Bannon's War Room - March 30, 2026


Episode 5257： More Troops To Deploy To Iran; Putting Up A Wall From The Threats Abroad

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boots on the ground troops on the ground Iranian strikes and oil prices
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Steve Bannon
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Donald Trump Steve Eric Bolling Sam Faddis Philip Patrick Houthis Hormuz Barack Obama Scott Besson Zelensky Reagan Haifa Kate
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Join us as we discuss the latest on the latest in the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran, including the possibility of ground troops entering the conflict zone, Iran's refusal to accept a cease-fire, and the prospect of a ground invasion.

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00:00:00 Sir, could you first see a deal in Iran this upcoming week?
00:00:03 I do see a deal in Iran, yeah.
00:00:05 Mr. President...
00:00:06 Could be soon.
00:00:06 We're most straight.
00:00:08 And that's taking place starting tomorrow morning,
00:00:12 over the next couple of days, a lot of boats.
00:00:16 And I would only say that we're doing extremely well
00:00:21 in that negotiation.
00:00:23 But you never know with Iran, 1.00
00:00:24 because we negotiate with him,
00:00:27 and then we always have to blow him up, 0.60
00:00:28 whether it's the B-2 bombers or just terminating, as an example, the Iran nuclear deal done by 0.99
00:00:36 Barack Hussein Obama, probably the worst deal we've ever done as a country, one of the dumbest 0.51
00:00:40 deals we've ever done. 0.71
00:00:41 ...to host talks between the U.S. and Iran in the coming days. But the warring parties did not
00:00:47 confirm any participation, and the two sides appear to remain far apart. Speaking to reporters
00:00:54 last night on board Air Force One. President Trump said Iran has agreed to most of the 15-point
00:01:00 list of demands for the U.S. to end the conflict without providing details. Iran's state-run media
00:01:07 has reported that Tehran had rejected the ceasefire proposal. Trump also said Iran agreed to allow 20
00:01:14 more oil cargo ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial shipping waterway, as oil
00:01:21 prices continue to rise. The president is framing that as a sign that negotiations are underway.
00:01:27 But Tehran is telling a different story. The speaker of Iran's parliament accused the U.S.
00:01:34 of putting on a front of diplomacy while, quote, secretly planning a ground invasion.
00:01:39 According to state media, he added that Iranian forces were, quote, waiting for the arrival of
00:01:45 american troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever 0.99
00:01:52 are you considering still putting boots on the ground and would you do that without going to
00:01:56 i just have lots of alternators we have tremendous numbers of ships over there we don't need them all
00:02:03 because of you know the power look the i would say we're just like we're ahead of schedule on
00:02:09 ballroom in a much bigger way we're ahead of schedule with iran we're weeks ahead of schedule
00:02:16 if you would have said that in three days we were going to knock out 158 ships their entire navy
00:02:21 which we did we knocked out their entire air force we knocked out most of their missiles that's why
00:02:26 you see missile attacks but they're down to they're sputtering and we have a group it's really
00:02:33 a new regime. It's a new group of people, people that we've never dealt with before
00:02:39 that are acting very reasonable. It is truly regime change.
00:02:43 Just judging by how unpopular the war seems to be compared to past conflicts,
00:02:49 there's no doubt the headlines about boots on the ground, even if it's a special ops
00:02:55 operation, obviously could cause some real blowback. I'm wondering, what are you sensing
00:03:01 as far as the political appetite of Republicans,
00:03:04 independents, Democrats on expanding this war further?
00:03:08 Yeah, well, I mean, the Democrats and independents, right?
00:03:11 That's an easy call.
00:03:11 There's no appetite for expanding it further.
00:03:13 There's no appetite for the war at all.
00:03:15 And part of the reason for that is that the president
00:03:18 didn't make his case to the American public,
00:03:20 didn't go to Congress.
00:03:22 We forget for a minute just going to Congress for authorization.
00:03:26 He didn't go to Congress to solicit their advice,
00:03:28 to alert them to what he was planning and what the objectives were.
00:03:33 And so there's just absolutely zero buy-in from the American public and from members of Congress.
00:03:41 Now, obviously, the American public also includes Republicans and plenty of them.
00:03:45 They're very supportive. They've been very supportive.
00:03:48 Joe, you and I have talked about this.
00:03:49 One of the things that my sources have told me in terms of the potential political fallout down the line from the right
00:03:57 is that in a case where we get bogged down,
00:04:01 in a case where we have thousands or some high-level number of boots on the ground,
00:04:07 temporary bases, right, so that reporting from the Post just now,
00:04:11 you mentioned about the possibility of a temporary air base.
00:04:14 This is where the president would have to start looking over his shoulder
00:04:19 from the broader Republican electorate, right?
00:04:23 We've talked about how those loud voices on the right wing,
00:04:26 particularly the podcasters in that group don't speak for many republican voters at all but here's
00:04:33 where republican voters would start to get a little antsy and you know i think again in a case where
00:04:39 you don't have and i think this is so key um where you don't have defined objectives that you're
00:04:45 working towards you have general objectives and on any given day you have you know you're getting
00:04:51 closer to some general objective or another, but nobody is quite sure about the why now
00:04:57 and what's going to precipitate a beginning of the end, right?
00:05:02 A lot of military success, but why now and what is the beginning of the end?
00:05:08 And so I think that's what the president has to be concerned about if he cares about the
00:05:13 political support that he currently has.
00:05:16 So President Trump wants to take Iran's oil.
00:05:19 He said so during a new interview with the Financial Times, saying that he's considering seizing Karga Island, Iran's major oil hub.
00:05:27 That is the latest presidential declaration, if you will, that's causing oil prices to jump once again.
00:05:32 The president told reporters overnight that Iran has mostly accepted the 15-point plan from the United States to end this war.
00:05:41 Yet Iran says that is not true and calls the plan excessive, unrealistic and unreasonable.
00:05:48 Tehran, in turn, is now threatening the quote from them is to rain fire on American troops
00:05:53 if the U.S. launches a ground invasion.
00:05:56 You had offered a 15-point plan to Iran. Did they ever come back?
00:06:00 Yeah, they came back on the 15-point plan. They gave us most of the points. Why wouldn't they?
00:06:06 You make it sound like they've made some concessions. Can you identify those?
00:06:11 Well, they're agreeing with us on the plan.
00:06:13 I mean, we asked for 15 things, and for the most part,
00:06:17 we're going to be asking for a couple of other things.
00:06:19 And just to prove that they're serious,
00:06:21 they gave us all these boats.
00:06:22 When I talked about four days ago, a present,
00:06:24 I said they gave me a present.
00:06:26 But I didn't think I was at liberty to say what it was.
00:06:30 What it was was eight plus two.
00:06:32 It's ten massive boatloads of oil.
00:06:35 And today, they gave us another present.
00:06:38 They gave us 20 boatloads of oil.
00:06:39 That starts being shipped tomorrow.
00:06:41 We're having very good meetings, both directly and indirectly, and I think we're getting a lot of very important points.
00:06:47 Well, first of all, it's important to remember the objectives of this operation from the very beginning.
00:06:52 We are destroying Iran's navy. 0.96
00:06:55 We are destroying their ability, their missile launchers, by a significant percentage.
00:06:59 We're going to wipe out their defense industrial base, meaning their ability to make new missiles and new drones in the future,
00:07:04 because it poses a great threat to the region.
00:07:06 This Iran that you're seeing now, this is Iran at its weakest point. 1.00
00:07:10 Imagine them two years from now, if they had thousands of more missiles,
00:07:13 thousands of more missile launchers and factories to make even more.
00:07:16 That was an unacceptable risk.
00:07:18 It needed to be addressed, and President Trump is addressing it.
00:07:20 He's saying that Iran has met lots of the 15 points,
00:07:24 the plan that the U.S. has submitted to try and bring an end to the conflict.
00:07:28 But publicly, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson basically dismissing that,
00:07:35 saying that it's unrealistic, unreasonable, excessive.
00:07:38 These are demands, things like Iran abandoning its nuclear activities, stopping support for its proxies like Hezbollah and Lebanon and elsewhere.
00:07:49 And, you know, kind of things like that that have that have really been on the U.S. wish list when it comes to what it wants Tehran to do for many, many years.
00:07:59 And it's always been rejected and it seems to have been rejected this time as well, at least at least publicly.
00:08:05 Iran has come up with its own list of five things that it thinks needs to be done to bring an end to the conflict.
00:08:12 And that's equally unrealistic, talking about things like the United States getting rid of its bases across the Middle East,
00:08:19 making sure that Iran has full control over that strategic strait of Hormuz into the future, 0.83
00:08:25 a guarantee of no attacks and also war reparations that it wants paid from the United States
00:08:30 because of all the damage that's been done inside the Islamic Republic.
00:08:34 Again, absolutely unrealistic. And so given those two extremes, Kate, it doesn't seem that at least publicly there is any sign of a compromise emerging.
00:08:46 What there is a sign of is lots of escalation, because over the course of the past couple of days, in particular, we've seen Iran fire drones and missiles at all sorts of targets across this Persian Gulf region, really escalating the tension.
00:09:01 The Iranian-backed Houthis and Houthi rebels in Yemen have joined the war in the Middle East,
00:09:06 conducting a series of strikes on Israel this weekend.
00:09:08 The Houthis are one of the most powerful and important members of Iran's axis of resistance.
00:09:13 But this marks the first time since the U.S. and Israel began their airstrikes on Iran just over a month ago
00:09:19 that the Houthis have entered the fighting.
00:09:21 The situation's been vastly different with another powerful Iranian-backed group, Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
00:09:27 Full-scale fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has been nonstop since the start of the war with Iran,
00:09:32 and Israel has now launched an expanding ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
00:09:37 Vast portions of Lebanon's south are starting to look like the destruction seen previously in Gaza, 0.52
00:09:42 something top Israeli government ministers have actually publicly called for.
00:09:47 Israeli strikes in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut are also leaving massive destruction.
00:09:51 At least 1,189 people have died in Lebanon, according to the health ministry, including at least 122 children.
00:10:00 So the Department of Defense is reportedly preparing for weeks of potential ground operations in Iran.
00:10:07 That's according to U.S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post.
00:10:11 Those officials said any potential operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion.
00:10:17 It could involve raids carried out by a mix of special ops forces and conventional infantry troops.
00:10:26 And according to exclusive reporting by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract uranium from Iran.
00:10:37 But military experts warn any operation would require plenty of manpower, a specially trained extraction team and even a makeshift airfield, which could take several weeks.
00:10:51 They say this mission would be the most challenging of Trump's presidency and could ultimately lengthen the war.
00:10:59 For the world, there is no longer any such thing as American credibility, just a strange reality television show in which the main actor swerves, bobs and weaves his way through crises, hoping that what he says today will solve the crisis caused by what he said yesterday.
00:11:18 The day before he threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants,
00:11:23 Trump claimed that the U.S. was considering winding down its military operations against Iran
00:11:28 and implied that protecting the Strait of Hormuz was not his problem
00:11:32 and could be dealt with by other nations whose imports passed through the strait.
00:11:36 At another point, he said he didn't need any other country's help.
00:11:41 Businessmen used to rail against previous administrations because of policy uncertainty,
00:11:47 Now they line up to praise Trump as his carnival of chaos roils markets almost every week.
00:11:56 Donald Trump has gotten used to playing with the United States' massive power, punishing those who don't bend the knee and rewarding those who do.
00:12:06 In doing this, he's squandering credibility built up over decades to extract short-term goodies,
00:12:13 sometimes to the benefit of his own family's business interests.
00:12:17 But in Iran, he seems to have come up against an adversary
00:12:21 that won't play by his rules.
00:12:24 Now, one other thing.
00:12:26 Troops on the ground.
00:12:27 He said no troops on the ground.
00:12:30 I don't remember that in any campaign speech either.
00:12:33 But why would we need troops on the ground?
00:12:36 Well, there's a lot of reasons.
00:12:37 And we wouldn't need 300,000 of them.
00:12:40 it's this uranium too
00:12:43 we've got to get the uranium
00:12:46 if it cannot be destroyed
00:12:49 if it cannot be altered
00:12:51 we've got to get it
00:12:53 for the reason I just said
00:12:55 you can make dirty bombs
00:12:57 and over time you can still make sophisticated missiles
00:13:01 so you need to get to the uranium
00:13:05 that's why I'm reading in the paper
00:13:08 We're talking about the 82nd Airborne.
00:13:10 We're talking about these very special forces and the various military services and so forth.
00:13:15 He's not talking about sending regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousands.
00:13:22 And you know what else?
00:13:23 I remember from my days in the Reagan administration.
00:13:26 Many of them are trained for a moment like this to try and secure enriched uranium.
00:13:35 Many have been trained for moments like this.
00:13:38 I guess what I'm trying to say is we're in good hands.
00:13:43 No, not with Allstate, but with President Trump.
00:13:47 Because he's a man with enormous intelligence, enormous common sense.
00:13:51 He's not an ideologue.
00:13:53 He doesn't run around with slogans.
00:13:57 He's prudential.
00:13:58 He looks at the facts.
00:13:59 He looks at the challenge, and he's dealing with it now.
00:14:03 You might say, but he's negotiating a peace deal.
00:14:05 first of all, did you look at those 15 points that were in the media? You know what that was?
00:14:10 That was unconditional surrender. The Iranians apparently said no. The president said, okay,
00:14:17 who's up next? It's Monday, 30 March in the year of our Lord, 2026. We have a whole lot to go
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00:16:22 okay welcome back we've got uh sam faddis and we're going to have eric bowling's also going
00:16:33 to join us uh to go through this make sure you have all the information particularly from over
00:16:37 the weekend um one thing on the arab front because we have called for i wonder why mark
00:16:44 events why why are we not talking about a combination idf arab you know get the uae
00:16:53 special forces there's all types of rumors and it's up on facebook and different sites uh in
00:16:59 the middle east that uae is prepared to freeze the 530 billion or seize it i should say the 530
00:17:08 billion a dollars held at um you know the pirate cove of dubai and um also to reject
00:17:17 which i don't think anybody realized they had 99 year visa golden visas for iranian elites
00:17:24 persian elites remember the arabs are double dealing you all the time every the world's 0.98
00:17:31 greatest ally uh headquartered in uh in jerusalem and the uh and the arab nations double dealing you
00:17:38 all the time just remember this as we're in this and so my recommendation all this talk about combat
00:17:44 troops and ground troops let's start with the idf and let's start with the arab nations uae special
00:17:49 forces saudi infantry you know what cutters got what kuwait's got and people are over the week
00:17:56 oh no you can't do that steve they're too incompetent they can't fight well hey i don't
00:17:59 care no better time to find out than test them let's throw them over then let's take the first 0.99
00:18:05 wave it'll draw out the iranians and maybe we can kill maybe we can kill the persians easier 1.00
00:18:09 use them as bait i don't give a damn i don't want to use american kids let's use theirs 0.99
00:18:15 if you got nuclear fairy you got nuclear fairy dust over there you got to get so this is the 0.95
00:18:20 latest thing we got nuclear fairy dust you got to get well send the idf in there they got all 0.68
00:18:25 the special forces get take out detachment uh they they were rounding up the cnn crew yesterday
00:18:31 in the um uh in the uh you know talking about all kind of violence against christians
00:18:40 uh over in judea samaria and they rounded up a arrested or rounded up a cnn crew
00:18:47 i have no problem with that i'd probably arrest all the cnn crews also
00:18:51 but um you know take up and take a brigade of that or take a brigade out of lebanon and let's
00:18:56 have them go get the they got the best intelligence let them go get the nuclear fairy dust go do it
00:19:01 do it today didn't stop you from bombing the gas fields and which is still the inflection point
00:19:09 that 100 shifted this center gravity of this battle down to the persian gulf so let's let's
00:19:14 go go go send them in today let's have the arabs i want arabs i want the i want a uae 1.00
00:19:21 mbz who's the best they got over there and he's got a real he's got a real army it's not huge but
00:19:27 they actually know how to fight karg island there's your objective go and throw in a couple
00:19:33 of qatar princes let's say throw the saudi princes in there too get them out of london get them out 1.00
00:19:37 of the casinos and whorehouses in london and get them back to the gulf get them here net yahoo's 0.99
00:19:44 kid down in Miami get turf him out tomorrow where's DHS we need him get him throw him out
00:19:48 get him back there put a uniform on him let's have him in the first wave
00:19:52 it's sick let's play Marco Marco came out of all you need to do is put the band in their back
00:20:03 and they'll so Marco little Marco comes out national security advisor Marco comes out
00:20:08 yesterday out of the witness protection program finally so we don't have to have Scott Besson
00:20:12 talking war strategy you should be talking seizing assets that's what we've got to be doing you got
00:20:18 to go to you have to force uae to seize the assets of the iranian let's go total war means economic
00:20:24 war information war all of it before we start putting people in harm's way seize their assets
00:20:32 all kind of rumors are finally going to do it and man if they got 99 year visas arrest all the ones
00:20:37 that got the visas in arrest them all right now in in in in Abu Dhabi in Dubai arrest them if you
00:20:44 got Persians over there roll them up throw them in a camp somewhere put them out in the desert 1.00
00:20:48 if you're gonna if you're gonna jeopardize our best the best we have are these young men and
00:20:54 women if we're gonna put them in harm's way hey they volunteered for it I got it they kind of 1.00
00:20:59 knew what they were getting into that's all good they they they and they want to be in this fight
00:21:05 But we have to take every action we can possibly take from our allies, quote, unquote, all of them, the world's greatest ally up in Tel Aviv, in our Arab, in our great Arab allies who still have not committed to the, understand something.
00:21:21 They have not committed to this war yet.
00:21:24 They're kind of sitting there going, oh, this is horrible.
00:21:26 We're getting shelled.
00:21:28 We're going to do force majeure and, you know, kick the, throw out the old contracts and ratchet up the new contracts.
00:21:33 have you said there's no alliance where's their navies out there taking out speed boats looking
00:21:39 for mines hell they're all in the persian gulf and they talk big games you know they're going
00:21:45 to invest they're going to invest nine trillion dollars here let's let's get your military
00:21:48 first wave in karg island the all arab second wave idf and we'll then we'll reconsider we'll
00:21:55 see how it stands there let's play i want to play marco again the the war room engine room
00:22:02 pointing out something. Let's just get Marco and let's see what he's got to say.
00:22:07 Well, first of all, it's important to remember the objectives of this operation from the very
00:22:11 beginning. We were going to, we are destroying Iran's Navy. We are destroying their ability to, 1.00
00:22:17 their missile launchers by a significant percentage. We're going to wipe out their
00:22:19 defense industrial base, meaning their ability to make new missiles and new drones in the future
00:22:23 because it posed a great threat to the region. This Iran that you're seeing now, this is Iran 1.00
00:22:28 at its weakest point imagine them two years from now if they had thousands of more missiles to
00:22:33 thousands of more missile launchers and factories to make even more that was an unacceptable risk
00:22:37 it needed to be addressed and president trump is addressing it yeah and i think implied is the
00:22:44 nuclear capability he only gave three but the fourth one is the force is power projection
00:22:49 against neighbors power projection that would be against israel against the gulf allies that
00:22:55 that was always the fourth they've won they've always they've admitted now since the beginning
00:22:59 the first week was power projection against their own people because it ain't going to be any
00:23:03 uprising because that was from the exquisite intelligence that was a miss because we had the
00:23:11 persians at cpac tell us you have 92 million people and you know nobody has any guns you think
00:23:20 the second amendment's important nobody's got any guns that's why they can't revolt sam faddis 0.95
00:23:25 The search for President Trump is applying the hammer constantly, but also trying to negotiate.
00:23:35 When you shatter, as we have, there's no doubt, CENCOM has shattered the regime's elite in their communications, and they've cut off the internet.
00:23:47 You have different factions, and you've got guys in Pakistan talking about one thing.
00:23:51 The Turks are talking about another. 1.00
00:23:53 the Saudis are talking about another and president Trump's trying to deal with that and find out who
00:23:57 in Tehran can actually negotiate with walk me through how you think this process is going and
00:24:02 how can our intelligence service services help the president yeah I I don't think I don't think
00:24:10 it's going particularly well Steve um and I think you got a whole bunch of issues I mean one is what 0.82
00:24:15 you just talked about which is we've been gone heavy on decapitating these guys and killing
00:24:21 everybody at a senior level who puts his head up so uh there's first of all the question of who 0.94
00:24:27 wants to put his head up and even if they trust us maybe do they trust the israelis because the
00:24:35 israelis so far have shown that the president says one thing and then they go out and do whatever the
00:24:40 hell they want then there's of course the part where they have moved to a completely decentralized
00:24:45 command structure which is how they're continuing to function the 31 different commands that
00:24:51 just are authorized to continue to fight on their own. In other words, we cut off the heads, sort of.
00:24:56 But now you want them to act as a unified entity.
00:24:59 The last factor I would throw out is why do they want to negotiate right now?
00:25:04 I mean, we're beating the hell out of them in a conventional military sense. There's no question.
00:25:08 I mean, it's completely one-sided, but we beat the hell out of them,
00:25:12 and they hold a knife to the world economy with the Straits of Hormuz and the possibility of attacking production facilities.
00:25:18 so that's and and right now i'm not convinced that they think they have to accept these 15 points
00:25:24 do they um in in the job we've done of decapitation of the regime um also given the ideological you
00:25:38 you don't normally or let me ask you a different way it's the intelligence community looks at this
00:25:43 helping and assisting with the targeting as the farther down the chain do you go do you finally
00:25:49 get to we're searching for jeffersonian democrats do we ever get there or you just get harder and
00:25:55 harder core colonels and lieutenant colonels who see themselves as the grand poobah
00:26:00 yeah absolutely well let's put it this way you're not going to find jefferson that's sure
00:26:06 that's for damn sure i mean yes you're going to run into ideologues and you're going to run into
00:26:12 guys who who think they get to be king now and you're going to run into a million issues and
00:26:17 let's be let's be real here i mean our technical intelligence collection capability is second to
00:26:24 none you know if it's if it's a transmission in the air we can we can hear it and decrypt it
00:26:29 if if you can see it from space from overhead we can see it we got all kinds of sensors
00:26:35 obviously our human intelligence capability is terrible right now and we relied apparently
00:26:42 as far as I can tell on Israeli intelligence which by the way also turned out to be terrible 0.97
00:26:48 so now you're into the ultimate kind of area where you would want human human intelligence
00:26:53 right this is not about where's a building or what's inside this is about will this guy
00:26:59 work with us will he not is he telling us the truth the only way you know that is if you have
00:27:04 spies if you have sources and and I don't think we have any worth a damn on the ground in Iran 0.98
00:27:10 And the Israelis, for whatever collection of reasons, have proven that they're feeding us stuff that isn't true.
00:27:20 So, you know, that would be your key right now.
00:27:22 This is the ultimate time when you need, when you're talking to some Iranian and then when they go in the back room and you're not president anymore, 1.00
00:27:30 you need somebody who was there in that meeting to tell you what their real bottom line is and hand you that critical information.
00:27:38 And I'm afraid we don't have it.
00:27:40 yeah you know i don't think this is a um you're not fighting arabs here as as long and drawn out 1.00
00:27:48 as iraq was you're not fighting arabs you know we've had two pretty tough hombres we've had to 0.59
00:27:56 fight had to fought what in the last 50 60 70 years uh the vietnamese the vietcong north vietnamese
00:28:04 the nva and uh the persians yep short break back in a moment
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00:30:41 through i want to reiterate cencom in the united states military is pounding uh the persians
00:30:51 at a horrific rate i mean it's methodical it's systematic it's daily i think there's uh cencom
00:31:00 has reported 11 000 sorties or 11 000 targets have been hit another 3500 minimum with new
00:31:06 targets coming up every day so this is relentless if you're and i saw uh some video the other day
00:31:12 where they blew up one of the command centers this is this is relentless as only the united
00:31:18 states military military can deliver both naval assets in the north arabian sea in the gulf of
00:31:25 oman and of course uh eastern mediterranean and our magnificent airmen it is um from a military
00:31:34 point of view magnificent to watch if you want your military unchained and in this situation
00:31:41 i think you have to also on the flip side of that think about that for a second i mean we've hit
00:31:48 some pretty tough hombres from the air and hit them hard nazi germany we basically virtually 0.51
00:31:55 brought it to their knees and they wouldn't surrender japan the fire bombing of japan 0.97
00:32:00 in february march and april of 1945 actually was more horrific than the two nuclear weapons
00:32:08 who dropped later the firebombing of uh of of tokyo and the other major cities is something
00:32:14 that even the airmen that did it gave them pause and they would not surrender uh we hit
00:32:23 the north vietnamese with i think more firepower than we had hit nazi germany in the japanese i
00:32:33 think combined they wouldn't surrender these persians this is an ancient civilization as i
00:32:40 go back to my landmark on on alexander the great the best we ever had better than caesar better
00:32:48 than napoleon better than all of them rolled up uh they will tell you arian the historian you see
00:32:56 this kind of eyewitness account from these uh individuals it's it's stunning and that was uh
00:33:02 i don't know 2300 years ago so sam fadish you've dealt with this in country and other places for
00:33:10 a couple of decades in service to your country understanding that the mullahs and the islamic
00:33:16 theocracy were enemies of the United States and free people everywhere. What's your assessment
00:33:23 of this enemy, sir? Yeah, well, I mean, let me say this as a caveat up front. Nothing I'm saying
00:33:31 should be taken as we can't win or we have to run away or we've been defeated. All I'm really
00:33:38 saying is you're not going to win by underestimating your opponent and just continuing to do something
00:33:45 in a certain way that hasn't worked so far. These guys are very tough. They're very committed. You
00:33:51 have this whole, they are all 12ers, which means they believe we are headed for the apocalypse, 0.80
00:33:59 which is their duty to bring on. And on the other side, they're guaranteed to win. That ought to
00:34:04 give you pause, that they want to bring, you know, reap the whirlwind and believe they will win on
00:34:11 the other side. And they are not disorganized. They are very organized, very methodical.
00:34:18 They think many moves ahead. These are the guys that literally invented chess. So it doesn't
00:34:26 mean you can't beat them. It just means you better stop underestimating them. They are not attempting
00:34:31 to confront the U.S. military. They are holding a knife to the world economy.
00:34:36 the persians are the ancient enemy have been the ancient enemy of the west 1.00
00:34:42 right yes it was rome's even more than the germanic tribes right who eventually overran
00:34:49 rome they were they and one of the reasons they overran them the roman the roman empire got bled 1.00
00:34:54 out fighting the persians the persians against the greeks the persians against the romans
00:35:00 they are tough hombres and guess what they didn't fight athens and they didn't fight rome because
00:35:05 they were more jeffersonian democrats they were not and i don't think they've changed a lot and
00:35:09 you've layered on top of a quite dangerous apocalyptic death cult that's you combine the
00:35:17 death cult with just the persian tenacity etc it's not to say we can't beat them you can beat 1.00
00:35:24 them but you got to understand if you're going to beat them you got to beat them right or come up
00:35:29 some way to hammer them enough to get them to the negotiating table and we also know
00:35:34 sam correct me if i'm wrong these are guys that don't they they they as we've known for the
00:35:41 negotiations we try to try to have on all the obama and president trump all these they're not
00:35:46 guys to come in and shake your you don't get to a deal with them in the first meeting they don't
00:35:50 take your shake your hand they're amazing they're bureaucratic because of millennia they've been
00:35:55 bureaucratic they have a whole way that they roll their negotiations just go on and on and drag on
00:36:00 and on just naturally in any business deal much less something where they're uh they're negotiating
00:36:07 their survival a potential survival of their country sir yeah and like in in any time you're
00:36:14 negotiating with somebody in this kind of hardcore environment it's all about leverage okay right now
00:36:20 How are they looking at this? There's a clock ticking on the world economy in regard to what
00:36:28 is already happening in the Straits of Hormuz. And God forbid they start taking out production
00:36:34 facilities and taking things like part of gutters capability is already offline for what, three to
00:36:40 five years. God forbid they do that. And it's not a question of reopening the Straits. It's a question
00:36:46 of waiting five years till oil comes out. So as long as they feel like they've got that knife in
00:36:51 their hand, they're going to be pretty tough to negotiate. And what we are doing right now
00:36:57 is not taking away that capability. I'm fundamentally saying, if you're going to
00:37:02 prosecute this war, you got to stop for a minute and realize it didn't go the way you expected it
00:37:07 to. And you got to come up with a, you got to modify your strategy and modify your approach.
00:37:11 They are not going to quit. They're not going to surrender. And absolutely, there's not going to
00:37:15 be a popular uprise the inflection point of this war is quite obvious the inflection point of this
00:37:22 war is when the israelis first off the night that they bombed the facilities but then really the
00:37:26 inflection point became the bombing of the of the gas field with qatar and it totally shifted the
00:37:32 initiative to the enemy and it uh it shifted the center of gravity this war now is the persian
00:37:40 gulf in the strait yes not tehran where ascent come originally and we hope to and remember the
00:37:46 whole theory of this war and don't let anybody be esha it was to hit them it's harder than anybody's
00:37:50 been hit on the surface of this planet ever hit them decapitated and have a popular uprising of
00:37:59 millions of persians you know yearning to be free well that didn't happen and we can argue about how
00:38:06 all that later but now we're in it uh so uh so bowling the world as they taught me at harvard
00:38:12 the world is an efficient market over time with more with when you get more and more information
00:38:19 tell me about efficient market theory as it applies to the commodity we call oil and natural gas
00:38:25 as every second of every minute is traded on the world's exchanges and is setting the tone and
00:38:32 really the underpinning of this conflict sir no one's bigger in the market it's basically the
00:38:39 same theory um you know i learned it the hard way in the trading pits 15 years in the trading pits
00:38:46 you realize it doesn't matter if the saudis are buying oil or the you know the iraqis are selling
00:38:52 oil doesn't no individual no government no person no one's bigger than the market markets are wildly
00:38:58 efficient when they scale the size, certainly the size of the oil markets. A couple of big
00:39:05 pieces of information over the weekends. Number one, we've basically essentially worked through
00:39:10 this cushion. We had a very large cushion of excess oil production and also in storage here
00:39:16 in the United States. We've now worked through that. And it's relevant in one second, I'll tell
00:39:21 you why. And the other one is all the oil that was shipped. So we've been talking about how long
00:39:26 it takes for a barrel of oil from the time of purchase to when it becomes a gallon of gasoline
00:39:31 takes about 45 days. The last oil, pre-war oil prices, so in other words, loaded onto the vessels
00:39:38 have hit our shores right now. Everything after this point going forward will be the higher priced
00:39:44 oil. Now think about that for a second. We're already seeing $4 on the pumps here in America,
00:39:49 and we haven't even started using the higher priced feedstock oil, which will start happening
00:39:54 within the next day or so, so pump prices are going to continue to go up.
00:39:58 We're looking at $103 in West Texas Intermediate as we speak,
00:40:02 $114, $115 in the Brent as we speak.
00:40:06 Steve, I said this earlier, I believe, I said earlier a little bit early,
00:40:11 but I believe $120 for West Texas Intermediate is baked in the cake right now.
00:40:16 Now I really believe it because I had not realized that all these prices
00:40:20 were based on oil that hadn't hit our shore yet.
00:40:22 we're we're we've essentially run out of cheap oil into our refineries you're going to see a
00:40:28 five dollar gallon of gasoline i have no question in my mind about it um where the hell are the
00:40:34 arab ground troops like you mentioned why aren't these countries are supposedly our allies putting
00:40:38 their boots on the ground they have probably a lot a lot more at stake than we do we're not being
00:40:43 bombed essentially here in the united states they are and we're more importantly where they're not
00:40:49 hold it hold it they're not hang on hang on hang on well the iranian people first are having hell 0.96
00:40:55 rain down on them right they're having held they're having hell rain down on them and if 0.89
00:40:59 they come out and say hey we hate the guys running this thing they'll probably be killed
00:41:03 so i'm not but they're not you're not gonna have an uprising not at least not anytime soon let's
00:41:07 go back to the arabs though the arabs are doubling and tripling their wealth right now remember the 1.00
00:41:13 saudis took saudi aramco public and and folks think about this it's the biggest because they've 0.66
00:41:21 nationalized all the all the all over there they took it public and this is what it was so screwed 0.63
00:41:26 up they couldn't take it public in new york they couldn't take it public in london they couldn't
00:41:31 even take it public in like in shanghai some places that or in vancouver they had to create
00:41:37 their own exchange and take it public in Riyadh why because the the the disclosure documents were
00:41:43 so got off and first they wouldn't disclose a ton of stuff principally how much the royal family's
00:41:48 just stealing right off the top these are not these are not good guys the Qataris are not good 1.00
00:41:54 guys UAE is the best of the lot over there MBZ he's double dealing this he tried to do a Chinese 0.56
00:41:59 naval base years ago the Arabs are double dealing this their net worth from the time this war started 0.97
00:42:05 with oil at 50 bucks a barrel or 55 and trump trying to drive it to 40 because remember the
00:42:10 underpinning of the trump economic revolution is full spectrum energy dominance led by boom
00:42:17 getting oil and gas down as cheap as you can possibly get it with their lifting costs at 30
00:42:22 bucks now and their lifting costs gone from what three dollars back in the old days to 30
00:42:28 because of their graft corruption and incompetence right just late natural laziness 0.99
00:42:33 um their net worth has gone they've they their assets in the ground which is a depleting asset
00:42:40 has increased at 110 bucks or what's what's uh brent right now 113 114 it's gone up a couple
00:42:48 times 114 they're loving this now they're gonna have some cash flow problems this is why i think
00:42:54 they're selling gold like crazy they're going to some they're going to have some short-term cash
00:42:57 problems but their net worth the nation's the nation's value is going up exponentially and
00:43:05 they've got these armies we've been giving them weapons for years and and buying it hey i want to
00:43:09 see all the young princelings in saudi arabia i want to see all the guys in dubai i want to see
00:43:14 all the influencers saying it's the greatest place in the world to run around babes and bikinis put 1.00
00:43:19 them in a uniform let's get them over to karg island put them in a uniform today put all the
00:43:23 princelings in Saudi Arabia. In fact, get MBS. He's all the talk. Put MBS on a white charger and
00:43:29 let's get him down there with that big Arabian sword, that big broadsword. Let's do it. They're
00:43:35 the ones making the money here. You don't think they're going to rub your nose in it later? Au
00:43:39 contraire. Short break. Bowling and Faddis on the other side.
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00:45:29 Okay, the whole next hour we have non-war news related content,
00:45:34 because we have to get to that.
00:45:35 But coming across in an exclusive at the New York Post, just and we want to thank the Baltimore engine room for getting this right away.
00:45:45 Trump tells the Post his response to Iranian regime coming shortly after Tehran attacks Israel's biggest oil refinery, Washington, D.C.
00:45:53 President Trump on Monday put Iran and the Speaker of the Islamic Republic's parliament on notice after Tehran attacked Israel's biggest oil refinery and told the Post his response is coming shortly.
00:46:04 Iran escalated its attack on infrastructure by striking a water and
00:46:09 electrical plant in Kuwait and an oil refinery was set ablaze in the
00:46:12 northern Israeli city of Haifa after the Iranian missile attack.
00:46:17 Asked by the Post what his response to the strike will be,
00:46:20 the commander in chief told the New York Post, you will see shortly.
00:46:25 Sam Faddis, they're giving as good as they got.
00:46:29 I put up earlier that Haifa attack, also in Kuwait.
00:46:34 And this is one of the reasons people are saying, well, you're being too hard on the Arabs, Steve.
00:46:37 They're in the middle of this.
00:46:38 They didn't ask to be put in the middle of this shooting gallery.
00:46:40 Hey, sorry.
00:46:42 Tough break for some swell guys.
00:46:44 We need you to step up.
00:46:46 Sam, your thoughts right now.
00:46:48 President Trump says he's going to come back shortly.
00:46:50 We're going.
00:46:51 Something tells me.
00:46:53 A little bird tells me maybe we're going up the escalatory ladder.
00:46:58 Sam Faddis, your thoughts.
00:47:02 Yeah, I think that's exactly where we are.
00:47:03 I don't think this thing is winding down soon. I don't think we're almost at the end of this
00:47:10 at all. And, you know, I just keep stressing, okay, look, I'm all, I understand we can't hit
00:47:19 the rewind button. We don't get a chance to go back and say, let's not do this. Okay. But what
00:47:24 we can do is we can say, let's, what we thought was going to happen didn't happen. That didn't
00:47:31 work. Let's stop just doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Let's
00:47:37 pause and come up with a strategy that is actually a winning strategy here. And the first thing is
00:47:43 we got to take some pieces off the board as far as the Iranians are concerned, to stick with my 1.00
00:47:48 chess reference, meaning their capacity to threaten, to close the straits and also to threaten
00:47:56 production facilities, desatellization plants has to be taken off the board. And that's going
00:48:03 to take more than just more sorties. And I'm not denigrating the US military. They're blowing the
00:48:09 hell out of the place. But it is crystal clear that these guys can make drones faster than we
00:48:15 can shoot them down. And I think that you watch the Gulf states, they have figured that out already
00:48:20 because that's why Zelensky and the Ukrainians are all over the Gulf now 0.99
00:48:24 selling these guys their drone defense capability.
00:48:29 They understand we've got to put up a wall here
00:48:32 and stop these guys from being able to threaten us this way.
00:48:40 Eric Bolling, your thoughts about this?
00:48:43 Now the Iranians have gone and hit these old. 1.00
00:48:46 Go ahead, sir.
00:48:48 I'm concerned about something I also heard over the weekend.
00:48:51 You want your theory to be proven correct right here in practice, not in rhetoric or theory.
00:48:58 Yeah, Israel hit an Iranian LNG plant, and that pissed them off, and they're retaliating right now.
00:49:06 That's causing prices to go higher.
00:49:07 It's a two-pronged effect.
00:49:09 Good for them, the war dividend that we've been talking about.
00:49:12 But also the Saudis.
00:49:13 The Saudis threatened to force majeure.
00:49:15 Think about that for one second. Force majeure means you can't deliver, whether it's act of nature, act of war, whatever, but you cannot deliver. The country with the most reserves in the ground, the second highest producing country in the world, maybe the first, says they can't deliver oil.
00:49:34 what because of tanker they got seven million barrels flying right through their pipeline right
00:49:38 now it's all bs i almost said the bad word it's all bs they're all in this they know higher oil
00:49:43 prices are good for the region israel saudis all our allies included with the iranians i i i said
00:49:52 earlier steve i'm not so sure there's not a wink and a nod going on throughout the middle east
00:49:56 flying back and forth on telegram like all right we're going to hit this this uh electrical plant
00:50:01 or your water plant over here.
00:50:03 Make sure you don't have any of your Saudi people 1.00
00:50:04 or your Kuwaiti people there
00:50:05 because they all are thriving on higher oil prices.
00:50:09 And that tells me it's going to go a lot higher.
00:50:14 By the way, there's reports.
00:50:15 Another one of our engine rooms is telling us,
00:50:17 I'll check it out in a moment,
00:50:18 that they might have hit the other pipeline,
00:50:19 not the Saudi pipeline, but the UAE,
00:50:23 the Abu Dhabi guys have a pipeline also,
00:50:25 and supposedly Iran has hit this or at least targeting it.
00:50:28 So they're playing the smart game.
00:50:31 Eric, real quickly, what should people look for over the next 24, 48 hours of importance?
00:50:36 What are you looking at, the audience?
00:50:39 I think for the first time, Steve, something happened since the war started.
00:50:42 Oil prices are substantially higher today.
00:50:46 And the stock, the equity market, is finding its footing right here.
00:50:49 So it's possible that there are two different factions going on.
00:50:52 The oil people who see what's actually going on in the physical market, the delivery market, the transportation market, and they're very, very bullish.
00:51:00 maybe the equity market is listening a little bit too much to the administration saying,
00:51:05 hey, we're going to get this thing fixed soon.
00:51:07 It doesn't look like there's any insight to this unless they make a deal.
00:51:14 Where to go?
00:51:15 Social media.
00:51:16 Where are people going for your new show?
00:51:17 At Eric Bolling.
00:51:18 At Eric Bolling across social media.
00:51:20 There's the edge.
00:51:20 Love you guys for doing it.
00:51:21 But Steve, this is really important information that we continue to hammer out on Real America's
00:51:26 Voice.
00:51:27 Four o'clock me, five o'clock you, in addition to your earlier show, this one.
00:51:30 Well, we'll talk about it at 4 o'clock.
00:51:33 Your idea about working out some deal, the president, in a little more blunt wording, says, hey, we're going to seize their oil assets.
00:51:42 We'll get into that maybe in a transition from 4 to 5.
00:51:45 Thank you, brother.
00:51:46 Great work.
00:51:47 Sam Faddis, we have the gray beard on here for a reason.
00:51:52 You're kind of the guy that's been over there.
00:51:55 You know these people.
00:51:56 You know how tough and relentless they are.
00:51:58 and now they've got a death cult laired on top of it.
00:52:01 Where do people go to get all of your insights, sir?
00:52:05 And magazine at Substack, andmagazine.substack.com.
00:52:11 Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
00:52:13 The President of the United States has just warned the Persians
00:52:18 that he will respond shortly with their expanded attacks on oil and water assets.
00:52:27 and remember over there water is almost as precious as oil hit in kuwait major strike in
00:52:34 kuwait and in israel at haifa we're gonna stand by and wait for it in the second hour we're gonna
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