Bannon's War Room - Episode 5337： We Are Running Into Vietnam 2.0; Maximum Warfare Over Redistricting

00:00:00.000 Breaking news. Democrats are fighting the conservative assault on voting and voting rights.

00:00:05.800 New York Governor Kathy Hochul announcing that she's now working with the state legislature

00:00:10.240 to change their redistricting process. This after Florida Republicans just pushed through

00:00:16.960 a rigged congressional map during a special legislative session convened at the request

00:00:21.840 of Governor Ron DeSantis. The map could create four additional House seats for Republicans.

00:00:27.680 All of this coming in the wake of the Supreme Court eviscerating what is left of the Voting Rights Act.

00:00:34.880 In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that Louisiana's congressional map created to protect the rights of black voters in that state relied too heavily on race.

00:00:45.460 Justice Samuel Alito said for the majority that, quote, plaintiffs fail to show an objective likelihood of intentional discrimination.

00:00:53.180 In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the decision, quote, renders Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act all but a dead letter.

00:01:01.960 This ruling goes well beyond the Louisiana map.

00:01:04.720 It effectively voids one of the last remnants of the Voting Rights Act without directly overturning the law and opens the door for more partisan congressional maps that undercut voters' political power.

00:01:19.080 Yes, we're standing on quicksand.

00:01:20.480 We, as a democracy, are sinking, and we're doing that with the Supreme Court putting weights on our ankles.

00:01:31.980 Okay, that's where we are.

00:01:33.980 The Supreme Court's decision today is one of the most disingenuous legal opinions I've read in my entire life.

00:01:41.120 They have scuttled stare decisis, which is the principle that requires the court to follow its own precedent so that we have reliable doctrine to use as we craft the laws that will govern our society and we get the holdings and interpretations from this court.

00:02:02.320 They also trampled on Congress's authority with our government that requires separation of powers and respect for congressional authority to issue legislation pursuant to its authority under the Constitution.

00:02:19.260 That's exactly what the Voting Rights Act is.

00:02:21.280 It's been lifted up by this very institution, the Supreme Court, as the crown jewel of civil rights legislation.

00:02:28.660 They've upheld its constitutionality for years and years amid many challenges by similarly disgruntled voters and those who didn't believe that black people should have protections for the right to vote.

00:02:44.960 The Supreme Court has defended it up until today.

00:02:49.320 And also the right to vote.

00:02:50.680 The right to vote is sacrosanct.

00:02:52.800 The Supreme Court has held for well over a century that it is preservative of all rights.

00:02:58.660 But today we saw a Supreme Court justice joined by five others twist the law, write and effectively lie on page in saying that they were doing very little.

00:03:15.080 They were only updating a test. They were only clarifying some points of law.

00:03:21.120 But what they ultimately did was make it utterly impossible to enforce Section 2 in a way that can protect Black voters, Latino voters, Native American voters, and other voters who are routinely subject to voter discrimination, and especially in the area of redistricting, where votes are diluted by drawing voters into lines or spreading them out across districts so that they have no ability to elect candidates of their choice.

00:03:50.340 and therefore don't have adequate representation in our governing bodies. 0.85

00:03:56.020 It's possible for Iran to build a nuclear weapon. 0.96

00:03:58.720 It's an unacceptable threat. 0.84

00:04:00.020 Then think about that.

00:04:01.060 That's regime change.

00:04:02.580 I mean, that means we got to go in there and take out this regime

00:04:04.800 because you can't unring the bell of being able to develop nuclear technology.

00:04:08.800 If that's his standard, then regime change is the only answer.

00:04:12.760 And if it's not his standard, then what is an acceptable level of protection?

00:04:16.880 And the fact that he doesn't know that 60 days into the war, with all of the cost of this war, the economic chaos, the lives lost, you know, we don't seem to know.

00:04:27.720 Sorry, the Trump administration doesn't seem to know where they're going.

00:04:31.000 And they think they can just shout nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons.

00:04:33.500 They're bad. Therefore, that proves we're right.

00:04:36.340 It doesn't. We seem to be stuck and they don't want to explain how they're going to get us unstuck.

00:04:40.980 It seems it's interesting because the president is saying the bottom line is now less so the straight is now the nuclear ambitions, the nuclear capabilities of Iran.

00:04:51.200 That's a long term negotiation. That's not something that is going to be solved in a matter of days.

00:04:57.160 It took us years to negotiate the JCPOA. You know, we got an interim deal in November of 2013.

00:05:02.740 We didn't get the final deal till the summer of 2015, didn't implement it until January 2016.

00:05:07.120 It was two and a half years, really, this entire process.

00:05:09.600 So I don't think that the Trump administration will be able to get a deal like the JCPOA in a matter of weeks.

00:05:14.980 And frankly, Trump doesn't have time. Right. We're seeing oil prices already go over one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel.

00:05:19.940 And Anderson, if this stays in place like this for another month, we're going to see oil go one hundred fifty, two hundred dollars a barrel.

00:05:25.820 Clearly going to break records if this doesn't change very quickly.

00:05:28.880 So what does the Kremlin believe it got from that call with President Trump today?

00:05:31.780 hi there Anderson well essentially two things on the one hand they've really come out as a

00:05:37.400 major player in the effort to try and end uh the iran u.s uh war i do recall that the iranian

00:05:43.720 foreign minister abbas iraq she was actually here in russia a couple of days to go to brief

00:05:47.240 vladimir putin and now this one and a half hour call with president trump the russians saying

00:05:52.320 they approve as the russians put it of president trump extending the ceasefire with iran at the

00:05:57.480 same time warning that it would have devastating consequences globally if this went back to

00:06:02.760 a shooting war. But the thing that's actually playing the biggest here in Russian media and

00:06:07.620 in Russia in general is the fact that Vladimir Putin has offered up a ceasefire for a single day

00:06:12.760 on Victory Day, which of course is May 9th. However, that's also something that's pretty

00:06:17.940 important to the Russians as well, as they've already had to scale back their Victory Day

00:06:22.320 military parade in the face of a Russian of a Ukrainian drone campaign that's been hitting a

00:06:28.700 lot of infrastructure here in Russia. And the Russians are clearly saying they're having a lot

00:06:33.420 of trouble enforcing and securing that Victory Day parade. So offering that ceasefire certainly

00:06:38.940 something could be a backdoor out of that for them. The same time, the Russians are continuing 0.93

00:06:43.620 to say, Anderson, that they want to continue the war in Ukraine, of course, what they call their

00:06:48.480 special military operation until all of its goals are achieved, Anderson.

00:06:53.340 Does this indictment make sense to you?

00:06:56.960 No, it makes no sense.

00:06:58.800 This is something that brings stain and dishonor on the department, on its leadership, on the

00:07:04.160 line prosecutors and their supervisory officials.

00:07:07.240 This case has zero merit.

00:07:09.120 It's contrary to applicable law.

00:07:11.520 It's contrary to department policy, which governs all prosecutors across this country

00:07:15.980 and every U.S. attorney's office.

00:07:17.600 no prosecutor is allowed to bring a case unless they believe the admissible evidence is sufficient

00:07:22.580 to probably result in a conviction and to sustain that on appeal. And although there could be some

00:07:30.280 additional evidence out there that they didn't include the indictment, it seems improbable.

00:07:34.040 And on its face, I think, as has been said just a moment ago, I think the case for a vindictive

00:07:39.300 prosecution motion, which almost never succeeds, has a really strong chance of prevailing here.

00:07:44.240 And if this case were to get to trial, it's likely almost certainly to result in an acquittal or at least a hung jury.

00:07:52.820 Thursday, 30 April, year of alert, 2026.

00:07:56.440 We are absolutely packed today after a historic announcement yesterday by the Supreme Court ruling on really a earth shattering decision, 6-3.

00:08:07.020 So it wasn't even close.

00:08:08.920 The task before us now, folks, as you know, we've been the cutting edge for this redistricting war for now going on four years, five years.

00:08:17.680 Caroline Wren is going to join us because, once again, we're going to need the war room posse to make sure these states are.

00:08:23.880 This is not you cannot wait to 2028. 0.94

00:08:25.960 The Supreme Court ruled you got to implement special sessions, redrawn maps.

00:08:31.240 People got to be on the balls of their feet.

00:08:32.700 Some already are.

00:08:34.760 But we also have to take the maximalist approach.

00:08:37.000 As we keep saying, you have to be maximalist because the demons trying to destroy this country always take a maximalist approach.

00:08:47.800 So Wren's going to be on hopefully next block or the block after to go through the map and what we must do as the war room policy to make sure that we can execute on this.

00:08:57.160 I think there are 12 to 19 seats that are potentially available.

00:09:01.420 And we need them all.

00:09:02.640 We want them all because the Constitution says we should have them all.

00:09:07.660 Also, I guess the king is coming back and going to have a farewell today from the White House.

00:09:13.260 We'll cover that.

00:09:14.640 Pete Hexen goes up for round two on the at this time in front of the Senate.

00:09:21.420 I've asked Jim Rickards to join us.

00:09:22.720 Jim, first off, I have you on here.

00:09:24.880 I want to talk some economics first and about and Bowling is going to be on talk about oil a little later.

00:09:32.640 So the current chairman of the Federal Reserve announcing in pretty bold terms that he's sticking around as governor until a time of his choosing.

00:09:46.760 What do you think about that and how is that going to impact Kevin Walsh in trying to implement what Kevin Walsh wants to do as chairman of the Federal Reserve, sir?

00:09:57.560 Well, I'll get to all that quickly, Steve, but the short answer is he's just poking a stick in Trump's eye.

00:10:02.640 which is, he's a bushy. I mean, he's qualified and all that. He's not an economist. He's a

00:10:07.740 lawyer, but he's really in the Bush wing, what's left of it, of the Republican Party.

00:10:12.260 It's not unprecedented. Mariner Eccles, his term as chair was over in 1949,

00:10:20.860 but he remained on the board as a governor until 1951. So it has happened before. It was 75 years

00:10:26.160 ago. A lot of people don't know. You get a four-year term as chair, but you get a 14-year

00:10:31.100 term as governor, two different offices. Powell's term as governor does not expire until 2028,

00:10:37.580 election year. But he's going to hang around as long as he wants. He says handing the criminal

00:10:43.200 investigation off from the United States Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, over to the inspector general

00:10:47.140 doesn't satisfy his well and truly close, or his words, requirement, because the inspector general

00:10:54.280 could make another criminal referral and start the whole thing over again. So he's not leaving.

00:10:58.340 But that's the kind of legalities of it. But what's really going on, first of all, it's a twofer,

00:11:04.580 because Powell gets to stick around, but Steve Moran has to go off the board. And Moran is,

00:11:09.940 first of all, Trump's appointee. Secondly, the only guy who's been voting for interest rate

00:11:14.500 cuts as opposed to interest rate increases or is staying the same. So there are seven members

00:11:19.300 of the Board of Governors. There are eight people in line right now, including Powell,

00:11:23.060 because they thought he was leaving. So Moran has to go. He is so he's off. So Trump loses a vote.

00:11:29.940 Powell gets a vote or keeps a vote. He said, I intend to be very low key because we have a new

00:11:35.940 chairman, Kevin Warsh and all that. That's fine. That's happy talk. But how can the former two-term

00:11:41.380 chairman be low key? It's not good. He can keep out of the press and media. Jim, you know, for

00:11:47.140 Steve Maron is the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from President Trump and doing a great job.

00:11:55.560 You're losing him. Powell takes the governorship.

00:11:58.400 I'm hearing from sources over there that Powell's talking about he controls a majority of the governors.

00:12:04.780 Now, I realize the chairman has superpowers over there, but how big a deal is that going to be

00:12:10.600 when too late Powell has made these governors in his pocket

00:12:16.000 and try to have open discussions,

00:12:18.160 they're going to leak on Warsh, Besson, and Trump like a sieve, are they not?

00:12:23.300 Yeah, and I know you're not, but don't sell Powell's shrippy.

00:12:26.340 What happened yesterday was even deeper than that.

00:12:29.120 I mean, they kept interest rates unchanged.

00:12:31.160 The interest rate news was completely boring, completely expected.

00:12:34.000 That wasn't the point.

00:12:34.840 In addition to Powell saying, I'm going to stick around,

00:12:36.800 So the vote to do nothing, basically leave rates unchanged, was eight to four.

00:12:43.160 You never see four dissents.

00:12:44.760 That's extremely rare.

00:12:46.580 Now, one of them was Marin, who wants to cut rates, but he's been doing that for a while.

00:12:52.540 So OK.

00:12:53.140 But the other three were interesting.

00:12:55.400 They were all regional Reserve Bank presidents, not members of the Board of Governors.

00:12:59.180 But remember, these rates are set not by the Board of Governors, but by something called

00:13:03.120 Federal Open Market Committee, FOMC, which actually has 12 members. It's seven governors

00:13:10.340 and five regional reserve bank presidents. Three of the five voted to dissent from the decision.

00:13:17.200 And the reason they gave, they didn't want to raise rates yet, but they said, we don't like

00:13:22.560 the easing bias in the statement. They were wordsmithing. But that's another way of saying,

00:13:27.180 at best, you're going to keep it the way they are. Maybe we want to raise rates. Now, here's the

00:13:31.280 point. A couple of dissents, not that rare, a couple of dissenting governors, it happens.

00:13:36.800 But three out of five regional Reserve Bank presidents dissenting for that reason

00:13:41.180 shows that this was orchestrated by Powell. I have no doubt about it. So Powell said,

00:13:45.680 OK, we want to send a signal, a powerful signal, because three votes is very powerful.

00:13:51.240 But we don't want to make people crazy. But we're sending a signal to Warsh. Warsh is coming in as a 1.00

00:13:58.160 of, a guy who would probably cut rates in June, that's what Trump wants, he doesn't

00:14:03.020 mean he automatically gets it, but that's where Warsh was coming from.

00:14:05.680 I would take the June rate cut off the table.

00:14:07.820 I would say Warsh can't do it.

00:14:09.600 And the reason is, you don't want to start your term as chair, four-year term as chair,

00:14:13.940 with a divided, dissenting board, and that's what he's going to get.

00:14:17.660 So Powell is still controlling the board behind the scenes, even the Regional Reserve Bank

00:14:22.560 presidents behind the scenes, that's why he got three dissents, that's almost unheard

00:14:26.160 of.

00:14:27.160 And the message to Walsh is, hey, don't even think about raising rates in June.

00:14:31.620 Now, beyond that, I get to August.

00:14:33.260 You know, we'll see what happens.

00:14:34.560 But so they probably took the June rate cut off the table.

00:14:38.740 They tied Walsh's hands and Powell's still in control.

00:14:42.680 Hang on for one second.

00:14:43.920 We're going to talk about employment number, also strategy.

00:14:47.120 There's going to be a briefing today.

00:14:48.120 President Trump's been leaked to Axios, which is the newswire for the West Wing,

00:14:52.740 about a major presentation, strategic discussion today at the White House.

00:14:57.940 Back in a moment.

00:15:00.140 Everyone's focused on how the conflict in the Middle East is raising oil prices,

00:15:03.860 but there's another grim reality to this contention.

00:15:08.320 Oil isn't the only resource being constrained.

00:15:10.720 About one-third of global fertilizer trade happens through this region.

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00:15:23.480 When one piece of the supply chain gets hit this hard,

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00:16:24.000 check it out war room here's your host stephen k man the financial times of london oil price surges

00:16:33.660 after trump warns he does not want to lift blockade on iran uh crude closes in on 120

00:16:41.880 a barrel bowling's going to be on talk about these markets uh in a little while jim rickerts

00:16:47.220 the strategy of all this uh the um general kane admiral cooper and pete hagseth they're going to

00:16:55.900 have a meeting today according to axios they're going to have a meeting today to go through a

00:17:00.920 range of alternatives strategically the uh the persians having gotten back from meeting with um

00:17:07.740 And Putin seemed like they're more dug in than ever and are acting like they have the initiative.

00:17:13.380 Jim Rickert, your thoughts on all this?

00:17:16.420 Well, that's right.

00:17:17.440 Steve, what's happened is Wall Street and the Financial Times have caught up to what you and I talked about like six weeks ago, 0.97

00:17:22.720 which is this is a game of chicken between Iran and the United States.

00:17:26.580 So Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz at the strait itself.

00:17:30.380 and the United States Navy has closed the traffic coming out of the Persian Gulf at a distance out

00:17:37.020 in the Arabian Sea. So with Iran, how do you get through? Well, you have to be a friend of Iran. 0.94

00:17:41.460 You're taking oil to China, for example, pay the toll, get permission, et cetera, and you can go

00:17:46.060 through. If you do that, if you get that far, you pretty quickly encounter the U.S. Navy and they

00:17:50.340 either board you or turn you around or blow a hole in your hull. So if you say, who's a friend of

00:17:56.360 who can get through Iran and get through the US Navy? The answer is nobody. You're an enemy of

00:18:00.680 one or the other. Nothing's getting, a couple of vessels here and there, but it's minor. Normally,

00:18:04.840 it's 120 a day. If you tell me one or two got through, fine, but that's trivial. It's a game

00:18:11.480 of chicken. What are both sides thinking? That's the key thing. The United States is saying, okay,

00:18:17.160 Iran, you're starved of money. Your currency is collapsing. You're going to have popular unrest.

00:18:22.920 You can't bear this much longer. You're going to have to come to the table and agree to our terms

00:18:27.400 in order to get the oil flowing, et cetera. By the way, China is going to suffer from this,

00:18:32.520 and they're going to put pressure on you. What is Iran thinking? Iran is thinking, hey,

00:18:37.560 Americans are spoiled, $6 gasoline, probably already $6 in California, maybe $7, but the

00:18:43.400 rest of the country is catching up fast, $6 gasoline, economic recession, inflation,

00:18:50.400 higher interest rates, et cetera, not to mention the world, the world meaning South Korea,

00:18:56.360 Japan. New Zealand is a good example, a developed economy. They have zero energy. It's 100% imports,

00:19:02.760 whether it's natural gas or oil. So they're going to have to turn out the lights. So the question,

00:19:06.760 who wins that game of chicken? It's pretty clear that Iran has the upper hand there. I have very 1.00

00:19:11.600 little doubt about it. I think they're right. They have a better read on Americans than we do

00:19:16.020 on Iranians. The midterms are coming up. Do you want an economic slowdown, higher unemployment, 0.82

00:19:24.180 high interest rates, and $7 gasoline ahead of the midterms? I don't think so. Iran's probably

00:19:30.020 going to win that bet. Then back over to Trump, and to your point about this meeting today, 0.98

00:19:34.420 what's the United States going to do? Well, according to Axios, and I assume their sources

00:19:39.380 are good, they're going to talk about what they call a short but intense bombing campaign,

00:19:44.740 another bombing campaign. So bridges, infrastructure, et cetera, whatever they can

00:19:49.760 find, the missile launchers and so forth, probably not going to touch the desalination plants because

00:19:54.580 it would be easy for Iran to disable Saudi Arabia's desalination plant. Then you got a

00:19:58.940 kingdom that's dying of thirst. But to boil it all down, Steve, what this amounts to in terms

00:20:05.740 of Trump's decision making is escalation. And I said, again, this is stuff we talked about a month

00:20:11.460 ago. Trump's not going to declare a victory and go home. He could, but that would be widely

00:20:15.360 interpreted as a defeat, and I think that's the right interpretation. The stalemate can't last

00:20:20.760 for the reasons I just mentioned. Somebody's going to blink, and the U.S. might blink first

00:20:24.440 and start the bombing, but now it's Vietnam. What do you think, the range of alternatives

00:20:30.860 there, why do you say that the Iranians now have the upper hand and that they have a better feel 0.97

00:20:36.220 for the United States? What do you mean by that? Well, I think they're looking at midterm. They 0.66

00:20:41.340 got good advisors. They're pretty smart. They'll get midterm elections. They understand American

00:20:47.420 consumers maybe better than the White House. Yeah, the people follow the war on the news a

00:20:53.660 little bit, but they get to the gas pump every day or every other day, and they know $6 when

00:20:59.000 they see it. That has a big impact. Demand for gasoline is what economists call inelastic. It

00:21:05.740 means you got to buy it at any price. So you got to take the kids to school, go to work,

00:21:11.340 do your job or whatever. And so you have to buy that gasoline. There's no avoiding it. All the

00:21:16.480 happy talk about inflation under control. I mean, it's nonsense. Americans see it front and center.

00:21:22.900 So I think those are the pressure points. And we haven't spent that much time on the rest of the

00:21:27.600 world. There's no urea. There's no nitrates for the fertilizer. I mean, you talked about

00:21:32.960 Are a billion people going to starve?

00:21:35.000 Well, that's what happens if you don't get fertilizer to developing economies in South

00:21:39.260 Asia and the planting season, et cetera.

00:21:41.800 Helium, a little esoteric.

00:21:44.980 You can't make semiconductors without helium.

00:21:47.040 You need a helium-enclosed environment that's ultra-pure, so you can do the kind of etching

00:21:51.400 on the machines that create the chips.

00:21:54.080 So now we've had some supplies.

00:21:55.960 They're drawing down supplies.

00:21:57.520 There was some stuff in transit.

00:21:59.180 We've made it this far, but we're just about at the end of our rope on all these critical

00:22:02.820 materials if um given that many of these alternatives have a kinetic part to it and 0.71

00:22:10.040 president trump clearly likes the blockade does not want to go kinetic again um if the chinese

00:22:16.660 we can't get the chinese to the table to stop in the overland routes by the way there's a map up 0.51

00:22:21.600 today of three or four overland routes through our great ally pakistan into iran to rearm them 0.97

00:22:27.900 uh from uh from china um if he can't do that how how boxed in is he with these other kinetic

00:22:36.620 activities because president trump clearly does not want to go back to military action only if

00:22:41.840 he's forced to sir well i agree that he doesn't want to uh but my point is uh probably linden

00:22:48.920 johnson didn't want to either but at some point you have no choice unless you want to just you

00:22:52.560 You know, declare victory and go home.

00:22:54.400 But that won't wear well with the Republicans and voters.

00:22:59.680 Well, Republicans are people who might otherwise vote for Trump.

00:23:02.480 You can't declare victory because you've made such a big deal about the nuclear threat.

00:23:07.060 It's got to be gone.

00:23:07.980 They've said, hey, we don't want to negotiate the nuclear until later.

00:23:10.420 And you can't go with the straight-of-horse moves controlled by these pirates down off of Homoosh.

00:23:16.200 You've got two issues you have to solve for before you can declare victory and go home, correct?

00:23:20.620 I think part of what they're going to talk about in this meeting, in the national security meeting, military meeting today, is basically special operations, which would be huge, to get Iran's enriched uranium, the 60% enriched uranium.

00:23:39.560 It's buried, it's secured, it's surrounded.

00:23:41.920 Now, I'm not saying the United States couldn't do it.

00:23:43.800 What I'm saying is in order to do it, you're going to have to set up a perimeter, which is going to be a lot of boots on the ground, a lot of air cover, fighting around it and fighting through it to get to the uranium.

00:23:57.660 So can it be done?

00:23:58.560 Yes.

00:23:59.160 But it's a large commitment, probably maybe brigade level and with a lot else besides.

00:24:06.440 So now, and no guarantee of success.

00:24:09.620 The US troops are the best in the world.

00:24:11.160 I don't grant that, but no guarantee of success.

00:24:13.400 That's a big operation. Can it be done? Yes. But this is not capturing Maduro and putting him on a helicopter in New York. This is a major invasion.

00:24:25.040 Jim, strategic intelligence. We've got a landing page, RickardsWarRoom.com, people can go to.

00:24:31.900 Give me a minute on strategic intelligence. Why should our audience that loves this, loves capital markets, loves the discussion on geopolitics or as the Financial Times now calls it, the geoeconomic agenda, right?

00:24:47.620 They love all that. Why should they go to and become a member of strategic intelligence, sir?

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00:26:08.060 so president trump's got um you know some tough decisions on this conflict obviously you saw pete

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00:29:48.100 I think employment cost index, first quarter number, up nine tenths, close to expectations.

00:29:55.280 Up nine tenths would equal the second quarter of 25 to find a higher cost index.

00:30:00.360 Here in the first quarter of 24 initial jobless claims hitting the wires at one hundred and eighty nine thousand hundred and eighty nine thousand.

00:30:12.300 Wow. That is truly incredible.

00:30:14.780 We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s.

00:30:19.480 This is very, very incredible.

00:30:21.520 and continuing claims, 1,785,000.

00:30:26.220 That would be the least going back to August of the summer of 24,

00:30:31.920 actually April of 24.

00:30:33.620 Now, let's get into it.

00:30:35.300 Let's look at GDP.

00:30:36.760 Our first look, first quarter GDP, up 2%.

00:30:40.400 That's three-tenths light.

00:30:42.340 2% would be the lightest quarter, well, since last quarter, which was up 0.5.

00:30:48.060 Now, if we look at the personal consumption number,

00:30:51.520 1.6 that's better than expected that would be the best consumption well you know they they've

00:30:58.400 talked about affordability affordability affordability if you have growth if you have

00:31:03.380 wage growth and you have dropped dropping unemployment and you have a smaller uh folks

00:31:09.160 out a number of folks out of the out of the uh workforce that can get past some affordability

00:31:17.520 issues because a lot of affordability is going to be structural folks all the inflation from the

00:31:22.420 biden years you're not going to whittle that away quickly that's a process so the mantra here from

00:31:29.740 beset and from war room has been growth wage growth uh employment growth uh your thought do

00:31:36.300 you see because the the great you know minds over at the new york times and the wall street journal

00:31:42.460 the editorial pages are telling us uh oh and the anti-trump crowd on wall street is saying oh

00:31:48.140 we're in an era now of stagflation right which we were in under biden but we're in an era of

00:31:54.040 stagflation what what is sent what is santelli telling us about these first quarter numbers sir

00:31:59.740 well santelli is is very good at reporting what just happened i'm there there's so much um

00:32:06.360 undercurrent in what what happened today with it it gets a little wonky but but work with me here

00:32:11.880 because this is going to affect every single war room viewer, every single American's wallet

00:32:17.280 and budget.

00:32:18.280 OK, so inflation number has been a little bit elevated, hasn't been bad.

00:32:23.900 But the real number, you pointed it out, Steve, you nailed it, growth.

00:32:27.220 Growth is the only- it saves everything.

00:32:30.380 So if you have high inflation, if you have growth, it bails you out.

00:32:33.080 If you have high unemployment, you get growth, it bails out high unemployment.

00:32:38.580 What we got was a 2% GDP number, which is amazingly resilient.

00:32:42.960 And I'll tell you why, 2%, yeah, Trump has headed it for, target is 3%, 2% is damn good

00:32:50.280 given the oil price shock that we're going through right now.

00:32:54.100 70% of the GDP number is consumer spending.

00:32:57.920 Santelli alluded to the consumer spending ticking up above expectations.

00:33:02.480 It's got to be stronger than that even because 70% of the GDP number is the spending and

00:33:07.260 And the spending is what matters, which drives the economy, 70% of our economy is consumer

00:33:12.980 spending based.

00:33:13.980 So GDP at 2% is wonderful, especially when you consider the United Kingdom this morning,

00:33:19.700 late their afternoon this morning, came out with a flat growth, almost zero growth in

00:33:26.100 GDP and high inflation.

00:33:28.120 They are experiencing stagflation.

00:33:30.020 We're not.

00:33:31.020 They are. 1.00

00:33:32.020 They have their countries mixed, I think.

00:33:34.040 And that may be a reflection of the realization that Europe and Asia are at the mercy of the 0.98

00:33:40.700 Strait of Hormuz and the Iranians right now, and we frankly aren't. 1.00

00:33:44.720 We're actually shipping more oil out of this country than we ever have.

00:33:48.580 Last week was the highest export of oil, of petroleum products in the history of keeping

00:33:54.340 records.

00:33:54.720 So a lot of good things, even though it may sound bad right now, but a lot of good things

00:34:00.300 happening in the economy.

00:34:01.340 It's being very resilient, to say the least, Steve.

00:34:05.000 Let's talk about the prices because it kind of popped overnight.

00:34:08.720 President Trump saying, hey, I don't mind the I don't mind the blockade.

00:34:13.020 I like the blockade. I'm going to stick with it now.

00:34:15.720 He is going to get a briefing here. I take it's going to be after Pete's testimony.

00:34:21.300 He's going to get a briefing from CENTCOM about a range of alternatives, sir.

00:34:27.720 And as you know, I know it makes your palms clammy sometimes,

00:34:32.140 but a bunch of those have kinetic aspects to it.

00:34:35.460 What's your thoughts right now where we stand with Ramos,

00:34:38.060 the world's oil markets, and what are the markets telling us?

00:34:41.520 Here's exactly what happened.

00:34:42.560 When Trump said this is going to extend,

00:34:45.140 we've been talking about this for a while,

00:34:46.500 the traders I talk to are very nervous about upside.

00:34:49.600 So producers like a higher price, so they'll talk it up.

00:34:52.000 But refiners need the lowest price possible.

00:34:54.560 That's an input.

00:34:55.320 Does feedstock into the refinery is crude oil, so they want lower.

00:34:58.580 Those people are very afraid of higher prices.

00:35:01.100 What we saw overnight was a continuation. Brent hit $126 a barrel. That's the highest it's been

00:35:07.400 in five years. WTI, West Texas Intermediate, hit $114 a barrel, the highest it's been.

00:35:13.760 It started to ease this morning. This is why this is really important, what people are looking at.

00:35:19.160 Started to ease, went from $114 all the way down to, it was actually $3 lower on the day this

00:35:25.600 morning, so I don't know, 107 or so, and there was a rumor that the Iranians hit with some

00:35:33.220 sort of attack, hit the Abraham, Abraham Lincoln.

00:35:38.820 It was only a rumor, it was short-lived, but oil went from down $3 to up a dollar, which

00:35:42.900 doesn't sound like a lot, but a $4 oil, 4% move in crude oil is a massive amount of money

00:35:49.200 to the folks who are involved in it, and bottom line, in our gasoline stations will be as

00:35:55.240 well. So it's a very jittery market. They're on edge for everything that comes out, whether it's

00:36:00.580 a true social post or a rumor that Iranians hit or fight back. It's a very jittery market. But

00:36:06.620 the trend still is solidly up, unfortunately. What do you think, Rickards is on here and say

00:36:14.400 the Iranians know, particularly after their meeting with Putin, that they've got the initiative, 0.62

00:36:18.880 they've got the upper hand. They have not surrendered, right? They refuse to talk about

00:36:24.680 the nuclear capabilities, any kind of negotiation on nuclear, and they still have these fantasies

00:36:31.640 about controlling the Straits of Hormuz.

00:36:33.820 Your thoughts?

00:36:34.820 I don't think they can.

00:36:36.000 I think they're what we expect of religious fanaticism, where martyrdom is in their charter.

00:36:42.540 It's in their DNA.

00:36:43.540 It's in their blood.

00:36:44.540 It's the way they're raised.

00:36:45.540 They'll fight to the death.

00:36:47.040 Even though they may even be close to economically at death's door, they'll continue to bury

00:36:53.200 the citizenship because they believe that Allah has told them to take down the evil

00:37:01.660 forces being the United States and anyone in the West and Israel.

00:37:05.180 So they'll continue to fight until, again, I just think that until and when the economy

00:37:10.460 gets so trashed that basic services inside Iran are water, electricity, are being deprived 0.94

00:37:19.360 the citizens, until late, 91 million people stand up and risk death, that's when the regime

00:37:25.880 changes, and that's probably when everything, we signal all clear, including the Strait of Hormuz.

00:37:33.940 Eric, where can people get you throughout the day? We'll hopefully do a transition,

00:37:38.320 a turnover today between the 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock show. Where can people get you during

00:37:43.500 the day? At Eric Bowling across social media platforms, I'm on all of them,

00:37:47.980 Four and a half million strong. We'd love to get you commenting on this, the warm.

00:37:54.380 Steve, you're doing a great job. You're doing an amazing job telling people what's next, not what just happened. Appreciate it.

00:38:00.360 Thank you, sir. Admiral Cooper and General Cain today with the president.

00:38:07.180 Looks like the president's looking for a new range of alternatives of action.

00:38:11.460 monumental day yesterday. Caroline Wren. This is what kills me about the Republican Party.

00:38:19.120 Yesterday was a monumental decision. We've known that's been in the works. In fact,

00:38:24.500 people have been saying articles are out of how the liberal judges were slow walking it to make

00:38:28.800 sure that we got through the primary season. So the impact of the unconstitutionality of these

00:38:34.340 DEI gerrymandered districts wouldn't have impact now. So when it's announced, instead of everybody

00:38:40.760 being ready to springboard, like Governor DeSantis, you've got half of them in the mumble tank,

00:38:46.280 and the other half are trying to pull stuff together. Walk me through where we stand right

00:38:50.920 now in this, ma'am. Yes, it is frustrating. Anyone who watched the oral arguments about VRA knew that

00:38:58.060 this ruling was coming, and there was only one date left between now and the election that the

00:39:03.180 Supreme Court could have come out with this decision. We all knew it was coming. We'd talked

00:39:06.620 about it for the last few months on your show. But many of these states seem very unprepared and

00:39:10.980 are not moving as quickly as I would like to see. So, I mean, right now, looking at the map of states

00:39:16.560 in the South that this ruling affects that have not had their primaries yet, we could pick up as

00:39:22.540 many as 13 seats this November. Just look at, so coming up, you've got Louisiana. That primary is

00:39:28.500 May 16th. Landry just did the right thing. He came out and said, we're going to delay our primary

00:39:33.380 via special session, and we are going to redraw these maps, and I'll go into this in a second.

00:39:38.360 Then next, you have Alabama, May 19th, Georgia, May 19th, South Carolina, June 9th, Missouri,

00:39:44.020 August 4th, Tennessee, August 6th. We can pick up, again, 13 seats if all these governors move, 0.75

00:39:50.160 and I'm not seeing the movement right now from any of them. In fact, you know, with South Carolina,

00:39:55.720 in fact, I mean, Henry McMaster, like, come out right now, and if you're saying, I heard them say,

00:39:59.940 oh, we might not have time. Do what Landry just did. Delay the primary. Move it to August. This

00:40:04.520 is more important than your set primary date. And so Georgia is a little bit trickier. They've

00:40:09.960 already started early voting. So I'm curious to see what, you know, Brian Kemp is going to do

00:40:13.820 there. Missouri, Governor Mike Kehoe, you need to be all over this. You know, Bill Lee in Tennessee,

00:40:18.840 where are you? Why haven't you spoken out about this? Why haven't you called a special session?

00:40:22.520 We have to put pressure on these guys. And then even with Jeff Landry, I mean, with Louisiana,

00:40:27.180 Anna, I'm so glad he did this, but I'm hearing that they may redraw for a 5-1 map.

00:40:32.160 Do not do that.

00:40:33.060 It should be a 6-0 map.

00:40:35.440 As Hakeem Jeffries said, it is time for maximum warfare when it comes to redistricting.

00:40:40.340 We want a 6-0 map.

00:40:41.940 Anything less than that is capitulating to the left because states in the South should

00:40:46.200 show the same respect to its congressional maps as states in the Northeast have for decades.

00:40:51.300 For over 60 years, the South has been shackled by VRA.

00:40:55.260 That is no longer the case.

00:40:56.580 So when you go to redraw your map that you were shackled by, you don't have that.

00:41:00.720 You can also do what they've done in the Northeast, which is have zero GOP districts.

00:41:05.040 Look at Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut.

00:41:09.080 I'm calling on you to show the same respect that those states have shown our party, which is zero.

00:41:14.500 So, you know what? Louisiana should be a six zero state.

00:41:18.480 Nothing less than that. I don't want to see it.

00:41:20.860 um kathy hochel in fact announced last night that she's thinking about calling special session

00:41:27.760 to look at new york correct of course they will and in illinois you saw the same thing

00:41:33.320 the left gets it and that's why i'm saying the right needs to play fight like fight fire with

00:41:37.460 fire and so i this is what i don't understand the left has been doing this for decades we could not

00:41:42.600 do it because of bra the south could not change their maps there should not be a single democrat

00:41:48.720 district in the south because there isn't in the northeast and new york will change theirs i know

00:41:53.360 that they will and there's already is like new york is already tremendously gerrymandered if it

00:41:57.600 weren't for lee stefanik and alex degrasse you know sounding the alarm on that and really fighting on

00:42:02.960 that case they would have like done much much further but that is where this is going as hakeem

00:42:07.760 jeffries said they are looking at this as maximum warfare look at what gavin newsom just did look

00:42:13.520 Look at what Abigail Spanberger just did.

00:42:15.400 Governor Landry, when you go to redraw your map, do not show some deference to the Democrat Party as you're doing it.

00:42:22.140 And I want to see the same level of energy and partisanship that Abigail Spanberger did with her map.

00:42:29.920 New England, by the way, is 24 to nothing.

00:42:32.860 There's not one Republican congressman in all of New England.

00:42:37.860 Caroline, can you hang on for a second?

00:42:38.960 I want to go back through this, the 13-0, the ones that have to move their, that the

00:42:44.220 governors have to move.

00:42:45.020 It's not that hard.

00:42:45.880 Call a special session and just delay until August, the primary.

00:42:49.940 A ton of states do it right now.

00:42:51.540 Your map is unconstitutional.

00:42:53.820 It would be unconstitutional to proceed with that map.

00:42:56.640 Declare an emergency, call a special session, move your primary date, and deal with the

00:43:00.840 map.

00:43:02.360 This was not close.

00:43:03.780 This was 6-3.

00:43:04.840 It was not 5-4.

00:43:05.900 This was 6-3.

00:43:06.860 That sends a message.

00:43:08.960 Every conservative justice looked at this. The opinion, by the way, Alito's opinion was was brutal. Right. And that's where we need these governors and state legislatures got to jump in there.

00:43:19.900 OK, hang on for one second. We talked about a lot of economics this morning, of course, about oil.

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00:46:04.800 In support of Pete Hegseth.

00:46:07.280 John Henry Weston joins us from LifeSite News.

00:46:10.420 Sir, an article in the New York Post today,

00:46:12.240 I don't have time to go into with you because we need to spend more time on that.

00:46:15.780 John Henry, I'll get you back, but it's about now more revelations of the Biden administration

00:46:20.040 coming after and targeting traditional Catholics, which is outrageous, and someone's got to be

00:46:26.300 held accountable for that. But I want to make sure we push that out today.

00:46:30.740 Not surprising. Number one enemy of the traditional Catholics is always going to be the liberal 0.97

00:46:34.940 Catholics, not the left-wing secularists. Nope. The liberal Catholics are always going to come

00:46:40.480 after them hardest, and they're the greatest enemy. Greatest enemy. Talk to me about, there's 0.99

00:46:47.580 an outrageous story, and I know you only got a few minutes for us today, but it goes to,

00:46:53.700 you know, the FBI started investigating traditional, the traditional Latin mass Catholics.

00:46:58.600 My parents started this, were among the original people, start this small parish in

00:47:03.820 in richmond virginia which the fbi office focused on because it says it breeds extremism and white

00:47:11.200 nationalism all these lies these people are the salt of the earth they're these families working

00:47:16.240 class families five six seven eight nine kids a couple of them always in the military i mean it

00:47:22.480 is the salt of the earth the kids come they know how to they know how to serve in the latin mass

00:47:27.400 they know how to they know how to participate in the latin mass the little girls are always coming

00:47:32.200 appropriately dressed, heads covered, it's very touching. What happened in Charlotte? You had

00:47:37.700 one of these families, and this demon bishop would not give them Holy Communion because they kneeled 0.92

00:47:45.280 at the traditional altar rail, sir? Yeah, so it's unbelievable. This goes back a ways. And like I 0.85

00:47:52.360 was saying, just with the Biden-DOJ story, what we're finding out now, the number one enemy of

00:47:57.500 traditional Catholics is going to be your left-wing Catholic. And right from Pope Francis,

00:48:02.520 we got the order to try and shut down basically the traditional Latin Mass everywhere. Most bishops 0.90

00:48:07.220 played along, some tried to leave it as much as they could. Certain bishops, like the one in North

00:48:12.380 Carolina, Bishop Michael Martin, is hardcore left, and he wants to eliminate the Latin Mass,

00:48:19.180 did so, puts it in one parish far away from everybody. But then he actually went further

00:48:24.360 because he's so into it.

00:48:25.660 He tried to eliminate all reverence

00:48:27.520 in the regular Mass, the Novus Ordo Mass.

00:48:31.020 And in doing so, he said,

00:48:32.340 you can't use those altar rails,

00:48:34.180 those beautiful rails at which people kneel

00:48:37.480 to receive Holy Communion,

00:48:38.660 to receive our Lord, body, blood, soul, and divinity

00:48:41.000 in Holy Communion.

00:48:43.140 So it's a devout practice of all those faithful Catholics

00:48:46.700 you mentioned who have six, seven, eight, nine kids.

00:48:48.740 Their kids serve as priests and in the military.

00:48:51.540 They have beautiful marriages.

00:48:53.820 And so one of the families, Bishop Martin attends this one church.

00:48:58.280 It's a very Orthodox church.

00:48:59.780 And he attends, and he's sitting there, and the family kneels at the altar rail right in front of them.

00:49:04.780 I think this was like the first Sunday that they weren't allowed to kneel at the altar rail.

00:49:08.280 And so there's Martin sitting there, and beautiful little family, young kids,

00:49:12.880 one of the babies being held up to the altar rail.

00:49:14.660 They're just kneeling there to receive, not allowed.

00:49:17.060 And the priests say they didn't see him, whatever, but the bishop sure did.

00:49:20.900 He was sitting there in front of them.

00:49:23.240 And it's so sad to see.

00:49:25.320 By the way, it violates church teaching, even recent church teaching, because in 2004, you have a John Paul II document that says that the faithful are able to receive Holy Communion kneeling in on the tongue.

00:49:40.140 And priests may not deny it.

00:49:41.640 But hang on, particularly for our non-Catholic and evangelical viewers and listeners, this was to humiliate these people.

00:49:49.880 They came up in the most sacred time, and you could tell they're just gentle, good people.

00:49:56.360 They had their children there.

00:49:58.260 The little girls were so appropriately attired.

00:50:00.300 It's quite touching.

00:50:02.020 They kneeled to receive Holy Communion like you're supposed to, and a bishop went out

00:50:07.360 of his way to humiliate them and not serve them communion, and then finally they got

00:50:12.060 up and left.

00:50:13.140 There has to be reacquired.

00:50:14.920 He has to be held accountable.

00:50:16.200 We need to push back on these people because they're demonic.

00:50:20.400 Anybody that would try to humiliate parents in front of their children when they're having their children do the right thing, it's got to stop.

00:50:29.580 And this happens all the time, but they went to humiliate them in front of their parish, humiliate them in front of their peers, and to humiliate their children.

00:50:37.380 At the same time, breaking basic doctrine that if you're there and you kneel, you need to be served holy communions.

00:50:46.040 Correct, sir?

00:50:47.360 Yeah.

00:50:47.720 And the issue is this is characteristic of so many in the hierarchy who really don't like the traditional practices of the past.

00:50:57.360 They wanted to make, and it's likely the boomer generation, if you will, of priests and bishops.

00:51:01.500 They wanted to make their stamp on the church by being this modern way of doing things.

00:51:06.340 Let's get rid of the things of the past.

00:51:07.960 These things of the past, by the way,

00:51:09.340 they've been going on since the time of Jesus himself. 0.92

00:51:12.360 But the boomer generation of priests and bishops, 0.83

00:51:15.400 they didn't have anything to offer other than that.

00:51:17.640 So they thought, oh, this is going to be our signature.

00:51:19.980 This is going to be what puts us down in history.

00:51:22.300 We ended the sort of what they would consider,

00:51:25.640 you know, pious practices of the past,

00:51:28.700 which are just terrible.

00:51:29.660 And we wanted to make it a new modern stand

00:51:31.900 and receive in our hands.

00:51:33.740 You know what?

00:51:34.240 just allow the faithful their right.

00:51:37.500 But they won't do that

00:51:38.500 because for them, this is a personal thing.

00:51:41.560 And you can see in that leaked document

00:51:43.960 from Bishop Martin where he wants to go.

00:51:46.980 It means so much to him

00:51:49.180 to eliminate these pious practices of the past

00:51:52.260 because they actually want to change the church

00:51:54.820 and make it in their own image.

00:51:56.880 And that's the real crime.

00:51:58.460 To shame the faithful, as so many priests have done,

00:52:01.260 you're not allowed to kneel.

00:52:02.160 I can't give you a holy community for kneeling.

00:52:03.480 stand up, or no, I'm not going to give it on your tongue, stick out your hands. For so many of the

00:52:08.800 faithful, that is so harmful, because how can I touch our Lord with my hand when I watched a

00:52:16.520 priest put a veil on his hands to hold up the sacrament in the monstrance? It makes no sense.

00:52:24.200 To watch this go on, listen, just a couple weeks ago, a priest gave testimony of Mother Teresa

00:52:30.900 telling him that the worst thing in the world

00:52:34.260 is to receive Holy Communion in the hand

00:52:36.600 rather than on the tongue.

00:52:38.220 And this is where it's at.

00:52:40.480 The faithful want to do, receive our Lord

00:52:43.060 the most reverent way.

00:52:45.120 The bishop is saying, I prefer you do it my way.

00:52:48.380 Don't use the altar rail.

00:52:50.140 And by the way, even from a leftist perspective,

00:52:53.520 not allowed to use the altar rail?

00:52:54.740 Why? 1.00

00:52:55.360 So young people with babies and old grandmas

00:52:58.340 can't kneel down and stand up.

00:53:00.580 You're just being mean to them?

00:53:01.800 What are you doing?

00:53:02.860 No.

00:53:03.500 Michael Martin, just outrageous.

00:53:06.320 John, Henry, where do people go?

00:53:08.280 What's your social media?

00:53:09.220 Where do they go to get you at LifeSite?

00:53:11.240 Go straight to LifeSiteNews.com.

00:53:13.640 We are on YouTube at LSNTV, as well on Twitter, Facebook, all of the social media channels.

00:53:19.840 You'll find them at J.H. Weston, W-E-S-T-E-N, as well as LSNTV, LifeSite News.

00:53:27.360 Thank you, brother.

00:53:28.180 Appreciate you changing your schedule around.

00:53:29.680 come on and be with us this morning, John Henry. Be back at you. John Henry Weston, a bishop there

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Bannon's War Room - April 30, 2026

Episode 5337： We Are Running Into Vietnam 2.0; Maximum Warfare Over Redistricting

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