Bannon's War Room - March 27, 2026


Episode 5250： Live From CPAC Day 2


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Trump walks back his threat to obliterate Iran s power infrastructure. Another senior Iranian military leader is killed. President Trump holds forth on whether Iran s supreme leader is gay. Plus, a look at how the U.S. might respond to Iran's nuclear program.

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00:00:00.000 Let's begin with breaking news. Tonight, Donald Trump is walking back his threat to obliterate
00:00:05.460 Iran's power infrastructure. In a social media post, the president said he is extending the
00:00:10.320 negotiation deadline 10 days at the request of the Iranian government. A reminder, the Iranians 1.00
00:00:16.860 have denied that direct talks with the United States are happening at all. Trump's announcement
00:00:21.640 was made 11 minutes after the closing bell on what was Wall Street's worst day since the start
00:00:26.860 of the war. And the extension comes as the president is reportedly getting impatient
00:00:30.940 with the war that he started. Axios reports the Pentagon is developing military options
00:00:36.300 for a quote unquote final blow in Iran that could include the use of ground forces and
00:00:42.080 a massive bombing campaign. That's according to two U.S. officials and two sources with
00:00:47.240 knowledge. Tomorrow is the first surge of 2,200 U.S. troops and the first surge that
00:00:53.920 is expected to arrive in the region. At his cabinet meeting today, Donald Trump downplayed
00:00:59.060 Iran's capabilities, issuing this ultimatum. We'll see if they want to do it. If they don't, 0.90
00:01:06.620 with their worst nightmare. In the meantime, we'll just keep blowing them away,
00:01:13.080 unimpeded, unstopped. There's not a thing they can do about it. They can't do anything about it.
00:01:18.240 So any resolution to this conflict, does Iran remain in some sort of control of the Strait of Hormuz?
00:01:24.620 I believe they do.
00:01:25.980 They will?
00:01:26.680 Yeah, unless there's a regime change, unless, you know, we go in and we decide that, you know, all out,
00:01:33.060 the only way that this comes out in our favor is to remove the theocracy in Tehran.
00:01:38.160 Another senior Iranian military leader has been killed.
00:01:41.160 Israel says its military has assassinated Ali Reza Tengsiri,
00:01:44.840 the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval forces,
00:01:48.380 as well as other senior Iranian naval command officials.
00:01:51.940 The commander has been a key figure behind Iran's near-total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:57.000 Now, Iranian authorities have not yet confirmed his death.
00:01:59.800 The extension came just 11 minutes after markets finished their worst day since the fighting began.
00:02:04.880 Quoting now from his social media post, which landed at 4.11 p.m.,
00:02:09.060 as per Iranian government requests,
00:02:11.400 please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of energy plant
00:02:15.920 destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Talks are ongoing and
00:02:22.660 despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media and others, they are going
00:02:27.460 very well. About an hour later, the president phoned into Fox with much more to say. Well,
00:02:33.040 the Iranians asked me to do that and I was not happy with them because I made a statement that 1.00
00:02:37.140 we're having productive negotiations. I don't know that they get there. Maybe they do. Maybe
00:02:41.560 they won't. I mean, look, in a certain sense, we've already won because we've knocked out their
00:02:45.620 Navy. We've knocked out their Air Force, completely knocked out their Air Force,
00:02:49.860 just about completely knocked out. We knocked out 154 ships and pretty good ships. In fact,
00:02:56.520 I said, why don't we just take them instead of sinking them? We could have used them ourselves,
00:03:00.980 right? They asked for seven. You're going to say, oh, Trump's a terrible negotiator. They asked for
00:03:06.060 seven. And I said, I'm going to give you 10 because they gave me ships. We talked about the
00:03:12.120 eight ships, you know, the president that I talked about the other day. But they asked for seven and
00:03:16.780 I gave them 10. You got 10 days. And they were very thankful about that. Now, they may say,
00:03:22.040 oh, we're not speaking. I don't like that because that wasn't true the last time, as you found out.
00:03:26.720 But we are speaking and it's going fairly well. And so I gave them 10 days.
00:03:31.580 the interview went on for about 40 minutes after that answer which we had to condense for time in
00:03:37.640 addition that he held forth on whether iran's supreme leader is gay he boasted about ending
00:03:42.180 his own rallies with what he called quote the gay national anthem which i'm assuming is ymca though
00:03:47.000 the band now insists it's not a gay song the president also talked about jfk jr putting him
00:03:52.220 on the cover of his failed magazine george and new york in the 90s and his new ballroom all of
00:03:57.860 closing out day 26 of the war and an especially rough day on wall street administration is
00:04:02.340 anticipating iran's uh retaliation would be well it could be really just an escalation of what
00:04:08.820 we've seen a little bit of them doing to their kind of regional partners regional u.s allies
00:04:16.020 targeting whether it's desalination plants or targeting energy infrastructure and any of that
00:04:21.700 would just you know further prolong the conflict and also make the current issues worse we're
00:04:27.140 We're dealing with a global energy crisis, first and foremost.
00:04:29.940 Oil prices going up, gas prices going up.
00:04:32.880 If you now have Iran trying to take out infrastructure that is critical to that oil flow,
00:04:40.040 that's only going to make that energy crisis worse, not only with the U.S., but with the country.
00:04:44.800 Has the White House responded to this report?
00:04:47.820 Yes, what they've said is Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, said,
00:04:52.440 quote, it's the job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the commander-in-chief
00:04:56.760 maximum optionality she said it doesn't mean the president has made a decision
00:05:00.620 and as the president said in the oval office recently he is not planning to send ground
00:05:04.960 troops anywhere at this time
00:05:06.840 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
00:05:18.040 these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
00:05:24.640 had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything
00:05:28.400 in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do
00:05:31.780 people like that go to share the big line? MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
00:05:39.340 these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer
00:05:46.460 is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host,
00:05:53.560 Stephen K. Bannon.
00:06:02.540 Friday, Friday, 26th, March, year of our Lord, 2026.
00:06:07.740 We're live at CPAC.
00:06:09.240 You know, CPAC has this tendency historically that each morning show draws less and less at the beginning because of the activities of CPAC.
00:06:19.160 Last night, they had the Mike Davis party the first night.
00:06:21.660 And then last night, there was about five or six parties.
00:06:23.840 So people are dragging in here, coming in here.
00:06:26.940 Glad to see you.
00:06:27.600 We're at CPAC, another live all day.
00:06:30.160 CPAC tomorrow.
00:06:31.240 Also, I'll be talking to the grassroots leaders right after the show and then giving a speech at about 12.50 Central Time.
00:06:38.080 We'll get to all that.
00:06:38.680 Jim Rickards.
00:06:39.980 Rickards is in the house.
00:06:41.160 Okay, the president yesterday had a war cabinet meeting.
00:06:51.640 Marco Rubio, Scott Besson, Pete Hegseth, Whitcoff, going through how he was going to negotiate.
00:06:58.660 The president did a 25-minute cold open.
00:07:02.180 Where are we?
00:07:03.080 You're the master geopolitical and capital markets thinker.
00:07:07.400 Bowling's going to join us in a moment to give her the trader's perspective.
00:07:10.200 But where do you think we are? There's all types of rumors that 10,000 additional, have you guys heard this, that they're prepping 10,000 additional combat troops in the United States planning for augmentation to the two Marine Expeditionary Units and the 82nd Airborne Brigade, which is about 8,000, 9,000 troops.
00:07:31.600 So besides the 40,000 or 50,000 sailors we have there, other support personnel and Air Force, it looks like at least President Trump in his negotiations is also keeping a hammer right on the table.
00:07:47.400 Jim Rickards, your thoughts?
00:07:49.240 Let's deconstruct the negotiation thing a little bit, Steve.
00:07:52.180 The Iranians and the United States are not talking directly to each other.
00:07:55.740 There are no direct negotiations.
00:07:57.240 It's going through Pakistan.
00:07:58.360 There is communication.
00:07:59.640 Yes.
00:07:59.820 but what are the so there's no direct negotiation right now it's all through a third party that's
00:08:04.780 correct it happens to be pakistan but you got to like dial us down a little bit knows what is
00:08:09.120 actually um going on so what is the iran what is the trump plan so trump has announced a 15 point
00:08:15.320 plan just quickly full dismantlement of the iranian nuclear program limits on missile capacity
00:08:20.700 free passage in the straits of hermuz uh nuclear inspections uh give up and surrender their
00:08:28.460 enrich uranium and stop funding all the proxies like Hezbollah. Iran has agreed to none of those
00:08:33.860 things. Right. Okay. What is the Iran deal? Hold up. No, when you tee this up, one thing the
00:08:40.180 Iranians, I think, have picked up from President Trump is President Trump's style, right? I mean, 0.97
00:08:45.400 when they heard President Trump's 15 points and those are the top five, they came back in kind
00:08:50.300 of a Trumpian manner. Right. Read what their response was. Sure. So Trump said, or sorry,
00:08:54.940 The Iranians say, we want reparations for all the damage you caused. 0.98
00:08:58.560 We want Iranian sovereignty of the Straits of Hormuz.
00:09:01.300 That has not been true up until now, but now they want it.
00:09:04.340 An end to sanctions.
00:09:06.300 Regional ceasefire, including Hezbollah.
00:09:08.380 So Israel has to lay off Hezbollah.
00:09:10.900 And they want security guarantees that there will be no further U.S. attacks.
00:09:14.320 Trump has agreed to none of those.
00:09:16.040 Well, almost all of those are non-negotiable for President Trump.
00:09:19.260 But that's my point.
00:09:20.400 If Iran has rejected all of Trump's points, and Trump has rejected all of Iran's points,
00:09:25.880 and they're not actually talking to each other directly, which they're not, where's the negotiation?
00:09:30.280 So the way you think about this from an intelligence analyst point of view, and I know you know this,
00:09:36.640 you have to take your politics and your personal opinion and put it on the shelf.
00:09:41.000 It's hard to do. You need to kind of ice water in your veins and be completely analytical.
00:09:45.240 So there are only three ways to go here.
00:09:47.300 One is regime change.
00:09:49.080 And that could be a revolution, a new Shah. 0.95
00:09:52.480 It could be a lot of elections or whatever.
00:09:54.760 Regime change.
00:09:55.680 Number two, mission accomplished.
00:09:57.920 We say, hey, we won, we're going home.
00:09:59.900 And that was a big thing in Vietnam.
00:10:01.460 Why don't we just declare victory and go home?
00:10:03.560 And number three is escalation.
00:10:06.200 It doesn't have to be a forever war, but it could be a long war.
00:10:09.180 You mean escalation to de-escalate?
00:10:11.780 Well, that's what they say.
00:10:13.160 But the history of escalation is you keep escalating.
00:10:16.040 So, again, I'm trying to be as analytical as possible.
00:10:18.940 So, the way you do this, you've got three possibilities.
00:10:21.900 Let's say you had no information.
00:10:23.620 You would give them each a one-third probability.
00:10:25.820 That's how you would start.
00:10:27.080 But then you adjust the probability based on the facts.
00:10:29.520 The facts matter.
00:10:30.260 Okay, what are the odds of regime change?
00:10:32.580 I think you go from 33% down to, like, 5% really fast.
00:10:36.300 And President Trump right now, it's pretty obvious, is not looking for a regime change.
00:10:41.320 Right.
00:10:41.600 So, maybe it's zero, but you never say zero.
00:10:44.220 Well, I mean, if he's negotiating and looking for a negotiating partner to deliver, you could theoretically say you've killed the Ayatollah and a couple, you know, all the way to the brigade level, but these guys still represent the spirit of the Iranian Islamic revolution. 0.57
00:10:58.520 It's still going to be a theocratic state.
00:11:00.240 Right. That's exactly right.
00:11:01.580 But my point is, starting with these three things, if we can eliminate a couple of them, we can tell you what's going to happen.
00:11:06.480 So no regime change.
00:11:07.520 I think we take that off the table.
00:11:08.940 Mission accomplished, go home.
00:11:10.560 That's not happening.
00:11:11.400 Maybe a 20% probability, but the loss of face and the, hey, we want to end the war. 0.95
00:11:16.520 The Iranians don't want to end the war. 0.99
00:11:18.260 They're going to keep attacking the Straits of the Firmus.
00:11:20.240 So we take that off the table also.
00:11:22.760 So at that point, what's left?
00:11:24.400 Escalation.
00:11:24.920 And you put your finger on it, Steve.
00:11:26.900 So 10,000 troops, maybe, or actually they are being activated.
00:11:30.820 USS Tripoli, which is an assault carrier.
00:11:33.600 It's a small aircraft carrier.
00:11:35.400 Basically amphibious assault.
00:11:36.800 3,000 men, Marine Expeditionary Unit, men and women.
00:11:42.720 That's the Diego Garcia three-day sail away.
00:11:45.820 USS Boxer is underway in the Pacific, another 3,000 Marines heading for the Middle East.
00:11:52.300 The Iwo Jima is underway in the Caribbean.
00:11:54.820 Don't know where it's going, but it could be heading that way also.
00:11:58.320 So that could be 3,000 Marines in three Marine Expeditionary Units.
00:12:02.200 You got 10,000.
00:12:03.840 You got a brigade of the 82nd Airborne.
00:12:06.800 That's about 3,000 troops, okay?
00:12:09.820 And then with the 10,000 more, you add this up, you're talking two divisions, 20,000 troops.
00:12:16.360 So what is that?
00:12:17.620 Well, probably take Cargill Island, maybe a little total short.
00:12:21.480 But that's the most likely outcome.
00:12:24.500 It's not peace, it's not negotiation, it's escalation.
00:12:27.340 We took a poll yesterday, the folks that are here.
00:12:30.640 I'd like to do it again.
00:12:31.840 How many would, if you could talk to President Trump this morning, how many of y'all would say, finish what we started?
00:12:42.560 Run through the tape.
00:12:45.840 Okay.
00:12:47.020 Finish what we started.
00:12:49.040 If that requires us to do something more than bomb, continue to bomb, 0.67
00:12:55.740 if it requires combat troops to get into Tehran and to do a regime change,
00:13:02.360 is that, when you say, when I ask you to finish what we started,
00:13:05.920 is that what you believe we started?
00:13:13.300 How many, let me see a show of hands, how many want to march to Tehran?
00:13:18.500 No, that's not true.
00:13:20.160 That's not true, we got some.
00:13:22.640 You want to march to Tehran?
00:13:24.400 Take it.
00:13:25.740 Take it all down.
00:13:27.540 How many want to, how many want President Trump to get the best negotiated deal he can get?
00:13:38.420 Has the objectives of what we're trying to accomplish now,
00:13:42.780 raise your hand if you think you could answer what the objectives are.
00:13:46.300 Have they been articulated enough that you could make a reasonable,
00:13:50.200 that you could make a reasoned choice of backing a President Trump policy?
00:13:54.660 Do you believe it's been articulated enough?
00:13:56.640 Show of hands if you think it is.
00:13:58.760 It has?
00:13:59.580 Ben, I want to get some of these people.
00:14:02.020 If you want to march to Tehran, if you think it's a thing, can we get you just to talk to the audience?
00:14:08.020 Right in back to you, Ben.
00:14:08.900 Yeah, let me just go here first real quick.
00:14:11.080 Your thoughts on it.
00:14:11.900 Yeah, Ben, R.C. Williams, Watchman Action.
00:14:13.780 So, Steve, this is an interesting one, right, because there's actually a two-front war.
00:14:16.620 There's a physical war and there's a narrative war here back home.
00:14:19.620 The press conference yesterday was to get ahead of this exact conversation.
00:14:24.540 But it's complicated. You've got to go in and establish order.
00:14:27.580 What you said yesterday was, where are the Arabs and what are they doing?
00:14:31.360 Well, with the petrodollar, they're like, we're not doing anything.
00:14:33.940 That's what we pay you for.
00:14:35.560 So we've got to solve that problem first, get a coalition engaged, but we have to establish order.
00:14:40.620 The thing that we didn't do up front is knock the bum out. 1.00
00:14:43.340 When you've got a bum in the ring with you, you've got to knock them out. 1.00
00:14:45.780 Now that you haven't done that, you've got to establish order, get coalition partners in to fight that battle so that we can finish it.
00:14:52.540 hold it hold it right there we're gonna take a short commercial break back in the war room for
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00:16:26.440 okay welcome back um we're going to get into the debate in a moment uh have some uh war room
00:16:36.320 posse members that are, let's march to Tehran. I think their voices have to be heard. But
00:16:41.900 President Trump left the Senate with one objective, right? Remember the one objective is pass
00:16:48.380 the Save America Act. So the Senate last night passed a Department of Homeland Security to
00:16:55.220 get TSA funded and paid. But there's always a hang up. They kept out ICE and Customs and Border
00:17:04.960 patrol. That's the best deal Thune could offer the president. Neil McCabe's at the White House
00:17:11.120 in the White House press room. Neil, you've got more breaking news that's even worse than that.
00:17:15.640 What is it? Well, the Senate will be going home. They actually, when they passed the
00:17:21.700 Homeland Security funding bill shortly after 2 a.m., and that was no roll call. That was
00:17:28.640 unanimous voice vote, so no one's on the record voting for or against, which I guess the Democrats
00:17:34.540 Let's cut the Republicans a break there.
00:17:36.880 And so then they said, hey, we're taking a break.
00:17:40.400 We will reconvene April 13th.
00:17:43.200 And so that's after Greek Easter, Steve.
00:17:47.940 Hold it.
00:17:48.600 Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:17:51.520 The Senate, after John Thune did nothing to help President Trump's Save America Act,
00:17:58.120 Mike Lee, we would stream it.
00:17:59.700 You saw Mike Lee every night speaking.
00:18:01.960 Eric Schmidt, right?
00:18:03.520 You saw the same people going up there, pushing the president's number one priority.
00:18:09.520 I thought we were going to seize the floor and we're going to break the filibuster and we're going to force the Democrats into a standing filibuster.
00:18:17.060 How did they pass a bill that doesn't fund ICE, doesn't fund Customs and Border, which is the way that we've secured the border and President Trump shut it down his first 90 days,
00:18:27.220 and don't even talk about the SAVE Act
00:18:31.680 and then go home and are not back to April 13th.
00:18:35.540 Yeah, it was a case of jet fumes, Steve.
00:18:37.940 Everybody wanted to go home for Holy Week
00:18:39.820 and that was it.
00:18:41.040 There's nothing more powerful than jet fumes
00:18:43.640 from Reagan National.
00:18:46.040 And so, you know, McCormick was on the floor last night.
00:18:48.680 Huston was on the floor last night.
00:18:50.460 Mike Lee was on the floor last night,
00:18:52.260 all talking about the SAVE America Act.
00:18:55.140 Murkowski, the Alaska Republican,
00:18:57.220 She took the floor to go against the Save America Act. 0.97
00:19:01.800 And so that's where we left it.
00:19:03.640 We passed Homeland Security.
00:19:06.200 So the TSA lines and everything,
00:19:07.900 all of that pressure from Democrats
00:19:10.620 and their media allies goes away.
00:19:12.760 And then they come back in two weeks
00:19:14.440 to look at it again, Steve.
00:19:17.100 Maybe.
00:19:18.840 By the way, I want to ask the audience,
00:19:20.660 what do you think ought to happen with John Thune?
00:19:22.360 Has John Thune delivered for President Trump's agenda?
00:19:24.660 what should he's the leader of the senate what should happen with john thune he hasn't delivered
00:19:31.460 anything no ice funding no customs and borders so we don't have the secure border i probably
00:19:36.240 have to send the national guard down there or the great border patrol works without pay uh and
00:19:42.140 supposedly theoretically they've got pay from the original uh big beautiful bill but there's a big
00:19:47.720 argument can you actually use that cash but he walked away from president trump's number one
00:19:51.980 priority, which is the Save America Act. So I'm a show of hands. How many believe John
00:19:57.500 Thune should be removed as the leader? When they get back, we're going to get all over
00:20:07.280 the Senate about doing this. Neil, stick around at the White House. We're going to come back
00:20:11.280 to you. There's more breaking news there about the war. Jim Rickards is with me. Jim, do
00:20:17.160 you think the president is preparing the American people right now for a further escalation like a
00:20:23.580 ground invasion on Karg Island or one of the islands around the Straits of Hormuz or do you
00:20:28.960 think he's leading to say hey look I'm going to negotiate as good as deal as possible with this
00:20:33.120 whatever's left of this regime and then we're going to get out. I think the former he's preparing
00:20:38.220 the American people for boots on the ground including coming ashore with the marines coming
00:20:43.740 from the air with the 82nd Airborne, and as we said earlier, that's the only choice he has because
00:20:49.280 the Iranians are not negotiating. He's really not negotiating. You know, Jared Kushner and
00:20:54.200 Steve Wyckoff, they've done a very good job, but now they've got a reputation internationally.
00:21:00.420 They're not really diplomats. They're deal makers, and that's okay. Sometimes you want a deal,
00:21:04.860 but they're like Lucy in the football at this point, which is, hey, you know, Wyckoff will
00:21:08.440 come out Thursday negotiation. Hey, it went really well. We're going to meet again on Monday,
00:21:12.460 and then Friday night we bombed them.
00:21:14.120 So it's like, okay, how many times are you going to fall for that?
00:21:16.100 How many times can Lucy... 1.00
00:21:17.100 Well, isn't that what the Iranians think they're Israeli agents, right?
00:21:20.020 I mean, one of the reasons they want J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio or somebody else
00:21:24.180 is that that's happened twice so far, correct?
00:21:26.260 So we went 40 years wondering when Charlie Brown was going to rise up to Lucy,
00:21:30.620 but the Iranians have.
00:21:31.820 I'm not dissing Wyckoff and Kushner.
00:21:33.640 I'm just saying their act is now pretty transparent.
00:21:36.360 So they're not going to play that much of a role.
00:21:38.580 There is zero history of bombing your way to regime change.
00:21:42.600 It's never happened.
00:21:43.340 Maybe Japan in 1945, but even there. 0.96
00:21:45.700 But that was after a long time, two nuclear weapons.
00:21:47.560 That's right.
00:21:48.240 But it's never happened.
00:21:49.740 Now, you can bomb. 0.82
00:21:50.380 You can degrade.
00:21:50.960 You can get air supremacy.
00:21:51.940 That can all be true.
00:21:53.060 And they're doing a great job.
00:21:54.520 But that's not regime change.
00:21:56.180 The Iranians are not negotiating. 1.00
00:21:57.400 So there's really, it's not a matter of opinion.
00:21:59.320 There's no choice except escalation.
00:22:01.920 Ben, we've got a couple of the war imposter that say, hey, let's march to Tehran. 0.89
00:22:06.240 Let's go and hear that.
00:22:07.320 Yep.
00:22:07.720 Sir, running for judge here in Dallas, what's your opinion on that?
00:22:10.520 If you're going to commit America's finest to go out and possibly pay the highest price,
00:22:16.560 we owe it to them to finish the job.
00:22:18.800 As Rush Limbaugh said, peace comes after victory.
00:22:22.540 And you can't achieve full victory, as I was taught in my military training,
00:22:26.060 until you have an infantryman with his rifle on the ground holding you.
00:22:30.600 Then it's yours.
00:22:32.800 Our commander-in-chief isn't George Bush.
00:22:36.040 It isn't Obama.
00:22:37.640 it's Donald J. Trump
00:22:41.080 and he
00:22:42.600 and Hegseth
00:22:44.380 and
00:22:46.520 General Cain
00:22:50.480 I know what they're doing
00:22:52.800 and I trust in Trump
00:22:54.640 and I think we should trust in Trump
00:22:56.300 and your boots on the ground
00:22:58.680 but not necessarily to Tehran
00:23:00.180 I was in the infantry, you can't win a war
00:23:02.660 without infantry
00:23:03.440 you have to go in
00:23:05.160 I mean we could go in
00:23:07.300 quick and get out. 0.96
00:23:10.260 Take
00:23:10.740 the
00:23:11.620 uranium. Go in and take the uranium.
00:23:15.660 Bunker bust those
00:23:17.200 palaces that are underground.
00:23:20.480 Can I have the gentleman
00:23:21.520 with the hat just come back?
00:23:22.800 Come back up, Judge. If we had
00:23:25.520 to ask you what's the number one lesson we should
00:23:27.540 take from Iraq, what would you say?
00:23:30.040 We didn't finish the job in Iraq.
00:23:31.560 Do what? We did not finish the job in
00:23:33.520 Iraq. I can't hear you. We didn't finish 1.00
00:23:35.600 the job we didn't finish a job in Iraq no sir we did not what was the job that we didn't finish
00:23:41.320 I think that when Bush the elder saw the slaughter on the road to Baghdad that he got
00:23:49.960 cold feet and pulled out he should have gone on in and established a presence put our troops there
00:23:56.560 with our weapons to make sure it is a peaceful and good exchange turnover now I've got I've got
00:24:03.240 some Iranian ladies here as well. Let's bring them up. Come here, ma'am. What are your thoughts 0.89
00:24:08.740 on this? There are already Iranian boots underground. MEK affiliated resistance units have been active
00:24:16.220 underground for the past 10 years. So they have a clear plan. And even five days before
00:24:22.780 the whole conflict started, 250 armed members of the MEK attacked Khamenei's headquarters
00:24:30.000 in the middle of Tehran, in a heavily secured area.
00:24:33.820 So there are boots on the ground, but those are Iranian boots, 1.00
00:24:37.040 and the Iranian people with their organized resistance
00:24:39.720 will do the regime change by themselves.
00:24:41.900 Okay.
00:24:47.880 They are saying that one of the reports of people in D.C.
00:24:53.480 are saying one of the biggest strategic miscalculations
00:24:56.700 that comes from the intelligence community and particularly the Israeli intelligence
00:25:02.080 was that Netanyahu and the Israelis way oversold the Iranian people
00:25:08.940 in an uprising to actually overthrow this regime itself.
00:25:12.340 It hasn't materialized as of yet.
00:25:14.800 You maybe talk about an intention and people want to do it,
00:25:18.340 but so far we're almost four weeks into this war
00:25:21.760 and people are looking at how we got here.
00:25:24.340 one of the biggest things is that there was supposed to be a spontaneous uprising of the Iranian people
00:25:30.040 like it was back in January, where you had 30,000 people, it looks like, killed.
00:25:34.980 That uprising hasn't taken place, and there's a lot of people in Washington saying,
00:25:39.880 hey, we may have been oversold, the Israelis may have been oversold 1.00
00:25:43.700 by their relationship with the Iranian resistance.
00:25:48.240 Any thoughts?
00:25:48.840 Yes, I would say that, you know, it's very hard to come out on the streets when there is bombing on the streets of Tehran or Iran.
00:25:57.960 So the uprisings, we have nine major uprisings in the past 10 years,
00:26:04.320 and every single one of them has been bigger, wider, deeper, and more radical than before.
00:26:10.260 So these uprisings will continue when the time comes.
00:26:13.820 Let me ask you. As people talk about, we talk about this bombing campaign and President Trump, yesterday Pete Hexeth was very specific in the war cabinet. He didn't mention ground troops. He said more intense bombing every day. President Trump has said you basically have until April 6th to negotiate a deal, I'll start bombing the electric grid. As this bombing goes on, how far into it do we have to get to where we're going to see a spontaneous uprising of Iranian patriots? 0.67
00:26:41.340 We need to have, we need to focus on the people of Iran and the organized resistance.
00:26:47.280 You know, that's something that is missing from the American, you know, media, that there
00:26:52.040 is armed struggle inside Iran.
00:26:55.100 As I said, you know, 250 armed struggle, you know, members attacked Khamenei's headquarters,
00:27:00.640 but in the news, we did not see much in the Western, you know, media.
00:27:04.940 So we need to focus on the people of Iran, the organized resistance, and the National
00:27:09.300 Council of Resistance of Iran with
00:27:11.440 Maryam Rajavi's leadership, which
00:27:13.520 they have a ten-point plan with
00:27:15.540 thousands of endorsements
00:27:17.520 by the parliamentarians. Do you folks
00:27:19.700 think there's going to be a spontaneous
00:27:21.680 uprising of Iranian
00:27:23.660 resistance? I hope so. Of any
00:27:25.600 meaningful thing that's going to
00:27:27.520 overthrow at least the regime?
00:27:29.700 And we now know that the intelligence
00:27:31.780 reporting this morning, they've only
00:27:33.600 used one-third of their missiles.
00:27:35.420 This is the latest intelligence report. Why don't you hang on to after the break?
00:27:37.880 Jim Rick is going to be with us. Eric Boling is going to join with us. Look, you guys have to come up. You have to come up with your own opinion on this, right? This is going to be a huge and massive issue in the coming weeks. And President Trump's going to need your back, but you've got to think this through and come. Nobody can sell you on any position.
00:27:58.340 This is why we're trying to put out all the possible information and have every various alternative out there so that you can think it through.
00:28:06.340 Come to use your own agency because this is going to be the number one topic.
00:28:11.140 It's already the number one topic, but I mean, we're going to come to a decision point a couple of weeks now.
00:28:15.720 Jim Rickins here, Eric Bolling, and of course, the War Room Posse.
00:28:18.760 Short commercial break.
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00:29:59.920 welcome back could you go see ben burquham just go hey ben i got some more customers for you
00:30:10.800 right over there to ben burquham the camera ben we got some people that the mainstream media have
00:30:15.620 been interviewing non-stop that are war room posse so i'm gonna get to them in a second
00:30:19.400 jim records the uprising in iran because one of the absolute essential parts of the equation
00:30:24.860 is how big and how hard and tough is the Iranian resistance
00:30:30.300 in coming to basically assist in regime change
00:30:35.280 or at least making sure the regime understands
00:30:37.860 they have to negotiate with President Trump
00:30:39.800 to get some sort of deal that can get this thing shut down.
00:30:43.560 I don't doubt for a minute that there are people in Iran
00:30:45.760 who are good intention, want democracy, oppose what's going on.
00:30:50.900 I don't doubt that those people are there,
00:30:52.460 but there'll be machine guns in the streets.
00:30:53.920 they already have been. The Iranian regime killed low-end estimate 5,000, perhaps as many as 30,000
00:31:00.500 people. Do you want to be 5,001? Now, the way to explain this, what's the Ukraine war all about?
00:31:05.840 It's not about Ukraine. It was always intended by the neocons and Victoria Nul and others to
00:31:10.680 overthrow Putin. But they always thought there would be a resistance in Russia. So that didn't
00:31:16.040 happen. It's not happening in Iran. Again, there are good people there, but that is not going to
00:31:19.600 happen okay let's go to eric bowling eric tell us what the uh what the trading pits are saying
00:31:25.520 today what are the markets telling president trump because people realizes he watches the
00:31:29.720 markets very closely why because it's a good source of information about where the world's
00:31:35.220 capital what's the world's capital thinking what do you got so you can take both sides you hear
00:31:40.100 one side say that it's going this way the other side says the other way what really what traders
00:31:44.960 are honing in on what's really happening, get the noise out. And so what we've been talking about
00:31:49.680 for the last few days, told you, Steve, I spoke to one of the major, probably the biggest
00:31:53.320 liquefied natural gas transporter, certainly in the country, maybe in the world. And I'm speaking
00:31:58.980 with a refinery here in Texas today. And what we're finding is they're all very, very much
00:32:04.840 fearful of a higher price, which makes what happens, the price go higher. It just drifts
00:32:09.220 towards the fear, call it a war dividend, whatever it is. We're up $3 a barrel right now. We're
00:32:14.640 approaching $98 a barrel WTI. Brent is $111, almost $112 right now. So prices are rising.
00:32:23.520 Gasoline hit $4 a gallon for the first time, as we predicted in five years, four or five years.
00:32:29.860 Things are looking like they're drifting higher until we get some solid information. For the
00:32:34.600 first time, Steve, all the other times Trump said, you know, we'll give it a 48-hour pause.
00:32:39.340 Then there was a five day pause. Now there's a 10 day, quote unquote, pause. And it didn't matter today because they're not listening to these things anymore. They're going with what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz, in the oil markets, and all things are pointing to higher. You said something very important. Where are the Arab countries? You want to eradicate the threat that Iran is. The gentleman in your audience is, I believe he's right. I think you need actual troops, boots on the ground to fully eliminate the threat. 0.95
00:33:08.400 Who of those people, yesterday it was 65%, Steve, said, let's end the threat.
00:33:13.480 And then you asked them, well, how many are willing to send troops, boots on the ground, or young men and women on the ground?
00:33:18.980 That number dwindled to near zero.
00:33:24.580 Talk to me.
00:33:25.400 Yesterday we called for the Arab armies, particularly UAE and the Saudis.
00:33:29.060 They have big military operations to be part of this, particularly if you're going to take Karg Island with paratroopers, 82nd Airborne, to take it.
00:33:37.040 and then the Marines come in to hold it,
00:33:39.080 don't you need participation of the guys actually in the Persian Gulf?
00:33:43.420 Remember, our Arab allies are making a fortune right now.
00:33:47.540 Oil's up, you know, two times, going to two and a half times where it was.
00:33:52.600 They love the fact oil's going up there.
00:33:54.660 They love the fact they're calling for force majeure all the time on the contracts.
00:33:58.400 Qatar's done it. Iraq's done it. 1.00
00:34:00.860 The Saudis are talking about it.
00:34:03.000 So they're making a bundle.
00:34:05.020 I haven't seen him pitch in any money so far, and there's articles today that the Saudis were pushing President Trump the entire time to go after Iran hard,
00:34:15.180 but they have not made a decision yet whether they're going to participate in the combat operations.
00:34:20.720 How is that fair?
00:34:22.440 It's not fair, and we've been highlighting this for a long time, Steve, because they're benefiting the Saudis, the Omanis, the Bahrainis, the United Arab Emirates countries,
00:34:30.880 all the producing OPEC, generally OPEC producing countries, are benefiting from this. We talked,
00:34:36.140 I did the math for you yesterday, it's $21.6 billion. If this price lasts for 60 days,
00:34:41.840 we're almost 30 days already, or whatever we are, if it lasts 60 days at this level,
00:34:46.500 we're handing Iran alone $21.5 billion of war dividend. Saudis produced double the oil that
00:34:54.560 Iran's. So of course, they're going to be supportive of Trump publicly and pat him on the
00:34:58.940 back privately even but when when push comes to shove this is a 50 maybe could be 100 billion
00:35:06.120 dollar equity raise money raise u.s petrodollar raise for saudi arabia alone so no one is in a
00:35:14.200 rush to have this end in the middle east maybe with the exception of israel but israel's israel's
00:35:20.100 blown it up in my opinion a couple of times already they're they're they're off on the you
00:35:23.960 You know, pulling their own strings and triggers and bombs, dropping bombs where they should never bomb an oil installation. 0.82
00:35:34.820 Before I let you go, for the audience, both at CPAC and at home, talk us what's going to be.
00:35:41.000 The market is showing what they believe what President Trump's going to do and walk us through how you think that's going to develop in oil markets over the next week.
00:35:49.640 Yeah, unless there's a legit deal on the table. Again, that's, you know, again, you guys have to define, that's your job there, define what is mission now? What is mission success, regime change? Was it just getting rid of nuclear capability? We've done that. Is it regime change or what I believe it really is?
00:36:08.820 I don't, you know, people don't like to hear this. This is an oil play. This is a play to secure the
00:36:13.400 oil. And if you're not willing to have our young men and women on the ground there, that deal has
00:36:18.620 to be solid. You've got to make a deal, but you've got to bring Iran to their knees first. You've got 1.00
00:36:22.680 to take out infrastructure, take out highways, take out media, take out the big industry
00:36:27.420 manufacturing, not just military, stay away from the oil because you want to negotiate for their
00:36:32.180 access to the access to their oil with them with some international court. Steve, let's be honest.
00:36:37.340 You're a smart man.
00:36:38.160 You've done this a long time.
00:36:39.520 Are we really, really, really going to replace not only the mullahs, but the IRGC with some
00:36:44.460 sort of democracy?
00:36:45.840 And if we are, put a time frame on that, because I would say it's years, not months.
00:36:52.760 Eric Bolling, where do people get you on social media?
00:36:55.700 The show is right before us at 4 p.m.
00:36:58.460 Eastern Daylight Time.
00:36:59.280 You've got a new show on YouTube.
00:37:00.780 Where do people go?
00:37:02.000 It's right there.
00:37:02.920 The edge is right there.
00:37:03.760 Let's do something, Steve.
00:37:04.560 Every time I come on, your audience has been amazing.
00:37:06.920 Let's see how many subscribers we can get.
00:37:09.120 YouTube, Eric Bolling, just Google it or YouTube it.
00:37:13.180 Eric Bolling, the edge.
00:37:14.120 See how many of you subscribe.
00:37:15.440 You have an amazing, amazing audience.
00:37:17.580 It's been amazing.
00:37:18.540 I'm going to check the number and report back to you this evening,
00:37:21.080 because when I hand off the show to you tonight, we'll talk about it.
00:37:26.000 Thank you, Eric Bolling.
00:37:26.820 Let's give it up for Eric Bolling.
00:37:29.360 Jim Rickerts, your thoughts on Bolling and about what's oil signaling to President Trump
00:37:34.280 and about what President Trump's doing.
00:37:36.500 Markets have absolutely not discounted what's happening.
00:37:41.500 Wall Street doesn't sell stocks, they sell narratives to get you to buy stocks.
00:37:45.500 So what's the narrative?
00:37:46.500 The narrative is, the war is going to be over in a few weeks, the price of oil is higher,
00:37:50.500 but it's going to come back down, we'll get through this, Trump's got a plan, et cetera.
00:37:54.500 None of that is true.
00:37:55.500 This war is going to go on for much longer.
00:37:57.500 We talked about it earlier.
00:37:59.500 Escalation is the only path.
00:38:00.500 There's no regime change.
00:38:01.500 We can't just pick up and go home.
00:38:03.500 And by the way, where's the impact?
00:38:05.920 Why isn't it worse already?
00:38:07.320 The answer is there were weeks of oil underway outside the Persian Gulf when the war started.
00:38:13.660 So they closed these Straits of Hormuz, right?
00:38:15.880 But that oil was still in transit.
00:38:17.880 It got to Japan. 0.70
00:38:18.860 It got to South Korea.
00:38:20.060 The shortages did not show up right away because there was oil underway.
00:38:23.520 Now, a month later, the shortages are going to show up.
00:38:26.780 You could be talking about shutting down the South Korean economy, which is an industrial
00:38:30.320 powerhouse, appliances, cars, semiconductors, et cetera.
00:38:33.500 This is far worse than Wall Street expects.
00:38:36.540 I think investors would be well advised to, you know, get some cash and trim your exposure.
00:38:40.980 Let me see a show of hands.
00:38:42.420 Are the American citizens here, the MAGA patriots,
00:38:46.340 are you prepared to bear a little pain to get this problem solved?
00:38:51.740 Okay.
00:38:53.120 Okay.
00:38:54.300 Run through the tape.
00:38:56.440 Ben, you've had some MAGA, some of our war imposters been interviewed by other media.
00:39:01.060 Let's hear from them.
00:39:01.900 Yeah, talk to us about what you've experienced so far, folks.
00:39:05.660 Yeah, my wife and I have been here from yesterday
00:39:08.020 in probably six different groups,
00:39:11.060 from Christian to Irish Star to Germany
00:39:13.960 and a couple of other ones thrown in.
00:39:16.860 And basically the lead-in question is always,
00:39:19.220 and it is a lead-in question,
00:39:21.060 do you approve of the new war that Trump's bringing on?
00:39:25.600 And our response to that is it's not a new war.
00:39:28.560 But then the follow-on is that
00:39:30.120 Would you support troops on the ground?
00:39:32.140 I mean, it's basically a set series of questions, which isn't unreasonable, I mean, given what
00:39:37.720 is going on right now and what you're talking about.
00:39:40.020 But it seems to me that, you know, they are trying to accentuate a split.
00:39:45.680 They think there's a bit of a split.
00:39:46.480 But hang on.
00:39:47.160 That's a compliment.
00:39:47.960 They're coming here because they understand that you guys are the tip of the spear of
00:39:53.160 the MAGA movement.
00:39:54.280 You are the guys that make it happen.
00:39:56.200 You are President Trump's most loyal followers.
00:39:58.720 you're the backbone of the MAGA movement. For international media and for mainstream media
00:40:04.180 that have no clue about any of this and hate President Trump, they want to come and hear
00:40:09.800 what his followers have to say. I think it's a legitimate question. So I'm going to ask you,
00:40:14.400 I wouldn't call it a new war, but what do you, and President Trump now refers to it as a military
00:40:18.760 operation. What is your opinion right now of the military operation that we're in the third week
00:40:24.540 My response to those questions, and that was one of the questions most of them had,
00:40:29.540 was that basically several presidents have wanted to do, maybe they left office,
00:40:35.540 so it was safe to say what they said.
00:40:37.540 But this is the first one that did what the other ones were talking about.
00:40:41.540 As they say, this is a continuation of a long-term problem that needed to stop.
00:40:46.540 But the media part, I agree with what you just said, that it's a compliment.
00:40:50.540 But on the other hand, they're trying to form a division of people that are here with these leading-type questions.
00:40:56.880 Well, they are asking leading questions.
00:40:58.980 The good news is that the MAGA base, you, know that they're coming here to try to have division.
00:41:04.320 But the reality is there is going to be division because not everybody's totally on board.
00:41:10.820 Let me ask you, you're supportive.
00:41:13.960 Do you believe there was an imminent threat, given you said there's five or six presidents that have never gotten anything done,
00:41:20.540 And I was there in 79, 80 under Carter before President Reagan came for the disastrous.
00:41:27.080 We were there for the workup, not for the actual raid itself, which was a total disaster.
00:41:31.640 And the first big failure after the Iranian revolution.
00:41:34.780 Do you believe, given you had those five or six, seven presidents, there was an imminent threat that on Friday, the 26th of March, in the year of our Lord, 2026,
00:41:45.820 we're asking you and all these other patriots
00:41:49.140 what do you think about putting boots on the ground
00:41:51.860 to take Karg Island?
00:41:53.320 So do you think it was in your mind
00:41:55.260 not spun about anybody
00:41:56.840 do you think there was an
00:41:57.860 as you weighed and measured things
00:41:59.500 there was an imminent threat
00:42:01.040 that we would go in
00:42:02.780 that we would three weeks later
00:42:04.260 be talking about putting combat troops in?
00:42:06.720 Well I think the answer is yes
00:42:08.420 and that it was a time coming
00:42:10.060 and it was a point in time
00:42:11.520 you know I think Netanyahu
00:42:13.620 expressed this several times
00:42:15.700 is that this was a unique point and opportunity to take out a lot of leadership at one particular point in time.
00:42:24.900 So that, I think, is the reason why it was that day at that time when that happened.
00:42:29.700 This is why we're trying to show every aspect of this.
00:42:34.200 I have Trita Parsi on, who's not just Iranian, but he's very close to some of those guys.
00:42:39.780 We have Kurt Milzon, who's a Buchananite, who's anti-Iraq, anti-all this.
00:42:46.220 We have Rabbi Walicki.
00:42:48.180 We have Brian Kennedy and Frank Gaffney, neocons from decades and decades.
00:42:53.700 Here's the reason.
00:42:56.160 For this to go forward and to make sure it's a success,
00:43:00.300 the MAGA movement has to come to its own independent assessment as the facts that they see them.
00:43:06.540 Right?
00:43:06.740 and that's why your point of view is fantastic because you've kind of thought this through a
00:43:10.280 little bit. Other people have to think it through. This is not going to be able to be spun because
00:43:14.980 more information is going to come out. This thing is going to get a lot nastier. It is and now you're
00:43:22.020 not just talking about B2 bombers and that. You're talking about sons and daughters of the MAGA
00:43:27.500 movement because remember it's working class people in this country. Their kids are marines
00:43:32.320 and sailors so now we're going another level potentially to actually put knowing the lessons
00:43:40.060 of iraq to put com and afghanistan to put your sons and daughters your your grandchildren in
00:43:48.460 harm's way and that's why the maga movement is going to have to come to its own conclusion
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00:45:14.300 Stephen K. Band.
00:45:18.100 Okay, welcome back. A heated debate here
00:45:20.260 at War Room, as it should
00:45:22.360 be. Your thoughts, Jim. First
00:45:24.320 off, marching to Tehran.
00:45:26.400 Right, we've gone to other sorts of possibilities, and
00:45:28.280 people talk about marching to Tehran. I've
00:45:30.280 been a geography freak since I was about five
00:45:32.360 years old. Iran is as big 1.00
00:45:34.500 as the continental United States, east
00:45:36.460 of the Mississippi. Just chop off
00:45:38.440 Florida, but it's the continental United States
00:45:40.480 east of the Mississippi. So you're
00:45:42.400 talking about marching from Boston
00:45:43.960 to New Orleans with 70 million people occupying that territory. That is not going to happen.
00:45:50.360 So it's a dangerous delusion. Take it off the list. The problem with escalation,
00:45:55.220 if you can't escalate all the way, and I don't see how we can, then you're just in another
00:45:59.300 kind of forever war. Okay. Talk to us about various options, your thoughts, and how do people
00:46:05.540 get strategic intelligence? I think now more than ever, if you have access to strategic
00:46:10.660 Intelligence, you ought to be reading it. Yeah, thank you, Steve. We have a landing page. It's
00:46:14.840 RickardsWarRoom.com. That's RickardsWarRoom.com. You go there, you can subscribe to our flagship
00:46:20.900 newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. We do predictive analytics. We have a great track
00:46:24.900 record going all the way back to Brexit, Trump 2016, electoral votes in 2024. So we have the
00:46:31.700 track record to back it up. What we did here today, actually, is a good example of predictive
00:46:35.860 analytics. I have my opinions. Keep your opinion out of it. Look at the facts. Do the analysis.
00:46:40.660 weight them. And unfortunately, the scenario is escalation and kind of a dead end.
00:46:46.500 Wow. Let's give it up for Jim Rickards. One of our best, Jim, thanks so much. Ben Burquam,
00:46:52.400 what do you got for us? Yeah. So the question is, is this a forever war? The question we're not
00:46:57.060 why check check my check is the problem. We've got a fight here in Texas and in America. Tell
00:47:04.980 me your name and what you guys are doing here in Texas. Yeah, my name is Daniel Hayworth. I'm a
00:47:09.320 pastor at Vintage Church down in Harker Heights, Texas. We're right outside the largest military
00:47:13.480 base in the country, Fort Hood. Right now we're doing a 10-week series. We've given away to over
00:47:17.860 100 churches across the country and across the world on the threat of Islam. Because the truth 1.00
00:47:22.680 is, this war is not just one isolated event in our day and time. It's actually one war in a series
00:47:31.460 of wars that's been going on since the existence of Islam for the last 1,400 years. And none of 0.98
00:47:37.260 these problems get solved by us doing what we're doing right now, which is mass importing Muslim 1.00
00:47:43.120 migrants into red states. The left is an alliance to do all of that. So Texas is the center of this. 0.99
00:47:49.580 You just passed Proposition 10 to prohibit the governor-designated Muslim Brotherhood in CAIR,
00:47:56.640 and CAIR is still down in Austin holding hearings about putting more Islam into public schools.
00:48:03.260 What do you guys, particularly, what's the church and the pastors going to do about it?
00:48:06.640 Yeah. So our mission right now is to wake up the church. The truth is every single country
00:48:11.980 that's a Muslim country right now in North Africa and the Middle East used to be historically
00:48:16.260 Christian countries. The ones that remained and stayed faithful, it wasn't because of the great 0.99
00:48:20.800 military might of those countries. It was because of the courage of the church. I mean, the Jerusalem
00:48:25.780 cross I'm wearing right now is the symbol of the first crusade of a group of Christian men who said, 0.57
00:48:30.420 we're not going to allow the Muslim hordes to come take over. What's that symbol? What's that 1.00
00:48:34.600 symbol you've got on your shirt it's the jerusalem cross and it's it's the symbol of the first crusade
00:48:39.820 most famously worn by one of the great christian men of history duke godfrey of bouillon he's a
00:48:44.720 great man they weren't gonna they the war room posse had to make calls non-stop for three days
00:48:49.400 because pete hexes got that tattooed on his chest they weren't gonna let him be secretary of war
00:48:54.580 it's ridiculous it's a symbol of christendom and christendom by the way america is best thought of
00:48:59.940 in history as the crown jewel of Christendom. It's this idea that our founders had that we'd be built
00:49:05.480 upon the foundations of God's word. And if we don't remember that, we will fall to this unholy
00:49:11.340 alliance of the left and Islam. Are you bringing young men back to the church for a muscular
00:49:17.120 Christianity? Yes, we absolutely are. Hasn't Christianity been too, wait for it, feminized?
00:49:22.840 It's been neutered. It's been this sort of third wayism where people have said, oh, we're just
00:49:27.020 going to be nice to the people who don't want to be told that they're wrong. But that's not at all
00:49:31.640 what Christianity is supposed to be. Christianity is a masculine religion where Jesus said, I want 0.99
00:49:36.320 you to come and I want you to sacrifice and I want you to lay down your own life. That's masculine 0.54
00:49:40.680 sacrifice. That's what Christianity is about. And it's been carried forward by men who are willing
00:49:45.420 to stand in the gap against evil. And that's the Christianity that if it rises up, we'll save the
00:49:50.460 country. And if we cower, the country will fall. Let's give it up right there. You like that?
00:49:55.260 Last thing before I get you.
00:49:56.880 Are you a Christian nationalist?
00:49:58.720 I believe that this country was founded upon the truth of God's word
00:50:01.760 and that no other foundation will allow it, will support it, will let it stand,
00:50:06.020 and that if we don't return to those principles,
00:50:08.660 every single one of the great men of this country was a person who got on their knees and said,
00:50:12.800 Lord, I want more of you and less of me.
00:50:15.340 That's what built this country, and it's in our forgetting of that that we've fallen.
00:50:18.300 I take that as a yes.
00:50:20.600 Where do people go?
00:50:23.500 What's your website?
00:50:24.140 what's your social media? You can go to vintage.church forward slash infidel to check out
00:50:28.480 everything we're doing on our Islam series. You can check out our YouTube at Vintage Church,
00:50:32.900 Texas. If you want to follow me personally, I'm on xdhayworth22. But look at our church stuff
00:50:37.480 first. Get equipped with God's word. That's what you need more than anything. That's how we fight
00:50:40.700 back right there. Right on. Thank you, sir. Okay. The California contingent, the California
00:50:46.900 contingent is here. It's on me all the time. We don't do enough about California. California has
00:50:52.100 more MAGA voters than any other state in the union, even Texas.
00:50:56.160 Elaine, you're running for governor.
00:50:57.980 Talk to us about it.
00:50:59.120 Hi, I'm Elaine Kalati.
00:51:00.400 I'm running for governor of California.
00:51:02.940 And I just want everyone to know, while we're all watching the war,
00:51:06.980 we're all watching the war, California is going to the Democrats.
00:51:11.900 It is a national emergency.
00:51:14.560 I need you all to pay attention.
00:51:16.560 It is unwinnable with the current bench.
00:51:19.640 There are too many people in the race. 0.99
00:51:21.200 By the way, this is for you. You should be wearing that. Don't vote for me, baby. Vote for us.
00:51:26.620 All right. Listen, California. 31% of Californians are registered, registered independents.
00:51:34.900 Only 24% of Californians are registered Republicans. Mathematically, it's impossible
00:51:40.400 if you have 10 people in a race because no one's pulling higher than 8%. And while we're all
00:51:46.320 watching the gulf and the gas. We're going to sell off California to Iran and Israel as soon 0.99
00:51:52.600 as the sun's going to come up tomorrow if we don't get on top of it. We need to bring the
00:51:56.720 middle together. Is Swalwell going to win? Swalwell is winning. Swalwell is winning.
00:52:02.640 So very simply, how do you beat, you guys enthusiastic about Eric Swalwell being governor
00:52:07.060 of California? Good God, no. How are you going to beat Eric Swalwell? The way you beat Eric
00:52:12.820 Swalwell is from the middle. We need this group of people. We need the Trump administration.
00:52:19.340 This is a call for help. We need your help in California. We cannot do it alone. 24% cannot do
00:52:26.240 it, especially when you have a two-party race. When you have a two-party race in California,
00:52:32.320 you have a one-party race. And just note, I took down the right finger. If you have a two-party
00:52:37.740 race in California, you have a one-party race. I want everybody to pay attention to what just
00:52:42.040 happened at USC. At USC, they canceled the debate. Thank you very much, Elaine Kalati. Why did they
00:52:49.220 cancel the debate? Because they had an idea. They would cull their field on the stage at USC.
00:52:58.060 We've got to bounce. What's your website? Where do people go? You've got 10 seconds.
00:53:01.280 What do you talk? Wear my hat. We've got to go. I don't wear hats. Hit it. Elaine Kalati is my name.
00:53:08.480 It's Kulati spelled C-U-L-O-T-T-I. 0.93
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