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WarRoom Battleground EP 971: Senate Continues Debates On SAVE AMERICA ACT
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Steve Bannon
American people signed up for and it's our job to stop it and get our country back on track. Today we'll show our constituents who is and who isn't on the side of the American people. And I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this resolution.
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Senator Tom Cotton
And I yield.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, we're back live to the Senate. The Democrats have kind of pivoted off the Save America Act. They are full on now. Another war powers resolution trying to force some vote in the war powers. I might say that there's some tweets out and we're trying to get the clip that Chuck Schumer said, hey, we Democrats, we're not opposed to voter ID. Neil McCabe, make it make sense to me what's actually going on, sir? Well, they're going to just chew up some clock until about 9:00 tonight and then they'll start again at the noon. But the Democrats are trying to use this as a platform that maybe people are paying attention and they can basically get their licks in on affordability and war powers and everything else. Steve so we're here for another hour. We're doing bonus the Ben Harn, Ben Harnwell's. We preempted the show, but we're going to have that in its entirety and we'll figure out when we're going to have it be tomorrow. We're going to figure that out. You're not going to miss a second of these great shows. He's doing Mike Lee. We understand that Mike Lee is going to come on at 8:30. He's going to take the Senate floor and start to make it make sense. We definitely have a very so far strong and robust representation by the Republican senators. It's not kind of the bare knuckles brawl that MD Kittle over at the Federalists said we need. He says, hey, you're gonna need a fistfight to get this thing through. We haven't seen that. But you have seen people fall in line on the Republican side and it's kind of surprising. Tell me about this Schumer situation. We're looking for a clip right now. We've seen a bunch of tweets from reporters. I guess he did a gaggle. Did he actually say what are you talking about Democrats? If he's saying that now, that means the coverage, right? That means the Republican Senate is sticking the landing in the coverage. And this is why for the last hour, folks, they ain't been talking about they were dumping on the Save America act for now two days on this various times when they scheduled These, this back and forth, they've been on the war powers ever since really the conclusion of the intelligence, CIA, dni, FBI getting grilled by the United States Senate, particularly on, as we said on the 5 o' clock show, really pressing about imminent threat and then pressing about did President Trump get briefed on the Strait of Hormuz, really coming off that. And ever since that happened, Neil, surprise, surprise, they're all of a sudden it's all War Powers act. This war's taking everything down. It's a complete abject failure. Trump's terrible, we gotta constrain him. I think as reading the tea leaves, I believe they understand, or at least are starting to understand, their arguments against the Save America act are not landing right and they wanna go into something else for Schumer to say that, cuz he's been the most adamant that this whole process would disenfranchise half of the women in America, sir. Right. So we're actually going back to way things were done before McConnell when you know, they actually tried to work out these bills on the floor and do some horse trading and some back and forth. But there's a former Senate chief of
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Jan Jekielek
staff who's been advising Mike Lee, who
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Steve Bannon
told me that when, when he saw Schumer's comments. He says if that's true, we're in the red zone and we could actually win this thing. Steve. Neil, where do people go to get your reporting, particularly on nights like tonight? Where do they track you down? You can find me eporter McCabe on all the socials. Steve, thank you, thank you for covering both the White House and Capitol Hill Day. Appreciate you. Let's go live. You got Tom Cotton. We're back on the Save America Act. Senator Tom Cotton.
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Senator Lindsey Graham
As the polling data shows, Democrats are yet again on the wrong side of an 8020 issue. It's no wonder they want to ignore Americans and tilt the odds in their favor. So to the excitable Democrats who claim the Save America act will destroy our democracy, I say the opposite is true. No nation can have a healthy democracy without secure elections. For these reasons, I urge all Senators to vote for the Save america Act now. Mr. President, I ask consent that my following remarks appear separately in the record.
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Steve Bannon
Without objection,
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Senator Lindsey Graham
I'd like to take a moment up front to recognize the American heroes who have lost their lives in the line of duty as part of Operation Epic Fury. I extend my deepest condolences and offer my prayers to their families and loved ones. I also say with absolute confidence these American heroes will not have given their lives in vain. For 47 years, Iran's outlaw regime has waged a war of death, destruction and terror on the United States, our friends, our allies, and indeed the civilized world. And now, after 47 years of indecision and timidity, America has finally put our foot down. President Trump has sent a clear message that Iran will never have have a nuclear weapon and they will never be able to threaten the rest of the world again. It's difficult, in fact, impossible, to overstate just how imminent the threat from Iran was before we took action. The Democrats are now trying to twist this around by claiming the threat we faced wasn't actually imminent at all. However, our top intelligence officials disagree. Earlier today, I chaired the Intelligence Committee's annual Worldwide Threats Assessment Hearing. Director of National Intelligence Gabbard testified that Iran was working to rebuild its nuclear program before Operation Epic Fury. According to her, Iran was trying to recover from the severe damage to its nuclear infrastructure sustained by the 12 Day War and continued to refuse to comply with its nuclear obligations with the iaea. But that wasn't the only. But it wasn't the only threat of a nuclear program that hung over our heads. Less than one month ago, Iran had thousands of missiles armed and ready to hit our bases and kill Americans as far flung as Western Europe and the Indian Ocean. Thanks to Communist China's help, Iran developed a vast missile arsenal that far exceeded the combined missile defenses of the United States, Israel, and our Arab friends. And it got much worse every single month. According to CIA Director Ratcliffe's testimony during today's hearing, if left unchecked, they would have the ability to range missiles to the continental U.S. given these facts on the ground, we were left with no choice. Iran had already loaded and cocked the gun. What were we supposed to do? Wait until they pulled the trigger? Of course not. Iran has been an imminent threat to Americans for 47 years. Let's take a look at the record. Was the threat imminent in 1979, in the days before Iran took over our embassy and held dozens of Americans hostage for more than a year? Did Iran pose an imminent threat to more than 200 Marines before they bombed our barracks in Beirut in 1983 and did thousands of our troops who were murdered and maimed by Iran?
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Steve Bannon
We're in this war now, so we got to win it. And we have to win it in a smart way to make sure the blood and treasure is not needlessly spilled. But we're in it. And we have to have victory. Now, how that victory is defined. The President of the United States commander in chief is going to do that, but it shouldn't be lost on people. And I hope it's not lost on this audience because you're the single most important audience out there. And that's why we've tried to be as evenhanded as we possibly can be in this process, because it's developing. And for you to fully use your agency, you must come to your own conclusions. I can't tell you what to think about this. President Trump cannot tell you what to think about this. Rachel Maddow cannot tell you what to think about this. Tucker Carlson can't tell you to think about this. What to think about this. Any of these haters, Trump haters on the left or now they all call themselves super maga. Well, you know how phony they are. You've been here from the beginning. You remember 15 and 16. You remember who's with us and who's against us. It is, I think, very important when you have a ceremony like today at Dover Air Force Base where six American heroes are honored dead who gave their life in defense of their country and signed up for that in an all volunteer force on this KC135 that crashed and they all died that their loved ones, or at least some segment of their loved ones asked that this be closed press, that there be no footage taken from it. I want that to settle in on the audience. I have no observations of that. I just, we're just reporting that out, this thing of imminent and plain things. And look for the people that are pro war here. Let me make a recommendation for folks that were there those many long years ago and decades ago. Let's not go back 47 years. Let's not go back to the Marine barracks. Should there be vengeance for the Marine barracks? Yes. But President Reagan, President Reagan, who was taking down the evil empire at the time, he was the commander in chief that put the Marines in the barracks. And he's the commander in chief that made a decision that once that catastrophe happened, it essentially was what it was. There was other things that were done, paramilitary, CIA, all that. But there was no escalation as many of the neocons at the time went on the warpath for him to do. And President Reagan knew all the facts and all the intelligence at the time. He had been the one. The fear of Reagan is what brought the hostages home. The failed effort to rescue them only made the mullahs and the ayatollah double down. It was Reagan and the strength of Reagan that put the fear of God in Them and President Reagan who was not opposed to, to the application of military force. The question still needs to be answered. This country needs an answer and we're going to be relentless about pursuing it. What was the information that the commander in chief was given Both on the 12 day war and in this? That it was an imminent. Why was it an imminent threat and you're not turfed out of MAGA by Tel Aviv Levin, who hated Trump and hates Trump, or Ben Shapiro, who hated Trump and that's what reason I fired him or he quit, depending on whose story you believe at Breitbart, because of his hatred, pure hatred of Donald Trump. You think those guys are going to dictate to anybody that's been in MAGA who's in or who's out or what you're doing, what your status is? We need to get the facts. We need to get the facts, particularly if now what Israeli public television says it may be a two week additional operation or some operation to actually seize, I don't know, Carg island or somehow get, take physical control, which looks like more than a naval blockade or naval quarantine or some sort of escort operation with naval forces in the Strait or Hormuz, that, ladies and gentlemen, is going up the escalatory ladder. I'm not saying we don't have to do it. I'm saying maybe we even need to do it. And for Operation Security. I know there's certain things that you can't talk about and shouldn't talk about because people in harm's way. However, there has to be kind of some understanding what's going on. And this is what's very important. President Trump is him making the case, not the wharm and not Stephen K. Bannon. He's made the case on now half a dozen and they've been kind of throwaway lines. But it's quite powerful because he's kind of a street guy. I mean, he thinks in a way that's very accessible to the common man and woman and that is a unique talent. He's saying no. He said yesterday, if we just pulled out, if I went through the military exercise and I went through the defanguing and the decline, that Captain Fennell, who's a targeteer as part of the Naval intelligence, actually does programs like this where you go in and strip down a military and destroy it, that he just said, oh, by the way, I will stop my rant and we're going to go to the floor live with Senator Lindsey Graham.
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Senator Tom Cotton
All the spent fuel you need to Operate a peaceful power program. You don't need to enrich. And if you want to enrich for medical purposes, very limited, fine. But you can't have an enrichment program that would lead to making bomb grade material because you're not reliable. And I would go a step further. It'd be like letting Hitler have anything. See the difference between me and. I think a lot of people here, maybe most Democratic colleagues, I think these guys are religious Nazis. Hitler wanted a master race. He wrote a book. Nobody believed him. He literally wanted to kill all the Jews and nobody believed him. The Ayatollah is the same. The regime is built around a cult of death. They want three things to purify Islam. They're Shiites. Their number one enemy is Sunni Arabs. They think they've got the faith wrong, that they're traitors to the faith. They hate Sunnis because they're not true to the faith and Saudi Arabia believes it. So they want to purify Islam, bend it to their will, make every Sunni reject their view of Islam and accept the Ayatollah's view. That's what they say, not me. I believe it. Number two, they want to kill all the Jews and they openly say it. They're not hiding their disdain for Israel. They actually talk about it. They put death to Israel on like milk cartons. These people are serious and you should take them serious. Like in the 30s, people didn't want to believe that Hitler meant what he said because they were tired from World War I and they said, oh, he's just all talk. He wants this, he wants that, he wants more German speaking territory. He's not completely crazy. You know, he's sort of just doing the Hitler thing. Well, he was completely crazy. Now I don't know why he wanted to kill all the Jews. I don't know why Hitler thought the Aryan race is the only pure race on the planet, but a lot of people are dead. Cause we got that wrong. Let's don't do that again. We're playing like World War II never actually happened and you're rewriting this regime's history from 1979. What had they done until today? What are they doing to make you think they don't believe what they say to this?
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Steve Bannon
Because I am going to play this entirely. Behavior. I wouldn't want to miss a second. A Lady G. The Lady G alert. As one of the war room engine rooms told me, we're going to have some polling and we're going to have some interesting analysis and news about Lindsey Graham because It boggles my mind how the good people in South Carolina, how Southerners continue to send that to the Senate, as destructive as that is. So we'll get back to that. We're gonna play Lady G's in its entirety. I wanna bring in Jancolick. Sir, I have a question. The main thing, we've been trained by Captain Fennell to keep. The main thing. The main thing, the main thing is the Chinese Communist Party. And let me be blunt. We've had John Solomon, who's one of the top investigative reporters in the imperial capital, and we've had Wynton hall, who, like you as an author that's just written a new book about artificial intelligence. But part of it's the left, the right in China and the race to control AI. And what John Solomon's reporting is that the Chinese Communist Party was actively involved in the stealing of the 2020 election and got into all the voter files, Social Security numbers, locations, all of it in April of 2020, right, in preparation for making sure that Donald Trump did not return to the White House. Why? Because in May of 2019. In May of 2019, ladies and gentlemen, up until maybe this month was the most important and significant geopolitical activity in this century. Because the Chinese Communist Party said no, we're tearing up the deal that Trump worked two years on. We called the Lighthizer deal. No. 1 belt won roads, the first conference in. Putin's our partner and this thing's rolling. No, the tech guys over there, the oligarchs in China are not gonna have free reign. We're gonna remove them and have it all report to the state. And TikTok and Deep Sea came out of that. And most importantly, we're gonna declare a people's war against the United States of America. They could not be more blunt. Our peer competitor, a country that wants to be a hegemon, has declared war on us. And everything since then has been to come at us in the hardest way. And this of power. And they so dwarf this, this collection of nutcases in Iran. And yes, they are dangerous. Don't get me wrong. Heck, I've been part of this whole anti mullah situation for 20 years now. Made movies about it, went to conferences about it, built up a grassroots effort against it, all of it. Hell, I was spent all this time in Texas, put the Sharia law on the ballot to make sure that we don't have the invasion in the jewel of the crown of the union. But Yan, we sit here and talk about this and they're missing the point, because they want to miss the point. The central enemy of the United States of America and the people of the United States of America is the Chinese Communist Party, the central enemy of Lao Beijing, the common man and woman in China that has killed 450 million by forced abortions and maybe 250 million in gulag and killed and starved. And now your book Killed to Order shows their outright barbarity and savagery. What doesn't? The Lindsey Grahams and the Tom Cottons and all these folks that got us now in a big old shooting war, a big old shooting war once again in the Middle east, all about oil. What are they missing, sir?
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Jan Jekielek
Well, to tell you the truth, I don't even know if they're missing this. But what I know a lot of people miss, okay, is the fact that what's in this book, which is, I think critical is what you alluded to, that the Chinese Communist Party actually instrumentalizes absolutely everything. Okay. I've been on shows talking about how it instrumentalized its so called ally, Iran, right? Basically to distract from building the ultimate military to try to attack America, building its own nuclear program, keeping America's gaze on the Middle east, helping support all of these non state actors to keep America distracted. So that's just one example. In Kill to Order I talk about how they actually instrumentalize individual human bodies, right? And so this is what my concern, right? My concern is that we've made a lot of progress. What you talked about the CCP going against the deal, the ripping up the deal that President Trump created in Trump 45. I actually argue that that is the first time that we actually did something that the CCP didn't expressly want. I have a whole chapter in here talking about how they're expert at making us complicit about basically bamboozling us, right. And getting us to go along with them. You know, when I started, it was a 95.5 issue. Everyone believed we were gonna change China. And they had no intention of changing. They just wanted to take our cash and basically hollow out our industrial base, build their own shipping, build their own military. And, and this book actually contains all of this mind of the CCP. And I'm not convinced that Washington D.C. entirely understands how the lengths to which this regime will instrumentalize everything. The cold hard stare of the people at the top and what they've been through to actually achieve what they have, the bodies they've had to climb over to do it.
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Steve Bannon
By the way, I want to say something deeper in the book. Please get the book the book is a horror story but you must embrace it because here's why we didn't make them Jeffersonian Democrats. All the lies of the 90s on most favored nation and bringing them in the World trade or WTO and most favored nation. It was all it turned out to be. Not kind of wrong, it turned out to be dead wrong. We are now taking on their model, the state capitalist model that you outlined the United States is taking on in the whole Palantir surveillance state. And this is why this is a warning. Do not think that the beginning elements of Kill to Order are not in the United States of America. Write this down. This book is prophetic just cause these savages use it today. Particularly when the powers of being, the Deep State are trying to reform the United States to be closer to the governor, to the state authority, to the. To the authoritarianism and state capitalism of the Chinese Communist Party than back to the yeoman farmers, right? And mechanics that on whose shoulders the foundation of the American republic rest. Folks, don't think this can't happen here. Don't think this can't happen here because I'm telling you, you would say previously, oh, we couldn't possibly be state capitalism. We'll never be like the Chinese Communist Party. Hell, the Deep State wants to run it like the Chinese Communist Party. Yan, tell me this book's exploding. I want you to tell me all the number one categories are in. It's 250, 257, I think on Amazon. Overall, it's the War Room posse that's gonna put it over the top to make it a New York Times bestseller, which is quite important symbolically for this. So where do people go talk about. We got about a minute. Talk about where this thing ranks right now.
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Jan Jekielek
Well, it's kind of unbelievable. Okay, this issue is something. I've been working on this for 20 years. This is the first time where people are finally read, I think to grasp it, to understand it. This is part of the reason this book exists right now. It's number one in communism and socialism. It's number one in Asian politics. It's like number five in like politics and government in general. It's astonishing. Genocide and war crimes. Number two. I think that's a, you know, kind of a tough category if it sounds. I mean, I'm just astonished. 257 in all of Amazon. I think we're ready to understand what the CCP is finally and kind of change our policies to actually deal with them appropriately. And this book tells us how to do that.
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Steve Bannon
Let Me say something? Yeah, let me say something. Part of it's the book, there's no doubt, and people I think are ready now to absorb it. But a big part of it is you. You work for, I think, one of the most amazing institutions in this country, the Epoch Times, the humility and the work ethic. And that paper is amazing, absolutely amazing. And what you guys put up every day, your American thought leaders is amazing. And I think people have seen coming on the War room and other shows over the years, my being on your show, they understand your humility and your decency and how you've got the best interest of this country at heart and humanity in Lao Beijing. This book is actually to say, hey, we must take on this murderous dictatorship because they've got a billion people under their at least a billion people under their boot and they're quite dangerous. Jan, any closing thoughts? We've got about 45 seconds.
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Jan Jekielek
And here's the thing, like, I'm not an isolationist. We need to communicate with them, right? But we have to understand exactly who we're dealing with. And this is the critical part, right? I think what this book can really help the American public at any level where it's you're in the GR at the grassroots, you're at the state level, federal level, legislator, whatever, right? You can actually understand how you can deal with these people who are trying to infiltrate every aspect of our society and essentially subvert it. That has been their project. Let's not let it happen. Let's understand how the CP it really works. Get the book, share it with your friend. Let's blow this out of the water.
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Steve Bannon
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Senator Tom Cotton
What behavior have they exhibited that they really do want to be normal? So during those negotiations, when they said no to every offer under the sun, they said something that was a fatal mistake for them. Oh, by the way, we have 460 kg of uranium at 60%. Now why did they tell us that? They were trying to intimidate us and letting us know that if we don't bend to their will, we'll have a problem. Now what's the problem? The difference between 60 and 90% enrichment is weeks, Mr. President, not months or years. And when you get to 90, that's weapons grade enrichment. That material can be turned into a nuclear weapon. 460 kg at 90% is enough to build 10 nuclear bombs. And I'm talking weeks, not months, to go from 60 to 90. And they were threatening to do it. So what did President Trump do? Instead of begging them not to, instead of giving them a bunch of money, bribing them not to, he blew up their enrichment facilities so they couldn't get to 90%. Called Midnight Hammer. Mr. President, I'm glad you did. And it's clear to me nobody in the Democratic Party would have done that. The question for my friends on the other side and critics within my own party, how could they have 60% enriched uranium at 460 kg without cheating? Everything you wanted to do to contain these people failed. The jcpo, every agreement that's been offered to restrict Iran's nuclear program failed if in fact they do have 460 kilograms of uranium at 60%. So here's my challenge. If you don't believe that's true, come to the floor and tell me why I'M wrong. We know that the material at 60% is under all the rubble of the enrichment facilities and we're worried that somehow somebody's going to get it before we do. So as a fact that they had produced enough uranium at 60%, that means they're cheating because there's no commercial purpose for uranium to be riched at 60%. None. Zero. You don't need that to run a nuclear power program. You need nothing beyond 20 to go to 60 means you're a threshold nuclear nation. Why 60? It's just a small jump to 90. And they want to intimidate and blackmail the world. So when they told us that we got this much at 60, Trump said, well, that's all you're going to do because I'm going to take enrichment off the table. And thank God he did. Their enrichment program has been obliterated and they couldn't go to the 90. But I think they'll come back at it, Mr. President, one day if we don't deal with it now. So that's Midnight Hammer. Epic fury. What happened after we blew up the enrichment facilities? Within weeks, they were actually the Iranians trying to start over again, going deeper. What was the lesson they learned from Midnight Hammer? Were not deep enough in the ground. And here's the most telling thing. They were trying to create a new enrichment capability that did not require an air shaft. Now, why is that important? The bombs that were used that were dropped on the enrichment facilities went through the air shaft, penetrated and blew up the facilities deep underground. That's a testament to our air power that the air shaft opening was about the size of a refrigerator and we dropped bombs through those air shafts to obliterate the enrichment facilities they had. Instead of learning their lesson and let's sit down and talk about peaceful nuclear power, they went the other way. And that's just. I think that's a fact. So epic fury, if you do not see this as an imminent threat, then you're blind for your hatred of Trump. There are people on the left and people in my own party that are more afraid of Trump being successful than the Ayatollah having nuclear weapon. That's sick. That is sick. When Obama took out bin Laden, I clapped like a seal. Every time he wanted to go in Syria, I was there with him and John McCain. I've tried to be bipartisan on such things. I never have ever introduced a resolution against a Democratic president under the Congressional War Powers act to limit their ability to protect the nation, ever, because I think it's unconstitutional. I've never done to a Democrat what you constantly are doing to this Republican president. And when a Republican tried to do that, I objected. If you don't like what President Trump or any other president's doing in military matters, cut off the funding. We have the power of the purse. We could stop funding for these operations, and that would be constitutional. What we can't do, in my view, is become the commander in chief. You can't have 535 people becoming the commander in chief. And that's what the War Powers act does. After 60 days, if Congress doesn't approve military action, stops. Basically, under the Constitution, you can be commander in Chief for only 60 days and Congress takes over. That's not what they had in mind. Let me tell you what the founders had in mind. A single person. The president to be commander in chief, and Congress to have the power of the purse and regulate the land and naval forces. That's the balance we've had all these years. And the War Powers act is unconstitutional because it destroys that balance. But it doesn't mean Congress is out of the game. Literally. If you had a resolution or an appropriation bill denying funding for Epic Fury, I wouldn't agree with you, but you would be on sound constitutional grounds. Now, why do I oppose this? Not just because I think it's an infringement on the the power of the president and overstepped by the Congress. I think it'd be really, quite frankly, dangerous not to finish this thing out in 18 or 19 days. We have done a number on the ability of Iran to build ballistic missiles to hit us and our allies. And if you don't think they would put yourself in the same category that miscalculated Hitler. What is it about the Iranians? You think they really don't mean what they say? So we destroyed that ability to build those missiles to come after us. And they were building 100amonth before we did this. The second thing is they have been funding Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis proxies. Hezbollah has a lot of American blood on its sand. Killed 220 Marines and sailors back in the 1980s when we were in Lebanon trying to help with that civil war, they attacked our barracks. There are a lot of American blood on the hands from Afghanistan. IEDs made in Iran. So these people have been war with us since 1979. Finally, we're pushing back. Instead of doing deals that don't work, we're trying to eliminate the threat in a responsible way. What happens next in Iran, I think the people will have a chance down the road to decide that. Not me, not you view. We're not going to invade Iran. We're not going to do the Iraq, Afghanistan stand. There's no reason to. What we want to do military, Mr. President, militarily, Mr. President, is eliminate the threats. They can't fund proxies. They can't build nuclear weapons anymore and they can't build missiles that would terrorize us in the region and Europe. When we accomplish those three, three things, here's what I think will happen. We will build on what President Biden started, which is normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Now, why is that big? Senator Booker has been great on this. He's gone with me.
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Steve Bannon
When we.
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Senator Tom Cotton
When Biden was president, I was a Republican trying to build on the Abraham Accords, see if we could get Saudi and Israel to normalize, which would be the end of the Arab, Israeli conflict. It'd be the biggest change in thousands of years. And I'd be willing to help President Biden. I was. And you know, we had a bipartisan team. I was part of it. Well, October 7th came along to stop that. Now, Mr. President, we were very close to having a breakthrough on normalization under President Biden. Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGirt. I went over there eight times. I think we were close. But October 7th was designed to stop what we were trying to do. It was a nightmare for the Iranians.
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Steve Bannon
I went over there eight times for
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Senator Tom Cotton
the Arabs and the Israelis to make peace because it changes the.
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Steve Bannon
No offense, bro. If that's your best pitch, he's the. He's the leading theoretician. That's your best pitch. I don't know the. And we'll have a. Captain Fanell is going to join us at the beginning of the show tomorrow because I want to go through the methodical declawing, defanging of the Iranian regime. And he does. CENTCOM is very methodical about this. The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is very methodical about this. And just like our military forces, they're doing an extraordinary job. Unbelievably professional, but that's the military part of this. This is, you know, you look at drudgery, I'm putting out drudger. I realize Drudge is a hater, but I just want to show that the center of gravity of this has shifted from the defanging and decline of the Iranian regime. And like he said, one day they're going to come. Remember at first there was going to come. Remember the Iraq. You had the same pitch. Lindsey Graham was in Congress and he had Bill Kristol. Remember they came on Fox News every night and said they're going to be throwing roses in the streets when we're on the march up to Baghdad. Remember that the very beginning of that war, the whole. Because Fox does the same thing. The whole lead up to the was it March of 2003 that weapons of mass destruction had to be there was all lies. You were lied. They looked you in the eye and lied. And Dan Sr. And Dana Perina, she got a little thing. She's on the five. Dana Perina and Nicole Wallace. Remember all of them all sat there and looked you in the eye and they were all the comms department. They were Caroline Levitt's time. They looked you in the eye and they lied to you every day. You were lied to. And what happened? Who paid for that? The families and the men and women that were there and had to defend it for it wasn't 20 years. I think Mo got there in 10, 2010, 2011. And that's when Biden couldn't, during the Biden Obama regime, they couldn't get a status of Forces agreement which would keep the United States military under our own law and not turn it over. They would be under the law of Iraq. Are you kidding me? That was even a possibility. So they pulled everybody out right away and left tens of billions of dollars of equipment just to get them out. But that was, let's see, that was eight years and we're still there. Remember one of the things about imminent threat. Well, the imminent threat is the Iraq bases. Well, what do you have the Iraq bases for there? Why are we still there? It's not the Iraqi government loves us. They all hate us over there. They fundamentally hate us because they're Muslim and we're a Christian nation. That's the central divide. You can have people that like you and are good and all that. Personal relationships, I'm sure in Qatar and a lot of these are more modern, but at the core of it, it all reverts back to the same. You can't assimilate that in a Western civilization. I will have Raymond Ibrahim on here. I think it's one of the best to give us the overall picture probably next week, early part of the week to go through it. But you're seeing the same stuff now. So we're in it. Let's just figure out how to get the hell out of this and do the job that we were supposed to do. But the job doesn't entail any type of support or sticking around longer. Why Israel invades Lebanon and an invasion that they say may be as big as 20 years ago. And now we're talking about Israeli public media and maybe it's not accurate. I'm just saying what they're saying. They're saying there's a two week, there's an, there's a working, a plan working on that is going to be a two week incursion into the Persian Gulf. Okay, fine. If that's what it takes. Now that you need to secure this aspect of. We just bombed it. You know the best, the 5,000 pound bunker busters. And trust me, baby, when that's coming down on your head, that's hell. That's you're they're raining down hell on you. We did that. I think it was last night. Probably do it again tonight. But if we do that, I want to see the UAE armed forces up there. I want to see mbz. Hey look, you got this army, especially the toughest guy thing, boom, that's fine. You guys lead the way. I want Qatar, whatever they got you. The, the, the, the Saudis throwing the Turks. Hell, if you're going to be the security guys in Gaza, show me what you got on Kharg Island. Let's see it. If we're going to bring in some commandos, we're going to bring in some, some forces, some boots on the ground. I want those to be Arab boots or Turkish boots. I want them to be Muslim boots. Why are we back again with American forces? And yes we can do it. And President Trump's looking at his alternatives. Remember today at the Intelligence of the Hammer, what he get briefed? Did he get briefed? Well, hey man, CENTCOM and the Joint Staff is who's briefing for this. This is a military operation. Trapped stopped during a time of war in a shooting war where, hell, we got six of our honored dead coming back to Dover at that very moment. You got to be, you got to be hectoring people. You have to be hectoring. And what do you see here now? Now Mike Lee is going to come up 8:30. We're supposed to be in, we're supposed to be in the Save America Act. You see that the Republicans. Do we have a clip of Schumer? Did we get that doesn't exist. It didn't exist. Well, Schumer somehow said it. Reporters saying hey. He's saying hey look, what do you guys talk about? We support voter id. I happen to believe deeply that this is because even though it may not be a full bore effort and you don't see that sense of urgency. You do see people like Eric Schmidt up there and others that are making a very compelling case, one after the other, that this is 80% and the country set up along the following to have just citizens vote. It's a pretty compelling argument. And I hear the counter from the Democrats and it's kind of all over the map. I got Klobuche saying, I mean, they're not. They really haven't picked a narrative of how to refute it other than every woman in the world. It's going to be Handmaid's Tale, because no woman's going to be able to vote because, I don't know, you change your name and you got to go get a birth certificate, and it's going to be a nightmare, which I don't think anybody buys. But that's what they're pitching. And then all of a sudden, right after the Intelligence Committee meets, we're now in back to War Powers act and Cotton and Lindsey Graham understanding they got to clean up aisle three, they're back to the imminent threat. I'll be blunt. I've heard the imminent threat pitch now many times. I'm not sure I can re articulate it. I don't quite get it. If it's an imminent threat, just come out and go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Here's what was an imminent threat, here's why we did it, and here's what we're trying to accomplish. I think they've gone over that. The only difference in shifting from the unconditional surrender talk was that the power projection on the Iranian people is kind of off the table. This power projection against regional allies, that is the Persian Gulf and the Gulf area and Israel, and that Israel's told you that that's another, I think, 6,000 targets, another three weeks of declawing a declawing operation. And they're getting pounded, and they're getting pounded every night. And now there's some discussion of whether you're going to actually be their all assets. Because remember, the pitch was, hey, you overthrow the Ayatollah, you overthrow the Islamic regime. All you Jeffersonian Democrats in waiting in Tehran. All you Jeffersonian all you Yeoman Democrats, all you. And I don't say there's a political party, just people that believe in democracy. You're asking for the same. The children and grandchildren of the people that ran out to Shaw. I'm not saying he was a beauty, but at least it was kind of a country making progress. They had a middle class. They had lots of problems. Corruption. Savic, they had the police state. Yeah. The family were not a particular collection of great people. But hey, it was making efforts. And if you go back in that time, I mean that was a ten times bigger ally than Israel. I mean it was the centerpiece. And quite frankly, we just cut it loose with absolutely no defense coming to it. I mean it was. If Carter's worst call was approving this operation didn't quite pull off with Eagle Claw. I think the bigger thing, people blame him. Didn't really think through and come to like the nation's defense and say, hey look, you're a major ally. You're buying major weapons systems from. We trained your entire military. You're our ally. And you're the one showing how you know Western culture and Western society and Western economics. They were like, you think Turkey and what's going on in Constantinople. Oh, excuse me. Istanbul is supposed to be a show place. This was a bigger show place. We just kind of cut it loose. When you go back and read the memoirs, you read it. It's not like they even spent a lot of time on it. What's the stunning thing is they just kind of kissing during these guys. Zigbee Brzezinski just kind of faded. Okay, Mike Lee, we're going to continue to stream this throughout the night. We think they're going to go to 9 or 10 o'.
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Senator Tom Cotton
Clock.
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Steve Bannon
We're going to cover it. It's going to be up there. Mike Lee. The Mike Lee is supposed to be up at approximately 8:30 is what I'm told to kind of put some order into this and we'll get it. Now they're fighting about this war and of course the Democrats trying to score points. Lindsey, these guys still trying to justify make the argument for it. They're trying to stave off another war powers. I believe I agree with them. The War Powers Act. Things totally unconscious, institutional and just a total waste of time. We're going to be back tomorrow. Birch Gold. Time of turbulence. The whole purpose of our partnership with Birch is to make you as knowledgeable as possible. A informed investor and consumer is what works best for the war room posse. Make sure you go to birchgold.com enter the promo code. Bannon. That would be me. End of the Dollar Empire. Check it out. Seven free installments. Eight's on the way. And get a hard copy. Check this, baby. The hard copy end of the dollar empire you can get today from Birch.
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Senator Tom Cotton
Coleman.
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Steve Bannon
We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be up on Getter with, folks. We're gonna be streaming this on Rumble and Getter. The great Grace Chong, CEO Mo Bannon, Elizabeth, all of it, the whole team. We'll see you back here live in the show. It's gonna be packed, gonna be wild tomorrow. Don't miss it. 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time. See you.