June 13, 2025 • 48 mins
THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON
CO- HOST: DAVE BRATT
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GEN. MIKE FLYNN
OUBAI SHAHBANDAR
ANDREW ROTH
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on
these people.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You've not got a free shot.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
All these networks lying about the people, the people.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Have had a belly full of it.
Speaker 6 (00:18):
I know you don't like hearing that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I know you tried to do everything in.
Speaker 7 (00:20):
The world to stop there, but you're not going to
stop it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And where do people like that go to share the
big line? Mega media?
Speaker 8 (00:28):
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
these people had a conscience.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Speaker 8 (00:37):
If that answer is to save my country, this country
will be saved.
Speaker 9 (00:43):
War Room.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Use your host, Stephen cave Man.
Speaker 8 (00:53):
All right, back in the war room, Dave Praps sitting
then for the Great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Bannon.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
We've got a continuous coverage of the war. Obi Shabander's
coming on with us. But first we got Tage Gil
from Warpath Coffee. Tage, the floor is yours. Why don't
you bring us up to speed on the war. You
know the America First philosophy as well as anyone. What's
your overview of what's been happening and what are the consequences?
(01:22):
As Stee says, what's the unintended consequences that could put
us in a real barrel as we tried to fight
multiple wars at the same time with the border invasion
twenty million China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Put it all into context for us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Brother, Yeah, I think the unintended consequences are the United
States getting drug into another war into the Middle East.
Israel did a great job with this mission last night.
They is basically all out war on Iran. I would
have liked to have seen some more negotiating with Trump.
(02:00):
You know Trump Trump got elected saying he wants to
bring peace to the Middle East and Russia Ukraine. I
don't think any of that's happening. He's been undermined at
every corner. But Israel's an ally and we're gonna protect them. So,
just like last time Israel had a back and forth
with Iran, the Europeans and the Arabs all launched aircraft
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and we shot down all those missiles, not all, but
almost all the missiles and drone attacks from Iran. So
I think we're committed to that. We're committed to protecting Israel.
Trump said, We're going to stay out of the attacking
Iran peace, but we're committed to protecting Israel, and that
could lead us into another war in the Middle East,
because as we know, you can't conquer a nation through
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air attacks. So if Iran doesn't capitulate and go back
to the table, then at some point, if Israel wants
to take capitually I Ran and there may be boots
on the ground at some point, which we don't want.
And i Ran already said that they may attack US
embassies and air bases, which we don't want because then
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Americans get killed, then we're gonna have to retaliate.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But that's that's Those are the unintended consequences. And another
unintended consequence would be the twenty million illegal immigrants that
came into the United States under Biden. People are saying
that there may be some sleeper cells in there, some
terrorists came across the border, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Another intended, unintended consequence for terrorist attacks inside the homeland
of the United States. Because of Israel's actions last night,
so we will see. And then also on the European front,
Zelenski launched these attacks on the Russian airfields and those
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may have unintended consequences because Trump is not pulling the
play U on supporting Ukraine. So that's that's two Eastern Europe,
in the Middle East, between Israel and Iran. And the
next thing that's on the pressure cooker is China and Taiwan.
If China takes I want Taiwan, or tries to take Taiwan,
(04:19):
then I would say it's fair to say that World
War three is going right now, we're.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
At two three, so yeah, we're close for World War three. Yeah,
you're a war fighter, you have friends around the country.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
The polling all says the American people want us to
pull back.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They want less war, not more war.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
When you go around the country, what do you hear
from other war fighters. It's the sons and daughters of
MAGA that are going to get killed, right, It's it's
not the elitist Ivy League crew that their starns and
daughters are going to be put at risk. When you
go around the country, you know, just give us a
few anecdotes from people you've talked to what are they
saying when when you just talk to people as you
(05:05):
meet them going around the country, what are they saying
to you?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, the appetite for war is going away. It's not
this is you know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I remember in nineteen ninety one when we invaded Iraq
for the Iraq Kuwait thing, that the Gulf War. You know,
it was such American flags everywhere, the yellow ribbons, and
then same thing after nine to eleven, and I think
that sentiment is gone. People are over it. People just
over it. They don't want the war anymore. I mean,
(05:37):
we've been out war since two thousand and one basically continuously,
you know, and then as soon as Afghanistan wound down,
we shifted right into Ukraine into a proxy war.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We don't have for the most part, we don't have
any troops over there.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And then now this thing with Israel and Iran heats up,
which I know it will.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
There's at least going to be a couple more back
and forth. I don't think the appetite for war is
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In the United States, and through my my friends that
are out of the military now, some of them are
still in, some of them are still in the intelligence
agencies that the appetite for war is just not there.
For the most part, it's still there, I would say,
at a small level, but the majority of the guys
I know are they don't.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Have the appetite for war anymore. They don't want it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And America overwhelmingly voted for Trump. I mean, Trump run
by a landslide, and he ran on no.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
War exactly last question and then sell us some coffee.
So the American people don't have an appetite for war.
It's clear to everybody. The polling shows it. We don't
live in pure democracy. It's a representative democracy, a republic.
What's gone wrong with Congress? They're supposed to declare war,
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they don't ever discuss it. There's no forums open to
the American peace people. How do we fix this so
that we don't have the CIA in the deep state,
the State Department, the bureaucrats talking to President Trump, trying
to make it sound like he's engaged some good deal
or something when his gut is has proven to be right.
What's what's wrong with our representative republic?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh? Well, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The representatives they don't represent the constituents anymore. They're represented
special interest group and lobbyists, and the lobbyists work for
you know, other countries like Israel.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They work for the.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lockheed Martin Raytheon, you know, Boeing, all these guys. And
our economy is basically based on war. Now we've outsourced
all our manufacturing to China and all these other countries,
and we are a war machine.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
United States is the war machine.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And whether whether we have troops on the ground fighting somewhere,
if that's not the case, then we have to have.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Proxy wars to feed the war machine. And that's it.
So last night fed the war machine.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because we sell arms to Israel, we you know, we
give them grants and it all goes back to the
big arms company. The military industrial complex drives America and
they own our Congress.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And how to fix it, I don't know. I don't know, Dave,
how to fix it. Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Trump ran on shutting down the deep state, and I
think he's doing a good job, but I don't know
if he can shut it down well the people.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, it's what the warm is all about.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Agency Steve always says, people need to make more noise.
We're not getting You got to get through to your
representatives on this war thing, and so what tays you know,
we're just talking about the app paper war, the war
monitors and the globalists, et cetera, in the Marxist fight
against the nation state itself. And let's not leave out
(08:53):
the left. Right, there's tens of billions of dollars in
slush funds for USAID, the Department of Energy, everybody now knows,
and the tens of billions of dollars going into these
not NGOs nonprofits that are actually funding the war going
on on our streets right now in Los Angeles, across
the country, and the funding sources are coming into sharp relief.
(09:16):
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you know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I've had very good friends that are more left whatever.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
You share the war route with them, and over a
period of a few months they go it starts to
crack and it seeps in and they change their tomb.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Hey, sell us some coffee and thanks for being with
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Speaker 3 (09:40):
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I put a little cream and sugar in it.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Still Steve gives me living you know what, for being
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I love the coffee.
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Yeah.
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we're going to another great patriot right now, Tays, We're
going to General Flynn, Generald Flynn, are you with us?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm I'm mobile, I'm on my mobile command posts.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He's amazing. No, you got it, You got it.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Hey, We've got about two and a half minutes for
a short intro and then we'll dive into the weeds.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But give us your two and a half.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Minute overview of what's going on overnight, and we'll come
back to you for to get in the weeds a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thanks, General.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, very yep, very briefly, very briefly, this war is
going to go on in the Middle East for at
least another two weeks. You're going to see a level
of devastation that we have not seen probably historically in
many people's lives, probably since since World War Two. And
this is regime changed. Time really are done And and
(12:46):
I don't I don't blame them. Need is we need
a benevolent leader inside of a rand to rise up.
We don't need somebody flying in from Paris who's been
making billions off the backs of of of of other people.
We need somebody from inside the regime. And we don't
we need to c I A the hell out of there, right, And.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
What do you see, I mean, you know the region
better than anyone, do you what's the probability of those
events occurring, getting a better secular leader.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And Jeffrey out of war with US? Yeah, I think
it's very high. Actually, I think that there's some people
that are identified.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
It is the most The most important thing is at
what point in time does Israel make the decision? And
they are hunting right now, they are definitely the guys
on the ground are hunting for the leadership that's been
They've devastated the leadership, just like they did devastating the
leadership of Hamas Huswilla. They're devastating the leadership of Iran
right now, the military, of the r GCU, the the
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political leadership, and you know, we haven't heard about the
Ayah Tola yet. Guarantees in hiding. His life is at risk,
and that's fine. I do think that the uh that
the Israeli's needs whatever they whatever capabilities they need, because
this thing is going to go on. My belief is
for another couple of weeks. They are not done with
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the level of destruction of the nuclear capability. We have
to we have to face the fact that for the sense,
really the Obama regime. Iran, the state's leading state sponsor
of terrorism in the world, has been developing a nuclear
weapon and they have had you know, they've had years
to develop it.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Their level of enrichment of uranium is.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
At a level that you know, they were ready to
come out with bombs here, you know, in the next
couple of weeks, if not days. So Israel, General mass Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, I know we're going back.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We got a break.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
We're going to hit General, and when you come back,
we want to hear your bonum fee days. One of
the finest intelligence minds in America right now. So General,
when you come back, give us a quick overview of
your qualifications because the American people need you right now.
Back in a second, your host, Stephen K. Ban back
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in the war room. Dave Bratt's sitting in with the
Great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Bannon.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Honor privileged to have General Mike Flynn with us.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I don't usually plug Liberty all political views of my own,
but we have General Flynn coming to our CEO summit
October fifteen and sixteen at Liberty University. And I've gotten
to know Mike over the years somewhat and everything I
hear about him. I mean, he's just a fine Christian man,
the values and virtues. When you're putting men's lives at risk,
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I want him in charge. I know he cares about
God's will and so, Mike, thanks for being on with
us today. Also, I'm down in Dallas representing Liberty Day
down at the Tower Club from one to four with
business friends. So at the last minute, if you want
to stop by, CEOs and business friends, pop on by.
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From here on out, political views are my own, General Flann,
give the folks your bona fides, your rise up, how
high in the military, and then you're intelligence so people
know what they're hearing and who.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
They're hearing it from.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yeah, I've served almost three and a half decades in
the world of intelligence, special operations, Airborne, five years in
combat operations. Served operationally for the majority of my life.
Uh served almost almost two decades at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
the home of Special Operations and Airborne Forces, and served
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on six continents, many different wars, Central Americas, Caribbeans, Southwest Asia,
Central Asia. You know, so I got a lot of
time from from Company Battalion all the way up to
serving as the highest most senior military intelligence officer in
the Department of Defense and running one of the largest
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intelligence agencies in the world, certainly here in the United
States of America.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
So I got a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I spent a lot of years in the Middle East,
particularly focused on this problem set that we are now
you know, watching unfold unravel if you will, in Iran.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So a couple of.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Things that I just I would just offer for your viewers.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
We are seeing an exquisite level of intelligence operations by
the nation of Israel.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I mean, it's just extraordinary to me. This is a
this is definitely a warning.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
This is a warning to any other adversary in that
region who feels like they want to take a shot
at Israel. There's one thing that the Israelis have is
they have incredible levels of very detailed, very tactical, very
refined intelligence because the targets that they are hitting and
the precision that they're hitting those targets. And I'm talking
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about people, command and control, air defense, all the different
battlefield operating systems that you have to take out in
order to in this case, to destroy the capability, the
military and intelligence and security capabilities of a nation. The
Israelis have done quite a bit of it in just
a period of about forty eight hours. We are going
to see this continue. And again this is a warning
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to anybody else in the region. I've already seen where
the Hesbola response has been has been nullified because they know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
The other.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Countries in the region that have put out statements condemning
this attack, they know. They don't want to say it today,
they don't want to say it out loud, but they
actually are applauding this attack because Iran has been nothing
but a sore spot on the rear end of this
particular region of the world.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We cannot continue to have the.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Basically the spew that comes out of Iran and out
of people like the Ayatola who's talking about theolation of
not only the state of Israel, but also the United
States of America.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I applaud President Trump for how he has demonstrated enormous
and extraordinary strategic patients.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
And he has he has given every inch of rope
to the Iranians to make a better decision, and they
have refused. They have basically not made that decision. Absolutely
horrendous call on their part. And now what Israel is
going to do is continue to destroy every single aspect
of the nuclear war making potential of Iran.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Yeah, Hey, General, the President Trump is overarching strategy America. First,
we got twenty million border invasion war going on domestically
that's been taking tremendous resources away from us.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
He wanted to.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Get out of Ukraine. I'm going to get out of
there today, he said. Didn't want a war in the
Middle East. China is the major problem. So how do
you What we want UH to hear from you is
how do you put that puzzle together for the American
and the American people don't want war. The pulley is
overwhelmingly they want less action. So how do we threat
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this needle? Because now the genies out of the bottle
and Steve Management talking about unintended consequences after I rack
and shocking on everything look good, the purple ink and
the thumbs and all that. What's the cautionary note of
us moving forward? So that we can solve our own
domestic problems, bring manufacturing back to America and have some
stability and all get rich together. He Trump said, he
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wants I ran to get rich together. And now they
you're You're right, he gave them rope and they hung themselves.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And they're hanging you.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
So yeah, so so so as brief as I can, Dave,
this is a super important issue for Trump, and Trump's
going to have to deal with this, and his inner
circle team is going to have to They're going to
have to really, really, you know, pull up the bootstraps here, folks.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I know that they're listening.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
They have got to do this because what Trump, what
Trump wanted to do, was he wanted to end the
you know, day one, I'm going to end the war
in Europe there, you know, in Ukraine, We're going to
negotiate a great deal with uh Iran blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
So here's where we're at. And I and people that
follow me on X.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
They can go to at gen Flynn GDN Flinn because
I posted something about the Ukraine war.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
We have got to we have got to clean the
decks right now.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And completely relook how we are negotiating the situation in
Europe because that war can end, and it can end
very quickly. But right now, the people that he's got
on at the negotiating table, and this is really not
Mark Rubio. Mark Rubio has got he's up to his
eyeballs in national security challenges just because of all the
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shit he's got to do.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So Trump has got to clean the decks.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
He's got to say, Okay, nothing is working, clear it out.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I want, I want some new ideas, and so I
laid one out there this morning.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And these are serious, serious issues in serious times that
you know, the war in the in the Middle East.
I just think at this point in time, it's going
to play itself out. We're going to have to pay
very close attention to it. But that takes me back
to our country, the United States of America, and the
domestic landscape.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
And what I don't like.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I don't like this deal that Trump just had with
g in China, the Chinese, so you know, I mean,
he's he posted whatever yesterday about the deal he cut
on tariffs and Chinese students who have been ripping us
off for almost three decades now, stealing every single intellectual
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property that we have going back home, taking it back
home and developed.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I mean, we have got to stop this.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I mean, frankly, the nonsense and the bullshit that that
the Chinese Communist Party, not the people of China, but
the Chinese Communist Party and the leadership right now by
g is going to be our friends and they're going
to work with us as competitors or you know, or
or or part. No, the Chinese have been killing Americans
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with fentanyl to the tune of hundreds of thousands over
the last five years. Never mind nothing fetter meine prior
to that, and other drugs prior to that, covid.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Covid was another bioweapon.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
We just saw the capture of a couple of people
with bioweapons to destroy our agricultural industry. That's only three people.
How many more people are out there the purchasing of
real estate. This nonsense about they're going to Congress is
going to you know, be part of these delegations around
the United States to what to market the Chinese Communist Party.
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This has got to end. It has got to end
first and foremost. Trump has got to refocus on America first.
America first to the rest of the world does not
mean America in isolation. It means we have got to
get our muscles stronger.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
We of God. It's like a human being, you got
to work out to stay healthy.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
America, we got to work out to get healthy, right manufacturing, prowess,
our own energy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Resources that we have abundance.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
We've got mining operations that have been shut down for
well over a couple of decades. Actually, and and Trumps
tried to start, you know, to get some of them
going up in like places like Montana and out in
Colorado and in New Mexico. But there's other places in
the country, you know, manufacturing in Michigan and Ohio.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
These are the kinds of things that the American people want.
American people do not.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Want war, and so don't don't drag us to another
war in the Middle East. Don't drag us into a
war that's cost us half a trillion, five hundred billion
dollars in Eastern Europe.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
What we could have done with that money. And Congress
is nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Folks, American people, listeners of the war room, do not
think that that Congress is going to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They are not.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
They are making a killing on these wars, the neo commons,
the neolips I mean, so I could go on and on, Dave, but.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I was going to say, America is a godly country
and we which is one thing that we are in
addition to other, you know, declining capabilities.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
We are a nation in moral decline. And if we don't,
if we don't raise the stature.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And now I'm talking to the to the ministers and
the pactors and the congregations out there, get your act together.
Thank God, the Christian community came to the rescue of
President Trump.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I'm a Catholic, Steve's a Catholic.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Trump got the most Catholic votes of any president I
think since Ronald reagul or maybe even before, maybe even
more than him. Christians better better stand up and step
up and be counted and speak up. And I'm not
talking about the weak pastors and ministers and priests at
the at the pulpits. I'm talking about people of of
of moral courage. Our country has got to return to that.
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And it doesn't mean that you know, you don't. There's
not other other things that I can, I can you know,
argue about and debate about.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
But what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Is our country is in moral decline, and we are
in a steep moral decline.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
We're not at the precipice. We're in the Abyss read
Psalm twenty three.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, I was gonna go there.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
That was going to be my closing question for you,
General Flynn, American hero, patriot, serves country his whole life.
The Judeo Christian West is at a breaking point. He's
done serious and I agree wholeheartedly with what he just said.
The Church is supposed to be the body of Christ
on Earth and it should know about these catastrophic issues
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we're facing right. We should know that our CIA probably
had involvement a week ago in the Russia Ukraine, and
the Church is not aware of this. These are existential
life and death, peace versus war, and we want peace,
but you got to do it the right way. So
General Flynn, thank you for being with us. You're a
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treasurer and God bless you and all your work. Back
after the break in two seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Here's your Stephen K ban.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right back in the war room. Dave Brett sitting
in with a great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Bannon.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
It's our honor to have Ube Schavander back on. He's
going to bring us right up to speed on where
we stand now. Operationally, Israel went in and hard. They
went beyond getting rid of new capacity. They went to decapitation,
not of the political figures, but of the high end
military figures. So now we're in the soup, as they say,
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and so they now the US is in a predicament,
and so what bring us up to speed? Ubin, thanks
again for being with us on the war room.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
First of all, General Michael Flan is absolutely spot on.
I mean there, he is a brilliant military mind, and
hopefully he can come back and.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Serve his nation once more. Look, there's no question this
is a full sweep.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
This is a determined Israeli decapitation strike against the top
echelons of Iran's strategic and military command.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Here's where we are operationally. Right now.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
The Israeli Air Force and MASAD agents who have penetrated
deep behind enemy lines on Iranian territory, have managed to
kill at least twenty senior Iranian Revolutionary.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Guard commanders, as well.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
As the commander of the Iranian Missile and Air Force
Command and the senior and most nuclear program advisor to
the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatola Alikimani. So right now, I
can imagine that there is confusion, there's chaos within the
command structure of Iran's political command. And look, bib NEATINAO
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Israeli Prime Minister in a statement earlier today, said that
this is the time for the Iranian people, the Iranian
people to declare their freedom. So that is a message
here that this is a strategic blow against Iran. The
intent here is perhaps regime change, that this is going
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to go well beyond striking the nuclear underground enrichment sites.
Now we do have reports that the Neton's nuclear enrichment
struct site has been significantly damaged by the Israeli strikes.
That's important why because Iran has two of them, Netons
and for Doe.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
The big one is for Dough that is.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Deep beneath the mountains, underneath the holy Iranian site of
the city of Kombe, and that we can expect the
Israelis to strike.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
That site as well.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We are seeing some updates as we speak right now
that there are new explosions being heard in the capital
of Iran, Tehran, and in that holy site city of
come where that fort nuclear facility is taking place. The
Israelis certainly here are going This is operations going to
take days, if not weeks. You've got Mosad deep behind
enemy lines the Israeli. The Israelis have managed to cripple
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the order of battle for the Iranian command. By striking
against the leadership of Iran's missile command and its ground forces,
as well as the chief of Staff of the Iranian
military Mohammed.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Buggery, he is dead.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Now imagine that's equivalent if the chairman of the Joint
Chief of Staff was assassinated alongside others on in the
Pentagon leadership.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That is what this is equivalent to.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
So right now the Iranian military command structure, which is
top heavy, is running blind.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So this is going to escalate.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
We're going to see more of these masade attacks inside
Iran and more of these Israeli air strikes. Given what
we're hearing from the leadership in Jerusalem right now, the
Iranians have not managed to launched their medium and long
range ballistic missiles against Israeli targets, but so they're seeming
they're trying to regroup right now given the chaos that
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is taking place in Tehran. But no question from an
operational perspective, from a battleful of damaged assessment, this has
been a widely effective strike on Iran. The question is
what does the i Atla Ali Chamini do. He probably
believes that his regime right now is facing collapse. So
how will the iradience react as this a bear that's
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been cornered, or will they collapse and totally be crippled.
President Trump and the social media statement said hey, Iran
must make a deal before there is nothing left, and
that is wise advice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, what are the odds? I cannot imagine Iran making
that deal right now?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
How what what's the timeline for Iran to recoup someone
and be able to retain its footing with the medium
and long range missiles to Israel and then any risk
assessment to the US. And then do they have proxies
anywhere outside of Iran that can help them in this
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response or have most of them been weakened significantly already.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Well, Iran's main proxy and it's strategic to turn against Israel.
Has Bulah Lebanon has been wiped up because Bulla has
already said that they're not in the spite. That's because
the Israeli Massad killed Hassan Nosrala, the leader of Hasbolah,
and killed most of the top Haasbola commands with those
exploding pagers, that Massad intelligence operation that killed hundreds of
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Hebelah commanders, as well as the top leadership of Hasbela.
That that means that which is right on the border
of Israel's north is not going to be able to
launch retaliatory strikes. And Iran for years had pinned its
hopes on the ability of Hasbola to launch these strikes
into Israel to try to stop the Israelis from launching
out strikes deep into Iran's fortified underground nuclear facilities.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
So with that has been a lot. Iran is really exposed.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
But Iran Revolutionary Guard still has terror operatives throughout the
Middle East, and that needs American diplomatic facilities and military
bases in Doha. The United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bagdad are potentially exposed to retaliation,
but that would be essentially suicidal by the Iranians if
they so chose that path. Look, Steve Witkoff was supposed
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to sit down with his Iranian counterparts on Sunday in
the neutral Arabian golf country of Online.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
That clearly is not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
And we saw for President Trump's social media statement earlier
today and that some of the Iranians that the American
side was dealing with from the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Many of those people are now dead.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Given the wide sweeping nature of this Israeli strike that
seems so oft the Iranian military leadership and iol Hamanian
completely unprepared, with the top military advisors to the IOLA
and Tehran now dead, so all eyes are now when
what Tehran will do next. This is completely from an
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operational perspective. In the first twenty four hours seems to
have been a success. The question is is will Israel's
attacks be able to destroy those advanced centrifuges that the
Iranians used to enrich uranium to weapons grade levels of
enrichment bebing Nettie said that these strikes will destroy those centrifuges.
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It's going to take the Iranians perhaps decades to rebuild
that nuclear program, given that the Israeli misat has also
managed to assassay a number of the top nuclear scientists
in Iran as well, and that is going to lead
to a significant amount of chaos and disruption within the
nuclear research and development capability that Iran currently has as well.
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Even if some of those centrifugues deep beneath the Iranian
mountains survived the first wave of strikes, but we can
certainly expect another wave. The question is will American military
assets be dragged into this war. So far, it's very
clear from President trump administrations statements that American military assets
or planes soldiers are not involved in this attacks. But
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perhaps behind the scenes there may be some intelligence support
to the Israeli long range attacks and their special Masaud
activities on the ground in Iran.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, say a little bit more on that.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
But also you and Flann both degree it's going to
be days weeks before maybe even the Israeli strikes are done.
And so where does that leave us on the ground,
you know, just in terms of every day activity, I
mean it's all undermined, right, I mean flight activity in
the Middle East. The strengths of horror moves, key choke
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points are problematic.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What do you see, you know, just say a month out,
what's still going to be.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Negatively impacted because of these attacks.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It's not just going to be life as normal. I
can't comprehend that. Trying to try to map that out
for us a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, Pandora's box has been opened.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Now.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Look, remember in June of last year, the Iranians and
Israelis traded missile strikes and air strikes, but that was
relatively contained.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
This is a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
This is Israeli air Force and Masade operators on the
ground going after the top leaders of the of Iran's
top echelon, people that are sit down with Iola Kamani
on any given day. So with Hassin Ostrala dead and
Lebanon with Ali Shamkhani, who was the right hand men
of Iola Kimani also dead, with Hussein Salalami, the chief
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of staff of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards dead, as well
as some of the other lieutenants.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Camanian right now must be wondering, well, maybe I'm next,
So maybe we should just go all out.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Look, the Masad is probably still on the ground.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
We did see reports that the Israeli intelligence Special Service
was able to evacuate some of their operators that were
on the ground and according to reports, launching drones drone
strikes from within Iranian territory, striking some of those ballistic
missile facilities that the Iranians have underground that they were
intended to be used as a second strike capability against Israel.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If and when these attacks take place.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
So right now, the Israeli seem to be at least
two steps ahead on the chessboard with Iran.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
But you know, the.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Iranians can launch Kamakazi strikes.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
We saw in twenty nineteen the Iranians launching suicide Kamakazi
drones strikes against Saudi oil crude storage facilities in northern
Saudi Arabia. We saw the Iranians launch a similar attack
against oil facilities right outside of Abu Dhabi. So perhaps
here the Iranians show may choose to strike oil storage
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facilities and terminals in the Arabian golf and to you know,
spike oil prices you know throughout the world. That actually
perhaps be one one option, but that might might lead
to strikes against Iran's oil terminals, and that could of
course cripple Iran's economy. So I think this is going
to you know, this is going to escalate before it
de escalates. The message coming out of Washington here is that, hey, Iran,
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before there's nothing left of what was once a proud empire,
take the deal, you know, agree to zero enrichment. You
had sixty days. Now it's sixty days plus one you've
seen that there is you know, the other side is
not bluffing. You know, you were warned multiple times over
and over and over again that you know, the US
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has the most lethal military capabilities, that much much of
which have been provided to Israel, and that these there
would be consequences if you did not accept the deal.
And now the Iranians are facing that consequence. Will there
be an operable will there be an opportunity for I
thought Hamani to go back to the negotiating table. Well,
many of those people that were negotiating are now been
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killed by this extraordinary Israeli decapitation strike. So you know,
but if a missile facility is used to strike American
diplomats or American soldiers, must not forget when the Iranians
and their militia forces last tried to do this President
Trump in the first term, you know, wiped out, caused
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some Solmani, the most capable Iranian commander, and so you
know that certainly is going to also factor into what
Ali Khamane, the Supreme leader of Iran, is going to
do next.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
But this is war. The Middle East is at war,
and this war is going to continue for some time.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
No doubt.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
Yeah, yeah, thirty seconds left. Oh, thanks for being with us.
Thirty seconds. In closing, how much does this shift the
US positioning and the resources of the State Department, the CIA,
most every agency.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
You said this is huge from the is.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Really perspective, It seems to me it's also fairly significant
even if we're in a passive position to get ready
for what could happen. Just give us in thirty seconds
a summary overview of what the US shift looks like.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Internally.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Well, yeah, you have the American aircraft carriers on the
Arabian Golf and in that area, they're gonna be able
to high alert for any type of suicide drone attacks
or suicide boat attacks. Intelligence facilities, diplomatic facilities throughout the
Arabian Golf in the Middle East are.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Going to be at high alert.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
And of course, you know, Iranian back terrorists can even
attack American tourists in Europe or in Latin America, so
you know, a tactic that the Runnings have used in
the past when they were desperate. So this is a
ward in the Middle East, but it certainly has global implications.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, yeah, right on in my Hubai Shamandar.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Very much, brother, for being with us again on the
War Room. You're great.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
Everyone loves your analysis. See us soon, folks, stay stay
with us over the very right back.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
He's your host. Ben came back all right.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Dave Brett and the War Room with great Stephen kg
Bannon covering the war overnight news. I'm sure everyone's pretty
much up to speed. We have great analysis with Hubay
and General Flynn. Now you know economics and the trade
offs involved here.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
This is you know, President Trump's intuition is no more war.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Now, the Ukraine War has not ended in the day
because the deep state actors are, you know, putting roadblocks
in the way there. Now we've got a Middle East circumstance.
It's going to shift for sources. So nobody better. We've
got you know, I was in the Freedom Caucus and
now we got the head of the state Freedom Caucus
organization across all fifty states.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Andy Roth, welcome to the War Room.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
If you want to just pivot off the war and
the use of scarce resources and then all the other
challenges and the big beautiful Bill Flory's yours welcome.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Andy.
Speaker 9 (42:03):
Hey, Thanks David, it's good to see you're an old friend,
and I love what you did in the Freedom Caucus
and everything that you've done since then. Just to pick
up from the last couple of interviews that you've had,
I just make a comment that we can't afford for
an entanglement right now. That's one of the reasons that
Trump is so adamantly American. First, is we got to
fix what's going on in our country. Since post nine
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to eleven, we've spent eight trillion dollars both in the
war in Iraq and an Afghanistan, and to put that
in perspective, eight percent with tack on another twenty twenty
five percent of our national debt. We can't afford that
right now. And so what we're trying to do in
Congress with the House Freedom Caucus is trying to do
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in Congress is to push through this one big, beautiful bill.
And even though it's only one point five trillion dollars
worth of spending cuts, it's a start and we've got
to get going on it. And here is the very
fundament mental secret to passing this. It's getting the Senate
Republicans on board. They're the only ones that are stopping this.
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And so the War Room posse they are the backbone
of this country. They need to light up the phones
of all of these Republicans who are addicted to the
Biden green energy tax credits. You know, it's an underreported
dirty secret right now that there are Republican governors all
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across the country who bashed Biden correctly for the Inflation
Reduction Act. They say he's a big government liberal that
destroyed our country. That's all correct, But out on the
other side of their mouth, they're taking all of those
green energy tax credits, all those subsidies, billions and billions
of dollars, and they're bragging about.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
It back home.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
And the senator from those states are going along for
the ride. And so they're the ones that are pushing
back against the House pass bill. And so whatever the
Senate does, it needs to deliver not only on that bill,
but make the cuts even larger.
Speaker 8 (44:06):
And I'm willing to let me let me interrupt you,
let me let me interrupt you on that green point
because I think, and you tell me if I'm connecting
the dots right here, because I want to be accurate
and fair.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
The warlroom always wants the receipts.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
But these tens of billions of dollars going to the
green energy stuff. That stuff goes to the Department of Energy,
And if I'm not mistaken, it's the DOE money that's
going to fund the NGOs and the domestic war in
Los Angeles and across the country. Right now, Am I
connecting the dots correctly? And if I am these Republican senators, man.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
I wouldn't want to be them right now.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
If we have those dots connected properly and they are
still pushing for the green energy which is funding the
the you know, deep state woken weaponized riots across our country.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Oh my word, I would not want to be them.
Do we have that right, Andy?
Speaker 5 (44:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (44:57):
I mean, at best, at bet these subsidies are going
to companies that are building pipelines that aren't carrying oil
and gas. But yeah, CO two, and they're using eminent
domain to take people's land away from them in order
to build these pipelines. At best, they're giving money to
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foreign companies that want to build electric vehicle plants and
batteries and stuff in our country that that go off
sea or offshore. That's at best, at worst China, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
So there there is.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Absolutely no.
Speaker 9 (45:39):
Excuse at all for Republicans center Republicans to defend this
garbage because the tentacles are deep.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
It goes everywhere, and so we've got to stop it.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (45:51):
Yeah, And we got some heroes over there right on
the on the cost cutting side. But when you say
America can't afford it, you know I ran on the
budget stuff twelve years ago. You know, people say they
care about it nominally, but they won't vote for it.
They won't kick out out of Congress their members who
are voting for seven trillion dollar budgets repeatedly, who are
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running two trillion dollar budget deficit, spending, stealing from the kids,
two trillion every year deficit financed. We're spending it now,
the kids got to pay it back. How do you
convince the American people we cannot afford this? I mean,
at trillion dollars in interest payments, it's bigger than defense.
But make it real so that the war room shares
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this segment with all their friends and we can get
some changes up on Capitol Hill. All political commentaries my own,
by the way, Andy Fireway two minutes to conclude.
Speaker 9 (46:44):
I mean, the one big, beautiful bill does not take
away people's benefits. It does not touch Social Security or Medica,
but it does go after the waste, fraud and abuse
and the green energy tax credits that we have spent
or that we have wasted over the last multiple decades.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
The problem that we have right now isn't just because
of Biden.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
It's been decades of profligate spending, and that profligate spending
has created a deep state of just nefarious spending that's
been going.
Speaker 6 (47:16):
On for so long.
Speaker 9 (47:18):
And what the Big Beautiful Bill does is just start
to take a blade to all of that wasteful spending.
We can remove all of that spending, we can go
back to pre COVID spending, and nobody will feel it
at all in a meaningful way.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
But we have to do it because if.
Speaker 9 (47:36):
We don't, we're going to be forced into wars that
we can't afford.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
We're going to have sky high inflation. It's going to
be very very.
Speaker 9 (47:46):
Ugly, and it could be coming very very soon into
this summer and fall.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
If we don't get our act together.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
And I can't stress this enough, it is going to
be the Senate Republicans that are the problem. Mike Round
in South Dakota, Tom Tillis in North Carolina. Bill Cassidy
in Louisiana. These senators do not know what time it
is in America, and they have to liver with these
spending cuts, and if they don't, we're going to have
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some serious problems ahead, and it's going.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
To hit everybody. It's going to hit every family.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
Very good, Andy Roth State Freedom Caucus Network. Look them
up right, get affiliated with them in your state, wherever
you live.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
These are the good guys.
Speaker 8 (48:31):
They're fighting fiscal deficit hawks, spending hawks, and they're what
we need in this country.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
It's not a sexy topic, but it needs to be done.
And don't let the Federal Reserve system off the hook either.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
They've accommodated the two trillion dollar budget deficits.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They're in charge of stable prices and employment.
Speaker 8 (48:51):
They've failed grotesquely for the past forty years.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Thanks for being with us on the warroom today. God
bless you all.
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on
these people.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You've not got a free shot.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
All these networks lying about the people, the people.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Have had a belly full of it.
Speaker 6 (00:18):
I know you don't like hearing that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I know you tried to do everything in.
Speaker 7 (00:20):
The world to stop there, but you're not going to
stop it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And where do people like that go to share the
big line? Mega media?
Speaker 8 (00:28):
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
these people had a conscience.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Speaker 8 (00:37):
If that answer is to save my country, this country
will be saved.
Speaker 9 (00:43):
War Room.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Use your host, Stephen cave Man.
Speaker 8 (00:53):
All right, back in the war room, Dave Praps sitting
then for the Great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Bannon.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
We've got a continuous coverage of the war. Obi Shabander's
coming on with us. But first we got Tage Gil
from Warpath Coffee. Tage, the floor is yours. Why don't
you bring us up to speed on the war. You
know the America First philosophy as well as anyone. What's
your overview of what's been happening and what are the consequences?
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As Stee says, what's the unintended consequences that could put
us in a real barrel as we tried to fight
multiple wars at the same time with the border invasion
twenty million China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Put it all into context for us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Brother, Yeah, I think the unintended consequences are the United
States getting drug into another war into the Middle East.
Israel did a great job with this mission last night.
They is basically all out war on Iran. I would
have liked to have seen some more negotiating with Trump.
(02:00):
You know Trump Trump got elected saying he wants to
bring peace to the Middle East and Russia Ukraine. I
don't think any of that's happening. He's been undermined at
every corner. But Israel's an ally and we're gonna protect them. So,
just like last time Israel had a back and forth
with Iran, the Europeans and the Arabs all launched aircraft
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and we shot down all those missiles, not all, but
almost all the missiles and drone attacks from Iran. So
I think we're committed to that. We're committed to protecting Israel.
Trump said, We're going to stay out of the attacking
Iran peace, but we're committed to protecting Israel, and that
could lead us into another war in the Middle East,
because as we know, you can't conquer a nation through
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air attacks. So if Iran doesn't capitulate and go back
to the table, then at some point, if Israel wants
to take capitually I Ran and there may be boots
on the ground at some point, which we don't want.
And i Ran already said that they may attack US
embassies and air bases, which we don't want because then
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Americans get killed, then we're gonna have to retaliate.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But that's that's Those are the unintended consequences. And another
unintended consequence would be the twenty million illegal immigrants that
came into the United States under Biden. People are saying
that there may be some sleeper cells in there, some
terrorists came across the border, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Another intended, unintended consequence for terrorist attacks inside the homeland
of the United States. Because of Israel's actions last night,
so we will see. And then also on the European front,
Zelenski launched these attacks on the Russian airfields and those
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may have unintended consequences because Trump is not pulling the
play U on supporting Ukraine. So that's that's two Eastern Europe,
in the Middle East, between Israel and Iran. And the
next thing that's on the pressure cooker is China and Taiwan.
If China takes I want Taiwan, or tries to take Taiwan,
(04:19):
then I would say it's fair to say that World
War three is going right now, we're.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
At two three, so yeah, we're close for World War three. Yeah,
you're a war fighter, you have friends around the country.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
The polling all says the American people want us to
pull back.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They want less war, not more war.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
When you go around the country, what do you hear
from other war fighters. It's the sons and daughters of
MAGA that are going to get killed, right, It's it's
not the elitist Ivy League crew that their starns and
daughters are going to be put at risk. When you
go around the country, you know, just give us a
few anecdotes from people you've talked to what are they
saying when when you just talk to people as you
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meet them going around the country, what are they saying
to you?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, the appetite for war is going away. It's not
this is you know.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I remember in nineteen ninety one when we invaded Iraq
for the Iraq Kuwait thing, that the Gulf War. You know,
it was such American flags everywhere, the yellow ribbons, and
then same thing after nine to eleven, and I think
that sentiment is gone. People are over it. People just
over it. They don't want the war anymore. I mean,
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we've been out war since two thousand and one basically continuously,
you know, and then as soon as Afghanistan wound down,
we shifted right into Ukraine into a proxy war.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We don't have for the most part, we don't have
any troops over there.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And then now this thing with Israel and Iran heats up,
which I know it will.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
There's at least going to be a couple more back
and forth. I don't think the appetite for war is
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In the United States, and through my my friends that
are out of the military now, some of them are
still in, some of them are still in the intelligence
agencies that the appetite for war is just not there.
For the most part, it's still there, I would say,
at a small level, but the majority of the guys
I know are they don't.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Have the appetite for war anymore. They don't want it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And America overwhelmingly voted for Trump. I mean, Trump run
by a landslide, and he ran on no.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
War exactly last question and then sell us some coffee.
So the American people don't have an appetite for war.
It's clear to everybody. The polling shows it. We don't
live in pure democracy. It's a representative democracy, a republic.
What's gone wrong with Congress? They're supposed to declare war,
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they don't ever discuss it. There's no forums open to
the American peace people. How do we fix this so
that we don't have the CIA in the deep state,
the State Department, the bureaucrats talking to President Trump, trying
to make it sound like he's engaged some good deal
or something when his gut is has proven to be right.
What's what's wrong with our representative republic?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh? Well, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
The representatives they don't represent the constituents anymore. They're represented
special interest group and lobbyists, and the lobbyists work for
you know, other countries like Israel.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They work for the.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lockheed Martin Raytheon, you know, Boeing, all these guys. And
our economy is basically based on war. Now we've outsourced
all our manufacturing to China and all these other countries,
and we are a war machine.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
United States is the war machine.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And whether whether we have troops on the ground fighting somewhere,
if that's not the case, then we have to have.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Proxy wars to feed the war machine. And that's it.
So last night fed the war machine.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because we sell arms to Israel, we you know, we
give them grants and it all goes back to the
big arms company. The military industrial complex drives America and
they own our Congress.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And how to fix it, I don't know. I don't know, Dave,
how to fix it. Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Trump ran on shutting down the deep state, and I
think he's doing a good job, but I don't know
if he can shut it down well the people.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, it's what the warm is all about.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Agency Steve always says, people need to make more noise.
We're not getting You got to get through to your
representatives on this war thing, and so what tays you know,
we're just talking about the app paper war, the war
monitors and the globalists, et cetera, in the Marxist fight
against the nation state itself. And let's not leave out
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the left. Right, there's tens of billions of dollars in
slush funds for USAID, the Department of Energy, everybody now knows,
and the tens of billions of dollars going into these
not NGOs nonprofits that are actually funding the war going
on on our streets right now in Los Angeles, across
the country, and the funding sources are coming into sharp relief.
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a show on that that you like where Mike Benz
is on giving the Evident, please share that with everyone
you know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I've had very good friends that are more left whatever.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
You share the war route with them, and over a
period of a few months they go it starts to
crack and it seeps in and they change their tomb.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Hey, sell us some coffee and thanks for being with
us day.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
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It's yeah, favorite.
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I put a little cream and sugar in it.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Still Steve gives me living you know what, for being
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I love the coffee.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
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we're going to another great patriot right now, Tays, We're
going to General Flynn, Generald Flynn, are you with us?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I'm I'm mobile, I'm on my mobile command posts.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He's amazing. No, you got it, You got it.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Hey, We've got about two and a half minutes for
a short intro and then we'll dive into the weeds.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But give us your two and a half.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Minute overview of what's going on overnight, and we'll come
back to you for to get in the weeds a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thanks, General.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, very yep, very briefly, very briefly, this war is
going to go on in the Middle East for at
least another two weeks. You're going to see a level
of devastation that we have not seen probably historically in
many people's lives, probably since since World War Two. And
this is regime changed. Time really are done And and
(12:46):
I don't I don't blame them. Need is we need
a benevolent leader inside of a rand to rise up.
We don't need somebody flying in from Paris who's been
making billions off the backs of of of of other people.
We need somebody from inside the regime. And we don't
we need to c I A the hell out of there, right, And.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
What do you see, I mean, you know the region
better than anyone, do you what's the probability of those
events occurring, getting a better secular leader.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And Jeffrey out of war with US? Yeah, I think
it's very high. Actually, I think that there's some people
that are identified.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
It is the most The most important thing is at
what point in time does Israel make the decision? And
they are hunting right now, they are definitely the guys
on the ground are hunting for the leadership that's been
They've devastated the leadership, just like they did devastating the
leadership of Hamas Huswilla. They're devastating the leadership of Iran
right now, the military, of the r GCU, the the
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political leadership, and you know, we haven't heard about the
Ayah Tola yet. Guarantees in hiding. His life is at risk,
and that's fine. I do think that the uh that
the Israeli's needs whatever they whatever capabilities they need, because
this thing is going to go on. My belief is
for another couple of weeks. They are not done with
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the level of destruction of the nuclear capability. We have
to we have to face the fact that for the sense,
really the Obama regime. Iran, the state's leading state sponsor
of terrorism in the world, has been developing a nuclear
weapon and they have had you know, they've had years
to develop it.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Their level of enrichment of uranium is.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
At a level that you know, they were ready to
come out with bombs here, you know, in the next
couple of weeks, if not days. So Israel, General mass Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, I know we're going back.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We got a break.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
We're going to hit General, and when you come back,
we want to hear your bonum fee days. One of
the finest intelligence minds in America right now. So General,
when you come back, give us a quick overview of
your qualifications because the American people need you right now.
Back in a second, your host, Stephen K. Ban back
(15:07):
in the war room. Dave Bratt's sitting in with the
Great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Bannon.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Honor privileged to have General Mike Flynn with us.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
I don't usually plug Liberty all political views of my own,
but we have General Flynn coming to our CEO summit
October fifteen and sixteen at Liberty University. And I've gotten
to know Mike over the years somewhat and everything I
hear about him. I mean, he's just a fine Christian man,
the values and virtues. When you're putting men's lives at risk,
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I want him in charge. I know he cares about
God's will and so, Mike, thanks for being on with
us today. Also, I'm down in Dallas representing Liberty Day
down at the Tower Club from one to four with
business friends. So at the last minute, if you want
to stop by, CEOs and business friends, pop on by.
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From here on out, political views are my own, General Flann,
give the folks your bona fides, your rise up, how
high in the military, and then you're intelligence so people
know what they're hearing and who.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
They're hearing it from.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yeah, I've served almost three and a half decades in
the world of intelligence, special operations, Airborne, five years in
combat operations. Served operationally for the majority of my life.
Uh served almost almost two decades at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
the home of Special Operations and Airborne Forces, and served
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on six continents, many different wars, Central Americas, Caribbeans, Southwest Asia,
Central Asia. You know, so I got a lot of
time from from Company Battalion all the way up to
serving as the highest most senior military intelligence officer in
the Department of Defense and running one of the largest
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intelligence agencies in the world, certainly here in the United
States of America.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
So I got a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I spent a lot of years in the Middle East,
particularly focused on this problem set that we are now
you know, watching unfold unravel if you will, in Iran.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So a couple of.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Things that I just I would just offer for your viewers.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
We are seeing an exquisite level of intelligence operations by
the nation of Israel.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I mean, it's just extraordinary to me. This is a
this is definitely a warning.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
This is a warning to any other adversary in that
region who feels like they want to take a shot
at Israel. There's one thing that the Israelis have is
they have incredible levels of very detailed, very tactical, very
refined intelligence because the targets that they are hitting and
the precision that they're hitting those targets. And I'm talking
(17:56):
about people, command and control, air defense, all the different
battlefield operating systems that you have to take out in
order to in this case, to destroy the capability, the
military and intelligence and security capabilities of a nation. The
Israelis have done quite a bit of it in just
a period of about forty eight hours. We are going
to see this continue. And again this is a warning
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to anybody else in the region. I've already seen where
the Hesbola response has been has been nullified because they know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
The other.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Countries in the region that have put out statements condemning
this attack, they know. They don't want to say it today,
they don't want to say it out loud, but they
actually are applauding this attack because Iran has been nothing
but a sore spot on the rear end of this
particular region of the world.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We cannot continue to have the.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Basically the spew that comes out of Iran and out
of people like the Ayatola who's talking about theolation of
not only the state of Israel, but also the United
States of America.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I applaud President Trump for how he has demonstrated enormous
and extraordinary strategic patients.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
And he has he has given every inch of rope
to the Iranians to make a better decision, and they
have refused. They have basically not made that decision. Absolutely
horrendous call on their part. And now what Israel is
going to do is continue to destroy every single aspect
of the nuclear war making potential of Iran.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Yeah, Hey, General, the President Trump is overarching strategy America. First,
we got twenty million border invasion war going on domestically
that's been taking tremendous resources away from us.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
He wanted to.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Get out of Ukraine. I'm going to get out of
there today, he said. Didn't want a war in the
Middle East. China is the major problem. So how do
you What we want UH to hear from you is
how do you put that puzzle together for the American
and the American people don't want war. The pulley is
overwhelmingly they want less action. So how do we threat
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this needle? Because now the genies out of the bottle
and Steve Management talking about unintended consequences after I rack
and shocking on everything look good, the purple ink and
the thumbs and all that. What's the cautionary note of
us moving forward? So that we can solve our own
domestic problems, bring manufacturing back to America and have some
stability and all get rich together. He Trump said, he
(20:37):
wants I ran to get rich together. And now they
you're You're right, he gave them rope and they hung themselves.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And they're hanging you.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
So yeah, so so so as brief as I can, Dave,
this is a super important issue for Trump, and Trump's
going to have to deal with this, and his inner
circle team is going to have to They're going to
have to really, really, you know, pull up the bootstraps here, folks.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I know that they're listening.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
They have got to do this because what Trump, what
Trump wanted to do, was he wanted to end the
you know, day one, I'm going to end the war
in Europe there, you know, in Ukraine, We're going to
negotiate a great deal with uh Iran blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
So here's where we're at. And I and people that
follow me on X.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
They can go to at gen Flynn GDN Flinn because
I posted something about the Ukraine war.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
We have got to we have got to clean the
decks right now.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And completely relook how we are negotiating the situation in
Europe because that war can end, and it can end
very quickly. But right now, the people that he's got
on at the negotiating table, and this is really not
Mark Rubio. Mark Rubio has got he's up to his
eyeballs in national security challenges just because of all the
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shit he's got to do.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
So Trump has got to clean the decks.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
He's got to say, Okay, nothing is working, clear it out.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I want, I want some new ideas, and so I
laid one out there this morning.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And these are serious, serious issues in serious times that
you know, the war in the in the Middle East.
I just think at this point in time, it's going
to play itself out. We're going to have to pay
very close attention to it. But that takes me back
to our country, the United States of America, and the
domestic landscape.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
And what I don't like.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I don't like this deal that Trump just had with
g in China, the Chinese, so you know, I mean,
he's he posted whatever yesterday about the deal he cut
on tariffs and Chinese students who have been ripping us
off for almost three decades now, stealing every single intellectual
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property that we have going back home, taking it back
home and developed.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I mean, we have got to stop this.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I mean, frankly, the nonsense and the bullshit that that
the Chinese Communist Party, not the people of China, but
the Chinese Communist Party and the leadership right now by
g is going to be our friends and they're going
to work with us as competitors or you know, or
or or part. No, the Chinese have been killing Americans
(23:04):
with fentanyl to the tune of hundreds of thousands over
the last five years. Never mind nothing fetter meine prior
to that, and other drugs prior to that, covid.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Covid was another bioweapon.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
We just saw the capture of a couple of people
with bioweapons to destroy our agricultural industry. That's only three people.
How many more people are out there the purchasing of
real estate. This nonsense about they're going to Congress is
going to you know, be part of these delegations around
the United States to what to market the Chinese Communist Party.
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This has got to end. It has got to end
first and foremost. Trump has got to refocus on America first.
America first to the rest of the world does not
mean America in isolation. It means we have got to
get our muscles stronger.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
We of God. It's like a human being, you got
to work out to stay healthy.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
America, we got to work out to get healthy, right manufacturing, prowess,
our own energy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Resources that we have abundance.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
We've got mining operations that have been shut down for
well over a couple of decades. Actually, and and Trumps
tried to start, you know, to get some of them
going up in like places like Montana and out in
Colorado and in New Mexico. But there's other places in
the country, you know, manufacturing in Michigan and Ohio.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
These are the kinds of things that the American people want.
American people do not.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Want war, and so don't don't drag us to another
war in the Middle East. Don't drag us into a
war that's cost us half a trillion, five hundred billion
dollars in Eastern Europe.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
What we could have done with that money. And Congress
is nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Folks, American people, listeners of the war room, do not
think that that Congress is going to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They are not.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
They are making a killing on these wars, the neo commons,
the neolips I mean, so I could go on and on, Dave, but.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I was going to say, America is a godly country
and we which is one thing that we are in
addition to other, you know, declining capabilities.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
We are a nation in moral decline. And if we don't,
if we don't raise the stature.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
And now I'm talking to the to the ministers and
the pactors and the congregations out there, get your act together.
Thank God, the Christian community came to the rescue of
President Trump.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I'm a Catholic, Steve's a Catholic.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Trump got the most Catholic votes of any president I
think since Ronald reagul or maybe even before, maybe even
more than him. Christians better better stand up and step
up and be counted and speak up. And I'm not
talking about the weak pastors and ministers and priests at
the at the pulpits. I'm talking about people of of
of moral courage. Our country has got to return to that.
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And it doesn't mean that you know, you don't. There's
not other other things that I can, I can you know,
argue about and debate about.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
But what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Is our country is in moral decline, and we are
in a steep moral decline.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
We're not at the precipice. We're in the Abyss read
Psalm twenty three.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, I was gonna go there.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
That was going to be my closing question for you,
General Flynn, American hero, patriot, serves country his whole life.
The Judeo Christian West is at a breaking point. He's
done serious and I agree wholeheartedly with what he just said.
The Church is supposed to be the body of Christ
on Earth and it should know about these catastrophic issues
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we're facing right. We should know that our CIA probably
had involvement a week ago in the Russia Ukraine, and
the Church is not aware of this. These are existential
life and death, peace versus war, and we want peace,
but you got to do it the right way. So
General Flynn, thank you for being with us. You're a
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treasurer and God bless you and all your work. Back
after the break in two seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Here's your Stephen K ban.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right back in the war room. Dave Brett sitting
in with a great Stephen K.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Bannon.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
It's our honor to have Ube Schavander back on. He's
going to bring us right up to speed on where
we stand now. Operationally, Israel went in and hard. They
went beyond getting rid of new capacity. They went to decapitation,
not of the political figures, but of the high end
military figures. So now we're in the soup, as they say,
(27:37):
and so they now the US is in a predicament,
and so what bring us up to speed? Ubin, thanks
again for being with us on the war room.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
First of all, General Michael Flan is absolutely spot on.
I mean there, he is a brilliant military mind, and
hopefully he can come back and.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Serve his nation once more. Look, there's no question this
is a full sweep.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
This is a determined Israeli decapitation strike against the top
echelons of Iran's strategic and military command.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Here's where we are operationally. Right now.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
The Israeli Air Force and MASAD agents who have penetrated
deep behind enemy lines on Iranian territory, have managed to
kill at least twenty senior Iranian Revolutionary.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Guard commanders, as well.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
As the commander of the Iranian Missile and Air Force
Command and the senior and most nuclear program advisor to
the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatola Alikimani. So right now, I
can imagine that there is confusion, there's chaos within the
command structure of Iran's political command. And look, bib NEATINAO
(28:57):
Israeli Prime Minister in a statement earlier today, said that
this is the time for the Iranian people, the Iranian
people to declare their freedom. So that is a message
here that this is a strategic blow against Iran. The
intent here is perhaps regime change, that this is going
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to go well beyond striking the nuclear underground enrichment sites.
Now we do have reports that the Neton's nuclear enrichment
struct site has been significantly damaged by the Israeli strikes.
That's important why because Iran has two of them, Netons
and for Doe.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
The big one is for Dough that is.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Deep beneath the mountains, underneath the holy Iranian site of
the city of Kombe, and that we can expect the
Israelis to strike.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
That site as well.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We are seeing some updates as we speak right now
that there are new explosions being heard in the capital
of Iran, Tehran, and in that holy site city of
come where that fort nuclear facility is taking place. The
Israelis certainly here are going This is operations going to
take days, if not weeks. You've got Mosad deep behind
enemy lines the Israeli. The Israelis have managed to cripple
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the order of battle for the Iranian command. By striking
against the leadership of Iran's missile command and its ground forces,
as well as the chief of Staff of the Iranian
military Mohammed.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Buggery, he is dead.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Now imagine that's equivalent if the chairman of the Joint
Chief of Staff was assassinated alongside others on in the
Pentagon leadership.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That is what this is equivalent to.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
So right now the Iranian military command structure, which is
top heavy, is running blind.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So this is going to escalate.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
We're going to see more of these masade attacks inside
Iran and more of these Israeli air strikes. Given what
we're hearing from the leadership in Jerusalem right now, the
Iranians have not managed to launched their medium and long
range ballistic missiles against Israeli targets, but so they're seeming
they're trying to regroup right now given the chaos that
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is taking place in Tehran. But no question from an
operational perspective, from a battleful of damaged assessment, this has
been a widely effective strike on Iran. The question is
what does the i Atla Ali Chamini do. He probably
believes that his regime right now is facing collapse. So
how will the iradience react as this a bear that's
(31:34):
been cornered, or will they collapse and totally be crippled.
President Trump and the social media statement said hey, Iran
must make a deal before there is nothing left, and
that is wise advice.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, what are the odds? I cannot imagine Iran making
that deal right now?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
How what what's the timeline for Iran to recoup someone
and be able to retain its footing with the medium
and long range missiles to Israel and then any risk
assessment to the US. And then do they have proxies
anywhere outside of Iran that can help them in this
(32:16):
response or have most of them been weakened significantly already.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Well, Iran's main proxy and it's strategic to turn against Israel.
Has Bulah Lebanon has been wiped up because Bulla has
already said that they're not in the spite. That's because
the Israeli Massad killed Hassan Nosrala, the leader of Hasbolah,
and killed most of the top Haasbola commands with those
exploding pagers, that Massad intelligence operation that killed hundreds of
(32:44):
Hebelah commanders, as well as the top leadership of Hasbela.
That that means that which is right on the border
of Israel's north is not going to be able to
launch retaliatory strikes. And Iran for years had pinned its
hopes on the ability of Hasbola to launch these strikes
into Israel to try to stop the Israelis from launching
out strikes deep into Iran's fortified underground nuclear facilities.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
So with that has been a lot. Iran is really exposed.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
But Iran Revolutionary Guard still has terror operatives throughout the
Middle East, and that needs American diplomatic facilities and military
bases in Doha. The United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bagdad are potentially exposed to retaliation,
but that would be essentially suicidal by the Iranians if
they so chose that path. Look, Steve Witkoff was supposed
(33:36):
to sit down with his Iranian counterparts on Sunday in
the neutral Arabian golf country of Online.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
That clearly is not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
And we saw for President Trump's social media statement earlier
today and that some of the Iranians that the American
side was dealing with from the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Many of those people are now dead.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Given the wide sweeping nature of this Israeli strike that
seems so oft the Iranian military leadership and iol Hamanian
completely unprepared, with the top military advisors to the IOLA
and Tehran now dead, so all eyes are now when
what Tehran will do next. This is completely from an
(34:16):
operational perspective. In the first twenty four hours seems to
have been a success. The question is is will Israel's
attacks be able to destroy those advanced centrifuges that the
Iranians used to enrich uranium to weapons grade levels of
enrichment bebing Nettie said that these strikes will destroy those centrifuges.
(34:39):
It's going to take the Iranians perhaps decades to rebuild
that nuclear program, given that the Israeli misat has also
managed to assassay a number of the top nuclear scientists
in Iran as well, and that is going to lead
to a significant amount of chaos and disruption within the
nuclear research and development capability that Iran currently has as well.
(35:02):
Even if some of those centrifugues deep beneath the Iranian
mountains survived the first wave of strikes, but we can
certainly expect another wave. The question is will American military
assets be dragged into this war. So far, it's very
clear from President trump administrations statements that American military assets
or planes soldiers are not involved in this attacks. But
(35:24):
perhaps behind the scenes there may be some intelligence support
to the Israeli long range attacks and their special Masaud
activities on the ground in Iran.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, say a little bit more on that.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
But also you and Flann both degree it's going to
be days weeks before maybe even the Israeli strikes are done.
And so where does that leave us on the ground,
you know, just in terms of every day activity, I
mean it's all undermined, right, I mean flight activity in
the Middle East. The strengths of horror moves, key choke
(35:56):
points are problematic.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What do you see, you know, just say a month out,
what's still going to be.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Negatively impacted because of these attacks.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It's not just going to be life as normal. I
can't comprehend that. Trying to try to map that out
for us a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, Pandora's box has been opened.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Now.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Look, remember in June of last year, the Iranians and
Israelis traded missile strikes and air strikes, but that was
relatively contained.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
This is a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
This is Israeli air Force and Masade operators on the
ground going after the top leaders of the of Iran's
top echelon, people that are sit down with Iola Kamani
on any given day. So with Hassin Ostrala dead and
Lebanon with Ali Shamkhani, who was the right hand men
of Iola Kimani also dead, with Hussein Salalami, the chief
(36:51):
of staff of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards dead, as well
as some of the other lieutenants.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Camanian right now must be wondering, well, maybe I'm next,
So maybe we should just go all out.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Look, the Masad is probably still on the ground.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
We did see reports that the Israeli intelligence Special Service
was able to evacuate some of their operators that were
on the ground and according to reports, launching drones drone
strikes from within Iranian territory, striking some of those ballistic
missile facilities that the Iranians have underground that they were
intended to be used as a second strike capability against Israel.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
If and when these attacks take place.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
So right now, the Israeli seem to be at least
two steps ahead on the chessboard with Iran.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
But you know, the.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Iranians can launch Kamakazi strikes.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
We saw in twenty nineteen the Iranians launching suicide Kamakazi
drones strikes against Saudi oil crude storage facilities in northern
Saudi Arabia. We saw the Iranians launch a similar attack
against oil facilities right outside of Abu Dhabi. So perhaps
here the Iranians show may choose to strike oil storage
(38:00):
facilities and terminals in the Arabian golf and to you know,
spike oil prices you know throughout the world. That actually
perhaps be one one option, but that might might lead
to strikes against Iran's oil terminals, and that could of
course cripple Iran's economy. So I think this is going
to you know, this is going to escalate before it
de escalates. The message coming out of Washington here is that, hey, Iran,
(38:23):
before there's nothing left of what was once a proud empire,
take the deal, you know, agree to zero enrichment. You
had sixty days. Now it's sixty days plus one you've
seen that there is you know, the other side is
not bluffing. You know, you were warned multiple times over
and over and over again that you know, the US
(38:44):
has the most lethal military capabilities, that much much of
which have been provided to Israel, and that these there
would be consequences if you did not accept the deal.
And now the Iranians are facing that consequence. Will there
be an operable will there be an opportunity for I
thought Hamani to go back to the negotiating table. Well,
many of those people that were negotiating are now been
(39:05):
killed by this extraordinary Israeli decapitation strike. So you know,
but if a missile facility is used to strike American
diplomats or American soldiers, must not forget when the Iranians
and their militia forces last tried to do this President
Trump in the first term, you know, wiped out, caused
(39:28):
some Solmani, the most capable Iranian commander, and so you
know that certainly is going to also factor into what
Ali Khamane, the Supreme leader of Iran, is going to
do next.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
But this is war. The Middle East is at war,
and this war is going to continue for some time.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
No doubt.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
Yeah, yeah, thirty seconds left. Oh, thanks for being with us.
Thirty seconds. In closing, how much does this shift the
US positioning and the resources of the State Department, the CIA,
most every agency.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
You said this is huge from the is.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Really perspective, It seems to me it's also fairly significant
even if we're in a passive position to get ready
for what could happen. Just give us in thirty seconds
a summary overview of what the US shift looks like.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Internally.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Well, yeah, you have the American aircraft carriers on the
Arabian Golf and in that area, they're gonna be able
to high alert for any type of suicide drone attacks
or suicide boat attacks. Intelligence facilities, diplomatic facilities throughout the
Arabian Golf in the Middle East are.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Going to be at high alert.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
And of course, you know, Iranian back terrorists can even
attack American tourists in Europe or in Latin America, so
you know, a tactic that the Runnings have used in
the past when they were desperate. So this is a
ward in the Middle East, but it certainly has global implications.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, yeah, right on in my Hubai Shamandar.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Very much, brother, for being with us again on the
War Room. You're great.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
Everyone loves your analysis. See us soon, folks, stay stay
with us over the very right back.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
He's your host. Ben came back all right.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Dave Brett and the War Room with great Stephen kg
Bannon covering the war overnight news. I'm sure everyone's pretty
much up to speed. We have great analysis with Hubay
and General Flynn. Now you know economics and the trade
offs involved here.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
This is you know, President Trump's intuition is no more war.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Now, the Ukraine War has not ended in the day
because the deep state actors are, you know, putting roadblocks
in the way there. Now we've got a Middle East circumstance.
It's going to shift for sources. So nobody better. We've
got you know, I was in the Freedom Caucus and
now we got the head of the state Freedom Caucus
organization across all fifty states.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Andy Roth, welcome to the War Room.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
If you want to just pivot off the war and
the use of scarce resources and then all the other
challenges and the big beautiful Bill Flory's yours welcome.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Andy.
Speaker 9 (42:03):
Hey, Thanks David, it's good to see you're an old friend,
and I love what you did in the Freedom Caucus
and everything that you've done since then. Just to pick
up from the last couple of interviews that you've had,
I just make a comment that we can't afford for
an entanglement right now. That's one of the reasons that
Trump is so adamantly American. First, is we got to
fix what's going on in our country. Since post nine
(42:27):
to eleven, we've spent eight trillion dollars both in the
war in Iraq and an Afghanistan, and to put that
in perspective, eight percent with tack on another twenty twenty
five percent of our national debt. We can't afford that
right now. And so what we're trying to do in
Congress with the House Freedom Caucus is trying to do
(42:47):
in Congress is to push through this one big, beautiful bill.
And even though it's only one point five trillion dollars
worth of spending cuts, it's a start and we've got
to get going on it. And here is the very
fundament mental secret to passing this. It's getting the Senate
Republicans on board. They're the only ones that are stopping this.
(43:10):
And so the War Room posse they are the backbone
of this country. They need to light up the phones
of all of these Republicans who are addicted to the
Biden green energy tax credits. You know, it's an underreported
dirty secret right now that there are Republican governors all
(43:30):
across the country who bashed Biden correctly for the Inflation
Reduction Act. They say he's a big government liberal that
destroyed our country. That's all correct, But out on the
other side of their mouth, they're taking all of those
green energy tax credits, all those subsidies, billions and billions
of dollars, and they're bragging about.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
It back home.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
And the senator from those states are going along for
the ride. And so they're the ones that are pushing
back against the House pass bill. And so whatever the
Senate does, it needs to deliver not only on that bill,
but make the cuts even larger.
Speaker 8 (44:06):
And I'm willing to let me let me interrupt you,
let me let me interrupt you on that green point
because I think, and you tell me if I'm connecting
the dots right here, because I want to be accurate
and fair.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
The warlroom always wants the receipts.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
But these tens of billions of dollars going to the
green energy stuff. That stuff goes to the Department of Energy,
And if I'm not mistaken, it's the DOE money that's
going to fund the NGOs and the domestic war in
Los Angeles and across the country. Right now, Am I
connecting the dots correctly? And if I am these Republican senators, man.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
I wouldn't want to be them right now.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
If we have those dots connected properly and they are
still pushing for the green energy which is funding the
the you know, deep state woken weaponized riots across our country.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Oh my word, I would not want to be them.
Do we have that right, Andy?
Speaker 5 (44:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (44:57):
I mean, at best, at bet these subsidies are going
to companies that are building pipelines that aren't carrying oil
and gas. But yeah, CO two, and they're using eminent
domain to take people's land away from them in order
to build these pipelines. At best, they're giving money to
(45:18):
foreign companies that want to build electric vehicle plants and
batteries and stuff in our country that that go off
sea or offshore. That's at best, at worst China, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
So there there is.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Absolutely no.
Speaker 9 (45:39):
Excuse at all for Republicans center Republicans to defend this
garbage because the tentacles are deep.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
It goes everywhere, and so we've got to stop it.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (45:51):
Yeah, And we got some heroes over there right on
the on the cost cutting side. But when you say
America can't afford it, you know I ran on the
budget stuff twelve years ago. You know, people say they
care about it nominally, but they won't vote for it.
They won't kick out out of Congress their members who
are voting for seven trillion dollar budgets repeatedly, who are
(46:11):
running two trillion dollar budget deficit, spending, stealing from the kids,
two trillion every year deficit financed. We're spending it now,
the kids got to pay it back. How do you
convince the American people we cannot afford this? I mean,
at trillion dollars in interest payments, it's bigger than defense.
But make it real so that the war room shares
(46:34):
this segment with all their friends and we can get
some changes up on Capitol Hill. All political commentaries my own,
by the way, Andy Fireway two minutes to conclude.
Speaker 9 (46:44):
I mean, the one big, beautiful bill does not take
away people's benefits. It does not touch Social Security or Medica,
but it does go after the waste, fraud and abuse
and the green energy tax credits that we have spent
or that we have wasted over the last multiple decades.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
The problem that we have right now isn't just because
of Biden.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
It's been decades of profligate spending, and that profligate spending
has created a deep state of just nefarious spending that's
been going.
Speaker 6 (47:16):
On for so long.
Speaker 9 (47:18):
And what the Big Beautiful Bill does is just start
to take a blade to all of that wasteful spending.
We can remove all of that spending, we can go
back to pre COVID spending, and nobody will feel it
at all in a meaningful way.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
But we have to do it because if.
Speaker 9 (47:36):
We don't, we're going to be forced into wars that
we can't afford.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
We're going to have sky high inflation. It's going to
be very very.
Speaker 9 (47:46):
Ugly, and it could be coming very very soon into
this summer and fall.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
If we don't get our act together.
Speaker 9 (47:53):
And I can't stress this enough, it is going to
be the Senate Republicans that are the problem. Mike Round
in South Dakota, Tom Tillis in North Carolina. Bill Cassidy
in Louisiana. These senators do not know what time it
is in America, and they have to liver with these
spending cuts, and if they don't, we're going to have
(48:16):
some serious problems ahead, and it's going.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
To hit everybody. It's going to hit every family.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
Very good, Andy Roth State Freedom Caucus Network. Look them
up right, get affiliated with them in your state, wherever
you live.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
These are the good guys.
Speaker 8 (48:31):
They're fighting fiscal deficit hawks, spending hawks, and they're what
we need in this country.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
It's not a sexy topic, but it needs to be done.
And don't let the Federal Reserve system off the hook either.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
They've accommodated the two trillion dollar budget deficits.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They're in charge of stable prices and employment.
Speaker 8 (48:51):
They've failed grotesquely for the past forty years.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Thanks for being with us on the warroom today. God
bless you all.
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