Bannon's War Room - Episode 5282： Who Comes Out Victorious In This Ceasefire; Anthropic And Rise Of Skynet

00:00:00.100 Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the weeknight. I'm Simone Sanders-Townson with Eugene Daniels and Jackie Alamani in for Alicia and Michael.

00:00:07.760 Let's get right to tonight's breaking news. Donald Trump just caved, backing down from his fake deadline,

00:00:13.720 averting for now what the president described this morning as an attack on Iran that would lead to the death of a, quote, whole civilization.

00:00:22.320 Let's continue our breaking coverage. Donald Trump has announced that the United States has reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran.

00:00:29.080 Contingent, very important point here, on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

00:00:34.260 Earlier tonight, MSNOW reported that more than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal,

00:00:40.680 either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment, in the wake of Trump's threats against Iran.

00:00:47.240 Iran has been a threat to the United States and the free world for 47 years. 0.69

00:00:53.040 Chants of death to America, targeting our people, killing Americans, lying and blackmailing their way toward a nuclear weapon, so they thought. 0.84

00:01:03.600 No longer. Not on our watch.

00:01:07.840 Other presidents marked time and kicked the can down the road.

00:01:11.520 President Trump made history.

00:01:14.460 From the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani, to tearing up the disastrous Obama-Iran deal,

00:01:21.040 to the precision campaign that obliterated Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer

00:01:26.200 to the decisive military victory we just achieved in Operation Epic Fury.

00:01:32.420 No other president has shown the courage and resolve of this commander-in-chief.

00:01:38.700 President Trump forged this moment.

00:01:41.580 Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it.

00:01:46.180 As a president truth this morning, a big day for world peace. 0.70

00:01:49.940 Iran wants it to happen. They've had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming 0.74

00:02:00.200 victory on the battlefield. A capital V military victory. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated

00:02:10.300 Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come. You see, had Iran refused our 0.68

00:02:18.160 terms, the next targets would have been their power plants, their bridges, and oil and energy 0.86

00:02:25.040 infrastructure. Targets they could not defend and could not realistically rebuild. It would

00:02:31.160 have taken them decades, and we were locked and loaded. They couldn't defend against it.

00:02:37.640 President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes, but he chose mercy.

00:02:45.920 He spared those targets because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure. 0.80

00:02:53.880 This new regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal. 0.62

00:02:59.580 They know this agreement means that they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon.

00:03:05.580 Under the terms, any nuclear material they should have will be removed.

00:03:11.980 Any material, excuse me, they should not have will be removed.

00:03:15.060 Right now, their dust is deeply buried and watched 24-7 overhead. 0.76

00:03:20.400 The president has been clear from the beginning there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons. 0.68

00:03:25.740 Period. Full stop. Other presidents said it. President Trump did it.

00:03:32.140 For decades, Iran killed Americans with roadside bombs in Iraq, using cowardly proxies to do their dirty work while they hid safely in Tehran. 0.79

00:03:42.140 They struck our embassies with car bombs and attacked from the shadows, never daring to face us toe to toe. 0.90

00:03:49.140 They thought they could bleed America with impunity.

00:03:53.000 Well, they just learned the hard way, what happens when you try to fight us directly.

00:03:58.780 And even when they got lucky, one time in 40 days, and down two of our pilots, they couldn't hold them.

00:04:05.740 In a daring 14-hour rescue operation, seven hours in daylight and seven hours of night, both pilots were recovered safely.

00:04:16.420 Not once, but twice.

00:04:20.400 A daylight thunder run right up the middle of their country, boots on the ground.

00:04:27.620 A midnight raid right up the middle of their country, boots on the ground.

00:04:35.740 Zero American casualties. 0.98

00:04:39.380 The Iranians humiliated and demoralized. 0.98

00:04:42.440 We control their fate, not the other way around. 1.00

00:04:45.920 That's why they came to the table, the suffering their regime has inflicted around the world.

00:04:51.800 Now we have a chance at real peace and a real deal.

00:04:56.080 The War Department, for now, for now, has done its part. 0.99

00:05:01.020 We stand ready in the background to ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term. 0.77

00:05:06.640 And as everyone knows, nobody makes a better deal than President Trump. 0.59

00:05:12.320 Anderson, I tend to withhold judgment until we know a little more and see.

00:05:15.920 We don't really know what's happening in Iran.

00:05:17.520 We don't know the strength of the system.

00:05:19.500 I do think we've lost the plot, though, Anderson.

00:05:21.520 I mean, you and I were talking back in January about the protests by the Iranian people,

00:05:26.980 and I feel like we've lost that critical... 0.79

00:05:29.720 Do you think destroying their civilization is losing the plot?

00:05:31.700 I know, exactly.

00:05:32.780 I mean, what we saw play out in the last 24 hours was so counterproductive to everything, 0.99

00:05:37.480 and particularly the Iranian people are protesting for their civilization, for Iranian nationalism,

00:05:43.880 against the Islamic Republic, the Islamic State of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we've lost that.

00:05:49.600 So, look, we have to see, as the dust settles here, what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz,

00:05:54.300 how intact is this regime, is the supreme leader even in control, is he alive?

00:05:58.240 We actually don't know these answers, so we'll have to see.

00:06:02.320 But obviously, there are a lot of problematic elements here right now,

00:06:06.520 and I think it's going to require some good diplomacy to try to pull them together.

00:06:10.220 President Trump posted on True Social this morning that there has been a very productive regime change in Iran

00:06:18.740 and that there will be no enrichment of uranium,

00:06:22.000 and the U.S. will work with Iran to dig up and remove the deeply buried nuclear dust.

00:06:27.840 So I just have two questions here.

00:06:31.060 So both you, Mr. Secretary, and the President have referred to a new regime in Iran.

00:06:36.100 So is this not the regime that was at war with us for 47 years?

00:06:42.200 And how do we – what do we think of when we're saying that this is a new regime?

00:06:47.580 What are we thinking and what are we saying there?

00:06:49.280 And then my second question is, with any future deal with Iran, is their handing over of all of their enriched uranium and their promising not to enrich any future uranium being non-negotiable for the U.S.?

00:07:04.060 Well, it's always been non-negotiable that they won't have nuclear capabilities.

00:07:08.180 And so right now it's buried and we're watching it.

00:07:10.360 We know exactly what they have and they know that.

00:07:13.460 And they will either give it to us, which the president has laid out.

00:07:16.360 They'll give it to us voluntarily.

00:07:18.460 We'll get it.

00:07:18.800 We'll take it. We'll take it out.

00:07:20.500 Or if we have to do something else ourselves, like we did in Midnight Hammer or something like that, we reserve that opportunity. 0.85

00:07:26.160 But what's clear, what the Iranian, the new Iranian regime knows, is they'll never have a nuclear weapon or the capability to get a path to one.

00:07:34.120 As far as the new regime, you heard the list that I read.

00:07:38.620 It's a new group of people who've seen the full capability of the United States military and has a new calculus about what it means to negotiate with us.

00:07:46.500 hence why they came to the table wanting a ceasefire and the shooting to stop.

00:07:52.540 So this new regime, which the regime has been changed, has a different interaction with the U.S.

00:07:58.380 Gersal, One America News. First of all, thank you to our troops.

00:08:03.220 What role is our military playing in escorting vessels through the Strait of Hormuz at this point?

00:08:09.240 And the president said on True Social that the U.S. will be hanging around to make sure everything goes well. 0.65

00:08:16.500 Obviously, Mr. Secretary, you just mentioned, you know, we know the scars from hanging around in Iraq for decades.

00:08:23.620 But what does that entail in terms of our military presence at this juncture?

00:08:28.200 Yeah, we'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere.

00:08:31.060 We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire and then ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal. 0.89

00:08:38.120 So we'll stay put, stay ready, stay vigilant. 0.93

00:08:40.840 As the chairman laid out, our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moment's notice with whatever target package would be needed in order to ensure that Iran complies. 0.73

00:08:52.580 As far as the strait, you saw the initial agreement that was struck, which is Iran's letting ships go through. 0.52

00:09:00.220 So that will be happening.

00:09:02.240 They will be sailing.

00:09:03.560 And ultimately, as the president, we've done an incredible job militarily inside the Strait of Hormuz.

00:09:10.140 I failed to mention Admiral Cooper's name.

00:09:13.300 He's done a phenomenal job along with everybody at AFSENT and AFSENT and ARSENT and all the components down there, laying the groundwork for Iran.

00:09:22.080 Iran doesn't have the same ability to defend it the way they did before.

00:09:24.960 And so, as the president has pointed out to the rest of the world, we barely get any of our energy out of the street, just a tiny fraction.

00:09:31.600 It's time for the rest of the world to step up and ensure that that stays open after President Trump and the War Department brought Iran to the place where they are voluntarily opening it right now, as was announced last night.

00:09:42.960 But I will say that the president's demands, we have not reached any of those objectives. 0.57

00:09:49.200 I have full confidence that the president is going to find some way to make this happen.

00:09:53.420 But he said that we want to dismantle all major nuclear facilities.

00:09:57.340 That has not happened.

00:09:58.560 the end of uranium enrichment on the soil, they're still enriching. The transfer of the

00:10:05.160 enriched uranium stockpiles out of Iran, that hasn't happened. The acceptance of intrusive 0.98

00:10:10.620 international inspections, they're still not willing to do that. And they have not suspended

00:10:15.740 their ballistic missiles program. They're still firing them off to stop the production of the

00:10:20.700 long-range missiles. That's just a few of them on the president's proposal. The question is,

00:10:26.260 Is the president using this two weeks to give our soldiers a break, a rest, to see if we can get this ultimately done?

00:10:35.320 We'll see.

00:10:36.160 Good morning, Mr. Secretary and Mr. Chairman.

00:10:38.040 David Zia, Real America's Voice.

00:10:40.120 During the ceasefire, what do we do when we see Iran rearming, regrouping, repositioning weapon systems and air defenses?

00:10:50.040 And also, have we confirmed the specific model type of air defense or man pads that took down our F-15? 0.58

00:10:57.920 And is it still a threat for our patrols?

00:11:01.860 We're still working through the specific details around that particular shoot down.

00:11:09.460 And the crews, when they normally return, go through a debriefing process along with the other members of that flight that were out there.

00:11:17.120 And they'll go back, as they always do, and forensically look at what are the tactical lessons learned.

00:11:23.940 Did we sense or see something?

00:11:25.580 Could we have done something different?

00:11:27.340 We do that, as I mentioned, in a prior press conference every single time we take any loss like that

00:11:33.780 so that we become a quick learning organization.

00:11:37.880 On the other part of your question around the movement of Iranian military forces,

00:11:42.880 U.S. CENTCOM will continue to monitor that situation.

00:11:47.120 They will continue to have a series of response options.

00:11:51.420 And if need be, we'll come to the secretary and to the president for guidance and be prepared to to do the things that they're ordered to do so against valid military targets in accordance with the normal procedures that we have.

00:12:05.380 I would just know it's a good question. 0.55

00:12:08.220 The more Iran moves, the more Iran moves forces, the more they emplace forces, the more easily targetable they are for us right now.

00:12:16.520 Remember, we're able to look, we're able to see, we're able to sense. 0.89

00:12:20.360 We know they are where they are.

00:12:21.280 So if they try to preposition, they're just creating riper military targets for us to strike.

00:12:25.780 Should they make the wrong decision at the table?

00:12:28.240 It's sorry. It was an indictment framed as a question.

00:12:30.540 So you're forgiven for understanding.

00:12:32.600 Go ahead, please.

00:12:33.640 No, you've had your chance.

00:12:35.380 Go ahead.

00:12:36.720 Thank you very much.

00:12:37.720 I believe so, based on the diplomatic negotiation.

00:12:40.580 I believe so.

00:12:41.860 I believe so.

00:12:43.320 Sorry.

00:12:43.920 I trust President Trump.

00:12:45.620 I know his heart. I know he wants to do the right thing. I know he has Lilliputians who are telling

00:12:51.740 him to do something else. I know he has other advisors telling him to do something else. He's

00:12:57.960 the most understanding, competent of the bunch. And he's the president of the United States. And

00:13:05.580 his instincts are very, very good. But I would say this, this enemy is still the enemy.

00:13:12.480 They're still surviving

00:13:14.920 Their military may be destroyed 1.00

00:13:17.720 But the communist Chinese will still help them 0.94

00:13:20.560 The Russians will still help them to rebuild

00:13:23.120 And so this thing's not over

00:13:25.360 And it's not that I'm a war monger

00:13:27.940 It's that they're a war monger

00:13:30.200 It's not that I'm an interventionist

00:13:31.920 They're an interventionist

00:13:33.920 Wednesday, 8 April, in the year of our Lord

00:13:39.720 2026

00:13:41.840 fairly dramatic uh president trump essentially as i said last week when he gave the national

00:13:48.640 address i came i saw i conquered i'm going to hang around and conquer a little more which he did

00:13:54.960 major strikes over the last couple of days not on their infrastructure but on their

00:14:00.000 war making capacity you heard the um the briefing by pete hegg says secretary of war

00:14:04.920 and general kane uh we're going to get into it the first question we're going to pose

00:14:11.360 to our array of experts that have been with us since the beginning of the war is exactly

00:14:16.780 what 10 points did anyone agree to? Because the Iranians and the European press 0.99

00:14:23.900 are putting out something. I think that might be a little difference

00:14:27.680 to folks at the White House, but we'll break it all down for you.

00:14:31.640 I think we can say that the military objectives of this campaign have been met,

00:14:39.700 according to the Pentagon and according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

00:14:44.900 and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States.

00:14:48.180 Short commercial break.

00:14:49.120 We're back with Poso, Faddis, Captain Fennell.

00:14:53.480 We're going to go to the White House.

00:14:55.260 We got Eric Bolling on markets.

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00:16:25.700 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.

00:16:31.460 I came, forget the political article from last week.

00:16:34.300 I came, I saw, I conquered.

00:16:36.360 I say he's going to hang around and conquer a little more.

00:16:38.860 And then they're going to figure something out and we're all going to go

00:16:43.540 home. Mark Levin, bad day for Tel Aviv Levin.

00:16:47.620 We'll have more of that. Total full meltdown. Lindsay Graham now saying,

00:16:51.560 Lindsay Graham saying, well, you know, this is all good.

00:16:54.040 President Trump's the greatest negotiation in the world,

00:16:55.420 but we're going to have to bring that to the Senate to get approval like the

00:16:59.860 Obama deal did. I don't think Lady Lindsay,

00:17:02.520 i don't think that's going to happen okay president trump is going to make a deal and

00:17:07.240 move on let's get so we got finnell faddis poso and of course eric boland let's go to the markets

00:17:12.700 first um some people got shredded yesterday did they not uh eric and i think the world's telling

00:17:19.800 us at least the capital markets it's time they agree with president trump time to wrap this up

00:17:24.820 and and go home i'm gonna get into the part about exactly who who thought they agreed to what

00:17:32.040 because i think there's a big difference in the bid in the ask about what the 10 points are

00:17:37.400 what even 10 points there are what we agreed to and what uh because the president went on sky

00:17:42.580 news gave a 90 second interview or to the journalist and uh the guy said well hold it

00:17:48.640 these the 10 points of the iranians are totally maximalist points in fact they still control

00:17:53.240 hormuz and he goes well those are not the 10 that i'm talking about so we'll get into more of that

00:17:57.840 But Eric, right now, capital markets, the oil market, commodities markets, telling us what.

00:18:03.340 So oil, Steve, last night when we heard that Trump was going to accept the two-week pause, the ceasefire, down $9 a barrel, we woke up this morning and texted you, it was down $20 a barrel.

00:18:14.340 It's sitting $20 a barrel lower.

00:18:16.460 That translates into lower gas prices.

00:18:18.660 However, folks have to understand, this is great news.

00:18:21.080 You're talking about the capital markets.

00:18:22.540 Sometimes when things bounce off a low like this, for whatever reason, we call it a dead cat bounce, which is a temporary bounce and then continuation of lower prices and equities.

00:18:33.120 This isn't a dead cat bounce.

00:18:34.480 This is a legit recovery, 1,300 points in the Dow, 3% move in the indices.

00:18:39.920 So the issue is gasoline will remain high.

00:18:43.120 It'll go higher.

00:18:43.860 We've talked about this.

00:18:44.900 People hate to hear this.

00:18:46.600 I'm just bringing the truth here, folks.

00:18:48.020 That's it.

00:18:48.420 you'll probably see gasoline continue the upward movements up a dollar a gallon since we started

00:18:54.520 you'll probably see another oh at least probably 40 cents higher on on the pump price going forward

00:18:59.580 probably another three weeks a month before it starts to trickle its way down good news is steve

00:19:05.360 it was quick and we've been talking about how this needs to happen quicker so that we can

00:19:10.180 clear out all the bs before the midterm elections can i just touch on one of the points in the 10

00:19:16.020 point, whatever they sent over. Trump alluded to this in a couple of press conferences. And the

00:19:22.580 Iranians said that this was one of their issues, that they were going to collect $2 million per

00:19:27.480 vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz. I did a little math here, Steve. That's $110 billion a

00:19:34.320 year. And they were going to negotiate each point. So I'm praying, I'm hoping, Witkoff and Jared and

00:19:40.740 whoever else was negotiating, hopefully they said, let's do a 50-50 split on that. You can

00:19:45.780 get your reparations 50% of that $110 billion. But we're going to pay for our struggles here

00:19:51.600 in the war struggles and ensure we don't have to deal with this again and take that $55 billion

00:19:57.340 a year is a nice little chunk of change for us to be able to replenish our supplies as well.

00:20:02.640 So I think there's a lot on the table right now. There was a rumor also of a potential Fed

00:20:08.640 move on rates today, and I haven't confirmed it yet, but if Powell doesn't hate America,

00:20:15.880 he'll lower, he will call a quarter point drop in the Fed funds rate, which will add some fuel to

00:20:22.100 the recovery of our equity markets, which I think would be great for a midterm situation.

00:20:30.020 For people that went long on the civilizational takedown,

00:20:35.060 uh they're dead men walking this morning i mean you always tell me i see dead people

00:20:41.000 you see some dead people out there that were on the wrong side of this trade sir yeah i see dead

00:20:47.140 people in markets especially energy markets and this whole time we've been on 40 days now

00:20:51.300 i was positioned to lose money if oil continued higher and stocks went down even though i said

00:20:58.660 that was what was happening people didn't believe me that's the truth i had i'm having obviously a

00:21:03.780 monster day today because oil is now down. Stocks are up. The people who listen to the Mark Levins

00:21:08.420 of the world, the doom and gloom people, the people who want Iran civilization wiped off the 0.53

00:21:14.180 earth versus a negotiations, are smoked. They literally got smoked overnight in a matter of,

00:21:21.520 and there was no getting out, Steve. It happened at 6 p.m. Eastern last night. You can't trade

00:21:26.880 your way out of a massive position at 6 p.m. or until the market really opens today. So they're

00:21:31.740 getting crushed. They're probably going to defend their positions right now in the market. It moved

00:21:35.400 a little bit against America for about an hour or so right now. But we'll see. I have a hunch

00:21:42.140 towards the end of the day, you're going to see massive, massive selling in oil, massive buying

00:21:46.540 in the equity markets. I will caveat with this. The problem is it's always one tweet away. It's

00:21:55.240 So it's one important material tweet away from changing the whole dynamic.

00:22:01.360 But right now, the ball is in Trump's court, victory lap, America's court, lower prices for gas.

00:22:07.580 But I think it's directionally what we've been saying and allowing all the different commentators to come here.

00:22:15.380 President Trump had a certain set of military objectives, as Captain Fennell has told us.

00:22:19.760 You heard again this morning from the Pentagon and from the Joint Chiefs.

00:22:22.560 They believe those military objectives have been completed.

00:22:27.320 Now, there's a very tenuous ceasefire.

00:22:30.620 There's a lot of questions.

00:22:32.300 The reason I keep emphasizing who are we actually dealing with, because it's not just who can

00:22:39.040 sign a paper or tweet over something that they agree to certain things, who can actually

00:22:42.420 enforce it. 1.00

00:22:42.920 I think this whole situation, I believe the combination of Bedouins and Persians down 1.00

00:22:50.200 on the Strait of Hormuz are going to have something to say about those fees and where 1.00

00:22:54.520 they go, right? These are pirates, okay? I don't know if they're going to let anybody

00:22:58.820 horn in on that, including the guys that run the show in Tehran. I say, hey, you're in Tehran,

00:23:04.900 we're here, right? Dig us out. So there's a lot of moving pieces here. But I think directionally,

00:23:10.520 you see President Trump has said, hey, we've achieved the military objectives. Pete Hexas

00:23:14.300 said we're going to hang around. And you've got to clearly get this thing negotiated. It's just

00:23:18.940 a temporary ceasefire. And there's a huge, you know, the point they made and making in Europe

00:23:24.300 that the Iranians, these are maximalist positions from both sides, maximalist positions on the

00:23:29.460 Iranians, 10 points, maximalization, a position on ours. You actually use the R word there,

00:23:35.340 reparations. I think President Trump's, you know, eyes would cross if he heard that word. He has

00:23:39.700 no intention of paying the Iranians anything for that, but to be worked out. Eric, we'll see you 0.79

00:23:44.280 back and do a transition with you at four. We'll let you get back into the pit and do some trading

00:23:48.720 today what what's your uh social media and where they go to get your new show at eric balling with

00:23:53.480 a c uh just keep keep it on rav i'm all over the place you steve you're all really all over the

00:23:58.720 place and always you got to be commended for some of the stuff that we've been talking about for the

00:24:02.740 last 40 days just materialized last night 6 p.m eastern congratulations to ben and the war room

00:24:09.580 for you know having well anyone can report the news you go to the war room you find what's going

00:24:15.680 happen next which is all the difference in the world see it 450 on on us on this morning show

00:24:22.140 we got bowling posobic sam faddis captain finnell trito parsi reagan reese we're going to have

00:24:29.140 hopefully david azir and uh and neil mccable we get you as wide a range as possible of gaffney

00:24:33.800 again we're gonna get you the neocons and we're gonna get you other people too so you can make

00:24:38.100 up your own mind which is what needs to happen here can't be told what to do you got to come up

00:24:43.660 think about yourself use your agency eric thank you so much jack basobic uh you're gonna give us

00:24:50.480 a bigger strategic picture here because there's a bigger strategic picture but just tell me of what

00:24:55.540 you've seen so far between particularly the the direction you heard today at the pentagon

00:25:00.940 what president trump's been saying our military your naval intelligence officer uh but also the

00:25:07.080 the the iranians are running around europe saying we won this they've agreed to these 10 points and

00:25:11.860 these are maximalist positions. Your thoughts, sir? Well, Steve, I'm not going to believe any

00:25:17.840 10 points until I hear them from the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And we've seen

00:25:22.080 10 points and five points and 15 points. And Pakistan came out with theirs. And the Chinese 1.00

00:25:26.860 Communist Party came out with theirs as well. And so we have to see when the dust settles,

00:25:32.180 perhaps the nuclear dust in this case, when it settles to figure out what's going on. But I keep

00:25:36.800 saying, and I've said from the very start, that this people are looking at it and they're saying

00:25:41.340 Israel, Iran, the United States. But I would submit to you that everyone is looking at the

00:25:47.380 wrong straight. This has always been about China. This is about China and the BRICS and the

00:25:53.480 multipolarity trying to rise themselves above what they see as the U.S. dominated unipolarity.

00:26:02.200 And they're trying to position this. You're already seeing this, Steve. They're trying to position

00:26:05.680 this as an American Suez. And they're talking about the fact that the tolls were taken, as I've

00:26:11.080 talked about just about every time i've been on here going back to day one the fact that the tolls

00:26:15.380 are being taken in chinese yuan this is a trial run on the world stage with everyone looking proof

00:26:22.380 of concept of de-dollarization yeah de-dollarization with oil sales backed in chinese

00:26:29.240 currency don't think for a second that that is not bricks that's not the belt and road initiative

00:26:34.340 that's bri and what is xi jinping doing in just a couple of days well okay the leader of the taiwan

00:26:40.920 opposition party just landed in china and she is going over to meet with xi jinping

00:26:46.760 hold it it's the party founded by shang kai shak it's the it is kmt wait they put shang kai shak

00:26:55.860 and chairman mao together at gunpoint when to say you got to fight the japanese and then and

00:27:01.240 join together you know it's it's kind of like you got the ghost of shang kai shak and the ghost of

00:27:05.840 chairman Mao looking down okay real quickly I need I got about a minute you tell the American 0.54

00:27:12.760 tell this audience why Sue when they call this the American when the Chinese are sitting there

00:27:17.140 saying this is the American Suez what does that mean for people that study geopolitics sir

00:27:22.280 well for people looking at it from a geopolitical perspective

00:27:26.520 when I believe it was Nasser nationalized the Suez canal yeah against the British and said

00:27:34.060 we are going to take this and we are going to have control of this canal. Now, again,

00:27:37.680 the key maritime choke point, the British came in, they went to force it back open.

00:27:42.440 The U.S. said, no, we're not going to get involved. We're not interested. The countries in the region

00:27:47.220 said, no, we're not going to do this. That forced a withdrawal in that case, which we haven't seen

00:27:52.420 in this case, by the way. But it marks sort of the, you know, the idea that on the world states,

00:27:57.520 that the british empire was no more that pax britannia no longer ruled the waves and so the

00:28:04.660 chinese are very quietly trying to put that out now that that's what's happened to pax americana

00:28:09.400 hang on we're gonna get more into this asobic captain finnell sam faddis on the other side

00:28:17.100 fellow patriots the federal reserve has betrayed america for over a century

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00:29:30.000 strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics it's what chairman and ceo throughout

00:29:36.340 the world read, and you should too. It's social. He threatened to wipe out a civilization. That

00:29:42.980 statement elicited a huge response in America. If Iran did not come to the table and make a deal

00:29:49.680 yesterday by the deadline, was the president really prepared to wipe out Iran entirely?

00:29:55.740 Like I said, we had a target set locked and loaded of infrastructure, bridges, power plants. 0.88

00:30:01.760 Remember, this is a terror regime, military regime, use all of these things for dual use to fund their military, to fund their their terror campaign.

00:30:08.800 So we had a lot of legitimate targets. They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of. 0.54

00:30:13.260 We hit some military targets on CARG, which is a bit of a signal.

00:30:16.640 They can't defend it. And so the Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump's hands. 0.74

00:30:31.040 That's why they came to the table. 0.84

00:30:33.080 He ultimately said, we can take it all from you.

00:30:36.260 Your ability to export energy will be taken away.

00:30:38.860 And the United States military has the ability to strike those things with impunity.

00:30:42.880 That type of threat is what brought them to the place where they effectively say,

00:30:47.820 hey, okay, we want to cut this deal.

00:30:51.880 You know, it's interesting.

00:30:52.860 I think it was Kevin Fennell yesterday, I think it was yesterday,

00:30:55.180 They said that the love tap that that the president or the CENTCOM gave Carg Island on the military was a precursor of what was going to happen.

00:31:04.960 Reagan Reese joins us.

00:31:06.320 Reagan, bold question.

00:31:09.680 Really appreciate you asking it, particularly coming from what I would call the Daily Caller, more conservative media.

00:31:16.540 You know, New York Times, everybody's saying, oh, these are softball questions.

00:31:19.000 You guys ask anything, but you ask great questions all the time.

00:31:22.300 What did you think of the response?

00:31:25.180 Well, first, I just want to say, Steve, yesterday I got a lot of texts from friends and family who are big supporters of President Trump's who were worried about that truth social post, who were scared, who didn't know what to expect, who thought that a larger war was going to escalate.

00:31:43.420 And that's why I felt this question was really important to ask. Like, what was behind this threat? Was it a real threat?

00:31:50.180 The response, you know, the underlying question within my question is, were we going to go after civilians? Were we actually going to just flatten Iran entirely? 0.63

00:32:02.200 And what Secretary Hegseth there says is that they were going to target infrastructure, bridges, energy plants, etc.

00:32:12.900 He goes on to say that they are going to target places that fuel the Iranian regime, which signals to me that it was going to still be, you know, within the bounds of this war is going to really just threaten Iran's military.

00:32:28.080 And like you mentioned before, Carg Island, those threats, those attacks that they made there was kind of a preview of what was to come.

00:32:39.640 And so some are interpreting it as, yes, they were going to follow through on the threat.

00:32:47.860 It's hard to say. You never want to take what they say is face value.

00:32:51.740 And honestly, that's why I'm considering recycling the question for other administration officials later today.

00:32:58.080 oh wow reagan before i let you bounce um because i know you're super busy today and thank you for

00:33:06.420 taking time out to come on um you know you've you've been in the oval and interviewed the

00:33:11.020 president uh i believe it was a one-on-one uh you're highly regarded by the white house

00:33:15.220 community communication staff because you you're pulling kind of double duty you're at the white

00:33:19.880 house and at the pentagon when it's important as you look at this thing today what did we actually

00:33:24.840 agree to because we're going to have a treat of Parsi on later. The Iranians are putting out this 0.99

00:33:29.560 maximalist position of these 10 that include reparations. They control Hormuz under kind of 0.99

00:33:34.760 our guidance. And at least President Trump and others are saying, well, that's not the 10 we

00:33:41.060 agreed to. They're different. As you see it right now as one of our top reporters, what was actually

00:33:47.380 agreed to to get us to kind of this joint stand down that everybody appears once? Well, that's

00:33:53.800 the question, Steve. I mean, I've been talking to other reporters because that's, you don't just

00:33:57.960 talk to your sources, you talk to other reporters to hear what they know. And everyone is a little

00:34:02.780 bit unsure exactly on what we agreed to. I think the big question is, is did we agree to something

00:34:10.460 temporary or is this war completely over? A lot of the messaging you see coming out of the

00:34:16.620 administration is that this ceasefire is within the bounds of that timeline that the president

00:34:23.460 originally set, that four to six weeks. And so that signals to me that this isn't just a temporary

00:34:28.860 ceasefire. This is an official end to the war. But then you go to the Pentagon press briefing

00:34:34.160 today and you hear from Secretary Hegseth who says, we're going to continue to hang out in the

00:34:39.120 area. And the Pentagon is still on standby in case they need to strike and fire back up again.

00:34:46.220 And so I think the big question is, you know, there are a bunch of different things within this

00:34:51.760 10-point, 15-point plan, but did we actually agree to end the war, or is this just going to

00:34:59.980 last a couple of days and it's going to keep going? That's something I'm not seeing people

00:35:03.620 really talk about, and I think that's key to consider as you're reading everything that's

00:35:09.020 coming out of the administration. Absolutely central. Reagan, where do people get you on

00:35:14.780 social media and over at The Daily Caller for your reporting, ma'am? I'm on all the platforms,

00:35:19.900 instagram regrettably i'm on tiktok i'm on twitter or x at reagan reese underscore very easy

00:35:28.160 thank you ma'am great job over the daily caller thank you jack basobic back to you um

00:35:36.660 it's a framework to kind of get to something um more permanent or semi-permanent or however it

00:35:45.260 is but you can tell the direction of president trump and the pentagon they feel they've achieved

00:35:49.200 their objectives uh your your thoughts on this particularly the maximalist position

00:35:53.760 that the iranians are taking this entire thing and there's let's let's call them what they are

00:35:59.440 their sponsors in beijing sir well steve that's exactly like look iran is attempting to frame

00:36:08.520 this remember not just for the regional partners or i should say regional adversaries the arab

00:36:14.340 states, the Saudis, who have always been their top regional rival. They're also their backing

00:36:21.160 of China. This is all about their independence, but also their local domestic population. They 0.81

00:36:28.360 need to go and bring this out to the domestic population to say, look, they took out our

00:36:32.080 supreme leader. They turned him into a glorious martyr. Now we are able to say that we won. We

00:36:37.540 defeated them. They said they were going to wipe us out. That didn't happen. They said they were

00:36:41.280 going to take out the revolution that didn't happen. And Steve, we're also, you know, I'm

00:36:45.500 paying very close attention to see what's going to happen with the Supreme Leader, because they

00:36:49.440 said this guy was so worried about assassinations that he's been sending handwritten notes. So is

00:36:54.880 that so that the CIA and Assad wouldn't be able to track the electronics that were going in to 0.68

00:37:01.060 exactly where he is the same way. And the New York Post has the story up that the American airman

00:37:06.080 was saved by just being able to use AI to find the beating of his heart using this system called

00:37:12.100 ghost murmur, if that report is to be believed, that they were able to track a human heartbeat

00:37:17.180 in the middle of the desert and use these type of signals to be able to track potentially even

00:37:21.640 specific individuals. So, Steve, there's a lot to be said here. I do think that the Iranians,

00:37:26.200 look, they're, and a lot of these people who are saying, oh, Iran did so well, they overperformed.

00:37:30.880 You got to look at the scoreboard. The scoreboard does not show that Iran was able to fight off 0.66

00:37:35.920 the Americans, and the amount of damage that they had committed to Israel, while they were able to

00:37:41.140 punch through the Iron Dome on a number of times, the damage was, quite frankly, de minimis. It was

00:37:46.180 de minimis. So is Israel invulnerable? No, but they didn't do anything to knock off the stability

00:37:52.080 of Israel whatsoever the way that they're running around claiming that they did, and the United

00:37:56.520 States continued to be able to pound them. So are they toothless? No, but they are not some kind of 0.51

00:38:02.640 you know, monster that's about to take over the Middle East the way that they're saying.

00:38:06.320 They're just not. So, Steve, what we see here, though, I think, is that the president is working

00:38:10.880 in to create a new normal for the Middle East, a new normal whereby in you're going to have the

00:38:16.260 Americans, you're going to have the Gulf nations. Israel will be there, of course. But perhaps and 0.85

00:38:22.360 I keep saying this, this is all about a grand deal that we're going to see between the United

00:38:26.940 states and china come when may 14th when the president heads over to beijing to sit down as 0.90

00:38:33.320 well with xi jinping well that's the whole thing about american suez because that's the issue

00:38:39.100 as captain finnell's drilled into us to keep the main thing the main thing the defense of taiwan

00:38:44.620 is in the vital national security interest of the united states let me just reiterate this

00:38:48.720 the middle east and the gulf emirates and the persian gulf in ukraine you roll it all up it's

00:38:54.080 a sideshow. It's just a sideshow. And the Israel situation is a side... I don't care what Mark

00:38:59.760 Levin and all his colleagues are all throwing the toys out of the pram this morning. President

00:39:03.520 Trump goes from the world's greatest leader to, oh, you're quitting too early. The Israel first 0.96

00:39:08.740 crowd, that's a sideshow to a sideshow. When they talk about American Suez, with the Suez Canal, 0.91

00:39:14.240 Nasser, an Arab nationalist, not a... although supposedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,

00:39:19.740 but he was an Arab nationalist in the era of Arab nationalism, decided to take the Suez Canal.

00:39:26.600 Both Israel and the Brits put together a counter striking force and they assumed that the United States of America was going to be there with them.

00:39:34.440 It was General Eisenhower who had led the coalition in the Great Crusade in World War II in Europe said, we're not doing that.

00:39:41.760 That's kind of outside of our bailiwick. You know, we fought in the desert against Rommel.

00:39:45.700 We're not going back there. You guys are going to have to handle his own.

00:39:48.020 And that was a shock. Anthony Eden, these guys were in shock. And it was really the really the beginning of the at least the end of the empire east of Suez.

00:39:57.320 It came as a shock. That's why you're going to hear this. This is America's Suez right here.

00:40:01.860 What President Trump did, I think, far, far, far from it, both the hemispheric defense from the Arctic all the way through South America,

00:40:10.360 coupled with really where our strategic pivot is, Jack.

00:40:15.020 It's not McKinder's Central Asian heartland.

00:40:17.960 It's the vast Pacific Ocean, which is an American lake.

00:40:23.580 And you take the three island chains, which gets you right up there to Taiwan.

00:40:29.020 That is in the vital national security interest of the good old United States of America.

00:40:34.140 And you're absolutely correct.

00:40:34.980 This is going to be one thing.

00:40:36.200 You bring up AI before I let you go.

00:40:38.020 folks we were going to start the show this morning even with everything that happened overnight

00:40:41.780 the single most important story today has nothing to do with or at least nothing to do with uh what

00:40:49.540 happened in the middle east except maybe some of the operations it's artificial intelligence

00:40:54.140 it's anthropic and now people can understand what this big fight between the pentagon and anthropic

00:40:59.120 um and if my crack team can put it up uh so um jim vanderhay and mike allen over that have real

00:41:06.720 insights and with these ceos jack have put up a story everyone has to read this morning we'll have

00:41:13.440 joe allen mark beale and a cast of all stars on this afternoon this is the single most important

00:41:18.960 thing that's been revealed it ain't about the middle east it's not about the straight over

00:41:23.120 moves this is about species uh you guessed it uh as we've been warning there are systems out there

00:41:30.900 AI models that cannot be controlled by the AI guys. They admit this. It turns out they say

00:41:37.980 the White House has known this for six weeks. Other people in the industry have known it for

00:41:41.780 a couple of months. Jack, I think that's part of the battle with the Pentagon they've had.

00:41:48.640 Also, I think this is what the system you just talked about. People have been blowing jack and

00:41:53.420 eye up behind the scenes saying, hey, there's super weapons that are about to be deployed.

00:41:57.720 There's all these super weapons like greater than tactical nuclear weapons.

00:42:01.880 I believe this is part of it, Jack Posovic.

00:42:04.300 You?

00:42:06.180 Steve, there's no question that AI is the new super weapon.

00:42:09.520 AI is going to be the nukes of the future.

00:42:11.920 And the real danger here, and you look at the Axios piece that's out today talking about how D.C. governs by crisis.

00:42:19.180 It's one of the best lines I've ever heard because it's exactly true and it holds true across administrations.

00:42:25.100 but there's a pause that i think that people really need to understand and you don't need

00:42:31.160 to go full joe allen and uh dark aeon which of course we've got the we've got a copy of it

00:42:36.620 sitting right over here but people need to understand you hook this one of these things

00:42:40.120 up clawed or anthropic hook that up to an aircraft carrier you hook that up to the uss

00:42:45.000 ford if you hook that up to america's nuclear missile stockpile what is going to happen next

00:42:52.640 Even one F-35, Lightning II, if you hook this up, this thing goes self-aware, suddenly it's going to be, and by the way, it's not just going to go after other countries.

00:43:04.020 It's going to link up with other AIs, and that is the danger.

00:43:09.800 By the way, it's like the Terminator movie.

00:43:12.160 Skynet is self-aware.

00:43:13.900 Jack, what's your social media?

00:43:15.160 I know you've got to bounce.

00:43:16.060 Thanks for joining us this morning.

00:43:16.920 Where do people go?

00:43:18.160 Thanks so much, and God bless to the posse.

00:43:19.840 We're going to be up at Jack Posobiec.

00:43:21.720 Of course, here later today, Real America's Voice, 2 p.m. Eastern.

00:43:25.460 And then you get the podcast. We'll have the sit rep out every day.

00:43:30.460 Amazing, Jack. Look forward to seeing you, too.

00:43:33.600 Jack Posobiec. OK, Fennell Faddis next.

00:43:38.720 Fellow patriots, the Federal Reserve has portrayed America for over a century, printing fiat, inflating away your savings, serving globalist masters.

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00:44:44.740 today strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics it's what chairman and ceo throughout

00:44:51.580 the world read and you should too here's your host stephen k vann okay so get you up to speed

00:45:00.840 reporting uae and kuwait are reporting that uh they're being hit by missiles still also i think

00:45:07.580 they went after don't know if the houthis their allies or or the revolutionary guard did try to

00:45:13.540 strike at the pipeline that going to the red sea um of the saudis also netanyahu's office has

00:45:21.060 reconfirmed what they said overnight we'll get fattison on this one that lebanon is not part

00:45:26.920 of this deal sorry not sorry that might be surprising to the guy at 1600 pennsylvania

00:45:32.400 avenue but we're gonna get to all that captain finnell you've done amazing reporting here of

00:45:37.540 the military aspects of this let me just ask you though brought it out for a second

00:45:40.920 is this the american suez or what happens in beijing tentatively scheduled for i think the

00:45:49.020 13th 14th 15th of may uh and in taiwan as you know the the komington is over there right now

00:45:56.480 kowtowing would shang would shang kai-shek be rolling over in his grave kowtowing to beijing

00:46:03.600 over the next couple of days as a tee-up for that meeting to jam us uh is that going to be

00:46:08.700 the American Suez, sir? Steve, I agreed with what you said to Jack in the previous segment. I do not

00:46:15.600 see this as American Suez. The performance over the last 39 days of our combat forces against Iran

00:46:23.740 is unprecedented in history. So I would say this is more like, you know, the end of World War II

00:46:30.220 in a sense that we've done something very significant. It's not over. But in terms of

00:46:35.880 what we've been able to demonstrate is really, really unprecedented in terms of the ability of

00:46:42.440 our military to systematically bring a nation to come to a negotiating table like this in just

00:46:49.580 less than five weeks. So I think that's what history will see. And President Trump's aware

00:46:55.500 of this, you know, impact from China and the impact on China. He's put out today, he said,

00:47:00.760 I'm putting a 50 percent tariff on any arms suppliers to Iran. And that's important because 1.00

00:47:07.120 in the last six weeks, China has supplied sodium percolate, which is used to build ballistic

00:47:11.700 missiles on a number of five ERISL ships, Iranian ships, Revolutionary Guard supply ships that have

00:47:20.100 come in over the course of the last six weeks. So he's saying now if you do this, China, you're

00:47:25.820 going to lose 50% of your trade with the United States. So this is well thought out, and he's 0.98

00:47:31.800 aware of what's going on. And so I think the message is we're going to dominate this area.

00:47:38.120 We have dominated it. We're going to open it up. One of the tests will clearly be,

00:47:42.880 will this trade open without this $1 or $2 million fee that the Iranians are somehow 0.78

00:47:48.520 trying to claim that they're taking? Oman's already come out in the last four hours and said,

00:47:53.940 we will not pay anything. So this is kind of significant. And I think the rest of the world, 0.96

00:47:58.600 based on the United Nations Conventional Law of the Sea, there's going to be a lot of pushback

00:48:02.820 internationally to say, hey, we're not going to pay the transit through an international

00:48:06.760 waterway. And the test will be if that's allowed to happen. Maybe if we see a United States Navy

00:48:14.020 warship conduct a freedom of navigation transit without being attacked, that'll demonstrate our

00:48:19.680 power there but again back to the mission but hang on but hang hang on i want to talk about

00:48:26.160 the broader mission but they're also saying there's paid in chinese yuan would you not agree

00:48:32.100 with me that the recommendation we would make to the president right now the commander-in-chief is

00:48:36.200 like as this thing gets another week into it and we get more refinement on the 10 points for the

00:48:42.300 intermediate ceasefire and then for a longer kind of peace arrangement i don't think it's going to

00:48:46.520 be a treaty but some acknowledgement that we're going to lay our arms down shouldn't we take both

00:48:51.280 carrier battle groups in the north arabian sea and maybe take the tripoli and a couple and transfer

00:48:56.240 those back through the straits of malacca to the south china sea and maybe have them do freedom 0.94

00:49:01.000 of navigation runs which we haven't done uh in the straits of taiwan to let the let the uh masters

00:49:08.380 in beijing know that the united states navy's here and it just kicked ass in the uh middle east and

00:49:14.200 prepared to defend Taiwan, sir? 100%. I have been calling for a long time for the United States 0.68

00:49:22.240 Navy to send an aircraft carrier strike group, not just a destroyer, not just something with an

00:49:27.400 aircraft like a PA, but we need to send an aircraft carrier through. The last time a United

00:49:32.120 States Navy aircraft carrier went through the Taiwan Strait was in 2007, USS Kitty Hawk,

00:49:37.860 which I had just served on previously a couple of years before. And it was only because there

00:49:42.100 had been a typhoon coming up through the South China Sea, and they had to get out of port quickly

00:49:46.900 to escape the typhoon that they actually went through. So we have not enforced our freedom of

00:49:53.440 navigation statements that we've heard from many administrations, fly anywhere, sail anywhere,

00:49:58.560 steam anywhere. It sounds good, but you've got to do it. You've got to follow through. So I would

00:50:03.240 suggest we do a freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. And then when the Lincoln's done 0.79

00:50:07.900 and this thing has now calmed down and we feel confident. Maybe we leave the Bush in the med, 0.93

00:50:13.620 but when the Lincoln goes home, Xi should come back through the Strait of Malacca and then go 0.96

00:50:17.300 right up through the Taiwan Strait as a signal to Xi and the rest of them that, hey, what's good

00:50:22.480 for the goose will be good for the gander, which is you, China. So don't get any ideas about Taiwan.

00:50:30.160 Walk me through your concerns about the enforcement of the ceasefire. There's already 0.85

00:50:34.340 kind of scrambling around of, you know, what you just mentioned, what's going to happen in the

00:50:38.840 Strait of Hormuz? Are they going to charge a fee? What's it going to be paid in? Or are they just

00:50:42.940 going to blow that off? Other aspects of their nuclear weapons capability. Mark Levin and these

00:50:48.160 guys saying you haven't done the job there. You still need to go get the nuclear dust. Your

00:50:52.820 thoughts on the continued potential of military operations here? I think there's still a real

00:50:59.460 potential. I mean, and Secretary of War Hegseth mentioned that there's still some strikes

00:51:04.880 happening. There's still some kinetic action from the Iranians, and they're attributing that to

00:51:09.200 the poor command and control and communications and this mosaic architecture that Sam's told us

00:51:14.500 about. Fine. So we'll let that go for a couple of days. But if that continues, then we've got a

00:51:19.160 problem. But I think the real bigger issue is the nuclear issue, which is no enrichment of uranium,

00:51:27.220 which we have said is part of our points, and the Iranians have said we'll never allow that. 0.84

00:51:32.960 And then there was also in our comments about nuclear dust, as you mentioned, 0.90

00:51:37.620 a joint excavation and removal, joint U.S.-Iranian program.

00:51:43.740 If the Iranians agree to that, that would be phenomenal. 0.79

00:51:48.260 Let's see what happens.

00:51:49.540 So I think what happens here, I think it's in Friday in Pakistan, will let us know more about that.

00:51:54.040 But that would be, for me, the key sticking point, nukes.

00:52:00.160 Captain, hang on for one second.

00:52:01.580 I know you got to bounce, but I want to get you on the other side.

00:52:05.060 Trita Parsi is going to join us tentatively.

00:52:08.080 We've also got Sam Faddis.

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Bannon's War Room - April 08, 2026

Episode 5282： Who Comes Out Victorious In This Ceasefire; Anthropic And Rise Of Skynet

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