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You have the government of El Salvador, the president of El Salvador, make this deal with the Trump administration. | |
I think it's $15 million that the Trump administration is going to be paying El Salvador to essentially take these folks from the United States who have been denied due process in the case of Kilmar. | ||
And again, Republicans seem to be happy to take photo ops at this site and celebrate the fact that the president of the United States is ignoring court orders and that the government of El Salvador is keeping this | ||
guy locked up who's committed no crime at all. | ||
I do think, though, as we continue to put the spotlight on this injustice, that they ultimately will have to let him go. | ||
I believe that will be the case, because I believe people will keep pressing. | ||
Deport all undocumented immigrants. | ||
Voters favoring the government trying to deport all 11 million of them. | ||
Back in 2016, just 38% of voters wanted the government to try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. | ||
Compared to where we are in 2025, 56% the majority. | ||
The American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump. | ||
And I think that's a big part of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy. | ||
Part of their mission is to use their power in the U.S. government to destroy American higher education, to destroy U.S. colleges and universities, not because of any particular thing that colleges and universities are doing, | ||
but just because they think they're bad and they shouldn't exist and they are going to try to destroy them. | ||
They have been saying this for years. | ||
Now it is clear we should believe them. | ||
Tonight, CNN and The Washington Post are reporting that President Trump has directed the IRS to strip tax-exempt status from Harvard University after Harvard said this week that it would not accede to Trump's threats. | ||
It would not enter into some kind of receivership where Donald Trump gets to dictate the school's internal policies and academic decisions. | ||
Now, there are, of course, laws about tax-exempt status. | ||
The IRS can't legally take it away from a university or from any entity just because Trump pounds his chest and says so. | ||
So we'll be talking about that more on tonight's show. | ||
But the fact that Trump is trying it tells you, I mean, tells anybody paying attention that, yeah, now's the time. | ||
Move fast, right? | ||
Any school that wants to survive what Trump and Vance are doing here, what their agenda is here for American universities and colleges, any school that wants to survive what's coming their way better find a way to not have to fight alone. | ||
And so, yes, now we are seeing all kinds of colleges all across the country move toward mutual defense pacts with other schools. | ||
Basically, little NATO treaties for all the colleges. | ||
An attack on one is an attack on all. | ||
No connection to any of these efforts, but I would just say as an observer, just speaking strategically, my only note on this might be go faster. | ||
Once he's targeted you, it's too late to have a mutual defense treaty in position. | ||
You have to have these things in place ahead of time before he signs that executive order or yanks your funding or does whatever he's going to do to you. | ||
Time is short. | ||
River rises. | ||
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The day before he was inaugurated this time when he disregarded the Supreme Court on TikTok. | |
And a law passed by Republicans in Congress. | ||
This is, you know, we shouldn't get normalized to the idea that, well, the administration might just disregard courts, because that's what they're doing every day, and we all see that snowball's getting worse. | ||
This is a case that does matter. | ||
I'm old enough to remember when people said they were constitutional conservatives, and you'd think they backed this kind of thing. | ||
And California's not the only suit, right? | ||
But even if a Koch brothers-backed group has brought a suit on this. | ||
The problem is that Congress has constitutionally sort of self-neutered itself. | ||
The Founding Fathers wanted the balance of powers and figured that Congress would be covetous of its own power. | ||
But because hyper-partisanship is such a hell of a drug, they've given that away to Donald Trump. | ||
So this case does matter. | ||
All these cases matter. | ||
But it also matters that the courts and also more collective action starts getting taken by organizations to not roll over when this administration ignores the courts, ignores laws, ignores the Constitution. | ||
That's the bigger issue right now. | ||
And let's not sleep on that. | ||
And not getting the money that your state needs? | ||
You don't take the knee. | ||
You fight them in court. | ||
You stand together with the power of collective action. | ||
Because you understand that bullies only respect strength. | ||
You understand that kiss in the ring, it doesn't stop there. | ||
You understand what Winston Churchill said, which is appeasement is feeding a crocodile hoping it eats you last. | ||
So you've got to stand strong. | ||
And that's where the law firms need to come together. | ||
That's where the universities need to come together. | ||
And the states need to come together. | ||
But you raise a good point. | ||
I mean, there are consequences for standing up. | ||
I think it's been interesting to watch what issues President Barack Obama, former President Obama, has weighed in on. | ||
He's been weighing in on the universities. | ||
Why? Well, Harvard is his alma mater. | ||
He cares about it passionately. | ||
He's an alma mater. | ||
And they have money. | ||
I mean, Harvard has money. | ||
They're going to lose a lot right now, but they've got an endowment, and he's been emphasizing that. | ||
The states that are going to miss out on this money, like, that's something you certainly have to take into account when you're the governor. | ||
North Carolina needs that FEMA money. | ||
For sure. | ||
It does. | ||
But I just, I want to make this point, because, yes, they'll pray all the week. | ||
You're making, like, a principle argument. | ||
Everyone's got the reasons. | ||
A lot of CEOs went down to kiss the ring. | ||
Why? They said, I've got a fiduciary responsibility in my stock bear. | ||
Shareholders. And that is the slippery slope. | ||
If the people who are strong end up being weak and kissing the ring because they've all got their reasons, that is how the civic backbone shrinks. | ||
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
I got a free shot at 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've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
It is Thursday, 17 April, year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
A world on fire as President Trump continues to hammer in every different vertical and take on the institutions of this country to make sure that they are... | ||
That the DEI, wokeness, anti-American, neo-Marxists, I don't know what we're going to call it, is ringed from them. | ||
It's really magnificent. | ||
He's breaking the big law firms that run the country. | ||
He is breaking these big universities, the Ivy Leagues. | ||
I'm just waiting to go to the Bannon pivot to the public Ivies, which is essential to get to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin and Madison. | ||
The way he's doing this is cutting off everyone from the public trough. | ||
All the pigs feed. | ||
What, $9 billion to Harvard? | ||
All these people getting billions and billions of your taxpayer money. | ||
And guess what taxpayers? | ||
Middle class, working class taxpayers? | ||
They just had it. | ||
Not interested. | ||
I also think that they got a DM. | ||
It's not about anti-Semitism. | ||
That's a part of it. | ||
In some cases, a big part of it. | ||
That's not the reason. | ||
The reason is that these are... | ||
Radically, radical, progressive, neo-Marxist faculties and administrations, and we have to purge that. | ||
Or just to go do it, if you want to do it privately, finance privately, go for it. | ||
Harvard, you got $52 billion? | ||
I don't even think that counts the business school and the other colleges. | ||
I think that's just Harvard College and the university. | ||
I don't think the individual, I think the business school's got a $10 billion. | ||
I'm not sure they just rolled that up and that's what it is. | ||
I think it's bigger. | ||
I think Harvard may have $100 billion. | ||
And only a year ago, two years ago, they started using it for letting kids that couldn't afford to go there, go there. | ||
Cut them off. | ||
They're not so tough. | ||
Law firms are not so tough when you cut them off. | ||
The federal, of your tax debt, when you cut it off from the trough, you want to drain the swamp? | ||
Start by taking the pig trough and draining that. | ||
They're not so big. | ||
They're not big shots anymore. | ||
The NGOs. | ||
Let me get Jack Pasoba. | ||
Jack, we have a lot to go through this morning. | ||
We're going to connect some dots, right? | ||
President Trump is the one who says he's going to weave the story together, right? | ||
But I want to bring you in here. | ||
First off... | ||
Catholic charities, the bishops, they're all big talk and social thing, and they want to, you know, help the poor and be part of the migrant pack and welcome the stranger and have everybody come up here. | ||
As soon as government money was cut off to the NGOs, the bishops, hey, we had a great 50-year relationship, but we can't do that anymore. | ||
The moment it came to get into any of the money that keeps them living like the House of Lords, I don't see any of those guys in the shoes of the fishermen. | ||
I haven't seen a vow of poverty from any of those folks. | ||
As soon as you tap into their cash, all of a sudden, hey, the other, maybe they ought to wait in northern Mexico. | ||
They're all in it when you're giving Catholic charities a billion dollars a year to invade the country. | ||
And I still don't understand where the investigations are on that. | ||
I hate to be so, you know... | ||
Persnickety here on a Holy Thursday, because it is Holy Thursday. | ||
Jack Posobiec. | ||
Thoughts about that, and also the Democratic Party. | ||
You saw Harry Enten. | ||
We got Benson with Obama. | ||
I don't understand, in an election where securing the border, getting our sovereignty, restoring our territorial integrity, that, you know, Star County, that we, 97%, you know, hard-bitten, blue-collar Hispanics, | ||
South Texas, they... | ||
We lose it by 60 points to Hillary in 16. We win it by 16 points in 24. They're not reading the room. | ||
Why are the Democrats all day long and all they're doing is booking flights? | ||
Why have they decided in the incredibly moving, may do that again at 6 o'clock tonight, the incredible moving testimony of the mother of the victim. | ||
That was brutally raped and murdered yesterday. | ||
And President Trump to give her a platform in the press briefing room with Caroline Leavitt was just extraordinary. | ||
So Posobiec, why are they taking the side of the illegal alien? | ||
This is a criminal. | ||
We're not even to the mass deportations. | ||
Benzman's going to walk us through mass deportations. | ||
Why are they taking the side of this? | ||
Why are they going against what the American people are demanding happen, sir? | ||
Well, Steve, thanks again for having me on. | ||
And there's a lot to unpack here, as usual. | ||
But what do we see writ large across the Democrat Party and the Democrat agenda? | ||
Well, what we see is this complete wedding, a hijacking, if you will, of the Democrats with identity politics, with wokeness, and with ultimately support for criminality. | ||
This Abrego Garcia, even before... | ||
Pam Bonney released the police report, and I'm glad that she did, by the way, the underlying intelligence showing his direct ties to MS-13 and high-level MS-13 members at a drug deal in Hyattsville, Maryland. | ||
Not too far, by the way, from the Secret Service's training ground right over there in Greenbelt, Maryland, where this was going on. | ||
But also, it seems though his own lawyers had hidden this from judges, had hidden this certainly from media, claimed that it wasn't real. | ||
It was all real. | ||
So I don't know if the ethics board or the bar is going to have any questions for the lawyer of Mr. Abrego Garcia because he had clearly defined gang ties. | ||
No, but Steve, the Democrats, remember, they believe in a world of two classes, a neo-Marxist agenda whereby in the United States has the class of the oppressors and the class of the oppressed. | ||
And so if a member of the oppressed class, be they MS-13 or they be some other minority, Or some criminal, whatever it is, they're rising up against the oppressors, which typically end up being straight, white males. | ||
Particularly, by the way, Christians. | ||
They always seem to target the Christians. | ||
And so they will overlook, by the way, anyone who has been victimized by these people. | ||
Senator Chris Van Hollen abandoned Rachel Morin. | ||
Her senator, her own senator, abandoned her. | ||
But her president would never forget her. | ||
And that is why her president brought her up yesterday on that platform, brought her into the Oval Office, by the way. | ||
And I've got pinned up an Etsy page for Rachel Morin's family, by the way. | ||
They're not even asking for handouts. | ||
They don't have a give, send, go up. | ||
I think we should make one, but they do have an Etsy page. | ||
And go look at my pinned tweet right now, because right now they've still got five kids that they are raising without their mother. | ||
Because of an MS-13 gang member in Maryland, and Chris Van Hollen won't even say her name. | ||
It's stunning. | ||
Her testimony about the trial, and what was suppressed, they said the detectives didn't want to fight it in the media, maybe that was smart. | ||
It was brutal. | ||
And Van Hollen, it shows you exactly what the Democratic Party thinks of working class people. | ||
You don't mean anything. | ||
They can rape, brutally murder, essentially torture, rape, and then murder your loved ones. | ||
They don't care. | ||
They're going to go down and worry about the due process rights of a criminal terrorist that President Trump has done as Commander-in-Chief. | ||
We'll take that fight. | ||
That's what you want to do? | ||
We're in. | ||
A lot more to go through. | ||
The great Jack Posobiec is with us this morning. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
Okay, let's go back and talk about, as we've talked about now for over a year, what President Trump, the task and purpose of President Trump in his second term, third victory, second term, you're going to have the three verticals, and those verticals, number one, | ||
is to stop the... | ||
Kinetic part of the Third World War. | ||
We are in the Third World War. | ||
It's not kind of going to happen. | ||
This is deeper, and the kinetic part is much bloodier and more dangerous than it was from 1939 to 1941, the beginning of the European part of World War II. | ||
Demonstration in every aspect. | ||
Number two was the mass deportation to get out all the illegal alien invaders, and Harry Enten, the great... | ||
And a pretty straight shooter at CNN just told us what the American people think. | ||
They want all the aliens deported. | ||
Todd Benson is going to join us here in a while to walk through that. | ||
It's Todd Benson, one of the big experts. | ||
The third is to get the finances and the economy and all that right. | ||
And part of that is I was redoing the global commercial relationships and engaging finally in this economic war the Chinese Communist Party headed by, but also our own house here. | ||
And that's why the lead story. | ||
On the Hill newspaper today is about raising taxes, or I should say, not extending the tax cut that the middle class and working class desperately need, extend it to the upper bracket, and also talking about spending cuts, etc., and also additional tax cuts for the working class and middle class. | ||
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security. | ||
So those three are going. | ||
President Trump's plate is full. | ||
Over time, which unless you get HBO, you don't see, they sit there and it's more of a comedic. | ||
And I go from the front of the show interview to sit on a panel with Josh Rogan, a China expert, and Piers Morgan. | ||
And that's supposed to be comedic. | ||
He's taking questions they've pre-done from the audience. | ||
And Jack, there was a question, first off, about... | ||
Why is the only support? | ||
It was about Huckabee. | ||
Why is the only support that Israel has from evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics, right? | ||
And they made some joke about that. | ||
I didn't really engage. | ||
Then they talked, they asked peers about this new movement in England about young people going to church and tons of young Catholics going back and people converting to Catholicism in the Catholic Church in England. | ||
Now, peers didn't know anything about it, but it's just not his line of country. | ||
I was gonna bring up but I didn't because it's comedic and I don't try to be cute on their shows is about the as you know so many young men in MAGA are either converting to Orthodox Christianity or starting to practice or get acquainted with Orthodox Christianity which is much more of an inner practice than the Protestant, | ||
Western Christianity of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, which is more exterior a little bit than the interior practice of the Orthodox Church. | ||
But those were two of the questions that got thrown up. | ||
The New York Times had a story yesterday. | ||
So this is on, you know, this thing about religious practice and about particularly what's happening in the Middle East and why Huckabee is there as one of the most prominent evangelicals in the country. | ||
And there's things going on both the National Security Council over the last week or 10 days and over at the Pentagon with our friend and colleague Pete Hegseth, his staff, some of the hirings and now people coming and going and issues about maybe the brief for Elon, etc. | ||
But in the middle of this, the New York Times drops a story. | ||
And I think people should know, and we get a lot of grief for this, but it's fine. | ||
We're cool with it because we totally respect. | ||
The people maybe on the other side of this, or a little to the maybe more isolationist side of this, the Kurt Mills's of the world, the Tucker Carlson's of the world, people we have tremendous respect for, both intellectually and their task and purpose and what they've done to take this movement forward and to defend their country. | ||
And I would say that Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon and War Room and really Real America's Voice overall as a channel, we're probably deemed as being more pro-Israel and more hawkish in Israel, not neocons, but the Middle East overall in Israel, | ||
right? But I've been advocating for a while and a long time that, you know, in looking at Persia and the Mullahs, you have to look at... | ||
Economic warfare and what have we done? | ||
You can't get into another shooting war over there. | ||
We're adamantly opposed to that. | ||
And not enough has been done. | ||
I have said, both the Chinese Communist Party and the Mullahs, you must get to the oil and cut the oil off if you're serious. | ||
And we haven't done that. | ||
They ship 2.5 million barrels a day. | ||
It's on the record of 1.6. | ||
It's 2.5. | ||
Scott Besson, the Secretary of Treasury, came out yesterday on a statement and backed the war room idea. | ||
Fully cutting off the Chinese Communist Party and stopping any cash flow in on oil to the mullahs. | ||
But there's so much else to do. | ||
Assets everywhere. | ||
The families of 1983 have had a judgment. | ||
Ode billions of dollars. | ||
Nothing's been done. | ||
There's so much economic warfare that you can do to bring down this regime. | ||
Or not bring it down. | ||
Let the people in Persia and Tehran deal with it when you broke them. | ||
The New York Times had a story yesterday, Jack, that was jaw-dropping but not surprising. | ||
And that is Bibi, because it was kind of fishy. | ||
He came for these two meetings, and he literally shows up. | ||
And I think this is a problem for people like ourselves that support Israel. | ||
He shows up. | ||
He's got a bombing plan. | ||
He's ready to roll. | ||
They're going in mid-May, and they need Trump to sign off on it. | ||
They need Trump to sign. | ||
This is why, and I don't know this from a certain fact, but I can tell, this is why Trump walks in the first time and says, hey, we're going to go Trump-Gaza. | ||
You know, that thing, you see Beebe's look on his face, and they do the formal press conference later. | ||
The second time Beebe shows up, it's supposed to be a terrorist, we now know from the New York Times, he's pushing, as we said on the show, to start bombing immediately and wants American help, because he can't do it by himself. | ||
And Trump there, in front of him, announces, hey, we're having one-on-one, we're going to have a one-on-one negotiation. | ||
You are not going to be in the room, but we're going to do it in Oman, and we're starting on Saturday, which is clearly a shock to him. | ||
Jack Posobiec, connect all these dots, and particularly, I think people should be quite upset of Bibi pushing this as hard as he's pushing it and give props to the Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, who's got so much of the world on his shoulders right now, | ||
just saying, yo, cool it, right? | ||
I got other things I'm working on. | ||
Jack Posobiec. | ||
Steve, what President Trump did last year in the United States of America, this victory, That carried from coast to coast the massive wave that we saw of patriotism outpouring throughout the country was predicated on three major issues. | ||
Number one, trade. | ||
And he said tariffs over and over and over. | ||
He said we're going to fix trade and fix the economy. | ||
Number two, immigration. | ||
We're going to fix the border, deport illegals, and he's been executing on those two. | ||
And number three was stopping World War III. | ||
All of the drumbeat for World War III. | ||
Now, they were talking about Russia, but they were also discussing Iran. | ||
And President Trump went out to every stage he could find and said, no more wars. | ||
He even went on stages, or one of them, as we saw, they tried to take him out in Butler, Pennsylvania. | ||
But God prevented that. | ||
And while he was up there, what was he talking about? | ||
No more immigration, deporting illegals, and no more war. | ||
So what did President Trump do when he was elected? | ||
He put together the greatest assemblage of patriots that this country has ever seen since the days of Washington and Madison and Jefferson and Franklin and our founding fathers. | ||
And they came together finally from all across the political aisle. | ||
And you've got former Democrats and former Independents and Greens and all the rest of it coming in. | ||
And what united this coalition? | ||
It was those three issues, and particularly as well, the Maha issue, which eventually came on. | ||
But threading through all of that was peace, this idea that we're going to have peace in our world. | ||
To have people coming in, by the way, not just from outside the administration, but from inside the administration saying, we need to open up a war with Iran. | ||
We need to open up direct strikes on the Iranian regime. | ||
At the same time, while President Trump has publicly said that he wanted negotiations, we're in negotiations vis-a-vis Russia, Ukraine. | ||
We're in negotiations vis-a-vis Israel, Gaza. | ||
Look, if you want negotiations, we can do that. | ||
Because that's what the American people voted for. | ||
That was the peace that the American people voted for. | ||
And so the patriots who are actually carrying out the president's wishes and the mandate of the American people, by the way, the Electoral College, the popular vote, and seven out of seven of the swing states which voted for this, those patriots are the ones who stood tall and said no. | ||
This was the president's agenda. | ||
These were the line items. | ||
We are not breaking this. | ||
And now, all of a sudden, we come to find that on the heels of this, that there are patriots, particularly those who served under Pete Hegseth, that are suddenly being summarily frog-marched away from their offices under very flimsy and unproven pretexts. | ||
And suddenly, a lot of those are scratching our heads saying, I wonder if just maybe that this might actually be a policy dispute because I sure remember in the early days of 2017 when we were told that General Michael T. Flynn, | ||
one of the greatest patriots this country has ever produced, was a Russian asset. | ||
And Mike Pence, Judas that he is, by the way, spy Wednesday yesterday, lied about General Flynn and read the transcript and said that Flynn had lied about it. | ||
It was never true. | ||
Flynn was always telling the truth about not being a Russian asset and not working with the Russians behind his back. | ||
Mike Pence lied about him. | ||
Those lies led to him being fired from the administration. | ||
And Steve, I really worry, I really worry that some of those same forces, potentially, or potentially people who are just misguided or perhaps following the wrong lodestar, are at it again. | ||
Okay, we're going to take a break. | ||
Well, everybody, gold is, you know, they're setting all-time highs every couple of days. | ||
It's not the price. | ||
It's the process of how it got there. | ||
And it's particularly the Chinese Communist Party blatantly telling people in Rio, the Rio Reset, where the BRICS meet, that they want a massive program of de-dollarization. | ||
So why are the central banks in the world, including the Chinese Communist Party, buying at record rates? | ||
What is the underlying geopolitics and geoeconomics that are driving this? | ||
We're not here that you buy a fish. | ||
You go to Birch Gold and learn how to fish. | ||
Learn the pattern recognition. | ||
Birchgold.com /bandon. | ||
End of the dollar empire. | ||
Started four years ago. | ||
Because I knew we'd land in this place. | ||
With the guys at Birch Gold. | ||
It's all free. | ||
And you get to meet Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
The question is, you got this Coke issue. | ||
You got defense priorities. | ||
We're going to get into it. | ||
Because a lot of people say, well, hey, I didn't know any Coke guys were over there. | ||
I'm just not buying that. | ||
And if you go in, you got to go in, right? | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Post on the other side. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
To cut to the chase here, President Trump is pretty adamant. | ||
Jack just heated up perfectly. | ||
He views the sunlit uplands of being peace and prosperity. | ||
And he's working on the prosperity part, which ain't easy. | ||
And the peace part is hard too. | ||
The first thing he wants is everybody to put their guns down. | ||
He's adamant about the killing that's going on in Ukraine and how it's been caused by weak... | ||
People or some who wanted it to happen. | ||
And also in Gaza, in the Middle East. | ||
And he's adamant about this. | ||
And it couldn't be clearer, I don't think, Jack Posobiec, that he does not want, he's the guy that shut down Bolton. | ||
When Bolton ginned up that thing about having the massive missile strike that was not as, you know, President Trump's big on reciprocity where they took out some things and then they had a missile strike at the last minute he goes through and he says, hey, this is not balanced. | ||
We're not doing this. | ||
Because that's what the neocons are going to get you into. | ||
Because their sons and daughters are not involved in it. | ||
Their sons and daughters are on those two carrier battle groups out there. | ||
Off of Yemen. | ||
Bombing the Houthis. | ||
I don't think so. | ||
President Trump wants peace. | ||
And what's upsetting about this article is kind of the arrogance. | ||
It's arrogance. | ||
I'm not a BB fan. | ||
I've never been a BB fan. | ||
I shouldn't say it. | ||
Ever since I got to know him, I'm not a BB fan. | ||
Just not. | ||
It's a certain arrogance. | ||
Hearing it from Kirk and Posobiec and Bannon who are on the side of Israel saying, this is how people, that article, this is how people get, hey, is this American foreign policy or is this the tail that wags the dog? | ||
It's got to stop. | ||
President Trump couldn't be clear and the people around him couldn't be clearer. | ||
And we haven't stopped. | ||
And listen, Posobiec, I don't like kind of what I'm hearing out of Wyckoff. | ||
I love Wyckoff, but when he says verification, verification, the mullahs are untrustworthy. | ||
They make the Iraqis, you know, look like Kiwanis Club guys. | ||
These people are crazy. | ||
The mullahs. | ||
Because this is the most radical form, or one of the most radical forms, not the most. | ||
There's worse than this. | ||
One of the most radical forms of Islam. | ||
They can't be trusted. | ||
It can't be verified. | ||
It's got to be taken apart brick by brick. | ||
But we're just starting the economic warfare part of this. | ||
You can bring these people to their knees and never fire a shot. | ||
That's got to all be developed and thought through. | ||
So, Basovic, I mean, this is, and you've got, and your part is that the Russian rapprochement, it covers a lot, as you said, Ukraine, Persia, all of it, because it can't exist without those guys, and that's why the Wyckoff-Trump, what they're doing with that is so vitally important. | ||
But the fact that even a concept that America would get back into a shooting conflict in the Middle East, and this one will make... | ||
The Iraq and Afghanistan war, which we spent $9 trillion, 20 years, we got, what, 10,000 dead, more contractors dead, 50,000 wounded, PTSD, 25 servicemen a day killing themselves, a complete debacle and a scar in this country, | ||
a wound that has not healed yet for the people that are involved in it. | ||
The mere concept that we were back, because this, in Persia, We'll make what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan look like a Sunday afternoon garden party. | ||
Jack Posobiec, thoughts and observations. | ||
Well, Steve, that's exactly right. | ||
You know, people think that Iran is going to be some pushover country like Iraq and their military or Afghanistan, which, by the way, that ended up, you know, not exactly the way that we thought it was. | ||
Just go look at what 20 years of Afghanistan has got us, that has done to middle America, has done to the working class sons and daughters of the deplorables of MAGA. | ||
And then if President Trump gets up there and says, we're going to another, and those bombers that are sitting down there parked doing the elephant walk on Diego Garza, Look, this is going to be something that would spill out every single soldier, | ||
sailor, airman, marine. | ||
With a U.S. uniform anywhere near the Middle East and any other place that the IRGC has assets would immediately have a target on their back. | ||
And by the way, they already took out one of these drones. | ||
They already had one of these Shia militia groups that took out some of our soldiers, some National Guardsmen on that base on the Syrian border not too long ago, not to mention all the other troops that we've lost in Syria, particularly considering Joe Kent and even his own wife, the mother. | ||
Look, we've paid too much blood in this desert. | ||
We've shed too much blood in this desert. | ||
We've expended too much treasure in this desert. | ||
President Trump and what he's doing with Whitcoff, I think... | ||
Is different from what even might have been publicly announced at this point? | ||
Because you understand, we look at these as separate negotiations. | ||
To say, well, you've got this negotiation here with the Persians, and they're going to Rome later this weekend after the meeting that they held in Oman, which of course is right next to Yemen. | ||
Now they're talking to, but then they say that the Kiev and the Moscow summits, that those are all separate. | ||
But Steve... | ||
Understand, this is a grand strategy that's actually going on behind the playbook here. | ||
Because, look, it's not a unilateral deal between us and the Iranians, like the Obama-Iran deal and the pallets of cash. | ||
That's what President Trump ran against the very first time. | ||
I remember that. | ||
I was still in the Navy, by the way, when Iranians were holding our sailors at gunpoint with their hands on their knees. | ||
We don't play that footage very much anymore, but I remember that. | ||
That was one of the most disgraceful moments of this. | ||
That I've ever had the misfortune to... | ||
Something broke within me when I saw that. | ||
But, Steve, understand this. | ||
I want the war room posse to also understand that if you want leverage on Iran, you know who's got that leverage? | ||
The Kremlin. | ||
Sergei Lavrov, the guy sitting across the table. | ||
I would suspect, and I hear rumblings, that there's more being discussed in these negotiations about a grand strategy than what meets the eye and what is being said publicly. | ||
World peace, not just one-off on all of these conflicts, because as the war room posse knows, this is 301 level. | ||
This isn't that cable news stuff. | ||
No, we understand how the world actually works around here. | ||
It's all intrinsically connected with the great powers. | ||
You want the Mackinder theory of the world island? | ||
Well, then you go to the most powerful countries in the world island and in Eurasia, and you say, you want something? | ||
Here's what we want. | ||
Are you saying, by the way, and that's why I'm saying cut off, let's stop playing games. | ||
The Chinese Communist Party is an economic war with us. | ||
This thing's got to get sorted out. | ||
We're getting our trade partners. | ||
Deals are being cut now. | ||
We're in discussions of cutting deals. | ||
And who's Iran's biggest partner? | ||
Who's Iran's biggest partner that they sell it loyal to? | ||
The Chinese Communist Party. | ||
It's 2.5 million barrels a day. | ||
They say 1.6. | ||
They got bootleg in black markets. | ||
2.5. | ||
Cut it off, 100%. | ||
Take one of the carrier battle groups, you got two in the Red Sea, move one over to the North Arabian Sea, where I was as a young naval officer, put it right there, outside the Strait of Hormuz, any ship that comes out, got that oil, turn it right back. | ||
Very simple. | ||
Go back, not going forward, not going past Diego Garcia, not going past India, not going to the Straits of Malacca, not going to the South China Sea, and not going to China. | ||
Full stop. | ||
That'll get the folks in Tehran, the Persians will start to rethink. | ||
How good these moolahs are running. | ||
But I want to go back to something. | ||
Are you implying... | ||
So let's just get it on the table. | ||
Are you implying... | ||
Because there's some issues around the defense parties and the Koch guys, etc. | ||
But are you implying, sir, that... | ||
And I think Bridge Colby was a good pick. | ||
I think he's got the right attitude. | ||
He's not a super hawk like we are in China. | ||
But he's more aggressive in China than a lot of people have been over there in a long time. | ||
But are you implying because BB... | ||
Didn't get his wish for American backup to a bombing run. | ||
And they come over, hey, we're going to do it in three weeks. | ||
We're rolling. | ||
You got the planes. | ||
You got the refueling. | ||
You're ready to go. | ||
You got the advanced radar platforms you're going to do. | ||
Not doing that, and Pete Hegg says in defense, not being all in and pushing that, because obviously they were not pushing it. | ||
Are you implying that the people being perked to walk out are because of payback for that, sir? | ||
Steve, I'm reading the tea leaves, and it's very interesting to me that when you look at these patriots, these absolute consummate patriots, some of whom who were supporting Pete Hegseth to the hilt, by the way, through the fire that the Senate committee put him through and the lies that were spread about him. | ||
And Steve, I remember the lies of 2017. | ||
I remember the slander that patriots like Michael Flynn were put to. | ||
And I look at all of these things going on in confluence, and I have to say, Steve, it's very... | ||
Very suspicious to me. | ||
It's very suspicious that the very same people that seemingly just stopped World War III or have America escalate something that could turn into World War III, all of a sudden we're told that suddenly they're the ones who have to go. | ||
Really makes you ask a lot of questions. | ||
Quite the head-scratcher that I wouldn't just say. | ||
You're not into coincidences like that. | ||
That's just too coincidental for you? | ||
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Steve, there's no conspiracies, but there's no coincidences. | |
Okay. Go back to NSC staff, because the hit on NSC and Brother Waltz is that he's trying, but he's too much of a neocon, and the guys he got in there are too much of a neocon. | ||
Now, did Loomer, they got Loomered. | ||
Was Loomer digging out neocons, or is that part of also people that were opposed to this assault, sir? | ||
Well, Steve, from what I read on this, it didn't necessarily say that the National Security Advisor was pushing for this, only that he had had a meeting. | ||
I don't have any further information regarding that specifically, but it does seem to me to strike this sort of discordant balance that you're talking about before, that there are some people that are pushing for further... | ||
That is not what the president campaigned for. | ||
That's not what the American people voted for. | ||
They're pushing for strikes on Iran. | ||
They're far more open to strikes on Iran. | ||
And then there's other people who are sitting there saying, wait a minute, this is the president's agenda. | ||
This was the promise he made to the American people. | ||
This is what we all got up there at President Trump and all the rallies that he said and we said day in, day out on this program. | ||
And suddenly those are the ones who are getting frog marched out. | ||
So, Steve, what I think is going on is a policy disagreement and a knife fight, something that, you know, knife fights in the White House, not that you would know anything about. | ||
Jack, where do people go throughout Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then Easter Sunday? | ||
Where do people get you? | ||
Because I know you spend a lot of family time, but there's so much going on that these are turning out to be full workdays. | ||
Where do people go to keep up with you on all these controversial topics? | ||
Oh, they are full workdays, and we're going to be having a huge show on human events later today. | ||
We're going to be interviewing the top presidential candidate in Romania, George Simeon, who is the populist nationalist that is now running. | ||
He's in town. | ||
We're going to be interviewing him in person. | ||
We're also going to have more information regarding this called-off Iranian strike on human events daily. | ||
Tomorrow, we're going to be doing a huge Good Friday special. | ||
We're also going to get into the understanding of Holy Saturday, a day... | ||
That I know, Steve, you and I have delved into very deeply here on The War Room regarding the harrowing of hell, Christ's descent into hell to storm the gates of hell, torment the devil himself, because we have to understand that the demons are absolutely working. | ||
And by the way, I've just started as Jesus spent three days in the belly of the earth, just like Jonah spent three days in the belly of the whale. | ||
Myself and a few others, we just started a three-day... | ||
So we're doing a 72-hour Holy Week fast. | ||
So I've just started it this morning, and I'm going to be breaking it at 9.30 Mass with communion on Easter morning. | ||
Wow, fantastic. | ||
I've got to talk to you after the show, too, because in the middle of all that with Holy Week and Descent into Hell and the herring of hell that Jack and I always do... | ||
Traditionally, we have the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, which I'll tell you more about tonight than what we're going to do. | ||
Social media, where do people get you on Twitter? | ||
Yeah, it's at Jack Posobiec, of course. | ||
Human Events Daily, if anybody misses the podcast. | ||
We're also up live coast-to-coast on the Salem Radio Network, and we're very blessed. | ||
Thank you, brother. | ||
Appreciate you. | ||
God bless you. | ||
We're going to take a short break, and I want to thank... | ||
Ben's been for sticking around, but we had to get to that because it's quite disturbing. | ||
New York Times article, and I want to make sure Grace puts it out there. | ||
Maybe we put it as a gift thing for people who can't get back to the paywall. | ||
We should read it. | ||
You'll be quite upset about it. | ||
We cannot, we cannot, President Trump's adamant. | ||
We're not going to get dragged back into a shooting war in the Middle East. | ||
This is just a, you know, it's a nightmare. | ||
This is why CENTCOM, you know, Obama tried to pivot to Asia. | ||
We tried it in the first term. | ||
I think President Trump really succeeded much more than other people, but man, that center of gravity is CENTCOM. | ||
Some believe we got two carrier battle groups in the Red Sea. | ||
Need I say more? | ||
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...focus. Pretty, pretty pleased with a cherry on top. | ||
Why is that? | ||
Look at Trump's net approval rating on immigration. | ||
Compare where we are now. | ||
Compare where we were at this point in his first term. | ||
In his first term, he was underwater at minus 12 points. | ||
Look at where he is today. | ||
He's actually above water. | ||
This is one of his strongest issues at plus one point. | ||
And more than that on the net approval, the net approval for him on this issue has stayed steady in the positive. | ||
This is an area where Donald Trump wants to focus because the bottom line is this is an area... | ||
And you've shown the impact on how people feel about his handling of the economy and what he's been doing. | ||
So let's stay here with this. | ||
Compare where he is on immigration to where Biden was. | ||
We know that this was why he leaned into immigration so much. | ||
Yes, this is a big reason why. | ||
So take a look here. | ||
This is on immigration. | ||
What track are we on? | ||
The right track or the wrong track? | ||
Look in December. | ||
Look at the percentage who said we were on the wrong track. | ||
62% of Americans when Joe Biden was in office compared to just 14% who said that we were on the right track. | ||
Flash forward to April. | ||
Well, hello. | ||
45% say we're on the right track compared to 42% who say we're on the wrong track. | ||
So in a big switcheroo from where we were back in January, the plurality of Americans say that the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy. | ||
Back in December when Joe Biden was president, the vast majority said that we were on the wrong track. | ||
Again, this points out that on the whole, Americans like where we're going on immigration policy under Donald Trump, which is very different from where we were. | ||
And comparing the kind of then and now and the progression over time, what about on the specific issue of deportations? | ||
I mean, compare it maybe today, Trump, to first-term Trump. | ||
Yeah, this, I think, is the big change. | ||
You know, we were talking about changes in policy and how Americans want policy to be carried out. | ||
Deport all undocumented immigrants. | ||
Voters favoring the government trying to deport all 11 million of them. | ||
56% of voters wanted the government to try to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. | ||
Compared to where we are in 2025, 56% the majority. | ||
The American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump, and I think that's a big part of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy, and why Donald Trump's net approval rating on that issue is in the positive, very much unlike his first term. | ||
Okay, that's a bombshell. | ||
I mean, it shouldn't be a bombshell of people watching the War Room Posse. | ||
But the country wants, and now CNN can't even hide from it, they want mass deportation of all illegal alien invaders. | ||
Todd Benzman, amazing piece up in the Atlantic. | ||
We're going to get Grace to push it out. | ||
Walk me through what the Atlantic says, what you take from that polling, and where we are. | ||
You know this probably better than any person that is not inside. | ||
The federal government right now working for Tom Homan and President Trump, sir. | ||
Well, I think you and I both are sensing a bit of frustration out there in war room posse land and MAGA land about the pace of the deportations, that they're not as masses as we would like. | ||
But I think that what the Atlantic article is getting to and what my understanding is, too, is that all of that is about to change because, remember, we are at limited resources. | ||
We were left with under the Biden administration. | ||
They dismantled the deportation machine and left it just all over the garage. | ||
And basically, Tom Homan and those guys have to come in and rebuild this thing, and they need money. | ||
So there is bicameral support for $170 billion in the budget that's moving through. | ||
On the Senate side, it's $170 billion. | ||
On the House side, it's $90 billion. | ||
But it doesn't matter. | ||
It's going to be absolutely mammoth, this cash infusion. | ||
A huge amount of that going to ICE and to DHS for these deportations. | ||
That is absolutely historic. | ||
Just to give you an idea, ICE's budget is $9 billion total. | ||
They're talking about spending $45 billion alone just on new detention facilities. | ||
This is going to be mammoth. | ||
And so we're also going to be seeing when that money comes through, I don't know if it's going to happen before or after break, but when the money comes through, you're going to start to see The deportations expand beyond criminal aliens to anybody who's here illegally. | ||
We're scoped to criminal aliens, A, because everybody loves it, but B, because that's all we can handle right now because of the way the machine was left to us and the numbers of ICE officers way down through attrition over the last four years, | ||
etc. I think that we, the Atlantic article was accurate. | ||
I don't normally give that much credit. | ||
Hang on one second. | ||
Hang on one second. | ||
It's not that we love, the reason we love it is because of the mom that was up there on the stage, the angel mom, yesterday. | ||
We have to do this so they don't, they're not preying on the innocent, and particularly in the Hispanic, in the African community, African American community, in the white working class. | ||
These communities are preyed upon by these criminals. | ||
They have to go. | ||
You have to protect our working class. | ||
This is outrageous. | ||
Number two, Eric Prince was in here yesterday, Todd. | ||
He said there's 1.6 million illegal aliens in the country that have a final deportation order. | ||
No more court, no more nothing. | ||
Is that the next tranche that you focus on once the funding gets better? | ||
You focus on that 1.6 million? | ||
Because you're not going to do 1.6 million overnight. | ||
Is that the next group? | ||
Do you triage these and kind of go down, downscale and start the 1.6? | ||
Yeah, of course you do. | ||
First of all, you never let off the gas on those criminal aliens. | ||
No brakes on them ever. | ||
And number two, that is the next tranche that you're talking about there, those with final removal orders, which keeps growing and growing, is an obvious target. | ||
For the expansion that we're going to be seeing here in the near future. | ||
But it's going to go even beyond that because you're going to start to see workplace raids on a regular basis. | ||
You're going to see targeting happening for groups, categories, for example, the parolees, the ones that Biden let in, like close to 2 million people on this bogus parole where the government was doing the illegal smuggling. | ||
Letting people fly into the country. | ||
That's all canceled out. | ||
And even if it's in litigation, it doesn't matter because those things time out. | ||
They're two-year increments. | ||
So eventually... | ||
Todd, just hang on. | ||
I want to hold you through the break. | ||
We're going to leave you with the right stuff in the first hour. | ||
Second hour, Todd Benzman will get to the bottom of this and we've got a surprise guest and a lot more going on. | ||
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