WEBVTT - How goes the war in Iran? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.440 Hillsdale Hillsdale dot ed or I encourage you to take 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 advantage of the many free online courses there, and of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.280 course I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogue all of them 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.560 at hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, Apple, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.520 iTunes and Hillsdale. Good Morning, Glory and Amy Greats a Maridam. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.560 He he at broadcasting today from the campus at Colorado 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.320 Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado. Sort of a return to 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.560 home from me. I taught here ten years ago when 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.520 the late Senator Bill Armstrong requited me to the campus, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.000 and she had lots of old friends, lots of old 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.199 students who are not so young anymore. I'll talk with 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.080 a few of them to the program, but first let's 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.080 begin with updates on the war. President Trump spoke this 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.040 morning with podcaster Jake Paul cut number one this country. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.520 I mean, we did this excursion. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.320 We had to do it. Wipe out evil. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.200 Sometimes you have evil, and for forty seven years they've 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.200 been killing people, you know, in the. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.040 Most violent way. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.000 The roadside bombs all over the place was ninety five 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:06.520 percent of them are from Iran and Salomoni that was 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.959 the one which took him out. We did a lot 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.920 of things to beat two bombers and all of this 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.479 whole thing that we're doing now is people have waited 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.679 for forty seven years for it to happen, so we 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.319 have to do it right. But our military has been unbelieved. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:22.800 He's so right. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.959 We are winning decisively. We have not yet achieved a 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.520 decisive win. We have to stay the course. I think 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.200 the President is intent on doing that to reduce the 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.840 military capability of Iran to threaten its neighbors, destroy their 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.640 nuclear weaponry program, destroy their ability to protect and restart again. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.119 And we are doing that. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:45.400 Moreover, the USSS Tripoli, which is a Marine Corps Expeditionary 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.640 Unit MEU, is now en route to the Gulf. That 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.840 means marines. That's like the worst news that Iran could 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.880 have received. If the Marines are coming. Let me now 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.520 go to General Kine with the worst news today because 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.600 we woke up to learn we'd suffered more American serviceman 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.120 casualties this morning. Here is showing of the Joint Chiefs 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.160 Kane talking about the crash of the Casey one thirty 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:09.920 five this morning. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.160 In Iraq, Cuttnomber eleven. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.280 Before I start with an update, I also want to 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.280 address the tragic loss of our Case one thirty five 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:22.080 refueling aircraft yesterday. The incident occurred over friendly territory in 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.800 western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.959 and again was not the result as Senkam has said, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.239 was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. We're 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.480 still treating this as an active rescue and recovery operation, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.000 as Sencom announced this morning. For airmen have been recovered 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.919 and the Air Force and US Central Command will provide 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.400 updates as information becomes available. Please keep these brave airmen, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.320 their families, friends, and units in your thoughts in the 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.480 coming hours and days. Our service members make an incredible 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.960 sacrifice to go forward and do the things that the 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.160 nation asks of them. It's a reminder of the true 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 cost of the day medication and commitment of the Joint Force. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.400 At at Breakfast I spoke at this morning at Colorado 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.920 Christian University, we had a young student. His father is 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.400 deployed an airman officer in the Niti's Air Force in 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.880 the Middle East, and her brothers at the Air Force Academy. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.919 Less than one percent of America's families popularate one hundred 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.000 percent of our military, and our debt to them is 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.880 never ending. So, as the General said, to keep them 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.399 in your prayers, family and the deceased. He also gave 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.440 us an update on what has been accomplished in the 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.919 first thirteen days of the World Cut number ten, General came. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.320 In just the first thirteen days of this operation, our 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.400 artillery forces have made history. They fired the first precision 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.320 strike missiles ever used in combat, reaching deep into enemy territory. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.920 They've used army attackers to sink multiple ships, including a submarine. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.880 And they've done all of this with the precision and 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.960 determination that comes from relentless training and trust in each 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.000 other and in their weapons. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:58.920 Now. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.120 Secretary also made a pledge this morning about the Strait 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.600 of Horror moves CUT number four. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.400 I want to emphasize what the Chairman said about that 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.920 the only thing prohibiting transit in the Straits right now 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.440 is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.000 Should Iran not do that? Now? 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.400 There's a reason why we chose as one of our 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.760 primary objectives destroy the navy. We understood the ability to 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.920 interdict shipping is something Iran has done for forty years. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.360 It's key terrain. They've used it as leverage. The world 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.839 is seeing what they'll do to fight back in that context, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.479 and so we've heard them talk about taking various measures, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.599 and we're planning for all of them. So we have 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.880 a plan for every option here. We're working with our 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.560 inneragency partners, and that's not a straight we're going to 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.760 allow to remain contested or with a lack of flow 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.279 of commercial goods. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.520 So we're aware of that. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.599 We're laser focused on our military objectives, but also want 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.480 to make sure our partners across this government understand we're 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.200 working with you to make sure that energy flows, and 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:00.640 that is. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.640 The best news of all energy is following guys. Goyles 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.400 up around one hundred dollars a barrel in three weeks. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.760 I'll bet she's back to sixty. I could be wrong. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.520 Now I'm gonna switch and talk with my friend Brittany Vessily. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.560 Brittany was the first graduating. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.520 What year did you graduate, Brittany twelve, twenty. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.080 Twelve, so she was here before I was here. Brittany, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.200 what's your job currently? 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.000 I'm currently the executive director of the Caleder Catholic Conference, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.000 the United Voice of the Catholic Bishops of Colorado. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.520 Now, the reason I like having Brittany on is that 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.000 Archbishop Chepew, who first brought me to dinner Denver decades ago, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.600 is now the retired Archbishop of Philadelphia. Poured a lot 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.040 of resources into ecumenical outreach. He was a good friend 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.280 of Colorado Christian University. You were not yourself a Catholic 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.400 when you were at CCU, and it's a very welcoming place. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.600 Everybody comes here. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.880 Correct, Yes, And it was the first time I was 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.680 introduced to Jesus was at CCU. So I dead of 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.800 gratitude to my time at CCU and really where I 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.120 started falling in love with theology. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:00.280 Now you are all so. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.840 My co religions is a Catholic and you've got four 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.320 kids outside steering in, Yes, and they should come in 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:06.200 and run them on. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.000 How do you know my booking. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.560 Producer, Daniel Hitchin is a good friend of mine. I 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.479 used to babysit her kids when I was in DC 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:13.640 working at the Heritage Foundation. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.680 So what did you do for Heritage after you left 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.800 Colorado Christian University? 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.440 I worked in the Domestic Policy Department in Education. But 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.599 I was also there during Doma and Berga fell, so 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.640 I touched the religious liberty angles as well. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:24.800 Oh my goodness. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.279 Okay, So what are you doing for the bishops in 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.240 Colorado and how is the work of the church going 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.320 in the centennial state? 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:31.960 Sure? 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.160 So, I'm the chief Policy director of the four Bishops 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.280 of Colorado, representing the three dioceses at the Colorido Capital 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.359 and in other areas of government affairs. I do primarily 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.120 lobbing from January through May. In Colorado. It seems like 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.360 there is a bad bill every week right now, whether 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.880 it's a tax on religious liberty referencing the Calor Anti 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.880 Discrimination Act. We've been having huge fights on life the 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.800 last four years. So every week it seems to be 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.799 another issue pertaining to life, religious liberty in the family 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.640 that we're having to deal with. Tennial state. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.359 Are you making progress because it's sort of not a 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.920 super majority anymore, but it's a blue state and it's 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:06.760 all blue. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.240 Who are your go tos? Who are your stalwarts? 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.440 Well, we did make a deal this week that killed 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.680 Senate Bill ninety seven, which would have decriminalized prostitution in 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.680 the state. Of Colorado and that would have meant more 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.360 human trafficking, more prostitution, and then also more abortion. So 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.160 that's a bill that the Senate sponsor, henrich Sen, who 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.880 is a Catholic and I called him out on Twitter 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.240 for being a Catholic and supporting this bill, said he 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.080 will bring back in the near future. But that is 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.200 just one effort. We have a very progressive majority in 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.360 bolth chambers. They're not a super majority, but it's still 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.480 very difficult to get a lot of work done. So 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.960 it's very important to get more voices like ours and 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:42.480 the Capitol. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.160 I joked with my breakfast and lunch audience today that 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.600 the first exits from California all came to Colorado and 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.160 turned to red state blue, but they brought the policies 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.200 with them. The second wave went to Florida and they 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.960 did not bring the policy with who had to fight 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.960 it back and clad back. How do you think that 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.640 battle is going at the state level. We have American 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.960 Legislative Exchange Council is a great sponsor of ours. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.000 How is it doing in Colorado? Are they going to 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:07.840 move up the rankings. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.880 It's very interesting because you have infighting in the majority parties. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.680 You have the very progressive and the more establishment Democrats 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.480 fighting with each other, and you also have the GOP 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.880 that's been fighting with those who are just fed up 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.920 with the status quo and those who are trying to 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.160 make concessions to get along. So you have both chambers 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.120 having internal caucus divisions while also dealing with some very 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.840 heinous policy. In the state of Colorado. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.600 Is Governor Polist running for president. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.280 He's going to try, so that's another thing that we're 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.760 looking at for twenty twenty eight. Right now, Governor pols 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.000 is a lame duck and he didn't want to see 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.560 certain bills be passed. Another bill that was introduced that 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.480 he hopefully will intervene on is HB twelve ninety two, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.880 which would go after the scholarship granting organizations in the 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.360 state based on HR one, including KADA. So Colors Anti 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.600 Discrimination Act is called KADA. It now includes sexual orientation, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.280 gender identity, and gender expression as protected classes the Non 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.520 Discrimination Code, and that would affect all faith based schools 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.400 in the state of Colorado. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.240 Well, that's unconstitutional, So we'll have a well, arch bishopric 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.679 Quilla or his successor bring the lawsuit that needs to 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:11.160 be brought. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.920 We're already in lawsuits on this, so the Universal pre 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.160 K program. We have two lawsuits going on with the 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.880 Beckett Funds. It also had to do with Katta and 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.280 we also, as you mentioned, we have our Specipicquilla has 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.319 been a tremendous advocate on life and religious liberty. Bishop 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.720 Golka just last month was announced as his successor and 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.800 he will be installed on March twenty fifth at the 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.280 Nasair Western Stock Show Arena. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.560 Actually three in. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.800 A row for Denver, three great bishops and if O 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.079 Archbishop chip Ugh is listening, you've left it in good hands. Brittany, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.440 thank you for joining me saying a good word about 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.880 Colorado Christian University. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:43.240 Thank you. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.280 I want to remind everyone we are in lent, and 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.400 during Lent, not just at CCU, but across all of 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.280 the Salem stations. 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What do you think at Port Thames? 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.200 I think it could be one of two things. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.160 It could be exactly what you need to seize carg Island, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.560 which is the central point in which Iran ships and 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.160 refines most of the oil that exports, which would give 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.240 America and Donald Trump a stranglehold over the Iranian economy 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.400 and significant leverage in a similar kind of relationship it 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.160 has right now with the Venezuelan regime. Or it could 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.679 be preparing for a daring mission to try to get 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:46.400 those suitcases or not suitcases, but the kilograms of enriched 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.680 uranium buried underneath the facilities in Isfahan and Fordoh. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.520 You know what the Marines are known for is amphibious assault. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.000 They break open the door, Eli, And I wasn't thinking 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.880 about so much. I was thinking about the area across 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.960 from cars Island, which may make it vulnerable to hypersonics 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.480 and the short rain missiles sweeping kind of motion. And 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.840 you know, the Iranians really don't want to mess with 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.760 the Marines, do they? 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.760 No, they do not, No one should. They're the best. Yeah, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.240 no better favorite, by the way, whne about the Marines? Yeah? 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.600 My favorite line about the Marines, I think came from 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.360 an HBO series about the Iraq War, in which someone 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.240 explains every few years, America just unleashes this wild attack 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.760 dog on its enemies, and that's the Marine Corps. And 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:36.920 that's kind of how I feel about it. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.880 You're right, I remember that's also from the Second Golf War, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.439 the March to Baghdad. A marine was interviewed, what is 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.760 your job to beat the army to Baghdad? 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.400 Sir? Their answer, I'll never forget that. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.560 Yeah, But I would say this that it also sort 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.199 of shows that, you know, I mean, the President Trump 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.720 is quoted, maybe fragments of quotes, you know, every other 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.240 day saying maybe we've accomplished most of our mission and 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.880 maybe it's trying to like, you know, wrap it up 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.640 and everything like that. This suggests that the war is 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.400 not yet over, and that's important in terms of the 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.040 perceptions of the enemy in this case. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.800 Now, I want to talk about media narratives. The one 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.880 that's driving me crazy now is that the war must 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.559 be over before the president sits down with General Secretary 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.080 g You know, that wasn't actually Nixon's approach with Mao. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.360 He went and saw Maw when the Vietnam War was underway. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.240 And so I'm just thinking, where do these narratives come from? 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.600 Eli They're invented by people with agendas. How do they 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:36.960 get past editors. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.440 Well, you know, first of all, we are in a 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.680 twenty four hour news environment, and there is a need 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:50.080 for pundits and analysts and columnists and reporters to say 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.920 something anything in order to kind of fill the dead error. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.520 And it's hard dealing with uncertainty. So that's the charitable explanation. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.320 But I think there's also just a sense of, you know, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.559 half the country despises you know, Trump with the power 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.640 of a thousand burning suns, and if it's his war, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.000 then they're against it, and that's all they really need 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.960 to know. I think, I'm I don't think we're out 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.920 of the woods by any stretch, and you could see 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.240 it ending a couple of ways. But even if more 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.920 I mean I would I think you and I would 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.920 both love to see, you know, a new revolution and 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.880 a transition to a much more decent and better government 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.520 for the Iranians. But if that doesn't happen, that seems 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.720 maybe at this point to be less likely, and that 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.880 a remnant of the regime of much more weakened is surviving, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.720 whatever the status of their supreme leader, which we still 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.880 haven't seen evidence that he's you know, all there other 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.640 than this written statement, but we haven't seen him on video. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.760 A weakened Iran, without the without a nuclear program, without missiles, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.440 without the ability to terrorize. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.080 The region. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.160 Is a victory, even if it might be considered at 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.040 a partial victory, because you still leave these you know, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.080 these vicious thugs in place. But if they're weakened and 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.280 they're significantly set back, that's a good outcome. And it 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.400 doesn't preclude the prospect that after a couple of months 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.560 and financial hardship, that you could see that color revolution. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.320 And it also doesn't preclude the idea that much like Lebanon, 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.960 the Israelis reserve the right to go in and take 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.320 care of problems before they start. So I don't necessarily 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.440 think an end of the war with the regime in 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.560 place means that the regime has won or sticks around forever. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.400 John potter Artz always accuses me of being the optimist optimist, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.600 but I'm fairly optimistic about how this is going. I 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.040 think we are winning decisively, but we have not yet 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.240 achieved a decisive win. But we can get there. And 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.880 I would recommend to everyone a podcast called The Goodfellows, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.800 which comes out of the Hoover Institution, Neil Ferguson, John Cochrane, 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.000 HR Master General McMaster and yesterday they had the right 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.120 Honorable Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. And at one point 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.360 Neil suggested maybe it wasn't going so well and that 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.560 the Iranians had the whole card. And boy did doctor 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.320 Rice come out of her share symbolically and remind him 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.800 about this regime from nineteen She just rattled off seven 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:29.000 the hostage crisis, the Babirute bombing, the Cobar towers, the 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.880 Marines dead, soldier sailor's Erman marine. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:32.160 Dead in Iran. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.000 She's ready for bear, and she is not ready to 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.280 say we're on a clock. I don't think we're on 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:38.000 a clocky lit. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.480 I think I mean, listen, the answer is with Trump. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.000 That's the bottom line. Okay, so it's what Trump decides. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.040 But so far Trump's been you know, he said a 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.360 lot of things, but I think he's kind of stuck 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.920 with the sort of larger mission at this point. And 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.680 you know, we'll see, but I don't think. I don't 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.400 think it's necessarily over yet. But at the same time, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.520 even if it was to wrap up in the next 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.679 few days, there's been some pretty decisive blows that have 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.879 been dealt. I still think there's more that has to 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.840 be done, and we'll find out more kind of in 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.840 the aftermath, but I would not. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:15.720 Call this a win. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.399 And I'm amazed at some of the people, you know, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.000 professors who sort of do this stuff for a living 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.439 and study Iran, are telling us that, you know, Iran 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:30.040 is in this great position, it's an oil hedgemon. Now nonsense. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.480 I think that we'll find the straits of her moves. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.640 Will take some work, but I think these I think 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.119 the US and Israel will be able. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:36.479 To handle it. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.040 Well, that's what it comes down to. I don't think 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.879 we've won. I think we are decisively winning, but I 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.840 don't think we are anything remotely. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:44.960 The world is a. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.320 Much better place today than it was fourteen months ago. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.560 It is a much better place today than it was 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.720 fourteen days ago, and in another fourteen days it could 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.880 be even better because of Cuban. And I did want 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.679 to get your comment on the extraordinary announcement by the 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.080 dictator in Cuba last What do you think is. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:01.720 Going on there? 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.199 I hope that we are seeing the beginning of the 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.280 end of that awful regime and something much better. That's 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.960 the I mean of those of us who kind of 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.760 I wasn't around for the original Cuban revolution, but this 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.120 is unfinished business now going back, you know, more than 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.200 sixty years. So if there is a prospect to get 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.200 something more decent for Cuba, I mean, I think that's 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.119 another another feather in Trump's cap at this point. And 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.520 I think at a certain point, I would imagine that 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.280 you can argue that there's been things that Trump has 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.040 done that and I certainly would say I certainly disagree 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.440 with it, are going to be not great for his legacy, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.840 but you have to account for Venezuela, Cuba and figures 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:46.640 crossed Iran. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:48.280 That's enormous. 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.440 I think that's that's that's a kind of foreign policy 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:55.480 legacy that we associate with the greats, whether it's you know, Truman, Fdr. Reagan, 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.720 and Trump at least in that regard, will have a 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.200 chance to sort of be in that categ. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.199 And I don't think he's going to allow himself to 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.240 be called the loser on Iran. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.560 I just don't think that's in the cards. I agree. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.520 Eli Lake can be followed on x at Eli Lake 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.719 Breaking History Podcast as his podcast from the Free Press. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.000 He's a contributor to the Free Press. He's a welcome 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.880 guest here anytime. Thank you, Eli. I'll be right back 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.440 from Colorado Christian University. I'm jew Hewitt Broadcast and today 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.399 on the campus at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.920 where I'll be giving a talk tonight dedicated to the 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.480 role of Christian institutions and battling anti Semitism. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:34.480 Long scheduled. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.679 Did not intend for it to follow an attack on 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.360