Bannon's War Room - Episode 5225： Gloves Come Off In Blockbuster Intel And Mullin Confirmation Hearings

00:00:00.000 Iran, 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.

00:00:12.880 Now, Israel claims responsibility for both killings and says they will do the same to Iran's supreme leader.

00:00:18.040 Muchtaba Khamenei's fate is unknown. We neither see nor hear from him. But I can say one thing.

00:00:27.040 We will continue. As we have proven, we will continue to pursue anyone who poses a threat

00:00:32.080 to the state of Israel. And anyone who raises a hand against us is not immune from us. We will

00:00:37.080 pursue him, find him, and neutralize him. Today, under pressure from Donald Trump,

00:00:42.320 the House and the far-right Senate Republicans opened debate on legislation they're calling

00:00:47.120 the Save America Act. The voter suppression bill would require voters to show approved

00:00:51.880 photo identification in order to vote in federal elections and proof of citizenship in order to

00:00:56.860 register. If the legislation passes, it could disenfranchise millions of Americans. Debate on

00:01:03.300 the bill, which does not currently have enough support to pass the chamber, could go on for

00:01:08.500 weeks. Here's the president moments ago lying about our election system.

00:01:13.200 the biggest thing coming up is a save america act in the senate that's uh voter id and

00:01:22.200 proof of citizenship and no mail-in ballots you know corrupt mail-in ballots we're the

00:01:28.020 only country in the world that does it that way corrupt as hell meanwhile senate democrats have 1.00

00:01:34.220 vowed to use every tool in their arsenal to tank the legislation make republicans pay for their

00:01:38.880 efforts. If the U.S. were to stop their side in this, do you think Israel would continue with that?

00:01:49.580 Well, I think it's possible, although many in Israel say, look, Trump started the war,

00:01:53.580 Trump will end the war. That's what happened last summer in June when the Israelis were on 0.81

00:01:59.780 their 12th day of a bombing campaign. Trump had the U.S. drop 14 bunker busters on one day and

00:02:06.220 then said, okay, the war's over. Israel still had a very long target list. And the bombing of the

00:02:11.900 besiege, as in all of the attacks on the Revolutionary Guard, are intended to destroy

00:02:17.160 the instruments of Iranian power that both threaten us externally and threaten our own 1.00

00:02:22.800 people internally. So that by destabilizing the regime in that critical area, it causes the

00:02:29.440 regime to fracture at the top. They're losing leaders hand over fist, personal animosities,

00:02:34.780 ambition, family connections now all start to play a big role. And as the regime comes apart,

00:02:40.800 hopefully the opposition can begin to take advantage of it and see the regime collapse

00:02:46.320 internally. A top national security official became the first senior administration member

00:02:50.760 to quit over the war. Joe Kent is his name. He headed the National Counterterrorism Center.

00:02:56.360 Quoting now from his letter to the president, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,

00:03:00.540 And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. 0.81

00:03:06.440 Joe Kent is a former Army Green Beret whose wife was killed in the Syrian civil war.

00:03:10.920 In the past, he's made news for amplifying amplifying conspiracy theories about January 6th.

00:03:15.580 He's also had to disavow past interactions with a Nazi sympathizer and a Holocaust denier.

00:03:21.520 His wife, a naval officer, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria in 2019.

00:03:26.120 For his part, the president today said, and I'm quoting him here,

00:03:29.320 I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security.

00:03:33.840 To my friend Joe Kent, who's a decorated war veteran who lost his wife in Syria,

00:03:38.820 what are you doing? You're giving aid and comfort to a lie. There was an imminent threat. How much

00:03:45.480 more imminent could you be within two weeks having enough material to make 10 bombs? How

00:03:51.500 close could you come? Not much. Well, that's a bunch of BS. If it weren't for Israel, 1.00

00:03:57.380 would be less safe. Israel has no choice to stop radical Islam from destroying it. I hope the 1.00

00:04:05.460 American people understand we have no choice. You may be tired of fighting them, but they're not 1.00

00:04:10.520 tired of fighting you. The only reason they haven't killed more Americans than they have radical 0.83

00:04:15.240 Islam is we stop them before they get here. If they had weapons-grade material, they would turn 1.00

00:04:22.120 it into a bomb and if they had a bomb they would use it because they're religious Nazis. Those who 0.94

00:04:27.700 got Hitler wrong, you're doing the same thing in 2026. Your head in the sand approach to who the 0.87

00:04:35.380 Ayatollah is and who this regime is could kill millions of people. President Trump, you're the 0.56

00:04:42.040 right man at the right time. God bless you for taking decisive action and can you imagine what

00:04:47.780 the world would be like if Kamala Harris had won. So we got to get this right. And we're

00:04:53.580 very close to getting it right. We're very close to collapsing Senator Lassen.

00:04:58.000 This is Trump's daunting dilemma. This is the decision he has to make. Does he escalate the

00:05:03.320 conflict with ground troops to achieve his ambitious goals, even though polls suggest it

00:05:08.820 is deeply unpopular here in the United States and Republicans are very afraid of what it could mean

00:05:13.800 for the midterms, including because the gas prices continue to surge? Or does he declaim

00:05:18.500 some sort of hollow victory pullout, reduce the economic pain, but that would leave in Iran

00:05:25.100 an embittered, violent regime that would potentially still have some control, at least

00:05:30.260 of the Strait of Hormuz, still have its nuclear stockpile, and be completely unwilling going

00:05:35.620 forward to ever trust a U.S. negotiation again? Correct. You are correct. And once again,

00:05:42.740 there are no good options here at this moment for President Trump. And I'd like to also point

00:05:47.540 out another dilemma he's facing, like my colleague David Sanger wrote this morning in The Times,

00:05:52.760 which is that he has talked increasingly publicly about perhaps the need to send in commandos

00:06:00.400 to somehow seize or destroy the nuclear material that is under a mountain that is Fahan in Iran.

00:06:07.440 And 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.

00:06:16.180 And he's talked about this. And that's a very tough decision, too. It's highly risky.

00:06:22.540 It would put the going after Osama bin Laden. That would look like a picnic compared to this.

00:06:27.560 And it would potentially it could cause a you could there's canisters stored underneath this mountain.

00:06:34.180 They could rupture. It could cause radioactivity spreading all over the area also.

00:06:40.540 But 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.

00:06:49.380 It'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.

00:06:56.480 I 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.

00:07:05.700 I mean, he doesn't know what to do right now. It's a little alarming to watch it.

00:07:09.400 More tonight about the type of bombs that sent come tonight says it dropped on Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz.

00:07:16.340 A U.S. official tells us they are GPS guided.

00:07:19.080 So they work in all weather and are designed to destroy heavily reinforced, deeply buried targets.

00:07:24.200 Tonight's strike, successful though it may be, will not be the final word, of course, on threats to the strait or Iran's neighbors.

00:07:29.780 You've got to remember, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of speedboats that are hidden along that coastline in coves,

00:07:38.540 camouflaged in open sight as commercial vehicles.

00:07:42.280 Literally speedboats, the kind you would see out recreationally.

00:07:45.440 Yes, what you'd see, cigarette boats that basically can shoot missiles at big ships, R ships, tankers.

00:07:53.360 So until we can eliminate that threat, I still think we're not going to be considered militarily successful through the strait.

00:08:01.760 And the commercial success won't be a fair war.

00:08:04.100 I mean, with the USS Cole, we saw what one speedboat like that can do to a vessel.

00:08:10.300 And our tankers are much, much larger.

00:08:12.300 During the tanker war, it took three or four different hits on a tanker to sink it.

00:08:17.700 But nonetheless, when you've got a couple of hundred, if not thousand speedboats, they can put a lot of pain on those tankers.

00:08:24.220 Nobody will say this in the mainstream media because it justifies what President Trump did.

00:08:30.300 Nobody in the mainstream media will tell you after Midnight Hammer, when we blew up all the enrichment facilities, they went back at it again.

00:08:38.120 Thus, epic fury.

00:08:39.720 What Wyckoff said on your show changes everything.

00:08:42.680 To my friends at the White House, every American should know the facts.

00:08:47.200 you can have your opinion about President Trump all you want. If he had not acted within two

00:08:53.080 weeks, they would have had enough weapons material to make 10 bombs. Donald Trump acted

00:08:58.920 decisively. God bless the fact that he did. If he had failed to act, we'd all be living with a

00:09:04.900 Ayatollah still alive, enough weapon grade material to make 10 bombs. That's what's at stake here. 0.94

00:09:11.940 The liberals literally do want Trump to fail.

00:09:16.880 They fear him more than they fear the Ayatollah with a nuclear weapon. 0.89

00:09:20.920 This is a sick time in which we live.

00:09:23.540 We have to push through this.

00:09:25.060 The Houthis in Yemen, I mean, they have fired on ships previously in the strait.

00:09:30.180 A challenge I've dealt with in the past in the Red Sea, Anderson, so far, the Houthis, 1.00

00:09:34.140 which are supplied massively right down here, this is the Babu Manda, translates about the

00:09:38.500 gate of tears.

00:09:40.320 The Houthis, which are here in these mountains, armed with Iranian missiles, 0.70

00:09:44.880 and they fired anti-ship missiles at our ships going Mach 4.

00:09:48.520 I mean, it was by the skill of our sailors that we didn't have massive losses on our ships.

00:09:53.260 This is incredibly gnarly territory.

00:09:55.480 We built an international coalition.

00:09:58.220 It was pretty successful.

00:10:00.140 But to build the confidence of these commercial shippers, it takes time and time and time and patience.

00:10:06.800 It is hard, hard work.

00:10:08.160 So far, the Houthis have not joined this fight.

00:10:11.220 Why is this?

00:10:11.940 So there's different theories.

00:10:13.260 One, it's a card that Iran is holding back.

00:10:15.780 Another is they have been pounded.

00:10:17.360 They've really been pounded by U.S. strikes and Israeli strikes, particularly last fall,

00:10:21.420 that maybe they don't want to mix it up again.

00:10:23.900 But if they started to shoot into this passageway, I think we then have a dual challenge.

00:10:29.860 So I'm watching that very closely.

00:10:31.280 Any longer than he has to, and I don't think it's going to be much longer.

00:10:34.500 No, we're not going to invade Iran.

00:10:36.440 There's no reason to.

00:10:37.360 We're going to destroy their ability to hurt us, have a nuclear weapon, build missiles to hit America and terrorize the region. 0.99

00:10:44.560 Karg Island, 90 percent of their income comes from oil and gas revenue.

00:10:49.480 100 percent of that revenue generating capability is on a single island.

00:10:54.140 Mr. President, take Karg Island. This war is over.

00:10:57.920 Already succeeded in sowing some element of doubt in our elections and setting a predicate for claiming fraud.

00:11:05.140 Talk me through what it is they're doing here.

00:11:07.360 Well, absolutely. They're trying to make everyone feel concerned about participating, right?

00:11:12.720 They're threatening people. They're threatening election officials with imprisonment.

00:11:16.800 So they're trying to make it difficult for Americans to vote.

00:11:20.020 They're trying to create barriers to entry that are so high that they become insurmountable.

00:11:25.360 And they are doing it based on this theory that our elections are somehow not safe, which is patently false.

00:11:31.780 All of the studies that have shown this idea that people are showing up at polls and they're not who they say they are are wrong.

00:11:39.300 It just doesn't happen.

00:11:40.500 Even Herod has proved that. 0.91

00:11:42.000 Exactly.

00:11:42.840 There's no voter impersonation fraud where people are showing up and pretending that they're someone who they're not.

00:11:48.200 There are criminal statutes and penalties that take care of that issue.

00:11:51.800 So this is a solution that is a bad one in search of a problem.

00:11:57.180 And 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.

00:12:11.260 Wednesday, 18th, March, Year of the Lord, 2026.

00:12:15.000 Amazing curation by our team at Denver and, of course, the War Room production team.

00:12:20.620 Amazing.

00:12:21.220 OK, we're going to be juggling many things this morning, plus doing a full show.

00:12:25.640 uh we have the president of states is going to be leaving i believe right towards the end of the

00:12:31.280 show when we do the handoff to the charlie kirk show he is going to dover to uh receive the honored

00:12:37.160 dead of the kc-135 the six crewmen that died in defense of their country uh will return the

00:12:45.540 president of the united states will be there to meet them also joe kent rolled a hand grenade

00:12:50.840 into the Senate Intelligence Committee meeting today.

00:12:54.200 Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe

00:12:57.480 are going to be grilled by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

00:13:02.400 That's taking place even as we speak, opening statements.

00:13:05.040 We're going to cut into that.

00:13:06.820 Mark Wayne Mullen's confirmation is going on over at DHS,

00:13:10.640 and Rand Paul has already gone medieval.

00:13:14.140 We're going to pull that clip here in a moment.

00:13:16.280 Also, Save America, so much going on in the Save America Act

00:13:19.240 and they're revving up for this for this big debate also john solomon did break last night

00:13:25.700 early this morning this blockbuster news about the chinese communist party direct involvement

00:13:30.340 in the stealing of the 2020 election uh understanding they'd already launched uh the

00:13:36.020 pandemic this is all from april of 2020 john solomon be with us later went in hall with a

00:13:42.600 new blockbuster book on artificial intelligence that should hopefully wake up the conservatives

00:13:48.500 Wynton 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.

00:13:58.160 Eric Bolling, we also called it yesterday about this pipeline in Saudi Arabia that is a new sense of focus.

00:14:05.560 Brent oil went up, I think, to $108.

00:14:07.880 Israel has attacked, has hit Iranian oil facilities.

00:14:12.420 This war is getting harder and tougher and tougher.

00:14:15.160 last night, massive bombing run

00:14:17.260 near the Strait of Hormuz

00:14:19.380 with Bunker busting bombs

00:14:21.160 to make sure they clear it out, which looks like

00:14:23.240 I don't know, maybe in

00:14:25.140 anticipation of an actual takeover of

00:14:27.160 Cargillin. We're going to get to all of that today

00:14:29.220 and much, much more in the

00:14:31.220 War Room. Natasha Owens

00:14:32.660 will take us out. Be back in a

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00:17:39.180 be you know it's supposed to be a layup for mullins it started off far from it just moments

00:17:43.400 ago we're going to play a clip that was so explosive that fox news cut away let's go

00:17:48.700 ahead and play this, Senator Rand Paul about Senator Mark Wayne Mullin. Good morning, everyone.

00:17:56.040 I entered the Senate the same year that Representative Gabby Giffords was shot.

00:18:01.120 I knew then that the state of political rhetoric was encouraging violence. I think it's imperative

00:18:06.660 now more than ever that the leaders in our country disavow violence and lead by example.

00:18:13.680 Through the years, I've personally been exposed multiple times to political violence.

00:18:17.720 I was in the right field batting cage when the crazed shooter unleashed nearly 200 shots at our congressional baseball practice.

00:18:25.680 I'll never forget Steve Scalise valiantly trying to drag his body away as the gunman continued.

00:18:33.320 Later that year, a Trump-hating felon attacked me from behind in my yard.

00:18:38.900 I was just straightening up from picking up a tree limb.

00:18:42.320 I was wearing noise cancellation headphones.

00:18:44.940 Never saw him coming.

00:18:45.860 running pell-mell down the hill.

00:18:49.220 I was struck in the back.

00:18:51.580 The force of the blow sent us through the air

00:18:53.320 nearly 10 feet down the hill

00:18:55.520 until his shoulder impaled me as we hit the ground.

00:18:58.580 Six of my ribs were broken.

00:19:00.820 Three of the ribs were completely separated

00:19:02.840 such that for weeks,

00:19:04.400 the ends of the ribs would grind upon each other.

00:19:07.860 My lung was damaged.

00:19:10.400 For weeks, I could inhale

00:19:11.560 but not have the rib strength to exhale.

00:19:14.180 I developed two pneumonias. The pain was such that I could only sit up in bed by

00:19:20.500 tying a rope to the foot of the bed and pulling myself up, but even then the pain

00:19:24.620 was that of a thousand knives. Over the year of recovery I began to cough up

00:19:29.540 blood. I went removal of part of my lung. Complications led to an infection in the

00:19:35.180 space between my lung and chest wall. I spent a week in the hospital having the

00:19:39.200 infection lodged every six hours through a chest tube. Recently, Senator Mullen, if you have time

00:19:46.600 to listen, you were confronted by constituents that were angry because you voted against my

00:19:52.500 amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs. Instead of explaining your vote

00:19:58.160 to continue these welfare programs for refugees, you decided to transfer the blame. 0.87

00:20:03.860 You told the media that I was a freaking snake and that you completely understood why I had 0.97

00:20:09.060 been assaulted. I was shocked that it would justify and celebrate this violent assault. 0.98

00:20:15.580 That caused me so much pain and my family so much pain. I just wonder if someone who

00:20:21.780 applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency

00:20:26.400 that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force. You might argue you were

00:20:31.800 mad and upset about being confronted by your constituents. Senator Mullinger, your constituents

00:20:38.320 are justifiably upset with you. By now, most of America knows that the Somali welfare fraud in 1.00

00:20:44.040 Minnesota stole over $9 billion. But instead of defending your vote, you took the vote to continue

00:20:52.480 these refugee welfare programs. You chose to lash out at me. You went on to brag that you'd already

00:20:58.940 told me to my face that you completely understood and approved of the assault. Well, that's a lie.

00:21:05.260 You've got a chance today.

00:21:06.440 You can either continue to lie or you can correct the record.

00:21:09.980 You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified.

00:21:14.980 So today you'll have your chance.

00:21:17.140 Today I'll give you that chance to clear the record.

00:21:19.620 Tell it to my face.

00:21:20.820 If that's what you believe, tell it to me today. 0.99

00:21:22.820 Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. 0.87

00:21:30.020 Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it.

00:21:32.640 And 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.

00:21:42.980 Explain 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.

00:21:56.440 Okay, we're going to grab the response in a moment.

00:21:59.320 I don't know.

00:22:00.320 I take it that's a no vote.

00:22:01.420 I'm just kidding.

00:22:02.160 uh this is how it's starting off today um we're going to get back to mullen's uh response that's

00:22:07.660 a great way to start a confirmation here and isn't it we have warner remember an intel i think it's

00:22:13.440 tom cotton is uh is the uh is the chair mark warner is the uh is the ranking member for the

00:22:20.440 for their co-chair however they call it for the democrats uh he's tying in he's going after our

00:22:26.520 intelligence leaders.

00:22:29.380 Let's go ahead and cut into that, and then I'm going to take a break.

00:22:31.820 I'll come back when we're going to take a break.

00:22:33.060 Let's go ahead and hear that.

00:22:35.420 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me also offer a good morning to our witnesses.

00:22:40.280 Let me also join you, Mr. Chairman, and begin by thanking literally the tens of thousands

00:22:46.360 of men and women across America's intelligence community who work every day to keep our country

00:22:51.940 safe.

00:22:53.120 Their work is by necessity secret.

00:22:55.060 That is the nature of intelligence.

00:22:58.400 But that is also why hearings like this one matter so much.

00:23:03.260 Over the past year, we have seen a series of developments

00:23:07.280 that raise serious concerns about the erosion of safeguards

00:23:12.420 that protect both our democracy and our security.

00:23:17.640 And nowhere is that more worrying

00:23:20.440 than when it comes to the integrity of our elections.

00:23:23.460 For decades now, our intelligence community has warned that foreign adversaries, including

00:23:31.040 Russia, China, and Iran, are actively seeking to shape the outcome of American elections.

00:23:38.140 These efforts have included cyber intrusions, disinformation campaigns, and covert influence

00:23:44.940 operations designed to divide Americans and undermine our confidence in our democratic

00:23:49.860 institutions protecting our elections from these threats should be one of the intelligence

00:23:55.700 community's highest priorities the dni is supposed to be coordinating intelligence on foreign election

00:24:04.660 interference warning the american people about adversaries seeking to undermine our democracy

00:24:11.780 ensuring that federal state and local officials have the information they need congress even

00:24:18.660 required the creation of a foreign malign influence center inside the office of the DNI

00:24:25.840 to coordinate the intelligence community's response to foreign election interference

00:24:31.260 and ensure that these threats are properly shared across the government.

00:24:36.380 That is the mission Congress assigned to the DNI. But while foreign adversaries are actively

00:24:43.180 probing our democratic institutions.

00:24:46.280 The DNI has eliminated the foreign malign influence center and does not have a designated

00:24:52.320 official coordinating the response to election threats.

00:24:57.140 And for months, the committee has repeatedly requested briefings from the IC, briefings

00:25:05.320 that are required by law on legitimate foreign threats to the midterms.

00:25:11.880 We have received no response.

00:25:14.640 Now, that silence, I believe, should concern every member of the committee because it clearly

00:25:20.540 demonstrates that the DNI is not interested in protecting American democracy by combating

00:25:26.640 foreign influence.

00:25:28.260 Instead, unfortunately, we have seen the DNI involve herself in purely domestic matters. 1.00

00:25:36.820 Last month, we saw Director Gabbard personally participate in a law enforcement raid to seize

00:25:42.860 election ballots and voting machine records in Fulton County, Georgia, a raid tied to an

00:25:50.600 election that the president lost six years ago. When the warrant supporting the raid was unsealed,

00:25:56.920 it showed something deeply troubling. There was no foreign connection to justify the involvement

00:26:05.640 of our nation's top spy. Instead, the predicate for the warrant was a slop of debunked conspiracy

00:26:13.120 theories that had already been rejected repeatedly by courts, by independent investigators, and even

00:26:21.160 by George's own Republican Secretary of State. Yet the nation's top intelligence official was

00:26:28.280 personally involved in this operation. This raises one very serious question. If the intelligence

00:26:35.100 community is not being deployed to mobilize against foreign threats, why is it being deployed at all

00:26:45.140 on a domestic issue? The DNI's appearance at this rate, as well as her involvement in

00:26:50.240 seizing voting machines from Puerto Rico, suggests something that should also alarm every American.

00:26:57.260 I believe an organized effort to misuse her national security powers to interfere in domestic politics 1.00

00:27:05.340 and potentially provide a pretext for the president's unconstitutional efforts to seize control of the upcoming elections.

00:27:15.660 Don't take my word for it.

00:27:17.500 Okay.

00:27:20.180 Hang on.

00:27:21.520 Okay.

00:27:22.120 We're going to come back to that.

00:27:23.460 Welcome back to the slop shop here at the War Room.

00:27:26.520 You heard it right there. I told you this day was going to be intense.

00:27:31.600 It'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.

00:27:46.840 And we'll have to find out if they hid it from the intelligence committee.

00:27:49.480 Explosive, explosive, explosive all day

00:27:53.800 And the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief

00:27:56.080 Will be heading to Dover Air Force Base

00:27:57.920 To receive the honored dead of KC-135

00:28:02.000 The refueling plane that crashed

00:28:05.020 Short commercial break

00:28:06.640 We're going to come back

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00:29:54.460 here's your host stephen k bann okay we're streaming both um we're streaming both um

00:30:03.340 intel and i think we're streaming uh dhs because dhs has gotten quite controversial

00:30:08.060 programming note uh i keep telling the stephanie rule show at 11 is the best summary of the news

00:30:14.360 it just announced that morning joe's they're taking away an hour of morning joe that nine to

00:30:18.540 ten hour uh and and uh and giving it to stephanie rule also at noon menendez gets her own show i hate 0.95

00:30:26.760 to say that called both of those that those are the new stars over at msnbc so watch watch those

00:30:32.380 two slots because they are not exactly pro-maca but very very sophisticated in the coverage

00:30:40.120 particularly rule about the investment banking kind of a mini kind of a mini uh war room um

00:30:46.360 with an opposite political take we're very smart bowling's with us eric uh intact well i got bowling

00:30:53.340 let's play can i play the response of mark wayne mullins i want to play this before it gets so so

00:30:58.040 we as we left senator rand paul he was going back to the time he was attacked and then he got into

00:31:03.160 the whole uh situation about uh approval of some appropriations bill and how mark wayne mullins had

00:31:09.260 voted for the refugee resettlement program.

00:31:13.080 They gave all the money and you got to out these guys.

00:31:15.500 This is how they hide behind it.

00:31:16.760 They all want to talk their mag and then they're voting for the stuff.

00:31:19.140 Rand Paul called him out on that.

00:31:20.340 And then he went back and forth. 0.99

00:31:21.400 And so Rand Paul goes, Hey, look, you're a coward to my face. 0.99

00:31:24.480 Can you say this? 0.99

00:31:25.340 That's where he left the dramatic hang.

00:31:27.820 Let's go and play it.

00:31:28.780 I'll get Eric Bowling's thoughts on this.

00:31:31.020 Simply address that.

00:31:32.200 I said I could understand because of the behavior you were having that I can

00:31:36.700 understand why your neighbor, why the neighbor did what he did.

00:31:39.260 As far as my terms of the snake in the grass, sir, I work around this room to try to fix problems.

00:31:45.340 I've worked with many people in this room.

00:31:47.460 Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.

00:31:50.280 I did address those remarks.

00:31:52.140 I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.

00:31:56.280 And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't.

00:32:00.320 I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise.

00:32:02.580 I don't like that.

00:32:03.400 But if I do have something to say, everybody in this room knows I'll come straight to you.

00:32:08.960 I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back.

00:32:12.800 So for you to say, I'm a liar, sir, that's not accurate.

00:32:17.720 And I got proof to say that because you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me because we just don't get along.

00:32:24.820 However, sir, that doesn't keep me at all from doing my job.

00:32:29.960 I can have different opinions with everybody in this room.

00:32:32.420 But as Secretary of Homeland, I'll be protecting everybody, including Kentucky, as much as I will my own back guard in Oklahoma.

00:32:39.560 It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have.

00:32:43.180 It's bigger than the political differences we have.

00:32:46.020 The truth is, I have a job to do.

00:32:48.860 And I don't like to fail at anything at all.

00:32:52.900 So I can set it aside if you're willing to set it aside.

00:32:57.160 Let me earn your respect.

00:32:58.840 Let me earn the job.

00:33:00.580 I won't fail you.

00:33:02.420 I won't back down from a challenge.

00:33:04.340 And I'll also admit when I'm wrong.

00:33:06.800 I'm not perfect.

00:33:08.240 I don't claim to be perfect.

00:33:10.580 I make mistakes just like anybody else.

00:33:14.140 But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from them,

00:33:17.280 and you can move ahead.

00:33:19.380 And I'll make that commitment to you.

00:33:22.980 Ranking Member Peters, Chairman Paul,

00:33:26.340 I do thank you for this opportunity.

00:33:28.860 It is a humbling experience.

00:33:30.700 a kid from Westville, Oklahoma, that grew up with a dad that worked hard.

00:33:37.760 So, Bowling, he didn't back down.

00:33:40.060 He kind of told Rand Paul, hey, sorry, not sorry.

00:33:42.740 Your thoughts before we talk about oil, sir?

00:33:45.200 I think what's happened is I think Trump went the anti-antithesis of Kristi Noem.

00:33:52.600 Attractive woman, female, although tough.

00:33:55.280 I mean, if you really take her policy, she was pretty badass. 0.99

00:33:58.540 But Mark Wayne Mullen's the other male, stands up to the union guy.

00:34:04.360 It's very, I would say, a lot of optics there that are going to work for Homeland Security.

00:34:13.520 I can't claim to know if Mark Wayne Mullen is truly MAGA, and he seems to be pro-Trump, if he's truly MAGA or not.

00:34:20.800 I defer all things like truly MAGA to you, Stephen K. Bannon, who was the original architect of MAGA.

00:34:27.880 but i digress okay uh we'll find out about his thoughts on mass deportation i'm sure they're

00:34:35.180 going to go through this is the republicans supposed to take care of him man it started

00:34:38.460 out explosively uh confirmation hearing from mark wayne mullins in the senate you've got

00:34:43.600 the intel and that's explosive uh i want to go back to something we talked about the other day

00:34:48.120 you talked about a couple of things have happened overnight you talked about and said you're the

00:34:53.640 first person to say hey look one thing you gotta be looking at is that the saudis who are now

00:34:57.720 you know kind of saying president trump you got to hit harder have this seven million barrel a

00:35:02.920 day pipeline that goes across into the red sea i think that's just been put on notice by the

00:35:07.700 iranians as a target i think bloomberg's reported that this red sea thing could really heat up

00:35:12.940 i want your thoughts on that also the israelis i believe last night hit some of the uh facilities

00:35:19.020 containment facilities of the iranians that those targets are supposed to be off

00:35:23.440 the uh the grid but i don't think they are a lot going on the last 24 hours in oil and some of the

00:35:30.780 big companies are getting increasingly nervous how's the trading been and what are the thoughts

00:35:35.300 from folks in the industry sir this is a huge huge day today because all night and early this

00:35:41.940 morning crude oil both crude and north sea brent were were lower um and then the iranians said

00:35:47.760 every single Gulf state oil platform, refining capacity,

00:35:53.200 they were all potential targets.

00:35:55.000 It started to drift up.

00:35:56.760 And then Saudi Aramco, you're right, Steve.

00:35:58.340 When Saudi Aramco, the Saudi state slash private public entity,

00:36:03.140 which is mostly private, mostly the state,

00:36:05.260 decided to shut in their refinery, their big refinery,

00:36:09.860 the Shamraf refinery, it's a massive refinery.

00:36:12.980 That sends a signal that doesn't matter what side of this you're on,

00:36:17.360 These Middle Easterners are going to pull in production. 1.00

00:36:20.280 They're going to pull in oil production.

00:36:21.400 They're going to pull in petroleum product production, gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, butane, all those, helium.

00:36:27.880 They're going to shut that in because it drives prices up. 0.79

00:36:31.600 We were trading about $102 a barrel in the Brent this morning.

00:36:35.680 So it's up $110 a barrel right now.

00:36:39.320 WTI is trading around $99 a barrel.

00:36:41.920 We're going to hit $100.

00:36:42.520 The reason why this is relevant, Steve, is all last week when we were talking, I said $4 is a lock.

00:36:48.480 And people are like, oh, bowling, you're full of it.

00:36:51.120 We'll see what happens.

00:36:52.260 I said, no, it doesn't matter what happened last week, even if it ended then, $4 was locked.

00:36:56.680 I'm not going to say $4.50 national average for gasoline is, I would say, an 80% likelihood of happening.

00:37:04.340 That further drives up inflation.

00:37:06.700 We 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.

00:37:16.320 We're going to have higher inflation.

00:37:17.880 We have massively higher gas prices.

00:37:20.660 Steve, I talked to the head trader.

00:37:22.960 I can't say his name.

00:37:24.140 I'll call him one of the head traders at Conoco, which is a massive oil production company.

00:37:28.280 He 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.

00:37:45.640 It'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.

00:37:55.580 So all things right now, unfortunately, are pointing to higher oil prices.

00:38:00.240 And then when you start playing around Karg Island, Karg Island, I totally disagree with this.

00:38:07.380 I think we should protect Karg Island because that's really the main asset that the Iranians have to export oil. 1.00

00:38:15.580 Now, 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.

00:38:21.780 So basically the expense at the expense of.

00:38:24.420 Well, I don't think any plan for Clark Island is not to destroy the oil facilities.

00:38:32.520 I think it's to take, seize, and hold, and then the United States. 0.88

00:38:35.820 It's the first step to your plan, brother.

00:38:38.480 It's the first step to say, hey, we're your partner.

00:38:40.320 Since we control Clark Island, let's sit down and negotiate how we're going to partner with you.

00:38:44.700 I just want to go back to something that's very important, though.

00:38:47.320 With everything that happened overnight, all the bombing, and people should know this thing's getting more and more intense every day.

00:38:51.820 They 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.

00:39:06.180 That's what the bombing for.

00:39:07.160 But the Iranians announced that every facility of Qatar in UAE is in play, but also Saudi Arabia.

00:39:16.380 Tell us about that refinery, because you talk about shut-ins.

00:39:19.420 They only got so much place to store it.

00:39:21.300 they're actually shutting down production right now that's where brent skyrocketed what six bucks

00:39:26.960 to 109 dollars and uh and uh west texas intermediate is at 91 cents below 100 bucks

00:39:35.700 that we look like we might have had this thing and kind of figuring out and some ships are going

00:39:39.880 through and it could be some process all of a sudden you get anti-process tell me about that

00:39:44.560 tell me tell us what what's why is this refinery with saudi aramco so important and why was the

00:39:50.700 closing of that or the shutting into that a trigger to really drive prices up today because

00:39:57.160 it's the saudis saudis become in play they're the big dog in the region saudis produce around

00:40:01.180 seven million barrels a day iran produces three million they have the capacity to produce more

00:40:06.140 but when the saudis start well again we've talked about this again steve they're everyone in the

00:40:12.620 middle east saudi or oman kuwait iraq iran they're all benefiting from a hundred dollar barrel of

00:40:20.060 West Texas Intermediate, $110 barrel of Brent crude.

00:40:25.220 So when they shut in 400,000 barrels a day, yeah, that's going to be storage that's going to build up on the Saudi side.

00:40:31.080 The Saudis have plenty of production.

00:40:32.900 They can ramp up or down quickly.

00:40:34.700 When they shut down the refinery, it tells the world that there's an issue in the Middle East.

00:40:39.140 I believe that they don't really need to do that.

00:40:41.680 I think they're kind of playing both sides here.

00:40:44.720 They're playing us like, yeah, Trump, go hit them harder.

00:40:46.900 Well, that drives oil prices higher. 0.92

00:40:48.800 Oh, 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. 1.00

00:40:56.580 And 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.

00:41:07.900 That is a massive drag on the U.S. economy. I think it's really playing into the Middle East's hands. 1.00

00:41:12.900 And that's why I don't think we should hit car guys, Steve. I think we should hit all their infrastructure, hit their highways.

00:41:18.800 hit their manufacturing capabilities hit their telecom hit hit every industry and you get them

00:41:25.480 to their knees but protect the oil production facilities okay i i would just say in cargo i

00:41:31.720 think is production but i don't need to be about semantics one thing before i let you go

00:41:36.080 the president of the united states laid this argument out the other day this morning he

00:41:40.460 tweeted it out again about the strait about the escorts about the u.s navy the allies saying we're

00:41:47.080 not interested the germans saying it's not our war correct me if i'm wrong this is coming from

00:41:53.180 the red sea whether whether you're taking the pipeline across saudi arabia to the red sea and

00:41:57.360 taking it up through the what is it they call the the gate of tears that very small gap that gets

00:42:03.360 into the red sea and then up the suez canal this is all asia in the in europe and i realize that

00:42:09.100 world economy is inextricably linked but this doesn't really have that much to do with the

00:42:14.260 united states of america we're still independent and we can get very into totally independent if

00:42:20.160 we wanted to this is all europe and asia and they are not they're not coming to our rescue they're

00:42:25.460 not i shouldn't say rescue they're not coming to to uh jump in here on the situation forget the

00:42:31.380 bombing of iran and forget the israelis going to uh into lebanon the central fact of the gulf 0.54

00:42:37.640 and our arab allies in quotes they're they're not uh they're they're not addressing are they

00:42:43.700 sir president trump's right i think this argument ought to be made more i think this ought to be

00:42:47.160 put before the american people like what in the hell are we in the rich countries of europe

00:42:51.700 are giving us the middle finger sir agree and and they don't seem to want to play ball i will just

00:42:58.280 take issue with one thing you said there yes it does affect the europeans and and asians more

00:43:04.980 because that they're more uh indebted to the middle east on on their oil because of location

00:43:12.180 But oil, like money, is fungible, generally fungible, okay?

00:43:16.800 So 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.

00:43:39.440 We're going to take a break, and I'm going to hold you over.

00:43:43.360 Eric Bolling, back in a moment.

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00:45:04.040 your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay. In the intelligence, they're focused not on the

00:45:14.500 Chinese Communist Party infiltration into this. They're focused on the war room posse and the

00:45:20.320 great patriots in Georgia getting to the bottom of the 2020 election, the steal, and Tulsi Gabbard's

00:45:25.580 involvement in that. In fact, I'm going to go to Neil McCabe in a moment. On Capitol Hill is

00:45:30.260 covering the hearing you're gonna hear some explosive they're they're they're now coming

00:45:34.040 for kurt olsen they're coming for the patriots in georgia you watch uh we'll get to that in a

00:45:38.360 second bowling here's what i don't understand i'm a simple man so make this a simple explanation

00:45:42.980 if you can the gulf they provide the oil for asia for our enemies in the chinese communist 1.00

00:45:50.060 part the greatest existential threat in the world to the united states america is the chinese 1.00

00:45:54.840 communist party and today john solomon is going to be here and we're going to talk about a pandemic

00:45:59.760 and we're going to talk about stealing the 2020 election

00:46:01.840 and they're directly involved

00:46:02.980 and we have the intelligence service of the United States

00:46:04.900 not only knew about it but covered it up, the deep state.

00:46:07.920 You even got Mark Warner up there

00:46:09.260 talking about foreign interference.

00:46:10.600 Of course, what they're doing now

00:46:11.820 is trying to do the jujitsu move

00:46:13.720 to show that Tulsi Gabbard's involved in Georgia

00:46:17.400 with the great patriots down in Georgia,

00:46:20.380 Caroline Jeffords and Garland Favarita

00:46:22.220 and all of them fighting down there.

00:46:25.160 And by the way, there's a Georgia election board

00:46:26.660 going on right now that we normally would cover

00:46:28.540 but we can't because we're covering it.

00:46:30.220 We just can't play it because there's too much going on.

00:46:32.560 But you see they're attacking, attacking, attacking.

00:46:36.540 And we allow, we have two carrier battle groups.

00:46:41.000 We're spending $2 billion a day.

00:46:42.680 President Trump's making the argument.

00:46:44.580 It's not that we're saying, hey, we're going against President Trump.

00:46:46.240 President Trump's making the argument now every day.

00:46:47.860 Like I called for the allies to come down here because the Red Sea,

00:46:52.440 the Suez Canal, the Straits of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf,

00:46:56.020 that's all to provide Asia and Europe their their energy resources that they can actually have

00:47:03.280 economies the United States of America is and can be quite quickly energy independence this is why

00:47:09.760 Guiana and Venezuela and hemispheric defense these aren't random things Trump's doing so I don't

00:47:16.280 understand just tell me why we give a damn Eric I understand it's fungible it's all one world

00:47:21.280 market but that's you guys oil traders trying to trying to trick us into believing you're doing

00:47:26.400 god's work when when really the oil traders are not hedging the future it's just a bunch of

00:47:31.520 speculative guys making a lot of money on the little guy isn't it sir no not at all no no i

00:47:37.200 mean there is some some speculation but there's speculation in everything including the stock

00:47:41.120 market any sort of market there's going to be speculation but the oil market is so vast it's

00:47:45.880 massive 100 million barrels a day at 100 but think about the the numbers that are flying around

00:47:51.160 The speculation surely adds, but it also adds downward pressure when things start to turn the other way.

00:47:57.240 The speculators will push that oil price down when they get the all-clear signal.

00:48:02.420 So it cuts both ways.

00:48:04.460 The reason why I'm saying when there's a supply disruption, massive supply disruption,

00:48:09.660 like what's going on right now with the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Oman,

00:48:13.320 or on the other side, the Red Sea,

00:48:14.980 or threats that Middle Eastern countries are shutting in production

00:48:19.680 and or shutting in refining capacity, the whole world feels it

00:48:24.160 because you can exchange an oil for an oil.

00:48:27.960 Middle Eastern crude is a heavier, sour crude.

00:48:30.860 West Texas and Mediate is known as a light, sweet crude.

00:48:34.120 Mexico, light, sweet crude.

00:48:35.880 Brent, North Sea Brent, light, sweet crude.

00:48:38.100 Those are the premium blends.

00:48:39.880 So you can change it, you can change your refinery,

00:48:43.020 but at a cost differential.

00:48:44.320 So 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.

00:48:54.900 That'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. 0.97

00:49:08.760 So when we do that, we're not beholden to any Middle Eastern country at all.

00:49:13.140 Again, in the perfect metaphor, we can tell the Middle Easterners to go pound sand. 1.00

00:49:23.200 Last 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.

00:49:32.360 West Texas looks close to $100 a barrel.

00:49:36.180 Just once again, explain to the audience why that is such an important event in this war.

00:49:41.860 It is because it signals to the world, not just speculators.

00:49:46.340 I told you I had a conversation with the head trader at Conoco.

00:49:48.840 He's not a speculator.

00:49:50.120 He's literally hedging the production of Conoco,

00:49:52.780 who believes oil prices are going higher because the Saudis, the Omanis,

00:49:57.500 the Kuwaitis shut in production.

00:49:59.360 They're all doing this.

00:50:01.080 Why? Because they have to?

00:50:02.540 No.

00:50:03.320 There's virtually no human beings at refineries or oil production facilities.

00:50:07.380 It's not that they're protecting their people.

00:50:09.640 there's no one working in these facilities. They're highly automated. They're doing it

00:50:14.060 because it sends the signal to the world, including traders at one of the biggest oil

00:50:19.060 trading desks on the planet, Conoco, that they're going higher, and they'll do things to get oil

00:50:24.640 prices higher. Like it or not, that's why we're beholden to these SOBs in the Middle East when 0.59

00:50:29.720 we don't need to be. $4.50 a gallon, I believe, is baked in already now. People are going to argue

00:50:36.940 with that but i'm going to be right on four dollars probably next week it's 450 and that is

00:50:42.080 a massive drag on our economy that's why this is so relevant that's why every news story across

00:50:47.580 every platform whether it's business or not is leading with the oil price and what's going on

00:50:52.760 in the middle east can you imagine a day steve where we don't care what saudi says or the iranians

00:50:57.340 say can you imagine how free that day will be for us it's it's it's potential well like i said

00:51:04.800 the middle east is a sideshow in the israeli situation a sideshow to a sideshow we've got

00:51:10.160 every every tool in the toolbox to make that happen that we don't have to worry about it and

00:51:14.720 we should not have to worry about the united states particularly when the europeans that

00:51:19.200 live upon this just gave us the middle finger and they still want a security guarantee they still

00:51:23.520 want american young american men and women of which six are coming home today can i just add

00:51:30.560 one thing and i just have one thing to you're right you're right about all of this higher prices

00:51:35.240 stick it to china absolutely however i would say yes let's just play this game let's play this out

00:51:41.000 put put china on their knees too as well as iran except we got midterms coming up if if midterms

00:51:47.920 weren't happening i i'm on board with everything now i i just i'm very very concerned for um

00:51:54.620 majorities not just majority in the house majorities you're sometimes sometimes sometimes

00:52:01.060 your fox your fox molding your fox formation comes through bowling anyway i love your brother

00:52:07.640 i'm just kidding we'll we'll continue this conversation maybe we'll do a trade-off today

00:52:11.880 i'll get punching way out bannon no no no because you were bragging to me this morning about how 0.98

00:52:18.120 much you're lifting lifting like 400 pounds right you're you're a beast you're a savage

00:52:23.180 Eric Bolling, where do people, real quickly, where do they get your new show?

00:52:27.880 I'll tell you what.

00:52:28.680 You know what you do today, folks?

00:52:30.120 Watch the show on RAV, Real America's Voice, at 4 o'clock.

00:52:32.920 We're going to be all about the Save Act and oil.

00:52:35.180 And then right after, I'm interviewing a captain.

00:52:38.260 I'm sorry, the owner of a shipping company that runs ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:52:43.460 He's going to tell me why he's not running ships right now.

00:52:45.640 It has nothing to do with anything we're talking about.

00:52:47.540 He doesn't care about insurance.

00:52:48.980 And I'll clip that for you, Steve, and your audience can watch some of that, too.

00:52:52.520 we'll see we'll see it at four o'clock short break going back to capitol hill next

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Bannon's War Room - March 18, 2026

Episode 5225： Gloves Come Off In Blockbuster Intel And Mullin Confirmation Hearings

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