00:00:56.980Unlike the endless wars of the past that dragged on for years and for decades with little to show for it, Operation Epic Fury has delivered a decisive military result in just weeks.
00:01:11.720Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, as the president has pointed out, all took years, decades.
00:01:19.580Vague missions, shifting sands, little to show for it.
00:01:24.320Operation Epic Fury has been laser focused from the very start, as I've said to all of you.
00:01:30.120Clear mission objectives and ultimately Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
00:01:35.920It's a bold and dangerous mission, a gift to the world, historic, courtesy of a bold and historic president.
00:01:47.580Without the permission of the United States Navy.
00:01:49.800To the regime in Tehran, the blockade is tightening by the hour.
00:07:31.540You saw the I would call it a silly conference in in Europe last week where they got together and talked about talking about maybe doing something eventually when things are done.
00:07:42.240those are not serious efforts yet we would welcome that we would welcome a serious european effort
00:07:48.960to do something about this strait and this passage considering it's their energy
00:07:54.080capabilities that are most at stake i think it's a wake-up call it's a wake-up call for
00:07:57.840countries around the world either you have capabilities or you don't otherwise you're
00:08:00.960at the behest of a country like iran and the only country that can do something about it
00:08:06.240is the united states military you want to talk about the mines and the small crafts
00:08:09.760They have a variety of smaller Boston whaler-sized boats.
00:08:14.360We have forces up there deterring and preventing them from continuing to do that,
00:08:20.020and will continue to do so pursuant to the orders of the Secretary and the President.
00:08:23.820But reckless mining like that is a violation of the ceasefire.
00:08:38.800You know, I've heard you talk a lot about bombing people in places, and when you give these orders to carry out this extreme level of violence, what's going through your mind and your body?
00:08:55.380Do you have, like, an adrenaline rush?
00:11:48.320and the general's missing right there when you talk about pirates and oh gosh where do we hear
00:11:52.860that uh three four weeks ago right here in war room they're pirates it's brigands it's whatever
00:12:02.040you want to call them asymmetric forces in current military jargon and lingo because in the in the
00:12:09.400presentations what's not actually clear is yes we have a blockade we determine who goes in and out
00:12:15.280And quite frankly, the the idea that they're leaving the airports and if they're leaving the airports full of oil that are heading to China, that is not a good thing.
00:12:30.960The way we use this blockade, the blockade is a forcing function on economic warfare.
00:12:37.120We're not out there just to say, oh, that's an Iranian ship coming from an Iranian port.
00:22:19.100And they believe, the smart people, the actual physical traders, believe that this has been
00:22:24.420going on, it's going on, and they're creeping out some oil.
00:22:27.260Now, the vast majority of the traffic is down.
00:22:29.460But that's that's what I think, Pete. I think Pete said this. Now, this the the blockade is global.
00:22:36.580I think that's the reason I don't know if those facts, I'm sure they're trying to sneak out because, look, they're all they're all pirates.0.96
00:22:43.120They're all you know, these are all dirtbags, obviously.
00:22:47.620And look, they're doing it for their country or at least their element of their country.0.94
00:22:51.220So from their perspective, they're sitting there going, hey, we're the bad guys.
00:22:54.320But this is why I think Pete said the thing's gone global.
00:22:56.760They're catching guys now in the Indian Ocean.
00:23:00.500They're going to block the Straits of Malacca.
00:23:03.140This is kind of the Navy's now alerted to these ghost ships that wherever you are, we're going to seize you or pull you over to the side.
00:23:13.260And if you don't do it, you don't do it.
00:23:14.940We're going to put a couple of hot ones, take the 5-inch 54s on the forward gun mount like they did the other day
00:23:22.780and put a couple through the engine room in the back or steerage in the back so you can't steer the ship.
00:23:28.860I think they understand that's happening, right?
00:23:32.060Yeah, and not only that, as you pointed out, we've been talking about that whole area,
00:23:37.760that whole shipping area right along there, Pakistan on one side, but Oman into Somalia.
00:23:44.940is is rife with piracy so it's almost like thieves uh transferring um trading among thieves
00:23:52.960they're able to transverse those areas because they're all they're all pirates they're all in0.66
00:23:57.080the same okay listen as long as there's a dollar to be made if you're persian don't don't take this0.70
00:24:01.880the wrong way the guys on our side on the emirani side the house of sod total pirates uae pirates
00:24:08.900the guys in Dubai. These are all bad guys. They're all financing the Muslim Brotherhood over here.
00:24:15.120They're all financing care. We don't have any allies over there. I think the most important1.00
00:24:19.040thing was said today is, look, pox on all your houses. We'll clean up what we got to clean up.
00:24:23.500But the Arabs got to step in up here to keep it free. And the Europeans.1.00
00:24:28.320It's there. The Arabs are the ones. This is how they keep their cash. They ain't coming to the1.00
00:24:33.540United States to help give me a credit swap line so I can get some dollars. UAE, you know,0.97
00:24:37.820they're going to invest a trillion dollars here they need they need a credit swap line to keep
00:24:42.660you know dollars is what they're telling us who knows what it's really going to be structured like
00:24:47.280but you know they they're got they got their hand out immediately just a question how many actual
00:24:53.440vessels because when i look at the real time it doesn't look like a big increase on vessels a
00:24:59.740tremendous increase in vessels coming out of hormuz that they're allowing out i understand
00:25:05.300what we're blocking, and we're blocking everybody from Iranian port, but are there a number of
00:25:09.420vessels every day coming back, and what percentage to get to full capacity of what it was before
00:25:16.200on oil shipments out of Hormuz from airports? Eric Bolling, do you have any sense of that?
00:25:23.600Yeah, the sense is that at least 80% of the traffic through the strait itself is gone. It's
00:25:30.120not non-existent right now it's what's being allowed by now we've now we've identified okay
00:25:36.540now we've identified the problem that's the problem we got to solve for that's the problem
00:25:41.040and if that's being held up by this group in the cliffs of uh of uh persia on that on that side of
00:25:50.500the uh of the strait or her moves in the persian gulf then somebody's got to solve for that part
00:25:55.440the equation. There are many ways you can solve for it. We certainly wouldn't want to have American
00:26:00.640direct involvement. That's why I would be talking to the Arabs right now. They spent hundreds of1.00
00:26:06.260millions, billions of dollars on these great militaries they've got. Let's see if they can
00:26:10.480fight. Seriously, let's see if they can fight. Let's see all this big talk. If the Arab, if the
00:26:16.480Saudis can fight, if UAE can fight, if Qatar can fight, let's see if they can fight. We're going0.95
00:26:24.880to depend upon now because the the solution is going to come that we got to send special forces
00:26:29.380you got to have the you know the 82nd airborne's got a brigade over there you got the marines i
00:26:33.680got that but that should be plan b c or d we got these allies first of the the europeans aren't
00:26:41.440sending any ships none and the ones they send to the eastern med all break down they never really
00:26:47.120helped us in the red sea we talked about this i ranted about this last summer back in in june and
00:26:52.780july before president trump took out the uh totally obliterated the uh nuclear program i0.64
00:26:58.720think on the 22nd of june but the red sea was jammed up by the houthis who right now the only0.55
00:27:03.560reason they're not in the war is somebody's writing them a check this is who you're dealing0.95
00:27:07.720with this is why i don't want to i hope we don't get all excited people are skipping around and
00:27:12.540all the thing let's get it on the tarmac and line up the thing and we're coughing jared
00:27:16.400on the plane because this is another they're they're jerking people around we don't even know
00:27:21.640who's in charge we think it's a bad general now maybe maybe not what does he control can he deliver
00:27:27.480and what are they talking about if they still got these 10 points that they want reparation
00:27:33.140there's nothing to talk about it's time to focus on what we need to do to wrap it up0.50
00:27:38.480and come on home and wrap it up if if the straighter her moves and this group of pirates
00:27:44.580right there if that's if that's the equation you have to solve for just let's pick an equation
00:27:48.720let's pick let's pick in the in the physics very quickly i know you got to go but very quickly
00:27:55.020no no hang on hang on i'm i'm gonna hold you to the break you've had your morning workout you
00:27:59.240don't need to go anywhere i'm putting you to work bowling you've already you've already you're
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00:29:43.340OK, breaking news. U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Judge Jeanine Pirro, now it's the Department of Justice, would drop its criminal inquiry into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, ending a months-long saga that threatened the confirmation of Kevin Walshby, Chair.
00:29:59.520Pirro wrote on X, directed by my office to close our investigation, et cetera, et cetera. She would not hesitate to restart criminal investigation. The facts won't do so.
00:30:10.500So Powell's going to need a little more than that,
00:30:14.080but that's a massive start that's going to change a huge problem
00:30:18.640for Scott Best and the team over Treasury.
00:33:28.760But if you're willing to do it with the drug boats, do the same with the pirates.
00:33:32.220I'm telling you, that whole coast, as you point out a long time ago.
00:33:35.640I think that – but the president's – hang on.0.98
00:33:37.660But the president gave a shoot to kill.0.98
00:33:39.260That was – yesterday, he's given shoot to kill on the motor rail boats.
00:33:43.380But in the – I'm not sure it's – so right now we're locking down the – if you look at a map, we're locking down the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:33:51.880This activity, Fajira and JASC, the pipeline and the big storage facilities on shore, at the shore,
00:34:00.360these vessels are being loaded several hundred miles away from that.
00:34:04.000That's a big area, Steve, to patrol, as you know, especially if they're turning off their radar.
00:34:08.000So find a couple, make examples out of them, sink them, and maybe you slow it down.
00:34:14.580Eric, what can we look forward to on your 4 o'clock show today?
00:35:43.740Rural communities don't even understand the full impact.
00:35:46.700So the legislature's been behind the power curve.
00:35:49.040And then, of course, in the last six months, we've seen widespread government benefits fraud because we have the second largest Somali population in the country.0.52
00:35:55.620And none of these electeds that are just revolving door career or psychopoliticians have been addressing these issues, not to mention have not moved other than tiptoed when it comes to election integrity.
00:36:08.280And so with 10 days left in early voting underway in a low voter turnout, we have a real opportunity to put somebody who's backing the president's one day, one vote, same day in person, valid excuse, mail-in ballot and paper ballots over electronic vote casting machines.
00:36:25.020And I think it's going to transform the entire country if we win this election coming up May 5th, 2026.
00:36:31.840Marcel I want you to briefly talk about your your background in this area as a as a in the United
00:36:40.120States Air Force intelligence but why but that's what President Trump wants that's what the MAGA
00:36:45.860base wants that's what the grassroots wants this is what we've been fighting for why would the
00:36:50.980Republican establishment what you just laid out didn't seem like a radical plan why are they not
00:36:56.540embracing you and say, this is the guy, he's got the background, he's tough, he's a warrior,
00:37:02.880this is the guy we want in there. Why are they fighting you? This is one of the most,
00:37:07.020the nastiest races in the country right now, because they're trying to stop you from winning.
00:37:12.840Why is that? It's inertia. It's this idea that it's their turn, they're entitled to it,
00:37:18.800and they don't want to leave the scene. But people want to have people who deliver results.
00:37:23.080I've been privileged to serve this country since 9-11. We served in the longest war. We have the most resilience because of that 9-11 veterans like me. I've been on the front end of tactical operational strategic missions. I worked at the very highest levels of the Pentagon with emerging and disruptive technologies. I'm built to do this job. It's a complex job. And you have to be able to not just run elections. You've got to be able to address issues with business registration and fraud.
00:37:48.900And I think Ohio needs a task force like the one that's been developed by the vice president at the national level. And we need to have the auditor, the attorney general and every secretary of state in every state cross coordinating to identify, detect, just like we did on the battlefield with intelligence, the type of government benefits fraud.
00:38:05.960And so these are real ideas that are drawing people to our candidacy and why we're in a small lead here going into the final days.
00:38:13.360But if we can get the posse out, we will be able to set a new pace, a new tone.
00:38:18.120And the old Republican Party of Ohio, just like when President Trump won, just like when Senator Bernie Moreno won.
00:38:23.960And at the time, Senator Vance, they will all follow in line with the doers and the action officers.
00:39:09.180Every single vote has to count, and when our votes are diluted by foreign nationals or because we have a broken law or process and we're not enforcing it, when it comes to eligibility verification, which I can fix, that's going to affect your kids.0.71
00:39:21.840So we don't want them to go through a constitutional crisis like we did in the last few years.0.57
00:39:25.880So I would be honored to receive your vote here in Ohio, May 5, 2026, for today.
00:40:08.860Well, thank you, first and foremost, for that.
00:40:11.600But what we have on the ground in Virginia, a lot of frustrated Republicans who said, you know, the state party, the local officials were doing what they could to get the vote out.
00:40:26.520They just didn't get the kind of support that they needed to put this thing over the top from national Republicans.
00:40:34.980That's a huge concern and something I hope the party learns moving forward.
00:40:52.700They've got a new leader, Jeff Reier, who's a grassroots guy, because after Yunkin led this thing to an absolute debacle collapse in November, there was really nobody that really wanted it.
00:41:04.320So it fell back on the grassroots. These people were amazing, incredible.
00:41:09.300How did both the the the the Trump team and the National Republicans not see what you needed was was support ground support to support their the thing that always works for us, which is low propensity, lower information voters who support President Trump.
00:41:28.480This was not a complicated situation, was it? Or was it so complicated they just they did the analysis and got it wrong?
00:41:36.260Or was there some other reason they didn't come in and support the hardest core of the Trump supporters who went door to door, sir?
00:41:44.220I think it's all of the above. I think the ballot measure language itself was extremely complicated by design by the Democrats.
00:41:53.880You know, they have this flowery language that they use to talk about the fairness of
00:42:29.800I'm going to hold you through the break.
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00:43:11.180You have to understand all that. This is just not about local politics. It's inextricably linked with global capital markets and geopolitics.
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00:47:21.400Because if Democrats take over the House, it's going to be impeachment theater for the next two years, and everything's going to shut down.
00:47:27.320And so this critically important reform, government and the deep state and all the things you talk about on a regular basis, needs to be a priority.
00:47:37.380They're going to have to find a way to get the message out to those important low-propensity voters you talk about.
00:47:43.480They're going to have to get the message out that Trump is on the ballot, and they have not done that successfully.
00:47:50.080Matt, where do people go, social media, you're putting up your writings, where do they go to get this Federalist piece?
00:47:55.440You're 100 percent correct. I've got rent on tonight because, folks, not only am I proud about them finally addressing the pirate situation, finally, but the lead story in Axios today, wait for it, is about the Democrats already getting very sophisticated with law firms and everything else for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
00:48:15.560Now, they're just going to announce the impeachment and get it rolling on day three when they take over.
00:48:20.720And it's not going to happen for 18 months after primary season.
00:48:23.400But every day is going to be Fort Apache.
00:48:26.600That's what we got to look forward to.
00:48:28.320But this thing could be turned around.