Bannon's War Room hosts dissect CPAC Day 1, analyzing Iran negotiations mediated by Pakistan and warning against miscalculation while speculating on potential 82nd Airborne involvement in Karg Island. The discussion highlights a MAGA leadership split over military escalation versus an off-ramp, noting economic fears regarding oil prices and midterm elections. Significant focus turns to Texas Proposition 10's passage against Sharia law, allegations of CAIR's political influence, and calls for constitutional sheriffs to resist judicial orders. Finally, the episode addresses U.S. dollar instability, gold hedging, and Mike Lindell's Minnesota gubernatorial run amid claims of a deep state attack. Ultimately, the segment frames these events as critical battles in a broader struggle to preserve Western civilization against perceived Islamification and financial collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
I report to you today that we have, along with your foreign policy team, presented a 15-point action list that forms the framework for a peace deal.
This has been circulated through the Pakistani government, acting as the mediator.
And this has resulted in strong and positive messaging and talks, as you just indicated to the press.
But these are sensitive diplomatic discussions.
and you have directed us to maintain confidentiality on the specific terms and not negotiate through the news media as others do.
I can say this.
We will see where things lead and if we can convince Iran that this is the inflection point with no good alternatives for them other than more death and destruction.
We have strong signs that this is a possibility and if a deal happens, it will be great for the country of Iran, for the entire region and the world at large.
Your policy of peace through strength is the most effective tool for a diplomatic resolution here, just as this policy was an effective tool in each and every one of all of the other conflicts you settled in your first year.
Iran is looking for an off-ramp following your powerful threat on Saturday.
Your indications that you are willing to listen to peace proposals have been well received.
You've instructed us that your preference is always peace and that we should make that our priority.
We have delivered that message, sir, along with the 15 points for peace.
Yeah, I think it's very possible in the case of Carg Island.
As you've seen, there's footage of the president talking about that in the 1980s.
He's clearly interested in it.
He had it bombed two Friday nights ago.
So I think he may believe that he can take Karg and take his own hostage, if you will, as a condition for we'll release this once you help us reopen the Straits.
I still don't know that he's going to do it at the end of the day.
I think there are other ways maybe to achieve that type of outcome, maybe by saying no tankers should show up at Carg Island or we'll target them.
So he may find an alternative short of ground troops in order to try and get new leverage over the Iranians.
So I don't know that he's made up his mind absolutely to do that, but as you say, these troops coming to the region are certainly capable of doing it.
And so they're there, and they're going to be there.
Even if you were to try to start to pull them out, they're still going to be in harm's way.
And I hope that stays front and center with people.
There's another issue, too.
Trump doesn't care about public opinion.
He's hit over eight countries, all gas, no breaks.
Congress hasn't even slowed him down.
So I'm going to be the contrary and say, I don't think he cares about public opinion.
And I also don't think he has any intention of having free and fair elections in the fall.
People think that's going to be a circuit breaker, but Steve Bannon said this week out loud that ICE at the airports is a warm-up for ICE at the election booths.
And that is a very real threat that nobody seems to have a plan to combat.
So, of those of you that joined us this morning, almost the entire morning show, we turned it over to the president in the cabinet meeting, right?
And the reason we did that is that that was like a war cabinet meeting.
President Trump starts off, JD said a few things and went to Marco.
He went to the Witcoff about the negotiating strategy, back to Pete Pegseth about what the war policy is, and then Scott Besant before he took questions, right?
So that's the entire war cabinet.
One, what is your takeaway?
And as importantly, what is the market's takeaway?
How did the market react to that?
Because I think you had some hints of escalation and then some hints of we're trying to find a way out of here.
Do you support getting regime change and if we have to get regime change, combat troops, not on Karg Island, but combat troops in Tehran that removes the regime and replaces it with other some government that's more amenable to the Iranian people and to the United States?
So even the 65% that says that, none of you would any of you say let's do that, would tell President Trump to finish what we started, let's go to Tehran, let's remove the government.
If we can bomb them out, we bomb them out.
We can't do that.
If we've got to send in young American men and women in to go, we got to do that.
How many here would say do that?
Would advise the president.
The president listens to you.
Trust me, they will take this clip and show it to the president tonight.
So I want to make sure that you thought this through.
How many here, just the 65%, that said finish what we started, does that include going to Tehran, removing this regime, and putting in a friendly government?
Those of you that said, let's get the hell out of here and let's do it by Friday, okay, what does that look like if that entails the American Navy leaving and the American Air Force shutting down?
Are you comfortable with having the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz controlled by Iran with diesel at $10 a gallon, gasoline at $8 a gallon, a barrel of oil at $150?
Let Europe be on this.
I don't think, when you guys think about it, I don't think there's that much difference between the 65% of MAGA says finish what they started and the 35% of MAGA right now that says we want to get the hell out.
Is everybody in agreement that President Trump needs to think this through because the impact of this will last decades and decades and decades?
Are you guys, when you take, seriously, when you think about this, should we think about the midterm elections or is this a fundamental choice the United States has to make?
For the 35% that want to leave now, and quite frankly, I know many of you, many of the people I know very well are in your pocks on both their house and leave.
When you say do the right thing, what would that be?
Come back to America and take care of here, right?
Take care of America.
Let me give you the good news about this war and how it was started.
At the end of this, at the end of this, the electorate base of the MAGA movement will be more populist and more nationalistic, right?
We don't want any foreign entanglements.
America first, American citizens first.
The Middle East is a sideshow, right?
And we should come home, correct?
Now, Eric Bowling's going to tell you that's just wishful thinking.
Well, Steve, you and I developed a plan, an idea that I sent it to Pete Exeter and Susie Wiles.
It's in their hands.
I believe right now, as we speak right now, the way the rhetoric's going back and forth between Trump and the IRGC, that there will be some form of IRGC running Iran.
IRGC or Mullah, I believe we're going to get what we want.
We're going to get some concessions.
It just doesn't seem like we have the appetite for a five or ten-year war with Iran, which it could take to do exactly to completely eliminate the threat, turn over the country into a more democratic country, could take five years.
Do we have the end boots on the ground?
Do we have the appetite for it?
If we don't, the deal is to make a deal, an international legal deal with them that is.
Okay, are we going to demand the Arabs put combat troops to help us if we got to take Karg Island?
Qatar, they're making billions of dollars, aren't they?
The Saudis?
UAE?
Do we want combat troops with, in fact, the first wave of combat troops in the Carg Island should be Arab?
That's kind of half-hearted.
Do you think they can hear that down in Fort Bragg, North Carolina?
Ladies and gentlemen, we got eight or ten thousand kids, not just in the carrier battle groups, we got eight or ten thousand combat troops heading to the North Arabian Sea in the Persian Gulf right now.
Do you have their backs?
And what's the better way to have their backs and to make sure somebody else is carrying their load?
Are you tired of fighting for the wealth of Arab nations?
Are you sick and tired of Sharia-compliant countries that we bail out with American boys and girls who happen to be devout Christians?
That message has got to get to Washington, D.C., we've had it.
Why are we fighting the world?
Now, President Trump is in this because of a host of reasons.
And you saw him today.
He's going to find a way out.
But the way out, as we just heard from Eric, even the easiest way out is incredibly bloody, right?
We've got to bomb the hell out of them.
Okay?
Hopefully that works.
But right now, I will tell you, the logistics chain who actually have combat troops, and they're very specific today.
I don't think Pete Hexett mentioned it one time, right?
Which I thought was very, very important.
But the Arab nations, I'm tired of President Trump having to ask the Europeans and the Saudis and the Arabs, step up and do more.
At the same time, tell Netanyahu, let's do less.
That's humor.
Okay, we have a group of all-stars here.
How many of you are Texans?
Did you guys all vote for the Prop 10 to make sure to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas?
This man right here is one of the leading experts from London of how London fell.
And we asked him, he came over in November, Peter McAfee, you know what he told us?
Because we said, hey, compare Dallas, the Dallas Metroplex, to where London was at the same time.
And he calls me up and says, are you kidding me?
Dallas, Fort Worth, and Texas is so much further gone than London was at the time.
And you know why?
Because the business and the economic community and the political class have embraced Sharia law and embraced a Muslim invasion of Texas.
Brother, okay, that's the top of the first inning.
There's so much more we've got to do.
Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, care, terrorist organization, and run them the hell out of Texas.
Why is care all over Texas?
Why are they suing people?
Why are they in your schools?
They're either a terrorist organization or they're not.
Get them the hell out of here, right?
Frank, what's the next step here?
I want everybody to.
The only way this is going to get done is with massive grassroots pressure because the business community and the real estate community are not exactly on your side or the halal food community.
What do you got?
My favorite line from Steve Bannon is the line that the politicians behave better when they feel the pointy end of the bayonet at their backs.
You're the bayonets, folks.
All right.
We're going to take this the next step.
We had a smashing victory, and I want to thank you, Steve, for putting it on the map, coming here and getting every posse member mobilized to get that vote.
But it's not enough.
Not enough.
It's the starting point of a campaign.
We have the next seven months to put the bayonet at their backs, figuratively.
And where it starts is by getting every single member of the political class that seeks to represent us to take the Sharia-free pledge.
Go to bansharia.com and ask them to sign up that they will not permit Sharia to be imposed on their constituents or the American people.
The power is always with we the people, but sometimes we the people forget that.
So we need you to show up.
We need your voice.
April 7th, Texas State Board of Education is the next time we're going to take public testimony, and we will be voting that day on whether we give in to the practice.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill, Clark County Sheriff over Las Vegas Metro, told four different judges that they would not obey their orders to release career criminal felons.
They tried to hold him in contempt.
He said, where are you going to put me?
In my own jail?
And so it's going to the Nevada Supreme Court and maybe on to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But he is setting a great example, what constitutional sheriffs are supposed to be doing.
Stand up to the judges.
The judges are ruining our justice system.
And who's standing against them?
Constitutional sheriffs.
We need to do that nationwide.
Right, Mike?
Okay, hold it.
We've got to bounce.
What's your website?
Because I'm about to make a major announcement here.
What's your website?
Folks, my website for Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
CSPOA.org.
Join us.
Join us.
Make a donation and be part of this great American solution.
How many of you folks, hang on, how many are from Arizona?
There we go, right there.
I'm announcing right now, you've seen that Guthrie situation where Savannah Guthrie's mom got kidnapped or is disappearing, and that incompetent left-wing progressive sheriff has screwed everything up.
Well, those folks in Pima County are recalling him.
We've done end of the dollar empire over the last, what, four years.
You guys have gone online and gotten the free version.
Now you can get the patrons of this.
It's taught at the University of Arkansas now in the finance department.
Why?
Because we make it accessible.
All the hard concepts are there.
We didn't dumb this down at all.
We just kind of expanded out how to explain it because it's not about the price of gold.
It's saying, hey, come on and buy gold.
You have to understand the process.
that drives the value of gold, both as a hedge against financial instability, but also as gold has become kind of a financial class, like back in the 19th century, and these central banks keep buying gold hand over fist.
Now, there's a lot of discussion now.
Are the Saudis selling gold?
Is Argentina selling gold?
They have to generate cash for their own accounts to pay for things.
But we've got an announcement on a new, the eighth, three editions.
So if you go online, you've got seven today, seven here bound, but we've got the new eighth edition.
So for us, look, the reason we try to be ahead of the curve on things, we got Joe Allen over here in 2020 to talk about artificial intelligence.
Now everybody's talking about it, right?
Because we knew at that time, you could see the trends of what was happening.
This would be a major decision for the American people.
And you are the decision makers.
You have to be as informed as possible.
Every gold, you know, all these gold companies approach to sell gold.
I said, no, I want to find somebody that's going to take the time and effort and put staff on it to actually allow people to start to understand capital markets, particularly a commodity like gold.
And Philip Patrick and the team, and we're very proud of the work.
One thing I will tell you, if you go online, you get the eighth free edition of the seven, they're totally free and no obligation.
You are not obligated to do anything and buy anything.
In fact, I would tell people, get online, talk to these guys, get more information, get the receipts, think about it, and then when you make a decision, you make a decision, a decision you can live with.
And people, some people did it back when it was $1,100 or $1,200.
Some did it later.
Some have not done it.
That's fine.
Because there's going to be a lot of turbulence in capital markets over the last couple of years, over the next couple of years.
One thing I can tell you, what we do at the show, everybody says, oh, you've got to dumb things down.
If it's MAGA and they're working class, you've got to dumb it down.
The two smartest people I ever saw in my life were my grandfather that went to the third grade and my dad who just got out of high school, right?
They read everything.
They absorbed stuff.
These are people that kept up with the news, could talk about every topic.
That's the war room posse.
Our objective is to present information to you.
And quite frankly, that's what we're doing on the war in Iran.
It'd be very simple for us to come out.
When the country moves to make a decision here, the country has to move with a decision it can live with.
And that's why we're trying to present you as much information on that from people like Kurt Mills on one side and Trito Parsi on one side, and people like Rabbi Walecki and Frank Gaffney and Captain Finnell on the other.
It's just like Birch Gold.
What I'm so proud of, all this information and the receipts, and they will inundate you.
If you go to their website, they'll inundate you with information.
You guys, you know, I got the word out for five years, not because of Fox News and Newsmax wouldn't even have me on, but the mainstream media would attack me every day.
That's how I got the word out.
Well, Minnesota media, they're on to it.
They don't even talk about me.
You wouldn't even think I existed.
You wouldn't think I'm running for governor there.
You're going, what?
Wait, I pick up the Star and Tribune, the worst newspaper in the country.
Gee, who's running?
Lisa Damuth and Amy Klobuchar.
Where's Mike Lindell?
It's disgusting.
But I've got a plan.
What I'm going to do now, I got my team together a week ago.
We're going to do rallies just like my great friend, the president, all over Minnesota every single day if I have to.
And we've got teams of people, over 500 people on the ground.
When Lawfare came, which hadn't been done in our country since the 1700s in January and February of 21, they attacked my pillow, my employee-owned company, and they went after everything.
We had all these box stores canceled.
Everyone in the country, like Steve said, we were the number one selling product in every one of them, including QVC, HSN.
You name the box store, Bed Bath, or Beyond, Walmart, Cole.
And then what happened in January of 2022, it's like passing the batons to the machine companies that sued me to our government, Operation Arctic Frost.
You've just seen Ted Cruz two days ago.
He listed my pillow.
They attacked my pillow.
We were the first, my pillow and Mike Lindell.
They attacked us every day for bank cancelizations.
They went to our vendors, even our overseas, said, if you do business with my pillow, we're debanking you.
They went after my charities.
They went after my merchant servers.
That was an all-out attack.
We just had a third party do an assessment on that.
By the way, if you want to help on my government run, it's easy.
You go to mygovernor.com.
That's easy to remember, mygovernor.com.
But with my pillow, what's going on right now in Minnesota, as we speak, we had a woke company buy our building about a year and a half ago, and they would not renew our lease.
I swear they were brought in on purpose.
Our long-term lease we've had.
So we had eight weeks, eight weeks now to move factories.
This is a task that would take four months.
My employees did it in the last six and a half weeks.
In the factory, we have all this product so we don't have to move it twice.
These are our mattress toppers, our mattresses.
I said, you know what?
And all the products that we're closing out, 80% off.
I said, let's see, that War Room posse get them with free shipping right to their front door.