1 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury, the American military operation against the islam 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: Republic of Iran, now well into its second week, there 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: continues to be a staggering military success. The big question 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: now is exactly what happens next and what is the 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: state of play exactly on the ground. When it comes 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: to the possibility of the baton proverbly speaking, being passed 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: from the United States to the Iranian people, a lot 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: to impact their Eli kuahanam Jeore just laying the show 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: to discuss all that, but for now we begin with this. 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: There's a lot happening on the domestic front. It's easy, 12 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: given the current news cycle, to focus solely on what 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: is happening over in Iran. And we are absolutely not 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: trying to downplay what is happening over in Iran. It 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: is extraordinarily big deal. These are truly historical times that 16 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: we are living in. Because it is so historical, because 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: it is of such grand significance in the animals twenty 18 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: first century history, it is easy to not pay attention 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 1: to what is actually happening here on the home front. Well, 20 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: on the home fronts Donald Trump is really really adamant 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: about a particular bill. 22 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: It was. 23 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: Initially it was called the Save Act. Now it is 24 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: being referred to as the Save America Act. It's essentially 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: been recodified a little bit there. Donald Trump is really 26 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: really really hands on and really really enthusiastic about the 27 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: Save America Act. So this particular legislation, it's first worth discussing, 28 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: use a little bit more about what it is. If 29 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: you are particularly online, if you are on social media, 30 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: you probably have heard at least a little bit about that. 31 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: So the Save Act, which again is now being referred 32 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: to as the Save America Act, essentially is a universal 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: voter ID requirement. It is a universal requirement when it 34 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: comes to proof of cisonship for voting elections. It is 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: the Republican Party's main election integrity electoral security bill. Now 36 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is now gunghawan and is out pushing 37 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: It was initially introduced in the House by, among others, 38 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: Ship Roy, one of my absolutely favorite congressmen. He's been 39 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: a lead proponent of and Mike Leed Center of Utah 40 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: has been probably the number one to the spear of 41 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: this legislation over on the Senate side. So the Save 42 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: Acts cleared the House back in February, just last month, 43 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: on a essentially near party line two hundred and eighteen 44 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: to two hundred and thirteen vote. It is stalled in 45 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: the Senates, and that is where we currently pick up 46 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: our tail. It's been stalling in the Senate now for weeks, 47 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: and the main reason that it has been stolen in 48 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: the Senate for weeks is that center Republican leadership is 49 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: not being honest with you. They are lying to you. 50 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: John Fute in particular, who is the Senate majority leader 51 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: from South Dakota, is lying to his fellow caucus members. 52 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: He is lying to be the people. He is lying 53 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: to his own party, and frankly now he's actually lying 54 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: also to President Donald J. Trump himself. Donald Trump, in 55 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: case you missed it, this past weekend double down like 56 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: he hadn't ever done before on the crucial imperative dare 57 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: I say even indispensable imperative from Trump's respective of passing 58 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: the Save America Act, he actually put on truth social 59 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: on Sunday, he wrote, quote, I, as president, will not 60 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: sign other bills until this is passed, and not the 61 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: water down version. Go for the gold must show voter 62 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: ID and proof of citizenship. No mail in balance except 63 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: for military illness disability. The President wrote this is on 64 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: true Social on Sunday now on Monday. Earlier this week, 65 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: in Durell, the House Pulling Caucus had their Grand Caucus meeting. 66 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: President Trump actually doubling down as well, speaking to the 67 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: entire caucus there. This is in Drau, Florida, earlier this week, 68 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: Trump telling center Republicans, excuse me, he said, this will guarantee, 69 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: this will guarantee the mid terms. If you don't get it, 70 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: then it's big troubles. He was speaking there to the 71 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: House Republican retreat, but really effectively speaking to center Republicans 72 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: because again, this thing will already pasted. The House is 73 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: currently just just stalling in in the Senate now, Mike 74 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: Johnson this week of the House has not been particularly 75 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: outspoken on this, on this standoff, and yes it is 76 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: a standoff at this at this point between Donald Trump 77 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: and between John Thump. The issue, as we had on 78 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: Rachel Bovard a few weeks ago to discuss, is that 79 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: John Thune is not acknowledging the fact that there is 80 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: actually a way to potentially get this legislation pass to wit. 81 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: There are two specific mechanisms of breaking a filibuster. There 82 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: is no filibuster in the House. The House is a 83 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: might makes right majoritarian chambers. It's the lower legislative house, 84 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: and a bare fifty plus one majority gets across the 85 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: finish line. Not so much in the Senate. True, there 86 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: is a reconciliation bill at least once a year. There 87 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: are some procedural or king ways to get it twice 88 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: a year through the reconciliation bill. If the Parliamentary dessend 89 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: deems that the bill has the effect of reducing the 90 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: budget deficit, then there potentially is a way to it 91 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: passed with a fifty plus one majority. But generally speaking, 92 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: you have to pass a filibuster, which means that you 93 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: have to invoke cloture, means that you have to actually 94 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: get sixty senders. So there are two ways, wrote our 95 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: friend Rachel Beauvart at The Federalist a few weeks ago. 96 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: There are two traditional ways to break a filibuster. The 97 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: first is the mechanical way what I just described, which 98 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: is invoking cloture, which means sixty votes. But there is 99 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: a second way to do this, and this is where 100 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: John fun is lying to you. The second way of 101 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: doing this, which has existed within the rules the United 102 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: States Senate since the inception, since the origins of the 103 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: rules of the United State Senate, is by actually making 104 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: senators talk, the so called talking filibuster. Think about the 105 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: old Jimmy Stewart film mister Smith goes to Washington. 106 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: There. 107 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: If you, essentially, in this particular case, if John fun 108 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: and Center Publican Leisure were to make Democrats talk and 109 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: talk and talk, and eventually they stop talking, guess what, 110 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: the film abuster's cleared, that's it. The will essentially passes 111 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: at that. John Fune, though, is just saying that the 112 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: votes aren't there for instenance. We probably should listen to 113 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: the man before we go on. Chris An need it further. 114 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: Let's play clip one of John explaining his position. 115 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: We don't have the votes either to proceed get on 116 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 3: a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got 117 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: on it. But that is just a function of math, 118 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 3: and there is anything I can do about that. I mean, 119 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 3: I understand the President's got a passion to see this 120 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 3: issue addressed, as we all do. Does he understand that, well, 121 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 3: we've conveyed that to him. But we will continue to 122 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 3: make that argument because I think it's important that everybody 123 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 3: understand that this really is about it's about the votes, 124 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: it's about the math, and I'm for better or worse. 125 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: I'm the one who has to be the clear eyed 126 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 3: realist about what we can achieve here, and so we'll 127 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 3: continue to convey that. And I think that we're going 128 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 3: to have the fight on the floor. We're going to 129 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 3: vote on this, We're going to put it up, and 130 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 3: we'll give the Democrats the opportunity to cast their vote 131 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 3: on whether or not they think non citizens out of 132 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 3: vote in American elections. 133 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: Well, I'm pretty sure that it is about the math, 134 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: Center Thun And the math is such that your caucus 135 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: has a fifty three to forty seven majority. So the 136 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: actual math means that if you were to actually utilize 137 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: one of the two tools to break a filibuster at 138 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: your disposal, you probably could get this thing passed. Here's 139 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: more of those by clip two from John Thune. 140 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 4: Probably Trump told me yesterday that it would take Democratic 141 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 4: votes to pass the Save America Act. Do you think 142 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 4: the magabase has an unrealistic expectation of passing that legislation 143 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 4: without democrats apport. 144 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 5: I think there are a lot of there are a 145 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 5: lot of optimistic use about what Democrats may or may 146 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 5: not do. We all know because we deal with them 147 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 5: every day, that the Democrats are not all of a 148 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 5: sudden going to decide that this is something they wanted before. 149 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 5: So yeah, again, I mean, I think you have a 150 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 5: lot of optimists out there, and I appreciate that, and 151 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 5: a lot of passionate and energy behind. 152 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: Getting an outcome here. But getting an outcome would require 153 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 2: Democrat bults. 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That is a Bounce of 181 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: nature dot com. So I mentioned that Center Republican leadership 182 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: actually is kind of sort of reading the tea leaves 183 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: a little bit on this, and that's because the number 184 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: two Republican in that chamber, John Corn, of Texas has 185 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: actually flipped. He's flipped on a dime. A brand new 186 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: OpEd actually in the New York Post just this morning 187 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: from center John corn of Texas. Why these Save Act 188 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: matters more than the filibuster? He talks about the talking filibuster, 189 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: and he's essentially issuing a direct challenge to John Thune. 190 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: Now why is John Cornan doing this? Well, it's called politics, folks. 191 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 1: There is now a runoff in these day of Texas 192 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: for who's going to be the Republican nominee for US 193 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: Nate John Cornyn, who is a longtime establishment figure. I'm 194 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: not a particularly big fan of the guy. Full of 195 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: cards on the table. He's facing a spirited challenge from 196 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: the controversial Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, and it 197 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: was essentially a dead heat. That's why they're heading to 198 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: what would be a runoff coming up in May. But 199 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, in a fairly magnanimous gesture last week said 200 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: after the primary election, said the Safe America Act is 201 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: the most important bill the US Senate could ever pass. 202 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: I'm committed to helping President Trump get it done. I 203 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: would consider dropping out of this race if Senate leadership 204 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: agrees to filibuster and passes the Safe America Act. So 205 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: he tweeted that out six days ago last Thursday. And 206 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: now John cornyim who Paxton called a coward who refuses 207 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: a port abolishing the filibuster in that tweet. Now Korn 208 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: has his brand new opbed at the New York Posts 209 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: calling on John Thune to do the talking philibuster. John 210 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: Thune Woodsworth has responded, he is not budging now. So first, well, 211 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: really funny how that works, right, How a primary challenge 212 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: actually can push people to do the right thing. Who 213 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: would have thought we probably should frankly see way more 214 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: primary challenge up there when it comes to a lot 215 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: of these milk toast establishments senators, Congressman John Corner really 216 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: kind of being the quintessence of that. But you have 217 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: a situation now where the top two Republicans in the Senate, 218 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: John corn Texas and John Thune of South Dakota, are 219 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: just not on the same page. This is not a 220 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: good luck, not a good look. While Mike Johnson over 221 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: in the House has successfully shepherded this bill through, while 222 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: dontrom is saying that he is not going to do anything, 223 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: do anything whatsoever anything until this bill passes, John Thune, 224 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: stop lying to us. We are not as stupid as 225 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: you apparently think we are. The base wants this bill, 226 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: the people want this bill. Get this done and stop 227 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: gaslighting us for your sake, for our sake, or for 228 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: the sake of election integrity, lesson security in these United States. 229 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: So hopefully John Foun, the Senate Majority leader for the 230 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: Republican and Caucus, hopefully he comes around to the John 231 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: Cornan position. John corn actually catching lightning in a bottle 232 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: again thanks to this Ken Pax and tweets, So thank 233 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: you for your service, and this suspect can pass and 234 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: you actually have done a trement this public service. Frankly, 235 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: there but the underlying issues here voter ID proof aces 236 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: and ship overwhelmingly popular stuff. Overwhelmingly popular stuff as even 237 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: CNN they run these wonderful SEGM minutes from our pal 238 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: Harrientin showing us some of the data on this. The 239 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: data is just absolutely overwhelming here when it comes is so. 240 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: According to Pew Research Center, eighty three percent of Americans 241 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: favor requiring all voters to show government issued ID. Gallup 242 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: has that number at eighty four percent. NBC Nightly News 243 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: anchor Tom Lamis said that voter id rules do have 244 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: wide public support. So even even the left in corporate 245 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: media is conceding in this is highly, highly, highly popular stuff, 246 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: and they have the continues to be just all sorts 247 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: of horrific gas lying on this, John Fune, get this 248 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: done for the sake of the American people. The speaking 249 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: of things that are getting done for the sake of 250 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: the American people, Donald Trump is continuing the fight against 251 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: the isonmic Republic of Iran. We are now well into 252 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: our second week of Operation Epic Fury. Much to discuss 253 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: on back from but before we do so, just a 254 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: quick word from our other sponsor for today show, which 255 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Iran has 256 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: un leashed missile attacks on Israel and across the Holy Land. Today, 257 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: children are watching the skies for rockets. 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That's 273 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: eighty eight for eight eight if CJ, or go online 274 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: at IFCJ dot org IFCJ dot org. Folks, I can 275 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: tell you just on a personal note, my mother in 276 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: law has actually been over in Israel for probably like 277 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: a month and a half nights, but she's been there 278 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: for a very long time for some family related reasons. 279 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: She was chose to fly back a while ago, had 280 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: to delay because of the outbreak of the war. Addingcdotally, 281 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: they were essentially in the bomb shelter pretty much all 282 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: night last night, So it does seem that the actual 283 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: volume of missiles and drones being fired by Iran towards Israel, 284 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: towards the UAE, towards other Arab golf states, the actual 285 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: daily volume is definitely going down, but it's also very 286 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: much still happening. On the other hand, Donald Trump telling 287 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: Axios that quote there's practically nothing left to target when 288 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: it comes to bombing insigne of Ron, some of my 289 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: own sources actually corroborate that and say that that's true. 290 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: On the other hand, it is something of a paradox 291 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: when it comes to the notion that, as I just said, 292 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: there still are missiles and drones that are flying all 293 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: across the region, whether it's to Israel, the UE, or 294 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: to elsewhere as well. And one of the things that 295 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: it seems like a sustained airpower campaign could at least 296 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: continue to do is to continue to cripple the Moullahs, 297 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: the IRGC, the Long Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the regime 298 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: more generally speaking. There, I'm sure that there are no 299 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: that there are very few remaining targets. When it comes 300 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: to actual maritime vessels, for instance, United States has now 301 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: sunk over sixty boats. The Iranian Navy is not really 302 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: floating at this point on the seas of the Persian 303 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: Gulf and the Arabian Sea. They are now at the 304 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: bottom of the ocean. Frankly there the Iranian Air Force 305 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: has some only been pummeled, but there are any number 306 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: of high ranking individuals who remain at large. One of 307 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: them is the guy who is the allegend new supremim 308 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: leader of Iran is the son of the now deceased 309 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: Praise Me to God, a former quote unquote supremime leader, 310 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: Ali Comedy. The new son is named Moshaba Comedy. The 311 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: latest intelligence indicates that he is very badly injured, but 312 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: he is still functioning day to day. There have been 313 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: all sorts of rumors about this. Some folks say that 314 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: he had his leg amputated because he was so horrifically 315 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: crippled in that initial blast that killed his father, Ali Comedy. 316 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: But regardless of just how badly injured he is, he's 317 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: he's still alive. Whether he's in a coma or whatever, 318 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: we don't actually know, but he but he means he's 319 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: still alive to this day. And unless until you start 320 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: taking out more of these targets, whether it's the IRGC, 321 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: whether it's the mula's, whether it's the Nazi esque paramilitary 322 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: the besiege, which is essentially an Iranian islist version of 323 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: the old Nazi Gestapo ss these people roaming the street 324 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: with guns trying to hunt down and murder innocent civilians 325 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: unless you start taking out more and more of them. 326 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: To me, it is an open question as to where 327 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: exactly this operation goes from here. One of the issues 328 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: that I have been struggling with now for a few 329 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: days is indeed trying to figure out exactly where this 330 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: goes from here. In terms of the Iranian people, the 331 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: American Israelly air campaign has been overwhelmingly successful, There's no 332 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: doubt about that. The question this point is, can the 333 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: Iranian people, not for lack of courage, definitely not lack 334 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: of coverage, can they feasibly or even remotely practically actually 335 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: marshall whatever limited resource they have or acquire resources somehow 336 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: some way to actually make a play at this regime. 337 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: They're getting no shortage of folks from the outside who 338 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: are telling them to do that. So the Israeli Prime 339 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: Minister's office had a tweet thread yesterday essentially saying we 340 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: are your best friends. We are taking out the regime. 341 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: We are doing exactly what you want us to do 342 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: for decades, which is true, That's absolutely true. And there's 343 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: some rhetoric at the end the story basically saying now 344 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: is your moment to try to seize freedom. The exiled 345 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: Crown Prince raised Paalavi, who was the son of the 346 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: exiled Shah, who has been living in Maryland, United States 347 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: for for the for the past few decades. There he 348 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: has a brand new video message essentially saying the exact 349 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: same thing. Let's go ahead and then play this club 350 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: from the excel Crown Prince ron Raisa Palavi. 351 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 6: Ham Han Asian Mark Associates laun it Hamchinan. That's be 352 00:18:43,960 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 6: naravidanaro in Ajadin for statists as Jodob of the Madame 353 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 6: pemn Bosh. 354 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: So for those watching us on YouTube the sale Michelle 355 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: and you were able to see the subtitles. For those 356 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: of you listening, you just heard this man speaking in Farsi. 357 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: He basically says, we're now at the decisive stage of 358 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: our final struggle. I urge you to secure your essential 359 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: provisions as soon as possible for your own safety. Withdraw 360 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: from the streets, remain your homes to the military and 361 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: law enforcement forces. This is your last chance to break 362 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: from the oppressive forces and join your people. Await my 363 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: final call. And one thing that I'm wondering is what 364 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: exactly that final call is going to be. Again, what 365 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: I'm hearing from the US and Israeli militaries my sources, 366 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: both first and secondhands, in both militaries, is that they 367 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: say that they are indeed running out of targets to bomb. 368 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: At the same time, the Misslin drones are continuing this 369 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 1: this crisis in the straight of horror moves this chow 370 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: points by which twenty percent of the world's oil supply flows. 371 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: This crisis continues, most recently Secretary of Warpetextat announcing that 372 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: the United States is now taking out lots and lots 373 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: of mine layers. These are Iranian vessels simply trying to 374 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: lay down sea mines for the purchase of obstructing the 375 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: flow of oil natural gas. They are at the Strait 376 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: of Hormuz, so we're engaged in new operations there. So 377 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: we're definitely still involved in operations, no doubt about that whatsoever. 378 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: By the way, Iran came parillly close actually to hitting 379 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: Dubai International Airport, one of the region's busiest, not the 380 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: busiest airport. They came perilsy close to hitting it. Just 381 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: yesterday they took out a residential building in Amanamah, the 382 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: capital of Bahrain, by which at these warne of people 383 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: were killed. That was earlier this week there. So the 384 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: violence is definitely continuing there and surely, surely this mission 385 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: cannot possibly cease unless until the threat is neutralized, which 386 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: is the definition of victory that we've been trying to 387 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: explain now for the past week or so here on 388 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: on the program. But as far as how to actually 389 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: make that next step happened, Look, this is they tyrannize 390 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: people that has been on the Jakunu tyranny for forty 391 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: seven years. They just watched tens and tens and tens 392 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: of thousands, ten ten thousand of their own people be 393 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 1: brutally massacred by the regime December to January. They have 394 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: very little to know arms none the CIA is arming 395 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: some of the curves in western Iran. The normal day 396 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: to day Persian doesn't really have access to arms. In 397 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: Tehran Ishfahan, the various of the city is there. I'm 398 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: hoping that there is more here that I don't know 399 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,479 Speaker 1: if there is a plan, and I suspect there probably 400 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: is that there is a plan. We probably won't actually 401 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: see it until the moment it comes. I think that 402 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump beat Hexath know a little more here than 403 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: meets the eye. Ultimately, of course, proof will be in 404 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: the pudding. We will find out. God Williams sooner run later, Folks, 405 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: stay with us through a quick break Ili Kuhanam Joints 406 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,479 Speaker 1: and the decide to break it all down. Stay with us. 407 00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back. So as we continue 408 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: our coverage about Operation Epic Fury and the Binational American 409 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: is really military operations against the is long Republic of Iran, 410 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: there's really knowing better to bring on to continue our 411 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: conversation and than someone who was actually born over in Tehran. 412 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: That is our friends Eli Quhanam so Eli Konam is 413 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: the former US Deputy Envoy to combat anti Semitism. She's 414 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: also the host of America Unfiltered over on all Ourba 415 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: also just a wonderful person, so we always appreciate that 416 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: about Ellie as well. So Ellie, thank you very much 417 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: for taking some time out of your day to join 418 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: the Josh Shammer Show. We really appreciate it. I want 419 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 1: to begin there on the biographical Actually, so your family 420 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: fled Iran when the revolution happened to nineteen seventy nine. 421 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: There this is deeply personal to you. So before we 422 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: kind of get into some of the substance there, I 423 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: would love for you to just reflect a little bit 424 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: on all that has gone down from a very personal perspective, 425 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: perhaps over the past week and a half when it 426 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: comes to this war against the Iranian regime. 427 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 7: Josh, it's so good to be with you, and I 428 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 7: really appreciate question. You're right, I was born in Iran, 429 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 7: and the era that I was born in, under the 430 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 7: Shah's leadership, Iran was Western oriented, had full diplomatic relations 431 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 7: with the United States and Israel. My family's Jewish ethnic minorities, 432 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 7: religious minorities, women all had rights, and it was really 433 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 7: a golden era for the country. And what happened was 434 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 7: that the Shah was accused, believe it or not, by 435 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 7: Western countries and our own Democrat president at the time, 436 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 7: James Carter, of not being you know, not giving enough 437 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 7: human rights to what he was fighting at the time. 438 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 7: Was these very same terrorists who took over in nineteen 439 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 7: seventy nine, and he was considered to be too brutal 440 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 7: and too repressive, and so this regime takes power in 441 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 7: nineteen seventy nine, and for forty seven years, they have 442 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 7: now terrorized the country, the region, and the world. And 443 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 7: the reason I raised that issue, Josh, is that a 444 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 7: lot of people today are saying, you know, what comes 445 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 7: next in Iran could be worse than what we've had. 446 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 7: But you know what that failed experiment is, the failed 447 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 7: experiment of the last forty seven years. 448 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: You follow Eli kohanam on x at Eli Kohama. Look, Ellie, 449 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: when we talk about regimes and regime change become something 450 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,239 Speaker 1: of a bugaboo in many political conversations. What I've been 451 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: saying for months here on the show is that it 452 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: should be objectively true that from an America first, American 453 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: national interest perspective, there are some regimes that act in 454 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: a manner that redounds to our national interests. There are 455 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: some regimes that act in manner that is demonstrably hostile 456 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: and frankly inimical to the American national interests. And it'll 457 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: be very difficult to think of regime that's more consistently 458 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: done the latter and not the former, than the Irani 459 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: regime over the past forty seven years in count things. 460 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 1: So this is really historic stuff. We are truly living 461 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: through historic times. What is the next step exactly of 462 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: this operation. Another thing that we've been discussing the past 463 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: week is exactly how victory is achieved here? What are 464 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: the metrics to define victory? One thing that I think 465 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: many of us are looking out for us certainly I'm 466 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: looking out for I've been trying to see whether or not 467 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: there are going to be any defections when it comes 468 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: to the Iranian military, the islam Revolutionary Guard Corp or 469 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,719 Speaker 1: the IRGC isy when going to take Donald Trump up 470 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: on his offer to get immunity, Is it going to 471 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: be some sort of domestic uprising. There's a lot of 472 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 1: moving parts for Elie. So what is the next step 473 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: in this process? 474 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 7: Well, josh as you know, the US military in Israel's 475 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 7: IDF have their military objectives and we all know what 476 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 7: those are. But while we were accomplishing that, and it's 477 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 7: not getting a lot of reporting, the US and Israel 478 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 7: are also striking the repression infrastructure of the Islamic Republic 479 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 7: and so what I believe is happening is that they 480 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 7: are kind of softening the ground, and they're laying the 481 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 7: ground work so that the Iranian people can rise up 482 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 7: and take back their government, as President Trump has asked 483 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 7: the Iranian people to do. So what they've done is 484 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 7: they've struck besiege and police stations. They have done things 485 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 7: like hack television. I believe it's the Israelis and the 486 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 7: Americans who have done that. Just today we saw strikes 487 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 7: on Iran's banking system, the bank that actually pays the 488 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 7: IRGC forces, and that's going to cause them quite a 489 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 7: scramble and a while until they're able to pay the IRGC. 490 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 6: All of these. 491 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 7: Kinds of pressures, I think Josh again lay the groundwork 492 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 7: that when we're ready for the Iranian people to take 493 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 7: out on the streets this time, when they do and 494 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 7: hopefully in the millions again as they did on January 495 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 7: eighth and ninth, they are no longer mowed down with 496 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 7: military grade equipment and killed by the tens of thousands. 497 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 7: So I think that's partially a hope of what comes next. 498 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 7: There is also, like you reference, the possibility that somebody 499 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 7: might flip. Now my theory is that that somebody would 500 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 7: come out of the conventional military forces in Iran because 501 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 7: the regime, as you know, has redundant forces. They've got 502 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 7: the IERGC, which is very ideological and very loyal, and 503 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 7: then they've got the traditional military. And so my belief 504 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 7: is if anyone would flip, more naturally would seem the 505 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 7: military because they're more less ideological and just kind of 506 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 7: like more normal and perhaps less crazy than the ideologues 507 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 7: of the IERGC. 508 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: So once is very helpful think that answer. One sticking 509 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,719 Speaker 1: point that I had been kind of hung up on 510 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: is the fact that these horribly repressed people just watch 511 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: tens and tens of thousands of their fellow countrymen be 512 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: mowed down in brutal, horrific fashion, really pulpote Stalin esque 513 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: mass killings happening right here in late December and in January. 514 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: It's a largely unarmed population and the besiege the paramilitary. 515 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: While the US and Israel are definitely striking laws targets, 516 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: they still have something of a monopoly on the weapons. 517 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out, Elie, how we can 518 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: potentially get weapons into these people's hands. Is that feasible, 519 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: something that the folks in power are talking about behind 520 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: the scenes, what do you think that the goal here 521 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: more is is just so brutally brutally damaged the regime 522 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: that even a barely armed populace can essentially attempt to 523 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: break the yolks of tyranny and try to be free. 524 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 7: Josh, My sense is that because the US is so 525 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 7: traumatized from the Iraq experience, where in Iraq the population 526 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 7: was armed previously, and what happened with the fall of 527 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 7: Hussein was that they started to turn the guns internally 528 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 7: on each other. There was a lot of sectarian fighting, 529 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 7: and so I think the United States looks at that 530 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 7: and says they're not so sure they want to arm anyone. 531 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 7: I do believe intelligence agencies could get arms through Iran's 532 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 7: various borders. They've got the border with Iraq, They've got 533 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 7: the border with Azerbai John, There's so many different and 534 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 7: the Balloch areas, there's areas where they could get arms in. 535 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 7: I'm not sure that they want to do that, and 536 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 7: perhaps maybe not yet at this point. That's why when 537 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 7: there was rumors of the Kurds getting involved, I was 538 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 7: personally excited about that, because they are armed and trained 539 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 7: and their warriors and maybe there will be a role 540 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 7: for them eventually. 541 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: Finally, early and again, folsts, if you haven't been paying 542 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: attention yet, we're chatting with Eli Kohanam. She's the former 543 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: uspiondvoye to combat anti Semitism, also the host of America Unfiltered. 544 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: Over at all Arabia. Ellie, before I let you go, 545 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: just about min and a half left or so here, 546 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: I want your thoughts on the exile crown Prince himself 547 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: raise up Palabi. So he has this brand new video 548 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: here or short video that he uploaded social media. It's 549 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: getting a lot of traction where he says to the 550 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: Iranian people, we're now at the decisive stage of our 551 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: final struggle, and he's kind of teasing, await my final call. 552 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: What exactly is he getting at? And I would love 553 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: your brief assessment as to the feasibility of race of 554 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,479 Speaker 1: Palavi coming actually in here as a legitimate transition figure 555 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: if God willing the regime actually is taken down. 556 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 7: Raza pa Lav the son of the late Shaw, is 557 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 7: the only figure that Iranians trusts because he's clearly not 558 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 7: associated with the regime. He's been in the United States 559 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 7: in exile these last forty seven years. That's the biggest 560 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 7: strike against him because the United States cannot assess if 561 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 7: he has enough support on the ground from a security perspective, 562 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 7: and does he have any forces and is there anyone 563 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 7: who's armed who could support him. That is the big 564 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 7: question around path Lavi. On the other hand, he is 565 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 7: the one who called on Iranians to come out and 566 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 7: protest on January eighth and ninth, and millions responded to him. 567 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 7: So he's proven that the Iranian people see him as 568 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 7: a leader and they chant his name on the streets. 569 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 7: He's published a transition plan. I think for pah Lavi, 570 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 7: the way that he can become a real option is 571 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 7: if in fact he received international support, that security support 572 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 7: that he needs around him. But he can be, without 573 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 7: a doubt, a political leader who can help transition. I 574 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 7: think the question again is if we're looking at the 575 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 7: Venezuela model as our preference, then that again goes back 576 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 7: to what somebody internally flip to the American side, ben 577 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 7: to the US will, and that person comes already with 578 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 7: infrastructure and armed personnel and so on. My guess is 579 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 7: the Trump administration prefers that scenario. I just don't know 580 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 7: if that exists. 581 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: Great information, as always, I'm also not sure if it exists, 582 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: And frankly, I've been waiting on pins needles to see 583 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: some signs been happening. Thus far, we haven't really seen that, 584 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: but perhaps we'll see, Elie. These things have a tendency 585 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: to change very much rapidly, in fact, in real time. 586 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: Folks call you Eli Kohana on x at Eli Kohana. 587 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: Check out her show America Unfiltered on all our ba Ellie, 588 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: you are wonderful. We appreciate you. God bless you. Thanks 589 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: really do my friend. 590 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, Josh. Great to be with you. 591 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: So the energy markets around the world cond take you 592 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: to be rattled as one of the highly predictab repercussions 593 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: of this particular war involving one of the world's largest 594 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: oil producers, that being the song Republic of Iran. The 595 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: price oil dipping dramatically over its high that was reached 596 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: this past Sunday into Monday there and it's relatively stable 597 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: for now. But for now this continues to be a 598 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: certainly a topic of debates and a lot of folks 599 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: are saying, oh my god, how do you not see 600 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: this coming there midterm election year price of oil. Surely 601 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: you know better than to try to spike the price. Well, well, 602 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: no crap, but you're not really thinking this through. Do 603 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: you really want to give a regime like this nuclear weapons? 604 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 8: Do you want? 605 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: Do you prefer that a nuclear armed deran, a ballistic missile, 606 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: intercontinental blister, missile capable of luran, that they be capable 607 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: of shutting down the street ofform moves, thereby choking off 608 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: twenty percent of the world's oil natural gaspy, are you 609 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: kidding me? In what world does that make sense? A 610 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: Secretary of the Interior Doug Boerban sud who is actually 611 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: speaking quite clearly on this very point. Let's go ahead 612 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: and play this clip from Doug Burgham. 613 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 8: Terrorist regime began forty seven years ago by literally taking 614 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 8: us hostages, and then here they are forty seven years later, 615 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 8: slaughtering their own people in the streets and then holding 616 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 8: the entire world hostage economically by threatening to close the strait. 617 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 8: And of course President Trump has made it very clear 618 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 8: the consequences if they try to do that, and there's 619 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 8: a lot of options between ourselves and our allies in 620 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 8: the region, including our Arab friends in the region, to 621 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 8: make sure that those straits keep open and that energy 622 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 8: keeps flowing for the global economy. And again goal here 623 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 8: eliminate this terrorist regime that, as Carolyn said in the 624 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 8: opening piece there, everything she said one hundred percent accurate 625 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 8: will bring prices down permanently with peace and stability in 626 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 8: the world. President Trump's going to make sure that happens. 627 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: So the key point is that Iran already has the 628 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: ability to hold the world's energy markets hostage via its 629 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: control of the Street of Hormoose. The way to counter 630 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: that is to deprive this regime from getting even more 631 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,719 Speaker 1: powerful where you definitely cannot take them on and they definitely, 632 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: definitely definitely can hold the world hostage. That's point one 633 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,240 Speaker 1: point two. Did you actually can stand up to them? 634 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: And what Bergram said is that the US is doing that. 635 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: That's why Pete Hexa had said that we're now taking 636 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 1: out a lot of the mind laying ships of the 637 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: Iranian navy. That's why we more generally speaking, are having 638 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: US Navy escorts as need be to make sure that 639 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: the Sheriff hor Moves remains open for the free flow 640 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: of oil and natural gas. Now what are the other 641 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: aspects here of this ongoing war campaign has been the media. 642 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: The media just just just continues to just just epically 643 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,359 Speaker 1: botch this. Mark Penn, who is a long standing old 644 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: school Clinton era Democrat advisor who has had something of 645 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: a red pilling experience, has seen is based on the 646 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: Twitter feed over the past couple of years. There had 647 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: this great post on X on Tuesday where he was 648 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,720 Speaker 1: saying how the media headlines are things like the Iranian 649 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: regime is doing well, the ring cont Trump is under 650 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: pressure to end the war. Komeny's sun is just as 651 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: top as his father, the US responsible for the missile 652 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: on the school, and the actual headlines when you live 653 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: in reality and not in MSM disinformation gas lighting world, 654 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: the actual headlines are something close to this per Mark Penn, 655 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: Sixty Iranian ships have sunk, Iranian military assets destroyed. Leadership 656 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: tries to put on good showing despite internal chaos. The 657 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: warplan progresses unprecedented fashion. I mean, this has been a 658 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: staggering successed folks. M It seems to me that there 659 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: are a lot of folks that are frankly just rooting 660 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: for the United States to lose this war. I actually 661 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: think deep down it's that simple. Why Because on the 662 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,879 Speaker 1: radical fringe they say it the Columbia University of park 663 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: Tive divests. The freaks there are rooting, They're showing images 664 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,439 Speaker 1: of Iranian missiles and saying they're clapping link seals like yeah, 665 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: it's disgusting, disgusting, disgusting, disgusting stuff awful. Carolyn Levitt actually 666 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,359 Speaker 1: at a White House press conference, was talking about how 667 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,279 Speaker 1: Democrats with their medialities are being just totally disingenuous about 668 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,399 Speaker 1: the boots on the ground equation too. There's a lot 669 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,399 Speaker 1: of disingenuousness out there, folks. Let's go ahead and list 670 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 1: this from Caroline Levied, the White House Press Secretary. 671 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 9: Look, I would say that Democrats on Capitol Hill are 672 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 9: clearly being quite disingenuous. Three years ago, not a single 673 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 9: Democrat voted for the against the resolution condemning Iran as 674 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 9: the world's leading state sponsor of terror. Yet now with 675 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,760 Speaker 9: President Trump as commander in chief, finally taking the action 676 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 9: that so many Democrats have called on the commander in 677 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 9: chief to do for many, many years, to wipe out 678 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 9: the threat of a rogue Iranian terrorist regime, now all 679 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 9: of a sudden Democrats are playing politics with this long 680 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 9: standing bipartisan policy of the United States, and they fifty 681 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 9: three of them in the House, recently voted against the 682 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 9: resolution condemning Iran as the world state sponsor of terror. 683 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,800 Speaker 1: Okay, so a lot of media disingenuousness all around the spectrum. 684 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: CNN actually is probably top of the pile. CNN, in 685 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: case you missed it, had not just a post on 686 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,760 Speaker 1: x but also a corresponding article about this lone wolf 687 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: isis inspired attempts to blow people up outside Gracie Mansion 688 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: in New York City by these two ices fired teenagers 689 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: this past weekend. So this is not irony. It is 690 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: apparently not satire, we think. CNN actually wrote about the 691 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,919 Speaker 1: incident whereby these two teenagers tried to kill a bunch 692 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,240 Speaker 1: of conservative protesters outside Zormandanni's mansion on the upperas Side Manhattan. 693 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 1: CNN actually wrote this. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New 694 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 1: York City Saturday morning for what could have been a 695 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather, But 696 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: in less than hour, their lives would drastically change as 697 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,719 Speaker 1: the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during 698 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: an anti Muslim protest outside of Mayor zormandmni's hull. I mean, 699 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: what what you know if the Babylon bee put it? 700 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: And the bee is just so part of this off 701 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 1: they said in a actual satirical post not a should be 702 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 1: stirical posts the b rop quote scene and reports on 703 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: Japanese teenagers who came to Hawaii for what could have 704 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,799 Speaker 1: been a beautiful day at the beach and turns out 705 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: it was Pearl Harbor, you get it, Just unbelievable stuff. 706 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: The media bias folks here about all this stuff is 707 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: just absolutely, absolutely positively dripping, and frankly, we hope that's 708 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: why you choose to cut through the fog when it 709 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: comes to your destination for where you get your information, 710 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: what kind of media you consume, and so forth there 711 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,759 Speaker 1: and where just honor and privilege that you've chosen us 712 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,880 Speaker 1: here on the Josh Hammer Show with Newsweek and Sale 713 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: of Media, to be one of the outlets for your 714 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: viewing and for your information on hopefully a daily basis there. 715 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: And that kind of leads me to my final point 716 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 1: for today's show, which is the notion of a daily 717 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: basis at all. I've actually been thinking a lot about 718 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,880 Speaker 1: this recently. So my wife and I are on the 719 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: precipice of closing on our first home. We are going 720 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: to be moving fairly shortly, so our home set up 721 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 1: here looks slightly different in the not so distant future, 722 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,440 Speaker 1: then you probably know what happened, though we'll do our 723 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: best to make it look similar of course. There and 724 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: there's just a lot happening. Our daughter is now, Oh gosh, 725 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: she's fifteen months literally this week. I mean, where'd all go? 726 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 1: That's just absolutely staggering. She's barely even crawling anymore. She's 727 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: just walking everywhere, and walking quite quickly. Actually, I took 728 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: her to the park yesterday and I could barely keep 729 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: up with her. It kind of reminds me. I was 730 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 1: watching a video this morning. There's a wonderful website out 731 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,360 Speaker 1: there called Tora Anytime, which is exactly what it sounds like, 732 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,319 Speaker 1: is a twenty four seven tool to try to get 733 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 1: just a little little Tora, a little Bible in your life. 734 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 1: They have these daily videos that I get on there 735 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 1: WhatsApp feed, and I was watching the video this morning 736 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: and the video was about it was actually very timely, 737 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: pun very much intended, because the video this morning was 738 00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 1: about the value of time, and this timeless notion again 739 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,239 Speaker 1: double pun intended, this timeless notion, this timeless bit of 740 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: advice that you shouldn't waste your time with all these 741 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,160 Speaker 1: life milestones, just just for the past few years. In 742 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, I got engaged, twenty twenty three, I 743 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,719 Speaker 1: got married, twenty twenty four, we had our first kid 744 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: born twenty twenty five or twenty twenty six, I guess 745 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:22,920 Speaker 1: is the year. 746 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 8: Now. 747 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: We're about to close our first home. More children, God 748 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,440 Speaker 1: willing to do rather than later. So there's a lot 749 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,319 Speaker 1: happening in rapid succession. And I've been thinking a lot 750 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,879 Speaker 1: about the value of time. Each and every single day 751 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: is an opportunity for you to choose how you devote 752 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,880 Speaker 1: your time. I've gotten in the habit recently of waking 753 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 1: up earlier than I have in my entire life, so 754 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: I can be in a synagogue very early, so I 755 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,240 Speaker 1: can spend an hour very early in the morning, essentially 756 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 1: just communicating directly to God. And then I get home 757 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 1: and I spend time with my family, and I get 758 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: on with my work day, and I do the best 759 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,240 Speaker 1: I can when it comes to balancing all my responsibilities 760 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,399 Speaker 1: and duties and all theations that come with the day 761 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 1: in day out. But the order prioritization matters. Don't focus 762 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: on that which doesn't matter. There is meaning, there is purpose, 763 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: and by choosing each and every day to think about 764 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 1: how you can structure your day, you will be a 765 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,240 Speaker 1: happier person. You'll be a more fulfilled person, and ultimately, really, 766 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: when all of a sudden and done, you will look 767 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 1: back and say that was worth it. Folks, have a 768 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,000 Speaker 1: great rect of your evening. Josh Hammer signing off. We'll 769 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:37,840 Speaker 1: be right back tomorrow.