EPIC FURY ESCALATES AS CHINA LINKED TO IRAN WEAPONS | WAR ROOM WITH STEVE BANNON AM EDITION

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Podcast Summary: WAR ROOM WITH STEVE BANNON AM EDITION

Episode: EPIC FURY ESCALATES AS CHINA LINKED TO IRAN WEAPONS
Air Date: May 6, 2026
Host: Steve Bannon (with multiple guests and co-commentators)
Focus: Escalation in the Persian Gulf, U.S. negotiations with Iran, China’s role, and domestic political implications ranging from oil prices to midterm elections and redistricting battles.

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Episode Overview

This episode of War Room, hosted by Steve Bannon, dives deep into the rapidly shifting U.S.-Iran standoff—focusing on the reported progress and setbacks in ceasefire and nuclear negotiations, the role of China in arming Iran, and the intense interplay with U.S. domestic politics, especially regarding oil prices, redistricting, and the upcoming midterm elections. The panel offers a mix of real-time news analysis, insider insights, and energetic political commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Iran-U.S. Negotiations: Ceasefire, Sanctions & Uncertainty

• Presidential Messaging Confusion ([02:45], [04:22], [05:55]):

  • President Trump oscillates between promising the end of "Epic Fury" with a potential Iran deal and threatening “mass bombing” if Iran doesn't comply.
  • Quote: “If they don’t agree, the bombing starts … at a much higher level and intensity than before.” — Steve Bannon quoting Trump ([02:45])

• Deal Details Emergence ([03:30], [16:52]):

  • Axios/CNN report a draft agreement wherein Iran halts nuclear enrichment, the U.S. lifts sanctions, frees Iranian funds, and transit restrictions through the Strait of Hormuz are lifted.
  • Debate over whether a "one-pager" memo can suffice for such high-stake international deals.

• Military & Strategic Objectives ([04:22], [06:22]):

  • The U.S. claims Iranian military capacity, particularly the navy, has been "destroyed."
  • Review of war aims: preventing a nuclear Iran, destroying missiles, ending support for terror, and sparking regime change.

• Incoherence and Coordination Problems ([12:42], [19:12], [20:21]):

  • Repeated pivots in government military and diplomatic posture sow confusion.
  • Quote: “Is there some sort of coordinated interaction…? Because first it was escorting ships, then convoys… then, in 12 hours, kill it all…” — Steve Bannon ([19:12])

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2. China’s Involvement

• China Providing Advanced Weaponry to Iran ([07:22], [15:55]):
  • Wall Street Journal exposes China’s CCP as key to Iran’s sophisticated drone program—intensifying U.S. concerns about escalation.
  • China calls for an end to the crisis and open Persian Gulf, rising as a key player needing top-level U.S. engagement.
• Oil Trading and “Ghost Ships”:
  • Discussion on Chinese tankers moving Iranian crude, undermining sanctions, and the challenge of enforcing embargoes.

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3. Oil Markets & Economic Impacts

• Dramatic Oil Price Swings ([09:30]-[11:48], [13:12], [24:09]):
  • Oil markets “all over the place” in response to every White House statement—spiking and dropping $13/barrel with each twist in negotiations or threats.
  • Quote: “I’ve been saying it a long time, we’re going to get $5 [gas]. People call me a panic and I’m not a panicking. … Gas is going to continue to go up.” — Eric Bolling ([10:20])
• Midterms at Stake ([13:12], [14:12]):
  • High gas prices threaten GOP electoral fortunes; if prices spike past $5/gallon, “a new high will take Republicans out of the House, potentially the Senate.”

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4. Political & Redistricting Battles

• Local Grassroots Action ([27:55]-[34:00]):

  • Memorable Moment: Caroline Wren’s impromptu (and successful) defense at a local council to name the Palm Beach airport after Trump ([28:49]), receiving a standing ovation despite arriving unprepared:
    • Quote: “I live in Lake Clark Shores… I’m here to strongly support the renaming… Naming airports after presidents… is tradition…” — Caroline Wren ([28:49])
  • Wren details redistricting battles in Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, and the importance of having lawful, non-gerrymandered maps.

• Election and Redistricting Tactics ([33:49]-[40:38]):

  • Democrats and Republicans alike are racing to change congressional maps to favor their parties, with battles over legality and accusations of procedural delays.

• Call to Action ([41:16]):

  • Caroline Wren urges listeners to pressure lawmakers in South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia to “fix the maps now.”

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5. The Broader MAGA Movement & Internal Dynamics

• Movement Victories and Internal Purging ([37:31]-[38:54]):

  • Recent Indiana results touted as “epic” for purging RINOs and reinforcing the Trumpist line before the 2028 cycle.
  • Praise for “Trump political operation, Turning Point USA, Club for Growth, Scott Pressler, Senator Jim Banks.”

• The PsyOps Debate ([22:22]-[23:44]):

  • Eric Bolling and Steve Bannon discuss whether the mixed White House signals are strategic “psy-ops” to keep Iran’s IRGC “off balance.”
  • Quote: “This White House is coordinating this campaign not for the American people, [but] for the IRGC specifically. … They can’t figure out if we’re coming or going… I think it’s brilliantly working.” — Eric Bolling ([22:22])

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6. Islam and Texas Politics

• Rise of “Islamification” Concerns ([47:01]-[48:19]):
  • Dr. Carol Swain discusses the expansion of Islamic institutions and curriculums in Texas, warning that “the rest of us are asleep at the wheel.”
• Beau French on Texas Elections ([43:19]-[46:39]):
  • French paints himself as an “America First warrior” combatting both establishment Republicans and Democrats, emphasizing the stakes in the Texas Railroad Commission race.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Iran Negotiations:

  “He could keep hitting them. He could keep hurting our economy. So… it’s a wild game and… for a good game of chicken, you stay straight and you have a clear objective. I don’t know what his objective is and is zigzagging.”
  — Unidentified Analyst ([01:53])

• War Room Mood:

  “This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we’re going medieval on these people.”
  — Steve Bannon ([06:33])

• On Redistricting:

  “If you don’t win the redistricting war, you’re not going to win the midterm. Full stop.”
  — Steve Bannon ([14:51])

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------------------------|---------------| | Iran nuclear negotiation and Trump’s position | 02:45–04:22 | | Objectives and failures of Epic Fury/Iran war | 04:48–06:22 | | Oil market volatility and midterm pressure | 09:30–11:48 | | China arms Iran, global stakes rise | 15:55–16:52 | | Government coordination challenges debated | 19:12–21:19 | | Psy-ops strategy discussion | 22:22–23:44 | | Caroline Wren’s airport speech | 28:49–30:15 | | Local victories, standing ovation | 31:53–32:59 | | Redistricting and MAGA purge in Indiana | 37:31–38:54 | | Texas politics, Islam’s influence, Beau French | 43:19–48:19 | | Dr. Carol Swain on higher ed & Islam | 48:00–48:19 |

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Overall Tone & Language

• Pugnacious, urgent, unapologetically partisan.
• Frequent use of military and war metaphors (“primal scream of a dying regime,” “going medieval,” “purged the RINOs,” “psy-ops”).
• Conversational, with recurring in-group affirmations for the MAGA audience.
• Guests often provide technical or insider expertise, especially on oil markets, redistricting legalities, and campaign operations.

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Summary for Non-Listeners

This War Room episode is a primer on the current right-wing view of an intensifying worldwide standoff: the Iran crisis isn’t only a military affair but a crucible for U.S. domestic politics, energy markets, and the geopolitical chess game with China. The hosts and guests express skepticism at diplomatic progress, see volatility in the President’s messaging as possibly intentional, and focus relentlessly on how these high-level moves will hit Americans at the gas pump and—crucially—the ballot box. Local action, from redistricting to small victories like the Palm Beach airport renaming, is celebrated as essential to the broader MAGA offensive. The tone is combative, insistent, and electric, aiming to keep the base both informed and mobilized.

Transcript

[Neil McCabe]

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[Caroline Wren]

Edu

[Marco Rubio]

the president, our president has proven time and again that his preference is peace. But Iran must accept the reality of the situation and come to the negotiation table and. And accept terms that are good for them but ultimately good for the world. The diplomatic path, if there's a real diplomatic path, I'm not always going to be one. But if there's a real diplomatic path, and we continue to explore it, Steve and Jared are working on that very hard. If there is one there, it could be one that leads them to reconstruction, to prosperity, and to stability, and to not posing a threat to the world. The alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat. I know what the right choice is for Iran. I hope that the people over there making decisions will make the right one.

[Unidentified Analyst]

That the noise like the tumbleweed is getting all over the place. How do. How does Europe and how do our allies in the Pacific, our allies in the Middle east, deal with something that clearly the administration itself cannot control? And that thing in the center is Iran, because at the end of the day, they're still pushing events more than anything else.

Well, I mean, the analogy I like to use is a game of chicken. You know, one side is closing the Strait of Hormuz, and the US Imposed a blockade. But for a game of chicken to work, you need the chicken to play by certain rules, even that game. And here we have one chicken, the American one, that is zigzagging all the time. We really don't know. I mean, to your point, at this point, I'm at a loss to know what President Trump's objective is. As you said, Simone, if it was to open the Strait of Hormuz, it was open before the war started. The nuclear issue. There's no indication now that the Iranians are prepared to give what they weren't prepared to give before the war. So he could keep hitting them. He could keep hurting our economy. So, you know, it's. It's a wild game and where the so for a good game of chicken, you stay straight and you have a clear objective. I don't know what his objective is and is zigzagging. So even if Iranian wanted to make a deal, it's unclear they know even what is looking for.

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

President Trump posted just moments ago seeming to reference a potential deal. This is what he wrote, quote, assuming that Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary epic fury will be at an end and the highly effective blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be open to all, including Iran. If they don't agree, the bombing starts and it will be sadly at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. Now we should note that Marco Rubio said yesterday that epic fury was already over the President here saying maybe it's not. But be that as it may, the statement comes after a new report in Axios from CNN political and global affairs analyst Barack Ravid, who we're going to speak to in just a moment. That report says that White House officials believe that the US And Iran are closing in on a one page memo to end the war. This deal would reportedly involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment and the US Agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds and both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Again, there have been a flurry of these developments and about faces over the last 24 hours, including the President who said he is pausing the two day old US Operation to guide ships through the strait, citing quote, great progress in the talks. And this is after Secretary of Defense Pete Hexit and Marco Rubio spent literally hours talking about how great that new operation, Project Freedom is. But that's now on pause. We're waiting to see what else it means.

[Unidentified Military Analyst]

Military the nuclear program of Iran has been destroyed. Their ability to spread terrorism has been destroyed because they're on their knees economically. If we can control the straits, if we can take back control of Straits of Hormuz, it is checkmate. This thing is over to the American people. I know gas prices are high and I know we're suffering right now, but you pay now, you pay later. Against thugs like Iran.

[Unidentified Political Analyst]

Administration efforts to wrap this war up, regardless of the conditions on the ground means that this war, if they wrap it up, will be seen as a failure. Just like Iraq, just like Afghanistan, just like Vietnam. Because as Sanger writes, despite Mr. Rubio's declaration that the objectives of the war have been accomplished, they clearly have not Mr. Trump himself described his objectives in the early hours of February 28th when he told Americans and Events Video that he had recorded earlier that Donald Trump and this administration and the United States and its military had five major goals for going to war with Iraq. First was to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. That was repeated all the way up until late last week by his secretary of defense. But he went on to add that the United States had to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles and their launchers, which of course the UAE and our other allies in the region said, we don't want you to go to war, but if you go to war, you have to destroy their missiles and their launchers, sink its navy, end its support for terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, and finally create the conditions for the Iranian people to topple their government. And it was Donald Trump who said in the early hours of the war the to the Iranian people, your time of liberation is at hand. Sanger goes under.

[Eric Bolling]

Right.

[Unidentified Political Analyst]

The Iranian navy is clearly gone, as Mr. Trump often notes, but that is the only one that is checked off the list.

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on 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.

[Eric Bolling]

And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul,

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

[Steve Bannon]

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my

[Unidentified Political Analyst]

country, this country will be saved.

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

[Steve Bannon]

It's Wednesday the 6th of May in the year of our Lord 2026. Want to bring in? We've got Neil McCabe in the press briefing room at the White House. We have Eric Bolling with us. Eric, and thank you for changing things around here to join us. Just what is the result? Because obviously President Trump and getting ready to go to Beijing for next week and have this great powers discussion. And the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Chinese Communist Party is, as we've said here over and over again, arming the Persians, particularly with the technology to do all these advanced drone strikes they're doing, which has gotten to be quite an issue, quite a problem. The, the, the announcement after yesterday, starting in the morning at 8 o' clock at the Secretary of War Chairman George Chiefs of Staff about Operation Project Freedom, which was a kind of a mass convoy way to open up straight or Hormuz. We talked about it in depth yesterday. Then Marco Rubio gets up and Marco, I did. I do think, because it confused me, Epic furies over and change the goalpost, that the entire purpose, the reason Epic Fury is over is we've taken away the conventional capabilities and the industrial war base of manufacturing. That's done so we can move on. Then the President leaks or talks about it, goes to Axios, we've got a one page memo we're working on. He's going to stand down on everything until that's done, but then just puts out a tweet or true social moments ago that says, hey, we are very close to having something we can agree upon, but if they hesitate or they any funny business, we're going to go back to a mass bombing campaign. First off, bowling as the markets see it, what are they telling us going on? Because I think it's very tough to take between what people are saying. You have to see what the reaction is of people that are actually betting large amounts of capital right now on their information. What do you got?

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah, Steve, all over the place. Last night, I think early in the morning, midnight, one o', clock, I texted you the comment that Trump was going to make that said we're going to pause Operation Freedom. Epic Freedom. And I said at that point, it's a Don't hate me for this. I said, steve, is this going to be a Taco Tuesday meeting yesterday or Nacho Wednesday, meaning Taco Trump, all these chickens out, listen, don't hate me for that. That's what the Wall street folks are calling it. The oil traders are calling it Taco Tuesdays. Nacho is not a chance. Hormuz opens. So we got both of them in the span of about 12 hours. We got great news. Woke up this morning, markets were very strong on the equity side. So I immediately went to the oil market and it was down $13 a barrel. Steve is 89 dol barrel this morning from 103 settlement, 102 settlement yesterday. And then Trump makes that statement like, well, if, if they don't be careful, we're going to continue this, this, this, not only the blockade but the bombing, the kinetic bombing on them. And it jumped 5 or 6, 7, 6 or $7 from the low. It's still, you know, 95, but it was 89aminute prior. We need these lower Prices for economy been saying a long time, Steve, we're going to get 450, guess what? We have 454 in gallon of gasoline nationally average right now. I've been saying it a long time, we're going to get five. People call me a panic and I'm not a panicking. I don't have a, I don't have a political iron in this fire. I'm just telling you what I see of 35 years of oil trading. Gas is going to continue to go up. Even last night when it was 13 lower in this, in the crude it would still go up for another month or so and then puts us right in the middle of driving season. What I do believe is happening, something that you and I talked about a long time ago, a few weeks ago, three, four weeks ago, we said that at some point people are going to realize that this is really going to affect the midterm elections greatly. Now we're pushing for 55 a gallon. 501 is the all time high under Biden. It took him out of the White House and I have a hunch that at a new high and if we don't solve this thing quickly, a new high, we'll take Republicans out of the House, certainly potentially the Senate as well. Who knows what happens in the White House.

[Steve Bannon]

Trina Parsi was on here three weeks ago, I think roughly and said, you know, you're never going to get to some long term detailed 100 page document that's signed on, you know, like the battleship of Missouri. That's not going to happen. He says, I don't think you're ever going to get. The best you're ever going to get is maybe some brief memorandum of understanding. Today they're talking about this one pager will lead to. It's contingent upon signing a definitive deal later. Does anybody believe that? Does anybody believe that the Persians because to get them even to get a one pager it's taken weeks and weeks and weeks and we're not there yet. If they follow their negotiating strategy, it's years before you get to definitive one. So you get a one pager, all agree to it and then bring everybody home. Is that the plan?

[Eric Bolling]

Well, Steve, of all people that know the answer to that, it's the man I'm looking at right now. Because yeah, there's a kinetic war. You're fighting the war on the ground, in the air, on the sea. But there's also a war of, let's call it public opinion certainly, but even more so the rhetoric right so this shooting back and forth between the Iranians, we're not done. We've got a lot more. We will blow boats out of the water, we'll hit uae, we'll declare war in the Middle east versus Trump saying, you know what? They're finally playing ball. Markets.

[Unidentified Political Analyst]

Correct.

[Eric Bolling]

Then he says we're going to blow them off the face of the Earth within 12 hours, they revert in the wrong way. Right after that. He has to think about the midterms. Some would say that he doesn't care about the midterms. If he cares about conservatives, he'll think about the midterms. We're never, ever people want to say, regime change, whether friendly to America, it'll never happen. Whoever the next regime will be, they'll still hate America. They'll still continue to try and build a bond. That's why 60 days ago, Steve said, let's just fix this kind of deal with these jerks. They're, they're fanatical Muslims. We'll never be able to trust them. But cut the deal so we can cut bait, get out of there, get oil prices back down, and, you know, live to fight another economic day. And there are those who just think we should wipe them off the face of the Earth. Well, guess what? You want to do that, you're going to have six, seven, maybe $10 gasoline, period. You can't have both. You can't wipe off a major oil producer in the Middle East. Well, they'll fight to the death and take out a lot of oil installations and have a cheap price for oil. Steve, let me ask you something. What do you think Americans, not just people watching War Room or like Bolling or love Trump, The American people, 325 million of us, what do you think is more important to them? Wiping the molars off the face of the earth or making sure that they can bring home enough money to feed their kids or go out to dinner once in a while. I'm going to tell you, if you disagree. I'm going to say it's the economy, stupid. James Carbill said it. He was right. He's become a nut job since. But it's the economy, Steve. There we go. That's my two cents.

[Steve Bannon]

Eric Hanger for one second. If you stick around, I will go to McCabe in the White House. Caroline Wren is going to join us. I think a message was sent last night in Indiana. Of course, how we even got into the Indiana situation is a story unto itself. But I think you can say in South Carolina, message received. We're going to talk about these redistricting, talk about the midterm elections. If you don't win the redistricting war, you're not going to win the midterm. Full stop. Full stop. Need to have these unconstitutional districts evaporated immediately. Okay, Eric Bowling's with us. We're trying to go through and figure out the memorandum of understanding. What that means is going to be enough to wrap this thing up, pack up in and get out of there and let the Europeans deal with the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf all next in the boardroom for justice.

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

[Steve Bannon]

The Chinese Communist Party has just come out with hey, we need this whole thing stopped and opened up and you know Persian Gulf's got to be open. They're clearly hurting. This is a great powers negotiation I believe and I hope Scott besants in the middle of it of what really matters and that's what the CCP who are both arming the mullahs and giving them cash for the oil. And I still don't understand why any of the ghost ships or any of the ships that go out are cargo or oil headed for the Chinese Communist Party. It just can't happen. McCabe, you're at the White House. The one page memorandum of understanding it has, you know they're not going to do enrichment. They are. We're going to lift sanctions. We're going to give them some cash we hold related to the sanctions. What's the probability, what are you hearing at the White House? What's the probability this thing gets signed? Because the Persians are tough to nail them down on anything, sir.

[Neil McCabe]

Yeah. So the expectation is that this thing can be settled and everybody can move on. The question is, you know, are the Persians like everybody else? And some people would say they're not. And so obviously there's a timetable. You talked about, you know, what's going on with China. The president has a trip going to China. We also have to resolve Cuba, something that Marco Rubio talked about talked about yesterday. And then you have the World cup and then you have the 250 and then you have a midterm election. And so the president obviously wants to get this thing off the table but at the same time there are some absolutes that he promised the American people such as eliminating the Iranian nuclear program. And so we'll just have to see what that one pager does it it's the style of the president to negotiate a big meta agreement and then once he has sort of Everybody buy in on this big vision. Then he just tells everybody, figure out the details. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And that's what we're going to see, you know, how this thing plays out. What we saw yesterday is we saw Hegseth and Kane at the Pentagon lay down the marker that the Pentagon is ready to go, that military operations are still at a very high tempo, that they're supporting Project Freedom, which was the, which was the program to allow to help those ships get out using the southern route along Amman that was going to be run by the 82nd Airborne or is being run by the 82nd Airborne until it was suspended. And so, you know, every expectation from the Pentagon was, hey, if the President tells us to launch, we launch. And so what we saw with Rubio in the afternoon was the geopolitical, the strategy. This is the sort of the big picture. We saw some moving of goalposts, like you said, where Rubio actually said Epic Fury was done. The purpose of Epic Fury was to eliminate the conventional threat which they were sort of hiding behind as they were building up their conventional defenses so they could build that nuclear program. That conventional shield is gone. And now we can talk. And so now we'll, you know, everybody was sort of going in that direction. And then of course today at or around 6am Axios has the leak from the White House. And then of course the President came out with his true social saying, hey, we've got a deal. Or maybe we don't. And if we don't, the bombing starts. Steve?

[Steve Bannon]

Neil, are people tied in? Is this because you had Pete and General Kaine, then had Marco, then you had this announcement that Witkoff and Jared are working on. Is there some sort of coordinated interaction among like even some subset of the National Security Council so that when we present something to the world, people can understand it and kind of, because first it was going to be we were going to escort ships out individually with, with Navy destroyers. Then it was we were going to clear a path and do kind of really convoys like in World War II. And then to get all the way to. We're stopping the entire thing because you know, it's not. Although the Navy can turn on a dime to rev these operations up to get everybody on board, hey, here's what we're going to do. Here's where we're going to go. And then boom, in 12 hours, kill it. And then say just a little while ago, hey, we're going to go back to mass bombing. If we don't get the one pager understanding how recalcitrant the Persians are to really agree or give us anything. Do you think it talks about a lack of coordination internally.

[Neil McCabe]

It's interesting that some of this stuff is leaked and some of this stuff is official. So you would say right conventionally, right. In a normal world what the President says is the government's policies. And so when that anyone who contradicts the President's policy is wrong. But, but I think what you're seeing is you're seeing different parts of the government are sort of arguing their case to the President through the leaks. And I think that's where you're going to get some confusion. I think that, you know, Rubio, Rubio is, is tied in. He's the national security adviser. There's probably 150 people here at the White House who work directly for Rubio. So he is in the center. He should be in the center. But as it plays out maybe he's not in the center as we thought yesterday when he spoke. He laid it out and then, you know, everything, almost everything he said is undone this morning. Steve, quite brilliant.

[Steve Bannon]

McCabe, McCabe, stick around the White House. I know there's gonna be updates in this. As we go through the morning. We're gonna come back to you. Neal McCabe at the White House. Neil, what's your social media so people follow you?

[Neil McCabe]

Steve, you can find me on all the socials at reporter McCabe, stick around,

[Steve Bannon]

stick around near the pressure and we'll come back to you bowling. Before we punch out, we're going to go to the red. You talked about the midterms. We're going to talk about the predicate of these redistricting efforts. But your thoughts right now, I mean if it's a one page memo and they sign up for all this, hey, that's a good basis for, for moving on. The issue has always been these guys think they're winning, right? They're dug in now. They think they're winning and they think they've got some sort of, they've got some sort of stake in those straight or horror moves that if the Americans leave, et cetera, with the NATO inability to patrol or open it, they're always going to have a say. So your thoughts as we leave this morning about how you think this all plays out?

[Eric Bolling]

Well, a couple of things. I think these guys think they're winning. I assume you mean the irgc, the Iranians. I would qualify that with, yeah, they think they're winning because they are winning. They're getting Their ass handed to them on the battlefield. But they're winning because they want to be martyrs. This is their ultimate 72 virgin goal, to die for the cause, to get rid of the evil Satan, America and the baby Satan in Israel. So they feel like they're doing their Allah's work, so to speak. So in their minds, they're winning, which means they'll fight to the death. Steve, what's the best way to keep an opponent off guard? Not knowing if he's coming or going. You see what's happening. Trump will make contradicting statements 12 hours apart. Pete Hexov will come out and say, we're bombing the crap out of them. They're going to die. I don't think it's different factions within the White House. I don't believe that. I think, and you know better than anyone, that this White House is coordinating this campaign not for the American people, not for the Iranian people, but for the American, for the IRGC specifically. They can't figure out if we're coming or going. And I think it's coordinated effort. I think it's brilliantly working. Blockade, kinetic warfare. Pete Hex says we're going away. Trump says, no, everything's cool. Wait, no, everything's not cool anymore. This is great battle time strategy, is it not? You're, you're the strategist, am I wrong?

[Steve Bannon]

An open, an open, open ended psyop to keep them off guard if you eventually get to your objective. And of course, yesterday we found out the objective was different. It was a conventional. Take all their conventional forces. Bolling, what should we be looking for today in markets to see if all the information. Because remember, these people that are making these bets have sometimes better information than anybody. What should we be looking for?

[Eric Bolling]

They do, they really do, Steven. And I'll get with these people again this afternoon. But I think the fact that we're still down $7 a barrel, again, we were down $13 a barrel this morning. Remember the oil market was shrugging off the quote, unquote, good the news last few times. Trump said, hey, I think we're close to a deal. And it kept going up, up and up. This time they dropped at $13 a barrel. I think the smart people in the industry and these people aren't speculating, they're, they're hedging production and they're hedging requirements to buy, to put oil through the refinery, to turn it into gasoline and diesel, more majorly importantly in jet fuel. So they're not hedging, they're not speculating casino gambling this. They're making sure their businesses don't go bankrupt. They are now feeling I believe this. There are a couple of indicators. It's wonky for you but there are a couple of indicators that say that sentiment is now changing from let's it looks like it's going to go higher in the short term and medium term to now it may be going lower again. Crude oil price gasoline will continue to go up for a while. No matter if crude goes to zero today, it will go up because there's all that oil that was traded at the higher levels has to work its way for 30 to 45 days for the system. So we're in for a little bit more higher prices. But I think the saying I'll get with these people, you know, when, when things look good. And they were telling me in Dallas when I was with you in Dallas, the refiners and the producers were both saying higher and they were right. I'll get with them and see if they've changed. Right now their trade desks are going bonkers right now. So it does feel like the indicators are that they're believing in a lower oil price, which is really good news on a lot of fronts.

[Steve Bannon]

Eric, where do people keep up with you between now and the time we do a changeover from your show? That's 4 o' clock in our that's 5 o' clock again.

[Eric Bolling]

Steve, I love you. It's at Eric Bolling across platforms but I really, really think we're doing some important work discovering what's going on in the real markets in the oil markets, not the rhetoric markets that the mainstream media likes to deliver. So find me here. Find me at four on Rav and Steve hopefully join us with Rav too.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you brother. Appreciate you. Okay, we're going to go to break. First off, Birch Gold. Take your phone and a text ban and B a n N o N at 989-898 you get the ultimate guide for investing in golden precious metals in the age of Trump. But that's free and no obligation obviously is all the information from Birch Gold is more importantly you can talk to Philip Patrick and team. The first quarter is out and another record rate for the buying of gold by central banks. They actually outline what central banks are doing this. It's quite interesting. And the question is that setting now a floor, a potential floor for the purchase of gold. Find out from Philip Patrick's team. Like I said, Bannon B a N N O N and 989-898 get direct contact with this tremendous team at Birch Gold to talk about the benefits of owning physical gold. Breaking news, folks, as we bring on Caroline Wren right after the break. Tennessee Republicans unveiled a new congressional map that would wipe out the lone Democratic seat in the state. The map unveiled this morning would split Memphis home, counting the three districts likely dooming Democratic Representative Steve Cohen's reelection prospects. What a way to start a Wednesday. Caroline Wren, Caroline Wren also gave the moral equivalent of the Gettysburg Address yesterday to the Palm Beach, I think it was the city council about an airport down there. The Caroline Wren. Next in the war room.

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, so I've got two things to go through. Obviously we got these redistricting and their victories upon victories and we need more victories. And that's why the War in Posse once again has got to go to the Ramparts Day. However, I want to start with this issue down in Palm beach and let me tee this up. Is that but you know, Caroline Wren, you know, she's Miss Mar A Lago. You see her there, she's hot, walking the donors. You know, all these very classy events with, you know, ball gowns on and, you know, all this, you know, very expensive attire accoutrements, always dialed up, always doing it. So I see this thing at Palm beach yesterday which is very important. It's kind of an emergency meeting that's called for maga and she delivers the equivalent, the moral equivalent for the topic of the Gettysburg Address. And well, let's go ahead and play it and then I'll bring her on and I'll have some more commentary. Let's go and play it.

[Caroline Wren]

I live in Lake Clark Shores, just six miles away from the airport. And I'm here to strongly support the implementation of the renaming of PBI to President Donald J. Trump International Airport. This licensing agreement seems very straightforward and is meant to protect this county. And as such, our county commissioners should not play politics with a licensing agreement to delay implementation of a law that was passed by the legislature and has been signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Naming airports after presidents and national leaders is not unusual. It is, in fact, long standing tradition. New York has a John F. Kennedy National Airport, D.C. has the Ronald Reagan National Airport. Houston has a George H.W. bush Airport, Grand Rapids has the Gerald Ford Airport, Springfield has the Abraham Lincoln Airport, and Little Rock has the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. Airports are economic engines and federal relationships matter. Aligning Palm Beach County, Palm Beach International Airport with a sitting president will strengthen the county's profile in D.C. improve competitiveness for future federal aviation priorities and potentially enhance opportunities for infrastructure grants, modernization, funding and transportation investment, whether through FAA discretionary programs, infrastructure packages or broader federal partnerships. Increased national prominence can translate into tangible economic benefits for Palm beach county taxpayers. I urge you to move swiftly and approve this licensing agreement. Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

We cut at the end for brevity the standing ovation she got. So, Caroline, you look like an unmade bed. Your hair is not brushed, you are in a pajama top. And if they saw the shot at the end where they gave you a standard ovation, you're in your Daisy Dukes and I think you had flip flops on what, what, what in the hell is going on there? I realize the below decks voyage you've taken for the last couple years had a huge impact in your life. I just didn't know it had a big impact on the way you carry yourself. Ma'. Am.

[Caroline Wren]

Well, so yesterday I wake up to three, you know, urgent calls from state Rep. MAGA Meg Weinberger, who's just the absolute best but telling me that there's this em at the Palm Beach County Commissioner meeting and that I had to be there in 15 minutes. And so I didn't even know the topic. I just jump out of bed, throw on jean shorts and a T shirt and race out the door to go there. And sure enough, the dispute was over, you know, the renaming of the airport, which has already passed. But the county commissioners, we had gotten word that the they were going to try and vote down a licensing agreement which basically would have stopped the airport renaming. The licensing agreement just had to do with how they can use Trump's name, et cetera. And so I went there and it took six hours and spoke. And I'm glad I did because ultimately we did win. It passed 4 to 3 and a Democrat flipped. And so we officially have the president. Donald J. Trump Airport. Very exciting for Palm Beach County. But that was how I spent the majority of my day yesterday, was in that meeting. So. But local politics matters.

[Steve Bannon]

They very much matter. It took six hours of MAGA activists to be there to make sure they could keep the beady eye on the commissioners, that there was no funny business.

[Caroline Wren]

Well, there was a lot of different agenda items I had to sit through. And they made this the last one. The Democrat Congressman Laurel Lee, apparently had sent a bunch of Democrats there to go and speak on behalf of not doing this licensing agreement. And so there was probably about 15 Democrats that spoke and only a couple of Republicans who we had raced down there. Linda Stock the Club 47 chair was great. Meg Weinberger's husband, Eric Weinberger was great. So I am glad we went. But I had to sit through a lot of stuff such as the passing of new building codes that are sensitive to Native American buildings. Like lots of stuff like that on the agenda that took a lot of time.

[Steve Bannon]

Local politics matter, as we know, with this Islamic invasion of Texas. But congratulations. So it's done. It's named the airport and it's gonna have some transition to do all the signage, et cetera. But this is gonna happen here shortly.

[Caroline Wren]

Yeah, the signage and named it. They said they expected July 9th. So very shortly here we will have this, have this airport. And it's a big victory. And it's also very, it's exciting. This is what the Democrats are so short sighted on this county commission because look at, I mean, President Trump has promised, he said this, that he is really gonna put some investment into this airport. So just looking at these Democrats have such TDS syndrome that they were willing to put aside, you know, a great economic engine, a lot of federal grants coming in for this airport and money and excitement around it just to spite Trump. And it is, it was idiotic. And they lost.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, so we got big news of things you're specifically working on. Additionally, about the midterms. I think we have a clip from Benny Thompson. I want to play that. Then I want to talk about Mississippi and this breaking news out of Tennessee. Let's go ahead and let it play.

[Benny Thompson]

This is equivalent to a second civil war. We're going to have to get our act together, as everybody's saying. We're going to have to resist with every fiber in our body. We're going to have to take this system on at every election because it's not just members of Congress. We're talking about state legislatures, we're talking about union commissions. We talking about city council down the city council. Absolutely.

[Steve Bannon]

A second civil war. Benny Thompson, one of the most corrupt members of Congress. Explain that one to me, Caroline.

[Caroline Wren]

Well, sure, that was pretty straightforward. That is the former chairman of the January 6th committee basically calling for an insurrection if Mississippi redraws his congressional district so that he actually has to compete for votes instead of being handed a congressional seat and then equating that to saying there will be a second civil war if that happens.

[Steve Bannon]

Exactly. Calling for an insurrection. Talk to me about Mississippi. And then this breaking news just came out of, because we identified yesterday, Clyburn, Bennie Thompson and Steve Cohen are probably the top three targets.

[Caroline Wren]

What happened in Tennessee Tennessee, Steve Cohen is gone. They just showed us the new map and they're in special session now. They're about to pass it. It will now be a nine zero map. And there was some back and forth last night over, you know, how exactly this map is being drawn, but everything is good and proceeding. And so Steve Cohen will no longer be in a artificial district that was drawn specifically for him. And Tennessee will get the representation that it deserves. In Mississippi, harder one, their special session starts May 20, but their primary has already passed. And so we don't know what's going to happen there. But, but the governor and the attorney general and everyone is doing everything in their power to try and get this map redrawn. And so I'm hoping it happens, but there might be things outside of their control. So we will definitely pick up a seat and get rid of Betty Thompson in 2028. But I'm praying for 2026. In South Carolina, the House Rules Committee just probably 20 minutes ago just voted 122 to amend. What is their sign die agreement, Senate to allow for redistricting after the session adjourns next week. And so the full House is about to vote on it. Then it'll go over to the Senate. But I think South Carolina heard loud and clear the message that the Trump political team sent last night in Indiana. And so it looks like South Carolina is also now moving forward.

[Steve Bannon]

So talk to us, what is a signed dying agreement? Why is that important? Why did that have to get done first?

[Caroline Wren]

Sure. Well, people were getting frustrated with Henry McMaster for not saying that he was going to call a special session. The point the governor was making is they are in session right now. And so also the governor, there's different powers each state has. The governor has the ability to call a special session in South Carolina, but you don't have the ability to set the agenda. And so he was pushing it back onto the legislature to say, no, you guys are in session and what you can do is you can amend the signed die before you close out and put redistricting on the agenda. That gives then the governor the ability to call everyone back. And the topic which would be redistricting has already been set by the legislature. And so Governor McMaster has been impressive here. And I will say Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evatt was playing a big role behind the scenes. I've talked to her many times, calling state senators who were not wanting to do this, calling state house members. And so it looks like Henry master was playing some 40 chess here and that it's going to work. You also had President Trump involved in it. He held a conference call with a bunch of different state senators yesterday in South Carolina. I mean, he is. He is involved in all of this, and it is really great to see.

[Steve Bannon]

I mean, part of this is we want to take the burden off his shoulders, but what he feels he's needed. Right. And it's urgent. This is top of mind for him. I mean, he'll jump on. Like you said yesterday, he had a conference call with a bunch of these senators to let him know what the program is. And the program, I think, was shown last night in Indiana, where I believe we won every seven. Six of the Rhinos were turfed out last night.

[Caroline Wren]

Six of eight Rhinos were turfed out last night. And in fact, there's one incumbent survived. And that was the race where there was two challengers with the same last name. And the Trump operation did everything they could to try and get one of those two out, and they just wouldn't budge. So that person survived only because of that. The other race, there's one more that is too close to call. I think it's separated by about five or six votes right now. And Tyler Boyer with Turning Point USA was making the point of this is why ballot chasing matters. Matters so much when you have races this tight. But, you know, it was a smackdown of epic proportions last night in Indiana. And so I really, we gotta give credit here to the Trump political operation. Turning Point usa, Club for Growth, Scott Pressler and then Senator Jim Banks, they worked together beautifully to not only spend money, but to get the grassroots excited and to turn out the vote and get what needed to be done, which was getting these Rhino senators that refused to redistrict out of office. And. And so huge, huge victory last night for those organizations.

[Steve Bannon]

Now, since that's being used as an example in South Carolina, is there any possibility at all that we go back and revisit the Indiana situation?

[Caroline Wren]

I don't think there's any possibility to revisit in Indiana. It's a good question. They definitely will now. I mean, it will pass for 2028. I'm not sure what could be done for 2026. I'll certainly look into that, but I think it should definitely send a message to Georgia. And two days ago, you had Justice Alito. He made clear that election deadlines cannot become a safe harbor for unconstitutional maps. And Brian Kemp is saying voting's already started, so we can't. There's no way to revisit this. But Georgia's current congressional map depends on a bra theory that the Supreme Court has now rejected. And state leaders have not only the authority, but they have the obligation to correct this. And the Constitution comes first. And Georgia must conduct congressional elections under a lawful map, not simply the map that is in place when primary voting has began. We have election day. Election day has not happened. And so I just think that it was frustrating the Supreme Court, the dissent, they slow walked it intentionally so that these dates would pass. And so Republicans, we need to play hardball with them. And it was ridiculous that Justice Kagan and also Jackson and others that they slow walked this and played politics with it. But we should play politics with it as well. And Georgia should not allow the liberal Supreme Court judges procedural delay to dictate their representation for an entire Congress. And so that is the place that I still have eyes on Georgia and I'm very frustrated with Camp and I hope that he will fix this.

[Steve Bannon]

Where do you want the Warren Posse? What's the marching orders for the day today before you get to the afternoon, the evening show? Is it Georgia? Alabama? If you're in one of those states, continue to light people up because it's having a big impact.

[Caroline Wren]

The folks meet Louisiana. For some reason Governor Landry still wants a 5:1 map. The legislature wants a 6:0 map. So if you live in Louisiana, please make your voice heard that you want a six zero map in Louisiana and then also in South Carolina. All eyes are on the state house and state Senate. If you live in South Carolina, you've got to be calling your representatives and tell them that they've got to do this and they have to do it now. And then we're still watching Virginia. That's going to be a huge ruling that comes out. The Supreme Court should rule Thursday or Friday on that. And so that could be either a pickup of four seats for Dems or potentially leave the map as is. And that is a big, big, big thing to be watching.

[Steve Bannon]

Wren, what's your social media, your bomber command? Where do people go to follow you during the day?

[Caroline Wren]

Caroline Wren on X TrueSocial and Getter.

[Steve Bannon]

Caroline, big day yesterday. Thank you so much. Your fire in Palm beach delivered. So thank you for responding and going to the sound of the guns in 15 minutes. Appreciate you ma'.

[Unidentified Analyst]

Am.

[Steve Bannon]

As always. Caroline Ray, the Caroline Wren go check out her social media. Beau French. Dr. Carol Swain. After a short break,

[Stephen K. Bannon (Host)]

here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

[Steve Bannon]

We're going to be shifting war room back to Texas in the run up to the special election is so important down there. Plus other things are going on with this Islamic invasion of the jewel in the crown of the union. The great state of Texas. Patriot Mobile want to thank Patriot Mobile for all their support. They support causes you believe in. A Christian based company based on Christian values. 972 Patriot call right now and talk to one of their customer reps. They'll walk you through why it's the finest mobile phone service in the country. Check it out. You'll hear some hear from a US citizen that's got an east Texas accent. But to walk you through it plus what the company does and support. Jenny and Glenn Story two of the best folks out there. Just incredible and a great company. Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot make that call and make it today. By the way they throw in a free month of free service given the fact that you're a war room posse member. Beau French. Texas Tribune's got a great article about where this race stands for the Senate. The Attorney General Railroad Commission. They're painting you as kind of the fire breathing maga. The MAGA candidate in this because you're bringing in a whole bunch of issues into being. Railroad Commissioner how's it going sir?

[Beau French]

Well the campaign's going great. We made the runoff by essentially tying the incumbent who had the lowest vote total in the history of the Railroad Commission incumbent. The Railroad Commission is the regulator over the oil and gas and industry. Very important for Texas. You know we produce almost half the oil and gas in the United States. Listen I have a track record of being the America first warrior who won't back down despite criticism even from within my own party. You know the Rhinos have come after me just like the Democrats have and the establishment does not want me to win this race. So they pulled out all the big guns. They're spending millions of dollars. But look they can't overcome the fact that my opponent is a Democrat mega donor. He even gave money to the to the Democrat nominee for Lieutenant Governor against our sitting lieutenant governor who was a former DNC co chair. So I mean he's a radical Democrat. He's claimed up until recently. I've been in this campaign for six months. He said that Islamification of Texas is not a problem. He's made the Railroad Commission a top 10 DEI agency and just recently he said he didn't even know what DEI was. So this guy is just wrong for Texas. Let's not even talk about the fact that he implemented the largest green New Deal type regulations on our oil and gas industry. They just went into effect in July, increasing red tape, increasing delays, increasing cost on operators. That's not the America first agenda. You know, we need to be helping President Trump make oil and gas exploration and production in Texas even bigger, and my opponent is not doing that.

[Steve Bannon]

Also, it's pretty obvious as people find out more information about you and more information about your opponent, they cut your way. Correct me if I'm wrong. When we first got to Texas, I think, weren't you, like, 20 points down in the primary? And you closed that gap dramatically as people as we put you on Warren. But you went on other media and people really realized what you actually are about and what your record is vis a vis what your opponent was saying. And they understand what your opponent's trying to true record is.

[Beau French]

Yeah, look, I mean, I have a very clear record. I was the. I was the Tarrant County GOP chairman, the largest red county in the country. I flipped it from, you know, heading towards turning blue when Beto O' Rourke won it in 2018 and Joe Biden won it in 2020. And in 2024, we flipped it back. I raised more money. We had 2.6 million voter contacts. President Trump won Tarrant County. I fought very hard for that. He won it by five points. So, you know, I have a clear track record of being the America first warrior that I think our primary voters demand. And that's what happened in the March 3 primary when, yeah, the January polling had me at single digits. You know, running a statewide campaign in Texas is difficult. It's a huge state with over 30 million people here. And, you know, I was well known in the DFW area, but not all over Texas. And I closed the gap and essentially tied the incumbent who really underperformed all expectations. And now he is reeling. He's brought in all the big guns. He has Karl Rove helping him, you know, which is just terrible. I think most Texans reject what Karl Rove has done to the United States. I mean, what a Muslim population in the United States because of Karl Rove's policies, you know, have increased five times since 9, 11. I mean, this is just bad for America and bad for Texas.

[Steve Bannon]

Bo, where can people go to find out more about this race? Because it's one of the most important races in the country in this primary

[Beau French]

season, where they go, yeah, you can go to. On X o French and that's. I'm there every day, so come find me there.

[Steve Bannon]

And it comes in a little hot sometimes. That's what people should come. So, Beau French, thank you for coming on. Thank you for running.

[Beau French]

Thanks, Steve. Thanks for having me on.

[Steve Bannon]

Beau French, what he did up in Tarrant county, unbelievable. And tell you, turned Tarrant county into a powerhouse up there, the mega movement. Dr. Carol Swaney, Dr. Sweeney, I'll hold you through the break. When you first put this over, people started sending me this the other day and I saw it up on your, I guess one of your accounts. I thought it was a program at Texas A and M that now was alec. It was going to have STEM students who were going to have 30% of their time studying Islamic, you know, Sharia law. And then I realized as I watched you and I looked at your thing, it's not Texas A and M at all. It's Tex A and M. They've really ripped off the name. You have a long history, in fact, you may have the longest history of any tenured professor at Ivy League school about this very issue about the encroachment of Islam in universities. I got about 90 seconds here. We're going to hold you through the break. What is going on in the great state of Texas, ma'?

[Neil McCabe]

Am, Someone is asleep at the wheel. And I think the ripoff of the name probably will not withstand a court challenge. But in the meantime, it's clear the Muslims have a plan and the rest of us are asleep at the wheel.

[Steve Bannon]

And you've seen this, and you saw this decades ago. In fact, you were the most outspoken person. I tell you what, just hold. Just hold right there. We're going to hold you through the break. But you were very outspoken decades ago about what was going to happen. And guess what? As on many, many topics, Dr. Carol Swain was absolutely correct about our education system. Dr. Carol Swain's going to join us. Also, Tyler O' Neill on the Southern Poverty Law center and much, much more. Over from the Daily Signal. We're trying to hook up Matt Boyle and Dr. Monica Crowley about America 250 to understand what's going to happen between now and 4th of July. And then afterwards, we're going to get

[Eric Bolling]

to all of that.

[Steve Bannon]

Also a special guest about is President Trump's are the tariffs working? Is the is protecting American industry from unfair foreign competition in the United States? Is that actually working? Get to all of that in the next hour. Also revisit what is going on with updates in the Persian Gulf. Birch Gold, Birch gold. Go to birchgold.com Bannon it's not a promo code. It's actually slash Bannon end of the dollar empire. Find out why that physical gold is tied directly to the purchasing power of the United States dollar. Good old Greenback and why central banks are buying gold at record rates right now. Short commercial break Back in the War in just a moment.