June 21, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot 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 lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Saturday, 21, June, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| It's been publicly put out, I think last night, that the president is coming back from Bedminster. | ||
| He just got there late yesterday afternoon, gave an interview or talked to the press, gave a press avail, as it's called, on the tarmac. | ||
| They're a thing in Morristown, where the airport is. | ||
| They announced he's coming back. | ||
| Some controversy had he planned on coming back. | ||
| He's not coming back. | ||
| But on the public schedule, there is a national security briefing for the president in the Oval Office. | ||
| As we develop this during the day, and you should stay tuned to, obviously, Real America's Voice, but also Grace and Mo's social media feed. | ||
| They'll be putting the word out, and I'll be up on Getter, right? | ||
| So make sure you go. | ||
| I put all my stuff up on Getter. | ||
| Whether we'll be back here with an all-star cast late in the afternoon. | ||
| If this thing develops more. | ||
| One thing I can tell you is that it looks like the president, in giving two weeks, he kind of said that's the limit, but he's doing two weeks principally for trying to get a deal and see if there's a real deal there. | ||
| And regardless of whether you can even find anybody to negotiate with, I'm not sure what calls, even gotten his phone calls returned. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| As President Trump told you, the people they were negotiating with were all killed on Friday, right? | ||
| And the Israelis kind of seconded that. | ||
| I find that a little odd, right? | ||
| That we've got a meeting scheduled for Sunday and some of the people you're decapitating are the exact people you're negotiating with, but I just put that out there and put a pin in it. | ||
| Because we still don't have an explanation. | ||
| And I've been on this like a dog with a bone. | ||
| No one has presented me with any information, and we have a significant amount of information about all this, of why it had to be last Thursday night and Friday morning. | ||
| And why was the decision made to go do it if you couldn't finish it? | ||
| From the Israelis. | ||
| Now, they are, I think the lead story in the New York Post is BB's now saying, we can finish it. | ||
| And we will finish it. | ||
| And that's fine. | ||
| Look, we've got no problem. | ||
| If you want to do it, do it. | ||
| We understand the geopolitical issues you have, the geostrategic issues you have, and you've been kind of on a roll. | ||
| You took out Hezbollah, which was touted to be one of the strongest light infantry in the world. | ||
| You took those out. | ||
| you've done a great job in Syria and people you know that have just been focused on Persia they're hammering I know President Trump wants that to finish as soon as possible, as soon as they're done. | ||
| So in that regard, they're on a roll, right? | ||
| In this, it's a little more questionable. | ||
| And definitely the ballistic, when they talk about the two things, the nuclear enrichment and getting to weaponize a bomb and then the missile delivery system and the ballistic missiles, that also goes back to what Mark Caputo and Jack were talking about, about the… Some people are saying that may look like it was by paper. | ||
| Because you certainly have had to have American both air defense and support by naval forces for air defense in the eastern Mediterranean. | ||
| All this to say, the assets are all in place if you want to strike. | ||
| Everything I've seen that given the unpredictability and that this has never been done before and you got the bomb damage assessment of DTR. | ||
| This was the Hugo Lull. | ||
| The reason we had Hugo in studio is that that story was amazing and wasn't getting the coverage I thought it deserved because it talks to you about the tactical implications. | ||
| And as I say, you know, I was a young naval officer over there. | ||
| Some of the first on the scene is the Navy had no assets. | ||
| I think we had one or two ships in Bahrain, but they were kind of old destroyers. | ||
| We never really had any serious assets, naval assets, because the North Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean just weren't, you know, we were the Western Pacific in the 7th Fleet, and the fleet out of Norfolk patrolled the Mediterranean. | ||
| It was kind of still World War II. | ||
| This changed everything. | ||
| And when we got there, I will tell you, it didn't take Clausewitz to, you know, say, yo, I'm not so sure we got enough helicopters for this thing. | ||
| And Tehran's a pretty far distance from the North Arabian Sea from where we're going to launch. | ||
| And I haven't seen the sun since we got there. | ||
| It's just slate gray. | ||
| The sea is slate gray. | ||
| It's filthy. | ||
| It is, you know, quite hot. | ||
| Over 100 degrees every day. | ||
| And it's not like you're sitting there. | ||
| These are not shots at a Lawrence of Arabia. | ||
| You're not stunned by the beauty of the desert. | ||
| In fact, I'm not so sure we saw the sun the entire time. | ||
| It's like a slate gray day because it's all the sand and dirt and everything that comes up from the desert and from places like Iran. | ||
| It's haze gray the entire time. | ||
| You see this orb that comes through every now and again. | ||
| It's just an orb. | ||
| That would be the sun. | ||
| So my point, it's a long way away. | ||
| It's at a scale that's hard to imagine, and it's quite hostile to just any type of human endeavor. | ||
| And now you've got the forward deployment of assets. | ||
| One thing that's not been talked about, if we get Eric Prince up here, we've been talking to Eric this morning, we're trying to get him up. | ||
| I'm not so sure. | ||
| I haven't heard any word. | ||
| You know, this is why I've been saying, hey, one of the first phone calls I would make would be MBZ, that great, the meetings you had, you know, the fantastic meetings, remember, a month ago, in the Gulf Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates, and then in Qatar. | ||
| President Trump got a hero's welcome. | ||
| The Americans got a hero's welcome. | ||
| We talked about, hey. | ||
| We're not talking about fighting. | ||
| We're not going to focus on terrorism anymore. | ||
| Peace and prosperity, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency. | ||
| The future is now, and the future is here in the Middle East. | ||
| I'd like to know, because these strike packages are just not simply B-2 bombers coming in at 30,000 feet and dropping a 30,000-pound weapon. | ||
| I think the initial strike package, you have to have basically fighter aircraft, fighter bombers go in. | ||
| And take care of basically interim radar, other anti-aircraft, you know, assets to make sure it's swept. | ||
| I believe the first part of the strike package is actually good old-fashioned, you know, coming in relatively low and hot with fighter bombers. | ||
| I'd like to know. | ||
| I haven't heard this. | ||
| And this is like, I guess, the 90s, you know, the Gulf War. | ||
| Have the Arabs given us air access rights? | ||
| Have they given us basing rights? | ||
| Do we have the ability? | ||
| Because I think there's some restrictions about doing combat sorties against, you know, Muslim nations out of that. | ||
| I don't know all the details, but I know there's just not, you just can't be flying in there and saying, hey, we're getting ready to launch. | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| Can you feel it? | ||
| Can you top it off for me? | ||
| Can you clean the windshield? | ||
| Yeah, and put it on the card. | ||
| Uncle Sugar's card. | ||
| Just put it on the card. | ||
| I think it's a little more complicated than that. | ||
| I haven't heard anything about those discussions starting. | ||
| Maybe they have. | ||
| Hopefully they should have. | ||
| But I think a lead indicator that maybe our buddies in the Gulf Emirates are not with us on this would be that. | ||
| And then publicly, they've all shown support, particularly, I think, Mohammed bin Zayed the first day to the Shiites. | ||
| And I realize people say that's publicly, not privately. | ||
| But hopefully those guys are part of this, at least discussions. | ||
| One of the things we'd continue to refer back to is the Iraq War. | ||
| And particularly the cheerleading was done. | ||
| And it was about 18. If you go back in time, you boomers. | ||
| This is what's interesting. | ||
| The people under 35 are like 100 to nothing on this. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Here's how much support it has for the under 35 crowd. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Who supports this? | ||
| I'm told. | ||
| The boomers. | ||
| Okay, boomers. | ||
| I'm also a boomer. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| But let's go back in time. | ||
| And they say boomers have no learning curve. | ||
| I don't agree with that. | ||
| I being one of you, I don't agree with that. | ||
| But let's go back in time. | ||
| Let's go back the last time you were sucked into, I mean, excuse me, the last time we had this situation for the Iraq war. | ||
| Now they had an 18-month to a year buildup. | ||
| And that was a propaganda campaign. | ||
| It has now been fully exposed. | ||
| The other day I was at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast and they brought up the, I don't know, the Iranian, you know, outside council or Council for Democracy. | ||
| I don't even know what this is called. | ||
| And Grizzo over at Newsmax was one of the old warhorses in town. | ||
| Really smart guy. | ||
| He says – And I go, man, why are we going there? | ||
| Now we're going to do due diligence on, you know, they've got the Shah's son and they've got all the MEK guys. | ||
| MEK is kind of a combination of Marxism, Maoism, some sort of, I don't even know what it is. | ||
| But it's out there. | ||
| And they call it a terrorist group. | ||
| And I realize Bernie Kerrick, the great Bernie Kerrick and Rudy are very close to those guys and they vouch for him. | ||
| But my point is, you've got all these people, right? | ||
| All these Persians that have not been in Persia for a while, like since 1979. | ||
| And they got this council and they meet and they talk about what they're going to do and how they're going to, you know, part of it is that we're going to return the Shah's son to the peacock throne. | ||
| Remember the peacock throne? | ||
| We're going to do that. | ||
| And then you got everybody else. | ||
| And I just said, hey, yo, I came in. | ||
| It's so ludicrous that it doesn't even rank discussion. | ||
| And I go back to the, remember in the run-up, You've got to remember this, Boomers. | ||
| You were sold, what was it, the Iraqi National Congress? | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Chalabi? | ||
| Remember Chalabi? | ||
| Chalabi was going to be gone, and everybody at Fox was pushing him. | ||
| The Weekly Standard was pushing him. | ||
| National Review was pushing him. | ||
| These were Jeffersonian Democrats, freedom fighters that were in the West, and they were telling us they're going to do this. | ||
| There are going to be two houses of parliament. | ||
| We're going to have democracy and free market capitalism. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Right? | ||
| To get the donors all worked up and to get people all totally, completely excited. | ||
| And then when Baghdad fell in 30 days, you know, Chalabi and some of these guys were never heard from in history again. | ||
| I think Chalabi would pop up every now and again. | ||
| And I think when he ran, I think he actually did ran, I don't know, 1% or something. | ||
| But it's just, these guys went into the vortex of history. | ||
| You never heard about the Iraqi National Congress. | ||
| And certainly when they got there, people were going, who in the hell are you guys? | ||
| Oh, we're the Jeffersonian Democrat freedom fighters, free market capitalism that have been actually hanging out in the salons of New York City and D.C. and going on Fox News to tell you that you guys are going to be a democracy. | ||
| Remember the thing, don't you have a blue? | ||
| We're going to dip your finger in blue to make sure you know you voted. | ||
| Why didn't they do that here in the United States? | ||
| Would that have stopped the voter fraud? | ||
| Had a lot more control, had a lot more concern of, it seems like, in Iraq and Afghanistan in the old days than they did here in places like, I don't know, Philadelphia, right? | ||
| Chicago? | ||
| What's Chicago? | ||
| Philadelphia, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. | ||
| But I digress. | ||
| Go back to the run-up to the Iraq War. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Just think about it. | ||
| They had 18 months to do that. | ||
| Now they've got a much more constricted time frame, like a week. | ||
| Because this has not been front of mind for people. | ||
| Just hadn't. | ||
| You see up there, oh, they killed 600 guys in Iraq last year and they killed the Marines. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| These mullahs are bad people. | ||
| They're bad guys. | ||
| They should be removed. | ||
| They've got to be removed, though, by the Iraqi people, or the Iranian people. | ||
| If the Persians don't overthrow them, you're going to have the exact situation you had in Iraq, right? | ||
| Where you decapitate it from the top and then, you know, you throw it out there decades later. | ||
| It's better today. | ||
| One of the reasons it's better today in Colorado today is the Persians, I don't know, they control two-thirds of Iraq, our mortal enemies. | ||
| For being such mortal enemies, we sure gained a lot of real estate, didn't we? | ||
| We gained a lot of power. | ||
| We gained access to a lot more oil, right? | ||
| I don't know who totally controls it, what, down in Bandar Abbas, right? | ||
| We're going to get Tej Gill on here. | ||
| Tej Gill, I don't know, did 14, 15 tours. | ||
| In the Middle East, like I keep saying, the three most powerful institutions in the imperial capital, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Reserve Bank, and CENTCOM. | ||
| You got the brains of the operation, you got the financing of the operation, and you got the muscle of the operation. | ||
| The big three. | ||
| You notice I didn't say, you know, Treasury or DOJ. | ||
| They're important, too. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. | ||
| They're powerful. | ||
| But those three right there, because the CIA kind of controls the Justice Department. | ||
| The DOJ and the FBI. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
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No, folks. | |
| It's just unfortunately a fact. | ||
| Short break. | ||
| back in a moment. | ||
| American baby in America's heart Iran has had five decades, five decades, almost half a century to talk. | ||
| And what they've done instead, kill 609 American troops in Iraq. | ||
| What they've done is put an assassination plot. | ||
| On President Trump's head. | ||
| What they've done is take American hostages and wreak havoc on the world. | ||
| America First is not sitting in a beach chair and using words. | ||
| It's taking decisive action when we can take out Fordow one swoop of an airplane. | ||
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You saw the movie, the latest Top Gun movie. | |
| Eerily enough, this is that plot kind of coming to fruition in real life. | ||
| It's not just one bomb. | ||
| It'll be a bomb after a bomb to get through that penetration. | ||
| Top Gun movie, one swoop. | ||
| You see with the cheerleading, the pom-poms over at Fox? | ||
| Pretty even-handed over there. | ||
| We try to give you both sides of the story here. | ||
| We fully support they can't have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| We fully support President Trump's diplomatic. | ||
| We didn't even like what we heard on just a verification program because we're not so sure it can be verified by these mullahs. | ||
| They're not the most rational people on earth. | ||
| And we fully support the Israelis' military campaign, and we keep saying our mantra here is quite simple. | ||
| Finish what you started. | ||
| This was something you thought through for years, had to do it. | ||
| It turns out, and we should be blunt, the Mossad intelligence is, I'm not so sure how you divide the CIA from Mossad. | ||
| I would love to be able to ascertain that and have somebody come forward and say that, and I think President Trump, one of the things that would be helpful to him is what President Reagan did. | ||
| It's Team B. Now, what do I mean by that? | ||
| Having been a young naval officer and seen the fiasco in the making of the hostage rescue, you could tell this is about helicopter lift capacity in the forbidding area that we were in. | ||
| My kid brother was a Navy Lamps helicopter pilot. | ||
| He was actually later assigned to the exact same destroyer squadron I was in on the USS Reasoner. | ||
| Destroyer Squadron 23, the Little Beavers, the famous Arleigh Burke Destroyer Squadron from World War II. | ||
| I can tell you, lamps, you know, on frigates and on destroyers, I happen to think is the most dangerous flying in the Navy, right? | ||
| Particularly when you come in these night landings with no horizon, pitch black, it's just incredible. | ||
| These guys, I'm so proud of my kid brother for doing that and the other people that, the other Navy pilots that did it. | ||
| Flying anti-submarine warfare helicopters off the back of these little frigates and destroyers pitching like they do because we're not large platforms is incredible. | ||
| But it didn't take Clausewitz or Von Mulkey to understand when you look there and every day you're doing exercises and it's just not that much lift capacity. | ||
| In these helicopters, there's just not that many of them. | ||
| And the reason in the gray sky, it's called foreign object debris, FOD. | ||
| It's what gets into the rotors. | ||
| It gets into the engines of the helicopters. | ||
| You know, it can be a cigarette buck. | ||
| It can be everything. | ||
| That's what you have to do. | ||
| Sweep down these decks, make sure it's thin. | ||
| But the fine sand and the dirt that gets in there. | ||
| This is what happened when they went to the rendezvous spot where they had the collision with the tanker and killed so many people and then called off the raid, right? | ||
| But my understanding, I think they didn't even have the lift capacity they needed to get all the hostages out, which was critical. | ||
| It was a mission-critical situation when they got to the rendezvous spot. | ||
| My point is that these are amazingly complicated, right? | ||
| And you just can't see them. | ||
| Remember last Thursday night, Friday, their chest beating, everybody's chest beating is so great. | ||
| It's like shock and awe. | ||
| That's what we played shock and awe that morning at the end. | ||
| Just to keep it in perspective. | ||
| Because remember the first night of the Iraq war, 19 March of 2003, everybody's high-fiving, and Rumsfeld's high-fiving, and all those guys at the White House told all those lies about how they got there on weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| They're chest-pounding. | ||
| They're bro-ing out. | ||
| And then the march-up country. | ||
| Baghdad fell, what, in three weeks? | ||
| Because the Iraqi army turned out to be, you know... | ||
| They kind of faded away. | ||
| But hey, they were just lying in wait for the Americans. | ||
| Look at the hell, and it was hell, of the occupation that the American troops went through. | ||
| It wasn't until the great Derek Harvey and others later said, hey, you're going to need a surge to take this thing back. | ||
| Because the Iraqi National Congress saw that turn to be a joke. | ||
| And what happened to happen, General Kelly? | ||
| Who turned out not to be the best Chief of Staff, but as a Marine Corps General, you read Bing West's book, The Strongest Tribe. | ||
| They went to the Anbar Province, where this revolt was coming from, and they basically, the Marine Corps brought good order and discipline. | ||
| And you had the battles. | ||
| I was honored to work with Michael Pack and make a film called The Last 600 Meters, a documentary about First Fallujah, Najaf, and second Fallujah. | ||
| Those three battles in a row. | ||
| And I don't know if you've ever had more heroism out of the Marine Corps ever in the Army of what these folks went through. | ||
| But you notice not a lot of the people that were high-fiving, right, were high-fiving and, you know, all, you know, just so great. | ||
| They weren't around for those. | ||
| I didn't see a lot of those people down in Fallujah. | ||
| Second Fallujah is one of the nastiest battles the Marine Corps has ever had, door-to-door, kicking down doors. | ||
| I think of, I don't know, 200,000, you know, structures going in there, door-to-door. | ||
| And I know this because the force recon, Michael Pack took out the force recon of Peleliu and Terawa, Marine force recon, which is about as hard as you can get, right? | ||
| Because Peleliu and Terawa, We're like Normandy. | ||
| And when I say Normandy, I mean Omaha Beach at its worst. | ||
| And these gentlemen in their 80s at the time, yes, 80s at their time, at the end of the screening of the film said, these kids are the most unbelievable brave ever. | ||
| And, you know, Packer was, well, hang on for a second. | ||
| You're forced recon at Peladou and Terawa. | ||
| How could that possibly be? | ||
| Because you're the greatest of the greatest generation. | ||
| You're the bravest of the greatest generation. | ||
| How can you say these kids are actually braver? | ||
| And to a man, they said, well, you didn't understand. | ||
| We were 17 and 18 years old. | ||
| We were 19. We didn't know anything. | ||
| What we knew is that the Marine Corps taught us when you hit the beach, you clear-cut everything in front of you. | ||
| And you're not going to back up one yard. | ||
| You're going forward. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You're going forward, and you're going to kill everything in front of you. | ||
| He says there's no kicking down doors and having little kids run out and having all that pressure. | ||
| Where do you think a lot of the PTSD comes from? | ||
| With the women and children, the little kids sometimes are wrapped in bombs. | ||
| You know, every time you kick open a door, it's the end of your life. | ||
| It's the last act you're ever going to do on earth. | ||
| They said we didn't have any of that. | ||
| We just went through and clear-cut everything. | ||
| And, you know, a lot of these guys said we weren't taking a lot of prisoners either. | ||
| It's just clear-cut in front of you. | ||
| That's your job. | ||
| Very different than the newest, greatest generation. | ||
| That's the asses. | ||
| And we threw it away. | ||
| We threw it away. | ||
| You know, you talk about the Vietnam vets. | ||
| What about those vets? | ||
| Vietnam vets, yes. | ||
| People came back and spit on them. | ||
| Wouldn't look at them. | ||
| You couldn't wear your uniform. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| With the heroism that the men showed in Vietnam. | ||
| Well, it wasn't really any better until President Trump had the parade last week. | ||
| I don't remember any parades. | ||
| You had the Gulf War parade back in 1992. | ||
| I don't remember any parades for the heroes of the... | ||
| This was combat in Iraq and in Afghanistan. | ||
| Tej Gill, you were there. | ||
| You volunteered. | ||
| You went. | ||
| What are your thoughts on the... | ||
| You're not an anti-war guy. | ||
| You're not an isolationist. | ||
| We're not either. | ||
| But we're non-interventionist because of the fact that we've seen what intervention does. | ||
| Tej Gil, your thoughts? | ||
| I think the decision's been made. | ||
| It looks like we're marching to the point of no return right now on bombing Iran. | ||
| I heard Nancy Mace talking yesterday saying we just want one bomb, one bomber, and one pilot to go in and do this, but that's not the case. | ||
| I think it's going to be multiple bombers. | ||
| Each B-2 holds two of these GBU-57 30,000-pound bombs, and we already know that one of them cannot do the job, so I think it's going to be a sortie of multiple bombers. | ||
| If they send in two, we've got four bombs. | ||
| The old saying in the military is two is one, one is none. | ||
| So I think there'll be two sets of two bombers. | ||
| So we have at least eight of these bunker busters just in case the first pair of bombers don't do it. | ||
| And then we'll see what happens after that. | ||
| Hopefully that's our job. | ||
| We just bomb it and then get out and then turn everything back over to Israel and they finish it. | ||
| I personally... | ||
| First it was denuclearization, now it's regime change, and now it's U.S. bombers involved. | ||
| So let's hope that that's it. | ||
| We use our stealth bombers to get in and get out. | ||
| I heard you talking earlier saying about how the beginning of the Gulf War, you know, we have to send in fighter jets, like air to ground bombers to take out their radar bases, the radar anti-aircraft stuff. | ||
| I don't think that's the case here. | ||
| These B2s have a very, very, very small radar cross-section so they can get in and get out undetected. | ||
| We don't need to cross through any airspace of the Arab neighbors. | ||
| They can just fly straight up through the Indian Ocean and punch right into the Iranian airspace. | ||
| Do their mission and get out if it all goes well. | ||
| There's a thing called Murphy's Law. | ||
| Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst time. | ||
| So hopefully Murphy's Law doesn't kick in here and we can get this job done and get out and then turn it back over to the Israelis. | ||
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The Chinese have the electronic war parachutes. | |
| Tej, Tej, Tej, hang on for one second because I'm going to hold you through into another segment. | ||
| I'm trying to get Eric Prince also to join us on a Saturday. | ||
| If we don't do it this morning, maybe we do it this afternoon. | ||
| You've got to stick around with Gray Simber. | ||
| I see we come back here at about 4 or 5 o 'clock. | ||
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| Who are partners of the mullahs? | ||
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| How about that? | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| So Eric Prince joins us by phone. | ||
| Eric, I want to thank you for taking time away today to do this. | ||
| In the great movie Bridge Too Far, as you remember, Dirk Bogard plays the senior intelligence officer in the British Army. | ||
| He's brought intelligence right before the raid at Market Garden, where they've got to take, I think, five or six bridges, right, leading all the way to Arnhem to cross the Rhine and to shorten the war by a year. | ||
| The intelligence officer brings it, and it shows that a German panzer division has been brought back for R&R right in the middle of where they're going to land. | ||
| And Dirk Bogart looks at it and says, no, this is not conclusive. | ||
| And the guy makes a point and presses him. | ||
| He says, you could lose everybody. | ||
| This whole thing could fail. | ||
| We could lose tens of thousands of people. | ||
| And he says, the party is on. | ||
| And we're holding the party. | ||
| That's a British term for, hey, this thing's going. | ||
| Sir, as we sit here on a Saturday, the president coming back to Washington, D.C., number one, is the party on, in your opinion? | ||
| And is it a party that the United States of America should be hosting? | ||
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Sir. | |
| I tell you, Eric, we're having a tough time hearing you by phone. | ||
| Can we try this again? | ||
| Can you hear me now? | ||
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Steve? | |
| Yeah, I can hear you now. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Yeah, go ahead, sir. | |
| Gotcha. | ||
| It is not our party, not our responsibility, and despite all the best, wonderful intelligence estimates that it'll all be smooth and easy and one quick raid in and out, people said the same thing about bombing the Serbs. | ||
| In the late 90s, 57mm anti-aircraft artillery shot down an F-117 stealth fighter. | ||
| Was it a lucky shot? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| The fact that we lost a bunch of stealth technology to the Chinese and lost a pilot and had to do a massive rescue effort, shit happens. | ||
| The biggest thing is the Israelis should have been able to develop the ability to do bunker busters themselves. | ||
| It takes a big steel casing. | ||
| You can buy them like a tie bar for a diecast machine, or you can buy an old gun barrel from a warship, and you mill it out and you drop it. | ||
| They make plenty of guidance kits, and I know they're flying propeller-driven aircraft over that battle space now because they're dropping some large ANFO bombs. | ||
| So clearly the air defense system is not that high. | ||
| They can, in the same way that a SEAL team drops a boat out of the back of a cargo airplane, you can deploy a Moab the same way. | ||
| A Moab or a big, a 15, 20 ton bomb out of their existing C-130 and get the job done. | ||
| So, or they can rent an IL-76. | ||
| There's a ton of those floating around Dubai and around Africa. | ||
| That'll drop 90 tons. | ||
| So, again, if they wanted to do it that badly, they could do it themselves, but they want to press with all their political... | ||
| We really sucked at rebuilding Iraq to the point that we lost Iraq to Iran. | ||
| And, you know, the old Colin Powell saying, you know, we break it, we buy it. | ||
| I don't want to be responsible as a U.S. taxpayer for reconstructing Iran, especially after what the Democrats did to Libya. | ||
| It's still wrecked 15 years later. | ||
| But they're saying, but hang on, Eric, this is supposed to be a targeted hit just to take out the last part of the nuclear enrichment program, the weaponization program, to take that out. | ||
| Bibi's now in the New York Post saying today, he agrees with you, they can do it, and maybe with additional commandos. | ||
| But it's only the Israelis talking about regime change. | ||
| President Trump's been pretty adamant about that. | ||
| Would that change your thinking, that there's not going to be regime change here? | ||
| Or do you think that naturally follows and Iran goes into total chaos? | ||
| If the Iranian people want to be free, they should rise up and grab their freedom. | ||
| You know, the Reza Pahlavi, the so-called crown prince of Iran, all he's done for the last 40 years is go to Hillary Clinton's cocktail parties. | ||
| They haven't done anything to actually organize Iranian freedom. | ||
| So externally sponsoring it? | ||
| Bad idea for the U.S. If it's just one targeted strike, fine. | ||
| Let the Israelis do that. | ||
| Let them figure it out. | ||
| If it was that strategically important to them, I mean, 15, 20 years ago, they had to see how to drop a milled-out heavy steel artillery barrel, basically, and turn it into a deep penetrator. | ||
| It's not rocket science. | ||
| So, again, trying to outsource that and coerce America politically into it is a really bad idea, and I'm pretty resolute on it. | ||
| Eric Prince, in 2017 in the spring, you wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. | ||
| You were on Fox. | ||
| The president saw you. | ||
| As you know, I tried to shepherd you through different areas of the West Wing, the National Security Council, DOD, all of it, because you had a plan about getting what we should do in Afghanistan. | ||
| The president wanted to execute. | ||
| It didn't happen for many reasons we don't know to go into. | ||
| But the president really trusts your judgments in areas like this. | ||
| If you had three minutes with the president today, I'll give you three minutes. | ||
| Tell me what you would tell the president of the United States. | ||
| The United States has a terrible track record of nation-building, striking out, or being the outsourced enforcer for the Middle East. | ||
| It is not our fight. | ||
| It is not worth any more American blood or treasure. | ||
| Everything we've done in the last 30 years in the Middle East has been an abysmal failure. | ||
| Stop now. | ||
| If you're in a hole, the best thing to do is to stop digging. | ||
| If the Israelis really feel that now, after all these decades, there's finally an Iranian nuclear program, and if the Iranians had a nuke, they would have used it by now. | ||
| Or they would have at least, I mean, they're at least playing by some rules because they're not dropping dirty bombs. | ||
| Clearly they can strike anywhere in Israel since they're smacking targets in downtown Tel Aviv. | ||
| None of them have been a dirty bomb. | ||
| If they wanted to play that dirty, they would have done it. | ||
| Again, that is not our job to take out the rest of their nuclear program if it's that strategic for the Israelis or for the other Saudi Democrats. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| I think we're losing Eric. | ||
| Last thing. | ||
| Do you think the party's on? | ||
| Do you think that because they can't find somebody to negotiate with in Tehran that this weekend the party's on, sir? | ||
| I hope not. | ||
| I hope it's just a bluff. | ||
| Or that they're at least staging the aircraft forward so they can have a shorter response time instead of having to fly them all the way from Missouri. | ||
| Eric, where do people keep up with you? | ||
| You've got a podcast now. | ||
| You're on social media. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Off-leash with Eric Prince, and I'm on X at Real Eric D. Prince. | ||
| Off the leash. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Thanks for taking time on a Saturday to join us. | ||
| You bet. | ||
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Thanks. | |
| Tej Gill, how many deployments did you do, sir? | ||
| I did 16 between Iraq and Afghanistan, Steve. | ||
| You did 16 deployments, and every time it was still a hot zone, sir? | ||
| Yeah, yep. | ||
| From 2001 to all the way through 2013. | ||
| And then there were prior ones, but they were peacetime. | ||
| 2001 to 2013. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You have a broad network of friends and colleagues and comrades that have fought in those conflicts. | ||
| What is basically, collectively, what is their thinking about this current situation, sir? | ||
| Right, about 80-20 to completely stay out of it. | ||
| And then the 20 are, say, like, fine, let's drop a bomb, but that's it. | ||
| But 100% no boats on the ground. | ||
| 80% completely stay out of it. | ||
| 20% use the bomb only, the bunker buster. | ||
| It's not popular. | ||
| This is not a popular thing for Trump. | ||
| My opinion is let's stay out of it. | ||
| I think Israel can handle it on their own. | ||
| We should just force Israel's hand and let them do it. | ||
| They started it. | ||
| they should finish it. | ||
| That's my opinion and that's the opinion of the guys It's Navy SEALs, Force Recon Marines, Delta Force guys, and some Army Special Forces guys that I've been talking to, and it's not a popular endeavor, put it that way. | ||
| And why is it not popular? | ||
| Hang on, why is it not popular? | ||
| Why is it not popular? | ||
| I'll tell you exactly why it's not popular. | ||
| It's not popular because we're not allowed to win. | ||
| These things go on forever. | ||
| We went into Afghanistan and... | ||
| And then same thing in Iraq. | ||
| And then after that, you bring in untold numbers of NGOs, the State Department, and they start nation-building during the middle of the war, and they undermine the warfighters, and these things drag on forever. | ||
| In World War II, we would do unconditional surrender and then do nation building. | ||
| And they completely screw up the whole war. | ||
| Nobody's allowed to win. | ||
| And then we run out of these war zones with our tails between our legs. | ||
| And people say, oh, we lost Iraq. | ||
| We've lost Afghanistan. | ||
| We crushed the enemy on the battlefield, but the State Department and the NGOs go in there and they undermine the military, they undermine the CIA, and they screw up the entire battle space, and then it looks like we lost, but we didn't. | ||
| That's why nobody wants to fight these wars anymore, because they're not fought the right way. | ||
| President Trump's going to commit, though. | ||
| He says if he does it, he doesn't want regime change. | ||
| It's a targeted strike. | ||
| Where the Israelis can't do this, right, to do it. | ||
| First of all, what do you think the Persians are going to do if that's done? | ||
| What do you think the blowback is going to be? | ||
| If they still have their missile launching capabilities, they're going to hammer Israel. | ||
| And as we've seen, the Iron Dome only stops 70 to 80 percent of the incoming missiles. | ||
| So I think Israel is going to get hammered. | ||
| We may. | ||
| Be successful and shut down the nuclear program. | ||
| but I think Iran is going to fight back. | ||
| So then we're going to, And then if they do cut the head off the snake and do a regime change, it's going to turn into a lawless country like Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and all the rest of the Middle East. | ||
| I don't think that's going to be a good outcome. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| You stick around, will you? | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| There's a story in Axios, Barack Ravid, and he has very good connections to the senior level of Israel's high command and intelligence scoop. | ||
| Trump's back channel to Iran failed after Supreme Leader went dark. | ||
| It's an article everybody read. | ||
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| Tej Gill, we're going to either get you back on, so folks, let's keep up with Grace and Mo today. | ||
| I'll be together to say if it looks like something is really going on or it's important enough, we will be back live at either 4 or 5 o 'clock this afternoon. | ||
| The president gets back around 5 o 'clock. | ||
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| Anytime. | ||
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| They need to know the ground truth of all this, not the chest beating, the reality. | ||
| Thank you, Tej. | ||
| Thank you for your bravery and your valor in defense of this republic. | ||
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| Also, Grace and Mo, we're going to be putting up stuff all day. | ||
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| Let's plan on approximately maybe four o 'clock, five o 'clock when the president gets back. | ||
| If it's worth your time, we'll do that. | ||
| I want to thank Rob Sieg and Parker Sieg at Real America's Voice to make it happen. | ||
| And we want to make sure that this is done in a, you know, this is a sober analysis of what's going on to make sure in the fog of war that you have as clear a vision as possible about what is actually happening as it unfolds. | ||
| Or as I like to say, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | ||
| Mike Lindell, you've been fighting the good fight because a lot of this mess started with the stolen election of 2020. | ||
| We didn't even get to think about it today. | ||
| Two hours of intense, great show with people coming on, great information, and we didn't talk about any of the important stuff I wanted to talk about. | ||
| What's happening in L.A., what's happening in the courts, all this thing of Ray Daly and Gold. | ||
| See what happens when you get sucked into these things? | ||
| It absorbs. | ||
| This is what's happening with President Trump. | ||
| It's absorbing all the time. | ||
| Mike Lindell, I know you and I talked about one of the most important things this audience can do, besides keeping up to speed and making sure your voice is heard, is to pray for the President of the United States, the troops, and the President of the United States that he uses to sermon. | ||
| Mike Lindell, I'm tossing to you, brother. | ||
| Yeah, we all need to keep praying that God gives our president great wisdom and discernment, everybody. | ||
| This is, as you all know, I'm hyper-focused on getting rid of the electronic voting machines and securing our elections. | ||
| It does go back to a stolen election, but that was a blessing, the biggest blessing ever in disguise, that it opens people's eyes over the last four years, and we cannot let all these times we're in now. | ||
| We have to make sure that they're not in vain, but we have to make sure that it's God's will. | ||
| And so everybody stay in prayer that our president will be guided by God. | ||
| And we know he's been chosen for such a time as this. | ||
| And so I encourage everyone there. | ||
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| We are. | ||
| Folks, here's the only question that matters now. | ||
| Is the party on? | ||
| And should the United States of America be hosting it? | ||
| I want you to think about that today. | ||
| You are living in one of the most unique moments in history of this country. | ||
| And you are an active participant. | ||
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| You're part of this. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All likelihood, we'll be back here this afternoon. | ||
| Continue to check on Real America's Voice and also with Grace, Mo, and myself on social media. | ||
| We'll see you back here, all likelihood, 4 or 5 p.m. this afternoon. |
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