THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON EP.5183

0:00This is an I Heart podcast, Guaranteed Human. Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people. Our country itself would be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama that was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document they would have had nuclear weapons. We're just getting this information from the Israeli military right now. They say that they have hit their words dozens of targets belonging to the Iranian regime and its intelligence services in Tehran. So they're putting that out there. Now we've seen evidence, right? As I mentioned, Colonel, we've seen that some of the images, but they're now saying specifically dozens, and they're giving a bit more detail as I'm speaking here. They're saying that those dozens of strikes specifically targeted headquarters, bases

1:00and regional command centers of, and I'm quoting them, the Iranian terrorist regime's internal security bodies. Now, that's coming from a statement that the IDF has just put out. He never talked about the goal being getting rid of just the ruler, Ali Hamine. He talked about the Iranian regime. He mentioned it nine times. He called for members of the Revolutionary Guard and the Army and all of the police to lay down their weapons or face certain death. And he called for the Iranian people to take over your government. That is regime change. This morning, Pete Hegg says, says, this isn't about regime change. And then the president of the Medal of Honor ceremonies, you just played. He's saying, oh, this is about reducing their ballistic missile capabilities, their nuclear things, and they sort of exaggerated the missile capabilities. So it's all very confusing. And then in the middle of those two events on Sunday, the president spoke with the New York Times and talked about how the Venezuelan situation, which was just the ruler, Madur on his wife being absent, how that was a perfect solution.

2:01So it's all very jumbled at this point. There's a discussion that has not been had because he bypassed Congress. The accountability. You don't have to. A president has the right to take military action for 60 days. If there's an imminent threat, and there is an imminent threat, let me give you your opinion. I said on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committee, if there are imminent threats, if they have an obligation to tell us about it, I have seen no imminent threat. And even people within the administration have denied that there's an imminent threat. So listen, I probably think eventually there will be a need for boots on the ground. I would not exclude it for those reasons or other, but we have to see how it goes from. And will that include Israeli boots on the ground, do you think? I exclude nothing. We've been waiting for 47 years, and we came to a point where every necessary minute should be taken in order to achieve our goals. Yeah, it certainly appeared, at least from what we understand from the reporting that the human intelligence so central to the initial strike here actually came from possibly a CIA

3:03intelligence agent on the ground, as opposed to Israeli, which we know, obviously they have a deep network within Iran, but that that was a CIA specifically. Well, let's take two of the objectives off the table. That would be regime change and Orion's support from militias around the region. That leaves three goals, which is their nuclear program, their missile capabilities, and their navy. And to destroy all the targets associated with those three areas, I think would take four to six weeks at a minimum. And then of course, we'll have to get the battle damage assessment and re-engage those that either we missed or that new targets pop up. But it's going to be an extensive campaign. This is not going to be over in a matter of days. This is the primal scream of a dying regime, prey for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on this people.

4:04Here's how I got a free shot on 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 that it's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega 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. War room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. This Monday, the second of March in the year of our Lord, 2026, we are in, we're in it now, as this war starts to spread, or this military operation starts to spread into other parts of the Middle East. We've had many of the Gulf states start to participate in this, and I understand that

5:08there's real anger from some of the Gulf states about the Persians hitting them during Ramadan. First, in fact, there's a bunch of pieces up, some reporting done that the Saudis are talking to the Americans right now, talking to us about actually doing their own independent strikes. There's so much going on here. Today, two things, first of all, President Trump's first time actually live to address this at the Medal of Honor ceremony in the, in the East Room, said some very powerful stuff about what drove him to do it, and what we should look for. Also, this morning at eight o'clock, we covered it here live in Real America's voice, but we didn't have time to play the package. We showed Pete Hexeth in the morning show. We didn't have chance to show a package on General Raising Cain, remember, General Cain, just to put it in perspective, the ISIS campaign in President Trump's first term in 2017 that was so successful.

6:08The President Obama has said it would be a generational effort to take down ISIS. When I talk about ISIS, I mean, the caliphate, the physical caliphate of ISIS that was, I don't know, a third of Iraq in 50% of Syria, it seemed like at the time, but it was quite large. Had oil revenues, was recruiting 10,000 people a month, individual month, principally from Europe, from the mass migrations in Europe and other converts. President Trump committed on the campaign trail, he was going to destroy ISIS. I think it took four or five months. Now, Jim Mattis, Mad Dog Mattis, or chaos, as his call sign was, was the Secretary of Defense, but it was really raising Cain, General Cain, that ran the operations. That's where President Trump first met him, and he was so impressed with General Cain during the ISIS campaign of the first term that he brought him back, has chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Cain has done the expeditionary hit that ended the 12-day war with total obliteration,

7:08at least at that time, their assessment was total obliteration of Iran's nuclear program. And then he led the expeditionary effort, this magnificent expeditionary effort, to essentially decapitate Madurna's wife as the head of the regime there. They made a deal with the existing regime and seemed to have at least built a working relationship. In President Trump likes optionality in a range of alternatives, that he's not boxed in, that he can maneuver. I think he's been talking about optionality. He says, hey, this thing could take four or five weeks. I don't know. He's not going to put a time on it. He's also talked to Brett Behr, his paradigm here is Venezuela, and he believes he's already done Venezuela. Also, they have not, I think, for operational security and other reasons, given the in-depth briefing, which my understanding is maybe the Navy commander of the naval forces may give that tomorrow or the next day of how lethal some of this action has been. My understanding is that they've gone down to very, very deep with the revolutionary

8:13guard, even down to the battalion level, to decapitate, not just the Mulas, not the itola and the Mulas, and the next in line, President Trump is pretty afraid. He says, hey, we had two or three guys that were socially in line. We thought we could deal with, but guess what? They're all dead. So there's been, I think, a deeper strike into their, into their, into the command structure. I want to play Raising Cain, because we go ahead and play, we got Raising Cain, and we have Marco Rubio. I want to break them both down. We don't have Raising Cain. Terrific. I tell you what, let me go into the next hangover for Rubio for a second. We can break that in pieces, I take it. Thank you, sir. Marco Rubio gave a, I think, I wouldn't say impromptu. He was at the sticks, but he gave about a 12 or 13 minute, I think it was one of the best explanations that we've had so far of what's going on. General Cain gave a terrific briefing earlier today with Pete Hexett, took a, took a question or two from the, from the, from the, from the reporters.

9:18It was not Norman Schwartzkopf. I think that the Pentagon may eventually go to that. I think maybe the Navy Admiral, maybe General Cain, where you're going to see some video. Once they're, once they're confident about the operational security, I think you'll see some video, I think you'll see some maps, some charts. Maybe they have a ruler and point up at it and walk you through it. Remember, if you're old enough to remember, I think you have to be a boomer to be that General Norman Schwartzkopf in the Gulf War really became an expert in these presentations. It kind of galvanized the nations, made him a national hero. And garnered, I think, tremendous support for the military effort over there, because people could understand it. Also a couple of things housekeeping, number one, gold, finished at what, 53, 40, it's not the price of gold, it's the process that drives it. We've talked a lot about financial risk, the risk of the dollar, these massive deficits under Biden, the drop in the purchasing power of the dollar that was going to get the bricks nations going, the central bank's buying gold.

10:20We said, well, lay that out for you, have to make your own decisions, but we want to make you as smart as possible. Also, the geopolitics, a fancy term for, I don't know, war and peace, was also because the business community, financial community, markets like stability. And obviously, when the balloon is up, if people are shooting at each other, particularly in a region like the Gulf or so much of the world's oil, I think 20% of the world's oil goes through the streets or removes today, particularly to Asia and to parts of Europe, that that leads to instability. And that's why gold has been a hedge, you want to say a hedge, it's something that can protect you against times of financial turbulence, birchgold.com, promo code ban, and end of the dollar empire. Make sure you get that cane or rubia, okay, fine. Let's go ahead and play. I'll tell you what, go to birchgold, get all the, and birchgolds got a website, they put a ton of information. Philip Patrick, I think Philip Patrick is going to be with us tomorrow, Natalie Winters will also join us tomorrow. She got an amazing piece up about open borders and going after Iran, the price you might have to pay.

11:21Nina Rodriguez is going to be with us in the six o'clock hour. Like I said, Nina really broke that story yesterday, but for operation and security reason, we didn't talk about it because had not been totally confirmed by the FBI. Let's go ahead and play a couple of minutes, a general cane, and then I'll come back after the outbreak. Let's go ahead and let it rip. On Saturday, 28 February, at 015 Eastern Standard Time, 9.45 AM local Tehran time. On the orders of the President of the United States, U.S. Central Command, under the command of the United States Navy Admiral Brad Cooper, commenced Operation Epic Fury. As I said, I'm going to walk you through the initial phases of the operation, but first I want to express my deep condolences and the condolences of the joint force to the Department of War personnel killed and wounded in action so far. As the Secretary said, their heroes and represent the best of our nation has to offer. Their true examples of what selfless service means are deepest and heartfelt condolences

12:24are with their families, their friends, and their units. We grieve with you and we will never forget you. Additionally, I stand here before you today grateful for each service member, planner, logistition operator across our joint force. For our Department of War civilians, our intelligence community, teammates, our interagency teammates who continue to stand in harm's way alongside us. I am proud of all of you as you take the fight to the enemy and we are the best in the world at integrating period. I want to extend my personal gratitude to the dedicated commanders and senior enlisted leaders and the enlisted members of the joint force who are fighting this fight across the Senkha Meowar. In addition to Admiral Cooper and Fleet Master Chief Compton, I want to highlight a few today. U.S. Army Central Command Commander Lieutenant General Pat Frank, who along with this team are fighting the counter missile and counter drone fight.

13:26United States Navy Central Command Commander Vice Admiral Kurt Renshaw and his team who are engaged with the Iranian Navy and projecting American naval combat power from the seas. And United States Air Force Central Command Commander Lieutenant General Derek France and his leadership team who are crushing Iranian targets from the air. I want to highlight the support to the Senkha Meowar fight from other combat and commands who are directly involved with this effort to include U.S. Spacecom, U.S. Cybercom, and U.S. U. Com. I also want to specifically call out United States Transportation Command and U.S. Stratcom for their contributions to this fight. We cannot project American combat power at the time and place of our choosing without both. And finally, I want to express how deeply thankful I am for the continued service and sacrifice of the entire joint force and their families.

14:28Their unwavering commitment and dedication are the cornerstones of this effort. Okay, we're going to take a short break and we're going to come back after commercial break and continue on with General Kane. As I said, the President holds him in the highest regard and you see right there, he talks about the unified command and power projection. Also as an update, six members of the United States military are now killed in action, 18 wounded, 18 casualties. We'll return after a short commercial break to the room. Okay, welcome back, Brian Glenn is going to join me right now, Brian. Thank you for coming, for stepping in here. I want to break down this game film. We did Pete Hexas this morning and I want to do, I want to break down for the audience. General Raisin Kane, who is really the chief, obviously the chief military advisor,

15:28but I will tell you, some of the President Trump puts a lot of trust in given his track record against ISIS, his track record against the 12, in the 12-day war and also in the venous of weightless situation. Let's go and play the rest of his briefing and I think he also throws in a question that was going to hear it. So let me start with a few details. First to be clear, as the Secretary said, this is not a single overnight operation. The military objectives at Sencom and the joint force have been tasked with will take some time to achieve and in some cases will be difficult and greedy work. We expect to take additional losses and as always, we will work to minimize U.S. losses. But as the Secretary said, this is major combat operations. So let me talk about the preparation and the planning. On February 28th, the full strength of America's armed forces came together in a unified purpose against a capable and determined adversary. The United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard,

16:33and our reserve components integrated our cross, our combatant commands and began coordinated operations with the Israeli Armed Forces of an unprecedented scale. As the Secretary laid out, our military objectives are clear. Our mission is to protect and defend ourselves and together with our regional partners, prevent Iran from the ability to project power outside of its borders and be ready for follow-on actions as appropriate. Across every domain, land, air, sea, cyber, the U.S. joint force delivered synchronized and layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny, and destroy Iran's ability to conduct and sustain combat operations. On the U.S. side, this marked the culmination of months and in some cases years of deliberate planning and refinement against this particular target set. From precision strikes against key military infrastructure to persistent intelligence

17:37and targeting integration to the close coordination of the components across vast distances, this operation again demonstrated America's reach readiness and professionalism and that of our joint united force. It was historic not only in the operational scope, but in the level of joint integration displayed across every element of the joint force. And as I said earlier, this work is just beginning and will continue. So now to talk a little bit about setting the force and setting the theater. On the order of the Secretary of War of the last 30 days to reinforce deterrence and provide the president with credible options should action be required, the joint force began to systematically reposition assets in personnel across the region. These movements ensured that U.S. forces remained postured, protected, and ready to respond decisively for any emerging threat.

18:40This deployment included thousands of service members from all branches, hundreds of advanced fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens of refueling tankers, the Lincoln and Ford carrier strike group, and their embarked airwings, sustained flow of munitions, fuel supplies, all supported with command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance network. And the flow of forces continues today. In fact, Admiral Cooper will receive additional forces even today. This rapid buildup of forces demonstrated the joint force's ability to adapt and project power at the time and place of our nations choosing. So, Brian Glenn, there you saw, and that was a very big overview of what they've said in place. It was not a short-coff-type briefing with, you know, grainy gun camera, video, blowing up some stuff. You don't have big maps of where the deployments are. Don't have charts. They've been very limited in what they've give reporters because of operation

19:44security. Do you think at some time to get the American people more to understand what's going on? The briefings, and they talk about Admiral Cooper. ARR means area of responsibility. That's kind of the combat and commander. I think the naval forces are under Admiral Cooper. Maybe he does it tomorrow the next day. Do you think we're getting on the clock that we've got to cut to the chase and make sure people understand what's going on? Yes, sir. Steve, I think we really do need to update the American people. Not only why we're doing this, but a little bit of the thought process in building up to this. I do believe, and he said it, that this has been planned for months, if not years. And I'll go back, and maybe this is going down a rabbit hole here, but I think when we changed it from Secretary of Defense to Secretary of War, Department of Defense, Department of War, that was proactively getting the American mindset in the right frame of mind, rather, that we are going to be proactive in defending this country.

20:52We're going to go to war. So maybe there's nothing there. I don't know. But I do think, however, this was planned for months. I think the negotiation obviously was still being in the process. They still wanted to maybe find an alternative to take into kinetic action. But I think today's press conference and in Secretary of War, PSF did an amazing job as well. Look, he's very articulate. He's a good-looking guy. He's charismatic. Comes in Fox News. He is the point person you want in the Department of War to convey messages to the media. I think he's perfect with that. And then I think General Reagan's in Cain is the perfect person to explain just what he laid out. Kind of strategically. What's going to happen next? This needs to happen more than often right now because Steve, when you get on social media, and I know social media a lot of time is not the real world. But right now, it's not good as far as getting the public to support

21:55what we just, I think you got to explain. You just got to put a little more detail on this. Explain to folks what's going on, what the target package was, all that. I'm sure that's going to be in the next 20, 24 hours. Rubio took our crack at this a little bit about the effort here, the focus, the objective. So let's go and we're going to break it down twice as we go to commercial break. Let's go and do Secretary-State, Marco Rubio, Brian Glen will come back in. Drawings that they also have. They've been doing this for a very long time and by the way, they've been doing it under sanctioned. You see the attacks they're conducting right now, they're attacking airports, they're attacking hotels, they're hitting not just military bases, they're attacking our embassies directly, they're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military. And that's a weekend to run. That's in run despite years of sanction. Imagine a year from now or a year and a half from now, the capabilities they would have to inflict damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayatola is a radical was, a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by

22:56radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one. That has to be taken very seriously as well. So that was the purpose for why this operation is all about. That's what it's focused on. As the President said earlier today, it is on or ahead of schedule. I will defer to the Department of Order to discuss the progress being made at a tactical level. But it was the right decision and an important decision for the safety and security of the world. There absolutely was an imminent threat. And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believe they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked

23:59and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage. Have we not done so? There would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life. No, first, well, let me two things I would say, number one is no matter what, ultimately this operation needed to happen. That's the question of why now. But this operation needed to happen because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones that no one could do anything about it because they could hold the whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now and this is a weekend to run. Imagine a year from now, so that had to happen. Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it, but this had to happen no matter what. The President Trump said overnight that his top choices to now go to Iran were killed in the

25:06straits. So the United States have a firm plan for how they intend to handle this tower back you in Iran to ensure that Iran is not too strong. So two things and two things can be true. Number one is our mission and our focus is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities and their ability to manufacture them as well as the threat posed by their navy to global shipping. That's the objective. That said, we would not mind, we would not be heartbroken and we hope that the Iranian people can overthrow this government and establish a new future for that country. We would love for that to be possible, but the objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities and of their naval capabilities. Okay, I'm going to come back to that. Now, I'm kind of confused, this is Franklin. Now it's the destruction of the ballistic missile and their naval capabilities. And I think he said, Israel is going to be first mover. It's fine, but I think there has to be a sense of consistency here in kind of lining everything up

26:11because they've got many enemies on Capitol Hill that are coming form with the knives out. That's these Democrats. Of course, we have huge primaries tomorrow in Texas and North Carolina. Brian Glenn, give me 30 seconds before we go to break. Well, I think Marco Rubio laid it out that if we didn't proactively do it now, I heard someone say, can you imagine, five, six, seven years from now, when we got forbid, get a really liberal, left-leaning president, and get a congressional incentive. And then, if Iran was to all of a sudden think they got the military needs to do it, they'd go make an attack and we're sitting on our heels. I like being proactive. I like being on offense. You're in the Department of War. I like that. Stick right there, Brian Glenn. We're going to play the rest of Secretary of State, National Security visor, Marco Rubio. Take your phone out, text, ban, and be an NON-98989, get the ultimate guide for investing in

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28:14Let's go ahead and play it from the top. Drones that they also have. They've been doing this for a very long time, and by the way, they've been doing it under sanction. You see the attacks they're conducting right now? They're attacking airports. They're attacking hotels. They're hitting, not just military bases. They're attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military, and that's a weekend to run. That's in Iran, despite years of sanction. Imagine a year from now, or a year and a half from now, the capabilities they would have to inflict damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayatollah is a radical was, a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one. That has to be taken very seriously as well. So that was the purpose for why this operation is all about. That's what it's focused on. As the President said earlier today, it is on or ahead of schedule. I will defer to the Department of

29:14Order to discuss the progress being made at a tactical level, but it was the right decision and an important decision for the safety and security of the world. Does Congress have to weigh it? Does Congress have to weigh it? Is the President declared more in this Congress to weigh it? No. And what were, what were, did you tell lawmakers that there was an imminent threat? There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believe they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded, because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked, and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us. If Iran was attacked, then we would be attacked. Is that mean if Israel is going to attack, but that they're supposed to be allies, they're just going to attack and they're not coordinate with us? And that makes no sense at all. That just doesn't make any sense. I don't understand that.

30:18This is why they're the greatest ally. I don't understand that. If we knew they were going to, that Iran was going to be attacked and they would attack us. Is there no coordination in this? I think that has to be explained. I think it has, that has to be explained. Brian Glenn, I think that one has to be explained. I don't understand that. That's the first thing we've heard of that. I don't think that'd just be up at the sticks. Just toss it out there. I think that has to be explained, sir. Yeah, I agree. Who's talking to who? Don't you think we should all be on the same page with this? And I do like the proactive approach to this, though. And he makes a good point. They're attacking all of these sites now as a weakened Iran. And imagine what they would do if they actually had more ballistic missiles. They had more firepower there. They would maybe take it a little bit further. But I do think that needs to be further explained. And like I said in the previous segment, the American people want to hear this stuff. They want to,

31:20they want to be explained why we are taking these steps and why we have lost six service members. And maybe 18 or 19 injured, seriously injured right now. They need to do more of this explanation on what's happening right now. Because it's kind of started, you know, middle of the night there, two social posts. Next time we wake up and we've got bomb flying. And I think the American just want to know if, look, this is a very serious military operation. And we understand, particularly in the opening salvos, people's lives are risk. We now understand I think the six service members that died were in Kuwait trying to stand up some sort of either radar installation or something, but they were hit. And they didn't, there was no warning. There was no, you know, they didn't hear anything. Of course, the New York Post is breaking that I think is an exclusive. We'll drill down on that more. But when you put American prestige, you put American honor. And particularly you put the most precious resource we have, which are our servicemen and women in

32:23harm's way. It's got to be really thought through. I find that that has to be explained. I just don't understand that we knew Israel was going to hit. And that the reneas would hit us. Well, hang over a second. They were going to hit without us saying, okay, we're all ready to go. That they were just going to take it on their own. If you're an ally, I don't think Alan, particularly if you're, and I say they're a protectorate because we provide the air defense principally. We're providing the offense here principally. We provided the intelligence might understand. We provided the CIA provide the targeting package for the Ayatollah. I think things just have to get sorted here. And I think that has to be explained in detail to the American people. So the American people fully understand. It's like in the Iraq war, you know, the, the Iraq war the first couple of days, everybody's cheerleading at Fox News is glazing everybody and got the pom-poms out. Well, these are serious and these take a while. And of course, the American

33:24public opinion, which is very important here to support these operations has to be fully informed, even people of your, not your political party have to be informed of exactly went on, went on because you need the support of the American people to make sure these operations are successful. And let me add again, especially when you have service members in harm's way and we're in a shooting war now. And so I think this has to be explained to Secretary Ruby to throw that out there. No, I don't understand that. I just don't. That has to be, I got a couple of three questions. I think about that one. And I think a lot of people have questions about that. Particularly with everything on the internet, you know, who controls who? If you want to put that to bed, you have to come out and make a case for exactly what was going on here, exactly what the thinking was and what's going on. And then Rubio went and I thought it was great. He said, hey, we're going to take out their naval assets and President Trump said today, I believe we've taken 11 of their combatants, their vessels, and they're now at the bottom either the North Arabian

34:27Sea or the Persian Gulf. And I believe we've taken out their air defense or their air assets and to get air superiority in their naval assets. I think we've done a overwhelming Java, but that's more of the operational and tactical. I think we need a full understanding of the strategic. Brian Glenn, the White House, here's what's interesting. Rubio really came out, had Pete in a very limited situation today, General Kane in a very limited situation. Marco really went up and took all questions. Are they going to start? You think being more aggressive on the what I call the information warfare size here because they've been very silent over the weekend. Nobody did the Sunday shows yesterday. It was pretty obvious. Scott Besson was not out on Squawk Box or talking about oil or the capital markets, although I don't think the capital markets were a horrible turmoil as some people were predicted. Do you think the White House is going to get more proactive on the messaging side? They should. And I look and I think that they will

35:28because right now all you have is some of those ultra-magaz social media accounts that you see on X and getter just going hard on the paint. It's America. It's like yeah. And all of a sudden the reality comes in that this is a war and we have had casualties and this is a little bit more involved than what we thought it would be. I heard some pundits, the commentary classes like they called them before this started saying it's going to be very precise, very precision. We're going to go in there with a carve it out. It's going to be just like Operation Midnight Hammer. I said you got to be kidding me. Look at all the assets we're putting in that area. This is going to take a while. So as long as they communicate this, Steve, to the American people and why they're there, what's going on and be truthful with them, I think the American people could take it because no one wants the Iranian regime to exist. We do, I think, want evil people out of power, but at what falls. But I do go back to President Trump saying hey, we're going to go into capitain with the

36:33Iranian people. Is that been saying, hey, no offense. They brought the Islamic Republic on, right? And I realized this is their parents and their grandparents, most of them, but they wanted the Islamic Republic. They kicked the shot. They kicked us out. They brought it on them and now they don't want it. That's fine. Then step up like President Trump was saying, step up and take it out. Brian Glenn, social media, we'll get you back on tomorrow because this is a lot going. I agree with it. I think they're doing systematic take down of air and naval assets and in revolutionary regard. I think they've done a lot deeper in the command instruction they've let on, but we'll see all that. I'm sure the next couple of days. Where do people get you, Brian Glenn? Yeah, Steve, you can follow me at Brian Glenn TV on Twitter, at Brian Glenn on Instagram, at Brian on two social and yetter. I pray for this country, Steve. You know, this is war and I am, I am no expert by any by any means, but I do know the realities of losing men and women in the battlefield and what that means in this country. And I want us to make sure that when this is all set and done,

37:33that we put, we close the chapter on this whole narrative that we've got to stop the Iranian regime from getting a new nuclear weapon. Let's put this the rest of you. I'm done with this crap. Let's put it the rest. Brian Glenn, thank you so much, sir. Thank you. Pray for our young men and women that are in harm's way right now. Jan Yekalik, my favorite, epic times, your great show, American Thought Leaders. First, I'm going to get to the Chinese Communist Party in a second because they look like they're taking some heavy hits here, both in Venezuela and here in your next word, but just your overall assessment with the information we're getting and where do you think we stand on this in the first couple of days of this of this war? Steve, I can't help but think about this from the broader geopolitical context. You know, I saw this like amazing commentary yesterday, which is basically mirrored by exact thinking the way how do we communicate with the Communist Chinese

38:33leaders? How do we communicate them? Well, the commentator said, a horse's head in the bed is really the only way to do that. So as you pointed out, we've got Venezuela, and this is what can happen, right? We've got Iran now. This is what can happen. And you can understand that Xi Jinping is getting a message. Don't screw around with us. I think this is, you know, I don't know if this is the key reason for these for these attacks. I don't think it's the only reason, but it's a very important, let's call it side benefit to what has happened because the only thing they really understand is sheer exertion of force or as this commentator pointed out, it's kind of like a mafia message, right? This is what's going to happen if you don't play with us. And then of course, we've got the tariffs on the other side, restricting the one pillar of their economy that they have left, which is really their export. So if they've taken it on, they've had two allies. They got a couple of three, but they got two big ones, Venezuela and the Mulas, both one's in American

39:34jail or American federal prison awaiting trial. The other is graveyard dead. How does she keep face there? He's purging the military every other week. How does he keep face among the power brokers in the Chinese Communist Party? So we get about a minute. He's not, he's not keeping face at all, I think. And he's actually, I think very, very worried. And he's getting a lot of questions are being asked. And he can't even really do his power play on Taiwan at the moment because he doesn't have the military capability to do so. And this is actually something that I, this whole concept of how the CCP actually operates in a very extreme way. I document this very well. And thank you for carrying a kill to order and having me on about this. This is my new book, but it's not just about this forced or shocking forced organ harvesting industry. It's how it's the perfect lens to understand how the CCP actually operates. We get into all this stuff in the book explaining that. Well, we're going to take a short break. We're going to get into it. If you know, you can see Maduro, the Mulas, the Ayatola, and the heads of the Chinese Communist Party, bad, bad, bad actors.

40:41But as bad as the Mulas and Maduro is, what what Yan exposes with the Chinese Communist Party will rock your world. We're going to take a short commercial break. We're going to turn in the war room just a moment. I do believe the President Trump's overall strategic thrust is to make sure the Chinese Communist Party, our greatest existential threat, understands that, hey, we can do with your allies what we want to do with them. You got nothing to say about it. That's why I'm taking the under on whether there's going to be a state visit in April. Now, they get still surprised. I just don't see it right now. Yan, talk to the audience about what your book and your 20 years of research that you're finally able to bring forth shows what monsters these people are. Well, the book talks about

41:44you killed to order, which is this forced organ harvesting industry, kind of unique in the world, an evil yet to be seen on this planet, described by one of the researchers, David made us. And I go into exactly how it works and how it's different than you're basically your typical run of the mill, also horrible organ trafficking. But more importantly, actually, now to the topic of today is that it actually is a lens into understanding how Communist China actually works at a deeper level, right? The stuff in this book will shock you to the core. It shocked me as I was doing the research. And actually over the years, you know, what I've learned is kind of like, it's actually really, really mind blowing because for normal people, like we kind of always assume that we're dealing with a normal government or the kind of normal people on the other side that you can negotiate. This is why I was talking about this horse's head communication as being kind of one of the ways to do it. But another thing, you know, the another thing that I talk about in the book is the utilitarianism being a function of the Chinese Communist Party and how it deals with everybody. In fact, that you've been using Iran the same way. It's been aside from being an ally, right?

42:49It's been this massive source of distraction and instability in the Middle East. So the American gaze, so to speak, keeps being focused in another direction and not where the biggest adversary, subtitle of my book, The True Nature of America's biggest adversary, that's Communist China. And so, you know, right now, if this is successful, which which I certainly hope it is, this operation and so forth, America can actually focus on dealing with its massive threat across the Pacific. Okay, I want everybody to know. Here's what we're doing. This is through the good offices of Tony Lyons and War Room, many people. We're going to have a very special event with you. What's the date? It's one of the last events I believe in the Trump Kennedy Center before it shuts down. I think it's shutting down the spring. So it's going to be the Trump Kennedy Center. What night and how do people get tickets? It's actually incredible. So the Trump Kennedy Center has decided to have an official event as part of its Millennium Stage series.

43:49Thanks to, you know, Tony Lyons. What I thought initially was a crazy idea, but they're actually running this. You can actually reach the RSVP for it at KilledToOrderEvent.com. KilledToOrderEvent.com. It's March 16th and it's a conversation between Rob Schneider, who's someone who's gotten behind this issue in a massive way. God bless you, Rob. Thank you so much for that. And, you know, we're going to talk about some really hard questions and a little bit of dark humor. We're still figuring that out because this is such a dark extreme issue, but it's going to be an incredible evening to remember. And we're also, there's also a VIP event afterwards for people that may want to participate in that as well. But basically, we can get more than a thousand people in the door and the first thousand people that come in will actually get a book. There's a really generous donor who decided to kind of, again, support this issue. There's so many people that are getting behind this. It's, I'm really touched. And thank you for your support, Steve. No. Where do people go? One more time. Where do they go get the book? Where do they go?

44:50For anybody in the greater Washington DC area, it's really going to be a very special night. So where do folks go? Well, the book, if you want to get it, KilledToOrderEvent.com. That's the direct to the Amazon link. We're trying to create a movement. You know, get this book shared with people. Raise the level of awareness. This explains how the Communist Party operates to people and not enough Americans know. But for the event, it's KilledToOrderEvent.com. And that's for that March 16th event, 6 p.m. Trump Kennedy Center. It's going to be incredible. You and Rob Schneider is going to, and Rob has really gotten it back to this. By the way, very, very smart guy talked at turning point. You're a really smart guy. If you want to understand the monsters that control so much power on this earth, get this book. Young social media, where do people get you? The epoch times and war room or the tip of the spear and taking down the Chinese Communist Party. Where do people go to get all your writings and over the epic times? Well, go to the epoch times.com. That's our main website. There's always good stuff on China.

45:55There right now, of course, we have the war at the top of the page. And for myself, on ex at Yanya Kellek, on Truth, the same way, please follow me on my social media. And I'm actually covering all of this stuff, as we speak, and of course, different aspects of the book. And we just had Gordon Chang on about Iran, China, digging into this geopolitical aspect massively. That's on American thought leaders. That's on YouTube. Check it out. It's actually going viral. He really knows what he's talking about. Gordon's the best. Thank you, Yanya, fantastic book, harrowing. That's why we're so strongly in back of this. And I want to thank everybody's associate with this Kenny Center. If you're in the greater Washington area, you do not want to miss it. It'll be great night. And you get to see the Trump Kennedy Center. One of the last times I think before it goes into refurbishment for a year or two. Mike Lindell, okay, we're going to bifurcate this. Mike, we had a lot to talk about, but the executive order, and we had about we had Brian Kennedy on today, his magnificent piece about what we have to do to make sure the

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