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Episode 5243: President Trump Declares Iran Agreed To Have No Nuclear Weapons
Episode 5243: President Trump Declares Iran Agreed To Have No Nuclear Weapons ...
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- [00:01]
Steve Bannon
The Ottoman Turks were in charge. And I think it's, I think this whole thing's very scary. I don't think we really have an ally in the entire region. I just don't. You know, I continue to say Israel's America's greatest ally, but Netanyahu does what we want to do. I don't trust any of the Arabs as far as I can pick them up and throw them. They're double dealing us all the time. Lindsey Graham, their big buddy, had a couple of bourbon and branches, as you remember, and went in there and started, you know, went on Hannity, I think, was yelling at him. They had to join the fight. And that's why I think it was so important this morning. Wherever we are in this conflict, the Saudis are now saying, hey, we're in for the fight. Unleash us and we've got your back. Which I think is a whole other complexity as President Trump tries to, I think, thread the needle. Finish the job of taking down, defanging, declawing the traditional military in Iran, Eric, and then figure out some way that we can work our way out of here without sending the Marines to Car island, without sending the 82nd Airborne to take some beachhead near the Straits of Hermuz.
- [01:02]
Eric Bolling
I couldn't agree with you top to bottom cutter. The Middle east, even Israel serves their own purpose, not the United States most of the time. Agree with you top to bottom, Steve Bannon. That's why you got to watch War Room, folks, because War Room I take every time you show up, you leave smarter than when you entered that, that, that chat and that, that moment. Steve, appreciate your time. Go, Go kill him, brother. Not literally. Not literally.
- [01:26]
Steve Bannon
Don't kill what social media.
- [01:27]
Eric Bolling
Don't kill him.
- [01:30]
Steve Bannon
As you know, President, President Trump, President Trump's great phrase. These are, they're killers. Social media. Where do people get you because your insights into the, one of the most important markets in the world, not the bond market, not the stock market, the commodities market for oil has been really amazing in this entire, what, 23, 24 days sort of people.
- [01:49]
Eric Bolling
Yeah, you find me on all social media at Eric Bolling. And it does. Oil triggers all the rest of them. We talked about a housing collapse on War Room once and we pulled out some of the information. Housing collapse could happen, would happen on the heels of a $200 barrel of oil for a long time. Oil is really the linchpin on both good and bad in our economy. But it can also catch me on warm once in a while because we, we do Some good work there as well. Steve. Brother, see you. I'll see you at CPAC too.
- [02:15]
Steve Bannon
Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. I can't wait for. That's gonna be great. All the real America voice, the whole lineup is going to be there. It's going to be fantastic. Here's what I want to do. We're going to do a cold open. There was so much that happened between this morning show and the afternoon. I want to. The team has put together an amazing cold open. Let's get that. We got so much more to get through ICE at the polls. We're going to have the Virginia chairman talking about the grassroots effort there of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Neil McCabe's at the White House. We're going to have Elizabeth Mitchell AI. There's so much going on. We're going to get to all of it in the next two hours. But let's start with our afternoon cold open
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Donald Trump
and we're making America safe again. We're doing it at levels that nobody. Everything we're doing we're making great. The borders are great, the military is great. We're having, by the way, a tremendous success. As you know, in Iran we had one in Venezuela, now we're having one in Iran. They have no navy left, they have no air force left. They have no anti aircraft equipment left, no radar left, no leaders left in Iran. We had one in Venezuela, now we're having one in Iran. They have no navy left, they have no air force left. They have no anti aircraft equipment left, no radar left, no leaders left. The leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to. But we're actually talking to the right people and they want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea how badly they want to make a deal. And we'll see what happens. All of the anti aircraft is gone. Most of their missiles are gunned. We shot either shot them or they shot them and don't have them anymore. They're down to a trickle. They're pretty much everything they have is gone. I don't know. Can you name one thing that's not gone or can you name one thing that's doing well? You know, if you read the papers, you think we're tied, you think we're in a tough battle. We are roaming free over Tehran, the city, Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free. We can do whatever we want.
- [04:27]
Pete
Let me say what they're specifically not liking is chaos. And in every area this president has touched since last year, it's been chaos. Start with doge Right. By May, Elon Musk was in a fight with him and was out. By November, they'd mothballed the whole thing. Go to tariffs. By in April, they started tariffs, this big, big thing up and down and up and down on some countries, not on other countries. By Febr, the Supreme Court said, no, you can't do tariffs. Mass deportations. Last summer, they started sending thousands of ICE agents into cities. In February, they're pulling them out of Minnesota. Vaccines. Same sort of chaos going on. Courts just said, hey, you can't do anything you've been doing. And now we come to chaotic management in a war. Okay. It's absolutely astonishing to see, as General Mattis brought out in the beginning of this segment, it's astonishing to see the chaotic way this president is running a war. And I think Americans are like saying, hey, this guy can't do the job.
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Ian
But the Chinese did with their critical minerals and rare earths. The Iranians are now doing with the Strait of Hormuz. And they are showing Trump and the world we are capable of, of causing more pain than you elected Democratic leaders are prepared to take. And we'll see to what extent that proves to indeed be the case. But certainly Trump, over the last day, backing down on his 48 hours or else we're going to blow you up, implies that he understands that major economic consequences in the Gulf and more broadly are not exactly his friend.
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Lindsey Graham
President Trump, on a human level, how hopeful are you that this peace deal will work out? Like, as a human.
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Donald Trump
As on what?
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Lindsey Graham
On a human level, not as the president of the United States. How hopeful are you that this peace deal will work out with Iran?
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Donald Trump
You're talking about to end it? Well, I think we're going to end it. I can't tell you for sure. You know, I don't like to say this. We've won this. This war has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news. I mean, the New York Times, you read the New York Times, it's like, we're not winning a war where they have no navy and they have no air force and they have no nothing, and we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can't do a thing about it. For instance, if I want to take down that power plant, that very big, powerful power plant, they can't do a thing about it. It's like, take me. That's all they can do. And yet, if you read the New York Times or if you watch ABC fake news or NBC fake news. You'd say it's a close battle. It's not a close battle. They're totally defeated. You know, we killed the Navy. And would you say three days, Pete gone? In fact, I was a little upset with Pete. I said, why didn't you save the ships? We could have used them, right? He said, it's more fun shooting them down. But the Navy was. The Navy was wiped out in a very rapid order. Pretty impressive for you guys, you champion wrestlers, right? When you hear this stuff. But you don't. If you read the news, you don't hear this. You know, you read like, oh, they're doing wonderfully. They're doing terribly. They're wiped out militarily. They are dead.
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Jason
Is your goal, what you're trying to accomplish? Tactics is how you do it. What he's saying is the administration is all tactics and no strategy. They have no goal, they have no mission. And they have tactics, which is just. They're throwing balls up in the air to distract people, but there's no actual mission.
- [08:16]
General Mattis
You're spot on. Never in history has a modern military. Iran had a modern military, a modern navy, a modern air force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive bunker. Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel has conducted alongside us, was one for the history books. And it's because we have a President of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. As viciously as possible from moment one. And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well. We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice. As we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about about your future, the president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as hard as is necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.
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Jason
What is the point of bombing this particular place when you don't have a larger strategy? Explain to me why you're bombing Carg island or you're not. And they don't have a larger strategy. He, Trump has that sort of goldfish
- [09:34]
Steve Bannon
mentality where he goes, ultimate surrender.
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Ian
What does that mean to him?
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Jason
Well, he's also living in the past. I mean, that's a phrase, unconditional surrender from World War II. Right. And by the way, the Japanese didn't even do an unconditional surrender. He's just doing this. It's kind of escalation, dominance of rhetoric. Like, I can, I can punch you harder with my words than you can punch me. And of course, Iran is punching right back.
- [09:57]
General Mattis
This is not Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not a president who's interested in vague end states. He's been very clear with us about what we need to accomplish, creating the conditions for them never to have a nuclear capability. And that's exactly what we're doing in historic fashion.
- [10:11]
Donald Trump
But I hate to say it, but we killed all their leadership and then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group and we can easily do that, but let's see how they turn out. It's. We have really regime change. You know, this is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with that created all those problems. So this was, I think we can say, Jason, this is regime change. Right.
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Ian
The administration had been negotiating with Iran multiple times in the past. In the middle of those negotiations, they strike. I mean, there was all the hardware and the assets that were sent to the region ahead of this war. Now we're seeing more Marines go in and troops get sent to the region. Is this just another head fake, Ian?
- [11:04]
Well, someone made an awful lot of money off of it, right? I mean, we had these trades of 1, $2 that were front running. Trump's announcement. So first, that is clearly related and deserves unpacking. Secondly, Trump really wants to talk down oil prices. He's got a speech coming up in Miami on Friday at the FII conference, the Saudi sponsored conference. I expect that that is another opportunity seen by Trump too. Until the troops are there. Troops aren't in place yet. It's around April 6 that those San Francisco troops that were based there are going to actually get to the Persian Gulf. So before that happens, I think he'd like oil prices lower. That implies that he's going to give us more public speeches and more posts that'll be about how we're engaging with the Iranians and, you know, let's find a way to, to reduce the tensions and conflict. But look, I mean, the strikes are still happening from the United States and Israel against Iran, from Iran in the region. That, that hasn't changed. And those troops are still heading to the Gulf. And when they get there, there is a plan for them to be deployed on the ground, some 7,000 troops. And if that happens, the consequence, I mean, certainly the Trump intention will be control the Strait, stop the drones from being used and control the oil. But there are very serious risks, not least of which are the servicemen and women and their lives on the ground, but also for the global economy and for the Gulf if Trump decides to
- [12:46]
Donald Trump
go ahead and do that unexpectedly. When this war broke out unexpectedly, they started sending missiles to uae, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and elsewhere. And nobody thought they were going to. Were you equally surprised by that, Pete?
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Jason
Way more than we thought.
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Neil McCabe
He's making this up. It is war like jazz, I mean, to the point just made. Steve Bannon told me in his first term. It's not that President Trump doesn't look around the corner. He's not trying to predict a week in advance or a month out. He's just trying to win the next five minutes. He's just trying to say whatever it takes to win the exchange. He's in with the reporter. And that's what I'm thinking of as I hear that in the Oval Office. Now, we know, and I reported last night for the Atlantic that there are some, like discussions being held throughout intermediaries. The Middle east or Gulf states are talking, they're trying to get Iran. And there are possibility of actual direct contact in the US and the Iran, maybe within arbiter later this week. It might involve the vice President. We're not sure. You know, Steve Woodkoff and Jared Kushner, they're in Pakistan now. So there could be some progress being made. But it's not clear what the president is saying there. And any. There's certainly nothing substantial that has been agreed to just yet, unless it literally happened in the last couple of minutes. And Iran has no, no incentive at this moment to give up or share control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is how they have a chokehold on the nation's energy supp and a real leverage point, a real political pain point for Trump. This is not a war that has gone according to plan, even though there are some real military successes. And the president now has an important decision to make. Does he indeed look for an off ramp, some sort of diplomatic exit where he can claim sword and sort of win, although he may leave a real dangerous mess behind? Or does he try to forge forward, which would this point would probably involve some sort of ground invasion, even a small incursion into the carg island, and which would be very, very dangerous for the American soldiers who will be put at risk.
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Steve Bannon
Do it today. War room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. In everything that went on. If I can pull up the Daily Mail, at least the headline and everything that went on in that magnificent. I want to thank the team cold open because look how much has just happened from the morning show. One of the biggest developments and remember when we left during the morning show, they had a line of contact with the field marshal, the Pakistan army in Pakistan that we said, we read to you the president's retweet of, I think the head of Pakistan saying we would host a delegation. I think that delegation composition is not firm, but I think it's Witkoff, Jared Kushner, I believe the vice president and maybe even Marco Rubio. This thing could be taken on a reality the president, we also said last night it was very specific when the president said, hey yesterday, I'm not going to bomb the energy infrastructure and I'm not going to bomb the oil infrastructure because I want that to be there on the other side of this conflict for the Iranian people. So there's some cash, there's something you can monetize that the country can exist as we said, it was very specific when he said that he did not talk about centcom. And Admiral Cooper's been out today, I guess with a couple tweets. Pretty, pretty blunt. And you know, one thing about Admiral Cooper at CENTCOM and General Kane at the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Those two guys, if you've seen them in the last couple weeks, they're no brag, just fact. They're not. I mean, their house style is. Is different than Pete's. Pete just got a different house styles. You saw right there, they unleashed again last night. And I think Cooper came out and kind of gave a signal to the Iranian people, you know, duck and cover, look for shelter. Because we're going to come in and continue to pound and pound and pound. Now, if you look at. Can we pull up the Daily Mail? The Daily Mail said a gift is two things. Yeah, let's keep that up there for a moment. There's two things. It's. Number one, it is a. It is. He's saying that we'll play the clip again that they have agreed to already in these conversations that are going back and forth that are quite preliminary, that they have agreed to. They will not have a nuclear weapon. And that is the first time I think they've done that. I would actually say that's a little bit of crying uncle. He also says there's going to be a pleasant surprise. There is some sort of economic presentation that we kind of have to think through what it is. When we get an opportunity, can we have. Do we have that yet? If not, we'll hold it for a second. But I think in everything that went on today, to talk about these and remember, Turkey's got something they were trying to get going. The Arab. Basically, the Gulf Council had their five foreign ministers in Riyadh. This is what I think is very important about the Saudis. The Saudis are now telling people they're in for the fight and signaling to the. Signaling to the Iranians that they're going to come in as an active ally regardless of the hits that they've done to their oil infrastructure. Let's go ahead. I want to make sure people hear this. I want to make sure they hear it from the President of the United States. Let's go ahead and play that clip again.
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Interviewer
Was the turning point to make you want to pursue a ceasefire. A few days ago you said you wanted to continue bombing Iran. Now you want to pursue peace talks. Was there something that happened?
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Donald Trump
The fact that they're talking to us and they're talking sense, and remember, it all starts with they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Just, you know, I said yesterday, what are. They said, what are the top 10? I said, well, number one, two and three is they can't have a nuclear weapon and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. And we're talking about that. I don't want to say in advance, but they've agreed they will never have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, hang on. I want to play that again. That's that part. Because you could argue the 12 day war and where President Trump did not want to do regime change. He was very open about that. And all those people said, oh, these panic ins, you know, the World War Three. No, we did not want regime change because we didn't want this thing to potentially spread. President Trump delivered an expeditionary force of Navy fast attack submarines with Tomahawk missiles and B2 bombers that led what they believe at the time was the total and complete obliteration of the nuclear program. Turned out that might not be 100% accurate, given intelligence they found afterwards, but still, one of the biggest reasons for this war, in fact, always the number one, was the nuclear weapons program of the Iranians. I want to play that clip one more time because I think we would say, coming from the commander in chief in the Oval Office, I would take your number two Prinsula and say, I think this is an inflection point. Let's go and hear it.
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Interviewer
What do you think was the turning point to make you want to pursue a ceasefire? A few days ago, you know, you said you wanted to continue bombing Iran. Now you want to pursue peace talks. Was there something that.
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Donald Trump
They're talking to us and they're talking sense. And remember, it all starts with they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Just, you know, I said yesterday, what are. They said, what are the top 10? I said, well, number one, two and three is they can't have a nuclear weapon and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. And we're talking about that. And I don't want to say in advance, but they've agreed they will never have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, he's not going to be boxing. He's never going to be boxed in by people saying, you know, tell us your alternatives, what you're doing. But obviously something. And I think that was the point of, as we talked about over the weekend on the Saturday and Sunday show, and I want to thank Rav for having us giving us the infrastructure to do the Sunday morning show. I think it's very important, but giving the ultimatum, remember the five o' clock ultimatum that the Strait of Hormuz will be open or we're going to dust. We're going to take down to dust your energy, your grid, your electrical energy, and most importantly, your Oil infrastructure, which means that it'll be 20 or 30 years before Iran's able to pull out of that. That was a forcing function that clearly brought a lot of people to the table. And CNN and others doubt whether the President is even talking to people now. We know he was in conversations. Now it's also pretty evident that as he goes through the litany of who they've killed in their high command, this is one of the things we talked on the show in the very first days of the attack itself back in late February, early March, that what they had done on the command and control, not just the technological, but also the ayatollah and the mullahs on the religious side, but also on the Revolutionary Guard side, they've gone down to almost battalion level and taken out some folks that's starting to show up. Like President Trump says, we've got to find out who we can even negotiate with. This is why he has, as I've said a number of times, a lot of respect for Field Marshall. What is it? Munren in Pakistan, essentially the chief of staff or the head of the Pakistani army. President Trump thinks very highly of him. He looks like he's taken the lead and I think has served up to President Trump at least part of the junta. Looks like a Speaker House away from their parliamentary system that actually can potentially make a deal. That's what I think President Trump keeps saying, hey, we're talking to people now. It's a very, very fluid situation. But let me reiterate, you've had a couple of points in this war so far, although I now hear that the White House, they don't want us to call it a war, they want to call us a military operation. Although the president continues impede, continue to go back and call it a war, because I guess it's a battle or war, but it's kinetic. Plus that the inflection point of that Saturday night when they bomb, when the Israelis bomb the facilities in Tehran, the bombing of the natural gas field, the joint ownership between Qatar and the Iranians, as we now know, or at least the Qataris are telling us, and like I said, I wouldn't trust anything they told me, but they're putting it out over and over again that it took out 17% of their capacity for liquefied natural gas. What we do know and has been reported as a fact, they have invoked force majeure, kind of this act of war, of act of God to get out of five year contracts they've got with countries like Italy, Belgium, you know, countries in Europe, I think also Japan and China, the Chinese Communist Party. So that's going to have a major impact on those because hey, they want to renegotiate them at the higher levels. I would say today is a well yesterday when he first said this, but now we know he put some flesh in the bone that we know. This thing feels like it's real. And you had the Israeli you saw on right before we came on. We did the shift over with Bolling and Bolling keeps his fingers pretty much on the pulse as any oil trader does. Israeli TV was breaking that they're working on a 30 day ceasefire so they can actually have some time to have some discussions and try to work something out. Now traditionally, if you're winning and you're pounding, just like Putin and Russia, you're very, you're really not a fan of ceasefires. We do know, as Captain Fanell has told us over and over again, does such a good job in these sit robs, CENTCOM is methodically going through and defanging and declawing the conventional weaponry of the regime. And I think it do it in a brutal fashion, a remorseless fashion, as Pete I think put it. The Department of War and centcom, they negotiate with bombs. They're not there. This War Department is not there to bring teddy bears. They're there to bring the heat and the heat they're bringing. Now while that's being said, and this is from the Iranian point of view, we've heard over and over again the lack of trust they have for the United states because hey, two times, both in the 12 Day War and here, they felt they were in negotiations and they got hit both times. Treat of parsley. And these guys continue to harp on this. We do know that there's 5,000 combat marines, fleet marines on two different amphibious ready groups, Marine Expeditionary units coming from both Japan and San Diego that will be in the North Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman and be ready on station, as we call it. It looks like midday Friday. Also reports out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina that 3,000 of the 82nd Airborne and I think a lot of special operators, special Forces types there are basically getting ready to forward deploy. Their command structure I think is already forward deployed into the region. So there you're going to have, you know, up to 8, 9, 10,000 combat troops ready to go and hold either Carg island or those islands right there at the beginning of the, at the mouth of Strait of Hormuz or even the beachhead, take that beachhead that we talked about with Alexander the Great, where his troops marched in 320 was it 324 BC? Short commercial break we're going to pivot a little bit to politics here. 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Steve Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, the one thing about war, I think one of the ironclad laws we know is nobody knows nothing. As Louis B. Mayer used to say about the making of movies, the role of the iron dice. The only constant you have is the law of undetended consequences. Now, that comes in the fog of war, to think things through. That's why here at the war room, we're trying to be a platform that you have many different voices giving you information. You process it because you're the most important political entity in this country today, regardless of these political parties. It's the grassroots MAGA base and the grassroots leaders of that MAGA base. You have to come to your own conclusions, and once you come to your own conclusions, will move out in a certain direction. I'm gonna get back to the war in a moment. Go to the white House. But I wanna bring in. You know, I have this phrase, victory begets victory. Remember that, particularly back in 2021, President Trump exiled to Mar? A Lago after he had won a presidential election because it was stolen. We had an illegitimate regime. Never happened in the history of the country. Had never happened in the history of the country. And we see what has happened to our beloved country since then. Now, I think all of us would say it's probably providential that President Trump was able to have that gap and have those four years and think things through and put together a team that could really hit in 2024, in 2025, hitting on all cylinders. But the damage done to our beloved republic in those years is incalculable. That's why the grassroots is so important now, particularly saying, people say, oh, my gosh, we're going to lose the midterms. We're going to lose the Senate, we're going to lose the House, we're going to lose it all. We're not going to lose it. If you, the people that watch and listen to the show, the grassroots base of the MAGA movement, determine that your task and purpose is we're not going to lose it. And I can tell you, I can point in certain specific things I have seen with my own eyes here recently. Texas. What you see in Texas is just the grit of these Texans that have dug in and say, we're not going to let our country be. Let our state be overwhelmed by this Islamic invasion. We're not going to let the Rhinos win down there. We're going to fight. And now you've got Paxton up In, I think, three polls, 16 and 1 18, another and another 18 points. And so the whole thing of Cornyn smashing him and smearing him with unlimited amount of money hasn't worked. Why hasn't it worked? Because of the. Because of the grassroots. That's why it hasn't worked. You look in Georgia, and I gotta tell you, nothing in when the history of this era is written, they're gonna do stories like this. They did the stories of the revolutionary generation. The patriots in Georgia have stood in five and six years fighting about the 2020 election through bankruptcy and prison sentences and court and all the money spent on lawyers, and not just that, the opportunity cost. They could have been doing so much more with their lives, and they didn't. Because they understood in this time and place, it was important for them to stand in the breach and make sure that we set things right. And that is, quite frankly, the glory of this grassroots effort in Georgia to get to the bottom of the 2020 election. Now, one has just come upon us.
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Steve Bannon
hey, it's all over this 101 Spanberger and let's face it, she's a CIA operative. You can tell how well trained she is. And she's kind of an automaton. And when people say she's not a nice person, I say, no, she's pure evil. Baby. You're seeing it. That's how they're going to run things with people like that when they totally take over. And how do you combat it? Not big money, not corporate power, not a bunch of feckless former political officials in the state that have essentially abandoned the state. No, it's the grassroots. Jeff Reyer, you're the leader of that as the new chairman of the Virginia Republican party. And man, what is coming out of there with the grassroots effort on fire, People with no money just saying we're not going to let this happen. Everybody said we're going to get blown out on this referendum on the 21st of April, and you guys said over our dead bodies we're going to work. And so far it's been nothing short of magnificent. Jeff, can you get us up to speed on what's happening happening in the Commonwealth?
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Jeffrey Reyer
Well, our grassroots, we turn to them, ask for their help, ask for their support and boy, have they delivered. We have. All 124 of our Republican units across the state are working to make sure that we get the vote no message out. And you can travel across this state right now and see not just the signs and the yard signs that the Republican party of Virginia has put out, but you can see loads of people putting together their own signs and their own efforts with their own themes, customizing it really to their own particular locality. We've got different units that have actually bought billboards that are going up in different places across the state. It's been phenomenal the response we've gotten by turning to the grassroots and they're putting it together individually, one effort at a time and they are doing a great job with. We're obviously helping and helping to coordinate, but it's their work and their sweat that's turning, turning this situation around and delivering the vote no message. It's been spectacular, really has so far
- [35:24]
Steve Bannon
the history of the Commonwealth, from the revolution to the civil War and beyond has been ride to the sound of the guns. And that's what they're doing in the commonwealth right now. Where, tell us where do you see this going and where do you guys need backup? Do you need bodies? Do you need people helping you with text messages? Like if people go to volunteer because you've inspired. I've talked to so many people and it's inspirational what's happening, particularly in the fact if we, if we lose this, you're going to be digging out of this for a decade in the Commonwealth of Virginia and at the federal level. So where do people, what do you guys need and where do people go?
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Jeffrey Reyer
If you go to virginia.gop and click on the Stop gerrymandering sign at the very top, it'll take you to a form that you can fill out. And even if you're out of state, we can set you up so that you can make text messages, you can make phone calls, you can help us deliver the message in the state. We've got our own people who are doing it right now. But boy, it is the more the merrier. And we need every little bit that we can get as far as assistance for getting the word out because we're doing this really at a tremendous spending disadvantage to the Democrats. They've already raised $28 million to push the yes campaign. They've got Barack Obama all over television. We're relying primarily on our grassroots and they're delivering for us by all, all evidence. It's just turning out great. But others can help out also. We always accept cash donations, of course, and are grateful for it when we can get them regardless of what size. But there are things people can do to volunteer and we'll make sure that they get put to work, no question. And it'll be valuable work something that does make a difference because that's one of the things we're fighting. The Democrats have been lying to people. They even lie on the ballot as far as what the referendum does. So a lot of our time is spent explaining to people what the implications of this would be. And you're right, it's 10 years of non competitive elections in Virginia if this goes through. This is existential, Jeff.
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Steve Bannon
It's existential. Are you telling me the battle's going to come down to. I just want to make sure I can frame this properly. Big money out of state, billionaires financing Barack Obama coming to your home for a 30 second spot versus grassroots MAGA going door to door, knocking and saying and walking people through why this is not simply unconstitutional, that it's bad for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Is that what this battle is going to come down to? Because that's the case. I'm long the grassroots. In short, Obama, sir.
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Jeffrey Reyer
Yep. That is what it is going to come down to. It is US versus Obama Holder. The Soros people put in $5 million to the, to the Democratic effort last week. We are fighting. And of course, Hakeem Jeffries primed the effort with $10 million. We are fighting the Democrats, national Democrats, tooth and nail. And because their desire is to turn this into a state that nobody needs to be concerned about any longer. And it's still a competitive state. This is still a winnable state for Republicans. This is not off the map yet, but it's up to our grassroots to demonstrate that and we're trying to give them all the tools that they need.
- [38:55]
Steve Bannon
Brother. Great work. Where do people go? Social media. One more time. Where they go to the site if they want to volunteer or they want to help. Otherwise, where do folks go to get? There are a lot of people that want to be in this fight, Jeff, so don't be shy about asking.
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Jeffrey Reyer
I am not. And it's virginia.gop. and like I said, click on the Stop Gerrymandering link. It's at the very top of the page. Also, you'll find on the right hand side of the top of the page the donate button. But also please follow us on start following us on X. We're at capital V, capital A, underscore capital G, capital O, capital P. And we are keeping people abreast of what we're doing there. So we're trying to just make sure that the information gets out. But our volunteers are organized and ready to go and they have been working their tails off for the last month. It's really phenomenal performance on their part.
- [39:52]
Steve Bannon
There is. And that takes leadership. That's why I think it was so great that you got elected to do this, Jeff. I know you're going to a fundraiser down the Commonwealth. Make sure they know that you guys are inspiring the nation. And the war room can't be more excited than the war room posse about jumping in here. You guys have inspired, you've inspired the country and you've inspired the MAGA base. So thank you so much for doing it, the hard work.
- [40:15]
Jeffrey Reyer
I need to thank the war Room because I get more feedback from these appearances than any other that I have and the party has benefited from it. Thank you very much for drawing attention to this.
- [40:29]
Steve Bannon
Thanks, Jeff. Keep fighting. We're going to be doing this every day because there's so much great stuff going on, there's so many great fighters. But I got to tell you, Georgia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the state of Texas. There's rumor in political circles now, we can't totally confirm it, but I think there may be some things popping up tonight or more of this grassroots effort and the grassroots muscle and basically the grassroots digging in Texas, as has been shown by the polling. And remember, Paxton's getting just crushed again by big money and these negative ads, these polling, I think is starting to get people's attention. Obviously, Cornyn's past record, but it is not. I think we're getting to a point, I think we're getting to a zone that the Cornyn endorsement is not a sure thing like people thought it was. It was put on hold. But you never know. If the grassroots keep, keep pushing, it may be on permanent hold. Let me go to. So we're going to get more into that because there's all kind of, you know, victory begets victory and the great things going on of people that are just rolling up their sleeves and saying, no, we're not going to be steamrolled and give up our country. Let's go to the White House. Neal McCabe, first off, Neil, what a day at the White House. I got a couple minutes here. Just give me, put us in the room. What was the feel like at the White House today as the president, quite frankly, had this really historic session for the, for, I think it was Mark Wayne Miller for his confirmation of dhs, but he talked about the war and just went next level, sir.
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Neil McCabe
Yeah, the president is really in a. I guess he's in a confident mood, I guess you'd say. He seems very much in command. This is sort of like Trump the statesman. You know, he's got different modes. And this was Trump's statesman today. And of course, there's word that the 82nd Airborne may be deploying to Operation Epic Fury. And so the Pentagon is referring all those inquiries to the White House. White House hasn't confirmed yet, but that would be a brigade combat team and a headquarters unit of about 300 personnel. And so, you know, the president is confident that he can get a deal done. But at the same time, there are wheels in motion with the 82nd and then of course, those two naval task force with the Marine carriers that should be in epic fury in about, well, the first one, Tripoli, will be there at the event of about a week. And then two weeks later, Boxer arrives,
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Steve Bannon
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Neil McCabe
War room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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Steve Bannon
Hang on for Neil. I'm a hang I'm going to hold Neil to the top of the hour about Saveact. I've got Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is going to come in. Breaking news on the bill about AI Jo, Ellen May, join us about the Hill and Valley today that we streamed. We got so much to get into and I've got to get into ICE, the 2026 midterms and what's happening at the airports round all of that. Plus more war updates. Drones in Ukraine and St. Petersburg. Don't lose sight of Ukraine. That's as you know, another part of this kinetic war that Baby could spin out of control at any moment. So don't think there's not activity over there. George Papadopoulos is also going to join us. Trevor Comstock, Brother, we need rays of light here. I just had Jeff Reyer on from the Commonwealth Virginia. Talk about the grassroots. We got a lot of positive stuff going on because every day in the war room we're dealing with the most serious and the heaviest topics out there. Geopolitics, war, intelligence, capital markets, direction of the country, things that will take place now that'll affect us for 10 years. People are really thinking this through. So we need to have those rays of sunlight that companies like Sacred Human Health can bring. What do you got for us, brother?
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Steve Bannon
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Trevor Comstock
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Steve Bannon
Really focus on the bundle, folks. Now I want to take a minute. As a founder and CEO, you're also head of product development. They're very methodical about testing products, releasing products. That's why you don't go there and have 100 products. They're very precise, but it's also the manufacturing. This is kind of handcrafted, right? Just give us a minute on how you guys actually, after you have the formulas, the tests, everything like that, actually making it itself so it's at the highest possible quality made here in the good old United states of America.
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Trevor Comstock
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Steve Bannon
Trevor, one more time. Where do people go? You get a big discount. Where do people go? You got bundles, got all kinds of things. I want people go there to the website, see the reviews and talk to Trevor, ask him some questions where they go.
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Trevor Comstock
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Steve Bannon
brother. Thank you. And I thank you. So being so obsessed with quality, that's what it takes with these companies. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. Tage Gill, Trevor Comstock. Very different people, but all the same, the same quality. Same with Lindell. Lindell, give me. I want a minute on these patriots in Georgia. You just got back from there doing a governor's run because you're so close to them. They have inspired the nation. Five and six years in the trenches, abused. And we have an evidentiary hearing on Friday. Six years after this, the biggest crime in the history of this nation of which sir, you were not into politics at all. But you said, hey look, I can see a crime and I can see something that's never happened in the history of this country. And I'm just not gonna sit there. I don't care if they try to take my company. I don't care if they try to put me in jail. I don't care if they try to bankrupt me or kick me out of Walmart or kick me out of all the, the big box stores. My pillow will survive because we're tough and we're focused. Mike Lindell.
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Mike Lindell
Yeah. And that's it everybody. This Georgia right now is leading the nation. And they did back then too. These guys are fighters. These guys were there five years ago in all these states where everybody knew the election was stalled and we had to finally break through the biggest cover up of the biggest crime in history. And they tried to take our nation without firing a shot. It was easy to be courageous when we know we lose everything regardless if we don't have secure elections. So that is one thing. Everybody and, and yeah, coming back from Georgia, what those guys did for a big donor event down there to help me in Minnesota when Minnesota when the governor's race there to help out there and then to speak before all those people patriots down there. And it was just an honor, Steve. But I, you know what they when you talk about my pillow, everybody today is it. We have. They got to be shipped out tomorrow. You guys, we, we've been moving the factory during these times the last six weeks and we, we've saved all of the big, the big ticket items and the closeout items for the war room posse. You guys should get a ship for free so we don't have to bring it to our other their factory. So you guys see if your size and everything is still there right now. You get free shipping with promo code War room. The mattress toppers, the mattresses made in the usa. They help you get the best sleep ever. Go to mypillow.com war room. You guys do all your shopping right now. This is it. 80% off so many of those items. Clothing lines and couch pillows, I mean, you name it. Kitchen towels, we have it all over 200 items. Let's get them shipped right to your front door for free. And 800-873-1062. My employees love talking to the warmer past. You guys call them now. Get the last day that we got going to get all these items right to your front door for free.
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Steve Bannon
Mike, we'll see you tomorrow morning. Stick around. The second hour of the war room is upon us. Buckle up, it's going to be on fire.
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Steve Bannon
You move.