Bannon's War Room - Episode 5205： Iran Lays Mines IOn The Strait Of Hormuz; Warmongering Graham Wants To Send Your Family To Iran

00:00:00.000 I want to thank the men and women of the Ford Carrier Strike Group and their families

00:00:04.320 and let all of them know how grateful I am for their leadership and service.

00:00:09.420 The crews on board this strike group have already been endured months at sea

00:00:13.760 only to get their deployment extended.

00:00:16.680 These exceptional Americans, rogered up, all supported by their families,

00:00:21.400 continue to stand the watch, taking the fight to the enemy over and over again night after night.

00:00:27.060 Aboard ships like the USS Ford and the Abraham Lincoln are a special group of sailors I want to highlight today.

00:00:36.300 These are the men and women, the sailors up on the roof, running operations on the flight deck.

00:00:42.120 With an average age of the early 20s, these are the unsung heroes of naval aviation.

00:00:47.900 These young sailors, known for wearing yellow shirts, are in charge of the catapults,

00:00:53.080 taxiing jets around on the flight deck, shooting jets off the front end, and recovering jets off the back end.

00:01:00.480 They are literally involved with every single movement on the roof on an aircraft carrier.

00:01:06.900 They are the last ones that a naval aviator sees before getting shot off the front end,

00:01:11.960 and the first one that a naval aviator sees after safely trapping on the back end.

00:01:17.280 And just for a minute, imagine you're standing on that aircraft carrier flight deck.

00:01:22.720 There's 30 knots of wind in your face.

00:01:25.440 The deck is slippery, covered in grease.

00:01:28.060 It's noisy.

00:01:28.960 There are propellers spinning.

00:01:30.400 There's jet blasts everywhere.

00:01:31.960 The helicopters are running.

00:01:33.680 Your head is on a swivel, and you're trying to direct a multimillion-dollar fighter into a one-foot square box

00:01:41.500 so that those naval aviators can be shot off into the black of night to go do America's work.

00:01:48.140 Those jets are fully loaded with missiles and bombs,

00:01:51.420 and they are a world-class team combined with the naval aviation and the aviators in those jets.

00:01:58.180 This beautiful symphony of American spirit is the definition of perfectly organized chaos,

00:02:06.080 and these crews do it every single time the carrier is at work.

00:02:12.380 Oh, by the way, in the middle of the night and oftentimes in the pouring rain.

00:02:17.600 Let me be clear.

00:02:19.140 It is a good thing to wipe out terrorists who indiscriminately target civilians

00:02:23.520 and attempt to hold the global economy hostage,

00:02:27.460 and President Trump should be commended for doing so.

00:02:30.820 But ultimately, the operations will end when the Commander-in-Chief determines the military objectives have been met,

00:02:36.800 fully realized, and that Iran is in a position of complete and unconditional surrender,

00:02:42.240 whether they say it or not.

00:02:43.360 Does the President still want Iran's unconditional surrender?

00:02:47.240 Well, when President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender,

00:02:52.220 he's not claiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves.

00:02:56.600 What the President means is that Iran's threats will no longer be backed by a ballistic missile arsenal

00:03:02.920 that protects them from building a nuclear bomb in their country.

00:03:06.360 I could make an empty threat, but if I have no actions to back it up, then it's an empty threat.

00:03:12.240 And so President Trump will determine when Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender,

00:03:16.660 when they no longer pose a credible and direct threat to the United States of America and our allies.

00:03:21.400 I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly,

00:03:29.560 as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate.

00:03:37.860 I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war.

00:03:46.180 Well, my questions have been unanswered, and I will demand answers because the American people deserve to know.

00:03:59.420 And I guess I am most concerned about the threat to American lives

00:04:07.660 of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran.

00:04:14.340 We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran

00:04:21.940 to accomplish any of the potential objectives here.

00:04:27.620 And there is also, as disturbingly as anything else,

00:04:34.540 the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives.

00:04:44.340 So, literally, Russia seems to be aiding our enemy actively and intensively with intelligence

00:04:52.900 and perhaps with other means.

00:04:54.740 And China also may be assisting Iran.

00:04:59.320 So, the American people deserve to know much more than this administration has told them

00:05:06.200 about the cost of the war, the danger to our sons and daughters in uniform,

00:05:11.800 and the potential for further escalation and widening of this war,

00:05:18.600 a war of choice made by this president, not chosen by the American people,

00:05:26.220 with potentially huge consequences to American lives.

00:05:32.220 Attack the United States of America any longer.

00:05:34.360 But there are no U.S. leaders or Israeli leaders who are making those same claims.

00:05:39.280 So, is he making this up to justify his decision to go to war now?

00:05:43.180 The president is not making anything up, Nancy.

00:05:45.700 He is looking at this every single day based on intelligence, based on facts,

00:05:50.340 and based on intelligence that he himself and his negotiators have consumed

00:05:55.620 based on their, again, negotiations with the rogue Iranian regime over the past year.

00:06:00.660 And the president and his team tried in a good-faith way to reach a diplomatic deal

00:06:05.760 through peaceful means with the Iranian regime.

00:06:07.740 And Iran chose this path to death and destruction.

00:06:12.020 Iran wanted to attack the United States of America,

00:06:14.500 and the president was not going to sit back and allow that to happen.

00:06:18.280 He was not going to sit back and allow that to happen,

00:06:20.460 and everyone in this room should be grateful for it.

00:06:22.600 There was a briefing on the Capitol Hill today,

00:06:25.680 and some senators came out and said they were more convinced than ever

00:06:29.180 that there were the U.S. boots on the ground.

00:06:31.220 Senator Blumenthal said that, in fact.

00:06:33.320 Your reaction to that and any update on President Trump's thinking about it?

00:06:37.740 Look, I would say that Democrats on Capitol Hill are clearly being quite disingenuous.

00:06:43.380 Three years ago, not a single Democrat voted for the,

00:06:48.280 against the resolution condemning Iran as the world's leading state sponsor of terror.

00:06:53.200 Yet now, with President Trump as commander-in-chief finally taking the action

00:06:56.940 that so many Democrats have called on the commander-in-chief to do for many, many years,

00:07:01.340 to wipe out the threat of a rogue Iranian terrorist regime,

00:07:04.480 Now, all of a sudden, Democrats are playing politics

00:07:07.140 with this long-standing bipartisan policy of the United States,

00:07:10.880 and 53 of them in the House recently voted against the resolution

00:07:15.560 condemning Iran as the world's state sponsor of terror.

00:07:18.540 So I wouldn't take Democrats at their word.

00:07:21.000 As for boots on the ground, the president has talked about this repeatedly.

00:07:25.400 Wisely, he does not rule options out as commander-in-chief.

00:07:28.300 So, again, I would hesitate to confirm anything that a Democrat on Capitol Hill says right now

00:07:32.940 about the president's thinking.

00:07:34.700 Where would you be if they sent up a supplemental?

00:07:37.160 And did they give you any indication this morning that a supplemental is on its way to Capitol Hill?

00:07:41.340 At this point, I am a hard no on a supplemental.

00:07:45.300 This is not a war the American people want us to engage in.

00:07:50.120 This is not a war supported by this country, and this is not a war that makes us safer.

00:07:56.480 For the Trump administration to say over and over,

00:08:00.300 there's no money for health care.

00:08:02.540 There's no money for child care.

00:08:05.000 There's no time to pay attention to how families are paying more.

00:08:08.900 But there's a billion dollars a day to go to the Middle East and drop bombs on Iran

00:08:16.400 for military purposes that no one can describe

00:08:20.540 and that no one can explain how merely from dropping bombs from the air we will accomplish those ends.

00:08:28.800 No, no more money.

00:08:30.400 The one thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse.

00:08:37.500 The military already has a trillion dollars.

00:08:40.820 The military already cannot pass a simple audit on where that money is.

00:08:47.680 And for the Trump administration to come back and say shovel billions more

00:08:52.820 into a war in Iran that is not supported by the American people

00:08:57.160 and does not make us safer makes no sense at all.

00:09:00.520 So I will be a no.

00:09:01.600 Caroline, the president said yesterday for the first time that he had to strike Iran

00:09:06.280 because he believes that Iran was going to strike U.S. targets within seven days.

00:09:10.860 And then he then bumped that down later to three days.

00:09:14.280 Where is he getting that?

00:09:15.960 Well, that's not the first time the president has said that he chose to launch Operation Epic Fury

00:09:20.160 because he felt as though Iran was going to strike the United States

00:09:23.800 and our assets in the region first.

00:09:25.520 Again, I addressed this in the last briefing.

00:09:28.560 This was a feeling the president had based on facts, facts provided to him by his top negotiators

00:09:33.400 who had been engaged with the Iranian regime in a good faith effort.

00:09:37.040 The Iranian regime regime was lying, deceiving the United States of America,

00:09:41.500 clearly trying to continue their nuclear program to create a bomb that would, of course,

00:09:47.300 threaten the United States of America.

00:09:48.760 Again, their ballistic missile arsenal, they were rapidly and aggressively increasing that by the month

00:09:53.880 to a place where they would essentially build immunity for themselves

00:09:57.840 where a future president or President Trump would not be able to launch this incredibly successful operation.

00:10:03.680 And so the president, again, as I have reiterated and he has said,

00:10:07.120 was not going to sit back and allow the Iranian regime to threaten

00:10:11.660 or to attack the United States of America any longer.

00:10:14.480 But there are no U.S. leaders or Israeli leaders who are making those same claims.

00:10:19.480 So is he making this up to justify his decision to go to war now?

00:10:23.560 The president is not making anything up, Nancy.

00:10:25.860 He is looking at this every single day based on intelligence, based on facts,

00:10:30.500 and based on intelligence that he himself and his negotiators have consumed

00:10:35.780 based on their, again, negotiations with the rogue Iranian regime over the past year.

00:10:40.500 And the president and his team tried in a good faith way to reach a diplomatic deal

00:10:45.920 through peaceful means with the Iranian regime.

00:10:48.320 And Iran chose this path to death and destruction.

00:10:52.180 Iran wanted to attack the United States of America,

00:10:54.660 and the president was not going to sit back and allow that to happen.

00:10:58.440 He was not going to sit back and allow that to happen,

00:11:00.620 and everyone in this room should be grateful for it.

00:11:02.660 Our allies step up.

00:11:04.740 Get our air bases out of Spain.

00:11:06.520 They're not reliable.

00:11:07.340 Move all those airplanes to a country that would let us use them

00:11:10.960 when we're threatened by a regime like Iran.

00:11:13.640 To our friends in Spain, man, you've lost your way.

00:11:16.100 I don't want to do business with you anymore.

00:11:18.200 I want our air bases, our air bases out of Spain

00:11:21.700 into a country that will let us use them.

00:11:23.800 To our Arab friends, I've tried to help you construct a new Mideast.

00:11:27.760 You need to up your game here.

00:11:28.940 I can't go to South Carolina and say we're fighting

00:11:31.600 and you won't publicly fight.

00:11:33.280 What you're doing behind the scenes, that has to stop.

00:11:36.360 The double-dealing of the Arab world when it comes to this stuff needs to end.

00:11:39.760 I go back to South Carolina.

00:11:41.160 I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Mideast.

00:11:44.600 What I want you to do in the Mideast,

00:11:46.200 our friends in Saudi Arabia and other places,

00:11:48.360 step forward and say this is my fight too.

00:11:50.800 I join America.

00:11:51.860 I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down.

00:11:54.620 If you don't, you're making a great mistake

00:11:56.320 and you're going to cut off the ability

00:11:57.820 to have a better relationship with the United States.

00:12:00.680 I say this as a friend.

00:12:01.860 Tuesday, 10 March, in the year of our Lord, 2026,

00:12:09.200 I'm not even sure I can comprehend what he's saying right there.

00:12:13.380 In the middle of a gunfight, now you're having a conversation

00:12:16.020 who's supposed to be your ally that you've poured billions of dollars

00:12:18.980 into protecting.

00:12:19.720 And now we know they're double-dealing us behind the scenes.

00:12:23.160 And you're talking, you're, you're, you're,

00:12:25.880 even the concept that the sons and daughters of South Carolina,

00:12:30.220 and you saw the General Kane at the beginning,

00:12:33.560 praising the, the daily evolutions on a,

00:12:39.220 for carrier ops on a deck of an aircraft carrier.

00:12:42.220 What these kids, these young men and women do every day,

00:12:45.060 what they do absolutely every day, all day long.

00:12:48.660 At night, during day ops, et cetera.

00:12:52.900 I mean, it's the, the messaging here.

00:12:54.500 I mean, Lindsey Graham should be pulled off of television.

00:12:57.140 I don't know who, who he thinks he is.

00:12:59.100 He thinks he's president of the United States.

00:13:00.620 And with the Arab world I'm trying to shape,

00:13:02.560 this is the problem.

00:13:04.380 That's actually a fact.

00:13:06.220 You got Lindsey Graham over there as a,

00:13:08.360 as a, should be a, registered as a foreign agent

00:13:11.460 for the Netanyahu government.

00:13:13.320 And now he's letting you know, because I spent all the time,

00:13:15.300 the, the, you know, the Arab world that I've been trying to,

00:13:17.980 that I'm trying to reorder.

00:13:20.400 This is where we are.

00:13:22.160 And this is dangerous.

00:13:24.700 Because you have mixed messages.

00:13:26.440 Because you have guys like Lindsey Graham

00:13:28.020 and dozens more that are doing their own thing.

00:13:31.580 Okay.

00:13:31.980 We are packed this evening.

00:13:34.520 Jack Basovic's going to join us

00:13:36.620 because there's just a report out that the,

00:13:39.000 that the Iranians are now mining

00:13:42.580 the Straits of Hormuz.

00:13:45.300 We're going to get Jack and talk about that.

00:13:46.780 Also, the Koreans are sitting there going,

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00:13:54.480 We may have a problem getting back in here

00:13:56.300 because the Chinese Communist Party

00:13:57.500 wasn't that thrilled when we first put them in,

00:13:59.240 I think in 16 or 17.

00:14:00.560 Anyway, we've got a lot of the,

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00:14:04.200 Caroline Wren is going to be here

00:14:05.920 because the fight on Paxton versus Cornyn

00:14:09.940 is heating up.

00:14:12.480 We're slammed for both hours.

00:14:14.160 So stick around, buckle up.

00:14:15.600 You're in the war room.

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00:16:22.620 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:28.020 Jack Posobiec, a naval intelligence officer, joins us.

00:16:31.380 Jack, first I'm going to start with Lindsey Graham.

00:16:34.520 What is going on?

00:16:35.320 I mean, shouldn't the White House tap him on the shoulder

00:16:37.260 and say, hey, look, no more drinking when you go on TV,

00:16:40.040 and by the way, we don't want you on TV as a surrogate, sir?

00:16:44.480 Well, Steve, it's not, it may be drinking.

00:16:47.600 I don't know.

00:16:48.320 I couldn't say I don't know the good senator very well,

00:16:51.220 but what I can tell you is what you are seeing

00:16:54.180 is an example of jestergooning for the war.

00:16:56.860 See, that's what this is,

00:16:58.240 is that he gets out there and he jestergoons for a wider war,

00:17:01.580 no matter really where it is,

00:17:03.160 whether it's in Ukraine, whether it's in the Middle East,

00:17:06.300 whether it's in Latin America.

00:17:07.920 There's no point in trying to understand whether, you know,

00:17:11.520 the strategy, whether U.S. interests,

00:17:13.720 or walking through the difference of it.

00:17:15.160 That's just his role.

00:17:16.300 That's just his job.

00:17:17.200 He's the jestergoon for the war.

00:17:20.660 Can you help out?

00:17:21.960 There's a couple of three boomers in the audience,

00:17:24.520 including me.

00:17:25.340 Can you help me out with,

00:17:26.580 my young staff is nodding.

00:17:28.420 What is jestergooning?

00:17:29.620 The kids refer to this as jestergooning.

00:17:31.620 So it's, it's when you, when you sort of, you know,

00:17:34.140 you, you kind of, you kind of act, you know,

00:17:36.900 in a, in a clowning around,

00:17:40.000 you're trying to impress people.

00:17:41.280 You're trying to, you're trying to, you know,

00:17:43.520 dance around a little bit, you know,

00:17:45.340 open up a bag of tricks for, you know,

00:17:48.360 to get what you want.

00:17:49.260 So jestergooning,

00:17:52.160 jestergooning is a good example of what he's doing,

00:17:54.260 but this is my point.

00:17:55.600 Nothing here more serious.

00:17:57.000 We've got 150 casualties now.

00:17:59.300 I think we've got seven or I think we have eight now official KIAs.

00:18:03.540 People are in harm's way.

00:18:04.660 We're sending another carrier.

00:18:05.660 We're, we're, we're,

00:18:06.520 we are flooding the zone now with more and more equipment and more and more

00:18:12.420 assets.

00:18:13.780 And the, and I'm going to get to the mining in a second,

00:18:16.520 but the, the Iranians, not only am not backing down,

00:18:20.740 they're doubling down, sir.

00:18:23.380 Well, this is deadly serious.

00:18:24.960 And there's no question that when American troops are on the line and when

00:18:29.280 America's best of the best are on the line,

00:18:31.940 if we are going to send anyone anywhere,

00:18:34.460 we have to do so with the full force and backing of the United States

00:18:39.060 military, not just, you know,

00:18:42.020 not just some, some clown show on TV.

00:18:44.600 I mean some, I mean the real muscle, the real might,

00:18:48.260 and to do so to only use that sacred responsibility when it is absolutely

00:18:55.740 necessary.

00:18:56.220 Now the president has said that this operation is necessary,

00:18:58.820 but if he's talking about boots on the ground, if he,

00:19:01.320 because we keep talking about this Kargah Island operation over and over,

00:19:04.660 they say, Oh, we're going to go to Kargah Island.

00:19:06.280 We're going to go to,

00:19:06.700 you are within artillery range of the Iranian army at that point.

00:19:10.840 That is so close to you. You've got long range artillery that could strike.

00:19:14.220 You certainly within range of missile batteries.

00:19:16.920 You're within range of everything that Iran has to come to bear.

00:19:21.220 So you drop a couple, three units or divisions on Kargah Island.

00:19:25.700 You're looking at,

00:19:26.780 you're looking at another case on and you're going to see case on all across

00:19:30.000 Tik TOK. Now I'm sure, by the way, United States military,

00:19:33.340 whether you're talking about the seven fifth Rangers,

00:19:34.880 you're talking about tier one assets, you're talking about 82nd airborne.

00:19:38.580 They could do it and they will do it. U S Marines.

00:19:40.480 They will do it. But if we are going to do something like this,

00:19:43.500 we cannot be glib about it. And we have to be serious.

00:19:46.740 Unlike the unserious Senator here,

00:19:48.880 you need to take it seriously and understand that that is going to spark a

00:19:53.180 wider and longer conflagration. And I heard the press, my president,

00:19:56.820 the president of the United States yesterday say,

00:19:58.580 this is a short term in a conflict,

00:20:02.640 a short term pain for long-term gain.

00:20:04.980 That's what we heard from UN ambassador.

00:20:06.840 That's what we heard from Caroline Levitt.

00:20:08.240 And that's what we heard from the president as well. So, you know,

00:20:11.600 I would just, I'd ask the Senator to check with them.

00:20:15.900 You, when you're talking about Karg Island,

00:20:18.220 we're talking about the Straits of Hormuz.

00:20:19.720 We're talking about oil and gas. That's the,

00:20:22.160 that's the,

00:20:23.140 the island that has a lot of the Iranian infrastructure and facilities on it

00:20:27.960 for holding storage.

00:20:28.900 Their entire port structure is there.

00:20:31.580 90% of their,

00:20:32.800 their onload offload flows right through Karg Island.

00:20:37.560 Right through Karg Island.

00:20:38.460 And there's talk about the 82nd airborne,

00:20:41.300 a combat team or combat brigade from the 82nd airborne doing maybe an airdrop in

00:20:45.740 there or others delivery systems.

00:20:49.160 They will definitely be sons and daughters of South Carolinians.

00:20:53.040 Uh, when,

00:20:54.020 when the 82nd goes from Fort Bragg,

00:20:56.000 uh,

00:20:56.780 that's why he's also saying something disturbing that ought to be out in the

00:20:59.580 open.

00:21:00.440 The Arab quote unquote,

00:21:02.400 our great Arab allies in the region are all running for cover and,

00:21:06.820 and telling people,

00:21:07.620 Hey,

00:21:07.680 we got to stop this or double dealing us.

00:21:09.860 We now know that the,

00:21:10.900 uh,

00:21:11.120 the,

00:21:11.780 uh,

00:21:12.200 all the financial assets of the Iranians are in the pirate COVID Dubai,

00:21:17.160 yet they haven't been frozen yet.

00:21:18.800 Or so it's,

00:21:20.080 it's like America's fighting and protecting these,

00:21:23.380 uh,

00:21:23.880 these monarchies.

00:21:25.400 And I'm not so sure they're in the fight,

00:21:27.420 sir.

00:21:29.560 Well,

00:21:30.100 Steve,

00:21:30.440 and I've said this from the beginning that Iran made a strategic move and

00:21:35.660 certainly rolled the dice the same way the president made a strategic move in

00:21:39.400 ordering the operation.

00:21:41.020 Their counter move was not to only go directly against us bases.

00:21:45.620 When you look in terms of Saudi,

00:21:48.140 when you look in terms of Al-Adid,

00:21:49.540 when you look in terms of Kuwait,

00:21:50.980 but also to go against the U S allies that make up the GCC,

00:21:55.300 the Gulf cooperation council.

00:21:57.060 These are the Arab nations,

00:21:58.360 the Sunni Arab nations around the rim of the Gulf,

00:22:01.940 the Persian Gulf.

00:22:03.100 And so in doing so,

00:22:04.720 they make them have to choose.

00:22:06.660 Will you choose your alliance with the United States and,

00:22:09.440 and potential,

00:22:10.580 uh,

00:22:11.160 regional hegemony over all of your economic gains.

00:22:14.900 And by the way,

00:22:15.420 when it comes to Dubai,

00:22:16.280 think about the past 15 years that Dubai specifically has invested in their

00:22:22.180 reputation management and their ability to say that we are the jewel of the

00:22:25.980 Middle East,

00:22:26.520 that we are a place where people can come.

00:22:28.380 And it's a,

00:22:28.780 it's a,

00:22:29.060 it's a pleasure palace.

00:22:30.080 It's,

00:22:30.740 it's the Las Vegas of the Gulf where people can come from all over the,

00:22:34.980 the elite of the world,

00:22:36.020 the rich of the world can come and have a playground that is shattered.

00:22:40.040 The minute the Shaheed drones begin flying in unimpeded through the airspace or

00:22:45.320 making short work of air set,

00:22:47.700 enemy air saturation and going directly through your air defense and start slamming

00:22:52.480 into these towers.

00:22:53.380 Like,

00:22:53.700 you know,

00:22:54.180 they're obviously they've been targeting the Burj Khalifa,

00:22:56.020 but you know,

00:22:56.780 you look at some of these other incredible and impressive skyscrapers,

00:22:59.540 which Dubai has,

00:23:00.480 that is the challenge that Iran is putting up against to say,

00:23:05.720 Hey,

00:23:06.000 you want to go one-on-one?

00:23:07.320 We're going to go asymmetric.

00:23:08.500 We're going to hit you in the purse.

00:23:11.800 Let's play the,

00:23:12.720 uh,

00:23:12.900 now they're talking about mining.

00:23:14.440 The president would say,

00:23:15.900 Hey,

00:23:16.240 don't hit the Arab allies.

00:23:17.520 They hit them.

00:23:18.260 The president says,

00:23:19.300 um,

00:23:20.380 uh,

00:23:21.140 I'm going to have Navy combatants escort people and put up $20 billion to make

00:23:25.240 sure there's free flow in and out of her straights or her moves.

00:23:28.280 They come out and say,

00:23:29.120 we're going to mine it.

00:23:29.800 We're going to shell it.

00:23:30.440 The president of the United States says,

00:23:31.340 you better watch out,

00:23:32.220 uh,

00:23:33.360 your new,

00:23:34.040 uh,

00:23:34.480 son.

00:23:35.000 That's the,

00:23:35.460 uh,

00:23:35.740 Ayatollah.

00:23:36.420 And they come back and say,

00:23:37.440 you better watch out.

00:23:38.320 I mean,

00:23:38.520 they're going tit for tat.

00:23:39.560 Let's play right now.

00:23:40.540 The,

00:23:40.720 the straights of her moves are bring Jack in.

00:23:43.340 Some important breaking news.

00:23:44.880 And that is that CNN is learning.

00:23:46.780 Iran has begun laying mines in the straight of Hormuz.

00:23:51.000 This is according to two people familiar with the matter.

00:23:54.820 It's another major complication is the world's top oil exporter warns.

00:23:58.780 There could be quote,

00:24:00.300 catastrophic consequences for oil markets.

00:24:02.560 If the conflict keeps disrupting ship and oil tanker traffic through the straight.

00:24:07.560 Uh,

00:24:08.080 he says beyond upending shipping and insurance,

00:24:10.460 the ongoing disruption could snowball,

00:24:12.060 threatening aviation agriculture and other industries.

00:24:15.520 A short time ago,

00:24:16.340 the white house repeated president Trump's promise to provide government backed insurance,

00:24:20.780 as well as naval escorts to keep tankers moving.

00:24:24.560 So far,

00:24:24.940 those shipping companies are resisting traveling through the region while the fighting goes on.

00:24:28.980 What it shows clearly is how relatively,

00:24:33.800 note,

00:24:34.020 I use that word easy.

00:24:35.620 It is for Iran to cause absolute mayhem,

00:24:41.040 havoc and chaos with the,

00:24:43.420 with the global shipping.

00:24:44.940 You see,

00:24:45.640 they threaten of whether they actually lay the mines or not.

00:24:48.620 We'll only have to wait and see.

00:24:50.140 You've got the perspective of the drones and or missiles.

00:24:54.300 You've got an entire choke point that you're looking at.

00:24:57.300 And all that the West can do,

00:24:59.840 or that,

00:25:00.180 uh,

00:25:00.700 President Trump and others can do is offer these rather,

00:25:04.660 uh,

00:25:05.460 poor substitutes,

00:25:07.080 insurance,

00:25:08.440 um,

00:25:09.160 for escorting of vessels.

00:25:10.980 I spoke to the CEO earlier of Maersk shipping,

00:25:14.760 the largest in the world.

00:25:16.580 And he basically said,

00:25:17.960 look,

00:25:18.240 you can give me all the insurance you like,

00:25:20.640 but if it's not safe,

00:25:22.280 I ain't sending my ships,

00:25:24.620 my container ships through the strait.

00:25:27.480 And he said,

00:25:28.020 and as for escorting,

00:25:29.580 it's just too difficult.

00:25:31.160 Now they've got 10 ships stuck in the Northern Gulf.

00:25:35.540 They've got many more on the way.

00:25:37.820 It gives you an idea of why,

00:25:39.680 what the president said yesterday might sound good in sound bites,

00:25:45.640 but is very difficult to actually put into play and terribly easy to overturn.

00:25:54.180 Jack,

00:25:54.680 but so we've got a couple of minutes on this side and I want to hold you over.

00:25:57.040 Just your thoughts of what you've heard in the difficult,

00:26:00.040 the complexity of mining,

00:26:01.440 uh,

00:26:02.020 the Straits or Hormuz.

00:26:04.520 Uh,

00:26:05.040 well,

00:26:05.420 see that I would,

00:26:06.440 I would put it this way.

00:26:07.760 It's the complexity isn't mining.

00:26:09.680 This trade,

00:26:10.240 the mind,

00:26:10.640 this trade is very easy to mine,

00:26:11.860 specifically those shipping channels.

00:26:13.180 When you're only looking at a,

00:26:14.520 a deep sea channel of about two nautical miles,

00:26:17.140 each the eastbound,

00:26:17.980 the westbound,

00:26:18.640 and then there's a buffer zone of about two nautical miles in between.

00:26:21.600 So you're talking to very short,

00:26:23.680 very narrow distance whereby in these,

00:26:26.940 um,

00:26:27.880 these deep hold vessels can transit.

00:26:30.640 And at the same time,

00:26:31.720 Iran has the ability to put,

00:26:34.020 or by the way,

00:26:35.180 create the perception of having put these asymmetric sea mines into,

00:26:40.740 into the strait itself by running their small boats out,

00:26:44.120 by using freighters,

00:26:45.200 by using dows,

00:26:46.340 by using,

00:26:46.740 I mean,

00:26:46.900 you could use a,

00:26:47.540 a dinghy to be able to put one of these mines out.

00:26:50.680 Um,

00:26:51.140 you know,

00:26:51.320 that's actually what we saw in the USS Cole situation over in Aden.

00:26:54.580 I was just a small boat.

00:26:55.960 And so they have the ability to shut down so much of the world's trade,

00:27:00.860 which by the way,

00:27:01.460 it shuts themselves down as well,

00:27:03.520 but it's always been the ultimate card that Iran can play.

00:27:07.540 And then of course,

00:27:08.180 there's no ship captain that's going to drive through there.

00:27:11.320 John Conrad says that he would do so,

00:27:13.160 but even he might have,

00:27:15.200 uh,

00:27:15.480 might want to pump the brakes if he saw some Iranian miners out there.

00:27:20.740 Uh,

00:27:21.260 Jackie,

00:27:21.800 hold on for one second.

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00:27:28.640 committed to having a massive bombing today.

00:27:30.880 It looks like that's happening inside of,

00:27:32.740 uh,

00:27:32.960 inside of Iran.

00:27:33.880 So they're getting lit up.

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00:29:27.580 Here's your host,

00:29:29.020 Stephen K.

00:29:29.640 Jack,

00:29:34.500 the secretary of war,

00:29:35.620 Pete Hegseth laid out the military objectives this morning.

00:29:39.840 Today,

00:29:40.660 more bombing going through those objectives,

00:29:44.100 particularly the degradation of their military capabilities,

00:29:47.920 either nuclear weapons capabilities,

00:29:49.480 air defense capabilities,

00:29:51.080 missile ballistic missile building capabilities,

00:29:53.760 pretty concise,

00:29:55.760 but it's going to take a while to do it.

00:29:57.800 I don't see what Pete was saying.

00:30:00.780 And then what our actions have been today in the,

00:30:02.680 in the counteractions by the Iranians to potentially mine the,

00:30:07.560 the Straits of Hormuz.

00:30:09.460 I don't see,

00:30:10.380 I'm not feeling an off ramp,

00:30:12.220 sir.

00:30:13.740 Well,

00:30:14.220 Steve,

00:30:14.480 you know,

00:30:14.800 we're talking about actual mining of the straight of Hormuz and keep in

00:30:18.860 mind that this was not stated by the Iranians.

00:30:21.660 This was stated by American media reporting based on intelligence.

00:30:26.800 And if Iran were going to mine the straight of Hormuz,

00:30:31.300 they would be doing so at great harm to themselves,

00:30:35.320 as well as to their customers,

00:30:36.660 their chief customers,

00:30:37.560 the Chinese communist party,

00:30:39.600 because that is who receives the bulk of Iran's oil when it is removed.

00:30:44.780 Now they are already feeling the hurt because of the current de facto

00:30:49.280 closing of the straight of Hormuz that we've seen,

00:30:51.360 but mining,

00:30:52.280 I mean,

00:30:52.440 you're talking about law,

00:30:53.700 a shock to the oil system.

00:30:55.060 That is a game of essentially brinksmanship.

00:30:58.340 It's,

00:30:58.740 it's petrol brinksmanship whereby in they're trying to see if China can hold

00:31:04.820 out longer than the United States,

00:31:07.260 the Gulf allies and everyone else.

00:31:10.160 And look,

00:31:11.060 Steve,

00:31:11.260 as they say,

00:31:12.080 as,

00:31:12.680 as we like to say in the Navy,

00:31:13.720 uh,

00:31:14.200 any ship could be a minesweeper once.

00:31:16.340 So it would only take a few to,

00:31:17.900 to head out there.

00:31:18.620 And certainly there are,

00:31:19.580 uh,

00:31:20.140 there are unmanned options that are available,

00:31:22.300 but at the same time,

00:31:23.440 when you're talking about the sheer quantity of these super tankers,

00:31:27.720 the amount of oil,

00:31:29.180 the,

00:31:29.420 the,

00:31:29.660 with the cost going up already,

00:31:31.380 as it is,

00:31:32.180 what insurance company,

00:31:34.020 what reinsurance company,

00:31:35.720 what shipping,

00:31:36.640 uh,

00:31:37.320 you know,

00:31:37.620 what shipping firm is going to go out and take that risk.

00:31:40.820 If you know,

00:31:41.620 you could lose your entire cargo with oil prices,

00:31:45.560 the way they are.

00:31:46.320 And this of course is the ultimate asymmetric effect that the Iranians are

00:31:50.760 looking for.

00:31:53.220 Uh,

00:31:53.660 before I go,

00:31:54.360 it seems like president Trump with the secretary of war and general

00:31:57.640 Cain and Admiral Cooper,

00:31:58.700 they're going through,

00:31:59.820 as we say,

00:32:00.620 targeting packages very methodically,

00:32:03.800 very professionally,

00:32:04.800 and they're relentless.

00:32:06.640 Is,

00:32:07.480 uh,

00:32:07.680 it seems like Netanyahu maybe has another strategy,

00:32:10.380 another set of objectives,

00:32:11.400 but I want to go back to Lindsey Graham when he say gesture Gooney,

00:32:14.760 is he gesture Gooney for the deep state?

00:32:16.740 I mean,

00:32:16.920 the deep state gets a vote here too,

00:32:18.820 because as we know from John Solomon's reporting,

00:32:21.200 we're going through a 10 year,

00:32:23.460 10 year,

00:32:24.880 uh,

00:32:25.960 counterintelligence investigation of president Trump on four separate,

00:32:29.440 on four separate times.

00:32:30.940 And these were named operations,

00:32:32.720 treating Donald John Trump,

00:32:36.160 as a national security issue against the United States of America,

00:32:41.040 four times from 2016,

00:32:42.560 all the way up to,

00:32:44.760 to the day before he took,

00:32:46.040 he,

00:32:46.240 he,

00:32:46.580 he was,

00:32:47.220 um,

00:32:48.660 uh,

00:32:48.940 took the oath of office for the second time on his third victory.

00:32:51.700 I mean,

00:32:52.680 Lindsey Graham is gesture Gooney for the deep state.

00:32:55.280 The deep state thinks they've got to say so here too.

00:32:57.360 And they're kind of running this thing the way they want to run it.

00:32:59.420 At least part of it,

00:33:00.520 sir.

00:33:01.260 Thoughts.

00:33:02.800 Steve,

00:33:03.280 I read that report from just the news this morning as well.

00:33:06.080 John actually sent it to me.

00:33:07.360 This is,

00:33:08.260 this is the main fight and it needs to be the main fight because there's all

00:33:13.060 this talk about right now,

00:33:14.640 2028 Rubio,

00:33:16.400 JD Vance,

00:33:17.260 et cetera,

00:33:17.580 all the different,

00:33:18.360 but it's all going to be for not,

00:33:21.000 if this project was for anything,

00:33:23.480 then what has it been for?

00:33:24.720 It's been for the restoration of America first policies on the board.

00:33:29.300 It's been for the interests of the American people being put front and

00:33:34.020 center with the American,

00:33:34.760 with the American public.

00:33:36.480 That means the forgotten man and woman that Donald J.

00:33:39.200 Trump talked about every single day for the last 10 years.

00:33:42.460 That means mass deportations.

00:33:44.240 And yes,

00:33:44.780 I said mass deportations,

00:33:46.840 not some,

00:33:47.680 not partial,

00:33:48.520 not just the worst of the worst,

00:33:50.440 not the violent mass deportations.

00:33:52.440 That was the slogan all throughout 2016,

00:33:56.000 2020,

00:33:56.540 and 2024.

00:33:57.640 And of course,

00:33:59.020 it involves shutting down the deep state rod at rod and stern root and

00:34:06.200 stem.

00:34:06.920 That is the goal that has always been the goal.

00:34:09.900 And anyone standing in front of that,

00:34:11.460 whether they're gesture gooning for the deep state,

00:34:13.440 whether Lindsey Graham is doing that or anyone else,

00:34:16.080 you are in fact,

00:34:17.200 but this,

00:34:17.640 by the way,

00:34:17.920 Steve,

00:34:18.220 this is why Jeffrey Epstein became such an issue for Donald Trump for

00:34:22.520 and,

00:34:22.740 and,

00:34:23.100 and for Pam Bondi,

00:34:24.120 this is why it became such an issue because the files just should have

00:34:26.940 come out.

00:34:27.660 That's why they should have dropped the files.

00:34:29.440 That's why they should have come out early on.

00:34:31.720 When we went in and we said back February last year,

00:34:34.380 I said,

00:34:34.640 just put them all out,

00:34:35.440 just put them all out.

00:34:36.100 And then it was this and this,

00:34:37.420 it was stop and come up because it was a proxy for the broader issue of

00:34:42.320 deep state secret corruption and secret control of the United States.

00:34:46.540 That has been the issue.

00:34:47.980 And that has always been the issue.

00:34:52.100 Should we now release all of these investigations on president Trump and

00:34:55.940 name who,

00:34:56.700 because there's hundreds of people that,

00:34:58.800 that John Solomon is saying we're also investigated at the same time or in

00:35:03.200 the same situation.

00:35:04.020 Should we just dump all these immediately and get on with it?

00:35:07.040 Because we've got election in the midterms and the deep state has got their

00:35:10.340 own ideas of what's happening in this war.

00:35:12.320 If we don't achieve accountability now,

00:35:15.020 if we don't achieve accountability now,

00:35:18.480 we never will.

00:35:19.380 They will kick this can down the road every single time.

00:35:22.280 And then they'll say,

00:35:23.100 vote for me because we'll be the one to release the files.

00:35:26.420 And then the files never actually came out.

00:35:28.640 No,

00:35:28.740 they eventually got where they needed to with the DOJ.

00:35:31.520 And I applaud that.

00:35:32.460 I think everyone has seen the,

00:35:34.480 the,

00:35:35.260 the fruit of that.

00:35:35.940 But at the same time,

00:35:36.800 we need to be honest about what the deep state has done to this country,

00:35:41.360 what they've done to the MAGA movement,

00:35:42.920 what they've done to so many great patriots,

00:35:44.800 people who were thrown in jail like yourself,

00:35:46.720 Steve and Dr.

00:35:47.760 Peter Navarro,

00:35:48.760 people who were indicted four times like Donald Trump and people who had

00:35:51.360 investigations against them,

00:35:52.720 like general Flynn,

00:35:53.900 who ended up spending millions upon millions of their own personal wealth,

00:35:57.640 all because they wanted to stand up for the American people.

00:36:00.520 Yeah.

00:36:01.260 Rudy,

00:36:01.620 I mean,

00:36:02.120 the list is endless.

00:36:03.100 Rudy Bankrupt.

00:36:03.720 The list is endless.

00:36:04.980 Rudy Giuliani,

00:36:05.960 Mike Lindell,

00:36:06.740 Jeff Clark.

00:36:08.940 Everybody.

00:36:09.940 Yeah.

00:36:10.440 Everybody.

00:36:11.200 A thousand,

00:36:11.680 hundreds.

00:36:12.200 And then,

00:36:12.400 then all the J6 guys.

00:36:14.440 Jack,

00:36:14.940 where your,

00:36:15.320 your,

00:36:15.520 your Twitter feed is like the Associated Press for this war right now.

00:36:20.420 Everybody's got to go to it.

00:36:21.420 Where'd they go?

00:36:23.600 All right.

00:36:24.080 So if you want to continue,

00:36:25.800 if you want more gesture gooning,

00:36:27.580 go check out Lindsey Graham.

00:36:29.160 But if you want more of the analysis,

00:36:31.160 we wanted more about what the latest is head over to at Jack Posobiec.

00:36:35.740 And then of course,

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00:36:43.360 Fantastic.

00:36:46.500 Great.

00:36:46.760 And thank you for changing your schedule to join us.

00:36:48.540 I really appreciate it.

00:36:50.140 Thank you.

00:36:50.620 God bless the deposit.

00:36:51.500 Caroline rent.

00:36:52.240 And just say,

00:36:54.360 and just so a Jack teed up,

00:36:56.180 Mike Howe is coming.

00:36:57.100 He was there this morning.

00:36:58.080 He's coming back because the white house,

00:36:59.720 a huge story in Axios and Caputo's name's on it.

00:37:02.840 And they're totally dialed into the white house,

00:37:04.380 the white house.

00:37:05.460 They're saying now they don't want any discussion,

00:37:07.720 no mention of mass deportations.

00:37:09.860 Howe's going to join us to six to get that.

00:37:11.420 But, but Caroline,

00:37:13.240 I've got you on because this whole thing is like proxy wars and the Cornyn

00:37:16.720 Paxton grassroots versus not just the DC establishment,

00:37:21.540 but a guy who was basically the legal brain to help the deep state.

00:37:26.220 I mean,

00:37:26.400 Cornyn,

00:37:26.920 you know,

00:37:27.240 Lisa Monaco was a Rosenstein,

00:37:30.720 all of them.

00:37:31.700 Right.

00:37:32.220 And,

00:37:32.440 and we're going to have some,

00:37:33.560 but we're not even the save America act.

00:37:36.720 Like who knows this thing's kind of in limbo.

00:37:39.100 And one of the reasons in limbo,

00:37:40.580 it's not taking some symbolic vote of 51.

00:37:44.100 You've got to roll your sleeves up and you've got to,

00:37:46.280 if you're going to be leader like John Thune,

00:37:47.700 you've got to go find the votes to make sure that we can get to a,

00:37:51.480 the standing or talking filibuster.

00:37:54.660 It's not going to work.

00:37:55.740 Otherwise people actually want it passed.

00:37:57.600 They just don't want some symbolic effort,

00:37:59.480 ma'am.

00:37:59.680 It seems like we're hung up now on,

00:38:02.560 because to save Cornyn politically,

00:38:05.160 right.

00:38:06.160 And try to thwart Paxson and really authority Paxson is the MAGA

00:38:09.720 grassroots.

00:38:11.620 They're looking like they want to have some symbolic votes.

00:38:14.800 MAGA doesn't want symbolic votes.

00:38:16.380 The grassroots now,

00:38:17.400 and the folks in Virginia,

00:38:18.540 they're all day.

00:38:19.280 We talked about them this morning.

00:38:20.400 I got tremendous feedback from the chairman of the GOP about how

00:38:24.340 enthusiastic the grassroots are going to work.

00:38:26.080 The same thing in Texas,

00:38:27.180 these people are on fire and they're president Trump's most ardent

00:38:30.740 supporters,

00:38:31.640 ma'am.

00:38:33.520 That's what president Trump is on fire about this.

00:38:36.160 He's been on fire about it for two or three months.

00:38:38.740 He has been yelling at everyone past the same America act,

00:38:42.220 use whatever means necessary,

00:38:44.160 nuke the filibuster,

00:38:45.180 use the talking filibuster.

00:38:46.820 And it's just wild.

00:38:48.280 Apparently who doesn't read true social is U S senators and their staff,

00:38:52.120 which in no surprise here,

00:38:53.280 because they seem to be blindsided by this.

00:38:55.120 President Trump is not an overly mysterious guy.

00:38:57.980 He tells you what he wants and he has been not just telling it.

00:39:01.140 He's been demanding it for months and the Senate has been ignoring it and

00:39:04.880 kicking it down the can.

00:39:06.020 And it is all coming to a head right now.

00:39:08.100 And,

00:39:08.600 you know,

00:39:08.740 it really exploded to a head thanks to Ken Paxton and Ken Paxton taking

00:39:13.280 his own political future,

00:39:15.020 you know,

00:39:15.260 and throwing it to the side and saying,

00:39:16.480 I'm willing to follow the sword here,

00:39:17.780 but let's call these people out.

00:39:19.520 And he gave Trump the leverage that Trump needed to go to these senators.

00:39:23.300 And,

00:39:23.780 you know,

00:39:24.060 right now food is saying,

00:39:25.880 well,

00:39:25.940 we don't have the votes.

00:39:26.800 And then today he says that he's going to bring it to a vote next week.

00:39:29.920 I think that's just performative theater.

00:39:31.680 They're bringing it to a vote next week,

00:39:33.160 knowing they don't have the 60 votes and knowing they're not going to use the

00:39:36.300 filibuster.

00:39:37.180 And it said,

00:39:37.840 they're going to bring it to a vote just so that John Corning can vote.

00:39:40.240 Yes.

00:39:40.560 And then they can go run to the white house and say,

00:39:42.340 Oh,

00:39:42.380 Mr.

00:39:42.680 President Corning voted.

00:39:44.120 Yes.

00:39:44.380 Let's go get that endorsement.

00:39:45.640 And I think president Trump is much smarter than that.

00:39:48.300 And he should,

00:39:49.040 and will,

00:39:50.180 I think,

00:39:50.460 see right through a performant,

00:39:51.940 a performative vote.

00:39:52.740 But explain to this because this is what they say.

00:39:57.120 Well,

00:39:57.340 Corning's great because he votes for president Trump 99.3% time.

00:40:01.600 That's not relevant.

00:40:02.800 It's all processed.

00:40:03.660 Like this,

00:40:04.200 this is just performative.

00:40:05.820 It's not about getting to 51 on the,

00:40:09.320 on the,

00:40:09.840 on the,

00:40:10.240 on the save America act itself.

00:40:12.660 It's about actually doing some hard work and thinking through,

00:40:16.020 and we're going to play a clip here in a minute.

00:40:17.720 I'll do it after the break.

00:40:18.940 We're going to play a clip here in a minute.

00:40:20.420 The Democrats thought it through and we got bigger brains than the

00:40:23.640 constitution and the,

00:40:24.740 and the customs,

00:40:26.220 traditions,

00:40:26.580 and procedures of the Senate to make this work.

00:40:29.520 All soon comes to the microphone.

00:40:31.220 It's so hard.

00:40:32.220 You got to do,

00:40:32.840 you know,

00:40:33.000 you have to have everybody in the room.

00:40:34.120 They're going to do amendments.

00:40:34.800 I don't give a damn.

00:40:35.740 The American people don't give a damn.

00:40:37.200 Your job's supposed to be hard.

00:40:39.120 You're in the most exclusive club in the world.

00:40:41.300 Only a hundred people in the United States Senate.

00:40:43.560 And all they do is whine about so they can get their Thursday fly out.

00:40:47.820 Yes.

00:40:48.120 The standing filibuster is hard.

00:40:50.640 Somebody's going to have to stay ground up to stand there,

00:40:52.400 fight it.

00:40:52.840 And we got them to make,

00:40:54.040 basically make the pitch.

00:40:55.540 As you saw Tim McCain or McCain and excuse me,

00:41:00.220 in the Senator from Virginia today says,

00:41:03.060 no,

00:41:03.460 this is a repressive,

00:41:05.380 this is Tim Kaine says,

00:41:06.500 this is repressing,

00:41:07.380 repressing the vote in the United States.

00:41:09.360 If that's the argument we want to make,

00:41:11.720 why wouldn't we want to make it in the,

00:41:13.460 in the Senate for two or three weeks on national TV?

00:41:17.000 Yes.

00:41:17.240 And all Thun and these guys is whining about,

00:41:19.960 and they want to do these performative process things to go to the president

00:41:23.720 and say,

00:41:24.380 well,

00:41:24.540 Cornyn supports us.

00:41:25.500 He voted for it,

00:41:26.340 ma'am.

00:41:28.060 I know.

00:41:28.640 President Trump came out and said that he will not sign any bill,

00:41:31.880 any bill until this passes the U.S.

00:41:34.440 Senate.

00:41:34.720 This is why I love Donald Trump.

00:41:35.820 He is not messing around.

00:41:37.080 And so good.

00:41:37.440 You know what?

00:41:37.980 Then,

00:41:38.400 you know what,

00:41:38.660 President Trump,

00:41:39.120 you should not endorse any GOP Senator until this bill passes.

00:41:42.880 What type of message would that send?

00:41:44.660 If you're saying that you will not sign a single bill until this bill passes,

00:41:47.940 yet you're endorsing the same senators that are obstructing this process for a decade

00:41:52.500 and been trashing you.

00:41:53.620 He cannot endorse Cornyn.

00:41:55.060 How would it,

00:41:55.540 it doesn't even make sense to do that.

00:41:57.640 And frankly,

00:41:58.440 if I were President Trump,

00:41:59.340 I would rescind my endorsement of every GOP Senator until this bill passes.

00:42:04.080 I'm sorry,

00:42:04.560 but President Trump's endorsement is the most powerful endorsement in the country.

00:42:08.800 It is a privilege to get that endorsement.

00:42:11.600 It's something that you should earn.

00:42:12.780 And it's not something that should be just handed to you because you are an incumbent.

00:42:16.640 And these senators right now are not endorsed,

00:42:18.980 not earning Donald Trump's endorsement.

00:42:21.180 And they need to work for it right now.

00:42:23.080 And I hope that President Trump,

00:42:24.280 he is clearly putting the pressure down,

00:42:25.980 throwing the gauntlet down here,

00:42:27.020 and he should not,

00:42:27.860 not,

00:42:28.100 not let up.

00:42:30.740 Okay.

00:42:31.180 We've got smarter minds on our side about all these,

00:42:33.860 about procedures,

00:42:34.700 about customs,

00:42:35.500 tradition,

00:42:36.060 the constitution.

00:42:36.820 You've got Mike Lee,

00:42:37.780 and you've got another dozen that understand this backwards and forth.

00:42:41.500 We're going to take a short commercial break.

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00:44:56.700 If the Senate cannot protect the right to vote,

00:45:00.160 which is the cornerstone of our democracy,

00:45:02.280 then the Senate rules must be reformed.

00:45:05.220 Must be reformed.

00:45:07.880 If the Republicans block cloture on the legislation before us,

00:45:11.500 I will put forward a proposal to change the rules

00:45:14.780 to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation

00:45:18.640 as recommended by a number of our colleagues

00:45:22.640 who have been working on this reform for a long time.

00:45:26.840 Historically, changes to the Senate rules

00:45:29.180 have been necessary to adapt to change circumstances.

00:45:33.100 Even Senator Byrd, a traditionalist, said just that.

00:45:35.600 To address voting rights in a timely fashion,

00:45:38.940 there's an opportunity to do exactly that.

00:45:41.620 To change the Senate rules,

00:45:43.360 to promote a public debate

00:45:45.220 that is restorative

00:45:46.860 of the Senate's longstanding two-speech limit.

00:45:52.080 We feel very simply,

00:45:53.760 on something as important as voting rights,

00:45:56.600 if Senate Republicans are going to oppose it,

00:45:58.820 they should not be allowed to sit in their office.

00:46:00.840 They've got to come down on the floor

00:46:02.220 and defend their opposition to voting rights

00:46:05.360 the wellspring of our democracy.

00:46:08.660 And there's broad, strong feeling in our caucus about that.

00:46:13.660 Once members of the minority party

00:46:15.660 have exhausted all of their speaking rights

00:46:17.620 and defended their position on the Senate floor,

00:46:20.420 the debate will have run its course

00:46:22.080 and the Senate will move to vote on final passage

00:46:25.140 at a majority threshold,

00:46:27.100 which has always been the threshold for final passage.

00:46:30.360 I hope every senator will embrace this practical reform.

00:46:36.660 Dr. King said to us,

00:46:40.660 keep fighting.

00:46:43.560 They tried to pass voting rights bills

00:46:45.900 year after year after year.

00:46:49.060 1964, they couldn't get it.

00:46:51.260 They kept fighting and they got it in 65.

00:46:53.240 This process today is another step forward

00:46:56.240 in the march to voting rights.

00:47:00.200 We ain't giving up.

00:47:01.980 You're going to hear from us plenty

00:47:03.180 as we continue on this issue.

00:47:06.540 And again, to anyone who says,

00:47:09.120 oh, well, you may not win.

00:47:11.380 Don't do it.

00:47:11.980 Look at history.

00:47:15.500 Look at history.

00:47:17.660 If you keep fighting,

00:47:19.580 the cause of justice,

00:47:21.640 as Dr. King has said,

00:47:23.040 we will be renewed.

00:47:25.600 He used to quote Amos,

00:47:27.580 let justice flow down like the mighty waters.

00:47:31.480 The mighty waters will flow down.

00:47:33.860 You can't stop them.

00:47:35.540 They can be diverted.

00:47:37.000 They can be delayed.

00:47:38.680 But if you keep fighting,

00:47:40.020 they can't be stopped.

00:47:40.900 And we are not stopping.

00:47:43.440 We are not stopping.

00:47:45.540 This is too important.

00:47:47.360 This is sacred.

00:47:48.680 This is vital.

00:47:49.460 This is not just a political fight,

00:47:51.460 which some people like to just talk about.

00:47:55.200 It is a fight for the soul

00:47:56.700 and the future of America.

00:47:58.700 And we are strong,

00:48:00.740 dedicated, and enthusiastic

00:48:02.220 to continue that fight.

00:48:06.060 Okay, well, I don't hear that

00:48:07.440 out of Thun right now.

00:48:08.440 I mean, that's from them

00:48:09.240 a couple years ago.

00:48:09.900 They passed their radical voting bill.

00:48:14.220 The president of the United States

00:48:15.620 is on record

00:48:16.380 is that the Save America Act

00:48:18.520 will essentially save America.

00:48:20.760 It's a voting rights act

00:48:21.740 about who can actually vote in this country

00:48:24.700 because you don't want illegal aliens

00:48:26.420 and others that shouldn't be able to vote.

00:48:28.160 Caroline Wren.

00:48:29.140 Why are we not seeing that?

00:48:29.960 And they were stopped, I guess,

00:48:31.780 by Manchin and Sinema.

00:48:34.040 Right?

00:48:34.400 Why can't we do it on the Republican side?

00:48:37.680 Of course, it's complicated,

00:48:39.120 but big deal.

00:48:39.960 They're United States senators, ma'am.

00:48:41.500 Well, I was confused

00:48:44.120 because yesterday Senator Thune

00:48:45.460 came out and said,

00:48:46.520 basically,

00:48:47.220 we don't even know

00:48:47.940 what the talking filibuster is.

00:48:49.340 We're not really sure

00:48:50.120 where Mike Lee came up with this thing.

00:48:52.120 We have no example in history

00:48:53.820 of it ever passing.

00:48:55.220 And so, you know,

00:48:56.300 this is kind of too far out there.

00:48:58.880 And so that made me think,

00:49:00.400 like, is that true?

00:49:01.620 I mean,

00:49:01.880 I've barely heard of the talking filibuster.

00:49:03.760 Maybe this is accurate.

00:49:04.940 And so I just went and looked up,

00:49:06.120 you know,

00:49:06.340 has Schumer ever said something

00:49:07.720 about the talking filibuster?

00:49:08.740 And then I found that video

00:49:10.580 and it actually goes on for,

00:49:11.760 it's 10 minutes of Chuck Schumer

00:49:13.940 as the majority leader,

00:49:15.580 you know,

00:49:15.900 talking about the exact same thing

00:49:17.140 that we are talking about here.

00:49:18.220 They have a very different version

00:49:19.780 of their voting rights bill, right?

00:49:21.120 But I remember it was in 2021.

00:49:23.380 And when they had all the,

00:49:24.400 all three chambers of government,

00:49:25.640 their number one thing was HR1.

00:49:27.560 That was their, you know,

00:49:28.560 voting rights bill

00:49:29.520 that had passed out of the House.

00:49:31.200 And Nancy Pelosi was putting

00:49:32.700 a ton of pressure on the Senate

00:49:34.100 saying,

00:49:34.780 get rid of the filibuster.

00:49:35.640 People couldn't believe

00:49:36.280 she was saying that.

00:49:37.100 The base of the Democratic Party

00:49:39.120 got unbelievably spun up.

00:49:40.880 I mean, they were,

00:49:41.500 if you remember how angry

00:49:42.500 they were about this

00:49:43.280 and sort of pressuring

00:49:44.600 and pressuring the Democrats,

00:49:46.140 they started calling out

00:49:47.200 by name everyone

00:49:48.320 until Schumer decided,

00:49:49.780 you know what,

00:49:50.200 this is like not only

00:49:51.140 what my base wants,

00:49:52.160 it's what my president wants,

00:49:53.580 it's what the House wants

00:49:54.640 and sent me.

00:49:55.240 And so, you know,

00:49:56.220 screw the institutions.

00:49:57.780 I'm going to go out here

00:49:58.540 and do it.

00:49:59.020 And I may fail.

00:49:59.880 This vote's probably going to fail

00:50:01.060 because he knew

00:50:01.720 he didn't have the votes.

00:50:02.760 There were two holdouts,

00:50:04.040 Manchin and Sinema,

00:50:04.760 but he still went out

00:50:05.920 and he gave that speech

00:50:06.960 and they forced,

00:50:07.680 what they did,

00:50:08.040 they smoked out

00:50:08.860 all the Democrats,

00:50:10.160 forced them to take

00:50:11.080 a position on this.

00:50:12.440 Two senators

00:50:13.120 voted against them.

00:50:14.700 They are no longer senators

00:50:15.980 because of it.

00:50:17.260 And, you know,

00:50:17.680 Manchin,

00:50:18.280 you could argue maybe,

00:50:19.360 like that vote

00:50:20.000 wouldn't have affected it.

00:50:21.240 Sinema could not even run

00:50:23.060 for re-election

00:50:23.840 because of that vote.

00:50:24.820 She couldn't even attend

00:50:25.660 a wedding in her own home state

00:50:27.380 without being run out

00:50:28.500 by people

00:50:29.120 screaming at her about it.

00:50:30.560 The country does not care

00:50:32.380 about this filibuster,

00:50:34.060 like these dinosaur

00:50:35.140 Senate procedural rules.

00:50:37.200 The Democrats

00:50:37.780 already had this battle.

00:50:39.560 They came out of it

00:50:40.280 firmly on the side of

00:50:41.560 the next time we take power

00:50:43.120 and we get these two

00:50:44.260 problematic senators out,

00:50:45.560 we are lifting the filibuster

00:50:46.700 to pass every single thing

00:50:48.480 that we want done

00:50:49.160 in our agenda.

00:50:50.300 And so that speech

00:50:51.120 right there to me

00:50:51.760 is critical

00:50:52.280 because then we have Senator,

00:50:53.620 what all I'm now asking

00:50:54.880 with Senator Thune is,

00:50:56.180 you know what,

00:50:56.520 you're telling me

00:50:56.980 you don't have the votes.

00:50:57.840 I want to know who they are.

00:50:58.980 I want you to name names

00:51:00.200 because then maybe

00:51:01.000 they should not be

00:51:02.080 in office again.

00:51:02.820 Maybe you should put your name

00:51:04.380 next to a position like that

00:51:06.400 and stop saying

00:51:07.160 that the Save America Act

00:51:08.640 has 51 co-sponsors.

00:51:10.340 We don't need

00:51:10.720 a performative bill.

00:51:11.660 We know who's voting on it.

00:51:12.820 There are 51,

00:51:13.600 there are two holdouts

00:51:14.480 and that is Lisa Murkowski

00:51:16.600 and Tom Tillis.

00:51:18.820 There we go.

00:51:19.300 Mystery solved.

00:51:20.500 So, but like there are obstructions,

00:51:22.540 I mean, there are others

00:51:23.340 that will say,

00:51:23.900 oh, I will co-sponsor

00:51:24.820 vote for this bill,

00:51:25.560 but I'm not going to

00:51:26.620 change the procedural rules

00:51:28.100 in order to get it done.

00:51:29.400 And I think it's time

00:51:30.220 we say enough is enough.

00:51:31.960 Bring the vote

00:51:32.780 on the talking filibuster

00:51:34.220 to the floor,

00:51:35.340 Senator Thune,

00:51:35.920 and then let's find out

00:51:37.320 who and is it,

00:51:37.980 I don't know,

00:51:38.420 is it 10?

00:51:39.040 Is it 20 senators?

00:51:40.080 I would like to know

00:51:40.920 because I don't think

00:51:41.780 that they deserve

00:51:42.400 Donald Trump's endorsement

00:51:43.560 ever again.

00:51:44.440 I think they deserve

00:51:45.020 probably a primary challenger.

00:51:46.480 That'll be up to the voters

00:51:47.420 in their state,

00:51:48.500 but I know

00:51:49.080 if I were living in that state,

00:51:50.700 I would work for

00:51:51.380 a primary challenger

00:51:52.320 of someone who is not willing

00:51:53.680 to vote and pass

00:51:55.920 what is Donald Trump's

00:51:57.520 number one priority.

00:51:58.800 He won the popular vote

00:52:00.340 and won the presidency

00:52:01.500 saying that

00:52:02.380 we are no longer

00:52:03.520 going to allow cheating

00:52:04.900 to happen in our elections.

00:52:06.680 You have to be

00:52:07.180 a U.S. citizen to vote.

00:52:08.840 And if we cannot

00:52:09.920 lift the filibuster

00:52:11.420 to at least have that

00:52:13.480 one vote on record

00:52:14.940 of we want U.S. citizens

00:52:16.760 to vote for our representatives,

00:52:18.780 then what are we

00:52:19.620 even all doing here?

00:52:20.720 Caroline,

00:52:23.400 where do people go?

00:52:24.400 Your Twitter feed

00:52:25.240 has been on fire

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Bannon's War Room - March 10, 2026

Episode 5205： Iran Lays Mines IOn The Strait Of Hormuz; Warmongering Graham Wants To Send Your Family To Iran

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