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Speaker 1: We're broadcasting to you on a historic Monday morning, after
Speaker 1: what has thus far been a brief and pretty effective
Speaker 1: war on the Iranian regime. I was very tempted to
Speaker 1: play back my closing on Friday show, where I basically said,
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance for going to war,
Speaker 1: here's why, and I think we did go to war
Speaker 1: for those exact reasons. Can it be quick, can it
Speaker 1: be surgical? And can we end up having all of
Speaker 1: those great benefits that deposing the eyetolas could have.
Speaker 3: That's the question.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you all the details of
Speaker 1: what I know about what's going on. I'll try to
Speaker 1: give you some insight into what I believe the White
Speaker 1: House is thinking. Is Some of this is me dot connecting,
Speaker 1: some of it is what I've been told from people
Speaker 1: on the inside and where I think things could be headed.
Speaker 1: And then I want to talk about the political implications
Speaker 1: of all this, because this one is very much a
Speaker 1: mixed bag. Politically, I think there's a lot of I
Speaker 1: would say risk politically with this move by President Trump.
Speaker 1: But overall, I want to start with the positive thing,
Speaker 1: which is there. For forty seven years, the Ietolas, ever
Speaker 1: since they came to power after the Iranian Revolution, have
Speaker 1: singled out America, and not just America, really a lot
Speaker 1: of Western freedom in general, and have tried their best
Speaker 1: to dismantle it. Whenever there's been terror all over the world,
Speaker 1: they have funded it. They've been behind so many, if
Speaker 1: not all, of the major attacks to one degree or
Speaker 1: another on the West over the last half century. And
Speaker 1: now there's going to be something different that is in place.
Speaker 1: How much better will it be? That, of course, is
Speaker 1: an open question. But Donald Trump laid out three specific
Speaker 1: things that Iran needed to do last year in a letter.
Speaker 1: This is crystal clear. He said no nuclear program, he
Speaker 1: said no ballistic missile development, and stop supporting terror proxies
Speaker 1: around the world. What have we seen since then, continued
Speaker 1: support of terror proxies. We've seen Iran's nuclear program continue
Speaker 1: even despite the successful Midnight Hammer attacks. Iran was as
Speaker 1: recently as last week was saying flat out, we are
Speaker 1: enriching to sixty percent and there's nothing you could do
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: Now. I know fair bit about President Trump.
Speaker 1: I know him fairly well, not as well as some,
Speaker 1: But one thing I know for sure is that if
Speaker 1: he requests something and you just give him a flat
Speaker 1: out no, that is a big risk you're running. Because
Speaker 1: he doesn't like that. He doesn't like to look like
Speaker 1: a fool, he doesn't look like want to look like
Speaker 1: a cuckhold. And so if he flat out says don't
Speaker 1: do this or else, I'm coming for you, and you
Speaker 1: dare him and you say, oh, we're going to do
Speaker 1: it anyway, he is going to come for you. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a coincidence that we went after Maduro
Speaker 1: right after he was pictured dancing over and over again
Speaker 1: in the media. I don't think Trump likes that stuff.
Speaker 1: He plays very close attention. He's extremely hyper vigilant, and
Speaker 1: so he said flat out, you're not going to enrich
Speaker 1: and they said, despite most of their nuclear capabilities being
Speaker 1: taken offline. Despite the fact that their air defenses were
Speaker 1: completely depleted, they went out and said, we're going to
Speaker 1: enrich to sixty percent anyway, which is inviting an attack.
Speaker 1: And then we start pushing all of those troops, all
Speaker 1: those carriers neuron and they still are underturned. Their rhetoric
Speaker 1: stays the same.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that is necessarily. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they had a death wish, because there is a
Speaker 1: death cult element to that regime. More in that momentarily,
Speaker 1: but overall, they pretty much telegraphed that they were going
Speaker 1: to invite an attack. Trump was telegraphing and he was
Speaker 1: willing to do it. The Maduiraid I think set predicate
Speaker 1: for that, as well as the huge military build up
Speaker 1: we had around Iran and that we already had the
Speaker 1: Midnight Hammer attack. So he had proven he was willing
Speaker 1: to take decisive action. Not to mention, and these clips
Speaker 1: have been all over the internet. Maybe I'll play them later.
Speaker 1: But going back to when Trump came down that escalator,
Speaker 1: which is almost eleven years ago, he was talking about
Speaker 1: his desire to bomb Iran, and it's a desire that
Speaker 1: I certainly understand. I don't like prolonged wars. I'll speak
Speaker 1: to that a lot in the days and weeks to come.
Speaker 1: But overall, their Iranian regime did untold amount of bad
Speaker 1: to this country, to the West, and to people who
Speaker 1: are our allies trying to disrupt global markets. They're of
Speaker 1: course aiding China in a major way. All roads lead
Speaker 1: to China. As much as ninety percent of Iranian oil
Speaker 1: experts went to China, Chinese getting oil at a cut
Speaker 1: rate from Iran, making both countries stronger in America's national interests.
Speaker 1: And then we'll see the threats continue. But the nuclear
Speaker 1: threat is so essential because if Trump is to be
Speaker 1: taken at his word, and I certainly I certainly do,
Speaker 1: and if the Iranian governments had be taken at their word,
Speaker 1: which is mixed, but they keep saying they want sixty
Speaker 1: percent of Richmond, it means they want a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: And when they've been talking for years about how they
Speaker 1: want to wipe America off the map, how America is
Speaker 1: the great Satan, then it's imperative that we make sure
Speaker 1: that you're not getting nuclear weapon. One thing that we
Speaker 1: do as a people is we choose to spend most
Speaker 1: of our time ignoring the devastation that a nuclear holocaust
Speaker 1: would cause. But within a matter of a couple hours,
Speaker 1: you could see tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of people killed in this country if we had a
Speaker 1: nuclear world war three, a nuclear world war three would
Speaker 1: probably result in I don't know, maybe two billion deaths.
Speaker 1: It'd be the end of the world as we know it.
Speaker 1: And if a regime over and over again continues to
Speaker 1: say that they want nuclear weapons and that they think
Speaker 1: America is satanic, then it does sort of feel like
Speaker 1: it's a big imperative to make sure they never get
Speaker 1: remotely close to nuclear weapons. Correct, And it's very hard
Speaker 1: to predict or project whether or not Iran would be
Speaker 1: careless enough or foolish enough to ever do something like that,
Speaker 1: even if they had the weapons. You have to take
Speaker 1: them through word. They keep saying they want America wiped
Speaker 1: off the map. They keep saying they hate Israel, they
Speaker 1: hate the West, and they're clearly willing to die for
Speaker 1: that cause, clearly obvious. This week made it more clear
Speaker 1: than ever. Then it's pretty crystal that one of the
Speaker 1: best things Donald Trump could do as president is to
Speaker 1: make sure they do not get nuclear weapons. So he
Speaker 1: goes in and it's a surgical attack, high level military
Speaker 1: targets at first IRGC, around Revolutionary Guard Court targets, trying
Speaker 1: to eliminate nuclear threat that number one, trying to destroy
Speaker 1: ballistic missile production, that's true, trying to take out as
Speaker 1: many of their top military leaders as he can, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like he took out a lot. There's many
Speaker 1: of them, there's many, many generals, so they'll be able
Speaker 1: to stand something back up. But he's trying to prevent
Speaker 1: a ran from arming, funding domestic terrorism, global terrorism, and
Speaker 1: getting nuclear weapons. Seems like a noble goal. Now, I
Speaker 1: will offer my point of caution here. Politically speaking, there
Speaker 1: is zero imperative for President Trump to do any of this.
Speaker 1: There's virtually zero political upside. Is it the right thing
Speaker 1: to do in terms of integrity? Is it the right
Speaker 1: thing to do for peace and preservation in the West?
Speaker 1: I think probably. Is it the right thing to do
Speaker 1: to keep Americans in the West safe? I think probably.
Speaker 1: Don't know for sure, but probably this was the right move.
Speaker 1: But politically then it gets very complicated because obviously the
Speaker 1: people who are on the left, and we've seen examples
Speaker 1: of this all place on the show.
Speaker 3: Hate what Trump did.
Speaker 1: They hate the idea of Trump getting any victories, even
Speaker 1: if it makes America safer. You saw people in the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party and the establishment media clearly siding with the Iatolas,
Speaker 1: and I'm being specific not the Iranian people, because we
Speaker 1: saw demonstrations throughout the streets both in the Western world
Speaker 1: in and Iran that were happy about what happened, delighted
Speaker 1: about what happened, feeling as though they had freedom. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a lot of people, though, who are
Speaker 1: gonna be rooting against Trump, where I bet you're gonna
Speaker 1: see articles of impeachment come up. That's gonna come up
Speaker 1: soon because they just want Trump to fail at all costs.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people in Trump's base, a
Speaker 1: lot of people read my website riper dot com every
Speaker 1: day and comment on our pages that do not like
Speaker 1: this because they've been burned too many times, too many times.
Speaker 1: We thought that we were going to go in the
Speaker 1: Middle East and we're going to do something strategic things,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get safer, and it's always failed, always. But
Speaker 1: President Trump is different. He wants an aerial attack. He
Speaker 1: wants a surgical attack and this thing can be over
Speaker 1: in a matter of a few days. Then I think
Speaker 1: he believes that we're gonna be looking back on this
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks or a couple of
Speaker 1: months and think it was just another w for Trump.
Speaker 1: So that is what the president must get done if
Speaker 1: he wants to save face politically, because if this is
Speaker 1: a prolonged thing, if they're boots on the ground, if
Speaker 1: a lot of Americans get killed, then he's going to
Speaker 1: be very hard to sell this to even his own base,
Speaker 1: much less people already haters of him. And remember the
Speaker 1: never Trumper is they're not coming back. The Left, they're
Speaker 1: not coming back. So he's got to keep that base
Speaker 1: coalition together, and he's got to be mindful of this
Speaker 1: because even though it looks like a successful attack as
Speaker 1: of now, things could change pretty quickly and I'll give
Speaker 1: you some details on where I'm concerned. But he's got
Speaker 1: to maintain that base because if he does not have
Speaker 1: that base support heading in the midterm election, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be impeachment investigation bonanza, and any good that he did
Speaker 1: here overseas is going to completely shut down his domestic agenda,
Speaker 1: which is what the vast majority of Americans care about.
Speaker 1: So much more to do today, but I don't know
Speaker 1: it's not on the screen, so as usual, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So more things that I want to talk about here.
Speaker 1: One thing that here is crystal to me from observing
Speaker 1: the way the president has acted is so he wants
Speaker 1: to be a president of his word. And if you
Speaker 1: declear destruction against the United States, and you are a
Speaker 1: regime that has a record of terror against our people,
Speaker 1: if you have a record of taking Americans hostage as
Speaker 1: they do, then he's going to be willing to do
Speaker 1: things like try to have a bombing campaign that is
Speaker 1: over before people even know what happened. And this will
Speaker 1: go on for a couple more days. It's not quite
Speaker 1: as simple as some of the other aerial attacks we've
Speaker 1: had in the past, but by and large that's the strategy.
Speaker 1: And if he can stay focused and maintain that that
Speaker 1: we're going in, we're bombing quickly, we're getting out without
Speaker 1: huge investment into what comes next, then he could have
Speaker 1: a victory here.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: As Operation Epic Fury intensifies, the world races for what
Speaker 1: comes next, and people of faith, Pray for freedom, for
Speaker 1: God's people to be protected in the Holy Land. Red
Speaker 1: alert sirens fill the air sirens. They give you fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds to reach the nearest bomb shelter. The situation is serious,
Speaker 1: the threat is real, and in times like this, freedom
Speaker 1: and faith aren't just abstract ideas. They're what we depend upon.
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Speaker 1: the ground preparing large scale distributions of life saving food,
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Speaker 1: That's IFCJ dot org. Talking a lot about the developing
Speaker 1: situation in Iran and throughout the Middle East, where Iran
Speaker 1: is carrying out certain levels of counterattacks they're of course
Speaker 1: not making as far as United States, but just know
Speaker 1: that that would be their intention if they could, which
Speaker 1: is all the more reason why Trump wanted to prevent
Speaker 1: them from having a nuclear weapons. But what's unknown now
Speaker 1: is what comes next. Will the people be able to
Speaker 1: take over and this is going to be very tough.
Speaker 1: We're seeing a huge widespread outpouring of support both within
Speaker 1: Iran and abroad. I'll tell you driving around Los Angeles
Speaker 1: over the weekend, the institutional laft, the AstroTurf laugh wasn't
Speaker 1: able to spin up any of the protests the same
Speaker 1: way they have been with the anti ice raids that
Speaker 1: we've seen. But what we did see was just a
Speaker 1: huge outpouring of pro Iranian support to people supporting the
Speaker 1: people of Iran and people who are happy that they
Speaker 1: could potentially be liberated, which is a net positive. Again,
Speaker 1: President Trump is america first president politically speaking, needs to
Speaker 1: keep the focus on what is best for Americans, so
Speaker 1: he's got to have to make that case to the public.
Speaker 1: I think going forward why this was such is so
Speaker 1: important for Americans, which can be easier said than done,
Speaker 1: particularly with the media is rooting against him. But a
Speaker 1: lot of people, particularly the vast Persian communities around where
Speaker 1: I live, they're very, very happy about what's going on.
Speaker 1: But you go online and you see a different picture.
Speaker 1: You see a president who had branded himself as the
Speaker 1: peacetime president continue to attack other countries. We see that
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee that American boots won't be on the
Speaker 1: ground in Iran, and we have no concept of what's
Speaker 1: going to come next, and there's a lot of possible scenarios.
Speaker 1: But Trump himself said that a lot of the people
Speaker 1: who were perhaps next in line got taken out in
Speaker 1: the He's touting that as an even broader victory, which
Speaker 1: might be true. But it's really interesting to see what's
Speaker 1: going to happen with the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, because
Speaker 1: if they are still loyal to the murderous, genocidal Iotolas,
Speaker 1: then even if they knock out the top generals, the
Speaker 1: top leaders, they're still going to want to engage in
Speaker 1: the deaf cult like behavior that we've seen from that
Speaker 1: faction in Iran, which has been the faction in power
Speaker 1: for so long. So there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: in Iran with I think a Western sensibility that would
Speaker 1: yearn for freedom, that would yearn for legal due process,
Speaker 1: would yearn for a free press, not have political prisoners.
Speaker 1: But the people who've been in charge have been incredibly ruthless,
Speaker 1: and to the suggestion that it's a guarantee that won't
Speaker 1: just be what replaces it is we're put in the
Speaker 1: car before the horse here, especially when we know, and
Speaker 1: this is crystal Trump understands this, that there's no appetite
Speaker 1: for Americans going in and starting to try to build
Speaker 1: a democracy. Let's said, I do think it is a
Speaker 1: pretty hilarious dunk on the warmonger class of yesteryear, the
Speaker 1: type of people who wanted us to go and export
Speaker 1: democracy around the world. This probably gives around the best
Speaker 1: shot as a tad in forever because of this, because
Speaker 1: of Trump's actions in forty seven years, we have not
Speaker 1: have this opportunity in iron for the Iranian people, and
Speaker 1: I root for them, I really do, but it is
Speaker 1: essential that the military allows for them to do it,
Speaker 1: which they might not. So what'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: is who stands in the breach. And one thing I
Speaker 1: know about President Trump is that he does believe that
Speaker 1: individual leaders make a big difference. Is not just about ideology.
Speaker 1: So even if we have someone who comes in with
Speaker 1: a similar ideology to the Iatolas, whatever is next. If
Speaker 1: that person or people is not as compelling of a
Speaker 1: leader and is not as steadfast in standing against the
Speaker 1: United States and our allies, then they might not be
Speaker 1: as if effective. So this is one thing that he
Speaker 1: has been tracking. I think since the death of Solomany
Speaker 1: that Iran's military has gotten so much weaker because he
Speaker 1: did seem to be irreplaceable. I think he was a
Speaker 1: unique leader, not just someone who is hyper aggressive, but
Speaker 1: someone who was inspiring to people who worked beneath him,
Speaker 1: and his death I think has not been something that
Speaker 1: Iran was able to fully recover from. So that could
Speaker 1: be the situation here, and that's the best case scenario
Speaker 1: for us. But I'll tell you the notable opposition to
Speaker 1: the Ietolas at the moment is not clear. It's not coherent.
Speaker 1: There's no charismatic leader. I think he's very far fast
Speaker 1: to see the Shaw come back. So what's going to
Speaker 1: happen next. I don't know, but hopefully it will be better.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic it will be better, but it's certainly not
Speaker 1: something that we know for sure. So much more to come,
Speaker 1: plus reactions from around the world, and the next segment
Speaker 1: will be right back. As Operation Epic Theory intensified, the
Speaker 1: world braces for what comes next, and people of faith
Speaker 1: pray for freedom and for God's people to be protected
Speaker 1: in the Holy Land. Red alert sirens fill the air.
Speaker 1: Sirens will give you fifteen seconds to reach the nearest
Speaker 1: bomb shelter. The situation is serious, the threat is real.
Speaker 1: In times like this, freedom and faith aren't just abstract ideas.
Speaker 1: They're what we depend upon. And the International Fellowship of
Speaker 1: Christians and Jews is on the ground preparing large scale
Speaker 1: distributions of life saving food, first aid and emergency essentials
Speaker 1: for security personnel, while helping ensure hospitals, emergency rooms, and
Speaker 1: shelters are stocked with critical medical supplies. This aid is
Speaker 1: focused on Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly, children,
Speaker 1: families in great need. But the Fellowship needs your most
Speaker 1: generous gift today to make this work possible. Now's your
Speaker 1: time to stand with Israel's most vulnerable. To rush your gift.
Speaker 1: Call eight eight eight four eight eight IFCJ. That's eight
Speaker 1: eight eight four eight eight IFCJ, or go online at
Speaker 1: IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org. One other thing
Speaker 1: that's an important vector to keep an eye on is
Speaker 1: downstream effects on the attack on Iran and looking at
Speaker 1: how it could affect your life personally. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people ideologically are very happy to see the
Speaker 1: Ietolas get killed, a didnt Jagat killed others who are
Speaker 1: waiting in the wings. All this is going to be
Speaker 1: deeply destabilizing to the frankly evil Iranian government, and I
Speaker 1: think that that is something that is usually a net
Speaker 1: positive for the world. I think it has a lot
Speaker 1: of potential there as well. But also the concern that
Speaker 1: Americans could enter a boots on the ground or in
Speaker 1: Iran is going to feel very abstract and very offbeat
Speaker 1: for President Trump and what he stood for thus far.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people will maintain those concerns about affordability,
Speaker 1: the American economy, and whether or not our lives here
Speaker 1: in the United States are going to be changed for
Speaker 1: better or for worse. And one thing to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on is markets, money, where things are moving, and
Speaker 1: some things I want to update you on right now
Speaker 1: is stock market right now is holding up pretty well.
Speaker 1: Was down just a touch on Monday morning as we're recording,
Speaker 1: because the investors don't think the US economy is in
Speaker 1: big trouble for this. A lot of this is because
Speaker 1: the US is much less dependent on Persian gulf oil.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind who is really dependent on it,
Speaker 1: It's China. So this is one of these things where
Speaker 1: again this could actually position America in a slightly better
Speaker 1: place relative to the other global superpower. Also, freeing up
Speaker 1: Venezuela and oil, which we have done with the Marguirou raid,
Speaker 1: may have also made this. Another made the timing even
Speaker 1: better for President Trump here, even though again I think
Speaker 1: the timing was related to Trump laid out a year
Speaker 1: ago you need to nobilistic missiles, no being a state
Speaker 1: sponsored terror, no nuclear weapon pursuing, and they did all
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 3: So I think that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: But energy prices are up a little bit, but really
Speaker 1: a lot less than I would have anticipated, even and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are probably going to
Speaker 1: react positive to that. In markets, the dollar is strengthening.
Speaker 1: This happens when there's more geopolitical upheaval. So those of
Speaker 1: you who are who like a strong dollar, you've got that.
Speaker 1: So the big question I guess is if oil prices,
Speaker 1: how high will they go? They'll certainly go up a
Speaker 1: little bit, and will that feed inflation because one of
Speaker 1: the things that Trump has got to tout is that
Speaker 1: gas price is coming down.
Speaker 3: That's very strong for him.
Speaker 1: And would higher oil prices does that mean everything the
Speaker 1: price of everything is going to go up? And there's
Speaker 1: usually mixed evidence on this, but is not a guarantee.
Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee, and so we'll be tracking that
Speaker 1: a lot. But there's a lot of unexpected consequences. Reuters
Speaker 1: is reporting that world sugar prices rallied two percent because
Speaker 1: there are fears that the conflict is in the resulting
Speaker 1: disruption and energy surprise supplies will prompt Brazilian cane mills
Speaker 1: to produce more ethanol and less sugar. It's very strange
Speaker 1: and complicated the way the world's economy is interconnected. And
Speaker 1: this is one where I say this as someone who
Speaker 1: trusts the president, backs the president in general, and think
Speaker 1: that he has thought through a lot of the scenarios.
Speaker 1: I think he's thought a lot about his reputation as
Speaker 1: someone who is not someone who starts wars, certainly someone
Speaker 1: who doesn't like to do regime change, how way across
Speaker 1: the world, and how he's used it to his benefit.
Speaker 1: I also I assume he's thought through most of this stuff,
Speaker 1: but I do think that it's impossible to think through
Speaker 1: everything like thinking through Well, the price of sugar could
Speaker 1: go up because of this, which could affect American families
Speaker 1: who are completely disconnected, who probably weren't even aware of
Speaker 1: some of them, that there is a war going on
Speaker 1: in Iran at the moment. I think that's really really
Speaker 1: interesting to see that, and it's why we have to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on it, and we can trust, but
Speaker 1: we also got to verify and make sure that this
Speaker 1: does not turn into sort of a prolonged, protracted regime
Speaker 1: chain situation with American boots on the ground. I think
Speaker 1: there's almost no political appetite for that it no matter
Speaker 1: who comes into power, because we don't know if anything's
Speaker 1: going to be sustaining. And that's the whole nature of
Speaker 1: the country. It's a very complex country. A lot of
Speaker 1: they're very sophisticated, a lot of advanced technologies. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of factions that are deeply religious and deeply
Speaker 1: committed to the destruction of America. At a religious level,
Speaker 1: and that's not to be trifled with. So it's complicated
Speaker 1: stuff ahead. It is a big headache. It's a headache
Speaker 1: that it feels relatively under control at the moment, but
Speaker 1: we don't know. We don't know where it's going. One
Speaker 1: thing that's very important to point out is the administration
Speaker 1: is not giving out a lot of content. President Trump
Speaker 1: is calling journalists a little bit. You might hear from
Speaker 1: Secretary Rubio, you might hear from Secretary Headsets, but that's
Speaker 1: about it. I of course reached out to the White
Speaker 1: House before the show, see if I can get anyone
Speaker 1: to come on and talk. They don't really want to talk,
Speaker 1: which makes sense. I cross checked this with some context
Speaker 1: with the National Security Council I have, and that seems
Speaker 1: to be the mandate that's coming down is we're not
Speaker 1: talking that much. Left the President Marco haggs to lay
Speaker 1: out what's going on. So let's oblige them and play
Speaker 1: some cuts. This is cut one. This is Pete Haiksath.
Speaker 1: This morning, two.
Speaker 4: Days ago, under the direction and direct orders of President
Speaker 4: Donald J. Trump, the Department of War launched Operation Epic Fury,
Speaker 4: the most lethal, most complex, and most precise aerial operation
Speaker 4: in history. For forty seven long years, the expansionist and
Speaker 4: Islamist regime in Tehran has waiged a savage, one sided
Speaker 4: war against America. They didn't always declare it openly, except
Speaker 4: for their constant chance of death to America. They did
Speaker 4: it through the blood of our people, car bombs in Beirut,
Speaker 4: rocket attacks on our ships, murders at our embassy's roadside,
Speaker 4: bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, funded and armed by Irani
Speaker 4: and the Kud's force and IRGC killers.
Speaker 1: It's a great summary, and this is something that's very
Speaker 1: important that a lot of people are going to start
Speaker 1: doing some crash as in Iranian history to see why
Speaker 1: we did this and what comes next. But when you're
Speaker 1: talking about a country with sophisticated scientists, with a who
Speaker 1: seem bound and determined to building a nuclear bomb and
Speaker 1: to destroying America, it's hard to overlook that. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a person who isn't scarred, as are the rest
Speaker 1: of you with all of the misinformation, certainly amount of
Speaker 1: lying that went on with the Iraq War and even
Speaker 1: the Afghanistan War. So I remain very cautious. But that
Speaker 1: just seems pretty logical. They've been held bent on destroying
Speaker 1: this country for a long time if they could do it,
Speaker 1: and they keep trying to do it despite Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: demands and already effective attacks seem to have not deterred them. Ideologically.
Speaker 1: That's a scary thing and it's noteworthy to point it out,
Speaker 1: and that history is very valid. The history is also
Speaker 1: very complicated in terms of what preceded the Iatolas, and
Speaker 1: this is one where a lot of people I don't
Speaker 1: think are with the program. There is some viral content
Speaker 1: online suggesting maybe the Shaw will come back to power.
Speaker 1: The Shaw was not super effective leader. This is worth
Speaker 1: a much deeper dive on the show at some point.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of pro Shaw revisionist history online
Speaker 1: and Iran was not a sensational, thriving place before the
Speaker 1: Ayatolas came in. So even though it was very unlikely
Speaker 1: the way the Iatolas came in initially and it's a
Speaker 1: pretty interesting history if we have the time to go
Speaker 1: through it, which hopefully one day we will, but it
Speaker 1: was not. It was one of these things where the
Speaker 1: Shaw was just not effective, and the thought that the
Speaker 1: Shaw's Sun or whatever is going to now take over
Speaker 1: the country. Make it democracy very very remote. All right,
Speaker 1: we got more Pete heggsath Let's play cutoo please.
Speaker 4: We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we
Speaker 4: are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our
Speaker 4: retribution against their Ayatola and his death cult. It took
Speaker 4: the forty seventh president, a fighter who always puts America first,
Speaker 4: to finally draw the line after forty seven years of
Speaker 4: Iranian belligerents. He reminded the world, as he has time
Speaker 4: and time again, being an American means something unbreakable. If
Speaker 4: you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth,
Speaker 4: we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation,
Speaker 4: and we will kill you.
Speaker 3: I love it. I mean, how could you not like it?
Speaker 1: Even if you feel like that, you're just praying this
Speaker 1: ends quickly, and you're praying. Trumpet thought through all the
Speaker 1: scenarios that I talked about, that all the risks politically,
Speaker 1: and how we got to get to the point where
Speaker 1: we're declaring victory very soon, and we've got to keep
Speaker 1: our expectations really moderate and temperate. That something really fantastic
Speaker 1: is going to take the place of the eye toolas
Speaker 1: but this the idea that if you declare that you're
Speaker 1: going to kill Americans and you're going to pursue where
Speaker 1: their reports are they were looking a hypersonic weapons which
Speaker 1: could take out aircraft carriers. If you're going to keep
Speaker 1: talking like that and acting like that for nearly half
Speaker 1: a century, then we're going to come get you eventually.
Speaker 1: And one thing that is really important for those of
Speaker 1: you your life who are just completely out on this
Speaker 1: and it's all a terrible idea, just ask them, if
Speaker 1: you're completely opposed to any action, what is the alternative?
Speaker 1: Is the alternative to allow rand to enrich nuclear weapons?
Speaker 1: Is it to have Trump's word mean nothing like? Is
Speaker 1: that your preference? I'm sure it's not, so, then what
Speaker 1: is it? What is the deal that could have taken place?
Speaker 1: And Trump wanted a deal? When I talked to him
Speaker 1: last week, he said I didn't actually take him literally this,
Speaker 1: but he said flat out he thinks there was gonna
Speaker 1: be a deal. I don't think he believed it, but
Speaker 1: he told me that he thought there was gonna be
Speaker 1: a deal, but there was no deal. They haven't moved
Speaker 1: an inch. They're not moving at all. They're intransigent. And
Speaker 1: Trump say if you're gonna be in transigent when I
Speaker 1: say that you've got to do these things, then he's
Speaker 1: gonna drop bombs in your head is what he does. Okay,
Speaker 1: got one more, heg zeth. Let's play cut three.
Speaker 4: Iran had a conventional gun to our head as they
Speaker 4: tried to lie their way to a nuclear bomb. It
Speaker 4: almost worked under Obama and this terrible deal, but not
Speaker 4: under this president. Turns out, the regime who chanted death
Speaker 4: to America and death to Israel was gifted death from
Speaker 4: America and death from Israel. This is not a so
Speaker 4: called regime change war, but the regime sure did change,
Speaker 4: and the world is better off for it.
Speaker 3: It's obviously they're conscious of.
Speaker 1: What we're nervous about is that regime change would be
Speaker 1: great and Iran it would, but it's not America's task
Speaker 1: to do that. And if we're going to do that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna sacrifice blood pressure to do that. Then it's
Speaker 1: going to be politically very not wise. So we would
Speaker 1: like to see it. I would. There's nothing worse than
Speaker 1: I can't imagine something worse, though I did have one
Speaker 1: person who's close to me reach out and say that
Speaker 1: there could be something worse, you could get someone more ideological.
Speaker 1: That seems incredibly far fetched to me. I feel whatever
Speaker 1: is next could be it's probably going to be a
Speaker 1: slight improvement at a minimum, but it's all compact, and
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that we're just merely taking
Speaker 1: up the bad guys and other stuff is just going
Speaker 1: to have to get sorted out on its own. And
Speaker 1: this is where we're looking at. Can the military and
Speaker 1: the people come together on something, because it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of the people are out in the eyetola,
Speaker 1: but the military still behind them. The President did speak yesterday.
Speaker 1: I got cut nine plase.
Speaker 5: Operation Epic Fury one of the largest, most complex, most
Speaker 5: overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen. Nobody's seen
Speaker 5: anything like it. We have hit hundreds of targets in Iran,
Speaker 5: including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems. Just now
Speaker 5: was announced that we knocked out nine ships plus the
Speaker 5: naval building, all in a matter of literally minutes. Iran's
Speaker 5: formerly supreme leader, Ayatola.
Speaker 3: Ay is dead.
Speaker 5: This wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds
Speaker 5: and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was
Speaker 5: responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people,
Speaker 5: all across many countries.
Speaker 1: So you say in no nation building, he's saying these
Speaker 1: are vile people. Dozens of senior leaders killed in the
Speaker 1: first attack. But there is some real concerns. Three f
Speaker 1: fifteen eagles down in Kuwait. It was apparently a friendly
Speaker 1: fire incident. But this is the sort of thing where
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Speaker 1: There is so much going on in the rest of
Speaker 1: the news. I wanted to get into some of the
Speaker 1: stuff with Pentagon's war with Anthropic, which is on the
Speaker 1: top AI providers, and that's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of drama there for our war fighting in our future.
Speaker 1: And we've got the Netflix basically bowing out of the
Speaker 1: Paramount merger in terms of Warner Brothers, which was great
Speaker 1: news because Netflix, one of the worst corporations in the world,
Speaker 1: is run by one hundred percent left wingers. Paramount run
Speaker 1: by masters of the Universe, the Ellison family, so not
Speaker 1: people that I necessarily ascribe to their entire worldview, but
Speaker 1: clearly an improvement over giving the Warner Brothers properties over
Speaker 1: to Netflix, which would have been made a more left
Speaker 1: wing And by the way, they have chosen Rice on
Speaker 1: their board and they refuse to remove her from the
Speaker 1: board even though the jeopardi as the merger, and they
Speaker 1: still wouldn't do it. Susan Rice was Obama's top national
Speaker 1: security advisor and just one of the most radical left
Speaker 1: wing people in American politics, makestrea American politics period, hugely
Speaker 1: destructive force. Netflix put them put her on their board
Speaker 1: for no reason in particular and wouldn't drop her even
Speaker 1: though it risked the merger. So that means we're going
Speaker 1: to see hopefully some more improvements over at some new
Speaker 1: property CNN. Perhaps maybe see an end can cleanhouse. I
Speaker 1: had a clip of a CBS reporter, this is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: a guy named Vinnie Matderano who is apparently told not
Speaker 1: to report on pro trumperanean rallies. Can we play cut
Speaker 1: eleven guys.
Speaker 3: So you can see.
Speaker 1: It's kind of faint, But they said that they don't
Speaker 1: want meaning whoever is running his local CBS affiliate, they
Speaker 1: don't want us to focus on the pro Trump rallies
Speaker 1: that were going on. These popped up a lot, which
Speaker 1: is a massive one in my neck of the woods
Speaker 1: in LA. And he says, all right, well I am,
Speaker 1: and now I'll tell you these rallies it's great.
Speaker 3: I love the energy.
Speaker 1: I don't want us to be lulled into because we're
Speaker 1: seeing rallies for President Trump's side, that this means that
Speaker 1: this is going to be some sort of a massive
Speaker 1: electoral win, great political coup. We don't know that yet,
Speaker 1: but it's nice to see that some reporters are just
Speaker 1: not going to take the word of their bosses that
Speaker 1: you cannot report on things that are favorable to President Trump,
Speaker 1: because you do see a lot of the media's role
Speaker 1: is just to point out all the horrible things that
Speaker 1: Trump has done. There's still so much going on that
Speaker 1: is out there. I recommend you going to brightboart dot
Speaker 1: com all day throughout the course of the day because
Speaker 1: there's so many developing situations right now. A couple of
Speaker 1: the ones I want to highlight Saudi Arabia shut down
Speaker 1: their largest refinery, which is of course going to cause
Speaker 1: price spikes for a lot of insecurity for energy. How
Speaker 1: long does it shut down could be a couple of days.
Speaker 1: But this is where a ron's going to have proxies
Speaker 1: that are going to make attacks. They're going to try
Speaker 1: to take refineries offline. Ability for people to get energy,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a big thing Senate's going to
Speaker 1: mean in a War Powers resolution. Now, the War Powers
Speaker 1: Act has become a huge joke in this country, and
Speaker 1: I'll try to when we get some time talk to
Speaker 1: some legal scholars about I think Trump's on good footing here,
Speaker 1: especially considering all the droning that Obama did. The Congress
Speaker 1: has been powerless to stop presidents from engaging in warlike
Speaker 1: behavior without a declaration of war. We've never had a
Speaker 1: declaration of war in my lifetime, but this is going
Speaker 1: to be a mechanism that the Congress is going to
Speaker 1: use to try to make it seem like Trump is
Speaker 1: operating unlawfully, and no doubt we'll start some sort of
Speaker 1: impeachment proceedings. As I noted earlier, Trump is saying most
Speaker 1: of the potential successors were already killed in this initial attack.
Speaker 1: This did come up when I spent time with the
Speaker 1: president last week. Do you know what will come next
Speaker 1: if the eye tolls get taken out? And he gave
Speaker 1: me literally nothing. He gave me no useful information on it,
Speaker 1: which I thought was noteworthy. So that is a continues
Speaker 1: to be a big, open ended question. We're getting the
Speaker 1: requisite stupid responses from Hollywood. I've set some of them aside.
Speaker 1: I didn't get around to talk to playing any of
Speaker 1: them today, but we will get to those.
Speaker 3: In the future.
Speaker 1: And let's see if there are any sleeper sales to
Speaker 1: get awaken. I don't love sleeper seale content because it's
Speaker 1: just a way to fear monger. But we did see
Speaker 1: a Austin mass shooter had an Iranian flag, photos of
Speaker 1: top Iranian leaders, and the property of a law hoodie.
Speaker 1: This is a big story. Also over the weekend that
Speaker 1: kind of got overwhelmed. But this is one of the
Speaker 1: things that we have to track is what will be
Speaker 1: the downstream consequences, what will be the biggest things that
Speaker 1: happen next because of these attacks. And we can't live
Speaker 1: in fear of terrorists around the world. We have to
Speaker 1: take them out. We can't let them control much of
Speaker 1: our lives. But what is imperative here is understand that
Speaker 1: this is the this is the beginning of, hopefully the
Speaker 1: end for the eye tolls for the current Iranian regime,
Speaker 1: and we see something take its place that is superior,
Speaker 1: that makes the world a safer place and gives Trump
Speaker 1: and I victory. But we're not done yet. This is
Speaker 1: ongoing and there's going to be a lot of back
Speaker 1: and forth has taken place. And besides, we have lost
Speaker 1: four American service members, and God rest our souls. They'll
Speaker 1: all begin in the medal of honor from the President.
Speaker 1: I believe today and.
Speaker 3: That's all the time we got for today. Go in peace,
Speaker 3: love and serve the Lord