Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Special： US Attack on Iran's Nuclear Sites

00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies,

00:00:08.000 because we're going medieval on these people.

00:00:11.000 Here's another time I got a free shot

00:00:13.000 at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:16.000 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:18.000 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:19.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:00:21.000 but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:22.000 It's going to happen.

00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:26.000 MAGA media.

00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul,

00:00:30.000 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:33.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country,

00:00:40.000 this country will be saved.

00:00:43.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:00:52.000 It's Saturday, 21 June, Year of the Lord 2025.

00:00:55.000 Put this down in your diary.

00:00:57.000 A day in history.

00:00:58.000 As the United States engages and enters in as a combatant

00:01:02.000 in the war between Israel and Persia.

00:01:05.000 As I said earlier in World War II,

00:01:07.000 and they didn't say it as a joyous thing.

00:01:09.000 They said it as it was ironic.

00:01:12.000 The party is on.

00:01:13.000 Whether it was Normandy,

00:01:14.000 whether it was going to be Market Garden,

00:01:15.000 all of it.

00:01:16.000 We said today in the morning show,

00:01:18.000 we believed the party was going to be on.

00:01:19.000 Who was going to be hosting?

00:01:21.000 We strongly recommend it to be the Israelis.

00:01:24.000 They try to take it down to the final,

00:01:26.000 do it to the final thing of stopping the nuclear program.

00:01:30.000 Matt Gaetz, the congressman,

00:01:32.000 joined us a little while ago,

00:01:33.000 said he thought this was all about regime change.

00:01:35.000 Now the United States has entered.

00:01:37.000 I've got Matt Ball in the war room.

00:01:39.000 Dave Bratz riding shotgun with me.

00:01:41.000 And Matt Gaetz joins us again.

00:01:43.000 So Matt, between the time you were here

00:01:45.000 and the 20 minutes you left,

00:01:46.000 we actually did the bombing strike.

00:01:48.000 Your thoughts, sir?

00:01:50.000 Yeah, I think that it is exactly what I said.

00:01:53.000 Trump was weighing whether or not this could be executed

00:01:57.000 a la the Soleimani mission.

00:01:59.000 And I think that is the appropriate way

00:02:02.000 to contextualize the military operation you just witnessed.

00:02:07.000 I don't think this was storming the beaches of Normandy.

00:02:10.000 I think this was something in Trump's mind that he thinks he can sort of put in the same echelon

00:02:17.000 of military operation as taking out Soleimani.

00:02:20.000 He stressed in his statement that this is the time for peace.

00:02:23.000 He was de-escalatory in his rhetoric as he stressed the safety of the brave Americans who executed this mission.

00:02:33.000 So I think that Trump hopes that this can reset deterrence, reset the terms of discussion.

00:02:39.000 But ultimately, what does this fundamentally change about the war?

00:02:45.000 I don't think that it means there's going to be sustained U.S. air operations in Iran.

00:02:50.000 President Trump's statement certainly doesn't suggest it will be.

00:02:54.000 And so then you have to look at what the Iranian response will be.

00:02:57.000 And I think if they have any wisdom at all, they will understand that any kinetic response

00:03:04.000 against U.S. troops' assets in the region would be very escalatory

00:03:10.000 and would result in extreme destruction in Iran and throughout the Middle East.

00:03:15.000 And so you hope that they heed President Trump's call for peace.

00:03:21.000 But Iran's fundamental capability has never been its intercontinental ballistic missile program.

00:03:27.000 Iran's capability is that it could activate proxy forces,

00:03:31.000 which have admittedly been degraded by their ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States,

00:03:37.000 but also their mid-range ballistic missile program.

00:03:41.000 And as that plays out in the skies of Tel Aviv, it still is tragic that there are apartment complexes that are being hit.

00:03:50.000 There are civilians that are being killed.

00:03:53.000 And I think that weighs on President Trump.

00:03:55.000 And it's why the thrust of his statement about this is a call for peace.

00:04:00.000 And if he's able to achieve it, he will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:04:04.000 Do you think you can actually have a targeted and precise tactical hit here that has enough power in back of it that it actually gets done what you want to get done and just doesn't drag you into mind?

00:04:22.000 Did it work, Steve?

00:04:25.000 Did it work?

00:04:26.000 Is there reporting around the extent to which these mountain facilities were penetrated?

00:04:34.000 I sincerely ask.

00:04:38.000 Matt Gates, what we'd like to do is keep your number and reach out to you if any other developments occur.

00:04:43.000 I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts and your wisdom.

00:04:46.000 And there's a lot of wisdom there, sir, here in the war room tonight.

00:04:49.000 Thank you.

00:04:50.000 Matt, what's your social media?

00:04:52.000 I want people to follow you because you're putting up great stuff.

00:04:55.000 Where do people go?

00:04:59.000 I might have lost Matt Gates.

00:05:00.000 Let's go ahead and put it up.

00:05:02.000 Do we have Charlie Kirk?

00:05:03.000 No, I don't think you have anybody.

00:05:05.000 Okay.

00:05:06.000 We are going to, John Solomon's going to be up here in a moment.

00:05:08.000 Charlie Kirk's going to join us, Eric Prince.

00:05:11.000 Matt Boyle.

00:05:13.000 We've got to wait for the bomb damage assessment.

00:05:15.000 What actually happened?

00:05:16.000 We need to know if it worked, right?

00:05:18.000 And we'll find out sooner or later here, pretty soon, I would imagine.

00:05:21.000 I defer to the military experts on whether or not that stuff.

00:05:25.000 I don't know that stuff as good as the generals.

00:05:27.000 We'll get Eric Prince.

00:05:28.000 We'll get Eric Prince.

00:05:29.000 Yeah, Eric Prince will know better than me.

00:05:30.000 We'll get a couple of the top mercenaries in there. 0.54

00:05:31.000 I'm a political guy.

00:05:32.000 I can tell you how Capitol Hill works and how D.C. works, but I defer to the military 0.97

00:05:36.000 guys as to whether or not the strike was successful.

00:05:39.000 But, I mean, look, we have to figure out was the strike successful.

00:05:42.000 Once we figure that out, then we have to see what the Iranian response is.

00:05:45.000 Maybe the response is meager and nothing.

00:05:47.000 And if that's the case, then Trump is going to go down in a very big way, like a winner here.

00:05:53.000 What is your definition of success?

00:05:58.000 What do you think President Trump's definition of success is?

00:06:00.000 I think they've been very clear.

00:06:02.000 Look, I've talked to President Trump about this many times over the years.

00:06:05.000 Before he was president the first time, during his first term, in the interim between the two terms, and during his presidency now.

00:06:12.000 I've talked to Steve Wyckoff about this.

00:06:14.000 I did a huge interview on camera with Steve Wyckoff a month or so ago at the White House.

00:06:18.000 The fact of the matter is that, again, the president has been extraordinarily clear.

00:06:26.000 They cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:06:28.000 They cannot have the means to make a nuclear weapon.

00:06:31.000 That means no enrichment.

00:06:32.000 So I don't think we could be any clearer about this, right?

00:06:36.000 So that's the point.

00:06:37.000 If they succeed in taking out the means by which they were going to, you know, allegedly make a nuclear weapon, then the fact is that it would be viewed as a massive success.

00:06:46.000 So I think the president, you know, and again, I think that the fact that he took the time.

00:06:51.000 In the broader context, does this engage us in whether he, whether the president wants it or not, right?

00:06:57.000 Right.

00:06:58.000 Forces have, does this engage us now as a combatant into a regional war between Israel and Iran that could expand?

00:07:06.000 And is this, does this go back on his understanding that he said for years, decade, they can't have a nuclear weapon?

00:07:13.000 Does this go back on, I'm not going to get engaged in any Middle Eastern forever wars?

00:07:18.000 I don't think that it goes back on that at all.

00:07:21.000 I think the president's been very clear about the threat that Iran represents to the West with the nuclear, a nuclear Iran would represent. 1.00

00:07:29.000 And frankly, the Iranians have been engaged in attacks against Americans dating back decades. 1.00

00:07:35.000 So I think that the president is always putting America first.

00:07:39.000 I don't think the president's done anything wrong about that.

00:07:41.000 And I think that the process that this debate that we're having here on this show tonight is the same process that was going on in the Oval Office tonight as the president made his decision in the situation room.

00:07:53.000 I would imagine that he will probably went down there.

00:07:56.000 I don't know if he did or not.

00:07:58.000 I'm just speculating.

00:07:59.000 But the point is that the, the, the, and this is the process that the president's gone through for the last 10 days.

00:08:05.000 And then he's going to continue to go through because I know that he deeply cares about where the, the people are on these things.

00:08:12.000 He always asked me whenever I see him, he's always asked me, you know, where's the Breitbart audience at on this?

00:08:17.000 Where's the Breitbart audience?

00:08:18.000 He always wants to know where the people are at.

00:08:20.000 Uh, that's the thing he cares about and he's always listening and he's always taking input from other people.

00:08:25.000 So I think that, um, uh, as we go through from here, no, I, uh, first off, I don't think that he's violated any campaign pledge.

00:08:32.000 I think if anything, he's following through on it.

00:08:34.000 Um, and he's finally doing what campaign pledge?

00:08:37.000 He said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:08:40.000 Was that a higher pledge than the three planks of our no farm wars?

00:08:43.000 No farm wars.

00:08:44.000 So he's got, he's got no farm wars.

00:08:45.000 Right.

00:08:46.000 But he's also made it clear for several days in the lead up to this.

00:08:49.000 I agree.

00:08:50.000 He said he doesn't believe that he's going to entangle us in a larger war.

00:08:52.000 He was asked about this at the White House the other day.

00:08:54.000 And doing this strike, is this more limited than you thought it was?

00:08:59.000 Because at least what it's been described by him.

00:09:01.000 It sounds a little bit more expansive than we thought it was going to be.

00:09:04.000 Why did you?

00:09:05.000 Because they hit the other nuclear facilities.

00:09:06.000 Because they hit the other facilities.

00:09:07.000 Right?

00:09:08.000 Because we were just talking about Fordow and now they're talking about the other two.

00:09:11.000 Of course we don't know if there's multiple bombing runs or not.

00:09:14.000 We've been, all the strike packages we've seen.

00:09:16.000 All we have is what the president said.

00:09:18.000 Right.

00:09:19.000 So at this point.

00:09:20.000 And true social has crashed.

00:09:21.000 And true social has crashed because I think the whole world is going to true social right now.

00:09:25.000 Devin Nunez, you may have thought it might have, for nights like night, that you needed more servers.

00:09:31.000 It appears that all the airmen are out of harm's way.

00:09:36.000 Right?

00:09:37.000 President Trump very specifically gives a hat tip to them and a bravo Zulu for their performance.

00:09:42.000 Yeah.

00:09:43.000 That's a really good sign, the first night of this.

00:09:46.000 And it's like we were talking about before, it's like 3.30 in the morning over there.

00:09:50.000 Well, the next sign day, Brett, I want to go back to your initial concern.

00:09:53.000 And in fact, in your three minutes where you were trying to tell the president essentially don't do this.

00:09:59.000 Right?

00:10:01.000 Your warning was the other troops, the 40,000 or 50,000 troops in the area.

00:10:05.000 Dave's gone.

00:10:06.000 Dave's gone?

00:10:07.000 Yeah.

00:10:08.000 Okay.

00:10:09.000 Oh, it just got boiled?

00:10:10.000 Yeah.

00:10:11.000 Okay, fine.

00:10:12.000 Cool.

00:10:13.000 We're cool.

00:10:14.000 Dave had his big moment here.

00:10:15.000 What about the region?

00:10:16.000 What about the region, the blowback?

00:10:17.000 Because these guys, you know.

00:10:18.000 Well, this depends on what the response looks like, right?

00:10:20.000 And we know that the Iranian rocket launchers, the Israelis have been taking those out repeatedly.

00:10:23.000 The ballistics have done a good job on that.

00:10:25.000 Right, yeah.

00:10:26.000 Although they've been hit pretty hard.

00:10:27.000 They have been hit pretty hard.

00:10:28.000 So, we don't know yet.

00:10:29.000 So, like, we don't...

00:10:31.000 I'll caveat everything by saying we don't know what we don't know, and we do know what

00:10:34.000 we do know.

00:10:35.000 This is the fog of war.

00:10:36.000 Right.

00:10:37.000 This is the fog of war.

00:10:38.000 And it was actually pretty...

00:10:40.000 Well, President Trump just tweeted, let's put true social life, for Dow is gone.

00:10:44.000 Right.

00:10:45.000 If it was successful, then this is going to go down as a major success for him.

00:10:49.000 Let's say there's...

00:10:50.000 I guess he's not saying that.

00:10:52.000 Somebody's interpreting what he said.

00:10:54.000 That's what we have to say.

00:10:55.000 We haven't seen the bomb damage assessment, although...

00:10:57.000 Right.

00:10:58.000 Well, this is the...

00:10:59.000 And again, it's going to be apparent in the coming days.

00:11:00.000 I think he's linking to that right there.

00:11:01.000 By the way, Charlie Kirk just sent this out, and he just sent this to me as well.

00:11:04.000 He says, Iran gave President Trump no choice.

00:11:08.000 This is from Charlie Kirk.

00:11:09.000 Yeah.

00:11:10.000 Iran gave President Trump no choice.

00:11:12.000 For a decade, he has been adamant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.

00:11:17.000 Iran decided to forego diplomacy in pursuit of a bomb.

00:11:21.000 This is a surgical strike operated perfectly.

00:11:23.000 President Trump acted with prudence and decisiveness.

00:11:26.000 Look at that right there.

00:11:27.000 He's just reposted on truth, President Trump, for Dow is gone.

00:11:32.000 If that ends up being true, that's going to be...

00:11:35.000 That's a big...

00:11:36.000 That's a big gap.

00:11:37.000 This is going to be big.

00:11:38.000 Again, we don't know what we don't know.

00:11:40.000 We do know what we do know.

00:11:42.000 The one thing I would say is that this is just a definite major escalation.

00:11:49.000 The United States has taken a huge step here with President Trump, but I think the

00:11:54.000 President was deliberate and thoughtful about it before he did it.

00:11:59.000 I think that any other American president would have jumped into this, at least in the last

00:12:05.000 30 years, right?

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:07.000 Either of the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Biden, anyone dating back to Reagan, I think would

00:12:14.000 have just, without questioning it at all, would have just jumped right in.

00:12:18.000 I think President Trump showing a thoughtful deliberation before he made this decision shows

00:12:22.000 why, I think, a lot of America first.

00:12:25.000 It's why we elected him, right?

00:12:26.000 Like, so I think this is a huge moment for the President, and how he handles the steps

00:12:30.000 from here are going to define his legacy in a big way, right?

00:12:33.000 Like, does he stay true, continue to stay true, because I think this does stay true to

00:12:38.000 that third plank, along with trade and immigration of those campaign pledges.

00:12:42.000 The third plank.

00:12:43.000 If it remains limited.

00:12:44.000 Do not get engaged in a forever war.

00:12:46.000 Well, that's the question.

00:12:47.000 Therein lies the question.

00:12:48.000 We don't know yet.

00:12:49.000 But the central part of that is how prepared, a big part of it is how prepared we are for

00:12:53.000 a counter hit by the Iranians, right? 0.99

00:12:55.000 On troops, on straight sort of moves.

00:12:57.000 And we'll see what they do.

00:12:58.000 They may be so decapitated you don't get a big response.

00:13:01.000 I'm sure his intelligence assessment walked that through.

00:13:04.000 We're trying to get up Charlie Kirk.

00:13:06.000 We are trying to get up John Solomon is going to join us.

00:13:09.000 We had Dave Bratt.

00:13:11.000 By the way, we got, there are definitely some people in MAGA that are not exactly ecstatic

00:13:16.000 about this.

00:13:17.000 A lot of people are.

00:13:18.000 Because some people are saying, hey, he lived up to this pledge and not to let the

00:13:22.000 Iranians have a nuclear program, although we have to get the bomb damage assessment.

00:13:26.000 Definitely a military strike did take place.

00:13:30.000 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:13:34.000 Hopefully John Solomon on the other side.

00:13:37.000 We got Jack Posobiec on the other side.

00:13:39.000 Possibly Eric Prince.

00:13:40.000 But riding shotgun with me is Matt Boyle.

00:13:43.000 Thank you for coming in tonight, man.

00:13:44.000 I told you something.

00:13:45.000 I told Boyle, I said, get over here.

00:13:47.000 Something's going to happen.

00:13:48.000 I think we talked this morning.

00:13:49.000 We talked this morning and both of us were like, something's happening tonight.

00:13:52.000 We do.

00:13:53.000 We do.

00:13:54.000 We went to Rob Stig and Rob Stig said, let's do five to seven.

00:13:57.000 And then we said, well, let's, can we get another hour?

00:13:59.000 Let's go seven to eight.

00:14:00.000 And now we're going to, now we're in the eight o'clock hour right now.

00:14:03.000 Okay.

00:14:04.000 A historic night in the White House, historic night in the Imperial Capitol.

00:14:09.000 President Trump pulls the trigger, a military strike on the nuclear, the nuclear, I guess,

00:14:15.000 enrichment sites and bomb making sites.

00:14:17.000 All three of them, it looks like by air assets, I guess, coming through Guam, De Garcia, all

00:14:23.000 of it.

00:14:24.000 If more information we get, we'll pass along.

00:14:26.000 Short commercial break.

00:14:27.000 Johnny Conn will take us out and we'll be back in a moment.

00:14:30.000 I suggest you take a look inside.

00:14:37.000 Cause I think you changed already.

00:14:42.000 You went and lost your pride.

00:14:45.000 But I'm American made.

00:14:49.000 I got American power.

00:14:53.000 I got American, baby.

00:14:57.000 In America's heart.

00:15:00.000 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:15:02.000 Mann.

00:15:06.000 Okay, welcome back.

00:15:07.000 Announcement.

00:15:08.000 The President of the United States is going to address the nation from the White House at

00:15:12.000 10 p.m.

00:15:13.000 We will stick around for that.

00:15:15.000 Obviously.

00:15:16.000 Do we have John Solomon yet?

00:15:17.000 I think John's trying to come in.

00:15:19.000 John Solomon's trying to join us.

00:15:22.000 The.

00:15:25.000 Bup, bup, bup, bup, bum.

00:15:29.000 There, you know, the president's got to, you know, make the address.

00:15:32.000 I also think he's got to talk to MAGA.

00:15:33.000 There are a lot of MAGA that are not happy about this.

00:15:35.000 I'll just be blunt.

00:15:36.000 We can tell this in the chats right now.

00:15:37.000 There, there are a lot of the chats that are just saying, hey, I hear you.

00:15:41.000 But, you know, you promised you wouldn't do this.

00:15:43.000 I hear your thing.

00:15:44.000 And maybe they didn't negotiate.

00:15:45.000 So I do think, as I said, I believe he will get MAGA on board, all of it.

00:15:50.000 But he's got to explain exactly and go through this.

00:15:53.000 And remember, I said today, the party is on using that World War II phrase.

00:15:57.000 Who's going to host it?

00:15:58.000 And early in the evening, we were, we were hoping and working with people and saying, hey,

00:16:05.000 maybe Israel is going to step up here.

00:16:07.000 I think a big question is going to be why Israel did not take the lead and do this,

00:16:12.000 because right now this is back to the United States.

00:16:14.000 And I understand maybe we could get Fordow, but I think that's got to be explained.

00:16:18.000 Israel did not finish what they started. 0.85

00:16:20.000 That's the bottom line.

00:16:21.000 And I'm telling you, a lot of people I know that are Israel supporters are going to say,

00:16:26.000 why are we doing the heavy lift here?

00:16:28.000 And why are we engaging in combat operations in a war that's a war of choice?

00:16:33.000 Sure.

00:16:34.000 By the way, myself included.

00:16:35.000 And at the same time, the other side may come back and say on this, the very pro-Israel side,

00:16:44.000 well, Israel doesn't have the capabilities to do what we just did, which is true as well. 0.96

00:16:48.000 But that being said, the United States just got engaged in this thing.

00:16:53.000 And Trump is going to have to communicate this, this speech that he's going to give at 10 o'clock tonight.

00:16:58.000 He said just now in a follow-up message on True Social that he's going to address the nation at 10 o'clock from the White House.

00:17:05.000 So much for that lid, by the way.

00:17:07.000 Remember we were joking about this when they called the lid?

00:17:09.000 I was like, you know, that's always a head fake, right?

00:17:12.000 They'll call the lid and that would be a great time to do it, right?

00:17:15.000 With Biden, he used to call the lid at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:17:18.000 So he could go take a nap again.

00:17:20.000 His second nap in the day.

00:17:21.000 When you said they're going to...

00:17:23.000 Have a nice little bowl of ice cream.

00:17:25.000 In the peaches, the mass peaches.

00:17:26.000 When you said that they're calling a lid, I said, well, that's when the president goes and calls 200 reporters, right?

00:17:32.000 He works the phones, right?

00:17:33.000 Right.

00:17:34.000 No, but that's the thing is that it was a sign to me, the fact that they were so clear about this and so open.

00:17:40.000 Like, there were a lot of head fakes that were going on.

00:17:43.000 And the thing that made me start to think...

00:17:46.000 Those things had started earlier in the day.

00:17:48.000 But I do think that the communications staff and I think that the military and intelligence folks were deliberately trying to send these head fakes to the media because I don't think they liked the fact that the media was so laser focused on this question for the last 10 days.

00:18:02.000 I don't know.

00:18:03.000 Of will he, won't he?

00:18:04.000 I don't know.

00:18:05.000 But I do think that it also showed the nation just how deliberative the president was.

00:18:10.000 So I think that when the president speaks tonight, he's going to have to be very clear with the American public about that deliberative process and what he went through, who he listened to, why he made this decision and where things go from here.

00:18:25.000 He's going to lay out some very clear objectives and clear parameters and what to expect and what not to expect.

00:18:34.000 And I think that people don't like uncertainty.

00:18:37.000 So this happening on a Saturday night, the markets aren't open again until next week.

00:18:42.000 So you won't really see market reaction until Monday, which is a good thing.

00:18:48.000 But I do think that the public wants certainty.

00:18:51.000 And I think that the MAGA movement wants certainty.

00:18:54.000 The America First movement wants certainty.

00:18:57.000 So I think the president, who is an excellent communicator, we've seen him do this how many times now, right, is incredible at giving addresses.

00:19:05.000 So when we see the president come out tonight at 10 o'clock, we're all going to be looking for, you know, those things.

00:19:11.000 What is he going to be able to do in terms of providing certainty, clarity, and also walking through his decision making process?

00:19:20.000 I think telling the public about how deliberative and thoughtful he was, that he isn't just flippant with a military decision or a grave decision like this.

00:19:28.000 This is a huge decision, right, deciding to commit American military resources.

00:19:33.000 This is a life and death decision that President Trump just made.

00:19:36.000 These are matters of war and peace, right?

00:19:38.000 And I think that as the president addresses the public, he needs to communicate just how serious he takes it.

00:19:45.000 Because I know that he does, right?

00:19:47.000 And I know that, you know, anybody that knows him well, I know you know him well, Steve.

00:19:52.000 A lot of the other folks here in the War Room Posse know him very well.

00:19:56.000 Like, the fact is, I know he is very deliberative on this.

00:19:59.000 And I think that capturing that in those remarks and explaining to people, you know, because he knows how heated this debate got in this movement, right?

00:20:07.000 Like, this debate got very heated.

00:20:09.000 You had, you know, people on one side like a Mark Levin really aggressively advocating for things.

00:20:14.000 And you had people on the other side like a Tucker really aggressively advocating against it.

00:20:19.000 He's got to win this movement over and bring them with him and take proactive steps to do that.

00:20:26.000 Now, I think he can easily do that because he is clearly the leader of this movement and he commands a lot of respect.

00:20:31.000 I think that President Trump has earned a lot of that respect, too, after everything he's been through.

00:20:36.000 But because of the fact that the president, you know, because of the fact it's not even his fault.

00:20:44.000 It's the fault of people like Bush and Obama and Clinton, you know, and Biden, you know, even though or whoever was controlling the auto pen at the time in the Biden presidency.

00:20:54.000 The lack of trust that these globalists losers of both political parties have sown across the United States with average Americans.

00:21:06.000 I think President Trump, it's sad that he has to do this because he shouldn't have to because he hasn't he hasn't committed these offenses that these globalists have.

00:21:15.000 But he's got to win that trust back from people.

00:21:18.000 I think in beginning tonight with the explanation, I think the one of the most important explanations, I think one of the most important things he has to or he should.

00:21:27.000 I shouldn't say he has to. He should is why did we not give time for Israel to take a crack here? 0.97

00:21:34.000 Bibi Netanyahu told the New York Post, we will do it.

00:21:38.000 There was word out that that, you know, they were they were not going to wait the two weeks that, you know, this was it like they're dictating to us again.

00:21:46.000 The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Marco Rubio is telling guys in Europe that President Trump's preferred path is negotiation.

00:21:53.000 Now, the way President Trump is talking, it looks like he's using this as coercive diplomacy.

00:21:58.000 He's telling the Iranians, let's get back to the table. Right. Let's get it. 1.00

00:22:01.000 I think he just said, let's get a deal done. Is that what it is?

00:22:04.000 He says he wants peace. Right. Like, and then he put that in all caps.

00:22:07.000 That in all caps. That in bombs were in all caps. True social. Right.

00:22:11.000 Like, so, but the fact is what I love about these things is that new phrase he's got, which I think is genius.

00:22:16.000 Thank you for the attention to this matter. Oh, it's a running. I love that. It's my favorite.

00:22:22.000 My most favorite. It's like you're getting a letter from DMV. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:22:28.000 It's so genius. It's the best phrase. It's a heck. It's a heck. But in all seriousness, though, he wants peace.

00:22:32.000 I know that he wants peace. He doesn't want to go into war.

00:22:35.000 And I think that he needs to make sure that that is really clearly communicated when he speaks to the public tonight.

00:22:41.000 So, because I know that's where his heart of hearts is, right? Like, he really questioned.

00:22:46.000 In fact, I always tell people that he won the 2016 election.

00:22:51.000 The moment he won the election, not just the primary, but the general election, too, was there was a debate in South Carolina in the Republican primary.

00:22:58.000 And there was Jeb Bush was still in the race.

00:23:01.000 Oh, I mean, the first Republican. By the way, John Solomon's looking for a Zoom hookup. 0.71

00:23:06.000 If you guys can take care of that. Go ahead.

00:23:08.000 And in this this debate in South Carolina, it was in the primary. Jeb Bush was on the stage.

00:23:12.000 But he brought his brother, George, the former president, with him.

00:23:15.000 And Trump addressed he dressed down the Bushes and what they did in Iraq and in the South Carolina debate. 0.85

00:23:22.000 There was a gasp in the audience because George Bush was there.

00:23:24.000 George Bush was there. And it was shocking to see this from a Republican debate stage.

00:23:28.000 And I think that moment won him not just the Republican nomination for president in 2016, but the presidency as well, the general election.

00:23:39.000 OK, so hang on. So some of his most loyal followers tonight, we can tell in the chat.

00:23:44.000 I'm going to agree or saying, hang on, I want. Where's that guy?

00:23:48.000 Because that guy basically he rode the power with calling the Bushes out.

00:23:53.000 No more forever wars in here. Right.

00:23:56.000 In getting involved in combat operations, even in a surgical strike, can you back off and tell the Persians, hey, with just one time we're out. 0.96

00:24:04.000 Deal with the Israelis. It's no regime change. 1.00

00:24:07.000 Well, this is the challenge of what he's going to face in his remarks this evening.

00:24:11.000 It's a challenge in what happens next over the course of the next several days and weeks ahead of us.

00:24:17.000 Does this spiral out of control or does it, you know, does it continue to escalate or not?

00:24:22.000 I will say President Trump, I have long said, is the luckiest man alive for a number of reasons.

00:24:29.000 I've been saying I don't know. You make your luck though, right?

00:24:32.000 That is very true. And by the way, he's a perfect case of this where he makes his luck.

00:24:37.000 I've been saying this for four years before he was even shot and survived it, shot in the head and survived it, by the way.

00:24:43.000 So if people that know me, I've been talking about President Trump like this.

00:24:47.000 I call him the luckiest man alive.

00:24:49.000 I've always called him this. And the reason why is because of exactly what you just said.

00:24:53.000 You make your luck.

00:24:54.000 And I think that President Trump can can mold these circumstances moving forward to keep the United States out of a long, drawn out, prolonged conflict here.

00:25:02.000 If he can do that and he can force the Iranians to the table, which, by the way, he'd be the only person that it would just be an absolutely incredible coup of a diplomatic and leadership victory if he's able to do that. 0.95

00:25:15.000 But the fact is, is that, you know, he has a major challenge ahead of him and we're going to see the first bits of it tonight with this address.

00:25:22.000 This is why this speech tonight at 10, I think, is so important for him. He has a huge task ahead of him.

00:25:28.000 He has not been he's not been he's not a fan of doing addresses from the Oval Office.

00:25:34.000 That is something he has not. He's always said he doesn't like it now.

00:25:39.000 He's been a master. And I'm not saying the one he's done. I think they've all been great.

00:25:43.000 But I know he's not a fan of it. He is a master of the press avail.

00:25:46.000 We just invite the president. Of course, the first team is is not except for Ben and Boyle, Solomon and Brad are the first team are not working tonight.

00:25:54.000 We're gonna take a short commercial break here on Real America's Voice.

00:25:57.000 The president of United States at 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, the 21st of June in the year of our Lord 2025 will address the nation as we have now become a combatant in this war between Israel and the Persians.

00:26:13.000 Guess you say it's now a broader war, although those like the president trying to keep this to a very tactical strike.

00:26:19.000 John Solomon's gonna join us next. Dave Brad is here. Short commercial break. Back in a moment.

00:26:25.000 You gotta believe, believe.

00:26:35.000 Open your eyes, no time to be blind. Open your mind to see.

00:26:41.000 We're in a modern day, holy war. Coming after your mind to find your soul.

00:26:51.000 The world is true.

00:26:57.000 Monday, holy war.

00:27:01.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:27:03.000 Welcome back. We're going to go to Real America's Voice, John Solomon.

00:27:09.000 John joins us. John, in 30 minutes, we're going to have a we're going to have a address to the nation by the president of the United States about the military activity tonight.

00:27:19.480 Give us your thoughts. Well, we entered the war now.

00:27:23.440 And though it's a limited strike, it opens Iran up to wanting to attack us back, either through cyber terrorism or through traditional means. 0.75

00:27:32.880 So we'll have to see what the answer is. But I was struck by three things.

00:27:37.000 One, it was pretty obvious it was going to happen today when the president avoided the cameras going into a sit room meeting a little bit ago, a few hours ago.

00:27:45.760 He almost never avoids the camera. So you knew something big was up.

00:27:49.300 Obviously, the B2s had been deployed earlier in the day.

00:27:53.400 And tonight, I think you will hear him say this was a limited strike and it's time for peace.

00:27:58.320 I think even in the last sentence of his social post, he said it's time for peace, time to make a deal.

00:28:07.000 I think President Trump's goal all along was to have a limited participation in this, make sure that all three of those nuclear sites are inoperable and anything in them is blown to smithereens, and then go back to the table and try to get a deal.

00:28:20.640 And if Iran doesn't, I think the president will let Israel carry out the rest of these bombings until there's regime change in Iran. 0.58

00:28:28.020 Walk us through your understanding of the strike and the strike package.

00:28:35.560 I mean, it seems expansive in the fact that he went to other nuclear facilities, which I'm kind of surprised at because I thought the Israelis had those. 0.82

00:28:43.820 And then it didn't seem, I mean, it gave very limited information, but it didn't seem the intensity of what some people, John, you and I had actually talked about.

00:28:52.720 You might need multiple runs over Fedor to actually take it, or Fedor to take it down.

00:28:57.880 Your thoughts on the strike package, at least what President Trump's told us.

00:29:01.000 I think at least three B-2 bombers dropped on Fordo.

00:29:05.580 That is an awful lot of ammunition.

00:29:07.380 That's almost the equivalent of a small nuclear bomb in terms of its incredible implosion capabilities.

00:29:13.780 And the early satellite imagery, I'm told, shows a complete destruction of that zone.

00:29:20.860 So that's Fordo.

00:29:22.000 And then there was the TANS.

00:29:23.440 That was always expected.

00:29:24.860 I think the surprise one is the third one.

00:29:26.680 It's called, and I don't want to mess up the name here, but it's called Ishafan.

00:29:31.540 And it was the place where the very sensitive work of putting the, taking uranium from the state that Iran had enriched it and turning it into a metallic sort of capability that could be put on top of a warhead, striking that one may have been a little bit of a surprise to people.

00:29:48.980 We must have had intel that some of the nuclear materials were still there.

00:29:53.760 And rather than take a risk or allow Iran to move them, we hit that one. 0.88

00:29:58.300 So I think the third one was the trickiest, also the least expected.

00:30:02.900 I think the TANS and Fordo were expected to be struck.

00:30:06.600 And I'm told the three planes that struck Fordo left quite a crater, turned a monitor into a crater.

00:30:14.680 Why were you surprised that Israel didn't take a crack at this first? 0.88

00:30:19.060 I mean, I think one of the reasons that, and there are, I would tell you, a lot, if you go in the chats, there's a lot of upset people, right?

00:30:25.680 There's some people that say, hey, President Trump did what he had to do, but there's a lot of people that are quite upset in the MAGA movement.

00:30:31.640 Why do you think Israel did not lead this raid? 0.99

00:30:33.800 Probably because their planes couldn't drop the sort of bunker buster that would make a difference.

00:30:40.560 And the last thing you want to do is strike Iran and not be able to take out the facility. 0.99

00:30:45.160 So, you know, the truth of the matter is Israel has known from the beginning, even when it started this war, that its planes would never be able to get, at least take out Fordo.

00:30:53.880 It's just too fortified and too deep in the ground with a big mountain sitting on top of it.

00:30:59.080 America was the only option to do that. 0.86

00:31:01.060 We're the only one with the capability of this bomb.

00:31:03.460 And rather than take a half-hearted attempt and give the Iranians propaganda or give them time to move packages or people, I think the president decided he would do this.

00:31:16.100 It would be on his terms.

00:31:17.460 I think the Iranians were thinking they had a couple weeks, they had a couple days, it turned out.

00:31:22.240 And I think the final decision to go today was driven by the rhetoric out of Iran the last 24 hours.

00:31:28.780 They have not signaled any desire for peace or negotiation or meaningful engagement.

00:31:34.900 And so why waste any more time?

00:31:36.320 I think that was the president's thinking.

00:31:39.040 You know, we knew Witkoff had a tough time, even told the Europeans that they couldn't even find out who was in charge to have a meeting.

00:31:45.400 Of course, the rhetoric only heated up.

00:31:47.460 A couple things, John, before we let you go.

00:31:50.200 The assessment of, you know, the strike back of the Persians around the region, both in Iraq where we have troops, the naval assets we have, Persian Gulf, even hitting back maybe at several allies.

00:32:03.420 What's your assessment of that?

00:32:04.480 Because that's going to set the table.

00:32:06.580 Does this get escalatory or not?

00:32:08.400 Yeah, I think the place that we need to be most on alert, most vigilant about, is on our own soil with activated Hezbollah cells. 1.00

00:32:18.760 While al-Qaeda has always captured our attention in America because of the horrific 9-11 attacks, Hezbollah are much more professional.

00:32:25.640 They are the best terrorists in the world, sadly.

00:32:28.860 And they've had sleeper cells on our soil that we've known about.

00:32:32.780 And God knows what they swept into the country would have been during Joe Biden's years.

00:32:37.440 It would have been a lack of diligence for Iran not to take advantage of the open border.

00:32:42.440 So we don't know who's here.

00:32:44.560 I think the second thing that we will be watching for, according to my U.S. intelligence sources, is some sort of cyber attack aiming for the grid or satellites.

00:32:54.160 And then the third strike would be striking something in the Middle East region, in the Persian region.

00:33:02.160 I think Iran is going to be hard-pressed.

00:33:05.720 They are trying to reserve all of their missiles for Israel.

00:33:08.120 So striking troops there probably won't be in the top options for them.

00:33:14.080 I think they want to create some shock, awe, and terror in Americans' minds to turn the American public against the president on this.

00:33:21.720 So I would be watching for non-conventional, non-traditional warfare in the next 72 hours.

00:33:26.800 About Bibi, since they weren't involved in actually the pass tonight to shut down the nuclear weaponization in Richmond, their goal has obviously been regime change.

00:33:42.080 How do you think that plays in?

00:33:43.340 Do you think President Trump has backed him off that?

00:33:45.400 And that may be a sine qua non of his getting involved at this level?

00:33:49.160 I mean, do you have any thoughts on that?

00:33:50.460 I get the sense, and again, that's from talking to both Israelis and Americans, that the president has given wide latitude to let Netanyahu wage the sort of war that he wants to for what he thinks is best in Israel's interest.

00:34:06.220 Israel stands much closer to the danger of a nuclear missile and other armaments than we do.

00:34:14.040 And I think the president gave some deference there.

00:34:16.460 I would not be surprised if this strike tonight is followed up by a decapitation strike by Israel aimed at trying to take out the political leadership. 0.60

00:34:27.140 The military leadership is extraordinarily decimated.

00:34:30.400 Iran has been in chaos.

00:34:32.200 Some of their plans for Iranian missiles based on our intercepts, they didn't go according to plan because they literally don't have senior officials able to make the call.

00:34:40.720 And so some of their missile launches, what they thought they were doing in Iran and what actually got launched were a little off, which tells our American intelligence that Iran is disorganized, that those decapitation strikes of the military leadership have had some operational effect.

00:34:56.900 I would not be surprised if Israel decides to take a decapitation strike against the leadership, whether it's the Ayatollah. 0.62

00:35:03.720 My sense of it is that the president is giving Bibi Netanyahu whatever latitude he needs to finish the job.

00:35:10.820 At this point, nobody expects Iran to make a deal, although the president will keep pursuing that.

00:35:16.980 And I think the alternative now is for Israel to finish the job is, I think, what a lot of people are thinking.

00:35:22.640 Again, this is a dangerous situation.

00:35:24.600 It's why a large part of MAGA has the concerns that it does about war and picking a fight with Iran specifically because of their asymmetrical warfare, their terror warfare.

00:35:36.340 So we're going to have to be on high alert for a while and see what comes next in this process.

00:35:41.180 But my understanding, at least, is what the president set out to do today, limited strike to blow up three significant nuclear facilities, the military assessment, at least from satellites, is it achieved the mission.

00:35:55.560 John, hang on one second.

00:35:56.620 I have a little bit of news.

00:35:58.020 This is a statement from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch.

00:36:03.480 This guy is not the biggest, like, MAGA, America, first guy in the world.

00:36:07.060 But there's a couple of things that are in it that are actually particularly revealing to me.

00:36:11.700 He says, quote, among other things, by the way, he talks, praises Trump, et cetera.

00:36:15.640 But then later in the statement, he says, quote, this war is Israel's war, not our war.

00:36:21.240 But Israel is one of our strongest allies and is disarming Iran for the good of the world. 0.97

00:36:26.880 I've also always said that Israel would not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

00:36:31.300 And he goes on and on about Israel there for another couple of sentences.

00:36:35.640 But then he goes to, quote, this is after another paragraph praising President Trump, says, quote, this is not the start of a forever war.

00:36:45.260 Again, this is Senator Jim Risch, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:36:49.400 He says, quote, there will not be American boots on the ground in Iran.

00:36:53.860 This was a precise, limited strike, which was necessary and by all accounts was very successful.

00:37:00.380 As President Trump has stated, now is the time for peace.

00:37:04.380 So if you're hearing that kind of a thing from Senator Jim Risch, who's like not the most MAGA America first guy in the world, he's a decent Republican guy from Idaho.

00:37:13.640 But that's a good sign, I think, that this may work for President Trump.

00:37:17.820 Well, he knows that the Idaho MAGA group out there doesn't.

00:37:21.360 John Solomon, how do you interpret that?

00:37:22.880 Listen, I think there is a messaging discipline among all of the Republicans.

00:37:28.860 And I think it's a good thing.

00:37:29.920 It emanates from the president's leadership.

00:37:31.840 The president has been clear.

00:37:33.200 I might do this, but it is limited and it has a sole intention.

00:37:37.000 This is Israel's war otherwise. 0.90

00:37:38.660 In that process, he also is giving Israel the latitude to conduct the war that they think they need to carry out. 0.80

00:37:46.040 I think this dynamic changes if Iran is able to strike Americans somewhere in the West. 0.97

00:37:51.180 If there's an asymmetrical attack or a cyber attack, that will be what all of our country will be watching for, our top intelligence, our top cyber warriors.

00:37:59.680 Isn't that the issue?

00:38:00.760 Isn't that the issue in the issue really of MAGA?

00:38:02.860 When you say give them the latitude, they essentially force President Trump's hand.

00:38:07.460 I mean, they started a war a week ago that they couldn't do what President Trump did tonight.

00:38:12.820 They didn't have the capability.

00:38:14.840 And here the United States, where an overwhelming majority of the people don't want to get involved in any of this, now we're involved.

00:38:22.120 I realize a limited strike to tell those guys, particularly since they jerked him around here in the last 72 hours, that their rhetoric has been the exact opposite, I would agree, of anybody you thought would get a deal done, John.

00:38:36.840 But do you think that this puts more pressure, like Rish says, that this puts more pressure for us to tell Israel, hey, it's your war. 0.61

00:38:43.220 If you're going to decapitate them, you own it?

00:38:46.600 My reporting is that the president was in on this from the beginning.

00:38:49.960 He let Israel decide when to do it, but he never told them he would veto it or stop it.

00:38:56.040 And he became as concerned as Israel did when this new intelligence came that the ability or the completion of getting the nuclear materials to a state that then could be turned into a nuclear weapon in several weeks or months was a threshold that had always been in President Trump's back of his mind.

00:39:13.460 And I have had the sense since Tuesday or Wednesday that the president was going to do this on Saturday from my reporting.

00:39:20.680 But I don't think the president—listen, if the president wanted to stop this, he could have stopped it.

00:39:25.060 Israel would have towed the line.

00:39:27.200 I think there were weeks of planning.

00:39:28.880 I think the president gave explicit and implicit approval for Israel to do what it is.

00:39:34.660 So it's not just Israel's war in the sense that the president knew it was going to happen, and then the president partook in the small part that he knew only America could accomplish, and that is to implode these nuclear sites. 0.70

00:39:45.840 But I don't get the sense that Donald Trump got forced into this, and he's just cleaning up Israel's mess. 0.92

00:39:51.260 This has been far more coordinated than most of the reporting and some of the head fakes.

00:39:56.260 Listen, there's a lot of head faking going on.

00:39:57.820 Donald Trump is a fantastic poker player.

00:40:01.020 This two-week thing he was announcing on Friday, it was all to throw the Iranians off. 1.00

00:40:05.840 And I think his plan was to—this one-two punch was probably where Donald Trump was three or four weeks ago from my reporting.

00:40:14.220 John Solomon, where do people go on social media this weekend to get you before the show's back on?

00:40:18.820 Yeah, Jay Solomon reports on social media, justinews.com.

00:40:22.120 It's always great to be on with the great Matt Boyle.

00:40:23.760 He's an amazing reporter.

00:40:24.720 Sir, thank you very much.

00:40:28.100 Thank you for joining us tonight.

00:40:29.300 We're getting ready for the president of the United States.

00:40:30.800 Short commercial break.

00:40:31.880 Dave Brat's with us.

00:40:32.880 Matt Bull's with us.

00:40:33.740 The president's going to address the nation here in about 10, 15 minutes.

00:40:38.420 We're going to take a short break.

00:40:39.500 Be back in a moment.

00:40:41.000 It's all started.

00:40:43.400 Everything's begun.

00:40:45.080 And you are over.

00:40:47.800 Because we're taking down the CCP.

00:40:51.820 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.

00:40:53.380 We will fight till they're all gone.

00:40:56.640 We rejoice when there's no more.

00:40:58.500 Let's take down the room. 0.98

00:41:00.080 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:41:02.120 Mann.

00:41:04.360 Okay, we're back here.

00:41:05.500 By the way, I only got it an hour off.

00:41:08.140 I'm glad I'm not doing the strike packages.

00:41:10.640 We're going to—because I've got Bo and myself, we have a very thin staff.

00:41:14.080 At 9 o'clock, we're going to take a break, right?

00:41:17.420 Probably come back, I don't know, 9, 30, 9, 45.

00:41:19.200 We will be here for the president's address to the nation and then follow-on analysis, et cetera.

00:41:24.780 But I think it's come upon us to work the phones for a little bit.

00:41:28.480 Let's get some guests on here.

00:41:30.320 No, no, no.

00:41:31.300 To work the phones and finally get some more detail back up about what's going on.

00:41:35.720 But the—so, tremendous—look, the president of the United States tonight made probably the biggest and boldest move of his first or second term, right?

00:41:46.720 Sure.

00:41:47.120 What he doesn't want to do is get dragged into this thing, as we talked about earlier, so that it overwhelms his presidency.

00:41:53.620 Sure.

00:41:53.840 Because we still got the—we still got a—we still have to—you know, we've got 10 million illegal alien evaders to repel, right?

00:42:04.800 20.

00:42:05.660 Well, president said—I'll take his tweet, 20.

00:42:08.220 Let's just start—give me—let's start with 10.

00:42:10.420 Right.

00:42:11.040 President makes a—really a, you know, Abraham Lincoln type because you now are part of this war.

00:42:17.980 You may say, I'm limiting this war.

00:42:19.780 I'm not going to get involved in it.

00:42:20.980 I'm not part of Israel's regime change.

00:42:24.120 Yeah.

00:42:25.560 Incrementalism.

00:42:26.020 You're going to have to fight.

00:42:26.660 There's going to be huge pressure by the Mark Levin and Nikki Haley and that crowd, Lindsey Graham, to do more, right?

00:42:35.420 Sure.

00:42:35.880 So we've got to get the bomb damage assessment from this.

00:42:38.540 I got Brad.

00:42:39.180 Dave, Brad, you want to give some closing thoughts?

00:42:42.120 Like I said, at 9, we're going to come back for the president's address, maybe even a little early here on Real America's Voice, as we get sorted on this.

00:42:50.400 Huge night tonight.

00:42:51.420 The president made a decision to have a limited strike to take out the nuclear facilities.

00:42:57.020 We don't have full bomb damage, but we understand there's some video coming in that shows the place on fire.

00:43:03.180 Also, some aerials that may show the place destroyed.

00:43:06.140 We don't know the depths of the destruction.

00:43:07.740 Yeah, President Trump says it's done.

00:43:09.080 And Dave Bratt, you gave the recommendations to the president, even as it was happening on the show.

00:43:15.960 Right.

00:43:16.360 You didn't know that.

00:43:17.520 Yeah.

00:43:17.780 Was to watch, was to make sure that he thought through the second and tertiary results here of what the Iranians could do.

00:43:24.760 Your thoughts now, sir?

00:43:25.720 Yeah, well, I agree with Matt.

00:43:28.820 He's got to come out and he's got a high hurdle in front of him as far as MAGA is concerned.

00:43:34.380 He's the commander in chief, so he knows all the dots that are connected that led to his decision.

00:43:40.800 The good news for MAGA and the American people is that Trump has always been the most transparent president imaginable.

00:43:49.460 He just comes out to the sticks, and so I think he's going to give us the full rundown.

00:43:55.420 But that said, in the reporting from Matt and John, a couple connect-the-dot moments.

00:44:02.640 Number one, if Israel goes forward with decapitation of the leadership and the Ayatollah, et cetera, which was pointed out,

00:44:12.260 then secondly, John just said he's seen a lot of coordination between President Trump and Israel, and Iran is watching this.

00:44:23.820 So this is very difficult terrain, right?

00:44:28.220 Let me just repeat that.

00:44:29.440 If Israel goes forward and decapitates Iran's leadership, and we bombed them, and it comes out through reporting that Trump was very highly coordinated,

00:44:41.460 then we got some work to do.

00:44:44.240 The good news is that President Trump now took the lead with that news, right?

00:44:49.200 He said he's reestablished that the U.S. is in front of it.

00:44:53.320 We helped out, but now we're after peace.

00:44:56.820 So I think the U.S.A. is now in the lead.

00:45:00.400 Trump took the lead from Israel with that statement, and I think that's needed. 0.98

00:45:05.680 I'm all in favor of Israel taking out the bad guys. 0.99

00:45:09.440 Amen.

00:45:10.120 Hallelujah.

00:45:10.680 All political views are my own.

00:45:12.760 And then the threat to President Trump himself, the FBI and the CIA, when Matt Boyle's talking about the speech that Trump has to give,

00:45:24.720 the MAGA base is very, very skeptical, beyond skeptical.

00:45:31.900 We have receipts now, right, on the FBI and the CIA, their action behaviors over the past years.

00:45:38.820 So they're giving intelligence at the last minute.

00:45:42.180 We want to hear a story that really makes sense there.

00:45:45.360 And then the FBI, for the sake of President Trump's own life, the FBI and the CIA ought to update the most serious threats to America is not traditional Catholics anymore, right? 0.98

00:46:00.000 It's not global warming.

00:46:02.780 It's not white Presbyterians, right? 0.85

00:46:05.840 And this is—I'm deadly serious on this, right?

00:46:08.240 This stuff was at the front.

00:46:11.380 It was the thesis statements in many of our agencies at the highest level of government.

00:46:16.820 And that's what I say.

00:46:17.740 It's going to take a while to turn this ship around.

00:46:19.800 Now, all the secretaries under Trump are going to have to be reestablishing these protocols and getting them right. 0.96

00:46:26.600 They're up to it.

00:46:27.260 We got great people in these slots.

00:46:29.660 But the megabase really wants to hear a lot of dots connected on the issues that I just went over.

00:46:40.060 Dave, thank you.

00:46:41.180 Hang around.

00:46:41.760 We're going to—at 9 o'clock, we're going to take a short break, maybe 930, 945, maybe get you back at your hotel on Zoom.

00:46:47.980 Matt Boyle?

00:46:49.000 Yeah, I can call—I'll come back on on Zoom later.

00:46:51.480 Fine.

00:46:51.740 Close.

00:46:52.040 And by the way, Iranian TV is putting up the map of all the local—

00:46:55.300 Yeah, and we're starting to see more and more congressional Republicans weighing in.

00:46:59.520 And there's varying degrees of, you know, those statements from Thune and Johnson and the House and Senate Intel chairs and whatnot.

00:47:08.780 And there's varying degrees of, you know, I still think the best statement, there's the one we read there from Jim Risch, the foreign relationship.

00:47:15.660 We're not getting the best.

00:47:16.600 I don't think we're getting that kind of a statement from these other guys.

00:47:19.360 So we'll see.

00:47:20.140 But the point is that, again, the president has a huge task ahead of him tonight.

00:47:24.160 So we'll see.

00:47:24.540 Big task.

00:47:24.880 Okay, we're going to take a break.

00:47:26.360 Probably be back 930.

00:47:27.460 All right, let's plan on 945, get everybody back in the chats.

00:47:30.560 The president comes on at 10 o'clock.

00:47:31.920 I got my hour right.

00:47:33.480 The president's going to address the nation and particularly, I think, talk to the MAGA base.

00:47:39.380 Understand some of you are quite skeptical.

00:47:42.700 More information has to come out.

00:47:43.940 We understand that.

00:47:44.700 Others are saying, hey, job well done.

00:47:46.540 President Trump is, I think, in a good place, at least good place as far as the true social goes.

00:47:54.280 He's going to be up at 10 o'clock and over the White House.

00:47:56.360 They're working on it right now.

00:47:57.840 We're going to make some calls, make some, get some information.

00:48:02.180 Correct, Matt?

00:48:02.820 And we'll be back up here, let's say, at 945.

00:48:06.940 We'll be back up 945.

00:48:09.340 And the president addresses the nation at 10.

00:48:11.600 We'll see you then, when you'll be back in the war room.

00:48:13.900 We'll be back in the war room.

00:48:40.880 We'll be back in the war room.

Bannon's War Room - June 22, 2025

WarRoom Special： US Attack on Iran's Nuclear Sites

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