00:03:35.820they've got 2,500 Marines on each one of the ARGs,
00:03:39.180and they can open up the straits out there and occupy that ground.
00:03:41.540Look, I'm a big believer in putting boots on the ground, not necessarily into Iran.
00:03:46.640Double down on its timeline for the war in Iran, reiterating that operations should last approximately four to six weeks.
00:03:53.840But that comes as sources tell CNN that around a thousand soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division are preparing to deploy to the Middle East.
00:04:00.180That's on top of the 4,500 Marines and sailors already ordered to the region.
00:04:04.460These troop movements are happening as the Trump administration reaches out for a diplomatic solution.
00:04:09.820Senior officials say a meeting aimed at ending the war could take place in Pakistan as early
00:04:15.200as this weekend. What's your read on this? Because the story is very different depending
00:04:19.720on who's speaking about whether there are actually negotiations or really how fulsome
00:04:25.180these negotiations are. Yeah, Brianna, who's on first, what's on second? I mean, I think we could
00:04:30.280come up with a lot of quirky ways to describe it. But at the end of the day, what we're seeing is
00:04:35.860now diplomatic activity. And that's a good thing. The pot has been stirred. The international
00:04:41.960players who are affected by, for example, the energy crisis, they are getting involved.
00:04:47.560Still waiting to see where China is on this, because ultimately they're going to be the one
00:04:51.040that I believe can impact Iran the most. They have the most to lose as well with the ongoing
00:04:56.120supply glut. So this is good, but there has to be a bit of a strategy to this as well, right?
00:05:01.640and there needs to be some kind of vision for what we're trying to achieve and it needs to be
00:05:06.280realistic as well. And so I don't think we have those contours yet, but at least at the moment,
00:05:11.960the world is starting to get engaged diplomatically. For all of these reasons,
00:05:15.440we are very close to meeting the core objectives of Operation Epic Fury and this military mission
00:05:21.100continues unabated. From the outset, President Trump and the Department of War estimated it
00:05:26.420would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve this critical mission 25 days in the
00:05:32.080greatest military the world has ever known is ahead of schedule and performing exceptionally
00:05:37.300two questions on lebanon if i can is the u.s. providing support at this point for israel's
00:05:45.000ongoing offensive in lebanon and is the president concerned that right now there are more than a
00:05:50.040million people who've been displaced and potentially could be for a significant amount of time that's
00:05:54.700not something i'm in a position to comment on for the first question to the second question of course
00:05:58.640that's something that would concern the president i think that's why he's again quickly moving to
00:06:03.240eliminate the threat of the iranian regime in the middle east including weakening their proxies like
00:06:08.860hezbollah who have terrorized lebanon for far too long and i know that the president wants to see
00:06:13.800this again move as quickly as possible over week as we can over the course of of the next couple
00:06:18.600of weeks here leverage the power the strength is on our side but it doesn't mean that we have
00:06:22.660complete control of it either. We heard the press secretary also sort of expressed skepticism over
00:06:27.900the 15 point plan that the U.S. reportedly presented to Iran, saying that some of it is
00:06:32.460accurate, some of it is not. She wouldn't distinguish what was. But based on the 15 points,
00:06:37.140sources say that the U.S. wants to limit Tehran's defensive capabilities, a cessation of support for
00:06:41.920proxies and acknowledgement of Israel's right to exist. Which of those do you think Iran is most
00:06:48.440likely to agree with? I don't think they're ready to agree with anything, to be honest with you. I
00:06:53.340mean, they as it is, they're denying that talks are happening because they're trying to cater to
00:06:57.100their population who wants them to fight to the end. But that said, the president put out terms
00:07:03.520to end the war a couple of weeks ago. And those terms included things like reparations, all U.S.
00:07:09.120military presence to leave the prosecution and extradition of media personalities, by the way,
00:07:13.460who've been anti-regime. That's you and I, by the way, we're going to that's going to happen to us
00:07:16.900and things like that. So they're definitely not going to be recognizing Israel and agreeing to
00:07:22.240anything. So when you're seeing this addition of troops, the 82nd Airborne, the Marines and others
00:07:29.220that you already see deployed in the region to keep the pressure up on Iran, does that make
00:07:34.820sense to you, even as we're not getting really big answers on this from the White House?
00:07:39.460no no we really don't have a lot of answers here but uh i think if you kind of stand back
00:07:47.700uh it it's pretty clear that what uh what the president is doing by deploying these uh troops
00:07:55.700there is to try to increase his leverage uh with regards to dealing with iran by making clear that
00:08:03.480the united states has troops deployed there we've got a large force that's located there
00:08:09.440We obviously have the potential to continue this war.
00:08:14.680And at the same time, Iran continues to make attacks on both the Gulf as well as Israel.
00:08:21.920So the war is kind of continuing, but you can't get away from the fact that there are negotiations going on.
00:08:32.600And the biggest challenge is who are going to be the key players.
00:08:37.940Obviously, something's going to happen in Pakistan.
00:08:40.580We don't know who the players are, but there are players that are exchanging thoughts here.
00:08:45.860Secondly, there has to be an off-ramp to try to give these, whoever they are negotiating,
00:08:53.300some kind of opportunity to kind of either provide a temporary ceasefire
00:08:58.720or something that allows for these attacks to cease while the negotiations are going on.
00:09:04.680And then when it comes to the key points, we know what the key points are that they're going to have to deal with.
00:09:10.860They're going to have to decide on a permanent ceasefire.
00:09:14.700They're going to have to decide on what happens to nuclear enrichment and just exactly how that's controlled.
00:09:21.920They're going to have to decide whether or not missiles development is going to be limited.
00:09:28.160They're going to have to decide what happens with the Straits of Hormuz.
00:09:31.200And the likely result there is some kind of international sovereign group that will run the Straits of Hormuz.
00:09:39.320And they're going to have to decide on lifting sanctions to Iran.
00:09:43.580Those are kind of the key points that ultimately are going to have to be part of a resolution if this war is going to end.
00:09:53.520This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:10:24.920Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:10:29.380If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:10:35.760War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:10:44.140It's Wednesday, 25 March, Year of Our Lord, 2026.
00:10:47.440We are live in CPAC with Jack Posobiec and Mo Bannon helping us anchor today as we're going to take off in a little while and be in CPAC late tonight for the weekend, for Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
00:10:59.480Jack Posobiec, thank you so much for doing this, getting in today a little bit early.
00:11:07.660The next couple of days is going to be intense Real America Voice stars and others.
00:11:12.820All the stars at CPAC are going to join us as we're going to have absolutely incredible, incredible, incredible shows in that magnificent studio.
00:11:42.820which will make an impact here but also in your country let me just summarize okay we're gonna
00:11:48.920get we're gonna get this is why we do the this is why we do the shakedown cruise on wednesday
00:11:52.860afternoon normally in the past we've done a force multiplier but because of previous commitments we
00:11:58.700couldn't do a day okay folks particularly those at home in the live audience at cpac uh today
00:12:06.340another intense day president trump trying to find a solution markets in turmoil uh the israelis
00:12:12.580have basically announced the Israeli military that said, hey, look, if there's going to be
00:12:17.380some time limit on this, if there's going to be some time check on this, we are absolutely going
00:12:21.820to go in and make sure that we've done a command and control turning to dust. So the Israeli
00:12:26.720military, not just in Lebanon, not just what they're doing with Hezbollah, but they have made
00:12:31.000commitments and comments saying, hey, no holds barred. If this is going to be war and if there's
00:12:35.980going to be some limited time frame, if we're going to go to some ceasefire, there's some
00:12:38.980negotiations where essentially we're not going to be in charge of we're going to get as much done
00:12:43.780as possible uh caroline levitt once again they had a press briefing today at one o'clock eastern
00:12:49.860daylight time from the uh from the press room um and all i can say is she reiterated once again
00:12:56.460the president's operational military objectives that they feel have been accomplished are near
00:13:02.140to be accomplished. CENTCOM and the joint staff under General Kane and Admiral Cooper at CENTCOM
00:13:09.640have said, hey, they're off the chain right now. They're not attacking or bombing specifically
00:13:16.820the energy grid. They're not bombing any of the energy or oil, but the Marine Expeditionary Unit,
00:13:27.080Both of them, the Terawa coming from Japan and the USS Boxer coming from San Diego with a combined, I don't know, about 5,000 fleet Marines ready for an amphibious assault are supposedly be on station this weekend.
00:13:45.420A forward ready team of the 82nd Airborne, I think their command structure has always been floored, deployed.
00:13:54.740They will be ready by this weekend, too.
00:13:56.560So President Trump is adding to the assets that he can call upon as he's talking to the Pakistanis, the main, I think, part of what's remaining of the Revolutionary Guard, or at least these younger guys are acting as spokesman said, no, they're not interested.
00:14:12.580said they laid out five points for the Americans, including reparations,
00:14:20.460including we would never attack again.
00:14:22.240And, wait for it, they would control the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity.
00:14:27.240You know, President Trump said, I don't even think that's worth a response.
00:14:30.160Natasha Owens, who's going to be with us at CPAC, takes us out.
00:14:34.280As soon as we solve our technical problem, we'll bring in Mo Bannon,
00:14:38.720Captain Mo Bannon, and Lieutenant or Lieutenant Commander.
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00:17:22.540we love to have as many guests come on to Posse Live.
00:17:24.400The only thing I'm going to say is that after I get there tomorrow, hey, there is a countdown on this war.
00:17:30.860So we are going to be bringing people in and guests in from Washington, D.C. and overseas to make sure that you have all the information and the audience at home has all the information.
00:17:40.220So we just want to make sure. Let's set the logistics.
00:17:42.700We're going to toss to Moe and Jack at the bottom of the hour.
00:17:47.060Another unbelievable strike against Meta.
00:17:52.000Remember, this artificial intelligence fight right now, part of it's about children, but it's so much more than that.
00:17:58.160But this issue with children, let's go and play this, play these clips and I will comment on the other side.
00:18:03.600Breaking news out of Los Angeles, a jury has found both Meta and Google negligent on all counts in a landmark social media addiction trial.
00:18:12.440The now 20 year old plaintiff accused the companies of designing products to be dangerously addictive.
00:18:19.340The jury found that led to her mental health distress.
00:18:22.960What does this mean for the companies?
00:18:24.860This is such a big deal, Katie, because, right, it's that abstract sense that we've all had.
00:18:30.000Something is wrong here, but what exactly is it?
00:18:32.960And what this jury has decided is that it is the design choices of the company that is what's wrong here.
00:18:39.760They have found here, Katie, not that the content is the problem, not even that their own algorithm is the problem.
00:18:45.480Those two things have been protected by the First Amendment and by Section 230 in the past.
00:18:49.720But what we're talking about here is saying it's the design choices, the like buttons, the way people are grouped together.
00:18:56.120Those functions are what the problem is here.
00:18:58.820And that is an existential risk for these companies.
00:19:02.100It is the essence of what makes them such an effective business in terms of their marshalling and studying and even in some cases shaping behavior.
00:19:10.300And now you have a jury deciding that they can recognize that as well, which puts us in a whole new era.
00:19:17.300I think it's not too much to say that this is, you know, the not only the end of social media as we know it, Katie, this is the end of childhood as we have accepted it, at least here in the United States.
00:19:28.360Well, I think in the short term, these companies are going to fight like hell against this decision.
00:19:33.880This is an existential threat to their business model.
00:19:36.040And so already, you know, Mehta has said they respectfully disagree with the decision.
00:19:40.460And you can read that as code for we are going to appeal and appeal and appeal.
00:19:44.500There is no way they're going to let this go.
00:19:46.880But let's say that it goes all the way to the Supreme Court and that in the end they this plaintiff continues to prevail.
00:19:51.940And then this avalanche of other lawsuits comes their way.
00:19:55.580Yeah, we're looking at an entirely different social media experience, one in which perhaps it comes with huge amounts of warnings about what would happen.
00:20:04.340You know, perhaps it comes with some sort of screening for mental health issues.
00:20:09.560I mean, you know, there's also a First Amendment worry here that it means that that the freedom we have enjoyed until now to post whatever we want and do more or less whatever we want on social media platforms that could go away as well.
00:20:21.940And so we're really at the beginning, Katie, of, I think, a big national renegotiation over what it is to mine the attention of children for profit and what we're willing to give up in terms of the freedom we've enjoyed on social media in exchange for a greater degree of safety, Katie.
00:20:42.340OK, monumental. This was Los Angeles, the second day in a row, and I think the juries are not taking that long.
00:20:46.940The one in New Mexico was out one hour. Think about that for a second. One hour.
00:20:51.940they were ready to go here's what has been these oligarchs and remember the um the ability of
00:20:58.260concentration of power the concentration of power in their association with government power
00:21:03.120took place during the obama administration just like uh ticket master and live nation all these
00:21:09.260things were fighting to kind of disaggregate this was all the obama administration's justice
00:21:14.900department allowed these oligarchs and these oligarchs have been so arrogant so dismissive
00:21:20.520of parents and all the problems they've caused so dismissive well they got in front finally these
00:21:25.300cases got in front of a couple of juries just average americans and the jury spoke and they
00:21:31.500spoke quickly this is going to lead to an avalanche of lawsuits of course this is going to be
00:21:35.960highly negotiated congress is going to get involved to probably go up to the supreme court
00:21:39.440but this is also going to inform the artificial intelligence issues and they have been nothing but
00:21:46.500arrogant to date remember twice because you were the tip of the spear in this fight
00:21:50.980twice they tried to slip in full amnesty for everything they want to do no controls whatever
00:21:57.940no regulations no framework even our anti-regulation and i'm a deconstruct the administrative state
00:22:04.800person individual but they have fought it and they've been so arrogant about fighting it so
00:22:11.560so much more this is why this is one of the reasons that uh joe allen has now joined uh
00:22:18.000and is a big part of humans first all these other groups the alliance all of it this fight now is
00:22:24.320really really really intense and the courts the little guy is showing is saying hey uh something
00:22:30.060has to be done here we also have before i bolt and turn this over to poso and captain bannon
00:22:35.340And yes, Save American Act, but particularly ICE, airports, and eventually, as it's going to happen, folks, in the 2026 midterm elections at the voting booth.
00:22:55.800Half of the country wants the entire organization to be abolished.
00:22:59.500And so you see ICE at the airport and you worry that they're doing stuff like this.
00:23:03.040And then you see evidence they're doing stuff like this.
00:23:04.940Isn't that a political backfire to have to have so many different Americans from all over the country interact and be and have ICE be that visible to them in this moment of heightened tension at airports, especially.
00:23:19.520Right. One would think that because public opinion has been so clear about how Americans feel about ICE, that you would not want to have sort of armed men at an airport not assisting, by the way.
00:23:29.740But I think what's even more frightening is that many people see this as a dry run for how this administration wants to run the elections in 2026, because they know that their their policies aren't popular.
00:23:41.200And they know that because the natural sort of process of American democracy, the party in power, especially in unified government, loses seats.
00:23:48.820Steve Bannon has said that. Yes, exactly. And so the Republicans know that they're going to lose seats.
00:23:53.560They know that the idea of divided government, meaning the Democrats will take over one or both houses of Congress, is a real possibility because that's also just how the natural order of democracy has worked in the past, say, 30 years.
00:24:07.000Because of that, this is why we're seeing the push through of the SAVE Act and this real aggression.
00:24:11.980It's not about, you know, making sure we protect the integrity of our elections.
00:24:15.780Voter fraud is minuscule if nonexistent.
00:24:18.560It's really about putting people in these databases so that ICE can actually go after these quote unquote criminals.
00:24:25.620And now we've seen the definition of criminal move before it was rapists and murderers.
00:24:30.240And now it's anyone who has stayed in this country longer than they were supposed to.
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00:29:53.940War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:29:59.460So welcome back. And all the War and Posse are there. And I realize there's a couple of events going at the same time, the same area.
00:30:04.940we love it all let's let's get the big energy up so tomorrow i'm coming out tonight tomorrow we're
00:30:09.960going to be doing a live all day rav is there all day incredible studio want to thank uh rob and
00:30:15.280parker sig and the whole rav team of course we got mo mo served over in iraq with the 101st jack
00:30:21.340basobic naval intelligence officer during the global war and terror so we've got a lot of
00:30:26.080expertise but we normally just try because we have so many rav stars there to have everything live we
00:30:31.620are going to be pulling people in key people in to talk by zoom because we're going to have to
00:30:37.320get updates there's so much going on behind the scenes president trump is trying to negotiate a
00:30:41.960deal with hopefully a party that can make a deal at the same time uh more assets are going in
00:30:48.380theater jack i'll start with you before i'm a toss to you guys because i got to go get the plane
00:30:52.440but jack uh and mo you guys know they're bringing two marine expeditionary units a a brigade i guess
00:31:01.500It's a 1,000 ready force from the 82nd, and people should understand,
00:31:07.460if they send in the 82nd, if they send in the Marine Expeditionary Units,
00:31:13.260Jack and Moe, these are kind of like, let's take the position and hold the position,
00:31:18.620but some more big dogs are probably coming after that.
00:47:16.500So, Matt, I'll ask you again, you know, coming down here saying that it's the Texas, it's that Texas spirit.
00:47:23.540What is it about the Texas spirit that the rest of us, you know, from Washington, D.C., to Pennsylvania, to Wisconsin, to all over the country, what can we learn from the Texas spirit?
00:47:33.260Well, first of all, Texas views itself as an independent nation.
00:50:13.320Are you ready for some accountability for Letitia James?
00:50:17.920Now, and, John, one of the other ones, and, you know,
00:50:20.560I've been traveling and I've had some events and then I was getting down here.
00:50:24.160But we're also hearing, and I kind of see it popping up on Twitter and, of course, in your reporting, accountability for a guy by the name of John Brennan.