00:00:00.000Waiting game here at the White House this weekend, but as you mentioned, the United States has now
00:00:04.700received a response from Iran on its proposal to bring this conflict to an end, and President
00:00:11.160Donald Trump says that he is not happy with it. I want to pull up that full response for you now.
00:00:17.540This came on True Social Sunday. Trump said, I have just read the response from Iran's so-called
00:00:23.740representatives. I don't like it. And then in all caps, he called it totally unacceptable.
00:00:30.000Now, it's obvious that Trump does not believe that this response puts the United States in a place for serious negotiations.
00:00:37.880But there are still a lot of questions, and we have reached out to the White House for specifics on this.
00:00:44.000What was included in the response and how far does it go, if at all, in addressing Iran's nuclear capabilities,
00:00:50.140its highly enriched uranium, the things that we have been discussing for several weeks?
00:00:54.380According to Iranian state media, that counterproposal, it included acknowledgement of sovereignty of the Strait of Hormuz and demands for compensation.
00:01:05.880Those non-starters here at the White House.
00:01:08.880And this response, it came later than many administration officials had predicted.
00:01:13.760In fact, Trump and other officials on Friday said that they thought that they would receive a response from Tehran sometime that day.
00:01:21.140Even then, Trump was pressed on the timing if he believed that Iran was slow rolling this response.
00:01:27.700And he essentially said, we'll find out soon enough.
00:01:31.040In an interview with Axios yesterday, Trump did confirm that he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:01:38.560that the two discussed the Iranian response as well as other matters.
00:01:42.420They have been in close contact throughout these peace negotiations, these attempts at peace negotiations.
00:01:48.560He did categorize that as a good phone call.
00:01:51.140And all of this comes as he is preparing for a high-stakes trip to China,
00:01:56.240where he will have bilateral meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
00:01:59.900We expect there to be a welcome ceremony, those meetings leading up to a state banquet.
00:02:06.000And this topic of the conflict in Iran and all that it impacts will no doubt loom large.
00:02:11.880Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn't, who will decide when it is?
00:02:16.620I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium, that has to be taken out of Iran.
00:02:26.380There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled.
00:02:31.200There are still proxies that Iran supports.
00:02:34.560There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce.
00:02:38.120Now, we've degraded a lot of it, but all of that is still there, and there's work to be done.
00:02:44.300How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?
00:05:26.260WELL, YOU'RE GOING TO ASK ME THESE QUESTIONS.
00:05:28.800I'm going to dodge them, so you can ask me that second time, third time, and I'll dodge it second time, third time.
00:05:36.380Because I'm not going to talk about our military possibilities, plans.
00:05:42.000I want to talk about the isolationists, the neo-fascists, who accuse our president and our country and our military of imperialism and colonialism in this war.
00:05:54.440who accused Israel and the prime minister there, Netanyahu, of dragging us into a war,
00:06:00.520who accused Jews of controlling the president, Jews controlling our foreign policy,
00:06:05.640and all the rest of the Jew hatred they spew,
00:06:09.020while the Persian people are being slaughtered and abused.
00:06:43.960We both understood that we have little time to act
00:06:47.520because otherwise they'd get nuclear weapons.
00:06:49.200We both understood that we have little time to act because otherwise they'll vary underground their ballistic missile capabilities.
00:06:58.140But while we were, we said that part of the action would be the removal of the leadership and other measures, there was uncertainty.
00:07:07.240And we said it. All this, you know, is uncertain.
00:07:10.260If you ever, you know, engage in military operations.
00:07:12.900In the confines of that conversation, you noted the uncertainty.
00:07:16.400Not only did I know that we both agreed, you know, that there was both uncertainty and risk involved.
00:07:24.680And I remember that we, I said, and he said, that the danger, there's danger in action, in taking action.
00:07:33.680But there's greater danger in not taking action.
00:07:37.920So there was no certainty there, there was no guarantee.
00:07:41.140It wasn't pie in the sky the way people describe it.
00:07:44.040It was, I think, a very truthful presentation of the possibilities and the risk.
00:07:51.620At that point, looking forward, Mr. Prime Minister, do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to re-examine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States, meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis?
00:11:33.820Well, the law was there, and we had a majority Supreme Court which said that the purpose of the law to address racial discrimination was actually racially discriminatory.
00:11:42.540A new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble to usher in an era of progress.
00:11:51.120We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim Crow.
00:11:55.440The progress of the civil rights movement to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress of electing Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump, MAGA extremism and this behavior that we're seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States to throw the American South back into the Jim Crow era.
00:12:16.440So it's going to take an all hands on deck effort.
00:12:18.820monday 11 may year of our lord 2026 we're packed today we're going to go to the white house there's
00:12:27.240going to be an event um there's going to be an event on women's health care that we're going to
00:12:32.040get to momentarily 10 30 we'll pick it up and follow it as long as we're breaking news on it
00:12:37.400and then we'll come back uh we'll dip out come back to the show uh and we'll go back if he takes
00:12:42.920The president takes questions from the media because there's a lot going on.
00:12:48.540Obviously, the president said, you know, totally unacceptable, I think was his words, about the proposal we got from Iran.
00:12:59.340I may want to add, we talked on the Friday and Saturday show, Axios and other organizations that have tremendous access to the West Wing, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Axios.
00:13:12.920We're all saying that, yeah, they were, you know, 10 days late on this, but White House
00:13:19.320officials and members of the administration were working with elements over there to get
00:23:07.460because Donald Trump might get wind of this idea
00:23:10.380and realize the only way to pack the U.S. Supreme Court
00:23:13.440is you'd have to have all three branches of government,
00:23:15.720which Republicans have. You'd have to nuke the filibuster, which Republicans don't have the
00:23:20.360guts to actually do right now, but we're working hard to change that. But Donald Trump could still
00:23:25.140take this playbook that Democrats are talking about packing the court. He could do it right
00:23:28.800now. And so my point is, don't threaten me with a good time. Let's do it. Let's pack it.
00:23:35.540I love it. We'll get on this right away. Talk to me about South Carolina. Why is South Carolina?
00:23:40.540We got some other states that are a little hesitant to go all in. We got Clyburn's district
00:23:44.780down there that's unconstitutional, ma'am, and been unconstitutional for decades. Why are we
00:23:50.320not eliminating that unconstitutional congressional district? Well, the South Carolina Democrats and
00:23:57.280their partners in the media are trying to use the ridiculous playbook, which is the same playbook
00:24:01.640that they did in Tennessee, which is they're on media saying, oh, this new map is great. We're
00:24:06.320actually going to pick up seats. The thing is they're bluffing. Do not fall for it. Just look
00:24:10.600at Tennessee. The Tennessee Democrats in the lead up to that vote, they were all on the national
00:24:14.680media saying, this is great. We're going to possibly pick up two seats. Then the vote actually
00:24:19.760happens and they have a full blown meltdown on the House floor when it passes. So some of these
00:24:25.280squishy Republican, South Carolina state senators or others, they're buying these talking points by
00:24:31.180the Democrats like Bakari Sellers and Joe Cunningham who are saying, oh, this new South
00:24:36.180Carolina map is great because it'll actually probably result in a 5-2 map. So Democrats pick
00:24:41.080up a seat. My point is that it's preposterous. If that was the case, if they actually believe that,
00:24:45.780then every South Carolina Democrat in the state house and state Senate should vote for this new
00:24:50.400map, but they're not going to. So stop buying the Democrat PSYOP, get on board with President Trump,
00:24:56.460get this passed, and let's pick up a 7-0 map in South Carolina and pick up a seat.
00:25:02.000Let's bring in Jordan Pace. Jordan, you're from South Carolina. Is that doable? What is the holdup for us going 7-0 in South Carolina and taking Jim Clyburn's seat, sir?
00:25:15.640Yeah, the biggest holdup right now is something called the sign-a-die resolution. At the end of every session, our session ends this Thursday at 5 p.m. by law.
00:25:27.320Most years, we pass something called sign and die.
00:25:30.420This is a resolution that lists the things that we can come back for once session is over.
00:25:36.980The governor said he won't call us back.
00:25:38.680So if we, the House has already passed it, if the Senate doesn't pass the sign and die amendment that includes congressional redistricting, the whole endeavor is done.
00:25:48.000And we have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to get that done.
00:25:51.960Jordan, it's been deemed unconstitutional.
00:25:56.060It's been an impression of the South Carolina people for decade after decade.
00:26:01.220Why is the Senate, since the Supreme Court has ruled, what's in the House?
00:26:04.740You guys in the House have already voted to have a new map.
00:26:10.020I think people around the country are kind of like, what is the hang-up?
00:26:14.680Yeah, that is the question of the week is what is the hang-up?
00:27:15.640We just need the Senate to get on board. Specifically, we need them to vote for the sign-and-die amendment so we can come back, Senate session's over, and finish the job.
00:27:24.920We need them to pass that sign-and-die amendment without any amendments. They just need to vote yes.
00:27:30.640I'm going to ask you to stay through the break, and also the White House event may be starting shortly, but just one more time.
00:27:36.840You guys have reviewed the analysis of how potentially these districts will be.
00:27:42.200You do not believe, the House does not believe this will turn out to be a 5-2 with two for the Democrats if this moves forward, correct?
00:28:11.400But the midterm elections, we're also going to get we're going to go to the White House live and then back for some analysis of the war in the Middle East.
00:28:19.380All next. The dollar's convertibility into gold ended in 1971.
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00:28:42.860That's why central banks are buying gold at record levels.
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00:36:00.700My encouragement to any state senators or any legislators that are going to defy the will of the very constituents they represent is if you do not follow through on providing our Make America First Great Again agenda, supporting President Donald J. Trump will support us or lose your seats.
00:36:24.040And I think Indiana has become a verb, Steve. We are going to Indiana Cornyn. We are going to Indiana Cassidy peacefully. And we are going to Indiana any state senator that doesn't redraw its congressional maps, especially when the people are asking for that.
00:36:43.320Is there any higher priority that President Trump, knowing your knowledge of the team and President Trump, et cetera, is there any higher priority he has at this moment on Monday, the 11th of May in the year of our Lord, 2026, than making sure we support the constitutional order and redraw these maps away from these unconstitutional congressional districts, sir?
00:37:05.120besides the save america act if we have any hope of keeping our majority in the house of
00:37:13.700representatives i think this is one of the singular foci that we need to have in order to make sure
00:37:21.380that we're victorious this november so mississippi we expect the job to get done south carolina we
00:37:27.800expect the job to get done and we have to give thanks for things is due thank you governor lee
00:37:33.180Thank you, Governor Abbott. Thank you, Governor DeSantis. Those are champions of liberty and freedom.
00:37:37.860And we expect these other southern states to do the same, or we are going to democratically remove you from office.
00:37:47.020I think Scott brings up a good point. You know, we've had issues with some of these guys before, but Bill Lee, Abbott and DeSantis stepped up to the plate, did the hard work.
00:37:56.380and uh and kemp in georgia is absolutely just given a uh is shining a fare thee well as we say
00:38:03.020caroline wren picking up on scott's comments uh number one what do we have to do in south carolina
00:38:09.200again then you know mississippi louisiana georgia uh alabama what else do we have to do
00:38:16.480well just going back to kind of the mindset of these south carolina senators you got to remember
00:38:25.220this is the state of Strom Thurmond, who had four kids after he was 70 and was in office until he
00:38:30.200was 100. And so the culture of like South Carolina politics is kind of you get in and you just
00:38:36.860remain there until you die. And they have never really gotten a pressure campaign before on the
00:38:42.480national level. And they don't some don't really respond to it at all. Like they get their news
00:38:46.860from NPR. Some of it backfires. So it's kind of, you know, we're trying to play this as carefully
00:38:51.280as possible, convince people on the merits like this is actually a good thing for your state and
00:38:57.460nationally. Now, regarding your question as to the priority for the president, you know, I think a
00:39:01.860priority for the president, obviously, is to keep a Republican House. That's what we're trying. We're
00:39:05.660fighting for every single seat so that we don't wake up in November with Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
00:39:10.580with a one seat majority because we didn't fight in, say, South Carolina. But then past that,
00:39:15.680it's more than just having the majority. You have to do something with it. That's where nuking the
00:39:20.300filibuster or passing the Save America Act also come into play. These are equally as important.
00:39:25.640We are trying to give President Trump the tools that he needs to have an extremely successful
00:39:30.460two years in office these last, you know, two years or potentially, God, I hope it's more.
00:39:36.240And so we're doing that. But then if they get it, they have to do something with it.
00:39:39.800That is why both of these things have to be fought on multiple fronts. We have to get the
00:39:44.200Save America Act passed and we have to retain the House and the Senate.
00:39:47.000but to to on the senate on the house to get within i don't know 215 or 216 which is striking
00:39:53.760distance of 218 we still need the extra seat in louisiana i think we have the situation in
00:39:59.300mississippi uh i don't know if we're totally clear in alabama george has given us a fairly
00:40:04.640well north carolina there's some things sitting there what do we have to do this has got to be
00:40:09.240a maximalist strategy we need first off it's unconstitutional we have to the only way you
00:40:15.800restore the constitutional order in this country is to get this redistricting done. And you've seen
00:40:21.360what the Democrats are prepared to do to stop it. They're prepared to dissolve essentially the
00:40:26.060Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia to reverse what happened last week. They're prepared
00:40:30.420to pack the Supreme Court of the United States. There is no law on the books, no constitutional
00:40:36.200order, nothing on the books at all that they won't tear down to get their way to get control. Why?
00:40:42.180Because they believe that stops the Trump movement, it stops the Trump revolution, and they impeach Trump and subpoena and then indict two-thirds of the cabinet.
00:40:51.460So that's why this is such an urgent fight as a predicate.
00:40:54.620This is why last summer when Abbott let the Texas go, the legislature, Harrison and all these, the grassroots leader, Brian Harrison, got on the war room and went totally berserk.
00:41:07.180And the next thing you know, we got a special session called and we got it done.
00:41:10.800It took a while and it took every day hammering, but it got done.
00:41:14.580These other seats, we have to do the same thing.
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00:45:14.200A new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble
00:45:23.700to usher in an era of progress. We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim
00:45:30.180Crow, the progress of the civil rights movement to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress
00:45:36.360of electing Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump,
00:45:41.940MAGA extremism and this behavior that we're seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the
00:45:47.620United States to throw the American South back into the Jim Crow era. So it's going to take
00:45:52.220an all hands on deck effort. Another part of this, though, that we have to realize is
00:45:55.940actually humiliation. This is not only about the political tactics of moving around districts and
00:46:04.380getting people elected. I think the uniformity that you see Southern Republicans moving and
00:46:10.420redistricting and redistricting quickly is about what they perceive as payback and an unfair
00:46:17.900stacking of the deck from their reading of the Civil Rights Act. And so this is about overturning
00:46:24.020two generations of broad consensus in America. We have to remember that the reauthorization of
00:46:29.260the Voting Rights Act in the early 2000s passed with a massive bipartisan majority. It was
00:46:35.360proposed by George Bush at the time, not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
00:46:40.820But there are people that have been resentful since 1965. And that resentment is paying
00:46:46.280off right now in terms of what they're doing. This isn't only about the tactics and the filing
00:46:53.080deadlines and the seat margins. But I get your point. But it's about winning it. So, I mean,
00:46:59.140I get the, you know, I get the humanitarian part of it and I get it. And I agree. I don't think
00:47:04.760it's humanitarian. I actually think that it's about winning it. I think this is raw racial
00:47:09.360politics. I don't actually think that this is about humanitarian anything. I think this is
00:47:13.120about raw racial politics in this country and in the South in particular. Then use the law to win
00:47:18.520it back. That's what I'm saying. Well, the law was there and we had a majority Supreme Court
00:47:23.540which said that the purpose of the law to address racial discrimination was actually racially
00:47:28.420discriminatory. It's basically about essentially surrendering America's attempt to deal with the
00:47:34.720worst of its racial past, right? Again, if it was about only trading off in seats and like
00:47:40.480specific gerrymandering, that may be one thing, but it is the result of the gutting of the Voting
00:47:46.420Rights Act, which was designed to right the wrongs of 100 years of discrimination after the Civil
00:47:52.720War, and we've just given up on that, in part led by a long-term crusade by the Chief Justice
00:47:58.540of the United States. And so this isn't only about political chessboarding. This is much
00:48:03.360more about the country's character and the way in which it has surrendered large parts of what it
00:48:09.440had said that it had addressed. So Caroline Wren, you see right there the fight we've got,
00:48:15.500and this is why it's so important. These six seats are the difference between victory and
00:48:20.140potential defeat in November. And the Democrats are absolutely maniacally focused on this.
00:48:27.280So once again, what is your call to arms to the grassroots movement of what we have to do here
00:48:33.260in the next 72 hours? The next 72 hours, we have to focus on South Carolina. We have to,
00:48:40.940you know, respectfully, if you live in South Carolina, you have to contact your state house
00:48:44.700member or your state senator and tell them that you want them to redistrict and you want them to
00:48:49.260do it now that seat could be the critical seat that keeps us in the majority or in the minority
00:48:55.240and even remember right now how scary it is to only have a one or two seat majority anyway let's
00:49:00.820say even we're able to gain it but one person dies one person misses a flight i mean it is very
00:49:05.620difficult we need every single seat that we can get south carolina needs to have the backbone to
00:49:11.060get this done and you the grassroots have got to take this into your hands and call your
00:49:15.560representatives and tell them, please pass this map. The next 42 hours are absolutely critical
00:49:20.640there. Caroline, where do people, your Twitter feed, Alex DeGrasse and Sean Spicer are kind of
00:49:27.140bomber command for this. Where do they go to keep up with you today on all these different fronts
00:49:30.900we're fighting on, on the redistricting wars, ma'am? It is at Caroline Wren on X, True Social
00:49:38.460and get her. Fantastic job, Caroline. Thank you. Appreciate you. Scott Pressler, you are moving now
00:49:46.660from this, you're still fighting the redistricting boards nonstop, but you're going to shift your flag
00:49:50.800down to Texas. Why are you doing that, sir? Thank you. Today is day 131 that we have been asking
00:49:58.620Senate Majority Leader Thune to pass the Save America Act, which is the most important piece
00:50:04.580of legislation the American people want. Proof of citizenship, photo voter ID. In Minnesota,
00:50:11.340a registered voter can vouch for up to eight persons without an ID. They don't need to show
00:50:16.280any proof of citizenship or residency. And we know that Al Franken was elected by 312 votes in 2008.
00:50:26.640We know that there are 34,000 dead voters on the voter rolls in North Carolina. This is an issue.
00:50:32.280This is what the American people want. And so because Senate Majority Leader Thune is not
00:50:37.880giving us what we want, we are going to peacefully take away what he has. This Saturday, May 16th,
00:50:43.280I'm asking the voters of Louisiana, if you're a registered Republican, you come out and vote
00:50:48.140against Bill Cassidy. Now, President Trump has endorsed Congresswoman Julia Letlow,
00:50:54.600and May 16th is an opportunity for us to show the Senate, as we did in Indiana,
00:51:00.540if you don't give us what we want, we are going to take away your seats. And so I will also be
00:51:05.840going to Texas. May 18th through May 22nd is early voting. I have endorsed Attorney General
00:51:14.140Ken Paxton, and I'm doing everything with my ability to make sure that we are defeating
00:51:19.740John Thune's ally, John Cornyn, and ultimately repealing and replacing him on May 26th.
00:51:30.140So War Room Posse, the two dates that I need you to put into your calendars right now, Saturday, May 16th, that's a Saturday, not a Tuesday, Saturday, May 16th, we defeat Bill Cassidy, Tuesday, May 26th, we defeat John Cornyn, and we send a message to the Senate that no seat is safe unless you give us what we want.
00:51:53.080Scott, we've got about 45 seconds. You've got a book coming out in early June, The Persistence. What's it about and where do people go to pre-order it right now?
00:52:01.640Thank you. Well, this is a part of the War Room books. It's The Persistence. I am now an author and I wrote a book about seizing the voter registration movement away from the Democrats, cleaning up our cities like Baltimore, and ultimately how our work together as a family elected Donald J. Trump.
00:52:22.620It's on pre-order. And when I go across the country, I'm going to turn every book event into a voter registration event to make sure that we are force multiplying, which I know is something you focus on every single day.
00:52:39.780God bless you, Scott Pressler. We will hopefully get you on every couple of days to talk about the 16th May this Saturday and then the 26th of May for Ken Paxson.
00:52:50.100Sir, thank you so much. Go to Amazon right now. Pre-order Scott Pressler's upcoming book, The Persistence, from War Room Press. Back in a moment.
00:53:03.940Okay, can we talk about what's really happening right now? New data shows financial stress is at an all-time high. Millions of Americans are at a breaking point. Debt maxed out, no extra money, no room to breathe.
00:53:16.960And this isn't just lower income households anymore.
00:53:19.940Middle class families are hitting their limits too.