00:01:43.020President of the United States, boarding Air Force One to go to Memphis.
00:01:52.680We've got Brian Glenn. We have Brian Glenn on the ground there. We'll go to Brian Glenn momentarily.
00:01:56.660We've restructured the entire show because of breaking news in the last couple of hours about President Trump negotiating and all of this with the clock ticking down.
00:02:06.840As we talked over the weekend, the clock ticking down on this ultimatum he gave that was going to basically expire sometime late this afternoon, early this evening, about the Strait of Hormuz being open and free to navigation.
00:02:20.040the iranians push back now there's a lot of confusion of exactly what's going on president
00:02:24.560trump's talking about and we'll play this again the first part of it uh momentarily uh president
00:02:30.140trump who's actually negotiating with some of the official statement from the um from the uh
00:02:36.220iranian uh revolutionary guard said hey there he's not negotiating with us nothing's changed and
00:02:42.220we will destroy any oil and water assets that the arabs have in the local community here's what
00:02:48.060we're going to do here in the War Room. It's Monday, 23 March, Euro, or 2026. We've got an
00:02:52.740amazing cold open. We're going to blow the first break. Eric Bolin is going to talk to us about
00:02:57.160markets. We're going to get all of this done this morning and much, much more. Let's go and play the
00:03:02.040cold open on this Monday morning. Conflicting accounts between President Trump and Iran.
00:03:08.100President Trump this morning said the U.S. has had productive talks with Tehran and that he had
00:03:14.080postponed military strikes on Iran's power plant plants but shortly after Iranian state tv cited
00:03:21.860the country's foreign ministries saying there is no dialogue we were about to take a step
00:03:27.120an escalatory step David that many in the region and across the world feared could not be walked
00:03:33.120back I'm curious what are you hearing right now about the president's decision to take a step back
00:03:38.880and talk about these negotiations that he says have been going on?
00:03:42.920So, Joe, he's obviously exploring the diplomatic possibilities.
00:03:47.020If you read his statement, he's not describing a deal.
00:03:51.260He's just describing the tone of negotiations.
00:03:55.160Here's what I know about the diplomatic side.
00:03:58.840Qatar had been involved in extensive mediation efforts along with Oman over the last week,
00:04:05.180And those came to a sudden halt when the Israelis attacked Iranian gas facilities at South Paras, and that negotiating channel suddenly ended.
00:04:18.940A new negotiating channel was initiated by Turkey and Turkey's foreign minister, Haqqan Fidan, over the last, I'd say, three, four days.
00:04:27.940And there were statements yesterday suggesting from him that his meetings with Iranians, implied Americans, others involved had been productive.
00:04:38.000Turkey's a key ally of President Trump in the United States, a NATO member.
00:04:42.660And one final thing I just would note that we didn't talk about earlier this morning,
00:04:46.760but over the weekend when Trump was making his fire and brimstone threat to take out all Iranian power plants,
00:04:55.780The Iranian foreign minister issued an interesting statement in which he said, the Strait of Hormuz is not closed.
00:05:04.020Ships hesitate because insurers fear the war of choice.
00:05:07.220You, meaning Trump, initiated and then closed freedom of navigation, which we cannot exist without freedom of trade.
00:05:17.500In other words, kind of an opening from the Iranian that may have coincided with the conversations that Trump is referring to.
00:05:25.240So we talked earlier about brinksmanship. It's dangerous, could lead still to a very bad result here.
00:05:32.000But for the moment, it does seem to have provided some space for negotiation.
00:05:36.280Yeah, and I think this may be how exactly you define having a conversation.
00:05:41.500Certainly, there are no direct talks that we know of between the U.S. and Iran,
00:05:45.700although as I understand it, according to people familiar with the matter,
00:05:49.540that there have been messages passed back and forth between countries like Turkey, like Egypt,
00:05:57.760trying to sort of get the read of either side.
00:06:01.820And of course, this is now significant.
00:06:03.840It's the first time that the president has actually said publicly that there are conversations.
00:06:08.640Up until now, he has not sounded all that open to any kind of negotiation that would end this conflict.
00:06:15.740And so that in itself, I think, is meaningful, as is the president's decision to postpone any attack on Iranian power plants.
00:06:24.620And this is part of what these messages that were passed back and forth over the weekend were about.
00:06:29.700We're warning of the major sort of escalation and retaliation that that would prompt from the Iranians.
00:06:36.060Tehran had warned that it would strike energy facilities in the Gulf, even potentially desalination facilities in those countries that really rely on them for all of their fresh water.
00:06:48.380And so this is a significant step that the president has decided to open the window for some potential discussions to continue.
00:06:56.000But at this point, it is still entirely unclear about who exactly these conversations are with.
00:07:02.020remember the president had said in the past that all of the Iranian officials that he thought would
00:07:07.040be worthwhile talking to had been killed as part of this conflict. We also don't know exactly what
00:07:14.320the president means when he says he's looking for a complete and total resolution to the conflict.
00:07:20.380Does that mean, for example, that Iran would be able to keep the highly enriched uranium that
00:07:25.860remains buried underground at one of its nuclear facilities? Does it allow Iran to maintain the
00:07:31.600ability to close the Strait of Hormuz in the future. A lot of unanswered questions about
00:07:36.440what exactly these conversations and these negotiations actually consist of. But it does
00:07:42.500seem clear that the president is looking for a way to find some sort of negotiated settlement to
00:07:48.300this conflict as we now enter week four. The program has been obliterated and they're running
00:07:53.580out of money. So here's what I tell President Trump. Keep it up for a few more weeks. Take
00:07:58.680Karg Island, where all of the resources they have to produce oil, control that island,
00:08:04.020let this regime down a vine. Is this going to, though, take Karg Island? Is it going to involve
00:08:08.640U.S. troops on the ground? Let me just read you something from The Atlantic. Does an assessment
00:08:12.120on that. They say U.S. troops may well take Karg Island. We believe their ability to do so,
00:08:16.700but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without
00:08:21.180a reliable means of obtaining logistical support. The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
00:16:34.300What means he says things sometimes, and it doesn't follow through on him.
00:16:38.540And markets, when he says them, they react, and then he doesn't follow through, which is exactly what happened this time, and they flip and go the other way.
00:16:44.980And some people are now trying to game that system by saying, when Trump says something, do the opposite of that, the direction of it goes, because he will back out and it will go back up the other way.
00:16:53.540The problem with the taco trade is, you know, sometimes Trump's playing the media and playing even the markets as well, playing Wall Street, because, you know, he said he was going to take Maduro in Venezuela.
00:24:05.020That puts a massive pressure on the housing market.
00:24:08.220If housing collapses, then the whole economy collapses.
00:24:10.860But I will tell you there's another one.
00:24:12.000Before that happens, energy is going to be super high for a long time.
00:24:16.400That would be the fallout, one of the fallouts.
00:24:18.280But a bigger fallout was we would lose the AI race that we're fighting for.
00:24:21.880AI is massively dependent on energy, energy we don't have yet here to fulfill the full AI capacity that they're looking at five, 10 years down the road.
00:24:31.260So if we start playing the game of $200 barrels of oil and probably jet fuel has already doubled in one month, jet fuel alone, diesel's up 45% in a month.
00:24:40.400I mean, so if we start playing this game of high energy prices, we're going to get smoked in the AI development phase as well.
00:24:46.740So there's a whole lot of things that could happen.
00:24:49.220the first shoe to drop would be the stock market, then it would be the housing market to follow if
00:24:53.740we follow that path down the road. And again, I think that's why Trump won't let that happen,
00:24:58.960because I think he realizes the same thing. Well, we've taught the audience the 10-year bond
00:25:05.180or the benchmark. It got up to 4.4% to 4.3%, but it's the bond market you also should. Bond market
00:25:11.940had a lot of turbulence last week, although still orderly, as you traders call it. Eric,
00:25:17.340anything else we should be thinking about today before he lets you go really appreciate you coming
00:25:21.240on over the weekend teeing this up and uh you kind of a little bit of a called shot here uh you said
00:25:26.380that this was going to be a forcing function the markets responded in asia overnight and turned out
00:25:31.100to be a forcing function um what what thoughts do you have for us before you bounce i think we
00:25:36.800have the same thing going forward steven it's not remember what i said even if they declare all clear
00:25:42.060right now you're going to still see a four dollar gallon gas and we're going to still see at least
00:25:45.500to 450 going forward and it's not all clear these iranians they're fanatics and i believe they're
00:25:50.500that corner dog that will fight to the death if they have to and that would mean even blowing up
00:25:55.000some of their own oil infrastructure because they know that would hurt the west the most so keep
00:26:00.180your eye but it's going to get buckle up buttercup as they say it's going to get wild
00:26:03.140what about last thing with diesel because the nation runs on diesel i mean i think something
00:26:09.840like 90 of all food is transported by diesel but the truckers in this country are the backbone of
00:26:15.120our logistics uh uh chain what's your thoughts on diesel diesel so all these fuels that aren't
00:26:23.060gasoline gasoline is the most produced diesel diesel is the second most used and produced
00:26:27.500up 528 gallon up 45 in a month is very very uh damaging it's not only truckers it's also
00:26:35.480trains run on diesel as well so all those transportation east to west etc that's going
00:26:40.080to be everything's going to go up and that turns into again something we've been you're you're
00:26:45.040doing some breaking news in this show quite a bit. Inflation. Inflation is on its way up because of
00:26:51.220this. And these inflation numbers that we're seeing today reflect 30 to 45 days ago. So in the last
00:26:57.220month, the next few inflation numbers are going to be quite elevated because of that, because of
00:27:01.840diesel. Everything has a diesel or energy input to it. Every single product we have here for one
00:27:08.560way, shape or another that you buy on a daily basis has an oil component to it. The prices are
00:27:14.500higher unfortunately yeah including uh including uh fertilizer all of it plastics thank you so
00:27:22.840much eric where do people go for your new show your show here at four o'clock on rav social
00:27:28.580media all of it just at eric bowling on social media the edge eric bowling the edge you're
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00:27:41.700just an honor to lead my show into your end my show leading into in the beginning of your show
00:27:47.120and um let's keep doing that brother let's keep doing it and uh thank you for making so much time
00:27:53.580in the morning to give us an update on where the center of gravity of this battle is as we said it
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00:31:33.360Mike Lee has just been grinding all weekend, trying to get a legislature, not just a messaging bill.
00:31:39.660The president understood, had a quite hot conversation.
00:31:43.700I think it's been reported with John Thune.
00:31:45.380not exactly happy was with thune's uh energy and urgency on the save america act the president's
00:31:52.320got ice going to help out at the airports and and and you should know some of these airports like
00:31:58.500atlanta they're three and four hour waits ice is going but he just reiterated hey yeah if they you
00:32:04.040know somebody's there i guess they can arrest people right now he's saying they got to take
00:32:07.320their mask off but the rest people a little confusing but he's told thune and guys no deal
00:32:13.220on dhs there's no deal on these radical democrats until i get the save act just kind of put it in
00:32:19.400perspective where do you think what's the president trying to accomplish here uh with this i'm not i'm
00:32:25.300not trading off uh ice to get the save act you guys are going to hold the line on that and i'm
00:32:31.760still going to get the save act because soon i need you to ramp it up brother and oh by the way
00:32:36.160morning joe and total meltdown i'm gonna put ice into into the atlanta airport in the houston
00:32:41.680airport and they're going to help out and by the way if they see a couple of three guys that you
00:32:47.660know guys that look like bad hombres maybe they get maybe they get stopped and asked a few questions
00:32:52.120mike davis uh senator john thune the senate majority leader is a very nice guy uh but
00:33:00.240the save america act is a crucial test of john thune's effectiveness of his leadership
00:33:09.220We have a bill, the Save America Act, that has 80% support of Americans, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities.
00:33:25.780It's because the bill is commonsensical.
00:33:29.420It requires proof of citizenship and voter ID to vote in American elections.
00:33:36.560These Democrats have mass imported tens of millions of illegal aliens into our country.
00:33:44.200They are lavishing them with welfare, welfare fraud.
00:33:49.520They are allowing these illegal aliens to get driver's licenses.
00:33:57.760And in many of these states, when you get a driver's license, you can easily opt in to register to vote.
00:34:04.820And then these Democrats are refusing to turn over their voter rolls to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to make sure that illegal aliens are not voting in American elections, which is hard to find.
00:34:20.680These Democrats know that they are replacing American workers and replacing American voters, the replacement theory they used to call it. But it's actually happening, right?
00:34:34.880And there is no excuse for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the rest of his Senate Republican colleagues to not get the Save America Act through the Senate and on President Trump's desk for his signature.
00:34:51.780This is the most crucial piece of legislation. Are we going to have a republic that is run by sovereign citizens or are we going to have a republic that's run by foreign invaders? It's that simple.
00:35:06.100but so and also there's confusing messaging coming mark wayne mullen you and i had a discussion the
00:35:12.740other day said there's got to be uh what uh judicial um uh warrants to go in and to the
00:35:19.240offices and to the businesses etc very confusing because with president trump hey it's all part of
00:35:25.600the same thing there's 20 million here we got to get them out and just saying they can't vote is
00:35:30.300not going to that's step one and of course he jumped thune and because we covered this all
00:35:35.840weekend and you've got mike lee and you've got eric schmidt and you've got a couple of three
00:35:40.900there that are actually fighting to get a legislative process the rest you could tell are
00:35:44.700like 11 year old kids when they don't want to do something like stick around for the weekend or
00:35:50.020kind of you know mopey about doing it i think trump put them on on notice also the supreme
00:35:55.400court tell me what's going to happen at the supreme court another huge element of this of
00:36:00.260trying to get to the bottom of 2020 election theft and make sure it doesn't we don't have the the
00:36:06.260chinese communist party and the democrats working in conjunction can't steal future elections mike
00:36:12.060what's this the supreme court's gonna weigh into this starting today correct yeah i mean let's go
00:36:18.060back to the senate just really quick our most crucial sovereign power as we the people is
00:36:24.160controlling our border and controlling our populace, right? And these Democrats are trying
00:36:30.960to sabotage the will of American voters. When the American voters overwhelmingly elected
00:36:37.700President Trump, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate to secure our border and to
00:36:45.240expel illegal aliens, starting with the worst of the worst, like Trendy Aragua and MS-13. We had
00:36:52.640another incident where a young woman was allegedly murdered in cold blood by another
00:36:58.980illegal alien in America. This is unacceptable. And the American people overwhelmingly support
00:37:06.340securing our border. They overwhelmingly support expelling dangerous illegal aliens. They
00:37:13.420overwhelmingly support proof of citizenship and voter ID in our elections. The problem is,
00:37:20.320is that Senate Republicans are completely out of touch with their constituents. They need to
00:37:27.580get outside of the beltway. They need to touch grass. They need to go home and have town hall
00:37:32.380meetings like my former boss Chuck Grassley does every year, the full Grassley, 99 counties every
00:37:38.300year. That's what these Senate Republicans need to start doing because they are out of touch
00:37:42.960with their constituents. Because I can tell you this, hearing from the inside,
00:37:47.800Senate Republicans are overwhelmingly against the Save America Act.
00:38:09.040I just want to make sure people understand this, that the people you see come to the microphone, except for a handful of them,
00:38:14.780the Mike Lees, the Eric Schmitz, a couple other of these warriors, the rest of them have literally
00:38:21.660no interest in this, correct, Mike? Absolutely correct. And the proof is in the fact that this
00:38:28.960legislative package has 80% support of Americans, including a supermajority of Democrats and a
00:38:36.740supermajority of minorities, even. If you can't get legislation through the Senate when it has
00:38:42.860that much popular support, you should not be in the Senate, right? You need to find a new
00:38:48.460line of work. Maybe you can, you know, President Trump works at McDonald's in the drive-thru.
00:38:53.500Maybe these senators can go to, I don't know what these senators think they are doing. If they
00:38:58.180cannot get something passed with 80% support of their constituents. And frankly, for these
00:39:04.100Republican senators, it's probably much higher back in their home states. The issue is that they
00:39:10.720need to show the courage and more importantly, the will to do this, right? We don't have a House
00:39:17.340of Lords in America where we have these Lords who don't listen to their constituents. We don't have
00:39:23.580that, right? So to these Senate Republicans, get moving on this. This is a test, a crucial test
00:39:29.620for you. And don't fail this test because you're going to see your constituents very angry with you
00:39:35.860if you fail this test. Again, the war room posse superpower is go to article3project.org,
00:39:44.360article3project.org, take action. And the most crucial action item right now is if every person
00:39:54.520in the war room posse can go to take action and it's to keep illegal aliens from stealing our
00:40:00.760elections, right? If you light up both of your home state senators right now, send them emails,
00:40:07.720light them up on social media, do the patch through phone calls. Article three projects
00:40:12.120action center makes this very easy. You can do it in about five minutes. If the war room posse
00:40:18.460does this and just lights up the Senate switchboard, you can help them find and keep
00:40:24.480their courage among senate republicans look look the president right now is trying to make some
00:40:31.700sort of overall deal or at least the beginning of a process in the deal in the persian gulf iran
00:40:38.240uh area of uh area of combat uh there he's searching for a deal here he told thune the
00:40:45.420exact opposite says i'm not trading off ice and and and dhs and what we need their minimum funded
00:40:51.800to get a deal. You've got to pass the SAVE Act, you, Thune. And if not, I think he implied,
00:40:58.220I'm going to be looking for a new leader. Leader is supposed to go find votes,
00:41:01.180either find me the votes or we'll have a further discussion. So that's how high it is.
00:41:05.640Also, let's play this clip. A lot of action at the Supreme Court. Let's play the clip, Mike. I
00:41:10.040want you to opine on what's happening today about how we stop elections from being stolen in the
00:41:16.460future. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a voting rights case
00:41:22.520that is pitting Republican against Republican. In an unusual case of inter-party warfare,
00:41:29.500the case Watson versus Republican National Committee challenges a Mississippi law that
00:41:34.740allows for a grace period for election officials to count ballots postmarked by election day,
00:41:41.280but arriving up to five business days later. Mississippi Republican Secretary of State
00:41:45.960Michael Watson and Attorney General Lynn Fitch, whose case pushed the Dobbs case that overturned
00:41:51.520Roe, are defending Mississippi's law, which passed Mississippi's Republican supermajority
00:41:56.900legislature by a vote of 118 yeas to one lone dissent. But will the people be damned, at least
00:42:05.300when it comes to this RNC, backed by the White House and Justice Department, who argue that
00:42:10.120ballots must be received before the end of Election Day to be counted?
00:42:16.740Mike Davis, your thoughts on this? I'm a big, hey, it's got to be boom, in, or it doesn't count,
00:42:23.360but your thoughts on this? So under the elections clause of the U.S. Constitution,
00:42:30.640these federal elections are decided by state legislatures unless Congress comes in and
00:42:37.060overrides them with time, place, and manner rules of the road. Congress has done that. Congress
00:42:42.800has set election day, right? And election day means election day. You need to vote and have your
00:42:51.780ballots cast and received by election day because we're tired of these games that Democrats play
00:42:59.880with all-mail ballot elections or absentee ballots where they figure out how many votes
00:43:06.320they need in Fulton County, Georgia on election day, and then voila, four days later, they have
00:43:12.280enough votes to to to win the state in georgia it's unacceptable election day means election day
00:43:19.120this is how they do it in just about every other country around the world except for america they
00:43:24.740want to play games with our election rules and make it easier for democrats to rig and steal
00:43:31.040elections and so i hope this is how the culinary this is how the as you know this this this is how
00:43:37.280the culinary union steals the elections in uh in vegas they see how many votes they're short
00:43:43.600on election day and magically these things things appear as these mail-in ballots we got to bounce
00:43:49.720mike uh one question i want the mainstream media's head to blow up today we can use what's happening
00:43:54.700with these ice helping out uh helping out at the airports we can use this as a test run as a test
00:44:00.720case to get to really perfect ice's involvement in the 2026 midterm election sir yeah i think
00:44:07.260think we should have ICE agents at the polling places because if you're an illegal alien, you
00:44:12.760can't vote, right? It's against the law. It's a federal crime for you to vote in federal elections.
00:44:18.180And so if you're an American citizen, you should be happy that ICE is there because you're not
00:44:23.220going to have illegal aliens canceling out your vote. Pick them out of line starting today and
00:44:30.000maybe the lines get shorter. Mike Davis, where do people go to get you, sir, particularly your
00:44:34.660social media account article three project.org article number three project.org follow us on
00:44:40.300social mrd dmia uh take action save act is the most important action item and donate but only
00:44:49.120what you can afford and thank you steve and the warman posse thank you brother appreciate you
00:44:54.840uh we're going to come back with the commander-in-chief what he had to say at the sticks
00:45:00.240before getting on the plane in memphis
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00:50:49.100OK, the crime is very important, obviously, and people focus on that.
00:50:51.800But this whole issue we got now, Mike Allen, people put together a mass deportation coalition because Mark Wayne Mullen sound like he's a little squishy on this.
00:51:00.380And and actually coming from the White House is that we can't even use the phrase mass deportations again.
00:51:06.280Is that going to be part of this? Do you do you believe besides crime enforcement and bad hombres is going to be any discussion today of our favorite topic, mass deportations?
00:51:15.820Because, look, we're all for the Save America Act, but you still got to get them out of the country.