Steve Bannon

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Kurt Mills is going to join us in a moment, but I'm going to go back to Weikert and to Bowling here because I want to make sure what the speech I gave at CPAC

it's important for this audience to come to their own conclusions and think through this complexity through the fog of war.

And what we hope, what we hope to do is to provide you the information that you can start to think this through, because that's what the president needs for people to have his back as he works through this.

You can tell last night he is working through it every second of every day.

Brandon Weikert, uh,

You bring up a good point about escalation and the escalatory trap, which I want you to define in a moment, but...

You say that it's quite evident we are still committing assets and significant assets to the region.

I don't believe that the Gerald Ford, which is up in a naval base in Croatia going through some repairs, has been ordered home yet.

I think they're continuing to be part of this operation.

And the Bush is on its way.

So you now have three, at least generally three, carrier strike groups associated with this.

And you've got additional assets

particularly potential ground assets and the air cover ground assets would need like A-10s pouring into the region.

Defined for this audience, what do you mean by an escalatory trap?

President Trump, and Boland's going to talk about this in a minute, because for a day or two, things were starting to calm down as President Trump was talking about he's going to make this address, but it was going to be

implied it was going to be an off-ramp and talk about an update of when this war is coming to an end.

You said, hey, that may be his intent, but the actions right now lead these smart people in the world, particularly the traders in these commodity markets, to take a different interpretation.