May 14, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| 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. Vance. | ||
| Wednesday, 14 May, Year of the Lord, 2025. | ||
| Thank you for sticking around for the second hour of our late afternoon, early evening edition of The War Room. | ||
| This is pretty packed today, so no big cold opener. | ||
| We get on with it. | ||
| We have Tom Dans. | ||
| Last time we talked with Tom, he was in Greenland. | ||
| Now he's in Romania. | ||
| Why are you in Romania, Tom? | ||
| The election that takes place on Sunday, why should anybody in The War Room posse care about this, sir? | ||
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Sure. | |
| Hey Steve, great to be with you. | ||
| Great to be with you. | ||
| Yeah, so Romania is going to be big. | ||
| This is one of the key first steps in what you're going to see as a movement from east to west in Europe of populist nationalist groups coming to power. | ||
| If everything goes right on Sunday, recall this is kind of the fourth bite at the apple here for the Romanian people, each time sending a very clear signal that they want change. | ||
| And what they have here in the leader of, I'm coming to you from the headquarters of the AU. | ||
| George Simeon, 38-year-old newcomer. | ||
| But an outsider is looking to take the helm. | ||
| He had a very convincing win two weeks ago in basically the way they run things, a two-round system here. | ||
| So the top two vote-getters proceed to a runoff. | ||
| But he garnered 41 percent of the national vote versus a fellow who had 21 percent, who's basically the mayor of Bucharest. | ||
| He's a neo-Marxist, kind of being rebranded as a senator. | ||
| You've seen this movie before. | ||
| But again, this is the final act in what was something we know about well in the U.S., which was courts getting involved to override the will of the voters, which is what happened in December when his predecessor, Kalen Georgescu, won commandingly in the first round. | ||
| The elections were then canceled by something called a constitutional court, not to be confused with the Supreme Court here. | ||
| We basically sent them back to square one when they didn't like the outcome of the election, charging Russia, Russia, Russia, and sending things back to where they are right now. | ||
| So we're looking for history to be made. | ||
| Romania's got big challenges in front of it. | ||
| Again, Just lost him, just froze. | ||
| OK. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, we'll try to reboot him. | ||
| Let's try to reboot him. | ||
| The question is, is this going to be any different? | ||
| Then what happened when Chiesewski won, what, six months ago, and the EU just decided to steal it and shut it down? | ||
| George Simeon, we've had him on the show a number of times, had him at CPAC. | ||
| Poso did this incredible interview with him the other day. | ||
| Pretty commanding lead, but they're very concerned about voter integrity there. | ||
| We'll get Tom back up in a minute. | ||
| I want to go to Dave Walsh. | ||
| Dave, two things are happening. | ||
| I want to get to the Middle East in a moment. | ||
| I've got Pesak, or Woleki, is going to join us. | ||
| To talk about what's happening in Israel and the Middle East. | ||
| And I think your analysis of these huge energy deals and what we're talking about in the Middle East will segue into that. | ||
| But first, I got to go. | ||
| My mind, my head's blowing up because of kind of Green New Deal and other energy things I don't see getting ripped out in the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| In fact, I just read something. | ||
| I think it was Tom Massey. | ||
| We're saying that some of the corporate underwriting for some of this Green New Deal nonsense is going to go on for another years and years and years. | ||
| What in the hell is happening right now with all the energy side that's in the big, beautiful bill, sir? | ||
| Well, our Ways and Means Committee does want to take an axe to the $42 billion a year of incentives for wind solar. | ||
| And plus, we have battery storage, carbon capture, nuclear on top of that. | ||
| They want to take an axe to that. | ||
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However... | |
| We've got seven rhino Republicans, gang of seven in the Senate, if you might have said specifically, Kramer, North Dakota, Hovind, North Dakota, theme there, Murkowski, Curtis, Tillis, Moran, and Capito, West Virginia, Republicans, all opposed from one sort or another to any abolition of the incentives to corporate entities on wind, solar, battery storage, carbon capture, and nuclear. | ||
| Now basically positing that, you know, We can't do economic development. | ||
| We can't do R&D in this country without government support. | ||
| Nonsense. | ||
| Government doesn't need to be involved in nuclear power incentives, in geothermal incentives, in wind, solar, battery storage, or any incentives. | ||
| That's what this is about. | ||
| The people can't afford this. | ||
| Taxpayers can't afford this. | ||
| The budget deficit is huge. | ||
| The incentives and all this stuff collectively are borderline $80 billion per year when you account for the nuclear incentives to keep operating fleets. | ||
| Prosperous against horrible RTO pricing, allowing renewables to be priced so cheaply. | ||
| So we've got basically a gang of seven in the Senate. | ||
| Republican rhinos have already spoken out on the abolition of any incentives that are all about 100 percent Chinese solar, 100 percent Chinese battery storage being imported here. | ||
| And oh, by the way, the fact that if we're going to have small nuclear reactors, we can only have them if government stands behind the research and behind incentivizing operating nuclear plants. | ||
| Because the recipients of these incentives are, in this order, kind of companies, ExxonMobil, Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, Nextera, companies abroad, Iberdrola, EDF, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Orsted are the massive recipients of U.S. renewable incentives. | ||
| The solar and battery part entirely going to China for the Chinaization of a very high cost American electricity supply that cannot support, cannot support... | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Slow down. | ||
| Are you telling me that these senators and guys in the House are fighting to keep these substantive corporations and that some of this is actually going to underwrite the Chinese Communist Party's industries? | ||
| Is that the implication you're making, sir? | ||
| That's the direct line. | ||
| 87% of the battery storage imported into this country, all of it, and 87% of the thin film PV solar panels are made in China, are made in China. | ||
| That fact remains, with all due respect to the... | ||
| The fact that we may solve our trade issues with them, those products are made in China. | ||
| Those products are going to drive up electricity costs here by a factor of four or five times, and they're causing a massive shortage of electricity. | ||
| President Cabal, opposed to dismantling these incentives, appears to be in the Senate. | ||
| The aforementioned senators, all Republicans, standing up opposed to any rapid dismantlement of these huge incentives. | ||
| Which are, by the way, all about benefiting the rich. | ||
| We're talking about equity cap corporations, all exceeding $100 billion each, receiving the lion's share of this money to incentivize solar, wind, and battery storage, along with carbon capture. | ||
| The incentives go to the corporate elite, high-high capex and equity cap firms on Wall Street and abroad. | ||
| Who are the big investors? | ||
| But hang on for a second. | ||
| I thought the theory of the case, full spectrum energy dominance with Trump, I thought the theory of the case is that the net zero carbon capture, the decarbonization thing, I thought that Trump, we're going to get to the Middle East in a second. | ||
| I thought President Trump is like, that's the radical cult that's running Germany. | ||
| We ain't doing that here. | ||
| How does that fit? | ||
| Trump is adamant about this. | ||
| Why do we have these senators? | ||
| Why are these things not shut down immediately? | ||
| I'm kind of missing how we even can be discussing this, sir. | ||
| Well, because, Steve, the power of greed overweighs President Trump's good intentions on this. | ||
| Corporate donors, Nextera, Iberdrola, EDF, Orsted, all these firms that are massive corporate donors here, Interpax. | ||
| Are having their sway over seven, seven Republican senators who have stood up and said, we're not going to be reducing any carbon capture, wind, solar, battery storage incentives anytime soon. | ||
| Seven Republicans in the Senate who are heavily impacted. | ||
| Go, Posse, go look it up. | ||
| Go look who donates to these people. | ||
| You'll see these names prominently on their list, Nextera included, all about their now, their corporate welfare is tied into. | ||
| The incentivization of their energy device procurement from the federal government. | ||
| This greed, the greed for this money and for the enormous profits being made on these part-time regulated energy systems that are sapping U.S. electricity supply, the greed on this is so high that that seems to overweigh what the president wants in the eyes of these seven senators backing this. | ||
| Two of whom, by the way, represent North Dakota. | ||
| Can you slowly give us a 7 again? | ||
| North Dakota, Kramer, and Hoven, Alaska, Murkowski, Utah, Curtis, Tillis, North Carolina, I believe, Jerry Moran, and Shelly Morcopito of West Virginia. | ||
| All locked and loaded. | ||
| We must have these incentives to retain the U.S. manufacturing that they cause, which is nonsense, because incentives that drive up electricity costs here by 5 or 6 times, As a factor, are creating net zero value jobs. | ||
| We don't need jobs creating that kind of electrification. | ||
| And also she's indicating that emerging technology like nuclear and geothermal must be maintained. | ||
| Government doesn't need to be maintaining, incentivizing development of technology. | ||
| That's not the role of government. | ||
| Now, as we roll, is this all going to be stripped out of the House bill and they're asking for it? | ||
| Where do we stand with the big, beautiful bill as you see it now through the Energy, I guess, Commerce Committee? | ||
| Where do these things, exactly what you're talking about, where they stand? | ||
| Are they going to be out of the House bill? | ||
| Well, the seven seem to be drawing a line in the sand. | ||
| Don't bring us a House bill, a big, beautiful bill, that includes any rapid deconstruction of these incentives. | ||
| That are coming at an enormous cost to U.S. taxpayers. | ||
| They've drawn a line in the sand, the seven I mentioned. | ||
| So there's a present debate between the Ways and Means Committee on the House side and the seven that the Ways and Means Committee on our side does want to demolish these incentives in accordance with President Trump's wishes. | ||
| The seven senators, who are Republicans, are saying, hey, not so fast. | ||
| We don't want to do this. | ||
| And they don't want to do this because of PAC donations they receive. | ||
| Let's be very direct and blunt about this. | ||
| Let's be right out in the open about why this occurs. | ||
| These firms are massive donors to the seven affected folks. | ||
| That's how things work, to cut a good senator from Wisconsin's comment to the quake. | ||
| That's the why of this. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| We know that's why this happens. | ||
| This is happening in Texas as we speak. | ||
| The major defenders against the good legislation the Texas House wants to put forward, making companies install full-time energy with their batteries and solar. | ||
| They can install baseload, on-demand, dispatchable energy. | ||
| Along with that, the opponents are now ExxonMobil and the oil companies. | ||
| They're so heavily invested in greenwashing their equity position on stuff like carbon capture, they don't want Texas to step forward forcing a fair market for combined cycle gas versus wind and solar by demolishing incentive advantages there. | ||
| The oil companies don't want to do this even. | ||
| They're major donors. | ||
| They're huge donors. | ||
| They're on board with the... | ||
| Net zero, decarb, mantra for the country. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| I'm not going to do a call to action. | ||
| I want to get you back on here. | ||
| I want to think about this tonight. | ||
| We're going to figure this out. | ||
| This is a big one. | ||
| But I want to go to the Middle East. | ||
| President Trump, historic speech, so much going on there. | ||
| One of the underlying things, this was a business meeting for deals, not just technology and things, but also energy. | ||
| Walk me through your assessment of what we've seen so far. | ||
| Well, it's a fantastic endorsement of his presidency. | ||
| The greeting he received from the royal family was unprecedented in terms of their traditional ways. | ||
| I've spent a lot of time over there in large operations I had in Westinghouse in Saudi. | ||
| Fantastic reception for him and basically a huge, huge commitment to the U.S. economy in $600 billion being committed over time in private sector investments by... | ||
| The energy part is curious. | ||
| A fair portion of it, unfortunately, does right now relate to renewables and Aramco and the royal family's greenwashing efforts on the one side. | ||
| Would be an opportunity, I think, to entice investment such as we have with Nippon. | ||
| In the steel industry, in things that we no longer have domestic interest in investing in, such as combined cycle gas-fired power plants, that might be a good place for inviting the Saudi investment into more aggressively capitalizing on federal lands, be it at the TVA, be it at the Savannah River site, be it in the Air Force Base down here in Tampa, necessary combined cycle plants for the U.S. deployment of... | ||
| Rapid, baseload, continuous-duty power plants that the private sector, for some reason, appears to be foot-dragging on building because those things aren't incented, like solar and wind. | ||
| That might be a good avenue of addition to this program or inside of this program of investment targeting areas that we, for some reason, have disincented the private sector and utilities from investing in, that which is basically necessary here. | ||
| Baseload, continuous-duty power of a gas-fired nature. | ||
| There's some tweaks. | ||
| Now, overall, a fantastic benefit for the economy. | ||
| Piled on top of the trillions the president has already attracted from Japan, from Taiwan, and other nations. | ||
| This is really going to be an exceptional thing. | ||
| The energy part could be jiggered a little bit, but overall, fantastic benefit. | ||
| What is your assessment? | ||
| What's your assessment, just back in the envelope, of how much energy has dropped, energy costs have dropped in the 100-and-some days? | ||
| Well, gasoline costs at the pump are down about 10% to 12% from day one. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Gasoline costs at the pump are only about, you know, 15% of all in U.S. energy. | ||
| Electricity cost is about half of it. | ||
| Electricity costs have remained very high, and they've actually gone up another, they've blipped up another 10% since January. | ||
| Because of the embeddedness of the present ongoing investment commitments by major U.S. utilities in very expensive solar and battery storage is basically the only weapon of choice that they're investing in going forward unless and until these incentives are dismantled. | ||
| So you look at the 2025 electrification CapEx plan for the country by U.S. utilities, 91% of that is solar and battery storage. | ||
| So the utilities and industry are marching along. | ||
| With the net-zero decarbonization momentum, it hasn't changed yet. | ||
| We've got to throw our bodies in front of it to have a more meaningful impact on all-in energy costs of all type, not just gasoline. | ||
| Gasoline is a small element of it. | ||
| Electricity is 45% of the energy cost in the country. | ||
| It's headed the other direction, gone up 42% since Biden's inauguration, through now, through now. | ||
| Unabated electricity cost in the country because of this, as I projected in this forum, commitment to solar and wind and batteries that are very, very costly. | ||
| It's a radical, ridiculous cult. | ||
| This is what you bring in Germany to its knees. | ||
| Dave Walsh, I want to put some meat in this bone. | ||
| I'll talk to you afterwards. | ||
| Where do people go on your social media, sir? | ||
| If you can find me at DaveWalshEnergy at XTruthSocial and Getter. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Appreciate you, sir. | ||
| Talk to you afterwards tonight. | ||
| Dave Walsh, a lot going on there. | ||
| Historic trip. | ||
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Let's go ahead and rip. | |
| The transformations have been unbelievably remarkable. | ||
| Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos, where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together. | ||
| Not bombing each other out of existence. | ||
| We don't want that. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or... | ||
| Flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. | ||
| No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop. | ||
| Kabbal, Baghdad, so many other cities. | ||
| Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies. | ||
| It's really incredible what you've done. | ||
| In the end, the so-called nation builders Wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. | ||
| They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. | ||
| Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love. | ||
| So dearly. | ||
| I want to make a deal with Iran. | ||
| If I can make a deal with Iran, I'll be very happy if we're going to make your region and the world a safer place. | ||
| But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero, like I did before. | ||
| If you know that, they were a virtually bankrupt country because of what I did. | ||
| They had no money for terror. | ||
| They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah. | ||
| And take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Kind of the buried lead in the trip was the that was that was that was not the Knesset. | ||
| That was an Arab audience. | ||
| I think the biggest round of applause of everything President Trump said, it was a magnificent speech. | ||
| Rabbi Walecki, thank you for staying up and joining us, sir. | ||
| Well, first off, give us your assessment. | ||
| Before we get to that, give us your assessment. | ||
| We're going to go to break here in about three or four minutes, but I want you to step back. | ||
| Give us the big picture of this, your assessment of President Trump's historic trip. | ||
| Well, in order to understand what's happening on this trip, we have to go back to Trump administration number one and understand where we were then and the damage done by the Biden administration in the interim. | ||
| In Trump administration number one, with you playing a pivotal role at the beginning there, The first trip that Donald Trump took abroad was to Riyadh. | ||
| It was to Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And that set the predicate for everything that happened in the Middle East throughout the rest of the administration. | ||
| The Abraham Accords, the unprecedented peace and prosperity that was spreading across the region. | ||
| And at the same time, critical to that was the peace through strength policies, putting sanctions on Iran, as President Trump mentioned. | ||
| They're wiping out ISIS, taking out Soleimani, sending the message. | ||
| That the bad activity will not be tolerated and bringing the Gulf states, the Saudis, the moderate Arab states who want engagement and prosperity and that type of cooperation with the West, bringing them into the American orbit. | ||
| And then along came the Biden administration and by lifting the sanctions on Iran and basically cozying up to them. | ||
| They drove the Saudis and the Gulf states into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, who looked suspiciously at the United States and looked at them as a fair-weather friend. | ||
| And that enriched Iran. | ||
| They started selling their oil again. | ||
| They signed a 25-year cooperation deal with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And then we ended up having, as President Trump just mentioned, Hamas and Hezbollah and all the rest. | ||
| And the Saudis became an important part of the BRICS nations, which was really designed to take down the U.S. dollar. | ||
| They really were not very trusting of the Americans. | ||
| And President Trump is now trying to rebuild those relationships and to pull the Saudis back into the American orbit, to pull the Gulf states back into the American orbit. | ||
| The big loser in all this, hopefully, is the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And at the same time, critical to all of this is the Iranian regime. | ||
| And that's why there was such a great round of applause when he said what he said there about the fact that Iran cannot have, or the policy that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| No, we're going to break, but real quickly, why did the media, they did not cover that part of it all, which was one of the most important parts of the speech, the thunderous applause he got from the Arab nations about Trump saying, there's no way that Iran's ever going to have a nuclear weapon on my watch. | ||
| Why was that not reported by anybody, sir? | ||
| That's a question I can't answer, Steve. | ||
| I'm in Israel, and here it was, it was the top line of the coverage of Trump's speech. | ||
| You know, it could have to do with what I just mentioned there, that this is really rolling back the mistakes of the Biden administration, and that was central to it. | ||
| But we'll talk about it more. | ||
| There's a Saudi interest in this that's very significant here. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
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I think you changed already You went and lost your pride But | |
| I'm American Welcome back, Rabbi. | ||
| So, Rabbi, you mentioned 17, which I was one of the guys who put the trip together, and we saw Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Rome. | ||
| As you know, we had a little fracas when we got there, because the central part of going was basically to get an understanding, and we had worked on this for months, of tariff financing. | ||
| We get there, we had these meetings, we got a memory of understanding. | ||
| MBZ is all over to sign it. | ||
| The Saudis are all over to sign it. | ||
| The rest of the Gulf Emirates. | ||
| Qatar was pretty adamant not going to sign it. | ||
| We've had so much of people that have been traditional colleagues of ours and allies of ours. | ||
| Their heads are blown up because the president's in Qatar. | ||
| They're having a state dinner tonight. | ||
| I mean, in this narrative, how did Qatar... | ||
| Go from a pariah because 30 days after we departed, MBZ and UAE and the Saudis, MBS, completely cut off Qatar, surrounded them and almost went to a war in the Gulf. | ||
| It had to be, you know, it had to be tapped down by the United States, by President Trump personally, probably 90 days, you know, 90 to 100 days after we left and finally kind of put it to bed. | ||
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So what's changed, sir? | |
| Well, what's changed is that Qatar has done a much better job investing in the United States and purchasing assets in the United States and doing its PR and funding American universities. | ||
| They've done a great job of it. | ||
| Their relationship fundamentally with the other states out there hasn't changed. | ||
| In the Middle East, everyone plays nice on the surface. | ||
| The fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood, who is designated a terrorist organization by the countries you mentioned, by the Saudis, by the UAE, by the other moderate Arab states, is the pet project of the Qataris. | ||
| The Qataris fund Muslim Brotherhood activity all over the world. | ||
| They house their leadership. | ||
| Their clerical council is based in Qatar. | ||
| Hamas, for years and years, were living the lives of royalty in Qatar. | ||
| And funded, of course, by the Qataris. | ||
| So how Qatar ends up in this family of moderate Arab nations is really an act of sleight of hand. | ||
| People tend to view the Qataris, unfortunately, in the same category as the UAE and the Saudis, as part of those Muslim nations, part of those Arab nations that want... | ||
| Peaceful engagement with the West and ultimately normalization with the West and with Israel. | ||
| But Qatar really doesn't fit into that category. | ||
| You know, Al Jazeera is their anti-West, anti-Israel propaganda arm. | ||
| The head of the Qatari daily paper just about two weeks ago published on his X account, he posted on his X account a call for the death of all Jews in the world. | ||
| I mean, and this is someone who works for them. | ||
| Of course, it was in Arabic, so people speaking English didn't necessarily notice it. | ||
| Qatar is a problematic country. | ||
| And with this gift to the United States and their involvement with people in the Trump administration, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, I think a lot of your viewers know this, that she worked for a period of time back in 2020 and 2022. | ||
| She worked as a lobbyist for the Qatari. | ||
| She was registered with Farah. | ||
| She received $110,000 a month from the Qatari government. | ||
| And there's a lot of, unfortunately, I say this as someone who is a staunch supporter of President Trump as you'll find, but there are some warning signs here. | ||
| How the Qataris get involved here is a real question. | ||
| On the other hand, the Qataris might be reformable and brought into the family of moderate nations if the right incentives are given to them. | ||
| I say that optimistically and hopefully, even though in my heart of hearts I have questions. | ||
| So when you ask me how did we get here, that the Qataris are part of this trip and President Trump is viewing them as a friend, I don't know. | ||
| This is very worrisome. | ||
| This unity you're seeing coming out of the Gulf, and it's been a historic trip where President Trump, I think, is doing more on the reordering of the Middle East on this trip than has been done since the Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed back in, what, 1918? | ||
| What happens at Unity if – I think Bibi's saying – Netanyahu's saying that major military operations are going to recommence in Gaza in the next 24 to 48 hours. | ||
| Am I correct in that? | ||
| They will be commencing soon, yes, in the Gaza Strip. | ||
| They will be commencing soon. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We asked – What implications, what happens in Gaza has with these Gulf states and with these other Arab states? | ||
| One of the successes of Trump's first term, and I think he's moving in that direction again, is really decoupling the Palestinian issue from Arab relations in general and even from Arab relations with Israel. | ||
| Again, in the Middle East... | ||
| The statements that people make on the surface are less important than the actions that they take. | ||
| We have to take a look at how Arab states relate to the Palestinian issue themselves. | ||
| And one of the great successes of the first Trump administration was showing that peace with Israel is possible even without resolving the Palestinian issue. | ||
| Now, the Muslim Brotherhood proxy in Gaza, known as Hamas, who were also a proxy of the Iranians, That has to be dealt with. | ||
| And I'll remind everyone once again that this whole war will end immediately if the Whitcoff plan had been accepted by Hamas, which meant that all the hostages are released and Hamas's leadership is exiled. | ||
| From the Gaza Strip and is not part of the governance of the Gaza Strip going forward and is demilitarized, obviously. | ||
| This war would end tomorrow. | ||
| It would have ended a year ago. | ||
| It would have ended the day after October 7th if that was agreed to. | ||
| And that's why Israel still needs to secure its future by dealing with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. | ||
| And I don't know what the implications are for Trump's trip, but I know that in Israel there is a commitment to wait until Trump's... | ||
| The trip is over before intensifying the attacks there. | ||
| Although yesterday, even during Trump's speech, there was a major attack in the Gaza Strip to assassinate Mohamed Sinwar, Yichia Sinwar's brother, who is the head of the military wing of Hamas and one of the architects of October 7th. | ||
| There's still some question as to whether or not Israel got him, but he's really been the one standing in the way of any hostage deal. | ||
| He's really the one who's pulling the strings there in the Gaza Strip. | ||
| So, look, this is a dangerous game right now, Steve. | ||
| When you look at what Donald Trump is doing with his pronouncements about Iran that were in your cold open, about how there will be maximum pressure and do anything possible to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, one of the risks that Trump is taking here is that if the Iranians call his bluff—I mean, obviously, President Trump does not want kinetic— He does not want to attack Iran. | ||
| He wants a negotiation. | ||
| And I think we all want that. | ||
| We all want a negotiated conclusion to this where Iran is prevented from ever having a nuclear weapon. | ||
| But the response of the Iranians to Trump's statements in Saudi Arabia that That hit the Arab media today. | ||
| The Iranians refer to Trump's statement as despicable and that they view the enrichment of uranium as a right that they have as a nation and that they're not going to go along with this. | ||
| So in the end of the day, the risk that Trump is taking is that if his threats are viewed as empty threats, then... | ||
| Then America is going to come out looking weak and it's not going to work. | ||
| So there has to be some willingness to follow through on the threats that he's making. | ||
| And this is, you know, the most tense moments in this are yet to come, Steve. | ||
| Oh, no, no. | ||
| This is all a process. | ||
| It's going to get varied. | ||
| This is going to put us on the edge of a broader war, trust me. | ||
| But he said he went to our favorite thing about cutting off Iranian oil 100 percent for anything leaving the Persian Gulf. | ||
| And anything going to the Chinese Communist Party, which is over 2 million barrels a day. | ||
| Your thoughts on that? | ||
| Yeah, and it's 90% of Iran's oil revenues. | ||
| It comes from the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And that was critical when I talked a few minutes ago about how when we go back to the end of the previous Trump administration and Iran could not sell its oil, it also meant that the Chinese Communist Party didn't have this. | ||
| This source of oil. | ||
| They didn't have the source of energy. | ||
| They didn't have the strategic relationship with the Iranians. | ||
| And now the Russians have also signed a strategic partnership with the Iranians. | ||
| The Iranians produced a lot of the drones that the Russians have used in the war against Ukraine. | ||
| So these three countries, this axis that was really formed as a result of the mishandling of the world by the Biden administration, Donald Trump is now seeking to restore. | ||
| What the situation when he left office and pulled him away from the Chinese. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party benefits greatly from this relationship to Iran. | ||
| And with the maximum sanctions, there is a chance that with one act, you can kill two birds with one stone and put greater pressure on the Chinese Communist Party, but also bring the Iranian regime to heel in the sense that they will, once again, not have the money to fund their territories. | ||
| Let me remind everyone that this isn't just an Israel issue. | ||
| There seems to be this perception that the threat of Iran is an Israel issue and America getting tough on Iran is helping Israel. | ||
| The greatest victim of Iranian aggression from the Houthis It has been, over the years, the Saudis. | ||
| The Saudis were attacked for years and years, lost billions of dollars in their own oil revenues from the attacks by the Houthis on their infrastructure, attacks on civilians, killing Saudi civilians. | ||
| Well, militarily, even UAE and Saudi Arabia couldn't pull it off. | ||
| Look, you answered the question by the applause. | ||
| That was thunderous applause. | ||
| That was the biggest applause line in the entire speech. | ||
| Is when President Trump talks about the Persians not getting a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And that was not a bunch of guys in Knesset. | ||
| That was the leaders of Israel. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's not about Israel. | ||
| Rabbi, hang on for a second. | ||
| We're going to do something here in the United States. | ||
| I want your commentary after. | ||
| It's the great Michael Young. | ||
| We've got a cold open. | ||
| A very disturbing situation down in Texas. | ||
| Let's do the cold and bring in Michael Young. | ||
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This is Colony Ridge, Texas, reputed to be the largest illegal alien city in America. | |
| On May 13, I took helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft flights over the city to see what's happened since Donald Trump was elected in November 2024. | ||
| Development is down. | ||
| That's the good news. | ||
| But the bad news? | ||
| The state of Texas and ICE. | ||
| apparently are no longer doing deportations. | ||
| All we come by here with your six foot. | ||
| What do you define and what I do it's of me? | ||
| They're not moving. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, this is a target-rich environment. | ||
| And it's unclear why after some initial ICE Texas operations that few others have followed. | ||
| *Round* | ||
| *Round* you | ||
| So we have two situations in Texas, and I think they're inextricably linked. | ||
| One, you've had these real estate developers around these things, like the colony, where it housed illegal aliens down near the Houston area. | ||
| Everybody looked the other way. | ||
| It's a festering story. | ||
| Didn't do any mass deportations. | ||
| Now you have, it's coming to light, all of this kind of Islamic centers coming around, mosques coming around, huge, like, their own... | ||
| Our own entities like Colony. | ||
| Michael Yon joins us. | ||
| Michael, talk to me about the Colony. | ||
| Why are we not doing mass deportations out of there like doing them immediately? | ||
| And because this is one of the reasons I think these real estate developers get there. | ||
| They're making tons of money. | ||
| They don't care about Texas. | ||
| They don't care about the United States of America. | ||
| And you're seeing it now in this kind of mass infusion of Islamic centers and others, these kind of communities in Texas. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Yes, Steve, thank you for having me on. | ||
| I just got back to Texas from Panama where I was watching the things down there. | ||
| Similar matters. | ||
| And I was in the front seat of both of those aircraft yesterday from those videos. | ||
| The great patriot David Cannon allows me to jump in his helicopter and his airplane every time I come to look at Colony Ridge. | ||
| We've been looking at Colony Ridge for a while. | ||
| We all know that it's a safe city, you might say, for illegal aliens. | ||
| And it is filled with drug activity, prostitution, lots of violent crime. | ||
| And the Texas law enforcement is doing nothing about it. | ||
| Governor Abbott has actually taken $1.4 million from the developer of Colony Ridge, Trey Harris, and the I was just watching a Texas House of Representatives, Homeland Security, public... | ||
| Safety and Veterans Affairs testimony before I came on with you this morning. | ||
| And they opened that testimony with basically welcoming their stakeholders. | ||
| This is the Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| Stakeholders, that's World Economic Forum talk. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| We know that Governor Greg Abbott is a member of the World Economic Forum. | ||
| He's very clear about that. | ||
| He's very open about it. | ||
| He's on their website. | ||
| Texas is a sanctuary state. | ||
| That's just what it is. | ||
| They might not call it that, but it is. | ||
| The only state that's really standing up to this and adhering to 287G, which is the provision, the agreement between, should be an agreement between states and the federal government, that law enforcement can be basically deputized at the federal level to begin mass deportations. | ||
| The only state that's actually adhering to this. | ||
| It's Florida. | ||
| Texas is not doing it. | ||
| Texas is de facto sanctuary state. | ||
| They are not adhering to 287G. | ||
| I was just looking at this hearing, actually. | ||
| And the Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor, the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Operations, who I'm sure will see this today, at DPS. | ||
| DPS is Department of Public Safety in Texas. | ||
| That's basically Texas sort of FBI. | ||
| So Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor is saying that Texas, that DPS does not want to adhere to 287G. | ||
| 287G is the provision. | ||
| That it helps us mass deport people. | ||
| Only Florida's doing it. | ||
| I hope that President Trump sees this and will call up Texas and threaten to cut off all federal funding to the state of Texas if they keep operating like California. | ||
| I mean, Texas is becoming like California because of the leadership that's been installed into these offices, like Abbott. | ||
| Who fooled many of my good friends in Texas for quite a while by taking the buses from the border with Mexico and busing people up to places like New York. | ||
| And, of course, my conservative friends were immediately happy in the beginning, and I said, be careful. | ||
| He's actually inserting more of these invaders deeper into our heart. | ||
| Remember New York and Massachusetts and all those places? | ||
| That's the United States, too. | ||
| Abbott is just clearing the banks of the Rio Grande to bring more in. | ||
| Fast forward to 2025, it's obviously true what some of us have been saying for so long, including you. | ||
| I know, Steve, I know you go after Abbott all the time, and with very good reason. | ||
| Now Abbott is proving this all to be true. | ||
| He's actually set up this state, Texas, as a sanctuary state. | ||
| It's just over the top, Steve. | ||
| Michael, we've got to bounce. | ||
| Where do we go to get all this footage? | ||
| You got Benzman's voice on this. | ||
| You're up in the helicopter. | ||
| This thing's pretty explosive. | ||
| We've been spending a lot of time in Texas with the folks in the House where the Democrats are now running it, although it's a MAGA state. | ||
| Trump won by 14 points, folks, and this is what you get. | ||
| Where do people go to get all your content, Michael? | ||
| A Substack. | ||
| I just published on this on Substack about an hour ago. | ||
| I'm on Substack constantly now. | ||
| I haven't put this footage up yet because we got back late, but I'll put it up later tonight. | ||
| Obviously, this is huge. | ||
| Colony Ridge is just one of the places. | ||
| There are a lot of law enforcement in Texas that want to defend our country. | ||
| They want to defend the great state of Texas, but the leadership at DPS, Steve, as you well know. | ||
| Cowards are natural traitors. | ||
| They're installing cowards into these leadership positions, like this guy, Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor. | ||
| I mean, he's clearly on the side of letting these illegal aliens stay in the state of Texas. | ||
| And I hope Jason Taylor sees this, Lieutenant Colonel. | ||
| We're watching. | ||
| Many people are watching how you behave from here out. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Great work, Jan. | ||
| Look forward to having you back on the next couple of days. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Rabbi, there's a situation also inextricably linked with this. | ||
| What's happening in Texas is out of control. | ||
| It's a major kind of infusion of these communities financed by, it looks like, Islamists. | ||
| You know, some good, don't be wrong, some good folks, Muslims, but there's a bunch of concerns about these Islamic centers. | ||
| Give me your thoughts on that. | ||
| We've got about 30 seconds. | ||
| Well, it's directly connected to what we were talking about before. | ||
| Let's recall that Iran doesn't just fund Hezbollah in Lebanon, but there is Hezbollah Paraguay and Hezbollah Venezuela that have existed for more than a decade. | ||
| They're in business with the cartels. | ||
| They've been trafficking drugs and human beings into the United States for many years. | ||
| The U.S. threat assessment for 2025 and the D.N.I. | ||
| threat assessment from March 2025 both name Iran and its sleeper cells in the United States as one of the major threats to American national security. | ||
| What the Europeans are coming face to face with and realizing that Western civilization is under attack by Sharia and jihadists is coming to America. | ||
| And, you know, people like Frank Gaffney and others who have been, you know, with their hair on fire, looking like conspiracy theorists, screaming about it for decades. | ||
| Now the chickens are coming home to roost. | ||
| This is jihad coming to America. | ||
| And people should stop thinking that the Iranian threat and the Muslim brethren threat is just about the Middle East and Israel. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| Rabbi, real quickly, social media, where do you go? | ||
| You've got about 15 seconds. | ||
| I'm at Rabbi P.W. on Getter and X. And we have the Israel 365 YouTube channel where I post three times a week important updates from Israel. | ||
| Go check us out there at Israel365action.com. | ||
| Thank you, Rabbi. | ||
| We'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. | ||
| We've got a bunch of specials. | ||
| They're going to add loose, I think, from the Financial Times of London. | ||
| It's scheduled to join us. | ||
| Also, we're going to get Tom Dans. | ||
| We couldn't get back up in Romania. | ||
| We'll probably start the show with him tomorrow morning. |
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