Bannon's War Room - Episode 5310： Peace Talks Attempt To Continue While Strait Remains Closed

00:00:00.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:00:05.320 With Mark Alper, an incredible show, fun show.

00:00:07.800 I love you could do the focus groups.

00:00:09.300 They bring people up and kind of thinking about about thinking about ways that we could do that on over on human events, by the way.

00:00:15.940 And because you can you can really pick people's minds and talk directly to the individual.

00:00:22.300 They call in. They use like a Zoom set up.

00:00:24.120 And Steve, what I said is the president is in closing mode.

00:00:27.840 He is in closing mode right now.

00:00:30.000 When he's in closing mode, he understands there's going to be hiccups.

00:00:33.280 There's going to be a couple of challenges before you get something to the finish line there.

00:00:37.540 But what he is going to do is drive everything towards the close.

00:00:43.800 That's what this is about.

00:00:45.220 So when there's challenges, when there's hiccups, he's going to push them away.

00:00:48.380 He's going to push them to the side.

00:00:50.060 And by the way, that includes, for example, that's why you saw the swiftness with which he slapped down this.

00:00:56.180 He said, look, you guys have a problem with Israel, Lebanon.

00:00:58.320 Boom. Done.

00:00:59.320 ceasefire, make it happen right now, bring him to the White House. So he's not interested in

00:01:04.960 playing games. He wants to put this thing to bed. He wants to turn the chapter. That's why,

00:01:10.020 of course, he does this huge high-profile event this morning, bring in the most high-profile

00:01:15.780 podcasters and Bobby Kennedy going full Maha. So I think he's signaling. He's sending out all

00:01:23.500 the signals that he wants to put this thing to bed. He's in closing mode. Yeah, I want to talk

00:01:29.000 You know, Bo Davison was co-hosting with us yesterday.

00:01:32.120 He called it the recalibration.

00:01:33.900 I put it up when they announced this morning what this was going to be about the psychedelic drug.

00:01:40.940 I said this is President Trump does the pivot, right?

00:01:44.780 He's pivoting to November.

00:01:46.700 You agree with that.

00:01:47.840 Don't get me wrong.

00:01:48.660 The war is still very big.

00:01:50.220 And remember, President Trump comes to these negotiations, what I call the power of positive thinking.

00:01:55.240 was that Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of the church

00:02:00.080 that Trump's father took him to.

00:02:02.220 So he's a huge believer in that.

00:02:04.400 Because people are saying, well, Trump's saying this 0.97

00:02:05.840 and the Iranians are saying that. 0.69

00:02:06.680 Everybody misses that, by the way,

00:02:07.880 and how important that is to understanding the president.

00:02:11.240 No, Norman Vincent Peale is really one of the most important parts

00:02:15.120 of the formative years of President Trump

00:02:18.380 when he was a young person, then went to the military school.

00:02:21.040 But he's read every book, studied, talked to Norman Vincent Peale.

00:02:23.940 his father was his father was a big believer in it and that's why you say he's trying to impose

00:02:29.060 his will onto this situation particularly as you got uh you know you got these pirates

00:02:34.680 that have already fired to i think in the last couple of hours on a couple of tankers

00:02:38.960 the kids call it manifesting today they call it manifesting a manifesting

00:02:43.560 yes and that's what he's doing but it's the same thing on the pivot to november

00:02:48.200 So yesterday, Charlie Kirk was part of it, the Charlie at the at Turning Point.

00:02:54.360 Then this morning and you saw he had Bobby Kennedy.

00:02:57.220 There's been all this rumor that Bobby Kennedy is on the way out that, you know, we've talked about a lot that they're very restricted about Maha.

00:03:04.740 President Trump gave him huge compliments, huge props, talked about how important Maha was and made this pivot.

00:03:11.980 Joe Rogan, obviously, has been very critical of the president over the last couple of weeks.

00:03:15.660 Joe Rogan standing right in back of him for a photo op. Talk to me about this pivot to November.

00:03:20.520 You say president's in closing mode. He understands the stakes, particularly the Democrats have already

00:03:25.640 lined up to essentially destroy his second term if they take the House and to and to eventually put

00:03:33.100 President Trump and his colleagues in jail, sir. Well, Steve, they do. And I'd point out as well

00:03:39.380 that you notice you actually don't hear the Democrats talking that much about the Iran war.

00:03:43.820 They talk about ICE, even when they held this No Kings protest over the one that was during the, you know, 38 days or 41 days, however much we shake out, let's say 40.

00:03:53.080 Let's split the split the difference there. And they don't talk about it being anti-war as much.

00:03:59.400 You know, there are a couple of these motions that didn't really go anywhere.

00:04:02.320 But ultimately, you don't see Chuck Schumer coming out to the sticks and pounding down about it.

00:04:07.340 You just don't see it the way you do about ICE and about other things, because they understand that it is domestic policy that November is going to be decided upon.

00:04:19.020 They understand that they want to stay on that message, whether it's delivering for working families, whether it's inflation.

00:04:25.920 Now, they'll talk about gas prices, of course, and they'll talk about that in terms of the indirect functions that come out of the war.

00:04:32.520 And we're already seeing gas prices come down. But that's where they want to keep their focus.

00:04:37.780 That's why you're seeing the president doing. And by the way, 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, that's not just a pivot, Steve.

00:04:42.560 That's a hard pivot. That's that's a hard pivot. The early hour, because the president just got off the plane a couple hours ago.

00:04:50.220 I think the 9 a.m. is to show you, hey, we're firing off the football here.

00:04:53.680 I also, given the weather in Washington, D.C., might have something to do with this tea time at the at the Trump course.

00:05:00.240 The weather in D.C. is phenomenal.

00:05:02.460 When you're back in D.C. now, you know it's phenomenal.

00:05:05.020 The whole East Coast is phenomenal right now, the best.

00:05:07.980 Yeah, just amazing spring.

00:05:09.600 I want to go back to yesterday with the Charlie Kirk.

00:05:13.960 That was an outpouring of energy, and I think it was great coming from Turning Point.

00:05:20.200 It was a packed house.

00:05:21.260 People were waiting for it.

00:05:22.080 President Trump hitting on all cylinders.

00:05:23.740 But the response of the of the Turning Point, Turning Point USA, we had Andrew Colvett on at the end of the show yesterday.

00:05:31.040 We didn't get a chance to get to your thoughts about this.

00:05:34.100 Really, I believe, kicked off the 2026 midterm yesterday in Phoenix, sir.

00:05:41.380 Well, and that's exactly what it was intended to do, Steve.

00:05:43.860 That's why it was branded. Build the red wall.

00:05:46.200 So remember the blue wall. We, you know, we shut that down in 2024.

00:05:50.400 before charlie was talking about that for the majority of the every day every day how do we

00:05:55.140 take down the blue wall how do we take down the blue wall but now the red wall and it kind of

00:05:59.160 needs to be reconstituted so that's why it's the play on words build the wall build the red wall

00:06:05.100 and what that means is solidifying those gains from 2024 turning those swing states from purple

00:06:11.960 to red through what registration that's where you get turning point action that's where you get

00:06:16.060 Scott Pressler, Cliff Maloney, Citizens United. That's where you get all of those different pieces

00:06:20.400 in key areas. And now you're looking at Turning Point as well, putting up physical infrastructure

00:06:25.640 in places like Wisconsin, like Nevada, like New Hampshire, by the way, is a huge one that is

00:06:31.800 absolutely on the bubble. I was just up in New Hampshire with Tanya Tay. There's Trump signs

00:06:35.940 everywhere. That is Caroline Levitt hails from there to Granite State. That's absolutely on 1.00

00:06:41.060 the bubble for Trump. And I always say that New England's full of a lot of conservatives who just

00:06:45.460 don't know it and you know they just need to get over that you know that hump of saying you know

00:06:50.700 what i am a republican i am a conservative so i think the senate race up there is something needs

00:06:55.340 to be looked at susan collins absolutely needs to be looked at and something where i think she has

00:06:59.960 absolutely absolute ability to pull it off and and by the way you see the democrats recalibrating

00:07:05.940 you see the democrats recover they got a blue collar guy running up in maine right now um army

00:07:11.260 veteran a guy who's up there saying that he's you know i'm i'm one of you i look just like you i

00:07:16.140 sound just like you it's not one of these crazy kamala candidates again that's something that

00:07:20.520 they're they're trying to do that in texas but they couldn't quite get it right with talarico

00:07:23.580 but he is a white male among other things right so you see this recalibration that they're trying

00:07:29.500 to do yeah he's a little he's a talarico's a little testosterone light but they're running

00:07:34.640 like it's like it's kind of like talarico and and tim waltz are like the the low testosterone

00:07:40.500 own, you know, Frankenstein's prototype that didn't quite make it out of the lab, if you

00:07:44.940 know what I mean, in terms of this.

00:07:47.580 I'd kind of throw Pete Buttigieg in that.

00:07:49.500 Hold on, Tim Walls is Arnold Schwarzenegger compared to Tallarico.

00:07:55.520 Tallarico, it's a, you know, he's a weird dude.

00:07:58.900 He's going to be tough, but they've got blue-collar guys.

00:08:00.760 It was, this was a turning of the page, too, because this is the first time that President

00:08:05.900 trump has come back to arizona and has done a turning point event since we held the memorial

00:08:11.680 for charlie and it's really only been just a couple of months since that took place and so

00:08:16.700 this is the first time he's been back now it's it's you remember charlie you remember the legacy

00:08:21.900 but you push forward the mission continues the work continues that's what it's about and steve

00:08:27.100 i gotta tell you those young kids particularly the young men we couldn't keep them in the seats

00:08:31.720 last night. They were standing up. They were cheering, standing O's all night long.

00:08:37.480 Before we lose you, we've got Eric Bolling and Brandon Weicker going to join us. DeGrasse

00:08:41.720 is going to talk to us about redistricting in Virginia and around the country. We're

00:08:45.680 teeing this up today because Virginia is still going. We've got a lot of people in Virginia

00:08:49.100 in our big event tomorrow. Jack, just your assessment. The Navy's not shutting down the

00:08:55.460 blockade. The Iranians are now saying if the blockade doesn't shut down, Hormuz doesn't 0.79

00:08:59.640 open. They fired on at least reports on CNN, BBC. They fired on a couple of vessels this morning

00:09:05.660 from, I guess, their speedboats. What's your assessment?

00:09:11.340 Oh, Steve, look, you know, the Iranians have always had cards that they can play on this 1.00

00:09:15.420 if they don't like the way that they see things going. They don't like it. And I'm sure this is 1.00

00:09:19.580 a response, by the way, to those messages, the interdictions, maritime interdiction operations,

00:09:24.300 the MEOs, as we call them in the Navy, that the United States Navy has been conducting.

00:09:29.020 You see these messages that are being played out, the Iranians, you know, commercial vessel, commercial vessel, et cetera, that are coming out. 0.92

00:09:35.480 This is their response to that. 0.61

00:09:37.260 So we'll see how the president plays this.

00:09:39.020 But again, Steve, I would put that in the context of President Trump being in closing mode.

00:09:44.380 I think you're going to see swift action on this.

00:09:47.400 Yeah, he's talking about people actually leaving tomorrow to go to Islamabad and continue the Islamabad talks.

00:09:55.040 What are the odds you put on that?

00:09:56.380 Because like I said, this is he's trying to enforce. I'd be surprised. Yeah, I'd be surprised if Kushner and Wyckoff aren't wheels up today.

00:10:06.600 OK, Jack, I know you got a bounce. I want to thank you for being here with us from 9 a.m. for this special edition, the additional hour as we watch the president of the Oval Office about PTSD.

00:10:18.740 Jack, where do people go to get Human Events Daily, all your content over this weekend, sir?

00:10:24.060 Well, thanks so much, Steve.

00:10:25.320 And, you know, with bringing Joe Rogan back, I guess the podcasters do matter, as it turns out, for the midterm elections.

00:10:31.420 I guess the podcasters do have some pull after all.

00:10:35.340 Well, hang on, hang on.

00:10:36.780 Don't get to it.

00:10:38.200 Let's see if they're back.

00:10:39.600 I mean, he's there today with the PTSD.

00:10:41.160 He was instrumental in making this happen.

00:10:44.700 Yeah, he's making the play.

00:10:45.540 Making the play.

00:10:47.120 He's making the play.

00:10:47.800 Where do people go to get your content?

00:10:49.140 you know and rogan's had his comments so you know but now he's back in the oval so there you go right

00:10:53.980 people turn the page very quickly and the president understands how to do that uh for myself human

00:10:58.440 events daily we're up apple spotify wherever you get podcasts at jack posobic we're there 24 7

00:11:04.500 doing a lot of coverage uh tyler robinson hearing not massive six hour hearing yesterday we went

00:11:09.760 through all that through all six hours back and forth are there going to be delays etc we're

00:11:14.800 going to have cameras in the courtroom so that's been a huge focus for us but now we're pivoting

00:11:18.620 back on to our coverage of Iran and we're going to make sure we don't drop it we're going to put

00:11:23.080 this thing to bed no you're the best Jack Posobiec thanks for taking time away from the kids Tanya

00:11:29.240 Tay your parents all of it on a Saturday morning thank you no problem heading out to Little League

00:11:32.580 games now fabulous doesn't get better than that Eric Bowling back from your morning workout thank

00:11:39.900 you sir for joining us here uh your assessment of uh of what's happening been a lot of activity

00:11:45.640 activity in the Strait and in the Gulf of Oman. We've got a couple minutes. We'll hold you to the

00:11:50.400 break. Brandon Weikert also, your thoughts, sir? I think the IRGC is playing it the way

00:11:57.980 anyone would, I'm guessing the way the Trump administration would expect them to play until

00:12:02.360 the deal is, you know, the ink is dry in the deal. They're going to assume that they have control

00:12:06.880 of Strait of Hormuz. Looks like they fired on a UK oil vessel and maybe an Indian flag vessel as

00:12:13.920 well, be very unnerving if the markets were open at this point. But I do think it's them 1.00

00:12:19.600 trying to say that, hey, we're going to still try and create a deal for ourselves, the IRGC,

00:12:25.240 when they do meet with Whitcoff and Kushner. Trump owns it. It's his. It's his. I mean,

00:12:32.440 if they wanted to, they could take out those swift boats. They could sink them. But they're

00:12:36.580 not going to do it. They're going to let Iran play their little games, their little reindeer 1.00

00:12:41.260 games for a while. And of course, on a weekend, it's not really affecting the oil market. We'll

00:12:46.120 see what happens on Monday. But I have a hunch that Trump will get the Strait of Hormuz open

00:12:49.920 very quickly. But you sent me an interesting chart this morning. I hadn't seen that yet.

00:12:54.180 It's the live vessels. So it's tracking live vessels via satellite. And how many have transversed

00:12:59.840 or transited the Strait? You know, at peak, it did 150, probably averaged around 140, 142 a day.

00:13:09.420 It's been a couple, a handful, under 10.

00:13:11.940 We noticed it was 14 a couple of days ago, nine yesterday.

00:13:15.920 So it's likely who Trump wants to get oil.

00:13:19.940 You notice who the vessels that were fired on by the IRGC were,

00:13:23.680 the UK and India.

00:13:25.580 We're friendly to those, relatively friendly to those, so to speak.

00:13:28.900 So no surprises here, Steve.

00:13:30.660 I think this is a little negotiating, a little nudging

00:13:33.880 prior to the actual sit-down

00:13:35.980 with Kushner and

00:13:37.280 communication by weapon.

00:13:42.360 Eric, hang on. Brandon Weikert

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00:16:00.580 Okay, we've got a lot to get to in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:16:02.960 Also, Alex deGrasse is going to be here to give us the big picture on what's going on

00:16:07.060 in both the Supreme Court redistricting and the pivot.

00:16:10.460 President Trump's pivoted and pivoted hard to let's close this thing out in November.

00:16:16.040 Get more on that in a few minutes.

00:16:17.920 I want to go to Brandon Weicker. 0.58

00:16:19.040 Brandon, your assessment, the Iranians get a vote here, right?

00:16:22.940 president trump trying to enforce his will on the uh in the persian gulf in iran uh the power of

00:16:29.800 positive thinking he's bowling through to get a deal done saying guys getting ready to take off

00:16:34.600 they're gonna go to islamabad while the iranians are shelling indian and british uh tankers your

00:16:42.020 thoughts sir i think it's interesting they're shelling british tankers of course the iranian

00:16:46.520 regime hates the british as much as they hate us uh going historically but the british have tried

00:16:51.120 to stay out of this fight. So I think it's interesting they're attacking somewhat of a

00:16:54.520 neutral country. The Indians make sense because of their relationship with Israel. But I suspect 0.97

00:17:00.020 what you're seeing here is some flexing. I think that what your previous guests were saying is

00:17:04.620 correct. But I would just say we are still not close to a deal. I have a piece up at 1945.com

00:17:12.380 where I'm saying that what was announced yesterday felt like a PR stunt. And the reason I say that

00:17:17.960 is based on the comments of the Saudi finance minister.

00:17:22.020 So, you know, the paper price of oil has come down, and that's great,

00:17:27.080 but ultimately the Saudis are saying that the real price of a barrel of oil,

00:17:30.840 you're not going to find for $83 or $90 anywhere.

00:17:33.860 You're going to find it for somewhere between $115 and $160

00:17:37.380 because of the scarcity issue.

00:17:40.140 Over time we can overcome that,

00:17:41.680 but right now that paper price is not necessarily commiserate

00:17:45.800 with the real price of what a barrel of oil is costing on the market, which is going to cause

00:17:50.720 dislocations. And the Iranians know that, and they're playing up that to try to squeeze 1.00

00:17:56.200 the administration. I'll just add one other thing. Any deal that sees the Iranians in control 1.00

00:18:03.600 of the Strait of Hormuz in any way is going to be perceived as a failure. I don't know what

00:18:09.360 President Trump, what he thinks of it, but we know the Singaporean prime minister has been

00:18:15.160 blowing up the white house saying you cannot let this stand because they're worried about it setting

00:18:19.540 a precedent for the strait of malacca which of course singapore depends on so even small countries

00:18:25.060 like singapore are saying do not let the iranians have control so you're going to have all these

00:18:29.920 pressure on the president over the next 72 hours um this thing is not over yet i don't think

00:18:35.700 no look correct me if i'm wrong and this is why i say we don't really have any allies in in the

00:18:43.120 area america's greatest ally is uh you know netanyahu's furious about president trump

00:18:48.940 stopping against hezbollah and in lebanon and of course our great arab allies the there was not a

00:18:55.360 big tear coming down the uh saudi uh finance minister's cheek when he's saying gosh the price

00:19:02.380 of oil is going to be 115 to 140 these guys have been nervous at 50 bucks a barrel uh they're going

00:19:09.160 bankrupt, right? Because Aramco is so incompetent, and they're so lazy and dumb and incompetent about 0.99

00:19:14.860 running the thing. Their lifting costs, I think, are $30. It should be $2. They're all for this 1.00

00:19:21.460 being over $100, correct? I don't know if they're for it being over $100. They like it in that range

00:19:26.640 because they're aware that if it goes too high, they're going to basically lose clients. That's

00:19:31.000 what they're always worried about. So they like it in that range. But right now, I think with the

00:19:35.460 Saudi and most of the Arab states concern is if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, they're not

00:19:41.040 having any business whatsoever. So the Saudis were all for sticking it to the Iranians when we were 0.90

00:19:46.720 talking about attacking Iranian oil flows, going after their production and whatnot. As long as 0.94

00:19:52.420 the logic was we were going to keep that straight open, I think the fear in Riyadh and elsewhere in

00:19:57.300 the Arab states is if that straight remains closed, then nobody's selling oil, not just the

00:20:02.780 Iranians, but the Arabs as well. So that's going to affect them very negatively because they won't

00:20:08.080 be getting any other product to market or not enough of it. What the Iranians have said publicly 0.51

00:20:13.260 is that they're going to keep these straight clothes, including firing on people, as long as 0.93

00:20:18.820 the United States Navy is on the other side in the Gulf of Oman with a blockade, right? So how do we

00:20:25.080 work it? President Trump's not about to back off of that. That's what's giving us all the leverage

00:20:29.260 to date how does this get worked out in your mind well well that's going to be the key here

00:20:34.600 and right now there's no stasis in the argument so the iranians are going to keep their blockade

00:20:39.860 up we're going to keep our counter blockade up which is why i don't think we're near a deal yet

00:20:44.520 ultimately if trump is really fixated on getting the quote nuclear dust from iran i suspect the

00:20:52.420 iranians eventually would be willing to part with whatever you know whatever's remaining uh but

00:20:57.820 that's going to require a longer term discussion because the Iranians are going to have things they

00:21:01.920 want in return. One of those things is clearly the preservation of Hezbollah in Lebanon. And I don't

00:21:08.200 know how long that ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah can last. It sounds like Israel already 1.00

00:21:13.720 started attacking again in isolated pockets after the ceasefire. So this is contingent really on

00:21:20.280 Israel. What are we going to do to keep Israel from going out of line? And so far we haven't 0.72

00:21:25.900 done enough and that's going to affect us getting a deal on these wider issues with iran is is is

00:21:31.760 there any way that president trump could get a deal and leave uh and be acceptable to to everybody

00:21:37.020 to get sorted here with the with the revolutionary guard having any hand on the throttle of the

00:21:43.120 strait of hermuz sir this is my concern in that 1945 piece i can't imagine not only would the

00:21:49.620 american government have a problem with it but every government's because of the precedent it's

00:21:53.280 going to set and the iranians are not going to let that straight go the iranians have complete

00:21:57.940 effective control over the straight right now irrespective of whether we have this counter

00:22:02.460 blockade going or not i seriously doubt the revolutionary guard is going to let that go

00:22:07.500 even if we do get a deal on some of these other issues because it's just too good of a leverage

00:22:12.140 point and they could be making a lot of money from transit fees so this is going to be a longer term

00:22:17.340 problem i hate to you know to mixtureate on the good feelings here but i think this is going to

00:22:22.560 go on much longer even if president trump is ready to make a deal right now um and they're

00:22:28.900 pirates they got a pirates mentality brandon where they go to 1945 to get the article where

00:22:33.300 they go to social media you're always putting up insightful pieces and controversial pieces

00:22:37.820 yes apparently i'm very controversial uh yet we the brandon is my twitter handle nat sec guy at

00:22:43.580 emerald.tv and nat sec talk at rumble are my other places where i have i have a lot of material

00:22:49.620 coming out daily. Brandon, thank you so much. Appreciate you. Eric Bowling, before you bounce

00:22:56.500 on a Saturday morning, your thoughts about Brandon Weicker, the bigger picture and the

00:23:00.660 importance of the straight or her move, sir. So Brandon makes a very good point about the price

00:23:06.840 of spot. It's called spot crude oil right now. And it's actually worse than what he said. He said

00:23:11.300 105, 110. The spot price for a Saudi crude right now is about 130 to $140 a barrel. But here's the

00:23:18.860 thing. During this last 50 days or so, they've been incapable of shipping oil out of the region.

00:23:25.880 They produce a ton of oil in the region. So what happens is you either have production or storage.

00:23:31.080 Well, they were still producing, and all that production went into storage. When the storage

00:23:35.220 got filled, they had to do what's called a shut-in. They shut in production. They shut in oil

00:23:40.260 production. They shut in refinery production. And so, yes, there is a bit of, it's going to be a,

00:23:45.840 So here's what will happen.

00:23:46.960 It's very high right now.

00:23:48.140 But as soon as that, it's all clear on the strait.

00:23:50.380 And I do believe Trump is playing this very smartly.

00:23:53.400 He has control of it.

00:23:54.300 I disagree.

00:23:55.060 I don't think IRGC has it.

00:23:56.720 Maybe they think they do have it.

00:23:58.360 Maybe no one wants to really get into a big fight right now because they know there's a deal about to be made.

00:24:03.280 I think Trump still holds the, let's call it the keys to the lock of the Strait of Hormuz once that opens.

00:24:09.240 So once it opens, all this storage is going to be flooding the oil market.

00:24:14.520 And this is what I've been saying since we started here.

00:24:16.920 Prices are going to go up.

00:24:18.040 They'll continue to go up.

00:24:19.100 But once they ease, it will flood, and they will come back down.

00:24:22.680 Now, will it be what happens when they run through all that additional storage?

00:24:26.220 Because they will.

00:24:27.220 China's been blowing through their own storage.

00:24:28.880 They're going to need to replenish that as well.

00:24:31.820 We tapped our own SPR for some crazy reason.

00:24:34.980 I don't know why we did, but we did.

00:24:36.280 We'll have to replenish that as well.

00:24:37.660 So based on supply and demand, you'll have rising and lowering crude prices going forward.

00:24:43.200 But generally, this blockade was announced, and the way they delivered the blockade with sending J.D. Vance over there, which I thought was a bad idea,

00:24:52.680 turns out looking at what the real theory behind it, with the 4-D chess theory behind what they did, 1.00

00:24:58.540 putting the Iranians, painting the Iranians into their own corner, I think was brilliant. 0.94

00:25:03.740 And I do – nothing else, Steve, than listen to that soundbite of the U.S. Navy telling the vessels that were trying to pass their blockade, 1.00

00:25:12.520 telling them, you're going to feel the full power of the United States Navy if you continue,

00:25:17.220 and 21 out of 21 have turned back around.

00:25:20.060 Who would you rather be concerned about, the United States military front lines with the Navy

00:25:26.980 or a couple of gunboats that are shooting maybe a couple .50 caliber rounds into the side of a boat

00:25:33.500 that doesn't kill anyone or sink the boat?

00:25:36.160 I think Trump has control, and he's playing it very smartly right now,

00:25:39.640 And I do believe, Brandon, is right about the current price, and it will be volatility, but I think generally we will see an easing of prices, you know, like I said, late summer into September.

00:25:51.000 What are the markets going to need to see?

00:25:53.820 They just had two vessels fired on the pirates of the Revolutionary Guard saying we're in control here until Trump sends the United States Navy on its way.

00:26:03.720 We're going to control this.

00:26:05.480 What are the markets?

00:26:06.060 We want stable markets on Monday that could lead to be the foundation for a deal.

00:26:11.420 What are they going to look for?

00:26:12.520 We've got about a minute, sir, before you get a bounce.

00:26:14.420 Yeah, very quickly, Steve.

00:26:15.580 I read the story about the vessels, the U.K. vessel and likely the Indian vessel gets fired

00:26:20.940 on.

00:26:21.120 No one's hurt.

00:26:21.580 No one's sunk.

00:26:22.340 And they said they're too small, Iranian IRGC gunboats.

00:26:25.840 And if you remember the Brady Bunch movie, I don't know if you remember this, when Marcia,

00:26:29.620 when Jan's telling Marcia how amazing her boyfriend is, and Marcia turns and goes,

00:26:34.940 Sure, Jan. 1.00

00:26:35.680 I feel the same way about the Iranians saying that they have control of the strait. 1.00

00:26:39.940 Sure, IRJC. 1.00

00:26:41.120 We'll talk about it.

00:26:42.100 But I'm thankful it happened while the markets were closed.

00:26:44.900 I'm very thankful. 0.99

00:26:45.980 And that may have been an Iranian calculation as well.

00:26:49.040 Whoa. 0.70

00:26:49.580 He's telling the pirates he's using the Brady Bunch analogy.

00:26:52.900 Eric Bolling, where do we go to get your content over the weekend?

00:26:55.480 We'll see you here on Monday.

00:26:57.100 Yes, sir.

00:26:57.520 At Eric Bolling across all social medias.

00:26:59.860 And always proud to join on air with Stephen K. Bannon.

00:27:04.100 because he sees the future, not the past matters.

00:27:07.960 And thanks for doing it, you know, doing your workout early

00:27:10.900 and coming and joining us here on this area.

00:27:12.720 Appreciate you, sir, as always.

00:27:15.020 Indeed. Have a great week.

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00:27:44.240 Of course, the pirates 0.99

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00:29:46.840 War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:29:50.340 Our own Eric Bolling used a Brady Bunch analogy.

00:29:55.180 I don't know.

00:29:56.880 Got to deal with pirates as pirates, right?

00:29:59.200 Breaking news from the Hormuz letter.

00:30:01.900 Breaking, India is expected to summon Iran's ambassador

00:30:04.480 after the Revolutionary Guard fired on an Indian vessel in the strait,

00:30:09.960 on Indian vessels, plural, in the strait of Hormuz this morning,

00:30:13.160 including a super tanker carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil,

00:30:17.600 despite having given the vessel clearance to pass.

00:30:21.400 Now, they've turned back 20 in the strait here by the pirates.

00:30:27.140 And, of course, the Navy's turned back 23.

00:30:29.320 So vessel for vessel so far.

00:30:33.120 And, of course, they fired on some.

00:30:34.720 This shows you, as I've said before, when you're negotiating with people,

00:30:39.060 who's really across the table and can they implement a treaty?

00:30:42.920 I just think down the strait of Hormuz, from the time of Alexander the Great, 0.89

00:30:47.100 If you read about his expeditions down there, they are a collection of freebooters, very tough to control, and they're not big fans of what happens in Tehran for the last couple of thousand years. 0.88

00:30:59.420 So you see those cliffs down there? 0.99

00:31:01.580 That's where they all are, and they're not all Persian either, and they've been around a long time.

00:31:06.260 So we'll get back to all that.

00:31:09.100 Jeff Reier, Commonwealth of Virginia, you're the chairman of the GOP.

00:31:13.580 Do we have momentum?

00:31:15.160 It's the last day of early voting.

00:31:16.380 Are your people out? Are we are we are we making voter contact, knocking on doors, dragging people to the polls for a big win here on Tuesday, sir?

00:31:24.380 Yes. Yes, they are. And we have we have early voting locations. Today's the last day of early voting.

00:31:29.740 We have early voting locations covered across the state. We have volunteers out everywhere.

00:31:36.140 We are doing everything imaginable to to bring it home.

00:31:41.160 We have people that are door knocking, people that are making phone calls, people who are sending personalized texts.

00:31:49.680 We have just about everything going imaginable.

00:31:52.900 I would say we were on our second wind, but that was some time back.

00:31:56.380 We're probably on our fifth or sixth wind at this point.

00:31:58.940 But the level of energy is just phenomenal.

00:32:02.440 We are tickled with where we are right now.

00:32:04.420 it's been extraordinary particularly given the money arrayed against you and even some of the

00:32:09.940 money that was raised not totally aligned with this kind of voter contact and knocking on the

00:32:15.120 door what are you hearing from the volunteers what are you hearing we're going to have to

00:32:18.660 lower some moan here in a moment but what are you hearing at the chairman level for the folks

00:32:22.980 that are actually because eight weeks ago ten weeks ago this was dead in the water the democrats

00:32:27.960 We're going to take 10 seats. They put in 50, 60, 70, 80 million dollars.

00:32:32.680 Hakeem Jeffries was going to become Speaker of the House just in the Commonwealth.

00:32:38.040 This got turned around when you became chairman of the GOP.

00:32:41.060 What did you do to instill the fire in these folks?

00:32:45.200 Well, we gave the power and the authority to our volunteers.

00:32:52.480 We have a large organization that, frankly, has not been sufficiently tapped in elections.

00:32:58.560 And Trump Force 47 really started tapping them a lot more.

00:33:03.540 And that was why that was one of the more, albeit we did not carry the state, it was one of the more successful efforts as far as engaging volunteers.

00:33:11.480 And we went right back to that and built on it and gave the authority to our volunteers so that they could have a meaningful role in determining the outcome of an election.

00:33:23.040 And they have had a very meaningful role in determining the outcome of this election because they're the reason why we're finally getting attention from national resources, why people are suddenly jumping on board and trying to help out.

00:33:38.560 Initially, everybody thought, well, it just wasn't winnable, and they just looked at last November's elections, both here and the result of the referendum in California, and thought, well, it isn't doable.

00:33:50.600 Well, they know now it's doable, and the Democrats know now that it's doable because they're starting to turn on the gas on their side because I think they realized that something they thought was a slam dunk is instead way too close to call, and we're the ones with the momentum and the energy.

00:34:04.500 jeff we got today through the day we're gonna have a big gathering tomorrow i'll get to lois

00:34:11.100 and uh in hanover county to lois and mo are going to tell us about that we want everybody there

00:34:15.280 even if you're just a member not even but just member of the war and posse if you're not

00:34:19.240 involved in this that's okay because we're going to talk about tuesday and then we're going to

00:34:23.480 talk about november as president trump pivots to focus on uh on uh domestic electoral politics

00:34:29.680 where do people go jeff to follow you with updates during the day i know you're putting

00:34:34.000 them on social media, what's the website, if they want to volunteer today, or even for

00:34:38.860 Tuesday, where do folks go?

00:34:41.720 Okay, for keeping track of what we're doing, go to our X account, which is capital V, capital

00:34:45.720 A, underscore, capital G, capital O, capital P. That's the way to keep track of everything

00:34:51.540 that's happening as it's happening. To donate or to volunteer, go to virginia.gop, and you'll

00:34:58.720 see as it shows up there, the little no rigged map stop gerrymandering box there. Click on that

00:35:06.040 and it'll take you to a site. There's a little message from me. I should probably take that down,

00:35:10.940 get the volunteer form up higher. But when you scroll down, there's a volunteer form. You can

00:35:15.020 sign up. You can help us out. If you sign up for us, we will get you squared away and taken care

00:35:22.880 of. We'll make sure if you're not in Virginia that you have an opportunity to make phone calls

00:35:27.040 or texts to Virginians. We have a lot going on. And the heart of this really is our volunteer base.

00:35:35.880 And they are the ones that have driven this. They're the reasons we're getting the attention

00:35:41.760 that we need. And they're the reasons that people are paying attention to what's going to happen in

00:35:47.480 Virginia on Tuesday. We are very, very excited about the way it's going. And we feel great.

00:35:54.300 And by the way, Steve, I cannot say this enough. War Room was with us when nobody was paying attention to us.

00:36:01.840 And I just want to let you know how important that has been both in invigorating our base and bringing us new folks to help out.

00:36:10.840 It has been extraordinary. And War Room has been just a phenomenal help in this effort.

00:36:17.320 And it's going to be even more of one tomorrow at four o'clock.

00:36:20.960 Four o'clock in Hanover County.

00:36:22.900 We're going to send you to the site to go.

00:36:24.500 We're going to have a great gathering.

00:36:25.780 We want everybody there.

00:36:26.580 Jeff, it shows you when they put a grassroots leader in charge of a state party, good things happen.

00:36:32.640 Couldn't be prouder to be working with you guys.

00:36:34.440 We've got the easiest job in the world.

00:36:36.180 Let you come on and inspire the Commonwealth and inspiring the Commonwealth, inspiring nation.

00:36:40.940 Thank you, sir.

00:36:41.440 Appreciate you.

00:36:42.280 See you tomorrow.

00:36:42.940 Thank you.

00:36:44.760 Run through the tape.

00:36:45.960 That's the motto today.

00:36:46.840 DeGrasse. We've been through some good times on this. This gets me back to the Texas on the

00:36:54.460 redistricting when we had to have the big fight, but we took a couple of body blows. President

00:36:58.740 Trump's pivoted hard. You saw yesterday with Charlie Kirk, Supreme Court, Sean Spicer. I think

00:37:05.020 we're going to try and get Spicer to come down to Hanover tomorrow if we can. Your thoughts right

00:37:10.320 now. Let's start in Virginia. What are you seeing there? Because you keep your hand on the pulse of

00:37:15.460 where the energy is. What are your thoughts on Virginia? I think it's really tight, Steve. I

00:37:21.020 mean, you have to, we've, I mean, a lot of this we've spoken on the show, right? You got to look

00:37:24.740 at Obama and, you know, they would deploy to Obama aggressively and they sort of keep that card.

00:37:30.060 It's fairly rarely played if we're going to be honest about it. So it's very tight. I don't

00:37:34.180 think that they would do that. I think this is a four or five point race. I think if you look at

00:37:39.220 the areas, congressional districts that have turned out the most early vote proportionally,

00:37:44.220 Republican seats are leading right now. So the momentum and the grassroots energy is on our side.

00:37:49.160 And I think, you know, one of the most important things I've ever said on this show, Steve, is you

00:37:52.620 have to have a list where we talk about the list. And so many people, I'm at the airport, Steve,

00:37:55.860 they go, dude, I got my list. People talk to me with the posse. They're like, this is the list

00:38:00.500 time. I mean, in Virginia, you need the list. We need 10 people on the list. Even if you don't live

00:38:04.340 in Virginia, if you know people in Virginia, family, cousins, friends, get them on the list,

00:38:08.940 check in with them, make sure they get out of the vote, make sure they are getting five people. I

00:38:12.500 I mean, if you can create this grassroots tree of people turning out the vote, we can obviously beat expectations.

00:38:18.100 And I think you're seeing the governor's numbers plummet.

00:38:21.620 I don't think you're seeing the turnout.

00:38:23.800 You know, I drive around northern Virginia sometimes going shopping.

00:38:26.900 I mean, you've got all these paid guys, paid protesters out there freaking out, pushing all these, you know, pushing the yes agenda.

00:38:34.160 But it's not organic.

00:38:35.160 I mean, it's totally staged, totally, you know, these Soros groups.

00:38:38.180 But they're out there because they're not getting the vote they need.

00:38:40.760 And so look, I mean, I think a big mistake Republicans have is sort of undercounting how Democrats have really juiced their election day turnout. That's one of the big reasons why they did more competitively in 2022, even in 2024. As Republicans had increased our early voting, you know, they're getting better on game day.

00:38:59.060 So I think really is going to go down to game day. We've got to juice what we can, obviously. But, you know, it's really, really tight, Steve. And I think if we can stop them in Virginia, I think it's huge for what we've been talking about on this show for a year, which is the Supreme Court argument, obviously, on the Voting Rights Act, Steve, which we can talk about as well.

00:39:18.700 I know Spicer was on it, but, you know, this show has been on it from the beginning for years.

00:39:24.760 Honestly, we've been talking about the potential for, you know, this case because it's cut and dry and it's all constitutional.

00:39:30.700 This isn't about anything.

00:39:32.560 But but but but hang on. But his scoop, we know you were here when the argument took place.

00:39:38.020 It's such a blatant violation.

00:39:42.040 Obviously, not obviously, it's never obvious, but it looks like it could get overturned.

00:39:45.700 But they're slow walking. They're slow walking. And so that we're past the time. But it seems to me state legislatures in these red states, Alabama, you take, you know, Louise, you've got to step up to the plate and say, hey, I got to call a special session.

00:40:01.080 Even we have to move the primary date back. If the Supreme Court comes, even if they do at the end of June, you can't just kick this down the can to the to the 2028. This has to be done now.

00:40:12.720 Do you think there's anything that can be done to wake up these local – because DeSantis is calling a special session for the end of April.

00:40:20.900 He's tired of messing around.

00:40:22.080 He's calling a special session on redistricting and throwing in his AI bill at the same time, sir.

00:40:28.700 Yeah.

00:40:29.400 No, I think we need to do that, Steve.

00:40:31.000 I think people – I mean, remember, the state houses are like one of the biggest obstacles to MAGA on top of everything else.

00:40:36.620 I mean, somebody's in trench interest.

00:40:37.960 I mean, you've got to politely make calls in on all of these states because you've got that 12 seat delta, which, I mean, is more or less can make or break this midterm.

00:40:47.300 I think one of the important things for people to understand is, you know, I've been coming on this show, I think, you know, four years or something.

00:40:52.660 I mean, we look at the map. The map is narrow just because of the redistricting over the years on both parties.

00:40:58.080 And so there's really not as many, quote unquote, competitive seats. So 12 seats is big. I mean, a 12 seat swing.

00:41:05.060 hold it hold it hold it you started coming on here early in late 21 22 because you're the guy

00:41:12.660 said hey look we got all these redistricting possibilities it's not happening if we had not

00:41:17.340 done and you had not come on here and we put the muscle the war room and other groups on the

00:41:21.600 redistricting of 22 i'm not so sure we'd take in the house then because that came down to a handful

00:41:26.520 of seats then to come back and say there's still more the 12 seats right now the way this thing's

00:41:32.260 divide it, where this is like the Western Front in World War I.

00:41:36.800 This is by inches, not by yards.

00:41:39.220 Twelve seats is beyond a game changer.

00:41:41.760 And this is my point, that Supreme Court rules, and of course the liberal judges are going

00:41:47.260 to slow walk if they go late.

00:41:50.000 The twelve seats are the difference between Trump getting, this is why we put the shoulder

00:41:54.280 to the wheel in Virginia.

00:41:55.300 Those four seats are the difference between President Trump getting impeached and the

00:41:59.040 whole apparatus being shut down by these radical democrats or having another two years and then

00:42:05.500 get to 2030 when we really get a census a true census in here it's they never they never take

00:42:12.600 power again correct i mean this is everything or i'm missing it no no you're exactly right i mean

00:42:19.160 this is like the invention of the tank like if you bring even a world war ii tank to the world

00:42:22.780 we're in battlefield and plow through i mean you can't i mean plus with everything else we're

00:42:26.760 talking about plus if we can get some election integrity which is really critically important

00:42:30.840 because i think you stop the fraud you fix the census steve you fix the on the voting rights act

00:42:36.500 and you stop messing around you go into 20 plus all the movement of people to red states which is

00:42:42.140 like 10 to 15 seats i mean this thing is compounding which is exactly what we talked about so

00:42:47.440 you know we've got this you know bottleneck obviously you know with in the halls of the

00:42:52.720 supreme court and then obviously in the state houses and we've got to kind of punch through

00:42:55.840 It starts, obviously, with holding Virginia, which we have to do.

00:42:59.920 I mean, it's a must-have.

00:43:01.200 I'm hoping money comes in, the last push.

00:43:04.440 Maybe I should try to work on that and figure that out.

00:43:07.200 So I think whatever we can do, and I've been raising money for some of the groups,

00:43:11.720 Virginia Fair Maps, so I think there's a late push,

00:43:14.880 and it's going to come down to game day, which it usually does, Steve.

00:43:18.620 Alex, real quickly, where do people go to follow you over this weekend?

00:43:21.820 We'll have you back on Monday.

00:43:23.300 Where do people go?

00:43:24.020 I'm at X to graph 81 on truth and everything else.

00:43:29.100 So thanks, guys.

00:43:29.700 Remember, take the list, take people out to vote, check in on them, and that's how we get it.

00:43:35.840 We're going to copyright that for you.

00:43:38.100 Trademark it.

00:43:38.760 The list by Alex de Grasse.

00:43:40.680 Alex, thanks for taking a Saturday morning away from the family.

00:43:44.520 Appreciate you, sir.

00:43:45.460 Short break.

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00:45:13.740 stephen k bann okay we were able to do this a little earlier we have the acting attorney general

00:45:20.600 of the United States of America, Todd Blanche, joins us from the NRA convention down in Houston,

00:45:26.520 Texas. Mr. Attorney General, you were the keynote speaker last night at the NRA for a reason. I

00:45:32.880 know you've got a lot you've been working on the Second Amendment, and you can't tell us a lot

00:45:36.420 about in detail. But can you just tell us directionally, what did you have to say last

00:45:42.080 night to the NRA? Good morning. Yeah, sure. So look, my message last night is the same message

00:45:48.820 that I'll say to you right now, which is two things.

00:45:51.440 One, the things that we've done last year

00:45:53.740 since President Trump took office

00:45:55.420 and signed the executive order on January 20th,

00:45:58.000 basically telling this administration

00:45:59.820 and the American people that the Second Amendment

00:46:01.860 was going to be a priority

00:46:03.340 and defending it was going to be a priority,

00:46:06.000 that we've done a lot of good work.

00:46:07.940 But the second message that I gave

00:46:09.540 to the folks last night at the dinner

00:46:11.940 is that in a matter of days,

00:46:14.680 not weeks, not months, in a matter of days,

00:46:16.920 You're going to see regs rolling out that we've spent a year working on, and they are going to hopefully fundamentally change the way that we regulate our industry for the rest of time.

00:46:30.360 So we're trying to do it carefully so that we do it right, and I expect that to roll out in a matter of days.

00:46:37.200 todd there's been you know last night again uh on uh msnbc uh nbc news uh cbs cnn this whole

00:46:50.520 situation with president trump you know using his article two powers as chief magistrate and chief

00:46:56.060 law enforcement officer of the country to be engaged and involved in uh over at main justice

00:47:02.860 You're getting hammered by these people.

00:47:05.500 You're pushing back, but I'd like it for the War Room audience and the posse just to walk through what your thoughts are on this vital topic, sir.

00:47:14.580 It is the most important thing for this administration.

00:47:17.840 Everybody in this country can read Article 2.

00:47:20.560 It's publicly available.

00:47:21.740 It should be in your pocket.

00:47:23.260 And it gives all the power of the executive to one person.

00:47:26.220 That's the president of the United States.

00:47:27.760 And there's this model out there that somehow the Department of Justice is independent from the president of the United States.

00:47:35.720 That is not true.

00:47:36.640 The secretary of war is not independent.

00:47:38.760 The secretary of labor, the secretary of state, we're not independent from the president of the United States.

00:47:44.040 That's not what the American people voted for.

00:47:46.120 And it's not what we do.

00:47:47.460 And by the way, no president is independent.

00:47:49.900 Biden wasn't independent of government.

00:47:51.500 We know that.

00:47:52.180 And so this idea there's something inappropriate with me of making sure that our priorities are consistent with the president of the United States, I'll always push back on that because you better believe my priorities are the same as the president of the United States.

00:48:04.980 He's my boss.

00:48:07.500 One of the top issues the president's had, and I know, look, you were his defense attorney.

00:48:11.840 You know, you and Emma Bovee know more about lawfare than anyone because you were in the trenches in the darkest days and fought and got the president through this.

00:48:21.540 the two issues one is voter integrity uh the other is is lawfare what is your what are your

00:48:27.920 initial thoughts as you're the interim attorney general of course there's a lot of rumors out

00:48:32.480 there that you're going to be named the permanent attorney general uh what are your thoughts on both

00:48:36.480 those topics sir we've been working on voter integrity since january 20th we have you know

00:48:42.600 there's public information out there we've got the ballots from fulton county we've gotten a lot of

00:48:47.080 information out of Arizona as well. But we're looking at Pennsylvania and we're looking from

00:48:51.920 all over the country, not only to understand what happened in the past, which is important for the

00:48:57.180 American people to know, but also to make sure that our elections are free and fair, to make

00:49:02.700 sure that nobody's voting that isn't supposed to vote, to make sure that the person voting

00:49:07.020 is actually the name on that ballot. And so we have multiple investigations. And it's not just

00:49:12.400 Department of Justice. That's a White House effort. Odie and I is working on that as well.

00:49:16.420 And so that's a whole-of-government approach to making sure our elections are fair.

00:49:20.480 When it comes to lawfare, Steve, yeah, you're right, man.

00:49:23.000 You went through it yourself, too.

00:49:24.560 It's not just me.

00:49:26.000 It's not just President Trump.

00:49:27.500 A lot of folks around him were destroyed by the last administration financially.

00:49:33.160 They tried to ruin our reputations.

00:49:34.800 They tried to bring us down.

00:49:36.320 And all we're doing every day is pushing back on that.

00:49:39.980 And, yes, it does not happen overnight.

00:49:42.100 But they didn't destroy us overnight either.

00:49:44.020 It took them years and years to build cases against President Trump, and they were careful, they were crafty, and they did everything they could to bring him down, and they failed.

00:49:52.660 And so we're systematically going through the Department of Justice, making sure that any policy, any practice, anything that was done to bring lawfare against anybody in this country never happens again.

00:50:03.380 And if you're a prosecutor, if you're a paralegal, if you're a federal agent and you were out there trying to destroy our system of our Constitution, our system of justice, then you're going to be gone.

00:50:14.580 Better believe it.

00:50:15.500 And that's, by the way, that's what every single American should want.

00:50:18.900 That should not be controversial, but it is.

00:50:22.320 Todd, we've got about a minute and a half.

00:50:24.540 I noticed last night they're also melting down because you're removing immigration judges.

00:50:29.820 Can you give the audience just a – what are your thoughts on that, sir?

00:50:34.180 Yeah, I saw that too.

00:50:36.140 So listen, there's a lot of immigration.

00:50:37.920 First of all, immigration judges work for the Department of Justice.

00:50:40.840 So they're judges, but it's not like an Article III judge that has a separate responsibility.

00:50:46.040 They work for the Department of Justice, which means they have to follow the law, but they also cannot go wrong.

00:50:51.860 And so we have the authority to hire and the authority to fire.

00:50:54.880 And so we fired, I don't know the exact number, but well over 100 immigration judges who are not doing their job.

00:51:00.260 And we've got a lot of immigration judges to hire, and we've been hiring a lot.

00:51:04.180 So we've hired, I think, around 150, 160 judges, which is a lot.

00:51:08.760 But when we're firing 100, that means we're only net 50, net 60.

00:51:12.540 So we're trying to hire good, smart lawyers that know the law, and they're going to effectuate the immigration laws, not with sympathy, but the way the laws were written.

00:51:22.960 And so we're not going to – look, I don't mind the critics on that.

00:51:26.900 Come at it. Go for it.

00:51:28.220 But that's what we're doing.

00:51:30.880 You're pretty thick-skinned, as I remember.

00:51:33.080 Todd Blanche, where do people go to get information about the Justice Department

00:51:37.020 and any personal accounts you have on social media?

00:51:40.340 People can track you, sir.

00:51:42.360 Yes, we're on social media.

00:51:43.840 The Justice Department has a main one at Todd Blanche.

00:51:46.500 This is where you can get what we're doing every day.

00:51:49.520 And it's great being on your show, Steve, any time.

00:51:53.880 Yeah, we look forward to having you back.

00:51:55.360 And thank you for being in the NRA.

00:51:57.080 I know people are very, very excited.

00:51:58.680 Great speech last night.

00:51:59.680 Appreciate you, sir. General Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general of the United States under President Trump.

00:52:07.320 And like he said, the Article 2 powers of the president, chief magistrate, chief law enforcement officer.

00:52:14.760 Attorney General Blanche is making sure he's not going to flinch, not going to break to the left wing media.

00:52:20.620 OK, we're going to get back to the Commonwealth. People are running through the tape today.

00:52:26.300 President Trump's made a hard pivot

00:52:28.520 Yesterday in Phoenix

00:52:30.820 A turning point, magnificent

00:52:32.280 The energy was, you could feel the energy

00:52:34.720 Reverberating back here to the imperial capital

00:52:37.120 What did President Trump do?

00:52:38.320 Got in early in the morning

00:52:39.940 Started at 9 o'clock in the Oval Office

00:52:42.900 Signing an executive order

00:52:45.560 To help our veterans

00:52:47.960 Help our warriors with PTSD

00:52:50.020 Had Bobby Kennedy there

00:52:52.120 Maha, big shout out there

00:52:53.660 Incredible

00:52:55.320 the hard pivot to November. You know where it starts? Starts in the Commonwealth today and

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Episode 5310： Peace Talks Attempt To Continue While Strait Remains Closed

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