WEBVTT - Joe Kent Leak Scandal Explained, Iran War Becomes Literal Mine Field 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.400 Today's show sponsored by Lear Capital, the precious metals leader 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.040 since nineteen ninety seven and only company I trust and 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.600 recommend to my family, friends and viewers. Visit Lear Alex 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:22.759 dot com. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.720 Ready to break the narrative, get the real story with 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.479 no filters and no apologies, cut through the noise with 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.080 real conversation, real conviction, and real news. It's time for 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.479 truth without spin. It's the Alex Marlowe Show. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.159 It's the Alex marlow Show. And I'm glad you're here. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.199 We got a lot to get to today, but let 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.680 us start in the only place where you can start now, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.879 which is a war update. And I want to give you, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.839 guys all the information that I'm hearing and seeing and reading, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.920 and you can see here those of your watching on 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.960 the streams. I'm not in the Persian Gulf, so I 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.000 don't know exactly what's going on, but I hear a 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.320 lot of information and I want to highlight to you 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.160 what I think are causes of concern, things that are 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.080 perhaps signs of improvement and for us to feel encouraged 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.520 that things could be wrapping up, hopefully at some point 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.880 in the near future. But there's lots of discussion that 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.000 Iran wants to come back to the table. Thus, as 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.240 we discussed on yesterday's broadcast, the thought that Trump has 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.560 engaged in a cease fire. He was going after high 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.880 potency energy targets within Iran, and he's suspended that for 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.800 five days with the intention of trying to get back 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.039 to the negotiating table and try to come up with 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.640 some sort of a deal. And hopefully we'll be hearing 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.600 some sort of details about what's going on. But we're 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.880 hearing terms like major concessions from Iran and at peace talk. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.320 And this doesn't strike me given all the tals that 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.320 we laid out on yesterday's show, with thousands upon thousands 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.640 of high potency military targets being taken out by Trump, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.880 so much of their military being devastated via their navy, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.520 via their aerial capacity to defend themselves and attack back others. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.440 All this has been decimated, not to mention more damage 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.600 to their nuclear facilities. All this is very positive. But 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.239 but we wake up today with some reports that I 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.280 will caution you about does not sound very good because 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.400 according to what we've been hearing and reading at Bright 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.200 Part News, Iran is laying minds in the Strait of 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.560 our moves. And this is not good because d mining 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.720 takes a lot of time, and we have not put 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.040 ourselves in a good position to d mind I'll tell 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.880 you why this used to be the specialty of the British, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.280 and because they are lazy and they have focused on 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.360 other things in recent years, they've lost that ability to 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.840 help us out in that way. And the US actually 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.800 decommissioned a couple of mining ships recently, apparently as early 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.680 as recently as February. Britain has done the same as 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.800 early as recently as February. They even had a ship 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.919 that had to get towed out of the Gulf back 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.880 to Britain because it was not strong enough, not powerful 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.280 enough to be able to even sail its way back 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.320 to the UK. So it was getting towed out of 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.560 the Persian Gulf back to Britain because its job, I guess, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.720 is done. But the problem is that d mining is 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.160 an essential thing to do here if they're putting the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.560 minds in the strait, because the opening of the Strait 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.040 is I believe the last necessary thing Trump must do 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.040 before he can declare victory move on. So this is 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.520 not a great thing because again demining takes a lot 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.880 of time, but thanks to people not being prepared to 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.840 fight actual evil if you lose sight of this. I've 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.360 been trying to bring people back to this on the 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.880 show as best I can, that there are real threats 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.960 out there, and we don't want a lot of interventionism overseas. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.920 We don't like a lot of ground troop regime change wars. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.240 I'm very much in the camp that, like Donald Trump himself, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.040 that that's a way that you can fail as a 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.800 president of the United States. But when we are losing 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.440 the ability to d mind, then all they got to 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.800 do is put minds in the strait and then we've 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.920 got major problems for who knows how long. So hopefully 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.200 this report is not true. We're definitely in a fog 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.280 of war atmosphere where there's a chance it isn't. But 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.320 that's a major step back if that's the case. Actually, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.400 if Ron is talking happy talk to Trump right now, 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.640 which is what we're the reports that we're hearing. So 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.520 this is one thing that I am trying to track. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.240 What could indicate the war is wrapping up, what could 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.440 indicate the war could potentially be escalating. I think the 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.880 goal for Trump is simply to say that we won. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.279 How can we do that? It's harder to do that 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.120 today if this mining story is true. However, however, he 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.880 understands that there is an urgency to do so because 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.279 he understands that people are getting more and more bleak 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.200 in their economic projections. He's got to be aware that 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.920 you see gas prices the way we've seen them recently, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.840 where people are it's just NonStop. It's just whenever I'm 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.680 out of gathering, where anyone has to drive to it. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.280 It's just the first thing that people talking about our 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.800 gas prices. And Trump is keenly aware of this. He 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.080 knows that if Joe Biden was president, we would be 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.360 absolutely crushing him for the gas prices. So he wants 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.880 it to end. I can guarantee you that that he 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.320 wants that to cease. But we had something that was 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.520 very scary in the Bripe Our Business digest yesterday that 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.120 I work on with John Carney. He does the heavy lifting. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.440 But he noted that MAGA supporters have grown markedly less 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.680 optimistic about the economy in the past two months. This 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.680 is from an economist and you Gove poll nearly fifty 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.680 nine percent of American adults say the economy is getting worse. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.840 That's the highest share since October of twenty twenty three, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.040 and that's up by nine percentage points from January. And 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.919 we got bad economic data today as well, so this 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.800 number is only going to get worse that we had. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.960 Some labor costs were revised up for Q four, productivity 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.159 was revised down, painting a slightly bleaker picture of the 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.440 economy than we had even coming into yesterday. So what's 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.919 troubling here is that this was driven specifically by worsening 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:50.960 economic sentiment from Republicans and Trump voters. In early January, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.440 fifty seven percent of Republicans Carni Rights said the economy 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.440 was improving, fourteen percent was declining. In the most recent 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.720 poll March thirteenth and sixteenth, just thirty seven percent say 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.640 the economy is improving and twenty four percent say it's 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.160 getting worse. There's also that surveys out there that are 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.360 suggesting that we have the biggest gap between the rich 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.480 and the poor ever. And this is something where as 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.359 someone who genuinely believes that a rising tide does lift 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.240 all boats, and when my boss makes more money, that 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:25.960 is a good chance and I'm going to be making 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.200 more money as well. I've always had that approach. But 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.599 when you look out on TV and someone worth one 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.279 hundred billion dollars is giving their opinion on the economy, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.839 and then you're looking at well, gas is up, so 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.160 then my discretionary buzzet is going to be squeezed the 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.400 last few hundred dollars that I had this month. Then 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.160 you feel like this deepening disconnect and is the sort 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:50.680 of thing that the populist wing of this nationalist populist 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.640 movement that we are a part of in the MAGA world, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.680 they are going to get disenfranchised and disillusioned if they 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.240 feel like they are not those concerns are not heard. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.200 So now I'm not someone who thinks that this is 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.239 the most important data point, but what I'm deeply concerned 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.039 with is morale. And this is where we are on 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.600 a twenty four to seven onslaught where the left constantly 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.360 telling us this is a bad country, a uniquely horrible place, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.720 and increasing corners of the right are doing the exact 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.240 same thing. I'm gonna get into a little bit more 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.800 of the Joe Kent conversation on the way in today. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.040 I listened to a pretty long interview he did with 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.280 Mark Levin, and we had some revelations about Joe Kent 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.559 perhaps being evolved with some other leaking and fostering anti 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.360 Israel conspiracy theories from within the government. So I'm gonna 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.040 touch on that a little bit later on in the show. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.000 But when you've got so much of the public that's 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.880 completely opted out, they're stuck on TikTok, they're stuck on reels, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.760 they're never ending doom scroll, their life is very little 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.120 meaning other than the social media apps. You've got other 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.480 people who are in the MAGA coalition and we're expecting 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.200 an economic turnaround at a much quicker rate. And then 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.960 you've got other people who are just consuming NonStop ms 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.040 now and left wing podcasts, hearing about how America is 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.400 a horrible race as to warmond longering place that just 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.560 enriches people via grift. Then we're going to have a 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.920 country that is going to be degraded in a significant way. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.880 And this is not good because that means national morale 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.720 is going to get lower. It means young people are 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.040 going to be less happy, we're going to have less children, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.640 we're going to be not be thriving and the goal 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.320 is to have a thriving America, and all of these 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.160 data points are suggesting that we are not making significant 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.160 progress in that regard. I think a lot of this 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.040 is not something that Trump is responsible for. I think 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.480 he's done a lot to try to free up, try 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.079 to deregulate, try to put more money back on people's pockets. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.360 I think some of that effect is just starting to 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.200 be felt. But when you're in a war that's halfway 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.720 around the world, We've got to get this thing wrapped 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.000 up quickly so that people can start seeing those gas 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.080 prices come back down and start seeing more of that 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:53.080 focus on that domestic energy, because energy both literally and figuratively. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.000 I'm thinking more figuratively because I am concerned deeply for 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.000 the morale and the country. Think about the young people 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.480 here who are just coming to the labor environment. This 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.679 is one of the toughest environments to get a job 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.720 in the century. The reason why is a lot of 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.000 employers are concerned that those junior entry level jobs now 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.000 are going to be run by AI. More on that 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.719 later in the show. I've got some MAI content for 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.440 you today. They're also concerned that the American dream is 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.920 not real. Is that all the best case scenario is 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.520 you can just get yourself trapped in deep amounts of 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.319 debt so you can get stuff that you can barely afford. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.040 And so people end up just yoloing their life away 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.560 on things that are just very small, meaningless material possessions 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.320 in light luxuries, instead of trying to pursue the American 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.800 dream as I grew up with, maybe the last generation 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.200 to grow up with it. This is the concern I've got. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.720 Because those younger people were members of Trump's coalition in 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.439 twenty twenty four. 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Well, let's I'll tell you 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.000 when the president tells us who he's negotiating with, you know. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.400 So when. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.959 Conversations with other countries tonight, I talk to people from 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:41.640 the region all the time. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.439 The region are early with the governments. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:44.280 Scott. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:45.280 Here's the point. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:46.559 Here's the point. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.600 It's always fun when Scott knows what he's got someone bad. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.680 So this is the guy who was the anonymous leaker 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.760 who leaked to the New York Times about how horrible 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.959 Donald Trump was, and people are actively subverting the president, 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.559 the democratically at elected president within the first Trump government. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.400 And we were told he was a senior official. Senior 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.840 generally means cabinet level secretary or just beneath that, or 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.800 you know, someone like a White House chief of staff, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.319 maybe the vice president. We were thinking, and it turned 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.800 out he was a super mid level even low level 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.000 guy in Apartment of Homeland Security. I think he was 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.640 Kirsten Nielsen, who is a or is it Kirsten, she's 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.120 got the weird J middle of her name, who was 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.880 just a total bit player of the Trump administration, and 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.000 he was worked underneath her as one of her Aaron 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.360 boys and running her schedule stuff like that. And then 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:34.719 he had a whole New York Times call him and 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.679 a whole book that he got to write anonymously. And 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.880 then he's acting like he's got the same diplomatic contacts 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.880 president of the United States. He's talking to people in 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.040 the region all the time, and it's just really fun 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:46.680 to watch Scott know that he had him there. But 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.400 it's just the self aggrandizement. These people on the left, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.800 they just have such a high opinion of themselves. And 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.360 this is what's really been noteworthy in our influencer age, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.760 is that a lot of people are appointing themselves as 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.960 if they're really the president or they know more than 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.080 than the President. I try to come to the show 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.120 when I disagree with President Trump on staff and I 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.319 try to acknowledge it. He's operating with a lot more 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.880 information than we're operating with. And it's been really fascinating 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.800 to watch this Joe Kent sort of melt down take 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.079 place in the last few days since he resigned from 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.480 his post within the Trump administration on counter terrorism, where 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.800 he was someone who was beloved by Trump's base and 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.520 Trump's own government, suggesting that Kent was been completely inaccurate 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.080 about the one key fact that Iran was pursuing nuclear 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.520 weapons to weapons level, pursuing Richmond to weapons grade level. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.960 So we know from all the reports that they were 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.880 pursuing up to sixty percent, which is well above civilian level. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.400 And the intention would be to either use that nuclear 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.320 weapon to at a minimum manipulate America in the West, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.680 but probably to try to kill us, because that is 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.600 ideologically the people who run that country. That is something 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.680 that they've professed for decades, that they want to use 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.240 that weapon to kill us. I'm pretty open about it, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.440 and he's been to denial about this despite the fact 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.560 that the President, Secretary of State, CIA director, et cetera. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.160 Everyone says that they were in fact pursuing to a 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:13.080 very high level. And so he resigns. And this is 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.800 where things get very weird because in his resignation letter 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.800 and subsequent interviews that he's done, he's professed one conspiracy 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.040 about Israel after the next. And he was on Mark 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.440 Levin's show yesterday, did a long interview with Levin, which 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.320 I give him credit for that, where he says he 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.320 didn't leak confidential info, but it doesn't mean that someone 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.360 underneath him didn't leak it on his behalf. And he 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.840 basically says Israel was behind everything from the Iraq war 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.120 to his wife who was murdered in Syria, which is 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:47.840 horrific by Isis and even Charlie Kirk's assassination. He floated 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.920 that Israel was behind that as well, though he wouldn't 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.680 say it directly. And then he accused people like Mark 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.840 Levin and presumably people like me as part of being 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.320 some sort of an echo chamber. And I found that 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.000 to be a really striking point. But then my friend 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.240 Andrew Colvett, who now hosts The Charlie Kirk Show, he 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.960 was Charlie's executive producer. He spoke about something that I 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.120 think is really important that I was involved in personally, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.440 which is that there was a group text that Charlie 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.960 Kirk was a part of where he would discuss Israel 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.920 and there's nine of us on the chat. I was 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.080 one of the people on the chat and it was 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:23.240 overwhelmingly positive. But Charlie did have one strong statement that 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.680 he was upset with Israel and he could leave the 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.560 cause of Israel, and it was very specific what his 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.640 gripes were. His gripes were that Charlie was on the 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.280 campuses doing his famous campus tours and he would be 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.960 repeatedly asked to defend things about Israel that Charlie didn't 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.840 necessarily want to defend, and he felt like he was compromised. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.680 He was in a position because he was all of 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.400 a sudden becoming like the primary spokesperson for Israel in 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.720 the United States, something that he never really signed up for, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.880 and he might have kind of occasionally agreed with the 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.640 questioner on certain things, and he thought Israel's pr for 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.240 themselves was pretty horrific. And he also certainly didn't want 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.120 for the United States to engage in any regime change 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.360 ground wars on behalf of Israel, which is some It's 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.800 pretty reasonable, and I think a lot of people like myself, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.399 card carrying Zionists would agree with I think that that 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.960 seems like a fundamental statement. And he was aware of 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.600 how powerful some various lobbies are within Washington, and he 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.240 was a voice of confidence for that. But after Operation 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:20.240 Midnight Hammer, after President Trump successfully bombed israel Aron's nuclear 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.399 sites with Israel then Charlie said, I support the president. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.440 I support the decisions. He's the man of the hour, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.679 the man for the moment. Forget the exact term. It 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.000 was one of the other saying that he's got Trump's 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.320 back on this, and Trump's always had his back, and 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.960 that's kind of where Charlie was on this thing. And 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.160 Joe Kent has taken to speaking on behalf of Charlie. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:39.960 And when I come back from the break, I'm going 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.879 to play something to you that is pretty shocking. That 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.879 was news to me that Andrew Colvit brought up on 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.600 the Charlie Kirk podcast yesterday regarding Kent. You're not gonna 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:55.520 want to miss it. Stay right there, all right, You 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.639 guys know what I think of the American Beverage Association 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.159 because you know how much I love those drinks that 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.960 I grew up with and still love today. 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It's really interesting during the first Trump administration 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.639 that we were constantly being told that Trump was actually 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.960 Putin's pop ed and he was doing Putin's bidding, even 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.720 though he proactive gave arms to Ukraine, he took out 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.080 Russian troops in Syria or Wagner troops in Syria, and 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.560 he made it so that it wasn't easy for Russia 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.119 to get the North Stream pipeline going. So we had 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.159 all these things where he was putting pressure on Russia, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.000 but he said nice things about Putin In the press, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.000 and we were told that that made Trump Putin's puppet, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.160 and then now we're seeing the same playbook get played 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.679 back over and over again, that he's actually in a 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.160 war on behalf of Israel. Now he's on a war 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.240 on behalf of Saudi Arabia, which is in the New 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.960 York Times this morning. Even though I'm kind of happy 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.440 that Saudi Arabia and it looks like the UAE, two 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.119 newer members of Trump's coalition since the Abraham Accords in 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.560 his first administration seemed to want to step up and 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.879 help us in the Iran war. Europe and NATO has 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.399 been totally feckless in this regard. I noted at the 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.679 opening of the show that if the UK had just 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.359 maintained their de mining capabilities, they'd be very useful right now, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.560 but they let that slip and now they can't be helpful. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.680 It'd be nice if they could be helpful. I'm talking 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.960 to you, kir Starmer. I'm talking to you everyone in 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.760 the UK who could have stepped up and helped the 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.560