Bannon's War Room - Episode 5252： CPAC Day 2 Cont.

00:00:00.000 Back in the Middle East, the New York Times reports that, quote, Iran said on Friday that it had warned three ships not to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a day after Mr. Trump extended a U.S. deadline for Tehran to reopen the waterway.

00:00:13.380 And as much as Donald Trump has been talking about striking a peace deal,

00:00:17.280 and as reporting suggests, he wants to end the war,

00:00:20.520 Department of Defense officials tell the Wall Street Journal that, quote,

00:00:23.780 the Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East

00:00:28.160 to give the president more military options.

00:00:31.380 The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles,

00:00:34.620 would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers

00:00:39.000 from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region.

00:00:43.680 It is unclear where precisely forces will go in the Middle East,

00:00:47.260 but they will likely be within striking distance of Iran and Karg Island,

00:00:51.520 a crucial oil export hub off Iran's coast.

00:00:55.340 Mixed messages from the Trump administration as the war rages on.

00:00:59.080 Why would he send them if he did not plan to use them?

00:01:02.920 That's a more credible force for some types of operation, seizing Karg Island, for example.

00:01:09.000 It may be doing some raids or some smaller operations in the vicinity of the strait itself.

00:01:15.360 It's not a force that's going to invade Iran and try to overrun the country.

00:01:20.600 You'd have to have a force several times at least bigger than that to do that.

00:01:24.120 So it does increase the options the administration has, but they're not very good options.

00:01:29.440 Iran is fighting an asymmetric fight.

00:01:31.260 The cyber attack you just talked about is a piece of that.

00:01:34.440 Closing those strage of our moves, which I don't think this force can fundamentally reverse, is another part of it.

00:01:42.020 So we're in a type of conflict that, for reasons that mystify me, the administration did not anticipate,

00:01:46.800 did not prepare for, and did not think through the consequences of.

00:01:50.460 So that's where we are.

00:01:51.360 Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters a short time ago that he was expecting Iran's response to U.S. peace proposal at any moment.

00:01:59.180 The Trump administration has offered Tehran a 15-point plan to end the war,

00:02:03.360 and this comes as the two sides could potentially begin face-to-face negotiations in the near future.

00:02:08.760 At the same time, the U.S. is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East,

00:02:12.140 though Secretary Rubio says that Iranian military capabilities can be destroyed

00:02:16.400 without putting any American troops on the ground.

00:02:19.540 Listen.

00:02:21.080 We can achieve. We are achieving all those objectives.

00:02:23.800 We are ahead of schedule on most of them,

00:02:25.480 and we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any.

00:02:28.880 Now, in terms of why there's deployments,

00:02:32.040 number one, the president has to be prepared for multiple contingencies,

00:02:36.180 which I'm not going to discuss in the new year.

00:02:38.020 And again, I refer you to the Department of War,

00:02:39.900 who will probably tell you the exact same thing.

00:02:42.260 But we can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops,

00:02:44.740 but we are always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality

00:02:48.660 and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.

00:02:55.480 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because

00:03:03.480 we're going medieval on this people here's not got a free shot all these

00:03:07.920 networks lying about the people the people have had a belly full of it I

00:03:12.360 know you don't like hearing that I know you try to do everything the world to

00:03:15.360 stop that but you're not gonna stop it it's going to happen and where do people

00:03:18.580 like that go to share the big line mega media I wish in my soul I wish that

00:03:25.400 any of these people

00:03:26.360 at a conscience.

00:03:28.120 Ask yourself,

00:03:29.140 what is my task

00:03:30.220 and what is my purpose?

00:03:31.880 If that answer

00:03:33.000 is to save my country,

00:03:35.080 this country

00:03:36.060 will be saved.

00:03:38.160 War Room.

00:03:39.080 Here's your host,

00:03:40.420 Stephen K. Bannon.

00:03:48.800 All right,

00:03:49.780 we're back,

00:03:50.500 we're back,

00:03:50.800 we're back.

00:03:51.100 We're all around

00:03:51.580 what's going on.

00:03:52.920 Folks,

00:03:53.240 Folks, come on out. 0.99

00:03:55.600 Friday, CPAC, 2026.

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00:04:01.820 All right.

00:04:02.440 Let me start with you.

00:04:03.020 Ben Berkman, everybody.

00:04:04.620 Ben's awesome on the border.

00:04:06.080 Where's your sign? 0.93

00:04:07.620 Hey, we got to remember what we're fighting against as these lunatic leftists are out there 0.93

00:04:12.120 marching against America, marching against ICE.

00:04:14.240 We say here at CPAC and across America, MAGA says, God bless us.

00:04:22.200 There you go.

00:04:22.820 Maureen Bannon, awesome to have share a stage with you again.

00:04:26.920 Always good.

00:04:27.740 Thank you.

00:04:28.460 Same.

00:04:29.260 And you brought Taj?

00:04:30.980 Taj.

00:04:31.360 Taj Gill.

00:04:31.980 Taj Gill, yeah.

00:04:32.740 You're a badass, I hear.

00:04:34.440 I hear you spent some time deploying.

00:04:37.720 I did, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:38.700 Yeah, I've been Iraq and Afghanistan 16 times between 2001 and 2014.

00:04:44.180 Wow, wow, wow.

00:04:45.040 And now I sell coffee.

00:04:46.960 Warpath Coffee.

00:04:47.780 Yeah, Warpath Coffee.

00:04:48.760 It's good coffee, right?

00:04:49.980 Maureen told me about Warpath.

00:04:51.240 coffee it's a champagne of coffee so let me start with you my friend what you see what's going on

00:04:55.960 in iran right now tough position to be in for president trump right it was let's obliterate

00:05:02.040 the nuclear program we did they did israel and us did but what has the mission changed and if it

00:05:08.520 has what's the what's the end goal what are we what are you trying to accomplish there and how

00:05:12.700 do we do it i think yeah i think definitely it's a very tough very dangerous situation we're in

00:05:18.360 right now and the end goal it seems to be changing but regime change denuclearization maybe

00:05:25.080 de-weaponization um and then you know it looks like israel and america have a little bit different

00:05:30.420 goals so what's what is it we're trying to figure that one out scratch my head a little bit yeah i

00:05:36.020 see uh today israel bombed all of iran's steel steel production facilities so now iran's going

00:05:41.860 to attack the gulf steel production facilities and trump said we're not going to attack them

00:05:47.940 for the next six days so you deployed can we eradicate the mullah system the irgc without 1.00

00:05:53.980 boots on the ground is that possible i don't think so yeah and and if we do go that route

00:05:59.700 what's the timeline now that doesn't happen very quickly either does it no you know look look look

00:06:04.140 what happened to iraq and afghanistan afghanistan we went in in 2001 to take the taliban out

00:06:09.720 and we left in 2020 and the taliban is still there so we let him back in right and we gave 0.98

00:06:15.800 80 billion dollars in assets and we also withdrew out of iraq in 2011 technically as part of the

00:06:21.380 withdrawal out of iraq and we have service members back in iraq right now so and we saw that we sent

00:06:28.980 the uh 82nd airborne they were told to be on standby and ready to go but then but then we saw

00:06:35.180 that their headquarters is about to be deployed as well no matter what you end up doing it's good

00:06:41.080 to at least show the enemy that you're ready to go even if you decide not to do it you got to

00:06:45.340 portray like hey unless you negotiate it's gonna we're gonna rain hell down on you about right what

00:06:50.880 about it Ben look I look at this I don't I think we're kind of asking the wrong question I you

00:06:56.120 know Islam has been a threat ever since Muhammad was on the earth I don't see that changing and so 1.00

00:07:01.580 to me people ask is this a forever war are we going to be in there 20 years or 30 years it is 0.99

00:07:05.620 a forever war this is the battle we're up against and it's the reason why Islam kills more Islam 1.00

00:07:10.800 than it does anybody else it's the reason why all of these nations 50 plus nations that are all 0.91

00:07:15.720 governed by islamic law continually are fighting each other and until we get rid of that i don't 1.00

00:07:22.160 see this changing in a positive direction now hopefully we can come up with some solutions in

00:07:26.880 the interim we can get somebody in there i don't think socialists are the answer either so who do

00:07:31.420 you put in place uh i i you know the ask the question when do you when do you negotiate with

00:07:37.360 terrorists and do you ever trust them when you do i don't and so i we're in a tough spot i mean

00:07:41.780 i'm not an expert on this these guys are i just see this as a a fight that we have to fight

00:07:47.120 iran was the existential threat to the middle east for for decades they were the state sponsor 1.00

00:07:53.000 of terror around the world so i would much rather kill them there than have them come to us but we 0.98

00:07:58.020 have those same terrorists in america now you have some young kids yeah would you be willing to send 0.99

00:08:02.680 your kids there to fight for what you just said it's a great question i mean it's a great question

00:08:08.600 i'm not saying that and i've got daughters i think i think war fighting is not to take anything away

00:08:13.500 from maureen i think war fighting is a man's game i would go look i as a husband as a husband and a

00:08:19.060 father i'll die in a second for my family right i'm not necessarily sending my daughters to die

00:08:23.400 on my behalf that's the issue and so and i me wrong i i want to eradicate iran i want to eradicate 0.91

00:08:31.120 the threat but i know that once if we do there's another whack-a-mole they're just going to replace

00:08:36.920 him with another radical islamist behind him to think that democracy will thrive in iran in iran

00:08:43.380 do you believe that maybe i mean look trump look trump trump doesn't like these forever wars

00:08:49.620 supposedly you know that way he went into venezuela he knocked him out quick and i think

00:08:53.980 that's what his intention was when this but i think at some point you lose control and it starts

00:09:00.240 dragging on and dragging on but yeah i mean if he can knock them out quick and do a regime change

00:09:06.140 and put somebody uh reasonable in there it's you know behind the side right knock them out quick

00:09:13.400 and change the regime change with outputs on the roof that's it's tough i mean the whole thing is

00:09:19.500 tough a plan and victory and then an exit ramp to to get off is what we need in order because you

00:09:26.420 have to be able to tell these parents that send their sons and daughters off to war if your child

00:09:32.580 is killed it was for this reason when they come off the aircraft at dover air force base in a

00:09:39.980 transfer case for a dignified transfer you have to be able to look at those parents and say this

00:09:44.140 is why your child gave their life for this country so we need to be able to do that for any service

00:09:50.860 member that is over in iran right now and the bigger thing i look at is does america even have

00:09:55.600 the stomach for it. We lost Vietnam, not because we couldn't win Vietnam, but because we lost the 0.95

00:10:00.480 heart to fight it. And you look at now, we're two weeks into this thing. Vietnam's this big. 0.96

00:10:04.280 It's like a dot in the map, and we spent 50,000 lives there. And now we're two weeks into this

00:10:09.280 thing, and people are already like, I don't have the stomach for this. It's a tough place.

00:10:13.740 So Steve does this. I was on here yesterday when Steve did this. Guys, are you here? Crowd,

00:10:18.580 are you ready? We need a voice phone. We need you loud, all right? Who's in favor of the first

00:10:23.800 option, completely eradicating the mullahs and the IRGC even if it means our kids have to go to 0.97

00:10:31.300 war on the ground in Iran. Who's in favor of that? Here, by voice, by voice. All right, here's an 0.62

00:10:39.620 alternative. Would you be okay? Who's in favor of this plan? We go there, we bomb the hell out of

00:10:45.980 them. We knock them, we hit them in infrastructure, we hit them in manufacturing, steel, communications, 1.00

00:10:51.480 We take them out. We get them to the table. We say, look, you're going to stay in power, you Islamic nutjobs. 1.00

00:10:58.420 Kill each other. We don't care. We're going to do a deal with you to take your oil and we get the oil first. 1.00

00:11:04.340 We'll give you a fair price for it. No Americans die. But we don't we don't change the regime.

00:11:11.200 Who's in favor of that idea?

00:11:12.260 Let me go get the mic, can we get this guy on camera?

00:11:27.580 That is a big thing for the United States of America when Iranian regime, Islamic Republic, 0.95

00:11:35.640 they shipped all their missiles to Venezuela.

00:11:40.460 It was their plan that they're going to attack here, the United States of America. 1.00

00:11:44.920 You are an ignorant. 1.00

00:11:46.480 You are 100% an ignorant that you don't understand that. 1.00

00:11:49.780 What's the solution? 1.00

00:11:50.780 The solution it is because that is...

00:11:53.780 Sir, do you have children?

00:11:55.780 Yes, sir.

00:11:56.780 I have two.

00:11:58.720 You would be okay sending your children to fight this war?

00:12:00.720 Yes, sir.

00:12:01.720 I would go by myself.

00:12:02.720 Take me.

00:12:03.720 I would go there.

00:12:04.720 So would I.

00:12:05.720 I'm talking about our children and our children's children.

00:12:08.720 Go ahead.

00:12:09.720 Absolutely. Absolutely, I will send my kids.

00:12:15.720 I will go first.

00:12:17.720 Who else would send their children to war with Witten and Rand?

00:12:19.720 I will go first.

00:12:20.720 Can't hear you. Let me hear you.

00:12:22.720 Sir, no offense. You're the only guy here who said they would.

00:12:30.720 Yes, and I think he's right.

00:12:32.720 But the point here is that we, I mean, I am also Iranian American,

00:12:38.720 And I appreciate that President Trump and the other Americans who are not Iranian are 0.99

00:12:44.640 supporting this war against Iranian regime.

00:12:47.400 The problem is that this regime is not getting weaker if you leave him alone.

00:12:52.760 You know, five years ago, their missiles was a lot more limited range.

00:12:57.860 It is getting more advanced, more advanced, and more advanced.

00:13:02.540 And this is not a—that is not the North Korea you are talking about.

00:13:08.720 So if we want to replace all the regimes that have nuclear weapons that, frankly, hate us,

00:13:15.640 we're talking North Korea, maybe even Pakistan,

00:13:18.280 are we going to go ahead and do regime changes in all these countries?

00:13:20.860 And folks, are we willing to send our kids to war, to go to war, to change...

00:13:26.860 Somehow thinking we wouldn't get another Kim Jong-un III. 0.87

00:13:32.900 What are your thoughts on that, Tej?

00:13:35.180 Yeah, I mean, I don't think we can go around the world and knock out every evil regime, right?

00:13:40.340 Like you're saying, we're going to have to take out Pakistan, North Korea, and whoever else you put on the list. 1.00

00:13:45.280 I mean, we have bombed the hell out of them for the last four weeks.

00:13:49.300 And should we call it good and leave now?

00:13:53.160 No, no. Bomb them more. 1.00

00:13:54.600 Or do we finish? 1.00

00:13:56.120 Get them to their knees. Bomb every infrastructure they've got. 1.00

00:13:59.020 Take their roads out. Sorry. Sorry, civilians. 1.00

00:14:01.140 take their roads out, take their manufacturing out,

00:14:04.320 take their communication ability out,

00:14:06.520 and then get them to the table and lock them into a deal

00:14:09.260 that they can't ever back out of.

00:14:11.500 100%. That's the plan.

00:14:12.780 But that's the plan.

00:14:14.040 I think that's what we're going after, right? 0.68

00:14:15.220 Bomb them into submission, get them to sign, 1.00

00:14:18.820 basically sign their life away and say no more. 0.87

00:14:20.600 But if they don't submit.

00:14:25.140 Then they go away.

00:14:26.180 Yeah, that's the question.

00:14:27.120 Maury, a final thought before we go to break.

00:14:29.140 Well, I agree with Tate.

00:14:31.140 you agree all right everyone else yes sir oh yeah okay we got a break here okay folks we're

00:14:37.100 gonna be we're gonna get to you guys we have a lot more questions for you we'll be back in

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00:16:21.940 All right. Well, maybe not Stephen K. Bannon, maybe Eric T. Bowling. And let's bring

00:16:26.460 it back, Maureen. Maureen, you brought a friend up here, Lauren Feist.

00:16:31.060 Taron Feist, I'm sorry.

00:16:32.200 Taron Feist.

00:16:33.440 You have a little experience in Oregon.

00:16:35.780 Yeah, so I was actually in Oregon probably a little over a month ago,

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00:18:21.520 people over to the republican party so they can help us choose our candidate going into november

00:18:26.400 all right that's cool that's cool all right bang you have some uh more customers for us out there

00:18:31.920 yeah yeah all right so uh what's your take on that you're on the other side what's your take

00:18:35.680 my take is from all of you experts i want to hear more about the people of iran they are the they

00:18:43.260 are the majority and they they are in favor of what trump is doing and why don't we hear more

00:18:50.340 about how we can help them.

00:18:53.000 I've heard that Bibi will let Bibi get his people in there 1.00

00:18:57.840 to wipe out everybody and help them.

00:19:01.160 I don't know if the boots on the ground from Trump could help them,

00:19:05.540 but the bottom line is not some other creep

00:19:09.520 to take over the country of Iran,

00:19:12.300 but to support the people and help them

00:19:15.200 because they're the ones that want the freedom.

00:19:19.200 Where are they, folks?

00:19:20.720 Remember, in November, there was a big uprising, which really cost, I don't know, maybe 10, 15, 20,000 lives.

00:19:27.360 Where are the Iranian people? 0.98

00:19:29.020 Let me ask Paige. 0.96

00:19:30.000 They're waiting.

00:19:30.700 Hold on, hold on.

00:19:31.240 Just give me one second.

00:19:32.420 Where are the Iranian people? 0.98

00:19:33.800 They were all for this before we got involved.

00:19:36.540 Where are they now?

00:19:37.120 And where are the other Arab countries?

00:19:40.580 The other Arab countries are trying not to get involved, but they're involved.

00:19:47.500 Iran is bombing all the U.S. bases 0.99

00:19:50.800 in the Arab countries

00:19:52.000 and the Iranians that have risen up

00:19:54.520 a couple months ago

00:19:55.540 who knows how many of

00:19:57.440 the supreme regime has killed

00:20:00.680 so the people now

00:20:02.520 are intimidated to rise back up

00:20:03.900 because they know they will get killed 0.95

00:20:05.140 by the Islamic regime of Iran 0.97

00:20:06.920 but it's going to take

00:20:09.620 the people of Iran

00:20:10.900 we can't do it alone

00:20:12.500 it can't be just Israel in the United States 0.83

00:20:15.500 the people have to

00:20:17.060 the uprise they've 90 million people the irgc can't fight back no no we need we need we need

00:20:22.900 the arab countries in the gulf we need their boots on the ground we israel's boots on the ground 0.59

00:20:27.900 that's the best answer i've heard how about arab countries kids on the boots on the ground in iran

00:20:32.440 and the iranian people and we keep bombing them from the top until they submit is that the best 1.00

00:20:36.980 idea so far sir where's my where's my hater where's the guy who hates me i think i've got

00:20:42.780 I've got some locals from Iran.

00:20:45.080 Okay, ma'am.

00:20:46.560 Mo, let's get this camera down here. 0.99

00:20:49.580 Firstly, to answer your question, where are the people?

00:20:54.980 They have been, first of all, 80,000 were slaughtered.

00:20:58.260 But beyond that, there's still, there's 90 more million to come out on the streets.

00:21:03.220 They're waiting for the CENTCOM general to tell them when.

00:21:08.860 In the last briefing, he said, wait for us to signal you to come out.

00:21:15.000 Stay in your homes now, but we will signal you to come out when the time is right.

00:21:21.000 That's the answer to your question, sir.

00:21:23.340 We are ready and willing.

00:21:25.100 I'm ready and willing to go back.

00:21:27.640 I mean, I'm a proud American and I'm a proud Iranian at the same time.

00:21:32.300 I love this country.

00:21:33.540 So may I ask you, there were two uprisings within the last six months or so.

00:21:38.340 There was one in November and one in January, the Iranian people, where a lot of people got killed, slaughtered, murdered. 1.00

00:21:43.960 A lot? What do you call by a lot? 80,000?

00:21:46.820 Okay, yes.

00:21:47.480 80,000?

00:21:48.460 Yes, yes, it's a lot.

00:21:49.160 Young. Young. They just...

00:21:51.760 Let me get to the question.

00:21:53.320 Here's my point. Here's my point.

00:21:54.920 If they were willing to do it twice, knowing that they could have been killed and 80,000, if you say, were killed, where are they now?

00:22:01.700 This is the moment. Right now is the moment.

00:22:05.800 In their homes.

00:22:08.220 Get out of your homes.

00:22:09.880 Get out there and help us.

00:22:11.100 Oh, my God.

00:22:11.660 We're going to sit back and wait for the United States. 0.95

00:22:13.580 Are we the policemen for the whole freaking world? 0.83

00:22:16.260 Is that what this is? 0.89

00:22:17.540 Come on.

00:22:18.580 They need to get out of their homes.

00:22:20.520 Go protest again.

00:22:22.540 They'll have air support.

00:22:23.960 They're not supposed to come out now.

00:22:26.160 They were strictly told to stay in their homes until the regime has been wiped out.

00:22:32.700 Root and branch.

00:22:34.540 This is a death cult. 1.00

00:22:37.120 They raped the women and they're prisoners. 0.98

00:22:40.240 Maury, Maury, are you buying the story that the Iranian people have been told to stay in their homes 0.94

00:22:45.840 and aren't supporting the United States?

00:22:48.340 You don't have to buy my story.

00:22:49.220 I think they are, but I think it's time.

00:22:52.340 You know, we shouldn't, I don't want to get in another forever war.

00:22:55.560 I do not want this to be Afghanistan 2.0. 1.00

00:22:58.520 I don't want current military to be over there and thousands upon thousands of service members lose their lives again.

00:23:06.980 So it's about time.

00:23:08.180 We need a plan, like I said, for victory and to exit ramp out of this.

00:23:14.840 Arm the gate.

00:23:16.300 91 million people.

00:23:18.500 IRGC is what, a million?

00:23:20.140 A million.

00:23:20.740 A million?

00:23:21.840 You win.

00:23:22.740 They got guns.

00:23:23.640 You have volume, right?

00:23:25.360 In theory, yes, but I don't see it happening.

00:23:28.520 And I don't believe that they've been told to hide out in their homes.

00:23:31.880 Trump has said, this is your time, rise up.

00:23:34.580 I don't think they're outgunned.

00:23:37.940 The Iranian people, the civilians, are outgunned by the Iranian military,

00:23:41.660 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

00:23:44.100 They were outgunned the first two times, November and January, right?

00:23:46.620 And can you imagine how much we've softened those targets?

00:23:50.560 We have pounded the hell out of Iran. 1.00

00:23:53.080 I mean, they say we've hit 15,000 targets,

00:23:55.760 and somehow they're still managing to shoot ballistic missiles and drones every night.

00:24:00.820 So how long is this going to go on for?

00:24:03.200 I mean, I have no love for the Islamic regime of Iran. 0.98

00:24:06.260 But on the other hand, I don't want to enter into another forever war.

00:24:09.600 Forever wars.

00:24:09.920 I mean, we've already crippled them.

00:24:12.540 We have crippled them.

00:24:14.300 Ben, do you have anyone who has an idea of how long this campaign would take

00:24:20.000 to solve the mission accomplished, so to speak?

00:24:23.040 this is war it's not only a war in the natural it's a war in the it's a war in the heavenlies

00:24:33.240 daniel prayed for 21 days and he was the angel was restrained by the dark angel the prince of

00:24:43.540 persia he called on resources to come and help and the breakthrough came now we are warring

00:24:51.720 against the pits of hell in Iran. 0.76

00:24:55.220 We have friends from Iran.

00:24:57.720 They all want freedom for their country,

00:25:01.520 for their family, and for themselves.

00:25:04.020 And so do I.

00:25:06.020 And so do I, but I want them to help us.

00:25:08.320 My point is, I don't think we need to be the police.

00:25:13.820 Absolutely.

00:25:14.520 An executioner, jailer of the whole world.

00:25:16.920 There's so many countries hate us.

00:25:19.020 Are we going to go wipe out every regime? 1.00

00:25:21.020 Let's just let them kill each other. 1.00

00:25:22.980 In the meantime, the Iranian people, 91 million people, sir. 0.96

00:25:26.680 There's no million army IRGC that could stop 91 million people.

00:25:30.080 How can we war without being boots on the ground?

00:25:33.840 The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

00:25:36.400 They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

00:25:40.360 We need to fight in the spirit realm first

00:25:44.000 before we go anywhere else with boots on the ground.

00:25:47.380 Thank you.

00:25:48.260 You want to jump on that?

00:25:49.700 i mean i i think i've reiterated what we need to do is this going to come up in the gop debate

00:25:57.880 you know i don't think so but i do agree with something that he just said how this fight starts

00:26:02.640 in the spirit realm i think prayer is where a lot of us need to be starting when we're approaching

00:26:07.440 these issues here's another thing eric look and in 2001 when 9-11 happened you know america rallied

00:26:14.540 right everybody was like f yeah america let's go right when we hit we invaded afghanistan and went

00:26:21.240 into iraq and back then we we had the momentum we had the people behind us but right now this is

00:26:27.920 very it's very divisive because people voted for no wars trump ran on no wars and now here we go

00:26:34.040 so you're hitting on something a lot of people are pissed off a lot like a lot of people want

00:26:38.780 it a lot of people don't so it's a very polarizing war tage is hitting on something that i found

00:26:43.540 being in the media for 20 years, I've never seen this happen before. MAGA is, I don't know if we

00:26:49.840 call it MAGA. It's being divided by original MAGA and new MAGA. Now, I've never seen Megyn Kelly

00:26:57.640 and Tucker Carlson fighting with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro. Is this about Israel? Who thinks

00:27:05.600 about israel voice israel anyone else no what's it about ben what's this about

00:27:16.640 okay so this is the question what is victory all right well victory is the complete defeat

00:27:22.240 and destruction of the islamic regime in iran and letting people pick their next leader and who they

00:27:28.240 want because of power to the people and how do we do that is it boots on the ground or not american

00:27:33.520 boots on the ground or can it be done without i mean it could be either or so like if we're

00:27:38.400 gonna do american boots on ground that's definitely one of the many options we can do

00:27:41.640 or there could be like iranian people who truly love their country who we can train how do you

00:27:49.640 how do you arm them there should be like their own militia or like their own force that we can

00:27:55.480 arm hey ben i gotta go we got a heartbreak coming up right now i'm gonna step out maureen's gonna

00:28:00.460 take over from here ben will still be in the crowd tage and taren will be with you when i come back

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00:31:13.240 well uh cpac 2026 what an event you know what's amazing about this is this is the beauty of

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00:33:05.920 God bless the USA

00:33:11.040 Thank you very much.

00:33:19.360 Thank you very much.

00:33:20.820 A lot of rich people in this audience.

00:33:22.860 I'm looking left, right, center, all the way in the back.

00:33:26.300 They're rich, too.

00:33:28.140 But I'm thrilled to be back with so many friends and partners,

00:33:31.400 leaders, and innovators here at the Future Investment Initiative. And it's a really great

00:33:38.520 group of people, a very smart group of people. They know what's happening in the world.

00:33:43.800 It's my second address to the conference as President of the United States, and it's my

00:33:49.040 honor to be here. Thank you very much. As you know, we're gathered at a moment of bold action

00:33:55.260 and historic decision to make America and our allies safer and stronger, more prosperous,

00:34:01.660 more successful than ever before. That's what's happening. Tonight, we're closer than ever

00:34:07.500 to the rise of the Middle East that is finally free at last from Iranian terror, aggression,

00:34:16.640 and nuclear blackmail. That's what's happened. It was nuclear blackmail for years and years.

00:34:22.720 and beyond that it was blackmail period under my leadership america is ending the threat posed by

00:34:30.700 this radical regime decimating iran's capabilities with operation epic fear is something that

00:34:39.260 nobody's ever seen anything quite like it we have the most powerful military in the world by far i

00:34:44.480 built it in my first term remember i said a trillion dollars they also what do you mean a

00:34:49.340 trillion dollars, a trillion dollars. Every year, another trillion the next, another trillion.

00:34:55.960 We have the best people. We have by far the best equipment. We have weapons that nobody's ever

00:35:02.280 seen before. We have weapons that nobody even knows about, except for a few of us. For 47 years,

00:35:09.300 Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East, but they are not the bully any longer.

00:35:15.660 They're on the run.

00:35:19.340 Last June, America's armed forces obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities

00:35:29.740 and one of the most spectacular military actions of all time.

00:35:33.220 Nobody has ever seen anything like it.

00:35:35.560 In the dead of night, no moon, one o'clock in the morning, we went in.

00:35:41.640 It was called Operation Midnight Hammer.

00:35:45.160 and every single one of those

00:35:47.600 bombs hit their mark

00:35:50.120 air shafts they will never build

00:35:52.000 an air shaft again I promise you that

00:35:53.880 they went right down that

00:35:55.820 granite mountain through air shafts

00:35:58.140 most incredible technology

00:36:00.080 you've ever seen that a thing like that

00:36:01.720 and it was decimation was obliteration

00:36:04.160 one of the networks

00:36:06.140 said well maybe it wasn't that bad it was

00:36:07.920 that bad turned out to be

00:36:09.360 even more than we thought

00:36:12.100 but after 0.91

00:36:13.980 After that attack, the Iranian lunatics refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. 0.96

00:36:19.800 And I have to say, before that, Barack Hussein Obama, did you ever hear of him, Barack Hussein 0.87

00:36:24.800 Obama?

00:36:25.800 He had the Iran nuclear deal.

00:36:27.540 He went to Iran.

00:36:28.540 He paid him.

00:36:29.540 Remember, he sent two 757, Boeing 757 jetliners.

00:36:35.340 They took the seats out and they piled it with cash, like $1.7 billion of cash.

00:36:41.820 That's when I realized the president isn't very powerful.

00:36:45.000 The presidency is a very powerful thing, when you can do that.

00:36:48.500 I haven't done that yet.

00:36:49.500 I haven't found a reason to do that yet, but that's big.

00:36:53.060 1.7 billion in cash.

00:36:54.520 You know, there wasn't a bank in D.C., Virginia, or Maryland that had any money after that

00:36:59.460 disaster.

00:37:02.180 But they sent the cash to Iran.

00:37:04.260 But more importantly, they signed an agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, which, if I didn't

00:37:10.600 terminated in my first term I terminated it almost immediately if I didn't

00:37:15.280 terminate it they would have had a nuclear weapon long ago and they would

00:37:18.700 have used it on the Middle East Israel and the Middle East and you know the

00:37:22.720 Middle East because when you look at all the missiles they got fired UAE had 0.55

00:37:27.040 1500 missiles shot at it they didn't think they were gonna have any Saudi 1.00

00:37:32.260 Arabia didn't expect to have I mean we have the most powerful Saudis oh yes

00:37:37.840 Yasser, you are so powerful.

00:37:39.880 But Yasser, you didn't expect any missiles going to Saudi Arabia.

00:37:42.980 They didn't expect them in Qatar.

00:37:44.680 They didn't expect them in Kuwait, in Bahrain.

00:37:48.740 The missiles rained down on you.

00:37:50.680 They were going to hit you with nuclear or whatever they had.

00:37:53.840 But we stopped it.

00:37:54.900 We stopped it.

00:37:55.640 We stopped it with him.

00:37:57.440 And then it was a big moment also in my first administration when I took out Soleimani.

00:38:03.020 And a lot of people think that might have been the biggest thing of all 0.98

00:38:05.900 because he was a mad genius, he was a vicious, horrible human being,

00:38:11.860 but he was a great general and a great leader, if you define a leader in a certain way, 0.95

00:38:17.500 a very powerful leader.

00:38:20.100 In fact, he was so powerful that I really think that the leadership of Rand was extremely happy

00:38:26.480 when I took him out, but they don't say that, but nobody's going to be asking him anymore

00:38:30.880 because they're not here either.

00:38:32.000 but getting the termination and terminating the iran nuclear door deal that was done by

00:38:42.840 biden and obama i would say mostly obama actually i don't think biden knew where he was then too

00:38:50.560 he had no idea if you said to him the iran nuclear what's that

00:38:54.060 but uh there was four years of hell we had with this guy as our leader i'll tell you

00:39:01.140 And then we hit them with the B-2 bomb. 0.83

00:39:03.160 So we did it twice.

00:39:04.800 But if they would have had a nuclear weapon, it would have a whole big deal.

00:39:07.720 And I wouldn't be here right now.

00:39:08.880 And probably you guys wouldn't be too happy.

00:39:11.440 You might be in an area.

00:39:13.540 Who knows where you would have been.

00:39:14.940 But we did it twice.

00:39:16.920 And I really believe we saved the Middle East.

00:39:19.400 We saved not just Israel.

00:39:21.480 We saved the Middle East.

00:39:23.440 And it was proven by all those rockets that fired down upon you.

00:39:27.020 Saudi Arabia got hit a lot.

00:39:28.600 you all got hit and nobody expected any missiles to be wasted you would have thought they were only

00:39:35.720 going at israel they weren't as president of the united states i would never allow the world's 0.99

00:39:40.320 number one state sponsor of terror to obtain a nuclear weapon i said that for a long time

00:39:44.940 and i didn't to defend america and our allies over the past 27 days the u.s armed forces most

00:39:53.000 powerful in the world, been annihilating Iran's military capacity with force, precision, skill 1.00

00:40:00.180 like the world has never seen. It was violence, actually, really violence. We're crushing Iran's 1.00

00:40:09.480 currently as we speak. I just looked. We had another big day. We hit them. They don't know

00:40:14.180 what's happening. Remember this? They lied about three days ago. I said, yeah, we're negotiating

00:40:20.560 with this we are not negotiating they're being hit so hard anybody would be negotiating they

00:40:28.840 are negotiating they're begging to make a deal they're begging to make a deal turned out I was

00:40:33.480 right they were negotiating which they admitted two days later and in order to make up for

00:40:40.060 their misstatement they said we're going to send you eight ships of oil and the following day I

00:40:48.840 I saw on, this is two days ago, I saw on one of the networks, very strange.

00:40:53.680 There were eight ships of oil coming out of Iran.

00:40:57.580 And then they actually said, we're going to add an extra two.

00:41:01.020 And they added an extra two, so we had ten ships.

00:41:03.760 And then people realized we were actually negotiating.

00:41:06.140 We're negotiating now, and it would be great if we could do something.

00:41:09.440 But they have to open it up.

00:41:10.580 They have to open up the Strait of Trump.

00:41:15.260 I mean, Hormuz.

00:41:18.840 Excuse me. I'm so sorry. Such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say he accidentally said no.

00:41:28.440 There's no accidents with me. Not too many. If there were, we'd have a major story.

00:41:35.700 Well, we had that with the Gulf of Mexico. Remember the Gulf of Mexico?

00:41:40.320 And one day I said, why is it the Gulf of Mexico? We have 92 percent of the area around it.

00:41:46.120 They have 8%, really less than 8%.

00:41:48.400 But for 350 years, it was good.

00:41:51.060 You know, they were there 100 years longer than us, Mexico.

00:41:54.680 They're at 350, we're at 250.

00:41:57.760 And I said, I've set off and asked myself,

00:42:00.220 why don't we call it the Gulf of Mexico?

00:42:02.660 It seems like we dominate.

00:42:03.740 Well, when I checked, it was more than 92%.

00:42:05.980 So I announced, I wouldn't say Mexico was thrilled, 1.00

00:42:11.060 but I announced that from now on,

00:42:13.460 the Gulf of Mexico is going to be cold.

00:42:16.120 The Gulf of America.

00:42:19.120 And it took about one hour, and it was done.

00:42:21.260 Everybody, I mean, the president called me.

00:42:24.000 She's really a nice person, too.

00:42:25.400 I like her a lot.

00:42:26.480 She called up.

00:42:27.760 She's the most beautiful voice.

00:42:28.860 She's a very elegant woman, has a beautiful, beautiful voice.

00:42:31.580 She goes, President, President, President, tell me, this is not so.

00:42:37.760 No, no, it's so.

00:42:38.880 And then Google Maps changed it.

00:42:43.920 We won the court case in about one hour, and Google Maps changed the name, and it's now

00:42:50.120 the Gulf of America, which it should be, in all fairness.

00:42:52.960 We're crushing Iran's weapons stockpiles, destroying their missiles and drone factories 1.00

00:42:58.640 at levels nobody ever thought was possible, and turning their defense industrial base

00:43:03.940 into nothing.

00:43:06.380 Iran's navy is gone.

00:43:07.900 it's all sunk at the bottom of the gulf and elsewhere did you see the attack submarine

00:43:15.880 that we have one after one of their boats it was called the Soleimani it was the pride of their

00:43:21.140 fleet but this attack submarine goes like 60 miles an hour I never saw anything and it caught

00:43:28.100 them in about two minutes and that was the end of the Soleimani now then they're 100% dead

00:43:34.720 they have 22 mine droppers. They're going mine droppers. And the mine droppers, 22, all 22 are

00:43:41.300 gone. So I guess they can drop mines, but they're going to have to take them out by a rowboat because

00:43:44.880 they don't have any boats. Their air force is dead, totally, completely dead. It's out of

00:43:50.300 business. No planes left at all. Their anti-aircraft and communications capabilities are totally

00:43:56.920 dismantled and dead. And their leaders are all dead. Other than that, I think they're doing quite

00:44:03.700 well. No, their leaders are dead. Their supreme leader is no longer supreme. He's dead. His son

00:44:15.340 is either dead or in very bad shape because nobody's heard from him. I think he says,

00:44:20.880 just keep me out of this. This is the only country where nobody wants to lead.

00:44:26.780 There's nobody. Who would like to lead Iran? Please raise your hand, a big audience of 1.00

00:44:31.860 Just saying, who would like to be our leader?

00:44:35.360 Dead silence.

00:44:36.200 Nobody wants to leave.

00:44:38.100 Now, we have an amazing military.

00:44:39.980 We have the greatest intelligence apparatus

00:44:42.400 that anybody's ever seen.

00:44:43.720 We can tell you everything that's going on.

00:44:45.420 We know everything that's going on.

00:44:46.820 We're achieving each and every one of the military objections

00:44:53.160 four weeks ago.

00:44:54.220 Four weeks ago.

00:44:56.420 And we're doing it really, I guess,

00:44:59.960 we're two weeks.

00:45:01.860 we call it a military operation we don't call it a war we call it a military operation

00:45:11.380 we're very disappointed by the way with data they didn't come to our aid i didn't try too

00:45:17.740 hard actually you know because i wanted to prove a point i didn't sell they probably

00:45:21.780 think i'm a lousy salesman you know they said i said would you like to help us uh to

00:45:26.820 And President France Macron, nice guy.

00:45:29.420 He is a nice guy.

00:45:30.960 I don't want him when the war is over.

00:45:39.640 I want him before we start.

00:45:42.340 And UK, our longest ally, you know, nobody ever thought this was possible.

00:45:47.920 I said to the prime minister, I said, Mr. Prime Minister, we'd like you to have two aircraft carriers.

00:45:54.600 Little ones, they're not very good.

00:45:56.820 I know they don't go fast, and I know they don't work very well,

00:45:59.360 but we could probably use them, maybe for helicopters.

00:46:02.800 And they said, yes, oh, yes, we are preparing them.

00:46:06.740 I see, when will they be ready?

00:46:08.840 Maybe in a month or two.

00:46:10.400 Oh, great, that's wonderful.

00:46:12.480 I said, are you going to help us?

00:46:13.760 Yes, yes, we're going to help you.

00:46:15.440 When the war is finished, we will be there.

00:46:18.620 This is NATO, and I've always said NATO's a paper tiger,

00:46:22.580 and I've always said we help NATO, but they'll never help us.

00:46:26.820 And if the big one ever happened, and I don't think it will, but if the big one ever happened, I guarantee you they wouldn't be there.

00:46:35.600 And we learned from that.

00:46:37.120 And remember what I said, because they made a big mistake.

00:46:40.580 They were not there.

00:46:42.360 The Chancellor of Germany, these are all friends of mine, Friedrich, the Chancellor of Germany, he said, this is not our war.

00:46:48.880 We have nothing to do.

00:46:49.920 Well, Ukraine's not our war.

00:46:52.320 But we helped them.

00:46:53.420 I wouldn't have had a help if I were president that war would have never happened. But we had 0.80

00:46:57.840 a man who of a very low IQ as president and he had no idea what the hell it was. I was listening 0.95

00:47:02.800 to him talk. I said, he's forcing an issue that's going to be trouble. And it turned out to be

00:47:08.140 trouble. Last week, 28,000 soldiers died. The week before that, 32,000 soldiers died. I think

00:47:14.260 we're going to get it settled. But it's a terrible it's a terrible thing. Worse since World War II. 0.62

00:47:19.640 I settled eight wars. And this should have been one of the easier ones. But the hatred between

00:47:24.860 President Putin and President Zelensky is extreme. Never good. Hatred's a bad thing when you're

00:47:32.160 trying to settle a war. I want to thank the entire kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Been very helpful,

00:47:39.700 unlike NATO. Saudi Arabia fought. Qatar fought. UAE fought. Bahrain fought. And Kuwait fought,

00:47:47.040 even though they shot down three of our planes with the finest missiles.

00:47:53.040 We could have done without that.

00:47:56.720 They didn't know they were our planes.

00:47:59.760 They wasted three great Patriot missiles, and you have to say there's nothing like these Patriots.

00:48:05.120 You know, we had an attack of 101 a few days ago.

00:48:09.040 a hundred and one missiles shot at a very valuable thing that we had floating underwater

00:48:15.680 namely an aircraft carrier biggest in the world and they were shot 101 going 2 500 miles an hour

00:48:25.320 and out of the 101 missiles shot 101 missiles were shot down and spread out all over the sea

00:48:36.000 pretty amazed that's called incredible technology right steve that's called great tech think of it

00:48:43.860 101 missiles going 2 500 miles an hour you don't have a lot of time and these aren't necessarily

00:48:51.020 weightlifting shoulders these are very smart people doing that and i watched them i watched

00:48:57.220 their performance missiles launched missiles launched it's almost like they're bored by it

00:49:01.840 They have, like, nine seconds ahead of FIFA,

00:49:05.140 the most powerful man in sports.

00:49:06.920 Johnny, Johnny, you never choked, right?

00:49:10.800 These guys can't choke, but they're very smart.

00:49:12.860 High IQs. We need high IQs.

00:49:14.880 We have too many low IQ people.

00:49:16.860 But what happened is, you have to see it.

00:49:19.680 It's very cool.

00:49:21.120 Missiles launched, missiles launched, missiles launching.

00:49:24.240 They're launching. Okay, we're ready.

00:49:26.860 There's 101 missiles coming at them.

00:49:28.860 all right we have to have like 11 seconds to make a determination then at seven seconds

00:49:36.380 fire fire fire is the most unbelievable thing fire boom fire boom one at a time just knocked

00:49:46.240 them out like they were nothing genius it's like unbelievable i mean to think the and we have the

00:49:51.960 technology nobody has look at what happened in venezuela they had other equipment not ours

00:49:57.420 They made the mistake of using other equipment.

00:49:59.760 It didn't work too well.

00:50:02.000 And Venezuela took 45 minutes.

00:50:05.360 It was a 45-minute war.

00:50:07.080 This one's bigger.

00:50:08.560 This one's bigger.

00:50:09.580 It's a bigger country, a lot more powerful.

00:50:13.540 It's a lot more powerful, but it's not powerful anymore.

00:50:17.080 Within two days, I think the damage was done, but now it's really done.

00:50:22.280 Now we're just going after targets.

00:50:23.820 And again, they have no anti-aircraft, so we're just floating over the top looking for whatever we want.

00:50:29.400 And we're hitting it, and we have another 3,554 targets left.

00:50:36.740 And that'll be done pretty quickly.

00:50:38.560 And then, you know, at some point, we're going to have to determine what we do.

00:50:42.500 But they have never seen anything like it.

00:50:46.940 When we hit Venezuela, and, you know, that's a very strong military country.

00:50:53.100 They have soldiers, if you've ever been there, have been there.

00:50:55.980 They have a lot of soldiers walking around all over the place.

00:50:58.380 Everyone's a soldier.

00:51:00.000 Very military kind of a place.

00:51:02.640 Then the general, there was a general, professional general, really good.

00:51:06.880 Then he said, we were all set for him.

00:51:08.500 We knew there was a problem when we noticed at 1 o'clock in the morning,

00:51:12.000 every 32 seconds, another airplane, a very fast plane,

00:51:16.580 was coming off the deck of an aircraft carrier.

00:51:19.640 That's actually the biggest aircraft carrier in the world.

00:51:23.020 And every 32 seconds, vroom, vroom, vroom.

00:51:26.200 And it was 1 o'clock in the morning.

00:51:27.620 So we said, OK, I think we're in trouble.

00:51:30.400 But they were ready for us, Johnny.

00:51:32.940 And we were ready.

00:51:33.980 He said, we were ready.

00:51:35.660 And then they hit us.

00:51:37.340 And they came from 17 different angles.

00:51:40.140 They were here.

00:51:40.840 They were there.

00:51:41.840 We ran for our lives.

00:51:43.480 It was over.

00:51:45.140 And it was over.

00:51:47.780 And then we took this guy who was a very bad guy.

00:51:50.160 and within literally minutes, he was in the back of a helicopter

00:51:53.480 in a house that was in a big military base

00:51:57.860 with thousands and thousands of soldiers.

00:52:01.180 The house was all steel, with steel doors, steel everything.

00:52:04.760 They had the small steel doors, the big storage.

00:52:06.940 We were equipped for anything.

00:52:08.420 Even the big, big one would have been opened within 30 seconds.

00:52:12.020 They walked in with blow torches.

00:52:14.840 And within minutes, he was out of the house

00:52:17.260 being thrown into the helicopter, sailing away, and the soldiers just looked. Bye, bye. Enjoy your

00:52:25.400 trip, sir. It was amazing. It was an amazing, but this is more amazing what's happening now,

00:52:30.560 because we took a very strong country. I could see that, yes, sir, the problem you would have had.

00:52:35.340 I mean, this was not a weak country. This was a strong country. They had over 10,000 missiles

00:52:40.440 that they accumulated since October 2nd, if you think.

00:52:44.480 Since the B-2s, really since the B-2s, 0.92

00:52:48.500 they accumulated them in a matter of months, six months.

00:52:53.600 But they had well over 10,000.

00:52:55.540 They had rocket launchers.

00:52:56.820 You know, rocket launchers are more important than the rockets

00:52:59.080 because you take a rocket launcher out, that's the end of that.

00:53:02.700 People think you can take those big rockets and throw them out your window

00:53:05.620 like when you were a child with the paper airplanes.

00:53:08.020 You say, it doesn't work that way.

00:53:09.300 You need those launchers, and we knocked out 97% of the launchers.

00:53:14.440 That's why you may be attacked, but you're not being attacked with very heavy numbers of missiles like at the beginning.

00:53:21.260 But in particular, I want to thank my friend, the Crown Prince Mohammed, who is a fantastic man and a great friend of mine and a friend of all of yours, I think.

00:53:39.300 And he's a warrior. He's a warrior. He was not afraid of this country that, frankly, he should have been afraid of because they're very powerful.

00:53:46.880 I want to thank Tameem, because Tameem is, these three people have been unbelievable, Tameem.

00:53:55.020 And then UAE, Mohammed, these are three great people.

00:54:00.200 And they were under tremendous attack, unexpected attack.

00:54:04.820 And they weren't thinking this was going to happen.

00:54:08.060 Nobody was.

00:54:08.840 And they turned against them and really became very powerfully aligned.

00:54:13.020 and they were with us but they weren't with us very uh obliquely they were with us but i think

00:54:20.160 that uh i have to acknowledge for their bravery because they were being hit pretty hard all three

00:54:25.820 of them they were being hit pretty hard the emir mohammed mohammed he had two mohammeds and 1.00

00:54:34.960 And Tamim and their friends of mine.

00:54:38.460 And also, I have to say that Bahrain and Kuwait, they were stand up more so than NATO.

00:54:47.100 I want to say more so than NATO.

00:54:49.700 Now, they're a little closer to the action than NATO in all fairness, but very disappointed

00:54:54.840 with NATO.

00:54:56.100 But I wasn't disappointed with our allies in the Middle East and others and others.

00:55:01.920 We had tremendous support from countries that were not in the general area, but they were tremendously supportive.

00:55:08.840 I think Turkey was fantastic, actually fantastic.

00:55:13.320 And they stayed out of things that we asked them to.

00:55:16.700 And he's he's a great leader.

00:55:19.600 He's a great leader.

00:55:21.520 And Indonesia was great.

00:55:24.700 So many that we had so many great, you know, you learn who your friends are.

00:55:28.580 Really do.

00:55:29.160 You learn who your friends are.

00:55:30.260 but Indonesia, Turkey, and so many other countries.

00:55:36.200 But the five were great.

00:55:38.820 But your dear friend and my dear friend, he was all manned.

00:55:43.520 He stood up, and he wasn't scared.

00:55:46.960 Maybe he was. I don't know. Maybe he was, but he didn't show it.

00:55:49.840 He was a great leader.

00:55:51.580 Saudi Arabia can be very proud of your...

00:55:55.300 Because he's got a lot of titles.

00:55:56.880 He's the crown prince.

00:55:58.660 He's the prime minister.

00:56:00.260 he's the future king he's got about seven other titles I said you have more titles than any human

00:56:05.920 being on earth he's everything and he deserves to be because he's a winner so I just want to

00:56:12.440 thank those people so the Middle East will be transformed and the future of that region is 1.00

00:56:21.820 never I don't think it's ever looked brighter you couldn't have you know we did the Abraham 0.98

00:56:26.220 Accords. I hope you're going to be getting into the Abraham Accords finally. Yeah, sir, 0.79

00:56:30.060 will you please go back and explain? It's time now. You know, Mohammed said, oh, yes,

00:56:35.280 as soon as we do this, as soon as we do that. I said, Mohammed, we did that. Oh, yes, but we have

00:56:42.460 a couple of other things. It's now time. We've now taken them out and they are out bigly. We

00:56:48.060 got to get into the Abraham Accords. And we hope all of the countries are going to be in the 0.98

00:56:53.300 Abraham Accords. We have some very brave countries that did it, you know, years ago. They went in 0.61

00:56:59.700 and you know who they are, the four, the early four, and they did a great thing in doing it.

00:57:06.440 And it was great for them also economically, but it was a great thing that they did it. But I think

00:57:11.100 all the Middle Eastern countries are going to be joining now. And in some cases, I would say all the

00:57:16.180 Middle Eastern countries and beyond, you have people not in the Middle East that want to be 1.00

00:57:21.500 members. You'll be seeing that soon. In the meantime, the conflict in Iran also makes it

00:57:26.660 absolutely vital for the radical-left Democrats in Congress to immediately end their dangerous

00:57:32.080 shutdown of our Department of Homeland Security. You know, they want to play games. That's all

00:57:36.560 they are. These people are lunatics. They sort of remind me of, they remind me actually a little 1.00

00:57:43.140 bit of Iran. They deranged Democrats. For 42 days, they've tried to completely eliminate 0.94

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Bannon's War Room - March 27, 2026

Episode 5252： CPAC Day 2 Cont.

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