1 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: War with Ron between the United States and ISRAELA is 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: now into its second week. Also in New York City, 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Zoramdani living up to his reputation yet again as an 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: Islamist sympathizer, this time when it comes to radicalized isis 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: Lone Wolf Operatives America, lest you need a reminder, has 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: a radical, subversive, fifth column Islamist problem. What do we 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: do about it? That is one of the big questions today. 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: But from now we begin with this. The war continues 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: in Iran and there are really no signs of it 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: slowing down anytime soon. Donald Trump was asked about this 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: on ear Force one over the weekend. He was he 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: was flat at his side at the time by Pete 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: Heggs at the Secretary of War and Stevet Witkoff, the 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: utility man of sorts when it comes to international negotiations 16 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: technically a Middle East on a void, but he wears 17 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: a lot of hats when it comes to rush Ukraine 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: in various other regions as well. Donald Trump not sounding 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: like he is ready to take his foot off the 20 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: gas pedal anytime soon. From the Israeli perspective. I saw 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: on social media this morning that there has been some 22 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: talk over on their own TV networks, over on their 23 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: channel twelve, which is a very mainstream, think of a CBSNBC, 24 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: it's kind of their main TV channel over there. Apparently 25 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: they were telling the Israeli public to prepare for at 26 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: least five more weeks of war. Five more is a 27 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: long time, certainly, and this does, among other things, get 28 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: back to this conversation that we teased a little bit 29 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: on the show last week as to are we going 30 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: to get to a point where the dates day tactics 31 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: and the mid term strategies of the United States and 32 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: Israel tend to diverge? If you recall, if you're watching 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: last week, we discussed actually with numerous guests at the time, 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: Mike duran of the Husbands too, who knows a thing 35 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: or two about Arizon talking and running a bout it 36 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: for a very very long time. Mike Durand told us 37 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: here on the show that no, that day will not 38 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: come where the interest of the two countries diverged for 39 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: the very simple reason that Israel is the smaller country, 40 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: the junior partner here in this effort, and they're essentially 41 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: just going to do whatever Donald Trump says. Then we 42 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: had Rabbi Paesloq Wuickly who joined us from Israel later 43 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: in the week last week there and I explained on 44 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: that day what I believe to be the American interest 45 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: here in this particular conflict when it comes to Operation 46 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: Epic Fury, and the American perspective is very simple. Operation 47 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: Epic Fury has a mission of neutralizing Iran as a threat. 48 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: Period. That is the definition of success. 49 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: That is the barometer, that is the metric that must 50 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: be achieved in order for at some point. 51 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: That point does not to sday, not tomorrow, not this. 52 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: Week probably, but at some point that barma is going 53 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: to have to be checked and Donald Trump's going to 54 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: have to find some way to transition this into a 55 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: post war setting that's not necessarily going to mandate quote 56 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: unquote regime change, although ideally at this point certainly it should. 57 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: There was initial strike that took out Ali Comedy. Incidentally, 58 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: the brand new head of Iran, the so called new 59 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, is actually Ali Comedy's some mushaba Commenty, we 60 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: don't really know a whole lot about Muchaba. If I'm 61 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: pronouncing his name rights, he's in his fifties, he's not 62 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 1: necessarily been a public figure for most of his life. 63 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: There we believe that he's actually substantially more hard line, 64 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: frankly than his seventy two virgins aspiring radical Islamist father. 65 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: So that does not vote particularly well. Donald Trump briittering 66 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: actually that this is unacceptable. The Trump perspective on this 67 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: is that Iran, after this war, is going to have 68 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: to find a way to make peace with the region. 69 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: Thus far, frankly, we have not seen a whole lot 70 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: of indication that they are prepared to do that. In fact, 71 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: the missiles the drones are continuing now those numbers are diminishing. 72 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: So the UAE de Unia arrabarments, which I believe has 73 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: been the number one recipient of all incoming missile drone 74 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: Rockefier even more than Israel itself. The oaees daily missile 75 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: and drone incoming has actually drastically plummeted. So for the 76 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: first week of the war, the ELIA was averaging well 77 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: over one hundred combined Iranian missile and drones incoming on 78 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: a daily basis. They were intercepting most of these, but 79 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: not all of them. You've likely seen some footage of 80 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: these burning buildings there on the the very lit up 81 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: Neon skyline of Dubai. The Burj Al Arab, one of 82 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: the most iconic buildings in Dubai, was on fire. So 83 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: the numbers are going down, but Iran is still firing. Actually, 84 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: just this morning, on Monday, March ninth, Iran actually fired 85 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: another missile towards Turkey, which is nominally an ally of 86 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: them rest of type Ertawan, one of the great Islamist 87 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: sympathizers in the entire broader region. So why in the 88 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: world Iran will be trying to pick a fight with Turkey, 89 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 1: which of course is also a NATO country. Doesn't really 90 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense there. The Qatari Defense 91 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: Ministry also announcing that they intercepted a missile in Saudi Arabia. 92 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: Actually there were reported deaths, So there actually were reported deaths. 93 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: There was a building that was hit in Saudi Arabia, 94 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: and you had some foreign nationals they might have been 95 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: Pakistani nationals if memory serves, who were actually killed there 96 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: because of the debris from the incoming Irani facility into 97 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. Now on Friday and Friday Show, we said 98 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: one of the things that we would be looking for 99 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: was whether or not these Arab countries would actually jump 100 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: in the Fray. In earnest there, Kuwait, Saudi Bahrain, uae Qatara, 101 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: all these countries have been smashed. 102 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: They've been hit. 103 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: Apparently the missiles are now going even as far as Turkey. 104 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: So at some point are any of these countries going 105 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: to man up and actually get involved here when it 106 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: comes to the Iran containment military operation or they just 107 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: going to continue to be a bunch of free writers 108 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: and mouchers, essentially mouching off of this joint American Israeli operation. 109 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: And at this point it seems like the answer is 110 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: the latter and not the former. There were some rumors 111 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: on Sunday that the UAE more than any other country, 112 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: was about to join the Fray. I've seen these rumors, 113 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: I have not seen the corroboration of these rumors, so 114 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: we definitely cannot report to you that that that has 115 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: happened yet. Now the Wall Street Journal running a long 116 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: article on Monday morning about the limits of air power. 117 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: This is increasingly becoming one the time. As a conversation 118 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: David Petraeus, the head of the Iraq war counter incertaency 119 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and more recently the head of the CIA, 120 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: he's been doing the media rounds among other notable public 121 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: figures talking about this very issue as to what exactly 122 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: can we expect from this sustained air power campaign and 123 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: also to the exact same point, what can we not expect? 124 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: And the consensus is that airpower is very, very very 125 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: good at blowing up a lot of stuffs. Most recently, 126 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: over the weekends, the IDF the Israeli military put in 127 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: their crosshairs a lot of IRGC as Long Revolutionary Guardcore 128 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: connected oil facilities. These are oil refinery facilities, production facilities 129 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: that are used to power the Iranian war machine. Perhaps 130 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: you saw some of these clips and footage over the 131 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: weekend of really really billowing black smoke over Tehran. This 132 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: is the type of black smoke we have not seen yet, frankly, 133 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: over this entire conflict. That is because the IDF went 134 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: really really hard and blew up essentially at least thirty, 135 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: based on what I can tell, thirty separate IRGC connected 136 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: oil refinement and production facilities there in the Iranian capital. 137 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: And airpower is very very good at that kind of thing. 138 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: What airpower is not necessarily it's not necessarily super super good. 139 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: At is this goal of regime change. So if you 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: are really going all in for regime change, and you 141 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: are going to define success as being nothing other than 142 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: the installation of a not necessarily even pro Western, but 143 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: Western aligned or at least not antagonistic regime there, then 144 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: that does raise the possibility as to whether or not 145 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: you would need some form of boots on the ground 146 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: in order to achieve that outcome. Notably, it's worth saying 147 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: boots on the ground, actually having ground for us is 148 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: by no means a guarranteur of a successful regime change operation. 149 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: We have a boatload of reasonings they had pulls in 150 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: history to demonstrate the notion that boots on the ground 151 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: is not a universal salve, is not a universal means 152 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: of effectuating a robust and prophylactic regime change. Rather, all 153 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: I am saying is that if that is your goal, 154 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: if that is what you are defining success, which I'm 155 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: not defining success from my perspective, success is defined as 156 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: the neutralization of Iran as a threat. I believe that's 157 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,119 Speaker 1: how Donald Trump's defining it too. Admittedly, he is still 158 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: tantalizingly leaving the possibility open of boots on the ground, 159 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: although simultaneously Hegseth, Secretary of War, seems to be downplaying 160 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: that there. 161 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. 162 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: But assuming that Donald Trump defines success as I do, 163 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: I remain skeptical that there will be such things as 164 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Then there's a question of the 165 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: Israeli perspective. Now, wh we had Rabbi Wilicki on the 166 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: show last week. I said to him, from the Israeli perspective, 167 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: how is victory defined? 168 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 3: There? 169 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: So the IDF corollary to operation of Bickeforia, they call 170 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: it Operation Roaring Lions, or is said, from the Idea perspective, 171 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: how is Operation Roaring Lying going to be success? And 172 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: he actually get the exact same answer that I give. 173 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: He'd give the exact same answer, which is that Iran 174 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: will be neutralized as a threat. 175 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 2: So if that's the. 176 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: Answer from both the American and these lierspective, then there's 177 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: no dissonance there, and this binational operation will essentially continue 178 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: until that that barometer or that threshold is actually achieved. 179 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: There do seem to be a lot of people out 180 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: there have to say that are trying to scour the 181 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: news to try to find areas of disagreement here, to 182 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: try to say, oh, is Donald Trump back? So you're 183 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: gonna turn on beaving Netiak who they are. Oh, there's 184 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: actually something here where the United States and Israel actually 185 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: see this very very differently there and people are basically 186 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: just grasping its straws. You are so spiritually impotent and 187 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: spiritually out that you cannot find yourself cheering on the 188 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: fact that America, with our ally, is delivering a staggering, 189 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: crushing blow to a regime that has been a terrorist 190 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: thorn in our side and an existential enemy of ours 191 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: and our broader civilizational inheritance for nearly five decades. Frankly, 192 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: the jokes on you. Mike Wallas, the US Ambassador to 193 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: the U and former concert from Florida, was on Fox. 194 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: News over the weekend. 195 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I think it gave you a pretty compelling answer as 196 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: to this question as to how victory to finle. 197 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and watch this from Mike Walls. 198 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 4: Well, you know, Russia has now lost its largest manufacturing 199 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 4: supplier of drones, the Shaheed drones that have been so devastating. Oh, 200 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 4: by the way, so have the Huthis, has blah Hamas 201 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 4: and everyone else. Russia has also lost a supplier of 202 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 4: ballistic missiles, so that symbiotic relationship has to break. Secret 203 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 4: Special Envoy Witkough has delivered a very tough message h 204 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 4: and at the at the end of the day, this 205 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 4: you know, kind of axis of evil is going to 206 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 4: be broken. Iran is no longer going to be a 207 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 4: threat and no longer going to be a supplier to 208 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 4: China and Russia. 209 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: Mike Walls there speaking to Brian Kilmead about defining defining 210 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: victory as Iran and no longer being a threat in 211 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: Iran no longer being a supplier to China and Russia. 212 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: And that is important because another thing that we've been 213 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: discussing here for sinces war started is that when you 214 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: zoom out and actually look at the broader geopolitical chessboard, 215 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: you see that energy which is really making the head 216 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: of the headliness. And we're gonna elaborate on this in 217 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: just a few moments here. Energy is really one of 218 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: the things that is at the center of this conflict there. 219 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: Iran and also Venezuela were two of the major oil 220 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: suppliers to the Chinese Communist Party. Between China and Russia. 221 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: There you've knocked out, You've knocked down a lot of 222 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: purchasers of Iranian oil there. Energy is the currency by 223 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: which so much transpires, an o roled it is. It 224 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: is ultimately upstream of virtually every good, every commodity that 225 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: you purchased there, and is one of the many things 226 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: that I think we need to be very very careful 227 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: about in terms of how we view it there. I'm 228 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: not saying that the United States has not thought this 229 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: through there, but but I will say that it can 230 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: be a little shocking when you look at at numbers 231 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: such as the price of oil going over one hundred 232 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: dollars a barrel, at least a fifty six percent jump 233 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: since the worst are there. So, as I mentioned on 234 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: the stock market today, the price of a barrel of 235 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: oil soaring over one hundred dollars, that is a fairly 236 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: precipitous spike from where it began prior to this conflict 237 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: at the beginning of twenty twenty six. When the clock 238 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: struck midnight in December thirty first, it was below sixty 239 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: dollars a barrel. There, So there's been a pretty massive 240 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: rise in the stock market has been performing essentially along 241 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: the same way. So you have a lot of folks 242 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: there that are now in social media that are looking 243 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: at this and they're saying a few things. Perhaps they 244 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: are saying, Okay, this war was a mistake to begin 245 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: with there, and now we have the cuttail. Maybe they're 246 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: just cutting out the former and saying, Okay, this was cool, 247 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: Like I like seeing the enemy have their facilities and 248 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: they're terrorists and stuff blown up. But now we have 249 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: to get out of here and cut tail. And then 250 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: there is a third camp of folks that look at 251 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: this and definitely view it as troubling. I mean, who 252 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: doesn't view this as troubling? Again, our working thesis here 253 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: on the show, who is that energy is the most 254 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: important commodity out there because it is upstream of literally 255 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: everything unless you own a farm and you grow your 256 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: own produce and you have your own farmed table sort 257 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: of dining experience every night there in the confines your 258 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 1: own home. Unless that is the case, and it's probably 259 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: not the case for you from going to hazard A 260 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 1: guess here, energy really is upstream of everything because that 261 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: good that you're going to acquire is going to come 262 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: to you, is going to physically arrive at your home 263 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: via truck, via a railway, via airplane, via cargo ship. 264 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: It's going to get there, in other words, through some 265 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: use of energy. And when the price of energy goes up, 266 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: it's not like the transporters, the airlines, the maritime shipping companies, 267 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: it's not like they're just going to eat this cost there. 268 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: It all ultimately gets trickled down. 269 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 2: So we really do have the care a lot. 270 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: And if you go back to the State of the 271 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: Union dress, you go back to Donald Trump's White House 272 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: address on affordability, which he had a couple months ago. 273 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: There he has emphasized declining energy prices as one of 274 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: these staples of his administration. There So, if you don't 275 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: want to risk mid term enthusiasm going down even further 276 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: than it is for Republicans, because they're called the historical rule, 277 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 1: which as far as we can tell, is borne out 278 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: by the current pulling as well. That historical rule, namely 279 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: being that the opposition parties, in this case, Democrats, are 280 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: typically much more enthused when it comes to the first 281 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: midterm election of an incoming president of the opposite party. 282 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: There so the last thing that you want to do 283 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: to try to try to tamp down Republican voter return 284 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: on this November even more than it already potentially could 285 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: be the last thing you'd want to do is to 286 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: try to depress people when it comes to oil. Now, 287 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: it's worth stepping back here just for a second tier 288 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: and talking about the war itself, and then we'll get 289 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: back into the energy and oil conversation there. There has 290 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: been some narrative and I've seen some some folks trying 291 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: to cite some polls to try to argue that this 292 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: war is catastrophically unpopular. A lot of folks are comparing 293 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: this George W. Bush in a rock which is tentially 294 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: be destroyed, well, really destroys presidency. But it's es actually 295 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: his second term after he was reelected fairly narrowly over 296 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: John Kerry in two thousand and four. I am not 297 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: necessarily seen the same polling that these folks think that 298 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: they are seeing. 299 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 5: There. 300 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: If you look at the real. 301 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: Clear Politics polling average, which is the gold standard for 302 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: these sorts of things, there there are two poles emittedly 303 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: that look like something of an outlier, that have the 304 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: war polling favorably so Trifogger has it plus thirteen. Insider 305 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: Advantage has it plus seventeen. Fox News very reputable, pulster. 306 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: Fox News has it as a dead heat fifty to 307 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: fifty approved disapproved. The other polls have it underwater by 308 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: either single digits or low double digits. But the actual 309 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: polling average is as polling underwater by only six point 310 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: one percent. That's a fairly modest metric. It splits along 311 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: Parson lines as you would expect. Independence definitely break slightly 312 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: against the war, but Republicans are very very much unified 313 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: mag Republicans contrary to the propagain here mag Republicans unified 314 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: even more so in support of this war. So what 315 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: that leads me to believe is that there is room, 316 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: that there is room here for Donald Trump in the 317 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: administration to try to communicate to the American public in 318 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: very direct fashion that this war effort was necessary, is necessary, 319 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: and that the price of energy is going to be 320 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: a short term bump, but is going to be worth 321 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: it in the long run. 322 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 2: To take one of these buckets of people. 323 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: That I was describing earlier in the show, just a 324 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: few minutes ago, these folks that are looking at this 325 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: energy spike, the spike of the price of a barrel 326 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: of oil to it for one hundred dollars a barrel, 327 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: and they're saying, oh my god, we got a cuttail 328 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: now and out of here. You know, we can we 329 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: can deride them as pannikins on the rights or just 330 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: liberals on the left. That's Franklin insult in and of 331 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: itself as far as Weird concerned. But let's take it 332 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: a little more seriously there. The army is essentially that 333 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: in order to mitigate damage at the pump, to order 334 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: mitigate damage perhaps even politically for Republicans at the polls there, 335 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: you have to end this war effort right right now. 336 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily make sense, though, doesn't. The main reason 337 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: that the price of oil has surged so much is 338 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: because Iran, and specifically the Straight of hor moves, which 339 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: is this very narrow straight connecting a peninsula of the 340 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates and then it's twenty one miles across 341 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: as very narrowest points from the UAE Peninsula to Iran. 342 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: There this is a very important chocal that essentially connects 343 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and there's roughly 344 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: twenty percent of all the world's oil that flows through 345 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: this very important chocals. For all the various Iran conflicts 346 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: and the threats of conflicts in the past, the notion 347 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: of Iran shutting down the street of porn moves has 348 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: been a repeated talking point there. Now think about the 349 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: notion that Iran could become a nuclear power. In fact, 350 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: the Iran nuclear deal that the Obama ministration actually so 351 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: horrifically inked, was actually going to ensure that they were 352 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: going to become a nuclear power. That was one of 353 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: the prompts the deal. The entire time, So you know, 354 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: Tony Blinkin, Joe Biden's former Secretary of State, was going 355 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,959 Speaker 1: on and talking about how Barack Obama and the Obama 356 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: Biden team there to have a nuke this incredible deal. 357 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, actally, just play that clip. Here's Tony 358 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: Blinkin talking about the Iran nuclear deal on the Big 359 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: Take Daily podcast. 360 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 6: Look, you know, this has been a long story when 361 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 6: it comes to Iran, and back during the Obama administration, 362 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 6: the Israelis were pushing President Obama to take military action 363 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 6: against Iran, and we're warning that they would do it 364 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 6: themselves if he didn't, and he wouldn't because he thought 365 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 6: the better way to get at the nuclear program, which 366 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 6: is what we were focused on, was through very muscular diplomacy 367 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 6: backed up by very very strong sanctions that we rallied 368 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,719 Speaker 6: the world to put in place. And then we got 369 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 6: the Iran Nuclear Agreement. 370 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: Okay, so the Iran Nuclear Agreement, lest you forgot, was 371 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: flaming garbage from soup to nuts. Essentially delivered punts of 372 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: cash to the mals. It did not address the ballistic 373 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: missile program or the intercontinent blisted missile program that was burgeoning, 374 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: instilled up until this war was burgeoning. It had a 375 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 1: sunset provision when it came to the nuclear cap so 376 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: it literally was actually going to pave the way for 377 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: the bomb after the sunset provision, after the sunset claus there. 378 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: It was a horrific capitulation. Fundamentalist jihadis evil, which is 379 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: why Donald Trump with Drufman during his first term, so 380 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: that deal would have been sure that actually, paradox, he 381 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: would have been sure that Iron became a nuclear power. 382 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: Think about if Iran were to become a nuclear power 383 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: because of the JCPOA, the Iran Nucudeiro because Trump didn't 384 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: launch Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Epic Fury. If Iran's a 385 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: nuclear power, you think energy markets would be calmed by that? 386 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Putting a fanatical seventy two virgins 387 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: in heaven aspiring jihatis apocalyptic regime with nuclear weapons and 388 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: interconfinal Bliss missiles, if God forbid that were the case. 389 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: Putting them in charge of these trait of Hormuz, letting 390 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: those guys dictate the terms for twenty percent of the 391 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: world's oil, it makes no sense whatsoever on its face. Now, 392 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: there are certain things that the United States cannon should do. 393 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: The very first thing that I think is called for here, 394 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: the very first thing that is called for is for 395 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: another solemn White House address. Donald Trump, sit down the 396 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: Oval Office, sit the Resolute table, look at the the 397 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: American people, and deliver in very solemn, non pompous fashion, 398 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: a sober reason as to why this war is happening. 399 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: We haven't necessarily gotten that yet, in super super clear form. 400 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: On the day that the world launched two saturdays ago, now, 401 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: there was this Donald Trump press conference eight to nine 402 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: minutes long. We're in the USA white baseball cap there 403 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: at mar A Lago. He's dressed in any number of 404 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 1: other times Press Gardnce is in Durrel, Florida and Air 405 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: Force one, but he hasn't really given this super compelling 406 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: case there in straightforward fashion. That's probably called for at 407 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: this point, especially at people start to get very very jittery. Now, 408 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: there are other things that the United States could do 409 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: as well. When it comes to energy. The most obvious 410 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: thing you could do is that you could find a 411 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: way to get the supply of oil back up again. 412 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: That could involve the stratiform moves that can involve the 413 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: strategic petroleum reserve at home. There are all sorts of 414 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: tools y troum mastiration has at the disposal. So the 415 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: number one thing, of course is to make the compelling 416 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: case as to wise worth. The polling indicates that there 417 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: is a lot of room there for people to be persuaded. 418 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: But there are other tools at the disposal as well. 419 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: There are rumors that these might happen. There's summers that 420 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: might not happen. We will assess it. We're discussed at all. 421 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: So last week the United States actually reopened diplomatic relations 422 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: with Venezuela, a another major petroleum exporting country, another member 423 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: of OPEK. This is the first time that the US 424 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: and Venezuela have had formal diplomatic ties since two thousand 425 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: and nine teen in seven years. Delsi Rodriguez, who is 426 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: definitely a socialist, definitely a Marxist. She is very much 427 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: built in the Yugo Chavez Nicholas Maduro line of horrific 428 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: totalitarian marx thought. She nonetheless is allowing American petro companies, 429 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: American erry companies to basically come in and to use 430 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: Venezuelan facilities to try to get more supply at there 431 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: and reduce prices. There is an argument he made that 432 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 1: this similar kind of thing can happen to Iran. Obviously 433 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: it's not identical. The regime is still to this day 434 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: in power in Iran for now. We will see if 435 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: that changes. But there are certain ways the United States 436 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: might be able to directly get involved in trying to 437 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: expand supply by having our own people there on the ground. 438 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: And the most obvious way, and this is a rumor 439 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: that is starting to circulate, is that there is a 440 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: specific island. There's an island there. It is getting kind 441 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: of really in the weeds of the actual geography of 442 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: the region. There's an island called Karj Islands. Karj Island 443 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: sits roughly thirty kilometers or so, that's give her take 444 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: twenty miles off of Iran coast. It is in the 445 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: Gulf is An Iranian Islands. It is strategically right there 446 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: near the Strait of horm Moves, right near this major 447 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: choke point there of Iran's crude oil exports are refined 448 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: right there on Karsh Islands. Now, going back all the 449 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: way to the nineteen seventy nine Iran hostage crisis, US 450 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter actually prioritized, I mean Cardin really do 451 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: a whole lot right. To be clear, in general, he 452 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: definitely didn't do a whole lot right. When it came 453 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: to the hostage crisis, which lasted for four to forty 454 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: four days. The hotches were free on the first day 455 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: of Ronald Reagan's presidency, but they discussed the possibility of 456 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: trying to make it play for Cars Islands. Ultimately they 457 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: left it on touch. An analyst for JP Morgan Chase, 458 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: the major bulsh back of Wall Street Bank, quoted by 459 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: Reuters and Reports today saying, quote, although a RACKI force 460 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: has struck some terminals and tankers during the Eight Year War. 461 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: This is the nineteen eighties iron A Rock warri sign 462 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: up there. Kars Island remained largely operational and damn which 463 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: was typically repaired quickly, demonstrating the disabling it require sustained 464 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: large scale attacks. So one way to try to bring 465 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: a run to its knees could potentially be to try 466 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 1: to essentially blow up cargile. That is one of the 467 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: last lifelines of the regime. Alternatively, if you're trying to 468 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: get creative, they're an alternative solution. We're not going to 469 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: be to blow it up, but essentially try to just 470 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: take control of it there. Now, that seems to me 471 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: to be entirely possible. At this point, the United States 472 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: has sunken thirty plus vessels of the Iranian Navy. There 473 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: really is no Iranian Navy frankly at this point in 474 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: March of the year twenty and twenty six, So that 475 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: seems to me to be one possible play. It's a 476 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: very rapid rumor rapidly acceleering rumor. We will see if 477 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: it happens. Another thing, as I just allude to, is 478 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve So the Strategic Petroleum Reserve goes 479 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: back to the Arab oil embargo of the nineteen seventies. 480 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 1: It was initiated by President Gerald Ford. It bureaucratically sits 481 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: within the US Department of Energy. Essentially, the Strategic Petroleum 482 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: Reserve are these salt caverns. Yes, they're literally salt caverns 483 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: underground beneath the earth in Texas and Louisiana. Then the 484 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: theory can hold up to seven hundred million barrels of oil. 485 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: Currently there are somewhere between three undred ninety five and 486 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifteen million barrels of oil. This was 487 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: at least as of last month. As of February, the 488 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: number actually was higher. Joe Bien tapped into it to 489 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: try to stabilize energy prices. While he was very much 490 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: not drill baby a drilling, as you recall there, so 491 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: he decided to tap into this to instead try to 492 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: stabilize prices there. Donald Trump downplaying this whatever it's worth 493 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: on Air Force One over the weekend there. Someone asked 494 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: him about these strategic Patroleum reserve and he kind of said, well, 495 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: we've got a lot of oil. Our country has these 496 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: tremendous amounts they'll get healed very quickly. 497 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 2: There. 498 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily know what the argument exactly 499 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: is against this, you know, you know, far be it 500 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: from me to agree with Chuck Schumer. This is like 501 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: truly like a like a once in a blue moon phenomena. 502 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 2: Right, I mean I. 503 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: Talked about a broken clock theory. The broken clock gets 504 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: it right twice day. Maybe maybe there's something to this. 505 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 1: There's actually Chuck Schumer who said this on something. 506 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 2: You go ahead and watch this Americans. 507 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 7: American families cannot afford to simply wait and hope for 508 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 7: the price to come down. The solution is right here 509 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 7: at home. Trump, use the SPR, release it. Prices will 510 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 7: come down. Stop this bladder that it'll go away soon. 511 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 6: It won't. 512 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 7: There's a war going on over there. Just last night 513 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 7: I saw a big oil refinery and Iran hit by missiles. 514 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 7: That makes the price of oil go up even further. 515 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 7: So at least use the SPR to get the price down. 516 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 3: All right. 517 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: So Jos Schumer has precisely zero credibility, zero, not one, 518 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: not two, not three, and whatever mess you want to 519 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: call it. Zero credibility play negative credibility when it comes 520 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: to complaining about inflation, complaining about energy price. More generally speaking, 521 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: the Bidenherer regime oversaw a catastrophic, catastrophic price increases at 522 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: the pump due to a lot of reasons, due to 523 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: their fecklessness in the rush of Ukraine, theater, due to 524 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: their inability or unwillingness to extract oil natural gas. Here 525 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: on the home front there, Donald Trump has yet again 526 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: turned America into an oil natural gas exporter. We are 527 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: a net exporter there. But the kernel of truth when 528 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: you just heard from from Schumer, can't I can't kill 529 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: him saying that. But the kernel of truly heard from 530 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: Schumer is that there is this chig of petroleum reserve. 531 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: Let's play it out a few more days, maybe, But 532 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: if markets don't start to stabilize at least a little more, 533 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: if the United States does not decide to make a 534 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: move on KRG island there, then maybe there is no 535 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: arguments to be made in more fulsome fashion for trying 536 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: to tap into the strategic PETROLEU reserve. Frankly, I'm somewhat 537 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: somewhere persuaded that there is a solid case for it. 538 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: But meanwhile, shifting years to the home run there, as 539 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: the fight against radical Islamus continues over there in Iran. 540 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: We must talk about the fact that it is happening 541 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: here on the home front very much as well. So 542 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,040 Speaker 1: after the war started two serurs ago, there was this 543 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: horrific guy from Senegal who tragically was naturalized as a 544 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: US citizen, had the property of a La Tisherton, decides 545 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: to go shoot up a bar and a very popular 546 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: part of Austin, Texas West Sixthtraa notes super well from 547 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: personal experience, murders, multiple people, injures, many many more. There 548 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: is now more now more radical Muslim activity. So over 549 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: the weekend there was a protest and a counter protest 550 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: outside Gracie Mansion, which is where the mayor of New 551 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: York City lives is, right there on the upper east 552 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: side on the banks of the East River. Now, Memdani 553 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: was already in the news for radical Islamic related reasons. 554 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: That is to say, Zormamdani, the new glib deeply deeply Marxist, 555 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: deeply Islamist sympathetic mayor of New York City, he was 556 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: already in the news prior to this this weekend's events 557 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: which we all describe to you in just a moment. 558 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: There he was already in the news actually for multiple 559 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: radical Islamic for related reasons. So he was in the 560 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: news on the one hand because in the very first 561 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: day of Ramadan, which started a couple of weeks ago, 562 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: he spoke at a mosque in New York City, and 563 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: this mosque was on the FBI surveillance list, on the 564 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: watch list for years, perhaps even decades. Why very simple. 565 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: The mosque has clear, demonstrable, longstanding ties to the Irani regime. 566 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: So Mamdannie speaks this mosque in the first day of Ramadan, 567 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: and after he leaves, after he exits stage left, you 568 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: have the imam of this mosque that calls for paraphrasing here, 569 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: but calls for believers, that's to say, those who believe 570 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: in Allah and the prophet Muhammad. It calls her believers 571 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: to be blessed and for infidels to die via the sword. 572 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 2: Literally. 573 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: That happened after ma'm Donni spoke that mosque. Mind blowing stuff. Similarly, 574 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: ma'am Donnie was just in the news because we learned 575 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: it just last week that his wife, who is Syrian 576 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: by background, was liking a lot of stuff on social media. 577 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: After October seven, twenty twenty three, and the horrific Hamas pograma. 578 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: That day, liking a lot of stuff that she probably 579 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: publicly you shouldn't have been liking. She was liking posts 580 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: not just downplaying but actually celebrating the slaughter of twelve 581 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: hundred individuals not just as realis. By the way, there 582 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: were people from something like three to fifty different countries, 583 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: including a dozens of Americans, were slaughter taken captive. 584 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 2: On that day. 585 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: She liked a post talking about celebrating the resistance, which 586 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: is a fancy way of saying executing people and mass 587 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: raping people and butchering babies and taking people captive and 588 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: kidnapping to the territorials and gods there. 589 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 2: She liked this post. 590 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: There disgusting stuff, and Mamdonnie gave just the the ultimate 591 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: non answer answers that, oh, oh, she is not a 592 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: public figure. She didn't sign up for this, Well, yes 593 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: you did, bro, You in your whole family signed up 594 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,959 Speaker 1: for this when you ran for public office. That is 595 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: very very much how it works. You put yourself in 596 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: the public limelights. You're running for elected office, let alone 597 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: the position of mayor of the the largest in the country, 598 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: the most important city at least in the Western world. 599 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: Arguing the world as a whole your family is absolutely fair. Again, 600 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: you are the guy who struggled mightily to condemn the 601 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: phrase globalize the Indefada. It was painful for you, Zoram 602 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: to condemn this phrase. And now your wife is liking 603 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: pro slaughter, pro program, pro mass murder, pro rape continent 604 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: social media, and you don't want us to cry foul 605 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: get out of here anyway. It gets a lot worse 606 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: than that there. But well, to take a quickmer's Breakfoaks, 607 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: we'll be right back in the side and explain to 608 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: you what happened in New York State this past weekend. 609 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 2: Welcome back. 610 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: So, as I was saying before the break, Mam Donnie 611 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: was already in the news for numerous radical Islam related 612 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: reasons before the events of this past weekend. So what 613 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: happened was there was a protest and a counter protests, 614 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: as I was starting to say, outside of Gracie at Mansion. 615 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: There were basically a lot of folks were congregated outside 616 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,719 Speaker 1: grace and essentially in opposition two things that we opposed 617 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: here on the show. They were out there in opposition 618 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: to the public blasting of the of the Muslim the 619 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: Islamic call to prayer, which anecdotally we've been reading and 620 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: hearing that has been happening actually in Brooklyn, they've been 621 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: blasting the call to prayer. Mam Donnie seemingly supports this. 622 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: So a lot of folks that are out there who 623 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: are complaining about the Muslim called a prayer from the 624 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: minareta of the mosque, they don't like that there, and 625 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: complaining more generally about the broader Islamisation of the of 626 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: the city of New York. Now, in response that, you 627 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: had pro Mamdani, pro Islam, pro Islamism counter protesters, and 628 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: two of these fanatics, a nineteen year old by the 629 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: name of ibra Humkyumi and an eighteen year old by 630 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: the name of Amir Balat took an ied, an ied 631 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: that apparently is so popular in the jihadist world that 632 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: is referred to as the Mother of Satan. Yes, that 633 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: is really the name of this particular type of ied. 634 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: And they took this ied and they threw it at 635 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: the protesters. Now, thankfully no one was no one died 636 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: as a result of this. It easily could have happened. 637 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: This Mother of saytan Id is very much designed to 638 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: maman kill, reports the New York Post, talking to an 639 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: unnamed background expert. On the top of there, there is 640 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: pure luck, says this same New York Post quoted source, 641 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: is pure luck that no one is dead as a 642 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: result of this. This exact same type of ID was 643 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: using high profile terror attacks in France, the UK, Belgium 644 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: and New Delhi, all this thanks to the reporting at 645 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: the New York Post. Now, these individuals spend significant time 646 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: in Turkey in recent years. At least one then traveled 647 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: to Saudi Arabia as well. It seems they are inspired 648 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: by ISIS. They are ISIS inspired, home grown terrorists. They 649 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: watch ISIS videos at home and that is why they 650 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: are inspired. To toss an ied the mother of saying 651 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: a very popular jihadist homemade bomb ats. Let's call them 652 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: politically conservative protesters there who don't want to necessarily hear 653 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 1: the call to prayer. Frankly, I think of these people 654 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: as common sense prottestors. The media says, right wing. We 655 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: can just settle and call them conservative protesters there. Now, 656 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: the media had a funny way, shall we say, of 657 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: trying to describe what happens. So NBC New York NBC 658 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: forward to the local MBC affiliate. They ran this headline, 659 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: multiple arrests made after suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion. Hmmm, 660 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: I think the better headline is isis radicals throw bomb? Okay, 661 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,800 Speaker 1: let's check it on ABC, ABC news headline. Police arrested 662 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: several people after a smoke generating suspicious device was thrown 663 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: during a protest at Gracy Mansion, burying the lead much ABC. Okay, 664 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: let's check in on CBS. Suspicious device is ignited during 665 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: protests near Manhattan? 666 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 2: Is a Grace mansion? 667 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: Same thing, No mention the fact this was in the 668 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: ice people and guess what they screamed by the way, 669 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,879 Speaker 1: you know what they screamed, but it is, Oh yeah, 670 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: you guessed it. Allahu akbar. And still NBC, ABC, even CBS, 671 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: they're still trying to find a motive. Look, CBS, they're 672 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,399 Speaker 1: getting a revamp from Barry Weiss. Clearly the revamp needs 673 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: some additional work or at least their idiot social media 674 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: intern and so the writers need some work there. Because 675 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: the dude literally shouted all who they shouted al whu akbar. 676 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: They threw these homemade bombs there Mamdonnie himself had an outrageous, 677 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: outrageous response on a Sunday to this took him a 678 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: long time respond That took them a century, a full day, 679 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: or nearly a full day to respond. There he tweeted this. Yesterday, 680 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Man 681 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 1: should rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no 682 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: place in New York City. Is an affront to our 683 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 1: city's values. What followed here's where it gets fine. What 684 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is 685 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: never acceptable. 686 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 2: Who committed the violence? Who was the conservatives? 687 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 1: There was the people that don't want to hear the 688 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 1: call to prayer at five am? 689 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 5: Whatever, No, the violence came from the people that you 690 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 5: were bending over backwards to apologize for these ice inspired 691 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 5: radical Muslim fanatics. 692 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 1: Unbelievable. I mean, he got totally rasied on social media 693 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: for this, and for good freaking reason. Here actually was 694 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,720 Speaker 1: as Romam Donnie speaking at a press conference Monday morning. 695 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 2: Dude, just he's such a liar. It's unbelievable. What watch 696 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 2: this club. 697 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,919 Speaker 3: On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion. Where 698 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 3: I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were 699 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,240 Speaker 3: home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted 700 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 3: in white supremacy, entitled stop the Islamic Takeover of New 701 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 3: York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city. 702 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 3: Anti Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is 703 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 3: it anything new for the one million or so Muslim 704 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 3: New Yorkers who know this city as our home. While 705 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 3: I found this protest appalling, I will not waiver in 706 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 3: my belief that it should be allowed to happen. Ours 707 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 3: is a free society where the right to peaceful protest 708 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 3: is sacred. It does not belong only to those we 709 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 3: agree with. It belongs to everyone. I will defend that 710 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,080 Speaker 3: right every day that I am mayor, even when those 711 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 3: protesting say things that I abhor. 712 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: So Zero mentioned Zero in either his tweet or in 713 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 1: that press conference. Zero by the fact that the only 714 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: violence here, the only violence was attempted by these eighteen 715 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,800 Speaker 1: nineteen year olds, isis inspired lone wolf Jihatis, who tried 716 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 1: to kill a bunch of Conservatives with a homemade bomb 717 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: that the counter terrorist community readily identifies as the mother 718 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,360 Speaker 1: of Satan. 719 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,440 Speaker 2: At least that's what the Jihatis call. 720 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,400 Speaker 1: It's in their satanic no pun tend there's satanic online 721 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 1: homemaking bomb classes. 722 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 2: There, just unbelievable stuff. 723 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 1: I came to political maturity because of nine to eleven 724 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: and Radical Islam. I grew up twenty five miles north 725 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 1: of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River. 726 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,319 Speaker 1: I saw the smoke on nine to eleven. This was 727 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 1: the original thing that led me to my political believes 728 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 1: that I still hold here today. I remember when the 729 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: debate over the Ground Zero Mosque was trending in New 730 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: York City, This debate as to whether or not there 731 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,080 Speaker 1: should be a mosque built right near the World Trade 732 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,320 Speaker 1: Center that was just taken down by al Qaeda Islamus. Thankfully, 733 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: we the people of civilizational Sady defeated the ground Zero Mosque. 734 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: And now you have someone in the mayoral office there 735 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 1: in City Hall and Gracie Mansion who can't even condemn 736 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: isis inspired lone wolf Gihaties for committing an act of 737 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,319 Speaker 1: attempted domestic terrorism and trying to kill a munch people 738 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: in the name of Radical Islam. Shadi al Huakbar. It's 739 00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: just absolutely appalling stuff. By the way, a new clip 740 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: that I saw from Al Yakobe, who runs a very 741 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: good social media feed. There an intern of Zermandna clan 742 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,400 Speaker 1: name of our zu Malik. It's a clip of her 743 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: calling for holy war, Holy is islan war through jihad 744 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: and a martyrdom. This is our Zumalik speaking. She says, quote, 745 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: this is all jihad, this, this is all ibadha and 746 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,360 Speaker 1: this is all accounted for by Allah. How committed am 747 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: I to do this? What am I willing to sacrifice 748 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,360 Speaker 1: for this noble cause? Well, it seems that she's calling 749 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,320 Speaker 1: for violence, calling for suicide bombers. 750 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,239 Speaker 2: Who the heck knows? Folks, what are we doing here? 751 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 2: What are we doing here? 752 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,760 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, these folks came because 753 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: of our own volition. Is Zoor Mamdani? He wasn't born, 754 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 1: he was born in Uganda. This intern calling for holy jihad, 755 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,320 Speaker 1: maybe even Susan Bamba's God forbid, what are we doing? 756 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 1: There was a vigil outside Washington, d C. A vigil 757 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 1: in a mosque for the Great Shahid, the great martyr. 758 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: All the commentee, this is not how one can actually 759 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,359 Speaker 1: act upon Benjamin Franklin's famous advice a republic even keep it. 760 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:16,120 Speaker 1: This is not how we keep the American Republic. What 761 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,840 Speaker 1: do we have to do to convince our elites to 762 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 1: stop all Islamic immigration to this country? Deport every single 763 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: radical Muslim who is here who is not a citizen, 764 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,240 Speaker 1: for many who have been erroneously granted citizenship and naturalized 765 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,279 Speaker 1: there we should be strongly considering, if not outright, going 766 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,239 Speaker 1: down the path of commencing denaturalization proceedings depending on the 767 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 1: severity of their professed loyalties to foreign hostile forces. All this, 768 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: by the way, while the Department wholemand Security remains shut down, 769 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: Massive security aligns airports TSA. It's friend of your mind 770 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: you that this is Democratic party shutdown. This is the 771 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,680 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer a Que Jeffrey shutdown. DHS is currently partially 772 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,759 Speaker 1: shut down, while Christy numb goes stage left, while Mark 773 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 1: Waynemullen PRIs step in. DHS is partially shut down. There 774 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,440 Speaker 1: are lone wolfs out there are Ronney sleeper cells. TSA 775 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: is barely functioning, and Democrats have DHS shut down. What 776 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,200 Speaker 1: a What in the world could possibly go wrong? I 777 00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: don't know, but frankly, these are questions at the media 778 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,480 Speaker 1: if they're doing the job, really should ask to Chuck 779 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 1: Schumer and he Keeme Jeffries more than anyone else. Folks, 780 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,239 Speaker 1: have a great rest of the evening. We're signing off 781 00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:36,279 Speaker 1: for now. We'll be right back