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It will take you right there, the 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.600 best substack available. It just consolidates all the news and 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.000 John and I picked four five stories every day that 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:39.960 you might have overlooked. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:40.839 Eli Lake is back. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.760 We're talking about Iran, of course, Matt Continetty and I 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.040 are talking about Iran and everything having to do with 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.760 the tariff decision by the Supreme Court on Friday, as 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.599 is the case with Ben Dominic, with a little bit 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.560 of an Olympic thrown in at the end. And yes, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.160 I know the usual suspects are mad at the Chief 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:04.479 Justice really, really, it can't be. It's not like people 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.319 didn't see this coming. And Justice Barrett and Justice Gorsich 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.560 agreed with them. The liberals just agree with him because 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.600 they're liberals and they don't want anything to do with 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.120 Donald Trump. The Chief Justice reads the statute. The statute 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.000 says no, can't be done. But the President's got other 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.600 things in front of him, and he's gone off and 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.160 done them. And this is by no means over. It's 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.640 not the end of the world, not even that significant 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.120 a decision, as I will argue with Matt and Ben today, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:36.119 but I will play for you the President's highlights. I'll 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.080 call them highlights after the Ben Dominic interview. Stick around 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.680 if you missed President Trump's Friday press conference because there 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.319 was a doozy and then just settle back and enjoy. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.200 Who knows, I won't be talking to you for a week. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.040 I expect the war to be underway and maybe over 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.800 by the time I get back from my vacation next week. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.840 But Kurt Schlichter will be in for me, and he'll 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.840 be doing the big weekend pod as well as the daily. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.560 You will not be left alone. Adam Harley and Dwayne 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.840 are here for you. Thank you for listening to the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:09.800 Big Weekend Pod America. What a significant Friday war is 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.320 looming in Iran and the Supreme Court rule six to 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.200 three today, Chief Justice Roberts writing, quote, our task today 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.680 is to decide only whether the power to regulate importation 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.640 is granted to the president in the IEEPA embraces the 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.639 power to impose tariffs, it does not. With that decision, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.520 everything is up in the air, and John Ellis is 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.440 here to tell us what's going to happen next. John 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.919 Ellis is the editor of news Items, and tomorrow's news 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.200 items of the weekend is going to be full of this. John, 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.160 But what's your initial reaction to the six to three decision, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.239 which included Justice is Amy, Cony Barrett, and Neil Gorsich 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.160 with the Chief Justice and the three liberals. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.840 I wasn't surprised, and I don't think the Trump administration 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:59.919 was particularly surprised. They had an immediate rejoinder to it, So, I, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.520 you know, I think it's pretty The Constitution is pretty 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.400 clear on the point, so I think that part is 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.440 not a surprise. The question really is, you know, if 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.160 the president insists on, you know, putting in this ten 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.919 percent tariff and then using this section in that section 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.560 to impose more tariffs. There's no real constituency for that. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.040 That's the political problem. Not a lot of people want 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.320 to have tariffs imposed on products that come from all 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.600 these various countries. So it puts him, I think, in 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:38.360 a sort of perilous political situation. And we'll see, you know, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:39.680 we'll see if I'm right about that. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:39.960 Yeah. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.040 I don't think it actually ends the discussion so much 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.160 as makes sure that it doesn't have an ending, because 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.600 remaining to the Court of Claims doesn't really tell us 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.440 what's going to be upheld or refunded. And he's added 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.280 a bunch of new impost duties today pursue at the 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.840 different sections. It's a big cloud of dust. Behind that 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.120 big cloud of dust, though, is this amazing armada that 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.640 has been assembled off the coast of Iran. The Ford 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.240 should be there today or tomorrow, completing the arrival of everything. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.680 I think he has authority under the Authorization for the 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.000 Use of Military Force and is in here at Article 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.200 two Power. What's the contrary argument, John? 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.000 The argument is that Congress has to authorize, you know, declare, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:28.240 confirm made declaration of war. This armada is certainly doesn't 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.200 look like an incursion or a targeted strike. It looks 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:36.840 like the onset of a war. Presidents Bush senior and junior, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.000 so to speak, went to Congress and got authorization for war. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.599 Trump has not done that. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.800 And in the context of the of this Tariff's ruling, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.880 you know that it does raise the question is what 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:56.040 he's doing illegal? So we again will have to see 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.600 how that plays out. We also don't know, obviously if 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.640 we are going to in fact bomb Iran or invade 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:09.240 Iran or whatever, So that that part we obviously. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.559 Don't know either. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:16.160 But two similar cases where authorization by Congress is required 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.919 and he gets turned down by the Supreme Court on 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.080 the tarist's decision, and the question is this Congress is. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.719 Going to go along with a war? 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.920 Should know one breakout without congressional authorization. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.720 Now, you're absolutely correct. Both President Bush's forty one and 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:39.520 forty three sought and received specific authorizations. However, for the 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.919 Libyan bombing campaign, which lasted months and months in twenty 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.600 eleven that's President Obama, and the Serbian Montenegro Yugoslavian campaign 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.320 in nineteen ninety nine by President Clinton, number forty had 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.560 no such authorizations, and so there is a gray zone here, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.960 and the court is very reluctant to get into that 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.039 gray zone. This is a statute ip, It's just another 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.640 statue ory construction case. I'm not surprised by this, but 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.359 I do think I'll put it this. I'll put it 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.479 my answer in the form of a question, doesn't Donald 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:19.080 Trump suffer irreparable political injury if he doesn't strike injury Iran. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:25.279 Now he's put himself in a situation where if he 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.760 backs down, he looks incredibly weak. And you know, to 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.880 be faced down by the Iyahtola and the Iahtola couldn't 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.880 possibly be in a weaker position, would be beyond embarrassment. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.560 So I think they're hoping that the is just this 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.359 sheer mass of force that has that hadn't brought the 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:50.120 bear on the situation, will cause the Iyatola to at 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.760 least agree to disagree, to agree that more talks should 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.680 take place, and so on and so forth. That has 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.839 to be the exit ramp if if we do attack. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.440 The thing that people I think don't fully appreciate is 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.000 that Iran has a way, a lot of ways to 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.520 attack back. And the last thing President Trump wants to 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.280 do is get caught in a long war, sort of 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:21.080 asymmetric war in the Middle East. So it's for my 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.280 I don't I'm unusual in this regard and that I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.880 think the Iranians are in a much better position than 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.560 people think. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.360 Yeah, initial, at least you're the first person to say that. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.559 And I try to get guests from all points of view. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.520 Most people believe they can't really mount much of a 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.000 counter attack if they're hammered. But we will see. Let 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.760 me move to the AI stuff. Today's news items is 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.400 choc a block fall with stuff that I kind of 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.600 got because John makes it gettable. But now you've sent 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.320 me a new piece that compares Google and Claude and 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.640 one is better than the other in some ways, and 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.840 the other is better than the other and the other way. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.000 What are we to think? We lame it and we 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.680 view we ignorant view about AI. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.360 Well, one thing that we don't want AI to do 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.040 for us when we you know, search or you know, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.440 seek answers to complicated problems, we don't want the AI 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.680 to hallucinate. It's called so it you know, it gets 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.440 an inquiry and it makes up that Hugh Hewett is 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.480 a Muslim who is working for Hezbollah. Right, It's just 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.720 complete craziness and it happens quite frequently. And what's happened 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.800 with Gemini three point one, which is the Google product, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:42.080 is that they've drastically reduced the hallucination problem. So they 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.000 they haven't eliminated it, but they drastically reduced it. So 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.679 all of these products, I mean, Chat, GPT and Claude 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:57.160 four point six are you know, spectacular feats of technology, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.000 but there's been this hallucination problem. And the thing I 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.439 guess that sort of allows Google to leap frog a 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.920 little bit ahead of the other two is that they've 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.000 addressed the hallucination problem and they seem to affect considerable success. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.600 Yeah, John, I've run into this repeatedly when I'm looking 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.000 for something specific that I know is in a book 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.520 and it's a fact and it's a person saying something 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.760 for Jample and William Blake's Israeli and I want the quote. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.000 They can't find it, and I'm astonished that they can't 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.679 find it. But I can go find it myself later. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.240 So they're not yet even close to being comprehensive. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.040 Right, Right, So you know, the hallucination problem is a 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.840 really big problem if you are you know, doing doing 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.920 work that a lot of people depend on, or a 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.800 lot of people lives depend on their livelihoos depend on. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.640 So reducing that is devowed me to be wished. And Google, 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.360 Google has you know, moved the ball significantly on that, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.040 which is great. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.720 Yes, all right, let's move to I already put this 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.040 my ex account earlier in the week when you highlighted 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:09.360 it in news items SRCC insurance against strikes, riots and 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.240 civil commotion. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.280 The demand is going up. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.679 I suppose the price is going to get pretty high 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:15.480 in a hurry too. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.920 Yeah, I mean in the story that you cited that 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.520 I put in news items was in twenty thirteen so 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.800 called SRCC, which it strikes, riots and civil commotion insurance, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.720 and the return on you know, the business on that 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:40.280 was negligible, and it's now a eight billion dollar business 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.600 and it's expected to, you know, expected to continue to 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.280 grow as a business. So you now have you know, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.079 insurance companies offering home insurance, life insurance, et cetera. And 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.840 the sr CC product is something that we're going to 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.600 be reading about more and more and more as the 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.160 world gets more fractious. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.640 All right. Last question has to do with the robotaxis. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.600 I myself am sworn never to get into one. However, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.800 if they destroy the market for Uber and Lyft, I 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.319 may now have no choice. Is Governor Hokel helping me 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.120 or hurting me? 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.000 Well, Governor Hokel has banned robo taxis from New York 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.600 City and from the surrounding areas, the surrounding counties, and 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.640 the big problem for a lot of people. I mean, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:39.200 if the way that the demographers characterize the US is 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.960 there are urban areas, suburban areas ex Surban areas, and 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.160 rural areas, and the ex Surban and rural areas are 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.400 drastically underserved in terms of car service. And given that 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.480 for many people who live in rural communities, getting to 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.400 a health clinic, for instance, can be as much as 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.240 a fifty minute or one hour drive, if you don't 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.880 have some kind of car service, you may never get 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.760 to the health clinic. So robo taxis are the answer 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:15.480 to this problem. And you know, these rural and ex 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:20.360 Surban counties are underserved not surprisingly by Uber and Left 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.920 because they're not enough business. But if you had robo 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.600 taxis out there servicing those communities, then that would be 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.600 a very good thing. So you and I are for that. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.719 You, I guess, I'm still very skeptical. I'm run to 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.920 out to see it for a lot. Mike Gallagher got 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.440 in one, my radio colleague, my tail news channel colleague, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.520 and so if Mike isness serialist, I guess I have 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.120 to be. But I'm not sold yet. John Allison News items. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.160 Go to news items, Google news items John Allison subscribe. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.800 You'll thank me stay tuned. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.640 The President to the running people off at Toronto talks 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.160 with them. Do you have any message to the running people. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.319 To running people in Iran or the people here people 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.559 in Iran. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:08.880 They better negotiate a fair deal. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.920 You know, the people of Iran are a lot different 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.079 than the leaders of Iran. And it's very, very, very 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:22.200 sad situation. But thirty two thousand people were killed over 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.800 a relatively short period of time. They were going to 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.800 hang eight hundred two weeks ago, hang hang some by crane. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.400 They lift them up with a tall crane and they 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.760 play them around the square. They were going to hang 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.920 eight hundred and thirty seven people. And I gave them 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.360 the word, if you hang one person, even one person, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.000 that you're going to be hit right then and there. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.480 I wasn't waiting two weeks and negotiating, and they gave 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.680 up the hanging. They didn't hang eight hundred and thirty seven. Supposedly, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.800 they didn't hang anybody. But no, I feel very badly 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.120 for the people of Iran. They've lived like they've lived 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:56.520 in the hell. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:58.960 Welcome back America. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.840 That is President Trump at the White House today. I'm 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.520 joined by Eli Lake of the Free Press. He's a 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.560 host of Breaking History, He's one of my go to 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.480 guys on all things Iran. Eli, what is your reporting 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.120 at this hour about the imminence of war? And the 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.000 headline from the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Times of Israel 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:19.120 today that President Trump is considering limited strike on Iran 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.040 to coax it into accepting deal on his terms, which 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.680 is the dumbest idea I've heard in many a months. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:31.320 I'm very frustrated, Hugh. You know, if Trump wants to 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.320 establish a kind of deterrence for Iran to do terrible 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.960 things against its own people, I'm all for it. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.040 But he didn't. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.200 He failed to deter the slaughter, which he acknowledged just 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.560 then he says he has deterred the executions hanging by cranes. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.480 But I would like some clarity for the American people. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.840 I mean, I see both sides of the argument. I'm 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.560 not saying that he's violated in the Constitution. I understand 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.600 the war powers debates and Article two authorities for the 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.680 president and so forth. But I just want to get 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:12.240 back to here's what our strategy is. I don't understand 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.640 the point about, like, you know, what are we negotiating? 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.160 When I hear nuclear in Richmond, They're not enriching anything 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.560 right now. We decimated their nuclear program. What is there 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.960 to talk about? And I'm not getting any clarity from Trump, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.520 and I just would I think the American people deserve 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:31.640 this is what we plan to do? 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.440 Is it a regime change war? What are we talking about? 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.480 And I understand the ambiguity is helpful in a limited sense, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.320 but I just think there are other values at stake. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.760 I am getting frustrated, even though I still think he's 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 going to end up striking it run. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.440 Yeah, I'm not here next Friday. I'll talk to Kurt 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.320 schlector Eli. But when I come back the following Friday, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.400 I believe by then war will have begun. It may 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.000 well be over and I don't believe it's going to 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.320 be a symbolic tap on the wrist. I think it's 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.240 going to be a massive, overwhelming first strike, because to 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.840 do otherwise is to put American servicemen and women in 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.840 our allies at great risk. Because the iatolis are on 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.320 a hair trigger, I don't know if they're going to 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.440 be able to distinguish between a tap on the wrist 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.160 and an all out for a strike. I don't know 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.800 who's giving him that idea other than maybe more dust 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.720 in everybody's eyes. So that's what I think is happening. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.760 But you don't have me be reporting one way or 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:27.080 the other. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.680 No that I can't tell you. I mean, I don't 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.560 think anybody could do any reporting right now, Hugh. We 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.200 know who's the decider is it's Trump? We know generally, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.320 we think we know where you know, people around him, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:41.480 or what they're considering. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.080 We can get a sense of what he's asked for. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.400 We know that he's asked for significant war plans that 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.280 are far more than just a tap on the wrist. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.320 I've reported that out and you've reported that. But I 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.600 don't think we know at this point the direction he's 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.640 going to go and that's kind of the frustrating part 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.080 of it. At a time like this, we would normally 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.800 have an address to the American people from the Oval Office, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.440 laying out the history of Iran, what they've done to 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.480 the United States, the opportunity that the United States has 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.960 now that the regime is wobbling, and you know, assurances, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.320 you know, that's the kind of thing we would get. Instead, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.480 we're relying on, you know, little bits of pieces here 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.760 and there when he does press conferences and background senior 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.960 administration officials from reporters. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.400 I would like a little bit more clarity now. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.879 I happen to believe it's a guess, right, it's a 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.200 complete guess. He's going to announce it during the State 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.080 of the Union, And when he does announce it during 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.000 the State of the Union, it's going to have an 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.200 electrifying effect. If he does it well. Rhetorically he can. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:45.880 Be quite good. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.800 He is often not focused and not quite good. But 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.440 if it's a short focus, if he doesn't, nobody cares 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.360 about tariffs except Donald Trump. Please don't make the State 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.080 of the Union about tariffs. I'm afraid he will. But 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.200 if he just makes it about time Supreme Court, yeah, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.720 I mean, nobody really knows what the court ruled. I've 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.480 read it. Chief Justice said you can't do what you did, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.199 but he didn't say what you can do and what 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.679 you can't do. So the president's out doing other stuff. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.440 It's a punt disguised as a kickoff. It's not really 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.760 a kickoff, right. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.919 Well, I don't have a lot of insights into it. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.280 I'm just disturbed when I see quotes from him about 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.760 foreign influences on the Supreme Court, which just sounds crazy 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:27.960 to me. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.160 Well, I haven't seen that one yet, but I haven't 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.000 gone through that taping stuff earlier. Let's go back to 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:38.879 an overwhelming force. Israel is allegedly on high alert, but 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.760 no change in instructions to the public. Does that really matter? 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.760 Doesn't the public know they might want to stay near 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:45.680 the bomb shelters. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:47.840 I think that's the case. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.240 And the other thing is is that, I mean, they 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.800 can't necessarily share this, but we know that the Israeli 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.400 penetration of Iran is so great right now. I Mean, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.639 the one thing that I would want to know if 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.960 I could see access to everything, is what are these 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:07.200 railies telling Trump about who might be willing to turn 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.239 inside the regime, or what a limited strike of some 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.680 of the leaders might do in terms of motivating other 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.840 leaders to then embrace some sort of transitional transition period. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.280 And Iran, I'm only interested in one thing. It's the 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.919 end of the regime. It sounded in the beginning of 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.840 the year that Trump was there, and then the language 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.720 we're getting from him is that this is a negotiation 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.400 about nukes and missiles. And you know what can I say? 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:32.800 I'm disappointed? 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.960 You know, I am on the report tonight, special report panel, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.399 and you always have to give winners and losers. And 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.639 my lining this week is Foreign Minister Arachi. Am I 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.040 pronouncing that correctly? Eli? 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.280 Yeah, I think that's right Arachi? 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.440 Or he can't win. He's supposedly preparing a homework assignment 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.000 for the Americans, but the Eye toldally, we're going to 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.320 check his work before he turns it in, and if 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.240 it's a real concession, he'll be shot behind the barn. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.280 If it's not a concession, you'll get bombed and killed 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.320 by the American. The guy's in a bad no win situation, 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.200 isn't he. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.880 He could pull up Tarikazi's which is that he could 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.040 be pretending to negotiate on behalf of the regime and. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.840 While you're gonna have to fill that in for dealers, fancy, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.720 I got the joke, but they won't know who Tarikazi's is. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.159 Tarikazi's was Saddam Hussein's foreign minister, and in the end 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.120 we know that he was working with us. We didn't 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.840 know that at the time, but so there's all kinds 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.600 of duplicity. I mean, I would hate to be in 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.439 his position, although you know, I have no sympathy for 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.359 the man. He's part of an evil and foul regime. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.840 But I mean, the whole thing just seems like, why 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.439 are we going through this? There is not going to 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.239 be a deal. As you said, and as you've been 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.200 saying in your programming, and you've been terrific on this heel, 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.879 there's nothing to negotiate at this point. They're not enriching anything. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.120 There's nothing that would be acceptable to them. So why 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.840 are we even talking? I mean, the only thing I 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.840 can think of is to get our forces in place, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.119 make sure there are enough interceptors. And then you know, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.480 when you see these stories about limited strikes, and who 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.160 knows that could be wish casting from someone who would 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.240 like to influence it in a certain ways. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.840 Either's smoking our eyes or wish casting. Eli, can you 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:13.520 wait for two more minutes. I got to ask you 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.760 about the uranium that's flowing in the four Dough and 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:17.400 I want to know what your reporting is on that. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:19.560 I'll put it on the big weekend pod in America. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.439 Don't worry about it, or I'll play it later in 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.640 the program. Stay tuned. Coming right back with continenty after 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.840 the break. I'm back with Eli. I had one question 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.359 that no one's reporting on it, assuming for a moment 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.560 that the regime topples, don't they have an amazing Chernobyl 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.840 like problem on their hands at four Dough and every 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.000 place else that we blew up that had yellow cake 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:40.879 or uranium or whatever they were working on. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.520 Well, we also have to worry about the reports at 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.879 the time, right before the bombing that they were moving 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.680 out some of the highly enrichment material. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:49.919