Episode 5253： War Escalating Into Lebanon; Texas Is The Railhead Of The Country Episode 5253： War Escalating Into Lebanon; Texas Is The Railhead Of The Country
00:00:30.000We can achieve. We are achieving all those objectives. We are ahead of schedule on most of them, and we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any.
00:00:37.520Now, in terms of why there's deployments, number one, the president has to be prepared for multiple contingencies, which I'm not going to discuss in the new year.
00:00:46.960And again, I refer you to the Department of War, who will probably tell you the exact same thing.
00:00:50.900But we can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops, but we are always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.
00:01:02.700Granted, I don't trust these guys as far as I can throw them, but it's time to start negotiating.
00:01:07.460And Donald J. Trump has started negotiating and everybody lied about it.
00:03:35.160Whatever question you want, you can ask.
00:03:38.020so do you want to do that? That's the president tonight at an investors conference in Miami. He
00:03:44.300did also talk about the war. It's not finished yet. I'm not saying it's sort of finished,
00:03:51.200but it's not finished. It's got to be finished. And he repeated what's become something of a
00:03:56.860refrain for him of late, that Iran is eager, very eager, the president says, to make a deal to end
00:04:01.240the fighting. And though he said tonight there are some 3,500 targets still to be hit, his
00:04:06.880Secretary of State Marco Rubio today said there would be no need, Rubio says no need, to go beyond airstrikes.
00:04:13.720We can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops,
00:04:16.340but we are always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality
00:04:20.260and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.
00:04:26.340And perhaps along those lines, the contingencies you just heard Secretary Rubio talking about,
00:04:30.660CNN has learned, just learned, a third aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier,
00:04:35.800expected to deploy now to the area as well that's according to a source familiar with the matter
00:04:40.300unclear though is whether it will join the other two or replace one of those already there i can
00:04:45.960remember very vividly just christmas day 2023 we had a iranian drone grievously wound americans
00:04:52.200in northern iraq in january with three american 2024 before three americans killed in jordan from
00:04:58.000an iranian drone the iranians have been doing this for some time and that gets to something i think
00:05:02.380you said, important. You know, the CENTCOM military campaign, John, has about two more
00:05:07.580weeks left to run in this four to six week timeline. So that brings you to about April
00:05:11.54011th. And they are methodically just taking apart Iran's defense industrial base, missiles,
00:05:17.880drones, day by day, so that at the end of this, Iran will be so significantly weakened
00:05:23.200and degraded. And I think the Iranians from people I'm talking to in the region are starting
00:05:27.920or realize that they actually don't have many friends and that their ability to recover from
00:05:33.540this every day goes on, the runway for them is much longer. So does that open the path for
00:05:40.480diplomacy? Maybe. I mean, Pakistan, Turkey, others are passing messages. There is this proposal.
00:05:47.920I've heard mixed things from people who are involved in this and that there seems to be a
00:05:52.620debate within Tehran of what's left of the system and who's really in charge of how to respond to
00:05:57.900the American proposal. So there's a chance, I would put it a low chance in my experience
00:06:03.380negotiating with the Iranians, John, that there will be a diplomatic off ramp. I think we can
00:06:08.900take as a base case, the military campaign will continue here for another couple of weeks. And
00:06:13.860within those couple of weeks, you'll be testing out the parameters of diplomacy. I think that's
00:06:19.380basically where we are. So we don't have the exact number of servicemen or women who were
00:06:24.960actually injured during this attack. But I was just told by a source moments ago that two of
00:06:33.600the service members did have shrapnel wounds, but they were clear to say that these were non-life
00:06:40.460threatening wounds. I'm also told that aircrafts, at least one aircraft was damaged in this strike,
00:06:47.820but it's not something that's going to totally take out their capabilities on that air base.
00:06:52.660Now, in terms of the shrapnel wounds, in terms of the wounds overall, the injuries overall, we do not have clarity on how many service members, men and women, were actually injured.
00:07:03.400We do not have clarity on what those injuries were other than the at least two service men and women who were injured with a shrapnel injury.
00:07:12.340Now, of course, all of this is going to further complicate what is supposed to be happening behind the scenes right now and what we are told is happening, which is this quest for diplomacy, these ongoing negotiations.
00:07:25.040And I will say we heard from the secretary of state earlier today who said that they were waiting to hear from Iran on that 15 point plan and that they still didn't know who they were supposed to be talking to and what they were supposed to be talking about.
00:07:37.280And the reason why that's so critical, that 15-point plan, I mean, that's supposed to be the basis of these negotiations.
00:07:44.880So if Iran doesn't accept that, what are they actually going to talk about if the two sides sit down together either late this weekend or early next week?
00:07:54.160But when it comes to what happened in Saudi Arabia, I mean, this information is still very fluid.
00:23:00.000What is, I think, very important now is to make sure that we, because we have, because of Israel's action, the world's greatest ally, we have, this has turned from some concept, some people had a concept of the Persian people going to rise up and overthrow this Islamic Republic, of which they brought in.
00:23:27.840remember don't think this thing just it didn't just creep in on cat's paws we were thrown out
00:23:35.160and all the work we had done to make this a kind of a a nation and assist this nation
00:23:41.440in its quest for modernity uh was thrown out that had good and bad and now you got the monarchists
00:23:50.040and they're all running around cpac you know oh you know free iran free iran behold yo if you
00:23:55.640wonderful Iran. What are you guys actually doing in the country? Because I certainly haven't
00:24:00.040seen any uprising. We now have reports that inside the administration, they're very angry
00:24:07.120at Netanyahu and the Israelis for over promising what was going to happen. But
00:24:13.160it was the Israeli actions of that first Saturday night, or I guess the second,
00:24:18.120technically the second Saturday night of the war, when they bombed, essentially bombed the
00:24:22.440oil facilities around Tehran and created a firestorm that was, I don't know,
00:24:27.180looked like some of the Japanese cities that we bombed in March of 1945 when we firebombed.
00:24:32.820We tried to, attempted to firebomb the Japanese into total submission and actually hit them with
00:24:37.580more destruction collectively than the atomic weapons we dropped later. So don't think we
00:24:43.260won't unsheathe the sword and throw away the scabbard because we will. And we have.
00:24:52.440and that changed that was the inflection point of the war the two inflection points that gave
00:24:57.660the iranians the initiatives and let's be blunt they have the initiative they have the initiative
00:25:02.440they have the initiative they've changed they've shifted the center of gravity this war to the
00:25:07.520persian gulf and i think have exposed they've been quite brilliant about that because they've
00:25:11.880exposed the fecklessness of our arab allies the ones everybody's going over to the conferences
00:25:19.080this for and everybody wants to move over there and everybody oh they're so terrific and these
00:25:22.580guys are so great well where are they they haven't even committed all the things they they're thinking
00:25:28.400of really doing some commitments here on the war they're bitching and moaning non-stop why the
00:25:34.060americans are not protecting them this was the attack and the iranians just to put an explanation
00:25:39.920explanation point on that hit uh hit the the prince sultan airfield yesterday and and damaged a bunch
00:25:48.540american aircraft and i don't know have 10 12 13 uh american casualties people are injured some
00:25:54.380not so bad some supposedly pretty serious but you haven't seen it coming you know behind the scenes
00:26:00.060they're reporting mbs is saying you got to go do this you got to take them out you got to go hard
00:26:03.540well where is that where are the arabs i think our strategy should right now should be hey maybe
00:26:09.860we want israel to do less and maybe we want the arabs and nato to do more everything comes out of
00:26:16.860there either makes the arabs money big time money bitcoin and it fuels asia and uh and europe and oh
00:26:27.900by the way the main thing is captain finnell continues to remind me the chinese communist
00:26:32.620party lives off what comes out of the essentially lives off what comes out of the persian gulf
00:26:38.340so maybe we ought to stop that if there's going to be and rubio said we don't need
00:26:46.140ground, ground troops. Okay. I assume then Cormuz and the Persian Gulf are not part of your plan
00:26:53.080of an objective of the war. That's fine. The oil markets may respond to that. I think they already
00:26:59.540have. I think West Texas Intermediate is up near a hundred bucks. The last trade years, they were
00:27:03.800110, I think for Brent, that's going to have an impact. It just is. But if it's not an objective,
00:27:10.700because I haven't seen a plan or heard of a plan or talking about a plan that doesn't require some
00:27:16.020sort of ground troops and some sort of naval blockade or naval, you know, escort duty,
00:27:22.460like my kid brother had back in 86 and 87 in the tanker war. It's time to get the Arabs to stand
00:27:28.700up. Not that we should have done that maybe before the war. Let's put a pin in that. That's another
00:27:33.700thing. All the stuff about what went wrong and all that, that's for another day. Now we're in
00:27:40.180shooting war and we have american kids at the line of contact so i think all of our attention
00:27:47.020should be to what is going on here if we're going to be at war and going to put kids in harm's way
00:27:54.340let's rip the iranians faces off economically let's go to dubai are they are they exchanging
00:28:01.060any money in dubai or any of the sanctions we put up any country in the world trading with them
00:28:05.480including Russia. If you're doing it, we're coming for you and we're stopping all the money flow and
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00:29:58.840Okay, I've got Dr. Thayer. We're going to go through the war. We're also going to talk about
00:30:02.380Lindsey Graham in a little while. Other things, the ICE not being funded. From the stage at CPAC,
00:30:10.000On Thursday, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche, concurred 100% with War Room and Stephen K. Bannon about ICE agents to the polls.
00:30:26.400And I want to play, if we can do it, Ken Cuccinelli's misreading of the situation, Ken, on CNN the other night, trying to virtue signal, which you cannot do, Ken.
00:30:36.440note to self note to CRA love the CRA guys but let's get our talking points organized
00:30:42.620because the deputy attorney general which I think is senior to Ken's position over at DHS
00:30:48.760says yeah we got to do it and we have to do it and we're going to do it more than that in a moment
00:30:53.840um one thing we launched at CPAC uh Frank Gaffney joins us and yesterday the the grassroots in
00:31:00.360Texas organization for like 150 grassroots leaders was amazing. Jenny's story, hat tip
00:31:06.700to Patriot Mobile and Jenny's story. She is the, um, she's just absolutely incredible. Her
00:31:13.380organizing ability and the way that she brings people together. It's just incredible. And so
00:31:18.240much momentum coming out of Texas. That was the providential part about having CPAC in Texas.
00:31:23.480Uh, Frank Gaffney, the Sharia, talk to me about the Sharia pledge. I want to make sure this goes
00:31:29.820and particularly at the federal level, we've got a caucus now, and I don't understand why there's
00:31:34.100only 35 guys signed up, because you know why, folks? If you don't put a bad net in their back,
00:31:39.500and this past couple of days has been a perfect example. The Senate had to take their two-week
00:31:45.220break, right? Had to take their two-week break, and, you know, the House guys wanted to do it too.
00:31:51.940Now, Johnson, because I think the president put the whip hand on him, you know, the House kind
00:31:57.620of came back last night. So we don't really have any funding. It's a very confusing situation,
00:32:01.080but save America is kind of tossed into the garbage bin. Let's be blunt. Mike Lee and all
00:32:06.920these heroes that tried to push it. Uh, you can't get anything done. If you, if you're going to take
00:32:11.780your two week break, think about it for a second. We told these guys, you're going to seize the
00:32:14.660floor and this is going to be nonstop for four or six weeks. When I kept saying, when we first
00:32:18.620started streaming it, you know, Mike Lee was doing such a heroic job, but I was talking to,
00:32:22.880you know, Jenny, Beth and Cleta and others associated with, I said, you know, I can tell
00:32:27.060when something's got some heat and some urgency and our audience responds and people there are a
00:32:32.360lot of people watching but you could just tell there was no urgency they were never going to
00:32:37.220seize the floor because they wanted to take their two-week break if we had done anything before and
00:32:41.960they were leaving they're not going to seize the floor and hold it and force this and have some
00:32:46.380dramatic Mr. Smith goes to Washington or the Civil Rights Act in the 60s and no one of these historic
00:32:53.240Stan, they're not interested. They're not interested. Tommy Tuberville told it. They're
00:32:58.380not interested. They don't care. And I think the president, you know, we got to, the way you make
00:33:04.800them care, sir, is you have a come around. And to me, you can't get 51 votes. You can't get 60
00:33:10.220votes. Fine. You can't get 51 votes. Fine. But man, I know you can get 27 votes and that gets
00:33:16.300your new leader. So let's try it. Let's try it under new management. Could clear this management
00:33:50.380We have a moment right now, and I think it ties right into what you were just talking about. We need new leadership. Yes. We need new, you know, bodies in the United States Senate, in the House of Representatives, in every legislative body across this country, executive.
00:34:13.720And we have an opportunity to do that, I believe, by focusing like a laser on an initiative that we've demonstrated in the state of Texas can, in fact, be a unifying issue.
00:34:29.360As you pointed out, Steve, when you discerned that the number of votes for Ken Paxton and for John Cornyn combined was less than the number of votes to ban Sharia in the state of Texas.
00:34:46.860And that's a small subset of what we're ultimately going to get, because basically, I believe it's the case that if you go to any red-blooded American, and I'm including, yeah, some independents and, yeah, I think even some Democrats.
00:35:01.540I'm an old Scoop Jackson Democrat myself, much reformed, mind you.
00:35:05.260But I believe there are still people out there in this country who happen to vote the wrong way on some policy issues who are not going to vote for Sharia.
00:35:14.000And so what we've done with your help is we've launched this campaign. We call it the Sharia Free Pledge. And it simply says this, quote, I pledge to the citizens of my district and the American people that I will oppose any and all efforts to impose Sharia law on them.
00:35:36.700Now, that's an homage to old Grover Norquist, who I've had my differences with, but his tax pledge is the model for the Sharia Free Pledge.
00:35:47.400And we need every man, woman in this country who is running for elective office to be asked,
00:35:54.620are you for Sharia in America or are you free now and want to remain free to vote against Sharia?
00:36:06.700And will you serve, is my representative in whatever capacity, to work to keep Sharia out of our country, to prevent it from taking over?
00:36:17.960And Steve, I don't know of anybody who's done more than you with your move to Texas in the run-up to that Proposition 10 to help us demonstrate that this really matters,
00:36:31.080That this is a moment when we have to change the trajectory of our country and to take advantage of this, I think, growing sense of the American people that there's a toxic totalitarian death cult that seeks to destroy our country.
00:36:50.780And if we take the actions that I believe are now possible, starting with this, to create a movement, I liken it to the movement to abolish slavery back in the 1830s and 40s and 50s.
00:37:06.560You know, they called it the New York Times and the 1619 Project.
00:37:11.420The original sin of this country was slavery, right?
00:37:15.960Well, you know, a Republican Party was born out of that movement, and they nominated a guy by the name of Abraham Lincoln to run for president, and the rest, as they say, is history.
00:37:30.880It took us 650,000 lives to expiate the sin of slavery and a lot of civil rights movement and all the rest of it.
00:37:39.800but Steve, here's the point. We're about abolishing slavery 2.0, because what these
00:37:45.980guys have in mind for you, these Sharia supremacists have in mind, is your enslavement.
00:37:52.280And oh, by the way, Sharia itself enshrines the concept of slavery. The guys who sold those
00:37:58.000slaves to the African traders and so on, those were Muslims, and they're still selling slaves,
00:38:05.280Even now, a lot of them are Christians, by the way.
00:38:11.760We want the American people to be served in the Congress, yes, but also in their state legislatures, executive branches, and so on, by people who are going to stand up against Sharia.
00:38:40.680So I think the irony of of of using the template of Grover Norquist is quite interesting because Grover Norquist, I don't think, has ever answered the question of his agency for the Islamic cause, particularly in the 2003 when he he was the one that talked Bush and the say and going to a mosque a couple of days after 9-11 and saying, oh, you know, it's a religion of peace.
00:39:04.240Nothing could be further from the truth and nothing hurt us more.
00:39:09.940The only thing that hurt more was his two daughters not enlisting into the military and being part of the cause.
00:39:16.680But the other was that his administration was infested with pro-Islamists because they had made money in the Persian Gulf.
00:39:28.920And let me think about that for a second.
00:39:30.280Hang on. Hang on. I'm going to connect to that. Bush, Texas. Oh, yeah.
00:39:34.240It's the reason we got the problem in Texas.
00:48:47.200They've solved a billion dollars worth of tax problems.
00:48:49.680I tell people, there is nothing in your tale of woe that they ain't heard before.
00:48:55.660okay? So you can come up free and clear and then get the results. Dr. Thayer, if we're going to go
00:49:03.780to war, let's go to total war. And what I mean by total war, let's shut down everybody trading with
00:49:08.960them. Let's shut down, let's go to UAE and said, hey, you got like two hours to go to Dubai and
00:49:14.540shut it all down. The Pirate Cove in Dubai got to stop. We got to stop the Arabs. Everybody's
00:49:19.820playing games. The Israelis are playing games with us. The Arabs are playing games with us.
00:49:23.640The Europeans are playing games with us. And what are we doing? We're sending troops over there. We got which is fine. President Trump needs options and alternatives to to to negotiate to negotiate here around the the military operation victory.
00:49:39.840And Marco Rubio ought to go on the morning shows tomorrow, not Scott Besson, but Marco Rubio to go on the morning shows tomorrow and lay out and go back to this definition.
00:49:48.660If the military objectives that he talked about in the tarmac, which have been what we've said, those four military objectives, if that is the sum total of our objectives.
00:49:58.960And that can be done by increasing an intense bombing campaign.
00:50:02.680and we know that there's 3,500, I think there's 3,500 additional
00:50:08.680or maybe up to 6,000 additional targets, that's fine.