00:00:00.000This is some of your reporting on Iran's military capabilities now.
00:00:04.840What did you learn? What can you tell us this morning?
00:00:08.540Yes, Sarah, we're learning that Iran is working to actively rebuild its production facilities
00:00:13.040and replenish its weapons inventories after taking on significant damage in those initial U.S.-Israeli strikes.
00:00:21.760And look, one example of this that sources said is reflected in the U.S. intelligence assessments
00:00:26.100is that Iran is already producing some of its drones and trying to restore its drone attack
00:00:32.880capability, which was among those degraded in those combat operations that we saw previously
00:00:38.580play out. And as you mentioned, a U.S. official telling us that Iran could restore its drone
00:00:44.240attack capability in a matter of six months, which, of course, is a very accelerated timeline,
00:00:49.840especially compared to what the U.S. intelligence community had initially estimated. And that's
00:00:54.400true for a variety of weapons components. We're told that while the timelines do vary from weapon
00:00:59.720component to weapon component, that more broadly, the Iranians are proving that they can rebuild
00:01:06.200more quickly than anybody really thought. And so this is a little bit different than the messaging
00:01:11.720we're hearing from top Pentagon officials, including Admiral Brad Cooper, the sitcom
00:01:16.520commander who testified just this week that Iran, 90 percent of Iran's defense industrial base had
00:01:22.140destroyed, and that has set them back years before they could reconstitute their military
00:01:26.420capability. Take a listen to what Cooper told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
00:01:34.040Operation Epic Fury significantly degraded Iran's ballistic missiles and drones
00:01:38.120while destroying 90 percent of their defense industrial base,0.91
00:01:41.960ensuring that Iran cannot reconstitute for years.
00:01:46.620So we're also told that Iran still maintains significant ballistic missile capability and
00:01:51.600thousands of drones that it could use if combat operations resume. We know Donald Trump is
00:01:57.600currently weighing whether or not to restart this war as these negotiations play out. But
00:02:02.100ultimately, the top line here, Sarah, is that Iran remains a threat at the moment with its0.86
00:02:06.120remaining missile and drone capability and its ability to reconstitute more quickly than the
00:02:10.800U.S. initially anticipated means that it could continue to be a threat for the long term.
00:02:15.080Look, CNN is also reporting on some really tense conversations between
00:02:19.000President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu wanting Trump
00:02:23.840to do more kinetic strikes, Trump pushing back, and at one point saying that Netanyahu will do
00:02:28.400whatever he wants him to do. What does this divide tell you? That the war objectives of the
00:02:36.900two countries are close, but not in 100 percent perfect alignment, which is always the case. Look0.99
00:02:44.800at World War II and the way in which the United Kingdom, for example, wanted to reconstitute the
00:02:51.640British Empire, the United States wanted freedom and democracy around the world, yet we stood
00:02:57.600together and fought against totalitarianism in Germany and Japan at the time. So yeah, you can
00:03:04.780be an ally with someone and have pretty, pretty brisk disagreements. I think that's a case of
00:03:10.740what you're seeing here, Sarah. The Israelis truly and understandably want to destroy and take away1.00
00:03:18.160the nuclear capability. That makes perfect sense for them as 100 percent objective. That's very0.98
00:03:24.620high on the U.S. list also. But at the moment, what President Trump is trying to do is get to
00:03:31.200a diplomatic solution. Israel will continue to press for more kinetic activity. In the end,
00:03:37.420I suspect Israel will fall in line with what President Trump desires.
00:03:42.640There's a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group that's just arrived in the Caribbean as the tensions are escalating with Cuba.
00:03:50.140Do you see this as the potential of what happens here playing out similar to the capture of Maduro in Venezuela?
00:04:01.620I do, and I suspect that is exactly what the administration is hoping.
00:04:06.380You know, if you put this on a spectrum that kind of runs from Venezuela playbook over to what's happening in Iran, clearly what you would prefer is that Venezuela playbook.
00:04:19.440To do that, you've got to get through those upper levels of the Cuban government the way in which you saw the administration do by taking Maduro off the chessboard.
00:04:30.360So I think that the indictment of Raul Castro decades after this quite horrific incident, and I fully support indicting him and bringing him to justice, Raul Castro.
00:04:43.660Having said that, it also plays into using that Venezuela playbook.0.59
00:04:49.240And boy, the potential of Cuba, if you can pull a Venezuela there, change the top level, get investment going.
00:04:58.460It's Venezuela plus Cuban-American diaspora, smart, well-educated, ready to go.
00:05:07.200Could be a win for the administration.
00:05:09.980They want to avoid military action here.
00:07:23.180They've got other elements they're bringing in, Joe DiGenova and others, to really have a—the first time I think we've really had an organized effort to go after so many things.
00:07:33.380Talk to me about this indictment of Castro.
00:07:39.220Are we trying to do this just so we can get—set up another Maduro situation?
00:07:43.460Or is there something here? Weren't the murders 30 years ago? Or do you understand fully how we're going about this?
00:07:51.380Jason Redding-Quinones is the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
00:07:58.660He has an outstanding team helping him. Yara Klukas is his first assistant U.S. attorney.
00:08:06.000These are two Cuban Americans whose families escaped Cuba, the Cuban regime, the Castro regime.
00:08:16.520Raul Castro, according to this indictment, murdered American citizens.
00:08:23.120He shot down planes over international waters, and he's finally going to be held accountable for murdering American citizens.
00:08:36.140You can't murder American citizens and get away with it.
00:08:39.540If you allow people to murder American citizens and get away with it, even 30 years later, it's going to cause more murders of American citizens.
00:08:50.160So this is a powerful message from President Trump and his Justice Department, led by Todd Blanche, by President Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, that if you come after Americans, we're going to come after you.
00:09:05.540So I say cheers to Todd and Jason and Yara and the team down in the Southern District of Florida for pursuing this.
00:09:14.180Jason also has Joe DiGenova and his wife, Victoria, and a whole team building up in the Fort Pierce office.
00:09:27.080So I can talk about what's public, what's on X, what's in public news reporting.
00:09:33.340According to news reporting, they are moving forward with an investigation of a grand conspiracy against President Trump.
00:09:43.220his top aides and his allies, where they politicized and weaponized law enforcement
00:09:48.900and intel agencies to take out a political opponent, Donald Trump, and help a presidential
00:09:58.180campaign, Hillary Clinton. And this is an ongoing criminal conspiracy. We've been talking about this
00:10:03.980on your show, Steve, for almost four years since the Mar-a-Lago raid. We have very publicly called
00:10:10.780for this very investigation in Fort Pierce, Florida. It looks like they're even starting to
00:10:18.120go after the federal prosecutors. There was a federal prosecutor who used to be the managing
00:10:24.840assistant U.S. attorney for the Fort Pierce, Florida U.S. Attorney's Office, who just got
00:10:30.700indicted on four separate charges for trying to steal volume two of Jack Smith's reports.
00:10:39.140The district court, Judge Cannon, sealed that and said that that cannot be released because those charges were not brought.
00:10:46.840And this managing assistant U.S. attorney, according to this indictment, tried to change the name of that volume two to a cake recipe and then email it to herself in February 2025, according to the indictment.
00:11:01.080What was she trying to do with this thing?
00:11:03.440Why was she trying to get this out the door?
00:11:05.780It seems like she was trying to violate Judge Cannon's court order so she could embarrass President Trump with unsubstantiated one-sided evidence that would have been in this volume, too, not subject to cross-examination, not subject to rebuttal evidence.
00:11:24.500They brought in prosecutors from a different office, from the Northern District of Florida, because of a potential conflict with the Southern District of Florida, prosecutors prosecuting one of their former colleagues.
00:11:35.100And I think this is a pretty good sign that the Southern District of Florida is off to the races between this Raul Castro indictments that seems to be rallying all the troops down there.
00:11:47.460And then they're moving in on this managing assistant U.S. attorney.
00:11:50.860You're seeing news reports of subpoenas going out of Miami and Fort Pierce.
00:11:56.000You're seeing news reports that you could start seeing witnesses, lawfare Democrats, coming into Fort Pierce to explain their role in the greatest scandal in American history,
00:12:09.340using law enforcement and intel agencies to take out a presidential candidate and to help another presidential candidate.
00:12:16.600And when they failed to continue to weaponize law enforcement and intel agencies to take out a sitting president to subvert the will of American people and then to try to take out a former president when he was going to expose a crossfire hurricane.
00:12:31.760So buckle up. It's going to be a wild ride for the next many months.
00:12:37.140I don't think that the latter is getting the coverage it needs, particularly in the conservative media, because this is I have said for years, there is so much corruption inside of DOJ that's never brought to light and never prosecuted.
00:12:51.520Just give me a hit that one more time. This was a, I guess, an administrator or managing U.S. attorney, I guess, on the administrative side.
00:13:01.260What exactly did she do? Because I think this this thing is much bigger than it's coming across.
00:13:09.680So according to the indictment, this managing assistant U.S. attorney for the Fort Pierce U.S. Attorney's Office took a sealed court document that the Southern District of Florida U.S. District Court sealed in the Jack Smith case, Volume 2, that contained one-sided evidence from the Mar-a-Lago raid, the hit on President Trump by Biden to get back cross by a hurricane.
00:13:38.920That was part of this grand conspiracy. This managing assistant, U.S. attorney, while she did not work directly for Jack Smith, she provided administrative support to Jack Smith's team in Fort Pierce.
00:13:54.100They were colleagues. They were buddies. They were allies.
00:13:58.140She violated this court order, and her intent is crystal clear according to this indictment.
00:14:03.720She didn't just take the documents, volume two of Jack Smith's report, and email it to herself.
00:14:09.880She changed the names of the files to cake recipes and then emailed it to herself.
00:14:17.580That shows her criminal intent, if you believe this indictment, because it shows she's trying to hide what she's not doing.
00:14:24.800She knows that she's not supposed to take this volume two.
00:14:28.440She knows it's going to violate a court order, and she does it anyway.
00:14:33.220And the intent is obvious that she was going to leak this volume two to the world.
00:16:36.220Also, there's going to be a signing of executive order with EPA as soon as the press is supposed to be open press now.
00:16:42.280As soon as the president starts taking questions, we will cut to that, I believe, in the Oval Office.
00:16:46.300A lot to get to. Mike Davis, I know you've got to bounce.
00:16:48.720I want to thank you for framing this about what's happening against the particularly on this grand conspiracy against the president that's now being worked on down at Fort Pierce with Jason and his team.
00:17:01.740And you're 100 percent correct when you called it last year when he was selected.
00:17:05.620All you're seeing down there is action.
00:17:32.280OK, President Trump's president of these United States, and he wants his agenda executed upon.
00:17:38.220And you have these radical Democrats, the first thing they're going to do.
00:17:40.660And I realize there's custom and tradition dealing with the filibuster.
00:17:44.180But we already know these guys have said they're going to pack the court.
00:17:47.060They're going to make D.C. a state. They're going to make Puerto Rico a state.
00:17:50.480They're going to do so many things to basically change the structure, political structure of the country.
00:17:55.480Mike Davis, what, therefore, should we do, sir?
00:17:58.860Yeah, I was looking at some posts by James Blair, who's President Trump's top political lieutenant. I think James said that President Trump went like 21-0 on these primary challenges of these Republicans who did not want to get on the Trump train.
00:18:20.540So it's a pretty compelling record so far. John Cornyn may also get run over by the Trump train.
00:18:30.440So I would say to these senators, and I used to work in the Senate, on the Senate Judiciary Committee, so I saw not exactly profiles of courage when I was there then and nothing's changed.
00:18:42.080I would say to them that the Save America Act has 80% of support of Americans, people to show that they're American citizens and to show an ID when they vote.
00:18:55.660That also has support of a supermajority of Democrats, including a supermajority of Black Americans. These Black Americans who Democrats pretend do not have the wherewithal to get an ID like all the rest of us when the Democrats' real intent is they want illegal aliens to vote.0.60
00:19:16.400So they're going to blame black people that they can't get their act together to get an ID.0.99
00:19:21.600That's how racist the Democrats are.0.98
00:19:23.800If the Senate cannot pass legislation with 80 percent support of Americans, including a super majority of Democrats and a super majority of minorities, what the hell are they doing?
00:19:36.500What is John Thune doing as the Senate majority leader?
00:19:40.100I get that herding cats is a very difficult task.
00:19:44.320I helped do that during the Kavanaugh confirmation.
00:19:48.580It was the hardest task imaginable, but we got the job done.
00:19:52.060I think that the Senate needs to get the job done.
00:20:30.840If he cannot get the Save America Act onto President Trump's desk for signature,
00:20:39.240he should just go back to South Dakota and be a farmer or whatever the hell he's doing.
00:20:43.760He told President Trump, why do you think President Trump did the impromptu ballroom one-hour presentation of which we're the only people to cover all of it?
00:20:53.540Because Thune that day said no weaponization, no ballroom, and he said specifically no Save America Act attached to any must-pass piece of legislation like FISA.
00:21:05.280Hasn't Thune already given us an answer to that?
00:21:07.300Look, we're the only network and channel that covered the whole performative.
00:21:10.820And God bless Mike Lee and Senator Schmidt of Missouri and these guys that every night Tuberville Tuberville is going to be on here in a while.
00:21:18.000That coach that every night you remember, you watch it, you would come on and give commentary every night from like seven to midnight.
00:21:24.800They'd be there trying to do the Save America and trying to get to a filibuster.
00:21:28.340It was all performative. John Thune never had. They sent him on two weeks vacation after that.
00:21:33.440We're burning daylight. And I tell people right now, the reason we're so on this because of the act, you know,
00:21:39.140the work of degrasse and wren and davis and and sean spicer and the grassroots out there we now
00:21:44.820have a fighting chance on the house i think we hold serve on the house and we get our act together
00:21:49.800because i think we're within the ability to hold it and maybe even still have a seat or two over
00:21:54.680it the senate i think's gone ossepp's going to win in georgia uh whatley's going to get beaten
00:22:00.300in north carolina collins is going to get beaten this is another pollock collins going to get
00:22:04.160beaten in May. Husted's going to get beaten in Ohio, right? We're going to lose the Senate.
00:22:09.580We're going to lose it big, unless the grassroots know and get fired up that there's a purpose for
00:22:13.960doing this. The only way we can do that is get Save America. And John Thune, hasn't he shown
00:22:18.640you, Mike, enough that he has no interest in doing this? I just look, I would just say this
00:22:24.380to John Thune, the Senate majority leader. Just let the Democrats debate, let the debate run out
00:22:32.240and hold a vote you say you don't have the votes among senate republicans i guarantee you that the
00:22:38.720article three project teaming up with the war room posse can deliver the votes for republicans they
00:22:45.560also said that there was going to be 60 plus votes for katanji brown jackson for the supreme court
00:22:52.440she was going to be a big political win for joe biden and the democrats we changed that with the0.98
00:22:58.280article three project of the war room post they barely voted for her uh the democrats barely
00:23:02.980voted for her and then ran out i agree in the middle of the night the same thing with uh several
00:23:08.360other bills like the kavanaugh confirmation they remember this with the kavanaugh confirmation when
00:23:12.680the base got fired up uh that when when the democrats won the house of representatives
00:23:17.620the senate uh senate republicans we knocked out they were they were democrat and you know this
00:23:23.840You know this. I was in I was in I was in Italy working and working with Bill Burke and you were the lead guy.
00:23:32.600They were within three minutes of punting on Kavanaugh. Were they not, sir?
00:23:37.260Three minutes. And that's that's the issue.
00:23:40.040Because because it was so tough because Democrats were fired up because the Republican Senate are a bunch of wusses.
00:23:46.920They almost punted on Kavanaugh. They came within three minutes.
00:23:49.840And hey, you wouldn't have gotten even people think Kavanaugh is not perfect.
00:23:53.840The backup you would have gotten would have been a lot, lot, lot worse.
00:29:51.980Caroline, first off, you're up, you're leaving. You've got to go to the CPAC
00:29:55.660Women's Leadership Conference. Give me a second on that, on the0.99
00:29:59.960women. You've been with these people for a couple of days. What's the1.00
00:30:04.240big issue? Because we have a signing of an executive order
00:30:07.840at 3.30 this afternoon that, as you know, the war room has fought0.76
00:30:12.160You know, the first amnesty for A.I., the second amnesty for A.I., we won.
00:30:17.040They came up with another EO. They sent the framework out. We defeated that.
00:30:20.680We're going to keep defeating them until they get it right.
00:30:23.620And they're giving the president bad information, bad information, particularly where folks in the United States stand and specifically the MAGA movement and conservatives.
00:33:38.620But it is clear now that his – he has lost control of his own caucus.
00:33:42.800and then his relationship with President Trump is greatly strained. And so I think it is time that
00:33:48.640we have to make a change. And so I was thinking about this all night. And what I think we need
00:33:52.960to do is I think that they need to make J.D. Vance the Senate Majority Leader. John Adams
00:33:57.400served as the Senate Majority Leader while he was the vice president for George Washington.
00:34:02.500There is president here. The Constitution designates the vice president as the president
00:34:06.420of the Senate, making the VP the highest ranking constitutional officer in that chamber.
00:34:11.040I think it is time we send in J.D. Vance and really tell him we need you to focus on corralling your former colleagues and use the constitutional powers that were given to you.
00:34:21.300And J.D. Vance, I would love to see play a larger role in helping us get through President Trump's agenda in this Senate.
00:38:55.020And all citizens across the country, because if you don't have fair elections, then you're not going to have a government that's going to represent each and every one of us within the law.
00:41:15.680You got to put your best foot forward. Now we got people that are saying, well, I might vote for a couple of amendments of the Democrats during this.
00:41:23.140Well, you can't do that because it go back to the House again. They said we're not going to accept any amendments.
00:41:28.280And so what do you do? Here's what you to me, what you do. And again, you got to play hardball.
00:41:34.580We've got several people that it's not going to vote, vote for filibuster or they'll probably vote for some of the Democrat amendments.
00:41:43.060you say listen you do that you're out as chairman of a committee you're out immediately out we're
00:41:49.860gonna put somebody else in because that's the reason people stay here is to have power but we
00:41:54.620do it because of of seniority we don't do it because of merit we don't have the best people
00:42:00.600in some of these chairmanships so we've got to do the right thing it starts at leadership we're
00:42:05.740gonna go and i'm gonna listen to it and if we don't make changes we go and try to beg people
00:44:22.540Okay, I want to welcome former Senator Sam Brownback, one of the great moral leaders in the United States Senate from Kansas,0.86
00:44:33.040has dedicated his life now to the persecution of people of faith, specifically Christians.
00:44:39.780And in that, not taking on the marginal work, going right to the heart of it, the Chinese Communist Party
00:44:45.640and what the Chinese Communist Party is doing against people of faith in China.
00:44:50.460Senator, I think, aren't there 100 million Christians, most of them on the ground, either evangelical or traditional Catholics in China, sir?
00:45:01.060Nobody knows the actual number, but that's the one most people cite, too.
00:45:05.060And it's been one of the fastest growing Christian populations on the planet the last decade.
00:45:10.700So this is a big issue for the Chinese Communist Party because Christianity doesn't believe that the Communist Party is the highest moral authority, highest authority, period, and they're often willing to stand against them, like you're seeing Pastor Ezra Jin or the nine Catholic bishops that are currently in jail in China.
00:45:30.600well the catholic vision i'll get to in a minute because that's that's the problem we got with the
00:45:36.260i'm a catholic but the catholic church's perilous uh deal secret deal with the chinese congress
00:45:40.920party last week president trump goes he's trying to be magnanimous he's trying to work out something
00:45:46.020to balance the global economy of course we pride ourselves on the war room of being the leaders in
00:45:52.560this anti-ccp movement um and our point the whole time is all they're going to do is lie to you in0.77
00:45:58.280misdirection. Just give people, because we had our book, Kill to Order, about organ harvesting,
00:46:03.980what they're doing there. Talk to us about the specifics of the Chinese Communist Party's
00:46:09.200persecution of Christians, their war on people of faith. I did the foreword for that book
00:46:16.180on Kill to Order. This is a horrific issue where you harvest people for their organs.0.98
00:46:23.400What they're doing to Christians right now is they're locking up more of the pastors now than they have arguably since any time since Mao.
00:46:31.280Really, Xi Jinping is a reincarnation of Mao, if I can use that terminology.
00:46:37.460And they're just going really at them.
00:46:39.620We feature in chapter one in the book, Peter Xu, who is a guy who was arrested five times.
00:46:45.380He hung him in a cross formation in his jail cell until he nearly killed him and took him down to sign his confession that Jesus was a hoax, God wasn't real.
00:46:55.440And he just looks at the warden and says, thanks for allowing me to participate in the sufferings of Christ.0.87
00:47:02.520That's the character and the nature of these committed Christians that are in China who believe that their calling is actually to carry the gospel on through China
00:47:12.380and finish the circumnavigation back to Jerusalem.
00:47:15.760They're a phenomenal group, and that threatens the CCP,