WEBVTT - Trump Changes History with Epic Fury 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.400 Today's show sponsored by Lear Capital, the precious metals leader 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.040 since nineteen ninety seven and only company I trust and 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.600 recommend to my family, friends and viewers. Visit Lear Alex 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:22.799 dot com. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.720 Ready to break the narrative, get the real story with 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.479 no filters and no apologies, cut through the noise with 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.120 real conversation, real conviction, and real news. It's time for 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.479 truth without spin. It's the Alex Marlowe Show. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:39.760 It is the Alex Marlowe Show. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.520 We're broadcasting to you on a historic Monday morning, after 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.000 what has thus far been a brief and pretty effective 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.320 war on the Iranian regime. I was very tempted to 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.240 play back my closing on Friday show, where I basically said, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.840 I think there's a good chance for going to war, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.120 here's why, and I think we did go to war 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.320 for those exact reasons. Can it be quick, can it 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.880 be surgical? And can we end up having all of 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.160 those great benefits that deposing the eyetolas could have. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:06.960 That's the question. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:08.480 And I'm going to give you all the details of 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.880 what I know about what's going on. I'll try to 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.560 give you some insight into what I believe the White 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.120 House is thinking. Is Some of this is me dot connecting, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.120 some of it is what I've been told from people 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.759 on the inside and where I think things could be headed. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.679 And then I want to talk about the political implications 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.920 of all this, because this one is very much a 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.640 mixed bag. Politically, I think there's a lot of I 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.559 would say risk politically with this move by President Trump. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.840 But overall, I want to start with the positive thing, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.920 which is there. For forty seven years, the Ietolas, ever 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.640 since they came to power after the Iranian Revolution, have 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.640 singled out America, and not just America, really a lot 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.960 of Western freedom in general, and have tried their best 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.960 to dismantle it. Whenever there's been terror all over the world, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.000 they have funded it. They've been behind so many, if 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.200 not all, of the major attacks to one degree or 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.480 another on the West over the last half century. And 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.000 now there's going to be something different that is in place. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.600 How much better will it be? That, of course, is 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.960 an open question. But Donald Trump laid out three specific 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.280 things that Iran needed to do last year in a letter. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.360 This is crystal clear. He said no nuclear program, he 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.000 said no ballistic missile development, and stop supporting terror proxies 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.800 around the world. What have we seen since then, continued 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.840 support of terror proxies. We've seen Iran's nuclear program continue 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.799 even despite the successful Midnight Hammer attacks. Iran was as 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.120 recently as last week was saying flat out, we are 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.400 enriching to sixty percent and there's nothing you could do 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:34.880 about it. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.519 Now. I know fair bit about President Trump. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.760 I know him fairly well, not as well as some, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.919 But one thing I know for sure is that if 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.200 he requests something and you just give him a flat 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.240 out no, that is a big risk you're running. Because 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.280 he doesn't like that. He doesn't like to look like 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.520 a fool, he doesn't look like want to look like 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.840 a cuckhold. And so if he flat out says don't 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.120 do this or else, I'm coming for you, and you 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.800 dare him and you say, oh, we're going to do 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.480 it anyway, he is going to come for you. I 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.760 don't think it's a coincidence that we went after Maduro 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.640 right after he was pictured dancing over and over again 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.240 in the media. I don't think Trump likes that stuff. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.360 He plays very close attention. He's extremely hyper vigilant, and 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.640 so he said flat out, you're not going to enrich 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.240 and they said, despite most of their nuclear capabilities being 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.680 taken offline. Despite the fact that their air defenses were 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.840 completely depleted, they went out and said, we're going to 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.680 enrich to sixty percent anyway, which is inviting an attack. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.400 And then we start pushing all of those troops, all 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.040 those carriers neuron and they still are underturned. Their rhetoric 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:40.800 stays the same. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:41.320 Now. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.080 I don't know why that is necessarily. I don't know 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.080 if they had a death wish, because there is a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.600 death cult element to that regime. More in that momentarily, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.120 but overall, they pretty much telegraphed that they were going 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.760 to invite an attack. Trump was telegraphing and he was 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:02.120 willing to do it. The Maduiraid I think set predicate 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.480 for that, as well as the huge military build up 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.400 we had around Iran and that we already had the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.120 Midnight Hammer attack. So he had proven he was willing 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.000 to take decisive action. Not to mention, and these clips 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.920 have been all over the internet. Maybe I'll play them later. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.080 But going back to when Trump came down that escalator, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.040 which is almost eleven years ago, he was talking about 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.520 his desire to bomb Iran, and it's a desire that 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:30.000 I certainly understand. I don't like prolonged wars. I'll speak 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.080 to that a lot in the days and weeks to come. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.560 But overall, their Iranian regime did untold amount of bad 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.160 to this country, to the West, and to people who 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.039 are our allies trying to disrupt global markets. They're of 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.680 course aiding China in a major way. All roads lead 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.720 to China. As much as ninety percent of Iranian oil 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:54.040 experts went to China, Chinese getting oil at a cut 0:04:54.160 --> 0:05:01.320 rate from Iran, making both countries stronger in America's national interests. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.719 And then we'll see the threats continue. But the nuclear 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.640 threat is so essential because if Trump is to be 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.680 taken at his word, and I certainly I certainly do, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.760 and if the Iranian governments had be taken at their word, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.120 which is mixed, but they keep saying they want sixty 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.520 percent of Richmond, it means they want a nuclear weapon. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.280 And when they've been talking for years about how they 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.280 want to wipe America off the map, how America is 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:30.000 the great Satan, then it's imperative that we make sure 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.400 that you're not getting nuclear weapon. One thing that we 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.799 do as a people is we choose to spend most 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.240 of our time ignoring the devastation that a nuclear holocaust 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.640 would cause. But within a matter of a couple hours, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.640 you could see tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.800 of people killed in this country if we had a 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.680 nuclear world war three, a nuclear world war three would 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.960 probably result in I don't know, maybe two billion deaths. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.960 It'd be the end of the world as we know it. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.400 And if a regime over and over again continues to 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.719 say that they want nuclear weapons and that they think 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.960 America is satanic, then it does sort of feel like 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.320 it's a big imperative to make sure they never get 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.119 remotely close to nuclear weapons. Correct, And it's very hard 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.280 to predict or project whether or not Iran would be 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.040 careless enough or foolish enough to ever do something like that, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.840 even if they had the weapons. You have to take 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.440 them through word. They keep saying they want America wiped 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.720 off the map. They keep saying they hate Israel, they 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.719 hate the West, and they're clearly willing to die for 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.400 that cause, clearly obvious. This week made it more clear 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.159 than ever. Then it's pretty crystal that one of the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.520 best things Donald Trump could do as president is to 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.479 make sure they do not get nuclear weapons. So he 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:56.840 goes in and it's a surgical attack, high level military 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.640 targets at first IRGC, around Revolutionary Guard Court targets, trying 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.440 to eliminate nuclear threat that number one, trying to destroy 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.000 ballistic missile production, that's true, trying to take out as 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.920 many of their top military leaders as he can, and 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 it sounds like he took out a lot. There's many 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.600 of them, there's many, many generals, so they'll be able 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.000 to stand something back up. But he's trying to prevent 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.440 a ran from arming, funding domestic terrorism, global terrorism, and 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.640 getting nuclear weapons. Seems like a noble goal. Now, I 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.000 will offer my point of caution here. Politically speaking, there 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.160 is zero imperative for President Trump to do any of this. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.880 There's virtually zero political upside. Is it the right thing 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.600 to do in terms of integrity? Is it the right 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.040 thing to do for peace and preservation in the West? 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.640 I think probably. Is it the right thing to do 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.280 to keep Americans in the West safe? I think probably. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.800 Don't know for sure, but probably this was the right move. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.120 But politically then it gets very complicated because obviously the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.440 people who are on the left, and we've seen examples 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:00.560 of this all place on the show. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:01.920 Hate what Trump did. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.480 They hate the idea of Trump getting any victories, even 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.520 if it makes America safer. You saw people in the 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.600 Democrat Party and the establishment media clearly siding with the Iatolas, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.960 and I'm being specific not the Iranian people, because we 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.360 saw demonstrations throughout the streets both in the Western world 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.640 in and Iran that were happy about what happened, delighted 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.040 about what happened, feeling as though they had freedom. So 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.800 you're gonna get a lot of people, though, who are 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.560 gonna be rooting against Trump, where I bet you're gonna 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.520 see articles of impeachment come up. That's gonna come up 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.600 soon because they just want Trump to fail at all costs. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.520 And there's a lot of people in Trump's base, a 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.480 lot of people read my website riper dot com every 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.600 day and comment on our pages that do not like 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.240 this because they've been burned too many times, too many times. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:45.839 We thought that we were going to go in the 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.079 Middle East and we're going to do something strategic things, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.040 you're gonna get safer, and it's always failed, always. But 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.200 President Trump is different. He wants an aerial attack. He 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.840 wants a surgical attack and this thing can be over 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.360 in a matter of a few days. Then I think 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.400 he believes that we're gonna be looking back on this 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.280 in the next couple of weeks or a couple of 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.480 months and think it was just another w for Trump. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.360 So that is what the president must get done if 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.360 he wants to save face politically, because if this is 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.240 a prolonged thing, if they're boots on the ground, if 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.839 a lot of Americans get killed, then he's going to 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.360 be very hard to sell this to even his own base, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.440 much less people already haters of him. And remember the 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.880 never Trumper is they're not coming back. The Left, they're 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.640 not coming back. So he's got to keep that base 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.400 coalition together, and he's got to be mindful of this 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.520 because even though it looks like a successful attack as 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.839 of now, things could change pretty quickly and I'll give 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.720 you some details on where I'm concerned. But he's got 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.319 to maintain that base because if he does not have 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.880 that base support heading in the midterm election, it's gonna 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.160 be impeachment investigation bonanza, and any good that he did 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.760 here overseas is going to completely shut down his domestic agenda, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.880 which is what the vast majority of Americans care about. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.599 So much more to do today, but I don't know 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:08.800 it's not on the screen, so as usual, okay, all right, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.040 So more things that I want to talk about here. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.119 One thing that here is crystal to me from observing 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.880 the way the president has acted is so he wants 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.840 to be a president of his word. And if you 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.480 declear destruction against the United States, and you are a 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.600 regime that has a record of terror against our people, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.600 if you have a record of taking Americans hostage as 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.960 they do, then he's going to be willing to do 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.480 things like try to have a bombing campaign that is 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.880 over before people even know what happened. And this will 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.440 go on for a couple more days. It's not quite 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.559 as simple as some of the other aerial attacks we've 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.680 had in the past, but by and large that's the strategy. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.959 And if he can stay focused and maintain that that 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.400 we're going in, we're bombing quickly, we're getting out without 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.559 huge investment into what comes next, then he could have 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:06.199 a victory here. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:06.920 We'll be right back. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.679 As Operation Epic Fury intensifies, the world races for what 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.000 comes next, and people of faith, Pray for freedom, for 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.559 God's people to be protected in the Holy Land. Red 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.320 alert sirens fill the air sirens. They give you fifteen 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.960 seconds to reach the nearest bomb shelter. 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Will the people be able to 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.360 take over and this is going to be very tough. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.920 We're seeing a huge widespread outpouring of support both within 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.120 Iran and abroad. I'll tell you driving around Los Angeles 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.520 over the weekend, the institutional laft, the AstroTurf laugh wasn't 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.240 able to spin up any of the protests the same 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.080 way they have been with the anti ice raids that 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.800 we've seen. But what we did see was just a 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.400 huge outpouring of pro Iranian support to people supporting the 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.000 people of Iran and people who are happy that they 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.200 could potentially be liberated, which is a net positive. Again, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.400 President Trump is america first president politically speaking, needs to 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.960 keep the focus on what is best for Americans, so 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.640 he's got to have to make that case to the public. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.000 I think going forward why this was such is so 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.800 important for Americans, which can be easier said than done, 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.280 particularly with the media is rooting against him. But a 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.040 lot of people, particularly the vast Persian communities around where 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.080 I live, they're very, very happy about what's going on. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.400 But you go online and you see a different picture. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.760 You see a president who had branded himself as the 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.280 peacetime president continue to attack other countries. We see that 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.760 there's no guarantee that American boots won't be on the 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.000 ground in Iran, and we have no concept of what's 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.480 going to come next, and there's a lot of possible scenarios. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.880 But Trump himself said that a lot of the people 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.719 who were perhaps next in line got taken out in 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.000 the He's touting that as an even broader victory, which 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.240 might be true. But it's really interesting to see what's 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.280 going to happen with the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, because 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:15.200 if they are still loyal to the murderous, genocidal Iotolas, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.240 then even if they knock out the top generals, the 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.120 top leaders, they're still going to want to engage in 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.960 the deaf cult like behavior that we've seen from that 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.400 faction in Iran, which has been the faction in power 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.120 for so long. So there are a lot of people 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.560 in Iran with I think a Western sensibility that would 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.000 yearn for freedom, that would yearn for legal due process, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.640 would yearn for a free press, not have political prisoners. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.640 But the people who've been in charge have been incredibly ruthless, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.880 and to the suggestion that it's a guarantee that won't 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.760 just be what replaces it is we're put in the 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.080 car before the horse here, especially when we know, and 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.960 this is crystal Trump understands this, that there's no appetite 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.040 for Americans going in and starting to try to build 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.040 a democracy. Let's said, I do think it is a 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:09.400 pretty hilarious dunk on the warmonger class of yesteryear, the 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.920 type of people who wanted us to go and export 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.480 democracy around the world. This probably gives around the best 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.280 shot as a tad in forever because of this, because 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.200 of Trump's actions in forty seven years, we have not 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.640 have this opportunity in iron for the Iranian people, and 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.680 I root for them, I really do, but it is 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.600 essential that the military allows for them to do it, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.160 which they might not. So what'll be interesting to see 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.600 is who stands in the breach. And one thing I 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.440 know about President Trump is that he does believe that 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.640 individual leaders make a big difference. Is not just about ideology. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:43.960 So even if we have someone who comes in with 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.800 a similar ideology to the Iatolas, whatever is next. If 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.000 that person or people is not as compelling of a 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.920 leader and is not as steadfast in standing against the 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.720 United States and our allies, then they might not be 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.520 as if effective. So this is one thing that he 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.160 has been tracking. I think since the death of Solomany 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.760 that Iran's military has gotten so much weaker because he 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.320 did seem to be irreplaceable. I think he was a 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.480 unique leader, not just someone who is hyper aggressive, but 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.000 someone who was inspiring to people who worked beneath him, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.560 and his death I think has not been something that 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.600 Iran was able to fully recover from. So that could 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.760 be the situation here, and that's the best case scenario 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:30.000 for us. But I'll tell you the notable opposition to 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.240 the Ietolas at the moment is not clear. It's not coherent. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.760 There's no charismatic leader. I think he's very far fast 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.200 to see the Shaw come back. So what's going to 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.120 happen next. I don't know, but hopefully it will be better. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.160 I'm optimistic it will be better, but it's certainly not 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.280 something that we know for sure. So much more to come, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.440 plus reactions from around the world, and the next segment 0:16:51.520 --> 0:17:00.560 will be right back. As Operation Epic Theory intensified, the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.520 world braces for what comes next, and people of faith 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.800 pray for freedom and for God's people to be protected 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.080 in the Holy Land. Red alert sirens fill the air. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.879 Sirens will give you fifteen seconds to reach the nearest 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.560 bomb shelter. The situation is serious, the threat is real. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.879 In times like this, freedom and faith aren't just abstract ideas. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.520 They're what we depend upon. 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That's IFCJ dot org. One other thing 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.040 that's an important vector to keep an eye on is 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.840 downstream effects on the attack on Iran and looking at 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.080 how it could affect your life personally. I know a 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.320 lot of people ideologically are very happy to see the 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.840 Ietolas get killed, a didnt Jagat killed others who are 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.919 waiting in the wings. All this is going to be 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:34.359 deeply destabilizing to the frankly evil Iranian government, and I 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.760 think that that is something that is usually a net 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.560 positive for the world. I think it has a lot 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.080 of potential there as well. But also the concern that 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.199 Americans could enter a boots on the ground or in 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.440 Iran is going to feel very abstract and very offbeat 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.240 for President Trump and what he stood for thus far. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.359 But a lot of people will maintain those concerns about affordability, 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.640 the American economy, and whether or not our lives here 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.840 in the United States are going to be changed for 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.159 better or for worse. And one thing to keep an 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.160 eye on is markets, money, where things are moving, and 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.000 some things I want to update you on right now 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.280 is stock market right now is holding up pretty well. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.440 Was down just a touch on Monday morning as we're recording, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.399 because the investors don't think the US economy is in 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.800 big trouble for this. A lot of this is because 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.320 the US is much less dependent on Persian gulf oil. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.879 And keep in mind who is really dependent on it, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.000 It's China. So this is one of these things where 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.720 again this could actually position America in a slightly better 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.159 place relative to the other global superpower. Also, freeing up 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.080 Venezuela and oil, which we have done with the Marguirou raid, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.480 may have also made this. Another made the timing even 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.160 better for President Trump here, even though again I think 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.520 the timing was related to Trump laid out a year 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.800 ago you need to nobilistic missiles, no being a state 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.320 sponsored terror, no nuclear weapon pursuing, and they did all 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:55.800 that stuff. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.280 So I think that's the main thing. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.560 But energy prices are up a little bit, but really 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.320 a lot less than I would have anticipated, even and 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.600 I think a lot of people are probably going to 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.520 react positive to that. In markets, the dollar is strengthening. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.840 This happens when there's more geopolitical upheaval. So those of 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.720 you who are who like a strong dollar, you've got that. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.400 So the big question I guess is if oil prices, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.320 how high will they go? They'll certainly go up a 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.840 little bit, and will that feed inflation because one of 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.720 the things that Trump has got to tout is that 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.160 gas price is coming down. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:28.320 That's very strong for him. 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.159 And would higher oil prices does that mean everything the 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.840 price of everything is going to go up? And there's 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.919 usually mixed evidence on this, but is not a guarantee. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.239 It's not a guarantee, and so we'll be tracking that 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.680 a lot. But there's a lot of unexpected consequences. Reuters 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:49.000 is reporting that world sugar prices rallied two percent because 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.640 there are fears that the conflict is in the resulting 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:56.640 disruption and energy surprise supplies will prompt Brazilian cane mills 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.520 to produce more ethanol and less sugar. It's very strange 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.480 and complicated the way the world's economy is interconnected. And 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.840 this is one where I say this as someone who 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:11.520 trusts the president, backs the president in general, and think 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.639 that he has thought through a lot of the scenarios. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.120 I think he's thought a lot about his reputation as 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.800 someone who is not someone who starts wars, certainly someone 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.439