Chapter 1: What are the conflicting reports about the ceasefire in Iran?
The U.S., Israel, and Iran agree that a ceasefire is now in effect, but they're contradicting each other and themselves in terms of what's actually been agreed to and what happens now. Tonight, the speaker of Iran's parliament claims three clauses of its workable proposal to Trump have already been violated. That includes new Israeli strikes today in Lebanon, which Israel has refused to stop.
Iran also claims its right to nuclear enrichment was laid out very much in the 10-point plan accepted by Trump. But the White House suggested a 10-point plan reported today by Iranian state media was, well, just an early draft.
Vance is set to attend face-to-face talks with Iran along with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner in Pakistan on Saturday. Iran's delegation is expected to arrive tonight.
The president posted overnight that the United States military will be remaining in the region in place, as he put it, quote, until such time as the real agreement is reached, is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, he writes, then he levels the new threat. The shooting starts bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.
Clear it up in any kind of actual ceasefire agreement.
I think with normal administrations, that's the case. Normally you have a text and all the sides look at it and change sentences or words or phrases.
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Chapter 2: How did Iran's parliament respond to the ceasefire proposal?
This latest ceasefire, which evidently was at the initiative of the U.S. administration and they used Pakistan to bring it about, seems to have been off the cuff. And it seemed to have included a full session of all hostilities to include Lebanon. But evidently Israel wasn't consulted enough or ā agreed to disagree.
So this is why we have a ceasefire that never took hold, that no sides are living up to, except the US military, which is where we are now. I think there's a lot of concern there. It's clearly a very tenuous, fragile ceasefire at this moment.
Chapter 3: What role does Israel play in the current conflict with Iran?
And I think one of the biggest concerns as we're waking up this morning is just how much confusion there is as to what was exactly agreed upon when both sides announced that they were joining this two week ceasefire. You mentioned what's happening with these Israeli attacks. on Hezbollah in Lebanon is a crucial, crucial sticking point.
I think one of the biggest parts of this ceasefire was Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. You heard the White House, Caroline Lovett, the press secretary, arguing yesterday that they had seen some traffic ticking up in the Strait, but that was very minimal.
Iran later said that they were closing it because of those ongoing attacks in Lebanon and really coming down to what we heard the vice president argue was just a fundamental misunderstanding of whether or not Lebanon was exactly in the agreement.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the 10-point plan for Iran's nuclear enrichment?
And so that has created a lot of consternation. And of course, something we have to see how that is going to be resolved. You did hear the vice president just after that clip you played. He went on to say that Israel might be checking themselves when it comes to their attacks on Lebanon. We'll have to see if that's actually possible.
what the path forward is here, if Israel will be the one to seize those attacks to try and ensure that the Strait is reopened and this ceasefire remains intact. But I think another big part of all of this, Kate, is also, again, what are exactly the points that they are basing, you know, using as the basis for the negotiations that are set to kick off in person in Islamabad this weekend?
One of the things that was most notable to me, I know that, you know, Shortly after that ceasefire proposal was agreed to Tuesday night, you saw Iran, their Supreme National Security Council, putting out this statement that included what they argued were the 10 points, something CNN reported on. The president, I was told, was very livid about that statement.
He tried to characterize the CNN statement, or excuse me, the CNN reporting on that statement as fake. But we have not seen any type of language. We have asked repeatedly now from the White House and our sources, What are the 10 points then that this is based on? You heard the White House press secretary yesterday say the 10 points that have been flying around.
They had Iran initially given the United States 10 points. They threw that in the garbage. Now they're using a separate 10 points as the basis for these talks. But again, we have not seen those and we still are wondering exactly what the 15 point plan, what the specifics of that are. And so there's so much confusion around this.
From my conversations with my sources in that building behind me, they do tell me they are confident that the talks this weekend will continue and they are hoping that can kind of clear a lot of this up and be the start of potentially several intense negotiations to come. But again, very fragile this morning and a lot of questions about how this is actually going to proceed.
I mean, Iran is now in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They were not previously. They didn't have official control over it, certainly. The Iranian nuclear program, obviously, they've suffered huge losses in terms of infrastructure and ballistic missiles and the like. They're still obviously able to shoot down some U.S. planes, and they're able to fire drones and others at neighboring countries.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. military's presence affecting the ceasefire situation?
But their nuclear program or their nuclear desires remain, and the regime seems the same and or perhaps more hardline, less experienced. Do you believe Iran is in a stronger position now than before the war in a strange way?
Not a strange way, in an obvious way. They're strategically, they have a position of strategic strength going into the negotiations. The U.S. had a big, strict stick. It brandished for years. It's military. They used it. The dreadful has already happened. And now Iran realizes that it can take that punch. Additionally,
Iran has found a big stick of its own that up until now it had hesitated using, which is control of the Strait of Hormuz. And don't forget, even though it's closed now, even when it's putatively open under the ceasefire, Iran says they're only going to let through about 12 ships a day. So Iran has found a piece of hyper-strategic deterrence to replace the three pillars it lost before.
And finally, you're quite right, Anderson, The new government that we put into place as a result of decapitation is far more militaristic and far more hardline. So any type of deal the U.S. can get out of this now is going to be far worse than the deal we could have gotten on February 27th.
Given what we've seen in Lebanon today and the increased attacks from Israel, is there any concern that Netanyahu is trying to kill the ceasefire?
Maya, of course there should be a concern. I mean, Netanyahu reportedly convinced Trump to start this war to begin with, something he tried with other presidents in the past, while Netanyahu was somehow meeting in the Situation Room, according to new reporting. And the United States and Israel have had different objectives from the beginning, which is a huge flag and has always been.
And even when you get down to the details of how the flimsy deal came together yesterday, the Pakistani prime minister, who has been acting as a mediator of the negotiations, specifically mentioned the ceasefire would also take effect in Lebanon.
And then within hours of the ceasefire, Israel launched the largest waves of attacks on Lebanon in weeks and claimed Lebanon wasn't a part of the ceasefire. Then J.D. Vance claimed today it was all somehow a misunderstanding. All sounds pretty sketchy to me, Maya.
I would emphasize these are really baby steps right now. There's no real indication that the Strait is going to reopen, and it seems like a flimsy ceasefire to say what's obvious.
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Chapter 6: What are the concerns regarding the Strait of Hormuz and its reopening?
It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? 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. Bann.
It's Thursday, 9 April, in the year of our Lord, 2026. Eric Bolling is going to join us in a moment. We're going to talk about markets and talk about this current situation. I think the Iranians just put out a tweet a while ago. I don't know. One of the guys that says we're negotiating with them that there's been so many violations of this.
There's been so many violations of this that it's, you know, the ceasefire is about to not hold. I totally don't understand this. I'll be blunt. I just don't understand what the vice president was talking about right there. The Israelis, America's greatest ally, have not set us up for success in any part of this war.
And I think we need to be blunt now with the American people and also with the people across the table. I think communications, particularly communications of objectives, goals, all of it, would behoove us. And no, the Israelis are not setting us up for success. That would not be the case. And they need to be part of this global settlement of at least things when we put down the weapons.
I just don't see us getting to a signed document. This is not going to be like Japan on the decks of the Missouri. The reason is in the Wall Street Journal article,
reports this i'm not saying it's a fact but it's definitely a fact in their mind the iranians think they're winning they've shifted the center of gravity to the persian gulf as we told you two and a half weeks ago uh they have taken the straight her moves and still have some sort of control of this bowling will be here i think 12 ships have gone through versus 125
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Chapter 7: How are negotiations in Islamabad expected to unfold?
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You can't certainly be like a supplicant in this situation. And you can't be a supplicant with America's greatest ally. What they're doing in Lebanon, there's plenty. If that's what they're going to do, there's plenty of time to do that. Doesn't mean it does not need to be done today unless they're trying to get as much done as possible. before the ref calls the, blows the whistle.
And in that case, it's not acceptable. We need to drive the train here, because this is quite complicated. And we're in it now. We're in it now. And we have to win this thing. And I'm very opposed to this war, and I'm very opposed to the war for exactly the reason we're in it right now. And you see the New York Times article, which has not been refuted by anybody,
Once again, this was bad information, bad intelligence pushed by the Israelis. And if somebody can please give me a counter to that, I'm open to it. But Tel Aviv, Levin and this crowd have not come up with it. I keep getting back to 47 years of being bad guys. Well, you know what? They are bad guys.
But the Chinese Communist Party has been eating our lunch on something important and major, like the destruction of our country for longer than that. and yet we welcome them and embrace them with open arms. Eric Bolling, markets today, you know,
that it's not going according to plan when Fox News, which we refer to here as TV for stupid people, presented by stupid people, are going to the Easter bunnies and the rabbits. Easter was a couple weeks ago. They're going to everything spring. When they cut away for cooking and they cut away for let's go pet some animals, that is the top guys.
That's Murdoch saying, hey, this thing's not going well. Let's divert. the stupid people that watch our channel, right? The people there with their mouths open that just, you know, take all the crap, all the neocon, militarist crap, the Mitch McConnell school of politics, and just accept it. Right. Let's let's we got to change the programming here. Let's throw some rabbits up there. Right.
Let's have some bunnies. Let's cook an omelet and tell the audience how how how how how great an omelet. We have a whole different take on omelets. That's what Fox is doing right now. We need to get damn serious about this. And if this Islamabad. It has to be real, like this new, the modified 10 points. Okay, it's a modified 10 points.
That's great because the 10 points they gave us, eight of them are not worth having a meeting about because you don't want to give the impression that I'm prepared to even hear your argument on reparations. Not interested. Your argument on you're controlling the straight horror movies, but you're going to give a discount to somebody if they take it in one or crypto. Not interested.
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Chapter 8: What are the potential consequences of Israel's actions on the ceasefire?
doing a pickup hit. Next week, you're going to be overwhelmed by this. So the political heat on this is going to ratchet up big league. Congressman Chip Roy joins us. Congressman, we've been saying from the beginning, and I think this is one of the reasons
That from being a leader in the House Freedom Caucus, you decided, hey, I got to go back to my home state and be attorney general because Texas is in a bad way right now. This Islamic invasion of Texas, Sharia law, the H-1B visas and so many problems around the great state of Texas. And it's the crown jewel. But just your thoughts right now, you've been a hawk, a deficit hawk.
We have a budget, and I think our friend and the former contributor here, Russ Vogt, is going to go before, I think, the House and the Senate next week to talk about the budget that's being put forth, which has pretty big deficits in it. A $1.5 trillion, you know, $1.5 trillion now for the military budget.
And I don't think that includes the $200 billion supplemental for the Iran conflict, which people are saying it's got to be pay as you go. You've got to pay for this. But just your thoughts on that. You've been a deficit hawk.
The direction of this, the direction of the economy, which clearly being hit right now on this conflict, the supplemental bill, before we pivot to Texas, where I think the real fight is, what's your assessment of what's going to happen next week when the House and Senate come back and CNN's got every microphone in the world jammed up in somebody's face, sir? In somebody's face.
Well, first of all, it'll be great to have our mutual friend Russ Vogt. He's gonna appear before the House Budget Committee on which I serve. I'm sure we're gonna have some good spirited conversation in there. He's a dear friend and he's doing the Lord's work over there. But this is gonna be a central issue that we've gotta deal with.
And I've been very clear to the administration privately and publicly that I very much support what the president is doing to try to reset the geopolitical landscape. President Trump has a long vision about what we need to do to put pressure on China and Russia and to kind of reclaim the Western Hemisphere and the actions of Venezuela.
But I've been very clear about not wanting a blank check, that I wouldn't grant or agree to or vote or support a blank check, and that I wasn't interested in boots on the ground unless we've got a very specific and very concrete targeted mission that will be in and out. I've said no more soccer fields. I don't want soccer fields in Tehran. I didn't want them in Baghdad.
And, you know, we've never talked about this, Steve, but in 2008, I went on a trip over to Baghdad in the middle of that conflict and had a three-star general taking me around and showing me soccer fields. The American people didn't sign up to put men and women in danger for that sort of thing.
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