00:03:02.160What I want to see from Congress is a spine because they've been abdicating their responsibility
00:03:06.460since World War Two, which is the last time we had a formal declaration of war. Trump
00:03:09.940has blown through every guardrail around our democracy and our military. And this is the
00:03:14.300biggest one. He's saying, you will not stop me, even if I want to go to war. The only step further
00:03:19.360than this is nukes. So we have to ask ourselves, who is going to stand up and slow him down?
00:03:23.760Speaker Johnson is abdicating his responsibility. He's wrong. He's failing America. He's failing the
00:03:27.720troops. John Fetterman, who apparently is OK with this. He's wrong. He's failing the troops.
00:03:31.600This was designed to contain all presidents. And we've never need a president who needed to be
00:03:36.340contained more than this guy. And now we've got Pete Hegseth, who says he wants to come after
00:03:40.300leakers. Well, that's pretty ironic after Signalgate. And he put out classified information
00:03:44.580to the world, right? So it's upside down world. And what he continues to do is blow through every
00:03:49.900guardrail in America. And the question I keep asking Democrats, Republicans, and now ultimately
00:03:53.820the American people is, how are we going to stop him? Because he can continue to go further.
00:03:57.540And even if the courts say no, even if Congress says no, he throws up the middle finger and just
00:04:01.860keeps going. And now it's war. Now it's American sons and daughters in harm's way. And it can go
00:04:06.980further if he isn't stopped. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies,
00:04:18.060because we're going medieval on these people. Here's one time I got a free shot at all these
00:04:22.940networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like
00:04:28.240hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to
00:04:31.200stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media.
00:04:37.680I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and
00:04:45.420what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:04:53.060War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:05:00.480It's Thursday, 26 June in the year of early 2025. Now up on Capitol Hill around the Capitol Hill today
00:05:05.900is going to be the briefing. And this briefing is twofold. Number one, it is the bomb damage assessment
00:05:11.560and what's happening. I think that President Trump has made a compelling argument. I think we've had
00:05:18.800our second of our two briefings today. I would have brought an intel person just to kind of calm the
00:05:23.840media down. But remember, the media in the room, they're very pro going forward. And the reason is
00:05:32.020that all their publications are all driven. You pick up these publications. They're all driven by ad
00:05:38.060dollars by the defense industry, the arms makers. Not just arms makers. I mean, the service providers
00:05:45.300of health care, of everything for the military. And is that clip up now? Okay, fine. And so they're
00:05:53.720incentivized. They keep it going. They do keep it going. So the questions coming out today, I thought
00:05:57.440Pete and General Raisin Cain did a great job. I didn't like the shot. I know it was tongue-in-cheek
00:06:05.060that the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Raisin Cain took at the Navy and Navy aviators. I said,
00:06:12.300hey, there's no volleyball courts and no, you know, touch football being played at the, I guess,
00:06:18.420the Air Force Weapons School, where a lot of these great pilots were trained. And you've got to
00:06:23.740remember there's all this inter-service rivalry and camaraderie and competition between the various
00:06:32.240services, particularly in aviation. Big. So where are the other part today and why Tulsi Gabbard is not
00:06:39.500there is John Radcliffe is going to make a presentation. The question's got to be answered
00:06:44.620because there's all kinds of things going around. Hey, the bomb damage assessment, which President
00:06:49.740Trump said, hey, total obliteration, total annihilation. President Trump's closed the books
00:06:54.860on this. It's a 12-day war. Boom. I ended it. I got a ceasefire and we're moving on, right? He's got
00:07:02.460massive problems here in the United States. He's got to solve, including right now. It looks like the
00:07:07.860big, beautiful bill may be a little off track. I think tonight and tomorrow we'll get a better feel
00:07:11.900from the Senate of some of these things that the parliamentarian, a parliamentarian that is from
00:07:18.180the, you know, from the, from the days of Harry Reid. I mean, it's almost inconceivable how that
00:07:23.380happened. But she's pulled these things out and, you know, she's made some questionable calls in the
00:07:29.300past. So Radcliffe's up there, not the person who represents all the security agencies, but Radcliffe,
00:07:35.600I think that's fine. What I think has to be ascertained is very important for our country
00:07:42.940to ascertain this. What has to be ascertained is what was the big hurry? What, what drove us to
00:07:51.220that point on what, June 12th or 13th? What drove us to that point that the urgency of the moment
00:07:57.940required an Israeli attack, an all-out Israeli attack? They clearly planned for a while because
00:08:03.320had Mossad killing people, assassinating people, and that's all fine. But what drove that attack
00:08:09.920when, I mean, what information is breakout when it's very evident, I mean, admitted they didn't
00:08:17.960have the ability to finish the job. In other words, they didn't have the ability, not just for door,
00:08:23.040but they didn't have the ability at the other facility. They needed the bunker buses and they
00:08:28.940hadn't touched the above-ground facility where Navy had to launch 30 Tomahawk missiles.
00:08:36.120So something that's absolutely essential for you to, in fact, it's the reason you're doing it,
00:08:40.700is to take out the nuclear power, that nuclear bomb possibility, that's untouched.
00:08:45.680And it's, it, you knowing going in that the United States has to do it. That to me is just outrageous.
00:08:53.420And we're not going to get off that topic. We're just not. Because the United States of America
00:08:59.720has to make these decisions. President Trump made a decision I think was very brave, very bold.
00:09:05.440He dropped a, he dropped a, a massive assault on all three and finished the deal, total obliteration.
00:09:12.840But all he got from Fox the entire time, you have to do this, you have to do this, you have to do this.
00:09:17.600And to be, never made the case of why it's in the vital national security industry.
00:09:22.160United States President Trump has said now for 15 years they cannot allow to be, have a nuclear program.
00:09:27.640I agree with that. But it wasn't shown or hasn't been shown yet what the breakout of that was.
00:09:34.420In fact, as I keep repeating, he went on Bret Baier on Sunday night.
00:09:38.080And Bret Baier asked the basic question, why did this have to go the other day?
00:09:42.380And all you got was gobbledygook from, from Netanyahu.
00:09:46.540Some kind of hand-waving and all, you know, it was an important breakout and, you know,
00:09:51.520and, and, and, and it's going to, they're going to be able to do it in 12 or 13 months.
00:09:55.560Well, 12 or 13 months is a long time. That's 12 or 13 months.
00:09:59.060And then pivot to, oh, we're not going to let another Holocaust.
00:10:01.420And once they mentioned that, you can't even question it. Well, that's not the way the war room works.
00:10:05.360We're going to question all of it because, quite frankly, we're big enough and powerful enough
00:10:09.500that we don't need to kowtow to the Murdochs.
00:10:12.080Never taking a penny from them. Don't like them. Think they've been very destructive.
00:10:16.520I think Fox has been very destructive.
00:10:18.660Pete Hegseth called them out today and said they were the worst.
00:10:21.740That Jennifer Graham, who is their lead Pentagon correspondent, has been the most destructive at all.
00:10:27.420They've just been cheerleaders for a foreign entity. It's quite obvious that's the case.
00:10:32.820And let's be blunt. As we said here on that show, on the opening morning, on that Friday morning,
00:10:38.760we were blunt. They said this was a decapitation.
00:10:42.020A decapitation. In fact, they, they killed the, at least at that time it was reported,
00:10:47.740they killed the negotiating team that Steve Wyckoff had a meeting with scheduled for that Sunday
00:10:52.120in Muscat Oman. Now, maybe they were getting tapped along. Maybe President Trump had lost his patience.
00:10:59.180Maybe that meeting wasn't going to take place, but it had not been announced it wasn't going to take place.
00:11:03.740President Trump wasn't happy with the outcome. That's quite evident.
00:11:06.360But they killed, why would you kill the, why would you kill the negotiating team?
00:11:09.780Are they, is that negotiating team inextricably linked to the production of nuclear weapons?
00:11:15.800No, they're not. You kill the, you kill the negotiating team because you want to stop the negotiations.
00:11:21.420Washington Post put out a brutal story yesterday that talked about Netanyahu.
00:11:25.000It was, here's, here's why they did it in the sense of urgency.
00:11:29.260And you have to be an adult and you have to talk to adults like adults, right?
00:11:34.500Number one, the Israelis have done a magnificent job of taking out the air defenses of the Iranians.
00:11:39.880I don't know, 60 days ago, 90 days ago.
00:11:42.160So they were in the process of being rebuilt and they might have been part of it rebuilt by the end of June or sometime in July.
00:11:48.060But sometime in the near future, part of those are going to be up and going to make it much more difficult for pilots in the Israeli Air Force to get in there.
00:11:55.480And it could be some high casualties, maybe even not accomplish their missions.
00:11:58.860In addition, General Karela, who has been a big advocate of this, and CENCOM, like I said, is the dark star, right?
00:12:07.500This is where all the wars have been run out of, and every person in the U.S. Army has gone through there and punched their ticket multiple times.
00:12:15.840It is a massive organization, and it's a very well-run organization.
00:12:20.260Like I said, the gravitational pull of CENCOM is very, very powerful, not just in the Pentagon, but throughout the national security apparatus.
00:12:29.120I think he's retiring on July 1st or sometime here shortly, and sometime shortly, and he was retiring, and they wanted to do it before both of those entities happened.
00:12:41.720Now, we're very open to seeing intelligence that counted to that, but I don't think it's going to happen because the Mossad, and I got to thank Citizen Kane, really linked to, I thought, a fascinating, and I hear it's one of the first time he's ever given an interview.
00:12:56.380The head of the Mossad gave a very detailed interview about how deeply embedded into the Iranian government these guys actually were, and it was deep.
00:13:31.500And by the way, if they could do it and take out the facilities and do regime change, I 100% support whatever they want to do and are going to do.
00:13:43.540But when you need American power, and particularly you need American power immediately because you need us on defense, we have to provide air defenses.
00:13:50.620We had to ship, you know, destroyers and frigates over there.
00:14:54.880And it just magically, magically, on the very day that President Trump reaffirms with the second briefing, hey, total annihilation, total obliteration, we're done.
00:15:08.440And Steve Wyckoff's talking about letting the moolahs sell oil to the Chinese Communist Party, which, as you know, in the war room, we say that's verboten because we ain't fans of the moolahs.
00:15:34.360Whatever you're going to do, President Trump is going to be fine.
00:15:36.960But there's going to be a reset of that, you can see.
00:15:39.480And a flashing warning for the Tom Cottons of the world and these guys, Lindsey Graham, you better look at New York City.
00:15:48.660A big part of that was a referendum on Netanyahu and his government.
00:15:52.440And don't think you're going to get away from that toxicity because that's going to roll through into 26 and it's going to roll through to 28.
00:16:59.260But first, they're going to do the thing.
00:17:01.160Hey, we don't know where it is or the trucks all is.
00:17:04.780Sir, you're being a former Navy SEAL with, I don't know, a dozen plus, I think it's 16 or 18 deployments to bad neighborhoods in the Middle East.
00:21:35.320We've shut down the southern border effectively, but the northern border is not.
00:21:39.200I think it's slowed down a lot, but they need to completely shut down the northern border.
00:21:43.480And I think we need to take out the ships that are carrying the precursors to the fentanyl from China to Mexico because these chemicals don't come in from China.
00:21:55.000They get made in laboratories in Mexico.
00:22:49.400I want people one more time to hear about your coffee.
00:22:51.840And by the way, I'm not a fan of decaf, but I am a fan of providing that because I know so many people can only get, you know, maybe one cup of coffee with caffeine at the end of the day and the rest is decaf.
00:32:12.160Again, this is not a Mission Impossible movie.
00:32:16.180There's not a single thing out there that can be done or not done to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
00:32:22.300It's the entire chain of events and people and places that you have to put together to get a nuclear weapon.
00:32:27.640The scientists, the centrifuges, the repair parts, centrifuge manufacturing, the cascades of centrifuges, gas to metal conversion facilities.
00:32:37.020But I'm confident the mission was extraordinary success.
00:33:13.320By the way, they're running commentary on both of what they said, Pete and the guy in General Raising Cain said today, and what happened is the classified briefing.
00:33:23.520Immediately after these strikes, there's a real question as to why the director of national intelligence is not allowed to be in these briefings.
00:33:36.700That's a question that we should get answered.
00:33:40.580Listen, to me, it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months.
00:33:48.000There's no doubt there was damage done to the program, but the allegations that we have obliterated their program just don't seem to stand up to reason.
00:34:02.420So, obviously, I can't share any of the details from this briefing, but I just do not think the president was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated.
00:34:13.080It was certainly damaged under the program, but there is significant – there's still significant remaining capability.
00:34:21.480Okay, Senator Kramer of North Dakota, Republican of North Dakota, said the descriptions of the damage to the program were fitting, quote, everybody's got their own words, setback, obliterated, destroyed, greatly diminished.
00:34:47.000But pressed to select his own term, Kramer paused.
00:34:50.380I would say that is severely set back, and not just because the bunker busters were so effective at Fort L and the other sites that got hit by the missiles.
00:35:00.080And just to build a building like that would take probably a year, and just to get some scientists up and running, it would take a long time to reestablish from scratch.
00:35:09.660Navy cruise missiles, 30 of them, very powerful.
00:35:31.140Remember, he gave up his career to warn the Obama administration or the American people what the Obama administration was not doing.
00:35:37.900And that was talking about the rise of the People's Liberation Navy in the Pacific and how they really were challenging the 7th Fleet for basically the dominance of the seas in the western Pacific.
00:35:51.180And he was not heated, and that's why the Chinese built this massive navy.
00:35:55.180But this was his kind of area of expertise for many decades.
00:35:58.940And he said he's very confident this thing was obliterated, annihilated, and it would be, he said, he thought decades before they did, even if they had the will to do it.
00:36:08.720And it looks like with President Trump meeting with Iran and there's some sort of meeting, I think, they're trying to get on the books in the next couple of weeks.
00:36:16.080Kenny Cody, you come strongly recommended by Jack Posobiec, you're over at Human Events.
00:36:22.840Give your sense of what the young people in this country, kind of a shocking win, I would say, for most people.
00:36:32.400We tracked this pretty closely behind the scenes.
00:36:34.680I thought it was a very sophisticated, incredibly sophisticated campaign run up in New York.
00:36:41.400But when we talk about conservatives, what's their sense right now of the direction of the country?
00:36:45.460And where do they want to see more of their focus on these kind of international commitments, particularly more wars in the Middle East or more focus here at home, sir?
00:36:55.720Well, I think there's a tiring by Gen Z of these foreign entanglements, these foreign wars, these forever wars.
00:37:03.580You know, regardless of Mamdani's radical Islamic sort of ideology that he has, he's a socialist, he's a communist.
00:37:10.240But he used the populist nationalist sentiment in the right way, even if it wasn't for our own nation.
00:37:16.120He still used populist sentiment in the right way.
00:37:18.520He was going out and he was calling things out like rent control.
00:37:21.340He wanted to use grocery stores and price control on government-ran grocery stores to provide products to the public.
00:37:27.860He wanted to decrease Indian street dishes from $10 to $8.
00:37:32.060He was going out to New York and seeing what the issues that were most central to New Yorkers were and campaigning on those issues.
00:37:39.540Now, he's using that far-leftist mindset, but he was using populism in order to talk to Generation Z.
00:37:44.720And I think that's what the Remaga movement needs to continue to do.
00:37:47.860I think over the last 10 years, we've saw an increase of that and an increase of nationalism and an increase of populism.
00:37:53.460But MAGA doesn't need to be deterred by these neocons who are still trying to continue forever wars, these country club Republicans that want to continue to leak disinformation and say we need to do more, even though these strikes have completely annihilated Iran nuclear capabilities.
00:38:07.940Trump has made a decisive decision, and Gen Z wants to see us move on.
00:38:12.180We want to concentrate on domestic issues such as mass deportation, illegal immigration being decreased, and legal immigration and mass migration to be decreased as well.
00:38:20.340There's the things that Gen Z voted Trump in to do and the things while he won the presidency in November.
00:38:26.460And using those populist sentiments to get through those issues to the American people is exactly what needs to continue to happen and for Generation Z to continue to be involved in the conservative movement.
00:38:35.400Kenny, this guy very much early on, the team around him, and he focused on this concept of affordability.
00:38:44.840So when you go out and talk to Gen Z on the MAGA side, the Republican side, the Charlie Kirkstings, how big a deal is affordability to folks on our side?
00:38:55.640I mean, with the increase in housing prices, this generation of college students, this generation of 20- to 30-year-olds do want to go home and form a family.
00:39:03.900You know, the nuclear family has been, you know, kind of dissuaded over the last 10 years by the Democratic Party, by the leftists, and even by some of the American rights.
00:39:12.040But now, I think these people that are currently in college, people that are a little bit younger than me and maybe a little bit older than me, want to be able to feed their families.
00:39:20.280They want their children to be able to have American prosperity with their jobs, live in safe communities, live in prosperous communities.
00:39:26.340And affordability is a saving grace for Generation Z, regardless of who is selling that point to them.
00:39:32.580It's why people like J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, and others were successful in the Republican Party, is because they look at these wages, they look at workers, they look at unions, and they want to at least hear what they have to say.
00:39:44.120And that's why Generation Z is attached to them.
00:39:46.700It could be something, like I said, like with Ma'am Donnie in New York, as simple as, you know, lowering the prices of an Indian dish for a street cart.
00:39:55.120That's something that resonated for some reason in New York.
00:39:58.080And I think that the MAGA needs to continue to listen to those voices because Generation Z wants to be able to afford their homes.
00:40:04.920They want to be able to afford to feed their children.
00:40:06.800They want to have multiple children homes.
00:40:08.900They want to ensure that they have a prosperous family going forward.
00:40:12.280And I think Generation Z wants to hear that from politicians.
00:40:16.240For a long time, the left are the ones that have been doing that.
00:40:18.480The Democrats Party have been the party of the working man.
00:40:21.980But Republicans are continuing to do that, and we don't need to be dissuaded by foreign entanglements, by inhumane rhetoric when it comes to mass migration to go back to the Bush era Republicanism.
00:40:32.480Generation Z wants to hear from the nationalist, populist sentiments that are going to concentrate on working families continuing to succeed in the future.
00:40:42.280So, what is your sense of employment right now?
00:40:47.140We talked about an artificial intelligence apocalypse.
00:40:50.560I just mentioned this morning, I think it was, I was reading a report at Harvard University.
00:40:55.480This is at the, I'm pretty sure it's at the college, not at the graduate schools, but the college.
00:41:00.30025% of Harvard students are unemployed right now, which is pretty extraordinary because, hey, they, when you get there, they very much get you into the system that you're going to have a good job when you get out because the place is extraordinarily expensive, obviously very, very elite and hard to get into.
00:41:14.940What is your sense of this generation when it comes out now, a college, in its economic prospects, its employment prospects?
00:41:23.800I think it's pretty low, you know, with the infiltration of AI into the workforce, that is going to put a lot of young people out of jobs.
00:41:32.940It's going to put a lot of careers that were currently in the scope, maybe even years ago.
00:41:36.640Let's just say somebody started a major four years ago, and they go into supply chain management.
00:41:41.040They go into, even if they go to a, you know, a working class, an applied technology school to go into their trade, and the trade is being replaced by AI, the trade is being replaced by technology, people are scared for their jobs.
00:41:55.280And I think that's a bad thing and a good thing in a way that, like, when people go into college, they're not going to major in some of these liberal arts majors, you know, going and majoring in, you know, gender studies and things like that.
00:42:07.380They probably want to get a job, but they can actually land a job within, or get a major, they can actually land a job within.
00:42:14.600AI is doing everything in every single job field.
00:42:17.640And I think that when people are going to college, when they're going to trade schools, and trade schools has become such a vital part of this, the last five to 10 years of Generation Z, more people are going to trade school, especially in southern states and in southern America, than pretty much ever before.
00:42:33.120And I think that's because they've seen what colleges and universities have done to the next generation and have done to this generation in depleting jobs and not guaranteeing jobs with the majors they've chosen.
00:42:45.100So I think AI has changed that conversation.
00:42:47.260I think Generation Z wants to be able to land a job after they graduate college or after they graduate high school.
00:42:52.940And I think that the Republican Party and the conservative movement continue to need to hear those concerns because they are very important.
00:42:59.900Generation Z, again, going back to, you know, trying to have some sort of prosperity for their families and for themselves in the future.
00:43:08.380Kenny, where do people go to get your writings?
00:43:11.420Where do they go to get your social media?
00:43:13.940I'm at KatieCodyTN on Twitter and True Social.
00:43:17.320And you can find all of my articles archived at humanevents.com on our editorial page.
00:43:21.100Do you, I noticed that Jack had you on the other day, are you co-hosting with him?
00:43:28.020Are you spending a lot of time on Human Events Daily?
00:44:16.300But we have to get, I think, enormously focused on this country.
00:44:20.360This is why the big, beautiful bill is important to make sure you get the, keep these tax, keep the tax cuts that you've got, add additional populist tax cuts.
00:44:31.940And I haven't been shy about sharing this with anybody that in raising the taxes for the, for the upper bracket or do the snapback or set up a new bracket at a million bucks above and then make it a 40% of income.
00:44:46.720Also taking things away like carried interest, which is still outrageous and the private equity firms still fight for it and it's still, it's still, it's still, they still have it.
00:44:57.360It hasn't been put out there and it hasn't been stopped.
00:46:08.720I don't think anything coming out here, except for some Democrats that are trying to make a, like Murphy and some of these guys that are all thinking of running for president.
00:46:16.220It had pretty good, you know, I think, generally received, particularly by the Republicans.
00:46:22.740I don't even see Mark Warner or anybody questioning it.
00:46:25.560But I think, I strongly believe that even this move to try to get some commandos in or people to track the material, I'm not sure that's going to get much traction.
00:46:36.240I just don't think that's going to be the case.
00:46:38.260So hopefully President Trump sticks it out here, meets with the Iranians, closes this thing down and get back to the pivot back to the United States.
00:46:49.100Like I said, the I think there's growing and realize they're running out of money.
00:46:54.740So this is one of the reasons ICE and DHS, everybody needs some cash in here to make sure you do it.
00:46:58.900But everything I see in MAGA, all the polling I see in MAGA, people want more deportations.
00:47:06.040They want more of these businesses hit.
00:47:09.560They think Americans will take those jobs.
00:47:11.580And I think that's something that's got to be really looked at quite, quite seriously.
00:47:28.900But we're into the 4th of July next, the weekend, which is considered the midpoint of summer, although technically it's not, but it's considered the midpoint of summer, already upon us.
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