00:00:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.640Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.420If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.600War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:00:50.400It's Saturday, 28 March, Year of Our Lord, 2026.
00:00:53.200we're here to make sure that you get information because
00:00:57.100MAGA eventually likes to make up their mind about
00:01:01.320as Lincoln called it, public opinion. And this is why it can't
00:01:05.260be people yelling at you this way, yelling at you that way. Got to give you the facts and you
00:01:09.120come to your own conclusions. You're grown men and women
00:01:12.680and you've had tremendous, tremendous political successes
00:01:17.060in the past. We've had a couple, three speed bumps, I might
00:01:21.320at um but it's all a process now the process is finding out as much about this as possible
00:01:27.120so i think one of the things that marco has to do as national security advisor is come forward
00:01:32.140and lay out what he did on the tarmac and lay it out are those the objectives are those the
00:01:38.360objectives and those objectives are going to be met in the next two or two they think it'll always
00:01:42.140be it's the war right but their planning is with the with the with admiral cooper and uh and raising
00:01:50.700kane general kane and as captain finnell so brainily does when he comes on here just walk
00:01:55.980through the defanging declawing of the conventional military of um of the iranians we know there
00:02:02.900hasn't been an uprising now was that because the exquisite intelligence that members of the
00:02:09.960national security council go on stage and tell us the exquisite intelligence maybe won't so exquisite
00:02:16.440it or was it we were misled there's all kind of reports of netanyahu promoting people but this
00:02:23.640thing was going to happen it was going to be they're reminding me at the time and i said it
00:02:27.200it's bill crystal and the same gang the exact same fox news crowd under rupert murdoch of course then
00:02:34.860they had ailes who was even better than the team they got now uh remember the roses they're going
00:02:40.280to throw roses they're going to they're crystal they're going to throw roses in the streets as
00:02:45.340the american troops walk into baghdad and free them and they're going to put their thumbs in
00:02:49.740and get you know blue ink like in afghanistan and they're all going to be jeffersonian democrats
00:02:54.180and the world's going to live happily ever after because it's only democracy that these nations
00:02:59.660need that's all they need you saw the folly that that was so now why not total war when i say total
00:03:08.340war total economic and financial war against the persians and anybody in business with them
00:03:13.640If we're going to have a possibility of young American men and women as combat troops inserted into the Middle East, inserted into the Persian Gulf and maybe even in mainland Persia, right, they're going to go back and do the Alexander the Great thing.
00:03:29.220I might add that Alexander the Great, after that trip back through Persia, where he put two-thirds of his army on boats and took them through the Strait of Hormuz and past Karg Island up to the Tigris and Euphrates to Babylon.
00:03:44.920I think Alexander the Great, as great as he was, was dead six months later when he got to Babylon.
00:03:52.480either through a fever he caught or maybe some poison they gave him because they thought hey
00:03:58.320maybe he's going to send us back across that hell hole remember alexander the great had a revolt of
00:04:04.120his generals the greatest group of better than lee's lieutenants better than uh better than some
00:04:12.120of the fighting fighting generals we had in world war ii better than blackjack pershing had on the
00:04:17.600american expeditionary force in world war one his generals and they're the ones that said
00:04:22.380yo brother we've gone too far this this this land is horrible these people are horrible we
00:04:29.280gotta get the hell out of here and get back to Greece same as Xenophon told us later the march
00:04:38.120up country with his that mercenary army it's always consistent first what's always consistent
00:04:44.780it should be totally consistent is that when you read history of this area whether it's Xenophon
00:04:51.320or was it Arian, any of the histories of this, it's always, wait for it, you're getting double
00:04:57.820dealt the entire time. The whole purpose of Xenophon, the march up country, the mercenary
00:05:02.520army, the Greeks, they go in there, they're going to get paid by the Persians because, you know,
00:05:06.060Darius and one of his brothers, and they're always fighting each other. The whole area is just,
00:05:11.380the history is just, it's almost incomprehensible in the 21st century to read the histories
00:05:18.320of the brutality of the whole region read the history of jerusalem it's you're like
00:05:25.940your jaw drops the barbarity the savagery of the people trying to conquer it and not conquering
00:05:31.920people holding it and then tearing down a temple and then trying to build a temple again and
00:05:35.680and every you know the assyrians and the babylonians and persians but hey the one
00:05:39.800consistent thing when you're in that part of the world from uh from uh from alexander the
00:05:48.160Gray, to Xenophon, to Lawrence of Arabia, you're being double dealt the entire time.
00:05:52.480You can't trust any of them because their word, like in the Judeo-Christian West, when
00:05:57.760he signed a contract, hey, I got a contract, or make a deal, or I shake, I give you a handshake
00:06:03.020because a handshake's better than a contract because it's your word.
00:06:11.940No, they're double dealing you the whole time, and the Arabs are double dealing us right
00:06:16.340now double dealing us where are the arab troops where's the arab air force where's uae where's uh
00:06:24.960where's qatar our great guys in qatar where are they i want to see their planes i want to see
00:06:31.260their missiles they're bitching and moaning hey we're getting hit when you're not protecting us
00:06:34.740you know the united states is not protecting us i know you're protectorates but part of being a
00:06:41.240protectorate you got to stand up when the when the when the alarm goes off when the bell rings
00:06:45.660right when the bell rings you got to be able to stand up you got to be able to stand and deliver
00:06:52.300and now it's time for them to deliver the first wave of karg island to go
00:06:55.940take it and the second wave of karg island to hold it ought to be all arabs
00:07:01.780a hundred percent arabs the counter argument is oh steve you can't do that if you do the arabs
00:07:07.620and the persians you got the persian nationalist war gone forever well maybe it goes on forever
00:07:12.080but they're the ones fighting it maybe it goes on forever maybe it's going to have to go on forever
00:07:17.880maybe all that bad blood's got to be you know you got to lance the bull and let the puss out
00:07:21.640we've already made it these the israelis already made it a persian nationalist thing it's not
00:07:28.180this is no where's the revolt against the islamic theocracy those demons those demons i might add
00:07:37.220for all the happy talking you got the today at CPAC they may even have the the the Shaw's son
00:07:43.260remember the Shaw's son last summer when he was in London and he he stood up and gave ahead a
00:07:50.060press conference the Shaw's son stands up there and he goes you know we're committed to monarchy
00:07:54.080you know we're ready to go back and some reporter goes are you prepared because it looked like
00:08:00.280they're talking about a revolt in the streets and this thing could be overturned and there's
00:08:03.860this huge revolt are you prepared to go lead an interim government they asked him the question
00:08:09.140are you prepared now to go lead an interim government his response was you know i'm kind
00:08:14.180of fully booked on my social calendar because it's august i'm fully booked in europe for my
00:08:19.100social calendar but there could be availability you know maybe later in the fall that was his
00:08:26.040answer it's not serious you know what's serious you know what's serious when they call fort bragg
00:08:34.620and they say get the ready brigade ready to go then the young men and women get ready to go you
00:08:40.400know why you raised them right that's the best we got we ain't got any better than that we don't
00:08:48.620have any better than that those kids and those carrier battle groups you go down in those engine
00:08:54.420rooms and you go down the damage control areas and you look underneath and you look on that flight
00:08:59.700deck and you see how many breaks have those kids had in the United States? Because you got a country
00:09:08.200that's invaded by foreigners. You got H-1B visas. You got AI. You got the big tech. They don't get
00:09:14.520a break. You get 12 million tech workers. You got 12 million kids who did it right. Didn't do it
00:09:21.020like me and that's too hard i can't do that it's gotta be another way to get around this no they
00:09:25.800did everything right from the time they were in grade school everything right at 12 million them
00:09:29.340can't get a job and the ones that get a job don't get great wages because guess what we got too many
00:09:34.340foreign workers here so those kids on that flight deck the kids in those engine rooms how many
00:09:40.320breaks have we gotten them right you got the arabs over here and they're buying this and they're
00:09:45.560buying that and they're living large you don't think that upsets people that upsets people
00:09:50.840big league you go down to texas you go down to texas and you've got uh you've got this islamic
00:09:57.080invasion and they're they're rubbing your nose in it every day how they're building this and
00:10:01.140building that and they're in business with with this business guy and this real estate guy and
00:10:05.940they got the texas political class in austin protecting them and people have to come out and
00:10:11.320and get it done and those kids the kids in the two marine expeditionary units these marines
00:10:17.900you look at those hispanic kids and you look at uh you look at those uh white kids and the black
00:10:23.740kids you look at them all right as they're getting ready to go you know prepared to haven't gotten
00:10:30.640the thing but they're getting in place to go answer their country's call to take a couple of
00:10:37.380islands in the uh in the persian gulf just like their grandfathers were there to take the call
00:10:45.440to go take Terawa and Peleliu and all of it.
00:10:49.440Didn't totally understand what the geopolitics were,
00:11:42.380But you don't think the parents that got those kids in that ready brigade right now, they're getting ready on the 82nd Airborne to go in if they're asked to go in, didn't raise them up right and raise them up to be moral.
00:11:56.820You don't think the people in those carrier battle groups and the submarines out there and the destroyers out there and those lamps, the helicopters are out there and all the fighter sorties we're doing.
00:12:08.160And when they talk about 10,000, 10,000, well, we had 10,000 sorties, 10,000 missions.
00:12:14.400That's Americans doing that every day.
00:17:40.080fully informed and that's why i keep telling people coming to this polling it's all great
00:17:45.300i said yeah but every time i ask a follow-on question breitbart did it best when the breitbart
00:17:50.940guys think got jpl and they did the uh the thing and you know it was like 79 or 80 you know approval
00:17:57.660and support and then they said well what happens when the first casualty start and then it drops
00:18:02.200and what happens you know the next week when casualty stuff starts so you have to think this
00:18:05.940thing totally through that's what i'm saying hey we're going to do this we're going to spend this
00:18:09.820200 billion dollars and you know combat troops uh and already got airmen and navy in harm's way
00:18:16.260then let's go to total war and let's let's end this thing but start with let's start with the
00:18:22.340financial let's rip them down financially and anybody that's in business with them making money
00:18:26.360make sure that that money that blood money gets sucked out of them and goes to pay for this and
00:18:32.260yes, let's get all the royal families over there. I want to see all those princes. I don't want to
00:18:37.720see him in London, cavorting in London. I want to see him in New York City. I don't want to see him
00:18:43.280running around this country. Don't want to see him. I want to see him in uniform, getting ready
00:18:48.180to take Cargillin. I want to see him in uniform, getting ready to figure out how to keep the
00:18:54.120straight or Hormuz open. Because last time I look, the oil that's getting monetized is their oil.
00:18:59.700and I also say we're going to take part of the Persians or the Iraqis or I'm all for that
00:19:04.300take it brother let's do it let's do it let's get a carried interest let's get 20 percent let's take
00:19:10.02020 percent of the era of Saudi Aramco let's get 20 percent of UAE let's take 20 percent of that
00:19:14.980gas field in Qatar here's the deal we're going to keep it open let's be partners we're going to get
00:19:20.560a carried interest how about that see how quickly they want to get to the peace table see how
00:19:27.480quickly they said well hang on for a second hang on for a second maybe maybe we figure this out
00:19:30.680some other way yet when we got our boy young men and women they're all yeah go get mbs new york
00:19:37.420times get them let's go get them let's go get them get up we're gonna go to total war let's do it
00:19:45.820but that means total the emphasis is total let's do it and marco you better get up there because
00:19:52.180now I'm totally corn fused. You told me the objectives could be reached in three or four
00:19:57.720weeks with a bombing campaign. Brother, I'm all for that. If that's the objectives, this is laid
00:20:02.560out. Bang, bang, bang. Here's what it did. We defanged them. Tossed the keys. Guys, it's your
00:20:07.300problem. I kind of dig that. But I'd like to have that laid out just so people understand it. And
00:20:13.620then we can understand, OK, here's what we're going to do. Marco said, National Security
00:20:17.300said don't need combat troops inserted his his speaking on the tarmac okay well I want to take
00:20:25.380something that's upsetting a lot of people know in is the out of control cheerleading of certain
00:20:32.080members elected members and one I can't understand from the great state of South Carolina because you
00:20:37.140don't get better people than the folks in South Carolina you don't get more patriotic people and
00:20:41.880You don't get people that have committed more to this country's defense and not and people that are born there and raised South Carolinians and people that are retired there.
00:20:50.760I mean, it is a fabulous state with great, great, great people.
00:20:55.600And I do not understand at all how this guy can run around and do what he does.
00:23:53.660so that's a pretty big i would say that's a a this that's a campaign that's running a little
00:24:01.160hot let's just look i just want to put some make sure people understand it you've called him a
00:24:05.600traitor and you said he should be arrested that's not the kind of normal uh you know dialogue you
00:24:12.500have in a in a typical republican primary but you've been at this a while you're a very serious
00:24:18.160Just walk the audience through why he's a traitor and why you, as his leading opponent in this race, believe he actually should be arrested for being a traitor, sir.
00:24:30.500Yes. Well, you know, years ago, he was all for open borders.
00:24:37.740He was wanting to grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this country, which we know from the groups I've worked with in national security work.
00:24:48.320And I know you met with John and Matt here at CPAC.
00:24:55.320And we know these people crossing over the border just aren't people looking for the American dream.
00:25:01.300They're supreme jihadists reporting to their assigned locations.
00:25:05.400You know, our guys did the work that busted CARE, the Council of American Islamic Relations.
00:25:11.320They're a Hamas terrorist organization, and they're fighting in South Carolina to help
00:25:16.180our legislators pass a hate crimes bill, which we could get arrested for having this conversation
00:25:22.280right now if that passes. They're using subtle things like that with red flag laws, and Lindsey
00:25:27.860voted for red flag laws. He's okay with removing citizens' guns. And, you know, we're at war with
00:25:34.480Islam and funneling money to support them and paying migrants in this budget build in the fourth
00:25:41.420quarter of December and the first quarter of 26, sending another $5 billion into pay to help fund
00:25:48.960illegal migrants coming in here. He's paying for the calls to take down this country. So why is
00:25:56.180Trump or anybody listening to his advice with a war hawk that's taking our citizens money that we
00:26:03.120don't have. We're $39 trillion in debt, and he's lustful for war. He's got bloodlust. And South
00:26:11.060Carolinians realize, where has Lindsey been the last year? He's been all over the world, starting
00:26:15.920World War III, while we have terrorists inside America and South Carolina. And like we do in
00:26:22.100Dallas, I think there's 67 mosques here. And there's no such thing as a Muslim church, Steve.
00:26:28.080Those are four military satellite bases in operation training, combat training, cacheting weapons in them.
00:26:35.840And so every time we see more mosques develop in Islamic centers, they're taking more land and they're claiming that under Sharia law is their sanctuary city.
00:26:46.780We've got to ban Sharia law in this country.
00:26:49.520mark we got to bounce but i want people to go to find out more about you and uh and this cause
00:26:57.700that you're fighting in south carolina remember if lindsey graham does not get over 50 plus one vote
00:27:03.460uh on the primary it's got to go to a runoff with the top uh guy right now mark lynch is is polling
00:27:10.520uh as this as the next guy so it'd be a runoff between mark lynch and lindsey graham if it's
00:27:15.880kept below 50%. I want to make sure people get as much information about you as possible, Mark.
00:27:20.860Where do they go? Go to lynch4senate, spelled out lynch, L-Y-N-C-H-F-O-R-senate.com.
00:27:29.320Pray for our campaign. Donate. Join. We need volunteers to help get signs out and doorknob.
00:27:36.600It's happening, but it's going to take us all. We got to fight till June 9th to the end.
00:27:41.540And this guy, this traitor, Lindsey Graham, will be gone forever.
00:27:47.120And it'll be, like I say, Steve, a great birthday present to America's 250th birthday to get the enemies in Congress gone and put America back on the offensive where it belongs with true American patriots in office.
00:29:53.660Mark, Mark Lynch brings up a great point I think people miss is that Lindsey Graham in the first term, everything President Trump is trying to do, build the wall, all of it.
00:30:04.080Lindsey Graham was working with the senior Democrats in the Democrat in the Senate to block everything.
00:30:12.700He was the worst. He's an open borders, amnesty DACA.
00:31:01.880Is this kind of casual as a tee up for his talking points?
00:31:06.880Remember, he spent all this time in Israel with Netanyahu.
00:31:10.940And, you know, what information intelligence did he actually have from what he said?
00:31:15.040that's all going to be and I tell people there's going to be plenty of time for that later
00:31:18.700and it's going to be a full investigation believe me because this thing is you know how we got into
00:31:23.940this and where was the exquisite intelligence the exquisite intelligence where was it let's see it
00:31:31.060also if that wasn't bad enough he told us he's been in Saudi Arabia forever and came out the
00:31:38.440other day drunk half lit on one of these shows saying he's told the Arabs he's got to stop
00:31:42.240double dealings. You got to commit and, you know, we'll do an in perpetuity defense security. No,
00:31:47.840we're not. That's the last thing we want to do. America first means putting this country first.
00:31:53.860Let's take care of the inside the wire. Let's clean that up before we talk to the Saudis
00:31:57.900about it in perpetuity, in perpetuity. That was in perpetuity defense agreement. That means we're
00:32:04.700there for, I don't know, perpetuity. Dr. Bradley Thayer, you look at this with a journalist. I
00:32:11.640also want to announce and i haven't had time because it's been so crazy at cpac but we had
00:32:16.300two books on the top 15 winton hall's code red which the warren posse bought i think two-thirds
00:32:22.160of winton hall fabulous book great man first time he's really put a book out one of the best
00:32:28.400ghostwriters that wrote his own book and you guys supported it and the feedback i've gotten on code
00:32:32.380red is amazing but also at and he's number 13 at number eight warren books and skyhorse tony lyons
00:32:41.340in the war room team number eight is um is killed to order by jan uh ukulek just amazing and that
00:32:51.720goes with jack basova's i think jack basova's unhumans were number 10 so we've had two outright
00:32:56.680top 10s which is pretty amazing for an imprint that's only uh what two years old both by people
00:33:03.060of polish heritage i might add dr bradley thayer i think you're a mick i think you're a lot of
00:33:08.820things you're probably a mutt but you're like me you're you're you've got a lot of mick in you uh
00:33:12.380we are announcing and we're not gonna give you the title but we're making a commitment to the
00:33:16.420magnum opus that dr thayer has been working on for a couple of years an incredible book that
00:33:21.740everybody's going to want we're going to get to it probably publish it later in the summer after
00:33:25.660the 250th anniversary or maybe early in the fall that we're working with dr thayer right now we'll
00:33:30.220give you the title on the amazon page and all that sometime in the future but dr thayer couldn't be
00:33:34.120more excited and this is going to be another top 10 book scott presler's book our book with scott
00:33:39.780presler comes out in may about may 15th i think it is and then um we've got uh and then we've got
00:33:47.280dr thayer's book got another book coming out around that time uh eyes from penundrum that
00:33:52.900everybody's going to love and then we got dr thayer's book and a couple others we're going
00:33:55.800to announce so dr thayer congratulations more on that later give me your your your uh beady-eyed
00:34:01.880look at where we stand in this war sir well steve thanks very much for your support for it and thank
00:34:08.380you for writing the forward uh to the book um look when we think about this uh conflict we're gonna
00:34:16.200we need to think about the causes that's a discussion for another time secondly the conduct
00:34:21.460which is so important today and then thirdly the consequences uh which we're going to talk about a
00:34:28.380lot, obviously, in the months and years to come. If we look at the conduct of this war, we're
00:34:35.680seeing that the U.S. is realizing its war aims as it identified them. That is, the missiles,
00:34:43.660of course, ballistic cruise missiles, drone production are being attrited. The Navy,
00:34:49.360the Air Force, obviously, were able to operate over Iran, essentially, as we wish.
00:34:56.860Key sticking points are the uranium and that issue, if that's going to become a cause of concern, and then the Strait of Hormuz, and now broadening, of course, to the Red Sea in the Bab al-Mandab.
00:35:10.500And so I think when we're thinking about those issues, it's also important, Steve, to broaden this too.
00:35:20.440As Iran has got influence in the strait, it's important to recognize that the U.S. Navy basically dominates the world's ocean.
00:35:29.060So anything going into the strait or exiting the strait is subject to interdiction.
00:35:34.260You talked about economic measures that we should employ, right? As we're talking about 82nd Airborne, as we're talking about Marines being deployed, there are still a lot of economic and financial tools in the toolkit, but there are also a lot of other coercive tools that we can bring into bear here as well.
00:35:56.240So the Gulf of Oman is going to be owned by the U.S. Navy, essentially, because of our dominance of world oceans.
00:36:04.720So that's a tool that we can employ as well.
00:36:08.760Steve, I'd also like to say that we can see this as an opportunity as well.
00:36:14.380If the PRC, if the People's Republic of China wants oil coming out of the strait, then we should link that to fentanyl precursor chemicals exiting China, right?
00:36:27.600If they want oil, it's up to us to allow China to receive that oil from Iran.
00:36:35.800We can allow that passage of oil if they stop precursor chemicals exiting the PRC.
00:36:42.420So I think that when we're thinking about this conflict, we need to keep our mind on really what is the center of gravity in international politics today, and that's the Chinese Communist Party.
00:36:54.980So there are a lot of other tools we can bring to bear in this conflict to influence the CCP as well as Iran, too.
00:37:08.360With respect to the Arabs, of course—
00:37:10.580But hang on, hang on, hang on. I want to talk about the conduct. I want to go back to your conduct. We'll worry about consequences in a later show. Maybe tomorrow. By the way, through the good offices of Real America's Voice, we're seven days a week while this war is on. And we'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. to 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time. Don't miss it because usually so much happens on Saturday night. You have to be informed about this.
00:37:35.600The conduct of the war and the cause of the war we can get to later.