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Episode 5196: RINO Infiltration In Texas; Do Russia And China Get Involved In Iran
Episode 5196: RINO Infiltration In Texas; Do Russia And China Get Involved In Iran ...
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. WAR ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
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The Trump administration is temporarily rolling back
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sanctions on Russia in an effort to
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curb rising oil prices. The Treasury Secretary says the rollback, which will temporarily allow India to buy Russian oil, will not significantly benefit Moscow financially since it only applies to oil already stranded at sea. But the easing of sanctions notably comes as sources tell CNN that Russia is feeding Iran intelligence specifically about US Military targets in the region. This is remarkable because it's not just any intelligence. It is intelligence that puts US Forces at risk.
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Exactly right. And we're told that this is coming largely from Russia's constellation of satellites, that it has sophisticated constellation of space capabilities, and it is providing imagery to the Iranians to essentially pinpoint where US Troops are at any given time. And not just US Troops, but also ships and aircraft and bases. And so this is intelligence that really could have an impact on what Iran is targeting. And as we've seen, Iran has been successfully targeting US Military personnel in the over the last few days. I mean, we just saw in Kuwait, they successfully launched a drone strike against a temporary operations center there that was that killed six service members. And so while it is very difficult, of course, to pinpoint exactly how effective the intelligence sharing is, it is undoubted that at this point, Iran has been successfully targeting Americans. And, you know, obviously Russia and Iran, they have a long history of sharing this kind of technology and this kind of intelligence. Most notably during the Ukraine war when Iran was providing Russia with the shahed drones, the very same ones it's using now against the US I won't get ahead of the president on broadcasting any timelines. What I will tell you is what President Trump has already laid out, which is that the achievable objectives of Operation Epic Fury, we expect to last about four to six weeks, and we are well on our way to achieving those objectives. Annihilating Iran's navy. We know that we've sunk more than 30 Iranian vessels and ships. Their navy has now been deemed combat ineffective. Taking out the ballistic missile threat that Iran posed to the United States and our troops and bases in the region, we have done a tremendous job. The United States military has done a tremendous job at achieving that objective thus far. Just six days in, the retaliatory ballistic missile strikes from Iran are now down 90% of course, ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon as well and significantly weakening their proxies in the region, which we know are responsible for the deaths of Americans. And we've seen Hezbollah and the Houthis hardly putting up a fight over the course of the last six days. Ultimately, the President has made very clear he wants to take out the threat of Iran to the United States. And Operation Epic Fury is well on its way to doing that.
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The US Is claiming as one success that it has effectively blinded Iran. Right. You know, taking out so many of its own capabilities. So you have kind of, it seems like Russia backfilling. How about China here? Because the China piece of this too, it, like Russia has this kind of burgeoning, burgeoning partnership with, with Iran. To what degree do we believe China is getting involved?
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So according to our sources, and you've heard this too, Jim, it's a little bit more nuanced than the Russian position. They are a little bit more reluctant to get invol in this war. They kind of want to see it end because they rely so heavily on Iranian oil and other imports from the Middle East. That being said, they are facing significant pressure right now because of that oil problem. And they're trying to get Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz to get ships passing through so that that stuff can keep moving. And at the same time, we're told China has been considering, perhaps in exchange for that from, from Iran providing them with financial assistance, with spare parts for weapons and with missile components. And so while they're a little bit more reluctant right now for a full throated effort, you know, joining the war, providing missiles and actual weapons in totality, they're considering, you know, in what way they can get involved. And it's very similar to their support for the Russians in Ukraine.
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Notable comparison because in Ukraine, while China has not shipped tanks say right to Russia, it's provided technology that has gone into Russian weapons. And it seems like they're following a similar, a similar format here. Now, the White House was asked about our reporting today. Carolyn Levitt, how did she respond to this.
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So Levitt said that it does not really matter because the US has so successfully, according to the administration, obliterated Iran's capabilities at this point. Its ballistic missile launchers, its drone capabilities, they say, are the US Is really making a dent in those. But at the same time, you know, it is intelligence sharing that is clearly being used to target not only US Personnel, but US Assets in the region. And, you know, we should also know that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, he was asked about this on Wednesday as well. What are Russia and China doing and how are they viewing this? And he called them a, quote, non factor in this war, which, as we are seeing clearly, they could become a much bigger problem.
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Trump specifically cited Iranian support weapons that killed U.S. soldiers in the war in Iraq as one of the justifications for this war. So, you know, presumably Russian support that would endanger U.S. soldiers would be something that would spark a reaction.
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What the president means is that when he, as commander in chief of the US Armed forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender, whether they say it themselves or not. Michaela, what she just described is not
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the same as Iran surrendering.
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What do you make of what we heard from both Trump and Carolyn Levitt?
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I mean, it's a huge caveat, whether, you know, it's by Iran's terms or President Trump's terms. But I think what has been increasingly clear over what has been almost a week now of this ongoing conflict is every time the president talks about Iran, he's raising the stakes. Before this conflict happened, it was about ensuring that they didn't have a nuclear weapon. Now it's about destroying all of their naval assets. It's about destroying their ballistic missiles and preventing their vast terrorist network from destabilizing the region, which is something, frankly, that I still don't understand how that impacts the cease fire agreement that was made in Gaza. The president keeps raising the stakes here, but what is increasingly clear is he feels very proud of the operation so far. He continues to call it very successful, and he said as much in conversations with journalists. But I don't think anyone questions whether the US can do this. And they are very much doing this with a huge amount of firepower. The question of whether they should be doing that, and that is not something that the president has really been able to articulate to the American public.
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Well, if it's something serious and not a bargaining position, then it would connote an entirely different set of mission objectives for the US Military. I mean, by design, unconditional surrender means that the vanquished has to submit to the victor in every regard, politically, economically, militarily, even socially. So if he's serious about that, and we'll see what he says tomorrow, then certainly you would expect that the military will be getting different guidance and different structures and different orders to conduct the operations that they're now conducting, because originally it was couched from Secretary Hegseth and the chairman as a limited set of objectives. You say unconditional surrender. If you're serious about it, then the military has to then adjust the way it's conducting operations. So in addition to that, there was more to try and make sense of from the president. Speaking with Time magazine, he appeared sanguine about potential Iranian reprisals in the form of terror attacks on American soil. Quoting now from Time, quote, asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. I guess he says, but I think they're worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But, yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die when you go to war, some people will die. The president also spoke by phone with CNN's Dana Bash today, telling her that he's involved in picking a new leader for Iran and saying, quote, it's going to work very easily. It's going to work like it did in Venezuela.
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CBS News has three sources telling us
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that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on US Positions and movements. The average American might hear that and think that's a big and dangerous deal.
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Is it?
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Well, we're tracking everything. Our commanders are aware of everything. We have the best intelligence in the world. We're aware of who's talking to who, why they're talking to them, how accurate that information might be, how we factor that into our battle plans. Our CENTCOM commander, so we know what's going on. And the president has an incredible knack at knowing how to mitigate those risks. And so the American people can rest assured their commander in chief is well aware of who's talking to who. And anything that shouldn't be happening, whether it's in public or back channeled, is being confronted and confronted strongly. The American people can therefore expect conversations with the Russians to stop this. Well, President Trump, as people have seen, has a unique relationship with a lot of world leaders, where he can get things done that other presidents certainly Joe Biden never could have. And through direct conversations or indirect, through him, one to one or through his cabinet messages definitely can be delivered. Does this put US Personnel in any more danger than they otherwise would be the Russian involvement? No one's putting us in danger. We're putting the other guys in danger. That's our job. So we're not concerned about that. We mitigate it as we need to. Our commanders factor all of this. But the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live. You know what David was noting earlier about cooperation between the Iranians and the Russians, that's the type of thing that was very foreseeable. You could have put this problem to me seven years ago, and I would have said one of the first things you're going to need to worry about is do the Russians enter the conflict because they've been deepening their relationship with the Iranians for the past 15 years? And then my second question would be, do the Chinese do the same? Do the Chinese come in and start to arm the Iranians and do you worry about this spiraling into a bigger war?
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And guess what?
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We have news tonight that, yes, the Chinese indeed are talking about helping to arm the Iranians. So it's not just the Russians coming into the conflict, it's the Chinese. But this shouldn't be something that blows people's minds at how the dominoes fell. This was all foreseeable. But you have a team that's unprepared, a team that's unserious. And they've gotten us into a much bigger mess than they realize. The Iran and the FBI piece of this for a moment. But the President doesn't seem overly concerned about, given the comments of Time magazine about increasing attacks in the U.S. the potential of that. Should we all be concerned about that?
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Well, we should always be concerned. And I say that in the context of behind the scenes, secretly, in ways
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most people don't know about it, Iranian
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operatives have been on the ground here plotting things for a long time.
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There are even now Iranian operatives in the United States.
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One would have to assume that given the number we have taken off the game field and the idea that Iran would have no motive not to replace them with some other covert operators, you
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have to operate on that assumption.
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But we also, and I think what the President was saying is we're under
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constant threat from the remnants of ISIS and Al Qaeda.
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We saw the Bourbon street attacks in New Orleans on New Year's Day two years ago.
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We've seen the plots that have been interrupted and thwarted.
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This is a post 911 constant as long as that propaganda is out there.
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The factor of Iran though is they
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do this very professionally and they are in a position where they've always done targeted violence targeting particular people.
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This is the kind of environment where they could go to a mass casualty incident. I mean people who have been caught in the past, what are they doing here? Where are they working here? Are they, do they have diplomatic immunity? Or they, what is sort of infiltration is there like.
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So you've had covert Iranian intelligence officers who have come in and out of the United States under various covers and then recruited individuals associated with violence or
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criminal organizations to target particular people for
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them for a hit or for an assault or a kidnapping or a murder.
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But we've also seen them use elements of Hezbollah that were planted in America,
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Anderson, for the specific purpose of cataloging targets, studying them, mapping them, developing target books and transmitting them back to their handlers in Iran. So this is something that Iran has been thinking about and planning for for 20 years or more.
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Are any signs that you have seen
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so far that indicate to you that the government is that Trump is getting ready to deploy boots on the ground, something that the average citizen and US Journalist wouldn't necessarily pick up on or notice?
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Certainly there are a lot of forces in the region, but again, putting in a small contingent of US Forces, where
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are you going to do that?
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You're going to drop them in the middle of Tehran when you still have
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the Basij and you still have Revolutionary Guards there.
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It would be, you know, it's almost a suicide mission. You would need to have a very large scale force just like moved into Iraq. It moved in over land into it. You need to bring in the weapons,
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the equipment, the heavy weaponry and other types of things.
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So I don't see right now that they're ready to do that. Maybe they're planning to do it. I think they're trying to play catch up with Donald Trump's policies. So I don't know what he is planning to do. And this is where I think his, the haphazard, reckless nature of this policy really could put US Forces in grave, grave danger. Let me just say this. Go America, go President. You got 92% of Maga behind you and I bet you have most of the country behind you. We're going to destroy this enemy, free the people in Iran. China's upset, the Russians are upset and the Democrats are upset. That's it. I'm done. A new Year means new financial goals like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. Will this be the year you finally listen to me and talk to someone from Birch Gold Group? Honestly, they're great people. I appreciate their educational approach and their understanding of macroeconomics. 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President Trump just spoke at the Shield of America. This is his hemispheric defense strategy. The entire weekend is going to be a going to be various speakers down there and Rev Espanol is going to cover it wall to wall. Also we have a dignified transfer of the remains of our honored dead that is supposed to take place at approximately 1:30pm Eastern Standard Time at Dover Air Force Base. The President is going to be in attendance and will as commander in chief oversee the ceremony and he will leave shortly from South Florida. In addition, we are going to do a war room our Sunday special. We're going to continue on seven days a week until that time that the major combat operations slow down, cease in off ramp or as President Trump's been talking about an unconditional surrender and today is even going to be a little truncated given the timing that we've got and try to jam everything in. So we're here today. Raheem Kassam is going to join me. We got Dr. Bradley Thayer. Also Philip Patrick going to go a lot of geopolitics and strategy update on the military operations and Philip Patrick and talk about capital markets. In addition and the Other thing to be watching is it is a long way from over from John Cornyn and Ken Paxton in Texas over the last 24 to 48 hours. You see at Breitbart and Caroline Wren and many, many others going through John Cornyn's really not just lack of support for President Trump, but really against President Trump in so many major areas. These clips are starting to surface and get traction and you have major voices on the right, including I think Jesse Kelly was on Megyn Kelly yesterday. Another voice in there just bringing up the concept that John Cornyn has not had President Trump's back. Even more importantly, having spent, I don't know, the last five or so weeks in Texas and getting to know the grassroots and the grassroots in Texas is enormously powerful and really are the key and the cornerstone of the Trump movement here. And having President Trump's back, I just think given and I think this can actually have an inflection point hopefully in modern politics. The scale and the vitriol coming after ken Paxton with $80 million essentially of negative ads was a big eye opener to people in Texas, the grassroots and I believe and more analysis has to be done. I just don't think this whole that John Cornyn's by nature the, the guy that could be Tariko. I don't know if that's true at all. Number one, I think Trico is a much, much weaker candidate than people, particularly the D.C. and the political media in D.C. if you saw him on the campaign trail here and you've seen his previous, what he's really stood for and what he's presented, he is a far left radical and kind of a weird guy. That's all going to start coming out. So I don't think he's, I said from the beginning I didn't think he'd be as formidable as Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett's a fire breather now. She had obviously major shortcomings. Her campaign at the end didn't really have much of a ground game. I think that's what the big thing is separated. Plus the whole, the Democratic establishment didn't want her. You saw the whole Colbert, that whole situation was set up to thwart her. But I don't think he's. They make him out like some incredibly powerful candidate. I just don't see it. I think Ken Paxton's a guy and I think the grassroots are really building momentum behind Ken Paxton. That's all going to play out. Raheem's going to be here in a moment to talk about it also, in addition, I think one of the galvanizing things we've seen here in Texas over the last couple weeks is this Proposition 10, which is about banning or prohibiting, I think the term is prohibiting Sharia law in the state of Texas. And now you're seeing the second wave as Brian Harrison and others talked about trying to get public hearings in the Texas legislature, because Texas Legislature, unless they call a special session, doesn't meet until next year. I do believe they're going to call a special session. Governor Abbott has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations already, I think listed. They can't own real property. I mean, this is going to be a fight. They're just not going to roll over. Particularly Cairo has fought everywhere. But it's very important, especially as you see what's happening in this war and particularly see what's happening with our allies in Great Britain, the entire phoniness of the first couple of hours of the military operation when the United Kingdom would not let us use the airfield to do strikes out of because of the the power of the Muslim members of the House of Commons in the Labor Party. And now we find out they want to have Starmer and this crowd wanted to have some kind of phony, oh, just give us six hours. So, no, it doesn't work like that. You're either an ally or not. And this is all inextricably linked with what's happened in Europe, the migrant invasion in Europe, the Islamization of Europe and what's happening in the United States. That's why Texas was so important, to actually be the place where we stop it and reverse it. And you can see right now, overnight, one of the biggest developments is one of the things we've been most focused on here is the center of gravity of this, which I believe has been the center of gravity of really the context and strategic context of the war. Maybe not the center of gravity in a Clausewitzian sense of battle, because that's clearly been around Tehran and command and control. And as the the military goes through a very set CENTCOM goes through a very set target list to degrade the Iranian military. And President Trump says today it really be destruction he considers he's talking about unconditional surrender and unconditional surrender. As Caroline Levitt refined, was President Trump's thinking that it would be the inability of the Iranian military or the Revolutionary Guard to both do power projection on their own people or certainly power projection in the region? And that's one of the things I find most fascinating. And now Overnight we made a big deal about it yesterday, but overnight the Iranian foreign minister has come out and said they will have for right now have no more strikes on their Gulf neighbors. The biggest part of this story to me in the first couple of days is Shiite versus Sunni, Muslim versus Muslim, Persian versus Arab, the strikes in the Persian Gulf. I think one of the things that triggered the Iranians to say this is as we talked about yesterday and we'll talk further today is the seizing of financial assets. Just like the west seized the financial assets of the Russians in the Ukraine, Russian war and I think had a major impact on Russia. It's one of the many reasons I think they haven't made a lot of progress. They still about 20, 25% of Ukraine, they haven't made a lot of progress I think because of the financial restriction put on them when the Western banks seize their assets. Something we hadn't done to the, to the Nazis or to Imperial Japan in World War II or to the Bolsheviks or even to the Chinese Communist Party. Dubai, which is I call like was it Tortuga for the Caribbean pirates? This center, a little known fact is that the Iranians as much as the Gulf Arabs have always been at their throat and vice versa. The banking center, the financial center for them is not Switzerland, it's really Dubai. And this is the way that they've gotten around sanctions. Well, the UAE because they took enough hits, said hey, we are thinking of contemplating seizing the Iranians assets in our banks. And lo and behold, 12 hours later the Iranians say well upon further review maybe we're going to have a timeout, we're going to have a pause on any more strikes into the Gulf. Now Qatar said yesterday, it's reported in Reuters and in the Financial Times of London that the Qatar oil minister said hey, because I think they've shut down one of their big gas fields. I think it's the gas field they're in joint operation with. The Iranians said oil could go to $150 a barrel. Now a lot of that is to it's just propaganda but there's clearly oil I think has gone up 35%. I think it's gone up almost 40 or 50% since Netanyahu went to Mar a Lago in, in December, as we now know is one of the big kickoff meetings. The oil market is an efficient market. Tons of information out there, a lot of traders that, that trade. This is why I had Eric Bolling. So let's get into the show. We're going to take a short commercial break just to go back tomorrow at 10am if we can pull it off technically, which I'm sure we can with real America's voice, our great team in Denver and also our team here, the war room team, we're going to have another Sunday morning special at 10am Eastern Standard Time, 2:12 noon. Today is going to be a little bifurcated because there's so much going on. Like I said, we've got Shield of Americas right now in Miami and that's the hemispheric defense. You're going to want to dip into that all day. The espanol guys, perhaps a new channel, are going to cover that wall to wall. Quite fascinating. Also, the dignified transfer of our honored dead will take place approximately 1:30pm at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. And the president of the United States as commander in chief will be there. I want to thank all of our sponsors, particularly Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot. If you want to back a company that backs you, a Christian company that has your values and backs your values and I could tell you just extraordinary work they've done here in Texas and Texas, I say this as a Virginian is the jewel in the crown of our republic. As goes Texas, so goes the country. Want to thank Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot. 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We're in a modern day holy war.
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Coming after the mind, body, your soul.
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Little and small. So walk me through strategically, especially when President Trump has said we have to have unconditional surrender. Now, he did walk that back and say, hey, unconditional surrender to me is when they have no more military ability to do power projection, both on their own people and outside the region. But I do want a hand in shaping what this government is. Give us the overview of the entire thing as you see it right now.
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Yeah. How long do you have? Because it's been a good 15 odd years now that we've been concerning ourselves with all these things. And there are people who have done it far longer than me for sure. But I seem to have managed to find myself on the front lines of all of these fights somewhere along the way. Call it journalistic intuition or.
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Yeah, but hold it. But you say a lot of people have done it. You came to me in those couple of years when I was leaving Breitbart and going to help the president. The whole thing with the no go zones, you were able to identify in those periods of time exactly what were going to be the most important issues. And that's why I think people look to you, right, as somebody that just is not some Johnny come lately, but somebody that's been dealing with this topic that President Trump is now deeply into. And this is a kinetic part of it. My concern is this thing could spread to the kinetic part of the Third World War quite quickly.
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Look, I think if you do remember sort of that far back, I used to call into the old Breitbart radio shows from on the Road as I was writing this book. So I called from Brussels, I called in from Paris, I called in from Mullenbeck, I called in from Malmo, every. And I have, you know, I literally have copies on my desk, too, because I have to thumb through it sometimes and remind myself, oh, my gosh, we were talking about these things that are manifesting themselves now all those years ago. And I almost kind of want to do a telethon sometimes, right, A live telethon, because I know people have so many questions about it. And whenever people approach me in the street or come to me at the restaurant or whatever it is, and they want to talk line by line about this stuff, Ukraine, these things. And now you're seeing exactly kind of what you. I remember when you were making that movie the Brink, not a great movie, by the way, but we were making that movie the Brink you were drawing on the front page of a newspaper. The kind of the different axes going on in the world between China and Persia and Russia and all of this stuff. And people forget, how quickly people forget, by the way, especially when you bring in the Texas element to all of this now. Right, Because John Cornyn was up there in the Senate all those years ago talking about Russia collusion. We need to get to the bottom of how Russia hacked our elections. So the idea that Trump would be even entertaining, the idea of endorsing him now is, is, is horrendous to me. But you look, I, I, back then I was writing about we're going to have to think about Turkey's membership of NATO, right? Like the way it's trending, the Islamist regime there. Now, of course, the Wall Street Journal jumps the gun, like, goes way too. I said, you know, the next, the next war might have to be with Turkey. Hold on, you're going to go to war with a NATO member? Now, you could have resolved this when I wrote about it back then and said, actually we have to remove the nuclear deterrent from Turkey. The American nukes that are there. Remember after I wrote that piece, there was an attempted coup and they were desperately worried about where those materials would end up. And now the Wall Street Journal wants to start a war with Turkey. So there's all of this precipice. Last week we talked about the AI precipice, right? There's all this precipice of a full blown global conflict right now. And you've got the CCP and Russia very clearly about to aid Iran in this whole process. So where do we go from there? Do we find ourselves in kinetic warfare with China by the end of the year? Maybe. I would hope not. And I certainly believe that President Trump has the wherewithal to avoid that kind of thing. But I think we are on some really, really poor trajectories.
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Is this fight between the Persians and really the Shiites, which you can tell one of the things they're trying to do is to bring max unstability to the monarchies in the Gulf. Do you think you're gonna see that start to play out in the Muslim communities, particularly these volatile communities in London and Paris? I mean, today they've been united against hating with, and even with the Marxists of this red green alliance that hate the Judeo Christian west and particularly hate the governments and especially governments that have white people in it and white people running it. Do you see? Because now this thing amazes me that during Ramadan they're at each other's throats and clearly the Persians, I think are saying, hey, if we're going down under the boot of Israel and the United States and they're going to pound us into dust, we're going to take you guys down with it. Because we have as many Shiites in some of the Emiratis as laborers as you guys have as the monarchs. You think that starts to break out in Europe also?
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It's already there. I mean, on Thursday, I kid you not, you had horse mounted modern day Saracens on the streets of Manchester chasing pro Iran democracy protesters on horseback in the middle of Manchester city in England. The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom is a practicing Muslim. You know, this is the person the Home Secretary is responsible for who comes in and who goes out of the country. It is the equivalent of your Interior Secretary, your DHS secretary. All of this rolled into one. This is already there. It's already there in a massive way. And by the way, what was the strap line of the book? How Sharia law is coming to a neighborhood near you? It's coming to you, ladies and gentlemen, whether, whether you are in Texas, whether you are in New York, whether you are in Florida. It is already here, you know, and we tried to tell people that a decade ago. And, and you know, but hang on, hang on.
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I also wanna make sure that, I want, I wanna make sure people understand, I think because of the explosive nature of that book. And Raheem took time and actually went into the, particularly in Brussels, I think some of the Midland cities, but Brussels, you went in actually into the areas where you couldn't go, right? That you went and gave an eyewitness account. I think you were banned on Fox. And then I think Frank Gaffney, who had been inspired by your book, started talking about it. He was permanently banned on Fox. The reaction to this by the Republican establishment at the time in conservative Inc. Media was they didn't want to talk about this. That this crossed a line, that what Raheem had done, you know, what is the Sharia law? And this is racist, this is nativist, this is xenophobic. And they didn't want to talk about it. And here we're In Texas, what, 10 years later and we have Prop 10 on the ballot that gets almost 2 million votes, 95% approval by Republican voters and inspired people so much to come together. It was the first question asked at the Attorney General's debate, at the agriculture debate. Basically everybody had to sign on for this or you wouldn't be an elected official in the state of Texas.
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Raheem, listen, I'll quote from you from the back of the book, right from the jacket. No Go Zone should be required reading for Conservatives, Republicans, Liberals, teachers, students, reporters, editors and activists, all alike. You know who gave me that quote? That was none other than the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. That would be one Nigel Farage. And you think about how far we've come, you know, how much we've warned about this stuff. And look, you've seen on the streets of England, on the streets of Wales, in fact. You want to talk parochial fights between Turks and Kurds going on, right? Imported into Nissan, tribal warfare that's been going on on Western streets. And this stuff is spilling out all over the place. Ten years ago, it was just in these enclaves, as you mentioned, the ones I went to, Mollenbeck, East London, Midlands, Malmo, you know, south of France, Bezier, all these places. Now you're seeing it. You started to see it two years ago, right? All across college campuses, all across the United States. Now it's coming to all these other neighborhoods too. And thank God there are other people now who are out there with cameras. But back in the day, I was the only one. And credit to Nick Saltor and Nick Shirley and all these guys who go out there and document this stuff because God knows I don't have the patience for it anymore. And I kind of get recognized everywhere I go. But I still remember there was a time I was out in London, Steve with a camera and this guy with the keffiyeh on his head, he was standing outside 10 Downing street and they were having some like pro Islamist protest. And I went over to him and he thinks, oh, I kind of look like him. And I was a bit discreet about what I was doing. He goes, let me show you something. And he lifts up his T shirt and he's got another T shirt under it, and it's just a picture of Adolf Hitler. And he starts going, haha, Right, right. I was like, what the heck is going on here? It's one of those moments where you just realize, you know, you can't do anything but laugh in the moment. But you realize just how mortifying it is that these people not just live amongst us, let's be very clear about it, get preferential treatment by the state from us. You know, if I had, if I had stayed a Muslim and identified as a Muslim, I'd probably be the Home Secretary by now. But I chose a moral path and a correct path and a patriotic path. And I have a book to show,
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or you'd be hosting the 9pm show on BBC as the number one political commentator. I mean, it's true, you'd be either the home secretary or you would be the number one guy on BBC presenting every night. That's just the way the system is that you stepped out as a British subject and said, hey, we're gonna destroy our country here unless we and you've worked your tail off to save it. Real quickly, I'm gonna hold you through the break. Cause I'm gonna talk Texas politics. But listening to Pacifica radio back in 2003 out in California, one of the left wing radio stations, public radio stations, but I remember they had some guests on as we were doing the march up to Baghdad. And one of the guests said, hey, these guys have the best military in the world. But they don't understand the hornet's nest they're kicking over of ancient vendettas and this tribalism that's in Iraq with the Shiites and the Sunnis. Do you think we've done that? We got a minute here. I'm going to hold you through the break. Do you think we've done that here with all this amazing military might that we're dropping on the Persians, that maybe we kicked over a hornet's nest that we don't, we haven't thought through all the hornets?
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There will have been certainly calculations internally in the government about what it means to do this and how much blowback. Right. That's the phrase one can expect. There won't be none. President Trump said it himself last week. He said there will be more people, Americans who die as a result of this conflict. They would have certainly thought about it. They would have thought it's worth it in some way geopolitically. And the only thing that occurs to me that might be the case is to create the chaos, create the vacuum, keep these allies of China down. This is the consideration that they've made. It's a big, big gamble.
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Raheem, hang on for a second. We're going to go. Raheem's going to join us and talk about Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. Explosive race, this runoff in Texas. Birchgold.com promo code Bannon go there today. The end of the dollar empire. Yes, the dollar's been strong for this week as people flight to quality. But gold is on the rise again. Find out why. Talk to Philip, Patrick. Philip's going to be here for the last, I don't know, half hour of the show. We hope to talk all about it, but go there today. Birchgold.com promo code Banner if you could make one holiday wish would you wish to be free from your credit card and other debt? Let's see if we can help you with that. If we could give yourself one gift this holiday season, would it be finally to get some relief from your credit card and other debt? I might have a solution. Here's why. Now's the time to make a move. This time of year, credit card and loan companies close out their books. They clean up past due accounts. They sell or write off the debt to clear their books. That means if you have credit card debt and unpaid bills, lenders may be more open to negotiating and settling your account before you're in. That means right now, and I mean right now, you may actually have leverage and Done With Debt knows how to use this to your advantage. They monitor lender trends and understand the year end pressure on creditors. They use that timing to negotiate hard on your behalf. Now's the time to get out from under crushing debt and interest payments without bankruptcy or taking on new loans. Done With Debt goes to work for you Month one with one clear goal to reduce your total debt debt and leave you with more money every month. Get started now because your leverage may disappear at the end of the year. Chat with a Done with debt specialist@donewithdet.com that's donewithdet.com donewithdat.com do it today. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band. My patriots applied the best in the business for the preparation industry. Go to preparewithbannon.com that's all one word. Preparewithbannon.com you get a free one week food supply ammo can when you order the four week emergency food supply. Normally the food supply is 367 bucks. They're giving it to you for 277. You get a massive discount plus you get the ammo can the food Ammo can go check out. Remember my patron supply is the best because not just simply the products, the customer service to walk you through everything. Preparewithbannon.com Go check it out today my patron supply, Raheem Kassam. You've put up some amazing tweets on this situation, including exposing I guess the comms director for here's what I understand the whole Corny Cornyn to the core of his being. He's been a Trump hater and this is why I told the Washington Post it's not simply the policies which are bad enough that the grassroots of the MAGA movement out here are not fans. They don't like him for that. They don't like the policies. But there is a hardcore, and I think it's 10 to 20% that will never vote for him because of his outright hatred for Trump. That's just below the surface. And particularly in every time that President Trump's been vulnerable, people out here in Texas don't forget. And that's why I think he's by far the worst candidate. It just mathematically, because you just got a central core base of Trump's base. Even with an endorsement, even as much as they love President Trump, they're gonna sit this one out. Your thoughts, sir?
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Well, I do think that. I think, especially as this case gets litigated further in the runoff, a lot more is going to come out about the nexus around John Cornyn. For a long time, it's sort of been a policy thing, right? John Cornyn doesn't vote with the president as often as people would like. You know, they put this figure out, 97%, but that includes, like, procedural votes. When you actually get down to, like, policy, policy, it's more like 60%. But this is going further than that. Now people are starting to look at the people he actually has around him, who he's hired as staff over the years, who he still retains a staff over the years. I'll tell you. Funny story. A couple of nights ago, one of his guys was. Was tweeting angrily at me. And I didn't think anything of it at first, but it was late at night, I was in bed, and I thought to myself, I recognize this name from somewhere way back when, from somewhere. And his name was Matt Macaviac. And I went, I somewhat recall this guy reaching out to me at a certain point, let me go through my big honking oppo drive that I keep and see what I have on the guy. And of course, the first thing that pops up was this tweet he had sent on January 6, 2021, where he said, we are witnessing domestic terrorism. That's a direct quote from John Cornyn's current communications director, calling J6 Domestic Terrorism. I guess who had liked that tweet on X, by the way, that would be Chris Lacivita. That's Cornyn's current campaign chief, by the way. And then I started to go through other things, and we're going to release some of this stuff over the weekend, but we already did one on Friday on all of this, where I sort of dug through Matt Makovic's entire history. And by the way, he's got some very choice things to say about you and has done since about 2011 or 12, I think goes back that far,
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to the bright, to the Breitbart. To the Breitbart days.
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100%. 100%. And I've got a whole story coming out on all the BS that he's talked about Breitbart over the years. I have a whole story coming out about how he was pro George Floyd when George Floyd was killed and actually tried to pitch me an op ed, a pro George Floyd op ed for the National Pulse. And I have the emails that prove it that show I turned him down quite robustly. But some of his tweets about the president are the most important here. He went on long and lengthy tirades against the president, not just in 2016, not just in 2017, not just in 2018, not just in 2019, not just in 2020, in 2021, also in 2022, also in 2023, also 2024 rolls around, he puts out a tweet where he says, look, I still back basically anybody but Trump. But then when Trump is inevitably going to win, he tries to flip, right? And he buys his way. He spends an ordinary amount of time and other people's money buying his way into the election night party in Palm Beach. I mean, this is the worst of the Rhino brigade, I was going to say here in Washington, D.C. but he's not here in Washington, D.C. he's in Austin, Texas. And he's been in Austin, Texas politics for a very long time. And he's had a fair share of run ins with MAGA people in Texas. So if you're John Cornyn, you know, this guy's actually relatively high profile, never Trumper. I mean, he had Bill Kristol on his podcast. He had Chris Matthews on his podcast. He had the guy Mona Charon from the Bulwarks. Look, all these never Trump organizations on his podcast. You'd think if you're Cornyn or you're Cornyn's staff as like, hey, maybe we don't have this guy being our front line of attack on social media and in the press every day, but this is the kind of people that we're dealing with. It's not the deep state, it's the in your face state. If you remember, he talked about Trump being given enough rope to hang himself at the debates. He peddled the Russia hoax. He said it is outrageous and dangerous and ridiculous for an American president to take Vladimir Putin's word over that of the U.S. intelligence community. That was over the Russia hoax. Remember, he said every single person who said that Trump should have the G7 at Doral should be fired. He referred to Trump as a drunk driver at the wheel, chugging vodka. He's going to lose this election. I mean, over and over and over again. He demanded a purge of MAGA from the gop. He called Trump's election an extinction level event for the Republican Party. Anyway, I could go on and on, but this is all@thenationalpulse.com but if you're watching, there's going to be a lot
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more all this weekend. So you're gonna be putting stuff up. Raheem, how do people get to the National Pulse now more than ever? You need to go. It's on my media diet first thing in the morning. Where do people go to get it?
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Yeah. Thenational pulse.com the national polls.com or all over social media as well at the National National Pulse. You can follow me, Raheem Kassam. And remember, we're 100% supported by ordinary people donating from their homes, $5, $10, whatever you can afford. TheNationalPulse.com and it's important to get this sort of information out there so that Texas voters can make an informed decision.
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