Learn English with Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg's new movie starring Amy Poehler opens up about her experience as a child growing up in a Nazi concentration camp, and how she overcame the trauma to become a hero. President Donald Trump delivers a speech on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:00:00.000Iran, for its part, is now confirming the deaths of two key figures, a top defense official, Ali Larijani, also Gholamreza Soleimani, the commander of the besieged paramilitary force.
00:00:12.880Now, Israel claims responsibility for both killings and says they will do the same to Iran's supreme leader.
00:00:18.040Muchtaba Khamenei's fate is unknown. We neither see nor hear from him. But I can say one thing.
00:00:27.040We will continue. As we have proven, we will continue to pursue anyone who poses a threat
00:00:32.080to the state of Israel. And anyone who raises a hand against us is not immune from us. We will
00:00:37.080pursue him, find him, and neutralize him. Today, under pressure from Donald Trump,
00:00:42.320the House and the far-right Senate Republicans opened debate on legislation they're calling
00:00:47.120the Save America Act. The voter suppression bill would require voters to show approved
00:00:51.880photo identification in order to vote in federal elections and proof of citizenship in order to
00:00:56.860register. If the legislation passes, it could disenfranchise millions of Americans. Debate on
00:01:03.300the bill, which does not currently have enough support to pass the chamber, could go on for
00:01:08.500weeks. Here's the president moments ago lying about our election system.
00:01:13.200the biggest thing coming up is a save america act in the senate that's uh voter id and
00:01:22.200proof of citizenship and no mail-in ballots you know corrupt mail-in ballots we're the
00:01:28.020only country in the world that does it that way corrupt as hell meanwhile senate democrats have
00:01:34.220vowed to use every tool in their arsenal to tank the legislation make republicans pay for their
00:01:38.880efforts. If the U.S. were to stop their side in this, do you think Israel would continue with that?
00:01:49.580Well, I think it's possible, although many in Israel say, look, Trump started the war,
00:01:53.580Trump will end the war. That's what happened last summer in June when the Israelis were on
00:01:59.780their 12th day of a bombing campaign. Trump had the U.S. drop 14 bunker busters on one day and
00:02:06.220then said, okay, the war's over. Israel still had a very long target list. And the bombing of the
00:02:11.900besiege, as in all of the attacks on the Revolutionary Guard, are intended to destroy
00:02:17.160the instruments of Iranian power that both threaten us externally and threaten our own
00:02:22.800people internally. So that by destabilizing the regime in that critical area, it causes the
00:02:29.440regime to fracture at the top. They're losing leaders hand over fist, personal animosities,
00:02:34.780ambition, family connections now all start to play a big role. And as the regime comes apart,
00:02:40.800hopefully the opposition can begin to take advantage of it and see the regime collapse
00:02:46.320internally. A top national security official became the first senior administration member
00:02:50.760to quit over the war. Joe Kent is his name. He headed the National Counterterrorism Center.
00:02:56.360Quoting now from his letter to the president, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,
00:03:00.540And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
00:03:06.440Joe Kent is a former Army Green Beret whose wife was killed in the Syrian civil war.
00:03:10.920In the past, he's made news for amplifying amplifying conspiracy theories about January 6th.
00:03:15.580He's also had to disavow past interactions with a Nazi sympathizer and a Holocaust denier.
00:03:21.520His wife, a naval officer, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria in 2019.
00:03:26.120For his part, the president today said, and I'm quoting him here,
00:03:29.320I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security.
00:03:33.840To my friend Joe Kent, who's a decorated war veteran who lost his wife in Syria,
00:03:38.820what are you doing? You're giving aid and comfort to a lie. There was an imminent threat. How much
00:03:45.480more imminent could you be within two weeks having enough material to make 10 bombs? How
00:03:51.500close could you come? Not much. Well, that's a bunch of BS. If it weren't for Israel,
00:03:57.380would be less safe. Israel has no choice to stop radical Islam from destroying it. I hope the
00:04:05.460American people understand we have no choice. You may be tired of fighting them, but they're not
00:04:10.520tired of fighting you. The only reason they haven't killed more Americans than they have radical
00:04:15.240Islam is we stop them before they get here. If they had weapons-grade material, they would turn
00:04:22.120it into a bomb and if they had a bomb they would use it because they're religious Nazis. Those who
00:04:27.700got Hitler wrong, you're doing the same thing in 2026. Your head in the sand approach to who the
00:04:35.380Ayatollah is and who this regime is could kill millions of people. President Trump, you're the
00:04:42.040right man at the right time. God bless you for taking decisive action and can you imagine what
00:04:47.780the world would be like if Kamala Harris had won. So we got to get this right. And we're
00:04:53.580very close to getting it right. We're very close to collapsing Senator Lassen.
00:04:58.000This is Trump's daunting dilemma. This is the decision he has to make. Does he escalate the
00:05:03.320conflict with ground troops to achieve his ambitious goals, even though polls suggest it
00:05:08.820is deeply unpopular here in the United States and Republicans are very afraid of what it could mean
00:05:13.800for the midterms, including because the gas prices continue to surge? Or does he declaim
00:05:18.500some sort of hollow victory pullout, reduce the economic pain, but that would leave in Iran
00:05:25.100an embittered, violent regime that would potentially still have some control, at least
00:05:30.260of the Strait of Hormuz, still have its nuclear stockpile, and be completely unwilling going
00:05:35.620forward to ever trust a U.S. negotiation again? Correct. You are correct. And once again,
00:05:42.740there are no good options here at this moment for President Trump. And I'd like to also point
00:05:47.540out another dilemma he's facing, like my colleague David Sanger wrote this morning in The Times,
00:05:52.760which is that he has talked increasingly publicly about perhaps the need to send in commandos
00:06:00.400to somehow seize or destroy the nuclear material that is under a mountain that is Fahan in Iran.
00:06:07.440And he is talking more and more about this. You know, as we know, what you see with the president is what is going through his mind at any given time.
00:06:16.180And he's talked about this. And that's a very tough decision, too. It's highly risky.
00:06:22.540It would put the going after Osama bin Laden. That would look like a picnic compared to this.
00:06:27.560And it would potentially it could cause a you could there's canisters stored underneath this mountain.
00:06:34.180They could rupture. It could cause radioactivity spreading all over the area also.
00:06:40.540But also, if you leave it there, Iran still has a bit of nuclear fuel that that it can use as leverage and its source of its power.
00:06:49.380It's a very tough decision. And what you see with the president every day is just this back and forth about I want the allies.
00:06:56.480I don't need the allies. You know, it is just what you're seeing is President Trump thinking in real time that he doesn't know what his options are.
00:07:05.700I mean, he doesn't know what to do right now. It's a little alarming to watch it.
00:07:09.400More tonight about the type of bombs that sent come tonight says it dropped on Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz.
00:07:16.340A U.S. official tells us they are GPS guided.
00:07:19.080So they work in all weather and are designed to destroy heavily reinforced, deeply buried targets.
00:07:24.200Tonight's strike, successful though it may be, will not be the final word, of course, on threats to the strait or Iran's neighbors.
00:07:29.780You've got to remember, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of speedboats that are hidden along that coastline in coves,
00:07:38.540camouflaged in open sight as commercial vehicles.
00:07:42.280Literally speedboats, the kind you would see out recreationally.
00:07:45.440Yes, what you'd see, cigarette boats that basically can shoot missiles at big ships, R ships, tankers.
00:07:53.360So until we can eliminate that threat, I still think we're not going to be considered militarily successful through the strait.
00:08:01.760And the commercial success won't be a fair war.
00:08:04.100I mean, with the USS Cole, we saw what one speedboat like that can do to a vessel.
00:08:10.300And our tankers are much, much larger.
00:08:12.300During the tanker war, it took three or four different hits on a tanker to sink it.
00:08:17.700But nonetheless, when you've got a couple of hundred, if not thousand speedboats, they can put a lot of pain on those tankers.
00:08:24.220Nobody will say this in the mainstream media because it justifies what President Trump did.
00:08:30.300Nobody in the mainstream media will tell you after Midnight Hammer, when we blew up all the enrichment facilities, they went back at it again.
00:11:42.840There's no voter impersonation fraud where people are showing up and pretending that they're someone who they're not.
00:11:48.200There are criminal statutes and penalties that take care of that issue.
00:11:51.800So this is a solution that is a bad one in search of a problem.
00:11:57.180And the real animus behind this is to try to steal the midterm elections by shrinking the electorate and making it so small that people who want change in this country won't have a voice in our election.
00:12:11.260Wednesday, 18th, March, Year of the Lord, 2026.
00:12:15.000Amazing curation by our team at Denver and, of course, the War Room production team.
00:13:06.820Mark Wayne Mullen's confirmation is going on over at DHS,
00:13:10.640and Rand Paul has already gone medieval.
00:13:14.140We're going to pull that clip here in a moment.
00:13:16.280Also, Save America, so much going on in the Save America Act
00:13:19.240and they're revving up for this for this big debate also john solomon did break last night
00:13:25.700early this morning this blockbuster news about the chinese communist party direct involvement
00:13:30.340in the stealing of the 2020 election uh understanding they'd already launched uh the
00:13:36.020pandemic this is all from april of 2020 john solomon be with us later went in hall with a
00:13:42.600new blockbuster book on artificial intelligence that should hopefully wake up the conservatives
00:13:48.500Wynton Hall, one of the great writers and a partner and colleague of Peter Schweitzer, myself, for, I don't know, the last 15, 20 years, will be with us in the second hour.
00:13:58.160Eric Bolling, we also called it yesterday about this pipeline in Saudi Arabia that is a new sense of focus.
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00:21:20.820If that's what you believe, tell it to me today.
00:21:22.820Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung.
00:21:30.020Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it.
00:21:32.640And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents.
00:21:42.980Explain to the American public how a man who has no regrets about brawling in a Senate committee can set a proper example for over 250,000 men and women who work at the Department of Homeland Security.
00:21:56.440Okay, we're going to grab the response in a moment.
00:27:23.460Welcome back to the slop shop here at the War Room.
00:27:26.520You heard it right there. I told you this day was going to be intense.
00:27:31.600It's all inextricably linked. The war, the stealing of the vote, John Solomon's explosive report of why the intelligence community hid, found out, knew about, hid.
00:27:46.840And we'll have to find out if they hid it from the intelligence committee.
00:27:49.480Explosive, explosive, explosive all day
00:27:53.800And the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief
00:27:56.080Will be heading to Dover Air Force Base
00:28:07.460It gets even more intense on the other side
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00:37:06.700We had a price PCI number come out today saying that inflation was higher than expected, and that doesn't even include the March run-up in oil.
00:37:24.140I'll call him one of the head traders at Conoco, which is a massive oil production company.
00:37:28.280He says, and when oil was lower yesterday and into last night for today's trading, he said oil is going to be up $1 to $2 a barrel going forward, and the equity markets don't even understand what that means yet, meaning they're kind of whistling past the graveyard with higher oil prices.
00:37:45.640It's going to really, really, really be a damper on spending and therefore on stock prices, so equities will likely go down in response to it.
00:37:55.580So all things right now, unfortunately, are pointing to higher oil prices.
00:38:00.240And then when you start playing around Karg Island, Karg Island, I totally disagree with this.
00:38:07.380I think we should protect Karg Island because that's really the main asset that the Iranians have to export oil.
00:38:15.580Now, I know we want to bring it to their knees, but we also don't want a price oil price shock going into the midterms.
00:38:21.780So basically the expense at the expense of.
00:38:24.420Well, I don't think any plan for Clark Island is not to destroy the oil facilities.
00:38:32.520I think it's to take, seize, and hold, and then the United States.
00:38:35.820It's the first step to your plan, brother.
00:38:38.480It's the first step to say, hey, we're your partner.
00:38:40.320Since we control Clark Island, let's sit down and negotiate how we're going to partner with you.
00:38:44.700I just want to go back to something that's very important, though.
00:38:47.320With everything that happened overnight, all the bombing, and people should know this thing's getting more and more intense every day.
00:38:51.820They brought in the bunker busters to make sure they could clear out, I think, any deliberate assault to shut down the Gulf and the Hormuz and things around Karg Island.
00:40:48.800Oh, well, we're worried about the Iranians. Let's shut in some production. Let's shut in some refining capacity. That drives the price of oil higher.
00:40:56.580And as I said, the trader for Conoco said, these people aren't realizing that this could potentially be $1 to $2 per day higher in the oil price.
00:41:07.900That is a massive drag on the U.S. economy. I think it's really playing into the Middle East's hands.
00:41:12.900And that's why I don't think we should hit car guys, Steve. I think we should hit all their infrastructure, hit their highways.
00:41:18.800hit their manufacturing capabilities hit their telecom hit hit every industry and you get them
00:41:25.480to their knees but protect the oil production facilities okay i i would just say in cargo i
00:41:31.720think is production but i don't need to be about semantics one thing before i let you go
00:41:36.080the president of the united states laid this argument out the other day this morning he
00:41:40.460tweeted it out again about the strait about the escorts about the u.s navy the allies saying we're
00:41:47.080not interested the germans saying it's not our war correct me if i'm wrong this is coming from
00:41:53.180the red sea whether whether you're taking the pipeline across saudi arabia to the red sea and
00:41:57.360taking it up through the what is it they call the the gate of tears that very small gap that gets
00:42:03.360into the red sea and then up the suez canal this is all asia in the in europe and i realize that
00:42:09.100world economy is inextricably linked but this doesn't really have that much to do with the
00:42:14.260united states of america we're still independent and we can get very into totally independent if
00:42:20.160we wanted to this is all europe and asia and they are not they're not coming to our rescue they're
00:42:25.460not i shouldn't say rescue they're not coming to to uh jump in here on the situation forget the
00:42:31.380bombing of iran and forget the israelis going to uh into lebanon the central fact of the gulf
00:42:37.640and our arab allies in quotes they're they're not uh they're they're not addressing are they
00:42:43.700sir president trump's right i think this argument ought to be made more i think this ought to be
00:42:47.160put before the american people like what in the hell are we in the rich countries of europe
00:42:51.700are giving us the middle finger sir agree and and they don't seem to want to play ball i will just
00:42:58.280take issue with one thing you said there yes it does affect the europeans and and asians more
00:43:04.980because that they're more uh indebted to the middle east on on their oil because of location
00:43:12.180But oil, like money, is fungible, generally fungible, okay?
00:43:16.800So when you pull stockpiles off of Brent, eventually these people are going to realize that it would be more cost-efficient to buy another form of oil, another grade of oil, even if it costs me $10 a barrel more to ship it if I've got to go around the Horn of Africa.
00:43:39.440We're going to take a break, and I'm going to hold you over.
00:48:44.320So if it all of a sudden becomes, I can't get the heavier Middle Eastern crude, I'm going to have to go to the light suite, West Texas Intermediate or Brent, they have to go buy it.
00:48:54.900That's why it pushes the price of the oils that we are trading and using right here in the United States, which only makes it more important for us to be completely independent of Middle Eastern or China or anyone, any of them.
00:49:08.760So when we do that, we're not beholden to any Middle Eastern country at all.
00:49:13.140Again, in the perfect metaphor, we can tell the Middle Easterners to go pound sand.
00:49:23.200Last thing before I let you go, for people thinking of the day, the shutting in of this Saudi Aramco massive refinery, clearly Brent went through the roof.
00:49:32.360West Texas looks close to $100 a barrel.
00:49:36.180Just once again, explain to the audience why that is such an important event in this war.
00:49:41.860It is because it signals to the world, not just speculators.
00:49:46.340I told you I had a conversation with the head trader at Conoco.
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