00:00:37.760I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:43.180Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:46.980If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:53.240War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:58.800it's tuesday 7 april year of early 2026 we're going to get back to the war and what president
00:01:06.040trump says are heated negotiations about a two-week ceasefire or two-week pause in the
00:01:14.580hammer that is supposed to be dropped starting at 8 p.m although i think the israelis are already
00:01:19.420starting to drop part of it in the united states uh air force i believe are seeing some military
00:01:25.040targets uh as last night on just on the military side centcom pete hexes tells us that last night
00:01:31.540was the worst night they've had so these guys continue to hit we're going to get to all that
00:01:36.080as we run up on the seven o'clock hour which is only one hour away from the witching hour of 8
00:01:43.060pm real america's voice will be having special coverage it'll go from eight to nine if there's
00:01:49.640reason to keep it going later it will go later you got a crack team i may actually dip in and
00:01:55.880out of that as we're working on some other stuff here at the war room but obviously very very
00:01:59.420important i got brian kennedy and frank gaffney here with me uh brandon weicker is going to join
00:02:05.480in a while so we're going to go through a lot about the war but i want to talk about something
00:02:10.400if you follow the war room in my public uh addresses and speeches i keep saying that the
00:02:17.980enemy we got to be the imminent danger to the United States of America ain't coming from Tehran
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00:02:27.220this red green alliance which now controls the financial capital of the world in the greatest
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00:02:33.460city in the United States yes that would be New York City also controls large swaths of
00:02:40.140blue states particularly sanctuary cities and let's be blunt the White House political team
00:02:45.980is blinked. You can't mention the word mass deportations or the phrase mass deportation,
00:02:51.620but I will tell you the mass deportation coalition is just getting rolling. It's going to hold a lot
00:02:57.780to be announced with those folks in the days and weeks ahead. Also, they have selected the
00:03:05.600great state of Texas because they understand Texas is the jewel in the crown. Last night,
00:03:10.040we had rosemary jenks on about the h1b problems in texas and they are enormous and need to be
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00:03:17.660addressed and need to be addressed immediately but the business before us is this islamic invasion
00:03:23.460the is the jihadist piece or the green piece of the red green alliance uh frank gaffer you've been
00:03:30.400down really um and this is the way that the muslim brotherhood and care and these terrorist
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00:03:36.100organization and this whole coming in on cat's paws uh islamic invasion because uh they're very
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00:03:44.980sneaky and what they've done here there's a the texas board of education they're going through
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00:03:49.000approving some textbooks that will have massive uh implications over the next decade not just in
00:03:56.100texas but in 19 or 20 other states because the scale economies the publishing business are if
00:04:01.280Texas buys it. Other states to keep their costs down are going to buy it also.
00:04:05.540So Texas is kind of the the the lead here in making these decisions.
00:04:11.060And they months ago, I guess now half a year ago, nine months ago, said, hey, we don't think the textbooks that we've even had are good enough about teaching patriotism.
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00:04:22.060And of course, care and the Islamic invasion got all over that.
00:04:25.640And they've come up with and they've got some weak sisters, particularly Republicans that are going along with them that think that what Texas school children need in their formation period would be an infusion of good old pseudo history about how much Islam has met to the United States of America and just how much it has improved the United States of America.
00:04:49.700And quite frankly, how important going back to the founding of the Republic and the founding of Texas, it's been so vital to that history.
00:04:58.220Well, there's a lot of patriots to understand that that is all nonsense.
00:05:02.640That is fantasy. And that's how they try to win the information war.
00:05:07.360Frank Gaffney, you were there. Set the stage for us. What happened?
00:05:10.500You actually testified. Let us know what happened and how the testimony, because last time this happened back in November,
00:05:17.580they had 91 people came and testified 89 testified for the muslims two for the patriots how to go
00:05:26.480today sir well it's a very different deal steve and just on your previous point i just kind of
00:05:33.080say one of my personal favorites of this revisionist history of the jihadis is that
00:05:38.360the alamo was actually a tribute to islamic architecture and you know influences
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00:05:47.460So that's the kind of crap that they're trying to float.
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00:05:53.680I call it the frog boiling every way they can.
00:05:57.440And this particular vehicle, to get into our pedagogy, as it's called, to essentially build on what the left has been doing since the 1960s, as you know, to, as they say, march through the institutions.
00:06:15.660Well, this is another example of the red-green axis doing the same. And today it was a different deal. Today there were patriots that were there pushing back. I was proud to be among them. I had all of two minutes to make a couple of key points.
00:06:33.720The most important of which was my old boss, Ronald Reagan, a man I know you admired as much as I did, famously talks about the stealth phenomenon, I guess you might call it, the practice, in other words, of having – I'm looking for a TSA individual who might just grab my bags, which are over on the other side of this airport.
00:06:58.060but the bottom line is reagan talked about an existential threat to freedom being something
00:07:03.040every generation had to confront and when he said that he meant that we must rise to the occasion
00:07:10.220both in the present generation in terms of what we bequeath to the next but also to equip the
00:07:15.980next generation to do the same in their turn and that's what this well educational jihad is aimed
00:07:24.400at destroying. It's discouraging people from thinking this country is worth fighting for.
00:07:29.580And that corrosive effect is absolutely subversive. And what they're trying very hard to do
00:07:37.000with their friends on the left is to make sure that the kids don't have any real understanding
00:07:45.460about what this is, this country, this exceptional country, and why, yes, it's worth fighting for
00:08:47.800It may be in the next days, but it will be informed, I think, by the testimony that they heard from patriotic Americans.
00:08:55.660And we had a wonderful, by the way, we had a wonderful kind of impromptu press conference in the foyer of the Barbara Jordan building.
00:09:04.680The only problem was that CARE and its friends staged a press conference outside the building.
00:09:12.020And guess what? All of the press, literally all of the press was covering them and their bitching and moaning about what's not satisfactory to them instead of what patriotic Americans, and we had hundreds of them, were saying and singing and praying about in the margins of this very important hearing.
00:09:32.460So all I can say is praise God. It's another hopeful sign that, as you say, Steve, as Texas goes, so goes the nation.
00:09:41.680And let's just be clear, that is literally the case with respect to these textbooks.
00:09:46.620If Texas goes down, the rest of the nation is going to follow for sure. It mustn't happen.
00:09:53.300Frank, I know you've got to catch a plane, but two things.
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00:09:55.600What about this Republican from Houston that sided with the Muslims?
00:09:59.480How did that happen, and what kind of accountability were we going to have with this guy?
00:10:05.320None. He's not up for re-election. He's term-limited, I think. His name's Will Hickman.
00:10:13.280He was very aggressively trying to defend himself from the many attacks that were offered up by
00:10:22.820people who say, look, this is a betrayal. This is servicing your enemies and enabling them to make
00:10:30.680real inroads to our country. And, you know, I think that the ultimate accountability will come
00:10:37.780in the form of his name, Will Hickman, his reputation, his standing as a Republican. We had
00:10:46.720the deputy, I guess, deputy chairman of the Republican Party on our friend Debbie George
00:10:57.020Addison's program this afternoon with her Republican committeeman, Robin, co-hosting.
00:11:05.080And she just said, you know, this is a betrayal of Republicans.
00:11:10.580And the problem with it, as was made clear by Robin as well, is it demoralizes Republicans.
00:11:19.780And that's precisely what the counter, you know, the jihadis are all about.
00:15:21.380I want to thank Jim Rickards for joining us this morning.
00:15:24.060Brian Kennedy. First of all, Brian, your thoughts before we get into the war, your thoughts on Texas and why this battle against care and the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:15:32.680And you see that they know it's important. That's why care is showing up.
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00:15:35.540But particularly about textbooks and and our children, which are our future, sir.
00:15:42.160Well, thank you, Steve, for having me on. And you're absolutely right.
00:15:45.500Islam is, as we know, completely incompatible with both Western Christendom and with the American way of life.
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00:15:54.840And unfortunately, that's not been explained adequately to the American people.
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00:15:59.080And the whole idea that they would create this narrative that, in fact, they're as American as you or I are American, is just a matter of deception of which they are masters.
00:16:11.440And because they're masters of deception, they're very good at playing on, it seems to me, the live and let live attitude most Americans have, which is you keep to yourself.
00:16:48.200And now they think they can insert into our textbooks this false narrative about how they're as American as we are and their contributions.
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00:16:57.160This is, as Frank often says and you often say, this is a stealth jihad in which they mean to replace Western Christendom with Islam.
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00:17:08.320And they've taken over New York, as you've described.
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00:17:14.080We certainly have to fight it in Texas.
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00:17:15.960And we certainly need the Trump administration to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in all of its forms nationwide, not only the Brotherhood, but any of its affiliates, because that's really their their army, as it were, that they can use to go around the country and bully these Americans who believe in live and let live into basically embracing their narrative.
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00:17:41.680And we simply can't let that happen. We have to fight it everywhere we see it.
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00:17:45.960brian we're 90 minutes away from what president trump has put a deadline and he was pretty blunt
00:17:54.220he said look they asked for seven i gave him seven i threw in another three to get us through
00:17:59.740easter i added another day so we wouldn't have to do this on easter monday but today's the deadline
00:18:06.080eight o'clock what does that mean particularly president trump's his rhetoric has been pretty
00:18:11.420sharp and focused on what he intends to do unless they come to the table and at least
00:18:18.660begin the process of making a deal that he thinks can stick, sir.
00:18:24.700Yeah, it was a very interesting comment he made, and I was very interested in the New
00:18:40.180I firmly believe that. When he said he wants to destroy their empire or their empire would be
00:18:45.260destroyed, I would humbly submit that the greatness of Persia existed, you know, 500 years before
00:18:53.460Jesus. And it really hasn't been the same since they were conquered by the Muslims in the 7th
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00:19:00.560century. What we see in Iran today is a civilization that is entirely Muslim in nature.
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00:19:08.600There is, of course, the genius of the Persian people and their ability to preserve their literature and many parts of their culture.
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00:19:18.340But what we see in Iran today is very foreign, in my judgment, to what the Persian people actually want.
00:19:26.340And if President Trump is successful here in overturning this Islamic regime, I think instead of destroying the Persian Empire or Persian civilization more accurately, it'll be a way of preserving Persian civilization.
00:19:42.680I think if you're able to liberate the Persian people, and that's their job, not our job, I think they could recover what is great about them.
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00:19:54.360But so long as Islam is the ruling doctrine of Iran, they will see themselves as the military vanguard of a global Islamic movement.
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00:20:06.440And I think if they succeed there, they will embolden Islamic movements all around the world.
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00:20:12.220So President Trump is, I think, has firm resolve about this.
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00:20:16.400He has said for over 25 years they can't have nuclear weapons.
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00:20:20.500And we can disagree about their nuclear weapons program, but he firmly believes that.
00:20:26.640And the New York Times story this morning basically had him reiterate in front of both Netanyahu and his own cabinet that they cannot have nuclear weapons.
00:20:35.960No matter whatever else may be true, that is firmly stuck in his mind.
00:20:40.360the um what you said about the military how does the power in the oil because that's what he's
00:20:50.100going after tonight at least he says he's going after he's going after their power plants he's
00:20:54.000going to take them back to the stone age their oil capacity how does that tie into the military
00:20:59.220program because you got a lot of people saying oh these are war crimes he's committing war crimes
00:21:03.720he's got to be brought up on charges of war crimes it's obviously nonsense but what you've
00:21:08.580had a focus on defanging and declawing as captain finnell tells us now you're shifting unless they
00:21:14.940meet your demands particularly about the strait of hormuz what is he trying to accomplish and
00:21:21.360really going after essentially what looks like state collapse sir yeah that's the that's the
00:21:28.460most dangerous part here steve and i share frank gaffney's concern that we would be essentially
00:21:34.500impoverishing and putting great humanitarian costs upon the Iranian people by destroying
00:21:42.060those power plants and bridges. That may be required in order to win this war, but that is
00:21:48.260not a desirable thing. I don't think the president believes it's a desirable thing. I think he thought
00:21:53.260this would have been something that could have been done a lot quicker. He said that
00:21:57.880in that New York Times piece. But I think the danger here is if you destroy all of those things,
00:22:03.740then you have a regime that really has nothing to lose. And when they have nothing to lose,
00:22:09.880what would they do with their military arsenal? Where would they use that? Would they use
00:22:16.420asymmetric attacks here in the United States? They no doubt have sleeper cells in this country.
00:22:22.320So one thing I would caution the war room posse about is the potential for violence here in the
00:22:28.920United States. We can't dismiss that. And even though the president doesn't discuss that,
00:22:33.320is certainly something we have to be concerned about. We don't want to destroy Iranian society.
00:22:41.740We don't want to destroy those power plants and bridges. And let us pray that there is a way of
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00:22:47.940avoiding that, if at all possible. But unfortunately, it looks like that's where this is going.
00:22:56.840The New York Times piece, you're talking about the Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan. It's going
00:23:01.900to be an excerpt from their book that's going to come out in June, the one that talked about
00:23:06.120Netanyahu's visit, and then it talked about, in great detail, the National Security Council
00:23:13.140meetings that the president chaired. Right. Right. And I thought that was a fascinating,
00:23:18.820you know, expose of what people thought. We know that J.D. Vance was very deeply concerned. We know
00:23:25.160Marco Rubio and Director Ratcliffe thought that the Israeli, you know, plan for overthrowing
00:23:31.820the regime was, in the way Churchill thought of things, too easy to be good. Marco Rubio said it
00:23:39.700was BS. I think that's right. And the president now is dealing with how do I win this? How do I
00:23:46.600make sure Iran does not have nuclear weapons that can hurt the United States? And how do I do that
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00:23:52.060in ways that do not destroy the global economy? This is a very delicate balancing act. I personally
00:23:58.480try to have a lot of humility about all this. We don't know everything about this, but we do know
00:24:03.920the president has conviction, and let's pray that conviction is matched with the kind of prudence
00:24:11.840that would make sure that we can preserve the global economy in our own prosperity.
00:24:16.220um didn't it strike you as odd that jd marco ratcliffe and uh general kane
00:24:27.500all came out looking like reasonable people in that article and president trump looked like the
00:24:34.780guy just trying to bull through did it strike you as odd that they had so many direct quotes i mean
00:24:40.380i strongly believe that that article and how that article came about and who talked to the
00:24:46.020reporters has got to be investigated that is you you should not get into the national security
00:24:52.120council that deeply with direct quotes uh and uh you know it's very disturbed some of the
00:24:57.940information there is i think quite disturbing we'd like to have the president address it because
00:25:02.700uh i'm not buying it i i'm it's fake news because i guarantee you it didn't go down like that
00:25:08.880no i agree everybody looks great everybody looks great except a guy named donald trump
00:25:14.320yeah that's that's the part that's ridiculous about it they made everyone else seem reasonable
00:25:22.140and president trump seemed ridiculous um but i will say well i'm not so sure they i'm not so
00:25:28.740sure the writer i'm not so sure the writers made them look good i think that's why it's got to be
00:25:35.040investigated who actually made them look good we ought to find out because they look like reasonable
00:25:40.800people and they and they and they try to you know and they try to paint president trump and that's
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00:35:21.980Also, there were other intermediaries trying to say, hey, we can get these guys.
00:35:25.960What is your, particularly this condition that is based upon a complete, total free navigation of Hormuz, sir?
00:35:35.240Well, as I texted with you not long ago, I was somewhat confounded by my friends in Saudi Arabia who were acting like this thing is no big deal, no fuss.
00:35:45.900They seem to have a good read on the prospects of peace.
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00:35:50.300And now we know that the Paki's were in the background there maneuvering.
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00:35:55.560And so I think that Mr. Kennedy is probably correct.
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00:35:58.500The Chinese certainly were probably pulling a lever there.
00:36:01.640But I also think that it's important to understand the Pakistanis, as you rightly know, that the leadership there have had a very close relationship with the 47th president.
00:36:11.460And, you know, he helped them out when the Indo-Pakistani war last year.
00:36:17.000And so in a way, this is sort of returning the favor.
00:36:19.800So good on them. It looks like this for now is avoided the worst case scenario that I was fearing because I was watching B-52 strato fortresses flying in from the United Kingdom carrying what I suspected were the JASM ER long range missiles,
00:36:40.080which are basically beyond visual range systems that would have been used, I suspect, to hit the Iranian oil and energy infrastructure.
00:36:50.240That would have led to a counterattack that would have been devastating to the Gulf region,
00:36:55.360would have had knock-on effects for the world economy,
00:36:58.260would have probably ensured that the Republicans would not be able to win the midterms,
00:37:02.760and certainly would not help with the affordability crisis right now.
00:37:06.040The president can build off this over the next two weeks.
00:37:08.820He goes back to being the top dog, which is what you and I had been hoping, that he would do this.
00:38:50.060What we did in those first rounds of airstrikes was we went in
00:38:55.900and killed Kamani and some of those older senior IRGC guys.
00:39:00.960But I was talking to a former Navy SEAL a few weeks ago,
00:39:04.500And he said his fear was that the younger guys coming up were actually the crazier ones.
00:39:08.720And now that the older guys were knocked out, they were going to be really emboldened.
00:39:12.320And it looked like for a period of time now, since those original hits on the Iranian regime in February and early March,
00:39:19.660it looked for a while like that was exactly what was happening.
00:39:22.840And so I actually think that those guys are going to be emboldened regardless.
00:39:26.260And if anything, by taking our foot off the gas pedal here, yes, there are some downsides in terms of what we lose that tactical momentum.
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00:39:35.240But ultimately, it also gives time for Iran's people to kind of reorient.
00:39:40.920And right now, they're rallying around their government because they're afraid, because they're worried that we could do something crazy against them.
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00:39:48.940And so this now puts the pressure and the onus, in my opinion, back on the Islamic Republic.
00:39:54.040Because let's face it, they are a repressive, awful regime, and if left to their own devices, as we saw with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, if left to their own devices, I am convinced that that regime will implode under the internal contradictions of its own system.
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00:40:09.940And it was on the brink of doing that, I believe, before we militarily intervened, and I think this could actually buy time for the people to reorganize and start pressuring their government for the much-needed reforms and changes that they all want.
00:40:24.040How do you, you've been on this, it's closely, you've had a number of great calls, particularly about the shortage of ammo.
00:40:31.080We know from the New York Times story, as much grief as you've got about that.
00:40:35.500This New York Times story today, actually, but it actually reinforced what you said at the time.
00:40:40.340This part about President Trump that he put up in all caps, you have to have a complete, total, and free navigation immediately of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:40:51.940And if we can't get to that, do we go back to shooting?
00:40:56.100Well, it's going to be the next probably six days are going to be very important.
00:41:00.360And what role the Packies, and I say that with all due deference, I don't want to offend my Pakistani friends,
00:41:04.920what role the Pakistanis will have, because I do believe they're a great hinge player here,
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00:41:12.560where they do have sort of one foot in with the Chinese camp, which includes Iran and the Russians,
00:41:18.140and they have one foot in with the White House.
00:41:20.240And I think that's actually very helpful here. I think what's going on is we're going to find out in the next probably four to six days if there can be any real consensus.
00:41:31.000But, you know, if maybe there's some give where we tell the Iranians, you know, we can work something out where you're going to have some role in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:41:39.340I know that was floated to Lawrence Wilkerson in 2007.
00:41:43.620Perhaps there's some—it won't be perfect for us.
00:41:46.700But if we can get that oil flowing again, Steve, we can really hit the reset button.
00:41:51.860And we might even be able to find an off-ramp more generally with the regime in terms of just putting them back in their box.
00:41:58.160Ultimately, the real wild card here is not going to be us or Iran or Pakistan or China.
00:42:17.060In fact, they were the ones that I think blew off the Strait of Hormuz as even being a problem after we were supposed to hit them initially.
00:42:24.820Yaakov Armador said that to me, that they don't care.
00:42:28.000Yaakov Armador said last two weeks ago, two Mondays ago, told me to my face that the Israeli government does not care about the Strait of Hormuz staying open or closed.
00:42:37.460So for them, this is not even an issue.
00:42:43.960Brian Kennedy, your thoughts about all this?
00:42:47.240Yeah, this is an important development.
00:42:49.820And I think, Brandon, and you were both right about this.
00:42:52.380It seems to me, though, if Israel should break this ceasefire, that would break our alliance with Israel over this.
00:43:01.040If we're not operating in concert here, what are we doing?
00:43:04.280Now, all that having been said, I agree that this younger generation is quite likely to be at least as radical as the previous set of leaders.
00:43:13.960If that's the case, we'll be in a shooting war again very quickly here.
00:43:18.940And I think that's probably more likely than not.
00:43:22.380We don't know exactly what the Iranians are believing here.
00:43:25.640We don't know if there's some Iranian general who has control of things and capable of actually negotiating something that would approach an end to this war.
00:43:35.700But the likeliness of that is probably remote at this point.
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00:43:41.220The one thing I think we have to remember, I don't think President Trump is going to end this if Iran still possesses or possesses the capability of producing nuclear weapons.
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00:43:54.220If that is still the case, I don't see this war ending.
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00:43:59.180And that really is, I think, for President Trump, the threshold here.
00:44:05.280It's partly about the strait of Hormuz, but it's also about their capability of having nuclear weapons.
00:44:11.220okay let me let me just go back over this one more time nuclear was obviously very important
00:44:16.660you can't trust anybody in this region the america's greatest ally has double dealt us
00:44:23.860from the beginning of this right they the whole situation of shifting the center of gravity of
00:44:27.800the battle down to persian gulf was they're taking on the uh the oil the gas field of the
00:44:34.300qataris that they kind of joint managed with iranians but the the guys supposedly on our side
00:44:39.540of the football are even worse. You can't trust them for anything. Also, I keep saying it's not
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00:44:47.280just somebody who will say, yeah, I got 10 points. I'm going to text them over to you. Let's negotiate.
00:44:52.940It's who can deliver actually a deal. I'm not so sure that I'm not certain. Let's say that the
00:44:59.780decentralized command of the Revolutionary Guard has total control of, I believe,
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00:45:09.160Brandon and Brian, which is largely Bedouin kind of these Arab pirates that have had that side
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00:45:18.120since time immemorial. In fact, when Alexander the Great went, I'm not sure they report to
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00:45:24.120anybody but themselves. And it's going to be interesting to see about this Hormuz when
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00:45:28.700President Trump makes it the thing that's in bold cap letters that has to be opened
00:45:32.380or we don't have a deal. This will develop tonight and I'm sure tomorrow. Brandon,
00:45:37.360Any thoughts on that before I let you punch out?
00:45:40.400Well, I think that we're in a wait-and-see mode again, and you know I'm usually very skeptical about the prospects of negotiations,
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00:45:47.880but I think the Iranians are right in feeling that they are emboldened right now, and actually that might work in our favor.
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00:45:53.780That actually might give us a window to ratchet this thing down, kind of hit the reset button,
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00:46:00.240And let the regional powers, including Israel, but the Arab states and Pakistan, let them and Turkey kind of take the lead on figuring out what's the best way forward.
00:46:10.600The key thing here, Steve, we have to delay getting involved further militarily.
00:46:15.740It will destroy our military power projection for a generation, and it will take our economy down, and it will hand the Democrats all the power they want in November if we do anything more than we've already done militarily.
00:46:26.680and you and you were pretty convinced that president trump if if we didn't have this what
00:46:33.120just popped up here over the last hour that the military had a hammer that was going to definitely
00:46:39.540drive some nails into the into the blank tonight i mean they were if they were called upon they
00:46:43.900were they were prepared to go and go they were lined up they were lined up and it looked like
00:46:48.060just looking at what i was seeing on open source that b-52s we don't know what the b-2s were doing
00:46:52.060i'm sure they were involved but my understanding is we committed our entire and this was very
00:46:55.880irresponsible on our part we committed our entire jasim er long-range missile arsenal to this fight
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00:47:02.220which are key weapons for deterring china and they're very hard to replace because they're
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00:47:06.100very complex and expensive so i'm very glad we desisted from this because i thought that was a
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00:47:10.500very dangerous prospect but yes we were prepared and the problem also though is that had we done
00:47:15.960the strikes on the oil and electrical grids as brian was talking about before i joined
00:47:20.440The fact is the Iranians have capabilities both in the cyber domain as well as fifth columnist here in the United States.
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00:47:27.660Thank you, Mr. Biden, who are prepared to launch in-kind attacks on our vulnerable electrical grid, even physical attacks on our electrical grid with guns taking out these substations.
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00:47:39.340So I am glad we are avoiding this because the Iranians, I do not believe, will initiate an attack like that unless they are attacked first.
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00:47:46.260brandon where do people go to get your content your podcast all of it you can go to natsec talk
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00:47:53.660on rumble you can check me out i'm the natsec guy at emerald.tv and check me out at we the
00:47:58.080brandon on twitter x my books are on amazon.com shadow war is a great book you're going to learn
00:48:05.600about the long struggle of the united states in the mullahs thank you sir appreciate you later guys
00:48:12.100brian kennedy you've done a ton of work over the last decade or so about the electric grid
00:48:19.940uh and vulnerabilities does brandon uh concern you when he says hey there are guys here fifth
00:48:25.160columnist and others sleeper cells which seem to be pretty sleepy right now because nothing's
00:48:30.600popped up or at least nothing that the fbi has told us about or authorities have told us about
00:48:35.140are you particularly concerned about that and i should add right now because the engine room
00:48:39.840reminds me before we leave the air i don't believe we've heard from the iranian jet
00:48:44.400all i'm saying is that earlier today when these things kind of went around this thing the iranians
00:48:48.980came out and they couldn't have been more up in your grill we've cut off any type of one-on-one
00:48:53.540we're not negotiating we got 15 000 missiles and 45 000 drones we've built up over 20 or 30 years
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00:49:00.600and uh we're winning you want to fight let's get it on so we haven't heard from the persians yet
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00:49:06.760I might add. We've got a minute or two, Brian, your thoughts on the vulnerability of the United States here in our grid.
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00:49:14.480Well, we've been talking about this with the Committee on the Present Danger, China, and I have separately for quite some time.
00:49:23.340You can take one of these large transformers of ours and physically destroy one using automatic rifle fire.
00:49:30.680We have found that various times in the United States.
00:49:33.460We also get most of our transformers, by the way, from communist China.
00:49:37.620And there's also the possibility that communist China, we know communist China has built into many of those transformers, the ability to hack into them and turn them off or disable them.
00:49:48.140So we certainly have to be worried about that.
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00:49:50.360I should say, though, Steve, that one thing I disagree with Brandon about is the ability of the United States to project power.
00:49:59.700We also have a great country that can be a manufacturing power again, and if some of that is building the kind of material and munitions that make sure that we remain free and capable of defending our interests both at home and abroad, we ought to be setting about today to do that.
00:50:18.080We have to make sure we have the industrial capacity here in the United States to make sure we can defend ourselves with all the missiles, all the other military systems that are required for our national defense.
00:50:32.080And that's one thing that the administration is set on doing.
00:50:34.860We have to be much more serious about that and take that much more seriously right now.
00:50:43.220Brian, where do people go to get your content, sir?