1 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Former American Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman has just joined me. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: He's on the ground in Israel, to talk what it's 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: like being under attack, the success thus far of these strikes, 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: what happens next, and American domestic reaction, including that of 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, who has described this as disgusting and evil. 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: And to hint for you, the ambassador does not hold back. Ambassador, 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: first of all, welcome, Thank you so much. Great to 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: see you again. You must be tired in Israel. It's 9 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: been a big forty eight hours. 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, like the knights are turning into the days into 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 2: the knights, you know, because of all these rockets and 12 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: missiles and were most of us are blessed to be 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: to be safe and to be protected by the incredible 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: technology and bravery of the IDEF and the US military. 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: So you know, we maybe sleep deprived, but you know 16 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 2: we have we still have it pretty good compared to others. 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Where were you when you learned that strikes had been 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: launched and what was your initial reaction? 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 3: I was I was home. 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 2: It was a Saturday morning, and you know, the simons 21 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 2: just started going off, did it? So I'm familiar with 22 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 2: these sirens I've been here for you know, unfortunately many 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: of these events. And we grabbed, we grabbed the kids, 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: the grandkids, you know, we have we have some kids 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: and grand kids here now with us, and headed into 26 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: the shelter. And you know, we then repeated that ten 27 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: twenty times over the past forty eight hours, very six hours. 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: Were you surprised by it or was it a case 29 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: for you of when not if these would start? 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 2: It really was when you know, the the I think 31 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: the president really wanted to give the Iranians every opportunity 32 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: to to not compel a military operation. I think you 33 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 2: tried to convince them any number of ways that they 34 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: didn't need to enrich uranium. You know, there's really no 35 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 2: need to enrich your anium unless you're looking to build 36 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: a bomb. That having you know, the thousands of ballistic missiles, uh, 37 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 2: you know, some of which can reach the United States, 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 2: will only increase the tensions in the world, will not 39 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: do anything to help the prosperity or or dignity of 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: their people. It just was you know, deaf years, you know, 41 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: you know, banging your head against the wall, and so 42 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: you know, having been through some of these already, I 43 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: knew that there really was was very little, you know, 44 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: but he wanted to give it every chance. And I 45 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: think you know, when when you're about to authorize this 46 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 2: type of use of force, you do want to do 47 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 2: everything you can in advance to you to, uh, you know, 48 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: give piece a chance. 49 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 3: But we'll get to peace. We're just going to and 50 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: we'll get to a better. 51 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 2: Piece where we're just going to you know, get through it, 52 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 2: you know, with a little bit more turbulence. 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: When your hand is forced, though, you do want to 54 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: do it in the strongest way possible, and often that 55 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: contributes to the potential for peace Earlier, doesn't it? If 56 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: you go hard and fast early, which they did taking 57 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: out the Iyatola? How significant was doing that early? And 58 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: if they hadn't, what would that have meant? That makes 59 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: things the hell of a lot harder, doesn't it? 60 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: Well, it does because you know, first of all, you know, 61 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: if how many is is an eighty six year old, 62 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: you know, Islamist radical who you know hasn't the slightest 63 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: interest in changing his mind, they're reflecting any you know, flexibility. 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: So you know, there was no way that we would 65 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: get to a good place with him still alive. Of course, 66 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: he has a deep bench, unfortunately, but they were able 67 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: to decapitate a good portion of it and more importantly, 68 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 2: deal with a lot of the command and control. One 69 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: of the reasons why so much we're seeing so many 70 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: rockets the last few hours and maybe they say into 71 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 2: the night, is because it's almost like, you know, the 72 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: last gasp of a dying regime. You know, they want 73 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: to they want to shoot these rockets before they get destroyed. 74 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: They want to, you know, still shoot when they have launchers. 75 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: But you know, the already in a short period of time, 76 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: you know, a country which is massive, it's as big 77 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: as Alaska. I mean, a huge country has already been 78 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: brought to its knees. And I think, you know, President 79 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: Trump has no intentions of exchanging volleys back and forth 80 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: for a year or two, you know, getting into some quagmire. 81 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to demonstrate in words and most 82 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: importantly indeed, that the Iranian regime has no place to 83 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: go except to capitulate to. 84 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: Hell to hell, and but a few bits and pieces 85 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: around that I've just had a look at. Talking about 86 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: a potential deal now with those who have taken over 87 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: from the Supreme Leader. Surely not if they're cut from 88 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: the same cloth. Surely not. 89 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 2: Now listen, we'll have to see what all that means. 90 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: I mean, if I were if I were the Iranians, 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: I would be desperate for a quote deal whatever that means. 92 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: Although I would have been desperate, you know if I 93 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 2: were how many because I, you know, kind of understand 94 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: the President and understand the power of the United States 95 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 2: and Israel combined. Remember, you know, the US has the 96 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: greatest military in the world. Israel in this region has 97 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: unsurpassed intelligence, and their pilots are. 98 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 3: Absolutely off the charts skilled. 99 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 2: So the combination, the collaboration between the US and Israel, 100 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 2: which has never happened before, notwithstanding the great alliance in 101 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: these two countries never happened before that they actually went 102 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: to war together like this, and you're seeing the results. 103 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: I mean, the level of skill and the lethality of 104 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: what they're doing is I think unseen before in the 105 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 2: history of warfare. So you know, there's really no place 106 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 2: for them to go. What does it mean to do? 107 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 2: I don't know, nobody trust him, nobody believes anything they say. 108 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 2: But you know, look, I trust the President. I mean, 109 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 2: he he took a huge gamble doing what he's doing. 110 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 2: That not a gamble in terms of when you're losing, 111 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 2: because the outcome here is not is not really in doubt. 112 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: But the politics are are difficult, you know, to start 113 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: a war. You know, most Americans are not spending most 114 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: of their time thinking about aron. None of them have 115 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: the intelligence, the intel that that the President has and 116 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 2: his team has, so none of them appreciate the threats. 117 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 2: And I think what the President is doing, he's saying, listen, 118 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 2: you voted for me. I told you I would keep 119 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: the world safe. I'd make it a safer place. 120 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 3: You know. 121 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I told you I wasn't going to start any 122 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 2: new wars. But this isn't a new war. This is 123 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: this is part of the overall you know, maintenance of 124 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: a world that requires certain actions to be taken to 125 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 2: keep the world safe. And he's doing that, but it 126 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: has his political consequences, and he doesn't care because I 127 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: think he's looking forward and saying, you know what, I 128 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 2: got three more years to go. I got to be 129 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 2: able to, you know, leave office and look at my 130 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: children and my grandchildren and be able to say to them, 131 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: I made the world a safer place for you, and 132 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 2: I didn't saddle you with a radical Islamic regime with 133 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: weapons and mass destruction. And I think that's exactly the 134 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: way he's looking at the world right now, and more 135 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: power to them, Thank God for him, because that's not 136 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: a typical traditional political approach. It's the approach of a 137 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 2: real leader, and we don't have that many of them 138 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: left in this world. 139 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: Yes, spot on there, spot on. I thought the initial 140 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: speech he made, that eight minute speech essentially announcing to 141 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: people that this operation had begun, laid out beautifully exactly why. 142 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: And you're right, you have to convince American people that 143 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: this impacts them, because if you're not you or I 144 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: or people who are ensconsin this daying in, day out, 145 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: you might not understand how it's all connected. I want 146 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: to ask you about reaction back in America. We've had 147 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,119 Speaker 1: the very obvious reaction from the Democrats, who of course 148 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: hate everything, even if it is good for America when 149 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: it's to do with Trump or Israel. The likes of 150 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, who's called it disgusting and evil. 151 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 3: Well, look that's that's it. That's that's it for him. 152 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: You know, he's he's spent the last you know, several 153 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: months weaving a narrative that's been entirely false. He's been 154 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: joined by some of the other kind of swamp creatures, 155 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: you know, people who are in this journalist business just 156 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: for the clicks, just to find kind of a lane 157 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: that that galvanizes. People say anti semitism sells. I mean, unfortunately, 158 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,079 Speaker 2: we're learning that anti Semitism is a great business. If 159 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: you want to prostitute yourself and lie and be the 160 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 2: you know, the kind of worst form of human life, Yeah, 161 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 2: you can make a living, you know, be an anti 162 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 2: semi pedaling conspiracy theories. And you know, he's got his group, 163 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 2: and we all know who they are. I don't I 164 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: don't talk about them anymore. I don't want to give 165 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 2: them any more recognition. I don't want to mention their names. 166 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: But we all know who they are. But that's it. 167 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: You know, they they had their chance. You know, they 168 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 2: all got together, they all you know, made their arguments. 169 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 2: They thought they could convince the president. They went to him. 170 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 2: They're done. They're done. They are, you know, vastly approaching 171 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: the dustbin of history where they belong. And meanwhile the 172 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: president is out there making the world a safer place. 173 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 2: And that's what he should be doing. 174 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: He said in that speech, the likelihood of US casualties 175 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: that that existed. We've now seen multiple US casualties. It's 176 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 1: an ugly, tragic part of war. Unfortunately, in a price 177 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: that you need to pay for peace. That makes things harder. 178 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 1: Though on the ground, doesn't it Domestically. 179 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 3: It does? It does? 180 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 2: I think, you know, it's unfortunately, you know, a fact, 181 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 2: as you say, a fact of Warlook where we're moving 182 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 2: American assets, big you know, ships, you know, big positions, 183 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: were moving them very close to the Iranian border, where 184 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 2: you know, shorter missiles, shorter arrange missiles are tougher to 185 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 2: identify an intercept. We don't know what happened, so I 186 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 2: don't want to prejudge what happened, but I'm assuming that 187 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: there was some missile that that hit a you know, 188 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: hit a ship. It's almost it would be almost impossible 189 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: to get through this without casualties. It's just not not realistic. 190 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 2: But nonetheless, when it happens, it's like a gut punch, 191 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 2: you know, it's it's a horrible feeling. And of course, 192 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 2: look the you know, the Israelis you know, paid a. 193 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 3: Price today as well. You know, a missile. 194 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: You know, they're they're shooting, well, they're missiles at civilian targets. 195 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 2: You know, the Iranians, you know, Israel and America are 196 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: trying to decapitate the leaders or go after missile launchers 197 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: or missiles or silos. 198 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 3: They're shooting at civilians. 199 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: They're shooting at you know, buildings in television and Jerusalem 200 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 2: and then here the o this a synagogue and bait 201 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 2: shambish was hit and uh, you know, at least nine 202 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 2: people have died, some are still unaccounted for under rubble. 203 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: Twenty were wounded, all civilians. Uh. 204 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 3: It's horrible. I mean, it's just it's just horrible and heartbreaking. 205 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: But the the reality is if you don't, if you're 206 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: not willing to pay that price, you're not willing to 207 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: fight for a safer world, you know. And that's the 208 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,119 Speaker 2: calculus that leaders make all the time, that they understand 209 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 2: that there are penalties, there are challenges, and their prices 210 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 2: to be paid for freedom. And America has willing to 211 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 2: pay that price for two hundred and fifty years, which 212 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: is why it's the greatest country on earth. And we 213 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 2: pay that price with humility and with sadness, but we 214 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: pay it, and we have to keep paying it because 215 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: without that, the world becomes a very dark place. 216 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: That's really beautifully put. Finally, I wanted to ask you 217 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: about being in Israel, kids, your wife, A lot of 218 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: people there are going through a lot. It's scary and 219 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: an extension to just the personal side of it, how 220 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: you feel being there, this whole narrative that America has 221 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: been dragged in. This is all for Israel. The people 222 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: of Israel are the ones who are more than anyone 223 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: else going to suffer as a result of this operation. 224 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: But my experience has been ninety nine percent of them 225 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: are willing to pay that price because of where they live, 226 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: for something greater, for freedom for the Iranian people, for 227 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: freedom for the West, freedom for themselves. It's a lot. 228 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: It's a lot to be far away and be critical 229 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: when you guys are there on the front line, at 230 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: the coal face the recipient of this barrage of missiles 231 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: from the Islamic cregian who are desperate and dying. 232 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 3: Look. 233 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: Look, the Islamic regime threatens the entire world. There are 234 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: sleeper cells all over the world. You know, when I 235 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 2: was more fluent in the kind of the top secret 236 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: intelligence which I don't share to this day, but I 237 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: can tell you the threats are tremendous, and they're everywhere, 238 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 2: and they're not limited to Israel or any other place. 239 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 2: Israel's wanting to pay a price to keep much of 240 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: the world safe. And I can tell you that Israel 241 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: does a lot that keeps Americans safe, and America does 242 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 2: things that keep Israel safe. It's an incredible relationship that's 243 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 2: brought enormous benefits to both countries. But if you look 244 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 2: at the reallylationship between the US and Israel over the years, 245 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: Israel has never controlled America. Israel has never had any 246 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 2: you know, outsized influence over America. It's really, you know, 247 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 2: it's it's a way to get people angry at Jews 248 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: and angry at Israel. But it's never been true. And 249 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: it's not even true in the in the Trump administration 250 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 2: with the president who has been Israel's greatest friend, the 251 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 2: greatest friend to ever occupy the other office is President Trump. 252 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: And I can tell you because I've been there, I 253 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 2: was in the room. He makes up his own he 254 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 2: makes his own decisions, and he never you know, is 255 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 2: you know, acts based upon the instructions of directions of 256 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: any foreign country, let alone Israel. And you know we've 257 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 2: I've conveyed requests, you know, from Israel to President Trump. 258 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 2: You know, I did it for four years. Some of 259 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 2: them he accepted, some of them he said no. He's 260 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 2: his own person and he's dealing what's best for America, 261 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 2: which will in turn be the best thing, I believe 262 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 2: for the entire world. 263 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm bested to thank you so much for joining us. 264 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: He really appreciate your insights and please stay safe. 265 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: Appreciate Aaron. Good to see you again. 266 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: MHM.