Bannon's War Room - Episode 5348： Pentagon Rolls Out Project Freedom; Muslim Waterpark Takeover In Texas

00:00:00.000 As you know, President Trump has directed U.S. Central Command to restart the free flow of

00:00:06.060 commerce through the Strait of Hormuz under the umbrella of Project Freedom. To be clear,

00:00:12.300 this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury. Project Freedom is defensive

00:00:19.120 in nature, focused in scope, and temporary in duration, with one mission, protecting innocent

00:00:26.160 commercial shipping from Iranian aggression. American forces won't need to enter Iranian

00:00:32.920 waters or airspace. It's not necessary. We're not looking for a fight, but Iran also cannot

00:00:39.520 be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway. 0.96

00:00:45.320 Iran is the clear aggressor, harassing civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation 0.94

00:00:52.220 indiscriminately and weaponizing a critical choke point for its own financial benefit, 0.99

00:00:59.280 at least trying to. For too long, Iran has been harassing ships, shooting at civilian tankers 0.54

00:01:05.060 from all nations and trying to impose a tolling system. Iran's plan, a form of international 0.92

00:01:12.860 extortion, is unacceptable. That ends with Project Freedom. Two U.S. commercial ships, 0.99

00:01:22.220 along with American destroyers, have already safely transited the strait, showing the lane

00:01:27.460 is clear. We know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact. They said they control the strait. They 1.00

00:01:35.000 do not. So American ships led the way, commercial and military, shouldering the initial risk

00:01:42.200 from the front, as Americans always do. And right now, hundreds more ships from nations

00:01:47.880 around the world are lining up to transit. CENTCOM, along with partner nations, is in active

00:01:54.360 communication with hundreds of ships, shipping companies, and insurers. All of these ships from

00:02:00.180 all around the world want to get out of the Iranian trap that they have been stuck inside. 0.99

00:02:07.320 As a direct gift from the United States to the world, we have established a powerful red, white, 1.00

00:02:13.260 and blue dome over the strait. American destroyers are on stations supported by hundreds of fighter

00:02:19.560 jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft, providing 24-7 overwatch for peaceful 0.93

00:02:25.960 commercial vessels, except Iran's, of course, which is why our ironclad blockade remains

00:02:33.840 in full effect as well. In fact, six ships tried to run the blockade out of Iranian ports

00:02:39.920 as Project Freedom commenced and they were all turned around. Sunday at the direction of the

00:02:46.060 president, CENTCOM initiated Project Freedom with the objective of facilitating the safe passage of

00:02:52.620 international commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Over the past seven weeks,

00:02:58.060 Iran's repeatedly threatened and attacked commercial shipping in the strait in order to 0.98

00:03:03.280 effectively cut off commercial traffic and damage the global economy. By obstructing one of the 1.00

00:03:09.440 world's most critical maritime checkpoints, a vital transit route for approximately one-fifth

00:03:14.840 of the global oil consumption. Iran is weaponizing the global supply chain. 0.99

00:03:20.380 This action disregards established navigational rights and the law of the sea, and the regime 0.97

00:03:26.200 led by the IRGC is effectively attempting to hold the entire global economy hostage. 0.83

00:03:32.460 Thank you, Secretary Hexth. Last 24 hours or so, Iran's fired at us. We fired at Iran. 0.77

00:03:38.220 I'm just going to ask you more directly, is the ceasefire over? 0.98

00:03:42.640 No, the ceasefire is not over.

00:03:45.680 Ultimately, this is a separate and distinct project.

00:03:48.920 And we expected there would be some churn at the beginning, which happened.

00:03:55.000 And we said we would defend and defend aggressively, and we absolutely have. 0.76

00:03:58.180 Iran knows that.

00:03:59.720 And ultimately, the president's going to make a decision whether anything were to escalate

00:04:04.580 into a violation of a ceasefire.

00:04:06.140 But certainly we would urge Iran to be prudent in the actions that they take to keep that underneath this threshold.

00:04:12.860 This is about the straits. This is about freedom of navigation.

00:04:15.440 This is about international waterways. This is about free flow of commerce.

00:04:19.360 All the things that happened before and only Iran is contesting.

00:04:23.440 So right now, the ceasefire certainly holds, but we're going to be watching very, very closely right here.

00:04:28.980 Morning, Mr. Secretary, Mr. Chairman, David Zia, Real America's Voice.

00:04:31.980 I wanted to ask you of any of the fast boats that have been either sunk or identified.

00:04:36.720 Are there any armaments larger than, say, small AK-47 type stuff or any anti-ship cruise missiles identified?

00:04:43.540 And my second question is, if there's a divide between the IRGC and Tehran,

00:04:48.400 is there a way to get Tehran to agree to let us go after the IRGC that is doing these attacks without violating the ceasefire?

00:04:57.780 Well, right now, anything coming at our crafts, regardless of what's on it, has to be defended against, and that's the case.

00:05:05.300 I don't know what the exact armaments that were on those fast boats.

00:05:08.460 Small arms, nothing significant on the fast boats.

00:05:11.680 Rifles or small machine guns.

00:05:13.800 There were some small coastal cruise missiles shot down as well.

00:05:17.560 So there's been, I think there's some frothiness in the beginning aspects of this that were dealt with very directly by our destroyers. 0.76

00:05:24.880 And we're communicating both overtly and quietly to the Iranians to allow this defensive operation to happen on behalf of the world.

00:05:34.000 There are some actions the IRGC takes sometimes that are outside the bounds of what maybe Iranian negotiators would like.

00:05:41.100 That's their job to rein that in and ultimately create a condition for a deal.

00:05:44.980 Right. That's not something I talked about in these remarks, but that's happening in real time.

00:05:49.280 Iran has an ability to make that deal.

00:05:52.320 But what we're demonstrating with Project Freedom is they don't control this trade.

00:05:57.140 I mean, we know Iran is embarrassed by the fact that our blockade is holding and we can run ships through and we're going to help the world run ships through.

00:06:04.740 And if they hold it at issue, the whole world knows who's doing it. 0.64

00:06:08.020 It's not us. We're willing to open it up. It's Iran.

00:06:10.760 And that creates a dilemma for them. We hope they make a deal. 0.99

00:06:14.620 Tuesday, 5 May in the year earlier 2026. Let's go right to David Zier.

00:06:18.740 David, the buried lead in all that, I think, is that when they talked about the ceasefire and the overall war, Pete said, Secretary of War Hegs has said that this is a separate and distinct project.

00:06:31.820 What does that mean?

00:06:32.740 project freedom is there to get commercial shipping through in a defensive nature um i believe and as

00:06:43.480 opposed to epic fury you know to take out strategic and tactical targets uh throughout iran uh but

00:06:50.740 this is a defensive measure i thought it was interesting they pointed out a hundred fighter

00:06:55.540 jets in the skies coordinated by the 82nd airborne with this next generation tactical networks i

00:07:00.500 I thought that was fascinating having interacted at Fort Bragg with these guys.

00:07:04.300 They're just the best.

00:07:06.180 And I just got word, I think, that four vessels crossed today, none, you know, up until a little while ago, I believe.

00:07:13.800 But, yeah, so my main question to him was also about these fast boats.

00:07:21.600 You know, Defense News reported 1,500 fast boats in February before the war started, and 250 of them had anti-ship cruise missiles.

00:07:28.140 Where are they?

00:07:28.860 And they confirmed that there's just small arms from these guys as well.

00:07:33.580 And I also inquired about this fracture among the leadership, which I guess could be incorporated into this defensive posture to go after IRGC targets that may be a threat still outside of Tehran, claiming to want peace.

00:07:47.960 is the did they really answer your question because the way interpreted is that i've said

00:07:54.500 that the people that are controlling uh the gulf are controlling the persian gulf and

00:07:59.720 controlling particularly the strait of hormuz don't exactly directly report to tehran they're

00:08:04.540 kind of an entity unto their own did you feel you got an answer on that

00:08:08.680 uh to a degree i feel we did uh that um they acknowledge that these may be independent

00:08:17.680 in actors or, listen, maybe Iran's talking up both sides of their mouth in Tehran, right?

00:08:23.200 You know, a wink, wink, nod, nod to keep messing with the traffic and threatening our guys. 0.80

00:08:28.500 But, you know, that'll unfold.

00:08:32.120 And we're trying to maintain the ceasefire, I guess, going into the talks with China next

00:08:36.400 week as well.

00:08:38.320 But interesting developments, you know, UAE restricted airspace overnight, warning pilots

00:08:45.460 about traffic due to those other attacks that happened.

00:08:48.380 More sirens sounded in northern Israel overnight there as well.

00:08:52.360 But I thought it was important also that Cain reminded us why we're there, Steve.

00:08:56.340 In 2024, in Jordan, near the Syrian border, three soldiers killed Tower 22 by Iranian

00:09:02.840 proxy groups.

00:09:04.420 718th engineers fought more Georgia lost three U.S. servicemen.

00:09:09.440 Important to remember that as well.

00:09:13.860 But, you know, I think they're answering what they can.

00:09:16.760 They're not making policy out of the White House.

00:09:19.020 They're enforcing it and putting it into effect.

00:09:21.920 But they have dual roles now.

00:09:23.320 And I also just want to point out these AGEAS class, these systems they have, this 9.2 version of this defense system is really spectacular.

00:09:34.360 They have a 10 series that's still based out of California.

00:09:38.560 But these things can track all the traffic in and out of the Gulf.

00:09:42.220 And I think between that and the combat air patrols and the tactical aircraft circling the Gulf and our ageist class destroyers and these young, talented men, I think they have a pretty good handle on facing threats.

00:09:54.140 You know, one or two might get through, but to date they don't have any signs.

00:09:58.000 And I would also ask if I had a follow up question, did China give them any parts for anti-ship cruise missiles since the ceasefire?

00:10:04.260 No, I mean, and Scott Besson has already been said that this is going to be, at least so far, pretty aggressive discussions in Beijing about their involvement because this is a great power struggle.

00:10:15.960 However, Pete, I mean, here's the bottom line.

00:10:19.540 Free navigation of the oceans, yes, and the United States will always be there.

00:10:23.580 But there have to be other countries.

00:10:25.620 I mean, we've got Marco Rubio going to see Maloney.

00:10:28.780 he's already said that she doesn't support the american effort here that europe's going to come

00:10:33.580 up with some alternative but the europeans have to to date shown no um even inkling of interest

00:10:43.420 in getting involved here the united states navy can't keep three carrier battle groups or two

00:10:47.820 strike groups outside and keep running destroyers through there what they said today was 1500 vessels

00:10:53.580 vessels, those vessels service Europe and Asia. Virtually none of them come to the United States.

00:10:59.480 At some point in time, this has got to stop. And I just don't understand why they say it's

00:11:03.660 a separate project. The Iranians took the offensive in this war by striking into the 0.92

00:11:09.300 Persian Gulf after the Israelis did. And then they closed the Stradar Hormuz. And so I'm kind 0.91

00:11:15.840 of lost on the fact of how this is not looked at as inextricably linked. And the NATO nation's got

00:11:21.260 to step up here we can't we can't sit there with those assets at that cost for month after month

00:11:28.100 after month and keep it open unless the european nations are going to try to defend themselves which

00:11:32.340 is this to me is the primary defense of nato keeping the red sea the suez canal and the

00:11:37.640 strait of hermuz open sir thoughts maybe we're moving the goalpost uh hoping a deal breaks out

00:11:46.220 maybe trying to get to the china talks but you know i'm not convinced and the reason i brought

00:11:49.920 of the technology with the destroyers and with the 82nd airborne is that i don't think europe

00:11:54.840 can do what we do and maybe in some supporting role you know they could operate uh but uh we have

00:12:00.900 you know what it takes to do this i mean their carriers don't even have the combat

00:12:04.720 i got that i got that i got that david i understand that okay that's you spend a trillion

00:12:11.320 dollars a year to three and a half dollars a year you're going to have advanced combat capability

00:12:15.060 and we have the best trained troops and a magnet. I'm all for this blockade and starting it to get

00:12:20.520 to a point. But this open-ended nature, I mean, this is why the Europeans, we got to put the 1.00

00:12:25.340 pressure on them now. The reason they don't have that capability, their people get six weeks off 0.82

00:12:31.120 in the summer. Their people retire at 50. Their people have full health care. They have free

00:12:35.840 university education. Everything workers in the middle class in the United States don't have,

00:12:40.540 they have. Why? We paid for that combat capability and they refused to do it. Now it comes to a fact 0.98

00:12:46.540 of something that has to be kept open for them and for the Gulf Emirates, right? And for the 0.76

00:12:52.880 Persians and the Chinese Communist Party in South Korea and Japan, it's time for the nations of the 0.50

00:12:57.800 world. It's either of enough interest to them that they've got to step up and assist here in a

00:13:02.020 meaningful way and eventually take it over. Or maybe the free navigation is not that big a deal

00:13:07.260 If it's not, we ought to come to that conclusion quickly.

00:13:10.720 Anyway, David, great question today, as usual.

00:13:14.320 Where do folks get you in your reporting?

00:13:19.160 Yeah, and Europe's running out of jet fuel.

00:13:21.220 They need that open.

00:13:22.880 They can follow me at Dave Zier on X and David Zier on all the other platforms.

00:13:28.780 Thank you, David Zier.

00:13:30.420 Fantastic.

00:13:31.020 Great reporting over at the Pentagon.

00:13:32.640 David Zier, always on the move.

00:13:34.820 They're running out of jet fuel, but, you know, the Italian papers, as we had Ben Harnwell,

00:13:40.660 I'll try to get Ben on in the second hour if we have time.

00:13:43.060 We are going to go to the White House at the bottom of the hour.

00:13:45.300 The president's going to sign a proclamation.

00:13:48.320 And knowing the president, I think he may say a few words, and he may take a couple

00:13:51.960 of three questions, supposed to be open media.

00:13:54.340 So the White House poll will be there.

00:13:56.460 I'm sure the president will engage with the media.

00:13:58.420 I'd be very surprised he doesn't.

00:14:00.220 We're going to have Chip Roy is going to join us next.

00:14:03.020 chip roy all over another visa scam bringing it forward to the american people also housed the

00:14:10.600 race for attorney general going in the great state of texas mitch little is going to join us 0.88

00:14:16.320 at a water park paid for by taxpayers in the community the muslims are taking it over for 0.76

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00:16:25.360 Okay, we're going to the White House, bottom of the hour.

00:16:31.340 We're going to get a lot in between now and then.

00:16:33.880 We're going to start with Chip Roy.

00:16:36.120 Chip, you've put out something on this U-Visas, another scam.

00:16:41.400 I mean, I want a moratorium and all this stuff, but talk to us particularly why this is probably one of the visas that scammed the most, sir.

00:16:50.380 Yeah, we agree. 0.98

00:16:51.280 as you know, I introduced the PAWS Act last fall to pause all immigration. I think we need a 1.00

00:16:56.060 moratorium on every bit of it. It's ridiculous. H-1Bs are a massive problem, as you know. Now 0.94

00:17:01.120 you've got these things called U-Visas, which some people are aware of, but not many. This is one

00:17:05.920 that is ripe for abuse. I've had this drafted for months. I've just been kind of waiting,

00:17:10.180 trying to figure out when I can introduce it with all the noise going on. And what we saw

00:17:16.060 is something that happened in Austin last year, where there was a citizen here in Austin, Texas,

00:17:21.400 who was being accused of a crime he did not commit, which borne out in the evidence later,

00:17:27.400 he was exonerated. And the person that was accusing him was an illegal alien, and then

00:17:34.420 using that accusation of being a crime victim to get a U visa to stay in the country. We created

00:17:40.700 this class where somebody who can claim that they're a crime victim get to then stay in the

00:17:46.140 country and then they're fraudulently able to backdoor that into staying for a long period of

00:17:50.320 time. And whether they're a crime victim or not is obviously, you know, is an incentive to

00:17:55.700 falsely accuse somebody. But even if they are a crime victim, there are other ways to be able to

00:18:01.100 get some sort of relief before you're deported. For example, we have visas that say, look, if

00:18:06.120 you're a witness to a crime and we might want you to be able to convict this bad actor,

00:18:10.700 then you might be able to get a delay and a temporary status to stay here.

00:18:14.440 But we've got this visa, this rampant abuse.

00:18:17.840 We've seen it now unfolding.

00:18:19.300 And so we ought to get rid of it. 1.00

00:18:20.500 And we don't need this class of visas. 0.98

00:18:22.800 And so I introduced legislation to get rid of it. 0.98

00:18:24.820 But look, I don't want to present false hope.

00:18:26.980 I'm tired of that.

00:18:27.700 And all of, you know, the posse is getting sick and tired of it, as I am.

00:18:32.280 You know, we introduced the PAUSE Act.

00:18:33.960 We're not seeing movement.

00:18:35.320 You know, I introduced a bill to get rid of the tax status for care.

00:18:38.460 We're not seeing movement.

00:18:40.340 I'll introduce this bill.

00:18:41.680 We'll go make some noise on it.

00:18:43.000 No movement.

00:18:43.880 We introduced legislation to try to kill the kill switch

00:18:46.400 to ban central bank digital currency.

00:18:49.160 We did get that moved only because we demanded it.

00:18:52.200 We have a Republican conference

00:18:53.600 that doesn't know how to figure out how to win too often.

00:18:57.680 Now the House is doing stuff and the Senate's blocking us,

00:18:59.940 but we're gonna keep working.

00:19:01.800 But I wanna highlight the issue

00:19:03.060 to try to make the case that we need wholesale reform

00:19:06.160 on our immigration system and visas

00:19:08.600 that are being abused.

00:19:10.180 Well, first off, the reform is going to take a while.

00:19:13.080 I think you just need a moratorium. 1.00

00:19:14.740 These U visas, when you say crime victim, are they a crime victim in their home country or is it being a crime victim here in the United States? 1.00

00:19:23.400 Well, they can allege, I think, both.

00:19:25.580 But the U visas here, for example, this man in Austin who was being accused of a crime, that was where an illegal was then trying to use that to get this U visa to stay in the United States.

00:19:37.160 And, you know, thankfully, and I'm not using his name because I don't want him, you know, I don't want to make him have to deal with this any more than he was.

00:19:44.820 But he thankfully was able to get exonerated.

00:19:47.960 And this individual now is no longer able to claim the visa.

00:19:51.240 But it's been abused for years.

00:19:53.320 And under the Biden administration, it was abused badly.

00:19:55.980 And it's still being abused now.

00:19:57.880 So we should just get rid of it. 1.00

00:19:59.340 We should get rid of that class of visas altogether. 1.00

00:20:01.260 Hang on. So if somebody can come here illegally, then say they're a victim of a crime and then apply for a visa to stay here indefinitely, is that part of this program? 1.00

00:20:14.540 Yes, that's how stupid we are. I mean, we keep creating ways for the third world to come to the United States. We keep creating ways for people to come here, abuse our system, use our benefits. And then, you know, we just allow them to stay here indefinitely. It's insane, Steve. I mean, like, you know, we can sidebar here on the Islam issue and the March of Islam into the United States. 1.00

00:20:39.520 You know, I think you're going to have Mitch Little on. He's a great American. He's a great representative in the legislature in Texas, one of our up and coming rock stars in Texas, who's standing up and trying to fight this. But we're doing it to ourselves. That's why the ultimate solution right now, like we did in the 1920s, is to effectively pause our immigration.

00:20:58.260 You know, we have 53 million foreign-born people here in the United States. 1.00

00:21:01.500 There's no surprise why they're abusing the system, right? 1.00

00:21:06.380 It's like, you know, I heard President Trump recently, who's basically, I think, recognizing

00:21:11.560 the extent to which the size of our government is enabling a lot of the fraud, right?

00:21:17.280 And we saw this under Doge and under Elon.

00:21:19.660 You know, the people say, well, gosh, Chip, how's there so much fraud?

00:21:22.380 Why aren't you guys doing something about it?

00:21:23.600 Well, I mean, I'm trying.

00:21:24.720 We passed legislation to the big, beautiful bill.

00:21:26.560 But when you have a government that is this big, then there's going to be rampant fraud.

00:21:30.780 When you have visas that are just being given out to anybody, when we open the doors to

00:21:34.380 anybody to come here, of course, there's going to be rampant fraud.

00:21:37.420 So we should get rid of the U visas. 1.00

00:21:39.420 We should reform H-1Bs and freeze those. 1.00

00:21:42.240 Eli Crane, a good friend of the show. 1.00

00:21:44.460 Eli's got a great bill on that front. 0.99

00:21:46.380 And we should just pause immigration altogether like my PAWS Act.

00:21:50.640 So your frustration is what led, look, as you remember, I tried to talk behind the scenes 0.66

00:21:56.440 chip roy out of doing this because we need him in the house but you said hey texas needs me more 0.64

00:22:01.320 right now you've got a crisis in texas on sharia law you've got this whole thing with the islamic

00:22:06.940 situation where you get to this uh this uh pool this community pool that's being taken over

00:22:12.180 mitch little is going to join us you've got the h1b problem which i tell people when you go to 0.91

00:22:16.420 texas it's right below the islamic uh they're they're illegal aliens they're they're coming 0.87

00:22:22.540 after texas because they understand it's the jewel in the crown of the union that if you turn texas 0.99

00:22:28.060 purple even take it over by other means and shatter it and shatter the people there that you

00:22:33.180 will effectively have amazing incredible leverage to control the united states of america this

00:22:39.300 republic so as the attorney general how are you taking all your frustration on capitol hill with

00:22:44.980 the massive bureaucracy there what do you intend to do as the attorney general of the great state

00:22:49.200 of Texas. Well, Steve, first of all, you know, we're crisscrossing the state of Texas. You know,

00:22:54.700 we're in Texas this week. We're not in Washington. And, you know, I was visiting with a bunch of

00:22:58.500 great Tea Party conservatives in Montgomery County, north of Houston. Let me tell you

00:23:03.060 something about Montgomery County. They did a poll at an elementary school recently about what

00:23:07.700 language is spoken at home. And English came in fourth, Steve, fourth place behind Spanish,

00:23:14.160 Farsi. I don't know if it was Urdu or what the third one was, but it's insane. This is what 1.00

00:23:18.820 we're dealing with in Texas. Yes, the issue of H-1Bs is significant, particularly in Collin County

00:23:24.840 and north of Dallas, where there's massive fraud. We've seen Sarah Gonzalez has been highlighting

00:23:30.800 that and doing a lot of reporting on that in Dallas-Fort Worth. And it's expansive. And we've

00:23:36.320 got to address that. But obviously, the issue of the March of Islam across Texas is the number one

00:23:41.260 issue. 330 mosques. Epic City is taking a lot of the news. But the reality is it's something that

00:23:47.760 You got to have somebody who is not not only has the backbone, but has the legal acumen and the experience as someone who's a constitutional lawyer to stand up and declare what needs to be declared and to push the legislature and the and the leadership of the state to declare that we are, in fact, a Christian nation.

00:24:07.480 We are in fact a Christian state. We are built upon Judeo-Christian principles.

00:24:12.880 And the March of Islam is a political ideology in which they openly declare that they want to 0.98

00:24:19.460 wage jihad on Western civilization. If you won't acknowledge that, then you can't win the war. 0.95

00:24:25.400 So Steve, I'll do all the same stuff. We'll fight the sort of Al Capone and tax evasion stuff,

00:24:31.200 right? So we use municipal utility districts and the Texas Workforce Commission rules and

00:24:36.260 Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and whatever statutes we have to go stop things like Epic

00:24:41.400 City and to stop these jihadis who are effectively using the First Amendment to hide behind.

00:24:47.260 But when you've got a legislature that will pass, frankly, naive bills, including my opponent, 0.97

00:24:52.540 Mays Middleton, putting forward a bill that would have made it easier for mosques to have a compound

00:24:57.020 with housing development on it because of religious liberty without being smart about 0.52

00:25:02.020 that you're actually fueling mosques. 0.62

00:25:04.080 When we have legislators that say we need prayer in schools, 0.90

00:25:07.200 but that really results in five day of prayers 0.98

00:25:10.280 with Muslim kids sitting on prayer mats pointing to Mecca,

00:25:13.920 then you know you've got a real problem 1.00

00:25:15.560 and you've got to have someone

00:25:16.760 who will come in and speak truth.

00:25:18.500 Like we're at D-Day right now.

00:25:20.400 We've got to make a decision.

00:25:21.820 Are we going to defend our way of life or not?

00:25:24.540 You cannot win a war you do not acknowledge exists.

00:25:27.640 And look, I am proud to be running for attorney general

00:25:32.220 It's hard to leave my friends in the Freedom Caucus, but we've got to have leadership in

00:25:36.380 the state of Texas right now.

00:25:38.560 And if we lose Texas, then this country's toast. 1.00

00:25:42.200 It is the front lines against this March of Islam. 0.97

00:25:45.060 It's the front lines against the Marxists who are putting criminals on our streets. 0.95

00:25:47.880 It's the front line of the corporatists with data centers that are stepping all over our

00:25:53.340 beautiful hill country and water and our grid.

00:25:56.520 It's the front lines for open borders when you have a different kind of president or

00:26:00.720 secretary.

00:26:01.240 and the consequences of open borders, which is another thing that we need to do, which is go

00:26:07.300 after Plyler v. Doe, where illegal aliens are getting a free education because the Supreme

00:26:11.900 Court said so. Early voting, correct me if I'm wrong, I think starts on the 18th. Is that correct

00:26:18.680 of May? Is that early voting? That's right, Steve. May 18th and then May 26th is election day. So

00:26:25.320 we're basically two weeks out from early voting and three weeks from today is election day.

00:26:29.400 We're doing great.

00:26:30.460 We're, you know, a lot of polling data that's in our favor.

00:26:33.720 We've gone up on the air.

00:26:35.320 My opponent has not had any negative ads run against him until about five days ago.

00:26:39.400 And now we're doing it, and we're going to make clear what the truth is.

00:26:42.920 And, look, you know, I trust the people of Texas, and I trust God.

00:26:46.340 And, look, we've got a country to go save, a state to go save, and that's why I'm running.

00:26:50.220 ChipRoy.com, ChipRoyTX on X slash Twitter.

00:26:54.580 And, you know, keep doing what you're doing, Steve.

00:26:56.300 And look, while I'm in Congress, I'm going to keep running through the tape.

00:26:59.640 Like Paul said, you've got to finish the race.

00:27:01.860 And I'm going to keep fighting this year and try to do what we can.

00:27:04.580 I'm trying to fight, you know, FISA reforms, central bank digital currency, try to make sure we're holding spending in check.

00:27:11.380 But it's, you know, it's a tough environment up there, as you know, with the Senate refusing to do anything at all useful while they let the filibuster, fake filibuster, strangle themselves.

00:27:20.400 Has the Senate, I just want to make sure I got the drink because I heard some noise last night.

00:27:23.720 Have they totally abandoned the Save America Act?

00:27:26.760 Is there any possibility they're going to get up on their hind legs and let's try to get this thing done?

00:27:33.740 Yeah, I don't believe that they're going to do anything to either go to a 51 vote threshold or to do what Mike Lee and I would call a talking filibuster to force action on the floor and let them run out all the speeches.

00:27:45.720 And that's what I think they ought to be doing.

00:27:47.140 uh or for example on the on the lack of funding for ice and border patrol why didn't they just

00:27:52.240 say look when you've got a shutdown and you got democrats jamming us we are going to set the vote

00:27:58.060 at 51 votes for a continuing resolution like what would have been wrong with that right but they

00:28:02.860 won't do anything the answer your question is no they're not moving the save act thun is letting

00:28:07.460 a handful of members like mitch mcconnell block us and they ought to stand up and fight chip roy

00:28:12.840 Thank you for joining us. I know you're busy. Get back to work and running for Attorney General of the state of Texas. Mitch Little from Texas joins us next.

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00:29:48.580 Commenters online, both within Texas and beyond, are outraged after it was announced that a taxpayer-funded water park in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

00:29:56.860 was rented out to hold a Muslims-only event,

00:30:00.400 which will feature halal food,

00:30:02.380 modest clothing requirements,

00:30:03.920 and a private prayer area.

00:30:06.160 Water critics sang on social media

00:30:07.860 about Epic Waters and the June 1st event

00:30:10.160 to celebrate Eid.

00:30:11.420 Here's what you need to know.

00:30:12.900 The top-ranked Epic Waters indoor water park

00:30:15.480 in Grand Prairie, Texas,

00:30:16.700 is facing a firestorm of criticism

00:30:18.760 after a flyer linked to the water world

00:30:20.980 suggested it was holding a Muslim-only event,

00:30:23.840 which features strict religious clothing requirements

00:30:26.060 and recommendations for patrons to practice haya, or modesty, by, quote, 0.99

00:30:30.500 maintaining personal space and lowering the gaze around members of the opposite sex. 0.99

00:30:35.340 The third annual iteration of the event will be held at a massive 80,000-square-foot indoor water park 1.00

00:30:41.060 opened in 2017 at a cost of $88 million, which is funded by a 0.25% sales tax

00:30:48.460 residents approved at the ballot box in 2014.

00:30:51.960 The event, known as DFW Epic Eid, noted three times on an initial version of a flyer that attendance was strictly for Muslims.

00:30:59.800 But the event's organizer, Aminan Knight, told The Post the inquiry prompted her to revisit the advert to, quote,

00:31:06.520 make it clearer that this is a modest dress-only event centered around celebrating Eid.

00:31:11.860 The FAQ for the event says, quote,

00:31:14.080 The entire water park has been exclusively reserved for Muslims.

00:31:17.520 Although the event website says men and women will not be separated during the event,

00:31:21.180 It notes quote, we ask all attendees to uphold Islamic etiquette, just as they do in other mixed-gender spaces, and encourages all visitors to follow a modest dress code to quote, help preserve a spiritually mindful and welcoming atmosphere for all.

00:31:36.320 The website also offers suggestions such as an entire what-to-wear section of the site, complete with purchase links for modesty-approved swimwear for girls, boys, and toddlers.

00:31:46.680 Event tickets are being advertised for $55 a pop or...

00:31:50.180 Thank you. Mitch Little joins us. He's in the Texas House from Denton, Texas. Mitch Little, can you explain to us what in the hell is going on, sir?

00:32:01.140 It's a great question, Steve. So this was brought to my attention two or three days ago by my good friend Sarah Gonzalez.

00:32:07.500 She posted the advertisement. What became obvious very quickly was we had a Muslim exclusive event at a taxpayer-owned facility.

00:32:16.440 The city of Grand Prairie operates Epic Waters, which is a large indoor water park.

00:32:21.860 It's managed privately.

00:32:23.600 It is open for rental events. 1.00

00:32:27.260 The thing that sent everybody into an uproar was the fact that this is a Muslim exclusive event. 0.98

00:32:34.340 And I found out it was a third annual such event. 0.72

00:32:38.100 I hadn't heard about the two prior ones.

00:32:40.520 But I think this is a very serious civil rights violation that's going on here.

00:32:44.740 The United States Civil Rights Act, Section 2, provides that if you're making a public accommodation, whether it's a restaurant or a hotel or an entertainment venue like Epic Waters, you're not permitted to exclude people on the basis of race, religion, et cetera.

00:33:01.200 And I think people are locally shocked at what's going on here.

00:33:05.380 This is another step forward of a totalizing ideology that is not just religious in nature.

00:33:12.080 this political because it's a political system it's not a religion that they are pushing the

00:33:19.440 envelope everywhere and it seems like uh unless people like you and leaders like you are these

00:33:26.060 great uh you know the people associated with places like patriot mobile and other these

00:33:30.700 christian-based organizations whether it's the texas education board for the school books or

00:33:36.020 the situation here, these people are on, they are very aggressive, and they're going to use every 0.89

00:33:42.060 law that we've got to try to protect themselves as they try to go for Sharia supremacy. What is 0.98

00:33:47.820 the, what are the, what's the political class they're doing to stop this? Not just this day,

00:33:53.720 right, and stopping this, but what are they doing overall to basically get on a counter-offensive,

00:33:59.020 sir? What was fascinating about the response to this, Steve, is once Republicans and conservatives

00:34:05.280 kind of brought this to public attention, a couple of really odd things happened. One,

00:34:10.380 the organizer of the event manipulated or changed the advertisement graphic from Muslims only

00:34:15.740 to modest dress only. But if you go to the website, it makes it obvious it's just Muslims

00:34:21.280 who are going to be allowed to attend this event. But the backlash that was going on online,

00:34:26.720 it wasn't from Muslims. It was from largely white Democrat progressive liberals. And so we start

00:34:33.540 asking the question, why are, why is that group politically aligned with what the Muslims are

00:34:40.260 trying to do? And from my perspective, it's because white progressive liberals are using

00:34:46.700 Islam and its influence on our culture, like an acid to break down the bonds that exist in our 0.95

00:34:53.720 society. Like the fundamental norms of not denying people access to public buildings on the basis of 1.00

00:35:00.480 either race or religion. You had Chip Roy right on before me. Chip is one of the few people who

00:35:05.820 understands that we are in an existential crisis. This is a battle that we are on the front lines

00:35:11.020 of. I think a lot of Republicans are asleep about the significance of this, Steve. Grand Prairie is

00:35:17.160 primarily under Democrat control as a municipality, but it's surrounded by Republicans in Tarrant

00:35:23.560 County, in Denton County, Dallas County, Collin County. We have got to link arms and address this

00:35:30.360 problem, because the main issue is the culture is totalizing. Can you imagine if you had an event

00:35:37.380 where they rented out epic waters and then said, you know what, the rest of us religions got together

00:35:42.400 today and we decided no Catholics or Jews at the water park today. We rented it. It's a private 0.76

00:35:47.460 event. We're just going to exclude you. It's unthinkable in American society because we've

00:35:52.260 created a culture where that's not legally permissible. And this acid that is dissolving

00:35:59.140 our bonds between us as Americans is doing its work. So what action can be taken here to make

00:36:06.820 sure this event doesn't happen? What I think ought to immediately happen, I think the United

00:36:11.600 States Department of Justice at Civil Rights Division should be intervening. They should

00:36:16.280 absolutely be talking to the organizer of this event. They should be on top of Grand Prairie

00:36:20.700 with subpoenas, if necessary, filing suit to intervene. I'd love to see the Attorney General's

00:36:26.000 office get involved with regard to the civil rights violation as well. We need people to act

00:36:30.660 in government because I think the event is scheduled for June 1st. This is coming up quickly,

00:36:35.680 and this is not the type of thing that should move forward in the state of Texas. If we're

00:36:40.220 really under Republican leadership, then our Republican statewide leaders and our Republican

00:36:44.860 national leaders need to get on the horse. Okay, and you're correct. We're in touch with all those

00:36:51.320 people. So I'm assured that action is going to be taken. Mitch, where do people go to keep up

00:36:57.420 with you, sir? Yeah, best place to find me is Mitch Little, F-O-R Texas dot com, or you can

00:37:03.600 follow me at at Real Mitch Little on Twitter. I I'm amazed at how we are fighting this battle

00:37:10.740 every day. We we as a state legislature are the conservative legislators are talking about this

00:37:17.060 issue literally every single day, Steve, in some format or another. We've got to get some

00:37:22.120 legislator pointed downrange, and we've got to do something as Republicans in Texas to staunch

00:37:28.740 the flow of this. I'm thankful that Representative Roy is working inside of Congress to try to deal

00:37:34.380 with the immigration problem. This is a problem that has been voiced upon us by the federal

00:37:38.680 government and its permissive immigration structure. This is something that we need as

00:37:44.040 a country to do something about it now. Peter McElvaney, who is in London and one of the best

00:37:49.860 experts about how London has fallen to Islam, and they are a minority now, but they control it. 1.00

00:37:56.500 They have to leverage the command by negation to control it. This is why in the commons that 1.00

00:38:03.260 Starmer didn't open the airbase to us in the initial assault into Iran, he said he needed

00:38:09.120 six to eight hours to get political cover. Peter McElvin had looked at Texas and he says the simple

00:38:14.860 basic problem you have is the business community. The conservative business community is in bed

00:38:20.540 with this Islamic invasion, whether it's halil food, the real estate, all of it. That's the 1.00

00:38:25.560 central problem. And until we address that and lance that boil, Mitch, it's going to be a very

00:38:31.660 tough struggle. Politicians alone- This is something that you've talked about before many

00:38:35.200 time, Steve. It's the rent-seeking behavior. It's how do we divorce ourselves from the desire to

00:38:42.140 just have more of everything and go back to where we were culturally before this. We have to

00:38:50.440 negate those economic incentives and understand that this red-green alliance will absolutely eat 0.95

00:38:56.660 us from the inside out if we don't take it on headfirst. The Marxist-Jihadist-Red-Green 0.94

00:39:02.180 Alliance, and they know exactly what they're doing. They're very tough. They're very focused,

00:39:06.160 and they have the business community working with them because, like you said, it's rent-seeking

00:39:10.720 behavior. Mitch Little, thank you so much for joining us. I know you're incredibly busy,

00:39:14.700 so thank you, sir. Thank you, Steve. We are going to be shifting the show down to Texas

00:39:21.200 before the early voting starts. We'll give you more updates on that as this all-important

00:39:26.460 runoff election with the Senate, the Attorney General, all of it. We'll get to that.

00:39:32.180 Eric Bolling joins us.

00:39:33.960 Eric, like I said, the president's supposed to come out and sign a proclamation.

00:39:36.620 If he takes questions from the media, we're going to jump in there because they had a fascinating press conference.

00:39:41.540 First of all, what's your view on this, on the Pentagon's Secretary of War Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Cain?

00:39:52.720 Your thoughts, what you heard this morning.

00:39:55.220 Yeah, I think they're clearly fighting a conflict or war in the Middle East, in the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz,

00:40:03.160 but they're also fighting the PR war with the American people, and I think they're winning.

00:40:07.660 I think a lot of people are hearing what they want to hear.

00:40:11.020 They want to hear a tough-talking secretary of war and a tough-talking president. 0.78

00:40:15.340 I mean, President Trump, when those six or seven fast boats were destroyed by U.S. Navy in the Gulf overnight, President Trump came out and says, we're ready to wipe Iran off the face of the map.

00:40:28.680 I mean, so it's a heightened rhetoric.

00:40:31.120 It may be at the American people's public opinion or it may be at the Iranians.

00:40:35.120 You were talking earlier with I can't remember who, but who's really running it. 1.00

00:40:39.380 And is it is it these band of pirates?

00:40:41.460 Well, the IRGC will tell you it's them.

00:40:43.460 If I may, Steve, if you want this, I'll give you this very quickly.

00:40:46.040 As you know, I talk to a lot of the biggest traders on the planet,

00:40:49.080 and they spend millions upon millions of dollars for the best information,

00:40:53.140 not what they're reading, not what Reuters tells them.

00:40:55.180 They have people in the strait in the Middle East telling them what's going on.

00:40:59.460 And if you're kind enough to share this with me,

00:41:01.180 I will not tell you who it is or not the oil company.

00:41:03.100 I will say it's a major integrated oil company from producer

00:41:06.120 all the way through refining, gasoline refining.

00:41:09.540 66 days of the war, 11 ships, Steve, in the last 24 hours have transited the Strait of Hormuz.

00:41:15.880 That's up from three when we spoke yesterday.

00:41:19.880 Vessels, 250 vessels are waiting to transit it.

00:41:23.120 100 of them are VLCCs or crude carriers.

00:41:26.520 100 of them are bulk carriers, you know, the container ships.

00:41:29.360 And then there are 50 others.

00:41:30.380 I will point out, not only is 20% of the world crude oil passing through there,

00:41:34.640 they're holding up 25% of the global liquefied natural gas trade as well. So that's a huge thing

00:41:41.880 is as countries and economies go off of crude oil, they're going on to a hydrocarbon, but it's

00:41:47.860 natural gas because it burns cleaner and makes everyone kind of happy. Daily transport rates are

00:41:53.000 up about 80%, but that's not the kicker. The kicker is the war premium. They actually charge 0.88

00:41:59.640 vessels for a war premium which was a few cents on a barrel of oil prior to the um to the conflict

00:42:06.680 it's up to 15 dollars per barrel now remember these are vlccs these are oil barrels they're

00:42:13.260 42 gallon barrels not the 55 gallon drums that you see in a gas station these are 42 gallons so

00:42:18.740 that translates into about 40 cents per gallon on the pump just an additional just to legally to

00:42:25.360 pass through the gulf forget what they're charging uh what the pirates are charging as well um we're

00:42:30.920 we're at four dollars and forty eight cents remember when i said 450 a long time ago and

00:42:34.700 i was like oh you're you're uh panicking i was called a panicking because i said 450 guys i'm

00:42:40.160 not on i here steve you and i had a little bit of a back and forth yesterday and frankly people

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00:43:14.060 break you want to do this real quick when you get back yeah yeah no no no no no i'm going to hold

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00:45:18.940 war room do it today war room here's your host stephen k man i want to thank everything we're

00:45:28.000 doing down in texas we had chip on and mitch little earlier in the hour of course this uh

00:45:34.400 Islamic invasion, the Sharia law, Sharia law supremacists, trying to stop that.

00:45:39.140 Also, the H-1B visas.

00:45:40.520 I mean, the fights down in Texas are for all the marbles.

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00:46:09.580 and you can't get two finer people than Glenn and Jenny's story.

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00:46:16.120 Eric Bolling.

00:46:17.760 That was a pretty good report.

00:46:19.540 Particularly, now we know, I think they're 1,500,

00:46:25.040 because yesterday Captain Fennell thought it might be 800.

00:46:28.000 People were saying it's 2,000.

00:46:29.240 I think there's now agreed upon, there's 1,500 of these vessels, whether very large

00:46:35.380 cruise carriers or some of these massive cargo container ships and everything in between

00:46:41.700 that need to get out of there.

00:46:43.680 And I think they said today something like 20,000 crew members tied up.

00:46:48.300 The question gets to be to get it open and keep it open.

00:46:52.000 This is a massive undertaking.

00:46:53.800 I'm so proud of the United States Navy, not just to do the blockade, but actually open

00:46:57.420 up the strait.

00:46:58.120 But this is really helping NATO, the EU, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, North Arabian Sea is helping East Asia, particularly the Chinese Communist Party and NATO.

00:47:15.600 When are we going to start getting some assistance here?

00:47:17.560 I only see American combatants.

00:47:19.480 I don't see any Royal Navy.

00:47:21.140 I don't see any French Navy.

00:47:22.620 I don't see the Italian Navy.

00:47:23.740 In fact, Marco, and Marco, I think, is going to hold the press conference today because the press secretary is out on maternity leave having her second child.

00:47:35.840 But he's headed to Rome.

00:47:40.240 I'm just quoting the Italian papers that Ben Harnwell brought us through yesterday, like a supplicant to talk to both the Pope and a supplicant to talk to Maloney about the Italians jumping in here and helping out, sir.

00:47:51.940 Yeah, I hear Marco in between going to Italy and doing the press conference, he'll be painting the walls of the White House because he literally does just about everything Trump doesn't do.

00:48:03.600 Can I throw something very quickly? Part of this, again, this proprietary document that the head trader sent me, regional impact heat map.

00:48:14.400 Japan, 90 percent heat with disclosure. South Korea, 80 percent, our friends.

00:48:18.780 However, China, 50% heat. India, 60% heat. And the EU, 30% heat. The point is they're taking a lot of heat with this oil coming off the world markets. Briefly yesterday, we had this little discussion about, well, there's those who believe let's get this thing open. I'm in that camp. I wish we had just made a deal early. People jumped on me calling me, oh, you idiot. Don't you know they hate us? They want to deliver a nuke.

00:48:44.900 I think at that point you may have agreed, but then yesterday, Steve, you remember when Mr. Miyagi had the pebble and Karate Kid had to snatch it and he couldn't for a long time?

00:48:55.060 Well, you're my Mr. Miyagi. You're my true north. You're my OG conservative.

00:48:59.520 They may have snatched the pebble from you, my friend, because yesterday you were complaining about, yes, but the high price of diesel fuel, which is very relevant, very relevant.

00:49:07.600 You can't have both. You can't have lower gas and diesel prices and a regime change in the same moment.

00:49:13.680 You can have either or, but you're going to sacrifice one or the other.

00:49:16.800 There's literally no out.

00:49:18.480 There's no easy out at this point of, yes, we can get gas prices lower for the midterms, 1.00

00:49:23.920 but, yeah, we'll also get these fanatical Muslims who just want to kill us 1.00

00:49:28.220 and they'll die before we win anything to relent. 1.00

00:49:32.600 So it's one or the other. 1.00

00:49:34.060 They're fanatical Muslims. 1.00

00:49:35.960 And, by the way, Tehran, compared to Texas, Tehran's the 10th priority. 1.00

00:49:40.840 Marco Rubio told you at the microphone before he went to the Witness Protection Program as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor of why we attacked, because there was an imminent attack on Israel.

00:49:53.340 The Secretary of State said it.

00:49:54.560 And as soon as he said it, he went to the Witness Protection Program.

00:49:58.000 I keep saying what's happening in Tehran is a tenth priority compared to what's happening in the United States, in the state of Texas, in Minnesota, in New York City. 0.80

00:50:06.860 and your beloved New York City is now run by Marxist jihadists. 0.81

00:50:11.880 I also, I don't understand, but hang on, I still don't understand. 0.95

00:50:15.180 The question is, why are we shipping 14 million barrels per day

00:50:19.680 to go to Europe and other places into Asia when we're still importing,

00:50:26.460 and I realize we're just importing it from Mexico and from Canada,

00:50:29.820 but we're importing still 13 million, is it 13, I think 13 million barrels a day we import?

00:50:34.340 Seven, seven.

00:50:35.340 No, we're producing 13. We're importing seven.

00:50:38.200 Seven, seven. So we're exporting 14, which is great for the producers here.

00:50:42.980 But if you want to get prices down here, don't you take that excess production and flood the markets here in the United States?

00:50:50.700 Of course you do. But there's only, well, I can only, we have a free market system, which we had a discussion about yesterday, which I believe in.

00:50:57.660 And I don't think we should mess with it.

00:50:59.300 When you tinker with it, when government gets involved in price fixing, supply fixing, you're messing with the free market.

00:51:06.500 And just have this one thought for one moment, Steve.

00:51:08.620 Okay, hang on a second.

00:51:11.160 We have three carrier battle groups that are there to try to keep things open and take down this regime.

00:51:18.640 That's intruding into the free.

00:51:19.940 This fantasy that you live by and people live by, and I hate to say it is from the Fox News and your Wall Street days,

00:51:27.600 but no there's nothing on earth there's no there's no there's no law the universe has said

00:51:33.080 hey gloves above the belt the ref said keep the gloves why can't you at least agree with me we

00:51:40.800 get the 14 million barrels a day and we put it in the united states diesel's gonna come down

00:51:45.680 i don't care there's a democrat in office and then they have the the house of representatives

00:51:50.580 i'll worry about them i'll worry about that you know what all these conservative views

00:51:56.540 I'll worry about that then.

00:51:57.760 You can't.

00:51:58.560 We're out of control.

00:51:59.340 We have the ball now.

00:52:01.000 No.

00:52:01.940 It's called America first economic policy.

00:52:05.780 I don't care about shipping it to Europe.

00:52:08.060 You don't want government to be a dictator in our markets.

00:52:11.240 They can play so many games with us.

00:52:13.220 From top to bottom, what we can say.

00:52:15.580 What about when the Democrats say you can't say that on TV anymore?

00:52:18.360 The government is in every market we've got.

00:52:22.280 Look at AI.

00:52:23.240 Look at all this.

00:52:23.980 Let's not make it more.

00:52:25.140 let's hang on hang on hang on do you have to bounce because i want to keep you for that i

00:52:30.120 gotta go i gotta get to orlando okay i love you brother we'll put we'll put the gloves on

00:52:33.820 and above the belt above the belt now hopefully i'll see you this afternoon i'm doing the five

00:52:40.060 o'clock show natalie is going on assignment so uh i'll see you i'll see you we'll do we'll do

00:52:46.180 the transition eric bowling love you brother i'll eventually convince you that that 14 million

00:52:52.140 barrels is going to be used here in the United States of America. I just don't get it. America

00:52:57.680 first economic policy. American citizens come first. The country comes first. Everybody else, 0.99

00:53:05.680 you take it as you can get it. Short commercial break. Back in the warm in just a moment.

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Bannon's War Room - May 05, 2026

Episode 5348： Pentagon Rolls Out Project Freedom; Muslim Waterpark Takeover In Texas

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