choke point for all of the oil, the petroleum, liquid natural gas coming out of the Gulf.
00:04:28.000 And so we see those strikes from the United States on the Israeli side.
00:04:33.000 It does appear that the that the Israelis were targeting leadership again remains to be seen.
00:04:38.000 And I would say, as always, truth is the first casualty in war.
00:04:42.000 So some of these initial reports we do need to be circumspect.
00:04:45.000 We do need to wait for full confirmation from the Department of War, from folks on the ground who are giving us direct reporting about what exactly was hit, what the battle damage assessment is, what capabilities these sites, these facilities have leadership.
00:05:01.000 If any leadership was taken out, whether or not that's actually confirmed by both sides.
00:05:06.000 So, again, we need to be careful when it comes to that.
00:05:09.000 But I will say this in terms of strategy appears that these strikes, the strike package operation at Epic Fury, which the president has launched in the early hours of this Saturday morning here.
00:05:20.000 This is not going to be one salvo.
00:05:23.000 This is not going to be one round of strikes.
00:05:26.000 This is going to be days, not hours, is what we're being told.
00:05:30.000 I've dubbed it the escalate to deescalate strategy where President Trump is going to run a series of strikes.
00:05:37.000 Israel is going to run a series of strikes.
00:05:39.000 You may see that over the course of one to two days, then wait to respond to the Iranian strikes.
00:05:44.000 At that point, pause, assess for battle damage, assess for whether or not they're seeing signals from the regime cracking and being willing to make this deal or potentially even regime collapse.
00:05:55.000 As the president himself said in his historic address that he announced and released in the early hours of this morning calling for the Iranian people to rise up.
00:06:05.000 So, Steve, that's where things stand right now.
00:06:08.000 We're also, of course, seeing Iran retaliating with strikes on U.S. naval bases, U.S. military installations all across the Gulf.
00:06:15.000 We're even seeing Iran target Jebel Ali, the port of Dubai.
00:06:20.000 That was that missile was intercepted.
00:06:22.000 But again, Iran really looking to inflict that economic damage, that economic pain on the United States, our Gulf partners, Israel. 0.82
00:06:31.000 And of course, the regime knows that they are in survival mode right now in Tehran.
00:06:37.000 That's I mean, and we have Brandon Reichert and Captain Fennell, who I think were very consistent over the last couple of weeks.
00:06:45.000 Both of these individuals were saying, hey, look, these negotiations, if something was happening, it'd be great.
00:06:51.000 But these negotiations, President Trump is really waiting to get all the assets in place.
00:06:56.000 And once he gets the assets in place, the party's on in President Trump's address.
00:07:00.000 And we're going to break that down and play it in pieces so people can see it.
00:07:03.000 We've had this theory that if he's not going to get tapped along in these negotiations.
00:07:10.000 Now, the Oman mediator, let's call him that, flew from Geneva to Washington, actually went to the White House.
00:07:17.000 I believe he met with the vice president to talk about how he thought there were big breakthroughs coming from the Persians.
00:07:23.000 He then gave an interview on CBS saying he thought there were breakthroughs.
00:07:27.000 He's like in shock now.
00:07:29.000 But it doesn't look like this is coercive diplomacy, that the president's given him a tap to say, you're not going to drag us out.
00:07:39.000 I want a deal.
00:07:40.000 I want the whole nuclear effort.
00:07:42.000 You got to say it's shut down.
00:07:43.000 I think it's deeper than that because he's essentially calling for the Iranian people to rise up and use these strikes as a almost, if not total decapitation strike, a limited decapitation strike to call for the Iranian people to rise up and have regime change.
00:07:59.000 Am I correct in that?
00:08:00.000 Well, Steve, that's that's what the president said himself.
00:08:03.000 He said he he did not talk only about or particularly about the nuclear program in his speech.
00:08:10.000 He talked about 47 years that he called chaos of the Iranian revolutionary regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran since the takeover in 1979.
00:08:22.000 He talked about the attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq when that was ongoing and how Iran and Iranian proxies, Shia proxies and militias were behind so many of those attacks.
00:08:32.000 And he talked about how he perceived Iran as a great threat to the region, a great threat to stability. 0.85
00:08:39.000 And he responded by saying that now is the time for the Iranian people to rise up.
00:08:45.000 So, you know, what we're not seeing, I would say, in contrast with 2003 and the Bush strategy or or Afghanistan 2001, we're not seeing boots on the ground.
00:08:56.000 We're not seeing American forces.
00:08:57.000 We don't see those marine expeditionary units.
00:08:59.000 We don't see army forces, you know, National Guards being called up, that sort of thing.
00:09:03.000 We're seeing air.
00:09:04.000 We're seeing naval power, but we're not seeing boots on the ground.
00:09:08.000 That being said, President Trump clearly calling for the Iranian people to take aim at the Iranian regime and has targeted the U.S. military as such as well.
00:09:17.000 Well, and calling for regime change.
00:09:19.000 Remember, we're in the first, what, eight hours of this, right?
00:09:23.000 Right.
00:09:24.000 And calling for regime change.
00:09:26.000 It doesn't look the least right now.
00:09:28.000 It's insertion of any either special forces and or ground troops.
00:09:33.000 But he's calling for the Iranian people to take it in their own hands like a couple of weeks ago when when Scott Besson had broken with breaking the currency they took to the streets.
00:09:43.000 He's calling for the Iranian people to do the regime change.
00:09:45.000 He'll it looks like we'll go in and try to do as much decapitation as possible.
00:09:50.000 Well, that's right.
00:09:53.000 And I certainly wouldn't preclude the option of a commando force.
00:09:57.000 We saw the Maduro raid not long ago, also conducted on a weekend similar to this.
00:10:01.000 And so I wouldn't preclude the president.
00:10:04.000 He certainly has that option to call up special forces, tier one operators.
00:10:08.000 This is what they do, whether it's Delta, whether it's heel team six, to be able to go in and target either leadership or target these weapons of mass destruction stockpiles, either either these enriched uranium sites or anything that's still available.
00:10:22.000 Anything that they deem as either NBC, nuclear, biological, chemical, any of those potential sites or research sites that they could be looking at within the regime.
00:10:31.000 Certainly, Israel has conducted commando raids within Iran in the past, has used leave behind assets, deep insertion of Mastad units, IDF special forces as well.
00:10:41.000 So we could be seeing that type of activity.
00:10:43.000 I would say pretty much everything's on the table.
00:10:45.000 And I would also point out that these initial strikes could even just be shaping operations for larger strikes that are still yet to come, B2s or others that the president, if he chooses, could send into battle.
00:11:01.000 Now, we don't have reports of in the June, in the 12 day war, the initial strike on that Thursday night, Friday morning, all throughout that Saturday.
00:11:12.000 It was obvious that there were insertion on Mossad.
00:11:15.000 They actually took out certain members of the of the Revolutionary Guard, other senior commanders.
00:11:22.000 That was a that looked like a regime change strike at the time, as we were the first to bring up here on on War Room when we were covering it.
00:11:30.000 It has been any indication of all they've had that type of infiltration in the type of, you know, kind of the tactics that Mossad used the first time to take out individuals that they had targeted that were senior members of command and control.
00:11:45.000 Well, Steve, at this point, I would say it's too early to tell or perhaps just too early to confirm.
00:11:51.000 We're seeing rumors that members of IRGC leadership are taken out.
00:11:56.000 There's a rumor spreading across social media.
00:11:58.000 Some people say the Ayatollah was taken out.
00:12:00.000 Some people say that he was secured in another location.
00:12:03.000 Again, this is this is the fog of war and we are in the fog of war.
00:12:07.000 Truth is the first casualty in war.
00:12:10.000 So my recommendation to everyone that is stay frosty.
00:12:13.000 Although, of course, we know going from the 12 day war back last June, that is certainly the MO of Mossad. 0.61
00:12:20.000 That is certainly the MO of IDF and working with those partners in a coalition force as the United States did at that time.
00:12:28.000 It would not surprise me at all if those commando units or in those types of raids were used.
00:12:34.000 We're also hearing, by the way, reports that the United States for the first time ever used one way attack drones or kamikaze drones.
00:12:41.000 These, of course, are ubiquitous on both sides of the Ukrainian conflict now being used by the United States, according to reports in the first ever time for combat operations.
00:12:51.000 So, again, targeted kamikaze drone attacks.
00:12:55.000 That would certainly be something that could be used against leadership.
00:12:58.000 Jack, you got to step out.
00:12:59.000 You're going to rejoin us later in the program.
00:13:01.000 We've got a packed agenda of all of our best and brightest.
00:13:05.000 Just closing thoughts in the question is always timing.
00:13:10.000 When you saw the president's eight minute video and we are hearing that the president.
00:13:13.000 In fact, we've got McCabe at the White House.
00:13:15.000 Brian Glenn's on up and working about the timing of this.
00:13:20.000 Why now?
00:13:21.000 Why early on a Saturday morning on the last day of February in the year of our Lord, 2026, sir?
00:13:27.000 Well, Steve, of course, the president operates on the president's time.
00:13:31.000 And clearly, just from an operational standpoint, what they were waiting for was for the Ford to arrive off the coast of Haifa, which is the port of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem area there in the eastern Mediterranean.
00:13:44.000 It was very obvious that that's exactly the moment that they were waiting for.
00:13:48.000 And we were tracking the USS Ford as it crossed through the Strait of Gibraltar, as it was crossing through the East Med.
00:13:55.000 President Trump, I think, you know, just having spent time with him on Air Force One last week, he repeatedly brought up those protests in the streets of Tehran.
00:14:04.000 He said over and over, it looks like the people are ready to rise up, but perhaps they just need a little push.
00:14:10.000 You know, they need a little pressure on the regime.
00:14:13.000 We know that the economic forces, the currency, the sanctions that Secretary Besson and other countries have put on Iran have really broken the economy,
00:14:22.000 broken the currency in Iran that's leading to a lot of the economic pressure that's causing some of these protests.
00:14:28.000 And it appears that President Trump thought that this was the right time to pull the trigger.
00:14:32.000 Jack, social media, until we get you back in the war room, where do people follow you, sir?
00:14:38.000 We're going to be up at Jack Posobiec and, of course, Human Events for All Breaking.
00:14:42.000 We'll be here all day.
00:14:43.000 Thank you, sir.
00:14:44.000 I appreciate you.
00:14:45.000 See you in a little while.
00:14:46.000 24-7 with Jack Posobiec, former Naval Intelligence Officer.
00:14:50.000 Short break, we're going to be back.
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00:16:29.000 A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.
00:16:39.000 Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, 0.94
00:16:48.000 a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.
00:16:54.000 Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.
00:17:03.000 For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, 1.00
00:17:13.000 targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people in many, many countries.
00:17:19.000 Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
00:17:27.000 holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days.
00:17:32.000 In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
00:17:42.000 In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole.
00:17:49.000 Many died.
00:17:51.000 Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.
00:17:56.000 The regime's proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years,
00:18:05.000 as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels in international shipping lands.
00:18:11.000 It's been mass terror, and we're not going to put up with it any longer.
00:18:16.000 This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces.
00:18:24.000 I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration, and there is no military on Earth even close to its power, strength, or sophistication.
00:18:36.000 My administration has taken every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region.
00:18:43.000 Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. 0.91
00:18:51.000 The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties that often happens in war.
00:18:59.000 But we're doing this not for now.
00:19:02.000 We're doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission.
00:19:06.000 We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. 0.97
00:19:17.000 We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm's way, and we trust that, with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail.
00:19:28.000 We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail.
00:19:32.000 To the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces, and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or, in the alternative, face certain death. 0.97
00:19:47.000 So, lay down your arms.
00:19:50.000 You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death.
00:19:57.000 Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.
00:20:04.000 Stay sheltered.
00:20:05.000 Don't leave your home.
00:20:06.000 It's very dangerous outside.
00:20:08.000 Bombs will be dropping everywhere.
00:20:10.000 When we are finished, take over your government.
00:20:13.000 It will be yours to take.
00:20:15.000 This will be, probably, your only chance for generations.
00:20:20.000 For many years, you have asked for America's help, but you never got it.
00:20:25.000 No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight.
00:20:29.000 Now you have a president who is giving you what you want.
00:20:33.000 So, let's see how you respond.
00:20:36.000 America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force.
00:20:41.000 Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.
00:20:50.000 This is the moment for action.
00:20:53.000 Do not let it pass.
00:20:54.000 May God bless the brave men and women of America's armed forces.
00:20:59.000 May God bless the United States of America.
00:21:02.000 May God bless you all.
00:21:04.000 Thank you.
00:21:05.000 Commander in Chief, earlier this morning, the hour of your freedom is at hand.
00:21:10.000 He's telling the Persian people.
00:21:12.000 A couple of notes.
00:21:14.000 Number one, the White House, I believe, just came out and said the president will all rumors and discussion of the president addressing the nation today are inaccurate.
00:21:23.000 That's from the White House.
00:21:24.000 So it looks like what we got from the president is what we've gotten.
00:21:28.000 Also, the foreign minister of Iran is saying the initial strikes on senior leadership of the Iranian government has failed.
00:21:38.000 The Wall Street Journal is actually reporting they think two senior people who they don't identify have been have been taken out.
00:21:44.000 Let's go to.
00:21:45.000 We got Captain Fennell and Brandon Weikert.
00:21:48.000 Captain Fennell, it looks like you wrote part of that.
00:21:51.000 You go back.
00:21:52.000 President Trump went back to the Marine barracks, went back to the USS Cole.
00:21:57.000 Your assessment of what the president just said, sir, and also you talked about the naval assets, the airstrikes, et cetera.
00:22:05.000 What's your assessment of this, at least the initial strike package?
00:22:11.000 Well, Steve, it's a really serious time in our history and the history of the region.
00:22:17.000 I say that it's a result of 47 years of inaction by previous administrations.
00:22:24.000 And so the political side you said we won't talk to today, but it's you are seeing what military planners inside the Pentagon have been looking at for 47 years, a culmination of examination and looking at targets across Iran.
00:22:39.000 And the president, in his statement today, said they were going to destroy missiles and the missile industry, annihilate the Navy, stop terrorism, which means stop the leadership of Iran, both the government leaders, the Mullahs, the IRGC, which is their Revolutionary Guard Corps military, and then their regular military.
00:23:00.000 And then he said no nuclear weapons.
00:23:02.000 And again, he talked about the leadership.
00:23:05.000 So those are the basic great categories.
00:23:09.000 Then you have the targeting that's been done.
00:23:11.000 And we don't know the extent of how many targets were struck.
00:23:14.000 I would guess something of over a thousand or more targets were identified, probably closer to 2,000, given the scope of how big Iran's country is, the size of their military and these general categories.
00:23:28.000 And so we don't know all the details.
00:23:30.000 Jack was right.
00:23:31.000 We're in the fog of war right now.
00:23:33.000 There's obviously, I would say the Iranian regime is in a state of shock in terms of their ability to assess what's been hit.
00:23:41.000 So we don't have all the details of all the results of the T-LAM strikes that went against all these assets and targets in Iran.
00:23:49.000 On the naval side, I think it's really interesting, and I think the USS Abraham Lincoln was probably the lead on the naval portion of this strike, whereas the Ford and the other ground-based air assets that we have in the region were probably conducting more strikes deeper into Iran.
00:24:07.000 In fact, the Ford is actually closer to Tehran than probably the Lincoln was.
00:24:12.000 In terms of the naval, we should not forget that in 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts was struck by an Iranian mine during Operation Praying Mantis.
00:24:22.000 And then three years later, in 1991, the USS Tripoli and the USS Princeton were both struck by mine.
00:24:29.000 So as the president said, Iran has been terrorizing the region and killing people for a long time.
00:24:36.000 And this is what the attacks are going after, to make sure to defend their ability to reach out and disrupt international shipping or airspace.
00:24:46.000 I want to get Brandon in on this thing, but real quickly, just to make sure people understand.
00:24:50.000 You're saying the Ford, which is in the eastern Mediterranean, probably had more impact on this than the Lincoln that's in the North Arabian Sea?
00:24:59.000 In terms of attacking ground targets, we don't know what naval targets were struck.
00:25:04.000 We haven't had any reporting out of what happened in Bandar Abbas and Karg Island, the naval platforms themselves.
00:25:10.000 Where is the Iranian Navy? I would expect that much of the Iranian Navy is either below the sea and sunk or is inoperable or isolated because of the Lincoln and that array of naval armada that's there.
00:25:24.000 And it's not just surface ships. It's not just the aircraft carriers. It's also the submarines.
00:25:29.000 And one last point, Jack mentioned, is this issue with what can we do in terms of special operations.
00:25:35.000 We shouldn't forget that there is Expeditionary Mobile Base or ESB-3, the Chesty Puller, is in the Gulf of Oman or in those waters south of Iran.
00:25:46.000 And they have the capacity to bring special operation forces in to do special operations like we saw in Absolute Resolve in Venezuela.
00:25:55.000 We have all the assets in the area that we need to be able to continuously pound the targets that we know that we need to get after to defang Tehran. 0.98
00:26:04.000 And you'll notice I've been...
00:26:06.000 Hang on one second. I've got to get Brandon in here in this segment. Just hang on, Captain. We're going to get back to you. Stay right there.
00:26:13.000 Brandon Weikert, you called this just like Captain Fennell. He said, hey, they're negotiating to negotiate.
00:26:19.000 If anything pops, it'll be interesting. But he's waiting until he gets his assets in place and then he's going to hit.
00:26:24.000 Your assessment now, sir, that it looks like that's what happened.
00:26:28.000 That's exactly what happened. And I don't take any pleasure in saying that, but it is here now.
00:26:33.600 And it was an excellent assessment by both Captain Fennell and Jack. So well done. Thank you.
00:26:38.740 But I think we need to also confirm something. I have been told that the Wall Street Journal report is correct, that they have killed at least two IRGC commanders.
00:26:48.520 I have also been told that there is some concern now that the Houthis are getting ready to launch long-range strikes against Israel.
00:27:00.180 I would like to note that so far, according to my guys in the UAE, the American air defense or the air defense systems in the region have so far held up,
00:27:11.560 which is something I did not think would be possible, which either indicates to me that the Americans and Israelis were more effective in knocking out those missile launchers than I thought they would be,
00:27:21.000 or the Iranians are still trying to organize an effective counterpunch.
00:27:25.340 But I think that's some good news this morning. And also, it looks a lot like, according to Bloomberg two hours ago, and I think this was going to happen anyway,
00:27:35.220 the oil companies are now redirecting the flow of oil away from the Strait of Hormuz to other areas because the Houthis are already starting to impose their blockade again of the Red Sea.
00:27:49.900 So, to me, it looks like the first strike packages of the United States and Israel have been relatively effective. 0.84
00:27:59.440 The Iranians have countered, although I am not convinced that the Iranians have gotten a kill shot in yet, which is good for us. 1.00
00:28:07.700 Yeah. Brandon, hang on for a second. Yeah, it looks like there was a counter-strike, but maybe not totally coordinated or even able to pull off.
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00:29:59.220 Okay, we're going to get to every aspect of this. Already looks like it may be, this may be expanding regionally as everybody thought it would.
00:30:11.580 And Brandon Weikert's here, Fennell Fettis. We've got everybody. Thayer, Mike Davis is going to come in about the authorization the president's going to use.
00:30:20.120 Let me play, I'm going to play a clip now from CBS News.
00:30:23.860 What you're going to hear is the Oman, let's say he's the mediator.
00:30:27.260 He was the note passer that even Trista Farsi said that the Persians, the Iranians had to get in direct discussions with President Trump.
00:30:36.760 He wasn't going to get tapped along. He actually left Geneva.
00:30:40.580 They're supposed to be in Vienna Monday for another follow-on meeting.
00:30:44.580 He left Geneva, flew to the United States, think and went to the White House.
00:30:47.060 Let's hear him. I'm bringing Brandon Weikert for his response.
00:30:49.980 Let's hear him.
00:31:19.980 What has Iran agreed to, to you, that they have never done before? Can you give us any sense?
00:31:31.820 The single most important achievement, I believe, is the agreement that Iran will never ever have a nuclear material 0.95
00:31:49.020 that will create a bomb. 0.85
00:31:53.140 This is, I think, a big achievement.
00:31:56.560 This is something that is not in the old deal that was negotiated during President Obama's time.
00:32:08.020 This is something completely new.
00:32:09.620 It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant because now we are talking about zero stockpiling.
00:32:19.580 And that is very, very important because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched, then there is no way you can actually create a bomb.
00:32:28.740 Okay, that's the Amman mediator, the kind of go-between that everybody realizes you can't have these go-bequings.
00:32:35.320 If you're not going to have direct negotiations, President Trump's going to get tired of that quickly.
00:32:40.800 Brandon Weikert, your comments and observations, you're saying the whole time, hey, look, that's fine if something happened.
00:32:47.680 But the president clearly, in that message early this morning, is not simply talking about a nuclear weapon anymore.
00:32:54.880 He's talking about something much more fundamental, sir.
00:32:58.600 And I, yeah, this was something I might have said to Kurt Mills or you, I can't remember in the weeks ago.
00:33:03.000 I was saying that it really isn't about nuclear weapons anymore.
00:33:05.860 This is really a joint U.S.-Israeli issue and therefore the Israelis are going to have veto power as much as the Americans are when it comes to negotiations.
00:33:17.260 And for the Israelis, it's never been just the nukes. 0.71
00:33:20.060 It's really been the ballistic missile and hypersonic weapon threat that Iran poses. 0.99
00:33:24.280 And in order to get the Iranians to agree to no enrichment that the Omani was referring to, Trump basically had to verbally say, okay, I'll drop the ballistic missile reduction issue.
00:33:36.920 And there's no way that the Israelis are then going to come on board with that. 0.81
00:33:40.160 And that's the issue right now because this is not just about America and Iran.
00:33:44.240 Unfortunately, it's also about Israel now.
00:33:46.860 So that's why I was saying that this was all sort of spoken here.
00:33:50.540 But even with the ballistic missile, this is what I want to get to, what the president said today is this is, he wants, he's calling for the people to rise up in the streets and take their, this is a regime change, is it not?
00:34:01.620 Exactly.
00:34:02.180 And remember.
00:34:03.340 He's not saying he's going to put boots on the ground, but he's implying I'm going to do what I got to do and you take it from there.
00:34:09.440 And in fact, the police, remember there's a massive army besides the Revolutionary Guard.
00:34:13.980 Revolutionary Guard is obviously the layer on top that controls things, but he's telling police, he's telling law enforcement, he's telling the army, if you put down your weapons or if you turn against the regime, there will be no implications against you.
00:34:30.880 If you don't do that, you're all going to die.
00:34:33.380 I mean, he couldn't be more blunt about that.
00:34:34.880 So this was not, at least what the president said.
00:34:37.120 It was never about the military, right?
00:34:38.840 It was always about, and he said, I told you this a few, a few weeks ago when he's been pulled in by the protesters.
00:34:44.700 He's, you know, he has heart and he wants to support people he thinks are in need.
00:34:48.940 And I think this is his sort of his belief that we need to do this.
00:34:53.080 And, uh, you know, I will see if it works out, but it is interesting to me because you mentioned shaping operations earlier and you mentioned boots on the ground.
00:35:01.520 I'll just say that since last year's 12 day war, I know for a fact that Israeli intelligence has infiltrated and has stayed infiltrated in Iran.
00:35:10.620 I suspect that might be why we're having these very effective target hits in Iran.
00:35:15.900 You said something that's going to, it's made our audience's head blow up.
00:35:20.100 You said Israel has veto power.
00:35:23.280 What do you mean by that?
00:35:24.800 Unfortunately, unfortunately, this is not just an American operation.
00:35:28.220 Trump is partnered, you know, for better or worse.
00:35:31.000 Trump is partnered with Netanyahu and he is clearly doing this in part because the Israelis want this done.
00:35:39.620 Uh, and, uh, I, you know, we don't want to get too political here and I'm not going to dive into the, that, that cesspool, but ultimately I've always said it was a mistake not to put America first.
00:35:49.080 And, uh, let's just hope that the military operation continues to be successful, uh, because this is not just for America that we're doing this clearly.
00:35:57.940 Hey, you're, you're going to hang on.
00:35:59.480 We're going to get more information and intelligence from you on how these strikes are going.
00:36:03.340 I've got a short package.
00:36:04.340 Mike Davis is going to join us.
00:36:05.560 The whole up on Capitol Hill, there's a firestorm right now about what the authorization is.
00:36:10.060 And the president, we're going to play a clip and bring in Mike, the Mike Davis.
00:36:13.520 Let's go ahead and play it.
00:36:14.860 I do think that there are a few tiny differences between the way the administration dealt with Congress, uh, before the Venezuela operation.
00:36:22.320 And before this Iranian operation, before Venezuela, the administration didn't do much outreach to the members that you would typically see an administration do outreach to.
00:36:31.800 In this instance, my sources tell me and my colleague, Julia Jester, that secretary of state, Marco Rubio actually did do his best to reach out to all members of the gang of eight.
00:36:41.260 That's the top four congressional leaders from both parties.
00:36:44.720 And then of course, members of the Senate intelligence committee from both parties.
00:36:49.180 Rubio was able to make those calls.
00:36:50.580 He wasn't able to get in touch with all of them because some of them were traveling, not able to pick up the phone.
00:36:55.720 But I do think that that is one key difference.
00:36:57.940 Of course, it does not explain away the fact that if Trump is calling it a war and warning of American casualties, he did not do this through congressional authorization.
00:37:07.580 But I think there's something the administration is going to lean on in the coming days here, because a U.S.
00:37:12.660 official is telling MS now that Rubio during that briefing on Tuesday that he did with the gang of eight before Trump's State of the Union, the U.S.
00:37:20.540 official is saying that Rubio consulted with congressional leaders during that.
00:37:24.400 Speaker Mike Johnson put out a statement this morning where he said that Rubio during that gang of eight briefing on Tuesday said that strikes might be needed or imminent to protect American assets in the region.
00:37:34.780 I think all of that is going to suddenly become very important.
00:37:37.960 It was definitely important before, but now in light of who's authorizing what and on what legal grounds the administration is acting, it's going to be key because coming out of that briefing, Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries had a lot of questions and they were not supportive of what the administration was telling them.
00:37:54.960 And certainly that's going to be important as the administration might maybe try to argue, well, we consulted with members of Congress, certainly members of Congress have not voted on any of this.
00:38:04.980 And that's key. But I think we're watching these fault lines begin to emerge as we start questioning what happened here, under what authorization and importantly, what might come next?
00:38:14.700 Okay, Mike, you've been one of the leaders in this in this thinking of the of the Article Two powers of the president, particularly his Article Two powers as commander in chief.
00:38:24.480 You're one of the one of the biggest advocates of the of using the Aliens Sedition Act from what, 1798, about the situation with Venezuela and Trinidad, Iraq and the invasion of our country.
00:38:35.440 You also were around during the Bush years. This just technically walk me through.
00:38:41.500 We still have this what military authorization use. That's from 2001, I think, is what the kind of the legal documentation that has been used to do various military operations.
00:38:52.160 So just give us the range of what's out there. Your interpretation now of his Article Two powers.
00:38:57.940 They've already had a gang of a briefing. Once again, the administration is saying that Ruby has got the lead on this.
00:39:03.280 Where do we stand with actually the technical, technically how the commander in chief can do this, sir?
00:39:10.560 Under Article One of the Constitution, Congress has the power to declare war.
00:39:17.600 And there's a difference between declaring war and making war.
00:39:21.800 Under Article Two, the president of the United States is the commander in chief.
00:39:27.720 And going all the way back to the Federalist Papers, our founders all agreed that the president has the inherent power to repel an invasion or an imminent attack on the United States.
00:39:42.680 We have not had a declaration of war since World War Two.
00:39:49.500 In 1973, Congress passed over President Nixon's veto.
00:39:58.920 They overrode the veto, and they passed the War Powers Act of 1973.
00:40:05.080 That's been on the book for over 50 years.
00:40:08.420 The problem for that statute is no president, Democrat or Republican, has ceded its constitutionality.
00:40:17.540 Every president has said the War Powers Act of 1973 is not constitutional, and no president has complied with the War Powers Act of 1973.
00:40:28.600 Any court that has addressed this issue when people have sued the president to try to stop, for example, President Obama's attack on Libya,
00:40:40.480 the courts have said that these are political questions that the courts will not decide.
00:40:47.080 Meaning these are questions for the political branches, for the Congress, and for the president to fight it out, to figure out who has the power and who does not.
00:40:58.060 Under the War Powers Act...
00:41:00.180 Hang on one second.
00:41:04.540 Most...
00:41:04.980 Don't...
00:41:05.900 I don't want to say most conservatives, but most texturalists and originalists,
00:41:09.800 don't they believe the War Powers Act itself may be unconstitutional?
00:41:14.520 Yeah, every...
00:41:15.520 And not only do texturalists and originalists think it's unconstitutional,
00:41:19.860 every president since 1973, when it's enacted, Democrat and Republican,
00:41:25.860 has said the War Powers Act of 1973 is unconstitutional.
00:41:30.120 One of the big problems with it is it provides a legislative veto,
00:41:33.960 which is unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court's,
00:41:38.940 I think it was Chaka versus decision in, like, 1986.
00:41:44.240 You can't have legislative vetoes by Congress.
00:41:47.900 How the War Powers Act is supposed to work,
00:41:50.520 if any president ever complied with it or acknowledged its constitutionality,
00:41:54.820 which no president has done, Democrat or Republican,
00:41:57.380 is that the president provides notice to the Speaker of the House
00:42:01.280 and the president pro tem of the Senate within 48 hours
00:42:05.360 of the actions taken against a foreign country.
00:42:11.600 And then there's a 60-day time period where troops must be withdrawn
00:42:18.520 unless Congress authorizes the military action.
00:42:23.520 And that's the problem with the War Powers Act.
00:42:25.800 That's what makes it unconstitutional.
00:42:28.300 You can get an extra 30 days on top of that 90 days to draw down the troops.
00:42:33.100 But if Congress does not authorize the action within that 60-day time period,
00:42:40.060 the president has to pull out all the troops within 90 days.
00:42:43.020 No president's ever followed that.
00:42:45.360 So after 9-11, we went to this concept of military use authorization, right?
00:42:51.060 And that was agreed to or put forward in late 2001, I believe, 2002.
00:42:58.640 And that's been something we've relied upon for essentially 25 years, correct?
00:43:04.900 Yes.
00:43:05.720 And not only do we have the use of force in 2001 after 9-11,
00:43:11.480 that gives the president broad power to go after terrorism,
00:43:15.740 including some would argue, I think President Trump would argue,
00:43:19.860 and many others would argue that that applies to Iran.
00:43:23.040 There's the 2002 military authorization against Iraq and its proxies,
00:43:29.480 and presidents have used that as well.
00:43:32.080 I mean, here's the bottom line.
00:43:34.100 Hang on one second before you get to the bottom line.
00:43:36.100 We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:43:37.160 Mike Davis is talking about, because already on Capitol Hill,
00:43:39.900 there's rumblings, as we say.
00:43:41.840 There's rumblings up on Capitol Hill.
00:43:43.760 Mike Davis is going to explain it all to us,
00:43:45.400 particularly declaring war versus making war.
00:43:50.340 Sam Faddis, Joe Allen, we've got a cast of characters here today
00:43:54.260 to break it all down for you and make it make sense.
00:43:57.420 Short break.
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00:46:30.720 Mike Davis, explain to us, you made a comment,
00:46:33.180 there's a difference between declaring war and making war.
00:46:36.400 That is one of the reasons for the military use authorization.
00:46:40.040 Explain to people what that is, how it came about,
00:46:42.060 and how it looks like.
00:46:43.500 It appears that that's what President Trump
00:46:45.100 is going to use as his authorization
00:46:48.520 to go do these strikes,
00:46:50.580 particularly since he's had the Secretary of State
00:46:52.300 and his national security advisor.
00:46:53.840 Because remember, Rubio's the first guy since Kissinger
00:46:55.820 doing both to go up to Capitol Hill
00:46:58.440 and brief the Gang of Eight.
00:46:59.760 That's not a random thing that happens, sir.
00:47:03.220 Yeah, there's the difference under the Constitution
00:47:06.280 between declaring war, which that power belongs to Congress
00:47:11.420 under Article I versus making war,
00:47:14.060 which belongs to the Commander-in-Chief under Article II.
00:47:17.660 There are serious legal ramifications if Congress declares war.
00:47:23.740 That affects our civil liberties as Americans.
00:47:26.520 The President has more authority over American citizens
00:47:31.700 to fight a war than he does
00:47:34.760 when there's not a declaration of war.
00:47:36.700 So I think people should be careful.
00:47:38.980 These libertarians who are urging Congress to,
00:47:43.400 urging the President to seek a declaration of war,
00:47:46.660 there are serious implications for civil liberties
00:47:49.060 if that happens.
00:47:50.420 But regardless, our founders understood
00:47:53.340 that there's a difference between the two.
00:47:56.200 If you go back and look at the Federalist Papers,
00:47:58.840 the President, as the Commander-in-Chief under Article II,
00:48:01.500 has the inherent power to repel an invasion.
00:48:05.920 He has the inherent power to stop an imminent attack.
00:48:11.320 And so if Iran, for example,
00:48:12.760 we saw the Supreme Leader of Iran put out a video
00:48:16.980 saying that he was going to sink American ships.
00:48:21.460 Well, the President has the inherent power,
00:48:24.900 the inherent duty, actually,
00:48:26.760 as the Commander-in-Chief to make sure
00:48:28.780 that the Supreme Leader of Iran
00:48:31.220 does not sink American ships,
00:48:33.440 regardless of whether there is a declaration of war.
00:48:37.640 And if you go back to 2001,
00:48:40.580 after 9-11,
00:48:42.000 Congress passed an authorization
00:48:45.480 for the use of armed forces,
00:48:49.200 the AU, excuse me,
00:48:51.160 AUAF,
00:48:52.260 and it was back in 2001.
00:48:53.420 I'll just read it to you,
00:48:54.260 and it's very broad.
00:48:55.400 It talks about this,
00:48:57.320 that the President is authorized
00:48:59.400 to use all necessary
00:49:01.380 and appropriate force
00:49:03.280 against those nations,
00:49:05.620 organizations,
00:49:06.600 or persons
00:49:07.440 he determines
00:49:08.900 planned, authorized, committed,
00:49:11.400 or aided the terrorist attacks
00:49:12.900 that occurred on September 11, 2001,
00:49:16.240 or harbored such organizations
00:49:19.060 or persons
00:49:20.440 in order to prevent
00:49:22.340 any future acts
00:49:23.760 of international terrorism
00:49:25.540 against the United States
00:49:27.280 by such nations,
00:49:29.440 organizations,
00:49:30.420 or persons.
00:49:31.780 And Congress specifically
00:49:33.360 noted in this AUMF
00:49:36.200 that this is consistent
00:49:37.940 with giving an authorization
00:49:40.020 under the War Powers Resolution.
00:49:42.840 So the President
00:49:44.300 has very broad power
00:49:46.560 to go after
00:49:48.460 international terrorism,
00:49:50.200 particularly these Islamists, 0.89
00:49:53.000 like the Islamists 1.00
00:49:54.080 who run Iran,
00:49:55.680 who have been organizing
00:49:58.000 and carrying out terrorist strikes
00:50:01.000 against the United States
00:50:02.460 for the last 47 years.
00:50:05.520 Is the issue,
00:50:06.500 President Trump went through
00:50:07.300 the history,
00:50:08.220 you know,
00:50:08.420 I was over there
00:50:09.300 this time in 1980.
00:50:11.380 I was in the North Arabian Sea
00:50:12.740 on a combatant
00:50:13.700 as a plane guard ship
00:50:14.780 for air defense
00:50:17.340 for the Kerry battle groups
00:50:19.120 on Gonzo and Camel Station
00:50:20.620 in the workup
00:50:22.140 to what was a failed attack.
00:50:24.980 I think it's in April of May,
00:50:26.320 April of,
00:50:27.720 not attack,
00:50:28.440 but a rescue mission
00:50:29.640 that didn't work.
00:50:31.080 We've been around there
00:50:31.840 and President went through that.
00:50:33.740 He went through
00:50:34.400 the Marine barracks.
00:50:35.940 He went through the coal.
00:50:37.460 He went through,
00:50:37.720 and I,
00:50:38.360 is there,
00:50:39.100 do you think they get caught up
00:50:40.920 in like,
00:50:41.400 what's the justification
00:50:42.440 over the last week?
00:50:44.600 What's the justification,
00:50:46.120 you know,
00:50:46.480 what is it?
00:50:47.420 Are they going to get,
00:50:48.160 are they going to get pressed
00:50:49.140 on that hard,
00:50:50.140 sir?
00:50:51.260 Well,
00:50:51.620 I mean,
00:50:51.800 we have,
00:50:52.140 again,
00:50:52.520 we have a video
00:50:53.220 from the Supreme Leader
00:50:54.360 of Iran very recently
00:50:56.540 where he said
00:50:57.100 he's going to,
00:50:57.660 he's going to,
00:50:58.400 he's going to sink
00:50:59.140 American ships.
00:51:00.060 I think that video
00:51:02.100 right there
00:51:02.820 is all the justification
00:51:03.760 that the president
00:51:05.280 needs to flatten
00:51:07.300 the Supreme Leader's home
00:51:08.880 and take him out.
00:51:10.680 You know,
00:51:11.540 Mike,
00:51:12.360 people don't remember
00:51:14.140 that we were attacked
00:51:15.280 by Japan
00:51:15.780 and then we declared war.
00:51:17.060 We did not declare war
00:51:18.000 that day on Nazi Germany.
00:51:19.780 Hitler declared war on us,
00:51:20.940 I think,
00:51:21.200 three days later
00:51:21.800 because he had a secret pact
00:51:23.020 with the Japanese.
00:51:24.340 Also,
00:51:25.540 correct me if I'm wrong,
00:51:26.160 President Lincoln
00:51:26.880 never really had
00:51:27.620 a declaration of war
00:51:28.700 against the Confederacy.
00:51:30.060 He didn't consider
00:51:30.520 the Confederacy
00:51:31.220 a separate nation.
00:51:32.760 He had a proclamation
00:51:33.560 early on
00:51:34.540 around Fort Sumner
00:51:35.500 about federal property,
00:51:37.800 et cetera,
00:51:38.060 but he ran it.
00:51:38.840 Eventually,
00:51:39.260 Congress set up a committee
00:51:41.100 to oversee things
00:51:42.120 or they thought
00:51:42.640 to oversee things,
00:51:43.420 but President Lincoln,
00:51:44.780 and you talk about
00:51:45.260 civil liberties,
00:51:46.000 President Lincoln
00:51:46.500 did not go for
00:51:47.400 a declaration of war.
00:51:48.420 In fact,
00:51:49.300 some people said
00:51:50.060 he actually acted
00:51:50.820 as a warlord,
00:51:52.360 particularly on people's
00:51:53.200 First Amendment rights
00:51:54.240 during the Civil War.
00:51:56.240 Am I correct in that?
00:51:57.720 Yes,
00:51:58.100 and I would just remind people
00:51:59.380 that Iran has declared war
00:52:00.940 on the United States
00:52:02.300 for the last 47 years,
00:52:03.900 and they've killed
00:52:04.620 thousands of our people
00:52:06.000 around the world
00:52:06.600 for the last 47 years.
00:52:08.560 They've gone after
00:52:09.240 American military members,
00:52:11.460 they've gone after
00:52:12.060 our diplomats,
00:52:12.880 they've gone after
00:52:13.440 our citizens,
00:52:14.660 they've funded
00:52:15.460 these terrorist attacks
00:52:16.620 for 47 years,
00:52:18.460 and when the Supreme Leader
00:52:19.900 is threatening
00:52:20.480 to sink American ships, 0.75
00:52:23.120 he learned the hard way
00:52:24.340 that he's messing
00:52:25.460 with the wrong president.
00:52:26.920 President Trump
00:52:27.520 leveled his house.
00:52:29.840 Mike Davis,
00:52:30.660 where do people go
00:52:31.500 to get you,
00:52:32.140 particularly over the next
00:52:33.020 couple of days,
00:52:34.380 on social media, sir?
00:52:38.120 Article3project.org,
00:52:39.020 article3project.org.
00:52:40.860 You can donate,
00:52:42.120 follow us on social media,
00:52:43.680 and action, action, action,
00:52:44.780 and thank you, Steve.
00:52:46.060 30 seconds.
00:52:46.820 When do you think
00:52:47.240 President Trump
00:52:47.820 will get into this
00:52:48.660 whole thing on Capitol Hill?
00:52:49.880 Today, tomorrow, or Monday?
00:52:51.000 Uh, that's a good question.
00:52:54.460 I don't think he needs to.
00:52:55.700 If he wants to,
00:52:57.220 he can't,
00:52:57.640 but under his Article 2
00:53:00.560 powers,
00:53:00.980 commander-in-chief,
00:53:01.800 under this 2001
00:53:03.500 congressional resolution
00:53:05.300 against international terrorism,
00:53:06.940 he doesn't need to do anything.
00:53:08.120 He's done what he needs to do.
00:53:09.900 Mike Davis,
00:53:11.060 thank you so much
00:53:11.900 for taking time away
00:53:13.220 on your Saturday
00:53:13.680 to join us.
00:53:16.640 Declaring war
00:53:17.400 versus making war.
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