
Episode 5403: Fight Is Just Starting In Texas The Threat In Our Backyard ...
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Tammy Brown Rodriguez
President, Iran wants control of the Strait of Hormuz. Would you accept a short term deal
Steve Bannon
that allows Iran and Oman to control the strait and would they have to
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
open it immediately or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?
Donald Trump
No, the strait is going to be open to everybody.
Steve Bannon
And who would control it?
Donald Trump
It's international waters. Nobody is going to control it. We're going to watch over it, we'll watch over it, but nobody is going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it. Nobody's going to control it. It's international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else who will have to blow him up. They understand that. They'll be fine, Mr. Brown. Their whole economic system is broken down. They thought they were going to outweigh me. You know, we'll outweigh him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night, that was the prelude to the midterms. People understand that. They know that. Very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm doing that for the world. I'm not doing it just for us shooting on Iran.
Steve Bannon
Would you be comfortable with Russia or China taking their stockpile of highly uranium
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
and have they offered to do that?
Donald Trump
I wouldn't be comfortable. That would not make me comfortable.
Reporter
President Trump is rejecting Iran's latest bid to gain authority over the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier today, Iranian state media reported on a draft memo that it claimed would give Tehran and Oman control over the strait as part of a deal to end the war state of the talks with Iran. I guess if it were a football
Steve Bannon
field, what yard line would you be on?
Donald Trump
Well, I think we're doing very well. They are starting to give us the things that they have to give us. And if they do, that's great. And if they won't, then the man on my left is going to finish him off. He got paid millions of dollars for taking care of one man. Total crook. They're all crooks. The Somalians, what they've done to Minnesota. The Somalians, crooked as hell. Ilhan Omar, crooked as hell. They're all crooks. And we got them. We got them now we're putting the clamps on. But boy, I tell you, that's an impressive group of guys that you have behind you. I was watching that and a couple of very strong women too. But I was watching that last night. I said I'm proud of you guys.
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
Is the US considering easing sanctions on Iran to allow Iran to sell its crew to market.
Donald Trump
No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions, giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing. We have control of money that they claim is theirs. We'll keep control of that money when they behave properly and when they do what's right, we'll let them have their money. But right now we're not doing that. And it's not one thing is not contingent on the other.
Reporter
Do these accusations of corruption resonate with Republican voters, with Texas voters generally?
Political Analyst
Well, obviously yesterday it worked out well for Paxton, but he has tremendous resonance with that MAGA base within the Republican Party. There's another base within the Republican Party. There are of longstanding sort of establishment Republicans who I think are less enamored with him. They were the Corn, Cornyn Republicans and with independents. His numbers are very, very bad. So, you know, you said at the beginning that Democrats were, they got the, the, the guy they wanted. There are two groups that got the guy they wanted. If you consider the president a group, him and Democrats. I think there are a lot of Republicans who are deeply concerned about this. They think they can win because te Texas, but they expect they're going to have to spend a fortune to try and do it because he's such a heavy lift.
Steve Bannon
Wednesday 27th May, in the year of our Lord 2026, you saw right there more of the misinformation. Paxton had this historic victory with about 15 million bucks, with 150 spent against him to destroy him and the grassroots movement. Remember that we call for accountability on this. And Cornyn in his vicious self continued to authorize the personal attacks ads all the way up to the beginning. He knew he was losing a week or so prior and losing badly. A week or so prior to President Trump stepping in. I think the polling was 8 to 12, somewhere in that range and pretty consistent, I think around 10 or 11. President Trump came in, of course, closed the deal. They lost by 30. But he continued to get, he continued to get this mantra gonna cost him a fortune. Now I'm not so sure. And I think it's gonna be a three to five point plus blowout of Talaria. The reason is he's a freak. They get enamored with what they think in Texas. What can, you know, first off, it's gonna be okay, and then it's going to be Allred the football player. And then, you know, now they're going to try the left wing seminarian. But the Cornyn situation shows you the Republican establishment. Texas had a Shattering blow. A shattering blow. We're going to get to Tammy Brown Rodriguez in a moment. The chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party and one of the grassroots leaders down there helping to turn around the Dallas county also. You saw the president, the bid and the asked. This is why we continually try to update you with various experts and analysts in this Iran war. If you had a chance to watch. And I'm so glad. Once again, at Real America's Voice war room, we play the thing its entirety. Only Fox played it. Only Fox played the Cabinet, actually the public part of the Cabinet meeting with President Trump going around the table and then the Q and A with the reporters. MSNBC and CNN would only cut in for the snarkiest of the questions and the responses you saw there. There's such a difference between what President Trump is saying that he's doing with the Iranians and what the media is saying he's doing. He was pretty adamant about a couple parts of this deal that are supposed to be, you know, already conceded to or agreed to. Not happening. According to him. Hey, not happening, not being discussed and put out on Oman. And Oman is a country right there at the tip of kind of the Saudi peninsula and where UAE is that really makes up one side, kind of this side of the, the Gulf Emirates, the Arab side of the Persian Gulf in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranians and the Persians on the other side. He said, hey, if they get out of line, I'm going to bomb them. Talking about working to close the, to close the channel, close the Strait of Hormuz. He's just not putting up with it. And I think it's a breath of fresh air, particularly talking about, you know, all this back and forth and who, you know, are the Pakistanis doing this? Are the Gulf Emirates doing something? Who are the Persians talking to? It was refreshing today to hear the president so blunt in talking about what's going on. Let's go to Tammy Brown Rodriguez about the historic, epic win last night of Ken Paxton. Tammy, just put in a word. You're one of the grassroots leaders and you've worked so hard on this. Give us your assessment or observations about this 30 point blowout when nobody, I mean, the whole lazy Washington media is absolutely blown away by this. What are your observations on it, ma'?
Mike Lindell
Am?
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
Oh, it was spectacular. We have spent so much time and talent and treasure working through these elections and especially in Dallas County. In Dallas county, we turned out like rock stars. We had an epic turnout, far more so than we did in 2020. 2. And it shows. It absolutely shows. In fact, in early voting, we had. We beat the Democrats in turnout three out of the five days in early voting. And that's unheard of here in Dallas County.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, you know, Dallas, I think Dallas and Travis, where Austin is only two counties, along with Kennedy, which has like nine people voting down there on the Gulf of America, are the only two. Those are the two big ones we lost. But the spreads were very small. He had to carry those in big numbers. And you guys able to close that down? What did it take? Why were you able to turn out this vote for Ken Paxton, particularly given all the money that Corny spent and particularly in Dallas? He needed really huge numbers in Dallas to overcome some of the rural communities. How did you guys actually get to vote out for Paxton?
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
You know, a couple of key things is that we have got to modernize, and historically Dallas county has not done well in that area. And so we had texting campaigns, we mobilized our precinct chairs. We ensured that we had lots of communication. And I think the other thing that was really helpful is that we had a club. We had a separate primary. And so every location that we had judges at, we had Republican judges and Republican clerks, which increased voter security, voter secure thoughts and information on feeling like their vote's going to matter. Because when they went to the voting booth, it was a Republican judge and Republican clerks that were serving Republicans, just as it should be.
Steve Bannon
How was was that? Do you recruit specifically for that? Did you realize that was going to be an issue? Because I know, you know, Melissa Katz and some other people are judges and they do a lot of training. Did you guys realize early on that was going to be an issue and that if you want to have really strong turnout, you had to make sure people their votes were secure? So you actually recruited folks to be judges into B recorders, and then you trained them up.
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
Oh, yeah. This is a herculean effort. And I have a fantastic team here in Dallas county that works the elections. And we had to recruit a judge and multiple clerks per location. And on election day, it was like 280 some locations. And so it was a big, big effort. But when you train them well and you've got really good organization skills, and it was very smooth. Very, very smooth. Unlike other elections where there was a lot of drama around the machines, there were lots of drama in other areas, this one went really well. And as the Republican chairwoman, I worked directly with the election administrator, and we got some things done at central count. That's where all the votes Go back to that has not yet been done in Dallas county to secure our elections. So how did you get somebody inside of the. Go ahead.
Steve Bannon
How did you get. But how did you recruit these people when in particular in Dallas? Because we were up in north of Dallas for a couple of months in the TV ads on local news, cable, every night, just the corner negative ads on, on against Ken Paxton were unbelievable. They were vicious. And there was just so much of how did you go out and recruit people given the amount of negative ads that were out there?
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
You know, because we have seriously committed precinct chairs and committed volunteers. Because all this is volunteer work, right? The people that are recruiting our election judges, it's a volunteer team and they run our election integrity committee here in Dallas county. And they just went to work calling everybody they knew. We did lots of email campaigns, lots of texting campaigns. We had great trainings at the Dallas County Republican Party in addition to the trainings that were down at the Dallas county election department. And it's really with passion that we love our county, we love our state and we all know that as goes Texas, as goes this nation. And we were literally at a tipping point. This was it for us. We fought so hard to make sure that we had separate primaries. That is a huge key that we used to do all the time. And that has changed over the last 10 years. And we want to ensure that Republicans feel good about showing up at the polls.
Steve Bannon
Tell me about Talarico. They are saying that it's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This is a huge mistake. You got a very flawed candidate. Talk to me your assessment of Talarico in this current in the general election.
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
Tall Ringo. He's crazy. I was behind Ken Paxton the entire time. Ken has done some great things for Texas. I'm in the anti human trafficking space for my real job. I'm a CEO of Untrafficked. Anytime that we can partner with Ken Paxton as he protected kids, as he protected women in at here in Texas, we're going to back Ken. And so for me personally, I don't think it's going to be as, as tough as the media is trying to tell us it's going to be to get Ken Paxton over the finish line. I think people are tired of people trying to co op Texas with these crazy extremists from the other side. To your point, the betas of the world. It's not going to work. It's not going to bode well for them. And I think Texans are just so ready for great representation. In D.C. it's time.
Steve Bannon
Amazing. Tammy Brown Rodriguez Social media and where they go to your website to find out about trafficking and about Dallas County Republicans Ma' Am yes.
Tammy Brown Rodriguez
So you can certainly go to my socials which is real TBR_TX. Real TBR_TX. You can also go to find out more about the Dallas County Republican Party@dallasgop.org find out all kinds of information, how you can get involved. And finally, if you're interested in helping to protect the most vulnerable and you want to find out more information about how you too can protect our kids, go to untrafficked.org untrafficked.org and Steve, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate your time today.
Steve Bannon
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Reporter
Do you think the US currently has enough leverage to keep Iran from pursuing its ambitions with this Persian Gulf strait authority and its desire to control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz long term?
Foreign Policy Expert
No, frankly, the Iranians have controlled the traffic through the Strait of Hormuz since February 28th when we started this war. And predictably, the response to that war was for them to close the strait. As long as Iran is geographically located where it is, which is right around the strait, it will have the capacity to attack shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. And unless and until the United States to decide to end its capacity to do so through military force, which requires the occupation of large swaths of Iran, Iran is going to have the capability to do this. So the President can say the strait is open, the President can say that international waters are international waters. The Iranians have a different idea and so far they've been able to dictate the terms.
Reporter
How about nuclear concessions? I mean, if the US Were to lift the, the blockade as this memorandum suggests, does the US have enough leverage to get into this negotiation? Specific details on what Iran is going to do with either uranium that's already been enriched or that they perhaps could enrich in the future,
Foreign Policy Expert
we'll have to see. I mean, so far the answer to that again is no. All the reporting suggests that, that the memorandum they're negotiating does not address the nuclear issue. It may let lay down some parameters of what a nuclear negotiation one day may look like. But the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said the other day, you don't negotiate the end of the Iranian nuclear program in 72 hours on the back of a napkin. He's absolutely right. It took the Obama administration 16 months, it took the Europeans starting in 2003 to negotiate an agreement that was finally signed in 2015. And foolishly the President walked away. And I think it's very important to underscore if the Iranian nuclear deal, the so called JCPOA that was negotiated in 2015 had been in force today, Iran would not have had more than 300 kg of uranium enriched to 3.67%. Today Iran has 10, 8500 kg of enriched uranium, much of it enriched, some of it to 60%, other parts to 20% and sufficient material to, to make if they have the time, not just 11, but perhaps 100 bombs. That's the situation that President Trump created.
Steve Bannon
Trump did not create that. This also shows you that they're maniacally focused on the bomb. I think it's a big gap between President Trump said today in the Oval and whatever's in this memorandum that they're supposedly negotiating. I thought President Trump took very firm stances on a number of the key issues, including the Strait of Hormuz is in the Persian Gulf is an international waterway and particularly the Strait of Hormuz. There's not going to be any Persian Gulf maritime authority that goes that that monitors and handles shipping. So the I know his closest Advisors and the Secretary of War, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, the Secretary of treasury, others, Joint Chiefs of Staff are working through the next couple of days to maybe sharpen this a bit. I think it's good that Marco's back because. And I don't think this is going to be quick. I think the President realizes it's not going to happen quickly. Number one, the Persians have a negotiating style that tend to drag things out. He might have, and he said, he said if he has to increase economic warfare, if he has to go kinetic again. They're drawing up different target sets. Some are for additional military targets and industrial based targets. Others, quote, unquote, some that are hard to get to. Also they're looking at basically their infrastructure also. So the military has a wide range of options here. And so I would stay tuned in this space, but I think hearing it from the President is always best. And that's why I love it when he does those cabinet meetings and he goes around the table, they talk, get up to date and then he takes any and all questions from the media, which I think he handles very straightforwardly. Clearly the interest of the America first in the Maga movement is to wrap this thing up, get an off ramp, wrap this up and make sure they can't get a nuclear weapon, figure out a deal that parties can live with, then come back here to hemispheric defense. Lost in all the avalanche of news yesterday, including the race in Texas, what was going on with these deals, et cetera, The Flavio Bolsonaro went to the Oval Office. Remember Lula was there about two or three weeks ago. We covered that extensively. And as we said, that meeting did not go well. Lula, they didn't invite the press in. Lula kind of changed up the order of battle afterwards, after he kind of just left the White House, I think unexpectedly or quickly, he goes back to the Brazilian. Remember we had Neil McCabe outside, right, with all the international media, the Brazilian media, they just kind of packed up. They got the word, they packed up, they headed over to the Brazilian Embassy, I think it was. And Lula gave a press conference there. Didn't have a joint event with the President, didn't make himself available to the White House media. We had our reporter there with a list of questions, went back and gave a interview at the Brazilian, at the Brazilian Embassy and was not quite complimentary of the President, particularly regarding the Iranian war. I don't think that sat very well with the President of the United States. Flavio, who is leading Bolsonaro in The polls, although everything's very close down there on the presidential election they're having this fall, came yesterday and there's some great photos, if we can put those up. We've got Alan das Santos here to explain it all to us. Can you give us how did this get set up? It's quite extraordinary. Not you have heads of state, although even the Lula meeting was not a head of state. They said he came, it was on a personal meeting with the President because we cover all these. There were no flags. He came to a different entrance. It was very low keyed about his entrance and his exit. In fact, he kind of left when nobody knew it. So it wasn't an official state visit. He wasn't. They didn't offer up to stay in the Blair house. It was a personal visit, but I know it didn't sit well with a lot of people. What happened that day? How did this come about that Bolsonaro was invited to come up? Sir
Alan dos Santos
Steve Bennett, thank you so much for having me on your show. It's good to clarify first of all that what you just said, that the White House invited Flavio Bolsonaro because the media, United States and in Brazil they are saying that Flava Bolsonaro invited himself to be received by Trump, but it's a total lie. I'm a witness that the Secretary of State was in touch with the Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. And it's good to remember that since last year as a senator he was working together with the Secretary of State and the Governor of Rio Genere in Brazil to classify PCC and the CV as a terrorist group. So this invitation, it's probably connected to this matter which is urgent in South America right now because all these drug cartel, they are not operating just selling drugs, they are terrorist groups. And Flavo Bolsonaro was invited because Trump probably couldn't see any answer from Lula da Silva. I know that Lula would never give an answer about what to do with the drug cartel in Brazil because Lula is as president right now in Brazil because he was helped by this drug cartel. And that's why Flav Bolsonaro is in there to solve this problem in South America.
Steve Bannon
But Alan, hang on for a second. I want to go back to something you just said. It's very important. And folks, we deal with this a lot because obviously we monitor what's going on in Brazil. We're huge supporters of the Bolsonaro family. But the media down there is so one sided. If people think the United States media is bad. You ain't seen nothing in Brazil. They're actually making the case. If Flavio invited himself, that's not the way the White House works. You don't invite yourself and you show up. You have to have an invitation from the Secretary of State and the President to come. And that was a. And here's what's so important. The last couple of days have just been intense. Not just with what was going on in Texas, what's going on in the Senate. The president had the entire day he was doing on Monday, doing the Memorial Day activity for our honored dead, but also in Iran. There's so many developments happening in the war as he's trying to negotiate a deal. So it's absurd to think that Flavio invited himself and he showed up. But the media down there is trying to spin it that way. And this was an invitation from the Secretary of State and the President, United States to come to the White House. And yes, I'm sure they talked about those two terrorist organizations who Lula, you know, unfortunately looks like he's in business with some of these guys. But no, this was a formal invitation. And I know the Secretary of State and the President really enjoyed seeing him. Sir,
Alan dos Santos
there is an influencer that was arrested a few days ago. Her name is Delani Vizeja and he was arrested. She was arrested because she is working with the head of the pcc. And guess who was supporting Lula in recording videos during Lula's campaign calling him Papa Daddy. So that woman that was arrested connected to the pcc, the drug cartel pcc. She is a Lula supporter, Openly Lula supporter. And the media did not say a word after her arrest. And this is what's going on in Brazil, Steve. Sadly, in north of Brazil, in the state of Sierra, we have human corpse being cut out and thrown in the seas, in the oceans and people are swimming and suddenly they see pieces of human corpse, human bodies. And this is how drug cartel is operating in Brazil. It is a terrorist group and Flavio did not invite himself. As you said, that's not possible here in the United States. They are confusing countries. They think that the White House now is where Lula lives in Brasilia right now. So, yeah, that's how I assume they are confusing countries. And what Flavio Bolsonaro wants for Brazil, it's not become a president. It's not about elections.
Steve Bannon
Alan, hang on one second. I want to give you plenty of Runway after the commercial break. I want to talk about this in depth. More particularly also these terrorist groups. What the Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Rubio is doing its heroic work with Flavio and others in Brazil. Remember, hemispheric defense. One of the big pivots around that is not just South America, but it's also our friendship and partnership with Brazil. Short commercial break we're going to turn in the war in just a moment. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Philip Patrick is going to join us tomorrow night. We're going to talk about the turbulence in capital markets, the bond market. Also we're going to talk about physical gold. Gold is a hedge, all of it. You can get information on that. There's two ways. One is quite simple or they're both simple. But this is a very quick and dirty. It is take your phone in a text Bannon B A N N O N at 989-898 you get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump. No obligation, totally free. All the information from Birch goes with no obligation. You get that, you get access to Philip Patrick. You can walk through all the different methodology, 401ks, IRAs, tax deferment, all of it. Check it out. Also for first time purchasers and investors, possibility with a qualifying purchase that you can get rebates up to $10,000. But you got to talk to Philip Patrick and his team all about that. It's not a reason to buy gold, but it might be a nice reason if you believe it's time to a nice reason, a nice incentive to think about it. Also, the end of the dollar empire we started five years ago, part of it, as you remember, we sent the team from Birch Gold down to the Rio reset, which was, wait for it, Lula. He always turns up, doesn't he? Not a friend of the United States. Remember he had Philip Patrick and the team down there live and they were saying, hey, what the BRICS nations were doing led by Lula and working with the Chinese Communist Party who party who is Lula's partner. They were trying to make sure that they could try to break the dollar, particularly the petrodollar. And what they were doing is sidebar deals, you know, direct bilat trade deals that would be settled in the currency of the country, not the US Dollar as a potential to weaken the US Dollar as the prime reserve currency. You can understand that and learn all about it in the end of the dollar empire. That's birchgold.com Bannon. You get it? That's totally free, eight free installments. If you want to. You can order the Hard copy of the book, which we're out of. Why? Because of overwhelming demand. But you can get it for free. Alan Das Santos, I want you to continue on. But I do want to say, even when we talk about every time there's a element, whether it's cartels, whether it's problems down in South America, whether it's the US dollar and the leadership he tries to put into the BRICS nations, Lula is always there against the United States, where the United States has its vital national security interests, the interests of the country. Lula always pops up. One of the reasons we spend so much time over the years, and I've spent so much time about Brazil, about the Bolsonaro. Yair Bolsonaro is a hero on a global scale. Right? This is why Lula's got him in prison. They did to Bolsonaro exactly what they were trying to do to Trump. They look at them as the same. And Bolsonaro has just been such a hero. Anytime you see trouble brewing, popping up, Lula somehow seems to have his hands around that he is an enemy of this country, flat out. He's a Marxist. He's been a partner of the Chinese Communist Party from the beginning. It's one of the reasons we focus so much on Brazil and on Lula. Here's the reason. The hemispheric defense of President Trump, which is a brilliant geoeconomic and geostrategic strategy going from the Arctic and Greenland all the way down to Cuba and the Gulf of America and the Caribbean and then Central America and South America all the way out to the vast Pacific to the Three island chain. As our 19th century giants that ran this country understood that the strategic pivot of the United States to the strategic border of the United States are American underlying American territories in the Western Pacific, in the Central Pacific. That is the hemispheric defense of our country. And things change when that happens, and it won't change why Lula's in our backyard. Brother Alan Das Santos, the floor is yours, sir.
Alan dos Santos
So I was saying, Steve, that Vlad Bolsonaro is not facing this situation as a regular election. He is trying to save his country. His dad is not arrested. He was kidnapped by state, by the government, because there is no law that could put Bolsonaro in jail. They accused Bolsonaro as a coup d', etat, but Bolsonaro was in Orlando, in Florida, where I live right now. So he was here. How can you do a coup d' etat visiting Mickey Mouse? So this is so ridiculous. This sounds ridiculous, but it's serious. Flavio is trying to save the country because the drug cartel can easily corrupt judges and they can be released easily while a lot of people are in exile, including Eduardo Bolsonaro here in the United States. So it's a very dangerous situation for Brazil because if we do not take Lula out, we're going to be target of the all three countries. Argentina is willing to fight all this drug cartel. El Salvador is willing to fight this drug cartel. Jose Antonio Cast on Chile is willing to fight against these drug cartels as a terrorist group. The United States wants it. Even Venezuela probably will fight the drug cartel since Maduro is out and Brazil with Lula and Colombia with petrol. They want to protect these groups with all their blood. You know, they. They want to protect them as they were twins, and I do believe they are twins, but they are fighting strongly not for the people, but for these drug cartels, which helps a lot of the globalist agenda. And you, you said very well, Bolsonaro is the enemy of this globalist agenda. And Lula is being helped not by the United States, but the globalists which are here in the United States. Lula is a friend of all radicals. Democrat. You ever imagine imagining any one? I mean, imagine the worst democrat you have here in the United States. He's very tied to Lula.
Steve Bannon
Talk to me about. I just want to make sure we understand this and you explain to our audience. They're two different of these drug cartels. They've got kind of same initial. Can you just explain the difference in both? Because I think it's incumbent upon us to get both of them designated as terrorist organizations. Can you explain them? And then can you explain the one that Lula has ties to?
Alan dos Santos
So the CV is for the Portuguese words. Commando Vermeil is like a Red Commander. They were created right after the military regime that we used to have in Brazil. So once leftists and criminals were in jail, they created this group called the cv, the Red Commander. And the PCC was created right after Lula created the Sao Paulo's Forum. Both of them were created by leftists, by Marxists. They use all the leftist words that people are using to use unfortunately in the schools right now.
Mike Lindell
They're.
Alan dos Santos
They're using about these guys, these criminals, saying we have human rights, we want, we want justice, we want fair, fair justice, and so forth. So all these two different drug cartel, they were created by the leftists. And then since they grew in the country, they spread in the whole country. The pcc which was created in Sao Paulo, it is way more well organized. 50% of the cocaine in Europe is being sent by the PCC through Brazil. And the Red commander controls more. Rio Janeiro in. In the north of the country, northeast of the country, north ar. Northeast. And the difference between them is just how they operate. PCC is more organized, but both of them are connected to farc. The FARC in Colombia, they are fed by the Iranian regime and they are connected to the Chinese too. So it is complicated to use the law against them, because in Brazil we do not have death penalties. For example, people in Brazil can just stay in jail for 40 years. And if you behave well, you read books and so forth, you can leave the jail in 10, 15 or maximum 20 years. So it's hard to fight against these drug cartels because they can easily live inside the prison and still control all the cocaine in the whole country. And our security system is not that strong. So all the criminals, they can use phone inside the prison. It's not like here in the United States. And they can easily buy judge and even cops close to the close the prison. In the matter of creating companies, do money laundry through these companies using influencers, it's hard to catch them in their crime. Right now, for example, there is an investigation in Brazil which puts the pcc, which is this group, it is connected to the Alani Bizeka, as said in the beginning of the show, she was supporting Lula in recording videos with Lula. She was arrested a few days ago in Italy by Interpol.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, an influencer.
Alan dos Santos
Yes. And she's working with Marcola, which is the head of the pcc. And Lula is connected with them. Hang on.
Steve Bannon
Get the audience up to date. Yeah, no, get the audience up to date in that regard to the election that's coming up this fall. It's Lula versus Flavio. Where do we stand right now? Understand, Flavio was leading in the polling a couple of weeks ago.
Alan dos Santos
Yeah, Flavio was leading all the polls or technically a draw. But this is the first time they don't say Flavio is far away from winning. This is the first time they say a right wing candidate is close to win. So for us Brazilians, we see this polls and say, okay, if they are saying we are leading or close draw, I do believe he's winning by far. Because all these companies in Brazil that they make these researches and polls, they are also connected with all the groups that are supported by Lula. It's incredible. Media and Lula da Silva, all the companies that really received money from the state bank and they just screw because they, they receive. It's a state capitalism. It's not a capitalism like here in United States. And it is, it is funny to see how they are conf. They are confessing, truly confessing something is stronger than 2022. And guess what, Steve, why they are recognizing that Vlad Bolsonaro is growing in the polls and probably and I do believe so he's going to win the election because the President of the United States is not going to help. That is the truth. Biden really interfered in the election in Brazil back in 2022. So right now we have Trump and Trump said that he is not going to do anything in there. So that's why all these companies are already projecting. How can we say that Flavio is the truly president of Brazil in the next election? Because in the United States the leftists in Brazil are not going to be helped by them. So that is the truth. Trump is not going to do what Biden did interfere and in the election in Brazil. And that's why I do believe they are, they are already confessing what it's going to happen.
Steve Bannon
No, they're scared of death. Alan, what's your social media? Where do people go to keep up with all the developments on this very important race?
Alan dos Santos
You can, you can follow me on Instagram is 47 but in Portuguese Contado Allen or just type my name Alan dos Santos on Instagram. On Twitter x truth substack to just type Alan Santos. Here in the United States you can see all my accounts. In Brazil they can just see a few, few of them.
Steve Bannon
Exactly. Lula Bad guy Marxist. Alan, thank you so much. Appreciate you and appreciate everything the Bolsonaro family is doing. The Coalition in their big anti fraud and voter fraud meeting they're having with June through 15th through 18th is going to premiere the new film about Yair Bolsonaro. I'll tell you more about that after a short commercial break. War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band. I'll get it more to to tomorrow and by the way, a lot more coming on Brazil. Matt Amenc and the team at the Coalition, which is one of the strongest anti voter fraud organizations with every different group there having a big conference in Vegas. I think it's the 15th through the 18th, two or three days in Vegas. They're going to kick off on the 15th with a screening of Jim Caviezel playing Yair Bolsonaro in a film that's in English called Dark Horse. It's an amazing, amazing film. So they're going to premiere it There. I think it'll be available commercially in the United States later, either in July or August. I don't think that's been worked out yet with the distribution. But Jim Caviezo, one of the finest actors in the country playing Bolsonaro, and it's very eerie, just embodies Yair Bolsonaro in an amazing film. And so if you the parallels between the United States and Brazil in this regard, particularly on voter fraud, is pretty extraordinary. Tomorrow we got so much to get into. There are in Georgia, I think that the Justice Department is now starting to put out requests, maybe called subpoenas for election workers in Georgia in 2020 to come in and start being interviewed and or testifying. This thing in Georgia is really heating up. We're gonna get to that. Also, you know, our favorite newspaper, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, particularly the editorial section really rips on maga, the War Room Posse and Ken Paxton's supporters and what they call Ken Paxton Republicans. Big editorial. I'll get into that tomorrow and break it all down. Huge movement in this artificial intelligence executive order kind of. Politico does a whole history of how this evolved, what happened in the past going forward. Joe Allen's going to join me in the morning for that. We've got an incredible show already backed up wall to wall. And then tomorrow night, of course, Philip Patrick, remember your homework lesson for Philip Patrick is to get to the end of the dollar empire. It's totally free. This will get you an understanding of fiat currency, kind of the populist movement in this country. A lot about debt, a lot about how gold, particular fiat currency, how the dollar stacks up to the fiat currencies. Remember, we say because there's a flight to quality, certainly during times of geopolitical uncertainty like we have now. And you can tell that from the Cabinet meeting today. President Trump's I think his thinking about this peace deal is pretty well defined, pretty well thought through. I don't think there's a lot of hesitation when you hear from President Trump now. He's read the media back and forth and what they're doing. It seems a lot of uncertainty. President Trump doesn't seem uncertain at all. And that's why the dollar's been strengthened. I think a little off today, but it's been strengthening. But the dollar compared to other fiat currency is doing great. But that's like being called the world's tallest midget against hard assets like oil, other commodities like that and gold not doing so well. Anyway, check it out. Find out why endothedollar empire birchgold.com Ben and talk to Philip Pastor and team, and he'll be here tomorrow night. Mike Lindell, you're heading up to the. This is the convention in Minnesota's rules. You know, you got the labor farm group up there. It's very confusing to a simple boy like myself. What in the hell's happening? You're going up to the convention. If you win this convention, are you the nominee or you still got. I thought you guys had problems. Primaries in August. Leave it to Minnesota. The nice conservative people up there, belt and suspenders. You gotta have a convention. And then later we're gonna have a primary. Walk me through it, brother.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, here's what it is. And it's very discombobulated in my mind. So we have this weekend, you get the Mangop endorsements. So you get the. If you get their endorsement, you need 60% of the delegates. There's 2,400 delegates that vote Minnesota now. Then we go to the primary in August. But the primary in August, once the people vote, which I'm pulling number one, you only have two weeks before you're already going up against Amy Klobuchar. So the way this is set up in Minnesota is so wrong. You should have your primary now like other states, and get it done so you know who your candidate is and you fight that. The Democrat. Well, anyway, what it is, Steve, they came to me in Minnesota. They want. This year. They want you. If you don't get their endorsement, they want you to drop out. Now, I didn't agree to drop out because I'm pulling number one with the people. I can't in good faith do that. But all the other candidates, the big candidates, the big runs, the Damis and the Kendalls, they've agreed to drop out. If. Let's say, if I get the endorsement, they're going to drop out. It'll just be me. And basically the primary will just be some that have very little votes. And you can hit the ground running on Monday right up against Klobuchar. But anyway, before, what I did earlier in the year is I said, you know what? I'm going right to Klobuchar now is what I've done. But they. You're kind of hamstrung, too, when you. I don't get the list of the delegates. So I couldn't reach out and market to the delegates. So I got to give a really good speech this tomorrow night in the debate and then Saturday to convince them that there's only one path to beating Amy Klobuchar. And that goes through our campaign.
Steve Bannon
Okay. Amen. And we'll cover that all live until that time. The audience want to know. So what are you doing for us today? What deal do you have for us?
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Steve Bannon
Okay brother, we're gonna let you go up and go to the convention. We'll talk to you tonight. Later. Get that speech. The Mike Lindell an American original. Stick around. The second hour of the afternoon and early evening edition of the War Room is upon us. We'll be back in just a moment.
Title: Fight Is Just Starting In Texas—The Threat In Our Backyard
Date: May 27, 2026
Host: Steve Bannon, WarRoom.org
This episode covers two major topics:
Key guests include Donald Trump (interview clip), Tammy Brown Rodriguez (Dallas County GOP Chair), a Foreign Policy Expert, and Brazilian journalist Alan dos Santos.
Donald Trump (00:11):
“No, the strait is going to be open to everybody…It’s international waters. Nobody is going to control it. We’re going to watch over it, but nobody is going to control it.”
Trump asserts the U.S. will not concede control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran or Oman, calling it an "international waterway."
On nuclear issues: Trump is bluntly opposed to Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
Responds “I wouldn’t be comfortable” to the idea of Russia or China taking Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile (01:01).
Bannon and others question ongoing media narratives about secret deals and whether sanctions would be eased. Trump explicitly denies any easing or concession (02:11):
"No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions, giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing."
“He has tremendous resonance with that MAGA base…There are a lot of Republicans who are deeply concerned. They expect they're going to have to spend a fortune to try and do it because he's such a heavy lift.”
“Paxton had this historic victory with about 15 million bucks, with 150 [million] spent against him to destroy him and the grassroots movement.”
On turnout in Dallas County (07:39):
“We turned out like rock stars. We had an epic turnout, far more so than we did in 2020.2…We beat the Democrats in turnout three out of the five days in early voting.”
Describes how mobilization of precinct chairs, communication strategies, and the focus on election integrity (having Republican judges and clerks at polling stations) drove turnout and security.
Election Integrity & Strategy (08:56):
“We had texting campaigns, we mobilized our precinct chairs…We had a separate primary…Every location that we had judges at, we had Republican judges and clerks…which increased voter security.”
On why this approach matters (11:43):
"It's really with passion…We love our county, we love our state and we all know that as goes Texas, as goes this nation."
On Ken Paxton vs. Talarico (13:01):
“Tall Ringo. He's crazy… I think people are tired of people trying to co-op Texas with these crazy extremists from the other side.”
Contact and organization information for Dallas County GOP and anti-trafficking work (14:13).
Foreign Policy Expert (16:40):
“Frankly, the Iranians have controlled the traffic through the Strait of Hormuz since February 28th when we started this war... Unless and until the United States...decides to end its capacity to do so through military force...Iran is going to have the capability to do this.”
Skepticism that any negotiated memorandum would stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions (17:50).
“All the reporting suggests that...the memorandum they're negotiating does not address the nuclear issue.”
JCPOA withdrawal is criticized for enabling Iran to expand its uranium enrichment:
“Today Iran has 10, 8500 kg of enriched uranium…sufficient material to…make…not just 11, but perhaps 100 bombs. That’s the situation that President Trump created.”
Bannon’s Counter (19:11):
“Trump did not create that. This…shows you that they're maniacally focused on the bomb. I think it’s a big gap between President Trump said today in the Oval and whatever's in this memorandum…”
Steve Bannon contextualizes Lula (Brazilian President) as an opponent of U.S. interests and frames Brazil as a key hemispheric battleground.
Alan dos Santos (23:28) clarifies that Flavio Bolsonaro’s Oval Office visit was by official invitation, directly countering both U.S. and Brazilian media narratives:
“The White House invited Flavio Bolsonaro…because Trump probably couldn't see any answer from Lula da Silva…This invitation, it's probably connected to…cartel matters which are urgent in South America right now…”
On Brazil’s Drug Cartels:
"Lula is connected with them...the drug cartel can easily corrupt judges and they can be released easily while a lot of people are in exile..." (32:39)
2026 Brazilian Election Update (39:13):
“Flavio was leading all the polls or technically a draw…for us Brazilians, we see this polls and say, okay, if they are saying we are leading or close draw, I do believe he's winning by far…Trump is not going to do what Biden did interfere in the election in Brazil…"
Alan dos Santos on social media: @contadoallen (Instagram), [Truth, Substack, Twitter/X handles provided] (41:31).
Steve Bannon:
“Lula: Bad guy, Marxist.”
Texas GOP:
Iran & National Security:
Brazil & Hemispheric Security:
The episode positions both the Texas GOP battle and international issues (notably Iran and Brazil) as existential fights for “America First” and MAGA-aligned interests, pivoting from electoral politics to hemispheric strategy. The tone is combative, celebratory of grassroots electoral victories, and deeply distrustful of both domestic Republican “establishment” figures and foreign governments seen as hostile to U.S. interests.
For more information:
Further programming promised for the next day: Update on Georgia’s 2020 election investigations, Wall Street Journal critique of the Texas result, a documentary premiere on Jair Bolsonaro, and more analysis on AI policy and economic strategy.