Bannon's War Room - Episode 5298： Chinese Ship Passes Through Blockade; Goal Is To Choke Off Iran's Funds

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00:00:44.620 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

00:00:53.480 It's Tuesday, 14 April, in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:00:57.260 There's a lot going on.

00:00:58.120 John Solomon's going to join us in a moment with breaking story after breaking story about this Tulsi Gabbard DNI going after the deep state, who the whistleblower is, everything that's converging on that front, which is maybe the most landmark front President Trump will do in taking down the deep state for this country and for patriots.

00:01:22.380 We also have a naval blockade going on in the north, in the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz.

00:01:31.560 Let's go to Captain James Fennell.

00:01:34.480 Captain, can you give us an assessment?

00:01:36.520 In fact, I think last night maybe it was a confused thing that a CCP vessel got through.

00:01:41.760 Can you just tell us our status today?

00:01:45.460 Yes, Steve.

00:01:46.480 Before we get into that, I just want to correct.

00:01:48.540 Yesterday I had said that the USS George W. Bush was heading into the Strait of Gibraltar

00:01:55.060 hours after that report that had been online was corrected, and now that we know that the

00:02:01.840 Bush is actually heading down through the west coast of Africa, is off of Namibia, and

00:02:06.780 is heading around the Cape of Good Hope and avoiding the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeep.

00:02:12.120 regarding this Chinese-owned ship. It's called the Rich Stari, and it's Malawi flag. It's under

00:02:21.220 OFAC sanctions for illegal shipments. And it was sitting in an anchorage in Oman inside the Arabian

00:02:30.280 Gulf. It had been at anchorage. It's an oil and chemical tanker, fully laden. And when the embargo

00:02:36.300 or the blockade started yesterday at 10 Eastern time on the 13th of April, within the hour,

00:02:41.560 The rich story started moving towards the Iranian toll booth, if you will, and she got about halfway there from her anchorage and turned around and stopped and then turned around and went back.

00:02:54.080 Then several hours later, she started going through the Strait, and as you can see from the graphic, she actually went through the Strait of Hormuz just south of Larik Island, and everybody on the Internet, when that happened six, eight hours ago.

00:03:09.640 Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Slow down. Slow down. Let's get the graphic up.

00:03:14.300 Denver, you put the graphic up. I want the I want the captain to explain it.

00:03:17.500 Go ahead. Once we get the. OK, there we go. Captain Fennell, continue on.

00:03:21.720 Tell the audience where to focus. Yeah. Focus on the top white top right quadrant.

00:03:28.000 And what you'll see is a yellow track going south of Kesham and south of Lark Island.

00:03:33.000 And then that yellow track goes down through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:03:36.220 And before it got to that red box, the Internet exploded and said, ah, see, the blockades failed.

00:03:43.260 Well, now in the last four or five hours, the rich starry went to that red box and then stopped and has turned around and gone back on that red track and is headed back up towards and is now south of Larik Island, Kesham Island.

00:03:58.760 So that's just one vessel that's been clearly turned around.

00:04:01.920 There's another report of another one or two vessels that have been turned around.

00:04:06.220 So we're in this fog of war right now in terms of, you know, what exactly is happening.

00:04:12.700 But there is evidence that the U.S. Navy's blockade has been effective and is starting

00:04:19.800 to turn around sanctioned ships.

00:04:21.560 Now, this ship did not come out of an Iranian port.

00:04:24.180 It came out of, you know, the UAE, which is on that southern peninsula there inside the

00:04:30.540 Gulf at an anchorage.

00:04:31.680 So there are other ships that are coming out.

00:04:34.480 There's some reports that some ships that were in Iranian ports have gone through.

00:04:38.440 That's not been confirmed yet.

00:04:40.200 So I would guess that in the first hours of this, there's going to be some leakers and

00:04:45.240 things of that nature.

00:04:46.340 But the U.S. Navy looks and appears to be putting this blockade in place and doing exactly

00:04:53.060 what President Trump said he was going to do.

00:04:56.000 And this, again, this ship was headed for China.

00:04:59.060 It's Chinese-owned Malawi flag, Chinese-owned.

00:05:01.920 that was heading for China, and that has been turned around.

00:05:04.800 So that's a tanker of oil that the Chinese will not get.

00:05:11.420 How does this, explain to the audience, how does this work?

00:05:16.080 If, I think, at least what I've seen, I don't know what the notice to Mariners is,

00:05:20.960 but what I've seen from CENTCOMs, they are basically putting the Iranian ports,

00:05:26.400 Karg Island, anything that's Iranian, and they're tracking,

00:05:29.780 if it comes out it's going to get turned back but supposedly our allies the saudis uae kuwait 0.89

00:05:35.980 bahrain qatar um and in fact i think they were people were very excited that one of the liquefied

00:05:44.520 natural gas vessels got out how does something leave uae even if it's part of this gray fleet

00:05:50.880 or ghost fleet that gets turned around obviously it's ccp oil i mean you want it turned around i

00:05:57.140 want to turn around, but we're anti-CCP guys. Is that in the rules of the game? I thought if it

00:06:03.060 came out of UAE, if it came out of one of our allies' ports, it's good to go. Have they taken 0.99

00:06:08.760 a second consideration that if it's gray-shift or they think it's going to go to China, it gets

00:06:14.900 turned around? Well, it wasn't because it was going to China. It was because it was already an

00:06:20.400 OFAC internationally sanctioned vessel for what it had already done running illegally obtained oil.

00:06:27.140 so coming out of Iran. So presumably that ship at some point, I don't know its full history,

00:06:34.020 had received Iranian oil. So that's why it's under sanction. Maybe it's under sanction because it

00:06:39.440 ran Russian oil sometime earlier. I don't know all the details. But the fact is, is that it was

00:06:44.000 an OFAC-sanctioned vessel, and that is part of the criteria that we're going to stop. So we're

00:06:48.840 going to stop every ship vessel that comes out of Iranian waters, Iranian ports. They have six main

00:06:55.320 ports that supply 90 percent of Iran's economy and trade. So those will be the six that will

00:07:03.180 be watched the most. And then we'll be watching for sanctioned vessels. And then we've even said

00:07:08.760 in the notice to mariners, we've even said even, you know, neutral countries that we think may

00:07:14.900 have some suspicious activities, we have the right to reserve to look at those. And we will do that

00:07:20.300 as well. So this is going to be a fairly thorough effort to make sure that China cannot run oil or 0.80

00:07:27.160 China, Iran cannot run oil out, buy and sell oil, and as well as we don't want to see weapons,

00:07:34.100 you know, coming in. We don't want to see ballistic missile parts or components for 0.90

00:07:38.020 nuclear material or whatever it is. We don't want that coming into Iran either. So what we need now 1.00

00:07:44.480 is to get our allies to get engaged with this and help join the fight, our allies in the Gulf and

00:07:49.840 our allies in NATO. And let's see if that's going to happen. But right now, U.S. Navy, once again,

00:07:54.880 America is carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.

00:07:59.280 I mean, haven't the allies been pretty adamant? I mean, I think they had a meeting yesterday.

00:08:04.160 But haven't they been adamant that the Royal Navy, the French Navy, the Italian Navy, three,

00:08:09.120 they could help right away, are not going to be part of this? And I think it goes to show you

00:08:13.560 how they have not invested. You know, they've invested in their workers taking holidays,

00:08:18.140 six-week holidays in the summer and retiring at 50 and having full pensions why american workers

00:08:24.300 don't have that we've got a 1.5 trillion dollar defense budget proposed by president trump that's

00:08:30.660 in scott in um a russ vote is going to i think on thursday go to the house budget committee and i'm

00:08:36.400 sure he's going to get some incoming on that but we have allies that at best it'll be on paper yes

00:08:43.060 the the royal navy's going to send a destroyer the french will send a frigate the italians will

00:08:47.360 and the Corvettes, so they'll make a huge deal about they're part of this. But are they really,

00:08:52.540 are they, do they really have enough wherewithal of naval forces, naval assets to actually do this,

00:08:59.600 sir? I think that the French and the Italians and, you know, if you combined all of them,

00:09:07.800 they could probably scrape together, you know, a half a dozen destroyers that would help alleviate 0.88

00:09:13.600 some of that pressure. But I think right now, and I think given President Trump's previous

00:09:17.860 responses to the UK when they wanted to send carriers, I mean, they actually have two aircraft

00:09:23.360 carriers that don't have any surface combatants that can escort them. It's the strangest thing

00:09:28.920 that you'd ever imagine that the Royal Navy could have aircraft carriers without escorting

00:09:34.320 destroyers. The USS4 or Bush that's heading down the west coast of Africa right now,

00:09:40.880 She's got three destroyers with her, the Cook, the Mason, and the Ross, as well as a fast refueler, the Arctic.

00:09:51.120 So there's five ships that are steaming down with the bush.

00:09:54.560 That's how we send our carrier strike groups around.

00:09:57.020 We do that with our expeditionary strike groups.

00:09:59.180 We don't just send big decks alone by themselves. 0.89

00:10:02.560 It's an integrated air defense arrangement, and the British aren't there.

00:10:06.780 So we're doing this, and we're moving other assets.

00:10:09.560 There are two Avenger-class traditional minesweepers that were in Japan.

00:10:14.700 We had commissioned a number that were in Bahrain for years.

00:10:18.680 We did commission those in February and sent those to the east coast of the United States right before this all kicked off, which is ironic.

00:10:26.960 But now we've got two that were in Singapore, came out of Japan, went to Singapore, and on the 8th of April left Singapore and are heading into the Gulf.

00:10:36.120 We've got the USS Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group is there.

00:10:40.880 She's got a big deck that can put out helicopters and other platforms into the water.

00:10:47.300 There's also word of an expeditionary support base that's en route as well, which will have another flight deck and special operators and people that can do boardings and seizures of ships.

00:11:00.580 So we're serious about this, and it's going to get done. 0.93

00:11:04.140 And again, like we said in previous episodes, the goal is to choke Iran off from access to funds. 0.86

00:11:11.060 And when that money goes away, how are they going to survive? 0.56

00:11:14.400 They need money to buy food.

00:11:17.700 It's to choke them off.

00:11:18.960 And let's be blunt. 0.91

00:11:19.600 This is a forcing function with the Chinese Communist Party. 0.90

00:11:21.680 Yeah, India is part of it. 0.76

00:11:23.060 But today at 530, and folks, we'll be covering this live on the 5 to 7 hour here at the war.

00:11:29.720 From at 530, the ambassador, the Chinese ambassador to the United States is going to be in the Oval Office.

00:11:34.740 I don't know why we give him that much, you know, gets a meeting with the president instead of the secretary of state or some other, you know, some some ambassadorial grundun.

00:11:44.620 But he's going to be in there whining. 0.61

00:11:46.240 The Chinese already said this illegitimate that the United States is not going to have anything, no say so, nothing to do with blocking them, that they're China and we're not.

00:11:56.940 He's going to make a plea today, particularly prior to this meeting, President Trump in mid-May, to relieve the pressure on this.

00:12:05.980 Is he not, sir?

00:12:06.820 He's not going over to have a cup of tea.

00:12:08.860 He's going over to make a case that they need, the Chinese Communist Party needs this to stop, and they need it to stop immediately. 0.93

00:12:15.940 That's exactly what they're going to do. 0.82

00:12:17.640 They're going to play up to the international press.

00:12:19.700 They'll use this time, this airtime, to portray themselves as the victim.

00:12:24.600 Xi Jinping met with an emirates or one of the Gulf state princes yesterday in Beijing

00:12:31.280 and came out with a four-point plan, and one of the points was we have to respect international

00:12:36.640 law, and we can't allow Mike Makes Right and the law of the jungle to creep into these

00:12:41.300 kinds of issues.

00:12:42.300 Funny, we didn't hear Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party say anything about that when

00:12:48.340 Iran illegally, you know, started attacking vessels in the Gulf and in the Strait of Hormuz

00:12:54.520 or when they set up an illegal toll booth.

00:12:56.600 Didn't hear peep out of the Chinese Communist Party when that happened.

00:12:59.660 But now when the United States of America is putting into effect a very effective blockade, 0.67

00:13:06.180 now they're going to come crying to the international community.

00:13:09.400 And I look forward to seeing the president, you know, footstomp this guy.

00:13:13.840 He'll be nice to him, but he's going to footstomp him.

00:13:17.280 Okay. Captain Fennell, United States Naval Institute, American Greatness,

00:13:23.340 Where else can people get you, sir?

00:13:25.740 That's it.

00:13:26.320 I don't do social media.

00:13:28.560 Eventually, we're going to get Captain Fennell on social media.

00:13:31.120 Captain Fennell, thank you so much for getting us up to date on the blockade.

00:13:35.340 And I'll talk to you after the meeting at the White House with the ambassador, and we'll compare notes.

00:13:40.480 Thank you so much, sir.

00:13:42.160 Thank you.

00:13:44.440 Captain Jim Fennell.

00:13:47.480 So there's a naval blockade, and it's having an impact.

00:13:51.100 Everybody in the world is talking about it.

00:13:52.840 All the capital markets are talking about, the financiers are talking about, the United States Navy is implementing this right now.

00:13:58.740 The Chinese Communist Party has an audience at 5.30 p.m. this afternoon in the Oval Office with the president of the United States, and they're going to make their case.

00:14:07.520 Hopefully, maybe we bring up a couple of three things about the Strait of Taiwan and the South China Sea and how they're trying to muscle the Philippines and other nations,

00:14:15.540 lateral nations around the South China Sea saying that the South China Sea is an internal sea of

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00:16:25.600 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.

00:16:29.960 Okay, we've got E.J. and Tony on the economy.

00:16:33.560 Sam Fadis is going to join us with some wisdom about the Iranian settlements here, deep state. 1.00

00:16:38.060 But I want to start, John, the ambassador, and it'll probably be live during your show.

00:16:45.000 The ambassador from the from the from the from the imperial court in Beijing is paying a visit to the Oval Office at 530.

00:16:54.360 We got their attention.

00:16:55.300 24 hours after they got their attention.

00:16:57.640 It's a forcing function, bro.

00:16:59.160 It's a forcing function. 1.00

00:17:00.580 So talk to me about Iran.

00:17:02.320 talk to me about what's going on and president trump today is going to have the first of she

00:17:06.820 coming and saying hey you're coming to see me in mid-may we got to figure this thing out you can't

00:17:12.080 you know mess around with international waters your thoughts sir yeah i think the thoughts are

00:17:16.960 that um if if we were um in broadway we remember this old song from oklahoma anything you can do

00:17:23.300 i can do better and that's what president trump just showed iran and china you want a blockade

00:17:27.660 of Hormuz, watch this. Nothing gets out. Nothing gets in. Why is that such a taking time bomb for

00:17:34.000 Iran? Obviously, they've got cash flow issues. But the real crisis, the thing that Iran would

00:17:39.280 self-destroy its own oil industry is within three weeks, they will be at full capacity. I mean,

00:17:44.760 there's nowhere else to store oil if it can't get out of the Strait of Hormuz. In that scenario,

00:17:50.740 the wells start to back up. They start to get brackish water and they come to a grinding halt.

00:17:56.040 Iran would lose billions of dollars of infrastructure when those wells start to go to that sort of latent status.

00:18:03.100 They can't afford to let that happen with all the destruction that's already occurred.

00:18:06.400 So President Trump has played the ultimate chicken game, which is, hey, if you can't get any more oil out in a few weeks, good luck with those wells.

00:18:13.720 And I think that's what's got everybody's attention.

00:18:15.920 China's got is coming here to see the president.

00:18:19.160 I think it's an act of deference.

00:18:21.340 They may have some rhetoric when they come to the White House.

00:18:23.400 Oh, they're violating the law.

00:18:24.540 But at the end of the day, China's message is, we need that oil.

00:18:27.740 What do we got to do to get a deal?

00:18:29.340 What's happened in the last 48 hours?

00:18:31.400 There are reports that Iran went from, no, we won't give up our nuclear weapons to a

00:18:35.740 five-year moratorium.

00:18:37.260 Trump countered with a 20-year moratorium.

00:18:39.500 And I think he'll hold out for the 20-year moratorium.

00:18:42.220 That's what the reports in The New York Times say.

00:18:45.060 That is a real sign that Iran has blinked in a big way. 0.99

00:18:49.280 And I think this strategy works.

00:18:51.180 He's not firing bombs right now.

00:18:52.580 The ceasefire is held, but he's got a stranglehold on Iran and China and, by the way, India.

00:18:58.540 And Iran and India will have now every motive to fix this because they'll be dry of energy within a couple of months.

00:19:06.620 Folks, as a former naval officer and having been over there and Captain Finale, the people we have on here for Sobic, et cetera, we've been a big advocate of this as a forcing function. 0.66

00:19:15.140 Right. And maybe you can argue later it should have been very smart.

00:19:17.300 But there's no doubt, John, that we got the ambassador burning up the phone.

00:19:22.780 She's telling him, get a meeting.

00:19:24.640 I need you in the Oval Office to get over there.

00:19:26.740 There's certainly, we've raised this, and this is why I keep saying, don't deal with intermediaries.

00:19:31.140 Let's have principle to principle.

00:19:32.520 Trump's now got the instrument he and Besson have worked out.

00:19:35.740 And what I love about what Fenel just said was, folks, let's not bury the lead.

00:19:42.140 These were OFAC sanctioned.

00:19:44.060 That means Scott Besson's hands all over this and feeding that information to intelligence and to the fleet.

00:19:49.540 So now we have an organized process. 0.70

00:19:51.640 The Chinese get no oil and the Mullahs get no cash. 0.96

00:19:55.080 And so they're jammed up right now. 0.97

00:19:56.840 They're going to have workarounds and try to have workarounds.

00:19:59.200 But the basic bottom line is we blocked them and they've got to come over as supplicants. 0.97

00:20:04.580 Now they're going to talk lots of trash. 0.95

00:20:06.720 Your advice to the president would be what, John Solomon? 0.55

00:20:10.640 You know, I think everyone's telling him, stay the course.

00:20:13.060 This will work.

00:20:13.840 every day that oil doesn't leave Iran, the crisis for Iran becomes more and more real,

00:20:18.980 and it becomes increasingly problematic for China. And so it is a perfect leverage situation 0.58

00:20:24.920 without having to expend any more missiles right now. We can always go back and drop some more

00:20:28.840 bombs if we need to, but we've leveled Iran pretty well. And listen, Iran hasn't fired back. They 0.99

00:20:33.660 haven't done anything. They could. They might act bad. But right now, they are signaling they want

00:20:38.260 to find a way out of this that's diplomatic first. That is the president's greatest leverage right

00:20:43.200 now. And I think he'll stay the course. He's got great people around him in Rubio and Besson.

00:20:48.400 And I think that they have a strategy that is exactly perfectly timed for the moment.

00:20:54.720 And they have maximum leverage now. We'll see how that ends. But the leverage is on the American

00:20:59.300 side, no matter how many times the New York Times tells the American people that the president's

00:21:03.280 in trouble. He's not on this one. He's got all the cards. John, I can't tell you after your

00:21:09.480 appearances now the last couple of days about the deep state and particularly about the impeachment

00:21:13.180 and all this my phone blows up all day with people going you and solomon are killing me

00:21:17.920 when are we going to get when are we going to perp walk when when is vindman going to perp walk

00:21:23.540 when and i think the whole swalwell thing that goes from the leading governor of uh in the

00:21:28.680 governor's rights in california to out of congress i still think this is part of it because he was

00:21:33.140 such a big part such a loud mouth about this and being on the intelligence committee he's deep he's

00:21:38.260 Let me tell you, that's why they're going to game out of town.

00:21:40.680 So just tell us what's going on.

00:21:43.140 But when are we going to start seeing the action of perp walks for these guys?

00:21:48.220 The defense lawyers that I'm talking to, the defense community, believe that there will be one or two major indictments this month in the weaponization out of that grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida.

00:21:58.940 The staff of the prosecutors are ramping up some big name prosecutors are going to be joining that office soon.

00:22:04.080 That is an excellent sign, and the activity is very high.

00:22:08.980 The focal point in the last few weeks in the grand jury, according to defense lawyers, has been John Brennan for potential lying to Congress or false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

00:22:22.300 And then there's some new evidence apparently involving the former FBI Director James Comey.

00:22:27.280 Some of that may have come from the NSA, the National Security Agency, and some testimony and documents that were recently turned over.

00:22:34.380 So there's a lot of activity.

00:22:35.840 I would keep an eye on those two big guys.

00:22:37.440 By the way, those are two big fish at the top of the food chain.

00:22:40.760 But I think this month is what most defense lawyers think will be the first major indictments.

00:22:45.500 These won't be the Virginia ones that were frittered away in a few short weeks.

00:22:49.840 These are serious indictments in a district that's going to sustain them all the way to trial.

00:22:54.740 And, yeah, so I think that's it.

00:22:56.660 Now, in the meantime, just a little bit ago, the president retweeted one of my stories with an admonition to the great Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz.

00:23:06.600 You should go do this.

00:23:07.660 What is he talking about?

00:23:08.800 Last night, here in Real America's Voice, Alan Dershowitz suggested that the president now had the legal right to go to either the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, who presided over the impeachment proceedings of 2019,

00:23:20.140 or to Congress and ask Congress, if you're ready for this, to vacate, to erase his impeachment

00:23:26.660 because of the evidence that Tulsi Gabbard has now made public of cheating.

00:23:30.840 What is that cheating?

00:23:31.800 They knew President Trump's chief accuser, the alleged whistleblower, the guy who filed

00:23:37.100 that complaint in August of 2019, had, one, misled the intelligence community in his complaint,

00:23:42.540 two, had serious issues of bias, and three, knew nothing firsthand.

00:23:47.920 Everything was hearsay, first, second, and third hearsay.

00:23:51.440 Those three elements were kept from the president's defense team, the Senate jurors, the House impeachment managers.

00:23:57.440 Alan Dershowitz said, hey, when this happens in a criminal case, it's a Brady violation.

00:24:01.320 They usually vacate the conviction.

00:24:03.120 I think the president can go and vacate this impeachment finding in December, literally erase it from the books through a vote of Congress or by a declaration by the Supreme Court justice who was the trial judge.

00:24:15.520 The president this morning shared that story and said, Alan, you should go do it.

00:24:20.460 I think he just hired Alan Dershowitz.

00:24:21.840 We're trying to get that confirmed.

00:24:22.880 But keep a close eye on that one.

00:24:24.900 Listen, Russia collusion became Ukraine collusion.

00:24:27.560 It was one continuous operation.

00:24:29.120 Then Ukraine handed off to two other scandals.

00:24:34.540 The whole goal was to pin down Donald Trump with any fake narrative they could get.

00:24:38.960 And now we are unraveling that narrative.

00:24:40.620 I really want to shout out Tulsi, John Radcliffe, all the people who have been working to defeat the state and get me these documents.

00:24:47.820 They had to do a lot of firefights to get these documents clear.

00:24:50.780 They deserve a lot of credit.

00:24:51.820 These are pretty explosive documents.

00:24:54.520 No, insanely explosive.

00:24:57.140 And Tulsi has just been a laboring oar on this.

00:25:00.000 Just amazing.

00:25:00.660 I just want to go to something, though.

00:25:02.920 The vacate, I got it.

00:25:04.380 And that's a historical record.

00:25:06.640 It is a historical record.

00:25:07.620 But the implication of the vacate is that there are a bunch of people that are guilty of crimes to actually bring it and put the nation through that.

00:25:16.100 When do we go to part two in the vacate process, Shifty Shift, Swalwell, all of them.

00:25:22.720 There's 20 or 30 of these guys that knew they were lying, right, coordinated their lying from MSNBC, The New York Times, all of it.

00:25:32.100 This is the vast conspiracy.

00:25:33.600 When do we go from the vacay process to let's round them up and throw them in prison process?

00:25:40.000 Yeah, the last night there was a big tweet by Kash Patel's chief spokesman at the FBI.

00:25:45.480 His name is Ben Williamson saying we've been reviewing this evidence that Tulsi Gabbard made public.

00:25:50.980 It's the same fact he used the same analogy I did, which is this is Russia collusion 2.0.

00:25:56.200 Why is that important?

00:25:58.140 In these documents are evidence that potentially impeaches the testimony of some of the witnesses at the trial.

00:26:04.580 You're going to see a story from us in a couple days.

00:26:06.560 We're going to show you what was testified to and what now we believe the truth is.

00:26:10.600 That could lead to several people being identified as having given false testimony to Congress in an impeachment proceeding.

00:26:17.580 The statute of limitations on the specific testimonies will have expired.

00:26:21.600 That's the role that the deep state managed to succeed at.

00:26:24.780 Keep this a secret for six years.

00:26:26.200 But when you move to a conspiracy, once they can show that Russia handed off to Ukraine, Ukraine handed off to January 6th, January 6th handed off to classified documents, you can go back and charge some of the people with false statements.

00:26:38.900 I am told last night that the FBI identified two people from these documents that they got who testified something different than what's in the documents.

00:26:46.760 Now, whether that turns out to become part of the criminal case or the conspiracy case, we'll wait and see.

00:26:51.920 But that process is you've got to get that conspiracy laid out so that you can go back and charge old crimes that the deep state managed to keep hidden.

00:26:59.180 But that's what's going on. That's what Jason Kanonis is doing. That's what Cash Patel is doing.

00:27:03.420 That's what Todd is doing. And I think when you look at that team right now, there's been a lot of motion since Pam Bondi left the Justice Department.

00:27:11.120 Today, they finally released the report on how the FACE Act was weaponized against abortion, anti-abortion advocates or pro-life people.

00:27:21.000 What sort of what are we talking about?

00:27:23.360 You had the Biden Justice Department working with anti-abortion groups to target pro-lifers and infringe their free speech.

00:27:30.620 You see a two to one disparity in sentencing.

00:27:33.540 If you're pro-life, you got twice the sentence requested by the Justice Department that you got if you were a pro-abortion protester who was arrested.

00:27:41.680 That is a very serious disparity.

00:27:43.700 And today, the Justice Department, the Trump Justice Department, got right on that and told the American people the truth.

00:27:50.200 John, and by the way, I'm going to have some of the guys at Danbury.

00:27:52.760 These guys were saints, and they were all in for five and ten years because of this.

00:27:56.240 John, real quickly, where do they go?

00:27:57.780 You've got like ten breaking stories.

00:27:59.340 Where do people go?

00:28:00.240 Yeah.

00:28:01.080 Justthenews.com.

00:28:01.880 Over the website, Jay Solomon reports on all social media.

00:28:04.380 And I'm lucky enough to follow you every day.

00:28:05.820 You're at Real America's Voice, 6 o'clock.

00:28:07.540 Just the news, no noise, with the amazing Amanda Head.

00:28:11.040 Tonight, we'll toss it to John with the Chinese ambassador.

00:28:14.840 In the Oval with the president, I'm sure, will come out during John's show.

00:28:18.220 John Solomon, thank you.

00:28:19.320 Short break. 0.75

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00:29:45.060 maybe everything i mean both of those things certainly and more

00:29:57.940 we can't let a country blackmail or extort uh the world because that's what they're doing

00:30:06.060 they're really blackmailing the world we're not going to let that happen and you know the amazing

00:30:10.340 thing is, we don't, can you believe this? We don't use this trade. We don't need this

00:30:15.260 trade. We have our own oil and gas, much more than we need. We have more oil and gas than

00:30:20.680 Saudi Arabia. Think of this. We produce more, Saudi Arabia, and add Russia to it, substantially

00:30:27.280 more. And by next year, we'll have double that amount. So we don't need it, but the

00:30:32.540 world needs it.

00:30:33.460 What they say is that behind closed doors, Iran appears much more eager for a deal than

00:30:39.880 they do publicly because of the country's economic desperation. The other thing that I heard was that

00:30:45.580 Iran projects unity publicly, but also behind closed doors. There's a lot of jockeying for

00:30:51.820 power. You know, after the Supreme Leader was killed, after ruling for 37 years, there's a lot

00:30:57.260 of people who are who are vying to be Iran's most powerful official, especially given we don't know

00:31:02.780 the health of Moshe Bahamini. So how and we that's still unknown. Has he been seen? Has he

00:31:08.260 not? We don't know that he's been seen. The Israelis have said that they believe he's alive.

00:31:14.340 I've also heard from sources in Iran saying he's alive, but we've been told he's he's roughed up.

00:31:20.000 You know, his health is not great on his way without a strategy. We essentially have strikes

00:31:24.900 without strategy. In this instance, an operation, we don't know that it'll work.

00:31:29.640 And that's driving up prices at the gas pump and at the grocery store for all of us.

00:31:34.960 And the real risk here, you mentioned he's the commander in chief.

00:31:38.560 He's also just an improv performer in chief.

00:31:41.020 He's sort of making things up as he goes along, in part, if you remember before the war and in the early days, he couldn't really articulate a clear end goal and objective.

00:31:51.160 It was like a game of three card Monty was ever shifting the goalposts.

00:31:55.440 And he continues to do that.

00:31:56.560 And that's a risky situation going back to the troops, to the troops that are in the field right now, that you can't just solve this with tactics.

00:32:03.240 You need smart diplomacy, which is not what we had on display in Islamabad this past weekend.

00:32:07.680 A source familiar with the negotiations telling ABC News the U.S. has now proposed a 20-year suspension to Iran's nuclear program

00:32:15.660 rather than the permanent end the administration has insisted on earlier.

00:32:19.660 According to the New York Times, Iran's countered with an offer of a five-year suspension,

00:32:25.000 though there's no word on the administration's response.

00:32:28.080 Since the start of the war, the president promised this conflict would last only four or five weeks.

00:32:33.560 Now, with the war entering its seventh week, a fragile ceasefire's in place

00:32:37.720 as oil and gas prices remain high, with no relief in sight.

00:32:42.260 When I spoke with this person familiar with all of these discussions,

00:32:45.740 Essentially, this is their hope that they could get a second round of talks.

00:32:50.320 I'm told that internally, Trump administration officials are looking at different locations and potential dates

00:32:56.300 with the goal of trying to have another in-person meeting, again, with the top officials who were there in Islamabad on Saturday,

00:33:04.520 people like the vice president, J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Wyckoff, in person with the Iranians

00:33:10.180 before this two-week ceasefire expires next week on April 21st.

00:33:15.640 Now, again, they are preliminary talks, and I'm told that's because they need to make sure that when they meet in person a second time,

00:33:21.860 when they have all of these U.S. officials go abroad to have this meeting, they want to ensure that a deal can be had.

00:33:29.200 Now, of course, we saw Saturday's talks stretch 21 hours, a marathon session.

00:33:34.380 From my conversations with Trump administration officials, Kate, they said they weren't expecting it to go that long and that there was some progress made.

00:33:42.960 But really, at the end of the day, and you kind of heard the vice president say this during that interview you shared, he felt like perhaps the Iranian officials in the room with them face to face did not have enough authority to make some of the decisions that the Trump team was really pushing on them.

00:33:59.780 And so they're hoping that when a second round could potentially happen, if it potentially happens, they will be in a much closer place.

00:34:06.620 there will be a lot more preparation and pre-work that could go into it to really outline the

00:34:10.880 contours of what a final agreement could look like. Now, you mentioned some of this, but some

00:34:15.780 of the issues that we're told that came up during that Saturday session related to, one, the

00:34:21.500 moratorium on enriched uranium. You mentioned it, but that 20-year moratorium the U.S. put forward,

00:34:26.760 the Iranians coming back with a five-year one. And really, it is the enriched uranium that has 0.95

00:34:31.640 been a true sticking point here. Of course, also this commitment that they want from Iran to say

00:34:38.000 that they would never have a nuclear weapon, all to say the Trump team does seem more optimistic

00:34:43.460 than they had in the aftermath of that meeting on Saturday that a deal can be had. But of course,

00:34:49.640 there's so much going on here. We have to really see how the Iranians respond, especially as we're

00:34:54.240 seeing this now U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, really designed to put a economic strength

00:35:01.620 hold on the Iranians. We'll have to see if that leverage is enough to push this forward. 0.96

00:35:06.740 Blockade, as you say, now in place and amid efforts to restart peace talks, oil and gas prices

00:35:11.960 remaining high. This morning, the U.S. Navy blockading Iran. 16 U.S. warships are now

00:35:19.560 enforcing President Trump's order to stop all ships entering or departing Iranian ports and

00:35:25.160 coastal areas. Two tankers under U.S. sanctions turning around as the restrictions went into

00:35:30.220 effect. The rich Stari, though, now appears to have successfully made it through the Strait of 0.98

00:35:34.980 Hormuz, one of three ships to cross today. We understand that there is a Chinese ship that's

00:35:40.220 been sanctioned by the U.S. passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Are you hearing anything in

00:35:44.940 Beijing about that? That's right. The Stari Rich, which is a mid-sized oil tanker. Interestingly,

00:35:54.080 It's a Malawi flagged ship, although it is quite clearly owned by China and it also broadcasted some signals as being affiliated with China.

00:36:03.180 We know that it left Dubai yesterday on Monday and actually stopped before the U.S. trade blockade was announced and it actually went to do a U-turn.

00:36:12.720 And then it continued through the Strait of Hormuz. And we know it was the first vessel to pass through the straits since the blockade was imposed on Tuesday.

00:36:19.920 day. Now interestingly as you mentioned it was actually sanctioned in 2023 by the U.S. for evading its sanctions on Iran. And so really its passage through the straight raises more questions than it provides answers. First of all was it allowed by the U.S. to pass through the straight because it was coming from Dubai and not from Iran or was its passage kind of missed by the U.S. maybe pointing to how difficult it is to enforce a blockade of that waterway. So I think we have to see how many more ships are able to pass

00:36:49.920 and what what their affiliations are. For Chinese President Xi Jinping in the morning he met with

00:36:55.380 the UAE crown prince who is joined by a rather large delegation of government and industry

00:37:00.160 officials. They're here to strengthen they say the comprehensive strategic partnership between the UAE

00:37:05.460 and China. So we're expecting some trade deals to come out of that and behind closed doors no doubt

00:37:10.220 they also discussed the war in Iran. After that President Xi hosted Pedro Sanchez from Spain. Now

00:37:16.600 This is the Spanish leader's fourth visit to China in just a few years. He's been criticized by some in Europe for treating China as a sort of strategic ally rather than an adversary.

00:37:27.780 And he's really spoken about strengthening the ties between Beijing and Madrid for economic reasons.

00:37:33.300 But he also says that the two countries have more in common, that they both respect international law and international order.

00:37:39.240 He's actually calling on Xi Jinping to play a bigger role in the multipolar order and to do more when it comes to the war in Iran.

00:37:46.220 He said at a press conference following his lunch with Xi Jinping that no interlocutor is like China and is like China able to play a key diplomatic role to end this conflict.

00:37:57.220 They also spoke about countries he mentioned countries that violate international law that they are only just subjected to to threats i.e. Israel.

00:38:06.400 So the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez they're very critical of Israel and the U.S. moving closer to Beijing.

00:38:16.220 um as the one of the engine rooms tell me which i think is important to keep in mind here

00:38:20.620 this is no longer and so we got it like set aside the happy talk and focus on signal and what's

00:38:26.040 going to happen because we want to get the hell out of here because the middle east is a sideshow 0.92

00:38:30.340 and israel is a sideshow to a sideshow so we want to get out of there get back to hemispheric defense 0.99

00:38:35.040 and the great war we have in in in this inside our borders which we're going to talk about in 0.73

00:38:42.700 hour too so this is not about capitulation just not it's about negotiation and hey there's nobody 0.96

00:38:49.680 tougher to negotiate with the persians so you got to give them what they call in police work a come 0.51

00:38:54.340 along the instrument to do that and you've noticed a sea change in their attitude is this blockade

00:39:00.980 and and don't forget the buried lead of fact that the sanctioned ships scott besson's feeding them

00:39:08.040 right there the intelligence services and centcom hey this one that one that one boom these are

00:39:12.340 sanctioned great ship boom sorry sorry not sorry don't care if you came out of uae of course the

00:39:19.200 question the question may be for our great ally right mbz who's the best we got over there he's

00:39:27.440 the best of a bad lot why is why is the ship being loaded up it's an ofac sanctioned ship

00:39:34.440 why is it being loaded up in one of your ports and sent on its merry way because we don't have

00:39:40.740 the Allies over there. Let's not forget that.

00:39:43.180 All of them are double-dealing us

00:39:44.760 nonstop. Double-dealing us as much

00:39:46.760 as bad as the Persians. 0.77

00:39:49.000 But Sam Faddis, 1.00

00:39:50.420 we do have an instrument that's

00:39:52.740 gotten their attention. Now they're down, I don't know,

00:39:54.680 first of all, I thought the nuclear war was going to be

00:39:56.700 in perpetuity to get rid of, but now it's 20 years

00:39:58.580 for five years. Ba-bing, ba-bang, ba-ba-fine. 0.94

00:40:01.520 Figure it out. 0.99

00:40:02.740 We just want to get the hell out of there.

00:40:05.500 The ambassador to China

00:40:06.940 is running over,

00:40:08.600 burning up the phone lines yesterday,

00:40:10.220 running over to the White House today to go in front of President Trump and make the case,

00:40:15.640 oh, this is horrible. These are international waters. You're going to destroy the world's

00:40:19.200 economy. You're coming. We're going to have a huge deal in mid-May. Don't ruin it. You've got

00:40:25.860 to let us off. Now's the time to put the screws down even harder. This is why you've got to go

00:40:30.120 seize all their assets, including in, wait for it, the UAE, in Dubai, in the banks, Sam Faddis. 0.74

00:40:36.640 we finally now have people's attention right not under the rubble of tehran where he bombed them

00:40:43.240 that was part okay that that got part of their attention but this is where you bring them to

00:40:47.200 their knees what scott besant was doing in january how did you have maintenance of people on the

00:40:51.680 streets in january when he destroyed the currency and 30 000 got slaughtered by the ayatollahs and

00:40:57.240 the mullahs and the revolutionary guard because he was breaking them financially we're doing we're

00:41:02.580 beginning the process of doing that now, and all the parties that have been trading with them

00:41:07.380 understand that, and the Persians themselves understand that. Do they not, Sam Faddis?

00:41:14.320 They are beginning to understand it, Steve. I mean, you know, my concern is we started this war

00:41:20.440 with apparently this belief we're going to win this thing in a week by decapitating them. That 0.96

00:41:24.840 didn't work. Now we're blockading the strait. Okay, that's great. I'm all for that. Been

00:41:29.660 advocating it for a long time. In and of itself, not enough. I think you just hit the nail on the

00:41:35.980 head when you said, you know, we pour it on. Okay, that's great, guys. You gave us the finger in

00:41:43.040 Islamabad and thought you could dictate surrender terms. So watch this. The straits are closed. Now

00:41:50.220 we ought to be talking to every country with a land border, closing every land border around

00:41:55.100 iran and we ought to be taking their money that's frozen all over the place and there shouldn't be

00:42:00.100 any cargo planes landing in tehran from anywhere just keep pouring it on and and going harder and

00:42:09.400 faster that is exactly what you need and at the same time understand you know we underestimated

00:42:16.620 these guys once you they may buckle i'm all for that if they do they may also immediately lash out

00:42:26.860 like they took out that pipeline across saudi arabia to yanbu they might take it out again

00:42:31.980 today in about three or four places and the houthis might join the war and any number of

00:42:37.580 other things so we ought to be you know don't wait for that to happen and then move move now

00:42:43.100 to prevent them from doing all of those things.

00:42:47.760 Sam, you used the S word, surrender.

00:42:52.000 Is that how they think of it?

00:42:53.860 I'll tell you what, hold the answer.

00:42:55.540 I want to get you after the break

00:42:56.880 because I think that sets the mindset in the process.

00:43:01.980 This is clearly a negotiation now

00:43:03.800 with kind of the remainder.

00:43:06.300 You know, we killed the top guys, right?

00:43:09.240 I think we went down to the brigade level,

00:43:11.000 what I was told with the

00:43:13.340 Revolution Guard. We've killed a lot of 0.66

00:43:15.380 bad hombres, a lot of them. 1.00

00:43:17.720 Guess what?

00:43:18.920 They've got a lot of bad hombres still to go.

00:43:22.000 They've been digging in on this thing

00:43:23.340 for 40 years, and these guys are all

00:43:25.400 in. They're like the

00:43:26.800 believers in the Mahdi. 0.99

00:43:29.160 They're dug in, and these people were tested

00:43:31.300 in the Iraq-Iran war, lost a million

00:43:33.360 people. Eh, not a problem.

00:43:35.720 These are hard nuts to crack.

00:43:39.000 We're going to see

00:43:39.780 how we're going to do it next with Sam Favis in the world. Everyone's focused on how the conflict

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00:48:34.480 the eve of the ides of march sam faddis um you mentioned surrender you've dealt with these guys

00:48:43.420 you were in the country for a decade i mean you've dealt with them is their mindset right now hey

00:48:47.320 they took one of the most brutal bombing campaigns in mankind's history under the rubble in Tehran

00:48:54.480 and other places. There are a lot of dead, bad hombres that these guys should be colleagues of.

00:48:59.480 But hey, they've kind of gotten field promotions. So the world's not that bad. Now they're shut

00:49:04.940 down by the Americans by sea. They're trying to stop. We're trying to stop overland, you know, 1.00

00:49:10.520 incursions in there to rearm them and to get the fuel out. Also, you said, hey, I'm sure there's an

00:49:16.460 air already, nothing can fly in or out that the American either Naval Air Force or Air Force

00:49:22.500 can't stop. Do they believe that they are defeated till they would surrender? Are they trying to do

00:49:28.540 the old Persian trick of the market negotiations and figure out something and get the best they 0.69

00:49:33.780 can get now, sir? I definitely don't think they're defeated. I mean, look, you know, hope is not a 0.98

00:49:40.680 plan and refusing to face reality doesn't take us to victory. We thought they were going to

00:49:46.340 apparently believe they were going to collapse immediately. They didn't. They published a 10

00:49:51.980 point plan in advance of the Islamabad meetings. That was a surrender document. You and I talked

00:49:57.440 about that. We went to Islamabad when we sat down with them in that context, having them having

00:50:04.120 ridden out the offensive and still standing and still threatening the Gulf and closing

00:50:08.260 the Straits, they absolutely believe they're winning. Now, we walked away. We've now taken

00:50:15.820 a major positive step by closing the Straits. My concern, now we're once again in this mode of,

00:50:24.700 well, it's about over and they're about to quit. Certainly now they will surrender.

00:50:30.060 You know, I'm the happiest guy in the world if they announce as, while you and I are talking

00:50:34.620 here that that's in fact the case. Wonderful. It's over. Assuming that, thinking that suddenly

00:50:41.340 we transformed this, I think is very ill-advised. Pour on the pressure and move right now to counter

00:50:50.160 the things that they may do as they lash out. Because that's cyber attacks. That's every U.S.

00:50:56.260 embassy in the world. That's all the desalination plants in the Gulf. I mean, don't assume that 0.61

00:51:03.640 these guys are getting ready to quit again if it happens fabulous but don't get caught off guard

00:51:09.280 again thinking that it's all over but the shouting and we and we win we may be a long way from there

00:51:15.140 we will just turn the screws on them i mean that's what you do when you're talking to these guys and

00:51:21.060 it's obvious that they sat down in the room with you and they think you can they can play you you

00:51:26.200 don't make nice with them you get up and walk away from the table and then lay waste to them that's

00:51:32.860 and and then maybe we can talk and you're just really clear about it like i'm gonna put you

00:51:39.820 know i've had conversations where i've said to the guy i'm talking to uh this is the deal and

00:51:45.420 if you don't take the deal we're putting the jdm through the roof of your building and it's blowing

00:51:49.960 up on your desk that's where we are now do you want to talk or not that i mean you know not to

00:51:56.500 be melodramatic. That is the way you have to approach it. Do not underestimate that.

00:52:02.300 And they have to know that you're prepared to put it on their desk, right? I mean,

00:52:06.580 they have to know that there's a force in the back of that.

00:52:10.500 And every once in a while, you got to do it.

00:52:13.980 Exactly. Sam, where do people go in magazine? I'm going to get you on tomorrow. I'll bug you,

00:52:19.840 see if you can come on tomorrow, because there's a piece on War on the Rocks that talks about a

00:52:25.280 tactical victory in a strategic defeat for the United States of America right now in the Iran

00:52:31.700 War. So I'll get your thoughts on it today and get you back on tomorrow. Where do they go to

00:52:36.020 get AN Magazine? You're putting up great stuff all the time, sir. AN Magazine Substack,

00:52:39.840 andmagazine.substack.com. Sam Faddis, thank you so much, sir,

00:52:45.480 for changing your day around to join us here in the War Room.

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