Steve Bannon (29:55)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. We have a third world war that's already here. The Connecticut President Trump is heading in to talk to the NATO guys and I talk about opportunity costs he has spent nonstop on this war, nonstop as commander in chief organizing all of it. And think about this. He's got to not just cut the deal on the big beautiful bill which is enormously complex when you look at all the different aspects. He's got to whip the vote. He's the whip, he's the House whip and the Senate whip. And oh by the way, the invasion on the southern border and the Stephen Miller is getting more airtime on Fox and other places is really the most important front of the third World War. Now why are like Tel Aviv Levin and all these guys, so why are they so apoplectic? Because we defeated them. They want it. And you saw them say you can't talk to the Persians anymore. You can't talk to the Iranians anymore. You can't, you know, it's time to overthrow all that. You heard Lindsey Graham. We gave Lindsey 40 minutes on the show yesterday. You heard it. We want it to be with no filter. Let the American people hear it. And you laughed. It's a joke, Levin. They're all a joke. And of course at Fox, they're a mouthpiece and a propaganda arm for a foreign government. And you have to weigh and measure this. But President Trump's way to measure it. What'd he do? He came out exactly what America first is, non interventionist. He took care of what he thought the immediate problem was what he was told was the immediate problem. And he has committed to over a decade. Hey, they're not going to have a nuclear bomb making capability. And besides the tease over the weekend, he was adamant about this. I mean he's put out a number of tweets. He's put out people the Walter Bloomberg's got him quoted as no regime change. The ayatollahs are as bad as they get. But we live in a world of bad hombres. And Levin and these guys talk about a thousand guys. Yes. The Marines that were killed and slaughtered back in we think in 1983 that were never avenged and we never really got them their money. Right. Never got the families, the money from the Persians, from Hezbollah and the crowd. Yes. And the ones in Iraq. But that's cause Levin and that crowd were the same crowd that beat the war toxins. Mark Thiessen, all of them beat the war toxins for the war criminal Cheney. He's a war criminal. Because this wasn't a misinterpretation of intelligence. They bald face lied. This wasn't. Some people make mistakes, governments make mistakes. That was a lie to put Americans in harm's way for their own internal what they wanted to achieve by that. They were never straightforward to the American people. That same crowd that running the same exact playbook including the upsell, the sense of urgency and then the upsell, the sense of urgency and then the upsell. And President Trump, savvy, not going to be upsold. He put it to bed. He said, no, the 12 day war is over. You've had two important wars in the formation of Israel. I remember as a paperboard, at least the first one you had the 67 war and then you had the six day war, you had the 73 war, you had the Yom Kippur war of which they were both. They were under sneak attack. Right. And beat back. Right. The Arab armies, the combined Arab armies. And President Trump's not going to Get. We're not going to get engaged again at that level. You're not going to. You're not going to get into a war in Persia, another forever war. He put a kibosh on it. The hardest pitch they made, because this was all about regime change from the beginning. Make sure you understand that. This was always about regime change. This is why they had to decapitate. What was he here on Friday that morning? Decapitation of their senior military command. And to know that they never touched, they never touched the nuclear capabilities at all, including the above ground with all the air supremacy they had, because that was the hook for the Americans. President Trump did his duty as commander in chief. He took it out immediately, got the threat. Now the investigation's got to be, what was that intelligence that made it so urgent? Because I think it's going to shock you and the source. And where's the ballistic missile capability that made us so immediate that you had to go last Thursday? Given everything else President Trump has on his plate and this nation has on his plate and quite frankly, Israel and trying to finish the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas franchisee in Gaza. Is it a way that you treat what happened last night? And I have preached this from the beginning. They're not trustworthy. The Netanyahu crowd is not trustworthy. They're not worthy of our trust. They're not worthy of our trust. And last night showed it in living color. Don't ask me. Ask a guy named Donald Trump, commander in chief of the American Armed Forces and President of these United States, before he goes to bed. They have a phone call. I don't want. We're not. You're not going to game this. I want everybody. Put it down. Well, I can't stop everybody. But Trump says, hey, on scale. I want to stop now. I don't buy. You can't stop everybody. I don't buy it. But even that he said scale it back when he wakes up, you didn't do it. And he hit you with both barrels this morning. And when you're a protectorate, you better act like a protectorate. When the guy, this guy, particularly after yesterday, he did this. This was not done just for the Persians. Persia is three times the size of Texas and got, I don't know, 90, 100 million people. It's huge. I think Tel Aviv, tehran's got what, nine or 10 million people. And they're giving. They're hitting it yesterday, they're doing Bastille Day, they're bombing the prison, they're bombing the Revolutionary Guards headquarters. Good, good. On You. But not when President Trump works and comes out with a ceasefire of which you had come to him because you're taking such intense income. I think they took down a city block in Tel Aviv. I'm not quite sure that everybody's seen what's happening in Tel Aviv. The citizens of Israel are getting pounded, pounded, pounded. And this is with us coming in as air defense with not just the Arleigh Burke class and the destroyers and frigates in the Eastern Med everywhere. And they're running out of anti missile and anti aircraft, they're running out of air defense missiles, running out of like. It's not that I don't think we can even supply him. He bit off more than you. True. He could not finish what he started. He could not finish what he started and they have not been trustworthy and last night showed it. Oh, Bannon, you're so hard on. But just look at the facts of last night and look at the pressure Trump's under. How much sleep is President Trump getting? He's got to get on a plane. It was supposed to be five in the morning. He's got to get on a plane, supposedly five in the morning, and fly all the way over to Europe and sit down with that crowd. You saw how much he loved him in Calgary. Couldn't wait to get out of there. They're a waste of his time now. Today they're going to sit there and go, we're going up to 5% defense spending. Think about that for a second. You talk about another protectorate, Western Europe, in the. In the first administration, first term, we were like supplicants to ask them to get to two, and we kind of got blown off. Well, President Trump ain't going to get blown off for too long. You might blow him off at the start, but he ain't going to get blown off like Bibi blew him off last night. Bibi blew him off. I would not blow President Trump off. I don't think that's productive. The Europeans blow him off now they're at 5%. He's going to go over there. He's got to figure out this situation in Ukraine to stop the other part, the bloodiest part of the Third World War. Two million, a million on each side. And that's coming from both Ian Bremmer and British newspapers. As President Trump says, I think the Ukraine number's a lot higher. They're not exactly coming up with real numbers all the time because they got a problem, they got a demographic problem with people leaving the country. Big report of young women leaving. And young men, the parents don't want him into, you know, they don't have a draft, don't want him in the military. Plus, Zelensky's coming back. He needs another 40 billion a year, he says. I'm not so sure that's totally in the big beautiful Bill. But President Trump has said the 12 Day War is over. So Lindsey Graham and Tel Aviv Levin and all that crowd at Fox and all that chest beating, if the Persian people want to do it, it's up to them. And that's the way you get regime change, Let them do it. If they've had a belly full of it, they've had a belly full of it, let them do it. This is the way you get change. And the United States doesn't get in the middle of it. Not drawn into another forever war. He's not going to be drawn into a forever war. He did his duty. He did his duty. And I might add that the Netanyahu government started a war knowing that they couldn't do anything on what they said was the highest priority was the nuclear capability. Then they said the ballistic missile. That, that. I don't know. I think, I suppose they've done a good job on that somewhat. But they're still taking incoming like nobody can believe. There's still Israeli citizens getting pounded. They're just taking blocks and apartment buildings down in Tel Aviv. But the first strategic. Which you said was the war about, you did nothing. Hence, not just the bunker busters. Don't lose, don't, don't, don't miss the tell, the tells, the Tomahawks, a 1980, a 1970s technology, not armor piercing, 1970s technology. 30 of them to take down the third facility. And then. Because the whole time this entire thing was about regime change. It was Netanyahu's government going for regime change. It's clear. It's clear as day. And of course you heard Lindsey Graham yesterday. They're pushing. He could. We gave him the whole 40 minutes. What did he finish with? He culminates with, we need regime change. Well, hey, if the Persian people want regime change, have it. Until, in fact, in fact, until the, until the ceasefire, we were saying, hey, if the Israelis go for it, if you want regime change, hit it, baby. You're trying to do Bastille Day, Yer. So you're bombing the prison, you're bombing the headquarters. Good, go for it. But when President Trump steps in the middle of it and says, I've seen enough, the 12 Day War is over, that's from him. He actually named the war and he stopped it on the 12th day. He didn't add a 13th day or 14th day. He didn't call it the 15 day war because to him it's not. And you have the gall, particularly of what this guy did for you and the grief he's taken over here. You had the gall when he said, this is what I've done and I need you to be a partner. I need you to stand down. First is why I can't stop at all. Which is another lie. Of the many lies we've gotten from the Netanyahu government, a bald faced lie. Well, then he says, okay, I need you to stand. I can't have any scale. If you can't get some guys back, it's fine. Goes to bed, gets a couple hours sleep, wakes up and you lied to him. That's why he's furious. That's as mad as I've ever seen the President of the United States. And think about it, how did he get his anger like that given every, everything he's done for you and the pressure he's under. In a couple hours sleep now, he's got in a fricking plane and fly for what, six, eight hours to sit down with this crowd at NATO, which, you know, he's just wildly enthusiastic about doing that. And plus putting himself going in the air at a time when you're in a shooting conflict in the world, putting his life at risk to do that. And this is the what he gets. This is the thanks he gets. Don't. So don't sit there and don't glaze him. Netanyahu goes on, goes on Israeli TV and glazes him. Don't glaze him. Don't slobber all over him. It doesn't mean anything. You showed what you really thought of him last night. Oh, President Trump's the greatest. You showed exactly your appreciation last night. You showed exactly. And do I see any of the Baghdad Bob equivalents, the Tel Aviv Levins, or any of this crowd today calling him out. They never call out Netanyahu, who got Israel into this. And for supporters of Israel, which is kind of on the ropes about this, makes it very hard when someone, when your top guy is dealing from the bottom of the deck and is not straight. And in fact, not only not straight, he's a bald faced liar. If you support Israel and you love Israel, you want to see Israel not just survive but thrive, you better be asking hard questions. You better be asking hard questions. You better be asking hard questions and demanding straight answers, short break.
