Bannon's War Room - June 08, 2026


Episode 5429： Stealing California And Saving South Carolina; Implications Of Iran's Strikes On Israel


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Stephen K. Bamb and Sam Faddis join host Steve Kamb to discuss the latest in the Iran crisis, the latest on the Women s Open and the mayor's race in Los Angeles, and much more.

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00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
00:00:10.740 this people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
00:00:17.340 had a belly full of it I know you don't like hearing that I know you try to do everything
00:00:21.180 the world to stop that but you're not gonna stop it it's going to happen and where do people like
00:00:24.840 that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people
00:00:32.500 had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save
00:00:40.160 my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. 0.62
00:00:47.560 monday 8 june in the year of our lord 2026 longest day in golf for those of you that
00:00:56.640 follow golf i think the usga does 18 hours or something today to try to qualify for the
00:01:02.360 us open in shinnecock uh fabulous shinnecock hills in a couple of weeks um i'll get to this uh with
00:01:10.180 um sam faddis uh and also i'm talking a lot of folks that come on here tonight uh maybe royce
00:01:17.640 white uh matt meck some of the other folks um clita to talk about los angeles you know yesterday
00:01:23.420 nellie quarter won the u.s women's open over at riviera in a beautiful day
00:01:30.440 in los angeles at the same time they stole an election it's like if you read history like some
00:01:36.380 of the worst moments in history read like the day Pearl Harbor was struck you know National Football
00:01:41.260 League was playing people going about their daily lives other things were happening as these
00:01:46.040 major events were going on yesterday in Los Angeles if you watched Nellie Corder win the
00:01:52.960 U.S. Women's Open it looked like a beautiful day in Los Angeles and just great celebratory
00:01:58.480 a young woman that's focused on winning the national our national championship for women
00:02:03.560 for her entire life, very dedicated, hardworking, looks like a terrific person, great family,
00:02:09.260 sister really helps her out on her game and coaches her. And at the same time in Los Angeles,
00:02:14.940 guess what? The very dark deep state forces and the Marxist jihadists stole the mayor's race
00:02:25.340 in Los Angeles in broad daylight. This is one of the reasons President Trump is getting worked up
00:02:30.120 as he should with her, oh, there's no evidence,
00:02:33.920 or there's overwhelming evidence.
00:02:36.320 And the big steal is the railhead, the railhead of the MAGA movement.
00:02:41.860 Phantasy is going to join my exam when we get to that in a second.
00:02:45.620 Also, I just want to, with Rickards, Rickards is fantastic.
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00:03:05.420 Faddis, this is your neighborhood.
00:03:09.520 Give us your assessment.
00:03:11.200 Strategically, they kind of sent a message over the weekend.
00:03:13.500 Hey, look, we shifted the battlefield over to the Persian Gulf
00:03:16.920 and the center of gravity of the battle. 0.84
00:03:18.520 Now, if you're going to hit Lebanon, we're coming in with ballistic missiles,
00:03:23.360 which I thought were all destroyed, but coming in with ballistic missiles.
00:03:26.080 So we had a pretty big shift over the weekend, sir.
00:03:30.120 Yeah. I mean, more evidence that we're nowhere close to the end of this thing, and we don't really have our arms around it, Steve. I mean, we can shout all we want about stop shooting, but the thing is we don't actually have control over the situation. We have an exchange of fire between the Iranians and the Israelis.
00:03:46.900 Two really dangerous things here. One, the Israelis apparently hit a petrochemical facility in Iran, and the Iranians retaliated by doing the same in Israel.
00:03:59.360 The actual oil production and refining capacity in the Middle East has been largely, not completely, but largely off limits on both sides because nobody wants to burn it down forever.
00:04:12.340 Anytime we start seeing those kinds of exchanges, we're getting pretty close to, you know, something where we burn the infrastructure down and it'll take 10 years to rebuild it.
00:04:23.300 The other thing is, of course, the Houthis fired on Israel and they've now announced the Israelis can't sail ships in the Red Sea.
00:04:31.040 So the Houthis are edging real close to coming back in and blocking that shipping corridor as well. 0.53
00:04:37.680 the reason that's so huge too is that this is the whole the whole talk with nato is that look he 0.86
00:04:44.720 didn't send to ukraine like we did now with the red sea and the suez canal and everything coming
00:04:49.640 out of hormuz that's your deal our navy you're going to see another carrier battle group have
00:04:53.740 to get deployed back over to keep that remember the houthis gave as a former surface warfare
00:04:58.840 officer the houthis gave as good as they got back last last last may and june and july and i think
00:05:05.500 the navy would tell you uh as the egyptian army would tell you they lost i think 40 000 people
00:05:10.280 there 50 or 60 years ago as the british army would tell you the houthis are like uh they're
00:05:16.580 a version of the scotch irish up in appalachia right it's the it's the arabian peninsula version
00:05:22.360 of that these are tough hombres they don't like anybody they don't get along with anybody they
00:05:26.760 don't get along with each other they don't like each other okay that's they feel they can shut 0.65
00:05:30.540 down the red sea and it's going to take another carrier battle group and the british are going
00:05:34.420 to send you one destroyer that goes to Crete and has to go in the yard. The French Navy's got
00:05:39.080 nothing. The Italian Navy's got nothing. They won't step up. This is going to be one more,
00:05:43.720 this is going to be another obligation of the American military. Am I correct in that, Sam
00:05:48.660 Fettis? You're 100% correct. And let's remember the whole Saudi solution to the Gulf of Hormuz
00:05:53.540 has been to pump all their oil through the pipeline to the Red Sea, Yanbu, and send it out 0.69
00:05:58.880 to the market there so as soon as ships get hit in the red sea and the insurance companies you
00:06:05.100 know lloyd stops insuring tankers in the red sea nobody will move in the red sea and that
00:06:10.600 whatever it is seven million barrels a day will be off the world market too in an instant off the
00:06:16.180 world just not to put not to put to to find a point on things never change the i think one of
00:06:21.620 the opening scenes in the seven pillars of wisdom t.e lawrence's uh t.e lawrence's great book about
00:06:28.460 the um the arab war the arab revolt in first world war and one of the opening scenes of the
00:06:33.740 film lawrence arabia takes place when they're trying to retreat the arab army that exists which
00:06:38.720 ain't much are trying to retreat from the turks to where yambo it's so nothing changes you know
00:06:45.960 a hundred and some years later we're right back to it so this is why this region i think we got
00:06:50.700 to give a big think about what we're doing there talking now so you had these two you had the new
00:06:55.160 York Times story. You had the NBC News story about raising the threat level internally on
00:07:01.640 our intelligence of Israel as spying on us. Jack Posobiec said he confirmed that over the weekend
00:07:08.720 on many different sources. You've also had, you know, lo and behold, trying to merge the defense
00:07:13.540 base in this House NDAA. And now Brandon Weikert saying they're doing the same thing on the
00:07:18.360 authorization of intelligence for the intelligence apparatus. You've been in that
00:07:24.820 neighborhood a long time. You know all the actors. Can you explain to the audience exactly what is
00:07:29.700 going on, sir? Yeah, I should add that at one point in time, I was actually in charge at headquarters
00:07:35.520 of our liaison relationship with the Israelis. So yeah, I know the subject. Look, the Israelis
00:07:44.060 have been spying on us for a long time. I mean, there are all sorts of public cases, including
00:07:49.040 Jonathan Pollard, in which they have run operations, recruited spies inside our defense
00:07:56.320 and intelligence apparatus and stolen secrets. And that's the tip of the iceberg. I'll leave it
00:08:02.180 there. This has been going on forever. We've known that it's been going on forever. And for
00:08:07.780 political reasons, nobody has ever been able to do anything about it. Even when they tried,
00:08:13.040 they were slapped down. Again, I can confirm that from personal experience.
00:08:16.200 So now you have these guys, the Israelis, are now supposed to be integrated completely into databases and projects and top secret stuff and special access programs. 0.94
00:08:32.040 So the whole intelligence community basically runs on a system where if we're going to pass something to a foreign power, it goes through a clearance process. 0.92
00:08:40.460 We actually decide piece by piece what we give to other nations. 0.89
00:08:46.820 You're talking about the end of that with the Israelis. 0.96
00:08:49.220 The Israelis will be – I described it once as sticking a straw into the Pentagon. 1.00
00:08:55.040 That's way too charitable. 1.00
00:08:57.080 They will be pumping stuff out of the Pentagon, every aspect at the most secret level of our defense apparatus.
00:09:05.140 This will not be I drink your milkshake.
00:09:09.600 this will be much much bigger i'm gonna have you back on we're gonna drill down on this more tom
00:09:14.520 cotton i guess the thing is tom cotton's got some legislation that no american president could ever
00:09:19.640 break the until anyway we gotta get to the bottom of it's about who runs this country the citizens
00:09:24.200 of this country have to run this country since you ran the desk we'll get back to you but along
00:09:28.580 that lines i want to i want you to put your hat on as aggressions leader in the commonwealth of
00:09:33.080 pennsylvania one of the first times i really met you was in the run-up to the 2020 election when
00:09:37.780 You were one of the great MAGA leaders.
00:09:39.800 I used to come on the show at the very beginning,
00:09:41.660 but then the stolen election by, wait for it,
00:09:45.260 mail-in ballots in Philadelphia, Allegheny County,
00:09:49.540 Los Angeles, California, sir.
00:09:51.660 This can't be more serious.
00:09:52.920 I said yesterday, a beautiful day in LA,
00:09:55.080 Nellie Corder is representing her country,
00:09:57.520 fights off them. 1.00
00:09:58.260 You got a great Mexican player,
00:09:59.720 a great couple of great players from Korea,
00:10:02.260 a great English player.
00:10:03.840 She wins for the United States,
00:10:04.900 a very heart-rendering moment.
00:10:06.020 At the very moment, they're announcing, I think, a 30,000-vote drop, and Spencer Pratt gets 10 votes.
00:10:12.880 They stole it in your face, and this shows you you can have as great a candidate as you have.
00:10:18.480 Hilton, all these guys, Pratt, it doesn't matter.
00:10:22.120 They control the apparatus, and they're just in your grill, and the president of the United States is 100% justified
00:10:26.980 because this should be a five-alarm fire right now for the American people.
00:10:31.360 Unfortunately, the Republican Party just wants to look the other way, Sam.
00:10:34.620 Yeah, well, that's absolutely dead on. Look, there is absolutely nothing secure about mail-in ballots. Full stop. Okay, everything. We could spend the next 12 hours talking about all the ways in which mail-in ballots are completely insecure.
00:10:48.540 Nobody really knows where the ballots are coming from, how they were filled out, who decided to make the selection, who paid for what.
00:10:56.520 It's just – it's a joke.
00:10:58.680 Pieces of paper are appearing and being counted.
00:11:02.060 And even when there are rules, signatures, postmarks, et cetera, they ignore them all.
00:11:08.620 So there's only one solution, hard copy ballots, in-person voting on election day with ID, right?
00:11:16.700 That's the answer.
00:11:17.480 Republican Party, as you said, took a dive on this after 2020.
00:11:23.080 Their official position now is to just ignore it, not talk about it.
00:11:28.580 They're doing absolutely nothing to fix it.
00:11:31.900 It's the end of the republic.
00:11:33.420 I mean, it's the end of any semblance of being able to rely on the outcome of the election.
00:11:36.900 First of all, you agree with the mathematicians.
00:11:40.200 What happened over the weekend, and particularly yesterday, was mathematically impossible.
00:11:45.000 He couldn't have gotten that few votes.
00:11:46.840 i mean these dumps they were given were like the dumps they were given in pennsylvania remember we
00:11:51.320 went off the air in pennsylvania was trump up 900 000 or a million a million two 800 there was some
00:11:57.160 spread 800 000 to a million two he was up it was mathematically impossible for him to lose given
00:12:03.540 what was outstanding at the time and of course they stole it in broad daylight in pennsylvania
00:12:08.280 in 2020 yesterday these were mathematically impossible they just they don't care it's not 1.00
00:12:14.620 how stupid they think we are. They just don't care anymore. They're just going to do it. They've got 1.00
00:12:18.900 a process. They're going to run it. It's a 45-day process. Sam. Yeah, 100%. Look, Pennsylvania 2020,
00:12:26.840 after all the math has been done and all the numbers have settled now over the course of years,
00:12:31.700 there are still something like 130,000 votes and change. More votes that were cast in Pennsylvania
00:12:41.080 in the presidential in 2020 than people who voted.
00:12:46.640 I'm not a math whiz, but those two numbers have to be the same.
00:12:50.220 And any time you get 130,000 more votes than people that voted, you got a big problem.
00:12:57.360 Nobody has ever been able to resolve it, even after all of this time.
00:13:01.280 It remains on the books.
00:13:03.280 The official position of the Republican Party is what?
00:13:05.960 To just put their fingers in their ears, say la, la, la, and pretend.
00:13:10.680 okay like that's not true this i'm gonna hold you through the break sam and thank you for sticking
00:13:15.420 around uh prior we're supposed to get you up earlier but i want to go to that is the key point
00:13:19.340 the reason california and the mayor of los andes the reason spencer pratt ain't in the race in
00:13:25.480 november is because we've known this in georgia in arizona but particularly in pennsylvania
00:13:30.780 and yes the official apparatus doesn't want to deal with it sir yes sir that is absolutely
00:13:38.180 true you try to get the establishment to even discuss this issue in pennsylvania and this is 0.99
00:13:45.280 true everywhere they don't want to talk about it you are a crazy person and a conspiracy theorist 0.97
00:13:50.600 you know the great thing i love about maga and the great thing i love about the grassroots in 0.96
00:13:55.140 this audience if you go to the the uh events that sam puts on you go see the grassroots the
00:14:00.760 working class and middle class people in pennsylvania make it happen or in georgia or in
00:14:04.640 Arizona, these swing states. The number one thing they talk about is election integrity and they're
00:14:12.200 treated like crazy people. Republican apparatus, official republicandom. Talk to me about Los
00:14:19.220 Angeles County. You don't have a country. Let me be blunt. Who controls America? Ask yourself today.
00:14:28.000 see what you see who controls this country you're never going to win ever another one of these
00:14:37.500 sanctuary cities you're not going to win illinois and new york and california you don't think that's
00:14:43.380 dangerous you don't think that's dangerous that's a true pathway to a civil war which is what they 0.84
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00:16:51.680 um sam thank you for sticking around uh i appreciate you um real quickly because you
00:17:04.080 you've done it a great piece and we can put that up from steven hatfield and we're trying to get
00:17:08.500 dr hatfield on tomorrow it takes about two days to get dr hatfield ready for a hit because he's
00:17:14.220 he's a piece of work right one of the most brilliant guys i've ever met um sam before you
00:17:21.600 leave uh texas the screw worm is this expanding i read that a couple more cases have been
00:17:29.060 identified this is i want to make sure this is not just people running around with their hair
00:17:32.460 and fire. Hatfield is a pretty serious guy. Talk to us about what's going on down there.
00:17:38.100 Yeah, Hatfield's as serious as they get, right? One of the top
00:17:40.500 experts in the entire planet on this kind of stuff. So the squirrel worm, it infects living
00:17:45.720 cattle, it infects living animals. It means potentially the death of the American beef
00:17:50.380 herd. It is now spreading in Texas very rapidly. It's now been detected up near the New Mexico
00:17:56.880 border. The single most dangerous thing about this most recent case near the New Mexico border,
00:18:04.140 the infection is in a dog. It's not just cattle the thing affects. Why is that so dangerous?
00:18:10.400 Moving from herd to herd, the screwworm maybe moves, expands a mile a day, but it can affect
00:18:17.020 other animals. And so, I mean, if the cattle are transported hundreds of miles in a truck and
00:18:22.020 they're infected boom you just moved them 300 miles in a day but you start getting into family
00:18:27.620 pets that are in the family car and that family is leaving texas and going back home california
00:18:34.640 montana wyoming iowa you just moved the screw worm that is living in that dog's flesh 500 miles
00:18:42.620 in a day potentially that's catastrophic means it jumps the fire break there's boom you very
00:18:49.260 rapidly, you don't have control at all anymore. Unreal. And Magazine, you're putting up great
00:18:56.040 stuff. Well, I've had Phil on Amar. Where do people go and read more about your take on the
00:19:00.540 situation in the Middle East? Also, the situation down in Texas, your article on that's pretty
00:19:05.900 impressive. And Magazine, we're at Substack, andmagazine.substack.com. And I'm all over the
00:19:13.120 web as real Sam Faddis. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you sticking around for us today, Sam. Thank you,
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00:20:03.520 So Noel, talk to me about, you've got Bill Pulte.
00:20:09.060 He's trying to get in.
00:20:09.760 President Trump wants to do D&I.
00:20:11.160 They're holding up this.
00:20:12.560 They got the FISA, and one of the leading voices in that is Lindsey Graham.
00:20:17.040 And one of the reasons he's scrambling around is that word has it,
00:20:20.540 and the polling is coming out, it's pretty unbelievable.
00:20:24.300 Lindsey being an incumbent, multi-term incumbent,
00:20:29.020 having that entire apparatus, having the South Carolina political class
00:20:33.480 in back of him, having unlimited money from both what he's raised
00:20:37.020 and the Senate Leadership Fund is under 50%.
00:20:41.900 And if he comes under 50 percent, he has to go to a runoff. 0.93
00:20:45.660 This would be the most humiliating thing that would ever happen to Lindsey Graham. 0.83
00:20:49.600 How is that possibly happening? 0.95
00:20:51.300 This guy's dug in has got every advantage out there.
00:20:53.780 How could he possibly be under 50 percent?
00:20:56.540 What are the people in South Carolina trying to signal?
00:20:57.980 I don't know if it's the most humiliating thing that's ever happened to Lindsey Graham.
00:21:00.980 I think there's a lot of humiliating things that have happened to Lindsey Graham, Steve.
00:21:06.520 Look, so, yes, he's very unpopular.
00:21:10.080 He's deeply unpopular. And I'm working with Mark Lynch, who is spending five million dollars out of his own retirement to get rid of this guy.
00:21:17.620 Lynch is a patriot who just wants to have a successful polity for his kids and his grandkids.
00:21:24.900 And and South Carolina is going to trend the direction that Chris Lasavita takes every state that he works in.
00:21:30.740 In Virginia, he gave us the Democrats in McAuliffe instead of getting the win with Cuccinelli in 2013.
00:21:36.980 In 2016, in North Carolina, Chris LaCivita gave us, unfortunately, a Democrat, Cooper, now who's going to be your next senator.
00:21:44.540 But we had an incumbent Republican in 2016, and that Republican incumbent lost the same year that Trump won in 2016.
00:21:52.340 Look, these phony, they're counterfeit Republicans.
00:21:56.320 It's not even fair to use the word Republican in the same sentence with a lot of these guys, like Lindsey Graham, are just, they're out for themselves.
00:22:04.760 They are going to sell out the country to the lowest bidder, and everybody knows it now, Steve.
00:22:10.160 We can't find people in South Carolina who really like Lindsey Graham.
00:22:14.100 Nobody publicly admits to it, and you know why, Steve?
00:22:16.160 No, no, no, hang on a second.
00:22:18.260 But hang on a second.
00:22:19.060 He's on Fox.
00:22:20.400 I think he's actually a co-host.
00:22:22.620 He's on Fox all the time.
00:22:25.340 And we know Fox carpet bombs us.
00:22:28.520 They won't let Lynch on, Steve.
00:22:30.120 They won't let Lynch on.
00:22:31.260 Fox will not let Lynch on.
00:22:32.700 We've been going loggerheads with them for, you know, months now.
00:22:36.040 They will not allow, they won't cover the race, period.
00:22:39.260 And so we've been, there's other channels that are competitors to this station
00:22:43.320 that are also freezing Lynch out.
00:22:45.500 We had one scheduled actually with Newsmax over the weekend.
00:22:49.020 I spoke with Chris Ruddy.
00:22:50.340 He's like, oh, let me look into it.
00:22:51.660 Well, we never got a call back.
00:22:53.220 There are some other conservative media.
00:22:55.560 So thank you to you, Steve.
00:22:57.040 You guys are patriots and we appreciate your support.
00:23:01.420 Obviously, we've got to get the word out as much as possible.
00:23:03.520 But everybody needs to know that Fox News is the enemy of the people.
00:23:07.380 Fox News takes money.
00:23:08.500 Literally, we reported this a couple years ago.
00:23:10.300 They took something totaling close to a billion dollars.
00:23:13.100 A huge chunk of that came from the Central Bank of China right at the same time that that whole Dominion payoff went out, which is, of course, just a bunch of money laundering.
00:23:21.000 That's like a bribe.
00:23:21.960 They got paid to make sure that that whole story went away. 0.97
00:23:25.000 And Lindsey Graham, again, is right at the center of that whole deal.
00:23:27.880 He was the guy that handed the P-Gate dossier and the Hillary Clinton thing with McCain over to the FBI.
00:23:36.160 Politico reported that.
00:23:37.340 So that's what happened.
00:23:39.400 And then to sort of bring it full circle to this whole FISA, you're talking about Lindsey Graham running around and trying to get on Fox News every day of the week.
00:23:47.220 And they should pay him, right?
00:23:48.600 There should be like an FEC disbursement from Fox News to the Lindsey Graham campaign.
00:23:53.880 And I'm going to get to that actually here soon.
00:23:56.120 But he's running around talking about the FISA deal
00:23:58.980 Don't you remember like last August, Steve
00:24:01.560 Where Lindsey Graham was so upset that they surveilled him
00:24:06.320 With this made up fake story called like Arctic Frost or something like that
00:24:10.260 He was whining about being surveilled
00:24:12.640 Now here he is this week trying to pass this FISA thing
00:24:15.300 He's desperate
00:24:16.240 And by the way, Thune is using the calendar at the Senate
00:24:21.240 To do anything, it proves that everything is political
00:24:23.820 they like the last week he lindsey graham is getting all these big legislative wins well he's
00:24:28.360 the budget chairman we still don't have a budget where's the budget lindsey um so look these guys
00:24:33.460 are total frauds okay hang on so hang on so hang on hang on just make the case lindsey graham he's
00:24:40.480 going to tell the people in south gana you may not like it but i bring seniority i get special
00:24:45.040 deals i get tons of government money down there and defense installations everything i can make
00:24:49.880 I'm internationally known. Hang on. I'm internationally known.
00:24:52.900 I go to the Munich defense conference and I get Mercedes and everybody comes in the South.
00:24:57.100 South Carolina's comedy is booming because of Lindsey Graham.
00:25:01.180 What's the argument? What's the counter argument to that, sir?
00:25:06.000 First of all, he doesn't actually bring a whole bunch of cheddar. 1.00
00:25:08.520 We got the Columbia had their army base bracked, you know, and so look, Lindsey Graham is an embarrassment. 0.99
00:25:14.660 The guy, by the way, one of his biggest claims to fame is, you know, he does these Kavanaugh.
00:25:20.700 But, you know, I guess he did vote yes on Kavanaugh and he made a lot of noise on TV about it.
00:25:24.800 That's something he's very good at doing. But he also voted to confirm Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Boasberg.
00:25:32.500 OK, Lindsay was a yes on Boasberg. Lindsay also voted for this guy, a Biden nominee not too long ago, a couple of years ago, called Brendan Herson.
00:25:40.340 Brendan Herson as soon as Trump came into office this for the second term
00:25:45.080 Brendan Herson voted or unilaterally rather struck down the executive order
00:25:52.200 banning the mutilation of child genitalia that's Lindsey Graham's record he is
00:25:58.960 always a rubber stamp for far-left Democrat nut jobs in the judiciary and
00:26:04.380 he makes noise about it as if he's not that's a lie look anybody Steve who 0.86
00:26:09.180 finds the meaning of life at the bottom of a dung hole you can't trust them that's lindsey
00:26:14.020 graham and look south carolina everybody around the world is looking around at you guys being like
00:26:19.860 how is that your senator you should be embarrassed like look if this guy somehow manages to skate by
00:26:26.440 okay and he's your senator again for another six years i pray to god it doesn't happen but if he 0.75
00:26:31.740 does you guys are on record this you're a christian state you're one of like the reddest bible belt
00:26:38.380 states there is and lindsey graham and tim scott like these two weird guys are are somehow your
00:26:44.400 statewide elected you got some explaining to do south carolina if you're a christian you can't let
00:26:48.900 this happen this is what i don't get you don't get any better than the folks in south carolina
00:26:53.840 these are red-blooded american patriots and you get trey gowdy and lindsey graham okay let's cut
00:27:00.300 to the chase where do people go right now if they want to find out about lynch or if they want to
00:27:04.960 put in a protest vote against lindsey and keep him under 50 where do they go to find out everything
00:27:10.520 about lynch and also the polling places all the information where they go right now no lynch for
00:27:16.280 senate.com uh and at mark lynch sc on all of the socials uh the team down there is uh they're going
00:27:23.280 crazy they're getting everybody out to the polls uh we need all hands on deck grab everybody you
00:27:28.800 know take them out to the polls make sure they vote they gotta vote for mark lynch uh and we
00:27:34.720 got to get uh lindsey under 50 if he goes under 50 there's a two-week runoff steve and if that
00:27:42.140 happens it's going to be a huge huge um uh just cataclysmic event for the rhinos um and i got to
00:27:49.300 say this uh steve you're talking about a little bit of the election fraud stuff going on the
00:27:53.660 republicans want the election fraud to continue i can assure you steve you were with me in
00:27:57.900 mississippi back in 2014 with chris mcdaniel where they bought black votes look these rhinos 0.98
00:28:03.980 They are the worst. 0.99
00:28:05.260 Alabama, down there, they've got to be all cleaned out.
00:28:07.920 We've got to bounce.
00:28:08.720 Where do they go to National File?
00:28:11.080 Yep, National File.
00:28:13.160 Sorry about that.
00:28:13.900 I don't know what happens.
00:28:14.580 Zoom crashed.
00:28:15.960 Apologies.
00:28:16.700 I hope I'm back.
00:28:17.480 Okay, that's okay.
00:28:18.620 Just your voice.
00:28:19.640 Where do they go for National File?
00:28:21.460 At National File, nationalfile.com.
00:28:23.860 We've got some big stories coming up for you there as well, Steve. 0.55
00:28:26.940 And, yeah, we've got to get rid of Lindsey. 0.91
00:28:30.980 Dump Lindsey.
00:28:31.860 The whole world is watching. 0.80
00:28:33.980 OK, people in South Carolina, huge, huge, huge event under 50 percent going to be very humiliating for Lindsey Graham.
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00:32:36.980 Trita Parsi, you've got a piece up on your sub stack I've put up. You've been really a great
00:32:41.520 guide. You get a lot of criticism and we get a lot of criticism to have you on there. But I say,
00:32:45.600 look, I want a range of thinking because this is a quite complex topic. And as we see over the
00:32:51.740 weekend with President Trump trying to step into the breach here and saying, hey, I'm calling the
00:32:56.800 shots and you're not going to do this and things happen, et cetera. I think you've been a pretty
00:33:00.760 good guy for a reality check of what's going on. You make a point in the substack that what happened
00:33:07.320 over the weekend is quite fundamental. It's maybe even more fundamental than the shifting of this
00:33:12.000 battle or this war to the Persian Gulf after the Israeli attacks down on the natural gas facilities
00:33:18.680 of Qatar in the Iranians, which Qatar kind of control, and the shift in the Straits of Hormuz.
00:33:24.020 Talk to me about what happened over the weekend and why is this so fundamentally important, sir?
00:33:30.320 Great to be with you, Steve, and happy to hear that I'm still controversial.
00:33:33.860 So what I think happened here is that the Iranians had already from the outset said that if there is supposed to be an end to this war, it has to encompass Israel and Lebanon as well. 0.63
00:33:47.220 Otherwise, the Israelis, if they're unrestrained, they will just restart the war. 0.71
00:33:51.200 They will drag the U.S. into it again. 0.89
00:33:53.260 And what's the point then of having an agreement with the United States if the Israelis still have this massive loophole in which they can restart the war? 0.83
00:34:00.380 And I think the Trump administration did take this seriously. 0.53
00:34:02.800 I think that's part of the reason why you had that colorful conversation between Trump and
00:34:06.700 Netanyahu the other day, because that actually was preceded by the U.S. side picking up that
00:34:12.060 the Iranians were about to launch missiles on Israel. And they were about 45 minutes to 60
00:34:16.880 minutes away from doing so. And Trump intervened, got the Israelis to back off, at least temporarily.
00:34:22.640 But this is the pattern we've seen before. Netanyahu backs off, but he only does so for
00:34:27.360 a couple of days, and then he's back at it. And he did attack southern Lebanon, southern Beirut,
00:34:33.860 and essentially disregarded both what Trump had asked him, as well as the warnings from the
00:34:38.360 Iranian side. And then the Iranians shot a large number of missiles at Israel. We have no idea
00:34:43.480 what the degree of damage is, because the Israeli military censorship is now so strict, you have no
00:34:49.520 idea what's going on over there. Even in the summer war last year, there was a degree of it,
00:34:55.220 but at least you got images and other things out. Now we get almost nothing. And with that,
00:35:01.040 the Iranians were essentially trying to change the battle lines. They had already re-established 1.00
00:35:06.160 their own deterrence. The Israelis know very well if they attack Iran, there's going to be a response. 0.61
00:35:10.500 Now they were trying to extend the deterrence onto Lebanon in the absence of any other pressure 0.58
00:35:16.740 working on making sure that the Israelis back off. If that were to be established, and we still 0.71
00:35:21.500 don't know if it has been established or not, it would be a bit of a game changer because it would 0.69
00:35:26.160 be the first time in quite some time in the region in which Israel's maneuverability in the region
00:35:32.120 would be restrained because another power is willing to strike at Israel, not in response to
00:35:37.980 Israel attacking that country, but in response to Israel attacking a third country. Now, if that were
00:35:43.680 to happen, this is what the Israelis call this new Iranian equation. If that were to be established, 0.76
00:35:48.240 it would be a terrible situation from the Israeli standpoint because they want to have
00:35:53.300 complete maneuverability in the region. They want to be able to strike at Lebanon without a 0.84
00:35:57.600 consequence, at Syria, at anyone that they want, essentially. And that is part of the policy that 0.91
00:36:03.660 the U.S. itself has pursued for Israel for the last couple of decades of allowing the Israelis
00:36:08.040 to have this total military domination with no inhibitions on its maneuverability. The problem
00:36:14.140 with that, in my view, is that it has made the Israelis far more reckless, far more disregarding
00:36:20.020 of U.S. interests, far less disregarding of the need for stability that the U.S. also has. 0.74
00:36:27.140 And as a result, it's just, you know, become a snowballing of the Israelis just doing more and 0.91
00:36:32.400 more and more in a manner that has been a problem both for the United States, but clearly for the 1.00
00:36:36.500 region as well. It's been very destabilizing. But this is not something the Israelis want to give
00:36:40.880 up. This is what the Iranians tried to establish. Now, the Israelis, despite Trump's very strong 0.99
00:36:46.380 and public warning saying don't respond, did respond. The question was how extensive was the
00:36:53.780 Israeli response. The Iranians say that it was actually rather limited. They didn't do huge
00:36:58.920 damage. I don't know if that is a self-serving thing that the Iranians are saying to play it
00:37:03.100 down. But at the same time, it does appear that the U.S. side believes that the Israeli response
00:37:08.240 essentially was proportionate and not escalatory. The Iranians responded again after that. And since
00:37:14.440 then, the Israelis have not done anything except for some strikes in southern Lebanon that seems
00:37:18.880 to also have been in areas that were not that very, very critical. The White House now believes
00:37:23.560 that both sides have backed off, that Trump played this very well. And as a result, this round at a
00:37:30.120 minimum is over. And now there may be a new impetus for diplomacy. But I think what really matters at
00:37:36.520 this point is to see, will the Israelis strike southern Beirut or not? If they don't, it does 0.55
00:37:43.180 appear that this new equation, at least to a certain extent, has been established, which doesn't
00:37:47.960 mean that the Israelis cannot strike southern Beirut or that they won't, but it means that every
00:37:52.640 time they decide to do so, they have to take into account that there's going to be a cost associated 0.99
00:37:57.920 with it because the Iranians will do something. And that is a cost and a consideration that they 1.00
00:38:03.060 did not have to take into account before. And that is a very profound change in the region
00:38:08.580 because we have not seen anything like that for the last 20 or 30 years, I would say.
00:38:14.000 Has President Trump now segued into a, is he now the mediator for this? I mean, at first he was a
00:38:21.320 combatant and really leading, you know, Israel's a protectorate. I know they're America's greatest
00:38:27.020 ally, but a protectorate. Has he now shifted into the role over the last week, but particularly
00:38:32.160 over the weekend of being the mediator here? I think to a certain extent that he has. And I
00:38:37.140 think that is absolutely the right thing to do. In my view, you know my view on this, I don't think
00:38:41.340 this war should have been started in the first place. I think this was only serving Israel and 0.91
00:38:44.740 it was a mistake from an America First standpoint to go along with it. But now what Trump seems to
00:38:50.480 be doing is to extract himself and the United States from this. And in my view, the U.S. should
00:38:56.220 not be a feature in the Israeli-Iranian rivalry. It should not allow the Israelis or the Iranians 1.00
00:39:01.700 to have a veto over whether talks take place or succeed or have an impact on when the U.S. is at
00:39:08.200 war and when it isn't. That should be a firmly American decision. But the more the U.S. is 0.81
00:39:12.540 entangled in this rivalry, the less maneuverability and control Trump will have. By taking this step
00:39:22.320 back, mediating, and also incidentally, not joining in with the Israelis in this exchange of
00:39:28.000 fire. I think we've also seen a very critical step by the Trump administration to move itself
00:39:34.040 out of this. It's not a complete move. Of course, you know, the Israelis say that the U.S. actually
00:39:39.020 helped the Israelis with shooting down some of the missiles. The White House denies it and says
00:39:44.400 actually the U.S. was not involved. I don't know exactly where the truth is, but if it is so that
00:39:48.780 the U.S. was not involved, that is a very significant message to the Israelis as well,
00:39:53.360 that if we tell you not to strike back or not to strike at all, you have to understand that
00:39:58.780 the consequence will be that the U.S. is not going to be at your side and defending you
00:40:02.780 at the inevitable consequences that will come when you are not listening to us.
00:40:07.560 So I think that is, if that is true, then that is a very significant shift. Remember,
00:40:12.020 Biden on every one of these exchanges, he said he didn't want the Israelis to do it,
00:40:15.640 yet he provided full defensive support. Hang on one second. I want to tell Aviv 0.65
00:40:20.460 Levin gave an alternative that I want to hear that's predicated on two things, the Persian
00:40:24.300 people and the Arab allies. Let's go and play this. I want your response. Here's an idea.
00:40:32.220 We spend the next two or three weeks hammering the hell out of every target that matters,
00:40:39.340 including the so-called enriched uranium. 20% or more, I don't really care, whatever it is,
00:40:46.620 and just hit them with everything we've got 0.97
00:40:49.040 with those fabulous bombers and bombs. 0.99
00:40:52.080 Take out everything we can find 1.00
00:40:54.300 in coordination with our Arab and Israeli allies. 0.99
00:40:59.180 Identify every IRGC facility we possibly can
00:41:04.620 and level them.
00:41:06.100 Do as much military damage as we possibly can,
00:41:08.980 dual-use damage as we possibly can,
00:41:11.920 and then leave.
00:41:14.540 Rather than giving them money, which to me would be a disaster, and tell the Israelis and tell the Saudis, the UAE, which has been very good, and anybody else in the Arab world, we will provide you with whatever intelligence support, training, military equipment that you need.
00:41:37.140 We will continue to use our posture in the region to defend our forces and our mutual interests. 0.87
00:41:44.700 But as far as Iran and Hezbollah go, you go at it. 0.99
00:41:48.720 If you want to blow Hezbollah off the face of the earth, then you do it. 0.98
00:41:53.560 If you want to blow the Iranian regime off the face of the earth, then you do it. 0.99
00:41:59.320 And, in addition, what we, the United States, will do, finally, is arm the people of Iran.
00:42:08.320 As we have, as a country, armed people throughout the world, freedom fighters who want their freedom.
00:42:15.320 And I don't want to hear that the Iranian people don't want their freedom. That is baloney.
00:42:21.320 So Trita, there's a lot of people in the United States that will give that a listen.
00:42:25.320 look, if you tell me it's two weeks and I'm out, even if it's escalatory, this is predicated upon
00:42:31.400 actually the Arabs being down with this and for this. And most importantly, the Persian people 0.95
00:42:37.380 ready to rise up. So I want to take a minute here, but hold you through the break because
00:42:41.200 I think this one needs to be addressed, sir. Did we lose his mic? Trita? Oh, I'm here. I thought
00:42:53.500 do you want me to respond after the break? No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. Just right now would be
00:42:58.160 fine. A minute right now, I'm going to hold you after the break. Okay. Yeah. So look, I think,
00:43:02.620 first of all, notice that Trump did not listen to a single thing Mark Levine asked for. Not a
00:43:07.820 single thing of those things that he called for did Trump do in this moment. He did not go and
00:43:12.480 bomb everything. He did not do all of this full escalation because at the end of the day, I think
00:43:16.920 Trump has understood that all of these promises, all of these false promises of how easy this would
00:43:22.080 be and how quick this would be were all false. And now the United States is in this situation
00:43:28.100 that it shouldn't be in, and he's trying to get out of it, recognizing that it was a problem to 0.60
00:43:33.060 listen to the Israelis, although, of course, he's never going to say that publicly. But the fact
00:43:36.880 that he's not listening to them now, he's not following their advice now, says a lot. Now,
00:43:41.940 if the United States were to do this, then we would have all-out wall. And we already know
00:43:45.920 at this point how damaging that would be. We know that the Iranians would have the ability of taking 1.00
00:43:51.400 out all of the oil facilities in the Persian Gulf, which would then create not just a bottleneck 0.99
00:43:56.920 problem, but a production problem. We were talking about oil above $200 for two to three years going
00:44:02.620 forward because enough production does not exist. Trita, just stick around. Stick around. Short break.
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00:45:39.600 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.
00:45:43.620 Trita, but Mark Levin is giving people who want to listen a path out of here. 1.00
00:45:50.320 A couple weeks of bombing, you've got the Arabs on your side,
00:45:53.020 you've got the Persian people that are ready to rise up.
00:45:56.120 All we've got to do is arm them because they want to breathe the fresh air of democracy and freedom
00:46:02.620 after, what, I don't know, 60, 70 years of being under the boot of the theocratic Islamic mullahs, sir. 0.98
00:46:11.220 look this is exactly the same kind of snake oil that they were selling with the iraq war and with 0.96
00:46:18.820 all of these other interventions in the middle east that have proven to be a disaster do the 0.82
00:46:23.320 iranian people want to leave me under a completely different government and regime absolutely i don't 0.95
00:46:28.680 think there's any doubt that the majority of them want to go in that direction are they ready to
00:46:33.680 take up arms against the iranian government i think that is a recipe for civil war and prolonged
00:46:40.900 disaster, which is exactly what people like Mark Levine and his supporters in Israel are looking
00:46:46.680 for. Because what the Israelis want at the end of the day is not democracy in Iran. They don't want
00:46:51.600 democracy in Syria or in Lebanon or any other place. What they're looking for is chaos so that
00:46:57.040 those countries cannot have the power to limit Israel's maneuverability. Going back to the very 0.59
00:47:03.160 equation I talked about earlier on, they want to have complete military dominance in the region,
00:47:07.620 complete maneuverability. And that requires that these other countries that have the potential of
00:47:13.560 being powerful enough to challenge Israel are not reaching that potential. Whether that means
00:47:18.780 throwing them into a civil war or other means or defeating them militarily, either one is fine. But 0.99
00:47:24.600 in the case of Iran, they cannot defeat them militarily. So they're looking towards saying, 0.97
00:47:28.680 how can we start a civil war? Remember, Israelis are openly talking about that their plan was to 0.92
00:47:32.840 arm the Kurds inside of Iran. And this was specifically a movement that is a separatist
00:47:38.640 organization. So this goes towards civil war, separating the country, all of the kind of
00:47:43.520 things that produce massive refugee flows. And all of those refugees go to the West, they go to 0.98
00:47:49.080 Europe, they go to the United States, all of these kind of disasters that these neoconservative 0.99
00:47:53.820 dreams in the region have created before. But this one would be on crack.
00:47:58.080 Trita, real quickly, our Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar, a couple of them throwing money, UAE actually will punch as hard as they can punch. Where are their heads right now? Where do you think they stand on all of this? 0.72
00:48:14.480 the emiratis are completely with israelis they want more conflict they want the united states
00:48:20.880 to hit the iranians as hard as possible and they want the united states to support israel if israel
00:48:26.400 goes in that direction to support the uae itself because after the abrams accord i think they've
00:48:31.640 moved so close to the israelis that it's really difficult at times to see a daylight between them
00:48:35.720 that is not where the rest of the regional states are or the regional allies of the united states
00:48:40.300 certainly not where the Qataris are, and not even the Saudis, who do not have any love for this
00:48:45.840 government in Iran. They're not in that place either, because I think they have now seen what
00:48:50.400 war does. They have come out of this war relatively good looking. They have not suffered that much
00:48:56.500 economically. They have a pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. They've been able to sell
00:49:01.660 a lot of oil at even higher prices than they did before. They have not been struck that hard by the
00:49:07.020 Iranians. The Iranians clearly have avoided going into direct confrontation with the Saudis.
00:49:11.680 But if this war continues and escalates, all of those relative gains of Saudi Arabia could be
00:49:17.420 lost. And that's part of the reason why they're lobbying strongly against further war.
00:49:21.480 Trita, one more thing before you go. The Houthis. Are the Houthis coming in now? Is the Red Sea
00:49:26.320 now? Because if this happens, folks, you're going to see with NATO how worthless they are. We're 0.59
00:49:30.800 going to have to send another carrier battle group over there to keep the Red Sea and the 0.90
00:49:35.600 Suez Canal open. Your thoughts on the Houthis? Yeah, so it seemed like the Houthis were about
00:49:41.560 to go in. But because of the fact that after the second round of Iranian attacks, the Iranians said
00:49:46.580 that they're now done. And it seems like the Israelis are not going to respond, at least not
00:49:51.020 now. We'll see what happens in three, four days. And again, what I said earlier on, it really goes
00:49:54.860 down to whether there is another attack on Beirut. If that happens, unfortunately, this whole thing
00:50:00.600 can restart. And then we may very well see the Houthis closing the Red Sea. And even if the U.S. 0.72
00:50:06.060 sends another carrier over there, we know it from the last time, the U.S. can bomb a lot of things
00:50:11.380 in Yemen, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the strait opens. So that traffic in that waterway,
00:50:17.080 which is another 12% of global energy, will be at least partially closed in that scenario. 0.99
00:50:22.440 The Houthis, I say their equivalent is like Appalachia. The Egyptians, I think they lost 0.99
00:50:27.100 40. They had a 40,000, 50,000-man army. They got defeated. I think Nasser was the head. The British
00:50:33.060 were down there. The Saudis have tried to take us on their peninsula. The UAE tried to help out. I 0.97
00:50:38.440 mean, these are tough hombres, right? They don't like each other. They've been fighting forever,
00:50:42.160 and they're going to fight, right? So you get mixed up in the middle of that. You're asking
00:50:45.760 for another major escalation in this world. Exactly. And listen carefully to what Mark
00:50:49.760 Levin was saying. He was essentially arguing for the United States to triple down its involvement
00:50:55.220 in the Middle East, entangle ourselves even beyond what our previous entanglements have been.
00:51:01.260 At a moment where the vast majority of Americans just want to come home from the Middle East,
00:51:06.500 do not want to be involved in every rivalry and in every dispute that the peoples over there have,
00:51:11.580 recognizing that they are actually immaterial, ultimately, to U.S. interests. There are regions
00:51:16.840 of the world that really matter to the United States. The Middle East increasingly is not one
00:51:21.380 of them, yet that is the one where we are most deeply involved. And it's very much thanks to 0.96
00:51:25.620 people like Mark Livian and other neocons who are constantly pushing us deeper into quagmires over
00:51:30.480 there. Trita, where do people go to get your analysis, sir? They should go to my substack,
00:51:36.800 which is trita.parsi.substack.com. Go to my Twitter at tparsi. And of course, go to the
00:51:42.840 Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org. Thank you, Trita. I appreciate you.
00:51:49.920 Thanks so much for having me on.
00:51:51.920 So this afternoon, okay, the Charlie Kirk show is up next.
00:51:54.880 Poso after that.
00:51:55.660 Make sure you watch Poso.
00:51:57.240 Gruber, I'm going to be on Eric's show at the end if I can get to 5 o'clock,
00:52:00.820 and I will commit to get it done so I can spend some time with Eric, catch up.
00:52:04.080 We're going to spend time on this Los Angeles situation.
00:52:06.900 Folks, ask yourself, who runs the country?
00:52:10.900 You're not going to get a better candidate in Los Angeles than Pratt.
00:52:16.680 Okay?
00:52:17.040 What I liked about Pratt is that when they ask him questions on certain things, he says, I don't know anything about that.
00:52:21.600 That's not my priorities is getting this place clean, getting crime down, making sure it's livable.
00:52:27.820 My focus will be that.
00:52:30.000 Again, our hands are on the budget, this homelessness, the basics, the requirements.
00:52:33.880 You're not going to get a better candidate.
00:52:35.460 It was stolen from him in broad daylight.
00:52:38.540 And this is the key point.
00:52:40.420 They don't care.
00:52:42.460 This is just up in your grill, and they know no one's going to do anything about it.
00:52:47.040 We're years after the 2020 election, and the Republican apparatus will not touch it.
00:52:54.800 They don't want to go there.
00:52:56.080 We must go there or we don't have a country.
00:53:00.620 Los Angeles should be everything that you need to know about the direction of this nation.
00:53:05.820 You have no ability to have an actual democratic process with American citizens, liberals,
00:53:11.580 conservatives libertarians progressives actually voting for elective officials that's not what this 0.87
00:53:19.560 is this is the marxist shihadist deep state they run the deal in los angeles they're telling you
00:53:27.740 we run the deal we don't give a damn what you've got to think about it see you back here at five 0.74
00:53:32.120 for the first time since world war ii our national debt held by the public has exceeded
00:53:43.100 gdp america this is a wake-up call our sins of the past reckless government spending have finally
00:53:51.600 caught up to us so what's next higher inflation higher prices higher cost of living expenses
00:53:57.780 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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