Episode 5194: War In Iran Continues To Destabilize The Oil Industry; Stopping The Sharia Takeover Of The Country
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•Mar 6, 20263 months agoSummary
Episode covers escalating Iran conflict's impact on global oil markets and Persian Gulf stability, alongside domestic legislative battles over immigration enforcement and Sharia law restrictions. Discusses geopolitical implications for U.S. energy independence and regional power dynamics between Persian and Arab states.
Insights
- Iran conflict directly threatens global oil supply through Strait of Hormuz disruption, with 31% of seaborne oil transiting the region; current $89/barrel prices could spike to $100-120 without strategic U.S. energy policy response
- U.S. domestic energy production capacity offers strategic leverage; Trump administration should maximize domestic drilling and SPR management rather than release emergency reserves to stabilize markets
- State-level immigration enforcement legislation faces coordinated obstruction from agricultural lobbies despite Trump endorsements; legislative gridlock demonstrates gap between executive support and legislative action
- Sharia law restriction ballot measures show 95% voter support in Texas, indicating grassroots momentum for religious ideology restrictions that's spreading to 10+ states with legal framework emerging
- Senate filibuster reform critical to America First agenda; incumbent Republicans blocking procedural changes despite co-sponsoring bills, creating leverage opportunity for Trump administration
Trends
Grassroots conservative movements successfully driving ballot initiatives on immigration and religious ideology restrictions across multiple statesEnergy market volatility becoming primary geopolitical weapon; Persian Gulf instability directly impacts global AI infrastructure development requiring 5x current energy productionState-level legislative resistance to Trump-endorsed policies from establishment Republicans despite electoral mandates, signaling primary challenge vulnerabilityCoordinated agricultural lobby opposition to immigration enforcement bills in red states, creating conflict between Trump policies and business interestsExpansion of Sharia law restriction legislation from Texas model to 10+ states, framing as ideological rather than religious restrictionSenate procedural obstruction by Republicans on filibuster reform despite bill co-sponsorship, blocking Save America Act advancementMiddle East conflict metastasizing through economic channels (oil markets, tourism, production) rather than direct military escalationSatellite communications and cybersecurity products gaining market traction amid infrastructure vulnerability concerns from Middle East conflict
Topics
Iran Military Conflict Impact on Oil MarketsStrait of Hormuz Shipping Disruption and Energy SecurityU.S. Domestic Oil Production and Strategic Petroleum Reserve PolicyImmigration Enforcement Legislation in Red StatesAgricultural Lobby Opposition to Immigration BillsSharia Law Restriction Ballot InitiativesSenate Filibuster Reform and Save America ActRepublican Senate Obstruction of Trump AgendaPersian Gulf Geopolitical Power DynamicsCybersecurity and AI Infrastructure VulnerabilitySatellite Communications Market OpportunityHome Title Fraud and Cyber Crime TrendsEnergy Market Futures Trading and OPEC StrategyHemispheric Defense and Western Hemisphere SecurityPolitical Prisoner Cases and Clemency Advocacy
Companies
OPEC
Oil cartel members (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait) scaling back production amid Iran conflict, targeting $100/barrel pr...
Morgan Stanley
Investment bank mentioned as major player in crude oil futures trading against independent traders in New York pits
Goldman Sachs
Investment bank referenced as major participant in energy commodities trading markets
Anthropic
AI company's Claude system reported showing signs of consciousness, raising concerns about AI development amid Pentag...
Al Arabiya
Middle East news network reporting on airport closures and travel disruptions from Iran conflict affecting regional t...
Daily Mail
News outlet reporting on potential multi-year airport closure timelines in Gulf states due to Iran conflict
Financial Times
London-based publication extensively covering Gulf oil market volatility and geopolitical implications of Iran conflict
People
Dorothy Moon
Idaho GOP chair discussing state-level immigration enforcement bills blocked by agricultural lobby despite Trump endo...
Karen Sigmund
American Freedom Alliance leader discussing Texas Sharia law ballot measure victory (95% voter support) and national ...
Brennan Weichert
National security analyst discussing Persian vs. Arab military capabilities and Iran's strategic targeting of Gulf st...
Kenneth Pollock
Author of 'Armies of Sand' analyzing Arab military failures and Persian strategic superiority in regional conflicts
Eric Bowling
Former crude oil futures trader (12 years in NY pits) analyzing current oil market dynamics and Trump energy policy s...
Caroline Wren
Political strategist discussing Ken Paxton's Senate leverage on Save America Act and John Cornyn's filibuster obstruc...
Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General offering to step aside from Senate race if Save America Act passes, creating Trump negotiating...
John Cornyn
Texas Senator co-sponsoring Save America Act but refusing to lift filibuster, blocking procedural advancement
Donald Trump Jr.
Reposting Ken Paxton's Save America Act commitment, amplifying legislative pressure on Senate Republicans
Tina Peters
Colorado election official imprisoned for securing election backup; advocated for clemency from Governor Polis
Governor Jared Polis
Colorado governor urged to grant clemency to Tina Peters, political prisoner case highlighted for audience advocacy
Mike Lindell
MyPillow CEO discussing warehouse closeout sales and factory relocation during emergency preparedness messaging
Chris Hor
Tactical gear company representative promoting Faraday-lined tactical hoodies and satellite phones for cybersecurity
Quotes
"This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on this people."
Stephen K. Bannon•Opening segment
"95% of Republican Texans who voted on Tuesday were resoundingly in favor of stopping Sharia law in Texas."
Karen Sigmund•Mid-episode
"The Persians are much better effective war fighters and strategists than the Arabs."
Brennan Weichert•Geopolitical analysis segment
"Trump got it down to zero. Steve, I don't know if you remember this. This has never happened in the history of any commodity in the world."
Eric Bowling•Oil market analysis
"Ken Paxton has done more to fight to get the Save America Act passed than any current United States Senator, with the exception of Mike Lee."
Caroline Wren•Senate legislative discussion
Full Transcript
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on this people. Here's the thing, I've got a free shot of all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bowne. I think the president just put up moments ago. Oh, Donald Trump Jr. This Don Jr. Wow, total commitment to one of the most important pieces of legislation to save our republic past the Save America Act. He's reposting a tweet from Ken Paxton. It's Friday, 6th March, year of the Lord, 2026. Okay, strap in. We've got a lot to cover in this hour. Dorothy Moons, Idaho. I want to go to your efforts, Dorothy, in one of the reddest of the red states, but with issues, what you're doing on Sharia law. Can you tell me you've got a pass in one house, you're working on the other? What's going on there, ma'am? Steve, thank you for having me on. Past update, I let you know last week that the American court's American laws, it got through the house with a pretty high vote of 61 out of 70. And then it's moved over to Jude in Rules in the Senate. It's been sitting there since February 24th. This is one that needs to move through. I told you a week and a half ago I might need your help on this one. Last Tuesday, a bill was brought forward to charge anyone who harbors knowingly helps or transports or hides illegals. They will be charged. It was amazing. I watched the testimony and all of the food banks, all of the churches came out and said, no, you can't arrest us for helping these folks. This bill had nothing to do with it. It was a well-organized group that came in and defeated it by two votes. The America First policies that President Trump has ran on and has been working on and securing our border and getting the illegals, and especially the dangerous ones out of our state, we need to get behind this. And I know Idahoans are behind it. The problem is we have a huge agricultural lobby here in the state, and we've got four or five more bills. There's a big one that is sitting right now in Senate State Affairs. It's already gotten through the House, and this one would charge a misdemeanor of employers or labor representatives or employment agents who knowingly hire illegal aliens here in the state. And that one is sitting in Senate State Affairs by a man who is a senator and also big an ag. This is horrible. In E-Verify, we've got an E-Verify bill that is sitting in Senate State Affairs, and again, because of the ag. And finally, the last one was that they were asking for these refugee resettlement organizations that put people all around the state. The legislature is just asking for an annual report on how many illegals or immigrants are they putting around in different locations of our huge state, and they don't want to do it. So those three bills are sitting in a drawer. And I think what really concerns me, Steve, is the fact that our governor has Trump's endorsement, and our governor really needs to get these out of the drawer, and he works very closely with the Senate. So I am encouraging him, and I would hope your listeners would call his office and encourage him to get the Senate moving these through. These are huge planks in the America First program that we all want to support. Do you think he's actually, he got President Trump's endorsement for America First Policies, but do you think he's actually blocking these or just by indifference, just not paying attention to him? Oh, no, no, no. He's definitely paying attention to him. Like I said, the ag lobby is huge. The dairy lobby is working everything very hard. And the fact of the matter is there's a lot of people willing to work in these industries, and they are, you know, what is another interesting thing, Steve, is that I've had a couple of whistleblowers reach out to me on some big farms down in southern Idaho, and it's not good. I mean, people are kind of upset that these bills are not moving, that they're sitting, and now they're thinking, well, we've got to do something, we can't let this happen. So it's really, it's getting a little precarious because the session usually ends the end of March, and we're going to run out of time. So they're running the clock, and if we don't get any substantive immigration laws passed, I think the folks would be pretty upset. Dorothy, where do people go to you to get more information about this, particularly about contacting the governor? What's your social media and where they go for the, your chairman of the GOP up there, where they go? Well, for the, call the governor's office. His number is 208-334-2100. 208-334-2100. If you'd like to go to the idgop.org website, I just posted my opinion piece this week is all about this immigration issue and how we have to address the problems here at home in Idaho. Ma'am, thank you so much. Fight in the good fight. Red states have got to step up. You got great people up there that want these policies. You can't have a bunch of establishment Republicans block it. Dorothy Moons, another fighter. Karen Sigmund, you're expanding. We had a massive victory here in Texas. Texans right now, they're working on a whole bunch of different, how you put teeth in this, how you take it to the next stage. Going after the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, which the governor's designate and cares a terrorist organization, but this battle is going to expand across the country. What do you got for us, ma'am? That's right. Exactly right. That gigantic victory in Texas. I mean, one would hope there would be a gigantic victory in Texas, but it really is just the beginning of a fight not only in Texas, but across the country. What we learned is 95% of Republican Texans who voted on Tuesday were resoundingly in favor of stopping Sharia law in Texas. We need to ensure that that mandate actually translates into action through the Texan legislators. It's not done. This was essentially a poll. They need to take action on this various ways. There's lots of ways this has to happen. It needs to be part of the conversation in every race, both in Texas, but also, as you know, this battle is being waged across the country. If I can add, this is really the domestic front of this exact war that's going on in Iran. This is Islam trying to seek global dominance, and in Texas, we are stopping it. People of Texas have said we prefer constitutional law over Sharia law, and all the implications of that. Every elected official, every candidate across the country needs to take an equivalent stand to say we are for America. We are not for giving power to invaders, because that is exactly what it is. This is jihad in various forms. This is unrestricted warfare in various forms. This is Islam seeking dominance through various means that include. We've had at least a dozen, ten to a dozen states reach out, whether it's Idaho is already there with the American laws for American courts, but people are up in arms in this, and they want to stop it. Now they've got a permission structure to talk about this. There's no longer that you have to be shouted down and say, oh, this is First Amendment anti-religion. The old games don't work anymore. They're not going to work. People are seriously in Texas. I'm so blown away by the grassroots movement here that folks have just put their shoulder to the wheel, and now they're at the next phase to actually whether it's the designating the terrorists, let's get meat on the bone there, care, Muslim Brotherhood, they want to run them out of the state. And they're going to run them out of the state. And all the Heims just heard care coming after people. All those days are over. People are tired of this, and they're tired of this slippery way. They try to slide in here and take over the state with this Islamic invasion. It's not going to work. Americans are not going to. They don't accept it. And now they're going to stop it, and they're going to reverse it. Karen, over at AFA, where do people go? Your social media, and what are you guys putting up on this? Where do they go? AFA, American Freedom Alliance, afalianceamericanfreedomalliance.org. And yes, I think people are recognizing that this is a political ideology seeking global dominance rather that's cloaked in religion. This is not a religious situation. This is an ideological takeover, a totalitarian takeover. And we stopped it in Texas. We just need to use that as a launching pad as we are doing exactly moving across the country. So thank you so much, Steve, for putting this on the forefront. It is a massive war, and we need to stop it. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you for being brave enough to tie in the Peter McElvitties in London and the Gert Wilders in the Netherlands, because it's the lesson of the Europeans. This is where I talked to Rahim at the beginning of the show. The Europeans that are not your allies, you can't have this happy talk. You can't go to Munich and have all this happy talk about their NATO allies. We're paying for the whole thing. They want us to pay for all the Ukrainian situation. They want troops there for security guarantee. And when it comes time to actually get it on, they're not there. The Brits had the gall to come to the United States and say, hey, hey, hey, we just need some kind of, we just need like six hours. Just give us six hours, and that means our Muslim guys in commons won't rise up and try to throw us out, try to bring down the government. But we just need six hours. That's the kind of phony optics that have gotten us in this situation. They don't support you, and they're not going to support you in a fight. You've got to understand this. This is why we've got to rid our nation of this. This is a virus. This is a virus a thousand times more dangerous than the pandemic. It's a virus. This virus and all this, oh, it's just a religion. And you guys are anti-religion. We're not anti-religion at all. We're anti-radical audiology. And you see what that radical audiology has done in the Middle East? You know, whether you're 100% for this war, 100% against this war, you can see what destruction it's brought. And like I said, the Middle East is a sideshow in the Israel situation, the sideshow to a sideshow. But hey, we're back in it. And so we got to figure out how to go forward. One of the ways we go forward is shut it down here. It's time to shut it down here. Brennan Weichert, your thoughts, particularly as this thing metastasizes, because I think that one of the most important centers of gravity is what's happening in the Gulf with the Arab states versus the Persians. Now, you just took a shot at the Arabs and saying, hey, the Persians are an ancient civilization, and they're very smart. Yeah, I want to just correct that. I wasn't saying Arabs are dumb. I was saying that when it comes to the strategic situation, the Persians are much better effective war fighters and strategists than the Arabs. There's a great book by Joe Pollock called Armies of Sand. Highly recommend everybody buy it. Kenneth Pollock, I should say, wrote it. Kenneth, yeah. It's a very effective analysis of the follies of the Arab war machines. Brennan What, talk about that. We got a couple of minutes. Those war machines right now are under the gun because the Persians have determined that, hey, we want to break them. To break the United States, let's break the Arabs first. Kenneth Yeah, and it's working. And the Arabs are turning on Trump. I mean, some of them are cutting off these Iranian money flows, but at the same time, they're also being deprived of their normal money flows from oil and tourism. People are not talking about that. One of the major sources of revenue for these Gulf states is tourism. And all of the airports are shut down. I have friends at Al Arabiya who are telling me that it is a nightmare right now for trying to travel. And the officials are saying they don't know when they're going to reopen these airports to normal operations. The Daily Mail says it might be years before they're reopened, even if the war does end relatively soon. So my point here is the Iranians have affected a very unique and smart strategy of going after the weakest pressure points, which tends to be the Arab states. And if they break, the Iranians know the people of those regions are far more sympathetic to the Islamic ideology of the Iranian regime than they are to the Israel-American ideology. And so this is a long-term problem that's shaping up unless we can end this now, which it doesn't look like we will be going to do that with the president declaring unconditional surrender, demanding unconditional surrender. Brandon, where do people go? Your book Shadow Wars, a great primer on how to think about the ongoing conflict the United States has had with the Persians. Where do they get that? And where do you get all your current thinking, sir? You can get that anywhere. They sell books, probably Amazon. They haven't censored me there yet. You can also find my I write under the pseudonym NatSekGuy at emerald.tv. And I'm the senior national security editor of 1945.com. Follow me on Twitter at WeTheBrandon. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. It's always a joy. Home title. Now is not the time. The financial conditions we got now is not the time with all the turbulence. 90% of your net worth is tied up in that home. Every dream you've ever had is in that home. Make sure it doesn't turn into a nightmare. The rudimentary system we have in this country to protect titles, home title lock will take you up a thousand levels. Home title lock.com. Promo code Steve, 14 day free, $1 million triple lock protection. They'll show you everything. Natalie Dominguez in the team at home title lock. Check it out today. Home title lock.com. Promo code Steve. The world is getting more unstable and chaotic every day. 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But Steve, today for the war in Posse, we have a special, we're giving away a free tactical hoodie with a free satellite phone with activation, just $85 a month. Then you're going to get 150 minutes for that. But Steve, one thing we saw in Iran, the first thing the US did very smartly was go after and attack the communications networks, the data networks, the power grid. And because taking those things out is vital to taking down a country. But we have to remember, as your previous guest said, that these guys are smart and they're going to come after our grid. They're going to come after our data centers. They're going to come after our networks as well. 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Don't, it's not a 0% chance that they're going to try to do something and try to do something to strike back at the United States. And you got to be prepared for that. Correct? Yeah, absolutely. And look, we've seen these guys put a lot of people and a lot of dollars behind these efforts to attack our infrastructure over the last couple of years, especially, and they're going to be very motivated to continue that right now. So we just need to be prepared for that. We need to assume that's going to happen at some point. Satellite phones and satellite communications mean that you can always stay connected and keep in touch and make those calls, because if the power goes down, the cell networks go along with it. So tell me what the specific deal is. I get, tell me about the satellite phone. Then you throw in the hoodie, but what's this deal on the satellite phone? So the satellite phone like this one right here, just 85 bucks a month. This phone in Steve, normally $1,200 plus dollars. 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Eric Bowling, the financial times of London is absolutely vapor locked by what's going on in the Gulf right now between Qatar and UAE and the Saudis and what the Iranians are doing. Give people your background, because people know you're the big personality. You were the only guest host, I think, for Riley for years when he's top of the game. Then you were the anchor of the five. Now you're at RAV with this massive show that precedes us. And thank you for teaming up that audience, because we love it. But you had a previous life. In fact, it's one of the reasons Ailes reached out to you, because he knew that you were new finance and you knew it in the pits. Sir, talk to me about it. I spent 12 years in the New York trading pits, trading crude oil, all the energy products, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, electricity. Know that my way around those are traded up against the big boys. I've traded against Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the investment bankers in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, traded against them as an independent trader, my own money. So I was going to a casino every day. But what did do, Steve, is it allowed me to learn how everyone trades. The reason why we're talking about this now is, and again, I spent 11 years there, brought that exchange public as a board member. But the reason we're here now is I'm watching what's going on in the oil markets right now. This is nothing new. I've seen this half a dozen times. The Gulf War was the one that comes to mind immediately. And I'm seeing how the different players are reacting. I noticed I texted you, Steve, at one point yesterday, and like, look, it looks like the Trump administration is looking to use the futures markets, which means those trading floors in a way to kind of ease the burden on consumers here in America. And I was like, you know, I know those markets inside. Now let's have a discussion about it. So we're at $89 a barrel right now. We are up 10% overnight because there was another attack on some tankers in the Middle East near the Strait of Hormuz. Strait of Hormuz is super important. Everyone talks about it. Literally 31% of all the seaborn oil in the world travels through the Strait of Hormuz because you have Saudis on loading, offloading onto ships on one side of the Strait of Hormuz. On the other side, you have Iran and you have some of the other bigger players. So 20% of all the world oil, 30% of the seaborn oil goes through there. It's hugely important. The problem is the Iranians know how to mess with that. They play games. They shoot at ships. They've also left depth charges in there that they can rise to the level where a tanker could hit it and explode and sink. So they've made it very dangerous. Qatar has already said they're going to scale back oil production. Kuwait today said they're going to pull back oil production because they don't have anywhere to put it because they're producing it, pulling it out of the ground and can't get it off shore. They have no more storage. I've seen this play out a couple of times before. So there is a strategic way to play with this. Steve, the SPR, Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not to be touched. Do not touch. I would highly recommend the administration. Don't do it. Biden and Obama both did. Bill Clinton did it. They released oil from the SPR. That is an emergency oil supply. And frankly, there's not enough there as it is. 750 million barrels. That's about about 20 days worth of oil that we import from other countries. So we need that in the ground. There are other ways to play this game, skin this cat. And we can talk about, certainly we can talk about, one of them would be to literally line the Strait of Hormuz with warships and allow passage. That's one. And there are others. What about besides Hormuz? We have massive capacity here. Won't the excess capacity in the United States, can't we just ramp that up immediately? Is that a card that's still to be played? It is. And here's a pair. Okay. So under Obama, oil hit $140 a barrel. No wars just hit $140 a barrel because of supply and demand. And they didn't want to drill. Democrats historically are the greenest. The green people don't want to drill. It went, Trump got it down to zero. Steve, I don't know if you remember this. This has never happened in the history of any commodity in the world. Again, a storage issue. So Trump built such a production in the United States that the world, there was not enough storage for oil. We were awash in oil and went zero. It went negative $20 a barrel because people were paying, producers were paying companies to hold their oil just to store it. So oil literally went negative. It never happened before. It hasn't happened since. After Trump 1.0 Biden went up to $120 a barrel just on inflation fears alone and supply, demand and low production. Yes. Trump got it back down to $55 a barrel before this this conflict started. We can't call it a war, I guess. But before this conflict started, $90 a barrel now probably on its way to $100, maybe $120 before the thing ends. Wow. But here's the good news. Don't panic because we can turn the spickets up. And yes, we are. We use about $20 million barrels of oil. Hang on one second. I want to drill down this. No pun intended. Caroline Wren is also on deck with an update on the other war that would be in the great state of Texas on this Senate race. Eric Bowling, Caroline Wren on the other side. Patriots, listen up. For a limited time, Patriot Mobile is running their red, white and blue Friday promotion. You're once a year chance to get a free smartphone just for switching to America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. 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Where this is going to metastasize is in the Persian Gulf, right? You have something unique. You have the Persians versus the Arabs right now and the Arabs are all the Debye's though, as you heard, you know, earlier, Weikert talking about Debye with all the influencers and everybody going on vacation and people buying the condo. Hey, they ain't buying condos today and they ain't influencing. Why? Hydrocarbons, oil and gas, right? And the rest of the world's watching, but this is what's bringing Russia into this. This is what's bringing India into this. This is the Chinese Communist Party is going to be in this. And this can go any different way. And that's what we have to focus on it. One of the reasons I got bowling, when you trade your own money against the biggest entities in the world and you cut your way through there, you know a thing or two about the games. What you see a lot of times on CNBC and others, Eric, as you know better than anybody, and the reason we got you up this morning is I wanted to talk to you guys for a couple of minutes. It is essentially all the world's economy is predicated upon this, even all the artificial intelligence, because what do they need? They need those data centers. They need five times more energy than we're producing today to do that. Okay. And that's why the beating heart of the Persian Gulf, as much as we don't like to admit it, is so central. And this is how this work can quickly metastasize to a global conflict. Eric, I've only got a couple of minutes, but we're going to make you a regular part of this. Since you know all the games are being played, and nothing is like it seems when you hear people talk about this, sir. I'll tell you, you're 100% right, Steve. You can turn CNBC off if you want to know what's going on in the oil market, because all they're going to do is report the headlines, what Royer says or who Kuwait says they're going to do this. We hear Kuwait today say they're going to scale back production. Qatar said they're going to do it. Don't forget, $100 barrel is what OPEC would love. All those producing countries love $100 barrels. So yes, they traded against the big boys. They got their Achilles and know where their weaknesses are. But Trump has an absolute trump card, no pun intended, in that right now, right now, or when he's done with this conflict, right now, we fill up the SPR, we double the size of the SPR, and we continue to produce and store it. Because oil is the lifeblood, not only the American economy, the global economy. You cannot move with $200 barrels of oil. That's a $10 gallon of gasoline. It freezes everything. You bring the price of oil down, which he knows how to do, and you keep it down. And it won't matter if we go into Iran and bomb their nuclear facilities, because if we become completely self-efficient in oil, which we can be, we easily can ramp up our natural gas production. We can retool some of our power plants to take natural gas instead of heavy crudes and others. And we can be self-sufficient when we do that. That should be his only focus for the next two and a half years until he leaves, because he will set America up to be prosperous and absolutely not be holding to any other country, especially the nut jobs that are going on in the Middle East. It's not random that the second part we're going to cover today, the shield of the Americas, about hemispheric defense, it shouldn't be lost in anybody. Between Guyana, Venezuela, the Gulf of America, Mexico, Texas, all of it, we got more than we ever need, but you got to get organized on that. So this is why this is geo-strategic, but this baby could spin and could spin quickly out of control, particularly in the economic side. The Financial Times of London is absolutely vapor locked on this right now. Eric Boling, you proceed us at four o'clock on Real America's Voice, but most importantly, your other show, you got up on your podcast in your social media. Where do people go get you? That's on the edge, Eric Boling on the edge, Steve on YouTube, but I really just appreciate being on Rav with you, sharing a screen with you a couple of times. You know, when we do the handoffs, it's always good because like I tell everyone, folks, if you watch Steve Bannon, you watch the War Room, you walk away smarter every single time. Appreciate you, my friend. Well, Eric, we do more handoffs, because people know I'm scramming. That five o'clock show, the morning show, I pretty much got organized overnight in the morning. That five o'clock show, I'm scrammling every day up until the end. Eric Boling, love you. See you this afternoon, sir. Yes, sir. See you for it. Boling, smart guy, street smart, like Trump, Trump's street smart, and like Boling. These guys are knife fighters. Caroline Rand, speaking of a knife fighter, Caroline Rand, in the great state of, by the way, do you agree with me that this is not a random event that we're having the conference on the shield of America's today and two day conference on hemispheric defense? This is absolutely a central link into what President Trump's grand strategy is. Is it not, ma'am? Oh, yeah. And they laid this out in their, I don't know if you call it a memo or what it was, but their national security strategy for this administration. And it said it was going to focus on the Western Hemisphere. So I am like fascinated to see what comes out of this conference this weekend. You have some real rock stars with President Mele attending, President Pina from Paraguay is a rock star. We've got a lot of great conservative leaders now in the Western Hemisphere. And so I think this is a very important conference and I'm glad they're all coming to do it in Miami and I can't wait to see what comes out of it. Talk to me about Don Jr. just put up a great tweet. I think he reposted, he reposted, I think, Ken Paxton, but talk to me about this situation with Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, because this is the most central, I think, political fight and up in the Senate with the Save America Act. It all is kind of inextricably linked now, isn't it, ma'am? Yeah. Well, it's linked because Ken Paxton linked it. Ken Paxton has done more to fight to get the Save America Act passed than any current United States Senator, with the exception of Mike Lee, who has been incredible on this. And so I am so impressed with not only the selflessness of Ken Paxton of putting his, you know, his country before his political ambition, but on top of that, just the fight in Ken Paxton just, it shows you why we need him so desperately in the United States Senate. And what he did was he totally flipped the narrative on, you know, the DC establishment, the consulting class, by saying, you know what, fine, you guys don't want me in the Senate, you want me out that bad, how about this? I would agree to step aside if and only if, not only you bring the Save America Act to a vote, it has to also pass. Then, you know what, I would maybe fall in the sword for the good of my country. And so President Trump is the greatest dealmaker in history. And what Ken Paxton has just done is given President Trump the leverage that he needs to go give, you know, tell John Thune to get his caucus in line and get this thing passed. And you have John Cornyn coming out and saying, oh, well, you know, I'm a cosponsor of this bill. Who cares? But cosponsor of the bill doesn't matter. You have to lift the filibuster to get it passed. We all know this. And John Cornyn has consistently said over and over again for his, I don't know, 20 years, 30 years, I forget how long this man's been in the United States Senate, but that he will under no circumstance lift the filibuster. So he's co-sponsoring a bill that he, like procedurally, won't allow to come to the floor for a vote. It is pathetic. You know, Mike Lee, you talk about with Cornyn, these guys, here's how funny they are. They won't even, the filibuster, the talking filibuster, I tell people, they're never going to do that because they don't even, they won't even go on recess. President Trump can get massive recess appointments here, but, and Mike Lee's fought for this day in and day out. Cornyn, these guys don't, they don't trust President Trump enough to actually, they have not been, they've never been in recess, the U.S. Senate under the McConnell regime. And that's what Cornyn represents. And that's what Dune represents. Since President Trump's been president in his entire first term or his second term, and they won't do it today. So when people say, well, we got to get the talking filibuster, I said, they won't even do the basics, which is just to go on recess when they go, when they leave, go for a week and let President Trump get a couple of recess appointments. And Mike Lee, you know, he broke his pick on this thing. We fought this back in August day in and day out, and they come up with every excuse. They have, they look at the Senate, Cornyn, these guys look at the Senate and Dune under McConnell as a blocking mechanism on America, on the America first policies of President Trump. See this in the Save America Act, ma'am. Yeah, it's true. And the worst part of this too is that if the Democrats weren't power, I'm telling you right now, they would lift the filibuster more than they lift a toilet seat every day. I mean, they all run, they've openly said this. They're like, we would lift the filibuster to pass HR one, which was their completely insane voting reform bill. They would lift it to have, you know, mass abortion rights across the country. All of them are on record saying this, but Republican leadership, we just, we want, it's spineless, beckless leadership, and they just won't fight for it. And so that is why like Ken Paxton, what he is doing by giving Donald Trump these cards and putting his own political career, you know, he's not putting it on hold yet, but he's actually putting his money where his mouth is. And that, it is so impressive. And that's why Don Jr., Don Jr. has incredible political instincts. And so I was very glad to see that he, you know, amplified what Paxton was saying there and is giving credit to Ken Paxton that Ken Paxton deserves. You know, I don't want to go back and make sure people understand the institutional part of the filibuster is 60 non-standing. It has been used for years, but things have changed. Remember, we were able to stop docking in years in the opposition against Obama, particularly those folks that knew our work over at Breitbart. But things have changed. This is why mansion and cinema are gone, right? Today, the Democrats are open. The minute they take control is going to be 51 votes, not just for judges, but for everything. And they're going to do things like DC as a state. They're going to do things like Puerto Regas. They're going to put, they want to put 15, they want to flood the Supreme Court with judges. They have a radical plan and now the cinema and mansion are gone. They're going to do this. So the game has changed. It's not like, oh, you're, you're trying to tear down institutions. We're trying to be pragmatists. And that's why he's saying, hey, still give them the filibuster, but give them the filibuster that the United States lived under for what, 100, 150 years. The filibuster you see in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where there are the, the classic fights in the Civil Rights Act, where they, hey, you can block it, but you got to stand up there and you got to, you got to talk it through, right? And as soon as that's over, you vote. That's what we're saying, the Save America Act. Let, if they want to fight it, it's not going to, the Save America won't, probably won't take place immediately, right? Cause they would try to filibuster, but then we get, what's better than three weeks of the Democrats having that moment where President Trump called him out, that you're, you, you, you're top priorities, not American citizens, it's illegal aliens. Let, let Tim Kaine and all these geniuses, uh, Mark Warner, let them get up for weeks and, and in front of the American people and defend the fact they won't pass the Save America Act. What could be better? If you want to change the political dynamics in the country right now, what could be better, Caroline? Voter ID, it is an 80-20 issue. So that, that is exactly what I've been saying. I'm like, the talking filibuster is incredible. Let the Democrats go stand on the, you know, sit at floor and, and let's say filibuster and talk about why they think non-citizens should be able to vote in our elections. Like it is, it's insane. Those ads write themselves. And so there is no excuse not to get this done. And this is, Ken Baxter is not even in the Senate yet. And he is doing more to force this to a vote than anyone else. It's truly incredible. And, you know, I, I just, Cornyn says he supports this, but I, I don't believe it. He's not, he is very good friends with the ones who are opposing this are Tom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski and John Curtis. They're the usual suspects who, who frankly, John Cornyn has lunch with in the, you know, Senate cloakroom every day. And if he can't convince them to do it, then who can? And so that's why I think you have to play hardball with those guys. And that is what Kim Baxter is doing. And I think it's very, very impressive. And you know what? This is why there's a good chance that John Cornyn does not get reelected. And, and that should really weigh on everything. No incumbent senator has lost a primary. And I think probably at least 25 years, the last time I could, I could find was in 2002, when Senator Bob Smith was defeated by John Sononu in a primary in New Hampshire. But it is a very rare thing that this happens. And 1.23 million Texans, Texas primary voters showed up on Tuesday and voted against a four term incumbent United States Senator, John Cornyn, who spent over $100 million trying to get their vote. And it's just fast. It's wild to me that the press and DC establishment are trying to spin that as some type of overperformance. It's actually the greatest underperformance we have seen from an incumbent United States Senator in 25 years. And it should be framed as such. Caroline, we got a bounce social media. You're on fire right now. Where do people go? Act Caroline Wren on X, Truth, Social and Getter. Ma'am, always good to have you on Caroline. Thank you for taking time away today to do that. Short commercial break back in the warm in just a moment. If you're a homeowner, you need to listen to this. So listen up. In today's artificial intelligence and cyber world, scammers are stealing home titles with more ease than ever. 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The, the, what Texas showed us on this prop 10 and these massive wins we've had in the, in the MAGA movement, the conservative movement, the grassroots are the strongest muscle we have in this country to save this country. And we have certain of these leaders that have stood up into the, into the breach and they've been bankrupted. They've been tormented. Some have been put in prison and Tina Peters, a gold star mother, cancer survivor, 70 years old, toughest boot leather is in a high security woman's prison in Colorado. Sir, give me a minute on that before we bounce to the Charlie Kirk show. Yeah, you guys, I remember, I met Tina Peters, everybody in the summer of 2021 at my first cyber symposium. And she had, she had cut, you know, she was just a clerk, never had a jaywalking chick in her life. And the people in the county came and said, Hey, there's something wrong with our election. She did her job, looked into it, secured what you're supposed to do when the state of Colorado tried to do a, to delete all their election platforms. Tina did a, Tina did a backup, which she's supposed to do. They made her the biggest political prisoner of our lifetime. It's disgusting. And, you know, she needs to get out now. They're trying, basically, Steve, I think they're trying to kill her. They don't want, she's got all the receipts, the evidence that was uncovered. And it's one of the saddest things our country could ever do to her. And Governor Pol, he knows how bad it is, 303-866-2471. Call the governor, great state of Colorado. Throw in there. Michael and Della, see you this afternoon. Love you, brother. Pre-Tina. Yep. Pre-Tina Peters, a political prisoner, 70 year old, gold star mother, rotting in a prison, woman's prison in Colorado. See you back here at five. 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