Bannon's War Room - Episode 5351： Shakey Negotiations Begin Between US And Iran; Tennessee Redistricting

00:00:00.000 The president, our president, has proven time and again that his preference is peace.

00:00:04.480 But Iran must accept the reality of the situation and come to the negotiation table

00:00:09.080 and accept terms that are good for them but ultimately good for the world.

00:00:12.260 The diplomatic path, if there's a real diplomatic path, I'm not always going to be one,

00:00:16.120 but if there's a real diplomatic path and we continue to explore it,

00:00:19.160 Steve and Jared are working on that very hard.

00:00:21.080 If there is one there, it could be one that leads them to reconstruction,

00:00:24.280 to prosperity and to stability and to not posing a threat to the world.

00:00:27.840 The alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat. 1.00

00:00:33.460 I know what the right choice is for Iran. 1.00

00:00:35.560 I hope that the people over there making decisions will make the right one. 1.00

00:00:38.840 That the noise, like the tumbleweed, is getting all over the place.

00:00:45.040 How does Europe and how do our allies in the Pacific, our allies in the Middle East,

00:00:53.380 deal with something that clearly the administration itself cannot control and that thing in the center

00:00:59.720 is iran because at the end of the day they're still pushing events more than anything else

00:01:04.120 well i mean the analogy i'd like to use is a game of chicken you know one side is closing the street

00:01:09.340 of hormuz and the u.s impose a blockade but for game of chicken to work you need the chicken to

00:01:14.340 play by certain rules even that game and here we have one chicken the american one that is zigzagging

00:01:19.340 all the time. We really don't know. I mean, to your point, at this point, I'm at a loss to know

00:01:23.580 what President Trump's objective is. As you said, Simone, if it was to open the Strait of Hormuz,

00:01:27.920 it was open before the war started. The nuclear issue, there's no indication now that the Iranians

00:01:32.320 are prepared to give what they weren't prepared to give before the war. So he could keep hating 0.99

00:01:36.940 them. He could keep hurting our economy. So, you know, it's a wild game. And where the also for a

00:01:44.180 good game of chicken, you stay straight and you have a clear objective. I don't know what his

00:01:49.040 objective is and he's zigzagging. So even if the Iranian wanted to make a deal, it's unclear they 0.91

00:01:53.900 know even what the president is looking for. President Trump posted just moments ago seeming

00:02:00.420 to reference a potential deal. This is what he wrote, quote, assuming that Iran agrees to give

00:02:05.940 what has been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption. The already legendary epic fury will

00:02:12.860 be in an end in the highly effective blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be open to all, 0.98

00:02:18.120 including Iran, if they don't agree, the bombing starts and it will be sadly at a much higher level

00:02:24.520 and intensity than it was before. Now, we should note that Marco Rubio said yesterday that epic

00:02:30.380 fury was already over. The president here is saying maybe it's not, but be that as it may.

00:02:35.160 The statement comes after a new report in Axios from CNN political and global affairs analyst

00:02:40.080 Barack Ravid, who we're going to speak to in just a moment. That report says that White House

00:02:44.640 officials believe that the U.S. and Iran are closing in on a one-page memo to end the war.

00:02:50.780 This deal would reportedly involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment and the U.S.

00:02:56.160 agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds and both sides

00:03:00.440 lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Again, there have been a flurry

00:03:06.500 of these developments and about faces over the last 24 hours, including the president who said

00:03:12.900 he is pausing the two-day-old U.S. operation to guide ships through the strait, citing, quote,

00:03:19.100 great progress in the talks. And this is after Secretary of Defense Pete Hexa and Marco Rubio

00:03:23.460 spent literally hours talking about how great that new Operation Project Freedom is. But that's now

00:03:30.180 on pause. We're waiting to see what else it means. Military. The nuclear program of Iran has been

00:03:36.600 destroyed. Their ability to spread terrorism has been destroyed because they're on their knees 0.96

00:03:42.180 economically. If we can control the straits, if we can take back control of Straits of Hormuz,

00:03:48.320 it is checkmate. This thing is over to the American people. I know gas prices are high, 0.59

00:03:54.040 and I know we're suffering right now. But you pay now, you pay later against thugs like Iran. 1.00

00:03:59.060 Administration efforts to wrap this war up, regardless of the conditions on the ground, 0.92

00:04:05.380 means that this war, if they wrap it up, will be seen as a failure, just like Iraq,

00:04:11.500 just like Afghanistan, just like Vietnam, because as Sanger writes, despite Mr. Rubio's declaration

00:04:17.340 that the objectives of the war have been accomplished, they clearly have not. Mr.

00:04:22.380 Trump himself described his objectives in the early hours of February 28th when he told Americans

00:04:28.940 in a video that he had recorded earlier that Donald Trump and this administration and the

00:04:35.260 United States and its military had five major goals for going to war with Iraq. First

00:04:42.220 was to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. That was repeated all the way up until 0.65

00:04:51.080 late last week by his secretary of defense. But he went on to add that the United States

00:04:57.200 had to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles and their launchers, which, of course,

00:05:02.460 The UAE and our other allies in the region said, we don't want you to go to war.

00:05:07.260 But if you go to war, you have to destroy their missiles and their launchers.

00:05:11.400 Sink its navy and its support for terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. 0.83

00:05:15.380 And finally, create the conditions for the Iranian people to topple their government.

00:05:21.340 And it was Donald Trump who said in the early hours of the war to the Iranian people, your time of liberation is at hand.

00:05:31.940 The saying goes under right, the Iranian Navy is clearly gone, as Mr. Trump often notes.

00:05:36.760 But that is the only one that is checked off the list.

00:05:44.040 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:05:49.180 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:05:54.300 I got a free shot.

00:05:55.560 All these networks lying about the people.

00:05:58.560 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:06:00.060 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:06:01.940 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:06:04.600 It's going to happen.

00:06:05.860 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:06:09.260 MAGA media.

00:06:10.600 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:06:16.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:06:19.160 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:06:26.080 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:06:31.940 it's wednesday 6 may in the year of our lord 2026 i want to bring you we've got uh neil mccabe in

00:06:40.540 the press briefing room at the white house uh we have eric bowling with us uh eric and thank you

00:06:45.320 for changing things around here to join us just what is the um result because obviously

00:06:51.360 president trump and getting ready to go to beijing for next week and have this great powers

00:06:57.260 discussion, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Chinese Communist Party

00:07:01.600 is, as we've said here over and over again, arming the Persians, particularly with the

00:07:08.780 technology to do all these advanced drone strikes they're doing, which has gotten to

00:07:13.660 be quite an issue, quite a problem.

00:07:17.740 The announcement after yesterday, starting in the morning at 8 o'clock at the Secretary

00:07:23.340 of War, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, about Operation Project Freedom, which was a kind

00:07:29.920 of a mass convoy way to open up straighter her moves.

00:07:33.620 We talked about it in depth yesterday, then Marco Rubio gets up.

00:07:37.560 And Marco, I do think, because it confused me, Epic Fury's over and changed the goalposts

00:07:44.960 that the entire purpose, the reason Epic Fury's over is we've taken away the conventional

00:07:48.640 capabilities and the industrial war base of manufacturing, that's done so we can move on.

00:07:56.700 Then the president leaks or talks about, it goes to Axios. We've got a one-page memo we're working

00:08:02.520 on. He's going to stand down on everything until that's done, but then just puts out a tweet or

00:08:07.280 true social moments ago that says, hey, we are very close to having something we can agree upon, 0.61

00:08:13.720 But if they hesitate or they any funny business, we're going to go back to a mass bombing campaign.

00:08:21.560 First off, bowling, as the markets see it, what are they telling us going on?

00:08:26.940 Because I think it's very tough to take between what people are saying.

00:08:30.540 You have to see what the reaction is of people that are actually betting large amounts of capital right now on their information.

00:08:39.780 What do you got?

00:08:40.300 Yeah, Steve, all over the place. Last night, I think early in the morning, midnight, one o'clock, I texted you the comment that Trump was going to make that said, we're going to pause Operation Freedom, Epic Freedom.

00:08:57.160 And I said, at that point, don't hate me for this. I said, Steve, is this going to be a Taco Tuesday meeting yesterday or Nacho Wednesday meeting, Taco Trump all these chickens out?

00:09:08.700 Listen, don't hate me for that.

00:09:10.000 That's what the Wall Street folks are calling it.

00:09:12.180 The oil traders are calling it Taco Tuesdays.

00:09:14.740 Nacho is not a chance Hormuz opens.

00:09:18.240 So we got both of them in the span of about 12 hours.

00:09:21.360 We got great news.

00:09:23.220 Woke up this morning.

00:09:24.500 Markets were very strong on the equity side.

00:09:26.620 So I immediately went to the oil market, and it was down $13 a barrel, Steve.

00:09:30.440 It was $89 a barrel this morning from 103 settlement, 102 settlement yesterday.

00:09:36.720 And then Trump makes that statement like, well, if they don't be careful, we're going to continue this, not only the blockade, but the bombing, the kinetic bombing on them.

00:09:48.580 And it jumped $5 or $6, $6 or $7 from the low.

00:09:53.020 It's still $95, but it was $89 a minute prior.

00:09:57.300 We need these lower prices for our economy.

00:09:59.740 I've been saying a long time, Steve, we're going to get $450.

00:10:02.200 Guess what?

00:10:02.600 We have $450, $400 a gallon of gasoline nationally average right now.

00:10:06.060 I've been saying it a long time, we're going to get five.

00:10:08.100 People call me a panicking.

00:10:09.420 I'm not a panicking.

00:10:10.280 I don't have a political iron in this fire.

00:10:14.200 I'm just telling you what I see of 35 years of oil trading.

00:10:17.740 Gas is going to continue to go up.

00:10:19.380 Even last night when it was 13 lower in the crude, it would still go up for another month

00:10:24.320 or so and then puts us right in the middle of the driving season.

00:10:26.900 What I do believe is happening, something that you and I talked about a long time ago,

00:10:30.360 a few weeks ago, three, four weeks ago.

00:10:32.020 We said that at some point, people are going to realize that this is really going to affect the midterm elections greatly.

00:10:38.220 Now, we're pushing 455 a gallon.

00:10:41.220 501 is the all-time high under Biden.

00:10:43.340 It took him out of the White House.

00:10:45.280 And I have a hunch that at a new high, and if we don't solve this thing quickly, a new high, we'll take Republicans out of the House, certainly, potentially the Senate as well.

00:10:55.960 Who knows what happens in the White House?

00:10:57.760 Trita Parsi was on here three weeks ago I think roughly and said you know you're never going to

00:11:06.280 get to some long-term detailed 100-page document that signed on you know like the battleship of

00:11:14.220 Missouri that's not going to happen he says I don't think you're ever going to get the best

00:11:17.920 you're ever going to get is maybe some brief memorandum of understanding today they're talking

00:11:23.360 about this one pager will lead to it's contingent upon signing a definitive deal later. Does anybody

00:11:30.880 believe that? Does anybody believe that the Persians or because to get them even to get a 0.58

00:11:36.280 one pager is taking weeks and weeks and weeks and we're not there yet. If they follow their 1.00

00:11:42.620 negotiating strategy, it's years before you get to the definitive one. So you're going to get a

00:11:47.400 one pager, all agree to it and then bring everybody home. Is that the plan? Well, Steve,

00:11:53.220 Of all people that know the answer to that, it's the man I'm looking at right now because, yeah, there's a kinetic war.

00:11:59.320 You're fighting the war on the ground and the air and the sea.

00:12:02.220 But there's also a war of, let's call it public opinion, certainly, but even more so, the rhetoric, right? 0.92

00:12:08.600 So this shooting back and forth between the Iranians, we're not done, we've got a lot more, we will blow boats out of the water, we'll hit UAE, we'll declare war in the Middle East versus Trump saying, you know what, they're finally playing ball, market's correct.

00:12:23.220 Then he says we're going to blow them off the face of the earth within 12 hours.

00:12:26.620 They revert in the wrong way right after that.

00:12:29.440 He has to think about the midterms.

00:12:31.980 Some would say that he doesn't care about the midterms.

00:12:34.300 If he cares about conservatives, he'll think about the midterms.

00:12:37.680 We're never, ever, people want to say regime change, whether friendly to America, it'll never happen.

00:12:45.500 Whoever the next regime will be, they'll still hate America.

00:12:48.740 They'll still continue to try and build a bond. 1.00

00:12:50.720 That's why 60 days ago, Steve, we said, let's just fix this, kind of deal with these jerks. 1.00

00:12:57.400 They're fanatical Muslims. 1.00

00:12:59.620 We'll never be able to trust them, but cut the deal so we can cut bait, get out of there, get oil prices back down, and live to fight another economic day. 1.00

00:13:08.560 And there are those who just think we should wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:13:12.320 Well, guess what?

00:13:13.160 You want to do that, you're going to have six, seven, maybe $10 gasoline, period.

00:13:17.360 You can't have both.

00:13:18.400 You can't wipe off a major oil producer in the Middle East with a fight to the death and take out a lot of oil installations and have a cheap price for oil.

00:13:28.960 And Americans, Steve, let me ask you something.

00:13:31.520 What do you think Americans, not just people watching War Room or like bowling or love Trump, the American people, 325 million of us, what do you think is more important to them? 0.98

00:13:40.460 wiping the mullahs off the face of the earth or making sure that they can bring home enough money

00:13:46.920 to feed their kids or go out to dinner once in a while i'm going to tell you if you disagree 1.00

00:13:50.760 i'm going to say it's the economy stupid james carbell said it he was right he's become a nut 0.99

00:13:55.460 job since but it's the economy steve there you go that's my two cents eric hangar for one second 0.99

00:14:03.300 if you stick around i'm gonna go to mccabe in the white house caroline wren's gonna join us

00:14:06.920 I think a message was sent last night in Indiana.

00:14:11.700 Of course, how we even got into the Indiana situation is a story unto itself.

00:14:17.380 But I think you can say in South Carolina, message received.

00:14:21.120 We're going to talk about these redistricting, talk about the midterm elections.

00:14:24.400 If you don't win the redistricting war, you're not going to win the midterm.

00:14:27.080 Full stop.

00:14:28.500 Full stop. 1.00

00:14:30.260 Need to have these unconstitutional districts evaporated immediately.

00:14:34.780 Okay, Eric Bolling's with us.

00:14:36.380 We're trying to go through and figure out the memorandum of understanding what that means is going to be enough to wrap this thing up, pack up, and get out of there and let the Europeans deal with the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.

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00:16:21.460 The Chinese Communist Party has just come out with, 0.70

00:16:30.920 hey, we need this whole thing stopped and opened up, 0.94

00:16:34.540 and Persian Gulf's got to be open.

00:16:36.860 They're clearly hurting.

00:16:38.660 This is a great powers negotiation, I believe,

00:16:41.560 and I hope Scott Besson's in the middle of it,

00:16:44.220 of what really matters, and that's with the CCP, 0.64

00:16:46.460 who are both arming the mullahs

00:16:48.720 and giving them cash for the oil.

00:16:51.460 And I still don't understand why any of the ghost ships or any of the ships that go out are cargo or oil headed for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:17:00.600 It just can't happen.

00:17:01.760 McCabe, you're at the White House.

00:17:03.440 The one-page memorandum of understanding, it has, you know, they're not going to do enrichment.

00:17:08.740 They are, we're going to lift sanctions.

00:17:11.100 We're going to give them some cash we hold related to the sanctions.

00:17:15.760 What's the probability?

00:17:16.920 What are you hearing at the White House?

00:17:17.940 what's the probability this thing gets signed? Because the Persians are tough to nail them down 1.00

00:17:23.000 on anything, sir. Yeah. So the expectation is that this thing can be settled and everybody can move 1.00

00:17:29.260 on. The question is, are the Persians like everybody else? And some people would say 0.96

00:17:35.480 they're not. And so obviously there's a timetable. You talked about what's going on with China. The

00:17:40.440 president has a trip going to China. We also have to resolve Cuba, something that Marco Rubio

00:17:44.860 talked about yesterday. And then you have the World Cup, and then you have the 250, and then

00:17:49.160 you have a midterm election. And so the president obviously wants to get this thing off the table.

00:17:55.060 But at the same time, there are some absolutes that he promised the American people, such as

00:17:59.460 eliminating the Iranian nuclear program. And so we'll just have to see what that one pager does.

00:18:05.260 It's the style of the president to negotiate a big meta agreement. And then once he has sort of

00:18:12.480 everybody buy in on this big vision, then he just tells everybody figure out the details.

00:18:17.740 And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And that's what we're going to see, you know,

00:18:22.040 how this thing plays out. What we saw yesterday is we saw Hegseth and Kane at the Pentagon

00:18:27.320 lay down the marker that the Pentagon is ready to go, that military operations are still at a very

00:18:34.120 high tempo, that they're supporting Project Freedom, which was the program to allow to help

00:18:40.600 those ships get out using the southern route along Amman that was going to be run by the 82nd

00:18:45.380 Airborne or is being run by the 82nd Airborne until it was suspended. And so, you know, every

00:18:50.460 expectation from the Pentagon was, hey, if the president tells us to launch, we launch. And so

00:18:56.120 what we saw with Rubio in the afternoon was the geopolitical, the strategy. This is the sort of

00:19:03.120 the big picture. We saw some moving of goalposts, like you said, where Rubio actually said Epic

00:19:08.800 Fury was done. The purpose of Epic Fury was to eliminate the conventional threat, which they were

00:19:14.820 sort of hiding behind as they were building up their conventional defenses so that they could

00:19:19.120 build that nuclear program. That conventional shield is gone, and now we can talk. And so now

00:19:25.360 everybody was sort of going in that direction. And then, of course, today at or around 6 a.m.,

00:19:30.960 Axios has the leak from the White House. And then, of course, the president came out with his true

00:19:35.100 social saying hey we've got a deal or maybe we don't and if we don't the bombing starts steve

00:19:40.660 um neil the um are people tied in are they is this because you had pete and general kane you

00:19:52.940 then had marco then you had this announcement that whitkoff and and and jared are working on

00:19:58.380 is there some sort of coordinated interaction among like even some subset of the national

00:20:03.820 Security Council so that when we present something to the world, people can understand it and kind

00:20:09.500 of, because first it was going to be, we're going to escort ships out individually with,

00:20:13.200 with Navy destroyers. Then it was, we were going to clear a path and do kind of really convoys

00:20:19.020 like in world war II. And then to get all the way to where it's stopping the entire thing. 0.68

00:20:24.480 Cause you know, it's not, although the Navy can turn on a dime to rev these operations up,

00:20:29.100 to get everybody on board. Hey, here's what we're going to do. Here's where we're going to go. And

00:20:32.380 then boom in 12 hours kill it um and then say just a little while ago hey we're going to go 1.00

00:20:38.700 back to mass bombing if we don't get the one pager understanding how recalcitrant the persians are 0.64

00:20:44.880 to really agree or give us anything uh do you think it talks about a lack of coordination

00:20:51.060 internally it's interesting that some of this stuff is leaked and some of this stuff is official

00:20:58.000 So you would say, right, conventionally, right, in a normal world, what the president says is the government's policies.

00:21:07.360 And so when that – anyone who contradicts the president's policy is wrong.

00:21:12.540 But I think what you're seeing is you're seeing different parts of the government are sort of arguing their case to the president through the leaks.

00:21:22.080 And I think that's where you're going to get some confusion.

00:21:24.140 I think that Rubio is tied in.

00:21:29.500 He's the national security advisor.

00:21:31.440 There's probably 150 people here at the White House who work directly for Rubio.

00:21:35.540 So he is in the center.

00:21:37.040 He should be in the center.

00:21:38.500 But as it plays out, maybe he's not in the center as we thought.

00:21:42.300 Yesterday when he spoke, he laid it out.

00:21:44.620 And then almost everything he said is undone this morning, Steve.

00:21:51.380 Quite brilliant, McCabe.

00:21:52.540 McCabe, stick around the White House.

00:21:54.140 I know there's going to be updates on this as we go through the morning.

00:21:56.280 We're going to come back to you.

00:21:57.200 Neil McCabe at the White House.

00:21:59.440 Neil, what's your social media so people can also follow you?

00:22:02.480 Steve, you can find me on all the socials at Reporter McCabe.

00:22:06.480 Stick around near the pressure room.

00:22:08.600 We'll come back to you.

00:22:11.100 Bowling.

00:22:12.200 Before we punch out, we're going to go to the – you talked about the midterms.

00:22:15.100 We're going to talk about the predicate of these redistricting efforts.

00:22:19.200 But your thoughts right now, I mean, if it's a one-page memo

00:22:22.260 and they sign up for all this, hey, that's a good basis for moving on.

00:22:27.920 The issue has always been these guys think they're winning, right?

00:22:33.120 They're dug in now.

00:22:34.160 They think they're winning, and they think they've got some sort of stake

00:22:39.740 in those straight-to-whore moves that if the Americans leave, et cetera,

00:22:43.560 with the NATO inability to patrol or open it, they're always going to have a say-so.

00:22:49.320 Your thoughts as we leave this morning about how you think this all plays out.

00:22:55.100 Well, a couple of things.

00:22:56.300 I think these guys think they're winning. 0.91

00:22:58.180 I assume you mean the IRGC, the Iranians.

00:23:00.680 I would qualify that with, yeah, they think they're winning because they are winning. 0.98

00:23:05.060 They're getting their ass handed to them on the battlefield, but they're winning because 0.99

00:23:08.780 they want to be martyrs. 1.00

00:23:10.140 This is their ultimate 72 virgin goal to die for the cause, to get rid of the evil Satan 0.99

00:23:15.380 in America and the baby Satan in Israel. 0.80

00:23:18.580 So they feel like they're doing their Allah's work, so to speak. 0.85

00:23:22.120 So in their minds, they're winning, which means they'll fight to death.

00:23:27.040 Steve, what's the best way to keep an opponent off guard, not knowing if he's coming or going?

00:23:33.080 You see what's happening?

00:23:34.300 Trump will make contradicting statements 12 hours apart. 0.96

00:23:38.020 Pete Hexel will come out and say, we're bombing the crap out of them. 1.00

00:23:40.520 They're going to die. 0.99

00:23:41.460 I don't think it's different factions within the White House.

00:23:44.840 I don't believe that. I think, and you know better than anyone, that this White House is coordinating this campaign, not for the American people, not for the Iranian people, but for the IRGC specifically.

00:23:56.660 They can't figure out if we're coming or going.

00:23:59.540 And I think it's coordinated effort.

00:24:00.680 I think it's brilliantly working blockade, kinetic warfare.

00:24:05.080 Pete Hex says we're going away.

00:24:06.680 Trump says, no, everything's cool.

00:24:08.040 Wait, no, everything's not cool anymore.

00:24:09.920 This is great battle time strategy, is it not?

00:24:13.280 you're you're the strategist am i wrong an open an open open ended up to keep them off guard if

00:24:21.420 you eventually get to your objective and of course yesterday we found out the objective

00:24:25.280 was different it was a conventional take out all their conventional forces bowling what should we

00:24:30.020 be looking for today in markets to see if all the information because remember these people

00:24:34.520 they're making these bets have sometimes better information than anybody what what should we be

00:24:40.520 looking for. Yeah, they do. They really do, Stephen. And I'll get with these people again

00:24:45.060 this afternoon. But I think that the fact that we're still down $7 a barrel, again, we were down

00:24:50.020 $13 a barrel this morning. Remember, the oil market was shrugging off the quote unquote good

00:24:55.420 news last few times. Trump said, hey, I think we're close to a deal. And it kept going up,

00:24:59.700 up and up. This time, they dropped at $13 a barrel. I think the smart people in the industry,

00:25:04.740 and these people aren't speculating, they're hedging production and they're hedging

00:25:08.800 requirements to buy to put oil through the refinery to turn it into gasoline and diesel

00:25:14.640 more majorly importantly in jet fuel so they're not hedging they're not speccing them casino

00:25:20.400 gambling this they're making sure their businesses don't go bankrupt they are now feeling and i believe

00:25:25.920 this there are a couple of indicators we it's wonky for you but there are a couple of indicators

00:25:29.920 that say that the sentiment is now changing from let's it looks like it's going to go higher in

00:25:34.720 the short-term and medium-term to now it may be going lower. Again, crude oil price. Gasoline will

00:25:39.860 continue to go up for a while, no matter if crude goes to zero today. It will go up because there's

00:25:44.580 all that oil that was traded at the higher levels, has to work its way for 30 to 45 days for the

00:25:49.740 system. We're in for a little bit more higher prices, but I think the saying, I'll get with

00:25:55.180 these people. When things look good and they were telling me in Dallas, when I was with you in

00:26:00.180 Dallas, the refiners and the producers were both saying higher, and they were right. I'll get with

00:26:05.780 them to see if they've changed. Right now, their trade desks are going bonkers right now. So it

00:26:10.000 does feel like the indicators are that they're believing in a lower oil price, which is really

00:26:14.920 good news on a lot of fronts. Eric, where do people keep up with you between now and the time

00:26:20.620 we do a changeover from your show that's 4 o'clock and our show that's 5 o'clock? Again, Steve, I

00:26:26.180 I love you.

00:26:26.840 It's at Eric Bolling across platforms, but I really, really think we're doing some important

00:26:30.760 work discovering what's going on in the real markets, in the oil markets, not the rhetoric

00:26:35.600 markets that the mainstream media likes to deliver.

00:26:38.460 So find me here.

00:26:39.580 Find me at 4 on Rav, and Steve, hopefully you'll join us with Rav, too.

00:26:43.840 Thank you, brother.

00:26:44.600 Appreciate you.

00:26:46.320 OK, we're going to go to break.

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00:27:35.960 Breaking news, folks, as we bring on Caroline Wren right after the break.

00:27:41.300 Tennessee Republicans unveiled a new congressional map that would wipe out the lone Democratic seat in the state.

00:27:47.180 The map unveiled this morning would split Memphis home, counting to three districts, likely dooming Democratic Representative Steve Cohen's re-election prospects.

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00:28:01.000 Caroline Wren, Caroline Wren also gave the moral equivalent of the Gettysburg Address yesterday to the Palm Beach.

00:28:08.540 I think it was the city council about an airport down there.

00:28:12.800 The Caroline Wren next in the War Room.

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00:29:46.740 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:29:50.740 Okay, so I've got two things to go through.

00:29:52.500 Obviously, we've got these redistricting and they're victories upon victories,

00:29:55.500 and we need more victories, and that's why the Warren Posse, once again,

00:29:58.260 has got to go to the Ramper State.

00:30:00.400 However, I want to start with this issue down in Palm Beach.

00:30:04.740 let me tee this up is that you know caroline wren you know she's miss mar-a-lago you see her there 0.51

00:30:11.000 she's hot walking the donors uh you know all these very classy events with you know ball gowns on and

00:30:16.940 you know all this um uh you know um very expensive attire accoutrements always dialed up always

00:30:26.440 doing it so i see this thing at palm beach yesterday which is very important it's kind of

00:30:30.000 emergency meeting that's called for MAGA, and she delivers the equivalent, the moral equivalent for

00:30:36.640 the topic of the Gettysburg Address, and well, let's go ahead and play it, and then I'll bring

00:30:42.460 her on, and I'll have some more commentary. Let's go ahead and play it. I live in Lake Clark Shores,

00:30:46.580 just six miles away from the airport, and I'm here to strongly support the implementation of

00:30:51.720 the renaming of PBI to President Donald J. Trump International Airport. This licensing agreement

00:30:56.840 seems very straightforward and is meant to protect this county. And as such, our county commissioners

00:31:01.900 should not play politics with a licensing agreement to delay implementation of a law that was passed by

00:31:07.220 the legislature and has been signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Naming airports after

00:31:12.480 presidents and national leaders is not unusual. It is, in fact, longstanding tradition. New York

00:31:17.440 has a John F. Kennedy National Airport. D.C. has the Ronald Reagan National Airport. Houston has a

00:31:22.500 George H.W. Bush Airport, Grand Rapids has the Gerald Ford Airport, Springfield has

00:31:26.720 the Abraham Lincoln Airport, and Little Rock has the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.

00:31:31.540 Airports are economic engines, and federal relationships matter.

00:31:35.320 Aligning Palm Beach International Airport with a sitting president will strengthen the county's profile in D.C.,

00:31:41.920 improve competitiveness for future federal aviation priorities, and potentially enhance opportunities for infrastructure grants,

00:31:49.200 modernization funding, and transportation investment.

00:31:51.700 Whether through FAA discretionary programs, infrastructure packages, or broader federal partnerships, increased national prominence can translate into tangible economic benefits for Palm Beach County taxpayers.

00:32:03.660 I urge you to move swiftly and approve this licensing agreement.

00:32:06.980 Thank you.

00:32:09.880 We cut out the end for brevity, the standing ovation she got.

00:32:14.460 So, Caroline, you look like an unmade bed.

00:32:18.560 Your hair is not brushed.

00:32:19.740 um you're you are in a pajama top and if they saw the shot at the end where they gave you a

00:32:25.240 standard ovation you're in your daisy dukes and i think you had flip-flops on what uh what what

00:32:31.600 what in the hell is going on there i mean i realized the below decks void you've taken for

00:32:36.680 the last couple years had a huge impact in your life i just didn't know it had a big impact on

00:32:41.740 the way you carry yourself ma'am well you know so yesterday i wake up to three you know urgent calls

00:32:48.940 from uh state rep maga meg weinberger who's just the absolute best but telling me that there's this

00:32:54.160 emergency at the palm beach county commissioner meeting and that i had to be there in 15 minutes

00:32:58.740 and so i didn't even know the topic i just jumped out of bed and throw on jean shorts and a t-shirt

00:33:04.180 and race out the door to go there and sure enough the dispute was over you know the renaming of the

00:33:09.640 airport which has already passed but the county commissioners um we've gotten word that the they

00:33:15.540 were going to try and vote down a licensing agreement, which basically would have stopped

00:33:20.900 the airport renaming. The licensing agreement just had to do with how they can use Trump's name,

00:33:25.520 et cetera. And so I went there and it took six hours and spoke. And I'm glad I did because

00:33:31.260 ultimately we did win. It passed four to three and a Democrat flipped. And so we officially have

00:33:37.560 the President Donald J. Trump airport. Very exciting for Palm Beach County. But that was

00:33:41.640 how i spent the majority of my day yesterday was uh in that meeting so but local politics matters

00:33:47.180 it it took they very much matter it took six hours of of of of mega activists to be there to make

00:33:54.440 sure that they could keep the uh the the bdi on the commissioners that there was no funny business

00:33:59.700 well there was a lot of different agenda items i had to sit through and they made this the last 0.54

00:34:04.800 one uh the caught the democrat congresswoman laurel lee uh apparently had sent a bunch of 0.93

00:34:10.220 democrats there to go and speak on behalf of not doing this licensing agreement and so there was

00:34:15.420 probably about 15 democrats that spoke and only a couple of republicans who we had raced down there

00:34:20.680 linda stock the club 47 chair was great meg weinberg's husband eric weinberg was great so

00:34:25.620 i am glad we went but i had to sit through a lot of stuff such as um the a passing of new building

00:34:31.620 codes that are sensitive to native american buildings like lots of stuff like that on the 0.94

00:34:36.700 agenda that uh took a lot of time local politics matters we know with this islamic invasion of 0.87

00:34:42.720 texas um the but congratulations so it's done it's named the airport and it's going to have 0.98

00:34:48.380 some transition to to do all the the the signage etc but this is going to happen here shortly

00:34:54.160 yeah the signage and name change they said they expected july 9th so very shortly here we will

00:34:59.420 have this uh have this airport it's a it's a big victory and it's also very it's exciting this

00:35:04.580 The Democrats are so short-sighted on this county commission because, look it, I mean, President Trump has promised, he said this, that he is really going to put some investment into this airport.

00:35:12.880 So just looking at these, Democrats have such TDS syndrome that they were willing to put aside, you know, a great economic engine, a lot of federal grants coming in for this airport and money and excitement around it just to spite Trump. 0.99

00:35:26.960 And it is, it was idiotic and they lost. 0.96

00:35:29.340 Okay, so we've got big news of things you're specifically working on additionally about the midterms. I think we have a clip from Benny Thompson. I want to play that. Then I want to talk about Mississippi and this breaking news out of Tennessee. Let's go ahead and let it play. 0.99

00:35:42.120 this is equivalent uh to a second civil war uh we're going to have to get our act together

00:35:52.620 uh as everybody's saying we're going to have to resist with every fiber in our body uh we're

00:35:58.860 going to have to take this system on uh at every election because it's not just members of congress

00:36:05.380 we're talking about state legislatures we're talking about union commissions we're talking

00:36:10.240 about city council down to city council absolutely a second civil war benny thompson one of the most

00:36:19.260 corrupt members of uh of congress explain that one to me uh caroline well sure that was pretty

00:36:26.440 straightforward that is the former chairman of the january 6th committee basically calling for

00:36:30.580 an insurrection if mississippi redraws his congressional district so that he actually

00:36:35.240 has to compete for votes instead of being handed a congressional seat.

00:36:40.420 And then equating that to this saying there will be a second civil war if that happens.

00:36:45.500 Exactly.

00:36:46.220 Calling for an insurrection.

00:36:47.660 Talk to me about Mississippi.

00:36:48.660 And then this breaking news just came out of, because we identified yesterday, Clyburn,

00:36:54.540 Benny Thompson, and Steve Cohen are probably the top three targets.

00:36:58.240 What happened in Tennessee?

00:37:00.900 Tennessee, Steve Cohen is gone.

00:37:03.000 um he they just uh showed us the new map and they're in special session now they're about to

00:37:08.420 pass it it will now be a 9-0 map and there was some back and forth last night over you know how

00:37:13.660 exactly this map was to be drawn but everything is good and proceeding and so steve cohen uh will

00:37:19.220 no longer be in a artificial district that was drawn specifically for him and tennessee will get

00:37:24.160 the representation that it deserves in mississippi harder one their special session starts may 20th

00:37:30.100 But their primary has already passed. And so we don't know what's going to happen there.

00:37:33.900 But but the governor and the attorney general and everyone is doing everything in their power to try and get this map redrawn.

00:37:40.740 And so I'm hoping it happens. But there might be things outside of their control.

00:37:44.820 So we will definitely pick up a seat and get rid of Betty Thompson in 2028.

00:37:49.300 But I'm praying for 2026. In South Carolina, the House Rules Committee just probably 20 minutes ago, 0.95

00:37:55.420 just voted 12-2 to amend what is their sign-die agreement to allow for redistricting after the

00:38:01.260 session adjourns next week. And so the full House is about to vote on it. Then it'll go over to the

00:38:05.700 Senate. But I think South Carolina heard loud and clear the message that the Trump political team

00:38:10.820 sent last night in Indiana. And so it looks like South Carolina is also now moving forward.

00:38:16.720 So talk to us. What is the sign-die agreement? Why is that important? Why did that have to get

00:38:22.400 done first? Sure. Well, people were getting frustrated with Henry McMaster for not saying

00:38:27.020 that he was going to call a special session. The point the governor was making is they are in

00:38:31.100 session right now. And so also the governor, there's different powers each state has. The

00:38:35.560 governor has the ability to call a special session in South Carolina, but you don't have the ability

00:38:39.780 to set the agenda. And so he was pushing it back onto the legislature to say, no, you guys are in

00:38:45.700 session. And what you can do is you can amend the signed die before you close out and put

00:38:49.560 redistricting on the agenda, that gives then the governor the ability to call everyone back

00:38:54.860 and the topic, which would be redistricting, has already been set by the legislature. And so

00:38:59.960 Governor McMaster has been impressive here. And I will say Lieutenant Governor Pamela Ebbett was

00:39:03.960 playing a big role behind the scenes. I've talked to her many times calling state senators who were

00:39:08.640 not wanting to do this, calling state house members. And so it looks like Henry McMaster

00:39:13.460 was playing some 40 chess here and that it's going to work. You also had President Trump

00:39:17.580 involved in it. He had a conference call with a bunch of different state senators yesterday in

00:39:21.900 South Carolina. I mean, he is involved in all of this, and it is really great to see.

00:39:26.760 I mean, part of this is we want to take the burden off his shoulder, but what he feels he's

00:39:30.600 needed, right, and it's urgent, this is top of mind for him. I mean, he'll jump on, like you

00:39:36.540 said, yesterday he had a conference call with a bunch of these senators to let him know what the

00:39:40.740 program is. And the program, I think, was shown last night in Indiana, where I believe we won

00:39:46.060 And every seven, six of the rhinos were turfed out last night.

00:39:52.000 Six of eight rhinos were turfed out last night.

00:39:54.340 And in fact, there's one incumbent survived.

00:39:56.300 And that was the race where there was two challengers with the same last name.

00:40:00.100 And the Trump operation did everything they could to try and get one of those two out.

00:40:04.120 And they just wouldn't budge.

00:40:05.320 So that person, you know, survived only because of that. 1.00

00:40:08.400 The other race, there's one more that is too close to call.

00:40:10.920 I think it's separated by about five or six votes right now.

00:40:13.620 And Tyler Boyer with Turning Point USA was making the point of this is why ballot chasing matters so much when you have races this tight.

00:40:20.540 But, you know, it was a smackdown of epic proportions last night in Indiana.

00:40:24.320 And so I really we got to give credit here to the Trump political operation, Turning Point USA, Club for Growth, Scott Pressler and then Senator Jim Banks.

00:40:33.200 They worked together beautifully to not only spend money, but to get the grassroots excited and to turn out the vote and get what needed to be done, which was getting these RINO senators that refused to redistrict out of office.

00:40:45.780 And so huge, huge victory last night for those organizations.

00:40:49.720 Now, since that's being used as an example in South Carolina, is there any possibility at all that we go back and revisit the Indiana situation?

00:40:59.480 I don't think there's any possibility to revisit Indiana.

00:41:02.100 It's a good question, but they definitely will now. I mean, it will pass for 2028. I'm not sure

00:41:06.600 what could be done for 2026. I'll certainly look into that, but I think it should definitely send

00:41:11.820 a message to Georgia. And two days ago, you had Justice Alito. He made clear that election

00:41:16.400 deadlines cannot become a safe harbor for unconstitutional maps. And Brian Kemp is saying,

00:41:21.960 oh, voting's already started, so we can't, there's no way to revisit this. But Georgia's

00:41:26.260 current congressional map depends on a BRA theory that the Supreme Court has now rejected.

00:41:30.940 And state leaders have not only the authority, but they have the obligation to correct this.

00:41:36.360 And, you know, the Constitution comes first.

00:41:38.500 And Georgia must conduct congressional elections under a lawful map, not simply the map that is in place when primary voting has began.

00:41:45.320 We have election day. Election day has not happened.

00:41:48.820 And so I just think that it was frustrating.

00:41:51.000 The Supreme Court, the dissent, they slow walked it intentionally so that these dates would pass.

00:41:56.120 And so Republicans, we need to play hardball with them.

00:41:58.380 And it was ridiculous that Justice Kagan, you know, and also Jackson and others that they slow walk this and play politics with it.

00:42:05.720 But we should play politics with it as well. And Georgia should not allow the liberal Supreme Court judges procedural delay to dictate their representation for an entire Congress.

00:42:14.680 And so that is the place that I still have eyes on Georgia. And I'm very frustrated with Kemp and I hope that he will fix this.

00:42:21.640 Where do you want the war and posse?

00:42:23.200 What's the marching orders for the day-to-day before you get to the evening show?

00:42:27.240 Is it Georgia, Alabama?

00:42:28.740 If you're in one of those states, continue to light people up because it's having a big impact.

00:42:33.700 The folks should be in Louisiana.

00:42:35.040 For some reason, Governor Landry still wants a 5-1 map.

00:42:38.260 The legislature wants a 6-0 map.

00:42:40.100 So if you live in Louisiana, please make your voice heard that you want a 6-0 map in Louisiana.

00:42:45.460 And then also in South Carolina, all eyes are on the statehouse and state senate.

00:42:49.120 if you live in South Carolina, you've got to be calling your representatives and tell them that

00:42:52.840 they've got to do this and they have to do it now. And then, you know, we're still watching

00:42:56.940 Virginia. That's going to be a huge ruling that comes out. The Supreme Court should rule

00:43:01.520 Thursday or Friday on that. And so that could be either a pickup of four seats for Dems or

00:43:06.160 potentially leave the map as is. And that is a big, big, big thing to be watching.

00:43:12.240 Wren, what's your social media, your bomber command? Where do people go to follow you

00:43:15.860 during the day at caroline wren on x true social and getter caroline big day yesterday thank you

00:43:24.120 so much your your uh your fire in palm beach uh delivered so thank you for responding and going

00:43:31.180 to the uh sound of the guns in 15 minutes appreciate you ma'am as always caroline wren

00:43:35.580 the caroline wren go check out her social media beau french dr carol swain after a short break

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00:45:01.480 War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:45:04.800 we're going to be shifting war room back to texas in the run-up to the special election 0.99

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00:46:02.160 given the fact that you're a war room posse member oh french texas tribune's got a great

00:46:08.080 article about where this race stands for the senate the attorney general railroad commission

00:46:15.140 uh they're painting you as kind of the the fire breathing maga uh the maga candidate in this

00:46:21.780 because you're bringing in a whole bunch of issues into being railroad commissioner how's it going

00:46:28.020 sir? Well, the campaign's going great. We made the runoff by essentially tying the incumbent

00:46:36.300 who had the lowest vote total in the history of the Railroad Commission incumbent. The Railroad

00:46:42.100 Commission is the regulator over the oil and gas industry, very important for Texas. We produce

00:46:46.740 almost half the oil and gas in the United States. Listen, I have a track record of being the America

00:46:52.160 first warrior who won't back down despite criticism, even from within my own party. 0.51

00:46:56.080 You know, the rhinos have come after me, just like the Democrats have.

00:46:59.840 And the establishment does not want me to win this race.

00:47:02.580 So they pulled out all the big guns.

00:47:04.160 They're spending millions of dollars.

00:47:05.940 But look, they can't overcome the fact that my opponent is a Democrat mega donor.

00:47:11.460 He even gave money to the Democrat nominee for lieutenant governor against our sitting

00:47:20.080 lieutenant governor, who was a former DNC co-chair.

00:47:23.580 So, I mean, he's a radical Democrat.

00:47:25.800 He's claimed up until recently, I've been in this campaign for six months.

00:47:29.360 He said that Islamification of Texas is not a problem.

00:47:33.660 He's made the Railroad Commission a top 10 DEI agency.

00:47:37.760 And just recently, he said he didn't even know what DEI was.

00:47:41.300 So this guy is just wrong for Texas.

00:47:44.140 Let's not even talk about the fact that he implemented the largest Green New Deal type

00:47:48.220 regulations on our oil and gas industry.

00:47:50.200 They just went into effect in July.

00:47:53.220 Increasing red tape, increasing delays, increasing cost on operators.

00:47:57.640 That's not the America First agenda.

00:47:59.400 You know, we need to be helping President Trump make oil and gas exploration and production in Texas even bigger.

00:48:04.940 And my opponent is not doing that.

00:48:07.900 Also, it's pretty obvious as people find out more information about you and more information about your opponent, they cut your way.

00:48:15.520 correct me if I'm wrong when we first got to Texas I think weren't you like 20 points down

00:48:20.300 in the primary and you closed that gap dramatically as people as we put you on Warren but you went on

00:48:26.260 other media and people really realized what you actually are about and what your record is vis-a-vis

00:48:31.880 what your opponent was saying and they understand what your opponent's true record is yeah look I

00:48:38.000 mean I have a very clear record I was the I was the Tarrant County GOP chairman the largest red

00:48:42.120 County in the country. I flipped it from heading towards turning blue when Beto O'Rourke won it in

00:48:48.440 2018 and Joe Biden won it in 2020. And in 2024, we flipped it back. I raised more money. We had

00:48:53.360 2.6 million voter contacts. President Trump won Tarrant County. I fought very hard for that.

00:48:58.160 He won it by five points. So I have a clear track record of being the America first warrior

00:49:04.100 that I think our primary voters demand. And that's what happened in the March 3rd primary

00:49:10.940 when, yeah, the January polling had me at single digits.

00:49:13.760 You know, running a statewide campaign in Texas is difficult.

00:49:17.080 It's a huge state with over 30 million people here.

00:49:19.600 And, you know, I was well-known in the DFW area, but not all over Texas.

00:49:23.600 And I closed the gap and essentially tied the incumbent,

00:49:26.420 who really underperformed all expectations.

00:49:29.140 And now he is reeling.

00:49:30.420 He's brought in all the big guns.

00:49:31.680 He has Karl Rove helping him, you know, which is just terrible.

00:49:35.060 I think most Texans reject what Karl Rove has done to the United States. 0.99

00:49:38.380 I mean, what a Muslim population in the United States because of Karl Rove's policies, you know, have increased five times since 9-11. 1.00

00:49:46.100 I mean, this is just bad for America and bad for Texas. 1.00

00:49:50.040 Bo, where can people go to find out more about this race?

00:49:52.600 Because it's one of the most important races in the country in this primary season.

00:49:56.700 Where do they go?

00:49:58.080 Yeah, you can go to on X at Beau French.

00:50:00.680 And that's I'm there every day.

00:50:02.400 So come find me there.

00:50:04.220 And it comes in a little hot sometimes.

00:50:06.140 That's where people should come.

00:50:07.240 So Beau French, thank you for coming on.

00:50:08.980 Thank you for running.

00:50:10.640 Thanks, Steve.

00:50:11.060 Thanks for having me on.

00:50:12.300 Beau French, what he did up in Tarrant County, unbelievable.

00:50:16.300 And I tell you, it turned Tarrant County into a powerhouse up there.

00:50:20.560 The MAGA movement.

00:50:22.380 Dr. Carol Swain.

00:50:23.260 Dr. Swain, I'm going to hold you through the break.

00:50:26.400 When you first put this up, people started sending me this the other day,

00:50:29.100 and I saw it up on your, I guess, one of your accounts.

00:50:33.440 I thought it was a program at Texas A&M that now was going to have STEM students who were

00:50:39.660 going to have 30% of their time studying Islamic Sharia law.

00:50:46.500 And then I realized as I watched you and I looked at your thing, it's not Texas A&M

00:50:50.580 at all.

00:50:51.420 It's Tex A&M.

00:50:52.780 They've really ripped off the name.

00:50:54.920 You have a long history.

00:50:56.280 In fact, you may have the longest history of any tenured professor at an Ivy League 0.99

00:51:00.140 School about this very issue about the encroachment of Islam in universities. I got about 90 seconds 1.00

00:51:06.420 here. We're going to hold you through the break. What is going on in the great state of Texas, ma'am?

00:51:11.800 Someone is asleep at the wheel. And I think the ripoff of the name probably will not withstand

00:51:18.900 a court challenge. But in the meantime, it's clear the Muslims have a plan and the rest of us

00:51:25.840 are asleep at the wheel. And you've seen this and you saw this decades ago. In fact, you were 0.99

00:51:33.700 the most outspoken person. I tell you what, just hold, just hold right there. We're going to hold

00:51:37.620 you through the break. But you were very outspoken decades ago about what was going to happen. And

00:51:42.400 guess what? As on many, many topics, Dr. Carol Swain was absolutely correct about our education

00:51:48.520 system. Dr. Carol Swain's going to join us. Also, Tyler O'Neill from the Southern Poverty

00:51:55.460 law center and much much more over from the daily signal we're trying to hook up uh matt boyle and

00:52:02.160 dr monica crowley about america 250 to understand what's going to happen between now and uh 4th of

00:52:09.220 july and then afterwards we're going to get to all of that also a special guest about is president

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Bannon's War Room - May 06, 2026

Episode 5351： Shakey Negotiations Begin Between US And Iran; Tennessee Redistricting

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