00:00:58.120John 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.
00:01:22.380We also have a naval blockade going on in the north, in the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:46.480Before we get into that, I just want to correct.
00:01:48.540Yesterday I had said that the USS George W. Bush was heading into the Strait of Gibraltar
00:01:55.060hours after that report that had been online was corrected, and now that we know that the
00:02:01.840Bush is actually heading down through the west coast of Africa, is off of Namibia, and
00:02:06.780is heading around the Cape of Good Hope and avoiding the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeep.
00:02:12.120regarding this Chinese-owned ship. It's called the Rich Stari, and it's Malawi flag. It's under
00:02:21.220OFAC sanctions for illegal shipments. And it was sitting in an anchorage in Oman inside the Arabian
00:02:30.280Gulf. It had been at anchorage. It's an oil and chemical tanker, fully laden. And when the embargo
00:02:36.300or the blockade started yesterday at 10 Eastern time on the 13th of April, within the hour,
00:02:41.560The 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.
00:02:54.080Then 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.
00:03:09.640Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Slow down. Slow down. Let's get the graphic up.
00:03:14.300Denver, you put the graphic up. I want the I want the captain to explain it.
00:03:17.500Go ahead. Once we get the. OK, there we go. Captain Fennell, continue on.
00:03:21.720Tell the audience where to focus. Yeah. Focus on the top white top right quadrant.
00:03:28.000And what you'll see is a yellow track going south of Kesham and south of Lark Island.
00:03:33.000And then that yellow track goes down through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:36.220And before it got to that red box, the Internet exploded and said, ah, see, the blockades failed.
00:03:43.260Well, 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.
00:03:58.760So that's just one vessel that's been clearly turned around.
00:04:01.920There's another report of another one or two vessels that have been turned around.
00:04:06.220So we're in this fog of war right now in terms of, you know, what exactly is happening.
00:04:12.700But there is evidence that the U.S. Navy's blockade has been effective and is starting
00:05:01.920that was heading for China, and that has been turned around.
00:05:04.800So that's a tanker of oil that the Chinese will not get.
00:05:11.420How does this, explain to the audience, how does this work?
00:05:16.080If, I think, at least what I've seen, I don't know what the notice to Mariners is,
00:05:20.960but what I've seen from CENTCOMs, they are basically putting the Iranian ports,
00:05:26.400Karg Island, anything that's Iranian, and they're tracking,
00:05:29.780if it comes out it's going to get turned back but supposedly our allies the saudis uae kuwait0.89
00:05:35.980bahrain qatar um and in fact i think they were people were very excited that one of the liquefied
00:05:44.520natural gas vessels got out how does something leave uae even if it's part of this gray fleet
00:05:50.880or ghost fleet that gets turned around obviously it's ccp oil i mean you want it turned around i
00:05:57.140want to turn around, but we're anti-CCP guys. Is that in the rules of the game? I thought if it
00:06:03.060came out of UAE, if it came out of one of our allies' ports, it's good to go. Have they taken0.99
00:06:08.760a second consideration that if it's gray-shift or they think it's going to go to China, it gets
00:06:14.900turned around? Well, it wasn't because it was going to China. It was because it was already an
00:06:20.400OFAC internationally sanctioned vessel for what it had already done running illegally obtained oil.
00:06:27.140so coming out of Iran. So presumably that ship at some point, I don't know its full history,
00:06:34.020had received Iranian oil. So that's why it's under sanction. Maybe it's under sanction because it
00:06:39.440ran Russian oil sometime earlier. I don't know all the details. But the fact is, is that it was
00:06:44.000an OFAC-sanctioned vessel, and that is part of the criteria that we're going to stop. So we're
00:06:48.840going to stop every ship vessel that comes out of Iranian waters, Iranian ports. They have six main
00:06:55.320ports that supply 90 percent of Iran's economy and trade. So those will be the six that will
00:07:03.180be watched the most. And then we'll be watching for sanctioned vessels. And then we've even said
00:07:08.760in the notice to mariners, we've even said even, you know, neutral countries that we think may
00:07:14.900have some suspicious activities, we have the right to reserve to look at those. And we will do that
00:07:20.300as well. So this is going to be a fairly thorough effort to make sure that China cannot run oil or0.80
00:07:27.160China, Iran cannot run oil out, buy and sell oil, and as well as we don't want to see weapons,
00:07:34.100you know, coming in. We don't want to see ballistic missile parts or components for0.90
00:07:38.020nuclear material or whatever it is. We don't want that coming into Iran either. So what we need now1.00
00:07:44.480is to get our allies to get engaged with this and help join the fight, our allies in the Gulf and
00:07:49.840our allies in NATO. And let's see if that's going to happen. But right now, U.S. Navy, once again,
00:07:54.880America is carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.
00:07:59.280I mean, haven't the allies been pretty adamant? I mean, I think they had a meeting yesterday.
00:08:04.160But haven't they been adamant that the Royal Navy, the French Navy, the Italian Navy, three,
00:08:09.120they could help right away, are not going to be part of this? And I think it goes to show you
00:08:13.560how they have not invested. You know, they've invested in their workers taking holidays,
00:08:18.140six-week holidays in the summer and retiring at 50 and having full pensions why american workers
00:08:24.300don't have that we've got a 1.5 trillion dollar defense budget proposed by president trump that's
00:08:30.660in scott in um a russ vote is going to i think on thursday go to the house budget committee and i'm
00:08:36.400sure he's going to get some incoming on that but we have allies that at best it'll be on paper yes
00:08:43.060the the royal navy's going to send a destroyer the french will send a frigate the italians will
00:08:47.360and the Corvettes, so they'll make a huge deal about they're part of this. But are they really,
00:08:52.540are they, do they really have enough wherewithal of naval forces, naval assets to actually do this,
00:08:59.600sir? I think that the French and the Italians and, you know, if you combined all of them,
00:09:07.800they could probably scrape together, you know, a half a dozen destroyers that would help alleviate0.88
00:09:13.600some of that pressure. But I think right now, and I think given President Trump's previous
00:09:17.860responses to the UK when they wanted to send carriers, I mean, they actually have two aircraft
00:09:23.360carriers that don't have any surface combatants that can escort them. It's the strangest thing
00:09:28.920that you'd ever imagine that the Royal Navy could have aircraft carriers without escorting
00:09:34.320destroyers. The USS4 or Bush that's heading down the west coast of Africa right now,
00:09:40.880She's got three destroyers with her, the Cook, the Mason, and the Ross, as well as a fast refueler, the Arctic.
00:09:51.120So there's five ships that are steaming down with the bush.
00:09:54.560That's how we send our carrier strike groups around.
00:09:57.020We do that with our expeditionary strike groups.
00:09:59.180We don't just send big decks alone by themselves.0.89
00:10:02.560It's an integrated air defense arrangement, and the British aren't there.
00:10:06.780So we're doing this, and we're moving other assets.
00:10:09.560There are two Avenger-class traditional minesweepers that were in Japan.
00:10:14.700We had commissioned a number that were in Bahrain for years.
00:10:18.680We 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.
00:10:26.960But 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.
00:10:36.120We've got the USS Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group is there.
00:10:40.880She's got a big deck that can put out helicopters and other platforms into the water.
00:10:47.300There'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.
00:11:00.580So we're serious about this, and it's going to get done.0.93
00:11:04.140And again, like we said in previous episodes, the goal is to choke Iran off from access to funds.0.86
00:11:11.060And when that money goes away, how are they going to survive?0.56
00:11:23.060But today at 530, and folks, we'll be covering this live on the 5 to 7 hour here at the war.
00:11:29.720From at 530, the ambassador, the Chinese ambassador to the United States is going to be in the Oval Office.
00:11:34.740I 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.
00:11:44.620But he's going to be in there whining.0.61
00:11:46.240The 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.
00:11:56.940He's going to make a plea today, particularly prior to this meeting, President Trump in mid-May, to relieve the pressure on this.
00:13:47.480So there's a naval blockade, and it's having an impact.
00:13:51.100Everybody in the world is talking about it.
00:13:52.840All the capital markets are talking about, the financiers are talking about, the United States Navy is implementing this right now.
00:13:58.740The 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.
00:14:07.520Hopefully, 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,
00:14:15.540lateral nations around the South China Sea saying that the South China Sea is an internal sea of
00:14:21.640China. It's like the new South China Sea. Unbelievable. John Solomon is next. President
00:14:30.460Trump goes to war against the deep state on a 30-front war. This may be the most important of
00:14:39.220all because it's tried to drag us into some unbelievable situations. This situation on the
00:14:45.160impeachment in Ukraine, enough to make you sick to your stomach.
00:17:02.320talk to me about what's going on and president trump today is going to have the first of she
00:17:06.820coming and saying hey you're coming to see me in mid-may we got to figure this thing out you can't
00:17:12.080you know mess around with international waters your thoughts sir yeah i think the thoughts are
00:17:16.960that um if if we were um in broadway we remember this old song from oklahoma anything you can do
00:17:23.300i can do better and that's what president trump just showed iran and china you want a blockade
00:17:27.660of Hormuz, watch this. Nothing gets out. Nothing gets in. Why is that such a taking time bomb for
00:17:34.000Iran? Obviously, they've got cash flow issues. But the real crisis, the thing that Iran would
00:17:39.280self-destroy its own oil industry is within three weeks, they will be at full capacity. I mean,
00:17:44.760there's nowhere else to store oil if it can't get out of the Strait of Hormuz. In that scenario,
00:17:50.740the wells start to back up. They start to get brackish water and they come to a grinding halt.
00:17:56.040Iran would lose billions of dollars of infrastructure when those wells start to go to that sort of latent status.
00:18:03.100They can't afford to let that happen with all the destruction that's already occurred.
00:18:06.400So 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.
00:18:13.720And I think that's what's got everybody's attention.
00:18:15.920China's got is coming here to see the president.
00:18:52.580The ceasefire is held, but he's got a stranglehold on Iran and China and, by the way, India.
00:18:58.540And Iran and India will have now every motive to fix this because they'll be dry of energy within a couple of months.
00:19:06.620Folks, 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
00:19:15.140Right. And maybe you can argue later it should have been very smart.
00:19:17.300But there's no doubt, John, that we got the ambassador burning up the phone.
00:21:43.140But when are we going to start seeing the action of perp walks for these guys?
00:21:48.220The 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.
00:21:58.940The staff of the prosecutors are ramping up some big name prosecutors are going to be joining that office soon.
00:22:04.080That is an excellent sign, and the activity is very high.
00:22:08.980The 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.
00:22:22.300And then there's some new evidence apparently involving the former FBI Director James Comey.
00:22:27.280Some of that may have come from the NSA, the National Security Agency, and some testimony and documents that were recently turned over.
00:22:56.660Now, 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.
00:23:08.800Last 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,
00:23:20.140or to Congress and ask Congress, if you're ready for this, to vacate, to erase his impeachment
00:23:26.660because of the evidence that Tulsi Gabbard has now made public of cheating.
00:24:03.120I 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.
00:24:15.520The president this morning shared that story and said, Alan, you should go do it.
00:24:20.460I think he just hired Alan Dershowitz.
00:25:07.620But 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.
00:25:16.100When do we go to part two in the vacate process, Shifty Shift, Swalwell, all of them.
00:25:22.720There'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.
00:26:26.200But 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.
00:26:38.900I 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.
00:26:46.760Now, whether that turns out to become part of the criminal case or the conspiracy case, we'll wait and see.
00:26:51.920But 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.
00:26:59.180But that's what's going on. That's what Jason Kanonis is doing. That's what Cash Patel is doing.
00:27:03.420That'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.
00:27:11.120Today, they finally released the report on how the FACE Act was weaponized against abortion, anti-abortion advocates or pro-life people.
00:27:21.000What sort of what are we talking about?
00:27:23.360You had the Biden Justice Department working with anti-abortion groups to target pro-lifers and infringe their free speech.
00:27:30.620You see a two to one disparity in sentencing.
00:27:33.540If 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.
00:30:33.460What they say is that behind closed doors, Iran appears much more eager for a deal than
00:30:39.880they do publicly because of the country's economic desperation. The other thing that I heard was that
00:30:45.580Iran projects unity publicly, but also behind closed doors. There's a lot of jockeying for
00:30:51.820power. You know, after the Supreme Leader was killed, after ruling for 37 years, there's a lot
00:30:57.260of people who are who are vying to be Iran's most powerful official, especially given we don't know
00:31:02.780the health of Moshe Bahamini. So how and we that's still unknown. Has he been seen? Has he
00:31:08.260not? We don't know that he's been seen. The Israelis have said that they believe he's alive.
00:31:14.340I've also heard from sources in Iran saying he's alive, but we've been told he's he's roughed up.
00:31:20.000You know, his health is not great on his way without a strategy. We essentially have strikes
00:31:24.900without strategy. In this instance, an operation, we don't know that it'll work.
00:31:29.640And that's driving up prices at the gas pump and at the grocery store for all of us.
00:31:34.960And the real risk here, you mentioned he's the commander in chief.
00:31:38.560He's also just an improv performer in chief.
00:31:41.020He'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.
00:31:51.160It was like a game of three card Monty was ever shifting the goalposts.
00:31:56.560And 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.
00:32:03.240You need smart diplomacy, which is not what we had on display in Islamabad this past weekend.
00:32:07.680A source familiar with the negotiations telling ABC News the U.S. has now proposed a 20-year suspension to Iran's nuclear program
00:32:15.660rather than the permanent end the administration has insisted on earlier.
00:32:19.660According to the New York Times, Iran's countered with an offer of a five-year suspension,
00:32:25.000though there's no word on the administration's response.
00:32:28.080Since the start of the war, the president promised this conflict would last only four or five weeks.
00:32:33.560Now, with the war entering its seventh week, a fragile ceasefire's in place
00:32:37.720as oil and gas prices remain high, with no relief in sight.
00:32:42.260When I spoke with this person familiar with all of these discussions,
00:32:45.740Essentially, this is their hope that they could get a second round of talks.
00:32:50.320I'm told that internally, Trump administration officials are looking at different locations and potential dates
00:32:56.300with the goal of trying to have another in-person meeting, again, with the top officials who were there in Islamabad on Saturday,
00:33:04.520people like the vice president, J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Wyckoff, in person with the Iranians
00:33:10.180before this two-week ceasefire expires next week on April 21st.
00:33:15.640Now, 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,
00:33:21.860when they have all of these U.S. officials go abroad to have this meeting, they want to ensure that a deal can be had.
00:33:29.200Now, of course, we saw Saturday's talks stretch 21 hours, a marathon session.
00:33:34.380From 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.
00:33:42.960But 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.
00:33:59.780And so they're hoping that when a second round could potentially happen, if it potentially happens, they will be in a much closer place.
00:34:06.620there will be a lot more preparation and pre-work that could go into it to really outline the
00:34:10.880contours of what a final agreement could look like. Now, you mentioned some of this, but some
00:34:15.780of the issues that we're told that came up during that Saturday session related to, one, the
00:34:21.500moratorium on enriched uranium. You mentioned it, but that 20-year moratorium the U.S. put forward,
00:34:26.760the Iranians coming back with a five-year one. And really, it is the enriched uranium that has0.95
00:34:31.640been a true sticking point here. Of course, also this commitment that they want from Iran to say
00:34:38.000that they would never have a nuclear weapon, all to say the Trump team does seem more optimistic
00:34:43.460than they had in the aftermath of that meeting on Saturday that a deal can be had. But of course,
00:34:49.640there's so much going on here. We have to really see how the Iranians respond, especially as we're
00:34:54.240seeing this now U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, really designed to put a economic strength
00:35:01.620hold on the Iranians. We'll have to see if that leverage is enough to push this forward.0.96
00:35:06.740Blockade, as you say, now in place and amid efforts to restart peace talks, oil and gas prices
00:35:11.960remaining high. This morning, the U.S. Navy blockading Iran. 16 U.S. warships are now
00:35:19.560enforcing President Trump's order to stop all ships entering or departing Iranian ports and
00:35:25.160coastal areas. Two tankers under U.S. sanctions turning around as the restrictions went into
00:35:30.220effect. The rich Stari, though, now appears to have successfully made it through the Strait of0.98
00:35:34.980Hormuz, one of three ships to cross today. We understand that there is a Chinese ship that's
00:35:40.220been sanctioned by the U.S. passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Are you hearing anything in
00:35:44.940Beijing about that? That's right. The Stari Rich, which is a mid-sized oil tanker. Interestingly,
00:35:54.080It's a Malawi flagged ship, although it is quite clearly owned by China and it also broadcasted some signals as being affiliated with China.
00:36:03.180We 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.
00:36:12.720And 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.
00:36:19.920day. 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
00:36:49.920and what what their affiliations are. For Chinese President Xi Jinping in the morning he met with
00:36:55.380the UAE crown prince who is joined by a rather large delegation of government and industry
00:37:00.160officials. They're here to strengthen they say the comprehensive strategic partnership between the UAE
00:37:05.460and China. So we're expecting some trade deals to come out of that and behind closed doors no doubt
00:37:10.220they also discussed the war in Iran. After that President Xi hosted Pedro Sanchez from Spain. Now
00:37:16.600This 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.
00:37:27.780And he's really spoken about strengthening the ties between Beijing and Madrid for economic reasons.
00:37:33.300But he also says that the two countries have more in common, that they both respect international law and international order.
00:37:39.240He'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.
00:37:46.220He 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.
00:37:57.220They also spoke about countries he mentioned countries that violate international law that they are only just subjected to to threats i.e. Israel.
00:38:06.400So the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez they're very critical of Israel and the U.S. moving closer to Beijing.
00:38:16.220um as the one of the engine rooms tell me which i think is important to keep in mind here
00:38:20.620this is no longer and so we got it like set aside the happy talk and focus on signal and what's
00:38:26.040going to happen because we want to get the hell out of here because the middle east is a sideshow0.92
00:38:30.340and israel is a sideshow to a sideshow so we want to get out of there get back to hemispheric defense0.99
00:38:35.040and the great war we have in in in this inside our borders which we're going to talk about in0.73
00:38:42.700hour too so this is not about capitulation just not it's about negotiation and hey there's nobody0.96
00:38:49.680tougher to negotiate with the persians so you got to give them what they call in police work a come0.51
00:38:54.340along the instrument to do that and you've noticed a sea change in their attitude is this blockade
00:39:00.980and and don't forget the buried lead of fact that the sanctioned ships scott besson's feeding them
00:39:08.040right there the intelligence services and centcom hey this one that one that one boom these are
00:39:12.340sanctioned great ship boom sorry sorry not sorry don't care if you came out of uae of course the
00:39:19.200question the question may be for our great ally right mbz who's the best we got over there he's
00:39:27.440the best of a bad lot why is why is the ship being loaded up it's an ofac sanctioned ship
00:39:34.440why is it being loaded up in one of your ports and sent on its merry way because we don't have
00:39:40.740the Allies over there. Let's not forget that.