C (3:25)

Rabbi Well, I mean, the Lebanon situation has been an open soar since the official ceasefire. And I say official ceasefire because it hasn't really been much of a ceasefire. That was struck over a year ago. And, you know, the Lebanese government had committed itself to disarming Hezbollah by the end of 2025. And of course, they did nothing about it, not because they didn't want to, but they're actually incapable of disarming Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a much stronger army, even in its weakened state, than the Lebanese army itself. And there's also this Shiite population that would have resisted. But now that Hezbollah made the tragic mistake, a mistake, frankly, I'll be perfectly frank. The Israelis were hoping they would make of firing missiles at Israel in support of the Iranian regime. They just invited the Israelis in to finish the job and disarm Hezbollah themselves. So that's what the Israelis are doing now. They're going in there and the Lebanese are playing this funny game where they're. They're no longer complaining about Israeli airstrikes as they used to. It used to be when Hezbollah would attack Israel isra Hezbollah positions, and then the Lebanese government would make noises about being upset about Israel attacking. And now that's not happening. You actually have even Shiites in the population, even the Amal Party, which is a Shiite party that for decades has been the partner in the government with Hezbollah, which also functions as a political party. Amal voted to declare Hezbollah illegal the other day. So Hezbollah is now isolated in Lebanon. Israel's going in to finish them off. And I'll also say on a personal note, my son, who's a. Who's a commander in the infantry in the Gati Brigade, told me that he's actually entering Lebanon any day now.

B (5:18)

Was that make. Is this part of the Greater Israel project? Is this part of the Greater Israel project? Or are Israel smiting. Are they smiting all their. They smiting all their Israel has no

C (5:29)

interest in any territory.

B (5:31)

Hang on, hang on.

C (5:32)

This is so.

B (5:33)

Hang on. By the way, by the way, you did the best.

C (5:36)

I know there was an essay written

B (5:38)

a few decades ago actually put up

C (5:39)

everyone still, you guys love talking about. It has nothing to do with Israeli policy.

B (5:45)

We'll talk about Israeli policy now because the ID the Israeli Air Force delivered a hammer blow the other night to the command structure of. And it looks like they are focused on the command structure maybe more than the Americans. It looks like ours with Captain Fennell's degradation of the ability to actually fight either forced projection on their people or forced projection on their neighbors. You're still. It looks like the Israeli Air Force still very focused on leadership decapitation. But this war is expanding not just in the Gulf with, with Persian versus Arab. It's also expanding in Syria and Lebanon and other areas. Maybe even with the Kurds.

C (6:25)

I mean, a little bit into Syria. The Syrians, the themselves aren't. I mean, we're not going to be butting up against Ashara or anything like that. But you do have the issue with the Kurds in Iraq is a sticky one. I don't see Israel right now being involved in that, although they did bomb a few Iranian IRGC bases on the Iranian side of the Iraq Iran border, trying to set the stage for a Kurdish incursion. But there's no agreement between the Iranian Kurdish groups and the Iraqi Kurdish groups who are both in Iraq. If that's confusing, sorry, that's the way it is. The Iranian Kurdish groups are based in Iraq, but they don't get along with the Iraqi Kurdish groups who are more aligned with the Iranian regime and Turkey. This can get a little confusing, but the key arena that Israel is focusing in besides Iran is Lebanon. Lebanon is on our northern border. Steve, let's pull back the camera. Israel's doctrine of defense changed after October 7th, and it is no longer based on an evaluation. I've said this on your show before. It's no longer based on an evaluation of our enemy's intentions. And are they deterred? Are they not deterred? Can we make an agreement with them? Can we appease them with some economic deal with the West? It's no longer based on that. It's simply based on an evaluation of capabilities. And when there are regimes or groups that pledge openly that their goal is the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people, as the Iranian regime does, as Hamas does, as Hezbollah does, so long as they have any capabilities to harm Israel, we will deal with those capabilities and you know, I was listening to Sam Faddis before and he's absolutely right. The, the Israelis goal is to eliminate the threat. And the bottom line is if you allow your country to be taken over by insane people who do crazy, reckless things, then Fafo, unfortunately, there is a price to pay. And I'm with you on the Iranian people. I'd love to see a healthy regime change. But whatever comes after this regime, no matter how chaotic it is from Israel's perspective, is not going to be as dangerous as the regime itself. And therefore Israel is going to protect itself and it's going to look after its own interest. Do we want a regime that's more peaceful with us and that is stable? Yeah, sure, it'll be better for everybody. But top of the agenda for Israel is simply eliminating threats wherever they may be. And the threat from Lebanon with Hezbollah, it's been festering too long. The Lebanese government has not been willing to do anything about it. So Israel stepping in and doing something. And it seems that the Lebanese are actually in favor of Israel dealing with the problem once and for all, even though they're not being too vocal about it. But that's the signals that we're getting.

B (9:10)

But just, just, just so we can be realist, though in a lot of the Levin, you see all this propaganda coming out that free and democratic Iran

C (9:20)

and Persia, I couldn't care.

B (9:22)

President Trump continues to talk about the happy ending that is like World War II when we rebuilt Germany and supposedly denazified and we took out Imperial Japan, although we didn't make any changes structurally, the same people that ran Japan in 1939 were essentially the same people that ran Japan in 1946. The samurai families that run the, the trading companies, they, they ran it. They put a little phony thing on, a constitution and all that, but they ran it. So we didn't really make fundamental changes in either nation, but it was on the surface a happy ending. Well, here, and I think Sam said it, I don't, I don't care if we have, I don't care if we have. I don't care if, if Persia and Iran go into a 30 year hellhole, I could care less. They brought the Islamic Republic on. We had the Shah, and maybe he didn't get there, maybe he wasn't democratically elected, but the country had a thriving middle class or at least was trying to do that. Obviously it was very Western and that seems like it didn't assimilate into Persian culture. But these people and their parents and grandparents brought it on they're going to have to. And I would have loved to had a situation where just economically, with Scott Besant, who was destroying their currency and destroying the economy. And now we know. And this is the hidden game that nobody talks about. We never went to what UAE threatened the other day in Dubai, which was to cut off the money. All the Persians cash is not really in Switzerland. It's all in Dubai. And this is one of the reasons the sanctions have never been 100%. People say, well, how can you have these sanctions? They don't really work because the Arabs, they're playing double games all the time. And that's why when UAE threatened to cut off their money from Dubai, next thing you know, Dubai's getting lit up. You know, Dubai is kind of like Tortuga was for the Caribbean pirates that went against the British Empire back. You know, it's. It's. And that's what Dubai is. It's a pirate cove. And now you're getting down to it, where you're starting to steal, take their assets, take all their cash and just throttle them down. But I don't care. They brought it on themselves. If they're a hellhole for 50 years, they're a hellhole for 50 years. I don't see. And if we spend one penny in Ukraine, are here reconstructing it, and not that penny in East Palestine, East Palestine, Ohio, to me, that's a crime. Rabbi Wilicki, your thoughts, sir?

C (11:44)

Well, my thoughts. You said something really interesting just before when you were talking about how in the Japanese regime after World War II, it ended up being run by a lot of the same people who were running it before. And you said there was no real significant change, but there was. And it connects directly with a. To what President Trump just said, that he wants unconditional surrender. Because the major change that happened, even though Japan was run by the same people, is that they dropped the genocidal imperialist ideology that led them to slaughter so many people in the Far east and create the Second World War in the Pacific theater. And look at Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany also, unconditional surrender led to them becoming a fairly benign state that dropped the genocidal ideology, you know, in January 1943 at Casablanca is where Roosevelt first said that peace can only come to the world by the total elimination of the Japanese, German and Italian war power, which means the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan. That was. He used that term then. And there's a direct causal relationship between the unconditional surrender and the breaking of those Genocidal ideologies. And this connects with what you were saying before about Mamdani in New York. Islam is on the rise. Europe has fallen. We know that these guys are playing for keeps. And the only way to push back is if there's actually some sort of defeat. Now, what happens after the defeat, how much chaos there is and how much of a mess there is to clean up, that is for them to sort out. But it is the. I believe it's the moral responsibility of people who are good to deliver a defeat to those who are evil. Roosevelt understood that, and it worked. Imperial. Yeah, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany cease to be evil regimes now. And. And Iran, one way or another mindset will also. Will also cease to be an evil regime.

D (13:35)

Yeah.

B (13:37)

So no off ramp by Tuesday. I would also submit that that should be Israel's moral high ground to the West. Not our fight, just not. We're in it, though. We're in it. And there's no off ramp on Tuesday. Short break. Back in a moment.

E (15:00)

War room, here's your host, Stephen K. Band

B (15:08)

Captain Fennell. Obviously, they look like they went after all infrastructure resources last night. Is that, Is that a sh. Is that just what happens when you proceed down. You've been, You've said, hey, look, and I, you know, as a, As a surface warfare officer and you're an intelligence officer, people should understand this is what the Navy does. You do these exercises constantly, all the time. You practice, practice, practice so that it becomes second nature. So when the balloon goes up, you know what to do, and you've, as you said, you've got your target sets. That can change with intel. But you know what you're doing when you want to take down, or what was called degrade their ability to have force projection either to surrounding countries or force projection now, as the president keeps talking about, on their own people. Do you believe that we've gone to another phase of this war? Not just the. How brutal the bombing was last night in Tehran, but it looks like they went after all infrastructure, sir.

F (16:05)

Steve, I would say that we are entering a second phase. The first phase, as Admiral Cooper stated, was about being able to kill the Iranian things that could shoot at us. So this first week, over 3,500, possibly closer to 6,000 attacks from both US and Israeli forces, was about rolling back their air defense capabilities, their missile capabilities that were on the ground, and their air defense and their naval forces. We have successfully, I think, to the large degree, eliminated most of those that are out in the open. So now we're Going into the second phase, which is to really start going after the infrastructure that supported the military, the irgc. So the target sets are command and control centers, military communication sites, IRGC Joint headquarters, IRGC Aerospace Force Headquarters, the Integrated Air Defense, a ballistic missile cities, now the Iranian navy, ships and subs. And they struck last night, Isfahan, Bashir, Qom, Bandar Abbas. So there's massive strikes going further inland from that coastal region that we needed to establish so that our forces could get in and out without risk. So I think we're in the second phase. And what people need to know is this is not just a naval force. This is a joint US Military force commanded at Central Command. And it's now a combined force. And so what they have is what they call a Combined Targeting Coordination Board. And that represents all the services that are involved, all the nations that are involved, plus the intelligence agencies from CIA, dia, nga, all the. It's an interagency process. Even State Department gets involved. And there are people there that are saying, hey, we need to consider this. We need to consider that. It goes before the board and people analyze it and they say, yes, this is something valid. We want to go after or not. And then it gets put on the list. And then there are. There are legions of people that find the target material and intelligence that helps give us precise location of where these assets are. But it's worked together and it's been going on for, I would say, years. The planning about how if we, you know, contingency had to go after Iran. Centcom's been working on this for decades. And so what you see is the unfolding of a plan that's being refined to do the levels of damage that will ensure that Iran's military is completely and thoroughly defanged. And as we said in a communication to you this last week, as Mao said, the party controls the gun. And if there's no gun in the party's hand, then who's running everything? And so the mission is to take the gun away from the Iranian regime.

B (18:54)

I think if you look at the 12 Day War, if you look at Venezuela, if you look at what's happening here, we're going to leave the politics aside, we're going to get into all that and the strategy and all that. But if you just look, this is why our military is so magnificent. The practice, the precision, the dedication to make this second nature, to ingrain this in yourself. Before I go to Sam Faddis, and I'm gonna ask you to stick around, Jim. In 1970, 9 and 80 when I was there, we had two carrier. We eventually, because the Navy had never really been there, we had two carrier battle groups on Camel Station and Gonzo Station in the North Arabian sea. We have two carrier battle group, two strike forces a day that contained 10 times more lethality than we did back in the 80s just because of the weapons packages. But now you're the first one to call it. You said on this show over a week ago, he said, hey, they're going to get the Bush. They're going to get a third carrier

G (19:46)

strike group over there.

B (19:48)

And it appears that that is what's happening.

F (19:51)

Yes, the bush carrier, George H.W. bush completed its basic final phase of its training and on the 5th of March pulled into Norfolk. It certainly reloaded fuel and ammunition for not just a carrier but the strike group. And there's indication that she's already leaving or has already left Norfolk and is making the transit. It's about a four or five day transit across the Atlantic, very small compared to the Pacific. And so that'll add a third carrier. And I'll just remind folks, in Desert Storm we had six carrier battle groups operating for Desert Storm. In OEF we had five carrier strike groups. So just adding a third one is really about bringing in more of that ordinance that's using the Mark series, the dumb bomb series with the fusing and the fins in the back that give us the precision strike so we don't have to use the high end, high demand, low density interceptors and other kind of missiles that are, you know, were discussed on Friday in Washington. So it's this idea of moving from standoff to stand in weapons. It's planned, it was understood. And the Bush will bring a lot more punch to the fight with that from the Eastern Med, while the Ford and the Lincoln now can combine their carrier strike groups. And now those 16 destroyers that are with it can now start to work on how are we going to open up the strait and provide some kind of escort plan. We're not going to escort ship by ship, but we'll maybe do something like we did in 87, where we had baskets and we had ships on station in those baskets. As we get further along. Yeah, grinding down the Iranian naval threats to naval shipping,

B (21:34)

particularly as you also take out their, their, their missile defense. The combatants can then go into the Straits of Hermu and figure out how to open this or if it even could be opened. Hang on for a second. Right before I go, the Brits, he's now talking to the Brits. He's all over Starmer. They were actually discussing two of the smaller. They got smaller carriers. Deployment of two British carriers to the region also.

F (22:00)

Well, you know, the Brits were. And it's coming out this weekend that actually the US Approached the British three weeks before the bombing struck to say, this is what we're thinking of doing and we would like to coordinate with you, our ally, and let's work together on it. And the Brits and Starmer gave us the Heisman and said, no, we're not going to let you use our bases. So when the war started, they didn't participate. They denied us use of their bases in Cyprus. They denied us use of Diego Garcia. And then just here, only a couple of days ago, did Starmer say, well, you can use our airfields, but we will only allow you to use your aircraft to attack defensive targets in Iran, which is like air defense sites and missile sites. So they put a lot of restrictions on it. In the meantime, the Iranians attack their base in Cyprus and. And the Brits still have yet to send a single destroyer out there because of their readiness. The British Navy is almost gone. It's less than 80 ships, probably less than 70. So they don't have much to provide to us. And I think the President's instincts are right on this in a way. Hey, you know, you didn't want to be with us at the beginning. Why do you want to come in now when you feel like we're. The tide is turning?

B (23:13)

Jim, hang on for one second. I'll bring in Sam Fadda. Sam, you wrote an amazing piece over the weekend about our objectives and goals. But I want to ask you, this whole situation with unconditional surrender, I mean, you spent a good part of your life inside here. They're talking about unconditional surrender. I think they've overnight. And they now have an official supreme leader President, I say, yeah, I don't know about that. We don't want to come back here every 10 years. So I think I got to have a hand in picking that from the mindset of the Persians as they sit right now when they hear the President talking about unconditional surrender. And that means no forced projection against neighbors, but most importantly, no forced projection against their own population. What are they thinking? Sir,

G (24:00)

I don't think there's any way on Earth that they are considering unconditional surrender. Now, I've said from the beginning there is some possibility here that at some point you get some guys within this government who effectively stage a coup and we end up with the Venezuelan solution. And they say we're not riding this thing all the way to the ground. And that would be, in my view, a happy ending. But as of now, they're going to dig in and they're going to take this thing into an unconventional realm and they are going to prolong this conflict. And are they going to be hammered mercilessly by the United States military? Without question. I mean, anybody who bet on the Iranians to stand up to the US Military was delusional. They've been flattened and they're going to continue to get flattened. But in, in their world view, they will just dig in and this will become low cost drones and proxy forces and terrorist attacks abroad and attacks on desalinization plants and oil refineries and sort of let's, let's all go to hell together kind of mindset.

B (25:16)

Did they not yesterday try to, there was some sort of communication or something. They tried to back off and said, hey, they're not going to go after the. Which I think is the most interesting thing, not go after the Gulf countries. So they didn't. But that looks like it's all torn asunder now. They did. They're trying to hit it or they hit a desalination plant. Are they, is it all bets off Persians versus Arabs right now? Is that back on hold? And last night's bombing. We've got about a minute. I'll bring you back after the break. Was the difference in intensity last night of the Americans, of our forces going after their oil infrastructure and hitting Tehran. The refineries there go take this next level.

G (25:57)

Look, I think what they were trying to do was divide us from our allies and encourage the Gulf states in particular to part company with us. And that didn't work. And so now they've gone. I mean they, they just hit a desalinization plant in Bahrain. They hit a number of other targets. So they, they, they gave that a whirl and it didn't work. So now they're gonna, they're going to intensify what they do against the Gulf states to the extent they can.

B (26:25)

Sam, hang on for one second. You gave a perfect segue. You talk about objectives, trying to divide allies. Wrote a pretty impressive piece for N Magazine if we can get that up and if Mo and Grace and Elizabeth can make sure the war and posse sees it. We're going to bring Sam Fedis back and talk about that point. Also, Rabbi Wlicki will join us from Jerusalem for a live update. We're packed. We got Poso, Thayer, Weikert, Caroline Ren on this huge, huge political story in Texas, all of it this morning in our special edition of the War.

E (26:58)

Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

B (27:02)

Okay, we've got geostrategic things we have to get to in a moment. Post is going to stick around. Get Brandon Weikar. Dr. Thayer. Financial Times is reporting the Chinese Communist Party actually made a statement yesterday they want the meeting with President Trump in April, which I think is pretty stunning because they've basically been, I think cucked this entire time. So it's quite fascinating what's happening here and get some of our top experts to jump into this in the war as it progressives. I want to turn now though to an important matter at hand. This is the situation on the runoff in the state of Texas. Caroline Wren joins us. Caroline, you've been at the tip of the tip of the spear, you and Boyle and a couple of others of driving this narrative about John Cornyn has never supported maga. In fact, he's been anti Maga and he's been virulently anti President Trump since President Trump came on the scene. But he's been a do nothing Bushite for his entire career and that's why he has nothing positive to talk about. Ma', am, the floor is yours.

D (28:09)

That is true. And I just think the Texas Senate race is by far the most important race of the cycle. And all eyes right now are on President Trump to see who he endorses. And look, I understand it is very rare for a sitting president to endorse against an incumbent senator in his party. Now, President Trump rightfully endorsed a primary challenger to Senator Bill Cassidy, who deserved it. He voted to impeach Trump. But I would actually argue that Cornyn is much worse than Senator Cassidy for every controversial decision President Trump has made. And of course by controversial I mean something that Morning Joe and Mika don't like. But for every, I guess, controversial decision, there is a statement from John Cornyn criticizing President Trump about it. And you know, we knew Cornyn was bad, but the barrage of oppo that is dropped on him over the last 72 hours exposing Cornyn's record, I am in shock just how bad it is. I decided to get out my copy of Government Gangsters here by Kash Patel. In this book, Kash Patel lists out there's an index of names of the worst and most corrupt deep state actors. And I went through the list of names and next name by name and just searched that person's name. And then John Cornyn's statement, literally without Fail. John Cornyn has defended every single bad actor listed in this book. I mean, like, it is amazing to me that he goes out of his way. When Trump criticized Gina Haspel, for example, Cornyn went on television and said she was doing a fantastic job. And when Trump fired Mark Esper, Cornyn went on TV and called it unhelpful and unnecessary. When Trump criticized Dr. Fauci for refusing to open schools and businesses, John Cornyn called Fauci a national treasurer. When Biden nominated notorious Russiagate hoax co conspirator Lisa Monaco for deputy ag, Cornyn took to the Senate floor to give a full throated glowing endorsement for her nomination. When Trump wanted to fire Robert Mueller, Cornyn defended Mueller's honor, saying it would be a huge mistake for Trump to fire him. When Trump fired James Comey, Cornyn went on TV and called it a troubling and terrible decision. Cornyn, I mean, repeatedly praised and slobbered over James Comey, calling him a good and decent man. Quick reminder, James Comey called for the assassination of President Trump. When the sham E. Jean Carroll verdict came out, Cornyn ran to MSNBC to say that because of this verdict, Donald Trump was unelectable and shouldn't run again. When Alvin Bragg was indicting Trump, John Cornyn defended Bragg and said the process was necessary and needed to play out. Regarding January 6th, John Cornyn compared it to 9 11, then called the J6 attendees, quote, white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionist and anarchist. He then asked then FBI Director Chris Wray if a new law was needed to charge the J6 attendees with domestic terrorism. And when the Senate tried to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, Cornyn's only complaint was that the impeachment, impeachment process was actually holding up them and delaying Biden being able to get his cabinet nominees confirmed. And I could go on and on with these state. I was just going through this book, googling John Cornyn statement on that person and without fair. He has defended each one of these deep state actors and you know, these could like maybe be defensible statements, a few of them. If you're Susan Collins and you represent a state like Maine, that's a purple or blue state. John Cornyn represents Ruby Red Texas. No, I mean, this is.

B (31:30)

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. This is why this is. This is. It's not just Texas. This is why it's unforgivable. You could have been quiet or you could have said something in Passive. This is a pattern recognition. He is adamantly a defender of the deep state. He despises President Trump. He detests maga. The biggest mistake we can make is allowing this guy, untethered with a reelection to do. He did this understanding. Now, here's what he bet. He bet that MAGA was finished. He bet that Trump would never come back. And what he wanted to do was to do whatever it was in his power to do to bury it deeper. Go back to January 21st, when they ran President Trump out of Washington, D.C. essentially into exile into Mar a Lago. That was a defining moment. John Cornyn, not just try to do what a politician does. He was a strong advocate of the deep state for the total destruction of MAGA and Donald Jeff Trump. There is in no circumstance and anybody that works for him or put money in or supports him is against MAGA and against the interest of President Trump and the people that are showing him phony polling. This is my point, Caroline. I spent five weeks down here now and met all the grassroots. There is a significant element of the grassroots in Texas and in MAGA that under no circumstances will vote for John Cornyn. If John Cornyn is the nominee in November, he will lose. He will lose significantly. Because there is a core that. See what you're talking about. And it stuns me that the Paxton campaign didn't have this out. But I know you're going to put it out in a systematic. John Cornyn did it systematically to defend the deep state against the American people, against MAGA and against President Trump. And now people that are anti John Cornyn and pro Paxton and pro MAGA and pro President Trump are going to start putting this out. He'll be swamped with this stuff. This is not going to go away because these weren't just passing comments. There's a pattern here that he took upon himself even more than Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. He took upon himself as part of that leadership team to lead the fight against MAGA and to lead the fight against President Trump, ma'. Am.

D (33:52)

He absolutely did. I think he's much worse than those others that you just said. And you know, you're right, like a lot of these other senators probably privately feel this way. These kind of dinosaurs have been in there forever, but they're at least somewhat politically savvy. Corny went out of his way every single time to run to his best friends on MSNBC and criticize Donald Trump. And the Corny campaign keeps using this line of, oh, he voted 99% of the time. With Donald Trump. Okay, whatever. What does that even mean? That is not the point here that we are trying to make. And they all.

B (34:23)

Crap.

D (34:24)

You can make up those type of statistics and, and say they all vote together. But I mean, there were massive investigations coming out of the Judiciary Committee of which he's been a long term, very senior ranking member on. And there are so many questions about Russiagate. These other. He didn't do anything. He didn't fight to stop any of this. In fact, he was probably encouraging it. I mean, he was behind a lot of this stuff and championing these same people that have just targeted Donald Trump over and over again. And then after. The other thing that's driving me crazy about this is I just think back to that time and especially around in 2020 when they took the election from us. You had Ken Paxton out there authoring amicus brief supporting President Trump. On January 6th, Ken Paxton was on stage with Donald Trump at the White House ellipse saying, this is outrageous. They stole the election from Donald Trump while John Cornyn was calling us all domestic terrorists and trying to figure out a way to conspire to get us all charged and locked up in jail for the rest of our lives. How could this be even a decision that's happening? But you mentioned earlier, I mean, the problem is that the folks around President Trump, advising him, they want Corny. I don't know why, but they do. And so President Trump is the busiest man in the world right now. He's our commander in chief and we are at war. And so we're out yelling these things, posting these clips. Listen, that doesn't mean it's getting to

B (35:41)

us, but this is the Bush opera. This is Bush versus Trump. The reason they're pushing Cornyn is because they hate Paxton.

G (35:48)

Why?

B (35:48)

They hate Paxton because of Breitbart. We were there. Ken Paxton destroyed the last remnant of the Bush dynasty when he took the goofball dumb as a brick grandson who ran against him and beat him by 20 points. And we had a runoff and he beat him by more points. Then that was the whole, the whole collection of people around Trump were all Bushies. They're all involved in that. Don't think we haven't had long odds with Ken Paxton before. Okay, this is something that the Caroline Rens and the Steve Bannon's and the Matt Boyles, we didn't show up to this party last night. We've been fighting this for almost a decade now. And this is why Paxton. Paxton is symbolic and he's made in those Days, in those days of the. Of the inaugural phony inauguration of an illegitimate regime that stole the 2020 election and destroyed this country with allowing in 15 to 20 million illegal alien invaders and destroyed us financially that we're still digging ourselves out of. Ken Paxton is glazing Biden and welcoming Biden and approving Lisa Monaco. She's. That's inside baseball. She was the demon that set the whole thing up over at doj. Merrick Garland, some figurehead. And he's glazing her, he's glazing foushee, he's glazing Esper. This is the core of the deep state that was against people. And at that time, Ken Paxton comes in and he's the first ag. Folks go back in time, we had no other defenses. President Trump was a lion and winner. Down in Mar a Lago, we had Ken Paxton. A third of the war room audience was so depressed, they left. We had. I said, we got a rally. Victory begets victory. Victory begets victory. And we're going to come back. In the darkest days of 20 January and 21 January, 2021, I said, we are going to return bigger than ever with Trump. And people said, you're a madman. You're a nutcase. Ago. No. And you know who believed it and you know who stood in the breach and delivered was Ken Paxton. We would never have had the victory in 2024, ever. And the people around, and this is why Don Jr and the smart folks over there and the good folks over there came to Paxton's defense the other day.

F (37:57)

We.

B (37:58)

There would be no 2024 if it had not been for warriors like Ken Paxton that bet it all the odds against us. Carolina, as you remember, that time were so long. And that's what. And that's when you see the definition of heroes, when they know the odds are long and they go, I don't care. It's because it's the right thing to do. Ken Paxton has flaws. He ain't perfect. Donald Trump's got flaws. He ain't perfect. Caroline Ren, Steve Bannon got flaws. They ain't perfect, but they're in this fight. And Ken Pax has been in his fight in the darkest and toughest days.

D (38:30)

Ma', am, that is so true. And the other reason we have to talk about that, why does Washington, D.C. hate Paxton so much? It's for all the reasons you just listed. But there's another big, glaring reason, and this is someone I worked with, Republican Attorney General's association, the number one donors Are corporations. And Paxton pretty much couldn't even come to raga meetings. The corporations, the corporate donors and lobbyists would boycott it because Ken Paxton cannot be bought. He was the most aggressive AG in this country, bar none. He does not care. He would sue Amazon, Apple, any of these bad actors and corporations coming after him. And that's why these corporations and the D.C. lobbyists, they hate him. They fear him. They do not want him there. Cornyn. They know they can just give their $5,000 pack check and get endless bills through that they want done. I mean, Ken Paxton is truly their worst nightmare. To come up there and do it. He was the worst nightmare even at a raga conference. And that, to me, is when I fell in love with Ken Paxton and was like, this was before watching what he did after the 2020 stolen election. It was watching him go up against the corporate lobbyist and say, I could care less about your cocktail parties. I don't need to be there. I don't wanna be invited. I'm doing what is right for we the people in Texas. And there's no lobbying my office. And that amazing right there is why they cannot have him.

B (39:57)

Caroline, your social media, you've been the tip. You and Boyle are driving this. Where do people go to follow you, Ma'? Am?

D (40:03)

It's at Caroline Wren on X and True Social and Getter.

B (40:10)

Okay, folks, let me tell you, this is a fluid situation. You got to get in with Caroline, and what we need today is force multipliers. You got to take the content that's being put up, and you got to be a force multiplier. This is a long way from resolve, but it could happen at any moment. So this is why it's a very fluid situation. Am I correct in that, Caroline?

D (40:30)

It is a very fluid situation. I would say. I thought that the Cornyn endorsement was a done deal. I mean, Alex Eisenstadt, who's probably one of the best sourced reporters with the White House, he reported three days ago that Donald Trump has made his decision. The Atlantic reported it too, which I was a little more skeptical. But, I mean, I think that the Cornyn endorsement, I have to be honest with your audience. I think it's still sitting on his desk. If I were betting person, I say that he comes out and endorses Cornyn, which is just. Would be a terrible decision. But at the same time, the president's gonna do what he's gonna do. But I'm not gonna just lay down right now. Right now is the time to fight and to get everyone to speak up. Everyone I know and talk to is for Paxton. And so it is so important. I'm just telling people right now, please be loud. If you have President Trump's cell phone number, please text him and make sure he knows that you support Paxton. Please let him know why call him, go meet with him, try and get in front of him here, because his endorsement does matter. I, you know, could Paxton still pull it off? Maybe. But, you know, Donald Trump has the most important endorsement that I've ever seen in politics. And so it matters. And I hope that we're able to reverse it.

B (41:36)

Big okay. Today also, we'll get this clip and make sure this thing goes viral. So, Caroline, thank you. Appreciate you coming on. Change your Sunday up. We've got some time constraints, but I want to appreciate Rav has let us blow our brakes here. Jack Posobic, first off, your thoughts on the Paxton situation. Jack, I know you're involved. And also then give me your geostrategic assessment here in a couple of minutes before we bounce.

E (42:02)

Well, Steve, what's interesting here is that we were told out of D.C. and we saw a post from the president's account on Truth Social that it looked like an endorsement was forthcoming, probably about the midpoint or late last week. That endorsement has not occurred yet. We have not seen that. And it seems that Paxton's move, which was just an incredibly brilliant move, I don't know who possibly could have been down there in Texas advising on the campaign for, for moves such as this. My, you know, my, I can only speculate really, as to which, which war room leaders may have been there. But this move regarding the SAVE act really seems to have changed the entire conversation and the entire frame of the endorsement, making the entire thing hinge on the SAVE act because essentially what this is has been, and I'm just going to say it, it was a bluff. It was a bluff because Senate GOP leadership, Steve, they have not put the SAVE act on the fast track the way that they should have. Senate GOP leadership, what have they spent this time, their time doing this week, Steve? They, they spent their time this week, the Senate GOP leadership want to remind you, and this is going viral because I called it out on, on Twitter this week. They spent their week putting up a plaque for January six up in the United States Capitol, one that the House rejected, by the way, for the defenders of democracy on January6. That's what the Senate GOP leadership spent their week on. Where was Ken Paxton on January six? Oh, that's right. He was Standing with President Trump and the MAGA faithful who wanted an honest adjudication of the 2020 election. Just like War Room and all of us associated all along have always called for. That's where Ken Paxton was. So look, when, when you look at John Cornyn, I would say his candidacy is in real trouble with whether or not he gets an endorsement or a cleared primary. And all of these things, the MAGA faithful, I just don't think, Steve, that they are going to come out in a November election, in a general election for him. This could potentially lead to James Talarico entering the United States Senate from Texas, which is a state that has not elected a Democrat since the days of lbj.

B (44:21)

And plus, he's a. We're going to get into the plaque weirdo. All of it, tomorrow. Jack. I got to bounce. That was brilliant. Give me just two minutes because I got to go. Unconditional surrender. The foreign minister. I think so. I'll meet the press. Iranian foreign minister. Unconditional surrender. President Trump says that means inability to project power on their own people. Your thoughts, sir? I take it, Jack, you agree with me. There's no off ramp on Tuesday.

E (44:46)

I mean, look, I would not count anything out beyond President Trump. He is the dealmaker in chief. He's the greatest dealmaker that we've seen in American history since Ben Franklin got the French in on behalf of the Revolutionary War. He's the greatest dealmakers since then or, or when, when John Adams was over working with the, working with the Dutch to finance the whole thing. So, you know, greatest, greatest dealmaker since the revolutionary generation. I wouldn't put anything past President Trump. That said both sides are digging in. You got Israel up this weekend and they are pounding Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. You've seen over 100,000 people have already fled southern Lebanon. The suburbs of Beirut are turning into a ghost town. I mean, you look at some of the footage that's coming out of there, and the reason that they're not taking civilian casualties, you know, in these, in these apartment blocks and others, is that they're, the people have fled. So you're, you've already got a humanitarian crisis there. You've got people fleeing areas of central Tehran which are getting hit, lit up. You, of course, all the oil fields and the oil supplies lit up in Tehran last night looked like the, looked like the fuel burnings out of, out of Iraq and Kuwait in 1991. So going back to the original Gulf War, some of those striking images that came out and then as well, you do you do see the Iranians, they're slipping their cluster bombs, some of them, because they're using these saturation attacks. They are starting to penetrate the Iron Dome. So you are seeing some of these get through here. The rocket fire, the drone fire. It is starting to get, it is starting to have effects on Israel proper, on television and then again Kuwait. Kuwait just getting lit up night after night.

B (46:28)

This is getting. Thank Jack, your social media, your Twitter feed is a must. People got to go there, keep up with this war. Where they go.

E (46:35)

Yeah, we're up on X, of course, at Jack Posic, the podcast Human Events Daily. We're doing daily sit reps. Look, we're, we're trying to call balls and strikes here. We're trying to give you the unvarnished look and explain what's actually going on from the tactical level as well as the strategic

B (46:54)

in the book on humans. Make sure you get that big article today about the new McCarthy. So I'll get to that tomorrow.

E (47:01)

Yeah, yeah, new, new hit piece on still. Imagine you put the book out two years ago and we're still generating hate from the Atlantic. They, they're very upset that we called for a new McCarthyism.

B (47:15)

Yes. We're going to talk about this week. Jack, thank you. And thank you Tanya Tay, for letting Jack visit with us this morning. Brandon Weiker, we only got a couple of minutes, but give us, I need your battle assessment of where we are after last night.

H (47:28)

Sir, in my opinion, the war is set to expand even more. The Iranians have been degraded, as I have said. They have not been destroyed. They have shifted their munitions now from what were the older missile systems, as Jack was just noting, to now these, these more advanced systems. There is a massive strain on the particular the Qatar and Israeli air defense interceptor arsenal. So if this thing continues to go on as you and I believe they will, will, then the defense of these countries gets even more precarious. I also want to point out the Houthis have not yet opened up on the Red Sea. The Saudis are moving most of their oil transportation away from the Strait of Hormuz into their Red Sea port. I think the Houthis are waiting for them to be totally reliant on that and then they're going to seal it up. But we now have the issue of the Eritrean coastline. The Ethiopians have taken operational control. They are saying they're going to allow U.S. or Israeli forces to use ground based missiles to break up the Houthi capabilities across the way in Yemen. What that means is, Steve, we're now talking about a war expanding not just to Azerbaijan, not just to Beirut, you know, and all these other places, but now possibly in the Horn of Africa as well. This war is not ending anytime soon.

B (48:53)

Real quickly, your reporting drove the, the CEOs to come to the White House on Friday. Give me a minute because I'm jammed for time. What was the, what was the outcome of the CEO meeting on, on Friday with President Trump at the White House?

H (49:07)

They probably said some very pretty things to each other, but ultimately the reality is there will not be the ability to surge production the way we need to do. Remember, we need at least 200 tomahawks per year. We're not producing anywhere near that in 24 months. That is an industrial bottleneck that has to be overcome. And by the way, who controls the rare earth minerals that go into the creation of these systems? That, that's the People's Republic of China. And they are absolutely not going to let their, their chokehold on that go away. Now, if they meet with Trump in Beijing, they're going to tell him, you stop the war or we're cutting you off from the rare earths. China is the beneficiary of all of this right now, contrary to what some of the reporting earlier was saying.

B (49:49)

Okay, hang on. Where do people go to get your, your reporting, sir?

H (49:54)

You can get me 1945. Com. You can get me, I'm the NATSEC guy at Emerald TV TV. And you can get me the Weikart Report. That's old, though. I don't really go there anymore. And you can get me on Twitter @we the. Brandon.

B (50:09)

Well, go to Twitter, I guess, for the updates. You can get all the books. Shadow War, a great primer if you need one, on Iran versus the United States. Thank you, sir.

H (50:19)

Thank you, sir.

B (50:19)

Dr. Thayer, I'm shocked. Weikart says the Chinese are winning in this. I don't know if I agree with that, but the Financial Times of London has said that they want, they've actually gone public and they want President Trump to come for a state visit, Correct? How much? Thayer, you gotta explain this to me. They just get destroyed in Venezuela, they're getting destroyed. Their guys are getting destroyed in Iran and they're not doing anything about it. How is this not a, how do they not lose face by having a state visit where President Trump comes in like a conquering hero, sir?

I (50:53)

Well, Steve, because the Chinese Communist Party is in desperate straits economically, as we saw this week and last week. Right? The economy is in freefall. They're in dire straits in that respect, and they're looking for. They're desperate for President Trump to save the Chinese Communist Party. Xi Jinping is going full Stalin on the military, right? He's purging the military. You saw his address to the People's Armed Police and the PLA today at the meeting of the delegation from those two bodies where he said there's no room for anybody who's disloyal to the party. So the CCP is in dire straits, and they need President Trump to come in and say, no changes to tariffs or tariff relief, no changes to investment. Despite what President. The Trump administration has stressed, there's still investment in Communist China and no changes to the students. They still need to get the intellectual capital and knowledge from the United States through legal and illegal means. The CCP needs President Trump. President Trump doesn't need the ccp. That's an important point to keep in mind. They're in dire straits. They need help, and President Trump can provide that for them. So we need to keep that in mind

B (52:24)

real quickly. This purge of the PLA talks about corruption. The military's got to be loyal or they're gone. We got a minute. He's already purged the military at the highest ranks. Is there going to be continue. If there's a continual purge, that means they're not ready to go strike Taiwan, Correct?

I (52:40)

Well, let's not maybe. Right. I think we want to be careful about striking Taiwan. And we. We don't want to say because of X they can't do it. They may have a horrible surprise for us with respect to Taiwan. But look, Steve, at this rate, you're going to be asked to be on the cmc. You know, the way that they're going through their generals, their admirals. Right. It's going to be banned.

B (53:05)

They're burning through Central Military Commission. They're bur. They're burning through guys like crazy. I mean, it's. It's insane. And everybody thinks that she's getting weaker. Stalin. Yeah.

I (53:18)

He's moving towards an efficient Stalin is what he's.

B (53:23)

Dr. Thayer, where do. Where do people go to get all your content? It's amazing.

C (53:26)

Yeah.

I (53:27)

Brad, Theon X and Bradley the X. A truth and getter. Thanks, Steve.

B (53:32)

Thank you. Appreciate you, sir. Want to thank Real America's voice, Parker and Rob Sig for making this happen. Our Denver team and also the team here at the War Room. This has been our special on Sunday. We're going to keep it up as we give you information and opinion and analysis. No one else will. We'll see you tomorrow morning at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time.