Bannon's War Room - Episode 5428： Who Is Directing Who In The War With Iran

00:00:00.000 The breaking news this morning, President Trump just wrote, Israel and Iran must stop shooting.

00:00:07.060 That's what he wrote. But there are signs they've stopped listening, both Iran and Israel.

00:00:13.620 Iran fired missiles at Israel and overnight, Israel fired back. That's despite a report,

00:00:18.380 first in Axios, that the president told the Israeli prime minister not to retaliate.

00:00:23.960 And despite the grandiose claim to the Financial Times that he, Trump, calls all the shots,

00:00:29.160 he did not seem to call this one. Israel says it hit targets in western and central Iran,

00:00:35.600 and Iran's state media says an aerial attack hit a petrochemical plant, damaging part of the

00:00:40.040 facility. This morning, Iran says the U.S., quote, bears responsibility for Israel's actions.

00:00:47.280 And as we were coming to air this morning, the president posted again just a few seconds ago

00:00:51.840 that both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate ceasefire. We will see.

00:00:58.400 Of course, the administration also says a ceasefire has been in place since the beginning of April.

00:01:03.840 This despite Axios reporting that President Trump urged Netanyahu to hold off on any retaliatory act in a Sunday phone call.

00:01:14.240 That's according to a senior U.S. official and an Israeli source familiar with details of the call.

00:01:20.300 President Trump also told the Financial Times on Sunday that Netanyahu had no choice but to accept a deal with Iran,

00:01:27.400 saying, quote, I call the shots. He doesn't call the shots.

00:01:31.920 This was probably a couple of hours after Iran had launched this salvo ballistic missiles at Israel.

00:01:38.400 And I think he had just spoken to Netanyahu when I called him.

00:01:42.880 And he was very insistent that he calls the shots.

00:01:46.000 He, Trump calls the shots, not Netanyahu.

00:01:48.700 That this is the kind of thing that happens all the time.

00:01:52.660 Although, of course, it was, as you've said, it was the first breach of the ceasefires on this scale since April the 8th, since the ceasefire began.

00:02:02.120 And he insisted that the deal, it would have no impact on the Iran deal. 0.51

00:02:08.120 Now, shortly after that, Israel struck Iran.

00:02:12.300 So whether Trump's call with Netanyahu had agreed that the Israeli strike would be limited, it would be mostly theatrical, and that it wouldn't go for decapitation, it wouldn't go for political leadership, and that that was what they agreed, or possibly that he spoke to Netanyahu, asked him to do nothing, and Netanyahu said, sorry, I have to do something, and went ahead anyway.

00:02:38.900 Either way, I did not get the impression that Trump calls all the shots.

00:02:44.680 He's doing it this morning.

00:02:45.800 This morning, he is on Truth Social questioning the results of Los Angeles mayor's race

00:02:49.920 because his favorite candidate, Spencer Pratt, has now fallen out of the top three,

00:02:53.660 top two, and therefore won't make the runoff.

00:02:56.600 And Trump is propagating the live election fraud in that race as well.

00:03:01.560 Here's an idea.

00:03:02.540 we spend the next two or three weeks

00:03:06.840 hammering the hell out of every target that matters

00:03:10.080 including the so-called enriched uranium

00:03:14.920 20% or more I don't really care

00:03:18.360 whatever it is

00:03:19.640 and just hit them with everything we've got 0.99

00:03:21.880 with those fabulous bombers and bombs 0.99

00:03:23.900 take out everything we can find 0.98

00:03:27.140 in coordination with our Arab and Israeli allies

00:03:31.100 identify every IRGC facility we possibly can

00:03:37.460 and level them.

00:03:38.760 Do as much military damage as we possibly can,

00:03:42.060 dual-use damage as we possibly can,

00:03:45.220 and then leave.

00:03:48.260 Rather than giving them money,

00:03:50.820 which to me would be a disaster, 0.60

00:03:53.060 and tell the Israelis and tell the Saudis,

00:03:55.440 the UAE, which has been very good,

00:03:57.100 and anybody else in the Arab world,

00:03:58.660 we will provide you with whatever intelligence support, training, military equipment that you

00:04:08.700 need. We will continue to use our posture in the region to defend our forces and our mutual

00:04:16.460 interests. But as far as Iran and Hezbollah go, you go at it. If you want to blow Hezbollah off 0.81

00:04:23.760 the face of the earth, then you do it. If you want to blow the Iranian regime off the face of the 1.00

00:04:29.900 earth, then you do it. And in addition, what we, the United States, will do finally is arm the 1.00

00:04:39.500 people of Iran as we have as a country armed people throughout the world, freedom fighters

00:04:46.180 who want their freedom. And I don't want to hear that the Iranian people don't want their freedom.

00:04:51.280 That is baloney. Yesterday, Donald Trump continued stumbling over facts, got red faced.

00:04:57.880 And then he started screaming about how the California elections were being rigged because

00:05:02.080 officials were still counting votes six days after the June 2nd election. No one would have

00:05:09.140 to assume that the president of the United States is a stupid man to not know that almost all states 1.00

00:05:16.060 count votes well beyond a week after election day. When Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was 1.00

00:05:23.800 reelected to governor in 2006, the vote count took 30 days, as required by California law.

00:05:31.160 When Republican congressmen get elected in California this November, it will take 30 days

00:05:36.360 to count and certify those votes in their districts. Donald Trump knows this, but his

00:05:43.840 howling protests toward Kristen Welker and his insults to her was aimed not at the meet the press

00:05:52.520 host or regular viewers, but rather at Americans who don't follow the news or follow specific news

00:05:59.060 sites that are geared toward him and will likely only see a clip of his outbursts on social media.

00:06:06.820 And so many will accept Donald Trump's ravings at face value. That's why the media has to

00:06:13.820 up its game going into an election that Mr. Trump desperately, as proven there, wants to undermine

00:06:19.480 and so distrust. We all must be more aggressive than ever in getting the facts out to viewers and

00:06:29.060 go into every interview armed with facts, but also be ready to fight back and get into those

00:06:35.420 clips. His lies must be met with facts and he must lies must be run over and not allowed

00:06:43.420 on decent broadcasts that represent journalism. His insults must be answered with the truth

00:06:54.320 that he does not want to hear. And his cabinet's efforts to blur reality must be knocked down at

00:07:00.600 every turn the lies and we don't need to light our hair on fire but we have to protect the truth

00:07:06.760 the lies and insults toward the free press must be answered if we fail we will be no better than

00:07:13.800 the broadcast network and cable channels that act like the pillow channel like nothing more than

00:07:18.820 state-run mouthpieces i don't know what's going to happen with the weaponization fund i love the 1.00

00:07:24.980 idea because people like you the fake dirty press the crooked press people like stupid Biden he's 1.00

00:07:34.160 not smart enough to know what's going on but people that surrounded him surrounded his beautiful 1.00

00:07:39.420 resolute desk in the Oval Office what they did to the lives of people they destroyed people they

00:07:46.040 sent people to jail who did nothing wrong just to be very clear there's no evidence of what you're

00:07:52.020 saying. But let me ask you about Todd Blanche. Listen to me. Listen to me. There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California. Right now it's looking. Look at what's happening in California. It's four days in California. No they're not. They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you. It's four days

00:08:22.020 and they aren't even close to coming up with it.

00:08:24.680 That's how they count the votes in California.

00:08:25.140 You know why they're doing that? 0.99

00:08:26.280 Because they're cheating on the election.

00:08:27.780 Do you have evidence to support that?

00:08:29.980 All I have to do is look.

00:08:31.360 All I have to do is look.

00:08:32.180 But that's not evidence.

00:08:32.600 And I listen.

00:08:33.560 And I listen to people, and let's see what happens.

00:08:35.960 But, sir, that's not evidence.

00:08:37.080 Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election

00:08:42.360 and five days later they're nowhere close to picking a winner?

00:08:45.860 State and local officials acknowledge they are slow.

00:08:48.200 They're urging.

00:08:48.940 No, they're crooked.

00:08:49.560 They're urging the votes to be counted quicker.

00:08:51.360 That's how they vote in California. 0.98

00:08:52.620 They're crooked, just like you're crooked. 0.99

00:08:53.940 Your press is crooked. 0.99

00:08:54.960 And meet the press is crooked.

00:08:56.260 To be fair, I'm not crooked.

00:08:57.720 But let's continue.

00:08:58.000 Really?

00:08:58.480 Well, you play right into their hands.

00:09:00.000 Let's continue. 1.00

00:09:00.680 You're either crooked or you're stupid. 1.00

00:09:02.440 Let's continue. 1.00

00:09:02.840 You play right into their hands with this crap. 1.00

00:09:04.900 You know that these elections are rigged. 1.00

00:09:08.600 Your network knows that they're rigged.

00:09:11.300 You know that I won an election in a landslide, and I got 94% bad press.

00:09:17.420 But, Mr. President, you've never presented everything.

00:09:18.080 You know why I got that?

00:09:18.920 You've never presented everything.

00:09:19.420 Because you have no credibility.

00:09:20.560 But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged.

00:09:22.940 Let's keep talking about it.

00:09:23.640 I want to talk about Todd.

00:09:24.440 You have more evidence.

00:09:25.860 There's more evidence than ever presented.

00:09:29.180 Let's talk about.

00:09:29.880 Your elections in this country.

00:09:31.620 We're like a third world country.

00:09:33.540 Your elections are crooked and you're crooked and Mr. Press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and CNN.

00:09:41.860 But Mr. President. 0.97

00:09:42.320 Your one-sided crooked network.

00:09:44.220 So let's call it quits because I've had enough.

00:09:46.520 Thank you, darling.

00:09:47.240 Have a good time.

00:09:47.700 Mr. President, let's, please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.

00:09:51.020 I've sat in the rain with you.

00:09:52.960 I know.

00:09:53.580 I've sat in the rain with you for an hour.

00:09:55.600 On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time.

00:09:58.840 You ought to straighten out your press because you know what?

00:10:01.080 Mr. President.

00:10:01.460 A country can never be great with a dishonest press.

00:10:04.280 Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

00:10:09.040 Israel, as you know, Jonathan, has a general election this September or early October,

00:10:14.120 which is, as ever, a do-or-die election for Netanyahu, and his platform is really twofold.

00:10:21.260 First, I'm the guy who finally finishes off this regime in Iran.

00:10:26.300 And second, I have got the American president right with me, standing there with me.

00:10:32.780 And both those are now in jeopardy.

00:10:36.020 But from Trump's point of view, Netanyahu, with his operations in southern Lebanon,

00:10:41.960 with the strike yesterday, of course, on that suburb of Beirut,

00:10:45.820 where it believes there's a Hezbollah stronghold,

00:10:49.340 keeps up the fight in Lebanon

00:10:53.460 and keeps jeopardizing Trump's ability to reach agreement with the Iranians

00:10:57.580 because the Iranians say that a precondition of any deal

00:11:02.040 is that Israel stops attacking Hezbollah.

00:11:06.460 So this leaves President Trump, I think, really a prisoner of other people's actions, including Netanyahu's, well, principally Netanyahu's and the Iranians.

00:11:20.220 But Netanyahu's not in a comfortable place either.

00:11:24.160 He's not going into this election campaign, which he must win for his own personal freedom as much as anything else.

00:11:32.720 He's not going into this campaign being able to boast of the things that he thought he was going to be able to boast of when this war began in late February.

00:11:42.820 And of course, I don't need to remind you, he was instrumental.

00:11:48.000 He was really critical in persuading Trump that this war could be won and could be won quickly.

00:11:53.280 intelligence officers serving our country and we have this pentagon this report first in nbc now in

00:12:00.000 new york times the pentagon saying that israel may be spying on the u.s the israeli embassy to the u.s

00:12:07.520 is denying it saying israel does not gather intelligence on american entities let alone

00:12:11.960 u.s government officials israel intelligence collection efforts are aimed at its enemies not

00:12:16.900 its allies the white house also pushing back saying this entire story is false and source to

00:12:22.740 someone who doesn't have any knowledge of what's going on. But in these reports,

00:12:28.360 this is allegedly coming from a DIA report. What's your take?

00:12:34.500 Well, yeah, so there's always going to be an official denial of espionage activities from

00:12:38.960 both sides. That's nothing new. But this is also something that I remember back when I served,

00:12:43.120 that when you're dealing with partner force nation, whether it's Israel, whether it's

00:12:47.100 any country in Asia, when it's anywhere in the world, you're always going to be looking at

00:12:52.180 a situation where if I'm conducting operations, if I'm working on the intel side, if I'm working

00:12:56.760 on that picture, are they looking over my shoulder? Are they trying to figure out what

00:13:00.680 I'm doing in the other room? And in fact, that's obviously the case here. And this was the case

00:13:04.880 with Israel back when I served as well, that there were always questions that they seemed to know

00:13:09.060 more about our operations than we had told them. And there would be times, of course,

00:13:13.240 where people had found evidence directly speaking to these that raised that critical

00:13:18.120 threat in terms of these reports when operations were ongoing and of course this comes at a time

00:13:24.680 where president trump is working hard to create what monday 8 june year of our lord 2026

00:13:31.640 basobics are going to join us along with uh records and bowling and fattus in this first

00:13:38.060 part to get our heads around what's going on make sure the audience has a clear path framework of

00:13:44.060 which to look at all the facts here. Jack Posobiec. So walk me through the timing on this

00:13:50.280 and that America's greatest ally, President Trump is now, I guess, not pleading, but, you know,

00:13:57.620 asking very nicely that don't fire back, don't instigate anything. We got to be very tight on

00:14:04.580 this. Of course, he talks to Ed Luce and says, I call the shots. At the same time on Friday,

00:14:11.060 Thursday and Friday

00:14:12.980 this house

00:14:15.160 we're moving for this NDAA

00:14:17.460 that merges the industrial

00:14:19.700 bases of Israel and the United States

00:14:21.520 so you can't unlock them

00:14:23.940 plus there's efforts

00:14:25.600 to do basically the same thing in the

00:14:27.520 intelligence apparatus

00:14:28.540 we're going to take a short break Jack we'll be back

00:14:31.240 we're going to cover Los Angeles some of the races

00:14:33.360 tomorrow but particularly this war

00:14:35.000 and ask a question

00:14:36.880 given what you're seeing in Los Angeles

00:14:39.460 Who actually runs this country today?

00:14:41.380 Is it you?

00:14:41.960 Is it you, the American citizens?

00:14:43.360 The American citizens call the shots in the United States of America.

00:14:49.300 Jack Vosobiec on the other side.

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00:16:53.120 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:57.200 I hope what happened over the weekend in Iran and with Israel, coupled with what happened in Los Angeles, is a wake-up call.

00:17:08.740 The one thing about Spencer Pratt, I say he's very Trumpian.

00:17:11.280 What he was doing was a very Trumpian campaign.

00:17:14.100 But one thing they never mentioned and never talked about was the big steal.

00:17:17.960 Because remember, he's not MAGA.

00:17:19.700 He makes, because that was the way he said he's not MAGA.

00:17:21.440 And one of the underlying core principles of MAGA is these stolen elections.

00:17:26.500 In L.A., he got welcomed to the National Football League.

00:17:30.840 They stole it in broad daylight.

00:17:33.440 Let's look at the president of the United States.

00:17:34.820 And the president of the United States, you understand, that was taped, I think, on Friday.

00:17:38.500 It was in Wisconsin talking to the farmers.

00:17:40.940 Doesn't even include last night.

00:17:43.460 Anybody in America, and particularly the establishment Republicans, just see, this is the way the Democrats roll.

00:17:49.860 What have I said?

00:17:50.640 What is the mantra here?

00:17:52.120 If they can't steal it, they can't win.

00:17:54.500 Hey, you know who knows that very well?

00:17:56.500 the Democrats. And they don't care. That thing in LA is so in your grill.

00:18:04.340 Jack Posobiec, also what's happening in, I'm going to get to your thing on Fox. I want to

00:18:09.060 thank Trace Gallagher for being bold enough to go there. We'll get to that in a second. And Brian

00:18:15.120 Kilmeade, we got a response. Brian Kilmeade doesn't think Jack's with the program, but we'll get to

00:18:20.120 all that. So what's happened over the weekend, right? I thought America's greatest island,

00:18:24.940 of course i call him a protector oh fox and friends even better yeah griff jenkins wow

00:18:32.060 whoa fox and friends i thought that was your late night hit with trace gallagher

00:18:37.360 got the biggest pom-poms they're israel first yep go ahead this was the this was the early show

00:18:45.100 and that's why when we got into some of those comments i you know israel had had yet israel

00:18:50.880 of iran had yet to have their missile exchange and that's why it didn't come up at all so that

00:18:54.860 was about you know we taped that about six in the morning and then come throughout the day you see

00:19:00.140 you have this series of attacks so hezbollah launches some rockets into northern israel

00:19:05.060 israel then takes that as a provocation they respond with a massive salvo into the southern

00:19:11.040 suburbs of beirut um they're hitting you know what they say is hezbollah stronghold but then also

00:19:17.320 You know, you get these videos out, as is typical, where, you know, it seems as though there are a lot of people who are being hit that don't look a lot like Hezbollah, in addition, I'm sure, to the direct targets.

00:19:31.740 But what happened that was quite significant, quite significant, is that Iran attacked Israel in, as they say, in defense of Lebanon yesterday.

00:19:43.180 And that changes the calculus because this has not happened before.

00:19:47.320 What's happened here is that this is the axis of resistance now taking form, and Iran showing, number one, showing that they still have ballistic missile capability, which by my count, there were at least four salvos that they fired at targets like Tel Aviv, like Haifa, and others, Jerusalem, last night.

00:20:06.280 So, Jack, hang on, but Jack, hang on, hang on, hang on, but hang on, you don't have, you can't have, the ballistic missile capabilities have been totally wiped out.

00:20:14.880 i've been told that time and time and time again we watch all this stuff and cut it uh it couldn't

00:20:19.920 have been a ballistic missile assault they're all they've all been destroyed sir uh well then then

00:20:26.640 perhaps iron dome was firing at phantoms last night steve but uh they seemed to find quite a few

00:20:31.760 of the boosters and quite a few of the warheads that were able to make it through some were shot

00:20:36.100 down to intercept and these were not drones these were ballistic missiles that were fired

00:20:39.520 through the air. And so and this really, by the way, Steve, speaks to Iran's capability of

00:20:45.080 deception and their capability of hiding how much of their production is out there. And I don't 0.78

00:20:50.340 fault DIA at all when they go and do the bean counting of their their order of battle in Iran,

00:20:57.120 whether it comes to missiles or whether it comes to drones. The problem is, is that we just don't

00:21:02.220 have the sources deep within those bunkers, the ability to penetrate, you know, exactly what's

00:21:06.300 going on in those underground missile cities tell tell the audience once again hit rewind

00:21:11.120 why this is so important of why they hit israel after israel uh launched into lebanan against

00:21:18.360 hezbollah and obviously other targets there why why is that another game change this is the this

00:21:23.720 is the strategic equivalent of shifting the center gravity of the battle to the persian gulf and

00:21:30.720 Strait of Hormuz, is it not? Well, Steve, what they've done, and just to carry out the story,

00:21:37.840 so then Israel responds with strikes on Tehran, strikes on this petrochemical facility, which

00:21:42.660 they say was tied to the ballistic missile program, tied to IRGC. And then, interestingly

00:21:48.900 enough, Iran announced after that that they were going back to the ceasefire. They would not be

00:21:54.980 following up with further attacks. So that's where things stand as of right now. President Trump has

00:21:59.140 the truth up, saying that he believes that both sides do want to abide by the ceasefire. But

00:22:04.500 here's what's key. What Iran is doing now is they are extending the fight. They're changing the 0.93

00:22:10.300 shape of the battlefield. They're moving the borders further. So they're saying if Israel

00:22:14.760 comes in to southern Lebanon, they are going to respond to Israel. The Houthis have come out and 0.98

00:22:20.460 said that they would be prepared to perhaps close the Red Sea yet again if this continues. And so

00:22:28.120 they want to come up with their ballistic missile case capability. Also, the Houthis potential 0.98

00:22:32.600 strikes on there's there's some reports that the Houthis were conducting strikes on Saudi Arabia

00:22:38.000 as well, although that is yet to be completely confirmed as of right now. And so what you're

00:22:42.600 seeing, Steve, is this axis of resistance has not gone away. The Iranians, the Houthis do still have 0.97

00:22:49.200 these capabilities. What percentage? What is left? Is it a fourth left? Is it a fifth left? 20%, 0.99

00:22:54.900 25%, 30%. It's somewhere in that range, but it's hard to say exactly what's going on. There's also

00:23:02.100 these reports that they may have been backfilled by China. They may have been backfilled by other

00:23:06.040 elements of their allies. And again, what they have in these underground bunkers that are extensive,

00:23:12.680 there are tunnels, networks all throughout Iran, all throughout those mountain ranges that they

00:23:16.900 have there, these massive mountain ranges that are very deep underground, very hard to penetrate,

00:23:21.480 very hard to attack. You can close the, you know, some of the covers to them. Certainly that was

00:23:26.460 done at the nuclear facilities, but we just don't have the ability to penetrate deep into them. 0.68

00:23:32.940 And Iran has the ability to strike back. That's what it comes down to. The Houthis have the 0.62

00:23:36.360 ability to strike back. That's what it comes down to. And so Israel over the weekend had said,

00:23:41.060 we don't view our operations in Southern Lebanon as part of President Trump's negotiations with

00:23:47.100 Iran, we are going to continue. Iran says you will make them part of the negotiations. President

00:23:53.060 Trump, of course, asked them to both sides, of course, Iran and Israel to set down to not conduct

00:24:00.960 these attacks. Both sides conducted the attacks regardless of what the president said. And that's

00:24:06.220 what's created President Trump. He's now in this sort of role, Steve, where he's actually playing

00:24:11.280 a mediator role. I would say President Trump's role has shifted at this point to be not not an

00:24:16.780 active member in the conflict. He, of course, reserves that capability, and the United States

00:24:21.180 Navy is there ready, willing, and able to provide that capability. But it seems as though he's

00:24:26.220 playing the role of mediator between these two sides now. So you've got Israel, the Gulf nations

00:24:31.560 on one side, and the axis of resistance on the other. I want to go to, you brought up your point.

00:24:39.740 Can we play Kill Me? I don't want to play a couple of minutes. Can you stick around? I want to play

00:24:42.920 So your response on Fox and Friends was to give the response that you know from being an intelligence officer and being very close to the White House in the first term and the second term, right?

00:24:54.080 It was pretty straightforward. You weren't untoward to Israel, correct?

00:25:01.360 Well, Steve, look, when we operate with any partner-forced nation, whether it be the Gulf nations, whether it be Israel, whether it be the South Koreans, of course, espionage is something that you always have to watch out for.

00:25:11.920 There are always threat levels that come into play because everybody knows we have the best intelligence and everybody wants to know what we know.

00:25:18.720 That's what the game is.

00:25:20.300 And also know our intentions.

00:25:22.120 I mean, it's an open secret.

00:25:23.440 We're going to have Sam Fattis on here.

00:25:24.460 It's an open secret.

00:25:25.240 Let's go and play Kilmeade's response.

00:25:28.380 As forces shooting down Iranian drones that threatened the traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,

00:25:34.040 It comes as new reports from NBC News and The New York Times allege that the Pentagon has raised their threat concerns over Israeli spying.

00:25:44.700 Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends co-host and host of One Nation and bona fide Knicks fan, which we will get to.

00:25:51.720 But, Brian, there is this reporting about that Israel could be spying on American officials like Steve Wyckoff and others.

00:26:01.280 during the Iran talks, the White House and the Israeli embassy in D.C. pushing back

00:26:07.340 aggressively against this. What are you hearing about it?

00:26:11.640 What am I hearing about it? It is total BS. It's another anti-Israel story planted in a major

00:26:18.180 media organization, put forward to help divide the two of the good guys, the U.S. and Israel. 0.77

00:26:24.220 The problem in this whole thing is Iran. And the other problem is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an 0.69

00:26:30.060 unwelcome force in Lebanon. They have taken over that country, and they're finally being pushed 1.00

00:26:34.940 back. They did not sign to Antendi peace agreement. When it comes to Israel, I was in touch with some 0.97

00:26:40.860 of the highest level of intelligence apparatus. They say this is a dumb story. It is well known 0.99

00:26:47.720 that we do the same exact thing with France, with Britain, and Israel. We are known to share

00:26:53.960 intelligence and also monitor each other. This is just another example of people going out of their

00:27:00.320 way to try to create a divide between us and Israel. And it does not exist. Yes, you have

00:27:06.240 real arguments. That's calls with friends do all the time. And that's really people have to

00:27:13.220 understand we're going to get to the bottom of this intelligence situation for for why we are

00:27:19.640 in this situation that we're in currently with president trump having as jack said having to be

00:27:24.780 mediator like he doesn't have enough on his plate now he's got to insert himself it's almost like

00:27:29.660 doing the whipping votes down in south carolina to get things done or in these other house races

00:27:34.540 to get things done or the redistricting to get things done or everything he's got to do on capitol

00:27:38.100 hill jack that's not what the story that's that's not what this is claiming it's not about keeping

00:27:44.460 and I, even on your allies or people close to you. This is about active measures they've taken

00:27:51.740 to make sure that they are fully, I'll tell you what, let's go to break. We're going to go to

00:27:56.560 short commercial break. Sobik, stick with us. I know you got to bounce, but I got to get through

00:28:00.200 this. Also, Jack, I want to talk to you about FISA. All of President Trump's enemies and all

00:28:07.160 the neocons are just over the top that we need FISA. You have to get FISA. In order to get FISA,

00:28:13.660 We've got to get rid of Pulte as D&I. 0.98

00:28:16.380 Nothing could be dumber. 0.99

00:28:18.000 Nothing could be dumber. 0.99

00:28:19.480 The very tools that the deep state needs. 0.88

00:28:22.120 This is why Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton and the typical crowd, you know, are just relentless, nonstop.

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00:30:53.340 Poso, real quick here, because I know you're jammed for time.

00:30:55.940 Your response to Kilmeade, and then we've got to talk about Bill Pulte

00:31:00.200 and this phony push for Pfizer, sir.

00:31:04.620 Well, yeah, Steve.

00:31:05.440 I mean, look, of course, the intelligence agencies on on all sides are always going to give blanket denials of ongoing operations.

00:31:12.680 There's nothing new there. Of course, you're not going to ever avow an operation that's currently going or a counter or a counterintelligence operation at the same time.

00:31:20.760 That's just that's just tradecraft. That's just very basic tradecraft.

00:31:24.160 And as far as the threat level going up, you know, this I've spoken to multiple sources throughout the weekend since these stories came out,

00:31:32.320 all of which have confirmed it and all of which confirmed that the move was made because of recent activity.

00:31:38.560 So recent activity that was discovered that went into the assessment to say, hey, what's going on right now has necessitated this to come up.

00:31:49.060 And keep in mind, Steve, that's also because we have more of our sailors and more of our Marines that are in that region.

00:31:55.380 So sailors and Marines that are on the ships. We've got more Army that's all throughout these bases, Air Force as well.

00:32:01.600 So, you know, it's not just within when you're when you're in in Israel, it could be anywhere in the region or anywhere that's related.

00:32:09.340 So it's something that goes out to the entire force so that everyone understands what they're dealing with and what the potential.

00:32:15.200 But I just want to I just want to hang on for saying don't bury the lead.

00:32:17.680 But you have ascertained given your contacts at DIA and other parts of the intelligence apparatus that the threat level against Israel was raised, correct?

00:32:27.280 uh i'm not going to confirm any agencies but i everyone i spoke to across the board says yes

00:32:33.400 it's real and and by the way that this report had widespread uh that it was wide dissemination

00:32:39.360 widely disseminated throughout the ic that there are multiple versions of it and that depending

00:32:44.900 on classification level and that it's something that a lot of people had eyes on uh bill pulte

00:32:50.620 and fiza sir what this big rush for fiza now it's it's like everything it has to happen by this

00:32:56.840 friday why do we need to confirm that right now and we must get bill pulte in right he's a he's

00:33:02.900 an armor-piercing show we need a dni right now well steve i've said before a number of times

00:33:09.520 you know the complaint and the president of course said it as as well himself in the oval office i

00:33:13.800 believe last week before he flew out to uh to wisconsin and i was going to work for the next

00:33:17.840 game that he said the same complaints that they're making about both bill pulte being a businessman

00:33:23.040 and having a business background are the same things they said about President Trump,

00:33:27.040 about being a businessman who was successful that then went into politics, which obviously

00:33:32.440 has included a lot of national security. So that's how President Trump was able to use a

00:33:38.260 businessman's understanding to go to North Korea and sit down with Kim Jong-un and said,

00:33:43.100 forget about these talks. Let's go and sit down with them. He did the same thing with Chinese,

00:33:46.720 done the same thing with Russia multiple times, including Anchorage. That's President Trump using

00:33:50.980 his business acumen to look at something differently than the swamp and the blob look

00:33:56.180 at things. That's why Bill Pulte could be such an asset. And of course, he can put whatever team

00:34:01.020 together that he wants. But having a guy like that in there, Bill, the bulldog Pulte going over to

00:34:07.780 ODNI, number one, the president has said, I want to start pruning back the intelligence community.

00:34:13.760 I want to understand we want this thing to be lean and mean. Do we need thousands of people

00:34:19.120 tracking this stuff when we have the ability now with uh with computers and we have the ability

00:34:24.280 to to do this and steve i'll tell you right now when when you say oh we have thousands of people

00:34:28.060 what does that mean to me i'll tell you the truth it means there's redundancy it means you need a

00:34:32.120 doge over there you need a kind of department to say wait are you guys actually conducting the work

00:34:37.460 of keeping americans safe are you keeping an eye on iran we just talked about the fact that you

00:34:41.940 heard in the last segment here that you know we're having trouble actually pinning down the

00:34:46.100 percentages on the iranian stockpile i want people focused on that in my intelligence community i 0.90

00:34:51.440 don't want people focused on all the other crap dei and wokeness that they've been pushing for

00:34:56.920 years and that's a huge problem in the intel community the phony uh faiza versus pulte is 0.83

00:35:03.860 about the surveillance state it's who controls america who controls america american citizens

00:35:07.860 a guy like pulte is going to go in he's going to be a bull in the china shop he's supposed to be

00:35:11.820 That's what we need. Jack, your social media, you're the Associated Press of the American First MAGA movement.

00:35:18.580 So where do people go? Yeah. And Steve, as far as far as FISA goes, just to say it, President Trump, call their bluff.

00:35:25.120 No one has been more abused by FISA than President Donald J. Trump himself, his family and his supporters.

00:35:33.340 So if he wants to call their bluff, then call it because the president has all the leverage here.

00:35:37.480 The president has all the cards here. They're sitting there saying, oh, we're going to hold up Pulte.

00:35:41.460 Why should the president sign off on it when they haven't put in any reforms to this thing, when they haven't updated it at all to say, how can we prevent this from happening to any other individual within the United States?

00:35:53.300 And so they did the backdoor collection on on General Flynn as well, as we talked about last week when he was talking to Kislyak.

00:35:59.160 So, again, this is a system where President Trump has the advantage.

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00:36:11.460 jack thank you for joining us and coat and tie i mean you're raring to go over the work week

00:36:16.840 your tanya tay packed your lunch and told you get out and get down to dc and don't worry steve i got

00:36:23.020 i got my my slippers on down here thank you thank you brother appreciate you jim records

00:36:29.180 we got you on monday because what happened over the weekend make it make sense to us where are

00:36:33.760 we strategically? And how important is this that the Iranians decided to hit after an attack on

00:36:41.620 Lebanon and Hezbollah, not an attack on them, sir? Well, see, we're exactly where we talked about 0.54

00:36:48.620 where I described it three months ago, which is Trump has three choices. We've said this before.

00:36:53.820 He has three choices. They're all bad. One is surrender. He can do that. The reason he's trying

00:36:58.960 to get this memorandum, whatever it is, and it doesn't exist, by the way. Each side has rejected

00:37:04.220 all the other's suggestions or demands. So there is no negotiation. But the reason Trump wants to

00:37:11.020 just have a piece of paper to wave, say, I got the greatest deal ever, victory, whatever. It's not.

00:37:15.100 It's surrender. It would be seen as such. And therefore, Trump won't actually do it. And the

00:37:19.080 Iranians are not going to give him that piece of paper because they don't want him to be able to 0.99

00:37:23.920 do that. The second option is stalemate. That's about where we are right now. Not much of a 0.99

00:37:30.080 ceasefire. Jack said, we're after, Iran said we won't shoot and we're back to the ceasefire. Well,

00:37:36.940 if you have to get back to the ceasefire, it's not a ceasefire. I mean, you're shooting at each

00:37:40.120 other. I know it's intermittent. I know it's not high intensity right now. Not much of a ceasefire,

00:37:46.180 but it is a stalemate. Both sides are rearming. That's really what's going on. In the Iranian

00:37:51.520 case, they're digging up missile launchers, going to mobile missile launchers. In the U.S. case, 0.91

00:37:55.880 they're trying to get Raytheon and Lockheed to make a few more missiles. And then the third

00:38:00.360 choice is escalation, which I've always said, I think it's where we're going to end up,

00:38:05.140 which is bad in some way. That's just another Vietnam. So there are no good choices, 1.00

00:38:09.980 but that's where Trump is. And that's where we are right now. I don't understand the whole

00:38:14.420 Israeli spying story. I understand it. I follow it. But have these people not heard of Jonathan 0.98

00:38:19.260 Pollard. I mean, that was 40 years ago. Israel has been spying on us the whole time, and they're

00:38:24.020 really good at it, and we spy on them. You can make news out of it, but it's not news. It's just 0.99

00:38:29.220 a steady state. And as far as Iran shooting at Israel, Iran will take advantage of the ceasefire 0.97

00:38:40.160 to do what I said, which is to rearm, build more drones, dig out the missile launchers, etc. So

00:38:45.140 So yeah, they could use a breather and they're taking it, but they're not out of this and

00:38:50.040 they're not going to, and they have all the leverage and they have all the leverage in

00:38:53.360 the straight home moves.

00:38:54.600 You know, Trump's talks about a decapitation strike. 0.93

00:38:56.820 Well, yeah, on day one, we killed 40 of their top religious military and civilian leaders. 0.94

00:39:01.200 That was decapitation. 0.99

00:39:02.720 Then they replaced them all. 0.84

00:39:04.300 And about a week later, we killed the next group and a second decapitation. 0.51

00:39:07.980 This is what the Greeks called Idra.

00:39:09.640 It has multiple heads.

00:39:10.600 You can't jump your head off.

00:39:11.940 You're no further ahead.

00:39:14.040 But-

00:39:14.740 jim hang on one second yeah hang on one second i want to play tel aviv levin you gave you three

00:39:21.140 alternatives mark levin gave another alternative over the weekend let's play it i want your

00:39:25.220 response here's an idea we spend the next two or three weeks hammering the hell out of every target

00:39:34.100 that matters including the so-called enriched uranium 20 or more i don't really care whatever

00:39:43.700 it is, and just hit them with everything we've got with those fabulous bombers and bombs. 0.96

00:39:49.480 Take out everything we can find in coordination with our Arab and Israeli allies. 0.98

00:39:56.540 Identify every IRGC facility we possibly can and level them. 0.98

00:40:03.560 Do as much military damage as we possibly can, dual-use damage as we possibly can,

00:40:08.720 and then leave

00:40:12.000 rather than giving them money

00:40:14.420 which to me would be a disaster 1.00

00:40:16.940 and tell the Israelis 0.95

00:40:18.820 and tell the Saudis, the UAE

00:40:20.620 which has been very good

00:40:21.660 and anybody else in the Arab world

00:40:23.260 we will provide you with whatever

00:40:25.560 intelligence support

00:40:27.700 training

00:40:29.100 military equipment

00:40:31.920 that you need

00:40:33.640 we will continue to use

00:40:36.160 our posture in the region

00:40:37.640 to defend our forces and our mutual interests.

00:40:42.160 But as far as Iran and Hezbollah go, you go at it. 1.00

00:40:46.180 If you want to blow Hezbollah off the face of the earth, then you do it. 0.98

00:40:50.920 If you want to blow the Iranian regime off the face of the earth, then you do it. 0.98

00:40:57.220 And in addition, what we, the United States, will do finally

00:41:01.800 is arm the people of Iran as we have as a country armed people throughout the world

00:41:09.800 freedom fighters who want their freedom and I don't want to hear that the Iranian people don't

00:41:15.200 want their freedom that is baloney clearly Tel Aviv Levin is clearly looking for an alternative

00:41:21.460 but this is the first time this is an alternative so what do you think about if you're looking for

00:41:26.440 an off-ramp because here's the the mediation role that President Trump's trying to do you just said

00:41:31.740 about the ceasefire. He's trying to move heaven and earth. They ain't ready for it. They both

00:41:36.400 hate each other. Both sides think they're winning. The Israelis are going to continue to expand in

00:41:41.480 Lebanon. The Gulf Arabs, I'm sure, have had enough of all of this, right? They thought there were 1.00

00:41:46.060 going to be crypto capital of the world. That's not quite. The influencers are not with bikinis

00:41:50.800 on the beach in Dubai anymore, right? They all marched through the desert, got the hell out of 1.00

00:41:55.160 there. Is Tel Aviv Levin offering an alternative that you think could work? Hey, a couple more

00:42:01.020 weeks, come in, then pull out. And when he says our interest in the region, we don't have any

00:42:04.940 interest in the region. Just pull out, tell the Arabs and the Israelis and the Persians, 1.00

00:42:09.640 have at it, boys. Well, where he started was my third option, which is escalation. So he's saying, 0.97

00:42:16.500 do it faster, do it heavier, give it everything we got. Our bombers and our pilots and our systems

00:42:21.360 are great. They actually are. So you start blowing up bridges. All right. So I need a ferry. I got

00:42:26.180 to drive the long way around. So much of what Iran has is, I mean, remember in 2025, we went 1.00

00:42:31.980 at it with B-2 bombers and did a lot of damage, but we did not get the uranium. We did not 0.99

00:42:38.420 completely eliminate Iran's ability to continue enrichment. So now we're trying to do it again. 0.83

00:42:43.900 So I don't doubt that you could blow up a lot of targets and you can start tomorrow,

00:42:47.380 but what good does it do you? You don't get regime change. You can get people change,

00:42:52.660 But that's not the same as regime change.

00:42:54.480 And so I think in the last part of what he said, arming the Iranian people, that's fantasy.

00:43:00.600 That's like, you know, what's it, Victoria Nuland or whatever her name is.

00:43:04.980 The whole idea of Ukraine, Ukraine was never about Ukraine.

00:43:07.900 It was about getting the Russian people to rise up and overthrow Putin.

00:43:11.260 It was a fantasy.

00:43:12.960 It shows no appreciation of Russian history and politics whatsoever.

00:43:17.220 But that was the idea.

00:43:18.100 Now, to hear the same thing repeated in Iran, because we all know Iraq, you know,

00:43:21.720 Rumsfeld Cheney, they'll greet us with flowers and flags and everything. No, that's not what

00:43:26.180 happened. A million people got killed with, they were using power tools to drill holes in people's

00:43:30.800 heads. That's what was going on until the search. So that's a total fantasy. But can we drop a lot

00:43:37.460 of bombs? Yeah, that's escalation, but it doesn't get you anywhere. And then if you pull out,

00:43:41.180 it's still a loss because they're still standing. Now, Vali Nasser was a brilliant scholar. He was

00:43:47.360 the dean of the School of Events for National Studies in Washington. That's where I got my

00:43:51.100 graduate degree in international economics.

00:43:53.880 He wrote a really good column in Foreign Affairs, and he said the following.

00:43:56.960 I said, yeah, we wiped out 40 liters, and then we wiped out 40 more.

00:44:00.860 Hang on one second.

00:44:02.160 I want to get to this.

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00:45:42.060 jim rickerts continue on sir

00:45:45.440 Bell and Nash made a point. He said, OK, we killed 40 leaders and we killed 40 more, etc.

00:45:51.080 But in the process, they've replaced them. And here's his point.

00:45:54.260 All the people we killed were the revolutionaries, going back to the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

00:46:00.220 The group that replaced them now, the third group, basically, they were born after the revolution.

00:46:05.960 They were born after 1979. These are not the 80-year-olds. They're not even the 60-year-olds.

00:46:09.720 These are 40 and 45-year-olds who grew up in this environment and are completely acclimated to it.

00:46:15.960 And he makes the point, Nash makes the point that revolutionaries can be a little insecure because they're looking over their shoulders saying, hey, is somebody going to do to me what I just did to the other guy?

00:46:24.580 And they don't want to push things too far having been successful in the revolution.

00:46:29.300 This younger generation, they're much more secure, much more robust, nationalistic, yes, but they're completely at ease with what they have.

00:46:35.340 So what Trump has done is he's brought in really a third generation of leaders who are much more grounded, much stronger.

00:46:43.580 He's made the Iranian nation more united and actually with better leadership because they needed a change of leadership.

00:46:50.140 So that's one thing. 0.99

00:46:51.380 And the Levin thing, I mean, we can bomb them.

00:46:53.720 We bombed Hanoi for 10 years and lost the war.

00:46:56.640 So tell me what good bombing does if you're not going to put boots on the ground.

00:46:59.540 And we're not going to put boots on the ground.

00:47:01.200 At least we shouldn't, in my view.

00:47:02.640 It's impossible.

00:47:03.160 We need to basically go to financial warfare, which you've talked about, although that's a two-edged sword. 0.74

00:47:09.400 Scott Besson said, well, maybe we'll take the Iranian assets and use them for reparations in the Gulf. 0.72

00:47:13.840 OK, interesting.

00:47:15.140 But then after Europe said we're going to take the Russian assets and use them for reparations in Ukraine,

00:47:20.320 people around the world from Shanghai to Singapore started saying, well, why do I want to buy U.S. treasuries if you're going to keep stealing them from me?

00:47:27.500 So that's difficult also. 0.83

00:47:29.280 So, and Levin's just fantasizing about the Iranian people rising up.

00:47:33.860 So I'm back to the three bad choices. 0.99

00:47:36.820 I would get, you know, kind of a face-saving deal and get out, but I don't think it's what's going to happen.

00:47:42.360 I think we're going to see escalation.

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00:48:23.680 We tell you what's going to happen. We'll be zooming in on the midterm. It's probably around August. Right now, we're looking at China, actually, in the next issue, and have done a lot on the Iranian war. But our track record speaks for itself from Trump 2016, Brexit, 312 electoral votes in 2024. It's better than anyone. So we're going to keep at it, and we hope people enjoy it.

00:48:46.940 Jim Rickards, thank you for joining us on Monday morning with good guidance. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

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00:49:04.460 Speaking of predictive analytics, Eric Bolling, from the pits of the oil markets, what are they making this week?

00:49:11.400 And they thought it was all behind them, but it's never behind you, sir.

00:49:15.560 No, it's never behind, Steve.

00:49:18.020 They're, I wouldn't say confused anymore.

00:49:20.620 I think they've gotten kind of disgusted with what's going on. 1.00

00:49:23.360 The red are going back and forth.

00:49:24.700 It's all clear. 0.80

00:49:25.380 It's not all clear.

00:49:26.520 Bombs fly.

00:49:27.100 I think they've gone from the traders and certainly the oil markets have almost discounted missiles.

00:49:32.500 Now, I remember a missile flew 90 days ago, and then you have a massive upswing in the oil markets.

00:49:38.860 Well, now it's come down to, yeah, missiles, we get that.

00:49:41.620 Missiles are going to fly because pretty much what we've been saying here, 0.57

00:49:45.320 I've been saying here since the beginning of this is that there's never going to be peace in the Mideast.

00:49:49.040 That's a that's a pipe dream. But now it's where are the what's the transit look like?

00:49:54.540 So the Strait of Hormuz saw 10 ships transit the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours.

00:49:59.280 That's up from two or three a couple of weeks ago. I've seen 35 in the last few days.

00:50:04.320 So they're getting mixed signals because although it seems like there's a little bit more transiting the Gulf, it's not fully open.

00:50:11.880 There's no indication it's going to be fully. But when you say when you say when you say mixed signals,

00:50:16.640 president trump has said hey i call the shots stop shooting at each other uh i'm i'm the i'm

00:50:22.940 the mediator here essentially he's taking on the mediation role that signal is pretty clear president

00:50:28.440 trump wants peace he wants everybody lay their guns down and let's figure out a deal but but is

00:50:33.040 there any question okay go ahead the view is that that's what he wants now first it was we are going

00:50:40.020 to demand their incapacity to deliver, Anouk got that, incapacity to, we wanted a regime change, 0.91

00:50:48.080 may or may not got that with little Ayatollah, and now we're going to demand the straight open 0.93

00:50:52.680 without any interference from Iran. Well, I'll tell you what the perception is. Like it or not, 0.94

00:50:58.260 the perception in the trading community is Iran has Trump backed into a corner. I mean, I think

00:51:04.140 Rickard said it, but he said it in a way that these guys would say it more plainly and more

00:51:09.080 blatantly ran has trump backed in the corner because he doesn't have any good options left

00:51:13.380 i agree with records that none of those three options that are left are good for trump certainly

00:51:18.720 not kinetic all-out warfare would be horrible for the base um extending this in perpetuity will have

00:51:25.320 prices you don't like you don't like you don't like your former colleague your former colleague

00:51:29.580 your former colleague tel aviv levin you don't like his alternative two weeks 0.50

00:51:32.980 bomb the hell out of them and then leave you could have done that 89 92 days ago and maybe 0.90

00:51:41.820 have a different result right now rand's laughing like you bombed the crap out of us and we're here 0.98

00:51:46.300 we are we still got the straight closed guess what they've refuted everything trump has said

00:51:51.580 we own we've control we have control of the straight well then why isn't it open it's pretty 0.66

00:51:56.040 clear that they're getting their ass handed to them economically clearly because there's not

00:52:00.560 trade going through that straight. They need that. But it's also pretty clear that they're 0.99

00:52:04.940 not going anywhere anytime soon, evidenced by the fact that they flew missiles into Israel

00:52:10.560 over the weekend. Israel's not helping us. I will tell you, here's going to be a big thing.

00:52:14.920 And if you look back at the things we've been saying here, all the things that we've been

00:52:18.520 predicting, I have certainly, are coming true. Wednesday's a CPI number, two days from now.

00:52:24.220 I'll take the over on whatever number it is, because oil has been elevated up over $90 up

00:52:29.500 $110 a barrel for the full month of the data that they collected. That means prices are going

00:52:35.980 through the roof. That is an Achilles to a political, to an administration, which you know

00:52:43.200 very well. But early on, I said this and everyone said, oh, bowling, don't you know, you got to get

00:52:47.340 rid of them or they're going to, you know, they're going to kill us. I said, you're never going to

00:52:50.680 get rid of these fanatics. They're religious fanatics. They'd rather die than give up. And 0.85

00:52:55.300 And we will have them for our lifetimes, certainly.

00:52:58.380 Maybe our grandchildren's lifetimes as well.

00:53:00.940 We'll do a changeover today.

00:53:03.100 I'll get the show organized enough at 5 that if you're so kind,

00:53:08.180 we'll join you at the end of it and get up to date.

00:53:10.160 I would love it. Always love it.

00:53:10.940 Okay, brother. See you at 4.

00:53:12.520 Thanks, Steve.

00:53:13.940 The Eric Bowling.

00:53:15.040 We'll do a changeover tonight, or handoff, what we call it,

00:53:18.420 at about 4.50 to start the war a few minutes early

00:53:21.060 and get some insights from Eric throughout the day.

00:53:24.220 Okay, the second hour is going to be pretty jammed.

00:53:27.700 It took a little longer in the first, but needed to do it.

00:53:31.440 You heard the media.

00:53:32.420 You heard the media.

00:53:33.500 I don't know why President Trump does these interviews.

00:53:36.260 I just don't.

00:53:38.020 For the first time since World War II, our national debt held by the public has exceeded GDP.

00:53:45.060 America, this is a wake-up call.

00:53:47.320 Our sins of the past, reckless government spending have finally caught up to us.

00:53:52.500 So what's next? Higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses, and higher interest payments on the national debt.

00:54:01.220 Every dollar Washington spends on interest is a dollar it has to tax, borrow, or print.

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Bannon's War Room - June 08, 2026

Episode 5428： Who Is Directing Who In The War With Iran

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