Bannon's War Room - Episode 5184： War Continues In Iran As Game Day Kicks Off For Texas Primaries

00:00:00.000 We don't know why Donald Trump just started this war in Iran.

00:00:05.680 Washington Post reported this weekend and the New York Times reported today that Trump did it basically as a favor.

00:00:14.040 That there was no U.S. intelligence that Iran posed any imminent threat to us.

00:00:19.420 But Saudi Arabia and Israel told Trump to do it.

00:00:23.040 And so he did it because, hey, you know, America first.

00:00:28.600 Strong man.

00:00:30.520 We're just going to put our military at the disposal of other countries because they can tell Trump what to do with it.

00:00:38.540 Quote, the attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran's forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.

00:00:49.240 But he did it anyway because Israel and Saudi Arabia told him to and he apparently does what they say.

00:00:55.780 And now six American service members are known to have been killed and many more injured.

00:01:02.640 There's also new reporting tonight that the U.S. embassy in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has been hit by two drones.

00:01:08.680 Washington Post is now also reporting that two Defense Department employees, U.S. Defense Department employees, have been wounded in an Iranian drone attack on a hotel in Bahrain.

00:01:17.380 And I mean, in terms of what we are heading into and the kind of risk we're heading into, these are the sort of headlines that we're seeing tonight.

00:01:25.140 Quote, earthquake in the Gulf, Iran war expands to a dozen countries in 72 hours.

00:01:32.000 Just 72 hours after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, the war has already consumed nearly the entire Middle East, reached the gates of Europe and raised new fears of attacks on American soil.

00:01:43.040 This is the front page of the New York Times that we woke up to today.

00:01:47.480 U.S. troops killed as blasts jolted Mideast, fear of wider war after Iran's response.

00:01:56.500 Reuters, dueling headlines here.

00:01:59.640 Iran conflict widens to Lebanon.

00:02:02.400 Kuwait mistakenly downs U.S. jets.

00:02:05.540 That's there right next to Iran says Strait of Hormuz closed.

00:02:09.680 Warns it will attack ships trying to pass.

00:02:12.080 And indeed, just on the global energy front, we have seen natural gas prices spike by 50 percent in Europe.

00:02:19.700 One of the world's largest exporters of natural gas is Qatar.

00:02:22.660 Qatar now says they have stopped all production of natural gas.

00:02:26.220 And indeed, Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes 30 percent of the world's oil and 20 percent of the world's natural gas.

00:02:36.040 They say it is closed.

00:02:37.940 Not 100 percent clear to me, General.

00:02:39.860 And that's not to suggest that I don't support 100 percent what is happening, nor that I 100 percent offer my support.

00:02:46.780 I just think I want to ask a couple of critical questions.

00:02:48.780 And I hope you know how much respect I have for your service.

00:02:51.160 And I think it goes without saying to anybody watching how much respect I have for the men making this decision.

00:02:55.480 You don't have to patronize me.

00:02:56.740 Just ask the question.

00:02:58.300 Go ahead.

00:02:58.880 Come on.

00:02:59.240 Ask it.

00:03:00.380 To be clear, General, I'm not patronizing you.

00:03:03.680 I'm trying to have a very serious conversation in front of the American people.

00:03:07.160 The men making these decisions have my utmost respect.

00:03:09.620 This is less about you than everybody making these decisions.

00:03:12.260 And this is about the American people understanding the investment that lies before them.

00:03:16.260 Do we understand the objectives?

00:03:17.840 We've seen the price in the past of having unclear objectives.

00:03:20.820 And maybe you do and maybe the Secretary of War does.

00:03:22.980 But I think the American people also need to understand.

00:03:25.620 And when you lay out the way that Iran has behaved towards the United States is a justification. 0.97

00:03:30.340 But it's a justification for regime change.

00:03:32.840 And I just heard something different from the Secretary of State.

00:03:36.160 The reason I think this is a point of clarification that I need, or I think that a lot of the American people need,

00:03:41.880 is because degrading their missile capability requires a different investment than regime change.

00:03:49.020 So what I want to be clear about is, what level of investment are we looking at here?

00:03:55.680 I thought it's pretty clear.

00:03:57.420 I mean, what we're trying to do is take down what sustains this regime and keeps it able to function.

00:04:07.140 That is their governance system with leadership.

00:04:10.760 The IRGC, the Basel militia, and the police that are repressing the people.

00:04:15.300 And strip away all of that capability.

00:04:19.020 And what I'm talking about is U.S. and Israeli objectives here. 0.59

00:04:25.280 Because this is a combined operation.

00:04:28.460 That is critical to success here.

00:04:31.660 And then it becomes, what are we doing about their capabilities to attack us?

00:04:37.020 And that has been pretty clear.

00:04:38.580 We're going to strip away all of that, Will.

00:04:41.620 We're going to take down the ballistic missile systems, the drones capability.

00:04:46.300 And whatever they, they made the decision to recover their nuclear weapons, but they haven't done much about it.

00:04:52.500 And whatever that not done much about it is, we're going to take that down as well.

00:04:57.880 So we're going to have a regime that is very, it's going to be challenged to govern.

00:05:03.440 It's stripped away its leadership capability to do it.

00:05:06.440 The infrastructure that supports and sustain that on the governance side, as well as on the military and police side and people that are repression, repressing the people.

00:05:16.060 And then take down all the weapons.

00:05:17.920 That is very clear.

00:05:19.600 And then what, when you bring in the Israelis, they are attempting to set conditions to put this regime on a pathway for its collapse. 0.99

00:05:31.820 They're not saying they're going to force its collapse.

00:05:35.180 They're saying they're setting the conditions for its collapse.

00:05:38.080 I think those objectives are pretty clear in terms of what we're trying to do here.

00:05:44.340 Well, Michael, I think this is the second time this century that the United States has made a drastically bad mistake in terms of engaging in conflict in the Middle East.

00:05:55.080 The first one was in 2003 when we invaded Iraq.

00:05:58.120 And that ushered in then years and years of chaos and violence and terrorism.

00:06:03.020 It gave birth to ISIS.

00:06:04.480 And we're just getting over 20 years of that confusion and chaos.

00:06:11.980 Now we're going ahead and carrying out this major attack against a very large country, Iran, which is much larger than Iraq. 1.00

00:06:20.100 And there's a lot of history here, obviously, in the region and so on.

00:06:24.020 But what we've seen in the past several days is devastating attacks against Iran.

00:06:29.120 And the Iranian government, the Iranian regime, is not relenting at this point.

00:06:32.780 And that's why they're throwing everything they have at nearby targets, whether it be U.S. bases or the Gulf Arab states, whatever.

00:06:40.520 This is such a tragic, senseless and needless loss of life that we're seeing right now.

00:06:46.880 Voters have already arrived here to a polling side in Dallas as they are preparing to cast their votes in two increasingly competitive primaries in this race for U.S. Senate.

00:06:57.480 On the Republican side, you have Senator John Cornyn, who is fighting for political survival as he is facing a challenge from the state's conservative attorney general, Ken Paxton, and Congressman Wesley Hunt.

00:07:10.020 Now, this has been one of the most closely watched races of this cycle so far, and it's already drawn in a lot of money.

00:07:17.520 The GOP and the Democratic primaries here in Texas amount to the most expensive Senate primaries in U.S. history.

00:07:25.380 Now, Cornyn has tried to argue that some of the political baggage surrounding Ken Paxton relating to his past legal and personal scandals,

00:07:34.340 that that would be detrimental to Republicans here in Texas in November if he is nominated.

00:07:39.200 But Paxton so far has maintained a lot of support with a conservative base here in Texas.

00:07:46.320 Now, polling has shown this three-way contest incredibly tight, and if no Republican receives a 50 percent majority, this will head to a late May runoff.

00:07:58.060 We've been covering the varying explanations offered by Donald Trump and his cabinet for the war in Iran.

00:08:04.000 Well, hours after launching the war in Iran, Donald Trump took to social media and seemed to link the military strikes to conspiracy theories

00:08:12.200 that Iran was somehow responsible for his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

00:08:17.360 Those claims could be dismissed as wackadoo or bogus, but our next guest warns that it is actually a sign of what Donald Trump will try to do in our upcoming elections.

00:08:28.400 Mark Elias writes in Democracy Docket this, quote, Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.

00:08:37.880 He adds that Trump's posts about Iran in the immediate aftermath of the strikes are, quote,

00:08:42.960 just the latest instance of Trump citing foreign interference as a motivation or justification for unilateral executive action.

00:08:50.400 Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections,

00:08:55.180 from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voting registration.

00:08:59.780 All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security, an area where presidents enjoy their broadest powers

00:09:05.840 and typically receive the greatest deference from the courts.

00:09:09.520 What's clear to me is that Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long wanted to have this type of military operation against Iran,

00:09:16.540 he was able to bring Trump along and got him to engage in something like this.

00:09:20.700 The rationale that Marco Rupio gave today, well, they were going to get hit, so we knew that they were going to lash back,

00:09:26.520 and that's why we had to hit them.

00:09:28.300 We could have said to the Israelis, you do not go forward because we're not going to help you. 1.00

00:09:32.900 Don't we have leverage over Israel? 0.78

00:09:35.080 You would think.

00:09:35.780 Yes.

00:09:36.520 But going ahead and with these types of strikes, when we were engaged in negotiations with Iran,

00:09:41.520 for the second time in a year, and for the second time in a year, while negotiations are underway, they get hit.

00:09:46.760 So clearly, there's been deception to the Iranians, and my view is that Donald Trump, irrespective of the intelligence, 0.93

00:09:55.360 irrespective of the fact that the nuclear program has been damaged and hobbled significantly as a result of last year's attacks,

00:10:02.080 they are making things up about what the Iranians are doing. 0.93

00:10:05.440 And when they say that the regime is tottering, it's not.

00:10:09.620 Yes, there are a lot of Iranian people who despise the regime and hated Khamenei and are glad that he's dead.

00:10:16.940 But also, the regime and the theocracy have a lot of people who supported them.

00:10:22.840 It's a country of over 92 million people.

00:10:25.500 And so they have their equivalent in the rural areas, conservative areas, the MAGA equivalent in Iran,

00:10:30.160 that really has seen what the United States is doing now as just one more example of the United States carrying out violent attacks inside of the Middle East and directed against Iran.

00:10:41.920 All very serious stuff, because he's going to package all of this up for two audiences.

00:10:47.420 The first is his aggrievement audience, the people who want a permission structure to deny the outcome of elections that they lost.

00:10:55.320 And then the second is, as I point out in the piece, the courts, because the courts are most deferential to presidents when it comes to foreign policy and national security.

00:11:05.660 Like, that's a real thing. And we have seen a lot of damage be done.

00:11:09.700 Look at the migrants who were shipped to the Gulag in El Salvador.

00:11:12.760 You know, until that unraveled, there was a lot of damage done to those people.

00:11:16.760 So I don't think this is going to be a smooth process.

00:11:19.240 I'm optimistic that in the end we will we will fight this back and we will win in court, as we did in in in the aftermath of 2020.

00:11:26.520 But everybody needs to keep in mind that, you know, there were moments of touch and go in 2020 and there were moments of touch and go in the post-election 2020.

00:11:34.700 And ultimately, when Donald Trump didn't prevail in court, he incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol to try to overturn a free and fair election.

00:11:41.600 So, you know, I'm optimistic, but I'm also realistic.

00:11:45.020 And we need Nicole. We need to make sure that all of their institutions and all of our leaders have their spines steeled like they are not driven to pessimism.

00:11:58.140 They're not driven to hopelessness, but they're also not blinded to what is in front of them and the challenges we're going to face.

00:12:04.960 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:12:12.560 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:12:17.780 Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:12:22.040 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:12:23.940 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:12:25.380 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:12:28.060 It's going to happen.

00:12:29.320 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:12:32.740 Mega media.

00:12:33.640 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:12:39.540 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:12:43.280 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:12:49.640 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:12:57.680 It's Tuesday, the 3rd of March, Year of the Alert, 2026.

00:13:01.360 It's game day in Texas.

00:13:03.640 This all-important Texas primary, and we're going to have a lot of coverage throughout the day on Real America's Voices and special coverage tonight.

00:13:12.400 Grant Stinchfield and I will be co-hosting the Texas coverage.

00:13:16.160 Grant from his Dallas, from the Dallas studio, and I will be north of Dallas.

00:13:22.580 There's a lot going on as people go to the polls today.

00:13:26.060 Remember, those early voting numbers, they don't look great, but a big part of the war and posse, a big part of the MAGA base just refuses.

00:13:34.800 They do not do early voting here.

00:13:36.180 They don't trust it.

00:13:37.020 So we'll be monitoring the turnout throughout the day.

00:13:41.380 Also, the war in Iran expands, not just to the Gulf, to capital markets and to Asia.

00:13:49.700 We're going to have reports on Japan and Korea, all of it, and how this war is expanding, particularly the logistics chain.

00:13:56.380 Chain, capital markets, which was very calm, I thought relatively calm yesterday because of the Revolutionary Guard saying they closed the Straits of Hormuz.

00:14:04.960 And Qatar announcing, I think they can't ship, they're going to be able to ship at least gas for a while.

00:14:11.680 Well, equity markets throughout the world hit.

00:14:16.060 Gold, people are rushing to the dollar.

00:14:18.500 The dollar is getting stronger as they're looking at that as a safe haven also.

00:14:23.000 So there's a lot going on today.

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00:16:52.720 Can we put the Financial Times headline up, front page of the Financial Times?

00:16:58.040 Sam, you spent your career in this neighborhood.

00:17:01.360 Did you ever think you'd see the day where, because it has taken people back that spent a lot of time there, that you actually saw the Sunnis and the Shiites?

00:17:09.920 I mean, they went at it in the Iraq-Iran war, but I would argue that wasn't about religion.

00:17:16.860 That was about hardcore geopolitics and just two nations living next to each other for thousands of years that hated each other.

00:17:23.860 And, of course, what, a third of Iraq? 0.72

00:17:26.760 The Vatican of Shiite, I think, is in Najaf, right?

00:17:30.060 Which is, you know, in Iraq.

00:17:32.220 But this is different.

00:17:34.340 I mean, did you ever think you'd see the day where the Persians are unloading on the Saudis, 1.00

00:17:39.540 and the Saudis reportedly are asking the United States for permission to actually go it alone and start doing their own sorties, sir?

00:17:49.320 Well, I think, Steve, all of us that have worked in the area always hoped we would not see that day, right?

00:17:54.740 You've taken the lid off of 1,500 years of animosity.

00:17:59.260 So there is a lot of potential here for this to add fuel to the fire.

00:18:07.020 I understand that in Bahrain, which is run by a Sunni monarchy but is roughly, you know, 75%, 80% Shia,

00:18:16.680 the Saudis have now sent troops into Bahrain to help them quell the unrest in the Shia population there.

00:18:25.080 There's one bridge into Bahrain, which is an island nation, and it is from Saudi Arabia,

00:18:30.180 and the primary reason it exists is so the Saudis can do this when they need to.

00:18:35.020 They did it about, what, a little over a decade ago.

00:18:37.800 So they've already sent forces in to back up the Bahrainis. 0.93

00:18:41.500 I don't know that they're directly engaged yet, but that's kind of the loud signal when they thump the table and say,

00:18:48.500 okay, enough of this nonsense.

00:18:50.680 Either you take care of it yourself or we will.

00:18:53.660 Bahrain is also where the Fifth Fleet is.

00:18:55.180 It's also been the pressure relief valve in the Gulf, right?

00:18:59.000 The rules there were not as, they were not as austere as in UAE or in Saudi Arabia, right?

00:19:05.600 And the Fifth, this is the reason that the British first, and then we put the Fifth Fleet there, sir?

00:19:11.620 Yeah, 100%.

00:19:12.660 I should say the bridge exists for two reasons.

00:19:14.960 One is so the Saudi military can roll in.

00:19:17.900 The second is so all the Saudis around Dairan can drive across the bridge to drink and party at the end of the day. 1.00

00:19:26.700 So you come across the bridge to Bahrain, and the rules are totally different.

00:19:31.480 And then you go back and return to being devout when you return to Saudi.

00:19:35.980 John Brennan, wasn't John Brennan, I know he's an analyst, but he did that merger when he ran CAA,

00:19:41.280 merging the analysts with the guys like you, the operatives, the House of Lords, the House of Commons together.

00:19:47.540 And I guess the House of Commons end up, he wanted the House of Commons to run things, not the operators.

00:19:52.240 But wasn't he station chief, correct me, wasn't he station chief in Riyadh?

00:19:57.460 Wasn't he station chief to the Saudis?

00:20:00.340 Yeah, 100%, even though he was a DI analyst.

00:20:03.540 Look, he's been sympathetic to the enemies of the United States forever and did his very best to destroy the capability of the CIA to do its job.

00:20:16.880 And unfortunately, many of the things that he did still have not been undone.

00:20:22.040 He subjected the directorate of operations to control by a coup, a corporate operating officer, bringing that straight from the corporate model.

00:20:30.460 And actually, the first guy he appointed to be coup wasn't even a CIA officer of any kind.

00:20:36.280 He literally just plucked him out of the corporate world and made everybody, including operations, subordinate to this guy who'd never done the job.

00:20:45.780 Give you an idea of how thoroughly he just destroyed the capability of the organization.

00:20:52.220 It's fascinating.

00:20:53.400 Brennan and other guys like this, you see him in the media, you see him in his opinion pieces, you see him on podcasts and these talk shows.

00:20:58.760 They're, I don't want to say fanning the flames, but they look like they're all down for an expanded war.

00:21:06.020 So President Trump is obviously controlling this right now, but these are the type of things in the law of unintended consequences, which is what war is all about.

00:21:15.600 This could metastasize.

00:21:17.220 And one of the reasons that you've got guys now for these Gulf Emirates in these states, and of course MBZ is a guy that likes to get it on too.

00:21:25.580 But this could really start to, particularly as people are pushed and they're pushed by Western advisors that have worked for them or been consultants of them for years and not even associated currently with the Trump administration or the U.S. government, sir.

00:21:41.860 Yeah, well, Steve, look, I think it's crystal clear that a bunch of people here, I mean, a bunch of people outside of Iran who want us to lose however you define that. 0.64

00:21:52.360 They want this thing to get ugly and bad and for us to take losses and they are cheering for the enemy.

00:22:02.220 I mean, I note that the People's Forum, which is the so-called revolutionary incubator in the heart of Manhattan, and it's all funded by this guy, Neville Roy Singham, who's a CCP asset and operates out of Shanghai.

00:22:15.800 I mean, from moment one, these guys and Code Pink and all of these folks have been out in the streets in fully funded foreign-connected efforts to undermine our war effort.

00:22:30.720 They are 100% on the other side.

00:22:33.380 There are major players here that want us to lose.

00:22:36.040 Hang on for a second, Sam.

00:22:39.240 I want to stay on this intelligence thing in a second.

00:22:41.240 Brandon Weikert updates.

00:22:43.340 You've had your hand on the pulse here, particularly the logistics chain and weapon systems and actual what you have to deliver because they are going through the military under Cain and President Trump is going through a pretty methodical takedown of degradation first and leading to destruction.

00:23:01.500 But some of our best allies, like the Koreans and the Japanese, are noticing, hey, we're putting a call on folks to ship THAADs, patriots, et cetera, into the region. 0.95

00:23:13.920 And they're sitting there going, well, hang on for a second.

00:23:17.180 The main thing, as Captain Fennell says, the Chinese Communist Party is right here.

00:23:22.440 Maybe we shouldn't do that.

00:23:23.820 Your thoughts on all of it.

00:23:24.760 First of all, what's happening in region, and then let's expand it out.

00:23:28.120 Well, in region, as you point out, you know, the U.S. military has, with the Israelis, well, primarily the Israelis, as we're finding out, with U.S. support, we have degraded a lot of capabilities. 0.70

00:23:40.940 Obviously, we assassinated many of their leaders.

00:23:43.460 We got the Ayatollah.

00:23:44.780 To me, that's mission accomplished.

00:23:46.160 We can come home.

00:23:47.060 But this thing's continuing.

00:23:48.440 That gets us into the bad.

00:23:49.680 The bad is, clearly, we are depleting our stockpiles in the CENTCOM AOR a lot faster than even what was originally warned by General Cain last week, because I was told that.

00:24:02.940 Let's go to Jack Keene.

00:24:04.400 You know, Jack and Will Cain had that.

00:24:07.020 Oh, that, yeah.

00:24:08.420 But if you go back and look at Jack, and he knows the president very well.

00:24:13.400 I mean, quite frankly, he was a guy we offered a very senior job to.

00:24:17.500 He really wanted him more than Mattis to be Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor, but for, I think, his wife's illness, he couldn't do it in the first term.

00:24:25.240 He's a guy the president really thinks the world of, and he's obviously a real neocon and been in the region forever. 0.75

00:24:30.920 But when you talk about degradation, what Fennell and Cain are talking about is a systematic stripping that he says they can never come back from this, that they'll be essentially militarily fairly sophisticated, David, in the Stone Age when you finish with them.

00:24:48.400 And that, President Trump, seems like, with raising Cain, they're going up the escalatory ladder to fieldstrip this so they can never rebuild it.

00:24:56.960 Well, that, I think, is their plan, and I think we've been effective in some ways.

00:25:00.680 But just to be clear, the objective was regime change.

00:25:04.360 The regime is holding on, and we're finding out now with these missile strikes, they've been able to expand and do even more complex strikes on targets not just in Israel or against the U.S. in the region, but they're expanding it now to an entirely regional war that's now even roping in the French and the British as we're finding out. 0.57

00:25:24.680 So this really could be a world, quote-unquote, world war because of all the powers involved.

00:25:30.000 So to me, we have degraded the regime, absolutely.

00:25:33.880 We've scored some key victories, like I said, with killing the Ayatollah. 1.00

00:25:37.420 But the command and control structure, while it may be degraded, is decentralized and hardened enough where they are still able to not only continue fighting, but we are seeing them expand.

00:25:47.460 Tel Aviv, my understanding is, was pounded for eight hours last night.

00:25:51.180 Eight hours they were pounded by increasingly sophisticated and lethal missiles fired by these Iranian units.

00:25:57.800 So to me, we haven't gotten the kill shot in.

00:26:01.520 The Iranians are still fighting, and they're upping the ante every single day. 1.00

00:26:05.740 So this is why we are having to pull on those stockpiles now.

00:26:08.800 We're draining CENTCOM's stockpiles, I think, faster than even was anticipated.

00:26:13.420 And now we're pivoting and going to the Asians and saying, we need our stuff back. 0.98

00:26:17.260 And as I noted to you before we started, the South Korean press is running this quote from a South Korean political leader saying that we feel betrayed by the Americans.

00:26:27.420 And now the Japanese are getting skittish because they're worried after South Korea gives over those systems, it's not going to be enough. 0.98

00:26:34.040 And the Americans are going to come knocking at Japan next saying, hey, give us your stuff.

00:26:38.060 So clearly the plan is to drain the CENTCOM AOR and then pivot and pull whatever we can from Indopaycom, which, as you know, then leaves a gigantic gaping hole for the Chinese in Taiwan or the South China Sea or the East China Sea to really have some real victories over us because we don't have the stuff anymore to shoot. 0.95

00:26:58.920 Let me ask you, the pounding of Tel Aviv last night.

00:27:01.680 Also, the first wave to me looked like they were kind of random, I shouldn't say random, but kind of pop shots.

00:27:07.580 The hit on Bahrain and then some of the Gulf Emirates last night looked more systematic, do you agree, than day one?

00:27:13.640 Yeah, what I think happened was just like the 12-day war, only it happened in a shorter time frame.

00:27:18.800 So what happened was I think we did a lot of EM interference and I think we did a lot of suppression of enemy air defenses and we were in their sort of electromagnetic OODA loop there.

00:27:29.240 And we really stymied the Iranians again, but they adapted. 1.00

00:27:33.000 And this is the whole thing with the Iranians, and you have to give them credit, is they have been preparing for basically 47 years for something like this. 0.99

00:27:40.620 So they have had the time to harden and to disaggregate their capabilities enough so they are survivable for round two, three, four, and five.

00:27:48.780 And you're seeing that now.

00:27:50.140 And they've now, I think, adapted to the environment and they are now getting more operationally complex.

00:27:55.480 And these guys have thousands and thousands of sophisticated long-range missiles buried deep inside missile cities.

00:28:03.320 Let's hang on for a second because I think people thought a lot of that was degraded beforehand.

00:28:07.220 But we're going to take a short commercial break.

00:28:09.380 We're going to return with the expanding nature of this war.

00:28:13.260 President Trump says you haven't seen anything yet.

00:28:15.780 The big wave is yet to come.

00:28:17.900 We'll discuss that all next in the war room.

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00:29:56.780 So, Brandon, there's footage out there.

00:30:00.320 People have to be, particularly now, people are being inundated with artificial intelligence, et cetera.

00:30:05.700 So, it takes a while to go through it.

00:30:07.820 It looks like Tel Aviv was pounded overnight.

00:30:09.920 And, again, today, is some of that artificial intelligence?

00:30:13.140 Are you confident talking to your sources?

00:30:15.680 Because I've talked to people, too, who said they are getting pounded.

00:30:18.360 But I just want to make sure.

00:30:19.600 Yeah, I think we're talking to some of the same people in some cases, too.

00:30:22.400 But I'm not even talking about the videos that I'm seeing on Twitter.

00:30:26.200 Or I'm talking about people that I know in the region or who are part of the year in the region and have a lot of ties.

00:30:33.080 It is not being reported officially, obviously, because the Israelis won't let that out.

00:30:38.120 But there are people who are living in Tel Aviv who are sharing things that they probably shouldn't be about what's going on in the streets and whatnot.

00:30:48.140 And it is very brutal.

00:30:50.900 And I don't think Netanyahu even believed it would be this bad.

00:30:55.200 But here we are.

00:30:56.600 We do know, too, from the 12-day war.

00:30:58.620 I mean, President Trump, this was one of the reasons for the big move beforehand was that Tel Aviv was hit and hit very hard in those last couple of days before they brought the 12-day war to an end.

00:31:13.480 Also, explain to people the OODA loop.

00:31:15.780 What is the OODA loop?

00:31:16.760 Why is it so important militarily to get inside that, sir?

00:31:21.000 Yeah.

00:31:21.460 So what we found in modern warfare, this was a theory, it's an acronym created by John Boyd, who was an Air Force general, real visionary.

00:31:28.800 Then he went on and had a long career in business.

00:31:31.180 And he came up with this theory called the OODA loop, Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

00:31:35.540 And for him, he started observing this phenomenon when he was in combat flying jet planes.

00:31:42.140 And I don't remember which war he was in, but he was flying jet planes.

00:31:45.240 And he realized warfare happens very quickly today.

00:31:49.280 And you have to be able to observe quickly, orient your plane, decide to attack, and then attack without any hesitation.

00:31:56.580 And you've got to do it faster than the other guy.

00:31:59.000 And so he took that idea and he applied it to thinking and to thinking about leadership and things like that and systems management and things like that.

00:32:06.980 And he applied it for the military, then he applied it in private sector.

00:32:10.160 But in today's world, speed kills.

00:32:13.060 And you've got to not only be fast with the OODA loop, your own OODA loop, you have to be able to be so fast that you can disrupt the OODA loop of the other guy.

00:32:21.480 And that's what you're seeing in modern warfare today.

00:32:24.120 You're seeing us, you know, we got the Iranians in the first day.

00:32:27.900 We got them very stymied.

00:32:29.380 But the longer the war has gone on, as I warned you on day one, the Iranians are adaptive and they are starting to adapt.

00:32:36.280 Now, ultimately, my hope is that we can break them in the long run.

00:32:39.560 But right now, they're not broken.

00:32:41.740 They're damaged, but they are not broken.

00:32:43.740 And they are starting to adapt and hit back hard.

00:32:46.880 Hang on for one second.

00:32:47.920 By the way, to show that the graybeards in our group, the Sam Faddis's and the Captain Finnell's, that I'm actually older.

00:32:54.880 Remember, I remember getting the John Boyd briefing in the Pentagon, I think in 1981, 82, where he had that, I don't know, Sam, you've seen it.

00:33:03.460 The briefing was like this thick because he was kind of a madman, but he was absolutely brilliant.

00:33:08.800 It was really maneuver warfare, the OODA loop.

00:33:11.000 I mean, he changed so much thinking in the Pentagon and the way we fight.

00:33:15.240 Sam, the intelligence here is all important, right?

00:33:19.560 Your assessment of how do you think, and I realize you have limited access to data, the classified, et cetera, with keeping this non-classified.

00:33:28.760 Your assessment of how we're doing both on strategic intelligence, operational intelligence, how do you think we're doing?

00:33:36.020 Because I believe some of the responses have caught people by surprise, particularly the way the Persians went after the Gulf states during Ramadan and how the Gulf states aren't shy about hitting back and hitting back quickly and asking the United States, hey, we need to come off the chain here because we may do something on our own.

00:33:56.980 Well, Steve, I think, you know, intelligence is only as good as, I mean, you've got to have good intelligence, but you also have to have people that are willing to listen to the intelligence.

00:34:10.240 I think the reality is that we are way too dependent upon intelligence that's been provided to us from the Israelis. 0.76

00:34:17.480 And look, I don't fault the Israelis for pursuing their own national interests because that's what every country is supposed to do.

00:34:24.220 But I think they, my personal opinion is they put a spin on this, that we were going to schwack these guys, hit them real hard, bomb them for a while, and then somehow magically the regime would topple and everything would be great.

00:34:41.500 And as you know, I'm very skeptical of that from the outset, really skeptical of it.

00:34:48.720 And so now we're into the realm of the Iranians decided to think for themselves, the enemy gets a vote, and they have improvised and adapted. 0.86

00:34:59.060 So as Brandon was saying, you know, we've only got X number of interceptors.

00:35:03.880 So you fire the ones that are your missiles that are most easily intercepted first and burn up our defensive capability.

00:35:11.380 And then you actually shift into shots.

00:35:14.500 Also, they are the kill shots.

00:35:16.780 And they are also now expanding the war.

00:35:19.360 They have had the audacity to decide that they get to choose where this is fought and how it's fought.

00:35:25.760 So increasingly, they're hitting energy facilities all throughout the region, obviously with the intent of taking oil and natural gas from the region completely off the market,

00:35:36.480 which at least temporarily they seem to have succeeded in doing, just because people are cautious.

00:35:43.500 They'll continue to do that.

00:35:46.300 The Greeks just arrested a guy in Athens airport.

00:35:50.320 He had been down in Crete surveilling Suda Bay, the NATO base there.

00:35:56.680 And then he was back in Athens, and I think they were afraid he was going to skip town.

00:36:00.840 And they grabbed him.

00:36:02.100 And in retrospect, it appears he was getting ready to meet additional assets coming in.

00:36:06.840 All of these guys are working for the Iranians, surveilling our base in Crete, obviously preparatory to attacks. 0.99

00:36:13.960 And in fact, we've caught the Iranians doing that. 1.00

00:36:18.980 Lots of times in the past.

00:36:21.880 Brandon, drafting off that, Sam said, President Trump has been pretty adamant, hey, this planning was for five weeks.

00:36:32.100 So in the first 24, 48 hours, right, they are going to degrade it somewhat.

00:36:37.700 But he's hit at least the initial plan put forward.

00:36:41.800 They're prepared to stay here five weeks.

00:36:43.640 Now, President Trump's always going to leave himself alternatives and be able to do the unpredictable.

00:36:49.500 But do you see that we have the wherewithal to pound at this level for five weeks?

00:36:55.860 No, no.

00:36:56.960 I think this is one of the worst planned operations I've seen now.

00:37:00.980 I think the president, they may have been telling him, yes, we're planning for a contingency for five weeks.

00:37:06.260 But remember, there was a lot of off-ramps built into that five-week plan.

00:37:09.880 Jack Posobiec was on the first day.

00:37:11.800 This war started talking about they had sort of these planned pauses.

00:37:15.040 We haven't had any pause yet.

00:37:17.080 You know, we are very much in a very high-tempo conflict.

00:37:20.860 And I think that the president and Netanyahu really believed, and I think the president was following Netanyahu's lead on this, that, hey, if you kill, if you whack Khomeini, the whole regime will fall like a house of cards.

00:37:32.320 Because that's what the Israelis think. 0.72

00:37:33.900 The Israelis have this assassination mindset. 1.00

00:37:36.140 They're crazy about assassinations.

00:37:38.020 And when it works, it works.

00:37:39.780 But when it doesn't, you now have a situation where you've kicked over the hornet's nest, and all the hornets are coming after you and your friends.

00:37:46.240 And it turns out you don't have enough stuff to whack them down.

00:37:48.740 And so I think that, you know, I'm hopeful the Americans will adapt, like the Iranians have done, in the next iteration. 1.00

00:37:55.820 But right now, I think this is a very badly planned operation.

00:38:00.060 And I think that the president should declare victory now and come home and say, hey, I took care of the problem.

00:38:06.960 It's over.

00:38:07.940 Because if this goes on longer, the Iranians have a – they are an asymmetrical power. 1.00

00:38:12.760 They have unconventional capabilities that are global.

00:38:15.140 A Saudi official told me in 2018 that Iran was a paper tiger with steel claws.

00:38:20.620 Those steel claws today, Steve, are extended, and they're slashing hard at our people and our friends in the region.

00:38:25.800 And our friends are getting angry at us because they think we started this thing.

00:38:29.600 We kind of did.

00:38:30.780 So I think this is not well planned.

00:38:33.000 You heard – well, you heard some – last week, some leaks from the Pentagon.

00:38:38.060 It was put down immediately.

00:38:39.180 But even General Rees and Cain was saying, hey –

00:38:42.820 Steve, they had to fire Fred Kotcher because he had the balls to go out and say, hey, my boss is warning the president, and the president's not listening.

00:38:50.900 So Kotcher got hosed.

00:38:52.540 And I'm talking to people at the Pentagon saying that was not Kotcher acting alone, that Dan Cain asked him to do that for him.

00:38:59.320 So there's a lot of problems from the uniformed military side, and they're afraid to say it publicly or to the president.

00:39:05.580 So they're doing this leak thing that Colin Powell used to do during the Iraq war.

00:39:10.660 And this is where we are right now.

00:39:13.320 The uniformed military leadership is not on board with this.

00:39:16.800 Not as it's going on.

00:39:18.120 Not as it's executed, I should say.

00:39:20.140 If you still have the big wave to come because we've been – Rubio said this.

00:39:25.220 I think Pete Hegseth has said it.

00:39:27.760 The president has definitely said it.

00:39:29.060 A big wave.

00:39:30.140 If you do have this big wave that comes in the next 24, 48 hours and you begin to see the uprising of the Persian people, 0.59

00:39:36.920 because the one thing we haven't seen is a mass uprising against the regime in the streets.

00:39:42.460 Now, part of that is 30,000 of them or 20,000 of them were killed four weeks ago.

00:39:47.360 I'm sure a lot of their leaders are that.

00:39:49.160 But also people took that as an example that, hey, these guys are going to play hardball.

00:39:53.540 Now they're backs to the wall because I think the regime and regime elements understand it's – that the forces arrayed against them,

00:40:02.000 the Americans, the Israelis, now Saudi Arabia, UAE, they want them graveyard dead. 0.97

00:40:07.980 So they're kind of backed into a corner.

00:40:09.900 But do you think that part of it is to come in with this massive wave and see if you get the uprising that President Trump has warned over and over again?

00:40:18.480 Hey, guys, it's your mission to overthrow these guys at the end.

00:40:22.300 And we can't do it and won't do it.

00:40:24.180 Your thoughts?

00:40:24.940 Yeah, I'm going to have to bounce after this.

00:40:27.020 But I think that's the hope.

00:40:28.500 And I don't think that it's going to work according to plan.

00:40:32.180 I hope it does.

00:40:33.160 But I don't think it will.

00:40:35.020 But I got to bounce now.

00:40:36.780 Brandon, where do people go to get your book on Persians and where do they go to get all your ratings?

00:40:41.020 Anywhere books are sold.

00:40:42.500 Anywhere books are sold.

00:40:43.920 And you can also check me out, natsecguy at emerald.tv.

00:40:48.060 Thank you, brother.

00:40:48.800 Appreciate you.

00:40:49.400 Thank you, sir.

00:40:50.020 Bye-bye.

00:40:50.560 Sam Faddis, same question.

00:40:53.120 Was the intelligence good enough about what?

00:40:54.980 Because President Trump, from the very first time he said it, now comes your hour of liberation, right?

00:41:00.640 I do believe people thought that the Khomeini taking out the Ayatollah might have had a bigger impact.

00:41:06.520 But do you see anything in the streets, given the fact that you used to live there, do you see anything in the streets of Tehran that would lead you to believe there's going to be a popular uprising right now, that the Persian people are going to take this in their hands and overthrow this Islamic Republic overlords?

00:41:23.560 Steve, I'm going to echo Brandon's sentiment and say up front, I hope I am wrong.

00:41:30.360 But no, I don't see any indication that it's going to say up front, I don't see any indication that it's happening, and I have never thought that that was a realistic prospect.

00:41:40.100 As I said to you the other day, if there is any prospect for regime change, it'll come from some guys at senior levels effectively staging a coup and saying we're not riding this thing to the ground.

00:41:51.840 But there's no guarantee at all that that's going to happen either.

00:41:57.360 I think a number of guests have said over the last few days, we ought to stop talking about regime change, make this about degrading capabilities and taking things off the table and be prepared to at some point effectively declare victory and go home.

00:42:14.940 If we're going to ride this, if we're going to ride this, if we're going to ride this idea of regime change, I think it's going to get even uglier.

00:42:24.180 Sam, I want to give a shout out to the Bucks County thing.

00:42:26.620 How did that go on those folks in there, the Patriots?

00:42:29.800 That's one of the building blocks of taking our country back.

00:42:32.120 How did the Sunday speech go?

00:42:34.080 I went down to talk to Right for Bucks right outside of Philadelphia.

00:42:38.320 These guys are like the commandos of the MAGA movement in Pennsylvania.

00:42:43.780 They are the frontline troops, the really hardcore folks.

00:42:49.440 From the second I walked in, you know, God's honest truth, everybody had been watching your show.

00:42:57.620 Everybody heard you giving them a shout out, and they were all over me about how fantastic that was.

00:43:03.440 It was a shot in the arm.

00:43:04.740 They asked me to say thank you to you.

00:43:07.580 They were really receptive.

00:43:08.900 Look, I spoke, and then to show you how motivated these people are, I then spent another three hours after I spoke standing there talking to people individually outside of the ballroom as they came up one after another just hungry for information.

00:43:26.080 So, Sam, just hang on to this break.

00:43:28.720 I want to talk about that for a second because that is the most important thing of all.

00:43:33.800 Short commercial break.

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00:46:12.560 Sam Fattis, I just want to say, if you give us a minute on your expertise here,

00:46:16.880 because when you come on, particularly something like this morning,

00:46:19.840 people I know from the region and people that is a huge expatriate, expat community of Persians,

00:46:26.200 particularly in Los Angeles, I knew a lot of these folks when I lived there, New York City,

00:46:31.680 all throughout the country, you know, they always say Sam Fattis is 100%, 1,000% correct. 0.97

00:46:38.060 What's your background?

00:46:39.000 You know this region.

00:46:40.540 This is not something you just read in a couple of books or – and you've never been a pundit.

00:46:44.820 You come on and just give us the facts.

00:46:46.540 What's your expertise in this area?

00:46:48.180 Yeah.

00:46:49.840 Well, I mean, I ran ops in this area for decades, and obviously those operations –

00:46:56.560 in other words, human source operations and covert action,

00:47:00.660 and in addition to a variety of other targets, a huge percentage of that was against the Iranians.

00:47:06.260 So I ran from a variety of countries and in a variety of countries,

00:47:12.060 operated against the Iranians, the IRGC, MOIS, their intel service, et cetera,

00:47:17.100 for many years and worked with a lot of really great, very brave Iranian patriots.

00:47:24.860 I mean, guys who were out of the country, who would go back inside Tehran, 0.58

00:47:29.840 into the heart of the beast on our behalf, to get us intelligence and do the things we needed done.

00:47:35.180 And I'm, you know, thank God, never lost a source to the Iranians, brought them all home safe.

00:47:44.080 But a lot of other guys lost many.

00:47:46.680 A lot of people paid very heavily to get us what we needed.

00:47:49.180 And so you understand and you have – you know how hard the Revolutionary Guard is, the moolahs, this whole aspect, this whole apparatus. 0.90

00:48:00.560 They're not Johnny-come-lady.

00:48:02.000 It's an ancient civilization.

00:48:03.620 And quite frankly, the bureaucratic nature of the administration of the civilization has been passed down in an unbroken chain generation after generation.

00:48:12.880 It's one of the reasons they're so hard to negotiate with, right, as President Trump found out.

00:48:17.740 But you understand they're not just bad – the folks that run the Islamic Republic are not just bad hombres.

00:48:25.420 They're tough and smart bad hombres, correct?

00:48:29.340 Yeah.

00:48:29.720 They are brutal in a way that most Americans, thank God, cannot comprehend because they've never been face-to-face with them.

00:48:36.500 They are also really efficient and detail-oriented and squared away.

00:48:42.600 And if you don't have your act together when you operate against them, well, you know, somebody's dying on our side.

00:48:51.140 So you cannot absolutely – don't dismiss them.

00:48:55.400 They are not going to fall apart.

00:48:57.140 You're going to take out a layer of command.

00:48:59.260 They already thought about that, just as we would.

00:49:02.400 We would not lose a general and think, well, what do we do now?

00:49:06.500 I mean, the first thing they teach you in the U.S. military and training is, okay, this guy's dead.

00:49:11.760 Who's in charge now?

00:49:13.140 And we can't skip a beat.

00:49:15.080 We've got to keep moving.

00:49:17.060 You've also – since you've come back, you've been one of the leaders in Pennsylvania, the grassroots and the MAGA movement.

00:49:21.920 Talk to me about – the audience needs to hear about the Bucks County people because now we're seeing this in Texas.

00:49:27.880 It's fallen back once again on the grassroots to turn this.

00:49:31.360 The grassroots has driven this Prop 10 to prohibit Sharia law.

00:49:35.260 Well, they're the ones – and given a permission structure, they have risen to the occasion.

00:49:39.480 But there are very dark forces and outside money that are all over Texas.

00:49:44.000 They see Texas as the jewel in the crown.

00:49:46.140 But the way that we're going to win this is through those patriots in Bucks County.

00:49:49.660 Tell us about them.

00:49:50.240 Well, look, right for bucks has been literally on the forefront of the fight, the MAGA fight in Pennsylvania now for years.

00:50:01.880 And these guys are relentless.

00:50:04.260 There are a whole bunch of groups like that in Pennsylvania.

00:50:08.280 I mean, people up in Erie come to mind who went into a dark blue city that had been democratic forever and who are out there.

00:50:21.700 And they're not just – this is not just a white, rural Pennsylvania phenomenon.

00:50:26.340 I mean, you're talking about blacks, Hispanics.

00:50:30.400 I mean, good Lord, Hazleton, which is three-quarters Dominican right now. 1.00

00:50:35.380 Precincts up there went 75 percent for Trump in the last election.

00:50:40.940 And the MAGA movement – I was down there every other day in the run-up to the election.

00:50:45.900 So you have incredible energy in this movement.

00:50:50.620 Now, if the GOP understood that and accepted that and rode that and really fielded MAGA candidates, I think we would sweep the field.

00:51:04.300 If there's a disconnect, it's – you get down to that level in Pennsylvania, you've still got way too many establishment rhino types being fielded.

00:51:14.060 And then folks wondering, well, why aren't the MAGA voters showing up for them?

00:51:19.300 Well, because – because you're dismissing them.

00:51:22.340 Or you expect them to show up, but you don't actually listen to them.

00:51:28.140 Sam, magnificent.

00:51:30.300 Where do people get Ann Magazine?

00:51:31.860 I think you're getting even a bigger fan base than you've had.

00:51:34.500 People want to know where to go.

00:51:35.900 I also want to highlight of all the great Ann Magazine articles.

00:51:39.400 Read the American Tet, because I think you've nailed the color revolution of what's happening in this country. 0.76

00:51:45.000 And I can tell you from Texas, it is expanding throughout the country.

00:51:48.960 Don't think this is a Manhattan or Minneapolis or Michigan problem.

00:51:53.220 This problem is throughout this nation.

00:51:55.240 And the forces are right against this country, this republic.

00:51:58.700 They know it.

00:51:59.520 And they're going to put unlimited foreign money in back of the sand.

00:52:02.620 Where do they go for all your writings and commentary?

00:52:05.040 We're on Substack, andmagazine.substack.com, andmagazine.substack.com.

00:52:13.180 Thank you, brother.

00:52:14.400 Appreciate you.

00:52:15.140 Thank you.

00:52:15.960 Short commercial break.

00:52:17.200 We're going to pivot now.

00:52:18.400 We're going to have Terry Schilling.

00:52:19.580 I've got Chris Kobach.

00:52:21.320 We're going to have Brian Kennedy about this executive order.

00:52:23.520 We're going to obviously get back to work coverage.

00:52:25.100 We've got a lot going on here in the war room.

00:52:27.500 It's game day in Texas.

00:52:30.140 All of you that didn't want to early vote, get out and vote today.

00:52:33.300 Massive primary in the Senate race in the Republican side.

00:52:36.340 Most expensive in history.

00:52:37.460 I saw last night $122 million might have been spent so far.

00:52:41.460 Also for Agriculture Commission.

00:52:43.720 All the representatives in the Texas House.

00:52:48.280 Also, the House of Representatives is huge.

00:52:51.620 And the Senate.

00:52:52.700 And the Attorney General.

00:52:54.420 Huge race.

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00:54:21.040 No.

00:54:22.440 I'm not going to say he's talking about momentum forever.

00:54:24.920 I'm just going to say he's talking about morgano in our people's lives.

00:54:26.120 That means that he's all for our business lives.

00:54:27.240 You make a question.

00:54:28.380 Thanks for says he used the opportunity to find out far more.

00:54:28.740 I walk home to the спiritual.

00:54:30.640 I walk home to the people's lives.

00:54:32.780 I walk away.

00:54:34.540 Thatmy time for him being a single mom.

00:54:35.140 But of course I walk away.

00:54:36.800 I walk away.

00:54:37.480 Never .

00:54:38.540 We walk away.

00:54:39.020 I walk away from Morales facing the next time. 0.99

00:54:40.380 I walk away.

00:54:41.320 A walk away.

00:54:42.440 But I walk away.

00:54:42.500 I walk back home.

00:54:43.300 That's a tent.

00:54:44.540 That's true.

00:54:44.760 I walk away.

00:54:45.420 So I walk away from the people's lives.

Bannon's War Room - March 03, 2026

Episode 5184： War Continues In Iran As Game Day Kicks Off For Texas Primaries

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