00:00:00.000The U.S., Israel, and Iran agree that a ceasefire is now in effect, but they're contradicting each other and themselves in terms of what's actually been agreed to and what's happened, what happens now.
00:00:13.360Tonight, the Speaker of Iran's Parliament claims three clauses of its workable proposal to Trump have already been violated.
00:00:21.140That includes new Israeli strikes today in Lebanon, which Israel has refused to stop.
00:00:27.480Iran also claims its right to nuclear enrichment was laid out very much in the 10-point plan accepted by Trump.
00:00:35.200But the White House suggested a 10-point plan reported today by Iranian state media was, well, just an early draft.
00:00:43.760Vance is set to attend face-to-face talks with Iran, along with Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in Pakistan on Saturday.
00:00:52.560Iran's delegation is expected to arrive tonight.
00:00:55.140The president posted overnight that the United States military will be remaining in the region in place, as he put it, quote, until such time as the real agreement is reached, is fully complied with.
00:01:08.160If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, he writes, then he levels the new threat.
00:01:14.900The shooting starts bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.
00:01:19.740Clear it up in any kind of actual ceasefire agreement.
00:01:22.620I think with normal administrations, that's the case.
00:01:27.660Normally you have a text and all the sides look at it and change sentences or words or phrases.
00:01:33.260This latest ceasefire, which evidently was at the initiative of the U.S. administration,
00:01:38.220and they used Pakistan to bring it about, seems to have been off the cuff.
00:01:42.740And it seemed to have included a full secession of all hostilities, to include Lebanon.
00:01:48.780but evidently Israel wasn't consulted enough or agreed to disagree. So this is why we have
00:01:55.620a ceasefire that never took hold, that no sides are living up to except the U.S. military,
00:02:01.920which is where we are now. I think there's a lot of concern. It's clearly a very tenuous,
00:02:07.040fragile ceasefire at this moment. And I think one of the biggest concerns as we're waking up this
00:02:12.160morning is just how much confusion there is as to what was exactly agreed upon when both sides
00:02:20.480announced that they were joining this two-week ceasefire. You mentioned what's happening with
00:02:25.800these Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon is a crucial, crucial sticking point. I think one of
00:02:30.740the biggest parts of this ceasefire was Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. You
00:02:37.500heard the White House, Caroline Levitt, the press secretary, arguing yesterday that they had seen
00:02:42.840some traffic ticking up in the street, but that was very minimal. Iran later said that they were
00:02:47.540closing it because of those ongoing attacks in Lebanon and really coming down to what we heard
00:02:52.480the vice president argue was just a fundamental misunderstanding of whether or not Lebanon was
00:02:58.080exactly in the agreement. And so that has created a lot of consternation. And of course, something we
00:03:03.420have to see how that is going to be resolved. You did hear the vice president just after that clip
00:03:08.440you played, he went on to say that Israel might be checking themselves when it comes to their
00:03:12.920attacks on Lebanon. We'll have to see if that's actually what the path forward is here, if Israel
00:03:17.380will be the one to seize those attacks to try and ensure that the strait is reopened and this
00:03:22.960ceasefire remains intact. But I think another big part of all of this, Kate, is also, again,
00:03:27.880What are exactly the points that they are basing, you know, using as the basis for the negotiations that are set to kick off in person in Islamabad this weekend?
00:03:37.680One of the things that was most notable to me, I know that, you know, shortly after that ceasefire proposal was agreed to Tuesday night,
00:03:45.540you know, you saw Iran, their Supreme National Security Council, putting out this statement that included what they argued were the 10 points.
00:03:52.780Something CNN reported on, the president, I was told, was very livid about that statement.
00:03:57.700And he tried to characterize the CNN statement or excuse me, the CNN reporting on that statement as fake.
00:04:03.040But we have not seen any type of language.
00:04:06.280We have asked repeatedly now from the White House and our sources, what are the 10 points then that this is based on?
00:04:11.640You heard the White House press secretary yesterday say the 10 points that have been flying around.
00:04:16.020They had Iran initially given the United States 10 points.
00:04:20.020They threw that in the garbage. Now they're using a separate 10 points as the basis for these talks.
00:04:24.480But again, we have not seen those and we still are wondering exactly what the 15 point plan, what the specifics of that are.
00:04:31.720And so there's so much confusion around this from my conversations with my sources in that building behind me.
00:04:37.560They do tell me they are confident that the talks this weekend will continue.
00:04:40.880And they are hoping that can kind of clear a lot of this up and be the start of potentially several intense negotiations to come.
00:04:48.640But again, very fragile this morning and a lot of questions about how this is actually going to proceed.
00:04:53.100If I mean, Iran is now in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They were not previously. They didn't have official control over it. Certainly the Iranian nuclear program. Obviously, they've suffered huge losses in terms of infrastructure and ballistic missiles and the like.
00:05:10.200They're still obviously able to shoot down some U.S. planes, and they're able to fire drones and others at neighboring countries.
00:05:20.040But their nuclear program or their nuclear desires remain, and the regime seems the same and or perhaps more hard line, less experienced.
00:05:32.480Do you believe Iran is in a stronger position now than before the war in a strange way?
00:05:37.700Not a strange way, in an obvious way. They're strategically, they have a position of strategic
00:05:43.680strength going into the negotiations. The U.S. had a big stick. It brandished for years. It's
00:05:49.980military. They used it. The dreadful has already happened. And now Iran realizes that it can take
00:05:55.640that punch. Additionally, Iran has found a big stick of its own that up until now it had hesitated
00:06:01.780using, which is control of the Strait of Hormuz. And don't forget, even though it's closed now,
00:06:06.920even when it's putatively open under the ceasefire, Iran says they're only going to let
00:06:12.320through about 12 ships a day. So Iran has found a piece of hyper-strategic deterrence
00:06:19.340to replace the three pillars it lost before. And finally, you're quite right, Anderson,
00:06:24.800the new government that we put into place as a result of decapitation
00:06:28.480is far more militaristic and far more hardline. So any type of deal the US can get out of this
00:06:35.280now is going to be far worse than the deal we could have gotten on February 27th.
00:06:41.360Given what we've seen in Lebanon today and the increased attacks from Israel,
00:06:46.320is there any concern that Netanyahu is trying to kill the ceasefire?
00:06:51.960Maya, of course there should be a concern. I mean, Netanyahu reportedly convinced Trump to
00:06:57.300start this war to begin with, something he tried with other presidents in the past,
00:07:01.040while Netanyahu was somehow meeting in the Situation Room, according to new reporting.
00:07:05.120And the United States and Israel have had different objectives from the beginning, which is a huge flag and has always been.
00:07:11.760And even when you get down to the details of how the flimsy deal came together yesterday,
00:07:15.820the Pakistani prime minister, who has been acting as a mediator of the negotiations,
00:07:19.760specifically mentioned the ceasefire would also take effect in Lebanon.
00:07:22.860And then within hours of the ceasefire, Israel launched the largest waves of attacks on Lebanon in weeks
00:07:28.520and claimed Lebanon wasn't a part of the ceasefire.
00:07:31.660Then J.D. Vance claimed today it was all somehow a misunderstanding.
00:07:35.780All sounds pretty sketchy to me, Maya.
00:07:38.280I would emphasize these are really baby steps right now.
00:07:42.640There's no real indication that the Strait is going to reopen.
00:07:46.620And it seems like a flimsy ceasefire to say what's obvious.
00:07:50.580I mean, Anderson, there's no indication that the Strait of Hormuz is open at this time.
00:07:54.960The Iranians have said that it is closed, that they closed it once again after Israel began carrying out these very deadly strikes that we saw in Lebanon today, strikes that even France is condemning as indiscriminate tonight, the French president calling them indiscriminate.
00:08:09.820What we have seen is that two Iranian vessels apparently went through the strait earlier in the day and one Chinese vessel went through.
00:08:17.060That's according to the Iranians. Tonight, you know, ship tracking data from Marine Tracker is showing no evidence of any ships passing through this strait.
00:08:26.580And as you heard from the vice president there, he has said that if the Iranians don't open this strait, it's going to be problematic for the United States.
00:08:33.900And whether the U.S. keeps up its commitments to this ceasefire, that it doesn't carry out strikes inside of Iran.
00:08:40.320So it really just seems like we're in a very untenuous position here.
00:08:43.560Something is going to have to change. Either Iran's going to have to reopen the strait.
00:08:46.720The U.S. is going to have to pressure Israel not to carry out strikes against Hezbollah, or perhaps we see a return to war.
00:08:53.080And there are numerous items on the Iranian plan that there's just no way we can accept.
00:08:58.160Removal of all U.S. forces, right to enrich, right to control the Strait of Hormuz.
00:09:03.440And apparently they're even going to charge in cryptocurrency to navigate the strait.
00:09:08.660I mean, they want to turn this into their Panama Canal.
00:09:11.600So there's a lot of very tough negotiating that's going to have to take place.
00:09:15.580But you do see the leverage that Iran is able to wield by this control, the Strait of Hamuz, and it could lead to President Trump insisting that Prime Minister Netanyahu cease operations in Lebanon.
00:09:30.120In fact, I think one reason why you saw such intense operations today was Israel taking advantage of whatever remaining time they have to degrade Hezbollah as far as they can.
00:09:41.660And they have done a great deal of that to ensure that they can't threaten Israel the way that they have in the past.
00:09:48.200There's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith propaganda going on.
00:09:54.300I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
00:09:56.620I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.
00:10:03.460We never indicated that was going to be the case.
00:10:05.660What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
00:10:13.480Now, that said, the Israelis, as I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a fuller report when I get on the plane,
00:10:18.680have actually offered to be, frankly, to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon
00:10:25.540because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful.
00:10:28.900That's not because that is part of the ceasefire.
00:10:31.820I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success,
00:10:34.960and we'll, of course, see how that unfolds in the next few days.
00:10:37.340But, look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart
00:10:41.740in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon,
00:10:45.360which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the
00:10:50.500ceasefire. That's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.
00:10:57.660This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval
00:11:05.900on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have
00:11:12.700had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything
00:11:16.460in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do
00:11:19.840people like that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
00:11:27.400these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer
00:11:34.520is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
00:11:43.020it's thursday 9 april in the year of our lord 2026
00:11:52.240uh eric boling is going to join us in a moment we're going to talk about markets and talk about
00:11:57.880um uh this current situation the i think the iranians just put a a tweet uh a while ago
00:12:05.400i don't know one of the guys that says we're negotiating with them uh that there's been so
00:12:11.000many violations of this there's been so many violations of this that uh it's um you know
00:12:17.000the ceasefire is about to not hold i totally don't understand i'll be blunt i just don't understand
00:12:24.120what the vice president was talking about right there the israelis america's greatest ally have
00:12:30.040not set us up for success in any part of this war and i think we need to be blunt now with
00:12:36.820the american people and also with the people across the table i think communications particularly
00:12:43.460communications of objectives goals all of it would behoove us and no the israelis are not
00:12:51.360setting us up for success that would not be the case and they they need to be part of this you
00:12:58.060know global um settlement of at least things were put down the weapons i just don't see us getting
00:13:05.160to a signed document this is not going to be like japan on the decks of the missouri the reason is
00:13:11.020the wall street journal reports this i'm not saying it's a fact but it's definitely a fact
00:13:17.580in their mind the iranians think they're winning they've shifted the center of gravity to the
00:13:23.700persian gulf as we told you two and a half weeks ago uh they have taken the straight her moves and
00:13:30.520still have some sort of control of this bowling will be here i think 12 ships have gone through
00:13:35.560versus 125 we may come down to a simple fact that the united states navy in combination
00:13:44.080with the air force and others may have to go and just open up the straits as the straits have been
00:13:50.680open uh for decades and decades and decades you can't be a supplicant to these bandits you can't
00:13:59.700be a supplicant to a theocratic regime that the farther down the chain food chain you go of killing
00:14:06.240you're just getting harder and harder core people because they were formed in this incredible world
00:14:12.140World One-type atmosphere they had back in the 1980s with Iraq. We've got a very determined
00:14:19.740enemy. They're very determined. They're very determined, and they think they're winning.
00:14:26.040We have to take away some pieces that they have to show them they're not winning. We're going to
00:14:33.460get into all this this morning. Eric Bolling's going to join me. Also, we're going to talk about
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00:16:25.040War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:16:33.020Eric Bolling's with us. We're going to get more into this.
00:16:36.060about the situation of, you know, we might have to open up the straight ourselves might come down
00:16:42.660to that. You can't certainly be like a supplicant in this situation and you can't be a supplicant
00:16:48.040with America's greatest ally. Um, what they're doing in Lebanon, there's plenty, if that's what
00:16:54.540they're going to do, there's plenty of time to do that. Doesn't mean it does not need to be done
00:16:57.820today unless they're trying to get as much done as possible before the ref calls the blows the
00:17:03.740whistle. And in that case, it's not acceptable. We need to drive the train here because this is
00:17:11.420quite complicated. And we're in it now. We're in it now. And we have to win this thing. And I'm
00:17:20.180very opposed to this war. And I'm very opposed to the war for exactly the reason we're in it right
00:17:23.980now. And you see the New York Times article, which has not been refuted by anybody. Once again,
00:17:30.380This was bad information, bad intelligence pushed by the Israelis.
00:17:36.400And if somebody can please give me a counter to that, I'm open to it.
00:17:39.620But Tel Aviv, Levin and this crowd have not come up with it.
00:17:42.200I keep getting back to 47 years of being bad guys.
00:17:45.880Well, you know what? They are bad guys.
00:17:48.240But the Chinese Communist Party has been eating our lunch on something important and major, like the destruction of our country, for longer than that.
00:17:57.060And yet we welcome them and embrace them with open arms.
00:18:00.380uh eric bowling markets today you you know that it's not going according to plan when fox news
00:18:11.460which we refer to his tv for stupid people presented by stupid people are going to the
00:18:17.140easter bunnies and the rabbits easter was a couple weeks ago they're going to everything
00:18:20.300spring when they cut away for cooking and they cut away for let's go pet some animals
00:18:25.300that that is the top guys that's murdoch saying hey you know this thing's not going well let's
00:18:31.160let's divert the stupid people that watch our channel right the people there with their mouths
00:18:36.800open that just you know take all the crap all the neocon militarist crap uh the the mitch mcconnell
00:18:43.620school of politics uh and uh and just accept it right let's let's we got to change the programming
00:18:51.220here. Let's throw some rabbits up there. Right. Let's have some bunnies. Let's cook an omelet
00:18:55.260and tell the audience how how how how how great an omelet. We have a whole different take on
00:19:00.880omelets. That's what Fox is doing right now. We need to get damn serious about this. And
00:19:07.020if this is Islamabad, it has to be real like this, this new the the modified 10 points.
00:19:16.940OK, it's a modified 10 points. That's great, because the 10 points they gave us, eight of
00:19:20.300are not worth having a meeting about because you don't want to give the impression that I'm
00:19:24.320prepared to even hear your argument on reparations. Not interested. Your argument on
00:19:30.000you're controlling the straight or her moves, but you're going to give a discount to somebody
00:19:34.180if they take it in one or crypto. Not interested. So I don't even know why we're going to Islamabad.
00:19:40.300We're going there to send a senior delegation to talk to a foreign minister or something. I don't
00:19:45.040get that. Let's just go principle to principle. Trump's the best dealmaker in the world.
00:19:49.720Xi, not a bad dealmaker himself, a font of evil.
00:19:54.460But sometimes you have to deal with evil.
00:19:56.720Let's just do it in Beijing, principle to principle, because the Chinese got involved.
00:20:00.560The only reason you even have any kind of accommodation to get to a ceasefire was the Chinese involvement with the Pakistanis, who they own.
00:20:08.040Don't think the Pakistanis are a buddy.
00:20:09.780The field marshal and others are quite close to President Trump.
00:20:42.380I'll start with what you pointed out about Fox.
00:20:44.600I think I texted you or texted him this morning and I was saying, you know, you watch War Room and you see where we are in this war geopolitically, where we're headed.
00:20:53.660And you flip over and I took a picture screen grab of, you know, some of the hosts playing with puppies, literally playing with war.
00:21:00.780I mean, our markets are gyrating. I'm watching oil prices tick up over one hundred and one dollars a barrel as we speak right now.
00:21:08.520And there's the difference, right? You watch something that's going to make you more intelligent or something you want to cook.
00:21:13.280you want to watch cooking and animals, go watch Fox. Let me tell you, Steve, you were,
00:21:16.740remember we did the handoff yesterday at four 50 or so. And everyone thought it was a great day,
00:21:22.600except you and I, because we saw oil go from $115 a barrel down to, it went under 92 yesterday,
00:21:29.060late in the afternoon, 91 50. But I watched the train from 91 50 back up to $97. It closed at
00:21:36.560$97. I said, Steve, you know, people aren't seeing this. The oil guys are, and they have been,
00:21:42.000You know, we have like we see dead people in markets.
00:21:44.840They saw at the end of the day, you say, something wasn't right.
00:24:28.900We have the we have control of the ball. We could destroy your civilization.
00:24:34.040Trump doesn't want to. That is the real threat. Somehow Iran is calling the shots.
00:24:38.820I'm scratching my head. Iran is telling us in international waters, technically, that they're going to monitor the strait and put tolls on the strait.
00:24:47.940Who the hell is Iran? What about Oman? What about UAE?
00:24:51.040They're two miles north. The UAE holds that border. We have another toll for UAE as well.
00:24:56.820and Saudi Arabia, come on, let's finish this.
00:25:00.680Let them play those stupid fanatical Islamic games
00:25:04.680We don't really need the oil coming through the strait.
00:25:07.480Yeah, it'll affect our prices, but I'm going to pull the hell out
00:25:10.720or get it over with, rip the Band-Aid off
00:25:12.880and destroy that civilization and let them rebuild,
00:25:16.780I guess, a way that benefits the United States.
00:25:21.480Number one, the guys you're trying to negotiate with
00:25:25.100are sitting there going you can't even control uh your ally who has driven much of this remember
00:25:31.380the new york times and hey if it's if it's um if the reporting is fake let's i need the white house
00:25:38.640to come out and say line by line these are these are this is not true haven't heard anybody say
00:25:44.600it's not true they told us that uh they told us besides the imminent part they told us that
00:25:50.300the massive bombing would lead to a major uprising and not to worry about her moves,
00:25:55.120that they wouldn't have the military capabilities after the first couple of days of strategic
00:26:00.660bombing to do anything her moves. Need to hear that countered by what the facts were.
00:26:06.660If those aren't the facts, because that is a major strategic miscalculation.
00:26:12.820You know, we've heard Seb Gork and other talk about exquisite intelligence.
00:26:16.120I'm not seeing it. You're not seeing it now. Just remember, more importantly, whether it's a reality or not, these people think these people think they're winning.
00:26:24.940I think they're driving the initiative. Now, Eric, you've said oil is fungible.
00:26:28.660Why all your guys at the money conference are asking about oil is because even President Trump's plan is predicated upon full spectrum energy dominance.
00:26:37.720His ability to work to drive energy prices down led to the Trump massive boom in 2019, and it's really led the way of his plan in the second term with Scott Bessent, right?
00:27:02.240No, I think we got some bad news yesterday because I believe the NATO meeting, which went longer than it was supposed to.
00:27:09.740And I don't believe the NATO secretary general came to the sticks.
00:27:13.160President Trump didn't bring him into the Oval to have questions, which would normally happen if we had an upbeat meeting and had some positive things to say, because I think they told him, hey, we just don't have the we don't have the naval assets to even be a reality here.
00:27:28.020We've allowed these guys to lean on us so long that they're sitting there now and saying,
00:27:33.080we don't have the resources, we don't have the assets.
00:27:36.940So, if it stays closed, hang over a second, Eric, I'm going to ask you to stay over.
00:27:41.460If we don't have the assets, then you've got to keep it open.
00:27:45.440And the reason you've got to keep it open, or fight to keep it open,
00:27:48.800is because it's in your benefit as much as ours,
00:27:51.560because of the integrated nature of the world's energy and oil market.
00:33:26.860you got to pay as you go for any of this stuff.
00:33:28.680So put aside the defense buildup question, which we were already wrestling with before engaging in Iran, now we've got some requests for somewhere between $100 and $200 billion.
00:33:38.380And I got to be honest, you know, a bunch of people from the Budget Committee went over the Pentagon before this recess, visited with them, and they didn't deliver what they needed to deliver in terms of specifics as to what we would use money for to build munitions and to make sure the military is as modern as it needs to be.
00:33:54.760We have a job as Congress. As much as I love this president and this administration, we've got a job to do to hold them accountable. By the way, FISA is another issue that I'm going to be on Monday when we come back. I'm not agreeing to move forward on FISA unless we're going to protect American citizens from government spying. So there's a lot of issues we've got to keep working on.
00:34:12.400i want to go back to your trip in 2008 i remember you did i think you did tell me about the story
00:34:19.720i believe you took that trip and they're talking about soccer fields and the amount of money we're
00:34:25.120pumping in that was a couple of months i think before the financial collapse in september of
00:34:29.5602008 and that got people quite focused on these wars about what we had to do um everybody
00:34:36.360collectively is pushing for the trump agenda to work particularly his economic agenda because
00:34:41.500that drives so much of this. But we do have to come to a reality check here that our financial
00:34:47.920situation is a massive national security issue. And when people bring this up, they're not saying
00:34:54.560we we we're not supportive. We're trying to say, hey, look, do not forget this fact of this
00:35:00.340financial this. And we are still in a financial crisis, even given the what President Trump and
00:35:07.640best that have is getting traction to reverse the plague years of biden um in this financial
00:35:14.340situation particularly the the pentagon increase of up to 1.5 trillion and like you said guys
00:35:21.000people are going to have to deliver here specifically why do we need this increase
00:35:25.220where's it going to come from are we going to cut these other programs which i think
00:35:28.840are rife with corruption and and uh and fraud then let's do it but then have let's have the
00:35:34.720stones to see it through chip your thoughts yeah steve this is exactly right if i might extend on
00:35:41.160something you said in the segment as you're coming into to my joining about energy okay and it's all
00:35:45.920related give me one second on this so last year you remember now we're almost a year removed from
00:35:50.720the big beautiful bill debates i was fighting as hard as i could to drag that thing to the
00:35:55.260fiscally responsible direction remember it was in may that i joined with three republican colleagues
00:36:02.500in the Freedom Caucus to stop, vote down.
00:36:06.020I voted against the big, beautiful bill.
00:36:32.460So we've bought and we got about half of those Green New Scam subsidies put back in.
00:36:37.040Fast forward, now I'm running for attorney general.
00:36:39.600A pack in California, a bunch of leftists, ran a million dollars of ads against me in Texas saying they, quote, want to end my career.
00:36:47.920Now, look, I'm going to win this race for attorney general, but I have news for them.
00:36:51.240My career is not ending whether I win or lose, but I'm going to win because I'm going to keep fighting these Marxists and these leftists no matter what.
00:36:57.100They want to take out our ability to be able to have energy freedom and energy security,
00:37:03.180which is at the center of this entire conflict.
00:37:45.860But it's got to be real tools for real military dominance.
00:37:49.400And I don't want us to be engaged in endless conflict.
00:37:51.980That's what next week is going to be about, having an honest conversation.
00:37:54.900We want to back the president's strategic aims, but we're not going to let the swamp do what it always does and bankrupt this country while we, you know, pretend that we're, you know, you know, doing something fiscally responsible when we're in fact making housing more expensive to higher interest rates, inflation going up, et cetera.
00:38:10.740i'm glad you brought this up because i want to go but we're going to have rosemary jinx is going to
00:38:17.520join us in the second hour what chip is talking about a group of republicans have put up in with
00:38:24.680democrats a essentially an amnesty bill like we don't have enough problems they're going to join
00:38:29.300with democrats and put an amnesty bill we're going to get to that in a second because uh lara ingram
00:38:33.680i thought did a good job uh last night over at fox of uh of peeling back waller but we're going to
00:38:38.780get to that we wrote some rejection in detail but this gets back to the green new scam part of it
00:38:42.680you know to get murkowski in these moderates you got to go and you got to offer him this stuff and
00:38:47.340the green new scam stuff is still out there and president trump is a top priority right is that
00:38:52.900that stuff's got to go so so walk me through to get energy you know to really get full spectrum
00:38:58.780energy dominance and get serious about this now that it looks like more than ever that we need to
00:39:05.040make sure that in the Western Hemisphere, we're fully set here. So we don't have to worry about
00:39:09.840the straight or her moves. That's really, you know, it's, it's, it's essentially Europe's
00:39:14.760problem, but we're there to help. What do you need to do still in the green new scam that's
00:39:19.200out there? I thought all that stuff got taken out, uh, before the big, beautiful bill was voted on.
00:39:24.900No, last year, a year ago, uh, it was all of our reforms to be clear, right? We had these,
00:39:29.740these subsidies were put in place, which were destroying our incentive infrastructure for
00:39:34.660natural gas powered plants, for our ability to move oil and gas products, because there was so
00:39:40.860much money flowing into wind and solar, which are inefficient and unreliable. So we were fighting to
00:39:46.620pull those subsidies back. Well, we had really good provisions in there to pull back most of
00:39:52.040the subsidies and the squishes in the Senate, the Democrats pulled them all out. That's what I
00:39:56.940stood up and I literally voted against the big, beautiful bill that weekend and took the scorn
00:40:01.800from everybody. And we were able to get about half of those back in. You have to estimate it a bit.
00:40:07.260My view is we need to plow forward and remove the remainder of those subsidies to open up a full,
00:40:12.880true competition. Look, if wind and solar can compete, great. But they're competing right now
00:40:19.000with crony capitalism, with the subsidies that are fueling them. That undermines our ability to have
00:40:24.000a more reliable grid. So that's one thing we need to do. The second thing we need to do is open up
00:40:28.580nuclear rapid fire. We are taking way too long to move forward to get true nuclear moving and
00:40:34.120running again. That's actually good, solid, reliable power. The third thing we got to do
00:40:38.600is deal with permitting. And you put all that stuff in the pot, if we can get the permitting
00:40:42.240on the NEPA, the environmental protection guidelines and all of those things, we can
00:40:46.540actually move forward and be able to get the true full independence of what we were capable of
00:40:51.380doing in America. If you've got nuclear power and if you've got unsubsidized wind and solar,
00:40:55.700fine, use it where it's useful. And if you've got true natural gas that we're pumping out in Texas
00:41:00.860through fracking, then America's unstoppable. That's what we've got to do. Don't follow the
00:41:05.840European model where they're now reliant on the rest of the world. And by the way, this is
00:41:09.220President Trump's genius, is going after the pressure points here and putting pressure on
00:41:15.740Europe, China, Russia. Everybody else has to step up and go figure it out. Instead of us carrying
00:41:21.480the burden of keeping the straits open that's all on the back of the shale revolution in texas i was
00:41:26.240in midland yesterday those people will go produce the energy we need if we'll just free texas up to
00:41:31.200do it chip i've said that and we only got a couple minutes i got to hold you through the break right
00:41:38.620so so we've been saying that hey the bigger fight we have is not some of the middle east but here
00:41:44.160in this country and one of the biggest fights we have is in texas we're going to brandon hall on a
00:41:48.420second they're staying up till two and three in the morning down in austin on the texas education
00:41:53.800board because patriots are flooding the zone down there and want to speak and want to get in front
00:41:58.260of the microphone but why i'm gonna get to the other part about your opponent after the break
00:42:03.800but right now how can we be spending days making sure that care doesn't influence texas history
00:42:10.940as taught to texas kids and textbooks it sounds bizarro but we're in a fight the vote's not even
00:42:17.060going to be till tomorrow, I don't think, sir. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, what's happened
00:42:21.500is Texas is front and center. The Muslim Brotherhood, CARE, and all the organizations,
00:42:25.860Amy Mack and Rare have documented, there's 600 organizations that are all funding this push of
00:42:30.940the Islamification of Texas, the March of Islam across our state and the country. And you can't
00:42:36.260win a war that you don't acknowledge exists. And we cannot allow Islam to hide behind the First
00:42:42.240Amendment when in fact it is a political ideology that is designed in its own language in the Muslim
00:42:47.880Brotherhood Memorandum from 1991 to wage jihad against the West. We know this to be true. We
00:42:54.040know that it's all been flowing out in terms of the Holy Land Foundation 25 years ago, what CARE
00:42:58.960has been up to. I have new legislation I'm going to introduce next week on CARE. I will make sure
00:43:03.920you guys see it first. I can't announce it yet, but to go after them, I already introduced a bill
00:43:08.140to take away their tax status i already introduced the pause act build a you know uh vet people for
00:43:13.340sharia law but texas is behind the eight ball on this we need to be much more aggressive we're
00:43:18.560we're trying to play catch-up the legislation that they've passed is fine but we got to go
00:43:23.840much further because what you're seeing right now is they're using our own rules against us
00:43:28.480to indoctrinate our kids chip chip chip hangover one second chip roy runner for ag in texas next
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00:45:06.140Congressman Chip Roy, who's running for Texas AG. So, Congressman, you used a phrase in the last
00:45:12.860segment I can tell you, I think is resonating with people. You can't win a war you don't
00:45:18.280acknowledge exists. That's a pretty good quote about framing about where we are. So here's the
00:45:25.240question the state of texas is the jewel in the crown um and they know that our enemies in this
00:45:32.620the enemies of the united states of america and us as a constitutional republic fully understand
00:45:37.020that from its history the mythology the current you know the current state of its economy which
00:45:44.020is what the sixth or seventh biggest in the world how it's a countervailing power to california in
00:45:49.560our own union, particularly the way it's run and the way it's governed. The question gets to be
00:45:56.740for folks is, you know, War Room and others, did it turn out hundreds of patriots to go to Texas
00:46:03.860school board and drive and take their time and money and go there to testify? And people are
00:46:08.380lost about CARE is being designated a terrorist organization in the state of Texas and in Florida
00:47:08.600And we have to recognize that because we've got too many people today.
00:47:12.020Literally in the conversations I'm having right now, Steve, with leadership in Austin, with people around the state, they always hedge when I say, wait a minute, we do not want to see more mosques being built.
00:47:22.640We do not want to see taxpayer funding for these Islamic schools.
00:47:27.620We need to do the Office of Attorney General has extraordinary power to open up and look at the books of nonprofits and NGOs.
00:47:33.820As Attorney General, my first order of business will be to assemble the team and go immediately on day one and open up all these books, find where they have connections to terrorist activities and terrorist groups, pull their charters, cut their funding, don't allow those funds to proceed to continue to do what they're doing.
00:47:51.960But the key element to all of that is using the bully pulpit and delivering the message and legally making the arguments that this is not, in fact, something that is going to be protectable as religion, but that you've got to recognize that it's a political movement designed to tear down our walls.
00:48:44.000But the reality is, Sharia is central to it.
00:48:46.940All of this is inconsistent with the West, inconsistent with our laws.
00:48:50.260If you don't acknowledge that, how can you win? And look, I'll give credit. Governor Abbott has
00:48:55.580said, look, we got to stop these dollars flowing to these Islamic schools through the school choice
00:49:01.740programs. That's exactly right. As attorney general, I'll defend that. But we got to go
00:49:06.200further. And we've got to cut the head of the snake off. We've got to stop CARE, pull the
00:49:10.160charter, go after any of the elements of the Muslim Brotherhood. But as Amy Meck has pointed
00:49:15.160out with rare there's 600 organizations so care is front-facing they're calling me a terrorist
00:49:21.340they're calling me a hater all of those things and um i don't care and uh you know i think you
00:49:26.980got to stand up and fight for this stuff that's what i'm trying to do i i hope uh if we make a
00:49:33.660recommendation amy meck is a senior advisor uh to you as attorney general she is really a rock star
00:49:39.780and her efforts to bring just the video and hear these people in their own
00:49:44.440voice, I think is such, so powerful. Uh, Chip,
00:49:47.440where do people go to follow this more closely?
00:49:49.800Cause this is heating up now. Uh, the AG's race,
00:49:53.240I think will be the even more intense than the Senate race. Uh,
00:49:57.800but where do people go to follow you, to find your travel schedule,
00:50:00.720to see more and to give you questions and weigh and measure chip Roy,
00:50:05.860chip Roy.com. Uh, the, the, the runoff is on May 26.
00:50:08.700I'm just going to make one point here. My opponent, Mays Middleton, as a state senator last year, introduced a bill SB 854.
00:50:15.300That bill was designed to be something to promote religious liberty and help the developing cities and entities push religious entities being able to develop these areas.
00:50:25.240but in doing so, it was going to specifically promote the ability of mosques and Muslim-oriented
00:50:31.420and Islam-centered entities to be able to sue local jurisdictions to stop them if they prohibited
00:50:37.380these mosques from being built and these Islamic cities like Epic City from being built. Now,
00:50:41.680my colleague, I don't know whether he did it intentionally or naive, but I know that he tried
00:50:45.900to dupe people because he amended the language that was the description of the bill, but he
00:50:50.040didn't change the text of the bill as it moved through the Senate into the Senate Calendars
00:50:53.940committee. And the problem here is, Steve, you can't be naive and be the attorney general of
00:50:58.900Texas. You can't go up and do a nice sounding bill that's good for religious liberty and then
00:51:03.920ignore the fact that you're going to give fuel to the Islamists who want to remake Texas. You got
00:51:08.940to have the smartest lawyers in the world working at the office of attorney general. And that starts
00:51:13.340at the top. And I've been a prosecutor. I've been a lawyer. I've been in court. I have led the office
00:51:18.620under Kent Baxton. My opponent has done none of those things. There's no room for on the job
00:51:23.360training uh and so this is an important issue people need to pay attention to the federalist
00:51:27.760broke this story yesterday it's a really important glimpse into what a naive attorney general could do
00:51:33.460to the state of texas that's why i need everybody to turn out may 26th was that was that bill was
00:51:39.840it has that bill been killed those aspects of that bill been killed so that bill got to the
00:51:45.060calendars they pushed it out of committee got it to the floor it did stop and didn't get signed
00:51:49.340into law thank god but but my opponent should have known better and again he tried to dupe people by
00:51:54.860changing the description but not changing the bill he should have pulled the bill and he should
00:51:58.760have ended it but he was trying to hide behind religious liberty and not acknowledge that he was
00:52:03.300going to give power to epic city and to those trying to create islamic cities we've got to
00:52:08.180rethink how we deal with all of this because in the for example you have prayer time in schools
00:52:12.960muslims are now going to use that to take over our schools and be gone five times a day for prayer
00:52:17.820on their prayer rugs pointing to mecca we cannot do that it's going to destroy our judeo-christian
00:52:23.020culture and our christian uh nation this fight is i'm telling you there's a real fight in texas
00:52:32.440think about that for a second in the great state of texas we've got a fight it's a fight chip roy
00:52:37.420thank you so much for being on the front line thanks steve god bless
00:52:39.700short commercial break second hour is going to be even more lit than the first stick around