Bannon's War Room - Episode 5285： Confusion And Chaos Continue In Iran

00:00:00.000 The 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.

00:00:13.360 Tonight, the Speaker of Iran's Parliament claims three clauses of its workable proposal to Trump have already been violated.

00:00:21.140 That includes new Israeli strikes today in Lebanon, which Israel has refused to stop.

00:00:27.480 Iran also claims its right to nuclear enrichment was laid out very much in the 10-point plan accepted by Trump.

00:00:35.200 But the White House suggested a 10-point plan reported today by Iranian state media was, well, just an early draft.

00:00:43.760 Vance 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.

00:00:52.560 Iran's delegation is expected to arrive tonight.

00:00:55.140 The 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.

00:01:08.160 If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, he writes, then he levels the new threat.

00:01:14.900 The shooting starts bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.

00:01:19.740 Clear it up in any kind of actual ceasefire agreement.

00:01:22.620 I think with normal administrations, that's the case.

00:01:27.660 Normally you have a text and all the sides look at it and change sentences or words or phrases.

00:01:33.260 This latest ceasefire, which evidently was at the initiative of the U.S. administration,

00:01:38.220 and they used Pakistan to bring it about, seems to have been off the cuff.

00:01:42.740 And it seemed to have included a full secession of all hostilities, to include Lebanon.

00:01:48.780 but evidently Israel wasn't consulted enough or agreed to disagree. So this is why we have

00:01:55.620 a ceasefire that never took hold, that no sides are living up to except the U.S. military,

00:02:01.920 which is where we are now. I think there's a lot of concern. It's clearly a very tenuous,

00:02:07.040 fragile ceasefire at this moment. And I think one of the biggest concerns as we're waking up this

00:02:12.160 morning is just how much confusion there is as to what was exactly agreed upon when both sides

00:02:20.480 announced that they were joining this two-week ceasefire. You mentioned what's happening with

00:02:25.800 these Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon is a crucial, crucial sticking point. I think one of

00:02:30.740 the biggest parts of this ceasefire was Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. You

00:02:37.500 heard the White House, Caroline Levitt, the press secretary, arguing yesterday that they had seen

00:02:42.840 some traffic ticking up in the street, but that was very minimal. Iran later said that they were

00:02:47.540 closing it because of those ongoing attacks in Lebanon and really coming down to what we heard

00:02:52.480 the vice president argue was just a fundamental misunderstanding of whether or not Lebanon was

00:02:58.080 exactly in the agreement. And so that has created a lot of consternation. And of course, something we

00:03:03.420 have to see how that is going to be resolved. You did hear the vice president just after that clip

00:03:08.440 you played, he went on to say that Israel might be checking themselves when it comes to their

00:03:12.920 attacks on Lebanon. We'll have to see if that's actually what the path forward is here, if Israel

00:03:17.380 will be the one to seize those attacks to try and ensure that the strait is reopened and this

00:03:22.960 ceasefire remains intact. But I think another big part of all of this, Kate, is also, again,

00:03:27.880 What 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?

00:03:37.680 One of the things that was most notable to me, I know that, you know, shortly after that ceasefire proposal was agreed to Tuesday night,

00:03:45.540 you know, you saw Iran, their Supreme National Security Council, putting out this statement that included what they argued were the 10 points.

00:03:52.780 Something CNN reported on, the president, I was told, was very livid about that statement.

00:03:57.700 And he tried to characterize the CNN statement or excuse me, the CNN reporting on that statement as fake.

00:04:03.040 But we have not seen any type of language.

00:04:06.280 We have asked repeatedly now from the White House and our sources, what are the 10 points then that this is based on?

00:04:11.640 You heard the White House press secretary yesterday say the 10 points that have been flying around.

00:04:16.020 They had Iran initially given the United States 10 points.

00:04:20.020 They threw that in the garbage. Now they're using a separate 10 points as the basis for these talks.

00:04:24.480 But again, we have not seen those and we still are wondering exactly what the 15 point plan, what the specifics of that are.

00:04:31.720 And so there's so much confusion around this from my conversations with my sources in that building behind me.

00:04:37.560 They do tell me they are confident that the talks this weekend will continue.

00:04:40.880 And they are hoping that can kind of clear a lot of this up and be the start of potentially several intense negotiations to come.

00:04:48.640 But again, very fragile this morning and a lot of questions about how this is actually going to proceed.

00:04:53.100 If 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.

00:05:10.200 They're still obviously able to shoot down some U.S. planes, and they're able to fire drones and others at neighboring countries.

00:05:20.040 But their nuclear program or their nuclear desires remain, and the regime seems the same and or perhaps more hard line, less experienced. 0.57

00:05:32.480 Do you believe Iran is in a stronger position now than before the war in a strange way?

00:05:37.700 Not a strange way, in an obvious way. They're strategically, they have a position of strategic

00:05:43.680 strength going into the negotiations. The U.S. had a big stick. It brandished for years. It's

00:05:49.980 military. They used it. The dreadful has already happened. And now Iran realizes that it can take

00:05:55.640 that punch. Additionally, Iran has found a big stick of its own that up until now it had hesitated 0.78

00:06:01.780 using, which is control of the Strait of Hormuz. And don't forget, even though it's closed now,

00:06:06.920 even when it's putatively open under the ceasefire, Iran says they're only going to let

00:06:12.320 through about 12 ships a day. So Iran has found a piece of hyper-strategic deterrence

00:06:19.340 to replace the three pillars it lost before. And finally, you're quite right, Anderson,

00:06:24.800 the new government that we put into place as a result of decapitation

00:06:28.480 is far more militaristic and far more hardline. So any type of deal the US can get out of this

00:06:35.280 now is going to be far worse than the deal we could have gotten on February 27th.

00:06:41.360 Given what we've seen in Lebanon today and the increased attacks from Israel,

00:06:46.320 is there any concern that Netanyahu is trying to kill the ceasefire? 0.98

00:06:51.960 Maya, of course there should be a concern. I mean, Netanyahu reportedly convinced Trump to

00:06:57.300 start this war to begin with, something he tried with other presidents in the past,

00:07:01.040 while Netanyahu was somehow meeting in the Situation Room, according to new reporting.

00:07:05.120 And the United States and Israel have had different objectives from the beginning, which is a huge flag and has always been.

00:07:11.760 And even when you get down to the details of how the flimsy deal came together yesterday,

00:07:15.820 the Pakistani prime minister, who has been acting as a mediator of the negotiations,

00:07:19.760 specifically mentioned the ceasefire would also take effect in Lebanon.

00:07:22.860 And then within hours of the ceasefire, Israel launched the largest waves of attacks on Lebanon in weeks

00:07:28.520 and claimed Lebanon wasn't a part of the ceasefire.

00:07:31.660 Then J.D. Vance claimed today it was all somehow a misunderstanding.

00:07:35.780 All sounds pretty sketchy to me, Maya.

00:07:38.280 I would emphasize these are really baby steps right now.

00:07:42.640 There's no real indication that the Strait is going to reopen.

00:07:46.620 And it seems like a flimsy ceasefire to say what's obvious.

00:07:50.580 I mean, Anderson, there's no indication that the Strait of Hormuz is open at this time.

00:07:54.960 The 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.

00:08:09.820 What we have seen is that two Iranian vessels apparently went through the strait earlier in the day and one Chinese vessel went through.

00:08:17.060 That'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.

00:08:26.580 And 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.

00:08:33.900 And whether the U.S. keeps up its commitments to this ceasefire, that it doesn't carry out strikes inside of Iran.

00:08:40.320 So it really just seems like we're in a very untenuous position here.

00:08:43.560 Something is going to have to change. Either Iran's going to have to reopen the strait. 0.86

00:08:46.720 The U.S. is going to have to pressure Israel not to carry out strikes against Hezbollah, or perhaps we see a return to war. 0.53

00:08:53.080 And there are numerous items on the Iranian plan that there's just no way we can accept. 0.60

00:08:58.160 Removal of all U.S. forces, right to enrich, right to control the Strait of Hormuz. 0.72

00:09:03.440 And apparently they're even going to charge in cryptocurrency to navigate the strait.

00:09:08.660 I mean, they want to turn this into their Panama Canal.

00:09:11.600 So there's a lot of very tough negotiating that's going to have to take place. 0.73

00:09:15.580 But 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. 0.63

00:09:30.120 In 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. 0.63

00:09:41.660 And they have done a great deal of that to ensure that they can't threaten Israel the way that they have in the past.

00:09:48.200 There's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith propaganda going on.

00:09:54.300 I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.

00:09:56.620 I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.

00:10:02.060 We never made that promise.

00:10:03.460 We never indicated that was going to be the case.

00:10:05.660 What 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.

00:10:13.480 Now, that said, the Israelis, as I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a fuller report when I get on the plane,

00:10:18.680 have actually offered to be, frankly, to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon

00:10:25.540 because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful.

00:10:28.900 That's not because that is part of the ceasefire.

00:10:31.820 I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success,

00:10:34.960 and we'll, of course, see how that unfolds in the next few days.

00:10:37.340 But, look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart

00:10:41.740 in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon,

00:10:45.360 which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the

00:10:50.500 ceasefire. That's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.

00:10:57.660 This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval 0.98

00:11:05.900 on these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have

00:11:12.700 had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything

00:11:16.460 in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do

00:11:19.840 people like that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

00:11:27.400 these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer

00:11:34.520 is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band

00:11:43.020 it's thursday 9 april in the year of our lord 2026

00:11:52.240 uh eric boling is going to join us in a moment we're going to talk about markets and talk about

00:11:57.880 um uh this current situation the i think the iranians just put a a tweet uh a while ago

00:12:05.400 i don't know one of the guys that says we're negotiating with them uh that there's been so

00:12:11.000 many violations of this there's been so many violations of this that uh it's um you know

00:12:17.000 the ceasefire is about to not hold i totally don't understand i'll be blunt i just don't understand

00:12:24.120 what the vice president was talking about right there the israelis america's greatest ally have

00:12:30.040 not set us up for success in any part of this war and i think we need to be blunt now with

00:12:36.820 the american people and also with the people across the table i think communications particularly

00:12:43.460 communications of objectives goals all of it would behoove us and no the israelis are not

00:12:51.360 setting us up for success that would not be the case and they they need to be part of this you

00:12:58.060 know global um settlement of at least things were put down the weapons i just don't see us getting

00:13:05.160 to a signed document this is not going to be like japan on the decks of the missouri the reason is

00:13:11.020 the wall street journal reports this i'm not saying it's a fact but it's definitely a fact

00:13:17.580 in their mind the iranians think they're winning they've shifted the center of gravity to the

00:13:23.700 persian gulf as we told you two and a half weeks ago uh they have taken the straight her moves and

00:13:30.520 still have some sort of control of this bowling will be here i think 12 ships have gone through

00:13:35.560 versus 125 we may come down to a simple fact that the united states navy in combination

00:13:44.080 with the air force and others may have to go and just open up the straits as the straits have been

00:13:50.680 open uh for decades and decades and decades you can't be a supplicant to these bandits you can't

00:13:59.700 be a supplicant to a theocratic regime that the farther down the chain food chain you go of killing

00:14:06.240 you're just getting harder and harder core people because they were formed in this incredible world 0.75

00:14:12.140 World One-type atmosphere they had back in the 1980s with Iraq. We've got a very determined 0.98

00:14:19.740 enemy. They're very determined. They're very determined, and they think they're winning.

00:14:26.040 We have to take away some pieces that they have to show them they're not winning. We're going to

00:14:33.460 get into all this this morning. Eric Bolling's going to join me. Also, we're going to talk about

00:14:38.580 Do you do what Napoleon said?

00:14:40.280 When you can't solve a problem at one scale, you scale it up and deal with it there.

00:14:45.160 Is the solution for this in Beijing in the middle of May when Donald Trump gets in the room with Xi?

00:14:51.280 Principle to principle, the Chinese Communist Party in the United States of America.

00:14:56.980 Short commercial break. 0.98

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00:16:25.040 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:16:33.020 Eric Bolling's with us. We're going to get more into this.

00:16:36.060 about the situation of, you know, we might have to open up the straight ourselves might come down

00:16:42.660 to that. You can't certainly be like a supplicant in this situation and you can't be a supplicant

00:16:48.040 with America's greatest ally. Um, what they're doing in Lebanon, there's plenty, if that's what

00:16:54.540 they're going to do, there's plenty of time to do that. Doesn't mean it does not need to be done 0.96

00:16:57.820 today unless they're trying to get as much done as possible before the ref calls the blows the

00:17:03.740 whistle. And in that case, it's not acceptable. We need to drive the train here because this is

00:17:11.420 quite complicated. And we're in it now. We're in it now. And we have to win this thing. And I'm

00:17:20.180 very opposed to this war. And I'm very opposed to the war for exactly the reason we're in it right 0.81

00:17:23.980 now. And you see the New York Times article, which has not been refuted by anybody. Once again,

00:17:30.380 This was bad information, bad intelligence pushed by the Israelis. 1.00

00:17:36.400 And if somebody can please give me a counter to that, I'm open to it. 1.00

00:17:39.620 But Tel Aviv, Levin and this crowd have not come up with it.

00:17:42.200 I keep getting back to 47 years of being bad guys.

00:17:45.880 Well, you know what? They are bad guys.

00:17:48.240 But the Chinese Communist Party has been eating our lunch on something important and major, like the destruction of our country, for longer than that. 1.00

00:17:57.060 And yet we welcome them and embrace them with open arms. 0.99

00:18:00.380 uh eric bowling markets today you you know that it's not going according to plan when fox news 1.00

00:18:11.460 which we refer to his tv for stupid people presented by stupid people are going to the 0.99

00:18:17.140 easter bunnies and the rabbits easter was a couple weeks ago they're going to everything 1.00

00:18:20.300 spring when they cut away for cooking and they cut away for let's go pet some animals

00:18:25.300 that that is the top guys that's murdoch saying hey you know this thing's not going well let's 1.00

00:18:31.160 let's divert the stupid people that watch our channel right the people there with their mouths 1.00

00:18:36.800 open that just you know take all the crap all the neocon militarist crap uh the the mitch mcconnell 1.00

00:18:43.620 school of politics uh and uh and just accept it right let's let's we got to change the programming 0.98

00:18:51.220 here. Let's throw some rabbits up there. Right. Let's have some bunnies. Let's cook an omelet 1.00

00:18:55.260 and tell the audience how how how how how great an omelet. We have a whole different take on

00:19:00.880 omelets. That's what Fox is doing right now. We need to get damn serious about this. And

00:19:07.020 if this is Islamabad, it has to be real like this, this new the the modified 10 points.

00:19:16.940 OK, it's a modified 10 points. That's great, because the 10 points they gave us, eight of

00:19:20.300 are not worth having a meeting about because you don't want to give the impression that I'm

00:19:24.320 prepared to even hear your argument on reparations. Not interested. Your argument on

00:19:30.000 you're controlling the straight or her moves, but you're going to give a discount to somebody

00:19:34.180 if they take it in one or crypto. Not interested. So I don't even know why we're going to Islamabad.

00:19:40.300 We're going there to send a senior delegation to talk to a foreign minister or something. I don't

00:19:45.040 get that. Let's just go principle to principle. Trump's the best dealmaker in the world.

00:19:49.720 Xi, not a bad dealmaker himself, a font of evil.

00:19:54.460 But sometimes you have to deal with evil. 1.00

00:19:56.720 Let's just do it in Beijing, principle to principle, because the Chinese got involved. 0.95

00:20:00.560 The only reason you even have any kind of accommodation to get to a ceasefire was the Chinese involvement with the Pakistanis, who they own. 0.74

00:20:08.040 Don't think the Pakistanis are a buddy. 0.84

00:20:09.780 The field marshal and others are quite close to President Trump.

00:20:13.020 And that's a true relationship. 0.99

00:20:14.780 But the Pakistanis are owned lock, stock and barrel by the Chinese companies. 0.99

00:20:19.200 Party, One Belt, One Road kind of focused on Pakistan, right, on Pakistan, because they 0.92

00:20:24.880 realized it's a countervailing power to India. 0.84

00:20:27.820 And it was all about the One Belt, One Road initially was about surrounding India.

00:20:33.160 Eric Bolling, what are markets telling us today?

00:20:36.140 Give us some deep thoughts from the markets this morning, sir.

00:20:41.220 I got a lot for you, Steve.

00:20:42.380 I'll start with what you pointed out about Fox.

00:20:44.600 I 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.

00:20:53.660 And you flip over and I took a picture screen grab of, you know, some of the hosts playing with puppies, literally playing with war.

00:21:00.780 I 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.

00:21:08.520 And there's the difference, right? You watch something that's going to make you more intelligent or something you want to cook.

00:21:13.280 you want to watch cooking and animals, go watch Fox. Let me tell you, Steve, you were,

00:21:16.740 remember we did the handoff yesterday at four 50 or so. And everyone thought it was a great day,

00:21:22.600 except you and I, because we saw oil go from $115 a barrel down to, it went under 92 yesterday,

00:21:29.060 late 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,

00:21:42.000 You know, we have like we see dead people in markets.

00:21:44.840 They saw at the end of the day, you say, something wasn't right.

00:21:48.400 Something was wrong with this deal.

00:21:50.220 Maybe it was the 10 points becoming 15 points or none of them are really, really doable.

00:21:55.240 Most of them are really not doable.

00:21:57.020 But they brought it from 91 up to 97 on the close.

00:22:00.380 We're trading $101 a barrel right now.

00:22:02.760 And people are just lost.

00:22:04.220 I'm here in Miami doing the money show.

00:22:06.340 It's the major financial show every year where investors come out, CEOs come out.

00:22:11.100 I'm delivering a keynote speech about different aspects, different sectors in the market.

00:22:15.220 And then I open up the questions.

00:22:16.540 Steve, I am telling you, every single question wasn't about tech, wasn't about manufacturing.

00:22:23.860 It was about oil.

00:22:24.960 What's happening with oil?

00:22:26.200 How is oil going to affect my business?

00:22:27.940 How is oil going to affect my portfolio?

00:22:29.660 Because it affects every human being in America.

00:22:33.180 Oil is a story.

00:22:34.520 You're 100% right.

00:22:35.600 These things, you watch Fox enough, you'll hear a very Israel-backed position, Mark Levin, et cetera.

00:22:43.060 They have a very high concentration of, let's be honest, Israeli and Jewish followers, and they don't want to offend them.

00:22:49.120 So they're giving you that dose.

00:22:50.580 Problem is some of their loudest voices are pro-Israel.

00:22:53.440 I'm married to a Jewish woman.

00:22:54.740 It's not about that for me.

00:22:56.040 It's what I see in the markets. 0.92

00:22:57.180 I'm telling you, you can't do what they call a non-starter in Iran, where they control the straight. 0.67

00:23:04.360 You can't do this.

00:23:06.120 There's so many shenanigans they can play.

00:23:08.080 They can charge more for American oil tankers, which aren't many, or they can charge less for the Chinese, their favorites, et cetera. 1.00

00:23:14.400 You know, Pakistan. 0.75

00:23:16.040 Pakistan is beholden to the Strait of Hormuz for their oil.

00:23:20.720 Taiwan, some of these Asian countries get 90% plus of their oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:23:27.900 Why is it our problem? 0.87

00:23:30.520 Why do we care?

00:23:31.800 Yes, the whole supply chain, but they're not going to leave it closed.

00:23:35.040 Iran has to rebuild itself by selling oil.

00:23:37.440 They got to get it to the end and place to the refineries and countries in order to collect payment on that stuff.

00:23:44.220 Steve, that was a nonstarter for me.

00:23:47.120 There are a couple in there.

00:23:48.460 I just don't see.

00:23:49.980 Remember, we talked about this yesterday on your show.

00:23:52.220 I said, looks great, but we're only one tweet away.

00:23:55.140 And I misspoke.

00:23:56.400 I should have said one truth post away.

00:23:58.900 You know, if Trump comes out and says, we're out, you know, you can see 120, 130.

00:24:04.780 But in the final thought, J.D. Vance, I had no idea what the hell you're talking.

00:24:09.840 I have no.

00:24:10.800 It's almost like he was there, like the country that's on their knees begging to be stopped being pounded daily.

00:24:18.880 They're in control.

00:24:19.980 And J.D. Vance is coming in like a.

00:24:23.380 Sorry, that'll get picked up.

00:24:25.460 But sorry.

00:24:26.100 Hey, how about you man up, J.D.?

00:24:27.740 We're America.

00:24:28.900 We have the we have control of the ball. We could destroy your civilization.

00:24:34.040 Trump doesn't want to. That is the real threat. Somehow Iran is calling the shots.

00:24:38.820 I'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.

00:24:47.940 Who the hell is Iran? What about Oman? What about UAE?

00:24:51.040 They're two miles north. The UAE holds that border. We have another toll for UAE as well.

00:24:56.820 and Saudi Arabia, come on, let's finish this. 1.00

00:25:00.680 Let them play those stupid fanatical Islamic games 1.00

00:25:03.920 in the Middle East. 1.00

00:25:04.680 We don't really need the oil coming through the strait.

00:25:07.480 Yeah, it'll affect our prices, but I'm going to pull the hell out

00:25:10.720 or get it over with, rip the Band-Aid off

00:25:12.880 and destroy that civilization and let them rebuild,

00:25:16.780 I guess, a way that benefits the United States.

00:25:21.480 Number one, the guys you're trying to negotiate with

00:25:25.100 are sitting there going you can't even control uh your ally who has driven much of this remember

00:25:31.380 the new york times and hey if it's if it's um if the reporting is fake let's i need the white house

00:25:38.640 to come out and say line by line these are these are this is not true haven't heard anybody say

00:25:44.600 it's not true they told us that uh they told us besides the imminent part they told us that

00:25:50.300 the massive bombing would lead to a major uprising and not to worry about her moves,

00:25:55.120 that they wouldn't have the military capabilities after the first couple of days of strategic 0.97

00:26:00.660 bombing to do anything her moves. Need to hear that countered by what the facts were.

00:26:06.660 If those aren't the facts, because that is a major strategic miscalculation.

00:26:12.820 You know, we've heard Seb Gork and other talk about exquisite intelligence.

00:26:16.120 I'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.

00:26:24.940 I think they're driving the initiative. Now, Eric, you've said oil is fungible.

00:26:28.660 Why 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.

00:26:37.720 His 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?

00:26:52.640 And so that requires yesterday.

00:26:55.600 I think we've got some bad news.

00:27:00.640 Okay, go ahead.

00:27:02.240 No, I think we got some bad news yesterday because I believe the NATO meeting, which went longer than it was supposed to.

00:27:09.740 And I don't believe the NATO secretary general came to the sticks.

00:27:13.160 President 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.

00:27:28.020 We've allowed these guys to lean on us so long that they're sitting there now and saying,

00:27:33.080 we don't have the resources, we don't have the assets.

00:27:36.940 So, if it stays closed, hang over a second, Eric, I'm going to ask you to stay over.

00:27:41.460 If we don't have the assets, then you've got to keep it open.

00:27:45.440 And the reason you've got to keep it open, or fight to keep it open,

00:27:48.800 is because it's in your benefit as much as ours,

00:27:51.560 because of the integrated nature of the world's energy and oil market.

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00:29:39.700 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.

00:29:43.360 okay welcome back um you just had bowling bowling's gonna come back in a second uh he

00:29:51.260 he gave a keynote today i think it was in miami to one of these money conferences where all the

00:29:55.340 hedge fund guys come and all the investors the guys that put the pension fund money to work all

00:30:00.060 that and individual investors and what they want to talk about they want to talk about oil why they

00:30:05.120 want to talk about oil because energy is the underlying predicate to an economy so we've had

00:30:12.700 a two-week recess next week the house and the senate come back um they come back next week

00:30:21.040 and you're going to have uh microphones in everybody's face about this war the intensity

00:30:26.500 of the information war about this conflict is about to go to the 10th power because right now

00:30:32.560 all the congressmen are gone so it's tough to get to them you're going to hear just guys going to

00:30:36.100 studios or maybe doing a pickup hit next week they're going to have you're going to be overwhelmed

00:30:41.480 by this. So the political heat on this is going to ratchet up a big league. Congressman Chip Roy

00:30:48.380 joins us. Congressman, we've been saying from the beginning, and I think this is one of the reasons

00:30:52.720 that from being a leader in the House Freedom Caucus, you decided, hey, I got to go back to

00:30:57.760 my home state and be attorney general because Texas is in a bad way right now. This Islamic 1.00

00:31:04.420 invasion of Texas, Sharia law, the H-1B visas, there's so many problems around the great state

00:31:10.640 of texas and it's the crown jewel but just your thoughts right now you've been a hawk a deficit

00:31:16.720 hawk we have a budget and i think uh our our friend and the former contributor here russ vote's

00:31:23.020 going to go before i think the house and the senate next week to talk about the the budget

00:31:27.240 that's being put forth which has pretty big deficits in it a 1.5 trillion dollar uh you know

00:31:33.920 1.5 train now for the military budget and i don't think that includes the 200 billion dollar

00:31:39.160 supplemental for the iran conflict which people are saying it's got to be pay as you go you got

00:31:44.580 to pay for this but just your thoughts on that you've been a deficit hawk uh the direction of

00:31:50.240 this the direction of the economy which clearly being hit right now on this conflict the

00:31:55.400 supplemental bill before we pivot to texas where i think the real fight is what's your assessment

00:32:00.620 of what's going to happen next week when the house and senate come back and cnn's got every

00:32:04.460 microphone in the world jammed up in somebody's face, sir? Well, first of all, it'll be great to

00:32:09.760 have our mutual friend, Russ Vogt. He's going to appear before the House Budget Committee on which

00:32:13.260 I serve. I'm sure we're going to have some good spirited conversation in there. He's a dear friend

00:32:17.760 and he's doing the Lord's work over there. But this is going to be a central issue that we've

00:32:21.780 got to deal with. And, you know, I've been very clear to the administration privately and publicly

00:32:26.880 that I very much support what the president is doing to try to reset the geopolitical landscape.

00:32:33.460 President Trump has a long vision about what we need to do to put pressure on China and Russia

00:32:38.240 and to kind of reclaim the Western Hemisphere and the actions of Venezuela.

00:32:41.880 But I've been very clear about not wanting a blank check,

00:32:44.700 that I wouldn't grant or agree to or vote or support a blank check,

00:32:48.840 and that I wasn't interested in boots on the ground

00:32:51.040 unless we've got a very specific and very concrete targeted mission that will be in and out.

00:32:56.500 I've said no more soccer fields.

00:32:57.880 I don't want soccer fields in Tehran. 0.84

00:32:59.420 I didn't want them in Baghdad.

00:33:01.300 And, you know, we've never talked about this, Steve,

00:33:03.400 but in 2008, I went on a trip over to Baghdad

00:33:05.840 in the middle of that conflict

00:33:06.700 and had a three-star general taking me around

00:33:08.900 and showing me soccer fields.

00:33:10.740 The American people didn't sign up

00:33:12.740 to put men and women in danger for that sort of thing.

00:33:14.680 Now, the good news is I don't believe the president

00:33:16.880 or Secretary Hagseth or the leadership

00:33:19.300 of this administration want to do that.

00:33:21.060 But we've got a lot of complex issues

00:33:22.760 that are all coming together at once.

00:33:24.460 And as you said, look, I believe in,

00:33:26.860 you got to pay as you go for any of this stuff.

00:33:28.680 So 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.

00:33:38.380 And 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.

00:33:54.760 We 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.

00:34:12.400 i want to go back to your trip in 2008 i remember you did i think you did tell me about the story

00:34:19.720 i believe you took that trip and they're talking about soccer fields and the amount of money we're

00:34:25.120 pumping in that was a couple of months i think before the financial collapse in september of

00:34:29.560 2008 and that got people quite focused on these wars about what we had to do um everybody

00:34:36.360 collectively is pushing for the trump agenda to work particularly his economic agenda because

00:34:41.500 that drives so much of this. But we do have to come to a reality check here that our financial

00:34:47.920 situation is a massive national security issue. And when people bring this up, they're not saying

00:34:54.560 we we we're not supportive. We're trying to say, hey, look, do not forget this fact of this

00:35:00.340 financial this. And we are still in a financial crisis, even given the what President Trump and

00:35:07.640 best that have is getting traction to reverse the plague years of biden um in this financial

00:35:14.340 situation particularly the the pentagon increase of up to 1.5 trillion and like you said guys

00:35:21.000 people are going to have to deliver here specifically why do we need this increase

00:35:25.220 where's it going to come from are we going to cut these other programs which i think

00:35:28.840 are rife with corruption and and uh and fraud then let's do it but then have let's have the

00:35:34.720 stones to see it through chip your thoughts yeah steve this is exactly right if i might extend on

00:35:41.160 something you said in the segment as you're coming into to my joining about energy okay and it's all

00:35:45.920 related give me one second on this so last year you remember now we're almost a year removed from

00:35:50.720 the big beautiful bill debates i was fighting as hard as i could to drag that thing to the

00:35:55.260 fiscally responsible direction remember it was in may that i joined with three republican colleagues

00:36:02.500 in the Freedom Caucus to stop, vote down.

00:36:06.020 I voted against the big, beautiful bill.

00:36:08.120 Now I'm getting all sorts of heat

00:36:09.440 from the president, the White House,

00:36:11.000 from Speaker Johnson, the Senate.

00:36:12.840 Chip, what are you doing?

00:36:13.640 You're gonna destroy this.

00:36:14.660 We're gonna, you know, you're gonna ruin the tax cuts.

00:36:16.680 I said, guys, you're allowing Susan Collins

00:36:19.580 and Lisa Murkowski and a bunch of the, you know, 0.99

00:36:21.840 squishes in the Senate to take away the reforms 1.00

00:36:24.680 we were putting in place to be fiscally responsible.

00:36:27.180 Medicaid, but importantly, they were getting rid

00:36:29.400 of all of the stuff we were doing

00:36:30.500 on the Green News scam subsidies.

00:36:32.460 So we've bought and we got about half of those Green New Scam subsidies put back in.

00:36:37.040 Fast forward, now I'm running for attorney general.

00:36:39.600 A 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.

00:36:47.920 Now, look, I'm going to win this race for attorney general, but I have news for them.

00:36:51.240 My 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.

00:36:57.100 They want to take out our ability to be able to have energy freedom and energy security,

00:37:03.180 which is at the center of this entire conflict.

00:37:05.340 We've got to be fiscally responsible.

00:37:07.360 We fought in the big, beautiful bill.

00:37:08.560 But as you and I agreed on this show a year ago, it wasn't good enough.

00:37:12.900 I supported it in the end to be a team player to work to get what we wanted to get done

00:37:17.240 for the president.

00:37:18.180 But we should have gone further.

00:37:19.880 Now we need to do more. 1.00

00:37:21.440 Now we've got a bunch of our moderates who are supporting this stupid Dignity Amnesty 0.99

00:37:25.260 Act. 0.99

00:37:25.600 Those same people are saying, oh, Chip, we can't vote for more reforms.

00:37:30.120 Like, look, we've got to end the fraud that five months ago everybody was on fire about

00:37:34.200 about Minnesota.

00:37:35.320 Where are we talking about that now?

00:37:37.120 End the fraud.

00:37:38.240 End the waste at the Pentagon.

00:37:39.960 Get the reforms we need to get in place.

00:37:42.140 Come tell us what you need to build up the military.

00:37:44.780 We'll fund it.

00:37:45.860 But it's got to be real tools for real military dominance.

00:37:49.400 And I don't want us to be engaged in endless conflict.

00:37:51.980 That's what next week is going to be about, having an honest conversation.

00:37:54.900 We 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.

00:38:10.740 i'm glad you brought this up because i want to go but we're going to have rosemary jinx is going to

00:38:17.520 join us in the second hour what chip is talking about a group of republicans have put up in with

00:38:24.680 democrats a essentially an amnesty bill like we don't have enough problems they're going to join

00:38:29.300 with democrats and put an amnesty bill we're going to get to that in a second because uh lara ingram

00:38:33.680 i thought did a good job uh last night over at fox of uh of peeling back waller but we're going to

00:38:38.780 get to that we wrote some rejection in detail but this gets back to the green new scam part of it

00:38:42.680 you know to get murkowski in these moderates you got to go and you got to offer him this stuff and

00:38:47.340 the green new scam stuff is still out there and president trump is a top priority right is that

00:38:52.900 that stuff's got to go so so walk me through to get energy you know to really get full spectrum

00:38:58.780 energy dominance and get serious about this now that it looks like more than ever that we need to

00:39:05.040 make sure that in the Western Hemisphere, we're fully set here. So we don't have to worry about

00:39:09.840 the straight or her moves. That's really, you know, it's, it's, it's essentially Europe's

00:39:14.760 problem, but we're there to help. What do you need to do still in the green new scam that's 0.98

00:39:19.200 out there? I thought all that stuff got taken out, uh, before the big, beautiful bill was voted on.

00:39:24.900 No, last year, a year ago, uh, it was all of our reforms to be clear, right? We had these,

00:39:29.740 these subsidies were put in place, which were destroying our incentive infrastructure for

00:39:34.660 natural gas powered plants, for our ability to move oil and gas products, because there was so

00:39:40.860 much money flowing into wind and solar, which are inefficient and unreliable. So we were fighting to

00:39:46.620 pull those subsidies back. Well, we had really good provisions in there to pull back most of

00:39:52.040 the subsidies and the squishes in the Senate, the Democrats pulled them all out. That's what I

00:39:56.940 stood up and I literally voted against the big, beautiful bill that weekend and took the scorn

00:40:01.800 from everybody. And we were able to get about half of those back in. You have to estimate it a bit.

00:40:07.260 My view is we need to plow forward and remove the remainder of those subsidies to open up a full,

00:40:12.880 true competition. Look, if wind and solar can compete, great. But they're competing right now

00:40:19.000 with crony capitalism, with the subsidies that are fueling them. That undermines our ability to have

00:40:24.000 a more reliable grid. So that's one thing we need to do. The second thing we need to do is open up

00:40:28.580 nuclear rapid fire. We are taking way too long to move forward to get true nuclear moving and

00:40:34.120 running again. That's actually good, solid, reliable power. The third thing we got to do

00:40:38.600 is deal with permitting. And you put all that stuff in the pot, if we can get the permitting

00:40:42.240 on the NEPA, the environmental protection guidelines and all of those things, we can

00:40:46.540 actually move forward and be able to get the true full independence of what we were capable of

00:40:51.380 doing in America. If you've got nuclear power and if you've got unsubsidized wind and solar,

00:40:55.700 fine, use it where it's useful. And if you've got true natural gas that we're pumping out in Texas

00:41:00.860 through fracking, then America's unstoppable. That's what we've got to do. Don't follow the

00:41:05.840 European model where they're now reliant on the rest of the world. And by the way, this is 0.57

00:41:09.220 President Trump's genius, is going after the pressure points here and putting pressure on

00:41:15.740 Europe, China, Russia. Everybody else has to step up and go figure it out. Instead of us carrying

00:41:21.480 the burden of keeping the straits open that's all on the back of the shale revolution in texas i was

00:41:26.240 in midland yesterday those people will go produce the energy we need if we'll just free texas up to

00:41:31.200 do it chip i've said that and we only got a couple minutes i got to hold you through the break right

00:41:38.620 so so we've been saying that hey the bigger fight we have is not some of the middle east but here

00:41:44.160 in this country and one of the biggest fights we have is in texas we're going to brandon hall on a

00:41:48.420 second they're staying up till two and three in the morning down in austin on the texas education

00:41:53.800 board because patriots are flooding the zone down there and want to speak and want to get in front

00:41:58.260 of the microphone but why i'm gonna get to the other part about your opponent after the break

00:42:03.800 but right now how can we be spending days making sure that care doesn't influence texas history

00:42:10.940 as taught to texas kids and textbooks it sounds bizarro but we're in a fight the vote's not even

00:42:17.060 going to be till tomorrow, I don't think, sir. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, what's happened 0.97

00:42:21.500 is Texas is front and center. The Muslim Brotherhood, CARE, and all the organizations,

00:42:25.860 Amy Mack and Rare have documented, there's 600 organizations that are all funding this push of

00:42:30.940 the Islamification of Texas, the March of Islam across our state and the country. And you can't 0.73

00:42:36.260 win a war that you don't acknowledge exists. And we cannot allow Islam to hide behind the First 0.99

00:42:42.240 Amendment when in fact it is a political ideology that is designed in its own language in the Muslim 0.95

00:42:47.880 Brotherhood Memorandum from 1991 to wage jihad against the West. We know this to be true. We 0.99

00:42:54.040 know that it's all been flowing out in terms of the Holy Land Foundation 25 years ago, what CARE

00:42:58.960 has been up to. I have new legislation I'm going to introduce next week on CARE. I will make sure

00:43:03.920 you guys see it first. I can't announce it yet, but to go after them, I already introduced a bill

00:43:08.140 to take away their tax status i already introduced the pause act build a you know uh vet people for

00:43:13.340 sharia law but texas is behind the eight ball on this we need to be much more aggressive we're

00:43:18.560 we're trying to play catch-up the legislation that they've passed is fine but we got to go

00:43:23.840 much further because what you're seeing right now is they're using our own rules against us

00:43:28.480 to indoctrinate our kids chip chip chip hangover one second chip roy runner for ag in texas next

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00:45:06.140 Congressman Chip Roy, who's running for Texas AG. So, Congressman, you used a phrase in the last

00:45:12.860 segment I can tell you, I think is resonating with people. You can't win a war you don't

00:45:18.280 acknowledge exists. That's a pretty good quote about framing about where we are. So here's the

00:45:25.240 question the state of texas is the jewel in the crown um and they know that our enemies in this

00:45:32.620 the enemies of the united states of america and us as a constitutional republic fully understand

00:45:37.020 that from its history the mythology the current you know the current state of its economy which

00:45:44.020 is what the sixth or seventh biggest in the world how it's a countervailing power to california in

00:45:49.560 our own union, particularly the way it's run and the way it's governed. The question gets to be

00:45:56.740 for folks is, you know, War Room and others, did it turn out hundreds of patriots to go to Texas

00:46:03.860 school board and drive and take their time and money and go there to testify? And people are

00:46:08.380 lost about CARE is being designated a terrorist organization in the state of Texas and in Florida

00:46:14.220 and in UAE and in Qatar, right?

00:46:18.020 And they're kind of sitting there going,

00:46:19.540 why is it allowed to be in Austin, Texas

00:46:24.260 and not just be the organizer?

00:46:26.360 I mean, to bring the speakers, to prep the speakers,

00:46:29.020 to hold a press conference outside

00:46:30.720 that was 10 times more followed

00:46:33.060 by the left-wing media in Austin and nationally

00:46:36.000 than the Frank Gaffney press conference of the Patriots.

00:46:39.460 So how can that happen?

00:46:40.800 And what are you prepared to do about it in Texas

00:46:43.200 to sort this problem out and to win this war?

00:46:47.160 Yeah, first of all, we have been behind the curve on this, in my opinion, in Texas,

00:46:51.640 and have been relatively asleep at the switch, allowing people to hide behind, as I said,

00:46:57.400 I say hide behind the First Amendment.

00:46:58.920 You and I are stalwart defenders of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

00:47:02.360 We, you know, we'll fight that battle anytime, anywhere.

00:47:06.360 But this is a political ideology.

00:47:08.600 And we have to recognize that because we've got too many people today. 1.00

00:47:12.020 Literally 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. 1.00

00:47:22.640 We do not want to see taxpayer funding for these Islamic schools. 1.00

00:47:26.120 We need to stop care. 0.99

00:47:27.620 We need to do the Office of Attorney General has extraordinary power to open up and look at the books of nonprofits and NGOs.

00:47:33.820 As 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.

00:47:51.960 But 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.

00:48:10.540 That goes back to my point.

00:48:12.140 You can't win a war that you don't acknowledge exists. 1.00

00:48:15.200 People hide behind Sharia. 0.99

00:48:16.860 I talk about Sharia, too. 0.99

00:48:18.200 There's a reason we named it the Sharia Free America Caucus.

00:48:21.960 But it's not just Sharia. 0.80

00:48:24.260 This is an important point.

00:48:25.480 In the hearing I held as the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution, I made this 0.87

00:48:29.540 point about Sharia, and my Democrat ranking member acknowledged almost immediately, she

00:48:34.620 said, well, wait, if you're talking about Sharia, that means all Muslims.

00:48:38.860 That means everybody that's practicing Islam.

00:48:42.100 And I let her make that point. 0.91

00:48:44.000 But the reality is, Sharia is central to it. 0.99

00:48:46.940 All of this is inconsistent with the West, inconsistent with our laws. 0.99

00:48:50.260 If you don't acknowledge that, how can you win? And look, I'll give credit. Governor Abbott has

00:48:55.580 said, look, we got to stop these dollars flowing to these Islamic schools through the school choice

00:49:01.740 programs. That's exactly right. As attorney general, I'll defend that. But we got to go 1.00

00:49:06.200 further. And we've got to cut the head of the snake off. We've got to stop CARE, pull the 1.00

00:49:10.160 charter, go after any of the elements of the Muslim Brotherhood. But as Amy Meck has pointed 0.99

00:49:15.160 out with rare there's 600 organizations so care is front-facing they're calling me a terrorist

00:49:21.340 they're calling me a hater all of those things and um i don't care and uh you know i think you

00:49:26.980 got to stand up and fight for this stuff that's what i'm trying to do i i hope uh if we make a

00:49:33.660 recommendation amy meck is a senior advisor uh to you as attorney general she is really a rock star

00:49:39.780 and her efforts to bring just the video and hear these people in their own

00:49:44.440 voice, I think is such, so powerful. Uh, Chip,

00:49:47.440 where do people go to follow this more closely?

00:49:49.800 Cause this is heating up now. Uh, the AG's race,

00:49:53.240 I think will be the even more intense than the Senate race. Uh,

00:49:57.800 but where do people go to follow you, to find your travel schedule,

00:50:00.720 to see more and to give you questions and weigh and measure chip Roy,

00:50:05.860 chip Roy.com. Uh, the, the, the runoff is on May 26.

00:50:08.700 I'm just going to make one point here. My opponent, Mays Middleton, as a state senator last year, introduced a bill SB 854.

00:50:15.300 That 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.

00:50:25.240 but in doing so, it was going to specifically promote the ability of mosques and Muslim-oriented

00:50:31.420 and Islam-centered entities to be able to sue local jurisdictions to stop them if they prohibited

00:50:37.380 these mosques from being built and these Islamic cities like Epic City from being built. Now,

00:50:41.680 my colleague, I don't know whether he did it intentionally or naive, but I know that he tried

00:50:45.900 to dupe people because he amended the language that was the description of the bill, but he

00:50:50.040 didn't change the text of the bill as it moved through the Senate into the Senate Calendars

00:50:53.940 committee. And the problem here is, Steve, you can't be naive and be the attorney general of

00:50:58.900 Texas. You can't go up and do a nice sounding bill that's good for religious liberty and then

00:51:03.920 ignore the fact that you're going to give fuel to the Islamists who want to remake Texas. You got 1.00

00:51:08.940 to have the smartest lawyers in the world working at the office of attorney general. And that starts

00:51:13.340 at the top. And I've been a prosecutor. I've been a lawyer. I've been in court. I have led the office

00:51:18.620 under Kent Baxton. My opponent has done none of those things. There's no room for on the job

00:51:23.360 training uh and so this is an important issue people need to pay attention to the federalist

00:51:27.760 broke this story yesterday it's a really important glimpse into what a naive attorney general could do

00:51:33.460 to the state of texas that's why i need everybody to turn out may 26th was that was that bill was

00:51:39.840 it has that bill been killed those aspects of that bill been killed so that bill got to the

00:51:45.060 calendars they pushed it out of committee got it to the floor it did stop and didn't get signed

00:51:49.340 into law thank god but but my opponent should have known better and again he tried to dupe people by

00:51:54.860 changing the description but not changing the bill he should have pulled the bill and he should

00:51:58.760 have ended it but he was trying to hide behind religious liberty and not acknowledge that he was

00:52:03.300 going to give power to epic city and to those trying to create islamic cities we've got to

00:52:08.180 rethink how we deal with all of this because in the for example you have prayer time in schools 1.00

00:52:12.960 muslims are now going to use that to take over our schools and be gone five times a day for prayer 0.99

00:52:17.820 on their prayer rugs pointing to mecca we cannot do that it's going to destroy our judeo-christian 0.97

00:52:23.020 culture and our christian uh nation this fight is i'm telling you there's a real fight in texas

00:52:32.440 think about that for a second in the great state of texas we've got a fight it's a fight chip roy

00:52:37.420 thank you so much for being on the front line thanks steve god bless

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Episode 5285： Confusion And Chaos Continue In Iran

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