Episode 5321: Were There SPLC Informants At J6; Fighting The Redistricting In Virginia
Stephen K. Bass opens the War Room on April 23, 2026, by dissecting an indictment against the SPLC brought by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch and FBI Director Dash Patel for allegedly manufacturing racism to fund extremist groups. Guests Mike Davis and Jack Vasobics argue the organization acted as a "deep state" instrument, citing its role in designating Turning Point USA as a hate group prior to Charlie Kirk's assassination and questioning if SPLC informants orchestrated the January 6th riots. The discussion shifts to a Virginia judge halting redistricting certification due to procedural violations and concludes with an analysis of President Trump's naval strategy against uncompromising Iranian hardliners under Ahmad Vahidi in the Strait of Hormuz, framing the conflict as a struggle against terrorism that views compromise as treason. [Automatically generated summary]
There's to Todd Blanch, Trump's acting attorney general, who's off to a very, very strong start, and to Dash Patel, Trump's FBI director, who's always great.
These allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center are damning if they're true because the allegations show.
That the SPLC told its donors that it's fighting racism when, in fact, it was funding racism.
The SPLC was running out of racism in America and that was hurting its ability to raise money and exert its power.
So, what did the SPLC do?
According to the indictment, as announced by Todd Blanch, they manufactured racism.
They manufactured racism so they can raise more money off of this manufactured racism.
That's clear for us.
They're duping their donors.
I seriously doubt if these sanctimonious white liberals who are funding the SPLC understand that they were funding the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nations.
And that's exactly what was happening, according to this indictment.
And I would say this to these major corporations, these foundations that fund the SPLC they need to stop immediately because, according to this indictment, Donating to the SPLC funds the Ku Klux Klan and it funds the Aryan nations.
Do these big corporations want to explain that to their shareholders, to their boards, to their customers?
I seriously doubt it.
They are now on notice that they have to stop funding the SPLC.
Mike, also, if you read the indictment, and a hat tip, as you keep telling us, the special forces of the Justice Department are these U.S. attorneys.
A hat tip to the Alabama U.S. attorney that brought this.
But according to Todd and Cash, if I read that press conference correctly, this is still an ongoing investigation.
Reading the indictment, they think there's a lot more there they can find about this funding and underwriting of racism that the Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of.
Mike, before I let you go, I know you got a client meeting.
Can you talk to me about your view of what happened in Virginia yesterday with this state circuit court judge or a state judge putting this thing on hold right now and saying that it's invalid?
Very clear that the people who pushed that amendment in Virginia, that voter initiative in Virginia, did not follow the procedural steps.
They didn't follow the timing requirements.
They mislabeled the amendment to deceive voters.
It was clearly illegal.
This Virginia state trial judge enjoined this, meaning said, do not certify this election.
We're not going to change the redistricting right now.
It's not going to go from six to five Democrats to 10 to one Democrats in Virginia.
We're not going to.
Essentially, end the representation of 48% of the state of Virginia.
And so it's on hold.
Now, that will go up to the Virginia Court of Appeals and ultimately the Virginia Supreme Court.
The Democrats have strength in Virginia and they have for many years.
So they have the advantage right now in the appellate courts just because their Democrat judges are simply partisan actors.
But that being said, this trial judge was correct.
There are such egregious.
Procedural and substantive violations with this amendment that if these appellate judges actually follow the law, which I don't have confidence they will, then these appellate judges should affirm that state trial judge and this voter initiative should be nullified and the district should stay the way that they are.
By the way, we're going to get folks from Virginia on here too.
Two duties today.
I just put up, I think, on social media, Charlie Kirk.
People have to realize, and this is a seminal moment.
You know, a lot of people out there, particularly on podcasts or whatever, you know, there's no action.
We're seeing action here.
And look, it's an imperfect world.
We're seeing action here on the railhead of a lot that is in back of the color revolution.
That the deep state has done against the United States, this republic.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the key players.
People have been trying to go after that for years, and now you get this indictment.
I put up a Charlie Kirk because a lot of folks don't remember.
They designated Turning Point as a hate group because they saw Charlie Kirk's rise in the grassroots and building an institution and organization that was absolutely unbelievable.
So I want to just step back.
Why is this so important that we're finally on offense against the Southern Poverty Law Center, sir?
And you're absolutely right that just months before Charlie Kirk was murdered by this individual who, you know, I certainly remember the far left.
And I'd love to know who was in the discords, whether any informants for the SPLC or otherwise were in those discords, having these chats talking about the hate of Charlie Kirk, that he was put on the hate map.
Of Southern Poverty Law Center.
And in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, there was no organization that I targeted and talked about more than the Southern Poverty Law Center while I was sitting there right next to Charlie's empty chair next to me.
These are the ones who incited, remember, it was the Southern Poverty Law Center who incited Floyd Lee Corkins to go and shoot up the Family Research Council.
And what did he do before he went and shot them up?
He went to Chick fil A.
He went to Chick fil A and bought a bunch of chicken sandwiches.
Why?
Because he wanted to smear the dead bodies.
With Chick fil A sandwiches because these people stood up for traditional marriage.
Now, fortunately, there was a security guard in Washington, D.C., who took care of that.
Another, how did he look up the Family Research Council?
He used the map of the Southern Poverty Law Center, their hate map.
Another example, James T. Hodgkinson, who followed the Southern Poverty Law Center on Facebook.
What did he do?
Oh, that's right.
He shot up Steve Scalise in a Republican congressional baseball practice.
Rand Paul was there, so many others.
And fortunately, he was not able to kill anyone because, of course, they had Capitol Police.
They had the protection there.
So we've seen the level of violence, the level of incitement that's been done by the SPLC.
But there's another level of this, too, Steve.
This is where you see big tech and big finance coming together to put all of their power against conservatives.
Who did PayPal?
PayPal, right?
Who did the payment processors work with in terms of PayPal, who owns Venmo?
Who did they work with to determine organizations that couldn't use their services for debanking?
Oh, right.
That was the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And interesting that the SPLC also was receiving huge donations from one of the founders of Bain Capital, as I mentioned here yesterday, JP Morgan, George Soros, Tim Cook, who, you know, former head of Apple, and even George Clooney, and of course, George Soros.
So big tech, big finance would work together on this.
Why did they label Charlie Kirk?
It's simple.
Because the other angle of this was after the debanking comes, what?
Oh, that's right, the censorship.
So, Facebook would work with SPLC.
Google works with and continues, as far as I know, to this day to work with SPLC.
Amazon would work with them.
So, if you want to come up on a Google search without having their article come up first, if you want to have your book sold on Amazon, like they tried to take down Camp of the Saints on Amazon, now it's number five, by the way, on their fantastic book.
I didn't write it, but I would highly recommend everyone read it because we're all living through it right now.
But so Amazon worked with the SPLC, Facebook, Google, all of them.
They were all working with these guys to say, this person needs to be taken down because they are an extremist.
That's what they worked as.
It was a government cutout organization with the Biden regime and so many others.
They gave the list of the Catholic churches to the FBI that they wanted targeted, including Steve, the one that your parents founded down there in Richmond, and so many others.
That's what they operated as for years.
And so for this indictment, When it comes down, I see people saying, oh, it was just informants and they were just getting reports.
No, They were paying the leaders of these organizations in some cases to be able to create this false perception that there is this underlying current of hate groups and all these extremists running around in the United States, when instead they were the ones who created it in a Jussie Smollett kind of self-licking ice cream cone, where they created the problem that they then were purporting to.
Solve.
That's the fraud.
This was not information.
This was advocacy.
It was activism and it was leadership of these organizations, up to and including Charlottesville, as far as we know.
And I'm going to say it, Steve.
I would like to know, and I certainly hope it comes out in discovery in this case Were there any SPLC informants involved in January 6th?
Because it took us nine years now, almost 10 years, almost a decade to get the truth out about Charlottesville.
Well, guess what?
January 6th, we all knew.
That was in operation.
Now we need to know who else was working behind the scenes to turn that into what it turned into.
Jack, if you don't have so many times, I want to go back to one that's quite important.
The whole setup for the color revolution and the deep state steal of the 2020s, they had to have a stooge that was acceptable, amenable to the American people as being kind of a nothing burger.
They received the laptop from hell.
In November, this is Chris Wray and Bill Barr, President Trump's FBI director and attorney general.
They got their hands on the laptop from hell in November and December of 2019, never said a word about it.
If anything leaked to the press, which would have been quite easy, Joe Biden would have never been the nominee.
It would have been Bernie Sanders or someone else, right?
Elizabeth Warren, Foca Hannes.
Joe Biden used as his reason for running was Charlottesville, which we now know as a veins bulging from their necks.
He used it for that.
He went to your beloved Philadelphia in front of one of the most sacred places of soil in the American Republic and gave that demonic with the red lighting and talked about exactly this about he was driven by the hate map, that the extremism of Trump.
In the Trump movement, when Trump was out of office, it was so overwhelming that he had to take it.
It was a major national security problem.
It's all phony.
It was all created.
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Jack, I want to go back to this because the whole Charlottesville thing, a creation of the Southern Poverty Law Center, that Biden used that as an excuse that that's what, because Trump was bringing so much racism and having the country about racism when actually the exact opposite, with Hispanic and African American working class, particularly men,
joining the MAGA movement.
And then he went to Philadelphia and had that demonic entire presentation about extremism and white nationalism.
It's all phony.
It was all paid for by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They have to gin this up.
This shows you how demonic and purely evil these people are.
These institutions must be destroyed, taken, and metaphorically burned to the ground in the American courts.
And now, going on offense, we must indict.
The board of directors of Southern Poverty Law Center.
We must, I think, indict the donors that were on the know because some of these donors absolutely knew what was going on.
They ought to bring Clooney back from Italy, indict him.
They have to indict all the executives of this.
These people need to go to prison.
They have tried to destroy this republic.
These are dangerous people.
And Jack just went through how some of the assaults, and trust me, they stirred up, they put Charlie Kirk and Turning Point on the hate map.
Just like they put Tridentine Catholics on the hate map because they want you visited by violent individuals.
General Milley, when General Milley said, when General Milley said the biggest problem with the military was not recruiting, was not trading, was not getting the mentality and physical fitness of war fighters, it was white nationalism and white extremism.
So they're deeply embedded within the infrastructure of the regime.
And by the way, I'll do another one.
When the United States Senate moves to block Trump appointees, like the great Jeremy Carl, who Charlie Kirk had endorsed, and he was blocked from the Department of State, and he was bounced out by this dude, was it John Curtis of Utah and others?
But Curtis is the one who ran the charge there.
Who did he cite?
It was the SPLC.
So you see this again and again and again.
Crazy Maisie Hirono, right?
She is always citing them.
This is what they do, right?
They smear who they fear.
They go after those individuals and they use this organization as laundering, number one, from blocking you from professional life, from blocking you from access to government, from blocking you from sometimes access to banking or access to social media.
And then eventually, eventually, And look, I'm not going to take this personally, but I've had people from this organization dox me.
They've gone after my wife.
They've gone after our home.
They've gone after my family personally.
So they've followed us while we're traveling to events and taken pictures of how we're traveling and where we are in real time.
And ultimately, Steve, they got what they wanted with Charlie Kirk.
They got exactly what they wanted because someone put a bullet in Charlie Kirk's neck, and that's exactly what the SPLC wanted when they put a target on his face.
I hopefully get indicted as a co conspirator in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
This whole color revolution, the railhead of the phony charge of MAGA and Trump racism and white nationalism, which is a completely false charge, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
All the board of directors.
Every senior executive, every grundoon over there that touched it, all of them indicted.
They sent these holy, I call them the saints that were Danbury with me for multiple years from praying the rosary in front of abortion mills, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It's been used as a weapon, it's been used to weaponize lies for decades and decades.
And finally, the Justice Department had the stones to go after it, sir.
And as incredible as what acting AG, we need to drop that acting, by the way, just make him full AG at this point.
I mean, he's already doing the job.
And you got cash there.
But, Steve, we need to go a step further.
We need to go a step further because with the doxing, we know that they've done doxing.
We know they've doxed Anons.
They've doxed some Rawhead Nationalists and other people they've been involved in and some of their entities that they have in the UK and Canada, friends they have.
I want to ask what other violent events have they been involved with and what has been.
The SPLC's involvement with Antifa, because we know for a fact that they've been in communication.
There have been studies on this.
You could see the network maps on Twitter.
I want to know what involvement they have in Antifa, because if they have involvement, last I checked, Steve, the President of the United States has designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and an international foreign terrorist organization.
So when I was talking about that at the Antifa roundtable last year, after Charlie Kirk's murder, This was exactly who I was talking to.
Jack, while I got you, by the way, Human Events Daily has been on fire, and you are the Associated Press.
You're the wire service in your Twitter feed for the MAGA movement.
Just President Trump's been putting out things overnight and finally came and said, hey, look, we've destroyed their infrastructure, but more importantly, we've destroyed their command and control and who their leaders are.
They got hardcores, you got moderates, though I don't know if I would define any of these guys as moderates.
He's now taking a much more aggressive stance even than before in the Straits of Hormuz.
It's like guns free.
Your assessment as a naval intelligence officer before I let you bounce?
Well, Steve, look, as strong as the president's lines have been there, it's still dicey, right?
You still got this picket fleet, I think they called it the Mosquito Fleet, there in the Strait of Hormuz, where ultimately what it comes down to is if you've got one of these carriers, if you've got one of these super carriers, the VLCCs, Talking about a billion dollars floating on the water, especially with the price lower where it is right now, about to come through and make its way through the strait.
Are you really willing to do that if you know that Iran can take out your ship with one drone or one guy on a boat with a bomb or one of these waterborne IEDs or anything like that?
So, as great as the United States Navy has been, as incredible as the United States Navy has been, that is why they are still not sure of what they're going to be able to do.
That's why the blockade has always been the best move because President Trump understands.
That with the blockade, which by the way, it's not the 18th century, okay, this doesn't actually mean a physical line of ships anymore.
It's not the Civil War.
That means we can chase you down anywhere on the high seas to conduct a maritime interdiction operation with the Navy SEALs, with Marines if they have to, whatever it needs to be, out of those helicopters that fly over and they fast rope down to get the crew.
So, what we're able to do then is say, all right, let's play chicken.
Who's going to blink first?
And what did the Iranians say?
They said they're down 2 million people out of work.
Because they're not receiving any revenue.
So they can talk big all they want, Seab, but if we deprive them of the revenue, if we use economic warfare, if we use maximum pressure of those economic market forces, guess what?
No money coming in means no money that's going to be paid to the IRGC, to the Navy, to these pickets, et cetera.
Two can play at that game.
And I think President Trump is very smart for enacting that.
The you got to deal principle to principle, but these guys are the people that got Iraq wrong should not be listened to at all in the situation around Jack.
Real quickly, uh, social media, the show and your social media, where folks go?
Tonight, Democrats in Virginia are vowing to fight a court ruling blocking the certification of last night's redistricting referendum.
Just a short time ago, a Virginia judge temporarily halted the implementation of the state's new voter approved congressional map.
The move prevents election officials from carrying out the new redistricting referendum unless.
The ruling is overturned by a higher court.
Virginia's attorney general says his office will immediately file an appeal.
We're going to follow the story as it unfolds.
This all comes after Donald Trump spent the afternoon trying to undermine last night's election, posting baseless lies about the vote, slamming the will of the people as, quote, rigged, and attacking mail in voting.
But Donald Trump started this off cycle redistricting fight, a fight House Democrats now say they're going to finish.
If feckless Republicans would step up to the plate, you're not in a time of kind of, oh, let's reach across the aisle and hug each other.
Did you see the report on the Southern Poverty Law Center?
All this and how many appointees in Trump's first term were turfed out or never brought for confirmation or turfed out about jobs you didn't need confirmation because of bogus reports from Southern Poverty Law Center.
And you see these hapless Republicans use it sometimes.
This is a color revolution.
They're playing smash mouth.
They've destroyed this country 62 thirds, one third they have not, and we're fighting back.
This was the whole thing about Trump coming in the first place.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Crossfire Hurricane and the whole situation with Russia collusion, all those lies.
This is big league baseball, folks.
These people play for keeps, and they're animals, and they're dangerous, and they're demonic, and they got to be stopped.
So, hat tip to Florida.
I don't know why this wasn't done years ago in Florida.
In Texas, we should have taken eight because that's fair.
Look at the maps.
What's not fair is what's happened in New England.
There's not one Congressman, they never talked about not one Congressman in all of New England, not one Republican Congressman.
24 Democrats for all of New England, which I think his votes 43 or 44%, not one.
Same in Virginia, 10 to 1.
Virginia is a 48 52 state, 49 51, or what the referendum was, roughly 59 49.
You got one.
You got none in New England.
You got four in the state of California.
They started the gerrymandering.
They started this because DeGrasse came with the idea with it because what they did in New York.
Look at Illinois.
Look at New York.
Come on.
You got to get to the barricades.
You got to fight.
That's what the grassroots were doing on those 45 days of early voting.
Petty Lyman.
Where do we stand here?
Is this judge going to get overruled by an appellate court?
We got to fight this through a rigged.
Commonwealth of Virginia Supreme Court, which has got nothing but hack Democrats in it that have to be, I guess, reconfirmed by the Democrat State Senate, ma'am.
I was happy to see this decision yesterday from this brilliant judge in Taswold, Virginia.
That is God's country, Virginia.
I was happy to see that.
I think it essentially reaffirms what he issued in his prior decisions at the beginning.
Laying out the four clear constitutional and statutory violations that the Democrats have committed with this referendum.
The Virginia Supreme Court takes the position essentially that this issue was not ripe for them to adjudicate until after the election took place.
That's what they decided two months ago when they wouldn't take the case that, and they said they had to let the referendum go forward.
So I think that the judge may have put this out just to renew and put out a fresh.
Permanent injunction after the election took place, reaffirming his legal findings.
Before people have been saying things like, Well, you know, the judge, the Supreme Court can't undo it because, oh, it's the will of the people.
Well, the will of the people can only be legally expressed in a certain way in Virginia if they follow all the requirements of the referendum.
That's the only way it can be expressed.
The judge laid out that they could not, they could not.
They had not done that.
And so I'm optimistic from a political standpoint, the closeness of this election, I think, makes a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn this referendum pretty unassailable.
So, what would be important would be for them to do a decision that is the right decision legally, or they prove themselves to be complete hacks and a decision that's unassailable.
I believe that if they strike this referendum down based solely on the procedural issues, the fact that they didn't give the 90 days notice, the fact that there wasn't an intervening election, If they strike this down in such a way that they say, hey, you want to do the referendum, fine, but you just can't do it this year, you can do it next year.
I think that would be a very safe position for most of these justices.
They have 12 year terms.
I don't know who's up and who's not up, but they can work that out.
And you know what?
Maybe one person's going to have to sacrifice themselves.
I don't know.
But the fact is, whoever they take out, they're going to replace them with another Democrat judge.
I'm not at the point yet, Steve.
Started practicing constitutional law in 1997.
I'm not yet ready to curse God and die and say just because the judge is a Democrat, they're going to do the wrong thing.
Now, if they do say to the Democrats, we're striking this, but you can go ahead next year, the Democrats can do that.
But Steve, I have serious doubts about whether they would do it.
Number one, they spent a boatload of money to barely win, and this has gotten a lot of attention.
But number two, next year, they no longer have.
To dangle in front of their people, this is how you impeach Trump.
We got to do this to get Trump.
We have to get rid of Trump.
This year is their last chance to use something like this to get rid of Trump.
And so I am optimistic.
Today is the day that the briefs are due in the Chaswell cases that were already filed, and they're very strong cases.
I believe the arguments are Monday.
And because of the certification due on May 1st, I think the Virginia Supreme Court is going to have to act quickly, but they've known the arguments for a long time.
Jay Judge has already appealed this.
And so I'm optimistic.
I'm not giving out copium.
I'm saying, as an attorney who's looked at the strength of the cases, the safe thing for the Virginia Supreme Court to do is to say, okay, wait for another year, follow the rules.
One of the reasons they had this in April was obviously to gun deck it because Virginia's never really voted in April.
But the other reason they couldn't wait to do the traditional June, never.
June was the timing of this.
If this gets caught up and we don't certify on May 1st and gets caught up in an intense legal argument in the Commonwealth at the Supreme Court, is there a timeframe?
Is there a trigger where this is too late to implement for this November?
With it being moved from June to August, is there sometime in late May, early June, or is there sometime it just gets too late to redo these districts for the?
For the August primary, and you just have to go with what you've got set?
Do you see any trigger that the court could just say, hey, look, even if you could do it, it's got to be for the next cycle?
Yes, I can't cite the statutory authority for what the deadline for filing for office, how far in advance of the primary that has to be.
I wish I could cite that, but I'm going to find out.
But yeah, I do think that there comes a drop dead time on this.
I don't believe the Virginia Supreme Court is going to play that kind of a delay game like they're apparently playing now at the U.S. Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act, which is a travesty in and of itself.
But I think we can fight this.
And the message I want to give out to the posse, and I've got to say it again, we would never have gotten as far as we did, Steve, without the posse and without your support.
And I consider you our brother in arms.
It's people have to understand if they can do this to Virginia in any state in this country, the minute the Democrats get control of the General Assembly, they can do the same thing.
They can violate all the rules and they can do what the Democrats just did in Virginia.
They just aborted all of rural Virginia.
It's gone, it's dead.
And they can do that in every state in the country.
And so we need this full court press.
I'm also very hopeful, Steve, because.
Our party in the last 10 weeks, our state party has been absolutely revolutionized and transformed by the empowerment of the grassroots.
They were ignored for five years straight.
The grassroots were minimized, marginalized, not supported, ignored.
And 10 weeks ago, we went to them and said, I mean, I'm a grassroots person.
We need you.
You're the muscle of the party.
And we can rebrand our state party as the party of the people led only by people who represent.
No, this is the thing I tell people don't listen to all the chat in the podcast.
Focus on the muscle in Texas.
Since January, the lesson you should take is that from Texas to the Commonwealth of Virginia, the MAGA movement and people that really use their agencies to make things matter, it's strong, it's vibrant, it's robust.
And we have to say the consultant class needs to move aside.
We did not need the consultant class in this endeavor.
And in fact, I think in many ways, they hindered some things that we could have done because money got put into things that made money for consultants instead of ballot chasing, for instance.
But we have to have a reorientation, and the incentive structure has to be aligned with the grassroots in this nation from Texas to the Commonwealth of Virginia and everywhere in between.
I think President Trump is counting on the fact that the regime in Iran is going to desperately need sanctions relief and a cash injection.
That was the observation of some of our negotiators in Islamabad.
In particular, The longer this blockade persists, there's a question of whether Iran would have to shut down some of its oil production, which could do potentially permanent damage to its oil production.
And so I think that is the hope that the Trump administration is banking on.
The one thing here, though, is that, Anderson, this is a political culture in the last 47 years that lionizes resistance, it lionizes sacrifice.
And the word for compromiser in Persian, sazeshqad, is literally a slur.
So as Alan alluded to, It's not a regime which compromises very easily, even when it appears to us that their existence is at stake.
So, Sam Faddis, you dealt with these guys in country.
You know, the president put out a tweet, if we can put it up, our true social, saying that the command structure, which you and I have talked about for weeks now, was shattered.
The military part was decentralized.
They had a plan to do that.
I keep saying the guys down in Hormuz, who are part Bedouin, these pirates, they don't report to anybody, I don't believe.
Um, and the president uses this term hardliners versus moderates.
I mean, this is one of the mistakes I think we made as an observation during the Soviet Union, during when we were, you know, eyeball to eyeball on the nuclear threat there.
And you were at the CIA, you'd have the May Day, you know, you'd have the May Day march with all the parade with all the missiles and tanks.
And the criminologists would be here in the United States, you get them on TV back then, or you know, as a kid reading in the The Washington Post or the New York Times or the local paper AP, they'd all be saying, Oh, this guy's a moderate.
There were no moderates.
They're not moderates as we.
They're all hardliners.
They're all dead enders.
Some are more dead enders than others.
Is that observation too far off that there's no Jeffersonian Democrats that we can reach across the table and try to make a deal?
Yeah, so this is the guy that is now calling the shots, as best we can tell.
I mean, so he's the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
These are the most hardcore guys and the guys that defend the regime.
Before he ascended to that position, he was the commander of their Quds force.
That's the portion of the IRGC that works with Hezbollah and terrorist groups around the world to hunt down dissidents, blow things up.
A guy has an outstanding arrest warrant for him because back in, I think it's 1994 in Argentina, The Iranians went in and blew up a Jewish community center, killed a whole bunch of people.
So he's the guy that put that together.
That's this whole movie, his whole life is terrorism and the revolution.
I mean, as you have touched on many times before when we've been talking, look, these guys are not Arabs.
They regard Arabs, by the way, they talk about Arabs in the most disparaging terms.
Arabs are garbage.
Think of the way the KKK talks about black people.
That's the way they talk about Arabs.
They are.
Absolutely, in addition to being radical Shia Twelvers, they are 100% totally about the fact that we are Persians and we are a great civilization and we've been here for thousands of years and the world trembled before us and you're going to tremble again.
This may sound silly to the average American, it is absolutely real.
Again, I'm not never saying we can't beat them.
I'm just saying it might be a good time to stop underestimating them and start.
And expecting them to behave like we would under the same pressure.
They may go in a totally different direction.
You may find not only are they not coming to the negotiating table, but they start doing some of the things they've threatened to do, like take out the Saudi pipeline across the lifeline for the Gulf at this point to Yanbu.
Also, David Malpass, former head of the World Bank, is going to join us.
We're going to talk about the financial, how do I say this, mini crisis in the Gulf with our Arab partners.
That came to the forefront.
You're seeing some testimony from the great Scott Besant.
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Bowling Malpass, Sam Faddis on the other side in about, I don't know, 90 seconds, two minutes.