Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 701： Trump Meets With Netanyahu Cont.

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

00:00:08.540 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:13.760 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:18.020 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:19.940 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:21.360 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:24.040 It's going to happen.

00:00:25.100 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:28.720 Mega Media.

00:00:30.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:35.500 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:39.260 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:00:45.620 War Room.

00:00:46.480 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:55.460 Okay, historic shot there of the East Room of the White House,

00:00:59.320 where a historic press conference is going to take place.

00:01:03.020 This is the first foreign visit in President Trump's second term.

00:01:07.700 It is Bibi Netanyahu.

00:01:11.140 Israel.

00:01:11.620 President Trump working nonstop on days of thunder, securing our border, deporting illegal aliens,

00:01:21.000 trying to work with Elon Musk and his team about what they're doing on cutting costs,

00:01:26.420 because that's becoming a necessity.

00:01:28.360 We've got to get to the trillion dollars.

00:01:29.900 And in his spare time, he's trying to end the war in Ukraine.

00:01:35.220 He doesn't want that to drag on, and he's trying to sort this mess out in the Middle East.

00:01:41.940 He and Bibi Netanyahu started, supposed to start at 4 o'clock, started late, I think about 4.30.

00:01:46.800 They spent a few minutes with each other, and then, as the president likes to do,

00:01:51.300 he brings people into the Oval Office to have a photographic availability,

00:01:57.180 but he also brings the press in.

00:01:58.260 They shout questions.

00:01:59.240 He answers back.

00:02:01.820 Then they've continued their meeting.

00:02:03.620 It's called a bilateral.

00:02:05.560 That's White House lingo.

00:02:07.680 And they're going to come out and have a press conference.

00:02:11.280 I imagine President Trump is going to have a lot to say.

00:02:13.820 When they come out, we're going to pick it up without commercial break until its conclusion.

00:02:19.760 We've got our own White House correspondent there, Brian Glenn, will join us here momentarily.

00:02:25.380 And if it's still within the 7 o'clock hour, he will be here to help us wrap it up.

00:02:30.760 Like I said, very controversial today.

00:02:33.140 President Trump, I think, leaked.

00:02:35.600 I'm not sure he said that, that if he was assassinated or, I guess, anyway,

00:02:39.980 harmed by agents of the Persian government, they'd left instructions, or by anybody, I guess it was, to be obliterated.

00:02:49.440 He also today started this controversial, Gaza's not fit for occupation, not fit for humans,

00:02:56.200 so Jordan and Egypt ought to get ready and start taking people because it's not fit for humans. 0.99

00:03:02.160 And now I can tell you, when President Trump, I think the French call it an idea fixed,

00:03:07.240 when he has a fixed idea, he doesn't get off it.

00:03:11.520 And there's going to be something here, just because you can tell he's going to force the issue.

00:03:16.620 So this whole issue of who actually goes back to Gaza, what's the future of Gaza,

00:03:22.160 what's the future of the Muslim Brotherhood's military operation in Gaza, all of it.

00:03:26.440 I've got Frank Gaffney.

00:03:29.720 I want to make sure also, hey, turbulence coming out of today, I don't think we're going to have peace.

00:03:35.800 I just don't.

00:03:37.820 There's an awful lot of people around the world, you see the world media saying how, you know,

00:03:42.320 they disagree with Rabbi Pesach, and they say you're taking a people that have been basically confined to this hellhole,

00:03:49.880 you've destroyed the hellhole, now you want to go be basically refugees in the desert of Sinai, 1.00

00:03:55.440 or in the desert of Jordan, and that doesn't work.

00:03:59.660 So very controversial.

00:04:02.120 The Rabbi is with us.

00:04:03.840 He will return with us momentarily.

00:04:05.340 Frank, the strategy of this, we've been making the case that there's a massive problem in the Middle East,

00:04:15.180 and our problem in the Middle East, the American problem in the Middle East, is not Israel.

00:04:19.620 That these problems would exist even without Israel. 0.89

00:04:22.620 And people go, oh, no, you can't, there's Israel, no.

00:04:24.860 These would be just as bad without Israel because they hate the United States of America. 0.99

00:04:33.220 Now, for full disclosure, Frank, President Trump from the Oval, he didn't exactly back the Frank Gaffney

00:04:41.520 and the Victory Coalition and the Bannon and the War Room line that Qatar is a problem.

00:04:48.680 He said Qatar is trying to get to a solution.

00:04:50.940 Qatar is working with everybody to try to come up with solutions.

00:04:54.380 We respect the president.

00:04:55.780 We love the president.

00:04:56.760 We beg to differ.

00:04:57.900 But we are where we are.

00:04:59.920 Frank Gaffney, your thoughts?

00:05:02.320 Well, let me just make an overall observation, Steve.

00:05:04.920 As you know, I had the privilege of working for President Reagan when he was practicing peace through strength.

00:05:11.760 And it was an extraordinary moment in my life.

00:05:16.700 I'm happy to say that I think the most glorious moment, probably even surpassing that, is the one we're living in now.

00:05:23.660 You were talking with Julie earlier about the time to be alive.

00:05:26.600 What Donald Trump is doing every single day, and I set the Middle East aside for a moment, but every single day in domestic policy and foreign policy is demonstrating that he is making America great again.

00:05:40.080 And he's doing it by the practice of leadership, first and foremost, and the policy of peace through strength.

00:05:49.160 And let me just say this to our friends who are relatively new to all of this.

00:05:54.220 America first, I think, joins brilliantly with peace through strength because the idea behind the Reagan strategy was not to use our strength.

00:06:07.200 It was to have our strength deter enemies from doing bad things and to come to terms that were acceptable to us.

00:06:13.680 Because Donald Trump has the opportunity, and I think this is what we're going to see in the press conference coming up momentarily, I pray it is, is that the kind of partnership that arguably we haven't seen since, oh, I don't know, FDR and Churchill or maybe Reagan and Thatcher and John Paul is available now to enable us to have the decisive victory we need.

00:06:41.440 And I mean, and I mean, we meaning both the United States of America and the Judeo-Christian civilized world, and also, of course, Israel, without having to use our strength by allowing the Israelis to use their strength and, in fact, assuring that they've got the kit, the wherewithal to do that. 0.86

00:07:00.920 But they have understood, I think, finally, in the aftermath of October 7th, and President Trump spoke powerfully about it a moment ago, that horrific event shred, I hope for all time.

00:07:14.940 The idea that they can simply make peace with people determined to destroy them, whether it's Hamas, whether it's Hezbollah, whether it's Houthis, whether it's Iran, whether it's other Sharia supremacists, Turkey, they will have to prevail over them. 0.80

00:07:29.360 And the very important insight for our America first team is that restraint won't get us there, let alone retreat.

00:07:39.040 What will get us there is enabling Israel to finish the job, as President Trump has put it, to assure that victory is actually achieved over these enemies. 0.89

00:07:49.580 Whether gutter can play a role or not, I don't know.

00:07:51.700 I don't believe they are on our side.

00:07:53.580 But here's an interesting opportunity for a test.

00:07:55.760 I was talking with our colleague David Wormser on our show, Securing America, earlier today, and he pointed out, gutter has a village or series of villages, I guess, that they built for the World Cup.

00:08:08.640 They're sitting idle.

00:08:09.620 They're sitting empty, ready to go.

00:08:12.560 How about we put 100,000, I don't know, women and children from Gaza in there right away to start this process? 0.98

00:08:19.080 The other thing I just wanted to mention, Steve, is I don't know what they're talking about right now, but I've got to believe that with Donald Trump moving the Overton window, as my friend Pesek likes to say, on this whole idea that Gaza is someplace that can be occupied, that can be inhabited for any time for the foreseeable future, not by Israelis, as was mentioned by somebody in the press, not by the Palestinians for sure.

00:08:47.500 We have to change this ceasefire that the president basically inherited from Joe Biden, this hudna, if you want to be technical about it, a pause, not real peace, not even temporary peace, but just a time for regrouping, for rearming, and then for resuming the fight.

00:09:08.160 This is a tradition that goes back to Mohammed. 0.87

00:09:11.140 But the point is, you cannot be allowing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Gazans to go back into the north under these circumstances.

00:09:23.140 That's provided for in phase two of this ceasefire deal.

00:09:27.200 That can't happen.

00:09:28.640 And here's a really important reason why it can't happen, Steve.

00:09:31.740 If those Gazans go back, you can bet there will be more hostages. 1.00

00:09:37.500 In fact, those hostages will be held by Hamas to keep them from being removed altogether.

00:09:43.600 Keep it simple.

00:09:44.440 And Rabbi, I'll bring you a minute.

00:09:45.460 We're going to cut.

00:09:46.240 As soon as they walk in, we're going to cut to it live.

00:09:50.640 President Trump, Steve Witkoff, went to Qatar and got the Qataris to have his back.

00:09:56.780 And he kind of forced himself into, remember, this was the whole thing about, was it Shabbat?

00:10:02.400 He called up and they said, look, it's Shabbat.

00:10:05.220 It's Friday night.

00:10:06.200 You know, we'll see you Saturday night.

00:10:07.980 And Witkoff goes, no, he's in Qatar.

00:10:09.880 It's a couple hours away.

00:10:10.980 What, 90-minute flight or something?

00:10:12.420 He says, no, I'm coming.

00:10:14.640 You know, be ready.

00:10:16.380 He came from Qatar and they knew he came from Qatar with the deal.

00:10:20.300 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:10:21.360 But was it the whole thing about the return part of the ceasefire?

00:10:25.940 It was going to be exchange of, it was going to be turning over the hostages, a thousand

00:10:31.240 terrorists or freedom fighters, whatever you want to call them, for the Palestinians going 1.00

00:10:36.780 to be released.

00:10:37.900 The hostages are going to release back to the Israelis. 0.99

00:10:40.100 But that the mechanism for the return was there on the deal that President Trump basically

00:10:45.220 had Witkoff negotiate.

00:10:47.360 Am I correct on that?

00:10:51.360 Frank Gaffney?

00:10:52.920 You're asking Pesak.

00:10:53.880 Oh, yeah, that's exactly what was in the cards.

00:10:57.300 Okay, but how can they...

00:10:58.840 In this phase one period.

00:11:00.840 How can we act like, how can we now act like, because we've known that we've known that the

00:11:06.620 IDF had to do what they did, but it's like Dresden in 45.

00:11:10.180 In fact, it's worse than Ukraine. 0.95

00:11:14.020 How's this come as a surprise and how do we pivot now?

00:11:17.000 Rabbi, let me do it with you.

00:11:18.120 Isn't it a bait and switch?

00:11:19.160 How do you get...

00:11:20.280 You're getting the hostages back.

00:11:22.480 Everybody's known about what it looks like, what it is, the lack of water, the lack of

00:11:27.640 living space.

00:11:29.360 They've known about it.

00:11:30.080 How do you put that in the document they sign off on?

00:11:32.200 Won't they sit there and go, this is another Jerusalem, Washington, D.C., bait and switch, 0.85

00:11:38.080 sir?

00:11:38.300 Look, Steve, the reason that Gaza is so uninhabitable, the reason it's so destroyed, is only because

00:11:47.340 Hamas attacked Israel.

00:11:48.980 They built a terrorist infrastructure that ran like a snake underneath the entire Gaza Strip 0.97

00:11:54.140 with hundreds of miles of tunnels.

00:11:56.280 Okay.

00:11:56.480 Every single house was filled with weapons.

00:11:58.580 Rabbi, hang on. 0.94

00:11:59.640 I got that.

00:12:00.780 I agree with that.

00:12:01.740 But I'm talking about that was all known when this deal was cut.

00:12:04.400 But now to say, in the middle, now to say, oh, by the way, upon further review, it's

00:12:11.380 not inhabitable, and you guys ought to go to Egypt.

00:12:13.980 Oh, Egypt doesn't want you.

00:12:15.360 Well, let's go to Jordan.

00:12:16.440 Oh, Jordan doesn't want you.

00:12:18.500 Nobody wants these folks, right?

00:12:21.380 We counseled against this deal.

00:12:23.380 You're talking to people who said, don't do this.

00:12:26.740 Donald Trump has the option to do what he's doing now, which is to say, change circumstances.

00:12:31.060 Yes, I think that it is something people can say, well, you should have known.

00:12:35.200 But I think the reality is nobody until Donald Trump had the, well, the guts to say, this

00:12:42.580 won't work.

00:12:43.780 It cannot stand.

00:12:45.180 We have to revise it.

00:12:46.340 And God bless him for doing so.

00:12:49.080 Okay.

00:12:49.700 I got that, Rabbi.

00:12:50.940 I like that.

00:12:51.740 That's a Chinese saying.

00:12:54.040 Circumstances, when the Chinese retrade you, which they're constantly retrading you, Frank 1.00

00:12:58.960 knows this, they start off the conversation, circumstances change.

00:13:02.640 In other words, the contract we have is no longer good because they've had to change their

00:13:08.480 mind.

00:13:08.940 So, Rabbi, your thoughts?

00:13:10.320 Yeah, but, yeah, Steve, it's not a bait and switch.

00:13:12.940 Israel made no, did not, they weren't trying to convince anyone that northern Gaza was inhabitable.

00:13:19.320 They said they wanted to come back.

00:13:20.640 You want to come back?

00:13:21.360 That's one of your terms.

00:13:22.740 You can come back.

00:13:23.900 Here's what it looks like.

00:13:25.320 And every, you know, that's why I said before that every building that was destroyed was

00:13:29.080 destroyed because it was a legitimate target.

00:13:30.880 The soldiers that I spoke to, my children included, who were in combat there, said that

00:13:35.140 literally every single home had weapons caches in it, had tunnel entry points.

00:13:41.500 Many of the hostages were held by civilian families and abused by them.

00:13:47.040 I mean, this, and this goes to a larger problem, Steve, that you were raising, which is, what

00:13:53.060 if a lot of them don't want to leave?

00:13:54.300 What if they don't want to go anywhere?

00:13:55.780 The more moderate ones will want to leave.

00:13:58.140 The ones who are more committed to the jihadist Hamas genocidal ideology need to be defeated.

00:14:04.600 The only reason that, the only way to really defeat a genocidal ideology is to actually

00:14:09.720 defeat it, to fight it to victory, which is something that the Western world has forgotten

00:14:13.560 about ever since World War II, that you have to defeat evil ideologies.

00:14:17.760 Otherwise, they're just going to persist, that that's the way we defeated Imperial Japan. 0.99

00:14:22.040 That's the way we defeated Nazi Germany.

00:14:23.980 You have to bring them to their knees.

00:14:25.940 The only way to eradicate this evil is victory.

00:14:30.200 And Israel had to destroy the Gaza Strip in the process of doing it.

00:14:34.140 So where these people go is a problem that needs to be solved.

00:14:37.980 But enough is enough.

00:14:38.880 Since 1948, the Arabs have been starting wars and never paying the price, and everyone points 1.00

00:14:45.080 the finger at Israel.

00:14:46.420 The whole reason this disaster existed in the first place is the Egyptians and the other 1.00

00:14:50.960 Arab leadership.

00:14:51.780 The whole reason it's destroyed today is because of the jihadists who tried to destroy Israel. 0.83

00:14:59.600 Let's start pointing the finger of responsibility.

00:15:02.060 Let's point the finger of responsibility where it belongs.

00:15:04.580 The Qataris funded this.

00:15:06.120 The Egyptians facilitated it. 1.00

00:15:07.660 If the Iranians funded it, let them pay the price for the results. 1.00

00:15:12.280 And Steve, the other point, though, is that Hamas will hold anybody who is in the north 0.95

00:15:19.120 hostage to prevent them from being removed.

00:15:23.360 I can guarantee you that's how this will play out, for the same reasons that Pesek just

00:15:28.100 talked about, that everything's destroyed there, because they have nothing but contempt

00:15:32.380 for their own people.

00:15:33.280 They're only used as hostages or slaves. 0.73

00:15:36.920 And when they're not useful, they're killed. 0.90

00:15:38.680 And if they're killed by Israelis, better yet. 1.00

00:15:41.060 But they'll kill them themselves or they'll hold them hostage. 1.00

00:15:43.960 This is the ultimate change circumstance. 0.98

00:15:47.200 And Donald Trump is absolutely right.

00:15:48.680 And you said it.

00:15:49.620 It's common sense to say they can't go back there.

00:15:53.240 It's not safe.

00:15:54.260 It's not habitable.

00:15:55.520 And that's not Israel's fault.

00:15:57.380 But it's the time for relocating these people permanently has to happen.

00:16:02.740 OK, Rabbi, hang on about this point.

00:16:04.740 You got a whole wide swath of them just don't want to go.

00:16:10.340 Some do.

00:16:10.800 Don't give it a round.

00:16:11.360 I'm sure some do.

00:16:12.160 A lot don't.

00:16:13.320 But even the ones that want to go, riddle me this.

00:16:16.920 There's nobody in the region wants to take them.

00:16:18.640 The Egyptians couldn't be more adamant that. 0.97

00:16:21.200 No, thanks.

00:16:22.620 The Jordanians couldn't be more adamant.

00:16:24.840 No, thanks.

00:16:26.420 What are you going to put 10 cities up in the Sinai and force the Egyptians? 0.99

00:16:30.800 I mean, what is the solution if President Trump and people are saying, hey, the Gaza is, you

00:16:36.600 know, uninhabitable and something's got to be done here.

00:16:40.540 A bunch of people don't want to leave.

00:16:41.740 Some do want to leave.

00:16:42.800 Even the ones that want to leave.

00:16:44.540 Where are you going to send them?

00:16:45.760 Because right now it doesn't look like any of the neighbors.

00:16:49.200 And then you get down to the Gulf.

00:16:50.680 It's even worse.

00:16:51.360 But none of their neighbors want to take these folks.

00:16:53.980 Your thoughts, sir? 1.00

00:16:56.280 Well, you know, the old expression, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:17:01.200 If you have a population here that has willingly embraced an evil genocidal ideology, all they 1.00

00:17:07.560 have is jihad.

00:17:08.440 Even the other Arab countries don't want them. 1.00

00:17:10.420 Wherever large populations of Palestinians have gone, whether it's Jordan or Egypt or Lebanon

00:17:15.800 or Kuwait, wherever they go, they cause problems. 0.96

00:17:19.040 And that's why nobody wants them.

00:17:20.220 And I don't know what to—I mean, I guess I feel bad for them that they don't have anywhere

00:17:25.280 to go.

00:17:26.060 But again, the finger of responsibility should be pointed at where it belongs.

00:17:30.700 On those—their leadership and their population that has chosen this, they embrace Hamas. 0.84

00:17:35.760 Now, practically speaking, where are they going to go?

00:17:37.980 I believe that the only real practical solution is to deliver the Sharia supremacists, the jihadists, such a resounding defeat that they do what the imperial Japanese and what the Nazi Germans did, and that is rethink their genocidal ideology because it is unequivocally defeated. 0.98

00:17:57.820 It's really the only way to change these people.

00:17:59.820 Otherwise, you're just moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic, shifting jihadists from 1.00

00:18:04.820 one place to another.

00:18:05.820 No one's going to want to take them, as you said.

00:18:08.800 They're in a bind.

00:18:09.880 But again, this is a society that embraced Hamas. 0.74

00:18:12.920 It's not like Hamas was ruling over an unwilling population.

00:18:16.120 This is a population that has been indoctrinated from the youngest age, that the highest calling 0.98

00:18:20.580 is to murder Jews and to destroy the state of Israel. 0.99

00:18:23.240 This is also, in the bigger picture, Steve, this is the unwillingness of the Sharia supremacists 0.98

00:18:28.920 to accept Israel, because if they accept Israel, that means that they're putting down their arms 0.75

00:18:33.500 and giving up on jihad and Sharia supremacy for the whole world, because the front line

00:18:37.660 of that, the bone in their craw of the Sharia supremacists' goal for the world is the state 0.91

00:18:43.820 of Israel, and they can't come to peace with it.

00:18:46.340 So something's going to have to give.

00:18:48.640 And this goes back to the question of, are we going to have victory over this, or are

00:18:53.960 we kicking the can down the road to keep fighting against the jihadists in perpetuity?

00:18:58.620 Israel's on the front lines.

00:19:00.200 But make no mistake about it.

00:19:02.580 Everyone in the War Room Posse—and I've been a member of the War Room Posse from the

00:19:05.880 beginning—everyone who knows that the Middle East is far away and that we're America first

00:19:10.920 should recognize that the Iranian money that they're getting from the CCP that they're

00:19:16.280 using to fund Hamas, they're also using to fund Hezbollah in Venezuela and Paraguay,

00:19:22.280 who are in business with the cartels and are central to the drugs and the illegal traffic

00:19:29.020 across your southern border.

00:19:30.340 Iran is your enemy, and Iran is Israel's enemy, and we're just on the front lines. 0.93

00:19:35.240 You know, they're after America, and Israel's in the way. 1.00

00:19:38.960 And those Hezbollah folks are here, too.

00:19:41.680 But can I give you a thought experiment, Steve?

00:19:43.580 Yes, the question—so who's going to take them?

00:19:46.200 Well, how about we start with the list of all of the countries that have been professing

00:19:51.520 their undying commitment to Palestine?

00:19:54.740 Let's go through that list.

00:19:56.400 I mentioned Qatar.

00:19:57.280 Qatar's got an, you know, Olympic-sized village that's ready to go.

00:20:01.740 Start there.

00:20:02.720 How about Turkey?

00:20:03.920 Turkey loves the Palestinians. 0.97

00:20:05.500 How about them?

00:20:06.800 I'm sure some will wind up in Syria, no matter what we do. 1.00

00:20:10.320 But maybe Afghanistan.

00:20:11.660 I don't know.

00:20:12.680 There's places around the world that have—and the president has said some are saying they'd

00:20:17.160 like to take these guys.

00:20:18.620 So that's possibly the case that there's others on the list besides Sharia supremacist 0.89

00:20:24.400 nation.

00:20:24.640 You've seen the geostrategic reorientation of President Trump around a more what I call

00:20:32.920 a Mahanian strategy or Mahanian strategy, more naval strategy looking to take.

00:20:37.440 He sent Marco Rubio, Secretary Rubio, down to Panama.

00:20:40.300 They come out, as you and I have talked about.

00:20:43.260 The CCP signs come down.

00:20:46.040 The president of Panama walks in and says, we're out of one, belt one road.

00:20:49.560 Now, today, I think the contract for Hutchinson and Wampoa to run the stevedore system there

00:20:54.860 has been torn up.

00:20:57.760 Panama Canal's coming back to the United States.

00:20:59.580 On the other hand, we had Tom Dance today at the commemoration of the four chaplains commemoration

00:21:07.300 in Greenland.

00:21:09.020 The people in Greenland seem like they're very open to some sort of independence and

00:21:12.820 maybe partnership with the United States as part of the naval strategy to block the

00:21:16.700 Russians.

00:21:17.360 Arctic is up for grabs now as a great power—a great game between the CCP, the KGB, and the 0.71

00:21:24.180 United States of America.

00:21:25.920 With all this going on and reorientation, he's talking about—talking to Bibi today about

00:21:30.200 building an iron dome for the United States.

00:21:32.900 Who knows if it's technically feasible?

00:21:34.700 Who knows if it's financially feasible?

00:21:36.480 We've got Bolsonaro, you know, on deck in Brazil.

00:21:39.700 Malay's already down in Argentina.

00:21:41.400 You've been focused on this forever.

00:21:43.700 Drive the CCP out of Latin America.

00:21:46.460 I think the APEC conference in—or the Pacific conference in Chile woke people up to the

00:21:53.600 fact that CCP's everywhere and they've got to go.

00:21:56.040 With all that said, and now you've got Ukraine.

00:21:58.360 President Trump's going to do Ukraine.

00:22:00.460 Are we getting too wrapped up?

00:22:02.240 Is President Trump actually stepping forward and said the Gazans have got to go?

00:22:06.220 Are we getting too involved here?

00:22:08.420 I mean, the American First people say, yo, we've got enough to worry about.

00:22:11.720 Next thing you know, we're talking about a war with Persia.

00:22:14.020 So more involvement in—we're saying Gazan's got to go. 0.80

00:22:18.780 That means if they've got to go, you've got to find a home for them.

00:22:21.600 It's just going to happen.

00:22:23.040 And that means you're going to have to negotiate because none of these folks are

00:22:25.560 welcome with open arms, even to the desert in Sinai.

00:22:28.420 You know it.

00:22:29.000 The rabbi knows it.

00:22:30.420 Is President Trump getting sucked into too much in the Ukraine and in the Middle East

00:22:36.860 to take his eye off the ball, his energy against the CCP who came back today and said,

00:22:42.620 hey, we heard about your 10 percent tariffs.

00:22:45.300 We've got a couple of three things that we're going to throw back at you.

00:22:47.940 You've got the CCP in one hand.

00:22:49.760 You've got the hemispheric defense on another.

00:22:52.120 He's got a main and one problems here.

00:22:54.560 Is Ukraine in the Middle East worth it? 1.00

00:22:56.920 Is it worth him getting sucked in to finding a home for the Gazans, sir?

00:23:01.080 Steve, as you and I have talked about on many occasions, the reason there is a Ukraine,

00:23:07.100 the reason there is a Middle East war is because of what I call not World War III, but World

00:23:12.580 War Xi. 0.77

00:23:13.600 These were orchestrated by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:23:17.080 Make no mistake about it.

00:23:18.640 Their strategy, including the Belt and Road Initiative, is to be everywhere.

00:23:23.080 So this idea that if we just focus on China or just East Asia, then we can let everything

00:23:30.840 else slide is wrong.

00:23:33.420 As Pesek has said, they're in our hemisphere.

00:23:36.380 They're in our country, for heaven's sakes.

00:23:38.460 There are tens of thousands of People's Liberation Army soldiers in our country at the moment.

00:23:44.300 So you said it better than anybody, Steve.

00:23:48.120 This president has inherited from Joe Biden a catastrophic situation around the world.

00:23:55.740 It's crisis.

00:23:56.640 It's World War III.

00:23:58.600 So I'm simply suggesting that, and I know that Pesek-Wilicki agrees with me on this,

00:24:03.020 as does our Victory Coalition, which you've been a founding member.

00:24:06.340 We need victory.

00:24:07.780 And the victory that we can get most immediately in the Middle East is entirely one that the 1.00

00:24:15.640 Israelis can deliver, I believe, against all comers, provided they have our material support 1.00

00:24:21.660 as we've done in the past, as Biden tried to strangle, but as I believe Donald Trump understands,

00:24:27.860 has to be renewed.

00:24:29.020 That means we don't have our boots on the ground in that particular fight.

00:24:32.780 The president is not interested in getting into a fight in Ukraine.

00:24:35.580 He wants to resolve it with a negotiation.

00:24:38.920 Godspeed.

00:24:40.260 We do have to keep our eye on the Chinese, but it's not just in East Asia.

00:24:43.840 My point is victory in the Middle East will conduce to not having to fight the Chinese elsewhere. 0.99

00:24:49.920 I'm convinced of it.

00:24:52.200 Retreating, creating vacuums of power that they were already filling.

00:24:56.660 Pesek talked about the Chinese funding this war through Iran with oil sales or oil purchases.

00:25:03.540 That's the kind of thing that we have to be confronting, but not with our boots on the ground.

00:25:08.820 Let Israel do it. 0.99

00:25:09.960 Just be clear.

00:25:10.880 And I hope this is going to be the leitmotif of what the press conference is talking about,

00:25:14.460 is this strategic partnership, special relationship, is going to be rooted in the principle that

00:25:21.260 there is no substitute for victory if you genuinely want America first.

00:25:26.900 Rabbi Pesek is with us.

00:25:31.540 The rabbi's got a great piece up on RealClearPolitics.

00:25:34.840 I think President Trump might have read that.

00:25:37.320 A lot of things President Trump is saying seems like he came from that, or at least directionally.

00:25:42.460 Rabbi Frank Gaffney is with us.

00:25:44.660 Rabbi, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:25:46.120 You saw it.

00:25:46.780 And did the president seem a little reserved to Bibi?

00:25:53.660 I mean, in the press reveal they had, he kind of fielded the questions.

00:25:56.700 Bibi jumped in there. 0.99

00:25:58.060 But it wasn't normally President Trump's, you know, over.

00:26:01.480 Is this because of, you think it's an issue with Bibi embracing, coming to embrace Biden?

00:26:07.660 Do you think it's Bibi supposedly backed out of the situation where we took out the Iranian, 0.99

00:26:14.520 the Persian military commander?

00:26:17.960 Soleimani.

00:26:18.640 Or is it because, you know, there's still a lot of hurt and questions.

00:26:23.680 President Trump thinks the October 7th situation is horrible, and, you know, it happened on Bibi's watch.

00:26:30.080 Did you notice it seemed like any of the lack of traditional chemistry between these two?

00:26:34.600 Or am I reading too much into it?

00:26:38.660 I'm not sure if you're reading too much into it, but certainly there is some residue of those past issues in their relationship.

00:26:47.740 But at the same time, one of the reporters asked President Trump directly,

00:26:50.920 you had ups and downs in your relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu.

00:26:54.560 And President Trump said, more ups than downs, mostly up.

00:26:57.960 That was what he said.

00:26:59.320 In other words, he was dismissing that.

00:27:01.160 But at the same time, you're right, he wasn't all smiley and gracious in the way that he often is.

00:27:06.840 And I think that part of that is just being noncommittal.

00:27:09.440 This was an impromptu press conference, you know, during the photo op in the chairs.

00:27:15.060 The main press conference is coming now.

00:27:16.840 And I think that before he had the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu,

00:27:21.060 he didn't want to—he didn't want to, you know, be too—you know, be too generous in what he's going to be saying.

00:27:27.380 You know, he doesn't want to be committal.

00:27:28.660 And—but I think it's also clear that President Trump wants to make it known that whatever policies are going to come out of this are his.

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00:32:07.820 I think Prime Minister Netanyahu's policies, he's driving the action, and that could have also been part of it, as I see it.

00:32:14.280 You first, and then I'm going to go to Frank.

00:32:16.860 Make us smart here.

00:32:18.520 Through the eyes of America's, not Israel's, through the eyes of America's enemies in the region, what are they going to be looking for?

00:32:26.560 What's the thing that we can say to put our enemies on the back foot?

00:32:30.180 And what are they going to be looking for in this about any kind of gap between the American historical relationship with Israel?

00:32:38.800 Particularly President Trump, as you know, greatly admires the Israeli military, right, as being a force that has had some tremendous victories in the past, sir.

00:32:49.900 Well, they're going to be looking for two things.

00:32:51.800 They're going to be looking on the Iran front for what comes out of President Trump's mouth in terms of being open to Israeli strikes against Iran.

00:33:00.000 He already announced earlier today that he's, you know, renewing the sanctions and pointing the finger at Iran, and, as you mentioned earlier, threatening them if they try to come after him.

00:33:09.380 Let's remember that Iran was broke when President Trump left office.

00:33:12.380 They had no money to fund Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:33:14.820 So they're going to be watching for what he says about Iran.

00:33:17.680 Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it his life's work to take them down.

00:33:20.360 And on the Gaza front, they're going to be looking for what President Trump says about phase two, phase two, which we're now on day 17 of this 42-day ceasefire.

00:33:32.460 And they're supposed to—they've started negotiating phase two, which is supposed to lead to a permanent ceasefire.

00:33:38.940 The right wing in Israel is threatening to bring down the government if we don't go back to war at the end of phase one.

00:33:45.300 And they're going to be looking for President Trump to be pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu or an announcement that they are going to be going into phase two for a permanent ceasefire.

00:33:56.400 They're going to be looking for something in that direction, although I don't think you're going to get any commitment out of them one way or another on that.

00:34:03.560 Yeah, Steve, I would just say, as Bibi put it, they're looking for daylight between these two allies.

00:34:12.440 They've always looked for that.

00:34:14.280 And whenever they see it, they think they can build wedges that will exploit it.

00:34:18.460 They believe that they can help undermine Israel. 0.89

00:34:22.160 But as you said yourself a moment ago, Israel is a speed bump on the road to the United States of America. 0.63

00:34:32.080 We've talked about the threat that is present here and not just in our hemisphere but inside the country.

00:34:36.740 That will be magnified enormously if these guys actually think they can finish off Israel, which has been their set purpose for generations. 0.99

00:34:47.840 If they don't see that daylight, if they see that special relationship, if they see, as Rabbi Peck was saying, if they see the president of the United States saying, hey, obviously we can't continue into phase two under the present deal because that means having all these people moving north into the northern part of Gaza. 0.97

00:35:07.780 I mean, that can't happen.

00:35:08.880 So we're talking about a do-over of some kind, and that will be a very powerful signal if it's rooted in the principle that Hamas has to be defeated, not allowed to survive or even actually prevail over Israel, en route to what they all hope will be the next step, which is defeating Israel itself. 0.53

00:35:27.380 Rabbi, you have a powerful and rising part of the MAGA movement, and particularly on the America First national security policy, and that is I would call the Tucker Carlson, Darren Beattie, Kurt Mills, and these are some of the smartest people we have in this movement and huge followers of President Trump.

00:35:51.380 And I would actually add Grace Chung, who runs our social media, that there's not an insignificant amount, probably 50-50 of you in the war room posse that is in the social media and in the chat rooms and talk about it all the time, that a tripwire for them, and if you mention war with Persia, if you mention even airstrikes on Iran or Persia, they literally say, okay, we can't do that.

00:36:17.660 What do you say to those folks to say, hey, maybe you're not thinking of this?

00:36:23.320 What would be your outreach to them to try to get them on board where these are the folks that are saying, hey, too much of this is the tail wagging the dog in the Middle East.

00:36:33.300 We don't really have a fight over there.

00:36:35.300 It's not our – we hear Bannon, we hear Gaffney, we hear the jihad, you know, the anti-jihad crowd, but we're not buying it.

00:36:43.480 We still think the tail wags the dog, and we're adamantly opposed to this.

00:36:48.380 Now, if Bibi – and you said it right there, and I agree with you. 0.86

00:36:51.600 It's his life's work.

00:36:52.600 He thinks it's – he believes in his heart of hearts it's an existential threat, and I believe he feels that on his watch he has to take care of it.

00:37:02.780 And we don't know how long his watch is going to last.

00:37:05.520 So what do you say to that – what do you say to that element of the America First that's pretty adamantly opposed to this, sir?

00:37:13.960 Well, first what I said earlier, and that is that Iran's nefarious behavior is not limited to the Middle East. 0.88

00:37:21.220 They're also funding a lot of what's going on on your southern border, and they're working very closely with the cartels.

00:37:27.780 They are actively an enemy of America, not only in theory.

00:37:31.760 I would also point to the Iranian people who are suffering under this regime.

00:37:37.680 Iran is actually not a very religious population.

00:37:40.500 They have the lowest mosque attendance per capita of any Muslim nation, and you have a suffering population that's actually quite pro-Western and even pro-Israel that is suffering under the mullahs and, you know, much akin to the Lao Bajing out in China. 0.90

00:37:55.460 But mainly I would also argue that you're just kicking the can down the road if you don't deal with Iran. 0.99

00:38:02.980 And we have an opportunity.

00:38:04.600 The regime is teetering.

00:38:05.780 The regime is on the verge of collapse.

00:38:07.980 And the time to change things.

00:38:10.700 Why should we live in perpetuity with this Sharia supremacist, jihadist regime that started in 1979? 1.00

00:38:17.360 It's not a law of nature that they have to be governing one of the largest nations in the Middle East.

00:38:23.140 And if the Iranian mullahs regime were to fall, this isn't like Syria. 0.65

00:38:28.280 It wouldn't be replaced by some other radical group.

00:38:31.140 Iran is quite an advanced, you know, fairly Western nation if you think about what it was under the Shah.

00:38:38.000 You would have a very powerful partner with the West.

00:38:40.880 It would have—and the ripple effect of peace throughout the world would be incredible.

00:38:44.440 And this is very much a national security issue for the United States as well.

00:38:48.580 The Iranian regime, if it's not dealt with, if it remains in power, especially if it continues to sell its oil, which Donald Trump is putting a stop to, but if the Iranian regime remains in power, there will be jihad. 0.60

00:39:01.680 Jihad is not just a hobby of theirs. 0.53

00:39:04.260 Jihad is what they put their money into, not into their own people. 0.65

00:39:07.460 There will be jihad continuing throughout the Middle East, throughout Europe, throughout South America, and into the United States in perpetuity so long as that regime is in power.

00:39:17.540 That's what I would say to them.

00:39:19.000 And I would add to it.

00:39:20.600 One quick point.

00:39:22.240 Frank, hang on a second.

00:39:23.780 I'm going to come right to you for a second.

00:39:25.060 I want to ask this in a different way.

00:39:27.100 We're watching the East Room.

00:39:28.240 The East Room is on the residence side.

00:39:30.120 That's actually in the residence of the White House itself, proper, historic.

00:39:36.280 So many important press conferences, meetings have taken place there.

00:39:40.760 You've got to leave the Oval Office, walk through the colony, pass the Rose Garden into the back of the residence, then up, of course, down that carpet, that beautiful centerpiece, to the East Room.

00:39:54.300 It's been historic.

00:39:55.140 President Trump is due there momentarily with Bibi Netanyahu.

00:39:59.740 So right now, in that Oval Office, Frank Gaffney, they're talking about war and peace.

00:40:05.700 Bibi Netanyahu is making his case that Rabbi just made, that the Persians are a threat, not just the reason, the Persians are a direct threat to the United States of America.

00:40:15.740 And he's making a case for war against the Persians.

00:40:19.880 And his case is that, hey, we were able to take – Hezbollah was supposedly the best light infantry in the world, and we've taken – we've basically destroyed them in much of the Syria-Lebanon corridor. 0.85

00:40:32.540 The regime is on its back foot.

00:40:35.680 It's got all these elements that the rabbi just talked about.

00:40:38.060 And if you just give me some – if you just give us some support, if you just give us – you don't have to be in combat, but you give us some air support, and if you look the other way in any type of infantry, at least initially you won't have to be involved, we can take this down.

00:40:54.540 Am I wrong in that, or is that the pitch that Bibi came here to make? 0.85

00:40:57.380 I suspect he's looking for help in a couple of different places, including the ones we've just been talking about, Gaza, for one, relief from the deal, finishing the job in Lebanon, clearly, not a perpetual ceasefire that allows Hezbollah to have the hudna and get back in business.

00:41:19.360 But Iran is clearly part of this agenda, Steve, and I just want to add to everything that Pesek Walicki was talking about, the other piece of it.

00:41:27.340 And I – with all due respect to the people who just don't think this is a problem, the Iranians could have a nuclear weapon at any time.

00:41:35.780 If they don't already, I'm kind of astonished, frankly, but it could be any time.

00:41:40.300 And if they don't think that's a threat to us, think again.

00:41:44.220 One of the reasons that Donald Trump is absolutely right about pursuing a so-called Iron Dome for America – it won't be exactly an Iron Dome because Iron Dome in Israel is for short-range things.

00:41:55.320 We need long-range missiles to be protected against.

00:41:59.320 And the way to do that is from space.

00:42:01.560 And President Trump understands that.

00:42:03.700 And not only, Steve, do we have the technology to do it, thanks, among other things, to what Elon Musk has been doing.

00:42:09.260 But back in the George H.W. Bush administration, we had a program that was ready to go to put space-based sensors and weapons in place that would have neutralized not just the Iranian threat or the North Korean threat, but the Chinese and even the Russian threats.

00:42:25.940 And unfortunately, Bill Clinton, when he came to office, he brought in Les Aspen, one radical leftist, as his secretary of defense.

00:42:34.280 And one of the first things he did in office was say, we're taking the stars out of Star Wars.

00:42:40.100 And ever since then, we basically have not pursued the logical, the effective, the efficient, the cost-effective, especially way of doing a comprehensive defense of the United States against missile attack of all kinds, hypersonic, by the way, cruise missiles, the whole works.

00:42:57.260 And that is from space.

00:42:58.560 So Donald Trump is right about that, and in part, it is a matter of the utmost urgency because Iran is at the cusp of joining that league of people who, with a short-ranged missile off the coast of the United States, could launch an EMP attack against us, electromagnetic pulse, take out our grid, and we would be done. 0.93

00:43:17.300 So this is a problem.

00:43:18.520 If you don't think it's a problem, ladies and gentlemen, I entreat you to study it more closely because if you do study it, even a little bit, I think you're going to realize that retreat gets us killed.

00:43:30.980 It enables them to defeat us, not just the Israelis. 1.00

00:43:35.300 And pretending that these aren't problems or that it's somebody else's problem is a terrible mistake.

00:43:39.760 The best thing about it, though, just to wrap this all up, Steve, is, and I'm sure this is a point Bibi is making to the president, we can do this, Mr. President.

00:43:49.060 Just help us with material support and take care of it.

00:43:52.960 I don't think the stakes can be higher.

00:43:54.880 I actually don't think, Rabbi, this is to you.

00:43:57.500 By the way, we're standing by.

00:43:58.500 As soon as the president and Bibi walk out, we will cut right to the live coverage.

00:44:02.620 Gaza and Hamas and all that, that's a symptom of the problem, according to Bibi.

00:44:08.920 It's not the problem itself.

00:44:10.940 His problem, he thinks, is the Muslim Brotherhood, the financing, but the great Satan he's seen historically in his life is the Persians in Iran. 0.98

00:44:19.460 And he's got one shot with an audience of President Trump to convince him to support him in a military place.

00:44:25.660 Am I wrong in that?

00:44:26.760 Am I just dreaming this?

00:44:28.980 Or is that the purpose?

00:44:30.160 This purpose of the meeting is not about the replacement.

00:44:32.460 Are they going to go back to Gaza? 0.83

00:44:34.200 Are they going to go to the Sinai Desert?

00:44:35.420 Or whether you're going to have any more – whether in Judea, Samaria, you're going to take care of Hamas. 0.94

00:44:40.240 Yes, those are all elements of it.

00:44:42.220 But the central thing is – and what Bibi's wanted to accomplish, and he needs an American president to have his back,

00:44:48.920 and he thinks President Trump is the one that's the most logical and open to his, since the Democrats allowed him essentially to get a nuclear weapon,

00:44:59.080 that President Trump, who thinks outside the box is his best shot, even though he's got leading intellectuals like Tucker Carlson, like Kurt Mills, like Darren Beattie, 0.93

00:45:08.020 and dozens and dozens and dozens of others to say this is a sucker's play.

00:45:12.380 Is that not the pitch in the Oval Office right now that he's making, sir? 0.68

00:45:17.580 Oh, it absolutely is, because on those other issues you mentioned, like Hamas ruling Gaza and what to do with some of these other issues,

00:45:27.120 there's already agreement between the Trump administration and Bibi's administration.

00:45:30.560 We know that already the statements have already been made.

00:45:33.100 It's on the Iran issue that I guess you could say we're not sure that President Trump has been convinced by Netanyahu.

00:45:41.220 But everything you're raising, Steve, speaks to the fact that there's a much larger issue here,

00:45:46.300 which is are we serious about the threat to Western civilization?

00:45:51.220 Because the Sharia supremacists, the Qataris, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Shiites in Tehran, 0.98

00:45:57.420 they're very serious about their desire to defeat our civilization.

00:46:02.160 And I don't see that resolve coming on our side the same way.

00:46:05.800 Are we serious about winning?

00:46:07.260 Are we serious about our civilization defeating the enemy that is seeking to take it over?

00:46:13.800 Look what's happening in Europe.

00:46:14.920 Look what's happening with Sharia supremacy there. 1.00

00:46:19.420 And I think a question to Tucker and Darren Beattie and all that side of things is,

00:46:25.560 are you actually serious about this battle, this clash of civilizations?

00:46:30.240 Are you willing to surrender in this clash?

00:46:32.600 Are you accommodationist in this?

00:46:35.940 Why are we so afraid of victory?

00:46:41.140 Frank, let me go.

00:46:42.440 We only got a few.

00:46:43.340 I think we have eight minutes.

00:46:44.840 We're waiting for the press conference.

00:46:45.920 The reason I say it's the purpose of the meeting, they're an hour late for the press conference.

00:46:51.740 And I realize Bibi showed up a few minutes late to the White House.

00:46:54.140 But I believe, folks, they're having a pretty intense conversation.

00:46:58.040 And I think President Trump is being quite blunt with Bibi.

00:47:02.300 And I think Bibi is being as blunt as he can possibly be back to the president of the United States.

00:47:06.740 I think this is quite intense.

00:47:08.400 And I'm glad you agree with me, Rabbi.

00:47:09.840 Are they coming out?

00:47:11.140 Okay.

00:47:11.700 They're going to come out.

00:47:12.900 I'm going to hold my question for Frank Gaffney.

00:47:14.960 We're going to go through our coverage.

00:47:17.100 But let's go now live to the East Room of the White House for the press conference with President Trump and Bibi.

00:47:23.260 Press, congratulations.

00:47:26.520 You bring them out.

00:47:27.860 You really bring them out.

00:47:29.740 Today, I'm delighted to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to the White House.

00:47:36.300 It's a wonderful feeling and a wonderful event.

00:47:39.820 We had fantastic talks.

00:47:42.540 And thank you very much with your staff.

00:47:46.180 He's the first foreign head of state to visit during our administration.

00:47:50.260 And, Bibi, I want to say it's an honor to have you with us.

00:47:55.700 Over the past four years, the U.S. and the Israeli alliance has been tested more than any time in history.

00:48:05.120 But the bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations.

00:48:11.900 And they are absolutely unbreakable.

00:48:14.200 They are unbreakable.

00:48:15.320 I'm confident that under our leadership, the cherished alliance between our two countries will soon be stronger than ever.

00:48:23.820 We had a great relationship.

00:48:25.860 We had great victories together four years ago.

00:48:28.840 Not so many victories over the past four years, however.

00:48:31.540 In my first term, Prime Minister and I forged a tremendously successful partnership that brought peace and stability to the Middle East like it hadn't seen in decades.

00:48:44.760 Together, we defeated ISIS.

00:48:46.540 We ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, one of the worst deals ever made, by the way,

00:48:51.040 and imposed the toughest ever sanctions on the Iranian regime.

00:48:56.520 We starved Hamas and Iran's other terrorist proxies. 0.94

00:49:00.980 And we starved them like they had never seen before, resources and support disappeared for them.

00:49:08.620 I recognized Israel's capital, opened the American embassy in Jerusalem, and got it built, by the way.

00:49:15.280 Built it to, just not only designated it, but got it built at a price that nobody's seen for 40 years.

00:49:24.060 We got it built.

00:49:24.840 It's beautiful.

00:49:25.660 All Jerusalem stone, right from nearby, and it's something that's very special.

00:49:31.580 And recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, something that they talked about for 70 years,

00:49:38.880 and they weren't able to get it, and I got it.

00:49:41.800 And with the historic Abraham Accords, something that was really an achievement that was, I think,

00:49:49.120 going to become more and more important because we achieved the most significant Middle East peace agreements

00:49:54.600 in half a century, but the Abraham Accords in particular, and I really believe that many countries will soon be joining

00:50:01.320 this amazing peace and economic development transaction.

00:50:05.900 It really is a big economic development transaction.

00:50:09.100 I think we're going to have a lot of people signing up very quickly.

00:50:13.060 Unfortunately, for four years, nobody signed up.

00:50:15.340 Nobody did anything for four years except in the negative.

00:50:19.520 Unfortunately, the weakness and incompetence of those years, those past four years,

00:50:25.220 the grave damage around the globe that was done, including in the Middle East, grave damage all over the globe.

00:50:31.820 The horrors of October 7th would never have happened if I were president.

00:50:38.260 The Ukraine and Russia disaster would never have happened if I were president.

00:50:43.900 Over the past 16 months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, 0.97

00:50:51.660 but they fought back bravely.

00:50:53.380 You see that and you know that.

00:50:54.740 What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. 0.89

00:51:03.500 The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnapped, tortured, raped,

00:51:11.020 and slaughtered innocent men, women, children, and even little babies.

00:51:15.480 I want to salute the Israeli people for meeting this trial with courage and determination and unflinching resolve.

00:51:23.880 They have been strong.

00:51:25.900 In our meetings today, the prime minister and I focused on the future,

00:51:30.480 discussing how we can work together to ensure Hamas is eliminated

00:51:34.180 and ultimately restore peace to a very troubled region.

00:51:39.720 It's been troubled, but what's happened in the last four years has not been good.

00:51:44.120 I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for working closely with my transition team,

00:51:50.060 the special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who's here somewhere.

00:51:54.540 Steve?

00:51:55.640 Stand up, Steve, please.

00:51:57.140 What a job you've done.

00:51:58.620 What a good job you've done.

00:52:00.460 Proud of you.

00:52:02.240 You've done a fantastic job.

00:52:04.040 National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

00:52:06.360 Thank you, Mike, for working so well with us.

00:52:08.820 Thank you.

00:52:09.520 We have, in addition, Marco Rubio, who is on the phone right now,

00:52:18.080 listening to every single word that we say, and he's going to be great.

00:52:21.660 And Pete, congratulations.

00:52:23.340 And Scott, congratulations.

00:52:25.160 I see you're here.

00:52:26.860 And Caroline's been doing a great job.

00:52:30.420 She's really probably talked about more than anybody here.

00:52:33.460 She's done a fantastic job, and thank you very much, Caroline.

00:52:37.100 We're proud of you.

00:52:38.660 But we'll only be satisfied when all of these problems are solved,

00:52:43.720 and we have the team to solve them, and that's going to happen.

00:52:46.960 And it's going to happen, I think, very quickly.

00:52:49.620 I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip,

00:52:52.160 which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades,

00:52:55.680 and so bad for the people anywhere near it,

00:52:59.400 and especially those who live there,

00:53:01.720 and frankly, who's been really very unlucky.

00:53:04.560 It's been very unlucky.

00:53:05.620 It's been an unlucky place for a long time.

00:53:08.140 Being in its presence just has not been good,

00:53:12.540 and it should not go through a process of rebuilding

00:53:15.040 and occupation by the same people

00:53:17.820 that have really stood there and fought for it

00:53:21.640 and lived there and died there

00:53:24.480 and lived a miserable existence there.

00:53:28.140 Instead, we should go to other countries of interest

00:53:31.860 with humanitarian hearts,

00:53:33.480 and there are many of them that want to do this,

00:53:36.420 and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied

00:53:39.780 by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza,

00:53:43.460 ending the death and destruction and, frankly, bad luck.

00:53:48.420 This could be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth.

00:53:52.100 It could be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12.

00:53:56.760 It could be numerous sites, or it could be one large site.

00:54:00.020 But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace,

00:54:03.820 and we'll make sure something really spectacular is done.

00:54:08.600 They're going to have peace.

00:54:09.880 They're not going to be shot at and killed and destroyed

00:54:14.840 like this civilization of wonderful people has had to endure.

00:54:20.180 The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza 1.00

00:54:24.120 is they have no alternative.

00:54:27.180 It's right now a demolition site.

00:54:29.000 This is just a demolition site.

00:54:31.140 Virtually every building is down.

00:54:32.660 They're living under fallen concrete

00:54:35.780 that's very dangerous and very precarious.

00:54:39.040 They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area

00:54:43.700 with homes and safety,

00:54:45.380 and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony

00:54:47.740 instead of having to go back and do it again.

00:54:50.460 The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, 1.00

00:54:52.960 and we will do a job with it, too.

00:54:55.700 We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling 0.93

00:54:58.820 all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.

00:55:03.100 Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.

00:55:07.380 Level it out.

00:55:08.100 Create an economic development

00:55:09.760 that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs

00:55:12.960 and housing for the people of the area.

00:55:16.620 Do a real job.

00:55:18.160 Do something different.

00:55:19.260 Just can't go back.

00:55:20.240 If you go back,

00:55:21.300 it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.

00:55:23.800 I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning

00:55:27.560 of a larger and more enduring peace

00:55:29.680 that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all.

00:55:33.180 With the same goal in mind,

00:55:34.940 my administration has been moving quickly

00:55:36.860 to restore trust in the alliance

00:55:39.260 and rebuild American strength throughout the region,

00:55:42.280 and we've really done that.

00:55:43.540 We're a respected nation again.

00:55:45.900 A lot's happened in the last couple of weeks.

00:55:48.040 We are actually a very respected nation again.

00:55:51.620 I ended the last administration's de facto arms embargo

00:55:55.960 on over $1 billion in military assistance for Israel.

00:56:01.060 And I'm also pleased to announce that this afternoon,

00:56:03.520 the United States withdrew

00:56:04.880 from the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council

00:56:07.700 and ended all of the support for the UN Relief and Works Agency,

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00:56:14.240 and which was very disloyal to humanity.

00:56:17.240 Today, I also took action to restore

00:56:19.280 a maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime,

00:56:23.300 and we will once again enforce

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Bannon's War Room - February 05, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 701： Trump Meets With Netanyahu Cont.

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