Bannon's War Room - Episode 5256： Channeling The Crusader Spirit This Palm Sunday

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:09.180 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:14.400 Here's one time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:18.680 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:20.600 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:22.040 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:24.720 It's going to happen.

00:00:25.760 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:28.680 mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people had a conscience ask yourself

00:00:36.940 what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my country this country will

00:00:44.800 be saved war room here's your host stephen k bann

00:00:49.500 uh it's palm sunday 29 march year earlier 2026 we have an all-star cast really want to thank

00:00:59.120 people for uh changing their plans with their family to join us um captain for now i know

00:01:04.900 we're gonna bounce one thing i'm gonna get back to eric prince on the same topic and there um

00:01:08.680 you would not put the the boxer the uss boxer or the tripoli inside the persian gulf to actually

00:01:17.800 uh launch an amphibious uh the the marine expeditionary unit uh attack on either cargill

00:01:27.200 or these other islands would you is that still too dangerous in your mind because i remember hey

00:01:32.560 back when we were there was no chance you'd ever put a capital ship in there

00:01:35.560 right that's one of the lessons from desert storm we had you know admirals that didn't want to put

00:01:41.580 carriers up there as well so it's something that's dangerous it has to be you know well

00:01:46.640 thought out, well planned. And right now, since we're not transiting through there, the last thing

00:01:50.920 I do is send an ARC through as the first ship to test that. We have other ways to test that

00:01:56.600 before we would put something up there. So I think the ARC is there for contingency and as

00:02:03.820 the National Security Advisor said, maximizing optionality. That's, I think, what's happening

00:02:10.360 there do you do you see that this week just to give people a heads up for holy week you see and

00:02:16.920 it continued as every night and i don't think people fully appreciate it emerald cooper over

00:02:20.980 at centcom they are they are pounding away i think they said they had 3500 targets left having done

00:02:27.300 over 11 000 already you anticipate this week is going to be continued uh maximum uh maximum

00:02:34.740 pressure by CENTCOM? Yes, I do. I think they're going to continue to go after every one of those

00:02:41.160 main four target areas. And so it's not going to stop. We haven't stopped. And when you think

00:02:47.520 about numbers of targets, go back to the Serbian campaign and General Wesley Clark and his talk

00:02:52.520 about 2,000 targets. When he first started, he had much less than that and things weren't going

00:02:58.360 well. He said, I need 2,000 targets. He pulled that out of the air. Well, we're well beyond that.

00:03:03.520 This is a major event. And this is a big country and it's got a lot of military capability. So it's not an easy task, but it is a task that can be achieved if we stay on the course. Let me just say one last thing to Eric. I respect Eric Prince. And my non sequitur piece was just to say, I don't think there's a direct correlation between what's happening politically in the Strait of Hormuz. I'm saying what we're dealing with now is what we're dealing with now.

00:03:28.600 nobody's talking about we're shipmates in the war room yeah we are shipmates in the ward room

00:03:37.580 of the war room so it's fine normally no shop and mess but here we talk shop uh you have a shipmate

00:03:43.880 tell us about you had a dear friend a texan a real american that passed away recently tell us about

00:03:49.700 that? Yes, Markham Dossett, commander, U.S. Navy Reserve, retired. He and I served together out

00:03:59.600 in Japan aboard the Kitty Hawk. He would come out and serve with me in his reserve role. He also

00:04:04.660 served in combat roles in Afghanistan. He was a seventh generation Texan, a rancher, a cattleman,

00:04:11.980 owned a big ranch, and had a beautiful wife and two sons, and was well respected in the community

00:04:19.080 in law enforcement history, knew the history of Texas. And unfortunately, Markham was riding this

00:04:25.540 horse this week and something happened, spooked his horse and he was killed in the event. But

00:04:32.220 there's a picture on the left there from when I was there last year with him. We spent some time

00:04:37.100 with him. Really just salt of the earth American and somebody will miss dearly and really bedrock

00:04:42.920 of America and Texas society. So I just appreciate you allowing me to remember him, especially on

00:04:48.760 Palm Sunday. He'll be buried Wednesday out in Waco, and we can get details if somebody wants

00:04:54.920 to watch that. It'll be online. Oh, it'll be online. We'll stream it. If it's going to be

00:05:00.860 online, the worm will stream it. Captain Fennell, thank you so much for taking time away. Appreciate

00:05:04.680 you always. Thank you. Although in any board room, you're going to have a little discussion.

00:05:09.660 Thank you, sir. Eric Prince, I want to really appreciate you doing this on a Sunday, given

00:05:14.480 how busy you are i i know you you're very selective about your media hits and only when you feel you

00:05:19.180 have something to say any closing observations and i do one more time want you to talk about

00:05:25.740 what happened earlier today because we don't have all the details harnwell's going to join us but

00:05:29.700 sobook's going to join us we do know the italian government i think it's called over the israeli

00:05:34.640 ambassador and they're quite livid about this i know the what i'm hearing is the vatican's very

00:05:39.440 upset about it your closing thoughts of where we are particularly with captain finnell's uh

00:05:43.620 assessment of where CENTCOM is on this, straight or four moves, and what happened at the church,

00:05:49.600 or what didn't happen today at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, sir?

00:05:54.560 First, you know, look, CENTCOM undoubtedly, over the last two years, had all their target set that

00:06:01.560 they wanted to hit in Yemen to make the Houthis comply and to open up the Babel Mandaab Unlimited.

00:06:08.740 The only reason that was opened over the last year is because the Houthis allowed it. It was not done by coercion by CENTCOM. So my concern about CENTCOM saying, yes, we have another 3,500 targets to strike. That's the ones that they think they know of.

00:06:26.440 And my comment about the captain saying, well, things are quiet and they're not really shooting back from the Straits of Hormuz.

00:06:34.380 As I read history, the Germans did not engage until the troops hit the beach.

00:06:42.720 And the Japanese did not open up on Iwo Jima or Okinawa until the troops hit the beach.

00:06:48.860 And so I really hope no one is considering some kind of a forced entry there because it will be a significant casualty event and a massive blow.

00:06:58.960 And I just hope that the administration is not going to give the enemy the fight that the enemy is expecting because it's not going to go well.

00:07:08.960 Now, on an even more serious topic, on Palm Sunday, look, whether it's some mid-level bureaucrat that went off the rails to block the cardinal from going to Mass,

00:07:23.760 I'm told, I just read that he had asked for four people to go to the church, to live stream Mass from there, and they even barred him from doing that.

00:07:34.520 That's an enormous problem.

00:07:36.500 um and it's it's israel showing a disdain for christianity in the middle east and it's ridiculous

00:07:44.640 do you think now because i've always been against a two-state solution but now that because of the

00:07:52.560 greater israel project whether they like it or not we have a two-state solution within gaza with

00:07:57.360 qatar going to underwrite it and the turks going to provide security and the turks i hear every day

00:08:03.420 are more adamant than ever that they're going to supply security for it,

00:08:06.980 although the Netanyahu government says it will never happen.

00:08:09.760 Isn't it time that we start to have a discussion?

00:08:12.560 If we've got a two-state solution, a de facto two-state solution,

00:08:15.880 don't we need a third state?

00:08:17.100 Don't we need a Christian state in Jerusalem to take the Christian quarter

00:08:20.940 and maybe a quarter up to Bethlehem,

00:08:23.300 but to make sure that this type of thing can't happen in the future?

00:08:26.800 I mean, shouldn't the Christians take a more active role

00:08:29.420 in the management of the Holy Land, sir?

00:08:31.880 I guess because of the the sharp elbows of the other groups in the Middle East the Christians

00:08:39.080 are going to have to do something um yes much more uh much sharper uh in demand for that kind

00:08:46.180 of territorial autonomy it the problem is what what is economically viable um with that many

00:08:53.920 fences and barriers and and and guardianships so yeah it's um they managed to work together under

00:09:01.520 uh the last century or two of the of kind of ottoman light rule there i it's a it's a mess

00:09:09.840 and the idf has certainly made it worse not better well i'm going to make a proposal

00:09:17.160 as we move forward because there is work behind the scenes going in this i want to make a proposal

00:09:21.620 that eric prince be the interim i can't think of a more of a bigger throwback to the crusades

00:09:27.100 in modern times than eric prince so i think that the crusade type of spirit i'm the crusade type

00:09:34.060 of spirit is the spirit we need here and so i'm proposing that the uh the interim head

00:09:38.960 of the new christian state of jerusalem be eric i am work i am not i am not seconding that

00:09:46.160 nomination thank you what's at easter steve if drafted i will if i drafted a happy uh good uh

00:09:54.620 palm sunday where do people get you uh sir if they're looking to track you down for some of

00:09:58.720 your commentary during the week between war room the war room seems to be the only consistent

00:10:04.720 place i come in uh and sound off but i also say things on twitter now and then at uh real eric

00:10:11.320 d prince thank you sir appreciate you here on palm sunday you bet check care okay we're gonna get

00:10:20.160 we're gonna get that draft movement going on eric prince he's got the crusader spirit is what we need

00:10:24.720 now dr bradley thayer got you and brandon weikert uh tell me give me your assessment you heard you

00:10:30.840 heard uh the captain you heard eric prince you've read all the details come up you've done all your

00:10:35.340 sources. Where are we on Palm Sunday? Well, as Rubio identified on March, on Friday,

00:10:44.000 great progress towards the four goals that he identified at that time, elimination of the Navy,

00:10:49.800 elimination of the Air Force, missile and drone production, and then missile launchers. But Steve,

00:10:56.280 there are three big pulls for escalation or drivers of escalation here that we haven't

00:11:01.900 discussed yet, and that's first the nuclear issue, the highly enriched uranium and Iran's

00:11:10.040 nuclear facilities. Secondly, as Eric and Jim were talking about, the Strait and Karg Island,

00:11:17.280 major pull for escalation. And lastly, leadership. Are we doing regime change here as Israel wants,

00:11:25.260 Or are we not doing regime change? So Rubio lays out on Friday four goals which are eminently achievable, right?

00:11:34.220 We can meet those goals within the next two weeks or four weeks.

00:11:39.100 And just to just to hang on. And those goals, those goals have been very consistent from we got away from unconditional surrender.

00:11:47.060 Those have been very consistent, although noticeably they had they had a fifth, which was power projection to the Persian people.

00:11:55.260 That's now off. But those four goals have been very consistent with CENTCOM's,

00:12:00.220 Admiral Cooper's plan and the Joint Chiefs plan, correct? And we're methodically going down the

00:12:05.720 defanging and declawing of that, correct? Absolutely. But the pulls for escalation

00:12:11.480 or the drivers of escalation are in those three big areas. And when we look at the reports about

00:12:17.960 the 15-point plan that the Trump administration has advanced, it seems from news reports that

00:12:26.880 the nuclear component there is very significant. So a major pull, again, for escalation in this

00:12:35.600 conflict, if it is to come, right? As you said yesterday, if we meet Rubio's four goals and we

00:12:42.220 toss the keys to everyone else in the region right so the the gulf shakedoms and the israelis

00:12:48.140 uh and other actors can do what they want but if there is going to be escalation the nuclear

00:12:54.340 is is certainly a logical driver of escalation as as jim again and eric was discussing the straight

00:13:03.620 when when you say but you say hang on you say that hang on but but but but a implicit in the four

00:13:09.780 objectives of CENCOM is the, you know, from ballistic missiles to actually having an operating,

00:13:16.480 any type of operating, even research facility, that's all going to be smashed to smithereens,

00:13:21.640 or as president loves to say, total obliteration. What could be, you know, now they're talking about

00:13:26.620 now Mark Levin, because remember Mark Levin, those guys don't really care about the nuclear

00:13:31.260 material. What they want is American combat troops inserted into this situation, because once they

00:13:36.740 get american combat troops into this situation they know we're going to be there for a long

00:13:40.700 time they want another this is the same exact crowd that wanted the the iraq wanted combat

00:13:46.260 troops into into iraq and came up and essentially bald-faced lie the same guys theson levin hannity

00:13:52.960 all of murdoch's crew the wall street journal paul g joe that entire crew folks they looked

00:13:59.740 you in the eye and told you that the iraqis are going to be throwing roses in the street

00:14:03.680 welcoming, you know, Jim Mattis, who was a general and General Kelly and others as they drove up with the army on one flank and the Marines on the other, the drive to Baghdad.

00:14:17.880 We're going to be welcomed as liberators. We're going to be welcomed because there are so many Jeffersonian Democrats just sitting there waiting to impose democracy onto the Iraqi people and live happily ever after.

00:14:30.740 That was a, because we had to do it because of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear and other.

00:14:36.080 And that turned out to be not a miscalculation.

00:14:38.920 Everybody can get things wrong.

00:14:40.540 Oh, that was wrong.

00:14:41.500 You know, that was a, wait for it, bald-faced lie.

00:14:46.960 Bald-faced lie.

00:14:48.140 And do we ever remember the honored dead of the Iraq War?

00:14:52.520 Was it a combined, I think, 7,000 or 8,000, not counting the contractors?

00:14:57.020 The honored dead?

00:14:58.280 Back in a moment.

00:15:00.740 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.

00:15:07.560 Okay, Posobiec's here with an update.

00:15:09.440 We're going to get to Jack in just a moment.

00:15:11.260 Brandon Weikert, we've had in the wardroom of the war room,

00:15:17.540 we've had a little bit of heated discussion this morning on Palm Sunday

00:15:21.040 about exactly where we stand.

00:15:23.020 I can say that Eric Prince and Captain Fennell are not on the same page.

00:15:27.440 Your assessment, sir?

00:15:28.320 Well, I think that Mr. Prince is probably more on the money here, in my personal opinion. And let me just give you a little inject here. The Royal United Services Institute, which I believe is one of the, is the oldest think tank in the world and one of the most respected, excuse me, respected.

00:15:44.620 They ran a report earlier this week that said that Israel is about a week away from running out of those Aero Interceptors.

00:15:54.420 That's Aero 2 and Aero 3.

00:15:56.480 These are the all-important, very advanced exo-atmospheric interceptors.

00:16:01.740 What that means is they go far, they go long, and they go high into space to knock out incoming missiles and drones that are coming at them as far away as possible.

00:16:11.060 So that is defense in depth.

00:16:12.960 that is being negated now. They have drained those supplies, essentially. Another part of the

00:16:19.060 report indicates that the U.S., and you can see on the screen, there's my recent article at

00:16:24.100 1945.com. The United States is burning through its THAAD tomahawk arsenals as well. We've gone

00:16:31.680 through hundreds of tomahawks in about 96 hours alone of the conflict. In terms of the important

00:16:37.980 to high altitude area defense systems. These are about $12 billion per system that we have

00:16:47.420 burned through 40% of available FAD stockpiles, which leaves us with less than, as of this day,

00:16:55.100 less than three weeks of supplies left. So our defensive capabilities, as I warned on this

00:17:02.160 program at the start of the war. Our defensive capabilities are constrained to the point of

00:17:08.480 breaking, and there are no replenishments coming in. We're already cannibalizing those

00:17:12.880 Indopaycom stockpiles. It's not enough, as it turns out. One other inject here. We're talking

00:17:19.600 a lot about targetry, as Matt has said recently, over strategy. Ascentcom is doing their whole

00:17:24.780 General Westmoreland thing, talking about all the thousands of sorties and all the thousands of

00:17:29.320 targets, I think it's important to note that we have no idea how many, not really, we have no idea

00:17:34.980 how many of these underground missile cities there are. And there's a great example here that comes

00:17:39.320 from yesterday. Israel launched an attack on an IRGC base in Yazdi. Minutes later, after they

00:17:47.780 claimed they collapsed the tunnel system, minutes later, Iran fired intermediate range ballistic

00:17:53.680 missiles, IRBMs, at Tel Aviv from the same site. So not only are we unlikely to be aware of how

00:18:02.320 many of these missile cities exist, the probability that two and 5,000 pound bombs, which are most of

00:18:09.160 the ordnance that we and the Israelis are dropping on these things, the likelihood that we're

00:18:13.300 actually destroying these systems and destroying these tunnel networks is very low. And so this is

00:18:19.880 this is why we're worried about escalation here because it is very clear that both

00:18:24.340 Israel and the United States are committed to this course of action the bombing alone is not

00:18:28.940 working our interceptors are depleting the fear now is up the escalation ladder we go

00:18:34.200 hang on okay hang on but before we go at the escalation ladder okay why then the two hang on

00:18:41.820 the two guys that have the most politically at stake here is not Trump the two that have most

00:18:46.320 politically at stake are rubio and and and jd vance jd just went on and said we got a little

00:18:51.860 while longer i mean he couldn't have been more casual about it in this interview at the same

00:18:56.140 time he was talking about ufos and all this other stuff but he just very casually we have a little

00:19:00.620 time he repeated a little time to go uh and then this is over marco who is national security visor

00:19:07.400 he's not just secretary state his national security visor he was adamant on that tarmac

00:19:12.340 that said hey this is two to four weeks we don't need combat troops uh we are going to keep this

00:19:17.900 intense air campaign and maybe even make it more intense why would they i understand you don't tell

00:19:23.920 the enemy everything you're doing but they're really signaling to the american community to

00:19:27.660 the american people in the in the international economic community in in all of our allies whether

00:19:34.420 in the gulf or in uh western europe that this is a bombing campaign that's not only successful but

00:19:41.220 is going to continue on to its conclusion of which you will have a defanged and declawed

00:19:47.200 Iranian regime, sir. Yeah. Well, like I've been saying, there's no doubt we're degrading

00:19:52.120 capabilities. I've never denied that. And I think that's what they're probably Rubio and

00:19:56.320 the administration are probably running off of is because they are aware that this thing could go on

00:20:02.160 for a lot longer than anybody is planning for, or that we have the capabilities to sustain.

00:20:07.220 so I think they're probably smartly looking for a narrative frame to say okay we've destroyed x

00:20:13.480 amount of targets we destroyed everything that we know about so that's we're done but that doesn't

00:20:18.380 mean the Iranians are going to let this end it doesn't mean the Israelis are going to let this

00:20:21.720 and what I think is going on here is a lot of hopium as the kids say today there's a lot of

00:20:26.240 hopium coming out of Rubio and Vance because the alternative is oh my god we are forgive me oh my

00:20:31.700 gosh we are stuck in um a quagmire that we were not planning for and so this is how these things

00:20:38.580 play out again compared to vietnam there was a lot of hopium back then everybody was saying

00:20:42.940 just a few more thousand we need to to take you know secure denang and and it never worked out

00:20:48.340 according to plan because the enemy gets a vote the iranian regime do you hang on yeah it was it

00:20:54.720 was your initial it was your initial appearances on here that immediately after that happened the

00:21:00.160 president called for the ceos of the top six defense contractors come and have a half a day

00:21:05.420 meeting at the white house which is folks i will tell you is not something that is normally done

00:21:09.060 right that is like hey this is serious enough i want to get you on the room in the roosevelt room

00:21:13.740 look in the eye you're going to tell me what reality is what came out of that is is the lead

00:21:18.660 time for these weapon systems and this ammunition the tomahawks and all of it such a long lead time

00:21:24.860 that they can increase production huntsville can run 24 hours a day but it's not going to make

00:21:30.000 a big amount of difference in the short term as long as the operational tempo is where it is or

00:21:36.400 more there's no way they can catch up and then we have the added problem steve of most of these

00:21:41.700 weapons rely on rare earth minerals that are sourced from chinese sources and the chinese

00:21:47.480 have already said they're putting on export controls for any system they deem to be used for

00:21:53.160 military development. So unfortunately, we are now hoist by our own globalist petard after 50

00:22:00.340 years of outsourcing to China. Here we are. So under peacetime, this wouldn't be a problem,

00:22:05.980 obviously. Under the Iraq war, even, there was initially a problem with the stockpiles when we

00:22:11.460 went in there. We were able to surge production because we didn't have the global situation that

00:22:17.340 was so pressurized that we have today now unfortunately steve these defense contractors

00:22:23.280 give them all the money in the world it's a it's a bottleneck issue that they can't overcome with

00:22:28.240 money it's a it's an infrastructure problem and they've not addressed it yet and they it's too

00:22:33.580 it's going to take too long to address now as we're in the middle of this this conflagration

00:22:38.320 you you you've been pretty good about giving people a kind of walking through hey this is

00:22:44.180 where you're going to go up the escalatory ladder as you see it right now as we're starting holy

00:22:48.460 week uh the escalatory ladder rubio could not have been more adamant i know i keep telling people he

00:22:54.380 ain't the secretary of state he's also the national security advisor to the president of the united

00:22:58.020 states about we're not the secretary of everything we're not going to send we're not going to send

00:23:04.360 in combat troops as you see holy week playing out this week do you think we're now that we got

00:23:09.480 capability in theater. Do you think we start rolling out the combat troops this week?

00:23:16.180 I think in the next couple of weeks, you're going to see more combat troops. I know the

00:23:19.780 80 seconds going in. The question is where the, I believe that this is where it's going. And I

00:23:26.360 think unfortunately we are stuck in what's known as an escalation trap and there is no off ramp

00:23:31.320 now. So yes, I do believe you will see the introduction of ground troops. I think it will

00:23:35.720 be a disaster under current conditions uh we're hearing about gallipoli and karg island but don't

00:23:40.860 forget there's also the very real possibility that that the president wants to go on some merry

00:23:45.720 uranium hunt in the heart of iran uh cycling in and out 82nd airborne and marine units and special

00:23:52.260 forces this to me sounds insane this this just doesn't even sound like it's workable it's going

00:23:58.060 to get a lot of people killed so i hope that that is not the plan i hope those marines are just

00:24:03.140 being brought in for contingency operations but ultimately if you look at how we've when you say

00:24:08.280 there's not an offer hang hang on you hang on you said it's not a it's not an off-ramp the president

00:24:13.700 has put out a 15-point plan of course has been rejected they put a five-point plan back

00:24:17.840 that is totally unacceptable to the president you have you have the turks uh chairing conferences

00:24:24.000 now of powers that are associated with this you got the pakistani field marshals very close to

00:24:28.960 president trump said hey i gotta get on the line that we can deal with you you don't see you you

00:24:34.200 don't really see much of that developing no sir no i think it's too late i think there's too many

00:24:39.580 hands on the wheel and i think the the wild card as always are the israelis and i talked with

00:24:44.540 yakov armador on monday of last week and yakov is the national security advisor to netanyahu

00:24:50.680 and yakov tells me they're going to keep doing what's in the israelis national interest no matter

00:24:56.080 what so that to me indicates the israelis are planning to push ahead even if we decide to get

00:25:02.380 cold feet so this is the problem why i say there's too many hands on the wheel so there we are stuck

00:25:08.660 steve unfortunately this is the essence of a quagmire and i hope and pray that i am wrong

00:25:14.460 but i haven't been so far and it looks like we are going to be introducing some component of

00:25:20.240 ground forces however limited and it's there are no good options there none of the potential

00:25:25.300 landing sites are going to work. It's going to be Gallipoli or some weird Tom Clancy novel that

00:25:30.020 doesn't go according to plan. Brandon, where do people get your assessments? What's your social

00:25:37.180 media and website, all of it, your writings? Well, thank you. Thank you. It's 1945.com is

00:25:42.900 where I am a senior national security editor. You can catch me on as the NatSec guy on Emerald.tv.

00:25:48.100 Catch me also NatSec Talk on Rumble and at WeTheBrandon, Twitter X. Also, my books are

00:25:55.160 available on amazon or wherever books are sold brandon weikert thank you very much for joining

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00:26:59.080 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:27:06.200 Ben, we've had mass or at least some sort of streaming ability to watch it, even in

00:27:13.620 times of turmoil over in jerusalem uh this hasn't been shut down for 500 years since the ottoman

00:27:20.580 turks did it sir do i have can jack you gotta hit mute or unmute oh steve steve yep okay you there

00:27:36.020 i know it's palm sunday jack but you know the tech the technology is not that complicated

00:27:41.480 Ottoman Turks, we've had mass there ever since, I don't know, for 500 years. What's going on?

00:27:49.880 Well, Steve, there's a massive diplomatic row that has broken out over the blocking of Cardinal

00:27:56.660 Pizabala today there. He is the prime mark of Jerusalem, of the Holy Land, and he has been

00:28:03.640 someone who has consistently stood for the rights of Christians in the Holy Land during the entire

00:28:11.340 entirety of his tenure there in Jerusalem. And today, this morning, we'd already been told

00:28:19.360 that the traditional procession on Palm Sunday, where the cardinal would hold a procession through

00:28:26.400 the gate to the old city and then down to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, that had already

00:28:30.980 been called off because of security concerns due to the ongoing war with Iran and various,

00:28:37.480 you know, various munitions that have landed in parts of the Holy Land. And for folks who haven't

00:28:43.420 been to the old city, it's very, very small area, very tight, very clustered area. Also, of course,

00:28:48.760 if you have these large processions, if you have large public masses, this does become a target,

00:28:53.700 potential target for, for terrorists. And so he had complied and has always complied with

00:28:59.720 security regulations, but was attempting to visit and the church of the Holy Sepulchre this morning,

00:29:06.300 the church where the tomb of Christ is held, as well as the stone function, the rock of Golgotha,

00:29:12.480 the place on earth where the crucifixion took place, where Easter Sunday took place,

00:29:19.540 where all of it took place. It's right there. The resurrection, the death, burial, and resurrection

00:29:24.160 of Christ all took place within the church of the Holy Sepulchre. That's what sepulchre means.

00:29:28.840 And this is what the Crusades were fought over. And so he was blocked while attempting to hold

00:29:34.740 what they say was a private mass. He was going in with about four others and Israeli police blocked

00:29:40.760 him and they were enforcing this edict, even though he was planning only to go himself as the

00:29:46.020 leader and bring some others, some support staff and perhaps some servers because he was attempting

00:29:51.080 to do a live stream for the millions of faithful that wanted to tune in to be able to see because

00:29:56.380 of course today is Palm Sunday. And on the international stage, this has already become

00:30:01.640 a diplomatic scandal with the Vatican has now summoned the Israeli ambassador. The foreign

00:30:07.660 minister of Italy has summoned the Israeli ambassador. You've seen the prime minister

00:30:12.060 of Italy, George Maloney, has come out and condemned this. President Macron of France

00:30:15.700 has condemned this. And of course, President Noworowski of Poland, who just spoke at CPAC

00:30:19.960 yesterday, massive crowd there, massive reception at CPAC yesterday. He has come out and condemned

00:30:25.520 this as well. Now, in response to this, we've already seen, and after a few hours,

00:30:30.680 The administration in Israel has responded quite quickly. Prime Minister's office, so Netanyahu's office, coming out and saying that they are now going to work on a plan to allow access to church leaders for these holy sites during Holy Week.

00:30:47.520 And the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has called up the says that he has called Pizzabala, Cardinal Pizzabala on the phone and expressed great sorrow for the incident that took place earlier today.

00:31:01.820 And look, for folks who don't understand the significance here, today is Palm Sunday, all right?

00:31:07.320 I was at Mass with the kids, and Tanya and I were, you know, we take the palms.

00:31:11.700 We always do this for the kids.

00:31:12.940 We do a little, you know, we make the crosses out of them for the kids and something that my parents always did with me.

00:31:18.540 And this one doesn't look so good because it's one that I made, Tanya, as I assure you, are much, much nicer looking or the ones that my mom makes.

00:31:24.980 And this is the day of Jesus's triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, into the holy city itself.

00:31:34.660 And the blocking of the cardinal, of course, on a day like this of all days, clearly holds biblical significance for so many of the believers.

00:31:44.780 That's why the outrage was so swift and so strong by so many Christians all around the world.

00:31:52.080 Now, Steve, we haven't heard from Ambassador Huckabee yet whether or not he's reached out.

00:31:56.500 We know he has close ties with the Netanyahu administration.

00:31:59.500 We don't know whether yet Ambassador Huckabee has reached out, and I'm waiting to see it.

00:32:03.720 I've asked to see if he's going to put out a statement or is working to clarify what happened here.

00:32:09.980 Now, this is the point.

00:32:11.980 They knew this was happening.

00:32:13.720 This couldn't just be some junior security guard.

00:32:16.700 i mean this is the this is the the uh the religious figure who's essentially in charge of

00:32:23.980 the church of the holy sepulcher and palm sunday is one of the biggest i mean this is the biggest

00:32:28.780 week much bigger than christmas this is the biggest week it's the holiest week in christian

00:32:32.660 in uh in the christian calendar and particularly given you know jerusalem and the uh and and the

00:32:41.380 church of the holy sepulcher it couldn't have been it couldn't just been some guard saying no

00:32:45.420 you can't come through here because we blocked all services this had to be at the highest levels

00:32:50.080 of the government because you know they would have gotten back to people right away but they

00:32:53.880 still turn him away and there was no live streaming of the service correct i have not seen any uh any

00:33:02.040 live streams or any updates on that i'm looking to see whether or not um it's still it's still

00:33:07.460 afternoon there so i don't know if they're going to allow him in at some point today to say the

00:33:12.140 mass it's still palm sunday there's still plenty of time on the clock if they're able to get him

00:33:16.220 in there today to be able to say mass and and keep in mind so i i do see and there are obvious

00:33:21.600 security concerns of course that's no question when you're in the middle of a war okay but keep

00:33:26.700 in mind that cardinal kitzabala this is someone who has gone into gaza and said mass as bombs

00:33:31.700 were dropping let's let's let's cut to the let's cut to the chase and have a real conversation

00:33:37.000 instead of what huckabee and these in these uh clowns do ever since and this is just a fact

00:33:43.600 the the greater israel project left us with a two-state solution for those officer years said

00:33:49.900 no he can't have a two-state solution you're gonna have cutter underwrite it you saw the you saw what

00:33:54.020 jared and whitkoff put out you saw the diagrams and the turks are adamant they're going to have

00:33:59.120 security whether israel likes it or not and the president his board of peace has signed off on it

00:34:03.240 that's a two-state solution we need to get out of this situation where the why are the catholic

00:34:08.800 church and the christians supplicants to the israel government about the most sacred sites

00:34:14.640 in in christendom this is absurd we can't go through this what do you mean that we got

00:34:20.280 security guards or netanyahu decides netanyahu decides does netanyahu decide if the catholic

00:34:26.080 church is going to have a mass in the in the church of the holy sepulcher on palm sunday is

00:34:31.060 that his decision? I don't think so. This is the whole issue. We need the Christians to take

00:34:38.320 control of the Christian sites. Full stop. We don't need to be supplicants to the Israel government

00:34:43.360 to do this. And any Christian of Huckabee and Cruz and this crowd that doesn't agree that

00:34:48.920 shows you what heretics they are. Christians need to control the Christian sites. We don't need to

00:34:55.900 be supplicants to the israelis on this okay and i'm a big supporter of israel but these are christian

00:35:02.520 sites and the christian the catholic church and christians need to take direct control of it am

00:35:07.500 i wrong on this basovic look steve there's obviously you know when you're in the middle

00:35:12.820 of a war when you've got targets like this it reminds me of you know saint patrick's cathedral

00:35:17.820 there in new york city has always a terrorist target for so many islamic terrorists that have

00:35:23.840 focused on it over the years. They have their own private security, but of course they also work

00:35:28.380 with MIPD. They work very closely together to work with the public authority. So there's got

00:35:34.200 to be an agreement in place and whatever agreement is currently in place, it's not working. It's just

00:35:39.180 not working. When you have a situation like this, one of the high holy days on the Christian

00:35:44.500 calendar, this is our holy week. This is our holy week. Look, you've got security people

00:35:50.940 all over the world that are catholic that would volunteer to go do this you get some of the most

00:35:54.400 sophisticated people the world the vatican at the at the catholic sites throughout the world

00:35:58.540 i don't that's not the issue the issue here is who controls the site the israelis control these

00:36:04.840 these christian sites or the christians in the catholic church control those sites it's obvious

00:36:10.480 you need a new you need a new christian state you need a new christian state it's got to be a

00:36:16.240 three-state solution. We can't be supplicants to Muslims and to the Israelis. Why is the

00:36:22.280 Catholic Church and the Christians supplicants? Huckabee's humiliating because all he does is

00:36:28.420 kowtow, right? And this has this heretical weirdo belief, right? It's a weirdo heretic. He's a

00:36:34.860 heretic, flat-out heretic. This shows you today the Catholic Church and the Christians have to

00:36:41.500 stop being supplicants and start enforcing their will on this situation georgia maloney running

00:36:49.160 over there and people doing that that's all fine and good but we need a resolution of this you got

00:36:54.640 a resolution in gaza because you got cutter you got a board of peace and you got gaza and you got

00:36:59.640 the turks providing security last time i had looked signed off by the president of these united states

00:37:05.140 we need to move the ball forward on this i volunteered prince to be the interim head of it

00:37:11.160 i'm a i'm a volunteer you because your polish roots and the polls just in in commemoration of

00:37:16.420 vienna of stopping the muslims there that you would somehow be his deputy but we need this is

00:37:22.240 now moving up the chain of action we have to do this let me repeat this christians and catholics

00:37:28.600 cannot be supplicants about the holiest sites in our religion jack basovic it's a it's a it's absurd

00:37:35.520 it's absurd you got to stop steve i do want to clarify that i am seeing pardon me i am seeing

00:37:41.000 a statement from ambassador huckabee that he has released a statement now and i hadn't seen that

00:37:45.820 getting here getting set up so i do see that now that has come out uh he said that the restriction

00:37:52.540 the home front command guidelines restrict any gatherings to 50 people or less the four

00:37:58.140 representatives of the catholic church were well below that restriction statements from the

00:38:02.580 government of israel uh indicate the action to prohibit the cardinal were for safety reasons

00:38:08.720 but churches, synagogues, and mosques throughout Jerusalem have met with the restrictions of 50

00:38:12.520 or less. For the patriarch of the Catholic Church to be barred from entry to the Church of the Holy

00:38:17.700 Sepulcher on Palm Sunday for a private ceremony is difficult to understand or justify. Israel has

00:38:23.020 indicated it will work with the patriarch to accommodate a safe means of carrying out Holy

00:38:28.020 Week activities. So he has released that statement, and he also said just now that he is grateful for

00:38:34.920 conciliatory and gracious statement by president herzog regarding the unfortunate palm sunday

00:38:40.080 incident at the church of the holy sepulcher so steve this is something where and by the way

00:38:43.980 come on it's not good enough it's not good enough they go back down palm sunday go back last year

00:38:51.100 and then and then he's going to count he's going to kowtow for the happy talk no no no no no okay

00:38:55.600 real simple we got to stop being supplicants okay we need the crusader spirit and we need it in

00:39:02.460 jerusalem it's the holiest sites in our religion the muslims and the jews aren't shy about not

00:39:09.360 being supplicants about their holy sites and i got no problem with that they should do that that's

00:39:14.600 their religion but we got to do it too and it's time to stop being supplicants of this jack

00:39:19.100 that's about as hard as a statement you're going to get at huckabee but at the end you still got

00:39:23.480 to kowtow sir steve when when all of this came up last year when we were looking at the um strikes

00:39:30.780 on Iran, Operation Midday Hour prior to that, one issue that I raised, and we look at the

00:39:35.020 head choppers up in Syria, and this guy from al-Nusra, who's now become the leader of Syria,

00:39:41.080 and the way that they're just wiping out Christian villages in Syria, and I went back to some of

00:39:45.780 those. The question is, when these Middle East wars kick off, there always seems to be a forgotten

00:39:52.880 aspect, and that is the aspect of the rights of the Christians in the Middle East. Where is anyone

00:39:59.400 standing up for the rights of the Christians who live there, who always seem to get wiped out and

00:40:04.480 bear the brunt of so much violence in the midst of these situations. And you're right, Steve,

00:40:11.320 it's not good enough. It is not good enough. The rights of the Christians in the Holy Land and

00:40:15.660 throughout the Middle East need to be represented. Every single government of every single one of

00:40:20.680 these countries needs to have a representative of the Christians as part of that government,

00:40:25.420 period full stop jack social media where do people go you gotta get back to the family

00:40:32.340 where do they go today to follow all of this on your twitter account well thank you very much

00:40:37.900 steven i'm going to be tracking this as well and putting it out as the diplomatic situation

00:40:41.740 continues also uh if any other of these attacks do take place um other other developments as they

00:40:47.940 come at jack posobic and of course the podcast is human events daily apple spotify

00:40:52.860 thank you brother appreciate you

00:40:56.020 war room here's your host steven k band

00:41:01.040 okay like i said today on palm sunday i think i want to thank real america's voice robin parker

00:41:08.100 the entire team in denver for giving up part of their palm sunday uh to be with us and to help us

00:41:13.940 technologically technically get this done of course my own production team here ben harnwell

00:41:18.100 uh joins us ben all day in the war in the ward room of the war room we've been having arguments

00:41:24.460 uh i say disagreements among shipmates who who have a lot of uh um think very highly of each

00:41:33.540 other we're bringing you in are you are you digging my new uh christian state of jerusalem

00:41:39.540 sir? Well, Captain Bly, let me put it like this. I'm glad I pulled in to the side of the motorway

00:41:48.560 to hear the preceding segment with you and Jack. If I was still driving, I would have crashed the

00:41:55.200 car. No, I am mutiny on this point. This is Hanwell in opposition. I don't share the view,

00:42:01.900 and I'll tell you why. As I may have intimated before on the war room, if you create a third

00:42:07.780 state in the holy land a christian state you the united states are never getting out of the middle

00:42:14.080 east full stop this is your ultimate eternal hang on hang on hang on the united states whoa

00:42:20.800 full stop full stop full stop the united states has nothing to do with this we're not looking for

00:42:25.460 the united states to create a new christian state no way this has to be done by the christian

00:42:29.360 catholics and the christian i have we want nothing eric prince is going to be the interim head

00:42:33.560 The United States is going to have nothing to do with this. Zero.

00:42:36.540 You and Posse may say that and you believe that, right?

00:42:42.660 But in 20 years, 30 years time, Huckabee's children and all the rest of them, right?

00:42:49.340 The next generation and third generation, these people, if you think these guys are all in on Israel,

00:42:55.300 you haven't seen anything yet when it comes to the grift that they are going to perform

00:43:01.260 in terms of fundraising and political support in keeping a christian state going um in the

00:43:08.080 whole land because it won't be viable without the united states point one okay that's my that's my

00:43:13.120 first and most fundamental point my second point right first corinthians know ye not that your body

00:43:19.860 is a temple of the Holy Ghost

00:43:21.760 which is within you. I would be

00:43:23.660 desperately upset

00:43:25.520 for Christianity to lose control

00:43:27.920 over these historic places

00:43:29.720 but they are only buildings

00:43:31.540 I agree with what you

00:43:33.480 were saying Steve, I agree with you

00:43:35.580 when you say no to being a supplicant

00:43:37.740 however let me

00:43:38.780 sketch out a second alternative

00:43:41.900 we pull out, the West

00:43:43.720 pulls out, let Israel do

00:43:45.620 whatever antics they want to

00:43:47.040 and then we say you guys are

00:43:49.860 on your own let islam come in wipe israel off and then we cut a deal with islam to get our

00:43:56.980 properties back that's what i would suggest oh my god right now that's uh anyway i like my i like

00:44:04.760 my plan a lot better i think it i think it's much more sellable and it just think oh they're just

00:44:10.320 buildings they're not buildings they're not buildings these are actually the place where

00:44:13.620 jesus christ walked died suffered taught all of it it's the holy land but i thought we've

00:44:19.280 go ahead for sure it's the holy land these things have immeasurable but we'll get them back

00:44:27.060 you see we'll get them hang on we couldn't see we couldn't deal i'm not prepared i'm not prepared

00:44:33.080 yeah right i would not we can't even get them to sign up to protect their own oil american

00:44:41.320 citizens have got to do that anyway that's because that's because they know how to be independent

00:44:45.400 that's because they know you're so cynical you're you're so cynical because we live in

00:44:53.080 the middle east because because they know what our weak point is and they go for it every time

00:44:58.540 and they know that we're just bluffing and that they'll get whatever they want that's why they

00:45:03.160 get what they want okay okay on palm sunday pull back on the motorway where do people go get all

00:45:09.940 your content because i'll talk to you afterwards this this is i i'm i i've designated uh prince

00:45:16.140 as the interim head poso is his deputy and you're gonna be the comms director so um in in the in

00:45:22.060 the in the pr person where do people go to get all your bdi analysis on getter i'm taking nothing

00:45:28.620 less than ambassador steve right right right get your number two pencil out and put that in your

00:45:34.260 book harnwell penciled in for ambassador getter at harnwell right that's why i'm seven days a week

00:45:41.300 thanks steve god bless you and god bless the war room posse on palm sunday palm sunday thank you

00:45:48.060 ben for pulling the side of the road dr thayer uh we're working on your new book your magnum opus

00:45:54.100 will come out sometime later this summer early fall uh we'll give more details on that later we

00:45:58.640 We just had two.

00:46:00.520 Wynton Halls was number 13 in the New York Times Best Sertilist.

00:46:04.020 And, of course, Jan Eucalyx was number eight War Room book with Skyhorse.

00:46:10.400 Yours is going to be a hit.

00:46:11.680 We've got a couple minutes.

00:46:12.700 Do you agree with Brandon Weikert?

00:46:14.420 Why don't you sum up today on the War Room?

00:46:16.480 We've been fighting all day, which is what I love.

00:46:19.540 Why don't you sum up?

00:46:20.520 Do you agree with Brandon Weikert or not?

00:46:22.840 Well, first, don't box President Trump in.

00:46:25.240 Right. Trump will take his path and will act based on U.S. national security interests.

00:46:31.540 And so Rubio's points that he made on Friday, March 27th, I think, are spot on.

00:46:39.900 And as Jim Fennell stressed, we're making progress in each of those areas.

00:46:45.000 That's not to say, as Brandon indicated, and he's right, right, there will be latent drone and missile capability.

00:46:53.400 and iran will be able to execute some complex operations missile attack operations as the

00:46:59.720 intermediate range ballistic missile attack against diego garcia illustrated so that danger

00:47:05.640 is going to be with us from now on right that's part of the consequences of this war i would

00:47:12.920 underscore what brandon said about the magazine right our arsenal is being drained rtx said

00:47:19.240 according to press reports they made about 600 patriot interceptors last year and we're burning

00:47:25.880 that up very quickly as well as joint um air to surface uh strike missiles the jasm uh missiles

00:47:33.320 and other capabilities that we're using up the loss of the e3 is very significant awax aircraft

00:47:40.520 are very uh high demand assets and we're getting uh you know we're incurring losses there so

00:47:47.240 So, Dr. Thayer, we got to bounce.

00:47:50.680 Where do people go to get all your writings and where they go to get your instantaneous output on social media?

00:47:58.320 Well, Steve, thanks for your support of the book.

00:47:59.840 And I just say on this Palm Sunday, rather than my social media, let's go remember that it's National Vietnam War Veterans Day.

00:48:08.840 Nine million Americans served in the Vietnam War.

00:48:11.240 And today is the day that we honor them, including 58,000 who were killed in over 58,000 who were killed in the war.

00:48:20.360 So it's important to remember those.

00:48:22.360 We had loved ones, of course, friends, family members who died in Vietnam or were wounded there or who served there.

00:48:29.380 So it's important today on this Palm Sunday also to remember our Vietnam War veterans.

00:48:33.760 Thank you, sir.

00:48:35.960 Appreciate you, Dr. Bredwood there.

00:48:38.640 We'll be back up 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow.

00:48:41.460 I want to thank everybody that helps us put this Sunday show on.

00:48:44.760 Make sure you have a great Palm Sunday with your family for the rest of the day.

00:48:49.560 See you tomorrow.

00:48:49.920 We need help from the boss.

Bannon's War Room - March 29, 2026

Episode 5256： Channeling The Crusader Spirit This Palm Sunday

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