Bannon's War Room - February 28, 2026


Episode 5178： US And Israel Attack Iran; War Builds In The Middle East Cont.


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Stephen K. Bannon and Sam Faddis join host Stephen K. Lee in the War Room to discuss the latest in the latest on Iran and the Ayatollah and the Mullahs. They also talk about the growing threat Iran poses to the United States in the Middle East and beyond.

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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.
00:00:52.000 It's Saturday, 28 February in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:00:56.000 2026, our coverage today was going to be quite heavy on the preparations, potentially,
00:01:03.000 how negotiations are going in preparation for a potential military conflict.
00:01:07.000 The President of the United States about, I don't know, early in the morning,
00:01:10.000 early morning hours came forward with an eight minute video and talked about major combat operations
00:01:15.000 against Iran and the Ayatollah and the Mullahs.
00:01:20.000 And we're going to try to break it down for you.
00:01:22.000 I think that we may add an extra hour of bonus coverage here to our traditional two hours on Saturday morning.
00:01:30.000 So we're going to work through that.
00:01:31.000 We've got so many people to get in, so many of the experts we've worked with over the years to talk about this.
00:01:36.000 Sam Faddis, I want to start with you.
00:01:38.000 Sam, you dedicated, I think, about 30 years of your life in defense of your country
00:01:44.000 in some of the baddest neighborhoods in the world, sir. Is that correct?
00:01:48.000 Yes, sir.
00:01:49.000 We won't try to count how many years it is.
00:01:51.000 It'll tell me how old I am now, Steve.
00:01:54.000 But you're quite familiar with this particular bad neighborhood, I would say, sir.
00:02:01.000 Yes, sir.
00:02:03.000 Absolutely spent a lot of my life there.
00:02:05.000 And so tell us about it.
00:02:07.000 Put us in the mindset, because I think this is one of the things we have to do,
00:02:10.000 is that the enemy gets a vote here.
00:02:12.000 And this is not, you know, this is an ancient civilization, right?
00:02:20.000 This is a country, it's a vast country.
00:02:22.000 If you're over there, it's like shocking how big it is, how it looks, most of it barren.
00:02:28.000 But it's an ancient civilization, 90 million people, highly bureaucratic,
00:02:34.000 has been an enemy of the West since the times of the Greeks and the Romans.
00:02:39.000 Always, I think, I think the Romans will tell you their biggest enemies were not the Germans
00:02:43.000 or the pacification of Gaul.
00:02:45.000 It was always the Persians, the Athenians will tell you the exact same thing.
00:02:49.000 So many of the great battles handed down to us about the defense of democracies against the Persians.
00:02:55.000 Talk to us, what is their mindset today?
00:02:58.000 Because clearly, President Trump and the Israelis had a sense of the Persian people standing up
00:03:05.000 against the Ayatollah, against the Mullahs, against the Revolutionary Guard.
00:03:09.000 And this is why it was at least the first wave looks like a potential decapitation strike, sir.
00:03:15.000 Yeah, that's right. And of course, as you have outlined exhaustively here,
00:03:21.000 it has now been explicitly stated that the goal is regime change.
00:03:24.000 So this is a fight for survival on the part of the guys we're up against.
00:03:28.000 Internally, they'll be as brutal as they have to be.
00:03:32.000 They do not care how many people they kill.
00:03:36.000 And it's great to ask the Iranian people to rise up, and I hope that happens.
00:03:39.000 But it is not that simple.
00:03:42.000 The Iranian regime will fight back. They're already fighting back.
00:03:47.000 They have fired on watching the news.
00:03:50.000 It seems to be at least six countries that are allied with the United States and where U.S. forces are.
00:03:59.000 It appears that missiles or drones got through in Bahrain and hit fifth fleet, American fifth fleet headquarters.
00:04:06.000 They have already their surrogates, I know, in northern Iraq where the Kurds are, have already fired on Erbil. 0.99
00:04:14.000 I don't know that that was particularly effective.
00:04:16.000 But as you noted, the Houthis are already making noises.
00:04:19.000 But look, the Iranians are going to take this worldwide and they're going to take this into the realm where they feel they have an advantage. 1.00
00:04:28.000 So that means not just their surrogates all over the Middle East, and there are many of them.
00:04:34.000 I mean, they're all over Iraq. They're all over the place.
00:04:37.000 Bahrain, where our fifth fleet headquarters is, which was already hit, the majority of the people there are Shia.
00:04:43.000 And Iranian activity on that island has always been the main security threat to that regime. 0.92
00:04:48.000 But the Iranians can reach worldwide.
00:04:51.000 Their largest embassy is in Mexico City.
00:04:54.000 There aren't the Iranians in Mexico, so you can figure out why they have the largest official presence in Mexico City.
00:05:01.000 It isn't to spread Islam.
00:05:04.000 It's because it's a jumping off point in the United States.
00:05:08.000 They have longstanding connections to the cartels who we just schwacked a week or so ago.
00:05:14.000 So they will take it worldwide and potentially they will take it onto our soil and they will take it into a realm where they feel they can stand with us, where conventional capabilities and missiles and aircraft carriers don't count for very much.
00:05:30.000 So that's what you can anticipate.
00:05:33.000 Have there ever been, because President Trump specifically asked that we're doing this so that you can stand up.
00:05:40.000 You've had this for, what, 47 years.
00:05:44.000 The people in Iran today or their parents or grandparents are the ones that brought the Islamic Revolution and threw out the Shah, who was our biggest ally at the time. 0.56
00:05:53.000 But he's calling on those people, you've got a shot now to take back your government.
00:05:57.000 How deep is the discontent in Persia, you know, after 47 years and obviously what was a, at the time, a nation trying to build a middle class is now looks like in relative poverty about where they should be.
00:06:12.000 As your assessment as an intelligence officer, how much, how deep is this discontent go and are these people waiting?
00:06:21.000 President Trump says now is the hour of your liberty.
00:06:24.000 Will they respond to that?
00:06:26.000 I don't know to what extent they will respond.
00:06:30.000 How deep is the discontent?
00:06:32.000 It is massive.
00:06:34.000 It is real.
00:06:35.000 I have no, no doubt that the majority of people in Iran would, would welcome and cheer and dance in the streets.
00:06:41.000 If the Ayatollahs were gone. 0.98
00:06:43.000 But wanting that and making it happen are two different things.
00:06:46.000 These guys, the regime just killed, as far as I can tell, somewhere around 30,000 of their own citizens in the streets to crush the demonstrations that happened recently.
00:07:01.000 They are, the level, there is no limit to the amount of force and brutality they will use.
00:07:08.000 So, you know, to overthrow a regime like that, you really need organization and planning and assistance.
00:07:16.000 It's not as simple as just saying everybody go out in the street and take over.
00:07:21.000 Now, I hope to God that happens because that would be wonderful for the Persian people to be free.
00:07:27.000 But wishing it is so and making it so are two totally different things.
00:07:33.000 Well, to do this, okay, so you have, there's never, at least in modern times with air power, there's never been a regime change just on air power alone.
00:07:42.000 Right.
00:07:43.000 So, somehow you have to have some assets there.
00:07:46.000 You know, we've tried it before with major military assets.
00:07:51.000 We tried it with paramilitary in Afghanistan that worked brilliantly at first before you started trying to nation build. 0.80
00:07:58.000 Right.
00:07:59.000 Do you think, besides the Mossad, do you think we've done enough infiltration to actually work with those, you know, John Solomon's on here earlier and John's out on a skiff right now.
00:08:10.000 He'll be back with us later, but saying that MEK and the Kurds and all these disparate elements that, quite frankly, are anti-Ayatollah and certainly anti-regime.
00:08:22.000 Do you think there's been enough infiltration of all these different groups or can people put aside 30,000 that got slaughtered and say, hey, if the Americans are going to come in and flatten the Ayatollah's house, 0.74
00:08:34.000 it's time for us to rise up, grab what we can, convince the military, if not the Revolutionary Guard, and let's get on.
00:08:41.000 Let's meet the moment when President Trump says, now is the hour of your liberty.
00:08:47.000 No, I don't think there's been enough infiltration.
00:08:50.000 I mean, people think about Iraq and the efforts we went to to ultimately convince the Iraqis to essentially give up Saddam Hussein.
00:08:58.000 OK, but still it came down to us having to put troops on the ground.
00:09:02.000 And look, I was inside Iraq with the team for a year in advance of that invasion.
00:09:06.000 But I was already building on efforts that the CIA had been sustaining for many years.
00:09:13.000 We never walked away from the Kurds, never walked away. 1.00
00:09:16.000 So we had been working that problem for year after year after year to build that.
00:09:22.000 Do we have that inside Iran? We do not.
00:09:24.000 If this regime falls, if there is this collapse, my estimation, it will be because some guys who are in power at the top
00:09:36.000 effectively stage what amounts to a coup and say, enough of this, we got to change course.
00:09:44.000 And it will come in that way.
00:09:47.000 Somebody within the IRGC, somebody at that level will break ranks.
00:09:51.000 That that's what you've got to hope for.
00:09:54.000 This is essentially, though, what happened in Venezuela.
00:09:57.000 The vice president, the vice president we now know was in communications with the United States government.
00:10:03.000 That's right.
00:10:04.000 And she essentially cut a deal saying he's a bad guy.
00:10:07.000 He's out of control. You've got to take the wife to get him out of here. 1.00
00:10:10.000 I'll work with you. I'll figure it out.
00:10:12.000 But you got to give me cover like I didn't rent this guy out.
00:10:15.000 I mean, essentially, that's what happened in Venezuela.
00:10:17.000 Is that correct?
00:10:19.000 That is exactly what happened.
00:10:21.000 She gave him up.
00:10:22.000 She sold him.
00:10:23.000 She sold him down the river to us.
00:10:25.000 And that's how and that's how that that happened.
00:10:28.000 Do I think we have those contacts at that level of the Iranian regime now?
00:10:32.000 No, but we could still hope that somebody or some buddies, you know, who are not at the very top say, look, these idiots, we got to we got to jump ship here.
00:10:43.000 We had to change course.
00:10:45.000 These guys are going to destroy the country that that'll be in my estimation how it happens, not spontaneously people in the street.
00:10:52.000 That's that's where they're putting that's where either some military part of the military or the IGRC say, hey, look, we got to save the nation.
00:10:59.000 We're Persians.
00:11:00.000 We got to save the country.
00:11:01.000 The Ayatollah's got to go.
00:11:02.000 Now, I just want to put not to bed, but because Fox has been rolling out the last couple of weeks.
00:11:07.000 You had the huge thing in Munich.
00:11:09.000 Being that I was there, I studied the Shah and the family a lot, particularly in exile.
00:11:14.000 They've been they've been they've been promoting.
00:11:17.000 It's like Chalabi in Iraq. 0.95
00:11:18.000 And, you know, the situation there, the people in D.C.
00:11:21.000 And for those of those too young, if you remember Fox, you had this guy Chalabi.
00:11:25.000 He was going to be the guy we're going to put in.
00:11:27.000 He had the Iraqi National Congress.
00:11:29.000 I think it was.
00:11:30.000 He was everywhere as our guy.
00:11:33.000 And when he went back, he disappeared into history because nobody in Iraq knew who the guy was.
00:11:37.000 You've got the Shah's son. 0.99
00:11:39.000 You've had this huge demonstration.
00:11:41.000 A lot of people in the West and particularly Fox News particularly has had him on a lot.
00:11:46.000 Is there any potential or any enthusiasm that you see, given your knowledge of this region, any appetite to bring the Shah or his family back in some sort of these monarchists?
00:11:58.000 No, I don't think so.
00:12:00.000 I think the Chalabi analogy is dead on. 1.00
00:12:03.000 I mean, if he wants to be Shah of like old town Alexandria or something, I guess maybe that's relevant. 0.88
00:12:09.000 But he's another one of these characters that's well-known and well-loved in Western European capitals in Washington, D.C.
00:12:17.000 He is not the guy to lead the country, and I don't think he has any huge following.
00:12:21.000 I know over the years working with real Iranian patriots, guys who were going back inside the country and working for freedom that they generally disparaged him as a fraud and somebody who wouldn't get in the fight, wouldn't risk anything, but wanted to pretend that he was going to return one day.
00:12:42.000 Talk to me about MEK. Explain who MEK is because MEK has been put up today, the Kurds, etc. 1.00
00:12:48.000 You got, it's called Iran now, but it's essentially Persia.
00:12:51.000 You do have some smaller groups there.
00:12:53.000 MEK, are they not a combination of, and they've been fighting this and they got Rudy and other people that have been big supporters of them over the years and decades of these conferences.
00:13:02.000 What is MEK and do they have a potential to step in here?
00:13:07.000 No, they don't have a potential to step in.
00:13:09.000 I mean, they've been affiliated with the Iraqis amongst other things and communist groups and so forth.
00:13:14.000 No, they are another group that is really good at playing outside of Iran and pretending that they are a major force.
00:13:24.000 And no, they're not, they're, they are not somebody, they're not an outfit that's going to lead the way on anything.
00:13:31.000 Sam, can you stick around?
00:13:33.000 I know you got a blow out of here at noon.
00:13:35.000 You've got it. By the way, are you giving a speech today?
00:13:37.000 Is anything we can promote where Sam Faddis is going to be?
00:13:40.000 Because Sam Faddis is both a great intelligence and you're one of the leaders of the patriot movement in Pennsylvania.
00:13:45.000 I'm going to be down in Bucks County at an event sponsored by Right for Bucks, which is one of the premier patriot groups in the state of Pennsylvania and addressing, addressing those folks.
00:13:59.000 They are as MAGA as you can, as you can get.
00:14:02.000 And they asked me to come down there and I, they have been in a fight for years.
00:14:07.000 So I am making the drive.
00:14:09.000 You guys have got one of the most hardcore patriot movements ever in the great state of Pennsylvania.
00:14:14.000 And eventually we're going to get there about the stealing of the 2020 election with those mail-in ballots in Philadelphia.
00:14:20.000 Hang on if you can, Sam.
00:14:21.000 I know you got a blow out here at noon.
00:14:22.000 Well done.
00:14:23.000 Eric Prince is going to join us.
00:14:24.000 Dr. Bradley Thayer.
00:14:25.000 Brandon Weikert has a update.
00:14:27.000 Captain Fennell has an update.
00:14:28.000 We're going to get to all of it to make sure that you've got every tool in the toolbox to make sure you can think through as America at least commences major combat operations in Iran.
00:14:42.000 Looks like it could be spilling out in some other areas.
00:14:45.000 Houthi is getting involved.
00:14:46.000 Maybe the British are stepping in. 1.00
00:14:48.000 We'll make it all make sense next in the war room.
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00:16:05.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:16:10.000 Okay, we got Brandon Weikert and Dr. Thayer we're going to go to momentarily for updates.
00:16:14.000 But I want to go to the White House, our own Neil McCabe.
00:16:17.000 A speaker, as we had Mike Johnson, or Susan, we had Mike Davis up here talking about the authorization because already the Democrats are pushing back and some others.
00:16:27.000 Speaker Johnson's given the president a little bit of air cover, has he not?
00:16:32.000 Can you read the Speaker Johnson statement?
00:16:37.000 Yes, Dave.
00:16:38.000 Of course, you know, Johnson, of course, is a constitutional lawyer, and so I think that's why he was motivated to do this.
00:16:46.000 Today, Iran is facing severe consequences of its evil actions. 1.00
00:16:50.000 President Trump and the administration have made every effort to pursue peaceful and diplomatic solutions in response to the Iranian regime's sustained nuclear ambitions, development, and terrorism, and the murder of Americans, even their own people. 0.98
00:17:06.000 And I'll just skip down to the key paragraph.
00:17:09.000 The Gang of Eight was briefed in detail earlier this week that military action may be necessary to protect American troops and American citizens in Iran.
00:17:20.000 I received updates from Secretary Rubio thereafter.
00:17:23.000 Hold it. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on.
00:17:26.000 Full stop. Full stop. Full stop.
00:17:28.000 It can't be. You meant Iraq. 0.99
00:17:30.000 It couldn't be Iran. 0.83
00:17:31.000 You said American troops and American citizens in Iran.
00:17:34.000 Can you go back and look at that again?
00:17:36.000 I'm reading in Iran, sir.
00:17:40.000 He said protecting American troops and the citizens in Iran.
00:17:46.000 Yes.
00:17:47.000 That's what Johnson said.
00:17:48.000 Isn't that quite, isn't that quite odd?
00:17:53.000 Isn't that quite odd?
00:17:54.000 Well, it would mean that there are probably, I think that, I think he's laying out a constitutional marker, and that's what was necessary, and he's probably referring to contractors and other people there.
00:18:08.000 I'm not sure we have a lot of contractors in Iran.
00:18:14.000 If we have contractors, they're guys like Eric.
00:18:17.000 They're guys like Eric Prince.
00:18:19.000 They're those types of contractors. 0.95
00:18:21.000 I'm not sure there's a lot of contractors in Iran.
00:18:23.000 I could be wrong, but I don't know if that's a justification.
00:18:26.000 So, essentially, he's saying what has been this controversy, that Rubio, the Gang of Eight, is both the intelligence folks from both sides.
00:18:39.000 So, the party in control, which are the Republicans in the Senate, in the House, and the ranking members on these intelligence and armed services committee, they get all the certain briefings, the high-level briefings.
00:18:51.000 So, Rubio went up there and briefed the Gang of Eight.
00:18:54.000 Now, Schumer and others are saying it wasn't enough.
00:18:58.000 They had too many questions.
00:18:59.000 They didn't understand what's going on.
00:19:01.000 Do you think this is going to be enough?
00:19:03.000 Mike Davis says, hey, he's already got authorization, and he's just going to use what we've been using for 25 years.
00:19:08.000 Is that what you're hearing out of the White House?
00:19:10.000 Well, I haven't heard anything from the White House.
00:19:15.000 They said that there was going to be no statement from the president, despite rumors.
00:19:21.000 They pushed the pool call time to 2 p.m., but I think that this is following what Mike Davis said.
00:19:28.000 This is the pre-bottle, and he's basically going down the constitutional checklist of what is required.
00:19:35.000 And I think Johnson basically did this to give air cover, like you said, although there are people on Capitol Hill, Thomas Massey among them, who are challenging this effort as unconstitutional.
00:19:48.000 And so we'll see how it plays out.
00:19:50.000 But Johnson is on board and on duty, Steve.
00:19:52.000 Neil, just two things.
00:19:54.000 Number one, I just want to make sure the White House has come out and said all this rumor that the president is going to address the nation in another announcement.
00:20:01.000 They've put the kibosh on it.
00:20:03.000 Is that not going to happen?
00:20:06.000 Correct.
00:20:07.000 That came out maybe two hours ago.
00:20:10.000 And explain to the audience when you say the White House pool call or time is 2 o'clock.
00:20:15.000 What does that mean?
00:20:18.000 So there's a traveling pool with the president in Mar-a-Lago.
00:20:22.000 And the White House comm staff will tell those guys, hey, you know, you don't need to be around until this time.
00:20:31.000 And so what they're telling them is that nothing is going to happen until 2 p.m.
00:20:35.000 At 2 p.m., you can show up at Mar-a-Lago and be on standby in case something happens.
00:20:41.000 But I didn't get the impression that there was going to be a statement.
00:20:44.000 I just got the impression that they're just trying to give people time so that they can get lunch.
00:20:48.000 Now, people should understand, President Trump is down there.
00:20:57.000 They've got a skiff down at Mar-a-Lago.
00:21:00.000 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Raising Cain, is with him.
00:21:03.000 And the Secretary of War, Pete Hexeth.
00:21:05.000 Am I correct in that?
00:21:07.000 I don't know that, but I would guess he's in close contact if they aren't there, Steve.
00:21:14.000 Okay, Neil, where do people go for your social media?
00:21:18.000 You can find me at Reporter McCabe on all the socials, Steve.
00:21:22.000 Thank you, sir.
00:21:23.000 Appreciate you.
00:21:24.000 Stick around.
00:21:25.000 If you have anything, come right back to me.
00:21:26.000 We also have Brian Glenn on the case.
00:21:28.000 Brandon Weikert, any updates?
00:21:31.000 You've had your hand on the pulse of this.
00:21:33.000 Any updates, particularly in the region?
00:21:35.000 Is this spreading?
00:21:36.000 Yeah, it is starting to spread.
00:21:39.000 I have gotten confirmation that the radar that was supposedly hit this morning, our radar in Bahrain,
00:21:47.000 $300 million piece of equipment, ANTPS-59, is destroyed.
00:21:53.000 There are likely more damage to other radar systems now.
00:21:58.000 The key thing here to remember, Steve, it is very obvious now that the Iranian strategy 0.51
00:22:03.000 is to first degrade American, Arab, and Israeli abilities to detect incoming missiles.
00:22:10.000 I just got word from somebody on the ground in the Middle East.
00:22:13.000 Their belief is that Iran is attempting to degrade all of our air defenses in the region, believing that they will be depleted soon,
00:22:23.000 and then they are preparing to launch a massive swarm attack with our depleted air defenses not being able to defend against them.
00:22:31.000 Again, we don't know for sure if that's going to happen, but I do think that seems to be the plan right now.
00:22:37.000 The U.S. air defenses, as I said earlier, though, have held up relatively so far, but it does seem like these are all shaping operations, Steve.
00:22:46.000 I don't think the big one has even started yet, and there's rumors now that the British might be coming in to backfill some of these air defense systems,
00:22:55.000 so we'll see what happens with that.
00:22:57.000 We've got a clip of Starbird.
00:22:59.000 Haifa is also, by the way, Haifa may have been hit as well in the last hour.
00:23:03.000 That is still waiting to be confirmed, but there is some compelling video that's been released in the last 30 minutes
00:23:08.000 that indicates perhaps an Iranian long-range missile did, in fact, get through.
00:23:14.000 Explain to the audience, when you say shaping, these are all shaping evolutions.
00:23:19.000 What does a shaping evolution in the early stages of combat operations mean?
00:23:25.000 Yeah, it's just like the name suggests.
00:23:27.000 Basically, before the big battle or the big war initiates, you want to go in and kind of mold the environment through directed attacks and sort of covert maneuvers
00:23:37.000 so that your main forces, when they arrive, have as much maneuvering room and favorable environment, a permissive environment as possible.
00:23:45.000 We're doing it.
00:23:46.000 The Israelis are doing it to Iran. 0.99
00:23:48.000 It looks like the Iranians are trying to do it to us with these missile strikes on radar systems and whatnot. 0.99
00:23:54.000 So that's what's going on right now.
00:23:56.000 But if you look at the size of this thing, to me, it doesn't seem yet large enough to accomplish that which President Trump is claiming he wants to accomplish.
00:24:05.000 So that's why I say it's shaping operations.
00:24:07.000 Incorrect. Hang on for one second.
00:24:09.000 Yes, sir.
00:24:10.000 If we can't replace Starmer, the UK prime minister, let's go and play it.
00:24:14.000 As part of our commitments to the security of our allies in the Middle East, we have a range of defensive capabilities in the region, which we've recently strengthened.
00:24:28.000 Our forces are active and British planes are in the sky today as part of coordinated regional defensive operations to protect our people, our interests and our allies.
00:24:47.000 Dr. Bradley Thayer, correct me if I'm wrong, it was a week ago that they said we couldn't even use the air base that we have, I think Fairfield, that we have most of our assets at because the Muslim minority, 57 Muslim members of parliament that are labor guys didn't want any asset of the United States to be striking an Islamic republic.
00:25:11.000 Now, what is Starmer telling us now, sir?
00:25:14.000 Well, it's a positive step for Keir Starmer, finally, that he's supporting the US in this operation at a time where we need allies, not only the Gulf shakedoms, Saudi Arabia, but it's very nice and important that the British are involved in this operation.
00:25:36.000 So, you know, now we're focusing, Steve, of course, and rightfully so on the conduct of the war. 0.95
00:25:43.000 We also need to start thinking about the consequences of this war.
00:25:48.000 When we're thinking about the conduct, you and Sam nailed it.
00:25:52.000 It's can air power bring about regime change, air power in conjunction with Israeli special operators and US special operators who would be working with Iranians, the Iranian mass level and then also Iranian groups.
00:26:10.000 It's that's the missing piece of the puzzle here.
00:26:14.000 Can that actually come about without having the theocracy murder their own people in greater numbers than Sam identified, which is shocking, or have Iran devolve into civil war?
00:26:30.000 So we might begin thinking about situations like Iraq in 1991, where we're going to have to have a semi-permanent no-fly zone, where we're going to have to have dedicated military assets to ensuring that Iran stays together as a country if we want it to stay together, that the theocracy cannot kill its own people.
00:26:57.000 And that the the humanitarian needs of the Iranian people are going to be addressed.
00:27:07.000 So the conduct of the war is ongoing, obviously, a lot to focus on in the days and likely weeks to come.
00:27:15.000 Wow.
00:27:16.000 But the consequences of this are going to be profound, obviously, for the US, the region and Iran.
00:27:23.000 Iran could devolve into civil war.
00:27:25.000 Hang on.
00:27:26.000 Hang on.
00:27:27.000 Hang on one second.
00:27:28.000 I agree with you.
00:27:29.000 By the way, Starmer was very specific allies in the region.
00:27:32.000 I think he's also talking Qatar, UAE, the Saudis.
00:27:36.000 They view those.
00:27:37.000 They view those as major allies to themselves.
00:27:40.000 They're very involved, obviously, in everything dealing with oil and gas in the region.
00:27:45.000 Old British Petroleum has deep roots in the region.
00:27:49.000 Short commercial break and return with observations and analysis of major combat operations in Iran and maybe other places next in the war.
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00:30:37.000 Mo, this is what you talked about yesterday at West Point, that it's time to focus on war fighting because situations like this are going to pop up.
00:30:46.000 I agree.
00:30:47.000 And the American people need to have full faith and confidence in the future leaders of our armed forces of our military.
00:30:55.000 That it's not woke.
00:30:56.000 That it's not woke.
00:30:57.000 So we need to focus, like I said, in both board meetings, we need to get back to focusing on war fighting because if these future graduates deploy in support of an operation, the American people need to have full faith and confidence that they can lead America's sons and daughters.
00:31:13.000 You had your turn in the barrel, what, Kuwait, Iraq?
00:31:16.000 I did.
00:31:17.000 Was it 10 or 11?
00:31:18.000 2011.
00:31:19.000 2011.
00:31:20.000 Mm-hmm.
00:31:21.000 Back in the old days.
00:31:22.000 101st, was that correct?
00:31:23.000 Fort Campbell?
00:31:24.000 I think I went back there and met you when you came back.
00:31:25.000 326th Engineer Battalion that fell under Fort Campbell.
00:31:27.000 Combat engineers.
00:31:28.000 That fell under Fort Campbell.
00:31:30.000 The guys from Bestone, right?
00:31:32.000 Fantastic.
00:31:33.000 Mo, thank you for joining us today.
00:31:35.000 Sam Faddis and Captain Fennell the same to take time away from your Saturdays.
00:31:39.000 Sam, you've got to head down to Bucks County.
00:31:42.000 I just want to get your thoughts since you really have expertise in the region and particularly what President Trump talked about.
00:31:48.000 President Trump said, now is the hour of your liberty.
00:31:52.000 With all these things going on, I'm essentially, you know, telling the Ayatollahs and the Mullahs either stand down or they're going to get hit.
00:32:00.000 But he was pretty specific, I thought, saying the Persian people, it's going to be your baby.
00:32:07.000 Your thoughts about all this as we're beginning the first day of this major combat operations?
00:32:12.000 Well, I think, first of all, that being the goal and what we have seen in the scale of the deployments by the United States, it is clear we're not talking about a day of airstrikes or two days of airstrikes.
00:32:24.000 This is going to be a sustained operation, go on for some time.
00:32:30.000 We can hope that the Iranian regime collapses, and I'll be the first guy to celebrate if that happens, having devoted a big chunk of my life to that cause. 0.99
00:32:40.000 But if it doesn't collapse and you've got these guys against their backs against the wall and you've made it an existential fight, you can expect them to lash out in every way they can.
00:32:53.000 And I think increasingly you will see that will be unconventional.
00:32:57.000 They will fight us where they feel they have the advantage or they can at least stand toe to toe with us.
00:33:03.000 So and that could be worldwide.
00:33:05.000 That could be on our soil.
00:33:08.000 Well, we already know.
00:33:09.000 In fact, Natalie was on yesterday about how many Iranians had actually come across in the in the Biden invasion.
00:33:13.000 We already know.
00:33:14.000 It looks like the Houthis.
00:33:15.000 Brandon Weikert's telling us the Houthis are involved.
00:33:17.000 The Houthis are kind of unconventional.
00:33:19.000 I mean, there are mountain people that the Egyptians, the British.
00:33:22.000 I mean, they have a long history of not being conquered.
00:33:25.000 I mean, it's kind of like going into Appalachia and try to dig out the Scotch Irish out of there. 1.00
00:33:31.000 These people are born fighting.
00:33:32.000 We know the Houthis. 0.56
00:33:33.000 Houthis, I think, took out a combat aircraft a couple of months ago.
00:33:37.000 You get it looks like the Houthis may be up on it in the southern Arabian Peninsula.
00:33:42.000 And they're about as unconventional as you can get.
00:33:44.000 Right.
00:33:45.000 Yeah, 100 percent.
00:33:46.000 I would note as an Appalachian American and Scotch Irish, we're better dancers than the Houthis. 1.00
00:33:52.000 But I take your point.
00:33:54.000 They, you know, all kidding aside, they are for real.
00:33:58.000 There are lots of folks like we could see Bahrain being bombs going off all over Manama, all over Bahrain by Shia militia, Shia terrorist groups affiliated with the Iranians.
00:34:12.000 They have a vast reach.
00:34:13.000 Well, a worldwide reach.
00:34:16.000 So they have the capacity to hit back.
00:34:19.000 And there's no doubt in your mind right now that President Trump understands that he's saying, I'm going to take care of that reach.
00:34:26.000 When this thing's over, they're not going to have worldwide reach.
00:34:28.000 They're going to be like the like Caesar pacified Gaul. 0.51
00:34:32.000 President Trump has kind of said this is going to come to an end.
00:34:35.000 It's been 47 years.
00:34:36.000 And I realize a lot of people and people in the MAGA movement saying, hey, I thought we were stopping forever wars.
00:34:41.000 But President Trump, to me, was pretty blunt in this eight minute address to the nation in the middle of the night or to the world and saying that they're kind of their run of doing this is over.
00:34:54.000 Yeah, I think that's clearly his intent.
00:34:56.000 He said that as clearly as you possibly could.
00:34:58.000 Right.
00:34:59.000 We're not going to we're not going to live indefinitely with you guys setting the world on fire whenever the hell you feel like it.
00:35:06.000 We're ending this right now.
00:35:07.000 That's clearly his intent.
00:35:09.000 Sam Faddis, send our regards to all the patriots in Bucks County as you go down for the speech.
00:35:14.000 How can people follow you on all your analysis, sir?
00:35:17.000 Best place.
00:35:18.000 Best place.
00:35:19.000 Go to Substack.
00:35:20.000 And magazine.substack.com and magazine.
00:35:23.000 Thank you, sir.
00:35:25.000 Appreciate you taking time away.
00:35:26.000 Good luck at Bucks County today.
00:35:27.000 Take care.
00:35:28.000 Take care.
00:35:29.000 Captain Fennell, you also have got a punch out on us.
00:35:31.000 You've been spectacular over the last couple of weeks.
00:35:33.000 Your assessment of what you've seen, at least in the early stages of the combat, major combat operations, air and sea, sir.
00:35:44.000 Yeah, I think Brandon's right to use the term shaping operations.
00:35:49.000 We have to declaw the Iranian military threat to our forces. 0.99
00:35:53.000 The president said our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats, menacing activities that directly endanger the United States, our troops and our overseas bases and our allies.
00:36:06.000 So that's what we're doing right now.
00:36:08.000 And going after ballistic missile sites, going after surface-to-air missile sites, going after anti-ship cruise missile sites, anti-ballistic missile sites against our ships, all of those and their naval forces.
00:36:21.000 Obviously, air forces are no threat to us.
00:36:24.000 So I said last week when we were on, we talked about the difference between air superiority, building to air supremacy.
00:36:30.000 We're in that phase right now where we're building.
00:36:33.000 We've had our initial strikes.
00:36:35.000 We want to establish the ability to fly over Iran without the risk to our aircraft so that we can call down fires on any additional forces that try to generate these waves of missile attacks or drone attacks.
00:36:48.000 And so that's what we're shaping towards.
00:36:51.000 And you asked, why was this happening now?
00:36:52.000 Well, I can tell you one reason it may be happening now is starting on the 4th of March in Beijing, we'll have the National People's Congress.
00:37:00.000 Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China will be focused from 4 to 11 March on their National People's Congress.
00:37:07.000 And given all the purges and all the other things that's going on in China, they're going to be diverted from getting involved with this, at least for now.
00:37:14.000 They probably already have been involved, but that's going to be very hard for them to insert themselves now.
00:37:19.000 We're running the cards in the table on this right now and rolling back the decades of military capabilities that the Iranians have received from the Russians and the Chinese.
00:37:31.000 That is the objective right now to then be able to do the follow on larger strikes that will be able to take out more of the forces that are used against the Iranian people.
00:37:41.000 So I would say President Trump picked the perfect time.
00:37:44.000 He used deception.
00:37:45.000 Remember, last week you had those articles in Axios that said that the chairman was against the strike, everybody, and then you brought on the Omani delegate.
00:37:55.000 So there was a lot of deception that went on here.
00:37:58.000 And we always think that the Chinese are very good at deception. 1.00
00:38:01.000 But I think President Trump is as well.
00:38:04.000 And I think at the tactical and operational level, we will be using deception to be able to ferret out these remaining parts of the Iranian military regime that can strike outside of their shores and borders so that we're not constantly at threat. 0.58
00:38:17.000 I made many transits through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:38:20.000 It's always a dangerous and deadly risk when you go through there because you're essentially driving through their missile envelopes.
00:38:28.000 And we need to eliminate that so that the free flow of goods and services and oil and everything else that comes in and out isn't under the hostage threat from the Iranians. 1.00
00:38:39.000 And so I think that's what we're doing right now.
00:38:41.000 We're shaping the environment to roll those threats back so that we can operate with freedom and have air and sea supremacy in the region.
00:38:50.000 Do you think, you know, I think at most the Straits of Hormuz 21 miles geographically, but the strait itself is much tighter, as you know, having gone through there.
00:39:00.000 Do you believe that one of the things I think we have to do, I'd be surprised if we haven't done it, but I haven't heard it, cut off the oil coming out and going to the CCP?
00:39:10.000 Because I think it's 40 percent of the CCP's energy, but it's like 80 or 90 percent now of the cash flow going to the mullahs. 0.98
00:39:19.000 If it takes Scott Besson's destruction of their currency, you add this.
00:39:23.000 Have you heard any word or anything you've seen?
00:39:26.000 Those like we've at least begun a naval blockade or quarantine against their oil going to the Chinese Communist Party?
00:39:32.000 I don't think anybody's shipping oil through the strait of Hormuz today.
00:39:36.000 And so it depends on how long this goes, what conditions we establish.
00:39:40.000 But I think that is obviously one of the objectives is to cut off the money to the mullahs and also an ancillary impact is to, you know, remind China their vulnerabilities and that they need to behave and not consider other activities in their region out there in the Indo-Pacific. 0.77
00:39:57.000 But I would say with the forces that we have there right now, nobody is going to with the missiles that will be flying, have been flying and can continue to fly.
00:40:07.000 I don't see commercial oil tankers going in and out right now, not for not for the near term.
00:40:13.000 You're talking air superiority, really air dominance.
00:40:15.000 Once you have air dominance, you're saying just have it.
00:40:17.000 You have your will to hit them when you want, where you want and how you want.
00:40:22.000 Real quickly, because now you've got to bounce.
00:40:24.000 We've got a couple of minutes.
00:40:25.000 You've got combat.
00:40:26.000 You've got CIC and the Air Ops in the North Arabian Sea.
00:40:30.000 You've got Air Ops and Combat Information Center and Air Ops in the Eastern Med.
00:40:35.000 And then you have Doha, CENTCOM's forward deployed base.
00:40:38.000 Just put people in the room.
00:40:40.000 But the coordination that's going on right now is like what?
00:40:44.000 It's like intense.
00:40:45.000 So all these carriers are tied into this joint commander that's probably in gutter with and they run what they call an air tasking order.
00:40:53.000 So the air component commander will be leading an orchestration of targets that have been selected, you know, years ago, weeks ago, months ago, built up.
00:41:04.000 We'll know where a lot of this stuff is.
00:41:07.000 Targets assigned to the specific airframes from the Air Force, from the Navy, assigned to our TLAM.
00:41:14.000 A lot of TLAMs will be used, probably already been used.
00:41:17.000 So that'll be orchestrated.
00:41:19.000 All the communications are together.
00:41:21.000 And that cycle of targeting that goes on on a on a it's a 24 hour basis that we're just constantly assessing, evaluating and going after targets.
00:41:31.000 If we see that we missed something, we'll go back after it.
00:41:34.000 If we see something moving, those are time sensitive targets.
00:41:37.000 We'll go after the time sensitive targets.
00:41:39.000 So that process is well honed since Desert Storm, where the Navy and the Air Force really started getting together in what they call the Joint Force Air Component Commander concept to coordinate and orchestrate our air operations, not just with aircraft, but with our Navy ships and submarines and their TLAM and all fires.
00:41:58.000 All fires, all fires from all services.
00:42:00.000 It's not just Navy Air Force.
00:42:01.000 All services that are involved that are able to project power will be coordinated through this system that we have.
00:42:08.000 And everybody is dialed into this and is aware of what's going on in not just only their portion, but the larger portion.
00:42:16.000 And so if somebody gets taken out in one sector, that can a leadership role can be taken by another another place.
00:42:22.000 So if somebody were to take out the JFAC in gutter, we could pick up operations with our two carriers or even back in Tampa at CENTCOM.
00:42:31.000 So there's a lot of flexibility that we have in command and control.
00:42:34.000 And those are from years of less, 35 years of lessons that we have learned as a joint force to bring fires like this.
00:42:43.000 And so it's really about sustainment and how we can continue to go for as long as we need to until we achieve all those targeting objectives that we've set forward in the plan that was put forward and that we're executing right now.
00:42:57.000 Major combat operations, Captain Finnell, former Naval Intelligence Head of the Pacific Fleet.
00:43:04.000 Thank you so much for joining us, sir. I appreciate you always.
00:43:08.000 Thank you.
00:43:09.000 Captain Jim Finnell.
00:43:11.000 Captain Finnell, we're going to get a special bonus hour.
00:43:14.000 Can you stick around for a few moments? I know you've got to head out here.
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00:45:00.000 War room.
00:45:01.000 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:45:03.000 Bannon.
00:45:04.000 OK, we've actually got special coverage.
00:45:07.000 Instead of us having to do an hour, we've got the Charlie Kirk show is going to follow Sandra Colvett and his team is up.
00:45:12.000 So stick around for that coverage.
00:45:14.000 So great that they were every stay up.
00:45:16.000 Jack Posobiec.
00:45:17.000 I think we'll be back.
00:45:18.000 Posobiec will be part of that, too.
00:45:20.000 I was there 79 to 80.
00:45:22.000 Your uncle Chris, I think, was there in 86 with Gaddafi.
00:45:24.000 Were there 10 and 11?
00:45:25.000 2011.
00:45:26.000 11.
00:45:27.000 OK.
00:45:28.000 A lot of time.
00:45:29.000 A lot of a lot of assets in the in the Middle East.
00:45:32.000 Correct.
00:45:33.000 Time to bring that to an end.
00:45:34.000 Correct.
00:45:35.000 And we thought we did in 2011.
00:45:37.000 But we do have troops back in Iraq right now.
00:45:40.000 Unbelievable.
00:45:41.000 Social media.
00:45:42.000 Where do people go get you?
00:45:43.000 You can find me on Twitter and get her at Maureen underscore Bannon.
00:45:47.000 I am a little shadow band by Mr.
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00:45:50.000 That's right now.
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00:45:55.000 Is that army?
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00:45:57.000 It is.
00:45:58.000 It's a mock up of the army baseball jersey, the throwback jersey.
00:46:02.000 Joe Allen, we're going to toss.
00:46:03.000 I was going to get you in the next hour.
00:46:04.000 We're going to toss to Andrew Colvette and the team at the Charlie Kirk show.
00:46:08.000 Artificial intelligence, these weapons fire and forget.
00:46:12.000 Joe Allen, you're very concerned about this.
00:46:14.000 We're going to have you on today.
00:46:15.000 Talk about Anthropic.
00:46:16.000 We'll do that Monday.
00:46:17.000 You've also got an event coming up.
00:46:18.000 I want everybody to know about.
00:46:19.000 What do you got for us?
00:46:22.000 Well, Steve, it's good to be back, albeit at a very solemn time in our country's history,
00:46:26.000 maybe humanity's history.
00:46:28.000 The tension between the Department of War and Anthropic has come to the breaking point.
00:46:34.000 Of course, Anthropic is now being cut off from all contracts with the U.S. military and any contractors that deal with the U.S. military.
00:46:44.000 Immediately after that, you had Sam Altman stepping in, saying that OpenAI would take over with the analysis of classified documents with their AI.
00:46:55.000 So it shows you that the power of this technology is not simply a hype campaign by the Silicon Valley set.
00:47:05.000 The power of this technology is being recognized by the Department of War.
00:47:09.000 I fear that the Department of War has not really reckoned with the dangers of this technology and the inaccuracies this technology brings.
00:47:17.000 But this is a critical moment, not only geopolitically, not only culturally, but on a technological level.
00:47:25.000 And this is why Humans First was formed.
00:47:28.000 And this is why we are trying our best to use the means that we have at our disposal to put the power back with the American people
00:47:38.000 and to in any way possible to give American people agency over where this technology goes.
00:47:45.000 Talk to me about Humans First. I want everybody to get to it. We've had all these people of the coalition.
00:47:50.000 People should know, Joe, over the last couple of months, has been working behind the scenes with the major players in the industry to help get all this organized.
00:47:57.000 You're going to be launching events you're going to be doing.
00:48:00.000 Joe, tell me about it. Why is it important? Where do people go to find out more about it?
00:48:05.000 Well, Steve, the first run of town hall tours begins next week.
00:48:10.000 So Monday at noon on the front steps of the state capital of Florida in Tallahassee press conference with a whole array of very, very notable figures.
00:48:22.000 And then two days later on Wednesday, you have a town hall in West Palm Beach.
00:48:27.000 The location will be up on the website. That's humansfirst.com.
00:48:32.000 And then an event I've been looking forward to for months, Georgia Tech on Friday, 6 p.m., Georgia Tech.
00:48:40.000 All that info, not only at my website, but also humansfirst.com.
00:48:46.000 And then back to Dallas for a talk at First Baptist Church downtown Dallas.
00:48:53.000 That's Sunday at 5 p.m. Central.
00:48:56.000 And it will be great to return.
00:48:58.000 So this is just the beginning of what will ultimately be a full nationwide campaign.
00:49:03.000 So they should go to if the War Room Posse wants to get involved and we want you involved.
00:49:09.000 We want your voice.
00:49:10.000 Humansfirst.com or at realhumansfirst on X.
00:49:16.000 And of course, my social media handle at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z.
00:49:21.000 Now more than ever, we're covering also, we're going to do the pregame with Joe on Monday.
00:49:26.000 We're covering live, obviously, all these Human First events, starting with the press conference on the steps of the state capitol in Florida.
00:49:34.000 I got to tell you, Governor DeSantis, Governor DeSantis has been on point on this thing, Joe Allen.
00:49:39.000 Joe, one more time.
00:49:40.000 Where do people go for Humans First?
00:49:42.000 Where do they go for Jobot?
00:49:44.000 Go to humansfirst.com, everything there, and of course, sign up.
00:49:52.000 And then at realhumansfirst on X.
00:49:56.000 And then, of course, my handle at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z on X.
00:50:00.000 All this info will be up on my site as well at X.
00:50:05.000 And then, of course, my website, jobot.xyz.
00:50:08.000 The posse's been in it the entire time for five years now, Steve.
00:50:13.000 It's time to activate and mobilize.
00:50:16.000 Fixed bayonets to the ramparts, sir.
00:50:19.000 Joe couldn't have a better guy.
00:50:21.000 The tip of the spear.
00:50:22.000 Thank you so much, sir, for joining us this morning.
00:50:25.000 Tej Gill, the bayonets have been over there, but you've really been over there.
00:50:30.000 How many? 16 tours was it? 15 tours? How many tours?
00:50:34.000 Yeah, 16 times between the military and contracting.
00:50:38.000 And you're very excited about today, about major combat operations.
00:50:41.000 You got me in the morning and said, this is so amazing.
00:50:44.000 Can I come on the show, sir?
00:50:47.000 Yeah, well, I think, like most of us, we were hoping there would be a diplomatic off ramp.
00:50:51.000 But if not, it's on. We're in it.
00:50:55.000 We're in it.
00:50:56.000 So now we've got to win it.
00:50:57.000 You can't go into these things and lose.
00:50:59.000 So Trump's got a strategy.
00:51:01.000 Hexac's got a strategy.
00:51:03.000 And we got, I see a Shaheed drone, one of the ones that got popular in Ukraine war, made its way into Bahrain and took out the fifth fleet radar dome, billion dollar dome by a 30,000.
00:51:17.000 A billion dollar radar dome was taken out by a $30,000 drone.
00:51:21.000 So we got to, we got to, we got to take these things out before they can launch.
00:51:25.000 That's what needs to happen.
00:51:26.000 We needed, we needed to dominate the sky in Iran and take out everything before it hit, before they can get, get their weapons into the air. 1.00
00:51:34.000 Where do people, where do people go to get updates for you? You're putting it up. Where do they go? We only get a minute left.
00:51:40.000 Uh, you can go to tagefrog five on, um, X or on Instagram, but I don't post political stuff on Instagram cause they'll ban me.
00:51:48.000 Okay. So I'll, uh, I need a, I need a, I need a hot cup of coffee. Where do I go?
00:51:53.000 Go to warpath.coffee promo code war room. 0.99
00:51:57.000 The website is warpath.coffee and as always use promo code war room right now with this weekend, we're doing 15% off and just read the reviews.
00:52:06.000 We've got over 17,000 five-star reviews.
00:52:08.000 It is the best coffee.
00:52:10.000 People absolutely love it.
00:52:11.000 We may need to change that.
00:52:12.000 Cause people need coffee to stay up.
00:52:14.000 Tej Gill.
00:52:15.000 Thank you so much.
00:52:16.000 Thank you for all the time you spent over there.
00:52:17.000 Thank you Steve.
00:52:18.000 That hot chocolate that Tej put out sold out twice.
00:52:20.000 Twice.
00:52:21.000 Immediately.
00:52:22.000 Like as soon as it went up.
00:52:23.000 So.
00:52:24.000 Tej's daughter's the most signed off.
00:52:25.000 Okay.
00:52:26.000 We're going to toss now to Andrew Colvette in the Charlie Kirk show.
00:52:30.000 They're going to be up alive.
00:52:32.000 They're going to dig.
00:52:33.000 Oh, I'm going off the wrong clock.
00:52:35.000 Look at that.
00:52:36.000 I'm getting at the gold clock.
00:52:37.000 I got more time.
00:52:38.000 Could have kept Tej up here.
00:52:40.000 Um, here's let's go.
00:52:41.000 I'll tell you what, Brandon Weikert, Brandon, Brandon, give me an update.
00:52:45.000 We got about 90 seconds.
00:52:46.000 Give me the latest update you got for we toss to Colvette and the Charlie Kirk show.
00:52:50.000 Absolutely.
00:52:51.000 So, uh, the, the war is not stopping.
00:52:55.000 It's now expanding.
00:52:56.000 Uh, something that a colleague just sent to me, be watching our Tom.
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