Bannon's War Room - War Room Special： PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESS TO THE NATION

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:07.680 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:12.880 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:17.180 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:19.080 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:20.520 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:00:22.280 but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:23.200 It's going to happen.

00:00:24.460 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:00:27.900 Mega Media.

00:00:28.780 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:34.660 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:38.440 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:44.820 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:51.620 It's Wednesday, 1 April on the year of World War 2026.

00:00:54.660 Welcome to Real America's Voice in the Worms special coverage.

00:00:57.860 I want to thank the team at Studio 6B, just amazing coverage to tee us up, to bring us up to this.

00:01:03.380 John Solomon joins us now from the Washington studio.

00:01:06.400 John, I know you've been spending a lot of time at the White House and various senior personnel in the White House.

00:01:12.520 Give us your assessment of what you believe we may see tonight.

00:01:16.420 I think the president will start off with an explanation or a bold declaration.

00:01:20.940 We're only going to be there a short time more, days to three weeks, probably is the window I'm hearing inside the military.

00:01:27.300 So a few days, a few weeks, depending on what they can get done.

00:01:30.140 We'll be out of there soon.

00:01:31.220 We'll be done with the operation.

00:01:32.820 Then he'll describe why he went in and why he went in at the time that he went in.

00:01:38.040 And he's going to bring up the things that you and I talked about in your show a couple weeks ago

00:01:40.900 that the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about.

00:01:42.940 The IRGC members founded our soil in January.

00:01:46.180 The hypersonic missiles they were trying to get from China.

00:01:49.440 The missiles they did buy from Russia, all aimed at reaching America.

00:01:53.720 He'll remind people that everybody said Iran can't touch Europe.

00:01:57.680 And then, of course, they did with the Diego Garcia show, and they could hit anywhere in Europe, or good parts of Europe at least.

00:02:03.060 He'll go through those things, and then I think he'll go through how much we've achieved.

00:02:06.400 And I think you'll hear 90% reduction in drones, 90% reduction in missiles, 150 ships in the Navy, mine layers gone.

00:02:14.360 The one place that'll be a statistic, if he puts it out there, that might explain why we're going to stay a few more days,

00:02:20.280 Only 66% of the missile and drone factories have been destroyed.

00:02:25.300 I think they want that number up higher.

00:02:26.800 If they do that, they're not only neutering Iran,

00:02:29.460 they make it impossible for Russia to get those cheap drones

00:02:32.340 they've been using against Ukraine.

00:02:33.580 So he scores a double victory by wiping those out.

00:02:35.980 I think that'll be the sequencing he goes through

00:02:38.460 over the course of the speech.

00:02:42.480 John, thank you.

00:02:43.460 You hang there.

00:02:44.000 The president will probably be about approximately 20 minutes speech.

00:02:46.680 I think this would broadcast to be set aside.

00:02:48.720 We're going to go immediately to the White House as soon as the signal is live.

00:02:51.800 Let's go to the Pentagon.

00:02:52.600 We've got people at the White House.

00:02:54.420 We've got Benny Harmony at Capitol Hill.

00:02:57.380 I want to go to David Zier.

00:02:58.620 Is David ready at the Pentagon?

00:03:00.320 David, I've got about a minute or so.

00:03:02.100 Your thoughts, sir.

00:03:03.080 The Pentagon is very important in all of this, the Department of War.

00:03:06.040 What do you got?

00:03:08.620 I would just say while we're claiming there's progress, Iran launched 10 more missiles at Israel a few hours ago.

00:03:14.160 But can we slow down operations on pretty much a high note? Interceptors are getting kind of low.

00:03:21.260 You know, THAAD, Patriots, a new PAC-3 deal signed today with Lockheed and Boeing.

00:03:26.980 But we only make like 600 Patriot missiles a year.

00:03:30.200 You know, so I think it's in our interest to try to come to some type of conclusion here as the Gulf states and others continue to be under attack here.

00:03:39.720 There's also reports that another 20 A-10s were seen assembling, I think, in New Hampshire, may join the fight.

00:03:46.220 Three more strato tankers, I believe, are on the way over to the region.

00:03:51.440 And again, you know, we lost some strategic assets like the E-3 Sentry AWACS and other, but the operation has been carried out.

00:04:00.180 And I just wanted to add really quick, the defense acquisition executive orders that Trump has been pushing that we've been following since last year,

00:04:05.840 and my stuff here at the Department of War, is probably a very good thing because we've been operating on a wartime footing probably since the middle of last year at a minimum.

00:04:15.220 And I think we were ready for this at least to take out the air defenses, the industrial complex, ballistic missile program.

00:04:23.840 David, hang on. Benny's going to hang on at the Capitol Hill. Let me go to McCabe.

00:04:27.080 McCabe, real quickly, about a minute, I think, before the president goes live. What do you got for us at the White House?

00:04:31.840 yeah i think it's important that the president pick who his audiences are you know he needs to

00:04:39.760 speak to house and senate republicans who are up in 26 he needs to tell them that he's running this

00:04:45.700 country and running the party in a way that that he takes their interest to heart i think he has

00:04:50.920 to talk to wall street he has to talk to mega voters he has to talk to the iranian leadership

00:04:55.800 and he has to lay out where we are and where we're going and how he's going to stick the landing

00:05:01.500 Steve. Neil, we'll come back to you. We'll come back to Benny Harmony at Capitol Hill,

00:05:08.420 David Zier at the Pentagon. We're at Brian Glenn with us. Jack Posobiec will join us

00:05:12.340 immediately afterwards. Of course, John Solomon anchoring in Washington, D.C. The president has

00:05:18.780 thought, I think, a lot about addressing the nation and telling the nation because he has,

00:05:24.200 you know, he does so much media and he's done so much, you know, big events in the East Room.

00:05:28.840 This is a primetime address to the country about why he did it, where we are, what does he see as our progress, and I think very specifically the path forward.

00:05:40.260 So President of the United States, President Trump, from the White House tonight, like I said, he does not address the nation many times from the White House, but this is one that they decided that was important enough.

00:05:54.320 before the Easter vacation of Good Friday,

00:05:59.860 Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday.

00:06:02.180 John Solomon, while we got a minute here,

00:06:04.540 while they get set up,

00:06:06.280 your thoughts about the message he's going to send NATO.

00:06:09.800 There's been a lot of controversy today,

00:06:11.400 a lot of things going back and forth.

00:06:12.880 President's put up a couple of true socials.

00:06:14.900 Your ideas about the situation with NATO.

00:06:17.860 I think that missile that struck Diego Garcia

00:06:22.180 it was a wake-up call that he was right

00:06:24.460 and Europe was wrong about Iran's threat.

00:06:26.980 And he'll call them weak and feckless.

00:06:29.280 He'll say he's reevaluating and considering whether we do withdraw.

00:06:32.320 It's kind of like a 47-year married couple

00:06:35.240 that always talking about getting divorced.

00:06:36.760 They never do.

00:06:37.120 They've cried about each other all day.

00:06:38.520 We're not going to divorce from NATO,

00:06:40.000 but he's going to send a poignant message

00:06:41.300 that you didn't join me on this.

00:06:42.940 I did you a favor by rooting out that Iran

00:06:45.300 had the capability to strike you,

00:06:47.100 and I took care of that for you.

00:06:48.480 You owe me one.

00:06:49.360 I think he'll kind of leave it at that.

00:06:52.180 There is some talk about, you know, either a ceasefire or at least discussions.

00:06:59.460 What about David Zier saying that, you know, Israel got hit tonight by 10 missiles?

00:07:04.360 The Iranians are trying to send a signal to President Trump before he takes the national stage?

00:07:10.300 Yeah, certainly the IRGC is.

00:07:12.080 I think the president today, the president of Iran, had a different message, which is we're willing to stop attacking us if you stop attacking us.

00:07:18.840 That's a more conciliar tone than normally Iran takes.

00:07:22.020 They are all rah, rah, rah, war, war, war, hate America.

00:07:24.880 So there was some conciliation there.

00:07:26.580 He also wrote an open letter to America, propaganda, but trying to say, hey, we don't want to be your enemy anymore.

00:07:31.540 So I do see some softening in the Iran rhetoric, but they still have these menacing missiles.

00:07:36.420 They fire a few here and they don't have as many.

00:07:38.680 But, yeah, they haven't shown a surrender sign.

00:07:41.520 The key to a ceasefire is Trump getting Hormuz open and no weapon would be going in either direction.

00:07:48.100 I don't think the Hormoz issue is settled yet, but they're getting closer.

00:07:53.060 Okay, here's the President of the United States is stepping up right now.

00:07:56.740 We're going to cut live to the White House.

00:07:59.740 Thank you very much.

00:08:01.880 My fellow Americans, good evening.

00:08:04.660 Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the successful launch of Artemis II.

00:08:14.040 It was quite something.

00:08:14.960 It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially

00:08:21.740 pass the moon, go around it, and come back home from a distance that has never been done

00:08:28.660 before.

00:08:29.300 It's amazing.

00:08:30.980 They are on the way, and God bless them.

00:08:34.260 These are brave people.

00:08:36.180 We want to God bless those four unbelievable astronauts.

00:08:40.340 As we speak this evening, it's been just one month since the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number one state sponsor of terror, Iran.

00:08:55.960 In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before.

00:09:08.500 Tonight, Iran's navy is gone.

00:09:11.860 Their air force is in ruins.

00:09:14.600 Their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime they led, are now dead.

00:09:22.660 Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak.

00:09:30.340 Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed,

00:09:35.340 tailed and their weapons, factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of

00:09:41.800 them left. Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating

00:09:47.820 large scale losses in a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing in America as it has been

00:09:56.240 for five years under my presidency is winning and now winning bigger than ever before. Before

00:10:03.520 Before discussing this current situation, I also want to thank our troops for the masterful

00:10:08.860 job they did in taking the country of Venezuela in a matter of minutes.

00:10:14.700 That it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone all over the world.

00:10:20.300 After rebuilding our military during my first term, we have by far the strongest military

00:10:26.220 anywhere in the world.

00:10:28.080 And now we're working along with Venezuela and our, in a true sense, joint venture partners.

00:10:34.060 We're getting along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of

00:10:38.800 oil and gas, the second largest reserves on Earth after the United States of America.

00:10:46.680 We're now totally independent of the Middle East, and yet we are there to help.

00:10:53.440 We don't have to be there.

00:10:54.680 We don't need their oil.

00:10:56.180 don't need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies. Tonight, I want to provide an

00:11:01.980 update on the tremendous progress our warriors have made in Iran and discuss why Operation

00:11:08.040 Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and the security of the free world.

00:11:14.520 From the very first day I announced my campaign for president in 2015, I have vowed that I would

00:11:22.820 never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

00:11:26.760 This fanatical regime has been chanting death to America,

00:11:31.900 death to Israel, for 47 years.

00:11:35.400 Their proxies were behind the murder of 241 Americans

00:11:40.580 in the marine barracks bombing in Beirut,

00:11:43.300 the slaughter of hundreds of our service members

00:11:46.040 with roadside bombs.

00:11:48.020 They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole,

00:11:52.420 And they carried out the countless other heinous acts,

00:11:55.660 including the blood, just horrible, bloody atrocities

00:12:00.560 of October 7th in Israel,

00:12:03.900 something that most people have never seen anything like it.

00:12:07.860 This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000

00:12:11.680 of their own people who were protesting in Iran.

00:12:15.280 45,000 dead.

00:12:17.880 For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons

00:12:19.940 would be an intolerable threat.

00:12:23.400 The most violent and thuggish regime on Earth

00:12:26.020 would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror,

00:12:29.580 coercion, conquest, and mass murder from behind.

00:12:33.360 A nuclear shield.

00:12:34.960 I will never let that happen,

00:12:37.300 and neither should any of our past presidents.

00:12:41.760 This situation has been going on for 47 years

00:12:45.540 and should have been handled long before I arrived in office.

00:12:49.940 I did many things during my two terms in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons by Iran

00:12:56.760 first, and perhaps most importantly, I killed General Qasem Soleimani in my first term.

00:13:05.680 He was an evil genius, a brilliant person, a horrible human being, however, the father

00:13:12.160 of the roadside bomb, and he lived just horrible what he did.

00:13:17.680 Iran would have been perhaps in far better, stronger position.

00:13:22.980 Had he lived, we would have had probably a different conversation tonight.

00:13:27.480 But you know what? We'd still be winning and winning big.

00:13:30.340 And then, very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal, a disaster.

00:13:36.880 Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash.

00:13:43.220 took it out of banks from Virginia, D.C., and Maryland.

00:13:47.560 All the cash they had,

00:13:49.760 flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty,

00:13:53.960 but it didn't work.

00:13:55.180 They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb.

00:14:00.740 His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran.

00:14:06.680 They would have had them years ago, and they would have used them.

00:14:10.560 It would have been a different world.

00:14:11.900 there would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now, in my opinion, the opinion of a lot of

00:14:17.860 great experts, had I not terminated that terrible deal. I was so honored to do it. I was so proud

00:14:24.140 to do it. It was so bad right from the beginning. Essentially, I did what no other president was

00:14:29.420 willing to do. They made mistakes, and I am correcting them. My first preference was always

00:14:37.100 the path of diplomacy, yet the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and

00:14:43.660 rejected every attempt at an agreement. For this reason, in June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key

00:14:50.580 nuclear facilities, an Operation Midnight Hammer. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

00:14:57.660 Those beautiful B-2 bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear

00:15:04.500 sites. The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location,

00:15:11.360 making clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They were also

00:15:18.180 rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles and would soon have had

00:15:24.480 missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe, and virtually any other place on earth.

00:15:30.720 Iran's strategy was so obvious.

00:15:34.000 They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible,

00:15:37.360 and they did, with the longest range possible.

00:15:40.700 And they had some weapons that nobody believed they had.

00:15:44.200 We just learned that out.

00:15:45.540 We took them out. We took them all out

00:15:47.180 so that no one would really dare stop them.

00:15:50.740 And they're raised for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear weapon,

00:15:53.820 a nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before.

00:15:57.040 They were right at the doorstep.

00:15:59.520 For years, everyone has said that Iran

00:16:01.860 cannot have nuclear weapons.

00:16:03.760 But in the end, those are just words

00:16:06.960 if you're not willing to take action when the time comes.

00:16:11.340 As I stated in my announcement of Operation Epic Fury,

00:16:15.660 our objectives are very simple and clear.

00:16:19.140 We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability

00:16:22.280 to threaten America or project power

00:16:24.980 outside of their borders.

00:16:27.120 That means eliminating Iran's Navy,

00:16:29.560 which is now absolutely destroyed,

00:16:33.800 hurting their Air Force and their missile program

00:16:36.600 at levels never seen before,

00:16:39.000 and annihilating their defense industrial base.

00:16:41.840 We've done all of it. Their Navy is gone.

00:16:43.940 Their Air Force is gone.

00:16:45.740 Their missiles are just about used up or beaten.

00:16:49.680 Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military,

00:16:53.440 crush their ability to support terrorist proxies,

00:16:56.220 and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.

00:17:00.160 Our armed forces have been extraordinary.

00:17:02.660 There's never been anything like it militarily.

00:17:06.440 Everyone is talking about it.

00:17:08.160 And tonight, I'm pleased to say that these core strategic

00:17:12.140 objectives are nearing completion.

00:17:15.240 As we celebrate this progress, we think especially

00:17:18.780 of the 13 American warriors who have laid down their lives

00:17:22.340 in this fight to prevent our children

00:17:25.340 from ever having to face a nuclear Iran.

00:17:29.480 Twice this past month, I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base,

00:17:34.100 and it's been something.

00:17:35.940 I wanted to be with those heroes as the return to American soil.

00:17:40.760 And I was with them and their families,

00:17:42.380 their parents, their wives, their husbands.

00:17:45.820 We salute them, and now we must honor them

00:17:48.120 by completing the mission for which they gave their lives

00:17:52.460 at every single one of the people.

00:17:55.320 Their loved ones said, please, sir,

00:17:57.060 please finish the job, every one of them.

00:18:00.940 And we are going to finish the job,

00:18:02.600 and we're going to finish it very fast.

00:18:04.240 We're getting very close.

00:18:05.300 I want to thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel,

00:18:09.480 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

00:18:14.680 They've been great, and we will not let them get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.

00:18:22.720 Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at

00:18:27.860 home.

00:18:28.860 This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching

00:18:34.220 deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighboring countries that

00:18:39.280 have nothing to do with the conflict.

00:18:42.340 is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them and they

00:18:48.160 will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion, economic pain and instability worse

00:18:55.360 than we can ever imagine. The United States has never been better prepared economically to

00:19:01.900 confront this threat. You all know that we built the strongest economy in history. We're going

00:19:08.200 through it right now, the strongest in history. In one year, we've taken a dead and crippled

00:19:14.560 country. I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration

00:19:22.580 and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far with no inflation, record-setting

00:19:29.220 investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion, and the highest stock market ever,

00:19:35.600 with 53 all-time record highs in just one year.

00:19:40.680 It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered.

00:19:45.340 It's known as the nuclear Iran, and they didn't know what was coming.

00:19:51.240 They've never imagined it.

00:19:53.140 Remember, because of our Drill Baby Drill program,

00:19:56.040 America has plenty of gas.

00:19:57.560 We have so much gas.

00:19:59.420 Under my leadership, we are number one producer of oil and gas on the planet

00:20:04.220 without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting from Venezuela.

00:20:09.520 Because of the Trump administration's policies,

00:20:12.760 we produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.

00:20:17.240 Think of that, Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.

00:20:20.480 And that number will soon be substantially higher than that.

00:20:25.000 There's no country like us anywhere in the world,

00:20:28.120 and we're in great shape for the future.

00:20:30.520 The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait

00:20:35.720 and won't be taking any in the future.

00:20:38.560 We don't need it.

00:20:39.400 We haven't needed it, and we don't need it.

00:20:42.500 We've beaten and completely decimated Iran.

00:20:46.940 They are decimated, both militarily and economically and every other way.

00:20:52.040 And the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait

00:20:56.980 must take care of that passage.

00:20:59.220 They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They can do it easily.

00:21:04.900 We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.

00:21:11.500 So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves.

00:21:21.300 I have a suggestion. Number one, buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty. We have so much.

00:21:27.220 And number two, build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before. Should have done it

00:21:32.520 with us, as we asked. Go to the strait and just take it. Protect it. Use it for yourselves. Iran

00:21:39.780 has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should be easy. And in any event,

00:21:47.400 when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally.

00:21:53.080 They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild.

00:21:58.580 It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will

00:22:05.080 rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much. Frankly, they came down a little bit,

00:22:10.060 but they've had some very good days over the last couple of days. We've done actually much

00:22:15.100 better than I thought, but we had to take that little journey to Iran to get rid of this horrible

00:22:20.240 threat with our historic tax cuts where people are just now talking about receiving larger

00:22:26.820 refunds than they ever thought possible. They are getting so much more money than they thought.

00:22:32.180 That's from the great big beautiful bill. Our economy is strong and improving by the day and

00:22:37.160 it will soon be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago.

00:22:43.520 I've made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our

00:22:48.940 objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are

00:22:55.160 on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We're going to

00:23:02.180 hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone

00:23:08.780 ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We

00:23:16.180 never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders'

00:23:24.340 death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet, if during

00:23:31.440 this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are

00:23:37.680 going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably

00:23:43.200 simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all,

00:23:49.440 because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it

00:23:57.000 and it would be gone and there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no anti-aircraft

00:24:03.340 equipment. Their radar is 100 percent annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force. The

00:24:11.940 nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B-2 bombers have been hit so hard that it would take

00:24:17.980 months to get near the nuclear dust. And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control.

00:24:25.640 If we see them make a move, even a move for it, we'll hit them with missiles very hard again.

00:24:33.020 We have all the cards. They have none. It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.

00:24:38.900 American involvement in World War I lasted one year, seven months, and five days.

00:24:47.920 World War II lasted for three years, eight months, and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years,

00:24:55.360 one month, and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months, and 29 days. Iraq went

00:25:05.480 on for eight years, eight months, and 28 days. We are in this military operation, so powerful,

00:25:12.960 so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days. And the country has been

00:25:20.500 eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the bully of the Middle East,

00:25:27.380 but they're the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your

00:25:33.180 grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching, and they can't leave the power, strength, and

00:25:39.580 brilliance. They just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it to your imagination, but they

00:25:46.220 can't believe what they're seeing, the brilliance of the United States military. Tonight, every

00:25:52.180 American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian

00:25:57.560 in aggression and the specter of nuclear blackmail.

00:26:01.300 Because of the actions we have taken,

00:26:03.060 we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat

00:26:06.640 to America and the world.

00:26:08.940 And I'll tell you, the world is watching.

00:26:11.000 And when we do, when it's all over,

00:26:15.020 the United States will be safer, stronger,

00:26:17.540 more prosperous, and greater than it has ever been before.

00:26:21.580 May God bless the men and women

00:26:23.760 of the United States Armed Forces,

00:26:25.760 and may God bless the United States of America.

00:26:29.600 Thank you very much, and good night.

00:26:37.080 Okay, 20 minutes to the T.

00:26:38.700 That's President of the United States.

00:26:40.240 Let's go to the Pentagon.

00:26:42.820 David Zier, of course, most of this dealt directly with the—

00:26:46.920 Oh, John Solomon.

00:26:49.780 John, give me your assessment of this, sir.

00:26:53.680 The headline's pretty clear.

00:26:54.780 two to three weeks left to finish the objectives, absent a peace deal. And that as soon as they're

00:27:01.160 done with the objectives, Iran will want to open the Humorist Straits. So he kind of took military

00:27:05.420 action off the table for the Humorist Straits, which is, once I'm done bombing them, the only

00:27:08.960 thing they have left to do is soil, oil, they're going to open up the Humorist Straits. So he took,

00:27:13.200 I think, a clear ground evasion off the table, at least for the time being, the expectations lower,

00:27:18.120 two to three weeks, unless we get a peace deal. And he acknowledged that there were talks going on

00:27:21.920 And that he said that this will be a seven-week period, if you add up the time, eight-week period tops, is a small investment for a long-term benefit for the future of your children and grandchildren, kind of selling that at the end.

00:27:34.700 He put it in comparison how small this operation will be compared to World War II, World War I, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War.

00:27:42.520 So some really significant messaging, some clarity.

00:27:46.400 Two to three weeks is a pretty clear endgame.

00:27:49.160 He'll be about, if he did that, hit that about two weeks over his timetable.

00:27:53.300 But he explained the reason why he wants to get the job done.

00:27:56.720 And I think he did hint at what they're hitting right now, the factories.

00:28:00.300 They've got the main military gear hunkered down.

00:28:03.140 They want to finish those factories off so that Iran can't build more drones, more missiles, or send them to Russia either.

00:28:09.180 So I think that's what I heard as the main headlines in a short, straightforward speech.

00:28:16.620 I want to come back here.

00:28:17.760 just stick for a second we'll talk about combat troops uh also regime change he's pretty adamant

00:28:22.640 he didn't start this for regime change and he has already changed the regime now he's dealing with

00:28:27.440 he says more reasonable people just hang on for a second john john solomon in our washington dc

00:28:33.760 studio do we now have david zero we have uh everything david david zier uh at the department

00:28:39.280 of war david most of this revolved around our combat capabilities our very specific military

00:28:46.640 objectives, didn't talk about a lot of political or strategic, your sense of what you heard,

00:28:51.900 and most importantly, what did the Department of War hear?

00:28:58.540 I think that they're still focused on the mission, and we're not taking our foot off the gas

00:29:03.020 and not missing a beat as far as providing additional coverage. I saw a report that 200

00:29:08.840 more aircraft approximately are on their way from Europe to the Middle East, along with those A-10s

00:29:14.540 that I talked about earlier arrived at RFK Lakenheath Air Base,

00:29:19.440 probably on their way over to the Gulf region.

00:29:22.260 And, you know, these versatile aircraft doing these, you know,

00:29:25.460 these close air support in the straight probably serve a key role,

00:29:28.720 taking out any fast boats or anything like that.

00:29:31.520 But also the Pentagon announced today that there's this PAC-3 deal

00:29:35.900 to keep producing missiles, tripling the capacity for Lockheed and Boeing

00:29:40.340 because, you know, the THADs are upper atmosphere

00:29:42.920 and you've got the PAC-3s in the middle and the Patriots below it, there's a finite supply.

00:29:47.860 So I think that the message is we're going to wrap things up as quickly as possible,

00:29:52.760 but we're not going to take our foot off the gas until we do that.

00:29:57.660 David, you've been at the briefings, and one thing that we know every night,

00:30:01.620 the tempo of this operation, the military operation by the CENTCOM,

00:30:07.080 you couldn't get at a higher tempo.

00:30:08.880 We are putting other assets into the into the region, including another carrier strike group.

00:30:14.080 But I take it if he's putting a time frame of two, maybe three weeks, he says clearly wants to get it done in two.

00:30:21.360 Is that can the tempo get any more intense, sir?

00:30:27.180 I don't believe so. I think they're they're hyper focused on this.

00:30:31.200 And as I was saying earlier in the broadcast, that we're operating on a wartime footing for some time here with defense acquisitions, reaching out to private industry, making sure they deliver systems so things like the Bradley don't take 10 years to design in the Pentagon and get out there.

00:30:45.280 I think this is all part of a well-crafted plan, and everything doesn't always go, you know, the way you want it.

00:30:52.460 But I think overall this has been a resounding success, at least from a Pentagon's perspective.

00:30:57.900 And, you know, Hegseth was asked to testify for House Armed Services Committee on April 29th.

00:31:03.620 I'm sure they want to go in there with this thing buttoned up a little.

00:31:10.280 David Zier, where can people get you? We're going to let you go.

00:31:13.420 What's your social media? You've been doing a great job over at the Department of War, sir.

00:31:18.540 Thank you, Steve. It means a lot.

00:31:20.200 You can follow me at Dave Zier on X and David Zier on everything else.

00:31:24.600 Thank you so much.

00:31:25.400 Dave, it's been great. Thank you. Let's go to Capitol Hill since we're talking about that. A lot of very nervous Republicans and, of course, Democrats on the warpath. Benny Harmony. Benny, give us your assessment of particularly what you think the people that hate him up there in the Democratic Party that are trying to put the War Powers Act up and, of course, his followers in the Republican Party. What's your sense?

00:31:48.040 yeah well steve i spoke to a couple of congressmen and women today and they were a little iffy on

00:31:55.240 giving a comment giving quotes or anything because i think they really wanted to see what president

00:31:59.080 trump was going to say and kind of what position he was going to take on all of this and so you

00:32:04.360 know we saw that that senate vote of the war powers uh and and that failing and so i really

00:32:08.960 don't think there's any standing there but one of the things i really liked in this address that

00:32:13.320 president trump just gave was he gave this sense of strength but he also kind of pushed other

00:32:17.240 countries to find that same courage that the United States found to do these things, to take

00:32:21.660 Venezuela, to take Iran and these different things. So overall, I agree with John Solomon.

00:32:26.780 Just it was short and sweet. It was good. And I think this is a good message for everyone here

00:32:30.420 on Capitol Hill. Democrats really can't they can't criticize this. I mean, he he didn't do

00:32:34.940 anything crazy. He didn't say anything crazy. He kept it very short. And he also really focused on

00:32:40.280 those service members that were killed and thanking them and their families. So overall, I think it's

00:32:45.300 It's looking pretty good, and I don't really think he has anything to worry about here on Capitol Hill.

00:32:51.000 Benny, what did you think that two to three weeks is something that the people up there wanted to hear, particularly the Republicans?

00:32:57.020 They wanted to see kind of a from the president to the nation, to the American people, and kind of set a time frame on this?

00:33:05.300 I think so, because, Steve, one of the biggest things that people forget, especially in the Beltway, you're familiar with this, but they have constituents that they have to respond to, right?

00:33:13.140 And and they have people calling their offices. I have many people that I know in congressional and Senate offices and they get calls from these constituents every single day asking these questions.

00:33:22.200 And so with President Trump kind of putting a literal time, a time frame on it, two to three weeks.

00:33:26.960 But you got to remember, people are going to hold him accountable to that.

00:33:29.340 And in two or three weeks, depending what it looks like, he's going to have to answer some questions, you know.

00:33:34.780 And then he also mentioned potentially, you know, if they don't come to a deal, you know, taking out those energy receptors and those different plants and stuff.

00:33:44.400 So that kind of gives the same message as, OK, well, maybe he's going to go further.

00:33:48.840 But I think it does. I think two to three weeks is good.

00:33:51.640 And I think it gives constituents and members something to relay back to their districts.

00:33:56.940 No, you really nailed it. He says, hey, we can't come to some sort of arrangement.

00:34:00.160 We may have to take out their energy grid and maybe some of their oil. That's going to be quite controversial.

00:34:05.440 Benny, where do people get you on social media, ma'am, to follow your reporting?

00:34:10.420 Yeah, of course. You guys can find me, Benny Ray Harmony, everywhere, all social media. Thanks, Steve.

00:34:16.500 Thank you, ma'am. Let's go to the White House. Neal McCabe.

00:34:20.160 Neal, your assessment, particularly what Benny was just talking about there, about this, hey, we're in discussions with people.

00:34:26.760 I didn't want to do regime change, but it's kind of happened. We're dealing with new people. They're less radical.

00:34:32.920 Talk to me about that, about he set a time frame, but it's kind of a if they haven't kind of hoved to the president said we could ramp this thing up even harder.

00:34:42.620 yeah i think that uh he sort of uh he satisfied that requirement to uh to tell you know the

00:34:52.460 operatives the staffers the consultants the uh the republicans in the house and senate who are

00:34:58.220 gearing up for the midterms that this is not going to be a problem for them say after labor day but

00:35:03.900 there are some other shoes that have to be dropped right because we're also we're also looking at hey

00:35:08.840 Cuba's next, right? So we need to wrap this thing up and get to Cuba. You have the USS

00:35:13.940 George H.W. Bush carrier group that just departed from Norfolk. They should be in theater in,

00:35:21.520 what, three weeks? You have the boxers standing by with those Marines for an amphibious operation.

00:35:27.560 They're now in Hawaii, but they could be fired up too. So I think right now he's told the new

00:35:32.140 regime in Iran, this is a time to talk. But like David said, hey, if there's 200 planes

00:35:38.040 coming their way, he will finish this. And I thought it was very interesting when he mentioned

00:35:42.820 the targets. He said, I haven't touched the power plants and I haven't touched the oil

00:35:47.760 infrastructure, although Israel has, right? That's unsaid. I think Trump is saying this is sort of an

00:35:53.980 opportunity for the Iranians and us to talk this thing down because otherwise I'll ramp this up

00:36:01.500 and I'll finish it without you, Steve. Hang on for one second at the White House.

00:36:07.020 We're going to take a short commercial break here. I've got John Solomon, Jack Posobiec is going to join us, Brian Glenn. Oh, it's it says 13 right here. OK, anyway, Neil, keep going. I want to talk to you about NATO. I want to talk to you about he did not. I don't think he went after NATO as hard as as hard as he as hard as he wanted.

00:36:27.320 I think the president truly feels like he is of European stock. He loves the royal family.

00:36:37.640 He loves Europe. He wants NATO to work. He's been tagged as an anti-NATO guy his entire presidential

00:36:45.400 and political career. But in his actual deeds, he's done nothing but support and bolster NATO.

00:36:52.440 And so I think in his heart of hearts, he's looking to save this thing.

00:36:56.760 But you look at the facts and you say, hey, guys, we're in a fight here.

00:37:01.400 And they say, you can't use our bases.

00:37:03.240 Even Italy, which is supposed to be one of our best friends, that's got to hurt.

00:37:07.080 And I think there's another component to this at the White House,

00:37:11.240 is that the political staff is gearing up for the midterms.

00:37:15.960 And their big plan is to go after fraud.

00:37:20.280 Minnesota crime syndicates with the Somalis, fraud in California, fraud in Maine, like they're really gearing up to make that what that's going to be the flag they're going to be waving into the midterms.

00:37:32.000 But they can't do it if there's an active war in the Middle East, Steve.

00:37:35.780 um if you're sitting there if you're starmer tonight and supposedly he's uh convening tomorrow

00:37:45.460 afternoon i think it's 24 nations to talk about some sort of coalition that would come in after

00:37:52.300 the fact and keep the uh straits or hormones straight or hormones somehow open for business

00:37:58.560 and we haven't seen obviously 24 nations uh including i think the arab nations and all the

00:38:03.980 NATO nations. If you're Starmer tonight, you just heard the president, what is your takeaway?

00:38:13.500 Well, he's got to somehow present a brave front, and he's got to create a facade that England and

00:38:21.880 the United Kingdom somehow matters. But it was either today or yesterday that the top admiral

00:38:28.700 in the Royal Navy just came out and said, we're not even ready to fight a war. And remember,

00:38:33.260 their one aircraft carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, they don't even have planes. So when they get

00:38:38.640 underway and deploy, we have to send planes. So it's a difficult situation. We saw it in Iraq and

00:38:45.360 Afghanistan that our allies, they aren't ready to fight. Their radios don't work with our radios.

00:38:50.840 They don't have the trucks. They don't have the bullets. It's really unfortunate. But we look over

00:38:57.500 her shoulder to see if they're where they are. And they ain't there, Steve.

00:39:03.300 No, no interoperability, very little equipment, et cetera. Before I let you go,

00:39:09.160 one of the engine room people are saying, did you actually interpret what he said

00:39:14.120 that if he can't get some sort of ceasefire or potential deal that he can't have some sort of

00:39:20.620 relationship that he will ramp up, actually go after the energy grid and go after the oil?

00:39:26.040 Is that a threat of escalation?

00:39:32.140 Yeah, I think that's a threat of escalation, but it's not escalate to de-escalate.

00:39:36.940 It's to escalate with finality.

00:39:39.460 And he will close the book on Iran with or without the new regime.

00:39:47.380 How do people get you?

00:39:49.040 Where do we go to get your reporting, sir?

00:39:51.280 you can find me on all the socials at reporter mccabe steve

00:39:57.400 thank you very much sir do we got jack posobik uh jack posobik and jack joins us by phone

00:40:05.340 jack your assessment of what you heard tonight from the president you and i talked a lot about

00:40:10.300 this during the day did he stick the landing steve i think he did and and one of the big

00:40:16.980 takeaways for me and hearing all the incredible analysis here in real america's voice i concur

00:40:22.060 with so many of our colleagues but one of the big takeaways for me is that we had heard so much

00:40:27.140 reporting throughout the day from some of these outlets that have really been pushing for a wider

00:40:32.800 war saying that he was going to announce a full-on ground campaign a ground invasion tonight perhaps

00:40:39.780 a karg island invasion and we didn't hear any of that we didn't hear a mention of karg island

00:40:44.560 We didn't hear a mention of ground troops. He certainly congratulated the troops. He certainly said he supports the troops. But not only did he say nothing regarding specifically a ground operation, he even said that Iran is no longer a threat.

00:40:59.760 He said Aloran is no longer a threat. He called upon – and what's interesting, by the way, I want to note this. When he called upon nations to open the Strait of Hormuz – now, we know that publicly he's been talking about NATO, but you notice he didn't say anything directly about NATO today.

00:41:16.000 And this evening, he said nations that receive oil from the Strait of Hormuz, and one of the key positions of that is to remind everyone that, yes, the Arab nations send their oil predominantly to, when you say Qatar, at least predominantly to Europe.

00:41:34.100 But with Iran specifically, that oil is headed to China.

00:41:39.100 So this is all about China, who we know is working with Pakistan.

00:41:43.420 They put out that five-point peace plan just yesterday.

00:41:47.920 I think China is the big mover here.

00:41:50.260 And remember, President Trump, six weeks from now, so he announced two to three weeks potentially is his window for looking at this operation to close.

00:41:58.300 But six weeks from now, he's headed to Beijing.

00:42:01.540 They pushed it back.

00:42:02.660 That's a marker.

00:42:03.620 He's not going to leave American soil for Beijing to sit down with Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, if this operation is still active.

00:42:15.180 By the way, I think – and I'll go right to Salaman Jack. Oil, particularly West Texas Intermediate, bounced. I think it had a $5 a barrel tick up over $100 a barrel.

00:42:26.100 I think Brent Kruse is also up because I believe it was a little general.

00:42:30.340 He did compliment the Arab nations for their participation.

00:42:34.000 Now, so far, I think only UAE has really stepped up and said they want to be part of this fight.

00:42:38.200 In fact, they said they would take they would assist in direct military action to open up the Strait or Hormuz.

00:42:44.340 He left it generally. What's your interpretation of the oil markets, particularly on his Hormuz discussion?

00:42:52.160 Seems like they may not be buying it quite yet.

00:42:55.340 Well, Steve, I don't think that you're going to see the reaction in the markets yet because the markets are looking for specifics.

00:43:03.000 They want to know, is this thing going to be shut?

00:43:06.240 Is the military going to be shut down, the military side of it, the operations?

00:43:09.680 Are we going to go back to the stability?

00:43:11.560 That being said, though, we are looking at traffic that has already picked up in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:43:17.720 We're seeing it eastbound.

00:43:19.600 We're seeing it westbound.

00:43:20.780 They're going by Larac Island.

00:43:22.500 They are conducting these Iranian inspections of the vessels.

00:43:27.320 And by the way, this is something – this is key that a lot of people haven't pointed out yet.

00:43:31.560 The tolls that many people have been talking about on the oil tankers that are headed out of the Gulf right now, those tolls are being paid to Iran in Chinese yuan.

00:43:43.900 That is in Chinese currency.

00:43:45.880 I have not heard a lot of people in the West talking about this, but understand that China is the main player here on the other side.

00:43:54.360 And you talk about United States leverage and U.S. leverage over Iran.

00:43:58.200 We also have to talk about China's economic leverage, which is absolutely key.

00:44:04.300 Yeah. Big time. Jack, just hang on for a second. I want to go to want to go to John Solomon back in our D.C. studio.

00:44:11.460 John, oil markets, I think they're reacting at least immediately to kind of, he was a little more general about the straighter horror moves.

00:44:20.100 Also, he didn't really come down on NATO as hard as at least some of the pregame analysis was.

00:44:25.700 Your thoughts on this, sir?

00:44:27.520 Well, first, Jack nailed it.

00:44:29.020 There are two other external players that have a lot of skin in what Donald Trump has done.

00:44:33.680 Russia, which is going to lose access to its cheap drones, and China, which is currently losing access to a lot of its oil.

00:44:40.840 and could get those, as the president called them,

00:44:43.200 the more reasonable Iranian leaders to make a deal.

00:44:47.800 And so I think what the markets heard tonight is,

00:44:50.500 I don't think I'm going to go in and open up the Hormuz Straits myself

00:44:53.200 because I think they're going to open up themselves

00:44:55.480 the second we finish our objectives.

00:44:57.420 So what he told the markets is,

00:44:58.980 I'm probably not going to militarily open them up

00:45:00.900 if some of the people who rely on the Straits want to do it.

00:45:03.620 That's fine by me, but it's their job.

00:45:05.400 I think they'll open up naturally as soon as I finish my objectives,

00:45:08.300 which is a two to three week plan, it gets done before the end of April. So the markets

00:45:14.020 announced you're going to go up saying, well, I got two more, three weeks of shortage supply.

00:45:16.860 I think you'll see five, 10% jump and then they'll narrow down. But I think the fact that

00:45:22.220 the president kind of put an end date of the third week of April in the worst case scenario,

00:45:26.460 and that he's open or ending earlier, if someone like China and Iran can get together and make a

00:45:31.100 deal, I think the markets generally will react pretty well in a few days, knowing that they have

00:45:36.440 a sort of definitive time frame when this is all over.

00:45:41.040 Let me go to this, because a lot of the initial wire copy is talking about President Trump

00:45:46.540 says it's nearly over.

00:45:48.360 He did put a time frame on it, but if they don't cooperate, he's going to hit them extremely

00:45:53.500 hard.

00:45:54.400 He specifically talked about the electrical grid, their entire electrical capacity to

00:45:59.940 power the nation, and he talked about their oil assets, which he's been very hesitant.

00:46:04.280 In fact, he said, hey, he's delayed things because of that escalatory talk.

00:46:10.840 Is that aimed specifically at whatever's left of whatever element of the regime is in discussions with them?

00:46:19.880 Yeah, he sent them a great message.

00:46:21.000 You guys seem a little more reasonable, but I'm willing to bomb you to the Stone Ages.

00:46:24.720 Remember his last words.

00:46:25.880 I'm going to take you to Stone Ages.

00:46:28.000 Those lines and all the posturing that the Pentagon's doing, moving all these additional assets.

00:46:32.980 If you've got two to three weeks left, you don't need all those assets.

00:46:36.120 It's all a negotiation with the Iranian mullahs, which is stone ages.

00:46:40.480 But do you like your electricity still?

00:46:42.160 Do you like your oil?

00:46:43.040 Make a deal.

00:46:44.060 You know you're going to have to sell oil to get back on your feet after I bomb the heck out of you.

00:46:47.960 So don't push this too far.

00:46:50.040 I have heard from administration officials that they're getting some reasonable conversations with Iran.

00:46:56.300 Not, you know, it's Iran, so nothing's totally reasonable.

00:46:59.200 But there seems to be a little more humility, a little bit more pragmatism in what Iran wants to do.

00:47:06.240 And, you know, 16, 17 years ago, I negotiated directly with the Iranian mullahs because my reporter at the Washington Times had been captured during the Green Revolution.

00:47:17.580 And it was amazing when we finally got down to talking Turkey, how pragmatic they were.

00:47:22.780 Like, what are you going to say about us?

00:47:24.380 I'm going to say thank you for giving my reporter back.

00:47:26.240 Are you going to say critical things?

00:47:27.440 Of course I'm going to say critical things.

00:47:29.000 You took my damn reporter.

00:47:30.440 But it was a very pragmatic negotiation on the phone.

00:47:33.860 And I was the only guy to get my reporter out.

00:47:36.080 I think the Washington Post and Newsweek had,

00:47:38.460 they're more pragmatic when you get down to making a deal like where they might be.

00:47:42.460 They seem more humble in the last couple of days.

00:47:45.700 Like I said, the president's statement today to the European leader and the open letter to America,

00:47:50.840 it wasn't, hey, death to America was, we really don't want to have a fight with you anymore.

00:47:54.780 And we're willing to stop if you're willing to stop.

00:47:57.040 That's a little bit different rhetoric than the normal propaganda we get from the crazy mullahs.

00:48:03.420 You think that's because they've seen the overwhelming power in the, as Captain Fennell says, the defanging and declawing process?

00:48:12.140 I mean, they're on the receiving end of this, of course.

00:48:14.100 I think so.

00:48:14.640 They're relentless in hitting command centers.

00:48:16.640 You think that's gotten their attention big time?

00:48:19.300 Yeah, I'm told.

00:48:20.680 I know some people and I, Ron, have been able to have a little bit of conversation, a few back channels.

00:48:25.240 They don't believe that the leadership has full communication with its military assets.

00:48:29.820 That's horrifying if you're a country because you can't plan, you can't warm.

00:48:33.660 And then you find out, oh, this guy got killed yesterday.

00:48:35.420 Oh, I was just on the phone with him yesterday.

00:48:36.640 Oh, he's gone.

00:48:37.800 You got no ships.

00:48:38.880 You got no planes.

00:48:40.300 66% of your missile factories are gone and 34% will be gone before the president's done.

00:48:46.460 Yeah, I think psychologically the Iranians are pretty beat down and they are physically

00:48:50.420 clearly beat down.

00:48:51.320 john can you hang on jack masovic hang on brian glenn also go to brian glenn we'll take a short

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00:50:16.600 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:50:22.740 Let's go to Brian Glenn.

00:50:24.420 Brian, you've been cheap by Jowl with the president over at the White House, Air Force One, since the beginning of this.

00:50:31.220 Give us your assessment of what you heard tonight.

00:50:34.440 Yeah, Steve, it's no secret I wasn't the biggest fan of getting into a war with Iran, so I'll say that.

00:50:41.080 It was very important that he was delivered this speech tonight.

00:50:44.800 So many people, Steve, get their information by drive-by headlines and what they read on social

00:50:51.740 media. And I'll give you an example that in the break, I came across this guy's account,

00:50:57.140 this Douglas McGregor says, breaking ground troops to be deployed in Iran. And I'm not sure what

00:51:04.820 speech, Steve, he was listening to, but I didn't hear that in tonight's speech by the president.

00:51:09.980 And I was very optimistic about how he's going to conclude the operations there, recap the success.

00:51:16.820 There's no doubt that we absolutely destroyed the Iranian military and we made it where they can no longer obtain a nuclear weapon.

00:51:26.600 That was the goal.

00:51:27.800 Now, as far as the Strait of Hormuz goes, and this is my biggest question that I had, the president says we simply do not rely on that particular strait for our oil.

00:51:37.560 We're very much oil independent.

00:51:39.300 So he said, and I'm kind of paraphrasing here, that we didn't have to go in there and secure that area.

00:51:46.400 We don't need to, but we're going to help you do that.

00:51:51.020 And I just know as an American, I don't really care about the price of oil or gas in other countries.

00:51:57.460 I care about what I pay at the pump.

00:51:59.660 And I do feel very confident, Steve, that he did give a little bit of optimism to the market, to the American people, that this is not going to go on for months and months here.

00:52:11.380 We're going to wrap this up, get our men and women back home safely.

00:52:15.600 And so I'm very optimistic on the speech.

00:52:17.300 do you think good yeah you you you being one of the ones that saying hey you know i keep saying

00:52:24.320 the middle east is a sideshow and the israel situation is sideshow to a sideshow you believe

00:52:29.060 he gave a defendant enough i know john solomon is going to come back in a second he's looking at

00:52:33.580 headlines of the mainstream media and he'll report on that but right um the oil market is still a

00:52:39.160 little dicey i i don't think they're saluting i think part of that has to do with the general

00:52:43.460 nature of he said uh hormuz like for instance if you're taking all out of there it's kind of

00:52:49.940 your problem it's not the united states problem it's your problem but are you are you being one

00:52:56.000 of the ones that were not particularly excited about this do you believe the time frame and

00:53:00.480 particularly the the uh hint or threat of escalation at the end if they don't get their

00:53:05.940 minds right is that cause you concern you like you think the timeline's definitive enough

00:53:10.580 two weeks to three weeks? And what do you say about this escalatory nature at the end?

00:53:16.900 Yeah, I know. He had to throw that on the end, which scared me a little bit, Steve.

00:53:20.700 But I will say this. We're going into midterms. We're going to campaign season. There's a lot

00:53:25.900 of special elections going on in about three to four weeks from now. So it's very important

00:53:30.980 that the American people go to the polls to vote for things that are most concerning to them.

00:53:36.860 health insurance, price of fuel, gasoline, cost of living, energy, the fact that we're still

00:53:43.460 funding NPR and PBS, the fact that we're still funding Planned Parenthood. I still think, Steve,

00:53:50.200 those are the top voting issues. It's not whether or not the country of Iran has a nuclear weapon

00:53:57.040 or Israel's threatened by... Israel's going to claim they've been threatened for years.

00:54:02.720 And even if we wipe out every nuclear weapon on the face of the planet, they're still going to complain and they're going to be threatened that they're under attack.

00:54:12.060 And I just want to put this chapter to bed.

00:54:15.100 So as a voter, going back to your original question, if this gets wrapped up to three to four weeks before we really hit the campaign, I think Republicans have a great chance of winning the midterms.

00:54:28.120 If they don't, and there's some very credible pollsters on Capitol Hill, I'm not going to name names right now, but some of them say that Republicans can lose between 20 and 40 seats.

00:54:39.860 Let's just go on the low end, Steve.

00:54:41.600 Let's just say 20.

00:54:42.720 If they maintain control of the House, that means they control the committees.

00:54:47.700 What can you do on committees?

00:54:49.120 You can subpoena, and you can bet your bet the next two years of this Trump administration will be hell from the Democrats.

00:54:56.600 Living hell.

00:54:56.820 I'm more concerned about that, Steve.

00:54:58.660 And I don't want us to lose the Democrats.

00:55:00.920 I want us to hold.

00:55:02.580 Where do people get your reporting?

00:55:04.880 What's your social media, Brian Glenn?

00:55:06.520 Well, more people aren't following me right now

00:55:09.000 than the Iranian naval going to the ball in the ocean right now.

00:55:12.720 No one's following me right now.

00:55:13.680 They don't like what I have to say.

00:55:15.120 And that's just, oh, well.

00:55:16.480 But they can follow me at BrianGlennTV on Twitter,

00:55:20.640 at Brian on Truth Social, across the board on Instagram.

00:55:24.300 Don't follow me right now, folks.

00:55:25.700 You don't want to hear what I have to say, because I'm telling you, I'm just trying to be as fruitful as I can.

00:55:32.600 And then sometimes you like it, sometimes you don't like it.

00:55:34.800 But I love you, Steve.

00:55:35.880 Thanks for having me on tonight.

00:55:36.800 I appreciate it.

00:55:38.460 Give it to us with a bark on, always.

00:55:41.340 Jack, we've got about two minutes.

00:55:42.640 Jack Posobiec, your closing thoughts, oil markets kind of in roiling.

00:55:49.100 Great headlines, I think.

00:55:50.600 Solomon's going to give us that.

00:55:51.660 Give me two minutes of your best assessment, sir.

00:55:53.760 Well, Steve, I think what we're going to see here is perhaps a turning point to the beginning of the end. And really, there were so many people who wanted to see a much wider war. There were some people who wanted to see a full on ground invasion.

00:56:11.680 They wanted to see the the Marines heading in. They wanted to see special forces. They wanted to see all of it. And you didn't hear that from the president. You hear two to three more weeks and you heard him calling for this deal, a grand deal to be made between, again, the United States, the Gulf partners.

00:56:34.620 And then, of course, with China, that includes China, all the nations, remember what he said, all the nations that receive oil through the Gulf. So he's bringing China into the mix now very quietly, but he's, you can see him putting the pieces together. He's building the blocks for a grand deal on the Gulf, which I believe will include Israel, will include the Arab states, will include Iran, Pakistan, and then of course, China.

00:57:00.960 jack uh where do people go on social media you've been like the associated press for maga

00:57:07.560 in this war where do folks go well steve i appreciate that we're at jack pasobic uh of

00:57:13.680 course uh human events daily is the show and then tomorrow night we're going to be at george

00:57:18.760 washington university for a huge this is the turning point event myself uh the great erica

00:57:25.020 kirk and caroline levitt of the white house george washington university tp usa tomorrow night

00:57:31.440 Wow.

00:57:33.220 Amazing, sir.

00:57:33.940 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:34.740 Thanks, Jack, for staying up.

00:57:36.340 John Solomon, it's not because you're the gray beard, but you're our source of wisdom.

00:57:40.800 You're going to wrap up here.

00:57:41.720 We've got a couple of minutes.

00:57:43.160 The headlines, you think the White House is happy with what they're seeing on the headlines, sir?

00:57:47.780 They are.

00:57:48.440 That was one of the goals tonight.

00:57:49.600 Could they get the mainstream media to get a headline that would be reassuring to the American public?

00:57:54.360 very close to completion or closing in and completion of the headlines in all the major

00:58:00.720 media, except for the New York Times, which actually is claiming the president gave no

00:58:04.420 specific timetable. Now, I swore I heard two to three weeks. I looked at the transcript. It said

00:58:08.540 two to three weeks. The New York Times is in fantasy land. They might as well move to Disney

00:58:12.640 World. But the rest of the mainstream media, they heard what the president said. Now, oil is an

00:58:17.780 issue. The oil markets wanted Donald Trump to solve China's and the other people on the other

00:58:22.180 sides are moved straight. You just heard the president say, that's not an American interest.

00:58:25.800 I'm not doing it. Let the other people do it. So I think that's why the oil markets will be a little

00:58:29.860 off-center. But the American voter got from their mainstream media, most of them, minus Fantasyland

00:58:35.040 New York Times, that this is very close to ending two to three weeks. I think that's one of the

00:58:39.500 objectives of the speech tonight. Real quickly, what are you going to look for in discussions

00:58:45.660 with the two parties to make sure that we don't get to the end and you have to have some massive

00:58:49.640 a massive escalation against their electric grid and oil.

00:58:53.340 What are you going to be looking for?

00:58:56.040 Does the soundings that we got from Iran in the last 48 hours

00:58:59.740 translate into a negotiable deal?

00:59:01.920 And does China come to tail?

00:59:03.080 Jack has it right.

00:59:04.420 China can end this quicker than that two, three-week time frame.

00:59:07.720 He's got it exactly right.

00:59:08.840 China, you just got called out tonight.

00:59:10.560 Go do something.

00:59:13.580 John Solomon, social media, all your content.

00:59:16.600 Where do we go?

00:59:17.160 Jay Solomon reports on social media

00:59:19.900 JustinNews.com on the website

00:59:21.480 and I'm always lucky enough to follow you every day at 6 o'clock

00:59:24.040 right here at Real America's Voice

00:59:25.400 Justin News, no noise, the amazing Amanda Head

00:59:27.840 and thank you for being on our morning show so much

00:59:32.160 we love kicking off the day with you and bowling

00:59:34.480 John Solomon, Real America's Voice

00:59:36.940 I want to thank the entire team

00:59:38.220 particularly Denver, Palm Beach, Washington D.C.

00:59:41.500 everybody at the Pentagon, White House

00:59:43.920 on Capitol Hill with Benny

00:59:46.440 Just fantastic coverage.

00:59:48.900 We're going to be back at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

00:59:52.000 Already got the show packed.

00:59:53.400 We'll have a complete assessment of this, plus what markets are doing overnight.

00:59:58.960 It's going to give a reality check to all of this.

01:00:01.320 President of the United States, two to three weeks.

01:00:04.280 Put a time frame on this.

01:00:05.860 We'll see you tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., when you will be back in the war room.

01:00:16.440 Thank you.

01:00:46.440 Thank you.

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