Bannon's War Room - Episode 5203： Counter-Intelligence Tracking President Trump; Iranians Demand Change

00:00:00.000 Well, the United States has struck more than 5,000 targets since the war began in Iran.

00:00:04.520 The president says in his press conference today that the operation is ahead of schedule

00:00:08.620 and could be ending soon, in his words, and also said it could go further.

00:00:13.360 Today, he also told CBS that the war was, quote, very complete.

00:00:17.200 Many of the administration's stated military goals appear to remain weeks away,

00:00:20.780 and CNN has learned a ground operation to secure Iran's nuclear stockpile could also be on the table.

00:00:26.720 4-3 is now, and Donald Trump started it, but for Gulf War 3,

00:00:32.280 there is still no coherent explanation from the president or the White House as to what exactly this is all for,

00:00:38.260 not even an obviously pretextual false reason like we had from George W. Bush.

00:00:44.160 The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing.

00:00:51.680 He said, quote, we're doing this for the other parts of the world.

00:00:56.720 We're doing this for the other parts of the world.

00:01:01.280 It's actually hard to argue with that one.

00:01:03.440 That one might actually be true.

00:01:07.180 The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

00:01:13.580 CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

00:01:17.660 Because there is no way to safely move it to market, Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.

00:01:25.440 Iraq's production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war.

00:01:30.640 In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force majeure,

00:01:34.820 which basically means they're saying, hey, you know, act of God, outside our control.

00:01:40.340 We can no longer be held to any contracts we previously signed as they all radically, radically scale down their oil and gas production.

00:01:50.100 And their proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas, either broken, ineffective or on the sidelines.

00:01:59.260 Iran stands alone, and they are badly losing.

00:02:04.820 On day 10 of Operation Epic Fury, we are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives,

00:02:14.200 which are the same as the day I gave my first briefing here on Operation Epic Fury.

00:02:19.940 They're straightforward, and we are executing them with ruthless precision.

00:02:25.360 One, destroy their missile stockpiles, their missile launchers, and their defense industrial base.

00:02:33.500 Missiles and their ability to make them.

00:02:36.920 Two, destroy their navy.

00:02:40.340 And three, permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever.

00:02:46.420 It's a laser-focused maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision.

00:02:53.480 No hesitation, no hesitation, no half-measures.

00:02:57.540 As President Trump declared yesterday, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force.

00:03:07.040 We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.

00:03:12.700 But we do so.

00:03:14.180 We do so on our timeline and at our choosing.

00:03:18.100 Finally, to my friends in Saudi Arabia, I've been your biggest champion.

00:03:22.160 I think the crown prince has taken Saudi Arabia in a completely different direction in a good way.

00:03:28.000 But here's what I want to say to Saudi Arabia tonight.

00:03:30.840 I'm willing to do a mutual defense agreement with your country to give you protection in perpetuity.

00:03:36.380 Under the agreement I've been pushing, and I hope we can continue to talk about,

00:03:40.860 if you're attacked by Iran, we would go to war for you. 1.00

00:03:43.640 Wormuz is still effectively closed.

00:03:46.080 Traffic is way down.

00:03:47.280 Tankers are stranded.

00:03:48.500 I want you to take a look at this graph from Bloomberg,

00:03:51.100 showing the steep drop in movement both in and outbound.

00:03:55.580 And according to data from Bloomberg, fuel tankers are now rerouting toward East Asia,

00:03:59.960 where energy buyers there are outbidding rivals to lure fuel shipments.

00:04:04.120 Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel at one point,

00:04:07.760 before falling back after the president hinted that the war was very complete, whatever that means.

00:04:13.340 Meanwhile, gas prices rose to an average of $3.47 a gallon.

00:04:18.200 That is up nearly 50 cents in the last week.

00:04:21.260 But as with everything in this administration, it is not what they say, but what they do.

00:04:26.400 The president might say this war is over or close to it,

00:04:29.720 but sources are telling CNBC that tomorrow,

00:04:32.880 energy ministers from the G7 will hold a virtual meeting to discuss a potential release of oil reserves,

00:04:39.080 and that the U.S. believes a joint release of 300 million to 400 million barrels would be appropriate.

00:04:45.940 Next steps for the U.S.

00:04:48.340 I mean, a lot of it obviously depends on what the mission is.

00:04:52.060 This idea, though, of ground forces securing actual nuclear material,

00:04:56.640 that seems extraordinarily complicated.

00:04:58.600 Yeah, it does.

00:04:59.480 Anderson, I'll introduce you to a term you've probably heard before, troop to task.

00:05:03.980 We talked about this during the Russian campaign inside of Ukraine.

00:05:07.160 How many soldiers does it need to accomplish X number of tasks? 0.83

00:05:10.820 If you haven't identified those tasks in a country that's three times as big as the country of Iraq,

00:05:17.580 and there are things all over this country, as we've seen with the airstrikes,

00:05:21.940 how many troops is it going to take?

00:05:23.700 Like, what's the military advantage that you get from putting people on the ground?

00:05:27.900 What are they going to be asked to do?

00:05:29.840 And then, after you talk about the fighters, who are the supporters of those?

00:05:33.780 Who are the medics that are involved?

00:05:35.440 What kind of security are the special operators going to get from conventional forces?

00:05:40.200 So it continues to build piece upon piece,

00:05:43.820 and people that don't know much about military operations will say,

00:05:46.920 oh, we'll just throw special operations at it, or we'll just ask the Kurds to do it. 1.00

00:05:50.600 They don't really understand the numbers games, the so-called battlefield math of all this.

00:05:55.560 The president said today that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

00:05:58.820 Tankers are moving through once again.

00:06:01.000 I do not believe that is the reality, so level set it for us.

00:06:05.420 It is not, Steph.

00:06:06.920 I mean, you know, when you look at the marine, publicly available marine traffic GPS sites,

00:06:11.160 you'll still see clusters of these ships, both in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf,

00:06:16.360 just waiting for it to be deemed safe enough to traverse the strait.

00:06:22.460 Now, the reality is, according to an expert, it's only really open when the merchant mariners

00:06:28.200 who are on these ships transporting these goods deem it safe enough to risk their lives to cross,

00:06:33.960 and that clearly has not happened yet.

00:06:36.260 Steph, they can, whenever they feel safe, cross the strait.

00:06:40.680 They can do it pretty quickly.

00:06:41.680 They just hit the throttle and they go.

00:06:44.340 But the problem is the factories that produce the materials they're transporting,

00:06:48.900 whether it's petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, whether it's aluminum or fertilizer,

00:06:54.440 all of these are industries that are served by ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:06:59.620 Many of those factories, those facilities, have already ramped down production

00:07:04.200 because of this stoppage in the strait.

00:07:07.240 And it's not like flipping a switch to turn things back on.

00:07:09.960 The president has indicated that maybe the operation will wrap up sooner than he thought it was going to.

00:07:16.320 What's the plan once the U.S. stops military action?

00:07:19.840 Will the U.S. play a role in the aftermath, or will they leave Iran to sort it out?

00:07:25.420 Ultimately, the aftermath is going to be in America's interests, our interests.

00:07:30.600 We won't live under a nuclear blackmail scenario of conventional missiles that can target our people,

00:07:38.320 which is why the objectives have been scoped from the beginning.

00:07:41.260 Missiles, missile production, a defense industrial base, Navy,

00:07:45.820 all in service of ensuring they don't have nuclear power projection capabilities.

00:07:50.240 That's what matters to President Trump.

00:07:52.520 That's what matters to the American people.

00:07:54.080 And ultimately, that's why we're so laser focused on ensuring those objectives

00:07:57.720 and those objectives alone are met.

00:08:00.140 All the anti-Semites to all the isolationists, I don't believe.

00:08:04.740 Forget it.

00:08:05.460 I'm not with you.

00:08:06.340 I'm with Israel.

00:08:07.100 I will be with Israel to our dying day.

00:08:09.640 They're the best ally we could hope for.

00:08:11.360 So we have a commander in chief in President Trump,

00:08:13.480 who I think is Ronald Reagan, plus, plus, plus.

00:08:16.340 Okay, Tuesday, 10 March, in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:08:22.260 Welcome to the War Room.

00:08:24.080 We need every second we can get today so we can't do our long open.

00:08:28.060 I want to thank the Real America Voice team in Denver

00:08:31.320 and, of course, my own young charges here on the production staff for the War Room

00:08:36.840 because, folks, that was probably the best distillation of what's gone on

00:08:43.440 in the last 24 hours, at least 12 hours.

00:08:46.340 That he could have.

00:08:47.900 John Solomon.

00:08:49.180 And John Solomon joins me.

00:08:50.700 John, I've got you here.

00:08:51.640 You've got major investigations coming out.

00:08:54.400 Morning Joe took a shot at your Maricopa situation.

00:08:58.580 We're going to play that in a minute.

00:09:00.280 But I got to ask you, walk us through from yesterday afternoon.

00:09:05.820 Let's go through from the president's phone call and interview to CPS

00:09:10.160 to where we are after General Cain and Secretary of War Pete Hex's briefing this morning, sir.

00:09:17.160 Yeah, well, I think at the end of the day, the president is staying the course that he's laid out,

00:09:21.460 which is until the three objectives are completely achieved, we're not going to let up the military pressure.

00:09:26.440 Now, he said, we've done a lot of damage, right?

00:09:28.000 They don't have a Navy.

00:09:28.900 They don't have an Air Force.

00:09:29.940 Their missile batteries are gone.

00:09:31.620 Their leaders have been wiped out.

00:09:32.960 But the ultimate goal, as he said early on, going actually all the way back to last year

00:09:38.000 when he started talking about the long-term objectives, the American interest in Iran is

00:09:42.660 for them not to have ballistic missiles that can threaten any U.S. asset,

00:09:46.720 for them not to have nuclear weapons,

00:09:48.560 and for them not to be in a position to harm their neighbors or their own people.

00:09:52.980 And I think right now the president is still on board with that.

00:09:57.200 As I've been saying, goal one was to diminish their air defenses, their anti-ballistic missiles.

00:10:03.280 That's now been declared completed.

00:10:05.380 Goal two is to go after the IRGC and these very skilled warriors that are part of the Republican Guard.

00:10:14.180 And that's where you're going to see the big bombs being dropped.

00:10:18.060 They're going to hit these bunkers where the Republican Guard and their assets are trying to thin out their ranks

00:10:22.880 so that when the bombing stops, the Guard is not in a position, one, to attack neighbors of the United States,

00:10:28.400 but also not to attack their own people like we saw in the weeks leading up to this war.

00:10:33.560 So I think everything is right where we've been briefed it to be.

00:10:37.860 The media can say what it wants to say, but at the end of the day,

00:10:40.820 it is exactly on the strategic course that the president laid out and that Pete Hegseth has laid out.

00:10:49.040 There are lots of comments that the president makes,

00:10:51.720 and you see this storyline there that somehow the president's changing, and he's not.

00:10:57.400 He's describing different aspects of what is achieved in those three primary principles that he's gave.

00:11:02.880 And I think if the media was being honest, they would look at that and say,

00:11:06.100 what he said today about this is actually related to what he said a month ago, but they're not.

00:11:11.860 And, you know, so we have to tell the people what's really going on.

00:11:17.720 Okay.

00:11:19.900 Excellent.

00:11:20.660 And I've only got you at 1030, so here's what I want to do.

00:11:23.740 I want to start with, because I want to get to Maricopa County by playing the cold open in the B block,

00:11:28.100 but I want to go to your article, and if Denver could put this up,

00:11:32.300 Trump targeted by four FBI codenamed counterintelligence probes that has snared hundreds of Americans.

00:11:40.660 This, sir, is what I refer to as a bombshell.

00:11:43.400 Can you walk us through it?

00:11:44.460 We've got about two or three minutes here.

00:11:46.040 We're holding you through the break.

00:11:47.120 This is pretty much a bombshell.

00:11:48.680 Yeah, you basically had four codenamed investigations, Crossfire, Hurricane, Plasmic Echo, Round River, and Arctic Frost.

00:11:58.660 And what they did is they basically continuously treated the man twice elected by the American people as president

00:12:04.940 as a counterintelligence threat from July of 2016 when Crossfire opened up to January 2025

00:12:12.580 when the president was sworn in in his second inauguration.

00:12:16.460 To do that, they had to penetrate the privacy of many Americans.

00:12:20.200 Hold it, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, full stop.

00:12:25.980 Hit rewind on that.

00:12:28.120 That in and of itself is shocking.

00:12:30.540 Just hit rewind on that whole thing.

00:12:32.920 Yeah, the president, the FBI treated the president of the United States,

00:12:37.080 a man twice elected president by the American people, as a continuous national security threat

00:12:42.240 from July of 2016 in the middle of his first campaign to January 2025 when he was sworn in for his second inauguration.

00:12:52.160 Each of these investigations had codenames, but at the end of the day, what they were was an effort to get Donald Trump,

00:12:58.100 and it swept up hundreds of Americans, Charlie Kirk and his group and Rudy Giuliani and his legal work

00:13:05.800 and Joe DeGeneva and Victoria Tencent, many other people, all swept up in an effort to find some dirt that they could hang on the president's house.

00:13:16.480 And I think when you look at it from that 30,000-foot perspective, you have one of the clearest pictures of what looks to be a conspiracy

00:13:24.260 to deprive certain Americans of their civil liberties, much like what the Justice Department brought against the Ku Klux Klan

00:13:30.700 and corrupt police departments back in the 1960s in the civil rights era.

00:13:35.260 You now have a new version of it in 2026, which looks at the FBI and associated intelligence agencies

00:13:42.160 and government agencies as potentially depriving the civil rights of President Trump and those around him.

00:13:48.960 And by the way, Harmeet Dillon is quoted in the story.

00:13:51.740 She's the assistant attorney general for civil rights saying exactly that in the story today. 0.96

00:13:58.260 So essentially for 10 years, almost a decade, the deep state, the FBI and others believe that

00:14:06.160 and treated him with four different serious investigations

00:14:09.380 that the current commander-in-chief and president of the United States,

00:14:13.420 three times elected, as you're showing now in Maricopa Canada,

00:14:17.080 three times elected by the American people,

00:14:19.340 was a major national security and counterintelligence threat.

00:14:23.480 Is that correct?

00:14:25.740 Yeah, he was treated that way, even though there was never any evidence to really prove it.

00:14:29.820 Remember what John Durham said.

00:14:32.180 No evidence to that.

00:14:33.740 At the end of the day, the president's now been, all the charges against him have been dismissed.

00:14:37.780 And a lot of these investigations look like they were predicated.

00:14:41.380 This is something Cash Patel has said, predicated inappropriately,

00:14:45.540 including the raid on President Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago.

00:14:48.240 Remember those FBI documents saying, we don't have probable cause?

00:14:51.940 They did it anyways.

00:14:52.920 That's the sort of potential violations that the Justice Department could look at.

00:14:56.820 Hang on one second.

00:14:59.340 John.

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00:16:24.780 Okay, before I play the Morning Joe, and the New York Times also has a huge piece in this Arizona situation

00:16:32.840 that validates what John's saying.

00:16:34.680 So it's not Breitbart and just War Room, okay?

00:16:36.420 I want to make sure folks understand that.

00:16:38.000 John Solomon, four FBI code-worded investigations, which folks should know that when they do that,

00:16:48.520 that means it's real.

00:16:49.240 They're putting resources on it.

00:16:50.440 That's also an accounting function of how they allocate resources.

00:16:56.000 Four against one individual who they never thought was coming back.

00:16:59.980 And the broader ecosystem around him.

00:17:04.440 The scale of that is so monumental.

00:17:08.260 How does it get rectified?

00:17:10.580 Where is the process inside the system, as the system currently exists,

00:17:14.800 that we get accountability, authority, and make sure it can never happen again, sir?

00:17:19.920 Well, the football for criminal prosecution is clearly now in Florida,

00:17:25.080 under the jurisdiction of the Miami U.S. Attorney and a very skilled group of career prosecutors down there.

00:17:30.100 They're running grand jury activity down in Miami and Fort Pierce, Florida.

00:17:37.160 Now, let's keep in mind that they don't even yet have the Round River documents that I mentioned today,

00:17:42.400 because Cash Patel's team is just starting to find them.

00:17:44.800 They only were found a few weeks ago because they were in these prohibited access files,

00:17:49.980 meaning that no one knew where they were.

00:17:51.500 They were hidden even from Cash Patel.

00:17:53.940 And so it took agents and people digging to find these records, months to find them.

00:17:59.720 But as this information goes down to Miami, you see exactly what Harmeet Dillon says in my story today.

00:18:06.620 There is the potential for a conspiracy or racketeering case against government agencies,

00:18:11.400 government players, private individuals, to deprive the president and others around him of their civil liberties

00:18:17.000 under the false color of government authority.

00:18:19.560 That's going to be the criminal case.

00:18:20.880 Now, people like Lindsey Graham, the senator whose phone records were taken and others,

00:18:26.240 they're talking about private civil action.

00:18:28.740 And I think that that could be another potential area.

00:18:31.440 Let's think about this.

00:18:32.580 In the story today, I mentioned that Michael Caputo,

00:18:35.260 a guy that used to work in the Trump administration,

00:18:37.340 then made a movie about Hunter Biden,

00:18:38.800 and then went back to the Trump campaign to help in 2024.

00:18:43.140 He had his privacy violated.

00:18:45.160 By the way, in the letters that I have today,

00:18:47.620 there was an allegation that the government seized his phone records and email records,

00:18:51.940 including the advice he was giving President Trump on the 2024 campaign as a campaign staffer.

00:18:57.820 Sounds a little bit like Carter Page, deja vu, all over again.

00:19:01.200 So you could also see, and again, I don't know what Michael Caputo or other people's plans are,

00:19:05.600 you could also see civil litigation, civil RICO, civil claims that people's privacy was violated.

00:19:12.260 That's a high threshold.

00:19:13.560 The government will claim immunity.

00:19:15.400 But at the end of the day, there is a double-barreled way to bring some form of accountability

00:19:19.080 and to get to the bottom of what happened here, because I don't think we know it all yet.

00:19:23.120 Even this story, as broad as it is, we don't know the full nature of it yet.

00:19:27.120 Let's now pivot to Arizona.

00:19:31.620 Let's play the tape from the mainstream media of their thoughts about Arizona.

00:19:38.880 Let's go ahead and play it.

00:19:39.520 Today, Trump's FBI has now obtained 2020 election material from Maricopa County in Arizona

00:19:45.860 related to the review that Republican lawmakers conducted of that.

00:19:50.200 Here's presidential results that confirmed Trump, you know, lost the state.

00:19:55.540 In Fulton County, Georgia, they have now, through subpoena, gotten access to ballots from Maricopa County.

00:20:02.840 Note they're not getting them statewide, right?

00:20:05.000 They're not seeking to get all of the Georgia ballots or all of the Arizona ballots.

00:20:08.560 They're targeting blue cities in the same way that when Donald Trump said he wanted Republicans to take over voting,

00:20:15.980 what did he say next?

00:20:17.780 He said there are 15 places or so, right?

00:20:20.600 And in a later comment, he, I think, listed Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.

00:20:26.960 And so the reason why this plays into it is because he is setting up the permission structure among his base

00:20:34.160 and among people who are not paying attention that when he is not able to get the ballots in Detroit or Philadelphia

00:20:42.340 or some other county because they say no or the courts won't give him what he wants,

00:20:48.360 that he will then have the excuse to send in the FBI, to send in ATF, to send in CPB, to send in, you know, ICE,

00:20:57.320 whoever it is, whatever federal agency it is, to seize the ballots.

00:21:00.940 Let's state it plainly.

00:21:02.580 Joe Biden won Arizona.

00:21:05.220 He also won the presidency.

00:21:06.780 The vote was counted and recounted in Arizona, Maricopa County, several times.

00:21:12.360 It never changed.

00:21:13.520 There's never been any evidence whatsoever of fraud.

00:21:18.120 Yet, President Trump cannot accept that he lost 2020 and seems to be setting dangerous precedents,

00:21:27.680 laying the groundwork, if you will, for potential interference in 2026 and 2028.

00:21:33.260 Yeah, that's absolutely right.

00:21:35.140 Remember, this follows the similar action in Georgia, where the Justice Department has seized records and is in Fulton County.

00:21:48.100 So there are really two possibilities that, look, this could be a part of a plot,

00:21:56.320 a plan to somehow interfere with the midterm election and or the 2028 election.

00:22:05.140 And somehow skew the outcome toward the way that President Trump wants it.

00:22:13.060 And so we should all be really concerned about that and I think alarmed about that.

00:22:17.880 The other possibility is that despite the fact that the votes in Fulton County were counted and recounted and counted again,

00:22:25.360 and they've been counted every way you can possibly count.

00:22:27.960 And the same is true in Maricopa County in Arizona.

00:22:33.820 Despite all of that, the president actually believes that somehow that those counties and those votes were stolen from him.

00:22:45.680 Despite all evidence, despite the fact that Republicans have looked into this and keep coming up with zero squat,

00:22:57.060 that that he just believes his fantasy because he can't admit to himself that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden,

00:23:06.320 in which case the president is delusional, and that should worry us too.

00:23:14.260 John Solomon, you've been doing the most intense investigative reporting of this.

00:23:18.920 Your thoughts, sir?

00:23:20.780 Well, all of them have not taken the time, not surprising to me, to read the FBI affidavit in Fulton County,

00:23:27.120 which lays out the predicate for what the FBI is looking at in these big city battleground state areas,

00:23:36.540 Phoenix and Atlanta being the first two.

00:23:39.880 The FBI is very clear.

00:23:41.380 It says that they have corroborated, they have substantiated, that's the actual word in the affidavit,

00:23:48.180 to the satisfaction of a judge, a magistrate who issued the search warrant,

00:23:52.280 that certain procedures were not followed in Georgia, and I assume we'll find something similar in Maricopa when everything's unsealed.

00:24:01.300 In other words, they didn't follow state law in the administration of a federal election.

00:24:07.260 And under Section 152 of the federal statute, a willful and intentional act that does not follow state election law

00:24:15.420 can be charged as a federal crime.

00:24:17.480 What they're trying to do here, by their own admission, this isn't me, it's the FBI saying what they're doing,

00:24:23.440 which none of those yahoos on TV apparently bothered to read. 1.00

00:24:26.820 They're not trying to relitigate 2020 and declare a new winner.

00:24:30.300 They're not trying to prove that Donald Trump won the election.

00:24:33.340 They have reason to believe that these areas did not follow election laws in the administration,

00:24:39.780 and they intend to bring accountability so that in future elections they'll do so.

00:24:43.920 And here's one of the things that those yahoos on TV don't want to talk about. 1.00

00:24:48.560 It will soon become obvious.

00:24:50.140 It's already obvious in my reporting yesterday.

00:24:52.720 The Trump FBI, if you want to call it that, the Kash Patel FBI, is looking at the 2024 election in Arizona.

00:24:59.600 Now, wait a second.

00:25:00.720 Newsflash to everyone.

00:25:02.060 Donald Trump won that election.

00:25:04.020 He was declared the winner, right?

00:25:06.440 Republicans had a good year in Maricopa County and in Arizona in 2024.

00:25:11.140 Why would the FBI look at that?

00:25:12.760 Because it's not about who won.

00:25:15.280 The FBI is trying to hold accountable people who may not have followed the proper rules and regulations for election.

00:25:22.300 Now, that's an allegation that some people have made.

00:25:24.960 We have to wait and see what it is.

00:25:26.200 In Fulton County, it is very clear that the FBI substantiated certain irregularities.

00:25:31.160 They're saying that.

00:25:32.360 In Arizona, the grand jury subpoena and the search warrant remain sealed.

00:25:36.320 I believe when it is unsealed, we'll see some predicate there and we'll understand why it is that they're looking at this.

00:25:43.180 This is not an effort to redeclare a new winner for the 2020 election.

00:25:47.480 It's to force these locations to make sure they're in compliance with state and federal law.

00:25:52.260 That's all this is about.

00:25:53.440 Will that compliance, you think, be done by November?

00:25:59.540 And if it's not, what can be done to make sure it's done by November?

00:26:04.720 We cannot have, as you know, John, another situation like 2022, all of it.

00:26:10.480 We've got to get not just accountability.

00:26:12.780 We've got to rectify the situation.

00:26:14.360 What are your thoughts?

00:26:14.980 Well, listen, Harmeet Dillon's already made enormous progress on this in getting the voter rolls cleaned up.

00:26:22.600 28 states are in litigation.

00:26:24.320 Several of them are in the process of cleaning up.

00:26:26.060 And when we talk about cleaning up, we're talking 50,000 to 100,000, 200,000 names are being cleaned off a roll.

00:26:31.360 That is sloppy management, not in compliance with state and federal laws.

00:26:36.060 So that's going to be an improvement.

00:26:38.280 George is talking about putting Fulton County under receivership.

00:26:41.140 Some senators oppose that.

00:26:42.500 We'll see if they do that.

00:26:43.480 But the truth of the matter is a lot of the things that went on in 2020, the quick rule changes under the name of COVID, those are now people have eyes on.

00:26:52.280 And they're caught in real time before Election Day, and they're litigated and resolved.

00:26:57.000 I think 26 will be a much more robust election monitoring system.

00:27:04.860 One thing I want to point out is that I broke overnight, Steve, a story that's just really interesting.

00:27:10.260 The House Admin Committee, Brian Stile, sent a couple of observers to Maricopa County in 24, when Trump won.

00:27:18.980 And they found this warehouse where they saw live ballots and empty ballots, meaning ballots that were blank alongside of ballots that had been voted in the same location.

00:27:29.640 They were very concerned.

00:27:30.640 They used the word alarming.

00:27:31.760 A Democrat and a Republican observer together found this alarming.

00:27:37.400 That is one of the things that has been sent to the FBI that triggered the Maricopa County thing.

00:27:41.240 Everybody should take a look at that report.

00:27:43.340 You can see the sort of things that are going on that raise concern.

00:27:46.540 Maybe there's a good excuse, but the FBI is going to get to the bottom of it.

00:27:51.160 To the bottom of it.

00:27:52.180 John, real quickly, where do people go to keep up with all your investigative reporting?

00:27:55.460 Yeah, thank you.

00:27:56.400 JustTheNews.com is the website.

00:27:58.120 Jay Solomon reports.

00:27:59.100 Handle on all social media.

00:28:00.200 And I'm lucky enough to follow you every night at 6 o'clock right here on Real America's Voice.

00:28:03.640 Just the news.

00:28:04.620 No noise with the amazing Amanda Head. 0.99

00:28:08.860 Amazing work, John.

00:28:10.000 The greatest crime maybe in the history of the country.

00:28:12.400 Four counterintelligence investigations of Donald Trump.

00:28:16.040 Short break.

00:28:16.540 Thank you, John.

00:28:17.060 Short break.

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00:29:50.480 I will tell you, Jessica, I have never seen integration between the United States military and another military.

00:29:59.060 Not just between the United States and Israel.

00:30:00.880 Certainly, that has never been the case.

00:30:02.320 But the United States and any other sovereign military, I've never seen this level of integration.

00:30:08.480 Aircraft from both countries, you know, in the skies above Iran at the same time, all feeding into a central command function,

00:30:17.260 sharing the same information between those aircraft, sharing the same intelligence,

00:30:22.020 sharing in some cases the same command structure and chain of command.

00:30:26.820 And it's just total integration.

00:30:29.280 And don't take it from me.

00:30:30.180 You can hear this from the Pentagon.

00:30:32.120 U.S. CENTCOM put out a post yesterday with the Israeli flag and the American flag

00:30:37.180 talking about how these air forces are just achieving total excellence

00:30:41.160 and performing with incredible excellence and success and professionalism working together.

00:30:46.480 It's really, they're attached to the hip.

00:30:49.480 It's, you know, I think about the 91 Gulf War,

00:30:51.880 where the U.S., the Bush administration, the first Bush administration,

00:30:56.040 asked Prime Minister Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel at the time, to show restraint,

00:31:00.020 that Israel couldn't get involved.

00:31:01.560 Why couldn't Israel get involved, according to the Bush administration?

00:31:04.540 Because that would fracture the coalition, which included many Arab countries.

00:31:09.080 The Israel and the Arab countries couldn't be seen in the Arab countries' eyes to be fighting on the same side.

00:31:14.440 Now that is, we've completely inversed that.

00:31:17.200 Now you have Israel and the U.S. fighting side by side, totally locked in,

00:31:20.940 and the Arab countries are joining that coalition.

00:31:23.960 So we are living on so many levels through truly historic times that I couldn't have even imagined

00:31:29.460 in terms of the transformation in the region, potentially,

00:31:32.720 and certainly the transformation in the relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

00:31:36.940 Okay, that's not Steve Bannon saying it's Dan Sr.,

00:31:39.200 and everybody knows Dan Sr. is a, how do I say, former spokesman for the Iraq debacle under Bush,

00:31:45.740 where he lied, bald-faced lied to the American people only every day.

00:31:48.940 Um, but he's also, let's say, quite close to the Netanyahu click in, uh, in Israel.

00:31:56.320 And he's 100% correct.

00:31:57.720 They got guys, he says it, one joint command.

00:32:00.560 It is impossible to have happened on Saturday night, what happened on Saturday night,

00:32:07.320 with that structure, and it's from his lips, that structure, to have, oh my God,

00:32:12.920 the Axios story that sits there.

00:32:14.980 And even Lindsey Graham putting out a tweet afterwards, hey guys, we've got to calm down,

00:32:18.700 unless the Israeli Air Force, the IDF, and the senior command of Israel,

00:32:23.700 bald-faced lied to the Americans.

00:32:25.400 And I think right there, that was an inflection point.

00:32:27.460 I believe President Trump, because they said, oh, he's going to have a heated conversation

00:32:30.580 with Netanyahu.

00:32:31.920 The allies are not together on this at all.

00:32:35.760 Our war aims, and you just saw President Trump,

00:32:38.100 the war aims of President Trump look quite different than the war aims of Bibi Netanyahu,

00:32:43.520 Kurt Mills.

00:32:44.060 And this is why I think Saturday night was an inflection point.

00:32:47.140 President Trump was adamant.

00:32:48.780 I don't want any oil, uh, assets to, I don't want any infrastructure touched, right?

00:32:54.400 I'm trying to get the, the, uh, Persian people on our side.

00:32:58.600 If we got to do things on, uh, in Tehran,

00:33:01.140 I want the bombing of like the Air Force Command Center that the IDF did take down,

00:33:05.840 I think on Saturday night, uh, which is a hard target,

00:33:08.640 but I don't want to spread this war into a Dresden type firebombing of Tehran.

00:33:14.520 That's exactly what I don't want.

00:33:16.020 Cause you know what?

00:33:16.640 Then the Persians will dig in and we'll be here five years from now. 1.00

00:33:20.240 This is to me,

00:33:21.240 the beginning of the separation that led President Trump to this podium today to kind of say,

00:33:26.440 Hey, I'm thinking about this.

00:33:28.480 We've got a couple of other things I want to do on my punch list, but we're out.

00:33:32.540 SOS reported citing U.S. and Israeli sources that the U.S. was not happy with strikes on 30 fuel depots in Iran.

00:33:40.960 Um, while this is, um, anonymous sourcing, you know,

00:33:44.880 it seems kind of congruent with what President Trump said yesterday,

00:33:47.920 that there's certain spots they don't want to, want to hit relating to energy infrastructure that would take a long time to rebuild.

00:33:54.340 Um, and you know, whether this reporting is true or not, what's your message to Americans,

00:34:00.740 those who supported the president and those who aren't really in favor of this war and who worry that Israel might be taking advantage of the U.S.'s backing?

00:34:10.900 Well, I would just state by saying Israel's been a really strong partner in this effort,

00:34:17.160 uh, where they have different objectives.

00:34:19.380 They've pursued them.

00:34:20.400 Uh, ultimately we've stayed focused on ours,

00:34:23.320 but when Iran, what Iran has felt is the power of the world's two most powerful air forces,

00:34:27.540 uh, in that particular case, that wasn't our, those weren't our strikes or that objective,

00:34:32.680 uh, or, or that wasn't our necessarily our objective,

00:34:36.260 but the president has made it clear to those concerns that we're not getting pulled in any direction.

00:34:41.860 We're leading. The president is leading.

00:34:43.480 He's determining where we want to go, what the outcome will be,

00:34:46.520 what the end state is with a very keen eye.

00:34:49.780 And I understand those concerns because I've heard from a lot of people who went through,

00:34:53.460 I went through 20 years of those wars myself, uh, worried about getting dragged in,

00:34:58.560 worried about mission creep, worried about nation building or, or democracy expansion.

00:35:02.480 Um, that's never the perspective the president has pursued on this just because previous presidents

00:35:09.700 and previous secretaries have decided to just pour more resources and more people in toward 0.88

00:35:14.140 some, let me have it. Let me have it. 0.93

00:35:16.880 No, Pete, we can't have two separate objectives.

00:35:20.080 This is now what, and it goes back to Lindsey Graham begging the Saudis to come in here. 0.58

00:35:24.920 You're not going to get the Arab States to come in here because they understand the makeup 1.00

00:35:27.740 of the war changed Saturday night.

00:35:29.040 Now you have a Persian nationalist movement. This is why, why president Trump's initial objective

00:35:34.900 was to support the overwhelming dissident groups in the, in, in, in Persia that hated

00:35:41.820 being under the boot of the Ayatollahs and the Mullahs. Why is that not happening? Yes.

00:35:48.020 They're still under huge threat, but one of the reasons here is this, this war shifted on Saturday night

00:35:54.660 because the Israelis did something that the president absolutely didn't want to have happen.

00:36:00.100 And we can't, we shouldn't be trying to gloss it over. We should be trying to address it.

00:36:03.520 And we should be trying to address it with the American people.

00:36:07.940 Trita Parsi, you join us now. You're, you, you, you are, you know, you're, you're Iranian.

00:36:13.840 You've worked with those guys. So this is not like a, and it shouldn't be an even handed assessment,

00:36:20.800 but give me your assessment of where we stand right now, particularly as my theory of the case

00:36:25.760 is now we're into, we've, we've, we've, the Israelis have managed to unite the Persian people

00:36:32.180 that were not united. And one of the central thesis of our efforts was to make sure that we had their

00:36:37.980 back as they took it in their hands to overthrow the Ayatollah in this Islamic Republic, sir.

00:36:46.400 Thank you, Steve. And just, just to clarify, I was born in Iran, but my family fled when I was four.

00:36:51.600 I've studied Iran for more than 25, 30 years. And in that process, obviously I've spoken to people

00:36:56.860 on all sides, including people deep inside the Iranian government. Your assessment is absolutely

00:37:02.060 correct. Uh, the attack against the oil refinery was a major, major turning point in all of this

00:37:09.180 already prior to that, there had been signs that this war was turning in the eyes of many Iranians

00:37:15.580 against Iran as a nation, rather than against his theocracy. You could see that when Trump was

00:37:21.340 talking about arming the Kurds, uh, um, you know, things that sounded as if the U S was going to support

00:37:27.680 a separatist movement, uh, fears that exist for a long time that the West is seeking Iran's

00:37:33.120 dismemberment. But the targeting of the oil refineries really hit the point home that this

00:37:39.140 is not about taking out the repressive capabilities of the state, you know, the besiege, the IRGC,

00:37:45.600 and then allow the population to rise up. Rather, this was targeting the nation as a whole, because

00:37:51.280 people in Tehran cannot breathe right now. I spoke to a person the day after he said that he could see

00:37:56.880 many people who had chosen to stay in Tehran, they gave up. They're leaving the city right now because

00:38:01.520 they actually cannot breathe. And he saw that on the streets spontaneously, some people, as they

00:38:07.600 were packing up their stuff and leaving, were starting to chant slogans against the United States,

00:38:12.640 against Israel. And these did not look to be, you know, the usual supporters of the regime. I mean,

00:38:18.000 the 15, 20, um, that would come out and protest on a regular basis in favor of the regime. This looked

00:38:24.880 like a completely different segment of society, and I've heard this now from several different people.

00:38:29.600 And this was the risk all along. I think we should take note of one thing, Steve. Remember that in Iraq,

00:38:36.400 in Libya, when there were these campaigns to regime, change the regime, there were never any instances

00:38:42.720 in which you saw a very, very large crowd come out in support of those regimes. And that's not to say

00:38:49.360 that this specific theocracy is particularly popular. In fact, I don't think it is at all. But

00:38:54.800 it does have a support base of 15 to 20% of the population. And we saw massive numbers coming out

00:39:02.080 from that support base yesterday, celebrating their decision to name the son of the supreme leader as

00:39:08.400 the next supreme leader. We never saw any of these things in Iraq or in Libya. And I think that tells us

00:39:13.840 something. It's a very different situation. This is an unpopular regime, but it does have a support

00:39:19.520 base. And then the rest of the population tend to be very, very nationalistic. And in normal

00:39:26.080 circumstances, they would have been completely against any foreign invader. In this case, there

00:39:31.200 was a segment that seemed to welcome it because they were just so sick and tired of this theocracy.

00:39:36.560 But those sentiments seem to have shifted very fast as it's become clear to them,

00:39:40.880 this is a war on the country, not a war on the regime.

00:39:45.520 So what are the alternatives now? Is there any way that the United States can move this

00:39:53.520 back to focus on the theocracy and let the people in Tehran and the other Persians understand that

00:40:01.680 we're not trying to destroy Persia or the Persian people. We're trying to take off or at least 1.00

00:40:07.600 degrade. Although I noticed Pete said today, it wasn't forced projection on the people,

00:40:13.040 it was forced projection on allies. He was very specific on that. So it's another war aim 0.93

00:40:17.280 that's kind of moved. What do we need to do to make sure that we're focused on the theocracy

00:40:22.560 and the Persian people understand that we're their ally in trying to

00:40:26.240 uh, trying to support their their their strike for freedom?

00:40:31.840 I'll be frank with you, Steve. I don't think it's possible, at least not in the short and the medium

00:40:36.080 term. And I don't think Trump has more than the short and the medium term. Look, Trump himself said

00:40:40.960 when asked by a reporter, he said that he thinks Iran's map is going to look different at the end of

00:40:46.720 this war. That has nothing to do with the theocracy. That's the territorial integrity of the country.

00:40:53.520 Having said these things, uh, not just once or twice, but repeatedly, I just don't think there's

00:40:58.720 any turning back. I think Trump should end this war as soon as he can. This war should never have

00:41:04.800 been started in the first place. It was a mistake going in. The good thing about Trump is that when he

00:41:10.320 recognizes the mistake, he has the willpower, the flexibility of reversing course instead of doing

00:41:16.640 what a lot of other American presidents have done, knowing very well that the U.S. was not

00:41:21.120 winning in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, he just kicked the can down the road, hoping that the next president

00:41:25.600 would have to deal with the debacle. Trump didn't do that in Yemen. After seven weeks, he realized this

00:41:30.080 was not going anywhere and he just pulled out. The difference this time around, though, is that the

00:41:34.480 Iranians also have a vote in as to whether this war ends or not. And I'm just not convinced that they're 0.85

00:41:39.440 ready to end this war. They believe they have to fight on in order to make sure that the cost is

00:41:44.640 as high as possible so that the U.S. and Israel never thinks about doing this again. If this war

00:41:52.000 ends, in their view, in a way in which it nevertheless was not too costly for the U.S. and Israel,

00:41:57.600 the Iranians fear that the U.S. and Israel will attack them again in six months. As was the case,

00:42:02.560 as you remember, there was a war in June that Israel started. The Iranians agreed to a ceasefire.

00:42:07.280 They regret it now. They believe that the U.S. and Israel used those eight months to regroup,

00:42:12.400 rearm, and then relaunch the war.

00:42:16.720 Trita, where do people go to get your commentary and observations, sir?

00:42:21.200 They should go to my Twitter, which is tparsi, or go to the website of the Quincy Institute,

00:42:26.480 which is quincyinst.org.

00:42:31.840 Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

00:42:33.120 Thank you so much for having me.

00:42:36.160 Thank you. Eric Bolling, we got a minute here. I'm going to keep you to the other side. I know you

00:42:40.560 got a hard out at 11. The situation yesterday, we told them you couldn't hit any more oil. We're

00:42:47.040 going to come in hard. The Straits are her moves. They lit up UAE this morning. Did they not, sir? 1.00

00:42:53.120 A refinery there?

00:42:53.920 Yeah. They hit a refinery in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi refinery went down. Exxon pulled all

00:43:00.800 non-essential employees there. Steve, here's what happened. Trump said, if you block the

00:43:06.480 Straits of Hormuz, we'll hit you 20 times harder. Iran responded with, guess what? There's not one 0.77

00:43:11.360 liter of oil that's going to pass through the Straits of Hormuz. So there's literally a standoff here.

00:43:16.000 Both sides, they know Trump's Achilles right now is a high gas price. We are going to see a $4

00:43:21.200 price in gasoline nationally within a week or two, no matter how this thing ends or goes on.

00:43:25.680 Minimum. It doesn't matter. It's going higher. It's just the way the refining system happens.

00:43:30.080 They know that. And Trump doesn't want that because that feeds inflation. So, yeah.

00:43:34.160 Hey, hang on. Hang on. We're going to get all of this. We got eight minutes on the other side,

00:43:39.120 and it's all yours. Eric Bolling with the more about oil next.

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00:45:57.120 folks trust me because people are blowing my phone up behind the scenes on this.

00:46:01.200 There was a we we the war went a different direction Saturday night.

00:46:05.760 Okay, we've now turned it into a Persian nationalist, which is exactly the thing President Trump did not

00:46:11.120 want or any of the planners did not want. As with capital, they're going through systematically

00:46:16.480 a degradation targeting list. But you also have deeper things here about who you're actually

00:46:23.120 fighting. Now we're not now we're not trying to free a suppressed people from a out of control 0.97

00:46:30.240 Islamic theocracy. They're binding together because it looks like the Israelis are coming in and trying 1.00

00:46:36.400 to destroy their nation and them. Eric Bolling, you're brought a picture here on the oil war.

00:46:42.480 You get Lindsey Graham after five mint juleps on Hannity, I think it was or wherever he was on Fox.

00:46:49.840 This madness about Saudi Arabia. We were because the right now the Saudis, all of them are saying, 0.99

00:46:55.520 yo, we don't want to end this. This is they called Trump over the weekend after the bombing on Sunday

00:46:59.600 and said, we're out. What are you doing? We can't do this. We can't be partners of this.

00:47:04.160 The Saudis won't go in. It's a Shiite Sunni, but it's D. I think it's even deeper than that 1.00

00:47:09.040 about the monarchy and will they fall. So they're not in. So walk me through. You just had. And by

00:47:14.560 the way, the, the, the, the Persians said, Hey, I heard your speech yesterday. Boom. We're going to 0.99

00:47:19.600 go right to your biggest, your toughest guys. MBZ suck on this. And we're not going to Dubai and 1.00

00:47:25.360 looking at hotels. We're going to go to your capital, your capital, Abu Dhabi, and take out your

00:47:30.080 biggest refinery. This thing's getting nasty and they ain't backing down, sir.

00:47:35.840 They're not backing down and neither will Trump and, and, and Steve. So there's so many things

00:47:40.400 in play right here. I hear Lindsey Graham talking on Fox, you know, he's almost playing de facto

00:47:45.600 president. I don't know what he was drinking, maybe mint juleps. And they hear kill me this

00:47:49.680 morning saying, Oh, Trump should take Karg Island. That's the, that's the Iranian offloading of, 0.99

00:47:55.040 of crude oil into the Persian, into the Strait of Hormuz, into the Persian Gulf Island that 80%

00:48:00.400 of their oil goes through. It's insane. We don't want to play with their oil. This is the problem

00:48:04.240 that Israel, when they bombed an oil infrastructure, they created the, the scenario where oil could go 0.83

00:48:10.240 higher. And it did, it jumped. There's $120 two nights ago because of these bombings. It shouldn't

00:48:16.240 be about oil. This was supposed to be about getting rid of the, the mullahs that hate us. So 1.00

00:48:21.520 Israel gets involved, some rhinos, some war loving rhinos, and Fox gets involved in a way

00:48:26.720 they think is right. This is all wrong. This isn't what Trump wanted. This wasn't what Trump wanted

00:48:30.960 to do. I will tell you, between Saudi Aramco, Steve, you sent me an article about Saudi Aramco

00:48:36.000 saying this could be catastrophic for the price of oil higher if this thing goes on. Do you realize

00:48:41.600 something? When you sent that to me, something jogged my mind. These are all Arab nations. They are

00:48:47.040 petrodollars dependent. The more this goes on and the more it's about oil, the higher price of oil

00:48:52.960 goes, the better for them. And I'm not, I'm not, I'm old enough to be skeptical enough that that,

00:48:59.200 by the way, that was only the, that's only the lead story in the Financial Times of London. That's

00:49:03.200 my point. It's the headline, right? And they all want higher oil prices, right?

00:49:06.640 Of course. Yeah. But here's the, here's the point. Are they coordinating with Iran to,

00:49:10.640 we'll step aside, hit our oil and hit our refinery in Abu Dhabi. I don't know,

00:49:14.720 maybe hit some Saudi platforms and whatnot. Oil prices will jump up. We'll all look like

00:49:20.080 we're upset about this, but the reality is it screws Trump. It sticks it right to Trump.

00:49:24.160 And meanwhile, they smile to Trump. They shake his hand. They, they bow in, in the Oval Office

00:49:28.160 and they want a hundred or two, $200 oil will be even better for them. I don't know if it's collusion

00:49:33.840 or not. I will tell you the way to solve it. And Steve, we've talked about this. And since we spoke

00:49:38.000 yesterday, this little idea I brought to you, and I think it should be Bowling and Bannon's idea to,

00:49:43.200 to the, to the administration. I talked to Hegseth. I sent it to Pete. I sent it to Susie Wiles. Pete

00:49:48.800 got back to me. Susie didn't. This, Trump needs to hear this. This is right up his alley. If he

00:49:53.920 negotiates a deal with Iran and Venezuela, both the increase in oil, they've already produced high

00:49:59.920 levels. Iran produced 8 million barrels a day a while ago. Venezuela produced 4 million barrels a day.

00:50:06.080 Now they're three in one, right? So there's 7 or 8 million barrels additional that can be produced.

00:50:11.600 All we're saying is we will do a joint venture with, and with you, Venezuela, the way Saudi Aramco

00:50:16.800 is, the way Petrobras is in Brazil, where the, the country owns the, the actual reserves, but Americans

00:50:24.640 pull the oil out of the ground and we have first dibs at a market price on the oil. Trump would guarantee

00:50:30.080 oil independence, not just during his term for input perpetuity through his lifetime,

00:50:36.400 through our lifetime, through John Jr.'s lifetime. We would never depend on a foreign country or OPEC 0.61

00:50:41.920 again for a drop of oil. It's huge. And this whole $100 oil price, by the way, Steve, I did very well

00:50:48.400 yesterday because we were on here and it was 106, 105, 106 dollars a barrel. And I just knew it was going

00:50:54.560 to go down. I had the trade. I sent your producers the trade as I got off the phone with you at

00:50:59.040 whatever it was, 1030. And this thing exploded. If it goes back up to 120, 130 dollars, I'm going to

00:51:04.160 put the trade on again because I know it's going back to 70 dollars. Our, our problem isn't oil.

00:51:09.840 It's the refining. It's the end use of the gasoline. And, and these Arabs know, and Iran knows, 1.00

00:51:16.320 the more conflict in the Middle East, the harder it's going to be to get gasoline produced here in

00:51:21.040 America, the higher the price is going to go. You could see a $10 gallon of gasoline in California,

00:51:27.360 a five or $6 gallon gasoline nationally here, if they keep messing around. Trump could solve it

00:51:33.600 with one deal, two deals, one with Venezuela, one with Iran.

00:51:36.640 Real quickly, you've laid out a, a, a theory of the case that we don't really have a lot of allies

00:51:41.920 except the United States of America. Correct.

00:51:44.240 You got Russia giving targeting, you got Israel, and Pete admits it. We got two, 0.96

00:51:48.480 people got different objectives. Plus you got the Arabs. You think the Arabs are double. 1.00

00:51:52.400 Lo and behold, you actually think Arab nations would double deal with the United States, sir?

00:51:58.000 Imagine that. Imagine that. I think it, I think it's very, very plausible.

00:52:05.360 Bowling, where do people get all of your commentary and social media, all of it, sir?

00:52:11.280 At Eric Bowling everywhere on social media, The Edge on YouTube. There it is. There's a picture of

00:52:15.520 that. I love you. Get the guys to subscribe. By the way, you mentioned it yesterday. I got a flood

00:52:19.360 of subscribers from the war room. Posse, we'll call it. Thank you very much for that. We just,

00:52:24.560 we just do bro stuff. We do man stuff. We're, we're not about woke. We're about, it's okay to be a man

00:52:29.920 again. It's okay to be successful and strong and perseverance and motivated. And it's something we

00:52:35.680 haven't been able to do for a long time. So thank you, Steve.

00:52:38.160 Bowling, keep hitting it, man. I know you got an episode you're going to do right now. Thank you

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Bannon's War Room - March 10, 2026

Episode 5203： Counter-Intelligence Tracking President Trump; Iranians Demand Change

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