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War Room Special: PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESS TO THE NATION
War Room Special: PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESS TO THE NATION...
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Steve
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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Brian Glenn
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul,
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Steve
I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Jack Posobiec
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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Steve
It's Wednesday the 1st of April on the year of our Lord 2026. Welcome to Real America's Voice and the Worm special coverage. Want to thank the team at studio. Just amazing coverage to tee us up to bring us up to this. John Solomon joins us now from the Washington studio. John, I know you've been spending a lot of time at the White House and various senior personnel in the White House give us your assessment of what you believe we may see tonight.
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John Solomon
I think the president will start off with an explanation or a bold declaration. We're only going to be there a short time, more days to three weeks probably is the window I'm hearing inside the military. So a few days to a few weeks, depending on what they can get done. We'll be out of there soon. We'll be done with the operation. Then he'll describe why he went in and why he went and at the time that he went in. And he's gonna bring up the things that you and I talked about in your show a couple weeks ago that the mainstream media doesn't wanna talk about. The IRGC members found on our soil in January, the hypersonic missiles they were trying to get from China, the missiles they did buy from Russia, all aimed at reaching America. He'll remind people that everybody said they can't, Iran can't touch. And then of course they did. With the Diego Garcia showing they could hit anywhere in Europe or good parts of Europe at least he'll go through those things. And then I think he'll go through how much we've achieved and I think you'll hear 90% reduction in drones, 90% reduction in missiles, 150 ships of the Navy mine layers gone. The one place that'll be a statistic, if he puts it out there, that might explain why we're Going to stay a few more days. Only 66% of the missile and drone factories have been destroyed. I think they want that number up higher. If they do that, they're not only neutering Iran, they make it impossible for Russia to get those cheap drones they've been using against Ukraine. So he scores a double victory by wiping those out. I think that'll be the sequencing he goes through over the course of the speech.
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Steve
John, thank you. Hang there. The president will probably be about approximately 20 minutes speech. I think that's what broadcast has set aside. We're going to go immediately to the White House as soon as the signal is live. Let's go to the Pentagon. We got people at the White House. We've got Benny Harmony at Capitol Hill. I want to go to David Zier. Is David ready at the Pentagon? David, I got about a minute or so. Your thoughts, sir? The Pentagon's very important in all of this. The Department of War. What do you got?
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David Zier
I would just say while we're claiming there's Progress, Iran launched 10 more missiles at Israel a few hours ago. But can we slow down operations on pretty much a high note? Interceptors are getting kind of low. You know, Thaad patriots, a new PAC3 deal signed today with Lockheed and Boeing. But we only make like 600 Patriot missiles a year, you know. So I think it's in our interest to try to come to some type of conclusion here as the Gulf states and others continue to be under attack here. There's also reports that another 28 tens were seen assembling. I think in New Hampshire may join the fight. Three more Strato tankers I believe are on the way over to the region. And again, you know, we lost some strategic assets like the E3 Sentry, AWACS and other. But. But the operation has been carried out. And I just wanted to add really quick the defense acquisition executive orders that Trump has been pushing that we've been following since last year. My stuff here at Department of War is probably a very good thing because we've been operating on a wartime footing probably since the middle of last year at a minimum. And I think we were ready for this at least to take out the air defenses, the industrial complex, ballistic missile program.
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Steve
David, hang on. Benny's going to hang on to Capitol Hill. Let me go to McCabe. McCabe, real quickly, about a minute, I think, before the president goes live. What do you got for us at the White House?
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Neil McCabe
Yeah, I think it's important that the president pick who his audiences are. You know, he needs to speak to House and Senate Republicans who are up in 26. He needs to tell them that he's running this country and running the party in a way that he takes their interests to heart. I think he has to talk to Wall street, he has to talk to MAGA voters, he has to talk to the Iranian leadership and he has to lay out where we are and where we're going and how he's going to stick the landing. Steve.
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Steve
Neil, we'll come back to you. We'll come back to Benny Harmony at Capitol Hill, David Zier at the Pentagon. We're at Brian Glenn with us. Jack Bosobic will join us immediately afterwards, of course, John Solomon anchoring And in Washington, D.C. the President has thought, I think, a lot about addressing the nation and telling the nation because he has, you know, he does so much media and he's done so much, you know, big events in the East Room. This is a primetime address to the country about why he did it, where we are, what does he see as our progress and I think very specifically the path forward. So President of the United States, President Trump from the, from the White House tonight, like I said, it's not a he does not address the nation many times from the White House, but this is one that they've decided that was important enough before the Easter vacation of Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday. John Solomon, while we got a minute here while they get set up, your thoughts about the message he's gonna send NATO. There's been a lot of controversy today, a lot of things going back and forth. President put up a couple true socials, your ideas about this situation with NATO.
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John Solomon
I think that missile that struck Diego Garcia was a wake up call that he was right and Europe was wrong about Iran's threat. And he'll call them weak and feckless. He'll say he's reevaluating and considering whether we do withdraw. It's kind of like a 47 year married couple that always talking about getting divorced. They never do. They cry about each other all day. We're not going to divorce from NATO. But he's going to send a poignant message that you didn't join me on this. I did you a favor by rooting out that Iran had the capability to strike you. And I took care of that for you. You owe me one. I think he'll kind of leave it at that.
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Steve
There is some talk about, you know, either a cease fire or at least discussions. What about David Zir saying that, you know, Israel got hit Tonight by ten missiles, the Iranians. Iranians are trying to send a signal to President Trump before he takes the national stage.
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John Solomon
Yeah, certainly the IRGC is, I think the President, today, the President of Iran had a different message, which is, we're willing to stop attacking us if you stop attacking us. That's a more conciliar tone that normally Iran takes. They're all, rah, rah, rah, war, war, war, hate America. So there was some conciliation there. He also wrote an open letter to America, propaganda, but trying to say, hey, we don't want to be your enemy anymore. So I do see some softening in the Iran rhetoric. But they still have these menacing missiles. They fire a few here and they don't have as many, but yeah, they haven't shown a surrender sign. The key to a ceasefire is Trump getting Hormuz open and no, no weapon. We going in either direction. I don't think the Hormuz issue is settled yet, but they're getting closer.
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Steve
Okay, here's the President. United States is stepping up right now. We're going to cut live to the White House.
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President Donald Trump
Thank you very much. My fellow Americans, good evening. Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the successful launch of Artemis ii. It was quite something. It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way and God bless them. These are brave people. We want to God bless those four unbelievable astronauts as we speak this evening. It's been just one month since the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number one state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight, Iran's Navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them terrorist regime they led are now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed and their weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of them left. Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large scale losses. In a matter of weeks, our enemies are losing in America, as it has been for five years under my presidency, is winning and now winning bigger than ever before. Before discussing this current situation, I also want to thank our troops for the masterful job they did in taking the country of Venezuela in a matter of minutes, that it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone all over the world. After rebuilding our military during my first term, we have by far the strongest military anywhere in the world. And now we're working along with Venezuela and are in a true sense, joint venture partners. We're getting along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas, the second largest reserves on earth after the United States of America. We're now totally independent of the Middle east and yet we are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have. But we're there to help our allies. Tonight, I want to provide an update on the tremendous progress our warriors have made in Iran and discuss why Operation Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and the security of the free world. From the very first day I announced my campaign for President in 2015, I have vowed that I would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This fanatical regime has been chanting death to America, death to Israel for 47 years. Their proxies were behind the murder of 241Americans in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs. They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and they carried out the countless other heinous acts, including the blood. Just horrible, bloody atrocities of October 7th in Israel. Something that most people have never seen anything like it. This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000 of their own people who were protesting in Iran. 45,000 dead. For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat. The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield. I will never let that happen and neither should any of our past presidents. This situation has been going on for 47 years and should have been handled long before I arrived in office. I did many things during my two terms in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly, I killed General Qassem Soleimani in my first term. He was an evil genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being. However, the father of the roadside bomb. And he lived. Just horrible what he did. Iran would have been perhaps in far better, stronger position. Had he lived, we would have had probably a different conversation tonight. But you know what? We'd still be winning and winning big. And then Very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal. A disaster. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash. Green, green cash. Took it out of banks from Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. All the cash they had. He flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty. But it didn't work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran. And they would have had them years ago and they would have used them. Would have been a different world. There would have been no Middle east and no Israel. Right now, in my opinion, the opinion of a lot of great experts, had I not terminated that terrible deal. I was so honored to do it. I was so proud to do it. It was so bad. Right from the beginning, essentially, I did what no other president was willing to do. They made mistakes and I am correcting them. My first preference was always the path of diplomacy. Yet the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt at an agreement. For this reason, in June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Those beautiful B2 bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear sites. The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location, making clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They were also rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles. Missiles and would soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe, and virtually any other place on Earth. Iran's strategy was so obvious. They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible. And they did, with the longest range possible. And they had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that we took them out. We took them all out so that no one would really dare stop them and their race for a nuclear bomb. A nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were right at the doorstep. For years, everyone has said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. But in the end, those are just words if you're not willing to take action when the time comes. As I stated in my announcement of Operation Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and their missile program at levels never seen before, and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it Their navy is gone, their air force is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never been anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion. As we celebrate this progress, we think especially of the 13American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice this past month I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base and it's been something I wanted to be with those heroes as the return to American soil. And I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, their husbands. We salute them and now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives. And every single one of the people, their loved ones said please sir, please finish the job, every one of them. And we are going to finish the job. And we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close. I want to thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the uae, Kuwait and Bahrain. They've been great and we will not let them get hurt or fail in any way, shape or form. Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. This short term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them and they will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion, economic pain and instability worse than we can ever imagine. The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat. You all know that we built the strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now. The strongest in history. In one year we've taken a dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. With no inflation record setting investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion and the highest stock market ever with 53 all time record highs in just one year. It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered. It's known as the nuclear Iran. And they didn't know what was coming. They've never imagined it. Remember, because of our Drill Baby Drill program, America has plenty of gas. We have so much gas. Under my leadership, we are number one producer of oil and gas on the planet. Without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting from Venezuela because of the Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that. Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, and that number will soon be substantially higher than that. There's no country like us anywhere in the world, and we're in great shape for the future. The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won't be taking any in the future. We don't need it. We haven't needed it, and we don't need it. We've beaten and completely decimated Iran. They are decimated both militarily and economically and every other way. And the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They can do it easily. We will be helpful. But they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on. So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one, buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty. We have so much. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before. Should have done it with us as we asked. Go to the strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. So it should be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing, and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly. They came down a little bit, but they've had some very good days over the last couple of days. We've done actually much better than I thought. But we had to take that little journey to Iran to get rid of this horrible threat with our historic tax cuts, where people are just now talking about receiving larger refunds than they ever thought possible. They are getting so much more money than they thought. That's from the great big beautiful bill. Our economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon Be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago. I've made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives. Shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change. But regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders. Death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet if, during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. And if there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone, and there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no antiaircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force. The nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B2 bombers have been hit so hard that it would take months to get near the nuclear dust. And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control. If we see them make a move, even a move for. For it will hit them with missiles very hard again. We have all the cards. They have none. It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective. American involvement In World War I lasted one year, seven months and five days. World War II lasted for three years, eight months and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months and 29 days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and 28 days. We are in this military operation so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days. And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the bully of the Middle east, but they're the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching, and they can't leave the power, strength and brilliance. They just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it to your imagination. But they can't believe what they're seeing. The brilliance of the United States military. Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the specter of nuclear blackmail. Because of the actions we have taken, we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over, the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous and greater than it has been ever been before. May God bless the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. And may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much and good night.
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Steve
Okay, 20 minutes to the T. That's President of the United States. Let's go to the Pentagon. David Zier. Of course, most of this dealt directly with the. Oh, John Solomon. John, give me your assessment of this,
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John Solomon
sir, the headline's pretty clear. Two to three weeks left to finish the objectives absent a peace deal. And that as soon as they're done with the objectives, Iran will want to open the Homoro Straits. So he kind of took military action off the table for the Homur Straits, which is once I'm done bombing them, the only thing they have left to do is sell oil. They're going to open up the Homura Strait. So he took I think a clear ground evasion off the table, at least for the time being. The expectations lower two to three weeks unless we get a peace deal. And he acknowledged that there were talks going on and that he said that this, what will be a seven week period if you add up the time, eight week period tops, is a small investment for a long term benefit for the future of your children and grandchildren. Kind of selling that at the end. He put it in comparison how small this operation will be compared to World War II, World War I, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War. So some really significant messaging, some clarity. Two to three weeks is a pretty clear end game he'll be about. If he did that, hit that about two weeks over his timetable. But he explained the reason why he wants to get the job done. And I think he did hint at what they're hitting right now. The factories. They've got the main military gear hunkered down. They want to finish those factories off so that Iran can't build more drones, more missiles or send them to Russia either. So I think you heard. That's what I heard as the main headlines in a short straightforward speech.
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Steve
I want to come back here, just stick for a Second, I want to talk about combat troops, also regime change. He's pretty adamant. He didn't start this for regime change and he has already changed the regime. Now he's dealing with, he says more reasonable people. Just hang on for a second, John. John Solomon in our Washington D.C. studio, do we now have David Zier? We have everything. David Zier at the Department of War. David, most of this revolved around our combat capabilities, our very specific military objectives. Didn't talk about a lot of political or strategic, your sense of what you heard and most importantly, what did the Department of War hear?
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David Zier
I think that they're still focused on the mission and we're not taking our foot off the gas and not missing a beat as far as providing additional coverage. I saw a report that 200 more aircraft approximately on their way from Europe to the Middle east, along with those eight tens that I talked about earlier, arrived at RFK Lakenheath Air Base, probably on their way over to the Gulf region. And you know, these versatile aircraft doing these, you know, these close air support in the strait probably serve a key role taking out any fast boats or anything like that. But also the Pentagon announced today that there's this pack three three deal to keep producing missiles tripling the capacity for Lockheed and Boeing because, you know, the Thads are upper atmosphere and you got the Pac Threes in the middle and the Patriots below it. There's a finite supply. So I think that the message is we're going to wrap things up as quickly as possible, but we're not going to take our foot off the gas until we do that.
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Steve
David, you've been at the briefings and one thing that we know every night, the tempo of this operation, the military operation by the centcom, you couldn't get at a higher tempo. We are putting other assets into the into the region, including another carrier strike group. But I take it if he's putting a timeframe of two, maybe three weeks, he says clearly wants to get it done in two, is that can the tempo get any more intense, sir?
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David Zier
I don't believe so. I think they're hyper focused on this. And as I was saying earlier in the broadcast that we're operating on a wartime footing for some time here with defense acquisitions reaching out to private industry, making sure they deliver systems so things like the Bradley don't take 10 years to design in the Pentagon and get out there. I think this is all part of a well crafted plan and everything doesn't always go, you know, the way you want it. But I think Overall, this has been a resounding success, at least from a Pentagon's perspective. And, you know, Hegseth was asked to testify before House Armed services committee on April 29th. I'm sure they want to go in there with this thing buttoned up a little.
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Steve
David Zier, where can people get you? We're gonna let you go. What's your social media? You've been doing a great job over at the Department of War, sir.
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David Zier
Thank you, Steve.
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John Solomon
Means a lot.
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David Zier
You follow me at Dave zieronx and David Zier on everything else.
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Steve
Thank you so much, Dave. Been great. Thank you. Let's go to Capitol Hill. Since we're talking about that. A lot of very nervous Republicans and of course, Democrats on the warpath. Benny, Harmony. Benny, give us your assessment of particularly what you think, the people that hate him up there in the Democratic Party that are trying to put the War Powers act up, and of course, his followers in the Republican Party. What's your sense?
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Benny Harmony
Yeah, well, Steve, I spoke to a couple of congressmen and women today, and they were a little iffy on giving a comment, giving quotes or anything, because I think they really wanted to see what President Trump was going and kind of what position he was going to take on all of this. And so, you know, we saw that, that Senate vote of the war powers and ended up failing. And so I really don't think there's any standing there. But one of the things I really liked in this address that President Trump just gave was he gave this sense of strength, but he also kind of pushed other countries to find that same courage that the United States found to do these things, to take Venezuela, to take Iran and these different things. So overall, I agree with John Solomon. Just, it was short and sweet. It was good. And I think this is a good message for everyone here on Capitol Hill. Democrats really can't, they can't criticize this. I mean, he, he didn't do anything crazy. He didn't say anything crazy. He kept it very short. And he also really focused on those service members that were killed and thanking them and their families. So overall, I think it's looking pretty good, and I don't really think he has anything to worry about here on Capitol Hill.
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Steve
Benny, what did you, you think that two to three weeks is something that the people up there wanted to hear, particularly the Republicans? They wanted to see kind of a from the president to the nation, to the American people and kind of set a timeframe on this?
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Benny Harmony
I think so. Because, Steve, one of the biggest things that people Forget, especially in the Beltway, you're familiar with this, but they have constituents that they have to respond to. Right. And they have people calling their offices. I have many people that I know in congressional and Senate offices, and they get calls from these constituents every single day asking these questions. And so with President Trump kind of putting a literal time, time frame on it, two to three weeks. But you got to remember, people are going to hold him accountable to that. And in two or three weeks, depending on what it looks like, he's going to have to answer some questions, you know, and then he also mentioned potentially, you know, if they don't come to a deal, you know, taking out those, those energy receptors and those, those different plants and stuff. So. So that kind of gives the same message as, okay, well, maybe he's going to go further. But I think it does it. I think two to three weeks is good, and I think it gives constituents and members something to relay back to their districts.
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Steve
No, you really nailed it. He says, hey, we can't come to some sort of arrangement. We may have to take out their energy grid and maybe some of their oil. That's going to be quite controversial. Benny, where do people get you on social media, ma', am, to follow your reporting?
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Benny Harmony
Yeah, of course. You guys can find me. Benny, Ray, Harmony, everywhere, all social media. Thanks, Steve.
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Steve
Thank you, ma'. Am. Let's go to the White House, Neil McCabe. Neil, your assessment, particularly what Benny was just talking about there about this, hey, you know, we're in discussions with people. I didn't want to do regime change, but it's kind of happened. We're dealing with new people, they're less radical. Talk to me about that, about, he set a timeframe, but it's kind of a. If they haven't kind of hove to. The President said we could ramp this thing up even harder.
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President Donald Trump
Yeah.
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Neil McCabe
I think that he sort of, he satisfied that requirement to, to tell, you know, the operatives, the staffers, the consultants, the, the Republicans in the House and Senate who are gearing up for the midterms, that this is not going to be a problem for them, say, after Labor Day. But there are some other shoes that have to be dropped. Right. Because we're also, we're also looking at, hey, Cuba's next. Right. So we need to wrap this thing up and get to Cuba. You have the USS George H.W. bush carrier group that just departed from Norfolk. They should be in theater in, what, three weeks. You have the Boxer standing by with those Marines for an amphibious operation. They're now in Hawaii, but they could be fired up, too. So I think right now he's told the new regime in Iran, this is a time to talk. But like David said, hey, if there's 200 planes coming their way, you know, he will finish this. And I thought it was very interesting when he mentioned the targets. He said, I haven't touched the power plants and I haven't touched the oil infrastructure, although Israel has. Right. That's unsaid. I think Trump is saying this is sort of an opportunity for the Iranians and us to talk this thing down, because otherwise, I'll ramp this up and I'll finish it without you.
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Steve
Steve, hang on for one second. At the White House, Neil McKay, we're going to take a short commercial break here. I've got John Solomon, Jack Posobec's going to join us. Brian Glenn. Oh, it says 13 right here.
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President Donald Trump
Okay.
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Steve
Anyway, Neil, keep going. I want to talk to you about NATO. I want to talk to you about. He did not, I don't think he went after NATO as hard as he wanted.
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Neil McCabe
I think the president truly feels like he is of European stock. He loves the royal Family. He loves Europe. He wants NATO to work. He's been tagged as an anti NATO guy his entire presidential and political career. But in his actual deeds, he's done nothing but support and bolster NATO. And so I think in his heart of hearts, he's looking to save this thing. But, you know, you look at the facts and you say, hey, guys, we're in a fight here. And they say you can't use our bases. Even Italy, which is supposed to be one of our best friends, that's got to hurt. And I think there's another, you know, another component to this at the White House is that the political staff is gearing up for the midterms and their big plan is to go after fraud. Minnesota crime syndicates with the Somalis, fraud in California, fraud in Maine. Like, they're really gearing up to make that what that's going to be the flag they're going to be waving into the midterms. But they can't do it if there's an active war in the Middle East.
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John Solomon
Steve,
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Steve
if you're sitting there, if you're Starmer tonight and supposedly he's convening tomorrow afternoon, I think it's 24 nations to talk about some sort of coalition that would come in after the fact and keep the Strait of Hormuz somehow open for business. And we haven't seen, obviously, 24 nations, including, I Think the Arab nations and all the NATO nations. If you're starmer tonight, you just heard the President. What is your takeaway?
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Neil McCabe
Well, he's got to somehow present a brave front and he's got to create a facade that England and the United Kingdom somehow matters. But it was either today or yesterday that the top admiral in the Royal Navy just came out and said, we're not even ready to fight a war. And remember their one aircraft carrier, the Queen Elizabeth? They don't even have planes. So when they get underway and deploy, we have to send planes. So it's a difficult situation. We saw in Iraq and Afghanistan that our allies, they aren't ready to fight. Their radios don't work with our radios. They don't have the trucks, they don't have the bullets. It's, it's really unfortunate, but we, you know, we look over our shoulder to see if they're where they are and they ain't there.
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Steve
Steve? No, no interoperability, very little equipment, et cetera. Before I let you go, one of the engine room people are saying, did you actually interpret what he said? That if he can't get some sort of ceasefire or potential deal, that he can't have some sort of relationship, that he will ramp up, actually go after the energy grid and go after the oil. Is that a threat of escalation?
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Neil McCabe
Yeah, I think that's a threat of escalation. But it's not escalate to de escalate, it's to escalate with finality. And he's looking. He will close the book on Iran with or without the new regime.
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Steve
How do people get you? Where do, where do we go to get your reporting? Sir,
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Neil McCabe
you can find me on all the socials at reporter McCabe.
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Steve
Steve, thank you very much, sir. Do we got Jack Posobic up? Jack Posobic, and Jack joins us by phone. Jack, your assessment of what you heard tonight from the President? You and I talked a lot about this during the day. Did he stick the landing,
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Jack Posobiec
Steve? I think he did. And one of the big takeaways for me and hearing all the incredible analysis here on Real America's Voice, I concur with so many of our colleagues, but one of the big takeaways for me is that we had heard so much reporting throughout the day from some of these outlets that have really been pushing for a wider war, saying that he was going to announce a full on ground campaign, a ground invasion tonight, perhaps a Karg island invasion. And we didn't hear any of that. We didn't hear a mention of Carg Island. We didn't hear a mention of ground troops. He certainly congratulated the troops. He certainly said he supports the troops. But not only did he say the nothing regarding specifically a ground operation, he even said that Iran is no longer a threat. Said Iran is no longer a threat. He called upon and what's interesting by the way, I want to note this. When he called upon nations to open the Strait of Hormuz, now we know that publicly he's been talking about NATO but you notice he didn't say anything directly about NATO today and this evening he said nations that receive oil from the Strait of Hormuz and one of the key positions of that is to remind everyone that yes, the Arab nations send their oil predominantly to when you take Qatar at least predominantly to Europe. But with Iran specifically that oil is headed to China. So this is all about China, who we know is working with Pakistan. They put out that five point peace plan just yesterday. I think China is the big mover here. And remember President Trump six weeks from now, so he announced two to three weeks potentially is his window for looking at this operation to close. But six weeks from now he's headed to Beijing. They pushed it back. That's a marker he's not going to leave American soil for Beijing to sit down with Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party. If this operation is still active.
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Steve
By the way, I think and I'll go right to Solomon Jack. Oil particularly West Texas Intermediate bounced. I think it had a $5 a barrel tick up over $100 a barrel. I think Brent crude is also up because I believe it was a little general he did compliment the Arab nations for their participation. Now so far I think only UAE has really stepped up and said they want to be part of this fight. In fact they said they would take, they would assist in direct military action to open up the Strait or Hormuz. He left it generally. What's your interpretation of the oil markets particularly on his Hormuz discussion? Seems like they may not be buying it quite yet.
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Jack Posobiec
Oh Steve, I don't think that you're going to see the reaction the markets yet because the markets are looking for specifics. They want to know is this thing going to be shut? You know, is the military going to be shut down? The military side of it, the operations. Are we going to go back to the stability? That being said though, we are looking at traffic that has already picked up in the straight of Hormuz. We're seeing it, we're Seeing it eastbound, we're seeing it westbound. They're going by Lara Island. They are conducting these, these Iranian inspections of the vessels. And by the way, this is something, this is key that a lot of people haven't pointed out yet. The tolls that many people have been talking about on the oil tankers that are headed out of the Gulf right now, those tolls are being paid to Iran in Chinese Y, that is in Chinese currency. I have not heard a lot of people in the west talking about this. But understand that China is the main player here on the other side. And you talk about United States leverage and US Leverage over Iran. We also have to talk about China's economic leverage, which is absolutely key.
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Steve
Yeah, big time. Jack, just hang on for one second. I want to go to, want to go to John Solomon back in our DC studio. John, oil markets, I think they're, they're reacting at least immediately to kind of he was a little more general about the straight or horror moves also. He didn't really come down on NATO as hard as at least some of the, the pregame analysis was. Your thoughts on this, sir?
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John Solomon
Well, first, Jack nailed it. There are two other external players that have a lot of skin in what Donald Trump has done. Russia, which is going to lose access to its cheap drones, and China, which is currently losing access to a lot of its oil and could get those, as the president called them, more reasonable Iranian leaders to make a deal. And so I think what the markets heard tonight is I don't think I'm going to go in and open up the Hormuz Straits myself because I think they're going to open up themselves the second we finish our objectives. So what he told the markets is I'm probably not going to militarily open them up. If some of the people who rely on the straits want to do it, that's fine by me. But it's their job. I think they'll open up naturally as soon as I finish my objectives, which is a two to three week plan. It gets us done before the end of April. So the markets are now going to go up saying, Well, I got two more three weeks of shortage supplied. I think you'll see 5, 10% jump and then they'll narrow down. But I think the fact that the president kind of put an end date of the third week of April in the worst case scenario and that he's open to ending earlier if someone like China and Iran can get together and make a deal, I think the markets generally will react pretty well in a Few days, knowing that they have a sort of definitive timeframe when this is all over.
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Steve
Let me go to this, because a lot of the initial wire copy is talking about. President Trump says it's nearly over. He did put a timeframe on it, but if they don't cooperate, he's gonna hit him extremely hard. He specifically talked about the electrical grid, their entire electrical capacity to power the nation. And he talked about their oil assets, which he's been very hesitant. In fact, he said, hey, he's delayed things because of that. That.
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President Donald Trump
That.
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Steve
That escalatory talk. Is that aimed specifically at the. At the. Whatever's left of whatever element of the regime is in discussions with them?
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John Solomon
Yeah, he sent them a great message. You guys seem a little more reasonable, but I'm willing to bomb you to the Stone Ages. Remember his last words? I'm gonna take you to Stone Ages. Those lines and all the posturing that the Pentagon's doing, moving all these additional assets. If you got two to three weeks left, you don't need all those assets. It's all in negotiation with the Iranian mullahs, which is Stone Ages. Or do you like your electricity still? You like your oil? Make a deal. You know you're gonna have to sell oil to get back on your feet after I bomb the heck out of you. So don't push this too far. I have heard from administration officials that they're getting some reasonable conversations with Iran. Not, you know, it's Iran, so nothing's totally reasonable, but there seems to be a little more humility, a little bit more pragmatism in what Iran wants to do. And, you know, 16, 17 years ago, I negotiated directly with the Iranian mullahs because my reporter at the Washington Times had been captured during the Green Revolution. And it was amazing when we finally got down to talking Turkey, how pragmatic they were. Like, what are you gonna say about us? I'm gonna say thank you for giving my reporter back. Are you gonna say critical things? Of course I'm gonna say critical things. You took my damn reporter. But it was a very pragmatic negotiation on the phone, and I was the only guy to get my reporter out. I think the Washington Post and Newsweek had. They're more pragmatic when you get down to making a deal, like, where they might be, they seem more humble in the last couple of days, Like I said, the president's statement today to the European leader and the open letter to America, it wasn't, hey, death to America was, we really don't want to have a fight with you anymore. And we're willing to stop if you're willing to stop. That's a little bit different rhetoric than the normal propaganda we get from the crazy mullahs.
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Steve
You think that's because they seen the overwhelming power, as Captain Fennell says, the defanging and declawing process. I mean they're on the receiving end of this. And of course they're relentless in hitting command centers. Do you think that's gotten their attention big time?
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John Solomon
Yeah, I'm told. I know some people in Iran have been able to have a little bit of conversation through back channels. They don't believe that the leadership has full communication with its military assets. That's horrifying. If you're a country because you can't plan, you can't warm, and then you find out, oh, this guy got killed yesterday. Oh, I was just on the phone with him yesterday. He's gone. You got no ships, you got no planes, 66% of your missile factories are gone and the 34% will be gone before the president's done. Yeah, I think psychologically the Iranians are pretty beat down and they are physically clearly beat down.
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Steve
John, can you hang on? Jack Bosovic?
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John Solomon
Hang on.
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Steve
Brian Glenn also. Go to Brian Glenn. We're going to take a short commercial break. Want to thank our sponsors, Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot. Remember their values are your values. A great company doing fabulous work throughout the country, particularly the great state of Texas. Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot of course, Birch gold into the dollar empire. Maybe now gold's bouncing around, oils bouncing around, commodities are bouncing around. Look for some stability. End of the dollar empire. Birchgold.com promo code war room short break John Solomon in D.C. jack Boic with us and Brian Glenn after a short commercial break.
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President Donald Trump
War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
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Steve
Go to Brian Glenn. Brian, you've been cheek by jowl with the President over at the White House, Air Force One since the beginning of this. Give us your assessment of what you heard tonight.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, Steve, it's no secret I wasn't the biggest fan of getting into a war with Iran. So I'll say that it was very important that he was delivered this speech tonight. So many people, Steve, get their information by drive by headlines and what they read on social media. And I'll give you example that in the break I came across this guy's account, as Douglas McGregor says, breaking ground troops to be deployed in Iran. And I'm not sure what speech Steve, he was listening to, but I Didn't hear that in tonight's speech by the President. I was very optimistic about how he's going to conclude the operations there, recap the success. There's no doubt that we absolutely destroyed the Iranian military and we made it, you know, where they can no longer obtain a nuclear weapon. That was the goal. Now, as far as the straight of her moose goes, and this is my biggest question that I had, the president says we simply do not rely on that particular strait for our oil. We're very much oil independent. So he said, and I'm kind of paraphrasing here, that we didn't have to go in there and secure that area. We don't need to, but we're going to help you do that. And I just know as an American, I don't really care about the price of oil or gas in other countries. I care about what I pay at the pump. And I do feel very confident, Steve, that he did give a little bit of optimism to the market, to the, to the American people, that this is not going to go on for months and months here. We're going to wrap this up, get our men and women back home safely. And so I'm very optimistic on the speech.
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Steve
Do you think Good.
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David Zier
Yeah.
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Steve
You being one of the ones that saying, hey, you know, I keep saying the Middle east is a sideshow and the Israel situation a sideshow to a sideshow. You believe he gave a definitive enough. I know John Salman is going to come back in a second. He's looking at headlines of the mainstream media and he'll report on that. But the oil market is still a little dicey. I don't think they're saluting. I think part of that has to do with the general nature of he said Hormuz. Like for instance, if you're taking all out of there, it's kind of your problem. It's not the United States Navy's problem. It's your problem. But are you, are you being one of the ones that were not particularly excited about this? Do you believe the time frame and particularly the hint or threat of escalation at the end if they don't get their minds right? Does that cause you concern, you think the timeline's definitive enough? Two weeks to three weeks. And do you, what do you, what do you say about this escalatory nature at the end?
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, I know he, he had to
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Steve
throw that on the end, which scared
- [53:20]
Brian Glenn
me a little bit, Steve. But I will say this. We're going into midterms. We're going to campaign season. There's a lot of special elections going on in about three to four weeks from now. So it's very important that the American people go to the polls to vote for things that are most concerning to them. Health insurance, you know, price of fuel, gasoline, cost of living energy, you know, the fact that we're still funding NPR and pbs, this fact that we're still funding Planned Parenthood. I still think, Steve, those are the top voting issues. It's not whether or not the country of Iran has a nuclear weapon or, you know, Israel is threatened by Israel's going to claim they've been threatened for years. And even if we wipe out every nuclear weapon on the face of the planet, they're still going to complain and they're going to be threatened that they're under attack. And I just want to put this chapter to bed. So as a voter, if you're going back to your original question, if this gets wrapped up to three to four weeks before we really hit the campaign, I think Republicans have a great chance of winning the midterms. If they don't, and there's some very credible pollsters on Capitol Hill. I'm not going to name names right now, but some of them say that Republicans can lose between 20 and 40 seats. Let's just go on the low end, Steve. Let's just say 20. If they maintain control of the House, that means they control the committees. What can you do on committees you can subpoena? And you can bet your bet the next two years of this Trump administration will be hell from the Democrats. I'm more concerned about that, Steve. And I don't want us to lose the Democrats. I want us to hold.
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Steve
Where, where do people get your reporting? What's your social media?
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Brian Glenn
BRIAN GLENN well, more people aren't following me right now than the Iranian naval going to the ball in the ocean right now. No one's following me right now.
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John Solomon
They don't like what I have to
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Brian Glenn
say and that's just oh, well. But they can follow me at Brian Glenn TV on Twitter, Brian on Truth Social, across the board, on Instagram. Don't follow me right now, folks. You don't want to hear what I have to say because I'm telling you, I'm just trying to be as truthful as I can. And then sometimes you like it, sometimes you don't like it. But I love you, Steve. Thanks for having me on tonight.
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Steve
I appreciate it. Give it to give it to us with a bark on always, Jack. We got about two minutes. Jack Posobic your closing thoughts. All markets kind of in roiling, great headlines. I think Solomon's going to give us that. Give me two minutes of your best assessment, sir.
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Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, I think what we're going to see here is perhaps a turning point to the beginning of the end. And really there were so many people who wanted to see a much wider war. There were some people who wanted to see a full on ground invasion. They wanted to see the, the Marines headed again. They wanted to see Special Forces, they wanted to see all of it. And you didn't hear that from the President. You heard two to three more weeks and you heard him calling for this deal, a grand deal to be made between again the United States, the Gulf partners and then of course with China, that includes China, all the nations, remember what he said, all the nations that receive oil through the Gulf. So he's bringing China into the mix now very quietly. But he's, you can see him putting the pieces together. He's building the blocks for a grand deal on the Gulf which I believe will include Israel, will include the Arab states, will include Iran, Pakistan and then of course China.
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Steve
Jack, where do people go on social media? You've been like the Associated Press for MAGA in this war. Where do folks go?
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Jack Posobiec
Well, Steve, I appreciate that we're at Jack Posobic, of course, Human Events Daily is the show and then tomorrow night we're going to be at George Washington University for a huge this is the Turning Point event. Myself, the great Erica Kirk and Caroline Levitt of the White House, George Washington University tpusa tomorrow night.
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Steve
Wow, amazing. Sir, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks, Jack for staying up. John Solomon, it's not because you're the graybeard, but you're our source of wisdom. You're going to wrap up here. We got a couple minutes. The headlines. You think the White House is happy? What seeing on the headlines, sir?
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John Solomon
They are. That was one of the goals tonight. Could they get the mainstream media to get a headline that would be reassuring to the American public. Very close to completion or closing in on completion of the headlines. And all the major media except for the New York Times which actually is claiming the President gave no specific timetable. Now I swore I heard two to three weeks. I looked at the transcript. It said two to three weeks. The New York Times is in fantasy land. They might as well move to Disney World. But the rest of the mainstream media, they heard what the President said. Now oil is an issue. The oil markets wanted Donald Trump to solve. China's and the other People on the other sides are moonstrating. You just heard the president. That's not an American interest. I'm not doing it. Let the other people do it. So I think that's why the oil markets will be a little off center. But the American voter got from their mainstream media, most of them minus Fantasyland, New York Times that this is very close to ending two to three weeks. I think that's one of the objectives of the speech tonight.
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Steve
Real quickly, what, what are you going to look for in discussions with the two parties to make sure that we don't get to the end? You have to have some massive, massive escalation against their electric grid and oil. What are you going to be looking for?
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John Solomon
Does the soundings that we got from Iran in the last 48 hours translate into a negotiable deal? And does China come to tail? Jack has it right. China can end this quicker than that. Two, three week time frame. He's got it exactly. China, you just got called out tonight. Go do something.
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Steve
John Solomon, social media, all your content. Where do we go?
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John Solomon
Yeah, Jay Solomon reports on social media. Just the news.com on the website and I'm always lucky enough to follow you every day at six o' clock right here at Real America's Voice. Justin News, no noise, the amazing Amanda Head.
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Steve
And thank you for being on our morning show so much. We love kicking off the day with you and Boland. John Solomon, Real America's Voice Want to thank the entire team, particularly Denver, Palm Beach, Washington D.C. everybody at the Pentagon, White House, on Capitol Hill with Benny. Just fantastic coverage. We're going to be back at 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time. Already got the show packed. We'll have a complete assessment of this plus what markets are doing overnight. It's going to give a reality check to all of this. President of the United States, two to three weeks. Put a time frame on this. We'll see you tomorrow morning 10am when
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Brian Glenn
you will be back in the war room.