Episode 5203: Counter-Intelligence Tracking President Trump; Iranians Demand Change

Well, the United States has struck more than 5,000 targets since the war began in Iran. The president says in his press conference today that the operation is ahead of schedule and could be ending soon in his words and also said it could go further. Today, he also told CBS that the war was, quote, very complete. Many of the administration stated military goals appear to remain weeks away and CNN has learned a ground operation to secure a run's nuclear stockpile could also be on the table. 4-3 is now, and Donald Trump started it, but for goal 4-3, there is still no coherent explanation from the president or the White House as to what exactly this is all for. Not even an obviously pretextual false reason like we had from George W. Bush. The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing. He said, quote, we're doing this for the other parts of the world. We're doing this for the other parts of the world. It's actually hard to argue with that one. That one might actually be true. The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s. CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history. Because there is no way to safely move it to market, Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil. Iraq's production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war. In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force measure, which basically means they're saying, hey, you know, active God. Outside our control, we can no longer be held any contracts we previously signed as they all radically, radically scale down their oil and gas production. And their proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas, either broken, ineffective or on the sidelines. Iran stands alone and they are badly losing. On day 10 of Operation Epic Fury, we are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives, which are the same as the day I gave my first briefing here on Operation Epic Fury. They're straightforward and we are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their missile stockpiles, their missile launchers, and their defense industrial base, missiles and their ability to make them. Two destroy their navy. And three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a laser-focused, maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision. No hesitation, no half measures. As President Trump declared yesterday, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated. But we do so. We do so on our timeline and at our choosing. I'll lead to my friends in Saudi Arabia. I've been your biggest champion. I think the Crown Prince has taken Saudi Arabia in a completely different direction in a good way. But here's what I want to say to Saudi Arabia tonight. I'm willing to do a mutual defense agreement with your country to give you protection and perpetuity. Under the agreement I've been pushing and I hope we can continue to talk about, if you're attacked by Iran, we would go to war for you. Pramuz is still effectively closed. Traffic is way down, tankers are stranded. I want you to take a look at this graph from Bloomberg showing this steep drop in movement both in and outbound. And according to data from Bloomberg, fuel tankers are now rerouting toward East Asia, where energy buyers there are outbidding rivals to lure fuel shipments. Fuel prices surge past 100 bucks a barrel at one point before falling back after the president hinted that the war was very complete, whatever that means. Meanwhile, gas prices rose to an average of $3.47 a gallon. That is up nearly 50 cents in the last week. But as with everything in this administration, it is not what they say, but what they do. The president might say this war is over or close to it. But sources are telling CNBC that tomorrow, energy ministers from the G7 will hold a virtual meeting to discuss a potential release of oil reserves, and that the U.S. believes a joint release of 300 million to 400 million barrels would be appropriate. Next steps for the U.S. I mean, a lot of it obviously depends on what the mission is. This idea, though, of ground forces securing actual nuclear material, that seems extraordinarily complicated. I'll introduce you to a term you've probably heard before, troop to task. We talked about this during the Russian campaign inside of Ukraine. How many soldiers does it need to accomplish X number of tasks? If you haven't identified those tasks in a country that's three times as big as the country of Iraq, and there are things all over this country that we've seen with the air strikes, how many troops is it going to take? What's the military advantage that you get from putting people on the ground? What are they going to be asked to do? And then, after you talk about the fighters, who are the supporters of those? Who are the medics that are involved? What kind of security are the special operators going to get from conventional forces? So it continues to build peace upon peace, and people that don't know much about military operations will say, oh, we'll just throw special operations at it or we'll just ask the Kurds to it. They don't really understand the numbers games, the so-called battlefield math of all this. The president said today that the straight-up form moves is open, tankers are moving through once again. I do not believe that is the reality, so level set it for us. It is not, I mean, you know, when you look at the Marine, publicly available Marine Traffic GPS sites, you'll still see clusters of these ships both in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf just waiting for it to be deemed safe enough to traverse the straight. Now the reality is, according to an expert, it's only really open when the merchant mariners who are on these ships transporting these goods deem it safe enough to risk their lives to cross, and that clearly has not happened yet. Stuff they can, whenever they feel safe, cross the straight. They can do it pretty quickly. They just hit the throttle and they go. But the problem is the factories that produce the materials they're transporting, whether it's petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, whether it's aluminum or fertilizer, all of these are industries that are served by ships that go through the straight up for moves. Many of those factories, those facilities have already ramped down production because of this stoppage in the straight, and it's not like flipping a switch to turn things back on. The president has indicated that maybe the operation will wrap up sooner than he thought it was going to. What's the plan once the U.S. stops military action will the U.S. play a role in the aftermath or will they leave Iran to sort it out? Ultimately, the aftermath is going to be an America's interest, our interests. We're not, we won't live under a nuclear black male scenario of conventional missiles that can target our people, which is why the objectives have been scoped from the beginning. Missiles, missile production, defense industrial base, Navy, all in service of ensuring they don't have nuclear power projection capabilities. That's what matters to President Trump, that's what matters to the American people, and ultimately, that's why we're so laser focused on ensuring those objectives and those objectives alone are met. All the anti-Semonites, to all the isolationists, I don't forget it. I'm not with you, I'm with Israel. I'll be with Israel to our dying day. They're the best ally we could hope for, so we have a commander chief in President Trump who I think is Ronald Reagan plus, plus, plus. Okay, Tuesday, 10 March, in the year of our Lord 2026, welcome to the War Room. We need every second we can get today, so we can't do the, our long open. I want to thank the Real America Voice team in Denver, and of course, my own young charges here on the production staff of the War Room because folks, that was probably the best distillation of what's going on in the last 24 hours, at least 12 hours, that you could have. John Solomon, and John Solomon joins me. John, I've got you here. You've got major investigations coming out. Morning Joe took a shot at your Maricopa situation. We're going to play that in a minute, but I got to ask you, walk us through from yesterday afternoon, let's go through from the President's phone call and interview to CPS. To where we are after General Cain in the Secretary of War Pete Hicks as briefing this morning, sir. Yeah, well, I think that I think at the end of the day, the President is staying the course that he's laid out, which is until the three objectives are completely achieved, we're not going to let up the military pressure. Now, he said, we've done a lot of damage, right? They don't have a Navy day. They don't have an Air Force. Their missile batteries are gone. Their leaders have been wiped out. But the ultimate goal, as he said early on, going actually all the way back to last year when he started talking about the long-term objectives, the American interest in Iran is for them not to have ballistic missiles that can threaten any U.S. asset, for them not to have nuclear weapons, and for them not to be in a position to harm their neighbors or their own people. And I think right now, the President is still on board with that. As I've been saying, goal one was to diminish their air defenses or anti-bluistic missiles. That's been now been declared completed. goal two is to go after the IRGC and these very skilled warriors that are part of the Republican Guard. And that's where you're going to see the big bombs being dropped. They're going to hit these bunkers where the Republican Guard and their assets are trying to thin out their ranks so that when the bombing stops, the guard is not in a position to attack neighbors or the United States, but also not to attack their own people like we saw in the weeks leading up to this war. I think everything is right where we've been briefed to be. The media can say what it wants to say, but at the end of the day, it is exactly on the strategic course that the President laid out and that Pete Higgs set as laid out. There are lots of comments that the President makes and you see this storyline there that somehow the President is changing and he's not. He's describing different aspects of what is achieved in those three primary principles that he's gave. If the media was being honest, they would look at that and say, what he said today about this is actually related to what he said a month ago, but they're not. And so we have to tell the people what's really going on. Okay, excellent. And so and I've only got you a 10th or so. Here's what I want to do. I want to start with because I want to get to Maricopa County by playing the cold up in the B block, but I want to go to your article. And if Denver could put this up, Trump targeted by four FBI code name counter intelligence probes that has snared hundreds of Americans. This is what I refer to as a bombshell. Can you walk us through it? We got about two or three minutes here. We're holding you through the board. This is pretty much a bunch of. Yeah, you basically had four code named investigations across fire, Hurricane, Plasma, Kekko, Round River and Arctic Cross. And what they did is they basically continuously treated the man twice selected by the American people as president as a counterintelligence threat from July of 2016 when crossfire opened up to January 2025 when the president was sworn in in his second inauguration. To do that, they had to penetrate the privacy. Hold it. Hang on. Hang on. The Americans hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on. Full stop. Hit rewind on that. That in and of itself is shocking. Just hit rewind on that whole thing. Yeah, the president, the FBI treated the president of the United States. A man twice elected president by the American people as a continuous national security threat from July of 2016 in the middle of his first campaign to January 2025 when he was sworn in for his second inauguration. Each of these investigations had code names, but at the end of the day, what they were was an effort to get Donald Trump. And it swept up hundreds of Americans, Charlie Kirk and his group and Rudy Giuliani and his legal work and Joe and Victoria, Joe DeGeneres and Victoria tens of many other people all swept up in an effort to find some dirt that they could hang on the president's house. And I think when you look at it from that 30,000 foot perspective, you have one of the clearest pictures of what looks to be a conspiracy to deprive certain Americans of their civil liberties, much like what the Justice Department brought against the Ku Klux Klan and police departments back in the 1960s in the civil rights era. You now have a new version of it in 2026, which looks at the FBI and associated intelligence agencies and government agencies as potentially depriving the civil rights of president Trump and those around him. And by the way, Harmeet Dylan is quoted in the story. She's the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights saying exactly that in the story today. So essentially for 10 years, almost a decade, the deep state, the FBI and others believe that it treated him with four different serious investigations that the current commander in chief and president of the United States three times elected as you're showing now in America. Okay, three times elected by the American people was a major national security and counterintelligence threat. Is that correct? Yeah, he was treated that way, even though there was never any evidence to really prove it. Remember what John Durham said, no evidence to that at the end of the day, the president's now been all the charges against have been dismissed. And a lot of these investigations look like they were predicated. This is something cashmaterials has said predicated in in a properly, including the raid on president Trump's home in Mar-a-Logra. Remember those FBI documents saying we don't have probable cause. He hit it anyways. That's the sort of potential violations that the Justice Department could look at. Hang on. Hang on one second, John. A new year means new financial goals, like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. Will this be the year you finally listen to me and talk to someone from Birch Gold Group? 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Okay, before I play the morning Joe in the New York Times, also has a huge piece in the Sarasona situation that validates what John St. So it's not Breitbart in just word room, okay? I want to make sure folks understand that. John Solomon for FBI code worded investigations, which folks should know that when they do that, that means it's real. They're putting resources on it. That's also an accounting function of how they allocate resources for against one individual who they never thought was coming back. And the broader ecosystem around him. The scale of that is so monumental. How does it get rectified? Where is the process inside the system as the system currently exists that we get, we get accountability, authority, and make sure it can never happen against her. Well, the football for criminal prosecution is clearly now in Florida under the jurisdiction of the Miami US attorney in a very skilled group of career prosecutors down there. They're running grand jury activity down in Miami and Fort Pierce, Florida. Now, let's keep in mind that they don't even yet have the round river documents that I mentioned today because cash pretends to him is just starting to find that they only were found a few weeks ago because they were in these prohibited access files, meaning that no one knew where they were. They were hidden even from cash pretends. And so it took agents and people digging to find these records months to find them. But as this information goes down to Miami, you see exactly what Harmon Dillon says in my story today. There is the potential for a conspiracy or racketeering case against government agencies, government players, private individuals to deprive the president and others around him of their civil liberties under the false color of government authority. That's going to be the criminal case. Now, people like Lindsey Graham, the senator who's phone record through taking another's, they're talking about private civil action. And I think that that could be another potential area. Let's think about this. In the story today, I mentioned that Michael Caputo, a guy that used to work in the Trump administration that made a movie about Hunter Biden and then went back to the Trump campaign that helped in 2024. He had his privacy violated. By the way, in the letters that I have today, there's an allegation that the government seized his phone records and email records, including the advice he was giving president Trump on the 2024 campaign as a campaign staffer. Sounds a little bit like Carter Page, deja vu all over again. So you could also see, and again, I don't know what Michael Caputo, other people's plans are, you could also see civil litigation, civil rico, civil claims that people's privacy was violated. It's a high threshold. The government will claim immunity. But at the end of the day, there is a double barrel way to bring some form of accountability and to get to the bottom of what happened here, because I don't think we know it all yet. Even this story as broad as it is, we don't know the full nature of it yet. Let's now pivot Arizona. Let's play the tape from the mainstream media of their thoughts about Arizona. Let's go and play it. The day Trump's FBI has now obtained 2020 election material from Maricopa County in Arizona, related to the review that Republican lawmakers conducted of that, US president to resolve that confirmed Trump. You know, lost the state. In Fulton County, Georgia, they have now, through subpoena, gotten access to ballots from Maricopa County. No, they're not getting them statewide, right? They're not seeking to get all of the Georgia ballots from all of the Arizona ballots, sir. They're targeting blue cities. In the same way that when Donald Trump said he wanted Republicans to take over voting, what did he say next? He said there are 15 places or so, right? And then later comment, I think listed Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. And so the reason why this plays into it is because he is setting up the permission structure among his base and among people who are not paying attention, that when he is not able to get the ballots in Detroit or Philadelphia or some other county, because they say no, or the courts won't give him what he wants, that he will then have the excuse to send in the FBI, to send an ATF, to send in CPB, to send in you know, ICE, whoever it is, whatever federal agency it is, to seize the ballots. Let's state it plainly. Joe Biden, one Arizona, he also won the presidency. The vote was counted and recounted in Arizona, America, but county several times. It never changed. There's never been any evidence whatsoever of fraud. Yet, President Trump cannot accept that he lost 2020 and seems to be setting dangerous precedents, laying the groundwork, if you will, for potential interference in 2026 and 2028. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Remember, this follows the similar action in Georgia, where the Justice Department has seized records and is in Fulton County. So there are really two possibilities that look, this could be a part of a plot, a plan to somehow interfere with the midterm election or the end or the 2028 election and somehow skew the outcome toward the way that President Trump wants it. And so we should all be really concerned about that. And I think it'll wander about that. The other possibility is that despite the fact that the votes in Fulton County were counted and recounted and counted again and they've been counted every way you can possibly count. And the same is true in Maricopa County in Arizona, despite all of that, the President actually believes that somehow that those counties and those votes were stolen from him. Despite all evidence, despite the fact that Republicans have looked into this and keep coming up with zero squat, that he just believes in stannising because he can't admit to himself that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. In which case the President is delusional and that should worry us too. Jen Solomon, you've been doing the most intense investigative reporting of this. Your thoughts, sir? Well, all of them have not taken the time. Not surprising to me to read the FBI affidavit in Fulton County, which lays out the predicate for what the FBI is looking at in these big city battleground state areas, Phoenix and Atlanta being the first two. The FBI is very clear. It says that they have corroborated, they have substantiated. That's the actual word in the affidavit to the satisfaction of a judge, a magistrate who issued the search warrant. That certain procedures were not followed in Georgia and I assume we'll find something similar in America, but one of everything's unsealed. In other words, they didn't follow state law in the administration of a federal election. Under section 152 of the federal statute, a well-follow and intentional act that does not follow state election law can be charged as a federal crime. What they're trying to do here by their own admissions, isn't me? It's the FBI saying what they're doing, which none of those Yahoo's on TV apparently bothered to read. They're not trying to relitigate 2020 and declare a new one. They're not trying to prove that Donald Trump won the election. They have reason to believe that these areas did not follow election laws in the administration and they intend to bring accountability so that in future elections they'll do so. And here's one of the things that those Yahoo's on TV don't want to talk about. It will soon become obvious. It's already obvious in my reporting yesterday. The Trump FBI, if you want to call it that, the cash per tell FBI is looking at the 2024 election Arizona. Now wait a second. News flashed everyone. Donald Trump won that election. He was declared the winner, right? Republicans had a good year in Maricopa County and in Arizona in 2024. Why would the FBI look at that? Because it's not about who won. The FBI is trying to hold accountable people who may not have followed the proper rules and regulations for election. Now that's an allegation that some people have made. We have to wait and see what it is in Fulton County. It is very clear that the FBI substantiated certain irregularities. They're saying that in Arizona, the grand jury subpoena and the search warrant remain sealed. I believe when it is unsealed, we'll see some predicate there. We'll understand why it is that they're looking at this. This is not an effort to redeclar a new winner from the 2020 election. It's to force these locations to make sure they're in compliance with state and federal law. That's all this is about. Will that compliance you think be done by November? And if it's not what can what can be done to make sure it's done by November? We cannot have as you know, John, another situation like 2022, all of it. We've got to get not just accountability. We got to rectify the situation. What are your thoughts? Well, listen, uh, uh, harming dillens were made enormous progress on this in getting at the voter rolls cleaned up. 28 states are in litigation. Several of them are in the process of cleaning up. And when we talk about cleaning up, we're talking 50 to 100,000, 200,000 names are being cleaned off of rolls. That is sloppy management, not in compliance with state and federal laws. So that's going to be an improvement. Uh, George is talking about putting Fulton County under receivership. Some senators pros that we'll see if they do that. But the truth of the matter is a lot of the things that went on in 2020, the quick rule changes under the name of COVID. Those are now people have eyes on and with their cotton real time before election day and they're litigated and resolved. I think 26 will be a much more, uh, uh, robust election, um, monitoring system. One thing I want to point out is that I broke overnight, Steve, a story that's just really interesting. The House admin committee, Brian style, uh, sent a couple of observers to Maricopa County in 24 by the, you know, the one Trump one. And they found this warehouse where they saw live ballots in, uh, uh, empty ballots, meaning ballots that were blank alongside of ballots that had been voted in the same location. They were very concerned. They used the word alarming. A Democrat and a Republican observer together found this alarming. That is one of the things that has been sent to the FBI that triggered the Maricopa County thing. Everybody should take a look at that report. You can see the sort of things that are going on that race concern. Maybe those are good excuse, but the FBI is going to get to the bottom of it. Yeah. To the bottom of it, John, real quickly, where do people go to keep up with all your investigative reporting? Yeah. Thank you. Justinues.com is the website. J Salamore reports, hand on all social media. And I'm looking at the follow you every night at six o'clock right here in real America's voice. Just the news. No noise with the amazing Amanda head. Amazing work, John. The greatest crime maybe in the history of the country. Four counterintelligence investigations of Donald Trump. Short break. Thank you, John. Short break. The world is getting more unstable and chaotic every day. 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US sent comm, put out a post yesterday with the Israeli flag and the American flag talking about how these air forces are just achieving total excellence and performing with incredible excellence and success and professionalism. Working together, it's really, they're attached to the hip. It's, it's, you know, I think about the 91 Gulf War where the US, the Bush administration, the first Bush administration asked Prime Minister Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel the time to show restraint that Israel couldn't get involved. Why couldn't Israel get involved according to the Bush administration? Because that would fracture the coalition, which included many Arab countries. The Israel and the Arab countries couldn't be seen in the Arab countries eyes to be fighting on the same side. Now that is, we've been completely inverse that. Now you have Israel and the US fighting side by side totally locked in and the Arab countries are joining that coalition. So we are living on so many levels through truly historic times that I couldn't even imagine in terms of the transformation in the region, potentially, and certainly the transformation in the relationship between the US and Israel. Okay, that's not Steve Bannissan's dance senior. And everybody knows dance senior is a, how do I say, former spokesman for the Iraq debacle under Bush, where he lied, ball face lied to the American people only every day. But he's also, let's say quite close to the Netanyahu click in Israel. And he's 100% correct. They got guys, he says that one joint command, it is impossible to have happened on Saturday night. What happened on Saturday night with that structure. And it's from his lips, that structure to have, oh my God, the Axio story that sits there and even Lindsey Graham putting out a tweet afterwards, hey guys, we got to calm down. Unless the Israeli Air Force, the IDF and the senior command of visual ball face lied to the Americans. And I think right there, that was an inflection point. I believe President Trump because they said, oh, he's going to have a heated conversation with Netanyahu. The allies are not together on this at all. Our war aims, and he's just saw President Trump. The war aims of President Trump look quite different than the war aims of BB Netanyahu, Kurt Males. And this is what I think Saturday night was an inflection point. President Trump was adamant. I don't want any oil assets to, I don't want any infrastructure right. I'm trying to get the the Persian people on our side. If we got to do things on in Tehran, I want the bombing of like the Air Force command center that the IDF did take down, I think, on Saturday night, which is a hard target. But I don't want to spread this war into a Dresden type fire bombing of Tehran. That's exactly what I don't want because you know what then the Persians will dig in and will be here five years from now. This is to me the beginning of the separation of the President Trump to this podium today to kind of say, hey, thinking about this, we got a couple of other things I want to do on my punch list, but we're out. The US reported citing US and Israeli sources that the US was not happy with strikes on 30 fuel depots in Iran. While this is anonymous sourcing, you know, it seems kind of a congruent with what President Trump said yesterday that there's certain spots they don't want to want to hit, relating to the energy infrastructure that will take a long time to rebuild. And you know, whether this reporting is true or not, what's your message to Americans, those who supported the President and those who aren't really in favor of this war and who worry that Israel might be taking advantage of the US's backing? Well, I'm just state by saying Israel has been a really strong partner in this effort, where they have different objectives. They've pursued them. Ultimately, we've stayed focused on hours. But when Iran, what Iran has felt is the power of the world's two most powerful air forces. In that particular case, that wasn't our, those weren't our strikes or that objective, or that wasn't our necessarily our objective. But the President has made it clear to those concerns that we're not getting pulled in any direction. We're leading. The President is leading. He's determining where we want to go, what the outcome will be, what the end state is, with a very keen eye. And I understand those concerns because I've heard from a lot of people who went through, I went through 20 years of those wars myself, worried about getting dragged in, worried about mission creep, worried about nation building or democracy expansion. That's never the perspective the President has pursued on this. Just because previous presidents and previous secretaries have decided to just pour more resources and more people in toward some. Let me have it. Let me have it. No, Pete, we can't have two separate objectives. This is now what, and it goes back to Lindsey Graham begging the Saudis to come in here. You're not going to get the Arab states to come in here because they understand the makeup of the war chain Saturday night. Now, you have a Persian nationalist movement. This is why why President Trump's initial objective was to support the overwhelming dissident groups in the in in in Persia that hated being under the boot of the Iatolus and the Moulos. Why is that not happening? Yes, they're so under the huge threat. But one of the reasons here is this this war shifted on Saturday night because the Israelis did something that the President absolutely didn't want to have happened and we can't we shouldn't be trying to gloss it over. We should be trying to address it and we should be trying to address it with the American people. Treaty of Parse, you join us now. You're you you are you know, you're Iranian. You've worked with those guys. So this is not like a and it shouldn't be an even handed assessment, but give me your assessment of where we stand right now, particularly as my theory of the case is now we're into we've we've the Israelis have managed to unite the Persian people that were not united and one of the central thesis of our efforts was to make sure that we had their back as they took it in their hands to overthrow the Iatola in this Islamic Republic, sir. Thank you, Steve. I just just declared if I was born in Iran, but my family fled when I was four. I've studied Iran for more than 25, 30 years and in that process obviously I've spoken to people on all sides, including in people deep inside the Iranian government. Your assessment is absolutely correct. The attack against all refinery was a major major turning point in all of this. Already prior to that, there had been signs that this war was turning in the eyes of many Iranians against Iran as a nation rather than against this theocracy. You could see that when Trump was talking about arming the Kurds, you know, things that sounded as if the US was going to support a separatist movement, fears that exist for a long time that the West is seeking Iran's dismemberment. But the targeting of the all refineries really hit the point home that this is not about taking out the repressive capabilities of the state, you know, the besiege, the RGC and then allow the population to rise up, rather this was targeting the nation as a whole because people in Tehran cannot breathe right now. I spoke to a person the day after he said that he could see many people who had chosen to stay in Tehran, they gave up. They're leaving the city right now because they actually cannot breathe. And he saw that on the streets spontaneously, some people as they were packing up their stuff and leaving were starting to chant slogans against the United States against Israel. And these did not look to be, you know, the usual supporters of the regime. I mean, the 15, 20% that would come out and protest on a regular basis in favor of the regime. This looked like a completely different segment of society. And I've heard this now from several different people. And this was the risk all along. I think we should take note of one thing, Steve. Remember that in Iraq and Libya, when there were these campaigns to regime, change the regime, there were never any instances in which you saw a very, very large crowd come out in support of those regimes. And that's not to say that this specific theocracy is particularly popular. In fact, I don't think it is at all. But it does have a support base of 15 to 20% of the population. And we saw massive numbers coming out from that support base. Yesterday, celebrating their decision to name the son of the Supreme Leader as the next Supreme Leader. We never saw any of these things in Iraq or in Libya. And I think that tells us something. It's a very different situation. This is an unpopular regime, but it does have a support base. And then the rest of the population tend to be very, very nationalist. And in normal circumstances, they would have been completely against any foreign invader. In this case, there was a segment that seemed to welcome it because they were just so sick and tired of this theocracy. But those sentiments seem to have shifted very fast as it's become clear to them. This is a war on the country, not a war on the regime. So what are the alternatives now? Is there any way that you can that the United States can move this back to focus on the theocracy and let the people in Tehran and other in the other Persians understand that it's not we're not trying to destroy Persia or the Persian people. We're trying to take off or at least degrade. Although I noticed Pete said today it wasn't force projection on the people. It's force projection on allies. He was very specific on that. So it's another war aim that's kind of moved. What do we need to do to make sure that we're focused on the theocracy and the Persian people understand that we're their ally in trying to support their strike for freedom? Ali Fragwood, you Steve. I don't think it's possible. At least not in the short and the medium term. And I don't think Trump has more than the short and the medium term. Look, Trump himself said when asked by a reporter, he said that he thinks Iran's map is going to look different at the end of this war. That has nothing to do with the theocracy. That's the territorial integrity of the country. Having said these things, not just ones or twice, but repeatedly. I just don't think there's any turning back. I think Trump should end this war as soon as he can. This war should never have been started in the first place. It was a mistake going in. The good thing about Trump is that when he recognizes a mistake, he has the willpower and the flexibility of reversing course instead of doing what a lot of other American presidents have done, knowing very well that the U.S. was not winning enough. Conniston nevertheless, he just kicked the can down the road hoping that the next president would have to deal with the debacle. Trump didn't do that in Yemen. After seven weeks, he realized this was not going anywhere and he just pulled out. The difference this time around though is that the Iranians also have a vote in as to whether this war ends or not. And I'm just not convinced that they're ready to end this war. They believe they have to fight on in order to make sure that the cost is as high as possible, that the U.S. and Israel never thinks about doing this again. If this war ends in their view in a way in which it nevertheless was not too costly for the U.S. and Israel, the Iranians fear that the U.S. and Israel will attack them again in six months. As was the case, as you remember, there was a war in June that Israel started. The Iranians agree to a ceasefire. They regret it now. They believe that the U.S. and Israel use those eight months to regroup, rearm, and then relaunch the war. Trita, where do people go to get your commentary and observations, sir? This should go to my Twitter, which is T. Parcy or go to the website of the Quincy Institute, which is Quincy.nst.org. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you so much, Ravine. Thank you. Eric Bowling, we got a minute here. I'm going to keep you to the other side of the road. I know you got a heart out at 11. The situation yesterday, we told them you couldn't hit any more oil. We're going to come in hard. The straights are hermous. They lit up UAE this morning. Did they not, sir? Are we fine, Ravine? Yeah, they hit, they hit, they hit a refinery in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi refinery went down. Exxon pulled all non-essential employees. Steve, here's what happened. Trump said if you block this straight up remoes, we'll hit you 20 times harder. Iran responded with, guess what? There's not one liter of oil that's going to pass this straight up hormone. So there's literally a standoff here. Both sides, they know Trump's a killi's right now is a high gas price. We are going to see a $4 price in gasoline nationally within a week or two no matter how this thing ends or goes on. Minimum, it doesn't matter. It's going higher. It's the way the refining system happens. They know that and Trump doesn't want that fees inflation. So yeah, hang on, hang on, hang on, we're going to get all of this. We get eight minutes on the other side and it's all yours. Eric Bowling with the more about oil next. 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Okay, we've now turned it into a Persian nationalist, which is exactly the thing President Trump did not want or any of the planners did not want as with Capifel they're going through systematically a degradation targeting list. But you also have deeper things here about who you're actually fighting. Now we're not now we're not trying to free a suppressed people from a out of control Islamic theocracy. They're binding together because it looks like the Israelis are coming in and trying to nation in them. Eric Bowling, you're brought a picture here on the oil war you get Lindsay Graham after five mint juleps on Hannity, I think it was wherever he was on Fox. This madness about Saudi Arabia, we were because the right now the Saudis you ate all of them are saying, yo, we don't want in this. This is they called Trump over the weekend after the bombing on Sunday and said, we're out. What are you doing? We can't do this. We can't be partners of this. The Saudis won't go in and say shia it's Sunni but it's I think it's even deeper than that about the monarchy and will they fall? So they're not in. So walk me through you just head and by the way, the Persian said, hey, I heard your speech yesterday. Boom, we're going to go right to your biggest your toughest guys, MBZ suck on this and we're not going to do it by and looking at hotels. We're going to go to your capital, your capital Abu Dhabi and take out your biggest refinery. This thing's getting nasty and they ain't backing down, sir. They're not backing down and neither will Trump and Steve. So there's so many things in play right here. I hear Lindsey Graham talking on Fox. He's almost playing de facto president. I don't know what he was drinking, maybe mint jules and they hear kill me this morning saying, oh, Trump should take carg island. That's the that's the Iranian off-floating of crude oil into the Persian into the straight of hormones into the Persian Gulf. Island that 80% of their oil goes through. It's insane. We don't want to play with their oil. This is the problem that Israel when they bombed an oil in infrastructure, they created the scenario where oil could go higher and it did. It jumped. There's $120 to nights ago because of these bombings. It shouldn't be about oil. This was supposed to be about getting rid of the the mullis that hate us. So Israel gets involved. Some rhinos, some war-loving rhinos and fox gets involved in a way that you think is right. This is all wrong. This isn't what Trump wanted. This wasn't what Trump wanted to do. I will tell you between Saudi or Ramco, Steve, you sent me an article about Saudi Ramco saying, this could be catastrophic for a repressive oil hire if this thing goes on. Do you realize something? When you sent that to me, something jogged my mind. These are all Arab nations. They are petrodollars dependent. The more this goes on and the more it's about oil, the higher price of oil goes, the better for them. I'm not petrified. I'm old enough to be skeptical enough that. That was only the lead story in the financial times of London. That's my point. It's the headline. They all want higher oil prices. Here's a point. Are they coordinating with Iran to step aside, hit our oil and hit our refinery in Abu Dhabi? I don't know. Maybe hit some Saudi platforms and whatnot. Oil prices will jump up. We'll all look like we're upset about this. But the reality is it screws Trump. It sticks it right to Trump. Meanwhile, they smile. They shake his hand. They bow in the Oval Office and they want a hundred or two hundred dollar oil will be even better for them. I don't know if it's collusion or not. I will tell you the way to solve it. Steve, we've talked about this. And since we spoke yesterday, this little idea brought to you. And I think it should be bowling and banning his idea to the administration. I talked to Agseth. I sent it to Pete. I sent it to Susie Wiles. Pete got back to me. Susie didn't. This truck needs to hear this. This is right up his alley. If he negotiates a deal with Iran and Venezuela, both the increase in oil, they've already produced high levels. Iran produced eight million barrels a day a while ago. Venezuela produced four million barrels a day. Now they're three and one, right? So there's seven or eight million barrels additional that can be produced. All we're saying is we will do a joint venture with you, Venezuela, the way Saudi Ramco is, the way petrol, brass is in Brazil, where the country owns the actual reserves, but Americans pull the oil out of the ground and we have first dibs at a market price on the oil. Trump would guarantee oil independence, not just during his term for impreptituity through his lifetime, through our lifetime, through John Jr.'s lifetime, we would never depend on a foreign country or OPEC again for drop of oil. It's huge. This whole $100 oil price, by the way, Steve, I did very well yesterday because we were on here and it was $106, $105, $106 a barrel. And I just knew it was going to go down. I had the trade. I sent your producers the trade as I get off the phone with you at whatever it was $10.30. And this thing exploded. If it goes back up to $120, $130, I'm going to put the trade on again because I know it's going back to $70. Our problem isn't oil. It's the refining. It's the end use of the gasoline. And these Arabs know, and Iran knows the more conflict in the Middle East, the harder it's going to be to get gasoline produced here in America, the higher the price is going to go. You could see a $10 gallon gasoline in California, a $5 or $6 gallon gasoline nationally here if they keep messing around. Trump could solve it with one deal, one deal, one of Venezuela, one with Iran. Real quickly, you've laid out a theory of the case that we don't really have a lot of allies in the United States of America. I get Russia giving targets, you get Israel, and it's a piece of myths that we get to, people got different objectives. Plus you got the Arabs, you think the Arabs are double, low and behold, you actually think Arab nations would double deal the United States, sir? You should imagine that. Imagine that. I think it's very plausible. Boeing, where do people get all your commentary in the social media, all of it, sir? At Eric Boeing, everywhere in social media, the edge on YouTube, there it is. There's a picture of that love you get. The guys are subscribed by the way. You mentioned it yesterday. I got a flood of subscribers from the war room. Posse, we'll call it. Thank you very much for that. We just do gross stuff. We do man stuff. We're not about woke. 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