WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 24 June 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:07.360 On Scoring Lives Australia. This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.200 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Patty Show. Coming 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.279 up tonight, President Donald Trump announces a cease fire. Will 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.200 this be the end of the twelve day war? Kosher 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.640 Gata will be with me shortly to discuss Security experts 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.240 warn Australian teenagers may become radicalized due to the conflict 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.360 in the Middle East. The panel will weigh in on 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.200 that issue and much more. We will look at some 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:37.879 new research showing the dangers of medicalized transgender treatments. And 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.120 we'll also look at the radical socialists who may be 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.959 elected mayor of New York and left He's losing. It 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.000 is full of good news tonight, including the musings of 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.800 international law expert and view co host Sunny Austin. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.120 I believe this is certainly a clear violation of international 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:58.160 law at the very least. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.440 But first, the conflict in the Middle East has raised 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.440 alarm bells about homegrown terrorism on Australian soil. Security experts 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.399 have worn vulnerable Australian teenagers are at risk of being 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:15.479 radicalized and becoming gey hardest acting Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesman 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.880 Andrew Hasty has also warned about the Iranian regime engaging 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:22.520 in foreign interference. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.240 I think the Kods Force, which is the unconventional special 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:34.240 operations wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, very methodical. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:34.520 Very patient. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.160 There's something we've got to watch very closely. And there's 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.200 the reason why Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.839 mentioned the Iranians in his annual threat update, particularly around 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:44.640 foreign interference. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:45.959 So this is a risk for. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.640 The US particularly, but also allies as well. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.840 Let's bring in the panel. We've got Sky News contributors 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:58.000 Tina McQueen and Prue McSween teena. I'll start with you. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.120 We saw scores of Australian residents travel to the Middle 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.560 East to join the Caliphate, to join Islamic State. Do 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.440 you think there's any risk this conflict will see the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.600 same thing happen. We'll see young people become radicalized. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.880 Oh, sadly, there is a big risk, greader. You've only 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.320 got to look at the protests on the weekend, the 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:26.880 pro Palestine now pro Iranian protests all through the Sydney CBD, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.960 the elevated attacks on the Jewish community community in different areas. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.160 So there's a big risk. I think this has to 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.560 be closely monitored in Australia and I'm sure they have 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.440 the methods and know how to do that, but that 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.239 is they get so it seem to be excited by 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.120 this rita and forget that they're Australians living in Australia. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.320 It's really sad to see and I don't know how 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.440 we're going to combat this. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:00.280 Pre and internationally we've already seen incidents. Is that Mixed 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.560 State has claimed credit for a terror plot in Syria 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.360 where a suicide bomba killed twenty two people at a 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:12.800 Christian church in Damascus over the weekend. We've been so 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.240 lucky in this country, really, haven't we prove in that 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.639 major terror plots have been foiled before they've been executed. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.880 We may not always be that lucky. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.919 Well that's the problem, you know, and luck shouldn't be 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.160 a factor, should it reta? But I just fail to 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.840 understand why government hasn't acted on these radical imams who 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.200 are poisoning the young minds. That this is the greatest source, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.480 I believe of homegrown terror and we've seen that with 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:48.240 past examples, and we are aware that homegrown terrorism. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.880 Is there, and we have been lucky, but how long will. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:51.600 That luck last? 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.280 Now? The E Safety Commissioner is continuing her push for 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.920 greater online shep Are you recall she tried to get 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:07.040 a worldwide ban on that alleged terror attack at a 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.600 Christian church in Sydney last year. Well, now she wants 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.880 YouTube added to the government's social media ban for under sixteen. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.960 It's a survey by the E Safety Commissioner earlier this 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.040 year found that YouTube was the most used platform by 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.960 ten to fifteen year olds by a significant margin. And 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.279 Julie Inman grant Tina. She's arguing in her speech at 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.120 the National Press Club today that around seven to ten 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:40.280 kids report being exposed to harmful online content, such as 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.599 what she thinks is misogynistic or hateful material. What's your 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:46.880 take on this issue? 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.560 Oh, look, I think, you know, I think I think 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.800 some sort of ban would be great for under sixteens, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.120 but it's going to be so difficult to enforce. I 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.560 think parents need to take a greater role on this. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.599 There's different apps you can apply so the kids can't 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.560 access that. Don't get them the iPhones where they can, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.560 you know, have the ability to go on the net 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.360 anywhere anywhere they are. But also, I mean, you've only 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.680 got to look at television reader, Netflix, stand even free 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.839 to air TV. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.320 There's some disgusting episodes on television. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.840 So you know, it's not just the Internet that is 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.960 dangerous for kids. It's everywhere now that we have to 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.159 be really, really careful and parents need to take a 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.480 stronger approach in really looking closely at what their kids 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.839 are looking at, take some responsibility. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.320 Prou I've got to say I disagree. I do not 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.599 like this sort of censorship at all. I don't want 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:49.320 the likes of Julie Inman Grant deciding what's hateful material 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.880 pro should it be something that is left to parents 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.920 or parents really not equipped to deal with this sort 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.000 of issue, given the kids are so much better with 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.080 tech than than their parents. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.160 Well, I think you know, it's got to be the parents. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.320 I agree that kids can get around anything technical these 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.800 days and leave us all for dead. But you know, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.400 I'm sick of kids being cotton wooled and snowflaked, and 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:19.000 that's what we're bringing raising. Sadly, I just always feel 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.120 there's a focus on the risk rather than the benefits, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.560 particularly with YouTube, where you know they have education and 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.320 health benefits, and it's really strongly supported. I think seventy 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.120 nine percent of kids ten to fifteen use it for 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.920 those reasons. And you know, when I was a kid, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.200 I used to sneak looking at, you know, the books 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.039 that my mother used to wear that were sort of 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.480 naughty you're used to read, and you sort of think, well, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.680 you know, this is natural for kids to want to 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.440 investigate and explore, and obviously we've got to be careful 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.440 that we supervise them. But I just feel very uncomfortable 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.160 having governments telling us what we can and look at 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.400 and read read it. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.880 There's also a positive aspect to this. I have an 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.640 levenyear old grandson that you know, has a slight TikTok 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.600 account here, so over half million followers that discuss lunar 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.520 parts w you know, it's hysterical. I can't believe he 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.280 had more followers than what the Liberal Liberal Party did 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.800 during the election. They should have imployed him. But there's 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.880 the positives where where it can it can be very 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.840 good for kids. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.680 Well, absolutely, and I think it's just foolish to try 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.800 to impose these sorts of controls. Sure get rid of 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:36.360 things that are threats things that are explicit materials that 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.480 kids should be protected from. But you don't need to 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.400 be banning YouTube. The This is how kids consume information 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.400 and I just think it's such a counterproductive thing to 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.280 be doing. And to have someone ideological lefteris like Julie 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.440 Inman Grant making those calls. I mean that is just 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.920 alarm bells. Yeah, no, that is that that something. Really 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.960 the coalition needs to come out and take a stand, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.200 but sadly they've been really silent on this issue. Let's 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.760 talk local government. Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has announced 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.480 that gas appliances will be banned in new homes from 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:21.080 next year. She's also proposing to ban gas from new offices, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:26.160 hotels and service departments. Tina, she's your local mayor. What 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.840 do you make of this policy? Will you be changing 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:29.720 your appliances? 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.280 I'd like to ban Clover more, That's what I'd like 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.960 to do. Look, I'm no great cook, but I have 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.720 friends that are, and they do tell me some dishes 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.840 are really impossible to cook. And regulate a control with 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.199 our gas appliances. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:45.920 I mean, this is crazy. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.240 People should be given the choice. We should not be 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.760 dictated by some woman that's been there far too long. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.599 I mean, as soon as she goes. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:54.120 The better. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.240 H Prue, what do you say to that? I know 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.720 it's I mean, can you even put a walk on 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.160 an electric cook top? It doesn't make sense. You need 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.120 you need the flames. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.840 Of course you do, or they're saying inductions as good. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.520 But first of all, we're going to need electricity to 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.400 actually fire up all these ovens and cook tops because 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.280 the rate we're going, we're in Fancy's fantasy land with 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.800 the renewables, We're not going to have electricity supply that 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.800 could even cook a stir for in time. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.439 You know, we've got councils. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.120 Like Clover Moore and Buly's six others are trying to 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.760 do it, and seven have already done it. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.160 I mean, get out. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.880 Of our lives, stick to the roads and rates and rubbish, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.160 and you know it's not your jurisdiction. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.439 She's got a large Asian. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.559 Contingency in the city of Sydney who always cook on walks, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.880 so she's she's not going to make herself very popular 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:56.080 in that area. So I just think she's always overstepping 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:56.600 the mark. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.120 God knows why. She's got nothing better to do. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.439 Clearly put her to pasture or something. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.520 Well, the Victorian government, they've got all sorts of statewide 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.800 restrictions on gas and they're not particularly popular either, but 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.480 they're pressing ahead and they've announced a whole bunch of 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:20.880 new regulations today, particularly for rental properties. Now, I want 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:25.240 to just get your take on what's happening with international travel. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:30.520 Australians have been worn that they maybe travel chaos in 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.880 the peak season due to the Iran Israel conflict, with 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.679 flights from Australia to the milease delayed and canceled in 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.839 some cases. Prove that timing couldn't be worse for travelers, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.120 given that many Australians do transit through the Middle East 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.479 to reach Europe. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.880 Well, it wouldn't be me, Reta. I wouldn't risk it 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.320 because you can't trust Iran, and that's for sure. They're 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.720 talking seats fire, but you just couldn't believe it, So 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.280 I would be staying at home, day at home. I've 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.359 got to say, on the upside. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.720 There may be some cheap seats available REDA if. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:11.160 You're into advention. Seemed to me, yeah, well you would 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.920 hope that. But no, it seems with the flight cancelations there. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.760 The scarcity is making the fares even higher during peak season. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.080 So people seem to be pretty bold these days, Tina. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.240 After the COVID lockdowns, people want to get out there 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:25.760 and travel. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.520 That's right, that's right. I mean, you know, anything could 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.760 happen anytime in the world. I think, if you've spent 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.959 a lot of money on travel plans, you know, go 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.040 for it. Be sensible about it. Look at the government 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.120 travel warnings. But you know, if I had a big, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.120 expensive holiday plan, I'd still be going. Look to this day, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.679 I'd still love to be in Israel at this at 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.040 this moment. I know it's very dangerous and not a 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.160 great place to be, but it's such a fascinating country, Rita, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.400 So if I had a tip to Israel planned, I'd 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.400 certainly still be going. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.360 I was there in December, and yeah, there's nowhere else 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.679 like it in the world, Tina, and pro thank you 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.439 so much for your time tonight. Thanks to America. And 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.920 while the Democrats play the role of the Iranian Muller's 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.679 useful idiots, railing against the military action and calling for 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.160 Donald Trump to be impeached, the president has been busy 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:24.120 securing a seaspire, what he calls a complete and total ceasepire. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.000 Let's hear more on that from Vice President JdE Vance. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.440 What it means, Brett's quite simple. First of all, the President, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:37.240 without knock on Wood, having a single American casualty, obliterated 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.920 the Iranian nuclear program. We are now in a place 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.559 where we weren't a week ago. Week ago, Iran was 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.480 very close to having a nuclear weapon. Now Iran is 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.520 incapable of building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.319 have because we destroyed it. So that's a very very 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:51.840 big thing. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:52.439 Now. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.600 What that means, I think is we have to talk 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.600 to Iran and of course to Israel about what the 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.360 future holds. Because while we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.880 our hope and our expectation is that they're not going 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.800 to try to rebuild that program. And I think that's 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.240 what the President is really trying to figure out here, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.800 is to build a long term settlement here to where 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.400 we can have peace in the region, where our regional 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.920 allies and of course the American people most importantly can 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.840 be secured, but where we can ensure that the destruction 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.679 of the Iranian nuclear program that has already happened is 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.680 not something they try to rebuild and on that ceasefire. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.600 Earlier today, Donald Trump announced the end of what he 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.040 called the twelve Day War. He wrote, congratulations to everyone. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.240 It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.400 Iran that there will be a complete and total cease 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.760 fire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.920 Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.440 missions for twelve hours, at which point the war will 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.600 be considered ended. Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.680 upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.160 upon the twenty fourth hour, an official to the twelve 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.400 day War will be saluted by the world. During each ceasefire, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.400 the other side will remain peaceful and respectful on the 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.040 assumption that everything works as it should, which it will. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.720 I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.960 on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.680 should be called the twelve Day War. This is a 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.480 war that could have gone on for years and destroyed 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.400 the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.280 Let's bring in Sky News contributor Kosher Gaeta Kosher What 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.600 are the chances that this ceasefire will hold. I'm surprised 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.560 it's been agreed to in the first place, but will 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.400 it be lasting? 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.240 That is a million dollar question on everybody's mind. What 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.800 a whirl win seventy two hours this has been from 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.880 that first bombing to where we are now, and this 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.600 is far on the table. Allegedly the split in the 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.320 Trump bes that I think is healing, but the side 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.920 that was very strongly opposed to this is for that reason, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.280 And how can we trust this work? What are going 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.680 to be the scene and unseen consequences down the road. However, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.520 just as Vice President Vance said over there, they don't 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.480 have much to come back from the Ranians, So it 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.480 feels difficult to see that they're going to engage in 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.080 this kind of kinetic back and forth because they're pretty 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.120 much depleted in terms of their leadership, in terms of 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.880 their missiles and everything else. Could they do other things 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.400 like sleeper cells and things like that over the long term. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.840 Possibly that is still a worry, But as of now, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.480 I think we're sitting in a pretty good place where 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.880 their nuclear capability has been annihilated, their leadership has gone. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.680 Boots on the ground gone, other long range missiles depleted, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.280 and conversely, we don't have American troops on the ground. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.200 We're not getting sucked into forever wars. We're not going 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.840 into this regime change fantasy which many were pushing as well. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.880 So he seems to have thread the needle quite well. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.160 Well. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.840 That seems to be a pretty good point, isn't it. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.840 It's one thing to have the stealth bombers with the 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.360 secret mission, but to have boots on the ground is 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.320 I think something that many Americans from both sides of 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.680 politicus would be dead set against. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.440 One hundred percent. And Trump was That's the thing that 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.800 gave some people pause or concerned that we doesn't want that. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.280 There is something called incrementalism, and you take one action, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.480 does it lead to the slippery slope? But he is 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.320 very strongly against that. The American people are very weary 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.320 after twenty five years of a failed adventure in the 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.840 Middle East to little to noah veil, and I think 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.080 that's dead un arrival. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.840 Now, what do you make of the manner in which 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.480 the Australian government has handled this matter? And the Albin 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:33.920 Easy has belatedly expressed support for Donald Trump's strikes on 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.520 Iran's nuclear program, but that came after Foreign Minister Penny 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.120 One called for de escalation before the strikes. It's all 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.040 very confusing. I don't know how that can be very 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.040 supportive when just before the strikes that were calling for 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.160 de escalation. This is isolate us a little bit more 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.040 that surely the US and Israel can't be particularly happy 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.160 with Australia at this point. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.520 When I look at the timing and manner of the 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.880 statements that are coming out of the Albanese administration, it 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.920 just comes across as playing a very very safe, very 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.680 focused grouped almost when they're looking at different factions in 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.640 their party back home. And this was a controversial move, 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.399 there's no question, and by in large we all wanted 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.720 to prevent escalation. So I understand where they're coming from 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.600 with having some of those statements out there, But the 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.240 way they come across is just too safe, too little, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.560 too much juniversity and not playing in the big leagues 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.320 or representing Australia kind of at the big boys table. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:29.840 It sort of looks like they'ret the kids' table. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.760 It seems very much amateur hour with sort of antiques. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.639 It's not something where their statements seem to be useful 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.840 to the country. Surely, what we want to be doing, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.320 if we want to have any sort of input, would 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.000 be to be in a better position at the end 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.520 of this operation than beforehand. And I think we've just 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.200 given the Americans more reason to doubt where we stand, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.480 especially given the reluctance to increased defense spending as has 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.280 been requested by the Trump administration. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.320 Reluctant to do that. The optics of being snubbed at 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.240 the G seven, not grabbing the bull by the horns 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.760 and getting a White House meeting in the Oval Office already, and. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.080 Not even getting a meeting with the Vice President. I 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.160 think Anthony Abaneze there was a massive misstep to think 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.400 that I'm the leader of the country, I must meet 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.680 the leader of the US and bypass j Evans. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.359 Right and not grabbing that opportunity when he had it 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.840 so at the Hague, supposedly Richard Morrils is going to 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.640 meet potentially with the President Trump, but we shall see. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.199 Back to the US and Attorney General Pam Bondi was 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.840 asked about how many Iranian sleeper cells maybe in the 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.199 US right now? How many Iranian sleeper cells do we 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:44.000 suspect here in. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:49.119 The United States, Congressman, I can't talk about that in 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.680 the setting, but what I can tell you is I 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.000 know Homeland Security, I know the FBI. They are focusing 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:02.600 on doing everything we can to keep our nation safe. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.399 There is not a day that goes by that we 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.600 don't discuss the issues that you just brought up with 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.760 me at the Department of Justice. But I also know 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.639 that our counterparts at DoD HSI, the State Department, and 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.040 all of our agencies are working together to make America 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.520 safe and in turn keep our world safe kosher. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.080 She also said there that it was a particularly dangerous 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.080 period for the US. Of course, we saw millions coming 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.000 across that southern border under the Biden administration, no checks, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.600 no controls, So really, how could they have any idea 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.960 how many sleeper cells they could be in the country. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.439 And they probably don't. And this is back to what 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.040 we were talking about earlier that with this action, you 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.280 cannot predict every consequence, and we will probably never know 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.679 every consequence is going to come out of it. And 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.800 these kinds of ones, you know, the overt ones like 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.840 the missiles that were striking and intercepted by the US military. 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.719 That was a great showing of the might of American 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.199 military offensively and defensively. But things like this it is 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.480 harder to predict, and it further underscores the Trump administration's 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.520 number one agenda, and really what undergirded his whole rise 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:17.080 politically is immigration, securing the border, deporting illegals, and that 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.600 is a problem that we've got anywhere from thirty forty 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.520 fifty million. Nobody knows the number of illegals in the country. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:24.800 About ten to twelve were allowed just the last four 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.400 years under Joe Biden, tens of thousands of them potentially Iranians. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.040 Many may very well be sympathetic to the regime and 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.680 not very happy right now. So this is a big problem. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.800 It is concerning, and hopefully this gives them some more 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.600 ammunition rhetorically speaking, to really deport those people aggressively and 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.920 fight back against all the opposition they're facing internally. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.520 How will the Democrats handle this escalation? Will they carry 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:53.000 water for Iran's Islamist regime, for the mad Muller's We've 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.359 heard a lot of claims with the Democrats that the 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:00.520 strikes were unconstitutional, against international law. We've gone the likes 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.440 of AOC and came Jeffries calling for impeachment. They really 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.480 are getting on the front foot with this, But again 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.120 I wonder whether this is going to be counterproductive for them. 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.359 I think so, and they feel really scattered. There's like 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.320 fifteen different messages that have come out of the Democrat Party. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.760 You had John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, very very in favor, 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:21.760 very much in favor of it. You have these guys 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.679 calling for impeachment. Impeachment is their favorite tool of choice 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.320 against Trump. They did it twice over the perfect phone 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.920 call quote unquote and the insurrection that had rise to 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:32.359 legal standard of insurrections. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.760 So had they learned from that or do they still 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.480 know that the more radical elements of their supporter base 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.200 get excited when they hear the I word, and they 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.560 are just going to keep going down that road, even 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.560 if it just makes them even more unelectable. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.960 I think it seems to be the latter. They just 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:50.920 don't have the votes right now. But if they were 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.320 to gain back the majority in the midterms, which is 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.160 possible because the Publicans have a very slim majority, absolutely, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.440