Bannon's War Room - June 15, 2026


Episode 5444： President Trump Heads To G7; Peace In The Middle East

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Breaking down the deal between the U.S. and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. Iran says it will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lift sanctions, and pave the way for future nuclear talks, but there are still many unknowns.

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00:00:00.000 Good morning. President Trump is now on his way to the G7 summit in France after announcing a
00:00:04.700 diplomatic breakthrough. More than 15 weeks into this war, the U.S. and Iran say they have reached
00:00:10.100 a framework that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade on Iran's ports
00:00:15.680 and pave the way for the much harder and more complicated, complex, technical,
00:00:20.580 important talks on the nuclear issue ahead. A signing is set for Friday in Geneva,
00:00:24.980 but already there are conflicting accounts of what happens, well, after that, literally after the signing.
00:00:31.240 Iran says a 60-day period of nuclear negotiations will begin only when the U.S. releases billions of dollars of its frozen funds.
00:00:39.480 But a U.S. official says no funds will be released before Iran follows through on its own commitments.
00:00:46.060 Adding to the unknowns this morning, Israel.
00:00:49.100 Iran says the agreement includes an end to the conflict in Lebanon.
00:00:52.920 Israel's defense minister just spoke out today, saying that the IDF is not withdrawing, though, from southern Lebanon.
00:00:59.120 And just before the agreement was announced, Israel hit Beirut.
00:01:02.980 A U.S. official says that that move angered President Trump.
00:01:08.840 And he told Axios of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quote, he has no effing judgment.
00:01:15.680 Good thing when a conflict ends, this is one that's really harmed the global economy.
00:01:21.480 So if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, and that seems to be the basic top line of this deal, that will be a good thing for the global economy. 0.89
00:01:31.580 It is a long way to go for what appears to be very little in terms of locked-in promises from Iran.
00:01:41.340 It does look very similar to the JCPOA, which Trump scrapped.
00:01:47.200 as some of the provisions may even be somewhat weaker.
00:01:52.160 It's hard to tell because we're just going to begin those negotiations this week and over the next 60 days.
00:02:00.160 But I think in some ways the thing that's most important but seems most unrealistic in this deal
00:02:08.740 is this idea of a broad change in the Middle East,
00:02:13.160 It's a process where the U.S. over time, if Iran responds positively, begins to pump development money, not just reconstruction, but to build Iranian businesses and has a vision for Iran becoming over time a country more like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates than like the very closed and really impoverished country it's been.
00:02:38.340 And if they can do that, if the Iranians are really prepared to make those changes, that would be a significant move into the future.
00:02:47.340 But right now, in terms of what's actually agreed, actually on paper, it's pretty thin. 0.78
00:02:53.100 The main achievement is one that I don't want to discount, opening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:57.800 But otherwise, not a lot there yet.
00:03:00.140 It's one of the many reasons why Israel is so dead set against this.
00:03:03.960 What they see is an enraged Iran with more radical leadership.
00:03:10.880 You have the Revolutionary Guard now running it and the most hardened elements of the Revolutionary Guard.
00:03:18.040 They believe, and as Richard said, everybody around these talks believe that 60 days in, they're going to start charging tolls.
00:03:26.840 And then you look at the sanctions relief they're going to get, which, again, the Trump administration, as you know, constantly berated Joe Biden's administration for lifting sanctions against Iran from time to time.
00:03:42.500 They're going to do it. And we have talk of reconstruction if Iran behaves well down the road.
00:03:50.100 I mean, as Richard said, and again, the devil's in the details. 0.91
00:03:57.680 We're really glad there's a possibility that this war, which should have never started, comes to an end.
00:04:03.800 But let's just tell it like it is.
00:04:07.720 If people want to be lied to, go to another channel, because I can tell you which channel to go to.
00:04:13.600 They will be lying through your teeth to you right now, telling you how wonderful this is. 0.93
00:04:17.440 But if you want to know the truth of what's happening right here, the fact is, Jonathan, people in the neighborhood around Iran have every reason to be scared to death right now because this is a more radical, a more enraged and soon to be richer Iran thanks to this war. 0.90
00:04:40.840 It has murdered Israelis. Are we committed to protecting Hezbollah so it can continue to 0.93
00:04:48.240 attack Israel and continue to brutalize the people in Lebanon? This is the lifeline that 0.99
00:04:55.220 Iran is depending on. Well, if we are, then this deal won't stand. It won't stand for long,
00:05:00.220 even during the Trump presidency. Israel will not be able to adhere to what would be a suicide 0.93
00:05:05.140 pack. The Israeli people won't put up with it. The prime minister won't put up with it. We should 0.84
00:05:11.480 not accept it either. Because remember, Hezbollah has attacked us. And when Israel is forced to 0.99
00:05:18.740 defend itself, including preemptively against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and remember, they're not
00:05:23.180 at war with Lebanon. They have a peace deal with Lebanon. They've never been at war with Lebanon.
00:05:27.480 And it is said to be in violation of the deal. We saw this play out earlier. Providing the Iranian
00:05:34.080 regime with a strategic opportunity to attack israel claiming it's defending its ally and that 0.73
00:05:39.600 israel violated the deal what then will israel become a pariah and will it be admonished
00:05:49.840 iran's counting on it and so is hezbollah hezbollah must not be in the deal
00:05:56.800 it must not and that must be very clear but to me and at this stage it's not very clear
00:06:01.760 It's an important point for those who are members of the U.S. military to understand whether you are saying ground troops would be involved in cleaning up nuclear dust.
00:06:14.780 You're saying that. You're trying to put words in the mouth to create a headline.
00:06:18.020 What I'm saying is we have plans. No, we have plans for everything.
00:06:21.960 And should the president need a compel option, we have compel options and many different types of compel options.
00:06:28.720 But right now, we've set the conditions for 60 days to ensure that that material is downblended, destroyed, or removed.
00:06:35.760 Whatever the president decides is in the best interest of the United States of America.
00:06:39.780 And the War Department is there to support that effort.
00:06:42.160 Okay, you're saying immediately, but Secretary Rubio had said the U.S. would help to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:48.680 You just used 30 days as like a period of time.
00:06:52.020 Can you clear the mines and remove the security threats in the strait within 30 days?
00:06:56.180 we can do any of those things within 30 days in a permissive environment so the ball is in
00:07:02.600 Iran's court at some level we would get back to pre-war shipping we're already doing things I
00:07:06.400 can't we're already talking we're already doing things I can't talk about on this program
00:07:11.880 um and and that to ensure that safe passage happens as quickly as possible so we're
00:07:17.240 all over this we know exactly what the dynamics are uh Iran probably doesn't because they can't
00:07:22.680 see and sense their capabilities around the straight, especially these last couple nights
00:07:26.720 were very devastating for them as far as their ability to understand what's going through the
00:07:30.740 straight. So if they have capabilities and can do it, great. If not, if international partners
00:07:35.460 who've said they want to step up, want to step up and contribute, great. But once this deal is
00:07:41.200 signed, our expectation is that Iran will stop shooting, you know, drones at commercial shipping.
00:07:46.980 It's been them shooting at shipping the entire time. Yeah, they did that just on Friday. And in
00:07:50.740 fact, a drone collided with an Apache helicopter last week. They fired drones into Bahrain. They
00:07:55.600 fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan just a few days ago. They still have the capacity
00:08:00.300 to hurt our friends and partners. And that's why you have to deal with these
00:08:02.500 folks with strength and not just ask them at the table. And it's the military strength
00:08:07.460 that compelled them to this point where they're making a deal which will be great for the
00:08:11.400 security of the United States, America. And that's why this is such a big moment. And
00:08:15.460 only President Trump's strength and clarity of mission to say no nuclear weapon will 0.77
00:08:20.380 ensure that now and underneath the MOU, the terms are set that are performance based for Iran 0.57
00:08:26.480 to ensure that they never get a nuclear weapon. Well, I think Netanyahu, his people and his 0.58
00:08:34.560 mouthpieces in the Israeli media are all furious about this deal. The Israeli ambassador to
00:08:42.980 Washington, Yekia Leiter, has been making phone calls to members of Congress telling them how
00:08:50.140 much Netanyahu is concerned and disappointed about this deal. One of Netanyahu's key mouthpieces
00:08:57.980 in the Israeli press, a guy called Inon Magal, wrote on X a super strong post where he called
00:09:09.660 the U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Jew boys. He called Vice President
00:09:19.780 Vance scum. He said they're working for Qatar and the other Gulf countries. So when somebody 0.99
00:09:27.800 that close to Netanyahu writes those things on X, I think it gives some sort of an impression
00:09:33.480 about how Netanyahu and his close circle, what they think about this deal.
00:09:41.260 I come to you with honesty, with information, with truth.
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00:09:49.800 The enemy out there, whether they're podcasters, whether they're bloggers,
00:09:53.640 whomever they are, they can try to project upon me whatever they want to.
00:09:57.820 And they're trying desperately.
00:09:59.160 because this, here, your radio station right now
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00:10:14.800 America is not
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00:10:22.640 America is not
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00:10:29.160 America is not fraudster, fraudster, an Epstein videotaper, Stephen Bannon.
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00:10:49.700 America is not Megyn Kelly.
00:10:51.160 and all that involves 1.00
00:10:56.100 a bunch of psychos
00:11:00.760 I understand why they don't like me 0.93
00:11:04.780 I understand why they attack me
00:11:06.040 I don't care I'm a big boy
00:11:08.140 I'm tough
00:11:09.060 trust me
00:11:10.620 they don't want to be exposed
00:11:14.540 Monday 15 June
00:11:19.380 the year of our Lord
00:11:20.160 2026. No better way to start off a week than Tel Aviv Levin telling us that he is the voice
00:11:28.240 of America in back of that radio microphone. Welcome. Of course, we need to, and we're going
00:11:36.140 to break it all down for you this morning, this memorandum of understanding the interim deal that
00:11:43.820 will lead to a full negotiation for the next 60 days and we've got kurt mills rabbi walecki
00:11:50.160 captain finnell and of course the great eric bowling to do all that tomorrow we'll have sam
00:11:55.120 faddis and hopefully brandon weicker more we're going to pack this entire week with people making
00:12:00.080 sure they go that on the uh and the they're right there the screen we put up on the whole screen
00:12:04.080 that's the president has landed talk about a beast the uh the fight night at the white house
00:12:11.940 I don't think concluded until 2 in the morning.
00:12:15.100 The president left Andrews Air Force Base at 315.
00:12:17.580 He went right from the fights.
00:12:18.720 I mean, they're getting on Trump for being 80 years old.
00:12:21.100 How many 80-year-old guys stay up all night, watch fights, and then go take a red eye?
00:12:26.760 Goes to the airport without sleep to take a red eye.
00:12:30.600 The only thing I'll tell you about Washington, D.C. is approximately 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:12:35.040 It sounded like the War of 1812.
00:12:39.040 You felt the district was under bombardment.
00:12:44.100 Maybe the MAGA forces decided to move in and really take over,
00:12:48.040 but it was just the fireworks coming after the fight.
00:12:52.640 You got to say about President Trump on his birthday,
00:12:55.180 heck, it's 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:12:56.780 Of course we have to have the fireworks.
00:13:00.020 It's just because the rain backed us off a little bit.
00:13:02.640 Anyway, the president's right there at the G7.
00:13:05.740 I think Scott Besson is in London, right?
00:13:08.720 I don't know. Is Scott Bessent working out a deal to buy Diego Garcia? Who knows?
00:13:13.540 Or maybe talking about Anthrop. There's so much to get into today and we're going to get into all of it.
00:13:19.160 Eric Boland is going to join me first. We're going to break all this down and talk about the economy, talk about the impact of all of this.
00:13:25.480 Peter Navarro. We've got a Fed meeting tomorrow. Peter Navarro. We can't cram it in this morning.
00:13:31.540 So Peter's going to join us this evening, I think, in the five o'clock hour.
00:13:35.680 We're going to go through the Fed meeting tomorrow about the raising of rates.
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00:16:44.280 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:16:46.460 Band.
00:16:51.340 Okay, welcome back.
00:16:53.060 President of the United States right there.
00:16:55.260 The top of the stairs, Air Force One.
00:16:57.380 Okay, folks, let's cut to it.
00:16:59.880 I got Bowling here. 1.00
00:17:01.420 Bowling, you're another savage.
00:17:03.700 By the way, Bowling, did you fight last night, or were you just ringside?
00:17:08.220 I wasn't.
00:17:09.020 I was neither.
00:17:09.660 I watched the whole thing.
00:17:12.020 It was pretty amazing fights, to be honest with you.
00:17:15.200 The claw, the arena, wow.
00:17:17.440 It gives me chills just thinking about it today.
00:17:19.280 That was a phenomenal show.
00:17:22.680 Eric Bowling.
00:17:23.480 So listen, they're all over President Trump.
00:17:26.060 He's 80 years old.
00:17:27.140 And look, whether you were like, I'd love the fact that MMA is there or not, you've got to say a guy who's 80 years old, he goes through, and the thing's delayed many hours.
00:17:37.880 He keeps his, you know, he's the great, he's like the master concierge being in the hospitality business, the media business.
00:17:46.180 He's incredibly gracious.
00:17:48.160 Everything keeps rolling.
00:17:49.780 They don't get to the fights later.
00:17:50.940 You know, it fits and starts.
00:17:52.820 They go all the way, I guess, at 2 in the morning.
00:17:55.020 Then he does the fireworks.
00:17:57.360 Then he leaves for the airport.
00:17:59.220 He gets on a plane. 0.82
00:18:00.160 Eric, you've taken a couple of three red eyes before.
00:18:02.980 And, of course, in the Air Force One, they have a special accommodation, a cabin for the commander in chief and the president, which they don't have for anybody else. 0.88
00:18:10.240 The most uncomfortable flight.
00:18:12.000 I've taken a million red eyes in my life.
00:18:13.960 The most uncomfortable flight I've ever been on is Air Force One because it's really a military command post with a couple of seats in the back for the ground.
00:18:22.360 dunes and the president gets his own suite but still 80 years old he comes off fresh he's going
00:18:27.760 to jump in the helicopter here momentarily and go to uh and go up to i guess evion uh bowling
00:18:33.420 first off your thoughts on the president of the united states on the first day of his 80th year
00:18:38.240 sir amazing amazing he's so he you know you pointed out he he hit the hit the helicopter
00:18:44.800 three-ish in the morning by the way how much respected that man have and earn last night
00:18:51.080 People, the fighters would come out of the ring saying, no one else would do this but Trump, you know.
00:18:56.280 And Dana White has a massive, massive following. 1.00
00:18:59.040 And Dana just flanking President Trump with Melania on the other side.
00:19:02.440 It was a sight to behold.
00:19:04.420 And then to get on the plane and then head over to Europe for a G7 meeting, incredible stamina, that guy.
00:19:13.640 You saw it, Steve.
00:19:14.700 You were there in the White House.
00:19:15.580 You saw the guy who's the way I understood it was you always had to be ready for a phone call from the president, whether it was two, four or seven in the morning.
00:19:23.960 He was he may call and you better better be ready.
00:19:26.540 But look, he's you know, those people who say he fell asleep here and there and comparing him to Joe Biden, there is no comparison to the dimension that Joe Biden is not in the same universe.
00:19:38.340 Joe Biden's doddering around.
00:19:40.700 Joe Biden's doddering around.
00:19:42.120 And here, listen, he negotiates because he's the negotiator.
00:19:45.740 He's negotiating the deal to get to a deal, which is quite complicated in its own.
00:19:50.760 And we'll get to that in a second.
00:19:52.260 He's overseeing the military aspects of it.
00:19:55.260 Right.
00:19:55.640 At the same time, he's prepping for a G7 meeting of which they're all going to attack Trump now because America is not everywhere and Trump's the problem, etc.
00:20:03.920 Then he goes to NATO, to a NATO meeting in Turkey,
00:20:06.720 which is going to be a quite controversial NATO meeting.
00:20:09.200 He's 80 years old.
00:20:11.260 His superpower is his energy, Eric Bolling.
00:20:14.960 No doubt.
00:20:15.700 He doesn't have the requirement most human beings need of, you know,
00:20:19.080 five or six hours, let alone an 80-year-old that intends to be eight or nine
00:20:23.020 or 10 hours even for that matter.
00:20:25.100 It's a blessing we have a commander-in-chief that is not only awake as much as he is,
00:20:30.640 but, like, in tune to every detail, Steve.
00:20:33.160 but I understand that he got involved in every little detail of that event last night
00:20:37.880 because he's a showman, too.
00:20:40.120 He knows a little inside baseball here with President Trump.
00:20:44.160 I've interviewed him maybe 10 times, right?
00:20:46.300 And every time, one-on-one.
00:20:48.540 I did hundreds of interviews with him when I was at Fox and he was there.
00:20:52.760 But the one-on-ones, he will come in.
00:20:55.340 He'll look at the setup.
00:20:56.320 He'll change the lighting.
00:20:57.400 He'll look for a camera.
00:20:58.300 He'll say, show me return.
00:20:59.460 He'll make sure the lighting and the camera angles are perfect.
00:21:02.280 To the most minute detail, he's not only a president, he's also probably one of the greatest, I would say, the second greatest television producer ever to walk the earth behind the great Roger Ailes.
00:21:14.640 I think that's one of the reasons he and Ailes got along so well, among other things.
00:21:19.620 Now, he'll come in, he'll know what side he wants to be shot on, he'll know the lighting, he'll understand the angle, and he'll rearrange it right there.
00:21:28.480 He's not shy about rearranging it right there.
00:21:30.740 Steve, I will tell you this, one of his first interviews with him in the Rose Garden, it was off to the side of the Rose Garden when it was still Rose Garden, and he didn't like the height of his chair, so he sent one of his comms people, go get it, I'll never forget this, go get a cushion from the Oval Office.
00:21:51.480 she runs across the rose garden lawn and she's got spiked heels and every time she steps her
00:21:57.000 heel would go into the lawn and she comes running back with this oh drops one of her shoes falls 1.00
00:22:02.260 off her feet just to make sure he had that that extra you know two inches because he saw the shot
00:22:07.840 he wanted it to be perfect it's it's it's he's he's very intricate he's he's very meticulous let's
00:22:13.320 say eric i want to um by the president's put out something on faiza that's going to be quite
00:22:20.800 extraordinary we're going to get to that here in a moment but i've got you uh captain finnell
00:22:26.000 rabbi willicky kurt mills everybody go down through you've been my markets guy um this is
00:22:32.440 a lot of this is about her moves tell us today where where actually are we on her moves today
00:22:38.000 because i guess that's not going to be done until that's not going to be lifted until after the
00:22:42.420 signing on friday or the tentative signing set for friday the fleet is still going to have the
00:22:46.640 blockade but that's going to be lifted just as you read this deal from a market's perspective
00:22:51.140 and i think that's one of the most important perspectives how do you read this okay so as
00:22:57.280 you know since the very beginning here i would tell you exactly where i thought oil was going
00:23:01.320 i thought it was going a lot higher it did and i told you that i have a short position in oil all
00:23:05.920 the way up and i was losing money all the way up i'm i'm cashing out right now because oil dropped
00:23:10.660 from 105 or so early in the week last week to now 80 80 a barrel right now it may go a little bit
00:23:16.620 lower. But I'm nervous about this, Steve. I'm nervous about what you were playing Mark Levin
00:23:21.600 there a little bit. I'm nervous about there's a chance Israel could spark up more tensions. 0.90
00:23:27.180 There's a chance Hezbollah could maybe put a bullet through this deal, so to speak, 0.57
00:23:32.640 by hitting Israel and just making the Middle East tension flare up again. And who knows what the 0.66
00:23:37.320 Iranians are going to do? They're crazy SOBs. So I'm going to take this position off at $80 a barrel 1.00
00:23:43.520 because I'm not sure it's going to go, first it may go back up for a little bit because of,
00:23:48.620 until that deal is inked and signed of what really it is, like there are rumors right now,
00:23:53.640 rumors, I'm trying to get with my guys to tell me if this is real or not, but they literally
00:23:57.440 called me and said, there's one rumor spread around where it's 300, 300, some insane number,
00:24:04.060 like $300 billion over a few years of reparations for the Iranians. There's another one saying that
00:24:10.160 they were still going to be allowed to charge tolls to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
00:24:15.380 And then we're keeping our military presence there until deals are signed.
00:24:19.100 I just want, again, it's not that I don't trust Trump. 0.95
00:24:22.740 It's not that I would ever trust the Iranians.
00:24:24.680 It's that I want to see transit. 1.00
00:24:27.040 And in the last 24 hours, there have been four vessels that transited the Hormuz.
00:24:32.320 When that opens up- so here's my point.
00:24:34.440 I think the market is reacting to some really- it wants to hear this.
00:24:38.800 Stocks want to go up.
00:24:39.800 They want to be euphoric about SpaceX and everything else going on.
00:24:43.100 I'm very wary of that.
00:24:44.480 So I'll do it again for you, Steve.
00:24:45.980 I'm getting out of my short oil position here, and I'm going into a position of short S&Ps and short NASDAQ indexes both right up here.
00:24:56.080 Hold it.
00:24:56.720 Hang on.
00:24:57.120 Are you shorting those because of the world's biggest IPO on?
00:25:02.300 And I don't want to work through the mechanics of your trading, but are you shorting NASDAQ because of the now included in all the indices is going to be the SpaceX or I should say the 90 percent government contractor that Elon Musk runs, sir?
00:25:17.940 No, I'm shorting it because I think this whole thing is euphoric.
00:25:21.160 They're buying the old trading adage, buy the news, sell the fact.
00:25:25.760 They're buying the crap out of the news right now, and I'm going to sell the fact until I see real corporate earnings, until I see inflation come down for real.
00:25:33.400 I mean, inflation's 4.2%. 0.72
00:25:35.400 It's double the Fed's target.
00:25:37.600 They can't move interest rates down in this environment right now.
00:25:40.700 So until inflation truly eases, I'm skeptical of these, by the way, all-time highs in all three indices today.
00:25:48.840 i want to go back to something that because you keep such good feeling this is that um
00:25:55.780 the 100 million barrels president trump talked about last week that the american navy has
00:26:01.280 somehow gotten through undetected by anybody do you believe that actually to the degree
00:26:07.560 actually completely happened and did you see that because prices didn't go through the
00:26:13.500 the roof or do you think that's another misdirection play by the president
00:26:18.080 ED HARRISON Maybe some of that and also this 100 million barrels sounds like a lot,
00:26:24.400 and it's really not a lot. It's five days US use. It's one day of global use of oil.
00:26:29.760 It's not a huge amount of oil, so I don't really think it had a lot to do with
00:26:34.400 keeping a temper on the market. I think what did happen was we had stockpiles. We had
00:26:40.480 a lot of crude oil here, and we shipped some of that to the places that were in high demand,
00:26:45.520 China, India, there was a bunch of oil shipped from here to India as well, and I think that
00:26:50.080 kept a little bit of a lid on global prices.
00:26:53.280 100 million barrels isn't that much, and they wouldn't- what is that?
00:26:57.940 There's some VLCCs, some extra large crude containers that are 3-4 million barrels.
00:27:04.760 So you're only talking about, what, 15, 20 ships or so at that rate?
00:27:09.100 So maybe it could have, it doesn't seem like a big flashpoint, but it sounds great.
00:27:15.920 Sounds great to say we've got 100 million barrels out there.
00:27:18.340 The reality is we want to see the vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz for real indication
00:27:25.000 of what's moving.
00:27:27.040 Also a little thing to worry about, global oil is all those inventories have been drawn
00:27:31.940 down.
00:27:32.940 Now that tends to be a problem at some point too.
00:27:35.600 hang on for one second i just want to hold you through the break we're going to have captain
00:27:39.920 finnell join us we're going to have uh rabbi willicky is going to be here um what is your
00:27:45.200 concern you got 30 seconds before you go to break why do you care if israel israel is not part of
00:27:49.900 this deal correct why do you care if they keep fighting because because it's the middle east 0.99
00:27:53.400 they're they're freaking nuts steve they're looking for any reason to shoot the crap out 0.76
00:27:58.100 of each other and this is one and by the way no none of those sobs want to see two things 0.99
00:28:03.900 America win, or number two, the price of oil to go down.
00:28:09.160 Eric Bolling, stick around, sir.
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00:32:17.040 And I should add that my own independent research discovered Khomeini's embrace of both Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.
00:32:24.680 I see the relationship between our president and the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, as a FDR-Churchill relationship, as a Reagan-Thatcher relationship.
00:32:34.420 History will write us of a Trump-Netanyahu relationship.
00:32:38.320 I continue to believe that we should finish the spectacular military achievements we have won,
00:32:44.060 arm the Iranian people, and get it over with. 1.00
00:32:47.180 I truly do. 1.00
00:32:48.560 The mass murdering death cult that is the Iranian regime is not going to commit suicide. 0.88
00:32:54.060 It's not going to do, through diplomatic means, what we want it to do. 0.97
00:32:59.100 It's just not.
00:33:00.320 I fear what happens 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now,
00:33:03.740 where our children and grandchildren are going to have to do what our generation must do.
00:33:09.260 It's our generation's obligation.
00:33:11.520 The regime is the warmonger.
00:33:13.120 We are the freedom lovers.
00:33:14.660 This is our 250th year of independence.
00:33:17.480 Our great founders show us the way.
00:33:19.780 And I believe firmly our president is the man not only of the hour, but of history.
00:33:24.580 Congress is going to review it because that's not discussed either.
00:33:28.820 Yes, Congress will have to look at this.
00:33:31.580 And most importantly, they're going to look at whether this deal can be upheld, I suspect.
00:33:39.180 Now, this should be treated as a treaty, as a treaty under the Constitution for we constitutional conservatives.
00:33:47.700 But Obama and Congress—
00:33:49.640 Oh, my Lord. Oh, my Lord. Tel Aviv Levin.
00:33:53.220 Loving up on President Trump, but guess what?
00:33:57.300 As soon as Netanyahu's dialed out, now it's got to go to Congress.
00:34:01.580 So now it's got now it's a treaty. Get that get that last segment. I want to play that again.
00:34:06.940 Can we do that? And let's get it right. I just want to play it starting in Congress.
00:34:10.320 Tel Aviv Levin been loving up on President Trump. Greatest president in history. Greatest president in history.
00:34:16.000 As soon as he cuts a deal. As soon as he cuts a deal, the Netanyahu doesn't like and won't go along with. 0.76
00:34:23.540 All of a sudden, Congress has reviewed. Has Tel Aviv Levin said that the entire time we've been at this thing?
00:34:30.800 No, he has not, because we monitor Tel Aviv, and we want to give him a big platform.
00:34:35.340 We want to make sure everybody hears unexpurgated what he exactly has said.
00:34:40.220 Let's play this one more time.
00:34:42.180 Congress is going to review it, because that's not discussed either.
00:34:46.420 Yes, Congress will have to look at this.
00:34:49.220 And most importantly, they're going to look at whether this deal can be upheld, I suspect.
00:34:56.780 Now, this should be treated as a treaty.
00:35:00.080 It's a treaty under the Constitution for we constitutional conservatives.
00:35:04.300 Mr. President.
00:35:05.300 But Obama?
00:35:06.160 Mr. President.
00:35:07.700 Mr. President.
00:35:09.720 I think we're getting this clip over to the White House.
00:35:12.060 Mr. President, Tel Aviv Levin, your bestie, all of a sudden he wants Congress.
00:35:19.400 Why do they want Congress?
00:35:21.120 I don't know.
00:35:22.240 Would have nothing to do with AIPAC money, would it?
00:35:24.560 Rabbi Walicki, you're with us this morning.
00:35:27.560 And walk us through exactly where you think this thing stands.
00:35:31.620 You're one of the most reasonable guys.
00:35:33.940 Obviously, you have a point of view, as all of us do.
00:35:35.860 But just walk us through, in your wisdom, exactly where are we on this interim deal to get to a broader deal?
00:35:43.540 And more importantly, where are we in this war, sir?
00:35:48.020 Well, Steve, I remember some conversations we had on War Room around the beginning of this or in the days leading up to it 0.70
00:35:54.820 where I kept reminding everyone, reminding us, that the U.S. and Israel do not have the same 0.89
00:36:03.480 interests. And people who pretend that they do, like Mark Levin, it's, you know, and I'm talking
00:36:11.300 from the Israel side. I'm sitting in Israel. I live in Israel. My kids fight in the Israeli army.
00:36:15.320 I served in the Israeli army. That is where my, that is where my concern is. I immigrated to this
00:36:19.400 country. But pretending that the U.S. and Israel have the same interests is just a recipe for 0.57
00:36:28.100 misunderstanding what we're seeing here. I remember talking about this months ago with you,
00:36:31.960 Steve, that at some point we would see a divergence between U.S. and Israeli interests because we
00:36:35.640 don't have the same goals for this Iran situation. Israel's goal is to once and for all deal with 0.81
00:36:42.960 the enemies that have been attacking us and threatening us for decades and decades and 0.93
00:36:47.540 decades, almost every problem that Israel deals with has been funded by the Iranian regime,
00:36:52.720 whether it's Hamas or Hezbollah or the Iranians themselves or the Assad regime before they fell. 0.62
00:36:58.380 That was, you know, it was what we call the ring of fire, the Houthis in Yemen as well. 0.78
00:37:02.480 Israel wants to defeat our enemies. The United States wants to make sure that, I mean, I guess 0.55
00:37:06.800 what is in the best interest of the United States is determined by the president of the United
00:37:11.020 States, by the commander in chief. And if he determines that the best thing for America
00:37:14.040 is to open up the Straits of Hormuz and get a deal on the nuclear. And even if it leaves,
00:37:19.600 you know, Hezbollah in Lebanon and, you know, if that's what the president determines is the 0.70
00:37:24.620 best interest of the United States, so be it. But Israel is not in the deal. And as you mentioned
00:37:30.440 that when President Trump first tweeted about this deal, and it was actually two days before
00:37:35.080 it was announced, it was on the 11th, he put out a truth, I'm sorry, a truth social post.
00:37:38.860 He said that all the countries involved all agreed to it, and he listed the countries, and he listed the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
00:37:49.180 He went on a whole list of countries, and that they're all in alignment.
00:37:53.200 It's all approved by them.
00:37:54.580 And Prime Minister Netanyahu's office then put out a statement thanking President Trump for all that he's done, but the opening line of the statement was, Israel is not a party to this deal. 0.71
00:38:05.680 because, you know, from the Israeli perspective, this deal is actually folly because we have an
00:38:13.380 enemy in the north, Hezbollah, which is actually not even really correctly a proxy of Iran. And
00:38:18.400 this is something I have to correct Eric Bolling. It was on before you. He was talking about,
00:38:21.740 you know, what Hezbollah will do, what Iran will do. There's no such thing. Hezbollah is the Iranian
00:38:26.480 army. It's not like Hamas or the Houthis who are a proxy, who are a separate organization who get
00:38:32.840 funding and weapons from Iran. Hezbollah is actually Iran. It's like if you have American
00:38:37.260 troops stationed in another country, they're not a proxy of the United States. They are the forward
00:38:42.880 troops of the United States. So when Hezbollah starts launching drones at Israel yesterday,
00:38:48.640 provoking an Israeli response, which then provokes President Trump lashing out at Prime
00:38:54.280 Minister Netanyahu, the question we have to ask about an incident like that is why did Iran give
00:38:59.860 orders to Hezbollah to fire yesterday when this deal was supposed to be finalized. The Iranians 0.65
00:39:06.920 use Hezbollah to provoke Israel. That's how this whole thing with Lebanon started. 1.00
00:39:13.020 There was no firing between Israel and Hezbollah before March 2nd. But on March 2nd,
00:39:17.920 because of the U.S.-Israel joint action against Iran, Hezbollah started firing rockets from Lebanon
00:39:23.860 into Israel. So Israel retaliated. Everything Israel does in Lebanon is to retaliate and remove
00:39:28.480 Hezbollah. And what's more, by telling Israel to hold back in Lebanon, what we're doing is we're 0.61
00:39:34.840 allowing Hezbollah to remain. We're making it far more difficult for the Lebanese government or the 0.96
00:39:41.060 Israelis to get rid of Hezbollah, which is one of the stated goals officially here, that we're 0.78
00:39:45.520 supposed to disarm Hezbollah and get them out of there so that the country of Lebanon could actually 0.60
00:39:50.080 have its sovereignty back after decades of being occupied by the Iranian regime and being used as
00:39:57.320 basis to launch terrorism into Israel. So unfortunately, by trying to restrain the 0.66
00:40:04.140 Israelis from attacking Hezbollah right now, President Trump is actually throwing a lifeline
00:40:08.340 to Hezbollah. You know, so the Israelis want no part of this. Now, let me talk politics here,
00:40:13.780 Steve. We have the elections coming up, and there's a fascinating dynamic that has developed.
00:40:19.020 When we talk about the divergence of U.S. and Israeli interests, let's talk about the interests
00:40:22.740 of Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, because with the approaching midterms
00:40:28.280 and the domestic sensitivities about the war, the unpopularity of kinetic action on the American
00:40:35.400 side, the problem with the rising oil prices domestically for President Trump, with the
00:40:41.460 midterms approaching, President Trump's incentive is to not have kinetic action, to keep things
00:40:47.240 de-escalated as we approach the midterms. The worst thing for him would be a kinetic flare-up.
00:40:52.100 On the contrary in Israel, though, Prime Minister Netanyahu's incentives politically move in the opposite direction.
00:40:58.980 No one else is talking about this, Steve. They move in the opposite direction.
00:41:02.520 For Prime Minister Netanyahu, for the Israeli people, and this is not only on the right,
00:41:07.000 what's most interesting is that the criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu from the left right now is identical as from the right, 0.85
00:41:13.800 that we are not doing enough against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:41:17.580 The Israeli people feel that we were sold a bill of goods in Gaza where, you know, we were told, oh, yeah, there's going to be all these countries that are going to come in.
00:41:26.600 They're going to disarm Hamas and we're finally going to move to a future where we don't have Hamas down there.
00:41:31.020 Don't worry. It's all going to be taken care of. Nothing.
00:41:33.500 We talked about that on War Room over the months. 0.98
00:41:35.660 We don't have victory against Hamas. They're still in Gaza. 0.95
00:41:38.240 We don't have victory over Hezbollah. They're still in Lebanon. 1.00
00:41:41.080 The Israeli people are feeling very anxious about this, about the possibility that with our enemies on the ropes and victory over them within reach to finally move past all these terrorist groups in the Middle East, we are now being restrained and we have the possibility that we don't have victory on any front.
00:41:59.640 So Prime Minister Netanyahu's incentive structure politically is to escalate with his election coming, because if action is not taken up there, it hurts him politically.
00:42:11.100 So their incentives are moving in opposite direction.
00:42:13.120 We should expect the rift between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump to widen in the days and weeks ahead.
00:42:19.660 That's my prediction.
00:42:20.400 I've said I've been the most, I think, vocal about this of saying, first off, UAE, Saudi, Qatar are American protectorates, but also Israel is an American protector in a vassal state.
00:42:36.100 I understand that has become a hot wire topic in Israel in this election, in this discussion.
00:42:44.440 Do you believe, as one of the observers, I think, gets it right about Israel the large majority of time,
00:42:52.040 that this is the beginning of this break, that you won't be able to have even a scintilla of evidence going forward
00:42:59.480 that Israel's a protectorate of the United States, that Israel's actually going to have its sovereignty?
00:43:05.020 if that sovereignty means, you know, breaking the relationship they have today and go to a
00:43:09.840 different relationship, but that they can fight on and they can take on Hamas. There's no border
00:43:13.660 peace. There's no, there's no Turkey providing security in Gaza. There's no Qatar underwriting
00:43:20.200 it. You guys are full on in Southern Lebanon, all the way up to Beirut taking on Hezbollah, 0.50
00:43:25.840 but you got to do what you got to do as a sovereign nation, sir. That's where things
00:43:31.720 are moving in Israel. And that's what this, you know, these attacks on the Dakhia in Beirut
00:43:36.280 yesterday in response to Hezbollah firing drones at our northern border. And let me be even more
00:43:41.540 accurate. In response to Iran firing drones at our northern border towns. Remember, Hezbollah is
00:43:48.260 Iran. So yesterday we have, in the midst of all this, where Iran is saying they want de-escalation 0.78
00:43:53.080 in Lebanon. They provoke Israel. When Prime Minister Netanyahu did not heed President Trump's 0.74
00:43:58.800 request to not respond, which I thought was an immoral request. It was absurd. We have drones
00:44:06.440 being fired at civilian towns, and because no one got killed, we shouldn't do anything about it.
00:44:12.320 Hang on. Hang over a second. That's pretty harsh coming from you. You believe the commander-in-chief,
00:44:17.520 the president of the United States, who's probably done more in relationship for Israel than any
00:44:22.040 American president? You think he gave an immoral request? Well, it was unwise. I mean, think about
00:44:31.120 this. We're getting attacked by Hezbollah drones being fired at civilian towns. Families in their
00:44:39.320 bomb shelters, people have been killed by these drones. People hear drone, they don't understand
00:44:43.440 what this is. It's basically like a missile that you can control. They move very fast. They have
00:44:47.000 an explosive tip on them, and they kill people. And we've had many casualties over the last two
00:44:54.200 months during this supposed ceasefire from these drones being fired into our towns. And there were
00:44:59.100 drones fired in yesterday morning by Hezbollah. And let's remember, the chain of command of Hezbollah
00:45:04.180 starts in Tehran. So we have the Iranians firing drones at us in the morning. And the purpose of
00:45:10.520 that. It's great game theory by the Iranians because either Israel retaliates and then they 1.00
00:45:20.800 can blame it on Trump and say, hey, you were complicit, or Trump tells Israel not to retaliate 0.98
00:45:26.180 and then either it turns into a widening rift between Trump and Netanyahu, which serves the
00:45:31.820 Iranian interest, or Netanyahu listens to Trump and that shows that the Iranians can then say,
00:45:37.800 you see we were able to fire on israel with impunity and restrain them this is it was a 0.56
00:45:44.000 brilliant play by the iranians and i think that president trump fell into this trap because he
00:45:48.160 wants the deal so listen i love president trump i can't imagine the dystopian hell we'd be living
00:45:53.700 in if kamala harris had won he's done amazing things for israel but we have to be clear-eyed
00:45:57.880 about this current situation the desire for a deal has clouded his judgment about the middle east you
00:46:03.960 cannot allow these people to attack us with impunity. Hang on for one second. Just stick
00:46:09.140 right there. You're going to get back. I got Kurt Mills. I got Kevin Funnell, but I got to go to
00:46:12.300 Eric Bolling and Eric, I know you got to bounce. We've got the president's helicopter now coming
00:46:17.020 in. I think it's to Evian where the G7 is going to take place. Eric Bolling, given what you just
00:46:22.440 heard Rabbi Willicki say, I think quite prescient about the divergence of strategic objectives and
00:46:28.820 goals here in all clarity. What is your sense of the holding of this deal? And what do you think
00:46:34.080 is going to happen to oil markets? Because I get a sense from the Israelis that, hey, game on, 1.00
00:46:39.920 we're going to fight this out. And nobody's going to tell us what to do, sir. 1.00
00:46:44.720 So I think there are, by the way, great assessment by the rabbi. I don't think I ever
00:46:50.900 made the assumption or the accusation or the alleged that Hezbollah was not funded
00:46:57.840 and a wing of the Iranian government, IRGC.
00:47:01.140 I believe that is the case.
00:47:02.800 My point was, whoever is in the IRGC, whoever's in Hezbollah,
00:47:06.800 has no interest in seeing an end to this.
00:47:10.240 But hang on one second. 0.91
00:47:11.960 The rabbi makes a good point that I often say that Hezbollah is a proxy.
00:47:20.240 So it's kind of independent, but yet it is foreign to the army.
00:47:22.700 He's saying, no, no, no, no, you guys misread this.
00:47:25.320 They are the four deployed – I don't think so.
00:47:30.680 They're the four deployed of the Iranian army, much more direct control.
00:47:34.540 I think it's – because it's like saying Hamas and Hezbollah are proxies.
00:47:38.260 He's saying, no, Hamas we could argue because I think they get their money from Qatar, but Hezbollah.
00:47:43.400 So what does that all mean?
00:47:45.400 Forget the splitting of Harris.
00:47:46.800 To Eric Bolling and markets, what's it going to mean?
00:47:49.680 I believe what it's going to mean is what we had before, jittery markets.
00:47:53.680 A lot of people are in your chat right now saying, oh, bowling, you're always right.
00:47:57.620 Steve, you tell these people, I saw oil going up.
00:48:00.240 I had a position to go.
00:48:01.460 Since day one, we've been talking about this.
00:48:03.380 I've been consistent.
00:48:04.420 I had the position for oil to go down because it was too high when the war started, and I stuck with it,
00:48:08.760 even though I said it looks like it's going higher and the people I talked to believe it's going higher.
00:48:12.480 That was against my position.
00:48:14.660 I'm only here to bring you what I see.
00:48:17.080 I'm not in this to make more money or to talk my book, so to speak.
00:48:21.200 Don't let the chat rattle.
00:48:23.380 It's a tough place, man.
00:48:24.580 It's a tough – don't have rabid ears.
00:48:27.000 Particularly the rumble chat.
00:48:28.360 The rumble chat's next level tough.
00:48:30.920 But continue on, sir.
00:48:32.360 I see the Fed's hands tied to lower interest rates, which would be great for the economy, great for the market, great for midterm elections.
00:48:41.080 But they can't do it at 4.2 percent inflation.
00:48:43.300 Never going to happen.
00:48:43.920 They just cannot lower rates right now.
00:48:45.740 So they'll stay elevated.
00:48:46.620 Well, also, Pal, also, Pal, Navarro's going to be on here tonight.
00:48:49.780 Talk about it.
00:48:50.100 You got Pal.
00:48:50.660 You got Pal in there.
00:48:52.180 Hell, he's going to push to raise the rates.
00:48:54.380 What do you mean cut rates?
00:48:55.680 Powell's going to push.
00:48:56.560 That renegade group is going to push to raise it.
00:48:59.740 Navarro will tell you it is a vote at the Fed level, but it's generally what the Fed chairman wants.
00:49:05.460 And that usually gets it.
00:49:06.560 It's a rarity to override the Fed chairman.
00:49:09.980 So I think Warsh is going to be a little bit reluctant to lower rates.
00:49:14.420 And if he's smart, he'll be reluctant to raise rates.
00:49:16.800 I'm sure Powell will be telling him he should have raised rates a long time ago.
00:49:20.680 So he should turn to Powell and say, you know what, Jerome, where were you when inflation
00:49:24.800 went to 9.5%, 9.2%, you weren't raising rates, you were holding tight at 7%, 8%, and 9%. 0.62
00:49:33.260 I mean, they're such hypocrites, Powell is such a political animal, so I think rates 0.86
00:49:37.700 remain high. 0.96
00:49:38.700 I'm not confident in the equities market right now.
00:49:42.060 And as I told you, I was short oil, I got out of two-thirds of my oil position right 0.96
00:49:45.560 now, because I'm worried that either Israel or Hezbollah, call them Iran, whatever you
00:49:51.560 want to call it, proxy, a wing of the RGC, whatever, I think they're still interested 0.70
00:49:56.440 in fighting.
00:49:57.440 I think they enjoy this fight, even though their economy is sucking wind from it.
00:50:02.520 That's what they do, Steve.
00:50:04.400 They're fighters.
00:50:05.400 That's what they are.
00:50:06.400 I'm sure they're fed well, and their gas tanks are filled up. 0.98
00:50:09.900 So they don't care about the 91 million people in Iran.
00:50:13.020 And that concerns me on a grander scale with oil prices.
00:50:16.940 Potentially couldn't make another move up.
00:50:18.900 But where should oil be?
00:50:21.140 $70 a barrel.
00:50:24.040 We'll see you at 4 o'clock and hopefully do a handover.
00:50:28.680 Let's do it.
00:50:29.340 Don't watch the rumble chat. 1.00
00:50:31.760 Don't watch the dumb man. 0.99
00:50:33.560 Particularly when you're on, don't do that. 1.00
00:50:35.820 It'll break.
00:50:36.340 The rumble chat will break you. 1.00
00:50:37.780 Men only.
00:50:39.180 Eric Bowling.
00:50:39.820 I don't know.
00:50:40.120 But I don't know.
00:50:41.440 Rabbi Willicki, I got Fennell.
00:50:43.400 By the way, we blew the break when I thanked Real America's voice president right there coming off.
00:50:47.520 He's now in, what is it, Evian?
00:50:50.480 To the resort.
00:50:52.580 They're going to have the G7.
00:50:54.980 They're going to gang up on President Trump.
00:50:57.080 Oh, America's not everywhere.
00:50:58.580 America's not doing this.
00:50:59.540 America's not doing that.
00:51:00.600 Of course, you know, and Besson, I think, will join him.
00:51:02.680 I think Besson went over.
00:51:04.140 I think Besson's today in England.
00:51:07.020 I think he's going to join him today.
00:51:08.380 Maybe we'll get into all that.
00:51:10.120 Rabbi Willicki, the war room engine room, the New York division reminds me in our discussion to say, hey, we just had this big fracas last week on the NDAA where we're merging the defense industrial bases of Israel.
00:51:29.220 And there's an aspect of this deeper that we're merging the basically backroom operations, I guess, of our intelligence operations.
00:51:37.600 So institutionally, the United States and Israel are coming together more, which I adamantly oppose, but it's happening, right?
00:51:46.300 And we're trying to stop it, but it's happening. 0.61
00:51:48.160 So how can you have Israel break the vassal state protectorate nature of this relationship, move to its own sovereignty and its own independence,
00:51:57.220 And quite frankly, to go fight a war that you're saying they have to fight and they have to win, particularly the Iranian army of Hezbollah in Lebanon at the same time that we're merging the two operations, sir.
00:52:12.880 Well, the merging of the operations is is really the heading towards the new arrangement post aid.
00:52:19.900 This was all part of Ron Dermer's plan to wean Israel off of the aid and move more to a cooperative relationship where we're jointly investing and jointly doing R&D and merging other types of operations.
00:52:33.880 But, you know, Steve, I disagree with your framing of the question.
00:52:38.860 The total amount of U.S. aid to Israel constitutes less than 10 percent of our defense budget, of our national budget.
00:52:50.580 It's tiny.
00:52:51.580 Of our GDP, it's a fraction of a percent.
00:52:53.980 Israel is not a vassal state of the United States.
00:52:55.720 We do get some aid.
00:52:56.940 Far more money is spent by the United States on, I don't know, the air base in Jordan than anything they give to Israel.
00:53:03.800 So this is just a straw man.
00:53:07.260 Israel is not a vassal state.
00:53:09.540 Israel has sold more weaponry.
00:53:13.240 They've made three times the profit in selling weapons to Germany and Greece over the last six months
00:53:18.740 than all the aid they get from the U.S. in a given year.
00:53:21.640 So weaning off the aid is not going to be a big deal. 0.84
00:53:24.940 Israel is asserting itself.
00:53:26.600 It's asserting its own independence. 0.92
00:53:27.820 The strikes on the Dachia yesterday in response to the Hezbollah attacks were very popular in Israel. 0.95
00:53:33.800 In fact, had Israel not struck, that would have been a very big problem.
00:53:39.460 In fact, today, the headlines in Israel and what everyone's saying in Israel,
00:53:42.260 people are very disappointed in the fact that we are taking our foot off the gas pedal in Lebanon. 0.89
00:53:49.380 Let's remember, there will only be peace in Lebanon, 0.99
00:53:52.780 just like there will only be peace in Gaza if we get rid of these guys. 0.98
00:53:55.600 If we get rid of Hezbollah, we get rid of Hamas, and only Israel is willing and able to do it. 0.98
00:53:59.880 so um you know let's let's let's go let's go back i'm gonna get to i'm gonna go to the break we see 0.80
00:54:06.160 there we we'll go back if there's any more footage of the president uh and i'd like you to hang
00:54:10.580 around if you can um we're gonna go to captain finnell here in a moment but i am going to go
00:54:15.240 to break let's just go down while we've got it uh you believe that iran is the major funder of
00:54:22.420 hamas and not qatar and uh in certain elements of the gulf emirates sir hamas i don't know who's
00:54:29.580 funding Hamas. At this point, I don't know how they're getting their funding. In fact, I would
00:54:32.380 suspect that a lot of Hamas funding is coming through Turkey these days. The Turkey, let's 0.98
00:54:37.480 remember that the Hamas leadership relocated to Turkey. Erdogan is, you know, Hamas also started
00:54:43.800 as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran really was a latecomer to funding Hamas. That's why
00:54:49.680 Hamas, as you correctly said before, Hamas- Well, isn't that a problem? Because doesn't Turkey have 0.99
00:54:53.420 the overall, the border piece that's going to oversee Gaza? The Qataris are going to be the 1.00
00:54:58.440 lead financier and Turkey's going to be the lead in security. Is that framework not still
00:55:04.280 operational? No. Turkey is not going to play, Israel is not going to allow Turkey to play a
00:55:10.240 central role in that in the reconstruction or any of it. Now, the IHH, which is a Turkish
00:55:15.000 non-government organized NGO, a gongo, the IHH, which is, they're a Turkish NGO. They've been
00:55:25.540 operating in gaza already they rebuilt a couple mosques and they've been involved in some of the 0.99
00:55:29.640 food distribution down there but the israelis are being very adamant that the turks are not
00:55:34.120 going to play a major role here you know erdogan's been calling netanyahu a nazi and and saying that
00:55:39.580 he wants to destroy israel so my point is that you couldn't you couldn't get clear you could
00:55:44.220 you couldn't get clearer that we've we were to a a divergence in the road one way you go one way
00:55:52.480 you go the other that israel is now has to assert its sovereignty because it's clearly against the
00:55:58.220 president's plan for how he sees gaza right uh and i keep calling the uh the two-state solution
00:56:05.200 you're saying that's not going to happen and uh just politically it's smart for netanyahu but
00:56:10.240 also for the nation of israel to take on the iranian proxy slash army of hezbollah and just
00:56:16.480 fight it out in Lebanon, correct? Well, Israel's not against President Trump's plan. Therefore,
00:56:23.680 the implementing of the plan as it was written and agreed to, that's the issue here. That 20-point
00:56:28.240 plan, that Gaza plan, at the very first stage of it, after the hostages are released and the
00:56:33.440 prisoner and the Palestinian prisoners are released, Hamas is supposed to be disarmed. 0.71
00:56:38.560 And they are not disarmed. They are still in control there. They're still terrorizing their 0.59
00:56:42.460 people. They're still there. They're still there. And as long as they're there, nothing else in that
00:56:48.320 project, in that 20-point project and that whole, you know, Jared Kushner PowerPoint, you know, 0.61
00:56:53.160 making Gaza look like Boca Raton, Florida, that whole thing, you know, that can't go forward as 0.97
00:56:57.980 long as Hamas is there. Israel's in favor of getting rid of Hamas. 0.89
00:57:00.480 Better than Boca Raton. Better than Boca Raton. 0.91
00:57:03.300 Israel's in favor of getting rid of Hamas. That's what we're in favor of. 0.92
00:57:06.060 Hang on. Short break. Kurt Mills, Captain Fennell, the other side.
00:57:12.460 There is a song for justice
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